Friday, June 1, 2018

@2:00, 6/1/18

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Style

Hey, That’s My Dad You’re Talking About!

A reader feels torn between separated parents, one of whom hides none of the anger she harbors toward her ex.

Peace is important.
You know that.

2
Fashion & Style

It’s Their Wedding, and Their Wedding Planning

I’m now the emeritus parent. I try to help them, but they have it under control for now. They really do. (Sigh.)

Have your own event.  

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

3
Style

When Neither Male Nor Female Seems to Fit

What happens when a transgender person, who fantasizes about having an androgynous body, falls for a straight man who loves female curves?

Love is.

4
Fashion & Style

A Star of Islamic Fashion Falls

Anniesa Hasibuan once epitomized Muslim glamour. Now the Indonesian designer has been sentenced to prison for defrauding people hoping to travel to Mecca.

She is neither Shia or Sunni.
And she is female.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

Muhammad's wives Married
Khadija bint Khuwaylid 595–619
Sawda bint Zamʿa 619–632
Aisha bint Abi Bakr 619–632
Hafsa bint Umar 624–632
Zaynab bint Khuzayma 625–627
Hind bint Abi Umayya 625–632
Zaynab bint Jahsh 627–632
Juwayriyya bint al-Harith 628–632
Ramla bint Abi Sufyan 628–632
Rayhana bint Zayd 629–631
Safiyya bint Huyayy 629–632
Maymunah bint al-Harith 630–632
Maria al-Qibtiyya 630–632

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawda_bint_Zam%CA%BFa

It was an illiterate culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran
"The Quran (/kɔːrˈɑːn/[a] kor-AHN; Arabic: القرآنal-Qurʾān,[b] literally meaning "the recitation""

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Books

73 Books to Read While the Sun Is Out and the Days Are Long

Thrillers, romances, cookbooks, the great outdoors: We’ve got them, and more.

Amazon.com is so easy.


Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties are in Midtown South, Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is not my destination.

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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in New Jersey and New York

This week’s properties include a three-bedroom in Bridgewater, N. J. and a five-bedroom in Old Westbury, N.Y.

The house, two maids and a cook.


Opinion

Wealth Gap for Families

A reader writes that the gap “should be alarming to anyone concerned with the well-being of future generations.”

The high cost of living and the high cost of living well.

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Business Day

Here’s Why British Firms Say Their Boards Lack Women. Prepare to Cringe.

Corporate leaders’ comments, part of a government-backed study on gender disparities, prompted a female chief executive to say: “You might think it’s 1918 not 2018.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IGVxBb5uYk

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Style

Gucci Has a Rave in a Cemetery

Alessandro Michele took his sprawling vision of cruise collection muchness to a Roman necropolis in France. No ghosts allowed.

The neighbors don't complain.

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