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This Year, Try Organizing Your Life Like a Monk
Last week, when we looked at suggested resolutions from thinkers and writers, I mentioned that I often feel ambivalent about the beginning-of-the-year thrust toward disciplines, goals and habits. I tend more toward variety and chaos rather than order ...
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Sports
For Ironman Triathlon Finishers, His Words Were as Precious as a Medal
Mike Reilly thrilled weary finishers of Ironman triathlons with the affirming phrase they longed to hear: “You are an Ironman.”
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What Went Unsaid in the Chief Justice’s Report on the Judiciary
John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, recently filed his 2022 “year-end report on the federal judiciary.” It’s more interesting for what it didn’t say than for what it did. To underscore the threatening world that judges occupy, the ...
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Newyork
A Rat Killer Has Some Advice for Mayor Adams
Solving the problem of the infestation around the mayor’s Brooklyn property is not necessarily simple, an expert in rodenticide says.
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Newyork
A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ The year 2022 was jam-packed with advances in artificial intelligence, from the release of image generators like DALL-E 2 and text generators like Cicero to a flurry of developments in the self-driving car industry ...
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Newyork
How Nature Kept St. John the Divine From Soaring Higher
Originally, the Manhattan cathedral was to have a 40-story tower, but its planners had failed to take geology into account.
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Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb and the Art of the Edit
Making movies about writers is notoriously difficult, though the temptation is clear. After all, filmmakers, like authors, are storytellers, and are drawn to other people who tell them. But as with any other kind of story, clichés often do those ...
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Newyork
We’re Going to Miss Greed and Cynicism
It’s 2023. What will the new year bring? The answer, of course, is that we don’t know. There are a fair number of what Donald Rumsfeld (remember him?) called “known unknowns” — for example, nobody really knows how hard it will be to reduce inflation ...
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Newyork
How to Destroy a Brand, Musk Style
True story: When I won the Nobel Prize in 2008, Princeton quickly set up a special event on campus and reserved a parking space for me in front of Robertson Hall. But when I drove up in my 2004 Jetta, the security people frantically tried to wave me ...
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World
‘The Daily’ checks in with a Russian man who fled the draft.
Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow region. He does not support the policies of President Vladimir V. Putin and is vehemently against the invasion of Ukraine. Yet when Mr. Putin announced a military draft in September ...