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News
If Airbnbs Are Illegal, How Does My Neighbor Still Get Away With It?
Most co-ops require shareholders to comply with local laws and regulations, not just their own rules.
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Books
Sizzling, Sparking, White-Hot Romance Novels
In romances — whether on the page or the screen — we want characters with chemistry, who spark and combust from the meet-cute to the inevitable seduction to the dawning realization that despite their wisest intentions, characters have fallen ...
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Newyork
The Conversations About the War in Gaza We Ought to Be Having
The conflict in Israel and Palestine has thrown American campuses and society into turmoil. We are both deans of public policy schools. One of us comes from a Palestinian family displaced by war. The other served in Israeli military intelligence ...
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Newyork
A Brutal Disease May Soon Be Transformed
The sickle cell crises were always different. Sometimes Lynndrick Holmes would wake up with a searing pain in his legs, as though there were knives growing out of his bones. Sometimes it was in his arms, like needles digging into his nerves. Other ...
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Books
Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings
Institutions are cutting back, but in corners of the city there is still new music to be found, like song cycles by Ted Hearne and Paul Pinto.
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News
When Your Age, and Everyone Else’s, Is Showing
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to [email protected]. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Alone and Feeling Irrelevant A strange new world isn’t a bad ...
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Science
These Tiny, Beautiful Wasps Eat the Hearts Out of Cockroaches
Jewel wasps carve up cockroaches like jack-o’-lanterns in a way scientists have never seen before.
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Newyork
The Main Problem With Pedestrian Deaths Isn’t the Pedestrians
I want to talk about two things that have happened since last weekend’s newsletter on pedestrian deaths. One of them was covered in this newspaper, and the other was a personal experience. The news item is that a young child was killed in Brooklyn ...
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Books
Joey Evans Is Back. This Time He’s a Struggling Artist.
Joey Evans is a charming cad, a heel, an unapologetic womanizer, a gigolo. He’s a second-rate nightclub entertainer who breaks the heart of an ingénue and seduces a rich older woman, trading sex for money. In 1940, some people found Joey, the ...
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Newyork
Where Hamas Is Winning
In 2014, a new state was formed in the heart of the Middle East. It had a capital, a government, an army and almost 12 million subjects — a larger population than Jordan or Israel. It also had a commitment to butchery, savagery and fanatical violence ...