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John Deckenback , conference minister of the church’s Central Atlantic Conference, which submitted the boycott resolution, called the outcome a reflection of the church’s “spirit of love for both Israelis and Palestinians.” +The 19th-century ballets tend to be labeled the classics , and “The Sleeping Beauty” (1890) has long been considered the most classical. +The Islanders (13-8-4), who have won three of four, are expected to have their first sellout since opening night in October. +In his lengthy enumeration of conditions for taking on the role of House speaker, Mr. Ryan made it clear to his Republican colleagues Tuesday night that one was sacrosanct: “I cannot and will not give up my family time.” +In 1967, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe rented an apartment at 160 Hall Street, near Pratt Institute . +The trend to portray true-to-life gay characters in works intended for a wider audience extends to comic books aimed at younger readers, too. +In the past month, at least 36 people 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Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined Justice Kagan’s dissenting opinion. +In June , Cardinal Ortega incensed members of the opposition when he suggested in a radio interview that he had no knowledge of political prisoners in Cuba. +Still, the museum (which has an accompanying series of public talks about karma ) has assembled some fairly instructive examples. +The fleeting pleasures of “People Places Things,” Jim Strouse’s winsome trifle of a comedy, derive almost entirely from the charm of its star, Jemaine Clement, the New Zealand-born actor best known in America as one-half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords . +Just as there are conspiracy theorists who will never be satisfied with the Warren Commission report on the Kennedy assassination, there are some who passionately believe that Mr. Rather and his producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) conspired to tarnish George W. Bush ’s reputation. +In Beijing , that restriction, imposed under a red alert, applies to the entire municipal area. +The case, which made headlines in December, incited local officials to temporarily ban the ride-hailing service in the Delhi region after details emerged that the driver, Shiv Kumar Yadav, had previously been detained on suspicion of raping another female passenger in 2011. +Researchers like Mr. Cohen , who study these trade-offs, say we need to think more broadly about the value of what our preventive spending buys, not the narrow question of whether it saves money. +WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal testified before a congressional committee on Tuesday that dozens of memos he sent her when she was secretary of state were written by a longtime high-ranking C.I.A. official. +Young people are attracted to black-and-white statements . +The depot’s 182 soldiers and 27 reservists managed to hold out for seven days in what is known as the Battle of Westerplatte and have been celebrated ever since as an example of Polish resistance. +Because nonprofits do not disclose their donors, it is impossible to know how much of the Koch network’s spending is underwitten by the Kochs themselves. +The Donald Gallery “A Place to Remember,” paintings by Emily Stedman . +Ms. Matthew was born in England to Indian parents, spent her adolescence and early adulthood in India, and has lived in the United States since. +The Citigroup report said the information on the attacks involving Covington and Fried Frank had come from iSight Partners , a security consulting firm based in Dallas that has received financial backing from Blackstone. +Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, oversees the 200 or so factors that determine where websites rank in the company’s search engine, which means he decides if your website lives or dies. +Written by Rosemary Myers and Julianne O’Brien , the show includes puppetry and animated projections. +He might as well have had the Grim Reaper on his bag instead of his trusty caddie, Joe LaCava . +It disappeared during the Revolutionary War, then was rediscovered in the mid-1800s , just when a divided United States was in need of some feel-good, unifying core stories. +Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is an excellent example of the politicians who totally disagree. +the work by ten photographers in this stimulating show has roots in Conceptualism and takes language, history and speculative thinking as its raw materials. +■ Sam Querrey, a semifinalist last week in Memphis, injured his back midmatch and retired from the Delray Beach Open in Florida while leading Alejandro Gonzalez, 6-3, 1-2. +He cited the support that Mr. Romney received from evangelicals in 2012, saying he did not think the fact that Mr. Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist would be an issue unless theology became central to the political debate. +A friend of mine inherited a ­Bavarian coffee set from her maternal great-­grandmother , a woman who fled Europe in the late 1930s, carrying little more than the purpose-built, velvet-lined case that still holds it. +In the summer of 2013 , four organizations — the Tunisian General Labor Union, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers — came together as the National Dialogue Quartet and mediated the formation of an interim government that would lead the country to new elections. +Most historians estimate that 1.1 million died at the camp. +That put the seasonally adjusted annual rate at an estimated $1.08 trillion , the highest level since May 2008. +Inspired by the East Village scene, she started dolling up in 1987 , aiming for a “flirty career girl” look, and soon became one of the scene’s reigning drag personalities. +John P. Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security, spoke this month at an American Bar Association conference in New Orleans , impressing on the lawyers the need to promptly inform clients and law enforcement authorities of attacks that could compromise confidential information. +Then the researchers created caps with pieces of Ping-Pong ball, and attached them with surgical glue and cork as a cushion, to the heads of the anoles to interfere with polarized light that might reach an organ in the brain called the parietal eye. +In a letter to Prisoners’ Legal Services, Mr. Aponte, who also worked in the tailor shop, described going through a similar interrogation two days later. +Trimble, a freshman guard , connected again from 3-point range with 2:18 remaining for a 62-54 lead. +Standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square, periodically drowned out by the noise of construction and traffic , Mr. Faulkner said Mr. de Blasio had proved to be a divisive leader without the charisma to lead a great city. +Werek played three seasons in the American Hockey League and is now under contract to play for the Florida Everblades of the ECHL. +The damage began with an innocuous fly ball off the bat of Curtis Granderson that was dropped by center fielder Odubel Herrera. +Shin Dong-hyuk, a prominent defector who shocked the world several years back with his disturbing tales of torture in North Korean gulags, confessed last month that parts of the personal history he had told the public were inaccurate . +For Don Cameron, a farmer south of Fresno , a wet winter 33 years ago led to an idea about how to take advantage of the vast natural water storage system underground. +“Even the most visceral of the Bushes, George W. Bush, has been averse to that kind of pugnation,” said Robert Draper , the author of “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush.” +That is not to say that allies cannot help us. +“He cried a little bit,” Manning said. +On Thursday, Apple released an early, or “beta,” version of the next version of its iOS mobile software, giving iPhone and iPad users the ability to tap Apple’s own search engine for searches of music, apps and local services — allowing them to potentially bypass Google . +Appreciation becomes the first political virtue and the need to perfect the gifts of others is the first political task. +The Yankees won two of three against the Philadelphia Athletics, and the Red Sox matched that in Washington. +A three-foot-long alligator that attained fleeting fame on Thursday night after the police posted a picture of it on Twitter crossing a busy Manhattan street during the evening rush died unexpectedly on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the Animal Care Centers of NYC. +They asserted that the 10th Amendment barred the federal government from superseding state laws legalizing marijuana for medicinal use . +Capt. Nicholas Salimbene , an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. +“In U.S. society, we often talk about ‘working moms’ but not about ‘working dads,’ and the work-life policies that organizations do provide are often considered as being mainly for women,” said Erika Kirby a professor of communication studies and an authority on work-life issues at Creighton University in Omaha. +The house is on about an acre and a half , with a pool and a screened gazebo. +Investor activism like the Samsung fight is relatively uncommon in Asia. +Three sky divers who parachuted off the 1 World Trade Center tower were acquitted on Monday of the most serious felony charge against them but convicted of three misdemeanors after a two-week trial in Manhattan. +He was a stride piano player who had a big band in the ’30s and ’40s . +While it is possible to get to Stepney Green from Victoria station on the Circle line in 23 minutes , it requires a transfer; it is not direct. +“Anybody who entered the town, nobody came out alive ,” the officer said. +His wife, Laurene Powell Jobs , reportedly tried to have the movie killed numerous times and was unusually public about how she disliked the film. +She opens it, thinking it might be an early birthday present. +In 2013, 39 patients at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill., were infected with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), also the cause of the infections in Los Angeles. +Feig , who also shouted extra one-liners to his cast. +“I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did ,” she said. +Marcelo Gomes , who as Prince Désiré delivers the taxing intricacies of his solo variation at the peak of an exemplary account of the role, also performs as the evil fairy, Carabosse, with splendidly venomous force. +The institutional tendency to use minor disagreements among women as an excuse to do nothing, she argues, requires women to choose their battles carefully. +For good measure, Mr. Maduro warned that the American diplomats who remained in Venezuela must clear any meetings, presumably with anyone, with his government. The moves are meant to combat “imperialist aggression,” he told a throng of supporters on Saturday during a rambling, effusive speech. +The Senate voted, 54 to 46 , to fully repeal the estate tax, even though next year, the value of estates subject to it will have to exceed $5.43 million, or nearly $11 million for a couple. +“It’s true that our first-generation biofuels have not lived up to their promise,” Dr. Hill said. +The problem, officials have concluded, is that the subsidies were much too small . +We showed him the game ball that will be awarded to him. +And the only story to pay attention to related to that is Lionel Messi’s health; Messi has been out for months with a knee injury, but he trained with Barcelona’s B team over the weekend — reportedly looking sharp — and may make his return in Madrid. +Mr. Rodham eventually settled his bill with his former lawyer, Gwendolyn Jo M. Carlberg. Ms. Carlberg said in a phone interview that, despite her lawsuit, she did not have a negative view of Mr. Rodham. +The team could also negotiate a compromise contract for an amount based on how many games Pierre-Paul might play this season. +Not unlike travel websites like Kayak , Wanderu is a service for finding buses and trains to get you from here to there. +In the ninth, Daniel Murphy , another Rangers fan, led off with a single. +Towns said he tried to learn as much as possible from teammates like Al Horford — lessons about the importance of repetition, about the complexities of defending the pick-and-roll. +That position was criticized by teachers’ unions but praised by supporters of the charter school movement. +That’s to eliminate debris that may interfere with a good saliva sample, from which DNA will be extracted and serums tailored to one’s genetic blueprint. +At 0.3 percent in November, inflation in the eurozone was far below the central bank’s official target of close to 2 percent. +No deaths were reported, but as of Sunday evening, 498 people had been sent to 43 area hospitals, with 202 sustaining serious injuries, according to the website of the Public Health Department of New Taipei City, where the incident took place, outside of Taipei. +The significance of the I.S.S. decision was perhaps best put by Martin Lipton of the law firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. +Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Saturday with an article about tensions at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum over the direction of its expansion misstated the cost of an annex to the museum in the Dumbo neighborhood. +“Burnt” has other flaws, like not giving Ms. Miller enough to do, but its main one is simply that at this point it’s hard to care about people who mistake a third Michelin star for the most important thing in life. +a cholesterol screening , to give one example, that blood test is a cost-saver. +Many of these attractions will fill a vacuum left by the absence of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, which has spent more than a decade in a period of restoration and flux but is not scheduled to reopen until the end of the year. +Speaking at a news conference to recognize the second anniversary of his election, Mr. Rouhani dismissed reports that Iranians would have to wait more than a few months for the lifting of sanctions, which have crippled Iran’s economy. +Now, as security agents from Beijing fan out across the country hunting down the volunteers who took part in the women’s theatrical protests, many young feminists have gone into hiding. +When I was 8, I decided to publish a literary magazine, and I would solicit contributions from all the kids on my street . +Tiresias , the blind seer in Greek mythology who lived as a man and a woman, is the presiding figure in her collection “Hold Your Own,” and the contemporary characters in her dazzling story-poem “Brand New Ancients” are also conflicted beings in search of a self. +He owns an AR-15, a ­9-millimeter­ and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera . +The activists have deplored militant attacks on Israelis and said they supported Israel’s right to exist but disagreed with its policies. +“I’d like to write something as great as ‘P inocchio’ or ‘Little Women.’ +(Mr. Shane’s knowledge comes in part from his book, due for September publication, on the 2011 drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born imam.) +“It is a strong signal in the fight against impunity,” said Patrick Baudouin , a lawyer who is the head of the International Federation for Human Rights. +Otherwise, Haywood Talcove , chief executive of LexisNexis Government, advises filing your tax return as soon as possible to reduce the chance that a thief will file a fake return in your name first; changing the username and password you use for your online tax filing program is a good idea too, he added. +Mr. Matuska, a hydrologist , is one of about a dozen accountants for the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which controls water distribution along the lower half of the Colorado River. +Which meant quickly developing critical-thinking skills and debate techniques, and taking leadership roles in student government. +The site of the Metro-North crash, a less traveled crossing in Valhalla, N.Y ., where the last accident was a fatal collision in 1984, is rated nowhere near as dangerous but is still in the top fifth of the most potentially hazardous crossings in the New York City region. +New routers often include smarter antennas that do a better job of assembling signals and beaming energy toward devices that are moving around . +Which ended, of course, with a reference: “ Don’t You (Forget About Me) ,” the Simple Minds song identified with “The Breakfast Club.” +In Seattle , where a dozen officers started wearing body cameras in a pilot program in December, the department has set up its own YouTube channel, broadcasting a stream of blurred images to protect the privacy of people filmed. +And that, in turn, helped increase long-term interest rates in the United States. +The re-enacted journey, which begins in 1985 , touches on why Bob Saget, who starred in the original ABC sitcom as the corny-but-loving father Danny Tanner, traded blue stand-up for family comedy; the intricacies of Dave Coulier’s love life; John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn’s clumsy first meeting; and how that phenomenon known as the Olsen twins came to be. +Lost And Found: New on the extended hardcover fiction list this week, at No. 18, is another work of semiautobiographical fiction: “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” a posthumously published story collection by Lucia Berlin, a little-known American writer who died in 2004 and who has been championed by Lydia Davis and August Kleinzahler. +Peppered with dozens of questions , Mr. Putin lingered, as he did at last year’s session, on those that allowed him to reassure Russians that their living standards were not imperiled. +Walmart , which had denounced the law, commended the governor in a brief statement, while Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, who was at the Capitol on Wednesday, expressed “cautious optimism.” +But in a daring interim chapter called “ That Year and Those That Followed ,” Ms. Pierpont widens her lens, temporarily abandoning her pointillistic moment-by-moment descriptions for a panoramic shot that sweeps years into paragraphs, projecting far out into the Shanleys’ future. +A whiny, high-strung control freak and compulsive scold, she is such a pill that you wonder what the brokenhearted Will, who moves to Astoria, Queens , could possibly have seen in her. +The league is expected to receive at least an additional $3 billion when it sells the rights to international broadcasters, including those in the United States, later this year. +The cast also includes Heidi Blickenstaff as Nick’s stalwart wife, Bea, a precocious feminist (“This is the ’90s! +The problem has been long in the making as Baltimore did not invest in upkeep of the jail, the oldest sections of which date from the 1850s , said Elizabeth Alexander, the former director of the National Prison Project of the A.C.L.U. and one of the lawyers who filed the motion. +South Korea already provides a lot of support for defectors, including living expenses and a place to live . +The cases, which can involve spice alone or in combination with other substances, have appeared four times as often this year as in 2014 , the organization said. +Farmers said they anticipated leaving as much as one million acres fallow, nearly twice the area that went unplanted last year. +Dr. Harel and his colleagues recently developed a set of tools to probe the biology of the turquoise killifish. +The yield on the 10-year United States Treasury note rose to 2.25 percent, its highest level in two months. +“I like Ben Carson because he’s not government, and I’m tired of government,” said Doug May , 70, a retired chief information officer in Bluffton, S.C. +Saudi Arabia can flirt with countries like Russia, China and France, but, as they have recognized, Washington is indispensable. +It may not have the visceral pull that mystery and violence gave “The Wire,” or the emotional highs that music gave “ Treme ,” but you could do worse than a good lecture on civility, tolerance and the virtues of good government. +Dancing Korea (Friday through Sunday) +To that end, prosecutors brought in professors and classmates who described Mr. Holmes’s struggles as a first-year graduate student in the neuroscience program at the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado. +It was Sunday, not Saturday, that a vessel carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees deflated and a German police officer inspected a Syrian man at a border. +With a small government grant and help from scientists and an environmental group, Mr. Cameron diverted water to a thousand acres of the farm he manages, Terranova Ranch, deliberately flooding fields of grapes, pistachio trees and hay. +And I’m just starting “River of Shadows,” by Rebecca Solnit , about the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. +The Lawnmower , by the way, was the lowest in alcohol in the tasting at just 3.9 percent. +It is now linked to at least 124 . +Over the past 20 years, Connecticut has lost more than 96,000 manufacturing jobs, she said, because of agreements that failed to protect American workers . +In addition to the charter network and the school, the suit also named the New York City Department of Education and the New York State Education Department, asserting they failed to make Achievement First, a network with schools in Connecticut and Rhode Island as well as in New York City, live up to its responsibilities. +Otherwise, Haywood Talcove, chief executive of LexisNexis Government, advises filing your tax return as soon as possible to reduce the chance that a thief will file a fake return in your name first; 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Absolutely, but right now it would not be possible given the competition . +Wisdom House, 229 East Litchfield Road . +In 2010 he learned he had bipolar disorder and was hospitalized, according to medical records. +What’s Streaming Now THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 (2014) Katniss Everdeen, now squirreled away in District 13 , once thought destroyed, leads the charge against the Capitol. +A. Puerto Rico bonds had been held widely by mutual funds on the mainland United States . +“There is certainly a large reservoir of affection and respect for Shelly ,” one Democratic lawmaker said. +(If you’re hosting a sleepover and want to qualify for a parental-awesomeness badge, you may turn hard toward Bobby Flay ’s recipe for double-chocolate pancakes with salted caramel sauce.) +“I really loved the idea of a healthy weekend: high-end, but low-fat cuisine, fitness classes, treatments +“Moreover, the region in which we are situated, the Auvergne , had France’s largest force of Resistance fighters, ‘Maquis du Mont Mouchet.’” +“Everybody in the know drinks halves,” said Leigh Linley, author of “Great Yorkshire Beer,” when I met him in the nearby city of Leeds the next day, referring to the half-pint serving glass, instead of the more traditional imperial pint . +Mr. Arlia argues that someone else made that hole and that the detective, who maintains he had no idea who was actually in the Range Rover, assumed it had been broken by a projectile from inside the car. +RABAT, Morocco — A fiery head-on collision between a semitrailer truck and a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco on Friday killed 33 people and injured seven, according to the state news agency and local news media reports. +Another Briton, the jeweler Madeline Green, sells her new Ammo brand here, delicate contemporary jewelry made from recycled brass bullet caps and silver ($7 to $75). +I consider myself part of the baby boom generation, and looking back on our accomplishments , I’m proud. +Mr. Turnbull, who once used an expletive to describe Mr. Abbott’s climate-change policies , said that carbon emissions reduction targets Mr. Abbott recently proposed, which have been criticized as inadequate by scientists and environmentalists, were “very substantial.” +It also would renew the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program and provide $7.2 billion for community health centers — crucial to both rural and urban areas where doctors are scarce — over two years. +Hopefully at some point in time, Jason will be ready to play, and we’ll get the green light. +The cost of transporting children, including gender-segregated busing, rose to $27.3 million in 2013-14 from $22 million in 2009-10, a 24 percent increase. +GREENWICH Flinn Gallery “Emergence: Insight Out,” group show . +But deep in a 685-page document that is part of Arizona’s water plan, the state lists 42 groundwater basins that it says are connected to surface water, indicating a potential conflict over rights to those supplies. +( $1.70 , 12 oz.) +that there are so many trans actors and actresses waiting for their big break . +She has traveled extensively, speaking out for women’s and human rights, winning numerous awards for her work in media and advocacy, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. +“We can’t take in everyone, can we?” Ms. Le Pen , after a month of inflammatory words on migrants in media appearances and speeches to supporters, only alluded to the issue as she launched her regional elections campaign, aboard a boat here in front of a gaggle of French journalists. +As things threaten to get out of hand for Tim, his wife is courting some disruption of her own, visiting some better-off friends whose relationship looks like a bad New Yorker short story from the ’70s and then setting off alone into the night. +A senior security official acknowledged that the militias were harassing the locals, but said they had been warned “not to touch people’s property.” +Jessica Witkin , the director of the New York gallery Salon 94, which specializes in new media, drew a parallel with how collectors eventually warmed to photographic art, accepting the idea that more than one edition could be available. +Last year, the crew fled Argentina after being attacked by local residents during the filming of an episode in which Mr. Clarkson drove a Porsche sports car with the license plate H982 FKL, which some took as a reference to the British victory over Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War. +RHINEBECK Montgomery Row Second Level “Ocular Concepts,” photographs by Andrew Halpern . +A former Southern Baptist pastor and Arkansas governor, Mr. Huckabee is returning in hopes of once more dominating among social conservatives, but he is acutely aware he needs broader support to avoid the snares of last time, when he ran dry of money and failed to appeal much beyond the South. +In a conference call with investors, Mr. Boire underscored this point by singling out coloring books and strong sales of Adele’s new album “25” among the company’s recent successes. +Ball asks whether, given the chance to shed our pain and start over with the mind of a child, we would want to do so — to what extent pain informs identity, and what parts of us would remain were we to shed that pain. +Heinrichs won three N.C.A.A. championships while playing at North Carolina. She served as captain of the United States team that won the inaugural Women’s World Cup, in 1991. +The two places may share pristine beaches and balmy weather. +Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is 31 . +Fed officials keep saying they are data-dependent in their policy choice, and this data backs up the idea that the United States economy is fundamentally in pretty decent shape , with consistent job growth and a low enough unemployment rate that employers are starting to offer workers higher raises. +Isa Kalantari, a former minister of agriculture, warns that more than half of Iran’s provinces could become uninhabitable within 15 years , displacing millions of people. +The Stonewall is not architecturally distinguished and would not earn landmark status on aesthetic grounds, several speakers noted. +In contrast to the neo-Slavophile current that is anti-Western, this liberal rival outlook actually seeks integration with the West, which Mr. Gorbachev assiduously pursued during his tenure. +One presentation, Mr. Hallman said, will feature music composed for an ensemble that plays toy instruments . +When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home, resulting in a SWAT team taking over the home , the family has said. +“For Petrobras to say, ‘We’re the victims,’ when their executives were perpetrating this scheme suggests that they haven’t learned their lesson,” said Jeremy A. Lieberman of the Pomerantz law firm, which has been appointed lead counsel in the case. +“The trade deficit is out of hand, exports cannot meet the import bill, so tourism revenues are a major item in our balance sheet,” said Erinc Yeldan , the dean of the economics faculty at Bilkent University near Ankara. +Once she and Randy arrive in Vienna, the paperwork concerning the painting’s history is withheld from them. +Dr. Ohayon had done early research in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems, but stopped for almost a decade because of worries about military applications of the technology. +He struck out Jimmy Rollins twice — once swinging, on a 97-mile-per-hour fastball, and then looking, on a 99-m.p.h. fastball. +Standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square, periodically drowned out by the noise of construction and traffic, Mr. Faulkner said Mr. de Blasio had proved to be a divisive leader without the charisma to lead a great city. +“Employment clusters are less geographically concentrated than they once were, so people who live near one another are less likely to be headed in the same direction,” Brian McKenzie , the author of the Census Bureau report, wrote in an email. +In a brief statement, the United States attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, said that his office would be “coordinating and working” with the Dutchess County district attorney’s office, which is also investigating the case. +Like many who followed the prison break, Mr. Sweat and Mr. Matt could not help but compare their efforts to the escape in “The Shawshank Redemption.” +About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade. +The political opposition here rode discontent over a failing economy to an overwhelming majority in legislative elections on Sunday , but after years of sniping from the sidelines, members have to get down to the difficult task of delivering on promises to fix 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The thing I remember most is making fly swatters. +Apple’s iMessage has an audio-chat feature that allows you to send voice messages to friends on the same platform as text messages. +Dr. Ryan said a large portion of cases appeared to involve a form called mab-chminaca. +“We always pull out all the stops for the Open,” said Serena Williams, discussing her Open outfits the week before it started. +An army detachment is always posted at the river’s shallowest point, which can be easily crossed. +Each shot in the features has the same deadpan, uncanny look, opening on a deep-focus view of some room or bar, viewed slightly askew , with muted gray or beige walls or sidewalks. +For theological reasons, Adventism has faced tensions with the Roman Catholic and Baptist Churches over the years. +Also, Tesla began shipping the Model X , its super-expensive new crossover vehicle. +Last May, when President Obama hosted leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council for a summit meeting at Camp David, the Saudi monarch was conspicuously absent. +“Black Rage,” published by Basic Books in 1968, laid out in unsparing terms the psychic tightrope that black Americans walked, their self-image, family structures and worldview distorted by the weight of white oppression. +Some officials fear the militia expansion amounts to a political payoff to these strongmen, who have often used A.L.P. units for their personal business. +Other contemporary and historic mash-ups include displays of the finalists for the Deste Prize, which recognizes young Greek artists, at the Museum of Cycladic Art, and the former Sonic Youth frontwoman Kim Gordon ’s multiplatform show of paintings and sculpture at the historic Benaki Museum until Aug. 30. +Perhaps the biggest question now is whether rising concern about the environment among religious groups will translate into stronger political demands that governments find ways to reduce the cost of low-carbon energy supplies, improve their reliability and speed their deployment. +The best option is to raise it in line with wages or prices, whichever is greater in a given year. 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had retired from Cornell , but she was doing well. +“It definitely needs to be someone you really trust, ” he said. +It is the Church on Blood in Honor of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land — not the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, which is in St. Petersburg. +“This is a mythology that Venezuela is not good at soccer,” said Omar Pironel, a 27-year-old Colombia fan visiting Chile for the tournament. +Mr. Osborne is respected, but his economic theology is not shared by every Tory , which could also lead to defections and close votes. +Until now, Nigeria has been wanting in its response to their threat: With our neighbors fighting hard to push the terrorists south and out of their countries, our military was not sufficiently supported or equipped to push north. +I live in Maine now, but I lived in Boston for years, and for me, it is my second country. +Tens of thousands of children in Senegal are being exploited by Quranic teachers who force them to beg in the streets, 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T. Barrett played finisher for Ohio State, running for two red-zone touchdowns in the first half and taking over for Cardale Jones in the third quarter, as the No. 1 Buckeyes (7-0, 3-0 Big Ten) defeated visiting Penn State (5-2, 2-1). +Jerome Williams (2-3) lasted just five innings, giving up three runs and four hits. +M TRAIN, by Patti Smith . +A. 