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Opinion
It’s Time to End the Scam of Flying Pets
Those who stretch the meaning of “service animals” do a disservice to fellow air travelers.Yes
Airlines should try animal friendly flights.
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Arts
11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
Our film critics have chosen 28 essential movies in honor of Black History Month. Cryptocurrency entrepreneurs are looking to create a haven in Puerto Rico. They were Super Bowl heroes; then they weren’t. And other great stories.Back to work.
It is interesting that the shortest month in the year is black history month.
Black history is part of history.
History is all years.
"Surrender none"
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Style
Angelina Jolie’s Lawyer Now Offers Quickie Divorces Online
Laura Wasser, the glamorous Los Angeles attorney who scores big settlements for the stars, thinks splitsville should be as easy as Seamless."The first one is free"
Use the service or one like it if you need the service.
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Opinion
Constitutional Crisis in Slow Motion
Trump will never put the country above himself.
"People
say that would create a constitutional crisis, but I say we are already
trapped in a slow-motion constitutional crisis, or constitutional train
wreck.
Trump
will never put the country above himself. And his Republican assistants
in the legislature have so bought into Trumpism that they now know that
they will share his fate.
Buckle up, folks: This ride will get much rougher before it finally comes to an end." Yes.
5
World
Bodies of 20 Migrants Pulled From Sea Off Spanish Enclave in Africa
The Moroccan and Spanish authorities extended a search-and-rescue operation at sea after the bodies were recovered off Melilla.Migrants trapped in Morocco are desperate.
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Business Day
Big U.S. Trade Gap Expected, and European Stimulus Plan at Issue
Walt Disney’s chief executive will face questions on the company’s plans in the wake of its deal with Fox, and a new government shutdown looms.Trump does not understand international economics.
Trump does not ask advice from proven experts.
So we could have a significant setback if stock/real estate both turn out to be bubbles and burst, and overstretched consumers pull back. Doesn't look that bad, however, as long as the policy response is good. And we have high confidence in current policymakers. Oh, wait 6/
Slightly worrisome that consumers have been spending as if only good news lies ahead, with savings rate down to eve-of-Great Recession lows 5/
Housing also looking a bit frothy, although again low interest rates may partially justify. Here's the ratio of the Case-Shiller index to the index of owner-occupied rent, again high but not on par with last bubble 4/
One worry is that stocks are priced for high growth but interest rates for low growth. In that case we could have rocky times ahead. But it doesn't scream bubble the way it did in the dotcom era 3/
First, stocks and bonds. Here's Shiller's cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio and long-term bond rates. PE is high but not 2000 high; might make sense given low interest rates, although bond prices also a question. 2/
Markets are looking ... interesting. How worried should we be? I'd say that a number of asset classes look richly priced, but not on a par with recent bubbles. 1/
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Sports
Edwin Jackson of Indianapolis Colts Is Killed in Car Accident
The police said that a driver suspected of drunken driving struck Jackson and another man as they were standing outside their car along the highway.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/sports/eagles-super-bowl-champions.html
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U.S.
Sessions Silent as Trump Attacks His Department, Risking Independence and Morale
The silence by Jeff Sessions breaks with a long tradition of attorneys general protecting the Justice Department from political interference.The legal trap is closing on Trump.
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How to Take Pictures at a Blood Bath
At the heart of François Girard’s production of “Parsifal” is a 1,250-gallon pool of blood. Photos of a rehearsal, captured by The Times’s Damon Winter, reveal a world stained red.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaANPNrAtpA
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