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The Learning Network

Weekly News Quiz for Students: Gun Violence Protests, Stormy Daniels, More Tariffs

Compiled by MICHAEL GONCHAR | Mar 27th 2018

How well did you follow the news this past week? How many of these 10 questions can you get right?

Score

10 out of 10

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Magazine

Is It O.K. for My Wife’s Shrink to Ask Her to Contact Mine?

By KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH | Mar 27th 2018

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what a spouse’s therapist can urge to be shared with yours, how to approach a colleague who nods off and more.

Marla is a Jewish Mother.
She still wants me though both of us know the impossibility.
We loved one-another and I could not love her enough to abandon the remains of my early life.
She has been a lifeline and is just as manipulative.
Here we are.
I cannot do otherwise.

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

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Food

Cookies That Deliver a Bang With Flavorful Fillings

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Mar 26th 2018

Beyond chunks, these cookies are stuffed with jam, peanut butter and caramel.

Chocolate chip with strawberry jam is a wonderful thought.

Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

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Arts

Stephen Colbert on the Stormy Daniels Interview: ‘It All Felt True’

By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO | Mar 27th 2018

Colbert and other late-night hosts were amused but not surprised by Stephanie Clifford’s “60 Minutes” interview.

Late night is correct.
Pence would be worse.
"Agnew first."

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Magazine

Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?

By MARK BINELLI | Mar 27th 2018

With the publication of two new books, Gerald Murnane might finally find an American audience.

I probably will lack the patience for Murnane.

Off to oral surgery. 

I am returned

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Obituaries

John Cacioppo, Who Studied Effects of Loneliness, Is Dead at 66

By SAM ROBERTS | Mar 27th 2018

He helped link a lack of social connections to physiological damage. And while conducting his research he married a fellow neuroscientist.

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

My friends, such as they are, are in Brooklyn.
I will stay with them before I go to Alfred.
I will wait for warmer weather and dental implants.

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Books

Dear Match Book: Hidden Gems

By NICOLE LAMY | Mar 27th 2018

Eclectic works of fiction from off the beaten path.

I have no energy for books or much else.
I am healing from surgery.

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World

A New Cold War With Russia? No, It’s Worse Than That

By ANDREW HIGGINS | Mar 26th 2018

After the expulsions of Russian diplomats from the United States and Europe, analysts say relations have reached an alarming state of volatility.

Russia and Putin are a problem.

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Opinion

All the President’s Thugs

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Mar 26th 2018

Stormy Daniels said she was physically threatened after agreeing to sell her story of a sexual liaison with Donald Trump. It rings all too true.

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Technology

Copy Here, Paste There

By J. D. BIERSDORFER | Mar 26th 2018

Apple’s hardware can share apps and services through an iCloud account, making it possible to copy text on an iPhone and paste it on a Mac.

Yes

I hope you solve the problem.

I must sleep and take my meds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/style/california-pilates-healer-wellness.html

Sooner is better.     As soon as you can is best.