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“Loser!” in the best-musical race. +Philippe Dauman, the chief executive of Viacom, has since been put in control of Mr. Redstone’s medical care. +The board could still decide not to award a license. +Exhibited in several museums, this is a relatively tame piece by Cadmus, whose work was removed from the Corcoran Gallery in Washington in the 1930s at the request of the United States Navy because of its salacious depiction of sailors. +He even gave a few hints of his closely guarded family life, talking proudly of his two adult daughters , who he said were living in Russia and “taking the first steps of their careers.” +“We hit the pause button,” Chief Strachan said. +It said most business lines had improved, particularly domestic and international retail banking. +After an hour, the team’s leader and coach, Jim McConica, 64 , jumped in — the first shift change. +Worse, center Derek Stepan is out four to six weeks with broken ribs, and Kevin Klein, their most consistent defenseman this 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Chris Christie of New Jersey soured last week. +“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is about growing up, facing death, making and losing friends and other rites of passage , but it’s also, and more immediately, about drifting, hanging out, wasting time and succumbing to confusion. +Darryl Dawkins was born in Orlando on Jan. 11, 1957 . +LONDON — In one of the more bizarre moments of a tight British election campaign, the Labour leader, Ed Miliband , went in the dead of night Monday to the apartment of Russell Brand, a bawdy comedian, to give him an interview, which was posted Wednesday on YouTube. +A federal judge granted class-action status on Tuesday to a lawsuit that questions the employment classification of Uber drivers, paving the way for a legal challenge that could strike at the heart of the ride-hailing company’s business model. +Mohamed refuses to flee . +We can’t all work in jobs where we feel like our heart is singing every day. There’s that old expression, “If work was that great, the rich would keep it for themselves.” +Yet Venus hasn’t let her sister’s dominance distract her. +There are tributes to the vintage players around the city, and former players will be in town from two other great Cincinnati teams — the 1975-76 world champions, including Rose, and the 1990 team, led by Barry Larkin, which swept the World Series over Oakland . +The School of American Ballet held its annual Winter Ball on Monday night, and absolutely no one seemed to mind that it felt more like spring. +The location with the highest accident prediction value in the country is in Ashdown, Ark. — a freight railroad crossing that has been the site of 19 accidents since 1975. +As anyone who saw his Tony-winning Captain Hook in “Peter and the Starcatcher” knows, Mr. Borle is a master of carefully stylized excess. +By nominating Mr. Mattarella as president, a largely ceremonial post , Mr. Renzi simultaneously united his own party and divided Berlusconi’s. +If the police haven’t changed the behavior , that suggests they haven’t done enough. +Liz isn’t the only one who wants out; even vampire Iris has had enough: “Donovan was my one true love. +Ms. Yan , Mr. Yu’s wife, said officers at the police station where her husband was being held refused to allow her to see him on Friday. +Mr. Ganek’s lawsuit contends that the warrant supporting the raid “falsely represented” that he was involved in insider trading . +In a statement, the atomic agency, the nuclear-monitoring arm of the United Nations, said that as of Thursday, its requests for materials clarifying “past and present outstanding issues regarding Iran ’s nuclear program were completed.” +The number was her brother’s . +The authorities have refused to provide details about what led up to the death of the inmate, Michael Marshall , 50, who was removed from life support on Friday. +“It’s an accident that’s been happening, over and over . +His remarks were filmed by DrivingtheNation.com , an auto website. +In an informal poll of the audience at The New York Times DealBook conference at the Whitney Museum on Tuesday, more than half of the respondents said Wall Street banks were no more or less trustworthy than they were in 2008, when the financial crisis erupted , sending the global financial markets in to a tailspin. +“People don’t want to miss that part of the evening, and thus they’re learning to pace themselves,” said Maureen Farley, director of hospitality at the Plaza hotel in New York, which hosts approximately 60 weddings a year. +The $616,000 paid in 1958 by the banking heir Paul Mellon for Cézanne’s +Baltimore has been the scene of riots that exploded over the death of Freddie Gray , a young black man who was injured in police custody and later died, though the motion is unrelated to that death, which led to charges against six police officers. +The Gaming Facility Location Board reviewed 16 proposals for casino resorts in three regions north and west of New York City and recommended licenses for three projects on Dec. 17, but rebuffed two from the Southern Tier that it said were not viable. +Sent by Jack’s most recent ex-mistress, it contains dozens of printed pages of filthy emails delineating exactly what the couple wanted to do to each other and how. +that his client was a minor and had been in custody for two or three days, and that he had not had any access to his client. +Really getting to know your team and being interested in their lives also gives you good will. So when you’re in a situation where you need to deliver a message that maybe isn’t so easy to hear, it will land on this mattress of good karma. +Religious activists in the denomination have been among the most outspoken in recent years over what they regard as Israel’s unjustified repression of Palestinians and their aspirations for an independent state. +These are the most common feelings tasted by black people in America. ” +Mr. Heastie, who hails from the Bronx , described the trip to central New York as part of an effort to humanize “what we do in Albany,” as well as a kind of personal fact-finding mission. +Irwin Jacob Schatz was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba , on Oct. 16, 1931, the son of Jacob Schatz and the former Reva Rechtman. +Both “Immediate Family” and “At Twelve,” her portraits of local girls on the cusp of puberty, are dedicated to him. +On a practical level it means you have to go through every chord when you go through a score . +Mr. Jobs said he wanted freshly squeezed orange juice. +Unfortunately, it was up against one of the most celebrated films ever, “ Ben-Hur ,” +So I continued up the Bridgeway to Poggio, the Italian restaurant where I had planned to meet Jack Shoemaker, Mr. Connell ’s longtime editor. +“We live in a low rate environment in which insurance companies and pension funds have to invest their money,” said Laurence D. Fink , the chief executive of BlackRock, who noted that three-quarters of the firm’s clients were these types of buy-and-hold investors. +“This is connected to the Malaysian Boeing ,” Sergei A. Markov, a former member of Parliament in the pro-government United Russia party, said in a telephone interview. +Suzanne Ciechalski, a freshman at St. John’s University in Queens, said technology that might appear social in nature could in fact lead to stress and feelings of depression . +To help you kick off another year of adventures , I’ve answered them all — from how to pack a suitcase to what you’re allowed to toss in your carry-on. +Harlen Wheatley, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Ky. +Markets expect a less accommodative monetary policy in the United States . +Hicklin said he will eventually launch projects such as in-room book selections at hotels, or perhaps book-concierge services on flights. +“We had one hospital in the Baton Rouge area that saw over 110 cases in February. +Still, Poles announced the participation of the presidents of Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania and Ukraine, as well as Slovakia’s prime minister and the head of the European Council, Donald Tusk , the former Polish prime minister. +Labour even put together a website, torysecretplan.com, which features a fake email to Mr. Cameron from George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer , laying out cuts not to be announced until after the election. +Like his father, Big Brown , he will enter the Derby with a perfect record, making him my top choice. +After years of decline, the number of catalogs mailed in the United States increased in 2013 , to 11.9 billion, according to the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group. +Lundqvist has won 13 of his last 16 games in which the Rangers have faced elimination, posting a 1.42 goals-against average, a .955 save percentage and two shutouts. +Stewart stayed in water waist deep as Jirkovsky emerged from the sea at Cissy Cove, greeted by three sailors, all armed. +In wet years, they might allow their fields to be flooded in the winter or early spring to recharge the groundwater, and they would then be entitled to pump a certain amount out in dry years. +His review began: “‘Star Wars,’ George Lucas’s first film since his terrifically successful ‘American Graffiti,’ is the movie that the teenagers in ‘American Graffiti’ would have broken their necks to see.” +A) “In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, Republicans prefer an outsider to a candidate with experience in the political system by a 24-point margin (60 to 36).” +What was clear was that those trapped had been living in difficult conditions . +It has the world’s largest mobile operating system, Android . +As a global citizen, Exxon failed miserably, to say the least. +“I told him that those misses weren’t going to lose us the game,” Trice said. +But then again, had Lewandowski shot earlier than he did late in the second half, then Arsenal’s goalkeeper, Petr Cech , would not have been able to race from his line and make a bold interception with his legs. +Profits made during their period of market exclusivity are, in large part, why new drugs exist, though an argument could be made that the rewards far outstrip development costs. +(That might change after “Wolf Hall” and two current film projects with Steven Spielberg — “The BFG” and “Bridge of Spies.”) +“It would be political and governmental malpractice if we do not reform rent regulations and 421-a,” he said. +Religion is not off limits, politics is not off limits, but work most definitely is. +Mr. Connell’s drinking buddies included the novelist Calvin Kentfield, who like Mr. Connell was an early editor of Contact , an old Bay Area literary magazine that had been restarted in 1958. +“Immigration was its central theme,” writes the historian Valérie Igounet about the National Front’s early days. +Northwestern University, which strongly urged its players to vote down the union ahead of last year’s secret ballot election, released a statement from Alan Cubbage, a spokesman. +The last time the voting age was a major issue was in 1971 , when lawmakers passed the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21, aligning it with the minimum age for military service during the Vietnam War. +Baker Mayfield, a walk-on transfer from Texas Tech, won the job of starting quarterback over Trevor Knight, who led the Sooners over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl two seasons ago. +Darryl Dawkins , who arrived in professional basketball as a gigantic teenager and became one of the game’s fiercest dunkers and most notoriously lovable characters, a backboard-smashing, referee-dissing, fun-loving manchild known to fans as Chocolate Thunder from Planet Lovetron, died on Thursday in Allentown, Pa. +Last year, after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over Ukraine , there were calls for Formula One to pull out of its first Grand Prix race in Russia, in the Winter Olympic city of Sochi. +Mr. Medvedchuk, who was the longtime chief of staff to former President Leonid D. Kuchma , is a polarizing figure in Ukraine, known for his ruthlessness in politics and for his checkered past as a young lawyer in the Soviet Union. +Mr. Villalobos, who like Mr. Vasquez has been out on parole since 2012 , said he thought “all the time” that he would get his conviction vacated. +Under this measurement, I.S.S. found that DuPont’s growth margin based on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization was only 0.5 percent for each year over seven years. +“ Dr. Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist,” a group of pastors from the Baptist organization B21 wrote in protest of his visit. +Reuters reported that a relative said the family was refusing to receive the body because Israeli authorities had limited the number of people allowed at the burial. + A. That’s a building that we’ve owned since 1999 . +The state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it is trying to maintain a family-friendly environment for passengers young and old . +Re “Counterrevolutionary Russia” (June 26) by Roger Cohen : There have been two alternative social, political and intellectual currents with deep roots in Russia. +⬥ “I’d be delighted,” replies John Delahunt , a student at Trinity College, when the young socialite Helen Stokes asks him to accompany her to a hanging. +One ideal place to be this summer is the slender terrace overlooking Manhattan at Charritos, a restaurant in Weehawken specializing in the colorful dishes of Oaxaca, a region in southern Mexico . +Indeed, it is prison employees who have been implicated: One has pleaded guilty to aiding the escape; another faces criminal charges; nine officers have been suspended; and the leadership of the prison, in Dannemora, has been removed. +When the Ukrainian Parliament voted , the reaction in Moscow was swift. +Bring back Danny Green on a below-market contract? +Mr. Jones, an officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and a federal deputy, measured the fish and placed the 72 he deemed too small in a crate. +Mr. Turnbull, who once used an expletive to describe Mr. Abbott’s climate-change policies, said that carbon emissions reduction targets Mr. Abbott recently proposed , which have been criticized as inadequate by scientists and environmentalists, were “very substantial.” +The local police department, however, announced on April 16 that an autopsy determined the cause to be “synthetic cannabinoid intoxication.” +“I came into it expecting them not to know much of the basics,” said Sgt. Michael Faranda , who is teaching maneuvers. +But a union construction coalition , Up4NYC, wants to reform the program so developers pay construction workers middle-class, or union, wages. +Pat Cordova-Goff, an 18-year-old who describes herself as a “trans woman of color” and a student at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., created the Gay-Straight Alliance Network petition calling for a boycott of “Stonewall” after watching the trailer. +Lundqvist called Julien’s remarks “disrespectful,” adding that his head and neck were still sore from the collision. +Her follow-up, “ Enchanted Forest ,” which came out in February, is briskly selling through its first print run of nearly 226,000 copies. +He argued against intervention by outside powers in Syria as well, adding that Russia was “not concerned with the fate” of President Bashar al-Assad’s government . +Deflategate (the French daily Le Monde called it “ Le Deflategate ”) dominated the build-up to the Super Bowl, and then dominated the off-season, too, with Brady initially suspended for four games before that ruling was overturned by a federal judge. +But European members of the NATO coalition have expressed concern about the expansion, officials said. +It was an opportunity for teams to better predict the professional potential of a group, made up mostly of 18-year-olds, based on their body types, quickness, agility, stamina and attitude . +Oleksandr I. Leshchenko, the deputy director for training in the National Guard, was somewhat skeptical about the value of the training, saying that “ 99 percent ” of the men in the course had already been in combat. +His proposals still face a battle in Albany, which has been thrown into turmoil in recent months by the arrest on corruption-related charges of Sheldon Silver , a Democratic assemblyman and former speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader in the Senate. +But Mr. Tian traveled to Los Angeles after a major customer of his became a confidential informant for the D.E.A. +And one raccoon in Central Park is so well known that he goes by a single name – Rocky – a rarefied status typically afforded to superstars like Madonna or Cher. +In 2004 , when he was the hitting coach, the team belted 242 homers, the most of any Yankee team in history. +From the earliest days of the war , the government in Kiev had asked for military help from the United States. +The Saudis are also strongly pushing an economic agenda as the centerpiece of what King Salman identified as a “ new strategic alliance for the 21st century .” +From Morocco to India to New York, supporters have been posting images of themselves wearing masks that bear the photos of the jailed women. Because two of the detainees are lesbian and another is bisexual, overseas gay rights organizations like All Out have jumped into the fray, collecting more than 85,000 signatures and popularizing the hashtag #freethefive on Twitter. +But critics, who derisively referred to the program as the “ stove bonus, ” argued that it sent women the wrong signal by rewarding them for staying at home. +This week Business Insider, the scrappy tech- and finance-focused digital publication founded by the former stock analyst Henry Blodget, was sold to the German media company Axel Springer for $343 million. +BlackRock has argued that bond E.T.F.s, and its increasing size, are healthful for the markets in general and that in a low interest rate environment it is to be expected that long-term investors like insurance companies and pension funds invest in higher yielding securities to lock in better returns. +that Italy wanted the union’s national leaders to assess the state of the Minsk agreement before action was taken. +Brayden Schenn and Claude Giroux had goals in regulation for the host Flyers , who were shut out in the previous two games and entered averaging an N.H.L.-worst 1.70 goals per game. +On Thursday night, when asked about Mr. Trump in an appearance on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers ,” Mrs. Clinton said, “You know, I have to say, Seth. +With gadgets running an older version of Android, like Kit Kat (version 4.4), open the Gallery app, select Album view and then look for the Screenshots folder. +In trying to win the support of the Koch brothers , Senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul have signed a pledge to do the bidding of the billionaire oil industrialists, promising to “oppose any legislation relating to climate change” that would involve higher taxes or fees. +FRONT PAGE An article on Saturday about Israel’s success in ensuring a sufficient supply of water even during droughts by desalinating Mediterranean seawater and recycling of wastewater referred imprecisely to Sidney Loeb, an American who moved to Israel in 1967 and taught water professionals how to desalinate seawater. +The death of a 23 -year-old man found in a Queens park this week has been ruled a homicide, the police said on Thursday. +As a result, the Slovenian prime minister, Miro Cerar, said that it was very likely that many of the 30,000 migrants who were traveling north from Greece could become stranded in Slovenia, which has limited room to accommodate them. +But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. +Another ( Sam Rockwell ) is the party guy, who brings cocaine, unattached women and an even wilder buddy (Mr. Messina). +FRANKFURT — Anshu Jain, the co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank, chuckled when he was asked on Monday whether the United States had become inhospitable to foreign banks. +From a professional standpoint, I’m looking for people who are curious but who also have a point of view , and so I’ll often ask questions to see if people will give me a specific point of view on an issue, usually within our field. +“Fact: Before my son was even born, I was reading out loud to him from Donald Trump’s ‘ The Art of the Deal ,’” she wrote. +“Urban development and politics here should be like music in the city, where you have both the Philharmonic and nightclubs like Berghain +That means that they would need to put their clients in suitable investment products, and could be sued if they didn’t. +The moves are meant to combat “imperialist aggression,” he told a throng of supporters on Saturday during a rambling, effusive speech. +A spokesman for the D.E.A., Matthew R. Barden, said it would not comment until officials saw Judge Mueller’s written ruling . +(Germany was the top marketplace until Indonesia slid past it two years ago.) +State Representative Javier Martínez , a Democrat in New Mexico, plans to introduce a bill in January that would lower the voting age to 16 in school board elections. +“Everybody in the know drinks halves,” said Leigh Linley , author of “Great Yorkshire Beer,” when I met him in the nearby city of Leeds the next day, referring to the half-pint serving glass, instead of the more traditional imperial pint. +“You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” +“I will appeal.” He did not . +Though the phenomenon is real , Mr. Bush was blasted by Asian-American groups for repeating the slur. +Architectural preservationists fret that stairways cut into the canal’s retaining walls will tamper with a World Heritage Site, altering the work of a cultural hero, the neo-Classical architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who conceived the museum quarter. +Mr. May added, referring to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin: “What worries me the most about Donald Trump is what he would do if put into a situation where he is sitting down with Putin. +Cheryl Yvette Dawson and Madifing Kaba are to be married Sunday evening at the Alger House, an event space in Manhattan. +The new photo book “Rap Tees: A Collection of Hip-Hop T-Shirts 1980-1999” by DJ Ross One documents 500 shirts, from hip-hop’s dawn — the first item is a Sugar Hill Gang shirt from 1980, a year after that group released “Rapper’s Delight,” widely considered the first commercial hip-hop single — to its turn-of-the-millennium ubiquity. +It is 12.8 million worldwide — not 5.5 million, which is the number outside the United States. +Many can be found, along with his short stories, Talk of the Town pieces and other occasional work in a 2011 collection of his New Yorker writings called “Backward Ran Sentences” (the title is pulled from the Time parody), edited by ­Thomas ­Vinciguerra . +Several iterations of shirts from a single LL Cool J tour are displayed: The designer, Cey Adams, talks about how he would work on the fly, creating new shirts in different cities as the old ones sold out . +Three sky divers who parachuted off the 1 World Trade Center tower were acquitted on Monday of the most serious felony charge against them but convicted of three misdemeanors after a two-week trial in Manhattan . +• Google is set to unveil at its annual developer conference today an overhaul of its mobile payment products, including a service called Android Pay, according to a news report. +Deutsche Bank shares sank 4.6 percent on Monday in Frankfurt trading. +Muddled projections by the videographers fettFilm point obliquely and fleetingly to the 1990s siege of Sarajevo , and to an international criminal court. +But to prevent one heart attack, the health care system has to test hundreds of healthy people — and give about a hundred of them cholesterol-lowering drugs for at least five years . +Chronicle Publishing was sold to the Hearst Corporation in 1999 . +Based on Kathryn Hulme’s novel of the same title, this drama stars Audrey Hepburn as a young Belgian who becomes a nursing nun around the time of World War II . +860-297-2463 ; cinestudio.org. +Twenty-four hours if you take a double. +“ Please ignore the siren ,” he said. +The rap battle between Freda and Hakeem was unambiguously presented as the episode’s cathartic zenith, and according to the performance logic undergirding the differences in street and studio rap, it was laughably obvious Freda would bring the carnage. +In the second hour Tuesday we saw the overprivileged Chad and the daffy Denise, who had become lovers, decide to break up. +Writing in language that is, at once, musical and street tough, cadenced and conversational , Ms. Tempest creates portraits that feel both immediate and finely etched. +‘ The Last Witch Hunter ’ (PG-13, 1:38) +Warning of the business impact of legal uncertainty, the National Association of Manufacturers wrote a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to take the case. +While a $1.5 billion cash infusion from Quebec’s public pension management fund last week stabilized the financial situation at Bombardier, the Canadian plane and train maker will still have much to explain at an investor day in New York on Tuesday. +He mentioned Calvin Kentfield, who drank at No Name and in 1975 fell — or jumped — off a cliff in nearby Bolinas; Richard Brautigan, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1984; and Don Carpenter , another No Name drinker, also dead by gunshot, in 1995. +A large coffee table was neatly stacked with books and folders of photographs that Madonna has been using for research as she works on the screenplay for her next film project, based on the novel “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells. ” Imposing cream-colored couches flanked the coffee table, but Madonna preferred sitting on the floor. +A) “In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, Republicans prefer an outsider to a candidate with experience in the political system by a 24-point margin (60 to 36).” +On the evening of April 21 in Building 21 at the Fishkill Correctional Facility, Samuel Harrell, an inmate with a history of erratic behavior linked to bipolar disorder, packed his bags and announced he was going home, though he still had several years left to serve on his drug sentence. +Ferrari, which is scraping its way back from its worst period in more than a decade, did not want to give the same engine that its cars use to a team that could well beat it . +His three immediate predecessors were ousted by their own parties, including Tony Abbott , who was forced out Monday in a leadership challenge led by Mr. Turnbull. +After his run to the final of the United States Open last year, which included a five-set win over Wawrinka in the quarterfinals, Nishikori was expected by many to move one step further at this tournament. +The measure is supposed to focus on beefing up defenses at the district level, potentially freeing up the badly overstretched army and the national police to concentrate their forces for more strategic strikes. +It can be read as an ode to Mr. Lloyd Webber’s rock ’n’ roll coming-of-age, containing snippets of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (an inescapable radio hit from his adolescence); Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” (a nod to that band’s lead singer, Ian Gillan, the original Jesus of “Superstar”); and “Walk on the Wild Side,” by Lou Reed (whose music was ubiquitous on his early visits to New York). +The store is large and spare, not contemplative so much as blunt, and emphasizes items (like three-stripe sneakers and logo-print handbags) that are identifiable to even the most confused shopper. +The meal will consist of eight courses, including lobster ravioli, beef with shaved winter roots, and pineapple with coconut cream: Six Hands Dinner, $115 , March 26, Racines NY, 94 Chambers Street (Church Street), 212-227-3400, racinesny.com. +The drivers, often from the city, say they are scorned by their neighbors . +That process generally requires high temperatures and immense pressures; metathesis, however, takes place under relatively mild conditions, is often quicker than conventional processes, consumes less energy and produces less waste — advantages for chemical companies and for the environment. +Suddenly, without warning, a powerful electric-like energy flooded the body with wave after wave.” +In the Brown mold, James , at 30, has emerged as a leader off the court as he has matured as a player. +The bureau is in the meantime coming under fire from lawmakers of both parties for failing to meet the challenges of today’s searing drought . +Brazil’s economic crisis is opening a new debate about taxes, with President Dilma Rousseff ’s administration seeking to resuscitate a tax on financial transactions in an effort to raise government revenues. +Perhaps more important, the biases inherent in static scoring are not the same for all possible policy changes, making comparison of alternative options less reliable. +She also recalled being driven all the way to Massachusetts one football weekend (the sweethearts were Amherst and Williams men) in a white Cadillac with a hired driver named Coffee Jackson. +One of the final guests interviewed in the Bugun TV studio during the raid was Selahattin Demirtas , the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P. Mr. Demirtas called the move to seize the media group “mafia-like” behavior by Mr. Erdogan’s party, which is known by its Turkish initials, A.K.P. On Wednesday night, Mr. Erdogan suddenly claimed on live television that the opposition H.D.P. campaign was secretly being run by President Obama’s election team. +Including which teams will participate ( the Green Bay Packers and the Indianapolis Colts ). +The New Orleans Pelicans are playing the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, Calif. _______ +A video had been posted online earlier of a fighter called Abu Mosaab, who is known for tunneling under government positions, and a commander with his group, Ahrar al-Sham, issued a statement saying: “ The psychological war might have a bigger impact than traditional war . +Gary A. Rizzo, a 1993 recording arts graduate, has been nominated for four sound-mixing Oscars, winning in 2011 for Christopher Nolan ’s “Inception.” +We have a pool right now of about 100 individuals. +Lex van Horssen, a spokesman at FloraHolland, the Netherlands’ largest flower auction house, declined to speculate on the coincidence of the flower burning in Russia and Dutch progress in investigating the plane crash. +On Thursday, President Obama called off that pullout, originally due at year’s end , leaving 9,800 American troops in the country for at least another year. +The person at whose expense Aveling generally made himself comfortable was, of course, Eleanor . +Ms. Sassoon and Siporah sustained burns and smoke inhalation and were in critical condition on Sunday. +After nine months of searching they pounced last year when they learned, through Joanna Mayfield Marks, an agent at Halstead Property, of a 1,500-square-foot condo with two terraces. +“We have to think differently,” said Michael Connor, the deputy secretary of the Interior Department, which includes the Bureau of Reclamation . +The schools would set aside from about 20 percent to 60 percent of their seats for students in those groups, many of them black or Hispanic. +“One of the most interesting, significant and unique things is that the art collection, which is fabulous in and of itself, is in a domestic setting, so you see how it was juxtaposed with all the other things that Mr. Pope collected,” Ms. Bourbeau said. +In July, the company came out strongly against the class-action suit, presenting testimonials from more than 400 drivers who say they appreciate Uber’s flexibility. +The Obama administration took an important step in the right direction when it created new oversight rules for the industry and stepped up its investigations into companies like Corinthian Colleges — one of the largest operators of for-profit colleges and trade schools in the country until it collapsed last year amid state and federal lawsuits and fraud investigations. +Crosby, a two-time Hart Trophy winner, is on pace for career lows in goals and points, and his team appears destined for a four-month battle just to reach the postseason let alone make a serious run at Stanley Cup to bookend the one he and fellow superstar Evgeni Malkin won in 2009 back when a dynasty seemed almost inevitable. +There are several versions of this nascent technology, but they generally work by using a projection device that wirelessly picks up information from the phone and uses sophisticated optics to allow the information — maps, speed, incoming texts, caller identification and even social media notifications — to hover above the dashboard. +A little more than a year ago, “The Jones” podcast was rebranded as “ The Starters ,” a television program shown weeknights on NBATV. +“Rotten!” was tapped to perform the first musical number on the Tonys broadcast, which helped spur ticket sales of more than $750,000 two days in a row, and “Rotten!,” “Neverland” and “Fish” have each been grossing more than $1 million a week — a strong performance for Broadway. +These conversions include 12 East 88th Street, a red-brick 13-story building near Fifth Avenue designed by Rosario Candela, the architect responsible for much of the Upper East Side’s elegant look. +You should see thumbnails of your Android screen-grabs in the Screenshots area. +The House bill invests millions of extra dollars in a questionable missile defense program. It continues to prohibit Mr. Obama from shutting down the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba. +845-437-5632; fllac.vassar.edu. +In Paraíba, a poor state in the country’s northeast , inmate killings, including by decapitation, and prison rebellions are commonplace. +But Bank of America, the nation’s second-largest bank by assets after JPMorgan Chase , passed only provisionally and could still fail later this year if it does not fix deficiencies that the Fed identified. +It’s disconcerting, watching the one viable female artist in the Lyon universe take on Lucious’s paternal insecurity rather than the profound contours of her own life story. +NeuroLinx now supports a range of research projects , including an exploration of the way dolphins sleep, an effort to create a computer simulation of the ubiquitous lab worm C. elegans (known as the Open Worm project), and an exploration of nerve damage in diseases like multiple sclerosis. +BAN RAK THAI, Thailand — At night, traditional Chinese red lanterns illuminate the hotels, shop fronts and Yunnanese-style restaurants lining the main road in this highland village of just over 1,000 people. +Its request for a sophisticated antitank missile went nowhere, as Washington feared it would just encourage Russia to send more weapons and men to Ukraine. +Other beers well worth seeking out include the pleasantly bitter District Common from Atlas Brew Works; the golden, malty, hoppy Venn Dortmund-Style Lager from Ninkasi Brewing; the lively, lightly bitter Dortmunder Gold Lager from Great Lakes Brewing; and the fresh, grassy Lawnmower Lager from Caldera Brewing . +YONKERS Blue Door Gallery Group exhibition by the Manhattan Quilters Guild. +She spent about $65,000 of her own money and her mother’s in the five years before her mother died. +Dr. Benson lives in a nursing home in Webster Groves, Mo ., because Mrs. Benson can no longer care for him. +“Go Set a Watchman” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” were never written with the intention that they be viewed as part of an ongoing saga. +Delta has its own array of lobbyists, including a former top aide of Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, and Steve Elmendorf , a former top Democratic aide in the House and one of Washington’s pre-eminent schmoozers. +Ms. Merkel did note that Mr. Putin had to pressure the rebel leaders to sign. +Her mother is an oncologist at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, where she is also a clinical assistant professor, teaching palliative medicine to students from New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. +Ms. Stallings said that Jeffrey, 24, and Joey, 29 , smoked a type of spice known as “mojo” that they received from a dealer. +Phil ( Ty Burrell ), Manny (Rico Rodriguez) and Luke (Nolan Gould) set out to destroy the drone used by a neighbor to spy on Gloria (Sofia Vergara) as she sunbathes. +TITANS 42, JAGUARS 39 Tennessee ended the N.F.L.’s longest home skid at 11 games . +The United States is also providing advanced courses for military professionals known as forward observers — the ones who call in targets — to improve the accuracy of artillery fire, making it more lethal for the enemy and less so for civilians. +But this 40-minute play from 1921, seldom seen or read outside academia, has an exhilarating air of discovery that finds the fun — and the sense — in her seeming nonsense. +The bill goes to the Assembly . +Perhaps Coach Bill Belichick should consider sitting Brady for his own protection and concede this one. +Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, filed legislation that would close the loophole, but Republican leaders have not acted on it. +It is an old story, a crumbling marriage, but Ms. Pierpont gives it fresh insights, making the particular unhappiness (and occasional happiness) of the Shanleys by turns poignant, funny and very sad. +In Wisconsin , a proposal pushed by Gov. Scott Walker would remove the notion of tenure in the university system. +Today, employees can be considered part of the top ranks — and generally ineligible for overtime — once their salary reaches a paltry $455 a week, or $23,660 a year. The new threshold in 2016 would be $970 a week, or $50,440 a year, about where it would be if it had kept pace with inflation over the decades. +At The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., the top editor, Mitch Pugh, has created a four-person investigative team in a newsroom of only 72 staffers. +Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. +As of Friday evening, NXP had a market value of about $21 billion , while Freescale had a market capitalization of about $11 billion. +Bell, a 28-year-old father of a 9-month-old , was sitting with the nightwalkers. +Each of the Uighurs had paid the traffickers 60,000 renminbi, or about $9,700, for a passport, according to the report. +And in 2012 , she was appointed interim sheriff when Mr. Mirkarimi was suspended after a domestic dispute with his wife. +“I’ve heard that,” Clinton said. +Chime ’s sitters in New York cost $17 an hour for one child and an extra dollar an hour for each additional child (the company keeps 10 percent of every transaction), and the app’s automatic payment feature can help ease the awkwardness of settling up at the end of the night. +Mr. Draghi and other top E.C.B. officials appear to be preparing financial markets for stronger action to combat low inflation. “ Low inflation is already a serious obstacle to economic recovery and rebalancing within the eurozone,” Jean Pisani-Ferry, an economist who serves as a policy adviser to the French government, wrote in a blog post this week. +Marian Gaborik and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the visiting Kings , and Quick stopped 31 shots. +In a graduation speech at the Imam Hussein Military University in Tehran, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , widely believed to have the final say on whether Iran accepts a deal if one is reached next month, denounced what he said were escalating demands by the United States and five other world powers as they accelerate the pace of the negotiations with Iran. +Nicholson’s second-place