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Food
What to Cook This Week
Wholesome and delicious recipes for the new year. And cookies.These days I am doing survival cooking.
I will let you decide what and how.
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U.S.
Bill Cosby’s Wife, Camille, Must Testify in His Accusers’ Civil Case
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the entertainer’s wife of almost 52 years can be deposed in a defamation case brought by seven women.I regret the necessity.
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Opinion
Debt and the Racial Wealth Gap
For many African-Americans, the wealth gaps means that even a small financial setback can be devastating.I have no debts I hope.
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Business Day
Justice in Taxes, Most Likely Short-Lived
The average tax rate for America’s top 400 income earners rose in 2013, but tax analysts said the tax structure still overwhelmingly favors the very well-off.It will depend on the results of the next election.
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The Upshot
Thanks, Obama: Highest Earners’ Tax Rates Rose Sharply in 2013
A decline in tax rates of America’s wealthiest taxpayers, underway since the late 1990s, recently reversed course. It’s instructive to look at why.A Willie Sutton tax policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%27s_law
"The law is named after the bank robber Willie Sutton, who reputedly replied to a reporter's inquiry as to why he robbed banks by saying "because that's where the money is." (In Sutton's 1976 book Where the Money Was.[1][2] Sutton denies having said this)."
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Opinion
A Smarter Plan to Make Retirement Savings Last
The current system is leaving millions of Americans in poverty or near-poverty. Here’s a proposal to save future generations.Why are Republicans messing with what has been a successful old age insurance system?
Social Security works and can continue to work.
All I can think is programs of the New Deal are considered works of the devil.
Adjust the payments for inflation and spend as promised.
The boomers will not last forever.
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Sports
Liverpool Rises to 7th in Premier League
Christian Benteke scored the winning goal as visiting Liverpool beat Sunderland, 1-0, in the Premier League to stay in the hunt for Champions League qualification.http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/04/rome-seals-off-roads-caked-with-droppings-from-birds-that-binged-on-olives
http://www.theguardian.com/football
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Sports
With Winner for United, Wayne Rooney Is Second on Premier League Scoring List
Manchester United rediscovered what winning felt like, while Arsenal edged Newcastle, 1-0, to move two points ahead atop the English Premier League on Saturday.http://www.theguardian.com/football/results
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U.S.
F.D.A. Regulator, Widowed by Cancer, Helps Speed Drug Approval
Dr. Richard Pazdur, the Food and Drug Administration’s oncology chief, says his wife’s ordeal was influential in a change that many had advocated but that critics say erodes safeguards.Dereliction of duty?
I am not interested in proving it.
When time is very short the risk looks small.
Hope is all that remains.
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Sports
Spurs’ Duncan Is Set to Return in Showdown With the Rockets
The 39-year-old Tim Duncan has missed San Antonio’s past three games, two of them with soreness in his right knee.Celtics
http://nytimes.stats.com/nba/teamstats.asp?teamno=02&type=schedule
| Date | Opponent | Time | TV | Result |
| Sat. 2 | vs. Brooklyn | 3:00 PM ET | CSNE/YES | L 97 - 100 |
| Mon. 4 | at Brooklyn | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/YES | |
| Wed. 6 | vs. Detroit | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/FSDT | |
| Thu. 7 | at Chicago | 8:00 PM ET | TNT/CSNC | |
| Sun. 10 | at Memphis | 6:00 PM ET | CSNE/FSSE | |
| Tue. 12 | at New York | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/MSG | |
| Wed. 13 | vs. Indiana | 8:00 PM ET | ESPN/CSNE/FSIN | |
| Fri. 15 | vs. Phoenix | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/FSAZ | |
| Sat. 16 | at Washington | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/CSNM | |
| Mon. 18 | at Dallas | 8:30 PM ET | CSNE/FSSW | |
| Wed. 20 | at Toronto | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE | |
| Fri. 22 | vs. Chicago | 7:30 PM ET | WPWR/CSNE | |
| Sat. 23 | at Philadelphia | 7:00 PM ET | CSNE/CSNP | |
| Mon. 25 | at Washington | 7:00 PM ET | CSNE/CSNM | |
| Wed. 27 | vs. Denver | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/ALT | |
| Fri. 29 | vs. Orlando | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/FSFL | |
| Sun. 31 | at Orlando | 6:00 PM ET | NBAt/CSNE/FSFL |
| 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/YES | ||||
| Boston (18 - 15) | |||||
| Brooklyn (10 - 23) | |||||
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Real Estate
For a Better Commute, the Upper West Side
Dana Feinberg and Wayne Gerard were looking for actual one-bedroom, not a studio that was masquerading as a one.Your girl will need a place.
