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Newyork
For One Weekend, We Remembered the Magic of Movie Theaters
It seemed like a miracle. The Cobble Hill Cinemas, a neighborhood joint that opened in the 1920s as the Lido and that served for decades as a venue for B-movie action films, was packed on what would ordinarily be a dead Monday night — and without a ...
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Newyork
The Case for Tourism
Agnes Callard, a University of Chicago philosopher, infuriated various portions of the internet in June with an essay making the case against travel. Though really it was the case against tourism, since Callard exempted many forms of travel — for ...
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Sports
For Natalie Gulbis, the Thrill of Winning the Evian in 2007
It was her lone tournament win, and she remembers the relief of getting that first one.
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Newyork
How Do I Wear a Vintage Dress Without Wrecking It?
A reader hopes to rock a silk chiffon dress from the ’80s without damaging its delicate fabric.
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News
How Do the White House’s A.I. Commitments Stack Up?
Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they’ll do with their technology. Our columnist sizes up their potential impact.
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Sports
Nick Price and the Thrill of Winning the Open
He won three majors in his career, but it was taking the British Open in 1994 that meant the most.
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Sports
There’s a British Open Winner Coaching High School Golf in Ohio
All of the noise is gone now. There is no entourage, no hubbub, no fuss. Instead of yukking it up with David Letterman, as he did 20 years ago this month, Ben Curtis is spending the morning teaching southeast of Cleveland and steeling himself for the ...
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Newyork
‘Why Does God Keep Making Poets?’
In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear, I find myself wanting to pause and catch my breath. As many people take summer vacations or simply enjoy a cold drink on their porch, it is a good time to take up new kinds of reading. I have ...
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Newyork
In Brazil, Beauty Is a Right. Are They On To Something?
Every person with a toddler knows that her child is in constant imminent peril. Trying to prevent the next near-death or disfiguring accident is a parent’s unending occupation. I was doing my best as I stood on one end of a shower in our hotel in Rio ...
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US
Biden Criticizes Supreme Court Rulings, but Not the Court
President Biden has resisted a full-throated attack on the Supreme Court or the individual justices, despite mounting pressure from activists and from within the Democratic Party.