Monday, September 3, 2018

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Times Insider

My Decades on the Nazi Trail

The deportation this week of a former Nazi guard living in Queens was possible because of a precedent inspired by Times reporters. I was one of them.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/

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Opinion

When Fear of Strangers Is Fatal

Stoking parental fear about predators inspires vengeance.

Social responsibility has come to this.

This tail worked once:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief 

3
Sports

Trained to Find Players, Bundesliga Insider Scouts for Scouts, Too

Finding good players is an acquired skill, Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonas Boldt contends, one that can be learned by pretty much anyone. He should know.

The world is large.
No single person can know of all the prospects and how to reach them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ9U4Cbb4wg

Sales, whether buying or selling is a learned skill.

4
Arts

Review: ‘Pula!’ Dancing for Rain on Broadway

The story in this song-and-dance show from Botswana turns on drought but the experience is one of abundance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainmaking
no.

Artistic dance, yes.
See the show if you can.

5
World

It’s Not Easy to Hear

A reader finds that it’s easy to connect with people who are different. We just have to listen to each other.

Yes.  Australia is learning about refugees along with the rest of the English speaking world.
It is an old lesson that must be relearned often.

6
Opinion

End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy

Big companies have squandered $4 trillion since 2007 buying their own stock. It’s time to rein them in.

A progressive income tax on all individual income is my preference.  The cash could finance single payer health care and other generous social programs.

It could even reduce the homeless population.

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Business Day

Saudi Aramco Is Said to Postpone Its Potentially Record-Breaking I.P.O.

The oil giant has put its plans for an initial public offering on hold, as it focuses on efforts to buy a stake in a Saudi chemical maker.

The Saudi government must raise cash to pay for foreign wars.

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Food

Five Weeknight Dishes

The grill is on, the tomatoes are fat, the corn is sweet: It’s time to embrace the Super Caprese, an extra-large, dressed-up Caprese salad.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipe-box/11249289

I can make these.

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U.S.

Video: ‘Can The President Be Impeached?’ We Answer Your Questions

Since the news broke of Michael Cohen’s guilty plea, we received lots of questions from our readers. Adam Liptak, the Times’s Supreme Court reporter, answers them.

The Republican House will not act to impeach Trump.
Vote in November.

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Today’s Paper

Quotation of the Day: A Second ‘Wound That Never Heals’

Quotation of the Day for Friday, August 24, 2018.

Canada is a wealthy nation and is responsible for their contractor's debts.


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