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U.S.
Porn Star Was Reportedly Paid to Stay Quiet About Trump
The reported $130,000 payment was made shortly before the election. Mr. Trump “vehemently denies” the encounter happened, his lawyer said.I would not expect Trump to pay hush money.
His campaign would pay the woman.
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Magazine
Judge John Hodgman on Birthday Cakes, Erotic and Otherwise
What sort of baked goods do we owe our significant others?Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Well
In the Flu Battle, Hydration and Elevation May Be Your Best Weapons
Bring on the soup: Fluids will help diminish your headache and bolster your immune response.I have not had a full blown case for years.
The advice is good.
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World
Fighting Rages in Syria’s Last Major Insurgent Stronghold
The United Nations said assaults by Russian-backed Syrian forces in Idlib Province had put tens of thousands of civilians at risk.Bombs are recognized as destructive.
The state department should be busy.
I am informed it lacks funds and people.
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N.Y. / Region
For Brooklyn Rape Victim, a Long-Awaited Apology From Police
Physically attacked and vilified in print in 1994, the now 51-year-old victim calls the #MeToo movement an ongoing realityThe victim is not made whole.
The Civil War may never be over.
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Obituaries
Carole Hart, Producer and Writer of Children’s TV, Dies at 74
Ms. Hart worked on the earliest episodes of “Sesame Street” and helped Marlo Thomas create the groundbreaking “Free to Be ... You and Me.”Her questions were already resolved in my world model.
I am learning the influence of her world model.
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Opinion
So It’s One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out …
Next year, we’ll drill for oil in Norway.Trump is dealing artlessly with the nation.
The smart advisers have run for the exits.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" Advice to dungeon masters
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World
U.S. Bombs Afghan Militia Behind Insider Attack, Officials Say
American forces carried out airstrikes against an allied Afghan militia after at least one militia member opened fire on U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan."Swatting a fly with a sledge hammer"
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Food
The Secret to Better Thai Dishes May Already Be in Your Fridge
Doctoring up a jar of red curry paste makes for a deeply flavored noodle dish.Fast food well worth the effort.
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N.Y. / Region
What are those tall kiosks that have replaced pay phones in New York?
LinkNYC kiosks are a critical piece in the city’s goal to bring broadband internet access to all New Yorkers, but they also offer other social benefits.Net Neutrality if one can afford a device.
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Well
In the Flu Battle, Hydration and Elevation May Be Your Best Weapons
Bring on the soup: Fluids will help diminish your headache and bolster your immune response.Do it.
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U.S.
Global Elite? At Davos? That’s News to Mnuchin
President Trump’s trip to the World Economic Forum is raising eyebrows in Washington given the event’s reputation as a retreat for the “globalists” he disdains.Groan
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U.S.
Porn Star Was Reportedly Paid to Stay Quiet About Trump
The reported $130,000 payment was made shortly before the election. Mr. Trump “vehemently denies” the encounter happened, his lawyer said.The question is who paid her.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in New York City
This week’s listings are in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the Upper East Side and the Flatiron District.If you insist.
https://www.google.com/maps/search/orange+county/@41.3323413,-74.5038703,10z/data=!3m1!4b1
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Business Day
Why Is South Korea Spooking the Global Bitcoin Market?
The government says it is looking at banning virtual currency trades. But it isn’t clear whether, or how quickly, it will follow through.Bitcoin vanishes from the tax base because it is untraceable.
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World
Chinese Police Dynamite Christian Megachurch
Paramilitary officers used explosives and heavy machinery to destroy the church, reflecting tensions between Christians and the Communist Party.Chinese communists understand missionary efforts.
They are the product of such an effort.
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Books
The Outlaw Novelist as Literary Critic
J.M. Coetzee reinvents the rules of fiction, but his “Late Essays” about other writers infuse traditional formulas with brilliant psychologizing.
"Of
Defoe’s heroine Roxana, for example, Coetzee writes: “Roxana does not
pretend that the virtue whose loss she intermittently laments is
something she deeply and sincerely believes in. On the contrary, she is
happy to remain in a divided, ambivalent state in which she wants to
resist seduction but equally wants her resistance to be swept away. She
is well aware of this division or ambivalence within herself. …
Implicitly she recognizes that she finds being seduced more interesting
(more engaging, more thrilling, more erotic, more seductive in prospect)
than giving herself in a direct, unambiguous way; that the prelude to
the sexual act can be more desirable, more erotically fulfilling, than
the act itself. Seduction, the thought of seduction, the approach of
seduction, the imagined experience of seduction, turns out to be
profoundly seductive, even irresistible.”
If
one is to appreciate Coetzee’s essays, one must recognize how
precisely, with what concentration, he lays bare a terrifically complex
psychology, giving readers a handhold on which to build even more
complex readings of their own. (Readings that would likely, in today’s
atmosphere, quickly point out that “irresistible” seduction isn’t the
fruit of effective persuasion but rape, a fact Coetzee draws attention
to elsewhere in the chapter.) One must also admire the subtle brilliance
of Coetzee’s sentences, as in the last line of the passage quoted
above, in which seduction is discussed in a manner that itself
impersonates seduction, with the repetition of phrases (the thought of
seduction, the approach of seduction and so on) heightening the thrill
for the reader until the sentence succumbs to the seduction it has
performed by landing upon “even irresistible.”"
Ogden's fiction is the rule in Ogden's mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasticks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasticks
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Science
The Swiss Consider the Lobster. It Feels Pain, They Decide.
The Swiss government has banned tossing lobsters and other crustaceans into boiling water. But what’s the science behind that decision?Put the lobster in the boiling water head first.
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