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1

Fashion & Style

Tawny Kotchko, Kevin Joyce

May 29th 2016

The bride is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland. The groom graduated from Georgetown and Fordham.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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N.Y. / Region

Bodies Given to N.Y.U. Ended Up in Mass Graves, Despite Donors’ Wishes

By NINA BERNSTEIN | May 27th 2016

Cremation costs.

3

Opinion

Life After Wrongful Conviction

By KAREN BROWN | May 28th 2016

Ex cons are third class people.

4

Sports

Eight Russians Flunk Doping Tests in New Look at 2012 London Samples

By REUTERS | May 28th 2016

Testing has improved.

5

Fashion & Style

Beatty Cohan, James Vrettos

May 29th 2016

They hadn’t had contact for 45 years. Then he emailed her.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

6

Fashion & Style

Jessica Newman, Kevin Kozlowski

May 29th 2016

The couple met at auditions for a middle-school show choir.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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N.Y. / Region

Boy, 8, Brings Loaded Pistol to Brooklyn Public School

By KATE TAYLOR | May 27th 2016

A teacher found the weapon, loaded with four rounds, in the boy’s backpack on Friday morning, the police said.

"Business as usual."

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Fashion & Style

Putting Love to the Stress Test

By JASMINE JAKSIC | May 27th 2016

When two self-described tech geeks slide into a relationship that seems too easy, they design a monthlong trial to expose its flaws.

I do not want an exit.

9

Real Estate

Moving to the Bronx

By C. J. HUGHES | May 27th 2016

The number of home sales in the Bronx rose 35 percent in the first quarter of this year, a far larger increase than in Manhattan, Queens or Brooklyn.

I do not want to deal with the city.  I will if I must.

10

Business Day

Self-Made or Just Lucky?

May 28th 2016

Readers respond to “Successful? You’ve Already Won the Lottery” (May 22).

A very few have made fortunes.
Most fortunes are inherited.

11

Books

Amy Schumer’s Head Writer on Comedy and Her New Book

By JOHN WILLIAMS | May 26th 2016

Jessi Klein discusses her coming essay collection, “You’ll Grow Out of It,” and her writing process, which included cake and wine.

Keep typing.

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N.Y. / Region

New York Council Approves Bills to Divert Minor Offenders From Court System

By J. DAVID GOODMAN | May 25th 2016

A rationalizing of the lowest level of the court system.
I expect it to work.

13

Real Estate

Nonstop Noise From a Neighbor’s Place

By RONDA KAYSEN | May 28th 2016

Incessant beeping, adding and removing names in a co-op lease, and smoking doormen.

City living is maddening.
Let us not do it.

14

Food

Recipes to Memorialize the Weekend

By SAM SIFTON | May 27th 2016

A road map of deliciousness for the holiday, vegetarians included.

I have not been more ambitious than a mushroom onion omelet.
I am recovering from an intense week. 

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Fashion & Style

Whitney Tolpinrud, Brian Rebolledo

May 29th 2016

The bride and groom are doctors who met at the University of San Diego.

The U.U.s are not fussy.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

16

Opinion

Move Quickly Against a Rogue D.A.

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | May 27th 2016

In handling the case of a police officer who killed a driver, the district attorney defied an order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

We have more details.
I will wait for the result of the misfeasance investigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfeasance

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Books

‘From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,’ by Elizabeth Hinton

By IMANI PERRY | May 27th 2016

How decades of discriminatory policies and flawed studies led to an age of mass imprisonment.

I could believe it.
I would like supporting evidence.
I tend to see it as failures rather than a consistent plot.
Correction is proving difficult. 

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Fashion & Style

Lucia Graves, Alex Seitz-Wald

May 29th 2016

A columnist for The Guardian is to marry a reporter for MSNBC

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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U.S.

Washington Sends Off a Capitol Hill Watering Hole

By CARL HULSE | May 27th 2016

Johnny’s Half Shell, a hangout close enough to the Senate office buildings that allowed lawmakers a quick return to work if necessary, celebrated its last night on Thursday.

