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College Parent Arrested After Confrontation at Syracuse Campus Protest
Ronn Torossian, an associate of Mayor Eric Adams, said he was protesting what he sees as Syracuse University’s inadequate response to antisemitism since the Oct. 7 attack.
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Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Mediator for Life’s Final Moments, Dies at 82
A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-or-death decisions in a high-tech age.
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Why Was This Treasure of Musical Theater All but Lost to the Ages?
Three Black book musicals were Broadway hits in the 1970s: “Purlie” in 1970, “The Wiz” in 1975 and “Raisin” in 1973, based on Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” That was Blacker than Broadway had been since 50 years before, when the 1921 hit ...
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Raunch and Business Records: 5 Takeaways From Trump’s Criminal Trial
The fourth week of Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial veered from the salacious to the monotonous, and ended with a preview of a showdown coming next week: the long-awaited testimony of Mr. Trump’s fixer-turned-nemesis, Michael D. Cohen. On ...
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Biden’s Real Mistake in Pausing Military Aid to Israel
It is unfortunate that President Biden chose to announce his pause of some weapons sales to Israel while on a political campaign swing through Wisconsin. I use that word — “unfortunate” — not because I don’t understand why Biden did so, but because ...
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Too Racy for Times Square? An Ad for Lactation Cookies Is Replaced.
Clear Channel, which manages many of the advertisements in the area, said a provocative billboard for a Molly Baz recipe was “flagged for review.”
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David Shapiro, Who Gained Fame in Poetry and Protest, Dies at 77
A renowned member of the New York School of poets, he also found accidental notoriety when he was photographed during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University.
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Is There a Post-Religious Right?
During the 2016 Republican campaign, watching Donald Trump shoulder his way past his more pious rivals for the nomination, I remarked on the platform then known as Twitter: “If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious ...
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Giuliani Is Suspended by WABC, and His Radio Show Is Canceled
The radio station disciplined Rudolph W. Giuliani after he violated company policy by trying to discuss the legitimacy of the 2020 election on the air.
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This Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug Laws
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Drug policy feels very unsettled right now. The war on drugs was a failure. But so far, the war on the war on drugs hasn’t entirely been a success, either. Take Oregon. In 2020, it became the first state in the ...