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Arts
The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake.
The Times’s chief art critics weigh in on the end of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s pay-as-you-wish policy for out-of-state visitors.It is bad policy to mess with the charter of a not for profit.
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N.Y. / Region
Winter Storm Pounds Northeast With Wind, Snow and Flooding
Airports shut down, schools closed and cars slid off roads during winter’s first major storm. Officials fear the worst is ahead as bone-chilling cold moves in.New York caught the cold side of this storm.
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Business Day
After Dow 25,000, the Party Has to End. But When?
Market veterans say that stocks are overvalued and that a downturn is overdue. The question is how messy it will be, and how investors should prepare.I agree.
I have no plan to sell soon.
A major drop in the markets would impeach Trump.
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World
Vienna ‘New Year’s Baby’ Greeted First With Hate, Then Hearts
News of the Austrian capital’s first birth of 2018 triggered an outpouring of online hate, because her mother was pictured wearing a head scarf.The hate continues. It is an old religious war.
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The Upshot
‘Forget About the Stigma’: Male Nurses Explain Why Nursing Is a Job of the Future for Men
How the field is changing, and how it could help address a problem for men: The fastest-growing jobs are mostly done by women.Health care does not create wealth.
Single payer would help.
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Style
Must I Keep This Useless Gift?
And: the price of end-of-life care, socializing with new parents, and a bystander’s stance on everyday sexism.I consider gifts unconditional.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Arts
Stephen Colbert Wants One of Trump’s ‘Corrupt Media Awards’
President Trump said on Twitter that he would be announcing awards for “dishonest” and “corrupt” members of the media. Late-night hosts are intrigued.I am frightened. I want to run away.
I do not know where away is.
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Movies
Greta Gerwig: My Mother, My City
The actress and director explains how her love of New York is inextricably entwined with how she was introduced to it: on foot, by her smart, funny Sacramento mom.Walking is the way to know the city.
Maps and subways speed the process.
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Obituaries
Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli Novelist Haunted by the Holocaust, Dies at 85
Mr. Appelfeld, a survivor himself, made the plight of Jews during World War II his great subject, but in stories told obliquely, from a seemingly naïve viewpoint.I see. I almost understand. I draw parallels. My fear grows.
"History does not repeat but it rhymes."
All old religious wars are bitter.
Christianity was a schism of Judaism.
Representative democracy is a schism of parliamentary democracy.
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U.S.
Video: Inside a Suicide Hotline in Puerto Rico
Months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Caitlin Dickerson, a Times reporter, visits a suicide prevention center where calls are on the rise. Public health officials say there are signs of a severe mental health crisis on the island.These are citizens.
The emergency continues.
The federal government should send real help.
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