Yes. 
The after meeting space will continue.

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Your Money

Finally, Private Unemployment Insurance. But Will Anyone Buy It?

By RON LIEBER | May 27th 2016

IncomeAssure offers coverage that provides half your pretax pay, minus state jobless benefits, for up to 24 weeks.

I think it is a bad deal.
The assumption is the buyer will quickly be employed.
That will not happen if the Republicans win the next election.

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Magazine

Judge John Hodgman on Pet Raccoons

By JOHN HODGMAN | May 27th 2016

Cuteness is a clever distraction from their assassin-like lurking.

Judge John Hodgman is correct.
Raccoons do not belong in houses.
You can track and watch them outside.

http://nautil.us/blog/how-a-kids-cartoon-created-an-real_life-invasive-army

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Sunday Review

Finding Hope in a Wildfire’s Ashes

By FERNANDA SANTOS | May 28th 2016

For the survivors of wildfires in Alberta and Arizona, lives as well as homes need to rebuilt from scratch.

Fort McMurrey will recover.  There is oil for the digging.


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Your Money

Renovations That Add Value to a Home: Think Shingles, Not Marble

By PAUL SULLIVAN | May 27th 2016

Even when updates increase a home’s price, the increase may not line up with the costs of the changes. Certain changes may even lower a home’s value.

We will get advice.

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Opinion

Why Do So Many Studies Fail to Replicate?

By JAY VAN BAVEL | May 27th 2016

Because it is hard to recreate the exact conditions of the original research.

"The original researchers and the replicators both have a stake in cooperation. Even if a replication attempt fails, the field will find the failure far more informative because both parties agreed on the process in the first place. Then they can set their sights on understanding why the replication results differed from the original study. The lesson here is not that context is too hard to study, but rather that context is too important to ignore."

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N.Y. / Region

Review: NoLa by Brian in Stockton Takes Italian Inspiration on a Departure

By JOEL KELLER | May 27th 2016

After leaving the care of the restaurant to his staff, Brian Held recently returned to his north of Lambertville location to improve service and flavor.

Let the staff work on the project for a few months.

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Business Day

Left Speechless by a Superior’s Hateful Comment

By ROB WALKER | May 27th 2016

A stunned employee wonders how, or even whether, to respond after a superior makes an offensive and bigoted remark.

I try to avoid the situations.

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Opinion

Memorial Day Weekend Ranting

By GAIL COLLINS | May 26th 2016

I have met the enemy, and it is the airlines.

There is no such thing as an excess profit.

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Sports

23 More Athletes Suspected of Doping Could Be Kept From Rio Games

By REBECCA R. RUIZ | May 27th 2016

Scrutiny of London Olympians’ doping samples has put athletes from six countries under new suspicion, the I.O.C. said.

Testing has improved.

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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut

May 27th 2016

This week’s homes include a four-bedroom in Redding, Conn., and a five-bedroom in Old Brookville, N.Y.

We can think about these if you pay for the house and the cleaning service.

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Fashion & Style

Alexandra Tucker, Vaughn Stewart III

May 29th 2016

The couple met while working as associates at a Washington law firm.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Fashion & Style

Tawny Kotchko, Kevin Joyce

May 29th 2016

The bride is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland. The groom graduated from Georgetown and Fordham.

Use any rite you wish that you can get.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Magazine

The Story Behind the E.P.A’s Contaminated Water Revelation

By NATHANIEL RICH | May 27th 2016

Fifteen years after one environmental lawyer called for better regulation of perfluorooctanoic acid, the agency has finally responded.

I hope you have been using a reverse osmosis filter.

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N.Y. / Region

Teenager Drowns at Rockaway Beach in Queens

By RICK ROJAS | May 25th 2016

A 19-year-old man died in what officials said was the first drowning of the year at a public city beach, just days before lifeguards would take their summer posts.

The water is cold and the seas are high.