finish in Lorient, France, this week behind the all-women crew of Team SCA confirmed his high hopes for Team Vestas Wind’s return, although he said last week that two podium finishes would be bittersweet. +“We are in control of the situation,” said the army officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly . +Now, of course, he’s the manager of the Dodgers , which strikes me as ridiculous — wrong shade of blue. +A video posted by the French-language newspaper L’Economiste shows the flaming wreckage of the tour bus, which caught fire after a collision with what the newspaper identified as a tanker truck carrying hydrocarbons . +“There are only a handful of cities where people live and work along densely populated corridors,” Mr. Schwieterman said. +“ Lizards kept showing up in the territory that had just been scoured for lizards ,” he said. +She starred in a revival of Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour” in London , opposite Keira Knightley, and as the scheming secretary in a Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow,” perhaps best remembered for Jeremy Piven’s abrupt departure, which he blamed on mercury poisoning from a sushi-heavy diet. +“Case closed, right? He’s more like a cat.” +“Even if the majority of people that you’re friends with have opinions that are similar to you,” Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, said last year, “your network of friends and friends of friends who you’ll hear from in your news feed is going to bring you more diverse opinions than you would have from any other type of media that you would have consumed.” +that trying catalogs again is a way to do it.” +The witness told investigators that a crossing arm closed onto Ms. Brody’s car, prompting her to walk outside and touch the gate shortly before getting back into the car and moving the vehicle forward, into the train’s path . +“It’s really siding with the real estate industry, rather than New York tenants,” said Katie Goldstein of Tenants and Neighbors , an advocacy group. +In an interview, Mr. Cook said that since he joined the company in 2009 its influence had increased, and that it would be incumbent upon him to “to operate this place in a way that is cognizant of the power it has, and uses it judiciously . +Prosecutors presenting evidence against two motorcyclists accused of taking part in a gang assault on a young family have put a larger phenomenon on trial: wild motorcycle tours, organized on the Internet , that occasionally rip through New York City, with riders snarling traffic, doing stunts, running red lights and generally creating a nuisance. +Motley (1891-1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago, where he painted the cultural life of the city’s African-American neighborhood known as Bronzeville, portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context. +Last month, she oversaw the introduction of an exclusive Mr. Chow-branded wine . +We loved Robert F. Kennedy’s family: 11 kids, and Ethel looks great. +The original taper tantrum happened in June 2013 . +Now he has his eye on another park project: the $ 2.75 million renovation of Dome Playground, on the border of Kensington and Borough Park. +In the middle of April, the 10-year United States Treasury yield sank as low as 1.86 percent, according to FactSet data. +First, I was Jewish , and the Wall Street firms were just beginning to accept Jews. +“I stand on the facts,” said Mr. McConnell, who said his main strategic decision was to find issues that both sides could compromise on, rather than digging in for partisan disputes where common ground could never be found . +But the Illini solved that problem for at least one week, getting 16 carries for 180 rushing yards and two touchdowns from Vaughn, a freshman; 12 carries for 133 yards from Ferguson, a senior in his first game back from injury; and a total of 382 yards on the ground in a dominating 48-14 victory over the Boilermakers. +In a play that seemed to unfold in slow motion so that you could see the heartbreak coming long before it arrived, Edgar Martinez doubled into the left-field corner off Jack McDowell, scoring two runs, including Ken Griffey Jr. on an all-out sprint from first base. +For a cancer patient it was $173,383 . +The Kabul government’s political struggles have had a direct affect on the morale of the security forces, some officials say. +Mishearings are not hallucinations, but like hallucinations they utilize the usual pathways of perception and pose as reality — it does not occur to one to question them. +So it went in 2015, when the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, the top teams in professional football (the American version), met in Super Bowl XLIX in February in Phoenix. +The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months . +He paused on the steps leading down to a subway station, and said he put the odds of peace at no better than 50-50. “ Putin is a very aggressive person,” Mr. Kolesnik said, as bustling throngs made their way home in the late afternoon. +In the early 1960s he developed a version of what would come to be called Minimalism before its introduction in New York by Donald Judd and others. +As Mrs. Clinton began her 2016 campaign for the presidency, Hugh Rodham and Roger Clinton had faded from public view, but Tony Rodham emerged as a controversial figure. +Henley & Partners was initially awarded the exclusive rights to market the program and process the applicants, collecting fees in two ways. +The attack began on Friday afternoon around 4 p.m., witnesses said, when a car bomber detonated explosives at a rear gate of the hotel , which is popular with government officials and foreigners. +The United States is also providing advanced courses for military professionals known as forward observers — the ones who call in targets — to improve the accuracy of artillery fire, making it more lethal for the enemy and less so for civilians. +Under the initial plan in 2013, the newly installed Labor Party government proposed selling passports for €650,000, with few other requirements for citizenship. +The bathroom has a tub made from a hollowed-out cedar log . +Brad Pitt, left, received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Benjamin Button, a man born in his 80s in 1918 New Orleans , who ages in reverse into the 21st century, in this adaptation of a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. +(This is, after all, a woman who, when she cuts back on her drinking, donates her booze to a derelict played by Dave Attell.) +Although strikes come and go here, the violence of the Uber brawl seemed to shock even the French . +Tracee Ellis Ross , “black-ish” The degree of difficulty that Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ms. Metcalf and Ms. Nash face on their respective shows is vertiginous. +Because of an editing error, an article on Dec. 20 about Xavier Gabriel, a Spaniard whose lottery business has become a national emblem of luck and a formidable merchandising brand, misstated, in some editions, the timing of the crash of the Virgin Galactic space plane, on which Mr. Gabriel has booked a $200,000 seat. +So Mr. Shoemaker read that book, in 1962 . +A federal judge on Wednesday denied Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis a stay of his order requiring her office to issue marriage licenses to all eligible couples. +The plan in the magazine’s 1970s heyday, said Joe Armstrong , its publisher and president during that period, “was to build Time-Life, do what Henry Luce did, but for a younger generation.” +The Goldman Sachs Group is in the middle of its biennial election of the next class of managing directors , an envied status that puts the lucky few just a breath away from the company’s loftiest title of partner. +He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be a doctor . +The Jazz have been gutted by injuries to much of their foundation, including Rudy Gobert, Dante Exum and Alec Burks. +She accepted that honor, she said, “wearing my usual uniform, the bluejeans, army jacket and boots.” +Nate Wooley ’s new work “For Kenneth Gaburo” is a setting of a sentence by Mr. Gaburo (1926-93), a searching composer, conductor, pianist and language theorist. +He was 89 . +In 2009, the Mayo Clinic recognized Dr. Schatz with a Distinguished Alumni Award. A nominating letter praised his courage because “criticizing an investigation which was overseen by some of the leading figures in the American Public Health Service was an action that was, to say the very least, potentially harmful to his career.” +That drew a second unnecessary-roughness penalty on Beckham . +Although the Shanghai composite index has risen less than 3 percent so far this year, the Zexi No. 1 Fund, which works with a subsidiary of the state-owned conglomerate China Resources, gained 323 percent through Friday; it has risen 3,270 percent since its inception in 2010. +According to the network, viewership has increased by 24 percent this season, with podcast downloads up 22 percent . +Espinoza said the network also understood it was about student-athletes and did not want to embarrass anyone. +The N.H.L. is facing litigation, with former players accusing the league of glorifying violence and ignoring the dangers of repeated head injuries. +The story of a transgender pioneer, Lili Elbe, becomes a tasteful, sensitive and somewhat inert costume drama in the hands of Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech.”) Eddie Redmayne plays Lili, whom we first encounter as Einar Wegener, a Danish landscape painter. +Still, some people find it striking that thousands of people have entered Europe with hardly any screening. +Built to suit the couple, the basement includes two bedrooms, a master bathroom, an infrared sauna, a study and, according to Mr. Harschel, one of the most important rooms in the house: a two-and-a-half-square-meter woodworking and repair shop . +The move will make Johannsson, 24, one of the most high-profile American players in Europe, and it stops a migration of top American pros out of the top European leagues , at least temporarily. +The unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent last month. +Confronted by the continuing and largely ignored persecution of Catholics and other Christians in the Middle East, it is no surprise that as forthright and courageous a pope as Francis would set aside diplomatic nicety and call genocide what it is: genocide. +Later in the day, Xinhua reported on one of its social media accounts that its name and that of one of its reporters were used falsely to spread a “rumor” that the police had killed Mr. Xu’s associate. +But the movie tanked at the box office, earning about $18 million in the seven weeks after its Oct. 9 release. +A three-part series called “ Operation Wild ,” which began on Wednesday on PBS, brings us stirring stories of veterinary teams around the globe engaged in unusual high-tech efforts to save sick or injured wild animals. +But in recent weeks, the nearly unbending nature of Mississippi’s law requiring students to be vaccinated has been in jeopardy, with two dozen lawmakers publicly supporting an exemption for “conscientious beliefs.” +In the middle of September , New York magazine’s website ran an article claiming that Bruno’s $18 plate of bread and fermented mozzarella “might just be the city’s most impressive new bread course.” +“They’re not closed — there’s a lot of smuggling, people have to live” in Syria, said Savas M. Ozaydemir, a leading Eskisehir industrialist with holdings in roofing tile manufacturing, wiring manufacture and real estate . +As an artist in residence with the Philharmonic this season, Ms. Batiashvili has become a familiar and welcome presence. +The Pilgrims and their fellow travelers weren’t terrorists , of course (despite an instance of putting the severed head of a perceived enemy on a pole), but they and those who followed certainly did effect a cultural conquest. +FRANKFURT — Anshu Jain, the co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank , chuckled when he was asked on Monday whether the United States had become inhospitable to foreign banks. +But there are a few interesting races, and three seats in the State Legislature are open because their prior occupants left under a criminal cloud. +And, last year, a Russian bank lent money to the far-right National Front party in France, which is gaining popularity in that country and says it would want France to leave the eurozone if it came to power. +There are several versions of this nascent technology, but they generally work by using a projection device that wirelessly picks up information from the phone and uses sophisticated optics to allow the information — maps, speed, incoming texts, caller identification and even social media notifications — to hover above the dashboard. +Get a few of those and you can make some stock tomorrow afternoon. +“The medical benefits of cannabis are undeniable,” said Jeremy Norrie , a medical marijuana user in West Hollywood, Calif., who operates the Secret Cup, a cannabis trade show. +( Apple’s iTunes Match and Apple Music services can also make all your music easily available on all your devices, but are subscription-based and cost money.) +He got out of his sickbed to sing with his wife, Ipek Acar , +I could not change her father ’s decision, but I could bring love and honesty into our dialogue about it. +We were eating dinner at Houseman , a restaurant opened by the chef Ned Baldwin on the once-quiet far-western side of SoHo, now called Hudson Square. +His vision — which emphasizes the brand’s traditional marks, logos and patterns, with a little extra naturalist flair — is an optimal fit for this location, as close to a fast -food environment as one can get while purchasing a reversible nylon bomber for $1,400, or a polo shirt with a snake embroidered into the collar for $810. +Mr. Wilkins, by all accounts, designed and installed the Poconos’ first heart-shaped bathtub . +Mr. Zaro said he was told by the management company, Olshan Properties, that a Boston Market would replace the bakery. +The pamphlet, created by the de Blasio administration, is a glossy but blunt warning about the dangers of metzitzah b’peh , an Orthodox circumcision ritual linked to herpes infections in infants. +In the first two weeks of training, the Americans found the Ukrainians’ soldierly skills lacking , and the group generally in need of instruction. +Despite those wishes, many prominent Americans have left European clubs to sign multimillion-dollar deals with M.L.S. Dempsey returned in 2013 , and he was soon followed by Michael Bradley, Jermaine Jones, Altidore, Mix Diskerud and Sacha Kljestan. +Perhaps more important, the biases inherent in static scoring are not the same for all possible policy changes, making comparison of alternative options less reliable . +“The Fed has been one of the main supports of the stock market and the economy,” said Kate Warne, an investment strategist at Edward Jones . +The ancillary benefits for Visa, however, suggest that just as Visa’ chief executive, Charles W. Scharf , said in April: “Sooner is better.” +In the first three weeks of April, state poison control centers received about 1,000 reports of adverse reactions to spice — the street name for a family of synthetic substances that mimic the effects of marijuana — more than doubling the total from January through March, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. +Dr. Ryan said a large portion of cases appeared to involve a form called mab-chminaca . +On Thursday, Mr. Fox expressed support for a proposal to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River, saying that New Jersey Transit, an agency for which he serves as board chairman, looked forward to working with Amtrak on the project. +The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months. +Balducci explains that the prisoner, who’s never named in the Camus story, has cut the throat of a cousin (“like a sheep”) and now Daru needs to take Mohamed to another town for some French justice and certain death. +The sea bass turned out to be the only worthwhile entree that evening. +Mr. Singhal said that while mobile phones are changing the world quickly, people still want and need many of the same things, whether they are in apps or on the web. +While the department’s options are limited when it comes to soliciting bids, Mr. Silver did say that he planned to bundle several smaller projects into one — five Brooklyn dog runs, for example. +Young was an All-Star for Arizona in 2010 , when he was 26. +This exceptionally informative exhibition presents photographs, photography books, paintings, sculptures and videos produced by 29 Japanese artists during a decade of ideological disillusionment following the utopian excitement of the 1960s. +It will be something of a valedictory moment : On Nov. 1 the entity became two companies. +The militia expansion plan is a reversal for President Ashraf Ghani , who had long talked about the importance of solidifying “the state monopoly over the use of force” in a country still deeply scarred by its civil war. +Late in the fourth quarter, fans were encouraged to stand for a karaoke version of “ New York, New York .” +The eclectic, historically progressive school said not only would it divest itself of all fossil fuel investments in coming years, but it is also reshaping the entire curriculum to focus more on climate change and sustainability. +Majd Kayyal, the media coordinator for Adalah, an organization that pursues the legal rights of Palestinians in Israel , accused security services of a double standard, saying they had not cracked down on Israeli Jews for incitement to violence online. +In his majority opinion in the case, United States v. Windsor , Justice Anthony M. Kennedy bristled at the unfairness of prohibiting same-sex couples “from being buried together in veterans’ cemeteries.” +Many universities have decided to drop fossil fuel stocks from their investment portfolios, but the New School in New York City has decided to go a step further. +“The Birth of the World,” Joan Miró’s clairvoyant masterpiece from 1927 , presaged much of postwar American painting — the early date can elicit a double take when you see it at the Museum of Modern Art. +The new leadership arrangement will be a startling change because of Mr. Silver’s longevity: As governors and other legislators have come and gone, Mr. Silver has remained firmly in place as speaker since 1994. +Mustafa Kilic, a journalist for one of the group’s newspapers, Millet, shared an image of blood on his press card, an apparent result of resisting the police during the raid. +Those facts don’t mean that giving people health insurance is a waste of money, since those dollars spent may improve their health and financial security . +Mr. Rezaian; his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, who is also a journalist; and a third defendant will appear before the Revolutionary Court in what is expected to be a closed proceeding. +He graduated from Winthrop University and received a law degree from the University of Chicago . +The bigger threat for Google is that the web , the search company’s favored domain, has been increasingly overrun by the world of apps. +Guggenheim Museum : ‘Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting’ (through Jan. 6) +The U.S. fears Russia is using their shared goal of defeating the Islamic State as a pretext for weakening other opponents of Syria’s embattled president. +If people only knew what an adventure trying to raise a family is. +“ Anna and Elsa all day.” +“Digging for Fire,” Joe Swanberg ’s new feature is, like many of his previous movies, a case study in heterosexual ethics. +Tackling the food waste dilemma requires an all-hands-on-deck approach . +At the same time he made the Republican side of the aisle react like a bunch of sixth graders cheering for Justin Bieber, since the net effect of the speech was to diminish the efforts by the administration to suppress Iran’s hunger for nuclear capacity and make President Obama look weak. +He mustn’t waste the chance as Italy is living on borrowed time . +But it most certainly was an issue for Gordon College, a multidenominational Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, Mass. +My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college. +In his first finals appearance with the Heat, in 2011, he did not even lead the team in usage, trailing Wade and Chris Bosh . +Ms. Whitehead will continue to consult with Valeant and Sprout executives after her departure , according to the statement from Valeant. +Ironically, the building housing the Barcelona Design Museum — a squat, zinc-clad structure with front and rear cantilevers — hasn’t exactly been celebrated for its exterior form. +Lands’ End later added a pop-up survey to its website and found that 75 percent of customers who were making purchases had first reviewed the catalog. +He got in trouble for using that derogatory reference to the children of unauthorized immigrants in passing, in an interview, then dug himself a hole by defending his use of it. +It reported on “the problem,” as the president of Barnard College put it, of the educated housewife: her anxiety, frustration and claustrophobia . +The grilled octopus , another appetizer, was meaty and tender and presented on a bed of fennel, red onions, capers and roasted tomatoes, all caramelized with a balsamic vinegar. +She was one of the most prominent artists of her generation, known for her imperious personality and a penchant for false eyelashes, heavy jewelry and chinchilla capes. +John Rubel’s Modernist-style Rouleau bracelet of curved gold and blue and pink sapphires inspired Ms. Mizrahi-Rubel’s Ginger ring, named for Ginger Rogers , which the buyer can have pavéd with diamonds, emeralds, or sapphires. +Reports of Mrs. Clinton’s use of only a private email account while she was secretary of state, meanwhile, have cast a new light on efforts by outside groups to obtain access to her correspondence with the Clinton Foundation during her tenure at the State Department — about donations or anything else. +For instance, a nonviolent felony conviction from two decades ago may well be less predictive of gun violence than a domestic violence protection order or drunken-driving conviction, said Daniel Webster , director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. +He owns an AR-15, a ­9-millimeter­ and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera . +At the ADX, he would be in solitary confinement 23 hours a day . +I mean, he’s played 20 games , guys, and you want to — his next development? +So I jumped at the chance to become her personal chef for the last two weeks of her life. +The answer, according to M.I.T. ’s Ricardo Caballero and others, is that the debt of stable, reliable governments provides “safe assets” that help investors manage risks, make transactions easier and avoid a destructive scramble for cash. +In the immediate aftermath of Mr. Hutchinson’s statement, Jerry Cox, the president of the Arkansas -based Family Council, a conservative lobbing group, was more succinct: “No bill or no amendment, that’s our position right now.” +Millions of people watched his web series “Red vs. Blue” and “RWBY.” +“It was a book this thick, but we were free,” joked Mr. Harschel , waving an imaginary building code volume. +On Sunday, you can head to Spectrum, a very cozy space on the Lower East Side , for Morton Feldman’s late, visionary Piano and String Quartet, featuring the pianist Joseph Branciforte and string players drawn from several ensembles: Christopher Otto, Pauline Kim Harris, John Pickford Richards and Mariel Roberts. +The email was intended to make his affair with Ms. Gamrat , 42, appear less believable if it was exposed by an anonymous blackmailer who Mr. Courser said had demanded his resignation. +You’ll end up going crazy . +In the Palestinian arena, Mr. Netanyahu has demanded not only the recognition of Israel ’s right to exist – something the leadership has already done — but recognition that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people. +every three to four years . +A young man gave me this account of his first encounter with the Holy Spirit at a retreat to which his girlfriend had dragged him. +In May 2014, the United Nations human rights office appointed an employee in Bangui to interview children, accompanied by a child protection officer from Unicef , the United Nations children’s agency. +Hearing more talk about how the Mets keep finding ways to win? +ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Up and down the stairs of the five-star Radisson Blue Hotel , they moved from one meeting to another. +Mr. McCarthy rose quickly through the Republican ranks in part because of his fund-raising skills . +their 27 World Series championship and 20 retired numbers. +Still, Poles announced the participation of the presidents of Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania and Ukraine, as well as Slovakia’s prime minister and the head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, the former Polish prime minister. +About 300 exemptions have been granted to people in many industries. +London The writers are, respectively, a former British defense secretary and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. +(On the Jimmy Kimmel show, Clinton confided that if her husband had not been barred from seeking a third term, he’d have gone for it. +Brooklyn-born Chris Mullin, who played his high school ball in the city and was the N.C.A.A.’s player of the year for St. John’s in Queens in 1985 before becoming an N.B.A. All-Star , said he often watches college games and finds himself thinking a player is likely to be from his old stamping grounds based on the way he carries himself on the court. +Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable . +LAKEPORT, Calif. — As firefighters on Wednesday embarked on their sixth day of battling the largest of the many wildfires that have flared across the state, fire officials said the Rocky Fire, which has grown to consume nearly 70,000 acres here in the northern reaches of wine country, was still nowhere near under control and may not be until perhaps Monday. +Suddenly, without warning, a powerful electric-like energy flooded the body with wave after wave.” Mr. Kripal does not take the imagination to be an electrical byproduct of some naturalist process. +“A man with such a past cannot be a public figure,” Mr. Sverstiuk said of Mr. Medvedchuk in the interview, adding: “In short, he is a sinister character. +On Saturday there were jubilant scenes after the release of results showing that Mr. Corbyn had won almost 60 percent of the vote, crushing his three opponents, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall. +“We want to attract the real highfliers ,” Mr. Cardona said. +“We must all insist on ethical behavior or we will kill the golden goose,” Mr. Kohlberg said at his last investor conference at K.K.R. 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What comes to mind are these cases in which young African-American women were being sterilized without their permission. +PICK: BILLS Packers ( 3 -0) at 49ers (1-2) 4.25 p.m. +To get an idea how each device performed with each router, The Wirecutter’s Wi-Fi expert, David Murphy, tested file transfer speeds, video streaming speeds, music streaming quality and video call quality at a short range of 11 feet and a long range of 43 feet . +This was followed by a flavorful herb-marinated beef carpaccio sprinkled with crushed peanuts, pickled cucumber and veils of radishes , then a buttery-smooth monkfish tail with maki rice chips and ginger-sautéed broccoli purée. +Under orders from the White House, the Bureau of Reclamation has begun studies on the impact of global warming on 22 Western water basins and is drawing up multidecade plans to begin rebuilding its Western water management systems. +For this rashness, he is obliged to leave Tokyo and go to Osaka on his own, to work with a new troupe. +“He was very polite, and I thought to myself that unless I find out that this guy is totally crazy, he’s the perfect guy for me.” Mr. Kaba found Ms. Dawson to be very engaging and always smiling. +While similar to the food demolition, which brought widespread outrage as well as the production of satirical videos like the popular “Death of a Parmesan ,” the politics behind the flower war are distinct. +Still, the anniversary shows demonstrated that the Dead’s music was still vibrant — and could find a seemingly endless audience, despite the protestations of some hard-line fans who believe the group died with its de facto frontman, Jerry Garcia. +MAREA WEXLER .Northampton, Mass., Jan. 20, 2015 +Manning flew to Charlotte, N.C., on Monday to meet with Dr. Robert Anderson, a foot specialist , about his torn plantar fascia. +HONG KONG — China’s securities regulator plans to lift its moratorium on new stock market listings before the end of the year , the official news agency Xinhua said on Friday. +Mr. Arlia argues that someone else made that hole and that the detective, who maintains he had no idea who was actually in the Range Rover, assumed it had been broken by a projectile from inside the car. +“You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” +The state news agency, SANA, said they were “reunited with their comrades,” while insurgent groups contended that many had been captured or killed . +The Oldenburg regional court found the 38-year-old nurse guilty of two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and another of serious bodily harm, said a court spokesman. +Like last summer, when he vowed that Iran would ultimately build an industrial-scale uranium enrichment capability — with 190,000 centrifuges, or 10 times the number now installed — the ayatollah’s comments are bound to cause deep complications for Iran’s negotiators, led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. +While that figure is about 60 percent of what it was at its peak in 2007, some analysts say the recent 1 percent rise in mailed catalogs, coupled with the care retailers are putting into them, may signal something of a renaissance. +From October 2014 to May 2015, the most recent data available, Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor reported a 76 percent on-time rate, down from 89 percent in the comparable period three years ago. +“It’s not a jail here,” said Idmark dos Santos da Silva, 36, serving time for bank robbery . +Democrat ic members were no less critical. +Even some of the biggest bank critics, like Daniel K. Tarullo, the Federal Reserve governor , have shown a willingness to consider rolling back rules for smaller lenders. +In 1992, Swarovski really wasn’t about fashion, it was all about figurines, and I thought we could be so much more, because I’d grown up with Grandfather telling me about his meetings with Coco Chanel and Christian Dior on our factory floor or in their atelier. +I wasn’t expecting how many people in leadership positions and in very senior managerial positions are averse to conflict. +While Republican candidates for the White House want to repeal the Affordable Care Act and generally oppose interfering with the drug industry, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders are competing fiercely with each other to press for greater competition and new regulations to rein in pharmaceutical companies. +The United States announced Monday that it had increased to $5 million its reward for information that could lead to the safe return of Robert A. Levinson, a former F.B.I. agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007. +On average, the out-of-pocket cost for a patient with dementia was $61,522 — more than 80 percent higher than the cost for someone with heart disease or cancer. +Ibrahim Ghandour, a Sudanese government negotiator , attributed the failure of the talks to the rebels “being held hostage” to their alliances with one another. +Tom O’Brien, the lawyer for Ms. Ferguson, had little comment on the charges but said he expected evidence for the defense to come out at trial. +The costumes nod to dictatorships , maybe Nazi or Italian, less likely the Communism of Armenia. +Auditions for its school-aged characters were held at the start of this year, and over the summer, a series of test shows were held at the Gramercy Theater, a sticky-floored rock club in Midtown Manhattan. +The fleeting pleasures of “People Places Things,” Jim Strouse ’s winsome trifle of a comedy, derive almost entirely from the charm of its star, Jemaine Clement, the New Zealand-born actor best known in America as one-half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords. +It also includes improvements to roads and infrastructure in and around Los Alamos National Laboratory, where a drum of plutonium waste erupted last year in an underground dump. +At the same time, conservative politicians oppose raising the minimum wage to livable levels with the argument that it will deprive Americans of their low-paying jobs. +Based on Kathryn Hulme’s novel of the same title, this drama stars Audrey Hepburn as a young Belgian who becomes a nursing nun around the time of World War II. +Both Mr. Stillerman and Mr. Collier treasure their relationships with showrunners, including Vince Gilligan , the star creator of “Breaking Bad” and now “Better Call Saul.” +In a sign of how testy the mood had become, Charles Michel, the prime minister of Belgium, another country that uses the euro, complained that mediation with Greece should involve all members of the eurozone and could not be done by a few individual members . +James even found time to impersonate a statistician during the game, approaching the officials during a first-quarter timeout and arguing that a 2-point basket credited to his teammate Kevin Love should have been a 3-pointer. +The opposition, under the banner of the Democratic Unity coalition, won 112 of the 167 seats in the National Assembly, which will be sworn in Jan. 5 , according to electoral authorities. +Religious activists in the denomination have been among the most outspoken in recent years over what they regard as Israel’s unjustified repression of Palestinians and their aspirations for an independent state. +Several iterations of shirts from a single LL Cool J tour are displayed: The designer, Cey Adams , talks about how he would work on the fly, creating new shirts in different cities as the old ones sold out. +Men’s Journal has 1.8 million by the same measure, and Us Weekly has nearly 30 million. Both are Wenner Media publications. +Too many problems exist — like a slow data network or a dead phone battery — to rely on smartphones alone, experts say. +The Justice Department has countered that it can still prosecute violations of the federal marijuana ban and continue cases already in the courts . +Trump actually launched his campaign on June 16 with a message of polarization, saying: “ When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best . +He missed nearly six months to recover from back surgery and in recent weeks was slowed by influenza . +“I’m proud of the fact that I believe what God has said, and I’ve said many times that I’ll defend it before anyone,” Mr. Carson told the Adventist Report in 2013 . +Mr. Swanberg shares Mr. Allen’s abiding interest in the swerves and reversals of romance, but he conducts his investigations on firmer moral and philosophical ground . +The shops are found along narrow lanes and well-trodden streets in a roughly 10-block radius, many owned by well-traveled expatriates breathing new energy into this tourist-oriented city. +(Saturday’s events: panel discussion, 1 p.m ., and screening, 2 p.m., at 144 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, and a performance at 7:30 p.m., Damrosch Park; lcoutofdoors.org.) +Emily was angry at her father for speaking so pragmatically about her mother ’s death. +Several reality series, some still in the planning stages, are centered on transgender people, like TLC’s “All That Jazz,” about the teenage transgender activist Jazz Jennings , and VH1’s “TransAmerica,” about the model and activist Carmen Carrera. +Cindy Whitehead, who oversaw a long, but ultimately successful, effort to bring to market the first prescription drug to enhance women’s sexual drive, is leaving her post as chief executive of Sprout Pharmaceuticals. +A box of incriminating correspondence — a deceptively mild-looking thing — arrives at the Shanleys’ home, poised to spray shrapnel everywhere. +Oleksandr I. Leshchenko, the deputy director for training in the National Guard, was somewhat skeptical about the value of the training, saying that “ 99 percent ” of the men in the course had already been in combat. +The German model booked 20 shows the very first time she walked in New York Fashion Week. +Julia Fortier, a freshman at Haverford College in Pennsylvania who graduated last year from the prestigious Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y., said it had not been uncommon for some of her friends to take