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Opinion
Video: Your Honor, Can I Play With That Gavel?
The U.S. government expects children, as young as 18 months and unable to speak, to represent themselves in immigration court to fight against their deportation. Lawyers in Miami made a coloring book to help kids understand what they’re facing.Current immigration policy is madness.
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Science
Giraffe Parts Sales Are Booming in the U.S., and It’s Legal
An investigation showed imports made into pillows, boots and other items have become increasingly popular, at a time when the animal’s global population is dwindling.Poaching must be suppressed.
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Magazine
There’s Less to Portraits Than Meets the Eye, and More
Photographing faces has become a means of surveillance, but a carefully made portrait can still, like nothing else, remind us of a common humanity.A useful essay on photography.
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Books
A Novelist’s Encyclopedic Memoir Hints at His Complicated Childhood
In “I Will Be Complete,” Glen David Gold holds his troubled mother — and his emotions — at arm’s length through a wealth of minutiae.The word is display. There is no "hint" according to this reviewer.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
This week’s properties include a three-bedroom in Millstone, N.J., and a five-bedroom in Great Neck, N.Y.I can see nothing to recommend either of these two houses.
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Books
First a Decorated War Vet, Then a Bank Robber, Now a Best-Selling Novelist
Nico Walker’s “Cherry” is selling briskly. When the still-incarcerated author can use the phone again — he’s out of minutes — he may score a film deal, too.Get it from a library.
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Movies
‘The After Party’ and ‘Baahubali’: Hip-hop Dreams and Indian Fantasy From Netflix
Hip-Hop dreamers negotiate the pitfalls of ‘The After Party’; watch the blockbuster “Baahubali” franchise on Netflix before a prequel series arrives.https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/books/fosse-a-biography-by-sam-wasson.html
These may be worth the time.
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Arts
Things to Do: Cold Spring by Kayak and Living History on the Lower East Side
Just a bit north of the city, a castle and an estate, kayaking and hiking; plus a look at life before modern amenities, at the Tenement Museum.Good things to do.
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Books
A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania
In Ismail Kadare’s novel “The Traitor’s Niche,” the quest for a rebel pasha’s head becomes a grimly comic comment on 20th-century authoritarianism.I would try to read it.
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Opinion
The Question We Must Keep Asking
We can only define ourselves by continually re-evaluating our humanness.The qualitative answer is plain. The quantitative relationships within that answer are far from apparent.
Humanity is social and variable.
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