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Times Insider
The Time I Found Donald Trump’s Tax Records in My Mailbox
A manila envelope led to old-style investigative journalism involving a meeting in a bagel shop and an IBM typewriter.You can send me paper mail.
My address has not changed
If you send me an address I will send you paper mail.
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Books
Who Is Elena Ferrante? Supporters Say NOYB
Writers and critics from many quarters responded quickly to an Italian journalist’s excavation of financial records in an effort to identify the author who writes as Elena Ferrante.I don't need to know.
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Opinion
Elena Ferrante and the Power of Appropriation
It seems you can, in fact, imagine the lives of people unlike yourself.People believe her stories.
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U.S.
Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades
The Republican nominee reported nearly $1 billion in losses in 1995, opening the door to tax avoidance in subsequent years.The way to not pay income taxes is to not have income.
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U.S.
Video: Trump’s Tax Records
The New York Times obtained records from 1995 showing that Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss. The figure is so substantial that it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying federal income tax for 18 years.Most people cannot avoid income for 18 years.
Offsetting losses must be real.
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Opinion
The F.B.I. Crime Report
A former Times reporter writes that “research shows that reported property crime is in many cases very different from actual crime.”Yes. crime statistics are not very meaningful.
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Science
America’s Gray Ghosts: The Disappearing Caribou
A herd in the Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border is down to about a dozen, threatened by wolves and a larger problem, development.End development or lose the heard.
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World
Need to Land a Plane? In Australia, They Break Out the Toilet Paper
For the Royal Flying Doctor Service to arrive and land on a remote runway at night, about 30 cans with flaming rolls sometimes have to be lined up.Cute story.
Australian sheep stations continue.
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Food
Chicken Potpie for the Modern Cook
This updated version is simpler and better, ditching the gummy white filling and frozen vegetables.http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018330-modern-chicken-potpie
An audience and a freezer.
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U.S.
After Stanford Case, California Governor Signs Bill Toughening Penalties for Sexual Assault
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the measure, which imposes a mandatory minimum sentence, in response to the jailing for only three months of Brock Turner.When a mob forms a politician runs to the front and points the way.
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N.Y. / Region
In Aftermath of Train Crash, Wary New Jersey Commuters Make the Best of It
Thursday’s disaster called upon commuters to be sympathetic and realistic regarding the altered routines on Friday.The search for answers is producing noise.
Trains are massive.
It looks like a brake failure due to bad maintenance.
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N.Y. / Region
N.J. Transit Engineer Has No Memory of Fatal Train Crash, Officials Say
The engineer, Thomas Gallagher, also told investigators that the train was traveling about 10 miles an hour when it entered Hoboken Terminal, contradicting initial reports that it was moving faster.It still looks like brake failure.
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Style
How I Created My Very First Garden From Scratch
I had gardened for years, but never planned an entire project. New York’s High Line was one inspiration for the yard around my California cottage.Start with a blank slate.
I would grade, rake and cut the grass.
Then identify the plants and begin to think.
One does not buy garden by the yard or from a catalog.
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Business Day
How Donald Trump Turned the Tax Code Into a Giant Tax Shelter
If Mr. Trump’s pattern of generating losses and using them to offset other income has continued, as seems likely, it’s obvious why he has not released his tax returns: because he hasn’t paid any taxes.His tax position will not improve his respectability.
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Corrections
Quotation of the Day
Quotation of the day for Monday, October 3, 2016."Yes. What is the news?"
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Fashion & Style
Patricia DeSantis, Trevor Belton
The couple both went to Cornell. They met in 2014, on the dating app Hinge.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
Morgan Jacobs, Bradley Friedman
The couple were introduced through the dating app Hinge.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Green the World and Grow the Economy?
“Economic growth is the planet’s most pressing environmental challenge,” a reader writes. Another says resources need to be managed locally.The world is over populated and over developed.
More is not better.
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Real Estate
The Serial Subletter
Susannah Vila lives in a large studio on the parlor floor of a townhouse in the East Village, but who’s to say how long she’ll be there.A nice way to live for a time.
It is not for me.
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Fashion & Style
Hilary Keefe, Christopher Schuville
The couple met at Georgetown University, from which they graduated.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Style
The Art of Condolence
The rules of expressing sympathy have become muddied at best, and concealed in an onslaught of emoji at worst.Good advice.
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Opinion
A Farming Revolution, Minus Factories
Readers take issue with an article about the virtues of industrial farms.Farming is an industry with industrial problems.
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N.Y. / Region
A Very Fair Exchange
A woman needing a watchband fixed has just what she needs to persuade the repairman to get to work.Something of value.
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Well
A Flu Season Without FluMist? Making Shots Less Painful for Children
Distractions like blowing bubbles or counting backward from 10 can help, experts say.I will get a flu shot.
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Fashion & Style
Bianca Lee, Richardo Blake
The bride owns a marketing consultancy; the groom is a director for an environmental remediation contracting firm.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
Caroline Bonin, Nicholas Bayer
The couple first saw each other in adjoining pews in the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
Helen Jiang, Dustin Lee
The couple met at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where each received a medical degree.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Magazine
Judge John Hodgman Rules on Diet Mountain Dew
Every adult human is allowed an indulgence or two. But not four to six per day.Yes.
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Books
The Case for Shirley Jackson
Ruth Franklin’s new biography views Shirley Jackson as a writer in the tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James.The works must remain accessible.
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Shirley%20Jackson&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20
I have not found a need to read her.
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N.Y. / Region
After Acquittal in Boy’s Killing, Potsdam Sighs With Relief and Resignation
After the prosecution presented an overwhelmingly circumstantial case, a judge cleared Oral Nicholas Hillary of second-degree murder charges in the death of a 12-year-old boy.There is an end to the prosecution though not of the persecution.
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N.Y. / Region
On Fire Island, a Scar From Hurricane Sandy Is Seen as a Good Thing
It is a good thing.
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N.Y. / Region
Men Who Found Bomb Were Following a New York Tradition
Two men who took a rolling bag on West 27th Street in Chelsea, possibly disabling the bomb inside, were following a long tradition of repurposing items discarded on city streets.Enough.
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Fashion & Style
Kathleen Donovan, Justin Polselli
The bride is an architect; the groom is a banker.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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The Learning Network
Questions for: ‘A Peek at the Secret English Farm Where Amazon Tests Its Drones’
No information.
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Books
A New Novel About Marital Distress, a Depressed Mother and a Move to Australia
Stephanie Bishop’s “The Other Side of the World” is an exquisite meditation on motherhood, marriage and the meaning of home.All intelligent action starts with memory.
Ones future does not exist until it becomes ones past.
A present has no duration.
A past has no change.
If we are to exist we must continue.
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