Tuesday, June 21, 2016

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Times Insider

Are Hobbits Real?

A Times science writer considers what came first: the little people of Middle Earth or a 3-foot-tall species whose fossils were recently found in Indonesia.

No.

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T Magazine

Brand to Know: A Clothing Line and Magazine — Rolled Into One

Autumn Hruby of Hesperios has launched knitwear and an art and literary journal, with a concept shop to come.

Incomprehensible.

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Opinion

New Yorkers, You’re the Best!

A visitor from Washington renews his faith in the city.

Yes, often.

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U.S.

Judge Presses Prosecutors on ‘Rough Ride’ in Death of Freddie Gray

The judge’s pointed questioning underscored the difficulties for a prosecution team that has already tried two other officers without getting a conviction.

A conviction does not look likely.

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Food

A Creamy, Sweet Tribute to Summer

This version of Sicilian cassata, a spongecake layered with sweetened ricotta, is crowned with juicy fresh berries.

Yes.
I will take the thought for the deed on the cake.
I would make it for you and enjoy the making.

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Food

Grilled Lobster Tails as Street Food Skewers

In the Battery, sustainably sourced lobster served with lemon-butter or blueberry sauce, as in Maine.

Lobster on a stick . . .
The bib is necessary.
A six ounce tail may not be sustainable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_fishing#Restrictions
"The minimum landing size for H. gammarus is a carapace length of 87 mm (3.4 in)."

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N.Y. / Region

What Does the First Day of Summer Look Like in New York City?

Share your photos and help us document the longest day of the year.

The end of the local strawberries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_Examinations
The Sound is too cold for easy swimming.

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U.S.

Shooting Victims’ Families Watch as Gun Measures Stall Once Again

Family members and survivors of past mass shootings went to Capitol Hill on Monday to urge lawmakers to pass gun safety legislation.

Congress will not act.

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Science

Remember the Ozone Layer?

It’s still there, NASA tracks it, and scientists are still worried about it, though atmospheric levels of chemicals that damage it are slowly declining.

Regulation can work.

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Fashion & Style

Caitlin Duffy, Timothy Hall

The bride, a math teacher, and the groom, a public relations manager for a winery, met on Match.com.

The officiant does not matter to me.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Fashion & Style

Sara Hertz, Lee Meinicke

The couple met when they were both working for the Nature Conservancy.

The hall does not matter.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Opinion

New York City Ferry Service

The Waterfront Alliance writes that the new service “is far from a gamble.”

The M.T.A. must stop whining and build more track.

I enjoy the ferries as a sporting way to travel.

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Fashion & Style

Erica Oropeza, Amanda Davis

The couple were introduced in 2014 through OkCupid.

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

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Business Day

Jeep That Crushed Anton Yelchin Had Been Recalled

The actor’s Jeep, which rolled backward and killed him, had been recalled for a gearshift problem that could leave it accidentally in neutral.

Fiat Chrysler will pay.

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Books

Michele Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69

Ms. Cliff, the partner of the poet Adrienne Rich, who died in 2012, devoted herself to giving voice to suppressed histories, starting with her own.

One cannot run away from oneself.

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Fashion & Style

Lilia Toson, Jamal Fulton

The couple met in 2012 when he was a first-year associate, and she a second-year associate at the same law firm.

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

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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties are in the West Village, the Gramercy area and Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

A child's chair.

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U.S.

Mississippi Ends Inquiry Into 1964 Killing of 3 Civil Rights Workers

The bodies of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were found on a remote road 52 years ago. Nine people have been convicted in the case.

Mississippi is not allowed to forget.

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U.S.

After Orlando, Pushing Apart Instead of Pulling Together

The mass shooting in Florida shows what happens when people assign their own meaning to an event and use it to advance their own agendas.

Stop whining and fix it.

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Must go.   21:15 returned.
U.S.

Tens of Thousands Gather in Orlando to Honor Shooting Victims

At the vigil, there were few mentions of Omar Mateen, the man who entered the club on June 12, firing at its mostly Latino, mostly gay clientele.

Let there be an end to the incident.
The nation will struggle with changing the relationship with South Asia.