five Advanced Placement classes in the same year, while also trying to juggle the extracurricular activities expected by college admissions boards. +He also Skypes with his wife , now unexpectedly trapped back in Douma by a government siege. +“Here they’re not going to have a lot of opportunities to engage with a presidential campaign,” Jeff Roe, Mr. Cruz’s campaign manager, said as his candidate spoke in St. Paul on Thursday, before heading to the South. +Nationwide, prosecutors are now far more likely to charge violent criminals as felons, rather than bring a misdemeanor charge . +With more than a decade of hindsight, the theories supporting the case against Microsoft have all but fallen apart, and the pursuit of the company that makes Windows may suggest a reason for skepticism about this fight against Google: The tech marketplace is fluid and unpredictable . +Coming 50 years after the Vatican formally repudiated the idea of collective Jewish guilt for Jesus’ death, the document emphasized the tight and inescapable link between Christianity and Judaism . +Nur Moznu , a manager who has worked for Zaro’s for nine years, said many customers had come in to say they would miss the fresh bread and bagels. +When I got out of school, it was 1972 , and not particularly the best economic time. +It boasted as much in advertisements published in The New York Times in 1919 , during the magazine’s first heyday. +Four years ago, when Torey Moore first obtained one of the about 29,000 housing vouchers available to Dallas area residents, she stayed in the same South Dallas neighborhood. +The Utah State Tax Commission said on Thursday that it had identified 28 fraudulent returns and flagged about 8,000 as potentially fraudulent +She can create her own “in group, ” where only kind women are welcome. +Its request for a sophisticated antitank missile went nowhere, as Washington feared it would just encourage Russia to send more weapons and men to Ukraine. +After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Mr. Wood held leadership roles in Alec Station , the group that led the hunt for Qaeda suspects and was central to the interrogation program. +Re “Some Are Shocked, Others Find Nuance in a Bigoted Atticus Finch” (front page, July 12): Readers shouldn’t struggle to reconcile the inconsistencies between the Atticus Finch character in the two novels in light of their publishing history. +This Italian artist’s prescient paintings from the 1950s and early ‘60s — in patched, burned and otherwise abused burlap, plastic or wood — form a lavish, beautiful and admirable, if sometimes monotonous retrospective at the Guggenheim. +During an interview last week at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester County, Mr. Nuñez showed reporters purple scars around his right ankle that he said were the result of CERT officers’ intentionally shackling him too tightly. +Even when health care providers “appear to be doing everything right, there has been transmission of CRE,” said Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, the associate director for health care associated infection prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . +If you tried to define New York City basketball strictly by birthplace, you would include players like Michael Jordan, who was born in Brooklyn but grew up elsewhere. And you would exclude Julius Erving, who was born in Nassau County, next to but not part of the city, but who helped to enhance the New York style of play with his wizardry at the famous Rucker Park playground in Harlem before going on to star for the New York Nets and the Philadelphia 76ers. +I got them in Paris , on sale too, and they have become a staple in my stage wardrobe. +Although firms overstate the pain, room remains to ensure that regulators are constructive , rather than overzealous. +Tesla is not alone in offering those sorts of options; BMW, General Motors and Volvo, among other manufacturers, offer apps that perform similar functions. +I’m sure this will come as a surprise to a vast majority of Americans , who for decades have been watching their cholesterol intake religiously. +At first Ms. Wisniak, an entrepreneur and a founder of SportChaser , a search engine that connects sports fans to bars, heeded that advice — “I never went to Brooklyn,” she said. +As talented as Gibbs was, his work was perhaps not destined to last. +You can delete them out of your Dropbox folder at that point , but if you leave them there, you can play and view many types of unrestricted files on a smartphone or tablet by opening and streaming them through the Dropbox mobile app. +One hundred thousand dollars was a big donation for the council, which represents about 25,500 girls in 17 counties in the western part of Washington State. +While that accusation was vague, it was enough to convince a magistrate judge at the time that there was probable cause to approve the warrant. +My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college. +WATERBURY Mattatuck Museum “The Coast and the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America.” +One, with a melody that would have suited the Carter Family, captured the moment in a breakup when the thought of freedom balances a sense of loss. +“ The future of your nations and countries will be in your hands; and also I find that the sense of quest for truth is more vigorous and attentive in your hearts.” +After one Long Island Rail Road train passed through, heading east, the man and woman ducked underneath the crossing gate . +Two Army women have made it through most of the arduous course of the elite Ranger School and stand a strong chance of being the first females to graduate. +This hard-working comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a mercenary political consultant trying to strategize a former Bolivian president, Castillo ( Joaquim de Almeida ), back into office. +He said hard-liners in Iran who chant “Death to America” were “making common cause with the Republican caucus .” +“I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure all lives matter,” the prosecutor said. +“So on the one hand,” said Ms. English, 65 , “you felt welcomed into a family. +As for her mother’s money, by the time she died, “ it was gone ,” Ms. Olson said. +In November, Mr. Shumlin won only 46.4 percent of the vote, not the 50 percent required by the Vermont Constitution to claim victory outright. +Inside was a cellphone , and the police were able to download the call history and identify a phone number that it had called the most. +Work is going well for us ; we both date. +Those two talented players had seen their public image tarnished over the last few seasons, but they appear to have found a home with Coach Rex Ryan and are playing a big part in the team’s success. +Representative Paul D. 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(CW) THE FLASH The Flash, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), discovers that the temperature villains Captain Cold and Heat Wave are back in Central City. +In “Letters to Véra” every incidental character — including those whom even the memorious Nabokov might not have recalled years later, and whose years of birth and death he would hardly ever have known, and who played no role worth mention in even a voluminous biography — would be identified, if possible, and usually by Voronina. +Before a screening in New Delhi on Friday, Women in the World, a live-event series associated with The Times, hosted a discussion on the global refugee and migrant crisis moderated by the actress Cate Blanchett and featuring the photojournalist and frequent Times Magazine contributor Lynsey Addario among its guests. +Now 74, Rose has petitioned for reinstatement , and there had been hopes locally that something might happen in time for the All-Star Game. +Russ Stanton , a spokesman for Kroenke and Stockbridge Capital Group, which proposed the stadium in Inglewood, declined to comment on the findings of the reports. +Trained as a civil engineer , he became an artist after seeing Anthony Caro’s sculptures. +They took him underground almost every night for hours until he finally stumbled on what would become, through trial and error and countless hours of grueling work, his subterranean route out. Mr. Sweat felt free during his nightly journeys into the maze, as though he had already escaped the ugliness of his day-to-day prison life. +A knife grinder who drives slowly around the streets but has no customers. +Montgomery Row Second Level, 6423 Montgomery Street . +MYSTIC Maritime Art Gallery, at Mystic Seaport “ Modern Marine Masters ,” group show. +The cause was complications of prostate cancer , said his son Geoffrey. +And while Google, with $65 billion in the bank, can buy any start-up it likes, one company it cannot buy — Apple — is also joining the mobile search fray. +Misinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the United States — a 2014 Yale study found that 35 percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural phenomena rather than human activity, and 34 percent think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is even happening. +Now Mr. Boire, 54 , the former chief executive of Sears Canada and a retail veteran who has worked at Brookstone, Best Buy and Toys “R” Us, is under pressure to reverse the fortunes of the beleaguered bookstore chain, which has been stung in recent years by the rise of Amazon, steep losses from its Nook e-reader division and a string of store closings. +Four years ago, the 39 -year-old wife and mother of a young son began looking for solutions after growing tired of her family’s living paycheck to paycheck from her husband’s job. +Residents of Midwood cloistered in their homes and synagogues during the Sabbath, from nightfall on Friday to nightfall on Saturday, recalling a band of conscientious children they had seen rushing to synagogue and building snowmen in the yard. +The wreck killed 79 people when the train roared through a curve at 120 miles per hour, twice the posted speed limit, and derailed. +And we can’t neglect good old American lager, the beer that made Milwaukee, St. Louis and so many other brewing centers famous. +A host of organizations, and some politicians have called for Exxon to be prosecuted for fraud not unlike that which tobacco companies engaged in when they hid the risks of smoking . +To be clear, Mr. Bratton carefully left open any precise exit date. +Mr. Brezner’s first marriage, to the singer and songwriter Melissa Manchester, whom he met when she appeared at his coffeehouse and whom he managed for a time, ended in divorce; he was also divorced from his second wife, Bett Zimmerman . +More than two years ago, after President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, Hollande was ready to bomb Syria alongside President Obama. +Back when it was the Glad Hand, a guy named John Hamilton tended the bar. +“She has this extraordinary talent for distilling form, landscape, abstraction and color,” Mr. Kelly said. “ Her palette is very unusu al. +Ms. Shelley is from Louisville, Ky ., where she has recorded in duos and groups; “Electric Ursa” is her second solo album. +In 1992, Swarovski really wasn’t about fashion, it was all about figurines , and I thought we could be so much more, because I’d grown up with Grandfather telling me about his meetings with Coco Chanel and Christian Dior on our factory floor or in their atelier. +Coach Mike Davis coached at Indiana for six seasons, leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 championship game. +“The generation before the Internet watched movies and learned how to behave from them,” she said, pointing to the John Hughes cult film “Sixteen Candles” as one example. +And as the mayor seeks to assure residents that New York remains “the safest big city in America,” citing a drop so far this year in overall crime , the number of recorded stops has also continued to fall sharply. +(He refers to himself as “a cultural gumbo.” ) Peter Martins, the ballet master in chief of City Ballet as well as the artistic director and chairman of faculty at the School of American Ballet, says that substantial change may take time, but it will happen. +The ties that bound Mr. Ghani to many of the dinner guests on Tuesday reflected a little-noticed story in America’s longest war: After more than 13 years of nation-building in Afghanistan, much of the American national security establishment is intimately familiar with many of the nation’s most senior officials, Mr. Ghani foremost among them, and loath to see a hasty withdrawal lead to a repeat of what has happened in Iraq. +Mr. Kohlberg rose through the ranks of the investment bank Bear Stearns, where he started working in 1955. +Then along came a surprising impediment: Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader, along with other Senate Democrats, objected to abortion restrictions in the bill and limits to an extension of a health insurance program for children. They have begun to undermine what was poised to be a sweeping bipartisan solution to several policy problems that have long vexed Congress. +Indeed, law school enrollment across the country dropped 30 percent over the past four years +In a separate attraction, NEON is partnering with London’s Whitechapel Gallery to bring together 25 Greek and foreign artists to explore myth, drama, metamorphoses and bioethics through outdoor art projects at the École Française d’Athènes until July 26 . +“I feel very bad, because fundamentally we’ve been humiliated, and we are going somewhere that is not sustainable ,” Mr. Papantoniou said. +But the lead author of the study, Kevin Eagan, cautioned that the shift could result in higher levels of stress . +The witness told investigators that a crossing arm closed onto Ms. Brody’s car, prompting her to walk outside and touch the gate shortly before getting back into the car and moving the vehicle forward, into the train’s path. +Which ended, of course, with a reference: “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” the Simple Minds song identified with “ The Breakfast Club .” +“It will be extremely difficult for the Greek people to accept such an adjustment off the back of five years of economic depression,” Megan Greene, a managing director at the financial firm Manulife who has been monitoring the Greek situation, said in a report. +News of Mr. Bashir ’s plan to participate in the United Nations development meeting, which takes place after the annual General Assembly, first emerged Aug. 3 when his name appeared on the provisional itinerary of speakers for Sept. 26. +For years, the military has been trying to save money with new rounds of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), the congressionally mandated process for shuttering underutilized domestic military installations. +its first round. +These faults wouldn’t matter as much if the prices were lower, but Orama is an expensive night out, so our expectations were high . +Equally fine on the other side of the story, which is dominated by women, are Ilfenesh Hadera as a Dominican immigrant, Dominique Fishback as a young black mother, and Natalie Paul as a budding community organizer. +Afghan officials who described the new plan, however, bluntly called it a matter of survival: Given a choice between ceding territory to the Taliban and reinforcing areas with semiformal militias deemed abusive and predatory, the government is opting for the latter. +And yet his daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, chose to speak to Mr. Sorkin for the film, sharing, as Mr. Sorkin said in an interview, “stories about her father that weren’t necessarily flattering.” +She became a fierce, pioneering player and has assumed as many vital roles as a coach and futurist as anyone in women’s soccer in the United States. +The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates , two of the top baseball teams in the National League, play today (12:35 p.m. Eastern, MLB Network), and the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros, two of the best in the American League, take the field tonight (8:05 p.m. +“Our development office has these clapper doodads, like you use on New Year’s Eve, and we clap them whenever we get a success,” the Girl Scouts’ area chief executive, Megan Ferland , recalled with a chuckle. +The Education Department says that the Heald College claims will be decided in November , because the government has made a clear finding of misconduct by the school +The bride’s father retired as the president of Van Wagner Communications , an outdoor advertising company in New York. +Beginning with the 2013 model year, cars like the Passat were equipped with a system that uses the chemical urea to neutralize nitrogen oxide emissions and is considered effective when properly configured. +The new version of Apple TV also includes a remote control that could be used as a video game controller . +In 1994, within the space of a few weeks, Ms. Smith lost her husband, the musician Fred Sonic Smith , to heart failure, and her brother, Todd Smith, who was also her road manager, to a stroke. +In all, James, who was averaging less than a dunk a game before his injuries, had three against the Suns, a formidable team with a 23-18 record. +The report proposed the appointment of a state fiscal monitor, who would oversee all of the board’s financial and educational decisions and have the authority to override the board, when necessary, to protect the interests of the public-school community and improve education outcomes for public-school students. +Since packing up his scalpel and becoming a Republican presidential candidate , Mr. Carson has not shied from talking about his Christian faith and sprinkling policy pronouncements with prayer as he travels the country talking to voters in his blunt but soft-spoken style. +“I glanced at it from the side of my eye, but I didn’t really care to read it,” said the passenger, Tara Griffiths , 21, a student at St. John’s University in Queens. +Because the corporate tax is often considered one of the most distortionary taxes in the federal arsenal, cutting it would promote economic growth. +That compares favorably with Showtime’s most popular sports series, “ Inside the NFL ,” and the show is the third-most-watched program through its streaming service, Espinoza said. +‘Tiny Giants’ (Friday through Thursday) +What inspires your overall style? Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. +This leaves DuPont’s fate to be decided by the mutual funds . +Capt. Andrii Syurkalo , a Ukrainian officer, said it was commendable that the trainers were willing to use the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal as an element in a class on the Geneva Conventions. +Three years ago, she opened an old trunk in the attic of a family country house to rediscover the forgotten archives of her great uncles, John and Robert Rubel. +Tesla Motors made a splash when it recently announced plans to add automated highway driving features, which it calls autopilot, to its Model S sedans by the summer. +A State Department spokesman, Mark C. Toner, said then that he was unaware a visa had been requested, but that “we’ve been very clear how we feel about the president of Sudan and that he’s wanted for crimes, and we want to see him held accountable.” +The complaint suggested that the criminals also used the site to launder their proceeds . +The graduated driver’s license pilot program would allow 19½-year-old truck drivers only when accompanied by older drivers, and it would be based on recommendations of a task force that includes safety advocates. +The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, overseen by the Energy Department , has been closed since then. +You make a musical about two struggling playwrights who are always outshined by Shakespeare; the musical is nominated for 10 Tony Awards, and the only one it wins is for the guy who plays Shakespeare. +Both the 44-year-old 421-a housing program and the rent stabilization law, which governs rents for one million apartments in New York City, are set to expire on June 15 . +For the first time since 1998, and for the fifth time in league history, the All-Star Game made a stop in New York, infusing the arena with a dose of the basketball skill, celebrity presence and general sense of occasion it has lacked for the last three months, given the struggles of the hometown Knicks. The game capped a multiborough weekend spree of brand-sponsored parties, in-store promotional appearances, charity events and various activities vaguely related to basketball, some of which took place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. +BRONCOS 17, CHARGERS 3 Brock Osweiler hit Demaryius Thomas for a 3-yard score on the opening drive, and Danny Trevathan intercepted a Philip Rivers pass and returned it 25 yards for a touchdown as Denver won at San Diego. +“They have very similar messages,” said Steve McMunn , 63, who remains torn between the two. +With the simplicity of a fable and the drama of a psychological thriller , Ball tells a story about starting over from nothing, reconstructing life from its most basic elements. +Steve Cainas, 43, who received an associate’s degree in film from Full Sail in 1992, makes his living in Atlanta as a production coordinator. +Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. +About 60 percent of California’s water now comes from underground, according to estimates by NASA researchers. +Mr. Harrell also had a history of heart disease and drug abuse, which the autopsy report said contributed to his death. +At night, when his mother went to her nursing jobs, a neighbor whose bedroom was directly below Mr. Harper-Mercer’s frequently heard him pacing until 3 or 4 in the morning, the neighbor said. +One hope for N.J.I.T. could come from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference , a league of historically black colleges and universities. +914-788-0100 ; hvcca.org. PURCHASE Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College An artist talk by Artie Vierkant. +In our neighborhood, we were the small family, at least among the Irish and Italians. +Michael Gbinije’s 21 points led Syracuse (7-3), which has lost three of four. +The Wall Street lawyer H. Rodgin Cohen hit a sour regulatory note this week. +Stars shine overhead, and rivers flow nearby in songs by Joan Shelley, who performed on Thursday night at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. +In a 107-100 loss to the Phoenix Suns — Cleveland’s sixth straight defeat and ninth in 10 games — James played so many roles it was as if he were channeling the actor Alan Cumming in his 2013 one-man Broadway show, “ Macbeth .” +“One Loop at a Time: June Myles ’s Hooked Rugs.” +“Companies,” the brief states, “need to know where the legal lines are drawn in order to structure their transactions for goods intended for eventual import into the United States.” Richard A. Posner , a federal appeals court judge and a prominent legal theorist, wrote the opinion in the Motorola case. +The Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would make California the first state to extend health coverage to children who are in the country illegally and seek federal authorization to sell private insurance to immigrants without documentation . +Secretary of State John Kerry met with European ministers over the weekend to discuss harsher economic sanctions against Russia because of the conflict in Ukraine. +Ten minutes later , however, tears dried, Jessie is prowling around in the cabin, having spontaneously fashioned a skirt and bolero for herself out of green leaves, like a sprite of nature. +A week after Russia began burning and burying Europe an food items like cheese and peaches deemed to have been imported illegally, Russian agricultural inspectors started torching flowers from the Netherlands that they said were insect ridden, in what has become known locally as the flower war. +Health departments in Alabama, Mississippi and New York have issued alerts this month about more spice users being rushed to hospitals experiencing extreme anxiety, violent behavior and delusions , with some of the cases resulting in death. +There is no shortage of distinguished women who would revitalize the role of secretary general and energize the organization’s ongoing efforts to promote gender equality. +The right-wing Sun , still Britain’s most popular newspaper, said in an editorial that “if there are possible votes in it, Miliband’s there — spouting off in a comical Mockney accent,” a fake Cockney accent, “about sticking it to the tax-dodging corporations.” +They would see him getting the mail or walking down the road to buy a soda at a market, but said he did not appear to have a job in Roseburg and stayed home most of the day. +“You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” +At the same time, Ms. Tempest also gives us more intimate portraits of these characters that are reminiscent of Joyce’s “Dubliners.” She provides glimpses of them at many points in their lives — in childhood, youth, middle age, and on the downward curve toward death; and struggling with love and loss and fear and pride. +To be sure that your freezer will work for controlling parasites, do not rely on the thermostat, but use a good freezer thermometer . +“I’m a big supporter of the university +A New York City police officer who arrested a man as he tried to film him and other officers with a cellphone camera was charged on Tuesday with official misconduct and lying on a criminal complaint. +The authority reviewed its standards after the request by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office last year. +Decker has visited more than 40 physicians throughout North America, searching to alleviate the daily pains that saturate her nerves and muscles. +As she was dying , Ms. Quick told her daughter that she had lied about the men’s involvement in the fire. +It is an old story, a crumbling marriage , but Ms. Pierpont gives it fresh insights, making the particular unhappiness (and occasional happiness) of the Shanleys by turns poignant, funny and very sad. +It’s typical of these shows: heavy on cats and dogs , but with a smattering of more exotic domesticated animals. +Today’s consumers deserve better care, and to provide it, directives need to be created, updated, accessible and incorporated into treatment . +This three-panel portrait of the Apple co-founder, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, portrays Jobs ( Michael Fassbender ) as a complicated, ambitious man caught in a tangle of messy personal and business relationships. +Nishikori trailed by 6-1 in the third-set tiebreaker before he saved five consecutive match points to level the score at 6-6, sending the resigned crowd into unlikely excitement. +“ New Jersey Institute of Technology is a top-flight academic institution,” said the league’s commissioner, Dennis Thomas. +But like Mr. Swanberg’s “Drinking Buddies” and “Happy Christmas,” the film has an appealing honesty and an enjoyably low-key comic style. +Boko Haram fighters crossed the Komadougou River separating Nigeria from Niger and attacked Bosso , a remote town that is a local seat of government with an open-air market that has been sheltering thousands of refugees from the conflict. +Mrs. Clinton is not the only Democrat struggling to settle on a strategy for responding to Mr. Trump’s campaign, the unpredictable Republican race and what Mr. Trump’s appeal says about the mood of the electorate. +He started the hunt last summer at open houses. +After the BBC was informed of what it initially called “a fracas,” Mr. Clarkson was suspended on March 10 and the last three episodes of this season of the popular “Top Gear” program were postponed. +As a panelist on a South Korean talk show that features female defectors like me, I heard other panelists complain privately that a few of the guests must have been embellishing their stories. +The United Nations World Food Program has some limited school feeding for Syrian refugee children, but it needs a big expansion in funding and support. +The Bronx led the city’s five boroughs in the largest percentage of new chain stores from 2014 to 2015, up to 944 from 914 . +Ms. Mizrahi-Rubel, 51, who is based in Paris, was trained in working with diamonds and precious colored stones by her grandfather, the well-known diamond specialist Marcel Rubel. +Videos have provided “corroboration of what African-Americans have been saying for years,” said Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University Law School and a former prosecutor, who called them “ the C-Span of the streets .” +We’re partial to Julia Moskin’s recipe for bacon fat gingersnaps on a Saturday afternoon, and to Kim Severson’s recipe for chewy chocolate snowcaps as well. +Harvey lost the first game, 7-2 , in humbling and conflicting fashion. +The Education Department says that the Heald College claims will be decided in November, because the government has made a clear finding of misconduct by the school. +We, members of the Top Level Group of U.K. Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation, believe that the agreement reached between the six world powers and Iran is a major step toward building stability and peace in the Middle East. +During a practice drill in 2010, Minnesota goalie Alyssa Grogan dived for a poke check, and a player fell and kneed her in the forehead while another landed on the back of her head. +Many analysts faulted Rousey for what they saw as fighting with overconfidence , engaging Holm with punches rather than focusing on going for a takedown. +As he tells it in his book “ Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom ,” something happened one evening: “Although my body was asleep, resting almost anesthetized on its back, not unlike a corpse, consciousness was lucid and clear, fully awake. +My administration, which will take office on May 29 , will act differently — indeed it is the very reason we have been elected. +According to one of the people familiar with confidential discussions about the circumstances of Ms. Chen’s departure, members of the board had been unsettled by a recent audit committee meeting in which Ms. Chen was unable to answer questions about the fund’s finances . +HOPE, Ark. — Mike Huckabee, who excited evangelical voters in his first presidential race in 2008 and retains much of their good will, announced on Tuesday that he would again seek the Republican nomination despite a crowded field of rivals for his natural base in the party. +All the dancers should be taught how to smile with their eyes more than with their mouths. +Visitors in the Chicago crowd didn’t get outright stench, but they did get a hands-on experience: Dr. Still and Mr. Pollak began passing around pieces of Spike’s spathe to the visitors. +Since its release in spring 2013, “Secret Garden” has sold more than 1.4 million copies in 22 languages. +Motley (1891-1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago, where he painted the cultural life of the city’s African-American neighborhood known as Bronzeville , portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context. +One set of attackers, believed to be based in Russia and Ukraine , collected about $16.5 million in Bitcoins in a little over a month, primarily from victims in the United States, according to the security firm Sophos. +Colleges have increasingly followed this practice by raising published prices and offering more financial aid based on a family’s resources. +its 11th straight win . +News of Mr. Bashir’s plan to participate in the United Nations development meeting , which takes place after the annual General Assembly, first emerged Aug. 3 when his name appeared on the provisional itinerary of speakers for Sept. 26. +The biggest question in voters’ minds about Mr. Huckabee, 59, who seemed to add a final punctuation mark to his political career by skipping the 2012 presidential race, may be why he has returned to the fray. +We must, of course, have better coordination with the military campaigns our African allies, like Chad and Niger , are waging in the struggle against Boko Haram. +Needles sits above one of those shallow bowls, a subterranean valley packed with porous gravel that is easily filled with water. +Sunday, we’ll laze around eating eggs-in-a-hole , have leftovers for lunch, then make baked beans for dinner (omit the pork if you like) and eat it with the New England chef Matt Jennings’s delightfully funky take on Boston brown bread. +Although Tatiana Ratmansky , who played the Queen and is the choreographer’s wife and production colleague, had a great moment on June 8 when the realization that her daughter was dead hit her like a visible body blow, no interpreter has made that mother’s anguish ring consistently true. +Madonna was perfectly turned out and running nearly an hour late for an interview at her Upper East Side home on Wednesday evening. +Fans repeatedly shouted, “ Keep your head up, Tiger! ” and “Keep fighting, Tiger!” +More than half of patients with dementia — and three-quarters of those from racial minorities — spend down, using savings to pay for the nursing home until nothing is left. +That is still about 10,000 short of the capacity at Citi Field , but this season’s increase of 4,689 fans a game represents a drastic shift from a dispiriting trend: Attendance had fallen almost 32 percent from a peak of 38,941 during the inaugural season of the ballpark six years ago. +We were eating dinner at Houseman, a restaurant opened by the chef Ned Baldwin on the once-quiet far-western side of SoHo, now called Hudson Square . +“We’ve learned the perils of not monitoring and policing warfare ” as rigorously as possible, and of too readily agreeing to government requests to withhold information. +And sending in tactical units to “destroy the gangs,” as the former Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy recently vowed, distracts from the structural problems that lead to gun violence in inner-city neighborhoods. +“He’s the same man every single day,” running back Rashad Jennings said. +Religions are at their worst when they muddle in sex, and question whom you can love . +Perhaps they served lunch in their expansive dining room to a gathering of friends that included James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Henry James, Edith Wharton and President Theodore Roosevelt . +An article on Tuesday about a decision by the airbag manufacturer Takata to continue using a chemical compound deemed dangerous by experts misstated the point at which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began receiving complaints about rupturing Takata airbags . +A New York City police officer who arrested a man as he tried to film him and other officers with a cellphone camera was charged on Tuesday with official misconduct and lying on a criminal complaint. +Decision Maker by Jonathan Chow is a similar, free Android app, although it’s not as attractive. +I’m wearing a dress I picked up in New York City a few days ago, on sale at this really great store I stumbled upon called & Other Stories . +Capt. Andrii Syurkalo , a Ukrainian officer, said it was commendable that the trainers were willing to use the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal as an element in a class on the Geneva Conventions. +He said her sister and brother were with her at the hospital. +But by declaring the preservation of his family life a key concern in taking on a job that is a seven-day-a-week venture — the sort of job he sought once before, in 2012, when he was the Republican vice-presidential nominee — Mr. Ryan, 45 , may be ushering in a new era for a position traditionally held by older congressmen who spent years rising through party ranks. +An ad on the F train has an image of a movie poster depicting the face of a woman in the throes of ecstasy next to the caption, “The heart wants, the flesh takes.” +Students like Ms. Lopez are one reason that Irvine’s student body includes more students with Pell grants than all eight colleges of the Ivy League combined. +We could almost field a full baseball team. +Many interpretations of Islam , regarding women, are an abomination. +Arthur Wilson, a builder developing five homes (all presold) with geothermal and solar panels in Middle Island on Long Island, has had his own issues with lenders. +But first I will have to speak with his high school basketball coach. +Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder took 28 shots, scored 41 points and won the Most Valuable Player Award. +Mr. Singhal and his group are trying to get ahead of all this with a combination of offense and defense. +The legislation is based on the idea, rejected by mainstream medical groups, that a fetus feels pain then. +The run-up to the vote also amounted to a low point for Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the opposition Labour Party . +“Today’s action underscores our resolve to maintain pressure on Russia for violating international law and fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine ,” said John E. Smith, the acting director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department. +Moderne An organic and natural modern approach to furniture is on view at Moderne Gallery of Philadelphia , which is showing a sofa designed in 1968 by Wharton Esherick, a leading midcentury craftsman. +The story of a transgender pioneer, Lili Elbe, becomes a tasteful, sensitive and somewhat inert costume drama in the hands of Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech.”) +Mr. Faulkner is a social conservative who has opposed abortion rights and same-sex marriage . +The deal is expected to close by Oct. 31 , pending approval by regulators and Aruba’s shareholders. +Since then, the Obama administration has worked to ease the burdens on same-sex couples in the military . +Fewer than one in 50 students reported smoking cigarettes. +Tariq, who was 15 at the time, was spending the summer with relatives in East Jerusalem when violence broke out over the gruesome killing of his cousin Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, by Jewish extremists who said they wanted to avenge the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths by Palestinian militants in the West Bank. +The 26-year-old Chinese model Fei Fei Sun has, over the last five years, established herself as a well-known name in the industry. +In addition, the company recently announced that in certain cases it would also use information contained within apps as a ranking factor for mobile searches performed on phones that run its Android software. +And now, with Republicans nearly three times as likely as Democrats to describe themselves as angry with the federal government, according to a recent Pew Research Center study, Jeb Bush may need to get more comfortable — and quickly — with personally going on the attack and channeling a sense of passionate outrage. +Unlike his father , who said on television that he had no idea Mr. Harper-Mercer cared so deeply about guns, his mother was well aware of his fascination. +Wawrinka said he believed his play was even better than it was here last year, when he beat Djokovic and Rafael Nadal en route to his first major title. +In their 14-month -old whitewashed space on the second floor of a French Colonial-era apartment building, the Parisians Christine Gleizes and Regis Bastide curate an array of items based on Ms. Gleizes’s travels. +In the 1920s it slipped from fashion, then plunged after World War II as low-cost high-rises were developed in the area. +In addition to the charter network and the school, the suit also named the New York City Department of Education and the New York State Education Department, asserting they failed to make Achievement First, a network with schools in Connecticut and Rhode Island as well as in New York City, live up to its responsibilities. +Mr. Mutmaeen said that the Taliban had agreed on the list of those attending the Pugwash Conference , but overruled some, such as the High Peace Council’s secretary general, Masoom Stanikzai, if they seemed too obviously representative of the government. +Nick Adams , the director of programs for transgender media at the gay rights organization Glaad, said that any time a transgender celebrity comes forward with his or her story, “it goes a very long way toward educating people about who we are and the challenges that we face.” +The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. +EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who lost his right index finger in a Fourth of July fireworks accident, did not report for the first day of training camp Thursday, and the team co-owner John Mara said the Giants had no information on the condition of Pierre-Paul, their best defensive player. +To the Editor: Re “Special Visas Help Copycats Take U.S. Jobs” (front page, Sept. 30): American companies like Toys “R” Us are using the H-1B temporary visa program to take high-paying American jobs offshore in the name of growth and corporate resiliency. +Indeed, the board wrote that its decision applied only to the Northwestern case — there was no precedent established for graduate teaching assistants or student janitors — and left open the possibility that it could re-examine the issue if college athletes brought a similar case in the future. +That’s disappointing not only because it reduces people’s faith in science as a whole, but also because it may have cost some people better health, or potentially even their lives. +The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described “facilitator,” a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti . +Edmonton is expected to select McDavid first at the draft on June 26 at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla. +Mara said that various Giants officials had contacted Pierre-Paul since the accident, including Coach Tom Coughlin, who said on Thursday that his text to Pierre-Paul immediately after the accident went unanswered. +(The movie was shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco .) +The wood might become ill and die, or the fairies might skip the wood altogether and leave a fairy-baby instead, carting the little human off for other purposes. +Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Fridays , 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and by appointment. +BRAC, however, does not apply to the more than 700 United States bases overseas, including 174 in Germany, 113 in Japan and 83 in South Korea, as well as hundreds more in some 70 countries from Aruba to Kenya to Thailand. +While “Osaka Elegy” and “Sisters of the Gion,” the two Mizoguchi pictures of this period that have been most widely seen in the West, were relatively brisk features, “Chrysanthemum,” at nearly two and a half hours, shows the director working in an expansive mode, one that would flower even more fully with his postwar masterpieces such as “The Life of Oharu,” “Ugetsu” and “Sansho the Bailiff.” +Dinner will be particularly fun for wine lovers because Mr. Ahn has compiled an overachieving list of German rieslings, Burgundies in both colors, grower Champagnes and more far-flung treats. 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China, many of the millions of middle-class investors have been asking why the party and the government talked up the market in the months leading up to the recent plunge, and then bumbled in their efforts to prevent the rout . +Mr. Weisberg’s firm did not pay the ransom and repelled the bombardment of traffic with the help of one of its technical providers . +But the proliferation of ransom demands has provided an unhappy reminder of the virtual currency’s continuing appeal to the criminal underworld , long after the authorities shut down the online drug bazaar, Silk Road, where heroin and cocaine were sold using Bitcoin. +The response of the large crowd grew warmer during the match, but that was short-lived — not because Kyrgios again set off controversy but because his opponent Tuesday, 12th-seeded Richard Gasquet , completed a 6-2, 6-1 victory in just 56 minutes. +Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. +The judge noted Ms. Santana had come forward only this year after reading news 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His accomplishment created another link with his Dodger predecessor, and when Kershaw spoke to reporters after Sunday’s game he did not try to diminish what he had achieved by getting to 300. +And even if you can agree that a player should basically be considered a New York City athlete if he went to high school in one of the five boroughs, is there anything else that traditionally sets apart a New York City basketball player? +Ms. Enger built a clean-lined limestone mantel for a spec house in Hoboken that she and her husband sold last May, she said, and it became one of the home’s most talked-about selling features. +Richard A. 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Crowe , presented by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. +Several people had tears in their eyes as they wondered what they would do without people who knew their order before they opened their mouths. +Yet in the last 13 minutes, Neuer was beaten twice. +With the simplicity of a fable and the drama of a psychological thriller, Ball tells a story about starting over from nothing, reconstructing life from its most basic elements. +If there were a manual for transporting wolverines, Rule No. 1 would probably go something like this: Make sure the wolverine cannot get out of the cage. At Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, it became clear that this precaution had not been taken. +But again, the Christian idea is that God asks the seemingly impossible of all of us — and, fortunately forgives us when we fail. +Major publishers are seizing on the trend. +Zaro’s was not offered the opportunity to renew its lease, said Stuart Zaro, a co-president of the company and a grandson of its founder, Joseph Zaro . +The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described “facilitator,” a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti. +The 32-24 victory against the Sharks, from South Africa, in Wellington on Saturday night was a case in point. +Perhaps they served lunch in their expansive dining room to a gathering of friends that included James McNeill Whistler , Mary Cassatt, Henry James, Edith Wharton and President Theodore Roosevelt. +Health departments in Alabama, Mississippi and New York have issued alerts this month about more spice users being rushed to hospitals experiencing extreme anxiety, violent behavior and delusions, with some of the cases resulting in death. +And Jordan’s rate for the 1993 finals alone, 38.9, lags behind James’s 44.0 . +Mr. Reed is creating a work for Mr. Blum’s West 57th Street gallery — seven adjacent Technicolor canvases making a 42-foot-long horizontal piece that appears to extend through a wall and into Mr. Blum’s office. +Republicans showing the greatest political momentum in the poll were the three outsiders: Mr. Trump, who drew strong support from self-described moderates, people with family incomes of $50,000 or less, and those without a college degree; Mr. Carson, who edged out Mr. Trump among conservatives and wealthier voters and was much stronger among college graduates; and Carly Fiorina, a former business executive who had support from 4 percent of Republicans, an improvement over her trace amount in August. +“We were looking for excitement and adventure ,” he said. +But he and two younger men whom he had mentored, Henry R. 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Verrilli Jr. , the Obama administration’s top appellate lawyer, who urged the justices to strike down the law, began his argument with a vivid image. +Chime’s sitters in New York cost $17 an hour for one child and an extra dollar an hour for each additional child (the company keeps 10 percent of every transaction), and the app’s automatic payment feature can help ease the awkwardness of settling up at the end of the night. +The Japanese ambassador, Hirosi Saito , who was planning to meet with the United States secretary of state “to take whatever action was possible to remedy the situation,” went on to explain that “while he fully comprehended that in this country, where caricatures of the highest public officials are every day fare in the press, no slight to the person of the Emperor was necessarily intended, yet in Japan a representation of the Emperor as engaged in the menial task of pulling a cart could not be understood or taken lightly.” +In the last 15 months, Uber and Lyft have 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years before co-founding ReCode, wrote a 1,400-word column on how Mr. Sorkin “chose to cherry-pick and exaggerate some of the worst aspects of Jobs’ character,” proclaiming over and over that the Steve Jobs portrayed in the film “isn’t the man I knew.” +When mastodons and other large mammals became extinct 10,000 years ago, squash and gourds could have, too, said Logan Kistler , a molecular anthropologist at the University of Warwick in England and one of the study’s authors. +It now represents 12 to 15 percent of the country’s G.D.P., up from 6.3 percent in 2004. +The superintendent at Clinton, two senior members of his staff and nine correction officers were also placed on administrative leave, according to prison agency officials, who said the superintendent was expected to retire at the end of July. +He missed nearly six months to recover from back surgery and in recent weeks was slowed by influenza. +The overloaded ferry Sewol capsized off the southwestern tip of South Korea last 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Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine , joined 45 Democrats in opposition. +Still, smartphones have presented a more efficient way to organize commuters based on where they live and work. +“ Black Rage,” published by Basic Books in 1968, laid out in unsparing terms the psychic tightrope that black Americans walked, their self-image, family structures and worldview distorted by the weight of white oppression. +This is visible in nine paintings (oil on paper on board) executed in preparation for a 50-foot-tall mural for a campanile in Chimbote , a port city in Peru, as part of a renewal project by the architect Josep Lluís Sert and the urban planner Paul Lester Wiener. +In a conference call with investors, Mr. Boire underscored this point by singling out coloring books and strong sales of Adele’s new album “ 25 ” among the company’s recent successes. +Stein, a modernist American writer who presided over one of the great avant-garde salons of all time in early-20th-century Paris , has rarely been anyone’s idea of light entertainment. +As talented as Gibbs was, his work was perhaps not destined to last. +This year, T brought her somewhere very different: to rural America , for an exploration of American sportswear. +He had run a Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, and then helped to lead a terror cell in Nairobi, Kenya +ABC broadcast a special on the book called “To Be Black.” +He added that Mr. Silver’s delegation of his responsibilities “will give him the flexibility he needs so that he can defend himself against these charges , and he is confident that he will be found innocent.” +For days after the June prison break, corrections officers carried out what seemed like a campaign of retribution against dozens of Clinton inmates, particularly those on the honor block, an investigation by The New York Times found. +The new commissioner, Rob Manfred, is emphatically in favor of keeping the link between the sport’s so-called jewel events . +Mr. Watkins, a tourist from Utah visiting New York for the United States Open , was stabbed in the chest on Sept. 3, 1990, in a struggle with at least six young men who had tried to rob his family inside the Seventh Avenue subway station at 53rd Street. +“I had to tell him five times , because he didn’t believe me,” Mr. Boehner said. +“If you hit it well, you should get rewarded for it,” said the Vanderbilt junior shortstop Dansby Swanson , the most outstanding player at last year’s Series and the first overall pick in the major league amateur draft, by Arizona. +After the United Nations came out with its damning report in February 2014, Pyongyang’s propaganda officials circulated a video featuring wild accusations against Mr. Shin . +Amtrak was created in 1971 to bring together struggling rail lines, and officials have pushed for it to become financially self-sufficient so that it no longer needs federal subsidies. +As an incentive, the developers would receive highly generous tax breaks for new construction after the Games. +Many of the army and police commanders who were in Kunduz maintain factional loyalties that at times have been at odds with the central government. +The office of the United States attorney in Manhattan announced on Thursday that it was joining the investigation into the death of Samuel Harrell , a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., who inmate witnesses say was handcuffed and beaten severely this year by a group of corrections officers. +THE NUN’S STORY ( 1959 ) “The Nun’s Story” was nominated for eight Academy Awards. +Before a screening in New Delhi on Friday, Women in the World, a live-event series associated with The Times, hosted a discussion on the global refugee and migrant crisis moderated by the actress Cate Blanchett and featuring the photojournalist and frequent Times Magazine contributor Lynsey Addario among its guests. +In addition, the bank said it aimed to cut costs by 3.5 billion euros, or about $3.8 billion , a year. +I visited the Foreign Ministry at the Quai d’Orsay — bristling with emergency meetings on terrorism — to check on the status of French-American relations. +Since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane that it said had violated its airspace, Mr. Putin has engaged in a war of words with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and ordered a number of retaliatory measures. +Eskisehir (pronounced Es-ki-SHARE) itself has a large sugar refinery, using sugar beets from nearby fields as its raw material; the city exports about $30 million worth of cookies, cakes , crackers and other foods to Russia, according to the local chamber of commerce. +860-297-2463 ; cinestudio.org. +From its opening moments, “ People Places Things ” seems at odds with itself. +At the same time he made the Republican side of the aisle react like a bunch of sixth graders cheering for Justin Bieber, since the net effect of the speech was to diminish the efforts by the administration to suppress Iran’s hunger for nuclear capacity and make President Obama look weak. +Crunch the numbers, and about 25 percent of all freshwater consumed every year in the United States is associated with discarded food. +By this point, a year and a half after her amnestic M.C.I. diagnosis, she had progressed to what Duffy said was Alzheimer’s disease. +The rain led to a 21-minute delay from the scheduled start time of 1:10 p.m. Even after the Mets recorded the first three outs of the day, bringing about an early seventh-inning stretch, patrons were still trickling in, a mix of fans taking advantage of the opportunity to watch 11-plus innings of baseball and others anticipating the debut of Steven Matz in the second game. +The decor includes photographs by Diane Arbus and Emmet Gowin, both important figures for Mann; 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Nicholas Salimbene , an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. +The Shabab , a militant Islamist group that routinely strikes government and business sites here in the capital, claimed responsibility for the attack, which also left at least 13 people wounded, Somali officials said. +Once she and Randy arrive in Vienna , the paperwork concerning the painting’s history is withheld from them. +“I couldn’t believe what I had read,” Dr. Schatz, who died on April 1, wrote in an email in 2013 to Civil Beat, an online newsletter in Hawaii , where he had moved to teach. +Women’s hockey is a growing sport, evolving through quicker and stronger players who are finally being rewarded for their talents as paid professional athletes. +“The Bronx has been our home since 1927 — a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away +Proposed university overhauls, widely disliked by voters, stalled in Parliament, and a paid parental leave plan and a co-payment for visits to the doctor covered by Australia’s Medicare system were either amended or dropped by the government, which could not negotiate the passage of the legislation. +This must begin with honesty as to whether the Chibok girls can be rescued. +They also say the deadly confrontation, in which officers approached with their guns drawn and screaming profanities , evolved from an absurd sting effort to trap his date into selling a tiny amount of marijuana, a drug now decriminalized in much of the country. +He later was driven to a Home Depot parking lot near the hospital, he said, where he tried to rest but instead vomited. +But in a daring interim chapter called “That Year and Those That Followed,” Ms. Pierpont widens her lens, temporarily abandoning her pointillistic moment-by-moment descriptions for a panoramic shot that sweeps years into paragraphs, projecting far out into the Shanleys’ future. +His story was buttressed by the testimony of Luis Montero , who testified he recalled Mr. Hincapie’s being with him at the turnstiles just before the commotion erupted on the platform below. +Boston 2024 held a briefing for boosters and the news media Monday morning at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center . +The Complete Studio Ghibli (through Dec. 31) IFC Center’s retrospective of the complete works of Studio Ghibli, the beloved Japanese animation house, varies from the wistful and pleasant, like Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro,” to the crushingly sad, like Isao Takahata’s “Grave of the Fireflies,” about childhood alienation, set in Kobe at the end of World War II.) +This floating house is on Lake Union , a freshwater lake in the middle of Seattle. +“I am perfectly happy with what I have here, and every item has a meaning for me,” said Dr. García, who wrote an essay about editing his life in preparation for his move. +Tensions have risen over the migrant crisis among the Balkan countries that once made up Yugoslavia. +“So aggressive were the fans in their efforts to reach the ball players,” The New York Times wrote, “that the police and station guards had to escort several of the team to side exits to avoid accidental injury to the already crippled squad.” +That strategy, he said, is matching the quality of premium cable on basic cable, and becoming a home for the industry’s best writers and showrunners. +In Budapest last June, Kent Sublette , a veteran of “Saturday Night Live,” and Katie Dippold, the screenwriter for “The Heat” and now co-writer of the new “Ghostbusters,” watched the action and scribbled jokes on sticky notes, which were handed to Mr. Feig, who also shouted extra one-liners to his cast. +Over the next two years, along with the landlord of its flagship location at 534 West 25th Street, the gallery will oversee the construction of an eight-story building, at 540 West 25th Street, that will give it 30,000 more square feet for shows , for staff now working at offices on East 57th Street and for visible storage of art in transit through the gallery, an idea that has been growing in the museum world but that will be a novelty in a commercial gallery. +Asked what his primary message was to Pierre-Paul, Mara said, “ Come home; we miss you. ” +The 2012 version of presidential super PACs mainly paid for ads . +And Facebook is ready to tap these intensifying political passions as a revenue stream. +Shooting images for the print magazine component of “The Displaced,” Addario accompanied Hana Abdullah, a 12-year-old Syrian girl now living in a refugee settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, for 21 hours a day, documenting her daily life . +If he is worried about the state of his game, Woods hid it behind his actor’s mask. +Then Henry S. Schleiff arrived in 2009 as group president of Investigation Discovery and a roster of other networks, bearing the ideal credentials for proceeding with a crime network. +The museum will open early, at 9:30 , with a daylong pi scavenger hunt. +Six of the seven jurors wanted Thomas held financially responsible. +The N.D.S. arrested a number of men in the crowd, including the butcher believed to have stabbed the soldier, said Mr. Khan and other witnesses. +“There’s no reason we shouldn’t be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse,” he said, in his big 2009 address to Congress, urging passage of the bill. +Afghan women’s groups have long complained that they had been bypassed in previous attempts to open talks with the Taliban, and noted that they would have the most to lose if repressive Taliban-era restrictions on women’s public roles were to return. +Not his Cavaliers, mind you, but the Ohio State Buckeyes . +But the movie tanked at the box office, earning about $18 million in the seven weeks after its Oct. 9 release. +The film is touching and small, but also thoughtful and assured in a way that lingers after the inevitable tears have been shed and the obvious lessons learned . +Now it is set to offer video games, shopping and travel tools through an expanded array of apps . +That takes money, which nobody will invest without a patent . +“ They say new things in the negotiations,” Ayatollah Khamenei told the military graduates. +It also recently held a national Mini Maker Faire promoting technology literacy at its stores, with coding and 3-D printing workshops . +Some areas that Mr. Dostum passed through and declared clear of Taliban, like Mir Shadi in Almar district , fell only days later to the militants, who set dozens of homes on fire, local officials said. +“There’s an important distinction to make,” said Mr. Lewis, best known for playing Nicholas Brody in the series “ Homeland .” +If you’re aiming for all-out luxury, you might consider installing a custom stone surround. +(Saturday’s events: panel discussion, 1 p.m., and screening, 2 p.m. , at 144 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, and a performance at 7:30 p.m., Damrosch Park; lcoutofdoors.org.) +A three-part series called “Operation Wild,” which began on Wednesday on PBS, brings us stirring stories of veterinary teams around the globe engaged in unusual high-tech efforts to save sick or injured wild animals. +It has been called the world’s most popular fact-based program, and it earns millions for the BBC and for Mr. Clarkson himself. +In certain situations, early spending on someone’s health will stop an expensive disease in its tracks , reducing future spending. +“Pigeon” takes another step away from reality with bewildering jumps between periods in Swedish history : One episode has the country’s 18th-century king riding into a modern bar to find a toilet. +Mr. Chávez wove the tunes of folk songs like “ La Cucaracha ” through a modernist idiom in a work for solo piano, and altered a traditional song chromatically in his Sonatina for Violin and Piano. +The service was pleasant but sloppy , and the pricey menu, while dotted with winners, also had a fair share of disappointments. +While it did not result in a formal policy change, officials have worked with advertisers to “come up with a compelling advertising message in a somewhat less explicit way,” Adam Lisberg, a spokesman for the agency , said, adding a comment over the cleavage controversy The News brought about. +a principled position based on my faith. +Still, to have any shot, James, who had 40 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists in the Cavaliers ’ 96-91 win Tuesday night, will do well to keep to Brown’s blueprint. +A native of Needham, Mass. , who played college hockey at Princeton, Condon started his journey to the Canadiens by trying out for an E.C.H.L. team during his spring break in 2013. +An article on Wednesday about a vote by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to change its definition of marriage to include same-sex marriage misstated the membership of the United Methodist Church. +William A. Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has lost 9.4 percent so far this year, while Marcato International, a hedge fund run by Mick McGuire, a protégé of Mr. Ackman, has lost 11.6 percent . +Our lawsuit says that the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance of Internet traffic on American soil — often called “upstream” surveillance — violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects the right to privacy , as well as the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of expression and association. +In the summer of 1989 , a 9-year-old named Ted (Jared Breeze) is living with his father (David Morse) in a crumbling resort in the American West and collecting roadkill, whose demise he arranges for by depositing garbage on the highway. +The opening episode included the stories of an elephant in Laos that had been shot in the leg, a gorilla at a wildlife sanctuary in Cameroon with a damaged wrist, and an annual kite-flying festival in India that leaves hundreds of birds injured by the kite strings. +The Labour Party dismissed Mr. Cameron’s pledge as a “last-minute gimmick,” and said that the Conservatives had a “secret plan” to cut tax credits for families and raise the value-added tax. +Deutsche Bank was particularly vulnerable because of its large exposure to businesses that can be lucrative in good times but toxic in bad, like derivatives contracts . +“Many of the motions raise important and novel legal questions that often require review by trial and appellate courts ,” Mr. Lowell said. +His success underlines the extent to which European political structures have been destabilized by the aftershocks of the financial crisis in 2008 , with voters increasingly attracted away from the political center ground, either to the socialist left or the nationalist right. +He was coming from a 5,400-square-foot five-bedroom house, and every one-bedroom he saw seemed small . +A friend of mine inherited a ­Bavarian coffee set from her maternal great-­grandmother, a woman who fled Europe in the late 1930s , carrying little more than the purpose-built, velvet-lined case that still holds it. +It’s extremely feminist — to such an extreme that I think only a male writer could have gotten away with it.” +The idea of a super PAC created to support an individual candidate was little more than an experiment four years ago when strategists for Mitt Romney tested its potential after misguided court decisions shattered federal limits on spending on elections. +Beckham ’s actions may have been motivated, in part, by frustration with Norman’s smothering defense and his own failings. +Public School 321 , a well-regarded elementary school on Seventh Avenue, is a major attraction. +On Nov. 7, 2010, Hamada Ben-Amor, a young rapper in Tunisia known as “ El Général ,” released a song criticizing the government of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. +By the time Mr. Kohlberg retired from the sector altogether in 1994, the leveraged-buyout business — since renamed “private equity” — was on its path to becoming immense, eventually making billionaires of Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts, as well as rivals like Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group and David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group. +In August, the Food and Drug Administration approved Sprout’s Addyi, often referred to as the “ little pink pill, ” after rejecting it in 2010 and in 2013 on concerns about side effects and limited effectiveness. +In “Electric Ursa,” the title song of her current album ( No Quarter Records ), Ms. Shelley sang, “Under your stars, your earthless movement/We are only feeble humans.” +Years later, he and Tim Rice recorded the original 1970 concept album for “Jesus Christ Superstar” — hailed, in its own time, as revolutionary and denounced as sacrilegious — at London’s Olympic Studios, next door to Led Zeppelin. +Reims was a road race , and you could imagine the Germans coming over in tanks but it was race cars going in the other direction. +Heading into 2016, he said, the company will seek to extend the lifestyle sections on each of its sites, promote product recommendations — a growing source of revenue for Gawker Media, which takes a percentage of sales that come through its sites — and expand its video offerings and live events. +The composer and lyricist behind “Guys and Dolls” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” Loesser also wrote a famous tune that could be an anthem for this winter: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Singalongs and interactive games are part of the fun. +Using a new critical edition by the scholars William Ashbrook and Roger Parker that excises all the French accretions, Ms. Clément’s production tries to tease out these gray areas . +Darren Sproles returned a punt 83 yards for the Eagles’ second special-teams touchdown, giving Philadelphia a 21-point lead, but New England came charging back, with Tom Brady throwing for a score and then, after an onside kick, running the ball in from the 1 to cut the gap to 7 points with three minutes left. +Prosecutors presenting evidence against two motorcyclists accused of taking part in a gang assault on a young family have put a larger phenomenon on trial: wild motorcycle tours, organized on the Internet, that occasionally rip through New York City, with riders snarling traffic, doing stunts, running red lights and generally creating a nuisance. +For decades, it has been one of the 20 biggest killers worldwide, but the World Health Organization issued its first report dedicated to drowning only in November 2014. Effective prevention strategies include teaching swimming, providing life jackets, fencing off open water and training emergency medical responders. +HBO series like “The Comeback” and “Girls” have fleshed-out character arcs, and the fourth season of “ Arrested Development ,” released online all at once by Netflix, featured complex plotting with shifts of perspective that would have been hard to imagine a decade ago. +While it is necessary for girls to have an environment in which they can feel comfortable and progress at their own rate, Heinrichs said, she sees an unintended consequence of Title IX: Fewer top-level girls seem to be honing their skills against boys today than when she and Hamm and Wambach developed into elite players. +The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described “ facilitator, ” a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti. +While officials said that case was ultimately closed and Mr. Yadav was acquitted , the fallout around the episode raised questions about Uber’s security screening process for drivers. +And as the mayor seeks to assure residents that New York remains “the safest big city in America, ” citing a drop so far this year in overall crime, the number of recorded stops has also continued to fall sharply. +In retrospect, that looks defensible — today, every computer, tablet and smartphone ship with built-in browsers, because everyone believes they are an important aspect of the user experience of computers. +Minnesota Coach John Anderson , who pushed for the new standard while serving on the N.C.A.A. Division I baseball committee, wished it had had more time to study its effects before the stadium opened. +But if Mr. Boehner was counting on his No. 2 to replace him, he did not give Mr. McCarthy much warning, telling him about his plans to retire only two minutes before giving the news to the entire House Republican conference . +Reached for comment, a United States military official said that Afghan police officials had not formally approached the American military command to discuss expanding the Afghan Local Police forces, which the official described as “important.” +It alleged he raped a 13-year-old girl and featured an interview with his father in North Korea who said they had never lived in a “so-called political prison camp.” +The commissioners of 31 of the largest conferences issued a statement calling the N.L.R.B. decision “the right call,” and Donald Remy , the N.C.A.A.’s chief legal officer, said it would allow the association “to continue to make progress for the college athlete without risking the instability to college sports that the N.L.R.B. recognized might occur under the labor petition.” +There’s not one right answer, but I want to see that there is a reason . +Theresa Ruth Howard , a teacher and former member of Dance Theater of Harlem who wrote a much-talked-about piece for the website My Body My Image focusing on the many black ballerinas that preceded Ms. Copeland, can’t help but view diversity initiatives with some skepticism. +There are now millions more people who want water , but there is far less of it. +At Hollins, she reprinted the glass plates of Michael Miley , Robert E. Lee’s main portrait photographer, and further immersed herself in the technology of the 19th century. +If the President Obama he finds is the same Obama who spoke in Turkey on Monday, the French president will be disappointed. +On “Broad City,” at 10:30, after realizing that they spend too much time with electronics, Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) and Ilana (Ilana Glazer) decide to unplug and spend a day in the park, where they get involved with a wedding for dogs , in-line skating and a medical emergency. +Since 2006, there has been an average of 2,261 rail crossing accidents a year and an average of 273 deaths a year. +Ms. Basford has become something of a literary celebrity in South Korea , where “Secret Garden” has sold more than 430,000 copies, she says. +READING I am finishing “Dead Wake,” by Erik Larson, about the sinking of the Lusitania . +Panagiotis