I do not want to live in the city.
I will travel to you.
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Opinion
The Pentagon’s Insubordination on Guantánamo
The Defense Department cannot be allowed to continue dragging its feet on prisoner releases.The military is "dragging its feet".
The Republican party is helping the military.
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Real Estate
When a Doorman Is Underage
This week’s questions are about child labor laws, tending vines and an unresponsive building management company.I have no usable connections to the realestate business.
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Sports
Knicks Spoil Their Own Comeback With an Implosion in the 4th Quarter
After the Bulls built a big lead, the Knicks managed to nose ahead in the second half, only to go 2 of 19 from the field in the final period.Boston Celtics (18-15)
Schedule
| January | |||||
| Date | Opponent | Time | TV | Result | |
| Sat. 2 | vs. Brooklyn | 3:00 PM ET | CSNE/YES | L 97 - 100 | |
| Mon. 4 | at Brooklyn | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/YES | ||
| Wed. 6 | vs. Detroit | 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/FSDT | ||
| Thu. 7 | at Chicago | 8:00 PM ET | TNT/CSNC | ||
| Sun. 10 | at Memphis | 6:00 PM ET | CSNE/FSSE | ||
N.Y. / Region
Cuomo Orders Homeless People to Be Taken to Shelters in Freezing Weather
The executive order, which requires local authorities to remove homeless people from the streets when temperatures fall to 32 degrees, is likely to raise legal concerns and practical questions.It is traditional.
If Cuomo can put his name on it I will not hold it against him.
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Sports
Xavier Takes Its First Loss at the Hands of Villanova
No. 16 Villanova may again be the team to beat in the Big East. It thumped No. 6 Xavier, 95-64, at home on Thursday.http://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/schedules.asp?team=0129&cat=schedule
#1 Connecticut Huskies (11-0)
| 12/30 | at Cincinnati | 7:00 PM ET | W 107 - 45 | |
| 1/6 | vs. Tulsa | 7:00 PM ET | ||
| 1/8 | at Houston | 9:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | |
| 1/10 | at
20
South Florida |
5:00 PM ET | ||
| 1/13 | at Memphis | 6:00 PM ET |
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Sports
Devils Shut Out the Senators
Mike Cammalleri scored twice in the first period, Cory Schneider made 36 saves, and the Devils blanked host Ottawa.http://nytimes.stats.com/nhl/teamstats.asp?teamno=01&type=schedule
Boston Bruins (20-13-4)
| Date | Opponent | Time | TV | Result |
| Fri. 1 | vs. Montreal Canadiens | 1:00 PM ET | NBC/RSN/TVA | L 1 - 5 |
| Tue. 5 | vs. Washington Capitals | 7:00 PM ET | NESN/TVA/CSMA | |
| Fri. 8 | at New Jersey Devils | 7:00 PM ET | NESN/MSG+ | |
| Sat. 9 | at Ottawa Senators | 7:00 PM ET | NESN/TVA2/CBC | |
| Mon. 11 | at New York Rangers | 7:00 PM ET | NESN/TVA/MSG | |
| Wed. 13 | at Philadelphia Flyers | 8:00 PM ET | NBCS/TVA |
U.S.
Oregon Ranchers Will Return to Prison, Angering Far-Right Activists
The ranchers, Dwight Hammond and Steven Hammond, planned to surrender at a California prison to serve additional time for setting fires in 2001 and 2006."Winter is coming"
Militias cannot stand against regular troops.
This group qualifies as bandits.
The legal system will deal with them in due course.
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U.S.
Farmers Try Political Force to Twist Open California’s Taps
Few in agriculture have shaped the debate over water more than the several hundred owners of an arid finger of farmland west of Fresno.The price of water is going up.
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Sports
S.M.U., With No Titles to Shoot for, Remains Undefeated
Coach Larry Brown’s Southern Methodist University men’s basketball team is 12-0 but ineligible for postseason play this season.The N.C.A.A. controls the game.
It makes it hard to game the system.
Professionals deserve professional payment.
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