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Travel
How to Shop the Markets in Provence
Marjorie R. Williams, the author of “Markets of Provence,” says that fall is an idea time to do some shopping — and recommends the rotisserie chicken.The market is the life of the town everywhere.
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Times Insider
How Does a Hurricane Get a Name Like Hermine?
Believe it or not, this moniker was chosen 37 years ago, during the Carter administration.Eventually the list will get small. Names will be added.
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Magazine
Payback in Guadalajara
Growing up in a Mexican orphanage, where nothing was fair and revenge was bittersweet.https://www.amazon.com/We-Charles-Lindbergh/dp/B00086AYD4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473445023&sr=1-1&keywords=we+charles+lindbergh
The fit is not good.
No child deserves a Catholic orphanage.
She has escaped.
I know no more of her current circumstances.
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N.Y. / Region
Crux of Connecticut Judge’s Grim Ruling: Schools Are Broken
A decision that threw out the state’s education financing system as unconstitutional spoke to a larger nationwide truth."a Connecticut judge threw out the state’s school financing system"
Hobbled is not broken.
"Moving beyond those debates might require reassessing the tradition of using property taxes to pay for schools, said Rebecca Sibilia, the founder of EdBuild, a nonprofit that works with states to redesign school financing systems. “We haven’t kicked that notion that property taxes are the primary way to pay for education,” she said."
Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher of State Superior Court in Hartford appears not to have said anything about broken schools.
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N.Y. / Region
1 World Trade Center Gains Popularity in the Pantheon of New York Kitsch
On postcards and other merchandise, the Manhattan skyscraper is approaching the ubiquity the twin towers used to have in popular depictions of the city.The Port Authority has replaced a poor building with an actively bad building.
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+two+towers,+J.R.R.+tolkien&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk17-AhIPPAhVLox4KHVk7D0QQsAQIMw&biw=1024&bih=639#imgrc=4-JuIvxXUrkiLM%3A
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Food
Manhattan’s Hottest New Dining Spot: The 20s
The Flatiron and NoMad areas will get a crop of new restaurants.Slightly hotter.
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U.S.
Man Confesses to 1989 Killing of Boy, 11, in Minnesota
In a packed courtroom, Daniel J. Heinrich described donning a mask and confronting Jacob E. Wetterling with a revolver 27 years ago.Daniel J. Heinrich will die in prison. He will probably be murdered.
Short eyes are not tolerated.
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Well
Writing a ‘Last Letter’ When You’re Healthy
A Stanford University project guides people — healthy or not — to write a letter to their loved ones so they won’t have regrets at the end of life.I am not ready for a last letter.
I suffer from ambition.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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U.S.
Chicago’s Plan to Toughen Oversight of Police Is Under Fire
Some activists say that Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan lacks teeth and that more must be done to guarantee that two new oversight agencies are given enough money and influence.Civil government will persist in Chicago.
Enough of the bangers will die.
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U.S.
U.S. Ends Corruption Case Against Former Virginia Governor
The Justice Department said Thursday that it would cease its prosecution of Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen."Old times there are not forgotten" . . .
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Magazine
Judge John Hodgman on Taking ‘Expectant Mother’ Parking Spots
Congratulations! Is it a girl, boy or the exploitation of an obscure kindness?Expectant means ninth month.
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N.Y. / Region
Smoke Break on Central Park West
A driver at a red light is distracted when a doorman pulls a joint out of a planter and lights up.Doormen are human.
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Books
‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family
Mr. Foer’s story of loss, pain and regret is his best and most caustic novel, but is undercut by a cloying winsomeness.Stupid Jews are dead.
Stupid People are dead.
Mr. Foer has written life as he has lived it.
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Fashion & Style
The Glamour Girls
How runway models went from being underpaid mannequins to the stars of fashion week.The show is nominally about the cloths.
If the cloths are not worth the show make it about the girls.
"The orchestra is beautiful."
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Books
Alan Moore: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “Jerusalem” says if he could compel the president “to read one book — other than ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ — then I definitely would.”The world is teased.
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N.Y. / Region
Prosecutors Describe Bungled Robbery in Killing of Hasidic Landlord
The trial of Kendel Felix, who is accused of killing Menachem Stark of Brooklyn, began with allegations that Mr. Felix had kidnapped Mr. Stark to recover a debt.Most street cons start with bad fiction.
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N.Y. / Region
Developers of Pier 55 Win a Round in Court
The New York State Appellate Division rejected arguments against the project on Thursday, handing a victory to the media mogul Barry Diller and the Hudson River Park Trust.Barry Diller's bad idea lives another month.
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Books
You Remember John Aubrey. Chased by Debt Collectors, Chaser of Whores.
One of England’s best-loved 17th-century writers didn’t leave a diary. With “John Aubrey: My Own Life,” the historian Ruth Scurr has fixed that.A work of fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aubrey
There may be more to it than I suspected.
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World
British Parliament Set to Relocate to Save a Crumbling Palace
A report suggests the House of Commons and House of Lords should move out of the iconic Palace of Westminster in 2022 for nearly four billion pounds worth of repairs and upgrades.Copycats.
The repairs are necessary.
The builders expected constant reconstruction in the medieval pattern of church architecture.
Court dress is warmer than a three piece suit.
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Real Estate
Where to Live? Ask an App
New apps and online tools use a combination of big data and smart algorithms to help buyers and renters find their ideal neighborhoods.Ultimately it is your choice.
I do not want to be in the city.
My budget is limited.
I am looking for space and tolerance with a rail connection to the city.
Off the grid is ok. Highspeed internet is a requirement. A large local library a big plus.
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