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Opinion
My Parents’ Mixed Messages on the Holocaust
My mother and father survived with two different views of the world. Which one is right?There is no place to run to.
The contest for equality will not soon be resolved.
Academia provides some shelter.
Work for equality from a distance.
The Native Americans have shown the way.
Win in court.
The children must excel and vote.
Law is promising. The other professions are more difficult.
Never volunteer for the riot.
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U.S.
As Students Return to School, Debate About the Amount of Homework Rages
One teacher said that there would be “no formally assigned homework this year,” and online discussions reveal a belief that the workload assigned may be too heavy.The curriculum is set externally.
Homework depends on the curriculum.
Teachers must not expect better than a normal distribution of learning.
The peak is about 65%.
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Travel
West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park
Sea, sand, history and climate forecasts are all part of a trip to the Dry Tortugas, an aquatic paradise at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico.The Times takes notice.
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Fashion & Style
Michael Miklovic, Tomas Griebling
A corporate travel coordinator in Kansas City, Mo., and a urologic surgeon in Kansas City, Kan., are married in Bar Harbor, Me.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Real Estate
On the Potomac, Change Comes to Alexandria’s Old Town
Plans are going forward for hotels, upscale housing, retail space and riverfront walkways, though longtime residents continue to have some misgivings.Everybody wants to be Greenwich Village.
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Food
A Japanese Fish Market in Williamsburg
Swordfish belly, bluefish, dogfish and mackerel, all cut with care.As convenient.
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Fashion & Style
Erica Bland, Matthew Lear
The bride is a nurse leader at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The groom works for AwesomenessTV.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
Alexis Zimberg, David Lerner
The couple met in 2012, when he was a Hebrew school teacher and she was an administrator at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Mich.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Travel
Sicily’s Mount Etna, an Island Within an Island
On a volcano’s flanks, a serene world apart that’s green and, occasionally, a fiery red.Pick a season.
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Opinion
After Louisiana, Preparing for the Next Storm
If more extreme weather events lie in our future, national, state and local policy makers need to improve the nation’s defenses.There is not much the Army Corps of Engineers can do when flooding is caused by local rain.
The flood map can be updated and the price of flood insurance can be raised.
A buyout program should be put in place.
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Opinion
More Attacks on Transgender Rights
A federal judge’s ruling on the Department of Education’s guidance for transgender students shouldn’t prevent schools from adhering to them.It may be necessary to persecute Texas.
Vote.
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N.Y. / Region
Restoring a Cross High Above Manhattan, Stone by Stone
In addition to repairing the outside of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, workers are reconstructing its pinnacle: a 10-foot-tall Celtic cross.Brown Stone does not last. The quarries in Connecticut are closed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Brownstone_Quarries
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Books
Memo to Parents: Back Off, and Children Learn More
In “The Gardener and the Carpenter,” Alison Gopnik says children are naturals at learning and have a better chance to develop if parents lighten up.Our culture has more than a thousand years experience sculpting the minds of children.
We have been unhappy with the results.
The gardener is a good analogy.
We are looking for a "natural" healthy result rather than a bonsai.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai
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Fashion & Style
Vivien Gay, Loretta Redd
Ms. Gay is the manager of international sales for a Napa Valley winery. Ms. Redd is retired as director of the Central Coast Alzheimer’s Association.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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N.Y. / Region
Father in Holland Tunnel Arms Case: Antidrug Hero, or Vigilante?
John Cramsey made international headlines in June when he was arrested with what the police said was a cache of weapons and ammunition.Very few addicts want to be addicts.
They try to quit.
There is no treatment for addiction beyond support.
Twelve step is another kind of support.
Sometimes it works.
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Opinion
The Real Crime Is What’s Not Done
As regulation and safety oversight remain lax, prosecutors bring charges in crimes that couldn’t have occurred if the government had done its job."The injustice of the Flint contamination and other safety disasters demand a meaningful response. Criminal law is not the right tool for the job."
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Opinion
A Shadowed Climate Watcher
A minister and a professor see a historical parallel.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/embarrassing-photos-of-me-thanks-to-my-right-wing-stalkers.html
We will get a carbon tax.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Police Struggle to Generate Leads in Murder of Queens Jogger
The attacker will do it again.
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U.S.
‘I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease
Bill Janu is white and a police detective. Shanna Janu is black and a lawyer. Their infant son is coming of age in a new time of racial turmoil.Vote.
Buy life insurance. Buy more life insurance.
The civilian must be allowed to shoot first.
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