Tsianakas, another German of Greek descent, headed to a central square to hear a speech by a Syriza representative, Giorgos Chondros . +De Waal juxtaposes Cookworthy’s small-time ­efforts to fire the stuff with the enterprises of Josiah Wedgwood, the potentate of English pottery, who sent a factotum all the way to a mountain in the Cherokee Nation in the Carolinas to retrieve five tons of white clay. +And 10 members of an inmate council at Clinton signed a letter last month to state corrections officials making similar allegations. +Much of the buildup to the game against the Panthers centered on how Beckham, who has scored 25 touchdowns in 26 career N.F.L. games, would fare against Norman, Carolina’s top cornerback, who earlier this year limited the production of the top receiver on several other teams. +“We’re in a critical condition right now,” said Mario Santoyo, a board member and technical adviser for the California Latino Water Coalition, as he stood on the deck of a motorboat in the middle of Millerton Lake, built in 1942 . +The data also caused the dollar to rise sharply against its major currency counterparts . +Capt. Nicholas Salimbene , an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. +But the rapidly shifting film school landscape has led to what a business professor might refer to as marketplace confusion. +that a diamond is not man-made . +Since Lebanon’s own civil war that ended in 1990 , a constellation of mostly sectarian political parties have tried to govern the country through consensus — a commodity often in short supply. +The East German reporters, hoping to get a similar reaction, peppered him with questions about race relations upon his arrival. +Holly Holm , ranked just eighth in their weight class and underwhelming in her two previous Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts, knocked Rousey out in the second round. +The Pew survey, which was conducted this summer among a sample of about 2,000 adults, found that young men play games far more than other groups, with 77 percent of 18- to 29-year-old men saying they play, and 57 percent of young women. +In the first two weeks of training, the Americans found the Ukrainians’ soldierly skills lacking , and the group generally in need of instruction. +I feel like being a teenager or young adult, the pressure to try and make people see you’re the best is really high.” +In July 2013, Mr. Putin sat next to Mr. Medvedchuk at an event the group held in Kiev and gave a speech about the deep historical ties between Russia and Ukraine , including “the common spiritual values that make us a single people.” +The track was only about 10 meters, or 35 feet, across; the pits on the main straight were part of the track itself, not separated by a pitlane; and, facing the pits, the spectators sat on benches and bleachers , and some even made their own viewing perches, standing on trestle tables they had set up trackside. +There are, for example, two versions of the Lilac Fairy’s solo variation in the Prologue — both notated from the original St. Petersburg production. +MOUNT KISCO Mount Kisco Public Library “Hudson River Moods,” landscape paintings by June Farnham . +Police departments around the country have been moving with unusual speed to equip officers with body cameras to film their often edgy encounters with the public. +FRONT PAGE Because of an editing error, an article on Nov. 29 about the Islamic State’s control of the Libyan city of Surt, which Western agencies say may give it a fallback option in case it is ousted from its territories in Iraq and Syria, misstated the location of the city of Darnah, close to where Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi leader of the Islamic State , was killed by an American airstrike in November. +Most people search and read Wikipedia anonymously, since you don’t need an account to view its tens of millions of articles in hundreds of languages. +“There is no scientific basis — not one shred of evidence — that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,” said Dr. Paul Chodas , manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object office in Pasadena, Calif. +In the first two weeks of training, the Americans found the Ukrainians’ soldierly skills lacking , and the group generally in need of instruction. +Each of the three programs offers a different configuration of artists, who include Goblin Party, Ju Bin Kim, Youn Puluem, Won Kim, Moonsuk Choi, Suksoon Jung, Moon Ei Lee and Eun-Me Ahn. +Xavier Abu Eid of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Mr. Abbas also heads, said in an email that the couple was in “an awful situation that reflects the nightmare that thousands of Palestinian families have due to Israeli apartheid policies,” which “have been dramatically radicalized in the last few years.” +Your claim that the negotiations place tough constraints on Iran rings hollow, based on the permissibility of Iran’s keeping its nuclear installations and the large number of centrifuges still allowed. +What You’ll Pay In the third quarter of 2015, the median sales price of a condo in Clinton Hill was $849,000 , an increase of 28 percent from the same period last year, according to Gregory J. Heym, the chief economist at Terra Holdings, who said the small size of the market can cause data fluctuations. +We trust also that they appreciate that these views are shared by a majority of the United States’ most loyal allies, including the members of the European Union and the European members of NATO . +“Rejection of immigration, this is what it is has been for more than 40 years,” Laurent Bouvet , a political scientist who specializes in the National Front, said in an interview. +• Oregon ’s medicinal marijuana shops began sales to recreational users today. +Afterward, insurgents, including members of the Nusra Front, which is affiliated with Al Qaeda, captured the gutted hospital , completing their takeover of the town of Jisr al-Shoughour, a crucial location on the road from the mostly insurgent-held province of Idlib toward the government’s strongholds on the coast. +Their main pitch: The overhauled plan, updated from a widely panned version first offered in January, would generate millions of dollars in new tax revenue, create tens of thousands of new jobs and produce thousands of new housing units, parks and other neighborhood amenities that would provide a lasting legacy. +One of the workers, a Yemeni man, was later released, but the second, a Tunisian woman , was still being held, the group said in a statement. +The exhibition comprises three sections: letters and artwork from the early years of the friendships; illustrations by Picasso that accompany Ramón’s literary works, including newspaper and magazine articles; and the renewed friendship with the Reventós family, beginning in the 1950s. +One was Representative Sam Young, Democrat of Glover, a town in northeastern Vermont near the Canadian border . +Protests followed that night, leading to looting and arson that left Ferguson’s downtown devastated. +So it was that Mr. Heastie, the recently elected speaker of the New York State Assembly, was at a blood drive here in suburban Syracuse on Tuesday , gamely donating a pint in front of a group of somewhat perplexed phlebotomists and schedule-obsessed aides. +She got her first job working for free for a county attorney, and she was very high in her class at Stanford . +And Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky , the majority leader, believes they have been pretty good at it — particularly when measured against the vicious stalemate of the previous four years. +But Mr. Stubb of Finland , which also uses the euro, said he was happy to let Ms. Merkel and Mr. Hollande face down Mr. Tsipras late into the night, noting that “there is always a lot of mayhem around these meetings.” +“There are creeping worries that inflation, which was seen as nonexistent, will soon be part of landscape,” said Mark D. Luschini, chief investment strategist for Janney Montgomery Scott. “There is data suggesting the Federal Reserve will not be in a hurry to raise rates, but people are worried.” +The prosecutor also suggested that Mr. Tsarnaev could eventually be transferred to a less secure facility, but under defense questioning, Mr. Bezy batted away that notion: Mr. Tsarnaev would not be transferred, he said, because other inmates “would want to do him great bodily harm.” At the ADX, he would be in solitary confinement 23 hours a day. +Would it be absolutely cynical to say the Senate responded to what appears to be a terrorist mass shooting by declining to ban the sale of guns to people on the terrorist watch list? +Deba’s 2:19:59 last year was 62 seconds behind Jeptoo’s course record and also beat the old mark. +Thomas Buschatzke, the director of Arizona’s Department of Water Resources, acknowledged that pumping from wells could dry up streams , but said the current law kept the two resources 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Mohammad, a cardiologist and father of four from Dara’a, Syria, who received refugee status in Germany in February. +In surrounding Kerman Province, 1,455 of 2,064 village reservoirs have dropped below levels needed to sustain the population, according to the local water management agency. +According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2014 the median worker with a bachelor’s degree (and no advanced degree) earned $69,260, compared with $34,540 for the median worker with only a high school diploma. +More accolades flowed on social media , as people posted images from their coloring books. +It was 14-14 at halftime, then 24-14 in favor of Seattle in the fourth quarter, and then it really got good: Brady and New England rallied to score two touchdowns and take a 28-24 lead, only to see Seattle and the quarterback Russell Wilson move the ball back down the field in a beautiful hurry. +Yet, as agricultural interests prepare a major push to get water projects built, doubts are growing 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Andrew M. Cuomo, who is a Democrat , than Mr. de Blasio has. +That will include managing the Liberals’ governing coalition with the smaller, more conservative National Party , which is unlikely to embrace attempts by Mr. Turnbull to move to the center. +Despite increased public discussion, there is a dearth of information focused on concussions in women’s hockey . +Re “Some Are Shocked, Others Find Nuance in a Bigoted Atticus Finch ” (front page, July 12): Readers shouldn’t struggle to reconcile the inconsistencies between the Atticus Finch character in the two novels in light of their publishing history. +Although astringent by mainstream movie standards, “Far From Men” is shored up with increasingly personalized conversations between Daru and Mohamed that explain the men, their lives and times. +The Agriculture Department says the average price of a dozen eggs in the United States will climb to a record this year because of the nation’s worst-ever outbreak of bird flu in poultry. +Russia has been accused of trying to create a so-called frozen conflict that it could heat up in order to destabilize Ukraine any time it draws too close to the West. +Mr. Cradle, who was on probation for driving while intoxicated, had several prior arrests, though some were sealed. +The feature, which is updated monthly, has had 56,000 visits since it made its debut in October . +The euro fell to 1.20 against the dollar on Friday, its lowest since June 2010, while the yield, or market interest rate, on German two-year government bonds fell to a new low of minus 0.11 percent . +BOSTON — The American men ended their slump in the Boston Marathon when Meb Keflezighi won in 2014, a cathartic victory that enabled “ The Star-Spangled Banner ” to play over Boylston Street one year after bombs had exploded there. +Chinese officials insisted to the Thai government that the migrants be sent back to China . +In the old days, criminals liked their ransom payments in briefcases full of unmarked bills . +Mr. Sweat, 35, has revealed those details and more to investigators reviewing his stunning June 6 escape with another inmate from the maximum-security prison in Dannemora, N.Y., according to several people briefed on his account. +Drivers paused after they ascended the slight hill toward the crossing, taking a second look down the tracks before they passed. +He always wore a leather flight jacket, had a little mustache, looked like the Smilin’ Jack character in the comics” — a macho aviator in a strip that ran from 1933 to 1973 . +And the number is rising quickly as the federal government provides grants for cameras, said Lindsay Miller, a senior research associate at the group. +People use their phones too compulsively to expect them to stop, said Nagraj Kashyap, senior vice president for ventures and innovation at Qualcomm Ventures, an investing arm of the telecom giant, which recently injected $3 million into Navdy. +Money is another incentive to change: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have financed recent diversity initiatives. +■ Thomas Pieters of Belgium won his second European Tour title, two weeks after his first, shooting a five-under-par 65 to win the KLM Open in Zandvoort, Netherlands, by one shot after Lee Slattery faltered on the final hole. +Now five of them — core members of China’s new feminist movement — sit in jail, accused of provoking social instability . +The Complete Studio Ghibli (through Dec. 31) IFC Center’s retrospective of the complete works of Studio Ghibli, the beloved Japanese animation house, varies from the wistful and pleasant, like Hayao Miyazaki ’s “My Neighbor Totoro,” to the crushingly sad, like Isao Takahata’s “Grave of the Fireflies,” about childhood alienation, set in Kobe at the end of World War II.) +There are however, ways that the Assembly could pressure Mr. Maduro to shift course economically. +“There are a lot of operational hurdles for them to clear,” said Dave Nadig, a specialist at ETF.com , an industry research firm based in San Francisco. +Mr. Obama criticized Republicans who are pressing forward with legislation to block the accord , which is on track for a vote in September. +But as the passions about the presidential race ratchet up and more people click the “unfollow” button, the discussion on the site tends to mimic the chatter of often-derided partisan news organizations on television, where like-minded audiences follow like-minded viewpoints. +“There is no scientific basis — not one shred of evidence — that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,” said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object office in Pasadena, Calif . +He called Secretary of State John Kerry , the host, “a remarkable friend of Afghanistan.” +Some analysts said that Ms. Konstantopoulou, a stickler for rules, could prevent him from using the fast-track procedures that would be necessary to get the job done in time to satisfy European leaders . +who, along with the British collector and philanthropist Anita Zabludowicz , co-created Daata Editions. +The team rebuilt the boat in four months and rejoined the fleet last weekend in Lisbon for the final two legs of the 39,000-nautical-mile race. +In addition to the charter network and the school, the suit also named the New York City Department of Education and the New York State Education Department, asserting they failed to make Achievement First, a network with schools in Connecticut and Rhode Island as well as in New York City, live up to its responsibilities. +New York International Children’s Film Festival (Saturday and Sunday) +“In the Microsoft case, if they’d just waited a while, the problems they thought they saw would have disappeared because technology, consumer behavior and the market demand changed enough to correct those problems,” said Geoffrey A. Manne, executive director of the International Center for Law and Economics , a policy research organization that has received funding from technology companies including, in the past, Google. +A federal judge on Wednesday denied Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis a stay of his order requiring her office to issue marriage licenses to all eligible couples. +Many of Mrs. Clinton’s advisers say they still doubt Mr. Trump will be the Republican nominee , but they have contemplated what it would mean for Mrs. Clinton, a policy wonk known for her 12-point plans to approach problems, to run against the visceral Mr. Trump, said several of those advisers who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations. +Spending on government building projects slipped 1 percent , although it has risen over the last year largely because of the construction and maintenance of highways and streets. +Between Monday’s practice and Tuesday’s game, James traveled to and from Texas in a private jet to attend the College Football Playoff championship game. +Our solution was to include golden and amber lagers, equivalent to German styles like Helles and Dortmunder, while excluding beers labeled pilsner. +For nearly a year , banks and law firms have talked about forging a closer partnership to share some information about hacking incidents. +The conglomerate, which owns 22 companies, including two daily newspapers, Bugun and Millet , stands accused of ties to Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric who lives in exile in Pennsylvania. +The right-wing Sun, still Britain’s most popular newspaper, said in an editorial that “if there are possible votes in it, Miliband’s there — spouting off in a comical Mockney accent,” a fake Cockney accent, “about sticking it to the tax-dodging corporations.” Prime Minister David Cameron , the Conservative Party leader, said earlier: “Russell Brand is a joke. +Mark Lubell , the center’s executive director, said architects would soon begin remaking the space, which has more than 5,000 square feet for exhibitions on two floors, into raw, airy galleries with a continuous glass front along the Bowery. +While critics of the agreement in the United States said the compromise gave Iran latitude to cheat , Mr. Amano and his subordinates said it conformed to their standards. +There is also a great deal of important historical work by Poles on the Holocaust, some of which is now available in English. +Yet The Daily Mail has calculated that the average player salary in M.L.S. ranks 22nd among the world’s soccer leagues, a fraction of the average in top competitions like England’s Premier League and Germany’s Bundesliga. +The semiofficial Mehr news agency reported in July, citing local statistics, that 541 villages were dependent on tanker deliveries for their water. +The benefit , which was a touchstone issue even before it was made law in 2013, was envisioned as a way to encourage parents to remain home and raise their children, ages 15 months to 36 months, once maternity leave benefits expire. +For 60 percent of American households with children age 6 and under, every adult in the household is working. +The Italian “condominio,” a financial structure in which residents of a multifamily building would split the cost of operations but own their homes outright through deeds , was an early model. +One of the biggest applause lines was Senator Bernie Sanders’s quip to Mrs. Clinton, “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.” +“I think that it highlights the concern of many in the black community that a routine stop for many of the members of the black community is not handled with the same professionalism and courtesy that other people may get from the police,” she said in an interview on the ABC News program “This Week.” +In 1971, in a two-page photo spread complete with a smooching couple, Life magazine gushed about the bubble-brimming, red-tiled “ sweetheart tub ” in Cove Haven’s mirrored bathrooms. +Every time someone purchases a trip on Wanderu, the company takes a percentage of the sale from the bus or train company. +Shortly after taking office in September , Mr. Ghani’s government hired the Podesta Group for $50,000 a month to lobby on behalf of Afghanistan and help with public relations, according to filings with the Justice Department. +Auditions for its school-aged characters were held at the start of this year, and over the summer, a series of test shows were held at the Gramercy Theater , a sticky-floored rock club in Midtown Manhattan. +He then goes on to describe the babies of the human species: “Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught; he can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and, in short, he can do nothing, at the prompting of nature only, but weep.” +In the first two weeks of training, the Americans found the Ukrainians’ soldierly skills lacking , and the group generally in need of instruction. +Last week’s discovery of the remains of 71 people in an abandoned, unventilated truck pushed Europe to the grim realization that homegrown trafficking rings were preying on the incoming floods of war refugees and other migrants. +“There’s an illusion of legality,” said Scott Albrecht, a special agent in the D.E.A.’s Milwaukee district office, who supervised the investigation of Mr. Tian after the agents linked him to packages shipped to an address here. +“And again, the response to the antibiotic is critical.” Defensive tackle Jonathan Hankins said the players were heartened to speak directly to Fells and to see him on a big screen in the team’s auditorium. +The history of corporations’ failure to protect the public is replete with such stories, from flammable pajamas to the lack of safety guards on dangerous machinery. +For disease-causing parasites like tapeworms , roundworms and flukes, which may infest raw or undercooked fish, freezing can be the answer, but its effectiveness varies. +President François Hollande, speaking from outside the magazine’s office a couple of hours after the murder of 12 people, was crystal clear: This was an assault, he said, on “the expression of freedom” that is the “spirit of the republic.” Two heavily armed attackers, who apparently knew the magazine’s staff would be gathered around a table late on Wednesday morning for a weekly editorial meeting, forced themselves into Charlie Hebdo’s office and shot 10 people dead, including the top editor and prominent cartoonists. +It’s Danny’s story.” +It has a new brochure about the risks of metzitzah b’peh, to be given to pregnant women by clinics and hospitals. +David Cole, chairman emeritus of the Center for Automotive Research, an industry group in Ann Arbor, Mich., said workers should not expect too much, given the industry’s cyclical nature. +“ Tech and innovation in the auto industry are moving so much faster than the regulators can keep up with it,” she said. +“People of faith ought to be acting to help Israel and the Palestinians to renew efforts to achieve peace, rather than endlessly demonizing one party in the conflict — in our view, the aggrieved party.” StandWithUs , a pro-Israeli advocacy group based in Los Angeles, condemned what it called “anti-Israel extremists within the U.C.C.” for promoting both resolutions debated on Tuesday. +The Midland Avenue crossing currently has the eighth highest likelihood of a crash in the country. +800-200-2882; foxwoods.com . +Last spring, of the five apprentices Mr. Martins named for City Ballet only one was white. +“I just thought rock was about theater , and rather old variety theater, at that.” +(Saturday’s events: panel discussion, 1 p.m., and screening, 2 p.m., at 144 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, and a performance at 7:30 p.m., Damrosch Park ; lcoutofdoors.org.) +Columbus airport is about 15 minutes away; downtown is 10 minutes, as is Short North , a shopping, gallery and dining district near the Ohio State University campus. +Since the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was fatally shot during an encounter with a police officer in Ferguson , Mo., in August, departments around the country have begun requiring officers to record their interactions with the public to hold them accountable for their behavior, as well as to protect them against false charges. +Mr. Cooper plays Adam Jones , a hot chef in Paris until he flamed out, thanks to a self-destructive personality abetted by substance abuse. +Completed in 1995 as a tribute to Messiaen and Alexander Goehr , Mr. Benjamin’s mentors, it features colorful use of winds and brass (including contrabass clarinet, fluegelhorn and euphonium) and harp (an instrument conspicuously absent from Mr. Adès’s piece), with low rumbling sonorities and jittery fragments in the strings, punctuated by gongs. +The report also exposed disturbing practices by board members. +■ Thomas Pieters of Belgium won his second European Tour title, two weeks after his first, shooting a five-under-par 65 to win the KLM Open in Zandvoort, Netherlands, by one shot after Lee Slattery faltered on the final hole. +The study did show that cholesterol levels went down more in the groups that ate low-fat diets. +Since the death of Michael Brown , an unarmed teenager who was fatally shot during an encounter with a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August, departments around the country have begun requiring officers to record their interactions with the public to hold them accountable for their behavior, as well as to protect them against false charges. +Like an essayist collecting quotations, Mann ransacks the history of photography for her imagery. +Nicholson’s second-place finish in Lorient, France, this week behind the all-women crew of Team SCA confirmed his high hopes for Team Vestas Wind ’s return, although he said last week that two podium finishes would be bittersweet. +For a moment, it seemed like the momentum in this country — fractured by chronic instability in Darfur , violence in provinces like South Kordofan and Blue Nile, and simmering political tensions in the capital, Khartoum — was finally shifting. +I had taken refuge in what could’ve been , but my task was not to try to restore a life that had slipped away. +The column also referred imprecisely to a route to the Stepney Green Underground station in East London . +He argued against intervention by outside powers in Syria as well, adding that Russia was “not concerned with the fate” of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. +Capt. Nicholas Salimbene , an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. +And magnetic to visitors, or marks waiting to be pickpocketed the late-capitalist way: a mall. +Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed laws permitting medical marijuana, and four states also allow recreational use by adults. +It was a pseudo-event that was dutifully and excitedly covered by news media and infotainment outfits, despite being just another stop on the rollout for Disney’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which, in case you’ve been stuck in another galaxy, opens Dec . +He mused about dropping muscular diesel engine s into sporty cars like the Audi R8 coupe — “My dream is an R8 with a diesel engine,” he said at the Los Angeles auto show in 2007. +The Labor Department said on Monday that it would try to do something about that last problem. +Ms. Yellen ’s stance offers a reason to explain those benefits. +The pastor said he had yet to speak with either of the city’s last two Republican mayors, Michael R. Bloomberg and Rudolph W. Giuliani , about his campaign. +The British rock group Florence and the Machine ’s “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” album opened at the top of the Billboard chart, the band’s first time at No. 1. +Standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square, periodically drowned out by the noise of construction and traffic, Mr. Faulkner said Mr. de Blasio had proved to be a divisive leader without the charisma to lead a great city. +None of the unsealed arrests were for violent offenses, the police said. +At the peak was a sparse, one-room museum that he built with funds from the Thai government to commemorate the Kuomintang Army. +The man packed up his minivan and drove off, and my alternate reality went right along with him. +The state House is again pushing forward with a Republican priority to require photo identification at the polls, after similar measures were stymied by the Senate or courts in recent years. +If defectors say they had high-level connections in Pyongyang or came from an esteemed institution in the North , they can gain better employment in the South, where life can be very difficult for North Koreans. +Érica Rivas and Diego Gentile, “Wild Tales” Damián Szifrón’s tragicomic allegory of modern-day Argentina comprises five suites of perfectly choreographed insanity, the last of which begins as a perfectly ordinary wedding reception and mutates into a war among the betrothed and their guests. +As for pricing the house, Ms. Goldberg said the loftlike open spaces, abundant light, pair of parking spots and capacious elevator all contribute to its appeal. +To the Sports Editor: Re “Balancing Body Image With Ambition,” July 11: As a female athlete training on the United States rowing team, I was deeply disappointed and frustrated by this article. +She opens it, thinking it might be an early birthday present . +Media-savvy, fearless and well-connected to feminists outside China, the young activists over the last three years have taken their righteous indignation to the streets, pioneering a brand of guerrilla theater familiar in the West but largely unheard-of in this authoritarian nation. +New listings are a favored target of speculators because, under current regulations, the shares are permitted to rise as much as 44 percent on their first day of trading. +a potential equity gain and a mortgage interest tax deduction . +Misinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the United States — a 2014 Yale study found that 35 percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural phenomena rather than human activity, and 34 percent think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is even happening. +Only one game since 1940 has featured more in a fourth quarter, according to Stats L.L.C. The Jaguars’ Blake Bortles threw for 322 yards and five touchdowns, setting a franchise record for touchdown passes in a season (27). +Trimble, a freshman guard, connected again from 3-point range with 2:18 remaining for a 62-54 lead. +The sanctions, announced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control , bars them from dealings with the United States and impounds any assets in American jurisdiction. +A 2014 government census of the Islamic schools found that more than 30,000 children were being forced to beg in the capital, Dakar , alone. +But anyone who watched last season’s implosion knows the team can go only as far as Palmer’s surgically repaired legs can take it, so some caution against a hard-hitting Rams team may be in order. +What startled France , a country where the customer is always wrong, was the revolt of the taxi rider. +There’s also the unavoidable fact that every time you prevent people from dying from one disease, they are likely to live longer and incur future medical expenses . +Zaro ’s was not offered the opportunity to renew its lease, said Stuart Zaro, a co-president of the company and a grandson of its founder, Joseph Zaro. +Was Freud entirely wrong then about slips and mishearings? Of course not . +But in recommending only three projects for a license last month, the board warned about the possibility of cannibalizing an already crowded gambling market in the Northeast. +Beckham ’s actions may have been motivated, in part, by frustration with Norman’s smothering defense and his own failings. +The survey of more than 150,000 students nationwide, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014,” found that 9.5 percent of respondents had frequently “felt depressed” during the past year , a significant rise over the 6.1 percent reported five years ago. +Drive, get texts, talk on the phone, even interact on social media, and do it all without compromising safety, according to various makers of the so-called head-up displays, repeating a position taken by a growing number of automakers who sell monitors set into the dashboard or mounted on it . +Ms. Basford’s coloring book “ Secret Garden ,” a 96-page collection of elaborate black-and-white ink drawings of flowers, leaves, trees and birds, has become a global best-seller. +Jake Arrieta threw a three-hitter to become the first pitcher to reach 20 wins this season, as the Chicago Cubs closed in on a playoff berth by shutting out Milwaukee, 4-0. The Yankees won and the Mets lost, and both gained ground in their pursuit of division titles. +Ms. Chen, a former executive director of Teach for America ’s New York office, acknowledged in an interview this spring that early on she had been late to some meetings with donors. +Lost And Found: New on the extended hardcover fiction list this week, at No. 18, is another work of semiautobiographical fiction: “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” a posthumously published story collection by Lucia Berlin, a little-known American writer who died in 2004 and who has been championed by Lydia Davis and August Kleinzahler. +The French were stunned to learn that the fifth floor of the American Embassy, a few doors from the Élysée Palace, was a trompe l’oeil design hiding what they call the “big ears” of eavesdropping equipment pointed at François Hollande (and his actress girlfriend, Julie Gayet, who is stealthily hanging out at the Élysée). +These acts of narrative deconstruction highlight his strength as a deeply questioning writer at home in fact as much as abstraction. +The product now comes with a higher price tag that starts at $150, up from $70 , indicating that the company is betting that consumers will think all of the new features are worth the higher price. +Using this method, the czar’s big 1914 price for the Leonardo — hailed by Gerald Reitlinger in his 1961 study, “The Economics of Taste,” as “the most expensive picture that has ever been sold” — is equal to $35.5 million today, which would buy a middling-quality Mark Rothko. +Ransom payments entered the digital world long before Bitcoin came on the scene . +The company quickly arranged to pick up that patio furniture and sent Mr. Fisher a $250 coupon for future use. +Apollo 8 helped end the year on a note of hope and grace. +As each name of the 12 people killed and 70 wounded was read, and read again — prosecutors filed two charges per victim — the families looked to the corner of the public gallery and gave one another a quiet nod or an arm squeeze. +In September of this year , Volkswagen, then the world’s largest automaker, admitted to installing software designed to cheat on emissions tests, setting off one of the largest corporate scandals in the industry’s history. +But that would not cover traditional espionage , which both sides conduct against each other. +(The movie was shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.) +WOLFSBURG, Germany — Volkswagen said on Wednesday that it would be able to bring its diesel cars into line with European clean-air standards by updating engine software and installing a small, tube-shaped part roughly the same diameter as the cardboard tube in a roll of paper towels. +Premier Li Keqiang said the nation’s growth was in the “proper range” and Beijing had no plans to allow its currency to decline further after a surprise devaluation on Aug. 11. +So they planned a second date a few days later, at the driving range at Chelsea Piers , where they shared their first kiss. +SALONEN I got to know him in the early ’80s when I worked quite a bit at IRCAM [an avant-garde music institute founded by Mr. Boulez] and was conducting his Ensemble InterContemporain. +A friend of mine inherited a ­ Bavarian coffee set from her maternal great-­grandmother, a woman who fled Europe in the late 1930s, carrying little more than the purpose-built, velvet-lined case that still holds it. +The euro fell to $1.07, its lowest level in six months, and the dollar rose against the Japanese yen to 123.19 . +But in an effort to make use of its vast interior spaces — and lure people to what is still considered an off-the-beaten-path area — municipal leaders also moved the city’s major design organizations here and named the whole enterprise Design Hub Barcelona , or DHUB, hoping it truly would become a hotbed of design activity. +After retiring, she devoted most of her time to the McEvoy Ranch in Petaluma, Calif., which she established in 1991 and which is now the country’s largest producer of certified organic estate-produced extra-virgin olive oil. +Noting that clients in their 60s are moving downtown for the energy and clients in their 40s are moving uptown for the quiet, he said, “The boundaries have just broken down.” +It is not clear how long the baby was left alone lying atop a towel , his umbilical cord still attached. +Staff members will also pass out a graphic and lead a brief countdown to 9:26:53 a.m. +Digital tools are a boon to reporting, and digital distribution can make a story go global, but digital-era economics have devastated newspaper staffs. +About 4,800 people live in Needles, on the western bank of the Colorado River where it cuts a swath in the mud between California and Arizona. +The N.B.A. distributed two-thirds of the tickets to its marketing and broadcast partners and affiliates, the participating players and the players’ union, as well as league alumni. +“I gotta tell you, turning down your money back to Montana on an ideological basis, when people can lose their lives because they get no help, doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,” he said, in remarks reported by the Great Falls Tribune. +Hewlett-Packard agreed on Monday to buy Aruba Networks, a maker of Wi-Fi access equipment for businesses, for about $3 billion in HP’s biggest deal in more than three years. +Russia has been accused of trying to create a so-called frozen conflict that it could heat up in order to destabilize Ukraine any time it draws too close to the West. +When the longtime ESPN anchor Stuart Scott quietly agreed to write a memoir last year, appendiceal cancer and chemotherapy were weakening him. +The health care providers who challenged the North Carolina law urged the justices to turn down the state’s appeal. +Coach Bob Stoops replaced the offensive coordinators Josh Heupel (now at Utah State ) +She was tired of stepping over the dice players on her stoop, tired of guiding her children around the fragments of broken bottles at the old housing project, which Ms. Russ, the head of the Dallas Housing Authority, called the most dangerous in the city . +Mr. Fox said he had hoped to find a long-term solution for the transportation fund within a year .