1
Style
A Book of Emails Women Love to Hate
“Hey Ladies” charts a year of correspondence between eight women as they plan for a wedding, and everything a wedding requires.Not my department.
Do what works.
2
Books
The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful Past
In Charles Frazier’s novel “Varina,” a late-life meeting with a former slave triggers painful memories for the much younger wife of Jefferson Davis.The book asks the wrong questions and supplies wrong answers.
She felt little through the opium fog.
3
Smarter Living
How Your Brain Can Trick You Into Trusting People
Knowing that you have hidden biases is the first step to getting around them.Talk before you act.
Contracts begin with discussions.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
4
Real Estate
When the Downstairs Neighbors Become Best Friends
Sharing the downstairs washing machine and the upstairs coffee maker brings eight strangers together in Bushwick, Brooklyn.A very unstable mess.
5
Food
What to Cook This Week
Line up your meals for the days ahead, starting with ginger-scallion chicken, roasted chicken thighs or stir-fried beef and sugar snap peas.I may not get to cook tonight.
6
Crosswords & Games
And Underwear for All
Bruce Haight folds his laundry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BttXQJ_gDnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3-PmML699E
7
Opinion
A Woman’s Beauty: Who Gets to Decide?
Readers applaud a new film that addresses the issue of women and their physical appearance.I have spent many years with the history of art.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
Is a true statement.
The gay men tend to like boys.
They design for their boys.
Thus the androgynous standard of beauty.
8
U.S.
They Survived a Massacre. Then the Lawyers Started Calling.
“We’ve all gotten a thousand phone calls from lawyers,” said one Las Vegas shooting survivor.It is called "ambulance chasing".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance_chasing
9
N.Y. / Region
The Sheldon Silver Trial: Take Two
The former New York Assembly speaker’s retrial on federal corruption charges will begin on Monday, after his previous conviction was overturned.Sheldon Silver did corrupt acts.
10
Well
On Being an Orphan, Frequently
There are mornings I wake up and think, as the world and the day come into focus, that I no longer have a parent living.The repair of minds is a problem I find hard to define.
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