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N.Y. / Region

A Day Out Leaves Two Transgender Women Living in Fear

By DAVID GONZALEZ | Apr 2nd 2017

The friends, Nayra and Gabriela, were attacked when entering a restaurant in Jackson Heights, a neighborhood known as welcoming to gays and lesbians.

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N.Y. / Region

Messy Commute for N.J. Transit and L.I.R.R. Riders a Day After Derailment

By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS | Apr 4th 2017

Commuters who take New Jersey Transit and Long Island Rail Road can expect major delays and cancellations on Tuesday.

I would guess it was a broken rail.
Blame Chris Christie.

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U.S.

Girls Go Missing, and Washington’s Racial Divide Yawns Wider

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Mar 31st 2017

While there is no surge in disappearances of children in the nation’s capital, the problems facing at-risk youth have often been ignored.

Business as usual is intolerable.

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U.S.

In Gorsuch Confirmation Battle, Both Sides Spin and Mislead

By LINDA QIU | Apr 3rd 2017

Noise!

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Technology

A Quick Guide to Backing Up Your Critical Data

By J. D. BIERSDORFER and KELLY COUTURIER | Mar 31st 2017

On World Backup Day, here’s a quick guide to safeguarding your digital photos, videos, documents and emails by creating second copies of them.

Drive failure and changes in file format.

Critical data should be on a server farm.
Paper does not go in the bit bucket.

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Opinion

How to End the Politicization of the Courts

By DAVID LEONHARDT | Apr 4th 2017

Hint: Voting to confirm Neil Gorsuch won’t do it.

"Paeans to bipartisanship may sound good, but in this case they don’t ultimately promote bipartisanship. Right now, the status quo is working quite well for one of the two parties. The country won’t return to a less politicized judiciary until both parties have reason to want it."

The courts have been politicized since the founding of the republic.

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Opinion

Let’s Go for a Win on Opioids

By DAVID BROOKS | Apr 4th 2017

This is the moment for a war on a problem that is getting worse.

Let the addicts die.
Some will quit. 
Those can be helped.

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Opinion

Florida’s Vengeful Governor

By RANDOLPH BRACY | Apr 4th 2017

Rick Scott is punishing a prosecutor who took a stand against the death penalty.

Rick Scott is a sadist.

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Travel

How (and Where) to Take a Tax-Refund Vacation

By SHIVANI VORA | Apr 4th 2017

Tour operators and hotels have packages designed for taxpayers who want a break. Destinations include South Africa, Thailand and St. Lucia.

One must soon return.

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Arts

Prosecutors Want Cosby ‘Spanish Fly’ Comments as Evidence at Trial

By GRAHAM BOWLEY | Mar 30th 2017

In a filing, prosecutors sought to include interview and book remarks in which Bill Cosby discussed giving a fabled aphrodisiac to women.

Plea bargaining continues.


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