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Food
‘The Rat Trap’ Review: Together for Better, but Mostly for Worse
Sheila Brandreth and Keld Maxwell are in love and about to get married. She is a novelist and he is…
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World
An Earthquake Took a Heavy Toll on Children. Shoddy Construction Could Be to Blame.
Like most other children across Indonesia, Dewi Hani, 4, typically spent her afternoons studying at an Islamic school. She had…
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Food
Lars von Trier Had the Key to the End of ‘The Kingdom’ All Along
In the first two seasons of Lars von Trier’s haunted-hospital drama “The Kingdom,” hailed since the 1990s as Denmark’s “Twin…
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Magazine
Evan Mock Is Having the Best Time
On a recent afternoon, Evan Mock was trying to do laundry in his East Village condo, but something was wrong…
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Magazine
How Not to Be a Character in a ‘Bad Fashion Movie’
About 10 months ago, Laura Brown put on an emerald green suit and walked into an East Village art gallery,…
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Magazine
‘The Hours’ Gets Dressed for the Opera
When the British designer Tom Pye was first brought on to the creative team of “The Hours,” a new opera…
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US
United States Enters a New Era of Direct Confrontation With Iran
Over the past few days, Iran has told international inspectors that it plans to begin making near bomb-grade nuclear fuel…
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Sports
The Importance of ‘Mr. Baseball’
Sure as leaves flutter to the ground and turkey gobbles fill the air, a fall baseball tradition, too, is about…
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World
Manx Language, Once Almost Silenced, Is Now the Talk of the Town
ST JOHN’S, Isle of Man — The squeals of laughter echoing from the playground sound like any other elementary school…
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World
Meet the World’s New Human Rights Crisis Manager. He Has a Lot to Do.
GENEVA — Barely a month after taking office as the United Nations’ new human rights chief, Volker Türk was in…