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Opinion
Steve Mnuchin’s Wife Has a Talent for Being Tone Deaf
When Louise Linton is done apologizing for her latest gaffe, maybe she’ll join me dinner at my grandmother’s in Zambia."Come the revolution . . ."
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Food
Tom Colicchio Changes His Restaurant’s Racially Tinged Name
The chef is renaming Fowler & Wells, after learning about the name’s connection with the debunked theories of phrenology.The name change is probably a good idea.
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Arts
Trump Looks Directly at the Eclipse, and Conan O’Brien Spies an Opening
Mr. O’Brien on President Trump looking at the eclipse: “He did it after they told him not to. So afterwards, everyone started advising him: Whatever you do, don’t resign.”President Pence would be worse.
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Business Day
Why Jeep Ought to Be for Keeps
Selling Fiat Chrysler’s top brand might raise $23 billion But it would leave an emaciated rump and mean that Sergio Marchionne’s last lap would be a dismal one.Jeep is a brand that makes money for Fiat Chrysler.
The company would die without it.
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Food
Cupcakes That Pay Tribute to Grandma, and Beyoncé
I.M. Pastry Studio has opened an outpost in the Essex Street Market, and its treats are named for famous women.I am still dodging sugar.
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The Learning Network
Reader Idea | Before Tackling Shakespeare, Students Analyze Puzzling Photos
As part of her Shakespeare unit, students start Mondays by looking closely at a new “WGOITP?” image and writing detailed paragraphs explaining what they see.Close reading is a good idea.
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Books
Three Deadly Days: One Town’s Experience of the Holocaust
Rachel Seiffert’s novel “A Boy in Winter” probes the bonds and betrayals in a Ukrainian town as it succumbs to Hitler’s armies.Fiction does special pleading.
What do the second and third generations owe the survivors grandchildren?
African Americans carry a current debt.
Are they additionally owed for the end of Reconstruction?
At what rate of interest should reparations be paid?
There is a debt. It is not infinite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy
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Books
A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It
Rereading Maya Angelou, Richard Wright and other mid-20th-century writers is to see anew that Appomattox was as much a beginning as an end.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy
The slaveholding culture has never declaired moral bankruptcy.
It should be placed in receivership.
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Business Day
Audi Engineer Implicates Superiors in Diesel Case, Lawyer Says
A former employee being held in a Munich jail says top managers knew pollution equipment was inadequate, setting the stage for emissions fraud.Volkswagen is not dead yet.
The prosecutors are working on that.
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Business Day
Chinese Automaker Sets Its Sights on Jeep
A deal would give Great Wall Motor Co. a foothold abroad and help China become a global force in the industry. But Jeep’s parent company said there had been no overtures.China can learn.
China has bought enough to get started learning.
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