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Food

A Creamy, Sweet Tribute to Summer


We must find another way.
Business Day

Jeep That Crushed Anton Yelchin Had Been Recalled


Opinion

New Yorkers, You’re the Best!


yes
Fashion & Style

Erica Oropeza, Amanda Davis

The couple were introduced in 2014 through OkCupid.

Love is.

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

A Home After Prison

People with criminal convictions, and even mere arrest records, are unfairly barred from public housing.

Do post prison arrests if they must. 
Fashion & Style

Sarah Filipski, Fletcher Bingham


Sooner is better.
Opinion

The Violence of Forgetting

When ignorance and power join forces, history itself can be erased.


"H.G.: Public universities across the globe are under attack not because they are failing, but because they are they are considered discretionary — unlike K-12 education for which funding is largely compulsory. The withdrawal of financial support has initiated a number of unsavory responses: Universities have felt compelled to turn towards corporate management models. They have effectively hobbled academic freedom by employing more precarious part-time instead of full-time faculty, and they increasingly treat students as consumers to be seduced by various campus gimmicks while burying the majority in debt.
My critique of what I have called “gated intellectuals” responds to these troubling trends by pointing to an increasingly isolated and privileged full-time faculty who believe that higher education still occupies the rarefied, otherworldly space of disinterested intellectualism of Cardinal Newman’s 19th century, and who defend their own indifference to social issues through appeals to professionalism or by condemning as politicized those academics who grapple with larger social issues. Some academics have gone so far as to suggest that criticizing the university is tantamount to destroying it. There is a type of intellectual violence at work here that ignores and often disparages the civic function of education while forgetting Hannah Arendt’s incisive admonition that “education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.”
Supported by powerful conservative foundations and awash in grants from the defense and intelligence agencies, such gated intellectuals appear to have forgotten that in a democracy it is crucial to defend the university as a crucial democratic public sphere. This is not to suggest that they are silent. On the contrary, they provide the intellectual armory for war, the analytical supports for gun ownership, and lend legitimacy to a host of other policies that lead to everyday forms of structural violence and poverty. Not only have they succumbed to official power, they collude with it."

The rest is prescriptive. 



The Upshot

Would America Have Fewer Missing Workers if It Were More Like France?

Fewer prime-age American men are in the labor force than in many other advanced countries, a possible downside of a flexible U.S. job market.

If the workers do not have the power to negotiate wages they will be paid only enough to fill the necessary positions at a level of skill.

The short answer is yes.


Fashion & Style

Sara Hertz, Lee Meinicke

The couple met when they were both working for the Nature Conservancy.

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

Are Hobbits Real?

A Times science writer considers what came first: the little people of Middle Earth or a 3-foot-tall species whose fossils were recently found in Indonesia.

Homo floresiensis was real.
The inhabitants of Middle Earth are fiction.
Fashion & Style

Caitlin Duffy, Timothy Hall

The bride, a math teacher, and the groom, a public relations manager for a winery, met on Match.com.

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

A Nation of Healers

Even from the hardest places to live there are upbeat dispatches.

People are social.  They are also easily led.
Opinion

Another Hit to the Fourth Amendment

The Supreme Court just made it still easier for the police to stop and search people without any suspicion of wrongdoing.

I agree.
Opinion

My Fill-In Father

It was love, and fear, at first sight. The man was engineered to elicit such a response.

I was secure in my father's love.  I was not secure in his understanding.
Opinion

Ending Gun Violence

A policy analyst writes, “It’s time to end our dangerous trust in mandatory sentences and demand federal funding for gun violence research.”

"It’s time to end our dangerous trust in mandatory sentences and demand federal funding for gun violence research. Solutions to violence are generated from facts, not tough talk from the gun and prison lobbies."
Real Estate

A Park Avenue Condo for $28.9 Million

Two more apartments closed at 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, and were the most expensive sales of the week.

"Things are worth what is paid for them."
Fashion & Style

Elizabeth Everett, Brian Krisberg

The bride works at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and the groom is a lawyer.

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

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties are in the West Village, the Gramercy area and Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Doll Houses are inhabited by dolls.
World

Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation

A nation anxiously searches for ways to feed itself, as the economic collapse of recent years has left it unable to produce or import sufficient food.

Give people money to support themselves.

Economies work on markets.
Each part must pay its costs.



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