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The Upshot

Waiting in Line for the Illusion of Security

By SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN and RICHARD H. THALER | May 27th 2016

Two economists see the growing problem of interminably long lines at airport security checkpoints as an unnecessary economic one.

There is no such thing as an excess profit.
The demand is not price sensitive.

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Fashion & Style

Elinor MacPhail and Alexander O’Neal: The Older Woman (by Nearly a Full 2 Years)

By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI | May 29th 2016

The bride and groom were a perfect match, but a little difference in age kept them apart.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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N.Y. / Region

Bodies Given to N.Y.U. Ended Up in Mass Graves, Despite Donors’ Wishes

By NINA BERNSTEIN | May 27th 2016

Cadavers at N.Y.U.’s medical school that were supposed to be cremated were buried in a potter’s field, in a practice the university admitted had gone on for years.

The donors gave up control of the bodies.

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Fashion & Style

Laura Greene, Brendan Charney

May 29th 2016

The bride is a social worker and the groom is a lawyer.

The U.U.s do as good a job as any.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Opinion

Life After Wrongful Conviction

By KAREN BROWN | May 28th 2016

Don't be guilty.

19

Sports

Eight Russians Flunk Doping Tests in New Look at 2012 London Samples

By REUTERS | May 28th 2016

The results cast more shadows on Russian sports and are likely to increase calls to bar Russia from the Olympics.

Pleading guilty does not help.

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Fashion & Style

Mia Yabut, Edward Wiese

May 29th 2016

The bride works for Weill Cornell Medicine, and the groom for ABC’s “World News Tonight.”

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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World

Giant Sinkhole Swallows Dozens of Cars in Florence

By HANNAH OLIVENNES | May 25th 2016

A water pipe was said to have compromised a road not far from the city’s historic center; no injuries were reported.

A water main break under a parking area.

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Fashion & Style

Rima Rana, Nitesh Patel

May 29th 2016

The bride and groom, both doctors, began dating when she was 14 and he was 13.

The rite does not matter to me.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

3

Opinion

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

By ALAIN de BOTTON | May 28th 2016

Embrace a philosophy of pessimism. Every human will disappoint you, and you’ll do the same to them.

Yes.
You are still my choice.

4

Travel

At Soul Food Restaurants, Activism Was on the Menu

By STEVE REDDICLIFFE | May 26th 2016

In his new book ‘The People’s Place,’ Dave Hoekstra visits restaurants that played a vital role in the civil rights movement.

Kitchen tables for a people without kitchens.

The lord of the manor does not invade the kitchen. 

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U.S.

Pleading for Peace in Chicago: ‘We Could Be Looking at a Blood Bath’

By MONICA DAVEY and MITCH SMITH | May 28th 2016

Dreading the arrival of summer, historically the city’s most dangerous season, residents and leaders called for an end to the surging gun violence.

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

There are no arbiters or other umpires in war.

The Chicago police have been allowed to become irrelevant to the multi sided battles of the kid gangs of the periphery.
Some extralegal group must form to deal directly with the gang leaderships.
Keeping such a group tolerable to the civil government will be a problem.

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Fashion & Style

Bo Li, Michael Lao

May 29th 2016

When the bride decided to sell her medical textbooks, she found that the groom was very interested.

American Baptist was mother's mother's church.
Any rite you can get is good.
We must talk to arrange details.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

7

Food

‘Julia Reed’s South’: Entertaining, in Luxurious Down-Home Style

By MARGAUX LASKEY | May 27th 2016

The author Julia Reed’s latest cookbook embraces a timeless Southern adage: serve food that tastes good.

I can do that.  I don't want to eat much of it.
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018147-chess-pie-squares

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Opinion

Addicted to a Treatment for Addiction

By BETH MACY | May 28th 2016

In Appalachia, a drug is saving lives. But it’s also fueling a dangerous black market.

Addicts remain addicts.
Some are "in recovery".
Failures of recovery are more common than not.

You have known this.