“I deeply regret we were unable to do so, and with a year behind me, it is time for me to return to the private sector and pursue new opportunities,” he said. +Croatia and Namibia are leading an effort to give the organization’s 193 member states a greater say in the selection of the secretary general as part of a yearly resolution that is being drafted. +The San Bernardino murderers were wielding assault rifles, with which they were able to fire an estimated 65-75 bullets in rapid succession. +Sandy would cuddle with the baby and turn pages. +This summer they went up in smoke. +Theresa Ruth Howard, a teacher and former member of Dance Theater of Harlem who wrote a much-talked-about piece for the website My Body My Image focusing on the many black ballerinas that preceded Ms. Copeland , can’t help but view diversity initiatives with some skepticism. +The lawyer, Yu Wensheng, 48, was taken away in handcuffs late Thursday night after more than a dozen police officers forced their way into the family’s Beijing apartment, said his wife, Xu Yan. +By nominating Mr. Mattarella as president, a largely ceremonial post, Mr. Renzi simultaneously united his own party and divided Berlusconi’s. +“I see no reason to delay,” said Linas Linkevicius , the foreign minister of Lithuania. +Switzerland has extradited some people wanted for financial fraud by countries like Russia, despite criticism from human rights groups concerned that they would not receive a fair trial in their homeland. +Pay a visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland , and you get to do an early morning guided meditation with global leaders. +“I was like, ‘All right, we have to lose once in a while,’ ” he said by phone while on his way to Monday night’s game against Miami . +Digit Murphy coached women’s hockey for almost 30 years. +Until last month, when Mr. D’Andrea was quietly shifted to another job, he presided over the growth of C.I.A. drone operations and hundreds of strikes in Pakistan and Yemen during nine years in the position. +Built to suit the couple, the basement includes two bedrooms, a master bathroom, an infrared sauna , a study and, according to Mr. Harschel, one of the most important rooms in the house: a two-and-a-half-square-meter woodworking and repair shop. +Cuts in food aid are leading Syria n refugees to take desperate measures (“Child Labor Rises Sharply in Syria Unrest,” news article, July 2). +Jewish leaders praised the document and the way that Catholic-Jewish relations had progressed . +The jail is overcrowded, with nearly 200 inmates in a space for 40 . +There was succulent roast chicken in front of us, and a confitted turkey leg accompanied by bacon and prunes and a slab of grilled bread , a shatteringly crisp fist of fried haddock, a few fingers of juicy sausage. +His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, Angela , for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence. +Over lunch, Mr. Shoemaker said that he first heard of Mr. Connell while listening to the KPFA radio show hosted by the poet Kenneth Rexroth . +Keeping it fully within the structures of the Nonproliferation Treaty is an important element in building the rule of law in a region that is being torn apart by national, religious and local conflict. +• State Senator John L. Sampson , Democrat of Brooklyn, was convicted of trying to thwart a federal investigation. +“They’re very specific to niche transportation needs,” said Tony Dutzik, a senior policy analyst at the Frontier Group, a research company in Boston. +And with Amtrak and local transit agencies struggling for funding , many fear the disruptions will continue to worsen in the years ahead. +The tax system , in particular, has been a boon. +They want to upend the 14thAmendment , and the country’s family-based immigration laws, to keep the population as white as can be. +The Obama administration took an important step in the right direction when it created new oversight rules for the industry and stepped up its investigations into companies like Corinthian Colleges — one of the largest operators of for-profit colleges and trade schools in the country until it collapsed last year amid state and federal lawsuits and fraud investigations. +“Goal No. 1 is to try to win ” or get a high placement. +One of Mr. Norris’s brothers-in-law is a shuttle-bus driver for a local hotel and will try to get him a job there, while another looks into some gardening work. +Kim Kashkashian, viola . +Both were also owned by groups of private equity firms and returned to the public markets in rocky initial public offerings. +PICK: BENGALS Cowboys (2-1) at Saints (0-3) 8:30 p.m. +There remains an illusion — on Wall Street and beyond — that only a small pool of talent is capable of working on Wall Street, said James P. 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Msgr. +That project came about when Sheldon Drobny, an old friend, contacted Mr. Rodham about making a connection for a Chicago-area contractor , who wanted to become involved in building houses in Haiti. +As far as I’m concerned, the people who equate their self-worth with their airline status can have it! 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Michael Faranda , who is teaching maneuvers. +“You have to get good grades, have all sorts of after-school activities that take up tons of hours, and you have to be happy and social — you have to be everything ,” Ms. Fortier said. +Mr. Burns’s most inspired touch is to end not in the 1600s, but two centuries later, by following what happened to Bradford’s journal . +Ms. Chalabi, a daughter of Ahmad Chalabi, the onetime United States -backed Iraqi opposition leader, said her foundation asked to represent Iraq again after organizing the last pavilion, in 2013. +Forward Pascal Dupuis, long the glue in a dressing room of diverse personalities, retired abruptly last week because of lingering health concerns . +Moments later, when a college student asked Mrs. Clinton to make a Snapchat video saying, “You’re fired, Donald Trump,” she demurred. +“It’s called a chauffeur . +David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said that even though the White House had been effective at privately engaging skeptics of the deal on its merits, Mr. Obama appeared to be “hyping” his case to the public, perhaps in an effort to match the incendiary language of his opponents . +Also a seated Buddha, it has in recent years gained a popular religious following as the perceived prototype of an ardently worshiped image at a local shrine. +Any hope climatologists had that California would be rescued again by a wet El Niño winter weather system is fading with the arrival of spring. +Ross Douthat has a serious argument. +“The physical key will be with us for years to come,” said Mark Baker , director of engineering for ZF TRW, a manufacturer of automobile systems. +Mr. Osborne is respected, but his economic theology is not shared by every Tory , which could also lead to defections and close votes. +Scoop Rosenbaum, Heidi’s on-again, off-again boyfriend (played here by Jason Biggs ), tells her, pompously and accurately, that she belongs to “a generation of disappointed women. +Below, however, are the top 10 general travel questions . +The Midland crossing has been the site of 29 accidents since 1975, according to the railroad agency’s data . +On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund’s financial stability division released a report highlighting how fast funds have grown in areas of the market where it has become harder to buy and sell securities. +“It was a way to get the foreign purchasers ,” including Japanese, Saudi Arabians and especially Italians, said Ms. Miller, an agent who has marketed nearly two dozen condo projects in the neighborhood, including the Leonori. +Here’s one for sports fans that our contributor Brendan Nyhan found: a scholarly article with lovely graphics on the structure of basketball defense . +About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade. +He added, “The future looks bright . +Applicants must show they have rented a property in Malta for 12 months . +The crime scene was chaotic, and Ms. Santana had started to run as soon as the violence began; she might not have spotted everyone involved. +Not all home refrigerator freezers get cold enough. +Standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square, periodically drowned out by the noise of construction and traffic, Mr. Faulkner said Mr. de Blasio had proved to be a divisive leader without the charisma to lead a great city. +The notion that Big Brother is watching from the web , along with the eyes of corporate America, is a reality that is also bearing down on millennials and others who are holding down jobs and are expected to perform in them. +Political divisions have left the country without a president for 14 months, and the current Parliament extended its own mandate last year, essentially re-electing itself after failing to agree on a law to govern new elections. +The documents mandate its repeal and include expedited parliamentary rules, called reconciliation, that ensure that legislation to repeal the act cannot be filibustered in the Senate . +It is unclear if Dempsey will regain the captaincy after the Gold Cup . +But in many cases Tuesday, Mr. Heastie, now one of the most powerful men in Albany , seemed to be introducing himself to members of the public. +Amid the troubles besetting tourists coming to France, the ministry website had warnings for French tourists going to America: Do not act too “Latin,” with sexual behavior and jokes, and “ keep calm in all circumstances,” given America’s scorn for gun control, which the French find incomprehensible. +Now chefs from all three restaurants, Frédéric Duca, Renaud Marcille and Alexandre Navarro, will cooperate on a dinner “for six hands” in New York . +That is important because the current system makes it hard to govern the country without elaborate deals . +He mentioned Calvin Kentfield, who drank at No Name and in 1975 fell — or jumped — off a cliff in nearby Bolinas; Richard Brautigan, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1984 ; and Don Carpenter, another No Name drinker, also dead by gunshot, in 1995. +Asked on Friday about Mr. Netanyahu ’s new demand, a State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, told reporters in Washington that the negotiations with Iran on the agreement were “only about the nuclear issue.” +Last spring, of the five apprentices Mr. Martins named for City Ballet only one was white. +The detentions took place early last month on the eve of International Women’s Day as the women planned a public awareness campaign about sexual harassment on public transportation. +But later on my first reaction was, “I’m not going to go into the business, I’m going to find my own identity, and do my own thing,” which is why I studied art history and languages and started working in the art world and then the fashion industry. +“There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on.” Reviving the economy is now the primary issue for most people. +In the first two weeks of training, the Americans found the Ukrainians ’ soldierly skills lacking, and the group generally in need of instruction. +The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months. +Isabeli Fontana, the Brazilian supermodel who was called onstage to hawk a six-liter bottle of Moët & Chandon (as well as a trip to Épernay, in France’s Champagne country), was herself the winner of a 14-day vacation in the Maldives. +Traditionally, Brazil opens the General Assembly, followed by a speech by the president of the United States. +Dr. Schatz (pronounced SHOTZ) died of metastatic melanoma at his home in Honolulu, his wife, Barbara, said. +Ms. Le Pen, after a month of inflammatory words on migrants in media appearances and speeches to supporters, only alluded to the issue as she launched her regional elections campaign, aboard a boat here in front of a gaggle of French journalists . +The ties that bound Mr. Ghani to many of the dinner guests on Tuesday reflected a little-noticed story in America’s longest war: After more than 13 years of nation-building in Afghanistan, much of the American national security establishment is intimately familiar with many of the nation’s most senior officials, Mr. Ghani foremost among them, and loath to see a hasty withdrawal lead to a repeat of what has happened in Iraq. +A government investigation in March found that GreenTech, which sought green cards for its Chinese investors through an American government program, had received special treatment in the handling of its visa applications. 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Mr. Demirtas called the move to seize the media group “mafia-like” behavior by Mr. Erdogan’s party, which is known by its Turkish initials, A.K.P. 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What comes to mind are these cases in which young African-American women were being sterilized without their permission. +The officiant was Elizabeth Hughes, the groom’s sister, who was authorized by the District of Columbia. +I.S.S. also seemed to base its recommendation on Trian’s assertions that DuPont had excessive costs and governance issues, but the low margin growth seemed to be I.S.S.’s chief concern. +He also supported efforts to overhaul campaign finance laws, lending his backing to the McCain-Feingold legislation that passed in 2002 . +Three states — California, New Jersey and Rhode Island — offer paid family leave, and several cities, including Boston and Seattle this year, have begun offering parental leave to city employees. +It’s about being direct and honest but constructive, and calling out the elephants in the room. 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Chen of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco wrote in the 68-page ruling. +But he did have something to say, and he said it powerfully through his music . +Unlike a traditional exchange-traded fund though — and this is the company’s special twist — the new vehicle would not have to disclose its daily basket of stocks , a crucial concern for managers who worry about speculators getting in front of their trades. +In all, nine women in the 2015 field have personal bests of 2:22:38 or better. +The walls were smeared with blood and psychotic scribbling , the oven crammed with discarded syringes, and the refrigerator overrun with mold.” +The first dish I tried from the main course spread, chicken chettinadu , was lackluster. +Her 20-year career has been built on collaborations with such top French jewelers as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Boucheron . +“Without that force, we wouldn’t have been able to hit any of the fire,” said Rick Ferro , the chief who directed the waterborne response. +In our Catholic school, the nuns stressed our isolation, and they kept prepping us to be ready to die for our faith at any moment . +Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has endorsed the need for action in East Ramapo. +Francis will hold Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine for about 30,000 people at 4:15 p.m. The Secret Service is taking the lead in protecting a pope who does not want to stay in his popemobile. +Today’s festivities start with the welcome party, which morphs into the ceremony the following evening, which flows effortlessly into the four-hour postnuptial gala, followed by an after-party. +This three-panel portrait of the Apple co-founder, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, portrays Jobs (Michael Fassbender) as a complicated, ambitious man caught in a tangle of messy personal and business relationships. +Though the language is not shrill, a common element in the showcased disputes is what the museum’s labels describe as strenuous efforts by companies to deceive the public about risks . +AUTOMAKERS descended on New York for the city’s annual auto show this week with vehicles ready to do more than just respond to drivers’ commands. +On the anniversary last year, more than 50 people died in clashes with the police. +Block it completely, Dr. Leal said, and “after a day they just stop moving .” +Mr. Christie said that Joseph Bertoni , the department’s deputy commissioner, would take over as acting commissioner. +a Geneva -based testing, inspection and verification company. +susanpowellfineart.com; 203-318-0616 . +Song Tairan, 25, an employee at an Internet company in Beijing who lost 20 percent of a first-time $16,000 investment he made in March, said he was still in. +A police official, Saurav Rana, said three of the deaths occurred in the town of Jaleswor after thousands of protesters with sticks and stones attacked officers, according to news agency reports. +Margot Sanger-Katz has written a lot on the news that Americans are consuming fewer calories; it’s mainly because they are drinking fewer sugary carbonated beverages. She found these maps of New York City showing where soda is most frequently consumed. +The deal is subject to the approval of Kythera shareholders and regulators, and it is expected to close in the third quarter . +A baby girl, only a few minutes old , swaddled in a blanket or clothes, was breathing on the hood of a car in the Wakefield section of the Bronx. +Harrison added that he believed Kokkinakis and Kyrgios were hiding behind tennis ’s genteel code of conduct. +Like the Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, which killed eight and injured more than 200, the accident in Spain occurred on a section of track that was fitted with a speed-alert system but had not yet been upgraded with an automatic braking system . +He should never let himself say the words “ anchor babies ” ever again. +Refresco Gerber expects its shares to begin trading on Euronext in Amsterdam on March 27 . +He said the House measure fully funded Amtrak’s safety and operational needs , although it would trim capital grants and other funding. +“Notes From a Beach Found at Carmel” — whatever you do, get a copy, read it, get it, this is one of the great books ever.’ +We’ll see what Minsk 2 will mean.” +But if we had followed his line of analysis, neither the Asian economic miracle nor the technology-based American energy revolution would have happened. +On the evening of April 21 in Building 21 at the Fishkill Correctional Facility, Samuel Harrell, an inmate with a history of erratic behavior linked to bipolar disorder, packed his bags and announced he was going home, though he still had several years left to serve on his drug sentence. +He showed improved confidence in his off-speed pitches, using the Dodgers’ aggressiveness against them. +Already, Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, has made 16 appeals under the Freedom of Information Act for State Department correspondence mostly related to Mrs. Clinton and foundation donors. +But this 40-minute play from 1921 , seldom seen or read outside academia, has an exhilarating air of discovery that finds the fun — and the sense — in her seeming nonsense. +Michael J. Palladino, the president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association , the union for city police detectives, defended the detective, saying “cops are just like everyone else” with complicated lives. +He has also been accused of racist comments aimed at Indians, Mexicans and Asians. +For days after the June prison break, corrections officers carried out what seemed like a campaign of retribution against dozens of Clinton inmates, particularly those on the honor block, an investigation by The New York Times found. +The second resolution, which called the actions of Israel against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip acts of apartheid, received 51 percent of the vote — 312 for, 295 against and 31 abstentions — failing to gain the two-thirds majority required for passage. +As each name of the 12 people killed and 70 wounded was read, and read again — prosecutors filed two charges per victim — the families looked to the corner of the public gallery and gave one another a quiet nod or an arm squeeze. +And I don’t like Charli XCX .” +Prince, the blogger, offered two ways to measure future progress: when Mets caps are highly visible on all trains, not just the 7 line to Flushing , and when a fan’s request to turn a restaurant television to a Mets game is not met with a look “like you have three eyes.” +Mr. Christie, a Republican who is running for president, said if he got the job, he would ask his transportation secretary and the governors of New York and New Jersey to each give an equal share toward building new tunnels. +Later that month, Sandy sat down in her upstairs study — painted a rich burgundy , as the rest of the house was, to make the sprawling old place feel cozy — and looked at her Mac desktop computer screen. +Black-and-white images depict daily life — families around the breakfast table, a mother holding an infant, men and women heading off to work — as Mrs. Clinton reminds voters they are “not just electing a president, but a commander in chief.” Photos show her flanked by military officers, and descending alone from her Air Force jet as secretary of state, as she can be heard, as a candidate, emphasizing the need to be “both secure at home and leading the world.” +“They don’t want to play the game,” said W. McIntyre Burnham, a neuropharmacologist at the University of Toronto, with whom Dr. Ohayon studied. +While “Osaka Elegy” and “Sisters of the Gion,” the two Mizoguchi pictures of this period that have been most widely seen in the West, were relatively brisk features, “Chrysanthemum,” at nearly two and a half hours, shows the director working in an expansive mode, one that would flower even more fully with his postwar masterpieces such as “The Life of Oharu,” “Ugetsu” and “Sansho the Bailiff.” +Arsenal , using its rapid speed via Walcott, Alexis Sánchez and the adventurous young right back Héctor Bellerín, has found and honed a new winning tactic. +And then along came new vehicles like the 401(k) and the Individual Retirement Account . +In 2003, Mr. Martin wrote wall text for artworks in the exhibition “Writings on the Wall”; his tribute to the photographer Cindy Sherman in 2012 wasn’t “his only prior connection to the museum.” +But Judge Irene C. Berger of Federal District Court in Charleston said that she did not “have any reason to believe that they are deadlocked” and that extensive deliberations were not surprising after weeks of testimony. +Parking and gas station attendants forced to work outside have donned medical masks to reduce the smell, and other residents have fled the city altogether. +Still, Hyun Song Shin , a top economist at the Bank for International Settlements, a banking and research center for central banks worldwide, argued on Wednesday that this relentless reach for yield by such investors might just as well signal a good old-fashioned investment bubble. +The Rev. John Deckenback, conference minister of the church’s Central Atlantic Conference, which submitted the boycott resolution, called the outcome a reflection of the church’s “spirit of love for both Israelis and Palestinians . +“We are relieved and grateful that justice can finally prevail,” one of the pair, Ferdinand Tjiong , told reporters as he and the other, Neil Bantleman, were mobbed by a throng of journalists and supporters after walking through the gates of Cipinang Penitentiary in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. +Nine trains stop at Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center, including the D, N, 4 and 5. +“ Whether it’s weakening our defenses, raising taxes on jobs and earnings, racking up more debt and welfare or driving up the cost of living by printing money — Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party will hurt working people,” he said in a statement. +Picasso became an important friend for both Ramón and Jacint .” +In recent months, Iranian leaders have insisted that if they need more time to reach a deal, the talks should continue beyond the June 30 deadline . +Hundreds of Vermonters packed the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday for a committee hearing on legislation that would expand background checks for gun buyers and impose other new firearms restrictions. +Volkswagen did not sell any engines smaller than 2 liters in the United States, though a small number of cars with 1.6-liter motors may have been imported from Mexico or other countries. +Full Sail, which offered its first bachelor’s degree programs in 2003 and master’s programs in 2007 , says it received 2,800 film-related applicants last year, a 47 percent increase over 2013. +David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said that even though the White House had been effective at privately engaging skeptics of the deal on its merits, Mr. Obama appeared to be “hyping” his case to the public, perhaps in an effort to match the incendiary language of his opponents . +It should allow him to make a personal evaluation of the next potential leader of the Cuban church , though analysts do not expect a decision soon. +The video, 1 minute 3 seconds and set in Boca Raton, Fla., features a gender-bending character in a variety of poses: drinking Red Bull in a pink velour zip-up jacket on the beach, sitting on a sofa in a high-rise condo, doing dance moves while dressed in a floral midriff top. +Some players hide symptoms to prolong their careers . +The people trying to use the passports — nine ethnic Uighurs trying to leave China illegally through a Shanghai airport — are also under arrest, according to the newspaper, Global Times. +St. Paul’s Church, 897 South Columbus Avenue . +They are sent instantaneously but do not play back automatically. +Delivered in stark terms that surprised some foreign policy analysts and left no room for questioning whether the agreement is good for American security — “It’s not even close,” Mr. Obama declared at one point — the president’s speech was a striking display of certitude about a diplomatic deal that has split the American public and presented a dilemma for lawmakers, including many in his own party. +Block it completely, Dr. Leal said, and “after a day they just stop moving.” They are normally quiet at night . +There aren’t many jokes , but it’s a nicely staged sequence in which barreling action becomes joyfully preposterous farce. +Q. I ordered a lamp from Wayfair, an online furniture store , which the company insisted on delivering to my office. +Still, Cengiz Kamil Firat , the deputy director general of general and bilateral economic affairs at Turkey’s foreign ministry, said that the nation’s economy was in better shape than it might seem. +Often criticized for his ultra-orthodox leadership , he also showed signs of greater tactical imagination. +FRANZ WELSER-MÖST, music director of the Cleveland Orchestra , which Boulez first conducted in 1965: +The model Aya Jones was first discovered on Paris’s rue de Rivoli — and booked promptly as an exclusive in Prada’s spring/summer 2015 show. +As the evening began, Cheryl Boone Isaacs , the Academy’s president, set the tone with a speech about inclusiveness, and the disclosure of a five-year plan, called “A2020,” to broaden the demographics of the group’s membership, staff and governing board. +She never stops judging . +When “ To Kill a Mockingbird ” was published in 1960, the South, and the United States, needed the heroic story of Atticus Finch. +“I am angry,” Mr. Michel said, according to Belgian news reports. +ALBANY — Sheldon Silver, the longtime speaker of the New York State Assembly, agreed on Sunday to relinquish his duties on a temporary basis as he fights federal corruption charges . +Equally fine on the other side of the story, which is dominated by women, are Ilfenesh Hadera as a Dominican immigrant, Dominique Fishback as a young black mother, and Natalie Paul as a budding community organizer. +This one will sprout indoors at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater , which is reviving Michael Alogna’s adaptation of the classic fairy tale about Jack, the Giant (here named Milford), Dolly the Cow and the famous Golden Goose. +Catie Curtis, folk and rock . +Around the time that Harvey took the mound, the Rangers took the ice at Madison Square Garden for the most important game of their season, Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinal against the Washington Capitals in a series in which they trailed by three games to one. +A statement from the federal prosecutor’s office said the man, identified as Ayub B., 26, was suspected of having received military training and of recruiting fighters. +Their potential environmental and economic benefits are not yet clear, and governments would be acting prematurely if they were to abandon research on them, Dr. Hill said, though he also doubted that they could ever supply any large fraction of global fuel demand. +Some long-serving members, on the other hand, were concerned that Mr. Silver was being unfairly condemned before standing trial, and were wary about seeking his ouster before he had a chance to defend himself in court. +She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard. +New York officials said they had contained the city’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which sickened 101 people and killed 10. +“Those that play well will be rewarded with more play ,” Sullivan said. +“We have to think differently,” said Michael Connor , the deputy secretary of the Interior Department, which includes the Bureau of Reclamation. +“She’s as amazed as everyone else is” by his staying power, said Edward G. Rendell, a former governor of Pennsylvania , who recently spoke to Mrs. Clinton about Mr. Trump. +The gadgetry “I have a particular fondness for the look of the interior of a gigantic satellite called the Death Star , a place full of the kind of waste space one finds today only in old Fifth Avenue mansions and public libraries.” +The fight stirred the Madison Square Garden crowd and might have launched the Rangers to a victory. +Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist at Smith College and author of “Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup,” questioned whether the organizers could get any “master developers” to sign on for the village and the stadium. +The industry will continue to change, so we need to stay agile and adapt . +Although Ms. Shelley leads a full band on her albums, at Union Pool, her backup was ample with just two acoustic guitars — her own and Nathan Salsburg’s — and the occasional vocal harmonies of Glen Dentinger. A few cyclical, undulating, fingerpicked chords were enough for each song, with Ms. Shelley pinpointing the rhythm and Mr. Salsburg entwining it with touches of filigree. +Against a broad basket of currencies, the dollar has risen more than 13 percent since September to its highest level in almost six years. +David Leonhardt +But olive oil, lime juice and white-wine vinegar (best available, please!) begin to smooth things out, and the cheese, pistachios and vinegar-plumped currants finish the job. +For Don Cameron, a farmer south of Fresno, a wet winter 33 years ago led to an idea about how to take advantage of the vast natural water storage system underground. +But after hearing criticism from elected officials and local residents , Mr. Cuomo asked the board to consider a new round of bidding for a casino license specifically for the Southern Tier. +In the second hour Tuesday we saw the overprivileged Chad and the daffy Denise , who had become lovers, decide to break up. +As intended, this got a laugh from ProPublica’s journalists , who live in the numbers-heavy world of today’s investigative reporting, where databases and spreadsheets have replaced the rumbling of the presses beneath the floor. +Now, of course, he’s the manager of the Dodgers , which strikes me as ridiculous — wrong shade of blue. +Fortis will donate land where NYU Langone Medical Center will build a new medical facility; Fortis itself will not build a larger hospital on the site. +But Mr. Stubb of Finland , which also uses the euro, said he was happy to let Ms. Merkel and Mr. Hollande face down Mr. Tsipras late into the night, noting that “there is always a lot of mayhem around these meetings.” +For the parish priest, the Rev. Christopher Ryan Heanue , 28, the infant’s appearance carried a message of hope. +Through Aug. 23. $6 to $8; children ages 6 to12; $4 and children under 5, free. “ Canals of New Jersey, ” about New Jersey’s two towpath canals, the Morris and the Delaware and Raritan. +Now, of course, he’s the manager of the Dodgers , which strikes me as ridiculous — wrong shade of blue. +I’d pair this salad with a plate of braised greens, some good bread , and I’d be all set. +It should allow him to make a personal evaluation of the next potential leader of the Cuba n church, though analysts do not expect a decision soon. +The biggest price jump was in townhouse sales , according to Mr. Heym, with the median price in the third quarter of 2015 at $2.67 million, an increase of 59 percent over the same period last year. +In his emailed statement, Mr. Beckman said the apartment had been occupied by several of Dr. Sexton’s predecessors, but that when Dr. Sexton was named president, he chose to remain in the faculty apartment he had occupied since the late 1980s , which is down the street in another university-owned building. +A trail of blood led to Mr. Piedrahita’s body, and the police also recovered a blood-covered tree branch near his body. +The extent of injuries or fatalities was not immediately clear there or in the town of Burkburnett, Tex ., about 15 miles north of Wichita Falls, where a second tornado struck. +Still, black Americans suffer disproportionate police violence. +LONDON — In one of the more bizarre moments of a tight British election campaign, the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, went in the dead of night Monday to the apartment of Russell Brand, a bawdy comedian, to give him an interview, which was posted Wednesday on YouTube . +Though “The Starters’ “ television audience is growing, Mr. Elder and Mr. Melas , with the show’s other personalities, Trey Kerby and Leigh Ellis, have not abandoned podcasting. +So far, that effort has seen him burn through eight head coaches and more than a dozen starting quarterbacks. +The grade crossing is, as it turns out, among the most dangerous in the country , according to a little-known metric devised by the Federal Railroad Administration called the “accident prediction value.” +He is going to like the Derby’s mile-and-a-quarter distance. +He owns an AR-15, a ­9-millimeter­ and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera . +Will it? Meditation is exploding in popularity. +Unfortunately, when it arrives, Kay is the only one home. +Mr. Shalabi’s lawyer, Tariq Bargouth , said the basis for the conviction and punishment never established that Mr. Shalabi’s posts had encouraged any specific militant attack. +Eileen Mora, Mr. Mora’s daughter, said she had “some sweet memories” of her father, who died of a heart attack in 1989. +Tom Hanks leads a terrific cast that includes Mark Rylance as a Soviet mole and Scott Shepherd as a C.I.A. operative. +If the United States is going to arrive at a workable compromise solution