Thursday, June 7, 2018

@16:00, 6/6/18


 
 
Opinion

The Democrats Navigate Around an Iceberg

Tuesday’s primary results don’t guarantee a wave. But the party’s dreams remain very much afloat.

Ross Douthat is not helping.
The constant distraction of the Republican talking points is a nuisance.

The Democrats are in good shape and will be in better shape if Trump gets his trade war.

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U.S.

Your Graduation Speeches in 50 Words

Readers shared pearls of wisdom they wish they had heard as a 20-something.

Words that a new graduate should hear and remember.
The sounds will enter their ears.
The words will not reach their minds.

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Sports

Mexico Wages a Psychological Battle Against Its World Cup Demons

Six straight second-round exits. Can a “mental coach” help the country do what a generation of players could not?

Do what works.

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Style

Why Kate Spade Felt Like a Friend

“Your gorgeous yet practical art made me feel a little less lonely at work every day,” one woman said.

I read the reports.
She had sold her business and her name.
She found that she had not sold her mind.
Growing a new person as an adult is a frustrating and depressing business.

I am sorry she broke.  Her fracture makes me fearful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

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U.S.

Video: Trump Stumbles Through ‘God Bless America’

The president closed his “Celebration of America” event with a rendition of the patriotic tune, but didn’t quite get all the words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_America

It is a sloppy song written for another silly war.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57409/epitaphs-of-the-war

"common form

If any question why we died, 
Tell them, because our fathers lied." 
 
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"a dead statesman 

I could not dig: I dared not rob: 
Therefore I lied to please the mob. 
Now all my lies are proved untrue 
And I must face the men I slew. 
What tale shall serve me here among 
Mine angry and defrauded young?"

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U.S.

Trump Defends Melania Trump and Spreads Conspiracies About Her in the Process

On Twitter, the president spread the sort of rumors about the first lady that might normally attract legal action from the notoriously litigious Trump family.

Pay attention.

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U.S.

5 Takeaways From California’s Primary, for Californians

Though it had national implications, the California primary also tested state political issues like single-payer health care, Latino turnout and an unpopular gas tax.

We live in interesting times.
Keep the gas tax.
Remember smog.

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Arts

Jerry Maren, Who Sang and Danced as a Munchkin in Oz, Dies at 98

He led the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 classic movie and was the cast’s last surviving dwarf. Behind the scenes, he fought for the dignity of dwarfs.

He worked.


Real Estate

$950,000 Homes in Texas, New York and Massachusetts

A modernist house in Dallas, an 1812 home on the Hudson River and a whimsical retreat in the Berkshires.

The Palisades place is the most satisfactory here.
I would rather build.

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Real Estate

House Hunting in … Portugal

Luxury real estate in the Algarve rose nearly 5 percent during the first quarter of 2018, thanks to very high demand from foreign buyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar



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U.S.

Video: Trump Stumbles Through ‘God Bless America’


Trump is a president.
He is not a military dictator.

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U.S.

Trump Defends Melania Trump and Spreads Conspiracies About Her in the Process


Pay attention.

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Real Estate

$950,000 Homes in Texas, New York and Massachusetts


How much of a staff will you afford?

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Real Estate

House Hunting in … Portugal


I would visit.  I would not invest.

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Style

Kim Cattrall Can Talk to Me About Anything

Even “Sex and the City,” which I did not watch.

Another time.   This machine does not have flash.
No, I can't download it.

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Opinion

The Battle Over Elite High Schools

Readers discuss a New York City proposal to eliminate the test that determines admission to these schools to diversify the student body.

Leave these schools for the high achievers.


Style

True Tales of ‘Sex and the City’

The HBO show changed New York by making new New Yorkers. These are the stories of our “Sex and the City” dreams — and nightmares.

Fashionable addresses should not be advertised.

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Style

It’s an It Girl! The Birth of ‘Sex and the City’

For the show’s 20th anniversary, Carrie Bradshaw’s creator, Candace Bushnell, and her boy band revisit late-’90s New York.

enough.

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Style

‘The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook,’ Updated

Is there such a thing as “gay cooking”? Daniel Isengart explores.

I could do that.  
I am more at rice and beans with soy sauce.

Good tuna salad on toast.

Fresh bread with butter and jam.

Noodles and beef stew.

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World

A Far-Right Leader Went for a Swim in Germany. His Clothes Went for a Walk.

Alexander Gauland of Alternative for Germany was escorted home seminaked by the police, after falling victim to a thief who shouted, “Nazis don’t need bathing fun!”

There are no pictures.



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