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N.Y. / Region

Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters

By DAVID W. CHEN | May 28th 2016

Michelle Obama is to deliver a commencement address at ‘the poor man’s Harvard,’ where critics say a funding crisis is threatening its mission.

Deferred maintenance is a future problem.
There is no good way to put a donor's name on new pipes or a new roof.
Government wants more for support than the City University of New York provides. 

10

Opinion

To Save Our Justice System, End Racial Bias in Jury Selection

By JON O. NEWMAN | May 27th 2016

Limit the number of “gut feeling” jury strikes to just one or two per side.

Limiting the strikes will not correct the distribution in the jury pool.

11

Opinion

Obama’s Pointless Cancer ‘Moonshot’

By JARLE BREIVIK | May 27th 2016

It’s a Catch-22: The longer we live, the more people will get the disease.

Not at all.
Cancer is a research rather than an engineering problem.
This billion will go to research.
A billion is chunk change in relation to the present funding of cancer research.
Practical measures are as well funded as our congress allows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award

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U.S.

Island Rattlesnake Colony Gives Small-Town Massachusetts Jitters

By JESS BIDGOOD | May 28th 2016

Proposing an uninhabited island as a place to protect the timber rattlesnake from humans, scientists set off an outcry from humans who fear snakes.

Though many will not believe it, Massachusetts is not part of Ireland.
The rattlesnake has a place in the ecology of the state.
The causeways could be opened if that would help.

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U.S.

States Sue Administration Over Transgender Bathroom Policy

By DAVID MONTGOMERY and ALAN BLINDER | May 25th 2016

Officials in 11 states, led by Texas, accused the federal government of trying to make schools and offices “laboratories for a massive social experiment.”

"Which end of a soft egg should be opened?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu
"The novel further describes an intra-Lilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs. Traditionally, Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather, had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after his son cut himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu."

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Opinion

Transgender People, Restrooms and Civil Rights

May 25th 2016

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provide insight.

I agree.

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Fashion & Style

Komal Patel and Ravi Shah: A Memorable First Meeting, for One Person

By ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY | May 29th 2016

They locked eyes on the dance floor, but she didn’t remember him a little while later.

I do not read minds.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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U.S.

Florida Man Is Arrested in 2014 Murder of Law Professor

By CHRISTINE HAUSER | May 26th 2016

The Tallahassee police said Sigfredo Garcia was being held in connection with the killing of Dan Markel, a professor at Florida State University College of Law.

I cannot as yet know.

I suspect Dan Markel may have been a addict.

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Opinion

Inside Student Radicalism

By DAVID BROOKS | May 27th 2016

A clash of experiences at Oberlin College demonstrates the difficulty of reconciling identity politics with a meritocracy.

I do not think David Brooks' meritocracy is the meritocracy I understand. 
Merit includes understanding.
It is more than training.

Universities are trying to teach the process of thinking.
The process and the teaching of the process are not trivial.

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N.Y. / Region

New York Police Illegally Profiling Homeless People, Complaint Says

By NIKITA STEWART | May 26th 2016

Advocates for the homeless, who complained to New York’s Civil Rights Commission, said the police were harassing people simply for living on the streets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_%28people%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_%28people%29#Vagrancy_laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_%28people%29#United_States

Fix the law.
The situation is often beyond repair.

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N.Y. / Region

New York City Can Enforce Salt Warnings on Menus, Court Says

By WILLIAM NEUMAN | May 26th 2016

Thousands of restaurants must place a saltshaker icon next to menu items with more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium or face a fine, a court ruled.

OK

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Magazine

Why Amnesty International Is Calling for Decriminalizing Sex Work

By EMILY BAZELON | May 25th 2016

The human rights group takes a new position on prostitution and explains why arresting men for buying sex harms women.

People have tried to suppress prostitution for millennia.
I know of no successes.

The best I can do is apply the marketplace.
A willing buyer and a willing seller are required for fair trade.
We could insist on licensing both sides of the trade. 
The license must be displayed and kept current with health exams and drug tests..

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