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Style
Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did.
Like modern-day von Trapps, minus the singing, families are climbing mountains and fording streams with nothing but backpacks and a Wi-Fi connection.I miss the language and the American attitude.
I miss the books and papers.
I like the noise and the quiet.
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N.Y. / Region
Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Prospect Park
David S. Buckel wrote in a note he left behind that he wanted people to lead less selfish lives as a way to help protect the planet.Depression gets strange.
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Opinion
Baby Boomers Reach the End of Their To-Do List
This isn’t sloth. It isn’t exhaustion. It’s finally being aware of existing for its own purpose.Her puzzlement is the pursuit of happiness.
The phrase in the constitution has an eighteenth century meaning different from modern usage.
The twenty first century reads it as the active search for contentment.
The founders read the pursuit of happiness as occupational good fortune. Whitman like loafing in the company of fellow loafers or summer nature is a pursuit of happiness like watching a rosey dawn from a comfortable bed with no great need to start the day.
The to do list is never ended.
We must include appreciation for life and liberty on it.
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Opinion
We Need an Exorcist!
William Friedkin revisits his old haunts for his new documentary about exorcism.Trumpism has no right of exorcism.
Bell Book and candle do not work with a book by Ayne Rand.
I have never seen the film.
I did see the French Connection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism
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Business Day
A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash
Governments are struggling as mounting pension obligations crowd out the rest of their budgets. Oregon faces a severe, self-inflicted crisis."Death cures all ills"
The authorities got silly with the formulas.
The pensioners will die shortly.
Borrow the funds with low interest bonds.
Demands for fully funded programs are silly.
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Admin
Our 10 Most Popular Recipes Right Now
Roasted asparagus, classic lasagna, and more recipes for the weekend.https://cooking.nytimes.com/68861692/10690162-our-10-most-popular-recipes-right-now
Food is good.
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U.S.
Found Footage Offers a New Glimpse at 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Nine minutes of newly found footage, restored from an aging film reel to be revealed publicly this weekend, shows the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906.ok
Dramatic pictures.
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Style
Olympian Gus Kenworthy Runs Into His Celebrity Crush at Store Party
The 26-year-old freestyle skier arrived at the new Nordstrom store in New York with his boyfriend.Yuck.
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World
Iceland’s 1st Black Citizen? An Ex-Slave and War Hero Denmark Now Disregards
Long after his death, Hans Jonathan is something of a celebrity in Iceland, where he is thought to have been the first black person. But in Denmark, his extraordinary story is widely ignored.Yes.
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Podcasts
Listen to ‘Dear Sugars’: Buyer’s Remorse — With Buzz Bissinger
The writer Buzz Bissinger joins the Sugars to recount his public battle with a spending addiction.I have not suffered a spending addiction.
When my pocket is empty, spending halts.
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