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Business Day
Fast-Food Workers Intensify Fight for $15 an Hour
About 1,200 workers from around the country gathered in Illinois at an event largely underwritten by the Service Employees International Union, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is dubious of the union’s intentions.
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Arts
Auction Houses Seek a Competitive Edge
The past few weeks have seen rival auction houses announce a number of initiatives designed to set them ahead in the upcoming fall season of sales.
"But
whatever the model, public sales of art and antiques, with their high
costs and fixed margins, aren’t an easy way to make money. Sotheby’s is
now undergoing a company-wide restructuring that will result in an
undisclosed number of lay-offs, according to artnet News.
And traditional live auctions are facing competition from low-fee
Internet sites, as well as having to adjust to the changing lifestyles
and attitudes of 21st-century consumers, making them feel that the
bottom of the market might well be melting.
On July 16, the Oxford branch of Bonhams auctioned an early 18th-century oak chest of drawers. It sold for £200 with fees. Ikea’s similar-looking Fjell flatpack pine chest of drawers retails online at £210.
At those prices, antiques are irresistible. Not only do you save £10, but the furniture has even been assembled."
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N.Y. / Region
Balancing Special-Education Needs With Rising Costs
The City of New York pays for about 12,000 special-needs students per year to receive private school educations. Parents contend that the city fights too many of these requests, delaying important services to students in the process.
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U.S.
Move to Center Divides G.O.P. in North Carolina
The state's Republican governor and House speaker are both struggling to make peace with conservatives as they try to appeal to more moderate voters.
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Opinion
U.S. Coal Exports Eroding Domestic Greenhouse Gains
Continuing rise in U.S. exports of coal work against domestic reductions in CO2 emissions.
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U.S.
Ruling Poses Potential Obstacle at Supreme Court for Same-Sex Marriage
A concurring opinion by an appeals court judge supporting same-sex marriage rejected the rationale most likely to appeal to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
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U.S.
Outside Money Drives a Deluge of Political Ads
Since the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, lavish spending by outside groups has created a nearly nonstop campaign season with a harsh, negative tone.
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N.Y. / Region
Groups Press New York State to Ban Poisons That Kill Wildlife
Wildlife and conservation groups are citing new evidence gathered from post-mortem examinations by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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Business Day
Britain to Expand Land Available for Oil and Gas Drilling
The government is opening large new tracts of land for exploratory drilling as part of an effort to encourage exploitation of shale fuel.
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Business Day
With Huge Sums in Play, FIFA Sponsors Are Reluctant to Push Reforms
While partners like Sony and Adidas raised concerns before the World Cup, it is unlikely that sponsor companies will risk undermining their investment in the FIFA brand.
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Arts
'Masters of Sex' Recap: Of Might and Men
Dr. William Masters encounters a difficult case of an infant with intersex traits, while the definition of manhood pulses throughout the episode.
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World
Fear of Ebola Breeds a Terror of Physicians
Health workers with Doctors Without Borders have been threatened with knives, stones and machetes by Guineans who blame them for spreading the deadly virus.
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Business Day
Chevrolet Impala’s Air Bags the Subject of New Safety Inquiry
Federal safety regulators are looking into complaints that passenger-side air bags did not deploy in crashes involving the 2008 Impala sedan.
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N.Y. / Region
Cuomo Held the Strings in a Graft Hunt
Last summer, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared that the Moreland Commission would have free rein in its hunt for corruption. But there is no way on earth that he could have meant what he said.
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1939: World's End Because of Mars?
Highlights from the International Herald Tribune archives: A French astronomer denies news of the end of the world in 1939.
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Sports
Texas Football Players Charged With Assault
Two University of Texas football players were charged with felony sexual assault after a student said she was raped in a dorm room last month.
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U.S.
Martin R. Hoffmann, Army Secretary in 1970s, Dies at 82
As secretary of the Army in the 1970s, Mr. Hoffmann presided over a cheating scandal at West Point and helped usher in the all-volunteer Army.
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U.S.
Ohio State Fires Marching Band Director After Finding Tradition of Sexual Hazing
A report said that the university’s band members had been told to mimic sex acts and were given vulgar nicknames, and that the director did not do enough to stop harassment.
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U.S.
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