to its gun problem , it will not be accomplished through the use of historical analogies that are false, silly and insulting. +If there is ever a moment where I am made to feel like a consumer, it is when I have already bought a ticket and am waiting to board . +“I came back and said I would like to do a coloring book for grown-ups, and it got a bit quiet for a moment +Lost And Found: New on the extended hardcover fiction list this week, at No. 18, is another work of semiautobiographical fiction: “ A Manual for Cleaning Women ,” a posthumously published story collection by Lucia Berlin, a little-known American writer who died in 2004 and who has been championed by Lydia Davis and August Kleinzahler. +For Catholics, pastoral care for real people often trumps strong teaching — for example, when communion is offered to political leaders and military officials who lead a war judged to be unjust, like the 2003 invasion of Iraq. +But the 10 crossings, four in New Jersey and six on Long Island, examined by The Times are easily among the most hazardous in the country. +Mr. Menendez has vowed to stay in office while fighting the case against him in court, though he gave up his position as the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after being indicted. +A year ago, PC chips brought in $9.2 billion and data center chips brought in $3.7 billion. +Speaking at a news conference to recognize the second anniversary of his election, Mr. Rouhani dismissed reports that Iranians would have to wait more than a few months for the lifting of sanctions, which have crippled Iran’s economy. +“It has gotten to the point where people are being asked to pay not just hundreds but thousands of dollars for a single pill,” said Mrs. Clinton, who laid out her proposals at a forum in Iowa , where she and Mr. Sanders are running closely in opinion polls for the first-in-the-nation caucuses. +But Stanton had surgery to repair a broken bone in his hand last Sunday and will miss several weeks. +That split is the same as the broadcasters now hold for the British rights to televise the Premier League , whose teams, including Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, play in games that can attract a global audience of about three billion each week. +James even found time to impersonate a statistician during the game, approaching the officials during a first-quarter timeout and arguing that a 2-point basket credited to his teammate Kevin Love should have been a 3-pointer. +They start by reviewing dystopian futures as described in science fiction. “You know all of that stuff?” +The Department of Transportation has sponsored research at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute into whether the safety benefit of having head-up displays in cars outweighs the risk of distraction ; that study is expected to conclude in 2016. +The Obama administration took an important step in the right direction when it created new oversight rules for the industry and stepped up its investigations into companies like Corinthian Colleges — one of the largest operators of for-profit colleges and trade schools in the country until it collapsed last year amid state and federal lawsuits and fraud investigations. +His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, Angela, for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence . +Because of the Ukraine crisis, he was thrown out of the G-8 countries of leading economic powers, and felt so snubbed at the last G-20 meeting in Australia that he flew home early. +SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The boat stopped 300 yards off San Nicolas Island at 5:30 a.m. Monday, and Zach Jirkovsky was among those who stirred from his bunk. +“I swore two years ago that because she was beginning to look more like an adult woman, I was going to stop. +PITTSBURGH — Mike Sullivan ’s voice is unmistakable. +Tenure goes back to medieval times , and the tradition of awarding professors lifetime job guarantees carried over to America, where it began in the late 1700s to protect academic freedom at religious schools. +But Amanda Kessel , a leading scorer for the Americans in Sochi and the college player of the year in 2013, has not played since, ending her career at Minnesota at 23 because of lingering symptoms from a concussion sustained before the Olympics. +With the deal, Interpublic gains a majority stake in the Russian affiliates of three of its most well-known global creative agencies — McCann, Mullen Lowe and FCB. +His role in a Soviet crackdown on dissidents ahead of the 1980 Olympics is widely believed to have contributed to the death of a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist, Vasyl Stus . +They flirted awkwardly at a conference in Amman, Jordan, where they met in 2011. +“Spy” has had about 10 test screenings, he said, although unlike “ Bridesmaids ,” it scored well with audiences out of the gate. +It reached No. 1 on the pop charts in 1966 and sold more than a million copies, becoming the label’s first gold record. +But he did have something to say, and he said it powerfully through his music . +Unlike other fund companies, BlackRock does not have any leveraged loan E.T.F.s. +The euro fell to 1.20 against the dollar on Friday, its lowest since June 2010, while the yield, or market interest rate, on German two-year government bonds fell to a new low of minus 0.11 percent. +The bureau is in the meantime coming under fire from lawmakers of both parties for failing to meet the challenges of today’s searing drought. +“In the Microsoft case, if they’d just waited a while, the problems they thought they saw would have disappeared because technology, consumer behavior and the market demand changed enough to correct those problems,” said Geoffrey A. Manne, executive director of the International Center for Law and Economics, a policy research organization that has received funding from technology companies including, in the past, Google. +Now the wheel has turned, and the time has come to begin meeting the challenge Tiziano issued on that Florentine afternoon, after some familiar chatter among his guests : how far each of us had traveled, the wonders and miseries we’d chronicled, and the most fascinating, or cruel, dictators and rulers through whose realms we’d passed. +The people trying to use the passports — nine ethnic Uighurs trying to leave China illegally through a Shanghai airport — are also under arrest, according to the newspaper, Global Times. +Craig Elbert, vice president for marketing at Bonobos, called them helpful for building relationships and for measuring effectiveness. +Filled with a sensational mix of romance-gone-wrong murder mysteries like “Scorned: Love Kills” and “Deadly Affairs,” hosted by the former soap opera queen Susan Lucci, Investigation Discovery has attracted a global audience of fans so dedicated that they complain to the network that its logo is permanently visible on their television screens. +The crime scene was chaotic, and Ms. Santana had started to run as soon as the violence began; she might not have spotted everyone involved. +The defect led to the recall of 2.6 million small cars last year. +“You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” +“You’re always hoping that you’re going to win, but if you don’t, you have to think about how to position your show,” said Kevin McCollum , the lead producer of “Rotten!” +The larger of the vessels, a 140-foot boat known as the Firefighter II, also used its main cannon as a water-powered battering ram. +(Scott) ‘Suffragette’ (PG-13, 1:47) Carey Mulligan plays Maud Watts, a laundry worker in London in 1912 who becomes a militant supporter of women’s voting rights. +For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. +Kythera, which is based in Westlake Village, Calif ., was founded in 2005 and is focused on the aesthetic medicine market, including its treatment for submental fullness, also known as double chin. +The legislation is based on the idea , rejected by mainstream medical groups, that a fetus feels pain then. +Declarer held the heart K-8-7, West the heart J-10-6 and dummy the heart 9-5-3. +One of the less predictable turn of events was the bland performance by Neil Patrick Harris , a veteran M.C. of both the Tony Awards and the Emmys, who hosted the Oscars for the first time on Sunday. +Despite being the league’s most valuable player and the clear leader of the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry has a far lower figure than James in the finals, 30.5. +Although the Shanghai composite index has risen less than 3 percent so far this year, the Zexi No. 1 Fund, which works with a subsidiary of the state-owned conglomerate China Resources, gained 323 percent through Friday; it has risen 3,270 percent since its inception in 2010. +According to Friday’s decision, written by Judge Kimba M. Wood of Federal District Court in Manhattan, the pass rate for African-American and Latino candidates was between 54 percent and 75 percent of the pass rate for white candidates. +It doesn’t feel necessarily like electricity, but it feels like your body would be, like, touched by some kind of extreme power and you’re just shaking , like you just can’t handle all this stuff that’s being poured into you, and all they’re saying is, ‘Come on, Holy Spirit, and fill him up to overflowing.’ ... +Coach Mike Davis coached at Indiana for six seasons, leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 championship game. +BRONX Lehman College Art Gallery “The Gee’s Bend Tradition,” group show. +The last time the voting age was a major issue was in 1971, when lawmakers passed the 26th Amendment , which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21, aligning it with the minimum age for military service during the Vietnam War. +That is partly because of geopolitics and partly because Chinese industries with overcapacity at home have been exporting at low prices to Turkey’s longtime markets in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. +Dashboard cameras are far more prevalent — more so among state police and highway patrol forces than among local police forces — but experts say they know of no national tally of those, either. +Citigroup issued a statement on Thursday distancing itself from the report. +A sharp rise in visits to emergency rooms and calls to poison control centers nationwide has some health officials fearing that more potent and dangerous variations of a popular drug known as spice have reached the nation’s streets, resulting in several deaths. +A Swarovski crystal chandelier with 96 bulbs hangs above the circular staircase, separating the lounge and bar from the white-hued dining room, where there are floor-to-ceiling windows. +In addition, the bank said it aimed to cut costs by 3.5 billion euros , or about $3.8 billion, a year. +Decision Maker by Jonathan Chow is a similar, free Android app, although it’s not as attractive. +Malta also has double taxation treaties with 65 countries, allowing individuals and businesses to avoid being taxed in two places. +The Miller program includes “Fits and Starts,” for solo cello and electronics, which she wrote for the choreographer Kitty McNamee and in which an increasingly lyrical and impassioned cello line coalesces out of skittish and distorted beginnings. +“I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith . +Mr. Huckabee raised just over $16 million in 2008, and despite victories in eight nominating contests saw his campaign expire for lack of funds to advertise in major states like Florida. The rules of campaign finance have changed in the new “super PAC” era, when as few as one or two super-wealthy supporters can fund an outside, parallel campaign. +Ms. Berman, 34 , will keep her name. +Marian Gaborik and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the visiting Kings, and Quick stopped 31 shots. +The statements Boulez made were kind of refreshingly categorical . +He will perform his quintessential 1976 record, “Songs in the Key of Life,” the double album that has inspired scores of R&B dreamers; in 2005, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry . +That figure doesn’t take into account any savings , of course, as well as any premium that Visa would have to pay to bypass the existing agreement. +In addition, Ms. Slaughter went on a “listening tour,” giving hundreds of speeches she describes as a form of “call and response research.” +Silver filigree pendants ($18 to $45) depict a flame motif found in ancient Khmer temples. +In years past, he has had sharp words for Washington, but this time he praised the efforts of Secretary of State John Kerry to find a political solution to the war in Syria. +The diverging paths of the two central banks prompted investors to put money into dollars, on the expectation that interest rates in the United States will rise and offer a better return than in Europe, where interest rates are falling. +Painted with a dry, Expressionist touch, “ Double Protection: Invisible Threat ” has a shirtless man with four eyes and a wide, clownish grin dominating the right half of the almost 10-foot-wide canvas. +One Saturday afternoon this past winter, when my family and I were having lunch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a ritual viewing of mummies and armor with our 5-year-old son, I noticed a young man a few tables away staring at us. +He listens as a woman he knows as the “examiner” tells him how a story works. +A philanthropist, she was a board member of the University of California , the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the San Francisco Symphony, among other organizations. +She may not notice the carnival anymore, but the director, Chris Messina , takes time to gently point out some of the more picturesque sites, like the Venice sign that serves as a gateway to the Pacific and the arched walkways that Orson Welles immortalized in “Touch of Evil.” +In the wake of Thursday’s attack, Mrs. Clinton made sure to acknowledge that “ gun ownership is part of the fabric of many American communities,” before urging broad policies to address gun violence. +As President Obama once said, elections have consequences. That includes the Republican sweep of 2014. +But that would be a setback for both Mr. de Blasio and tenant activists who hope to impose restrictions on landlords of rent-stabilized apartments . +Viagra was a blockbuster from the start in 1998 and last year Pfizer sold nearly $1.7 billion of it. +He owns an AR-15, a ­9-millimeter­ and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera . +“This is a very important indication of how dysfunctional the government is and how incapable it is of dealing with the basic demands of the population,” said Mario Abou Zeid, a research analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut . +More than 15 percent of the approximately 150,000 acres of pistachio trees in the main producing area in Kerman Province have died in the last decade or so . +An initial investigation led to the arrest of Ms. Mitchell. The charges, brought by the Clinton County district attorney, Andrew M. Wylie, accused her of smuggling hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools into the prison. +Some European groups need to cut gross assets . +Although the use of spice has decreased in recent years, according to some surveys, the drug continues to be sold by street dealers, as well as openly on the Internet and at smoke shops and other retailers, as potpourri or incense with brand names like Scooby Snax and Black Diamond . +A team of Boston Globe investigative reporters — played by Michael Keaton, Brian d’Arcy James, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo — takes on the local archdiocese in this powerful fact-based newspaper procedural, directed by Tom McCarthy . +“The mother followed the spirit of New York’s ‘Safe Haven’ Law , which allows a parent to leave a child not older than 30 days with an appropriate person or in a suitable location where the parent promptly notifies an appropriate person of the child’s location,” he said. +“The story went most certainly viral, because it’s a beautiful story ,” he said. +In his first finals appearance with the Heat, in 2011 , he did not even lead the team in usage, trailing Wade and Chris Bosh. +More recently, however, Mr. Carson made clear that he would always defend his Adventist beliefs against skeptics . +WOLFSBURG, Germany — Volkswagen said on Wednesday that it would be able to bring its diesel cars into line with European clean-air standards by updating engine software and installing a small, tube-shaped part roughly the same diameter as the cardboard tube in a roll of paper towels . +with 61 runs and 15 stolen bases in 18 attempts, the other candidates are Detroit outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, Kansas City third baseman Mike Moustakas, Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts and Minnesota second baseman Brian Dozier. +‘ Our Brand Is Crisis ’ (R, 1:47) +Recently, these rides have ended at Chomp Chomp in Greenwich Village for radish cakes, noodle soups with transporting powers, coconut rice, triangles of golden beef-filled roti wet with curry sauce, and other treats from the food courts of Singapore. +Goalie Braden Holtby has won his last seven starts and leads the N.H.L. with a 1.95 goals-against average . +Craig Elbert, vice president for marketing at Bonobos , called them helpful for building relationships and for measuring effectiveness. +All of the suspects were detained in November and formally charged recently, the report said. +Inexplicably, the chefs also spurted a gray dribble of soaked basil seeds on the plate. +TEHRAN — Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent who has been detained in Iran for almost 10 months and accused of spying for the United States, will go on trial on May 26 , the judicial authorities told the state news media on Tuesday. +This was the decade, shading into the 1970s, whose architects created the Relaxation Cube, the walk-in Knowledge Box, inflatable Instant Cities and Microhouses for the masses. +It was that same summer I read “The Second Sex.” GS : For me, an important point came when I was living in India, because of the Gandhian movement and the role of women in it. +She would like to turn Cosmo Sex Tips into a half-hour TV show in which “various comedians and actors act out the sexy tips +When it comes to explaining the Holocaust, Germans inquire about the place of anti-Semitism and xenophobia in their society and about the psychological and cultural factors that led ordinary citizens to participate in, or to accept, horrific atrocities. +I felt like there was somebody else in me, like, dwelling, trying to get out to this extreme degree, and I was just overwhelmed in it.” +The committee is also bending a bit on salt, putting less emphasis on the 1,500-milligram daily limit on sodium for special populations, in light of the mounting evidence that too little sodium may be as bad as too much, if not worse. +Modifying Volkswagen diesel cars sold in the United States will be more complicated because of stricter rules on emissions of nitrogen oxides, pollutants harmful to the environment and human health. +Kyrgios’s early exit will at least allow him to avoid the vitriol that has been directed his way since Wednesday night, when he was heard telling Stan Wawrinka that a fellow Australian player, Thanasi Kokkinakis, had slept with Wawrinka’s girlfriend, Donna Vekic , a player on the WTA Tour. +Cutting operating expenses by 2 percent a year should be possible for most banks. +Naomi Sturm, a folklorist from Staten Island Arts, will moderate the event, which will include storytellers from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone . +Two of the men had each spent almost 33 years in prison on arson and murder charges, the longest time served by any defendant whose conviction has been vacated under Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney. +We were both imprisoned in China , on charges officials there later acknowledged to have been false, and we both shared, at the same time in the 1990s, the same cancer — non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — and the same oncologist in New York. +On Sunday the mourners emerged, following the voice of a father who was away at a religious retreat when the fire broke out. +The bride graduated from Barnard College and received a master's degree in library and information sciences from Rutgers. +In less than one week , he would open the doors to the shop, but at the moment he was still fretfully awaiting the final shipments of his stock. +Indeed, Mr. Sweat told investigators that he and Mr. Matt had joked that while it had taken Andy Dufresne, the character in the movie played by Tim Robbins, 20 years to escape, it would take them only 10 years. +She graduated from Binghamton University and from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. +For disease-causing parasites like tapeworms, roundworms and flukes, which may infest raw or undercooked fish, freezing can be the answer, but its effectiveness varies. +Of the 11 children in the family, Meb said, nine have earned college degrees . +The United Nations does not have the legal authority to prosecute or punish a country’s soldiers, even when they are serving under the banner of the United Nations. +The far-left faction of his party announced that it would vote no on the new proposals, while his right-wing coalition partners said the deal was “unacceptable.” +Cobb’s image is not a fixer-upper; it’s a Superfund site . +The biggest price jump was in townhouse sales, according to Mr. Heym, with the median price in the third quarter of 2015 at $2.67 million , an increase of 59 percent over the same period last year. +Most of the practicing analysts I know are eager to learn about the newest developments in biological psychiatry, neuroscience, developmental and experimental psychology, special education, sociology and occupational therapy. We have already entered a new era of multidisciplinary collaboration, so that we can understand and integrate the mutual influences of biology, environment and the development of the inner life with greater complexity and apply the new understanding to help our patients. +Before going upstairs, don’t miss Mr. Holder’s two Tony Awards on the opposite wall. +That unwavering support from Capitol Hill is but one reason the C.I.A.’s killing missions are embedded in American warfare and unlikely to change significantly despite President Obama’s announcement on Thursday that a drone strike accidentally killed two innocent hostages, an American and an Italian. +“He acted more like a prosecutor than a defense lawyer,” Yevhen Sverstiuk, an essayist and author who knew Mr. Stus , said in an interview last year. +Most of the staff members receive years of language and hospitality training , and the lodge purchases the bulk of its food, materials and decorations locally. +When he first described his vision for the museum, in 1998, he had hoped to raise $5 million within a year or two. +For these tests, The Wirecutter used two routers: its top 802.11ac router recommendation, TP-Link’s Archer C7, and an older 802.11n router, Netgear’s WNDR3700. +The inmates in their affidavits and letters identified nine officers by name as being involved. +At 1:30 p.m. , 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, fourth floor, 212-579-0528, vitaltheatre.org. +His start was another test in his comeback from Tommy John surgery , to see how he would perform if his routine kept getting tweaked. +Authorities were going house to house to assess the damage, but that proved difficult amid the heavy rainfall , Judge Rex Fields of Eastland County said. +In early June, Ms. Kodar is expected to attend a university-sponsored Welles symposium that will honor donors to the film archive. +“You’re just doing the math,” she told Daryl . +It was two years ago that Mr. Obama gave a speech pledging to pull the targeted killing program from the shadows , and White House officials said they wanted to shift the bulk of drone operations from the C.I.A. to the Pentagon, with the stated intent of making the program somewhat more transparent. +Several Mets , led by Juan Uribe, were singing along to pop songs by the Backstreet Boys, the popular boy band from the late 1990s. +“ Please ignore the siren ,” he said. +“I have never heard, and never received any information, that there was rivalry or conflict between the Shiite community and anyone else,” Mr. Habib said. +It was 1948 when they set sail, and Ms. Booth recounted how one of the Yale men kept trying to sneak up to the first-class deck from third class. +This last eclipse of the year has led some, er, imaginative observers to predict that a giant asteroid will hit Earth within the next six days — a notion that NASA has firmly rebuffed. “ There is no scientific basis — not one shred of evidence — that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates +There is a notable absence of aggression and of the kind of manipulation that yanks adjectives like “devastating” from the laptops of unwitting reviewers. +Frank Shorter is widely considered the greatest male American marathoner, having won gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics, taken silver at the 1976 Montreal Games and finished first for four consecutive years at Japan’s Fukuoka Marathon, a de facto world championship in the 1970s. +That colorful street entertainment is one of many striking set pieces in THE CONVICTIONS OF JOHN DELAHUNT (Pegasus, $24.95), a remarkable first novel that Andrew Hughes has set in 1840s Dublin and based on crimes of that period. +Enhanced by films and a soundtrack, the show is largely archival, with lots of works on paper, including the 151 hand-typed note cards that, in 1964 , became “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings,” and demonstrate how radical this artist’s early experiments with language and performance were. +Insurgents said the troops fled when they heard the sounds of their opponents digging a tunnel underneath the hospital to blow it up . +EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who lost his right index finger in a Fourth of July fireworks accident, did not report for the first day of training camp Thursday, and the team co-owner John Mara said the Giants had no information on the condition of Pierre-Paul, their best defensive player. +Such talk does not bother Moussa Mohammad, a cardiologist and father of four from Dara’a, Syria , who received refugee status in Germany in February. +The displays, despite large cartoonish illustrations, require close reading, and many are accompanied by thought-provoking questions about the gray areas in liability. +MORRIS TOWNSHIP Greek Theater, College of St. Elizabeth “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” directed by Brian B. Crowe, presented by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. +Mr. Bush’s campaign, meanwhile, said its candidate is an effective fighter, citing his conservative record as governor of Florida, where he was the “first governor to break the back of the teachers’ union .” +People are successful when they’re intellectually and emotionally engaged as opposed to when they’re checking the box. +In an apparent response to the Obama administration’s recent decision to ban certain Venezuelan officials suspected of human rights violations from traveling to the United States, Mr. Maduro unveiled a no-fly list of his own , declaring former President George W. 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at his home in Virginia. +FRANKFURT — A strong indication on Friday that the European Central Bank is on the verge of aggressive action to stimulate the economy, just as the Fed eral Reserve is dialing back its stimulus, helped push the euro to its lowest level against the dollar since 2010. +New York has just added another outstanding museum exhibition to its autumn roster, this one at the Neue Galerie. +The look was somewhere between 1957 and 1963 , as was the sound. +Approval came at the church’s general synod in Cleveland, where delegates voted 508 to 124 in favor of divestment and boycott, with 38 abstentions. +The pamphlet, created by the de Blasio administration, is a glossy but blunt warning about the dangers of metzitzah b’peh, an Orthodox circumcision ritual linked to herpes infections in infants. +FRANKFURT — Anshu Jain , the co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank, chuckled when he was asked on Monday whether the United States had become inhospitable to foreign banks. +In a play that seemed to unfold in slow motion so that you could see the heartbreak coming long before it arrived, Edgar Martinez doubled into the left-field corner off Jack McDowell, scoring two runs, including Ken Griffey Jr. on an all-out sprint from first base. +The suit comes at a time when charter schools, especially those in the Success Academy network, have come under scrutiny for their enforcement of strict behavior codes , suspending even the youngest students. +“I’d like to write something as great as ‘ Pinocchio’ or ‘Little Women .’ +The second stop on the tour was East Berlin, where, on March 22, 1965 , he and his All Stars played a memorable two-hour concert. +“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is about growing up, facing death, making and losing friends and other rites of passage, but it’s also, and more immediately, about drifting, hanging out, wasting time and succumbing to confusion . +She also solicited the aid of other Russian scholars , especially the chess master and logodaedalist Gennady Barabtarlo, who helped solve the riddles Vladimir posed for Véra. +At one point he links self-interest with violence . +The jury found that Dolan’s decision constituted a retaliatory firing and violated federal law . +One of his targets, Drummond, a coal producer based in Birmingham, Ala. , recently asked a federal judge to hold the lawyer in contempt as part of a libel suit it is pressing against him. +It was in 2001 , not “almost 15 years ago.” +“About two years ago , I saw him at the Ritz,” Donatella Versace, Mr. Versace’s younger sister and since his death the steward of his label, said in a note. +The company expects to receive gross proceeds of €100 million from the offering, which will be used to repay debt and give it additional financial flexibility. +Although “Electric Ursa” was released just last September , Ms. Shelley devoted much of her set to new songs that were no less resonant and, perhaps, a little more concrete. +When Benjamin Roin, assistant professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at M.I.T., did so, he discovered that drug companies discard many potentially good ideas because they’re unpatentable . +Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center and Advocate Lutheran General Hospital have begun sterilizing their instruments with a gas called ethylene oxide. +“We wanted to have queer characters but not oversexualize them,” says Shannon Watters , an editor at Boom! +The Monday session had been the subject of great anticipation over the weekend, as Assembly members discussed with one another how the situation might unfold, and considered who could succeed Mr. Silver. +Ms. Le Pen and her party have thrived on an anti-immigration message that has verged on anti- Muslim , as well as a call for re-establishing European borders. +Blockupy is a left-wing alliance of dozens of activist groups from across Europe. +Nonetheless, the new Republican leadership in Congress decided to appoint someone new to head the C.B.O. That decision is entirely understandable. +Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation have met with law firm leaders in the last few years to discuss online security . +The gadgetry “I have a particular fondness for the look of the interior of a gigantic satellite called the Death Star, a place full of the kind of waste space one finds today only in old Fifth Avenue mansions and public libraries.” A week later , Mr. Canby took to his Sunday column to defend against a charge by some critics that movies like “Star Wars,” a “gigantic comic strip of a sci-fi movie,” were “the seminal works of a new age of Non-Think, an anti-intellectual reaction to the plays and films that go out of their way to insult, shock, provoke and disturb, that question everything, including the system that allows the artist to express his outrage.” +Young was out of Sunday’s starting lineup, but even after a pinch-hit strikeout, he was hitting .313 with six homers and 12 runs batted in. +The suicide bombing wounded at least 22 people and killed one, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Sediq Sediqqi. +That correspondence, if it exists, would most likely have taken place on Mrs. Clinton’s private email address , putting its accessibility — to journalists, scholars or political adversaries — in doubt. +While it is possible to get to Stepney Green from Victoria station on the Circle line in 23 minutes, it requires a transfer; it is not direct. +As far as I’m concerned, the people who equate their self-worth with their airline status can have it! I ended up giving the miles to family members and friends . +Mr. Roin, the M.I.T. professor, describes another approach: to provide a period of market exclusivity — long enough to motivate investment in clinical trials — to any organization addressing an unmet medical need with a drug that isn’t patentable. +The issue is that short-term financing like construction loans , which are usually 12 months or less, is exempt from existing disclosure requirements under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, but disclosure requirements would apply under the new rules. +The appeal of Chomp Chomp, which the chef and owner, Simpson Wong , named after one of the country’s most magnetic hawker centers, is that you can eat your way from stall to stall without leaving your seat. +“A small majority can quickly turn into a bed of nails,” said Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator magazine . +Many of Mrs. Clinton’s advisers say they still doubt Mr. Trump will be the Republican nominee, but they have contemplated what it would mean for Mrs. Clinton, a policy wonk known for her 12-point plans to approach problems, to run against the visceral Mr. Trump, said several of those advisers who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations. +­Leerhsen cites an interview he conducted with Ron Shelton , the film’s director. +“Obviously it’s the talk of the locker room, and everybody has their opinion,” Roger Federer said. +These heroines aren’t like their traditional selves — Snow White, for instance, is allergic to apples — and neither are their princes, who may be more clumsy than charming. +Those he seeks advice from, he said, include Tom Freston, the former chief executive of Viacom who many credit with helping make Vice into a rising media powerhouse. +After Saturday’s game, in which goaltender Henrik Lundqvist did not play, he answered several questions about Boston Coach Claude Julien’s remark that Lundqvist had embellished a collision with Bruins forward Brad Marchand . +At times, the people in “Brand New Ancients” recall the tired denizens of Eliot’s “Unreal City” in “The Waste Land” — which, the reader remembers, also mentions Tiresias, as one who has “perceived the scene, and foretold the rest” — trudging through their tedious day jobs, then trudging home in the twilight hour. +“At a certain point he realized that he had been given very bad advice,” said Aristos Doxiadis, an economist and venture capitalist who writes about politics and has been critical of Mr. Tsipras in the past. +With a curly wig and a fake case of pink eye, she was shooting a scene opposite Jude Law for their new movie, “Spy,” as the director and screenwriter, Paul Feig , looked on. +The association has begun working with operators of communities on strategies to mitigate the effect of cliques and will conduct a new study this year to examine the prevalence of cliques in assisted-living residences as well. +When Porzingis was drafted by the Knicks , he instantly became the country’s best-known athlete and a hero. +The modesty of “Digging for Fire” is among its virtues, and Mr. Swanberg has become an increasingly trustworthy filmmaker. +A government investigation in March found that GreenTech, which sought green cards for its Chinese investors through an American government program, had received special treatment in the handling of its visa applications. +Mrs. Clinton’s ramp-up to a candidacy built around women’s issues continues in New York on Monday, when she and the philanthropist Melinda Gates unveil the “No Ceilings” report. +“It makes sense for Apple to reveal a new keyboard along with new, larger-screen iPads with faster processors,” said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein . +She gave up a successful fashion line, Eva Chun , in 1994 to be a mother. +“Clint is about scoring goals,” Klinsmann said. +He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be a doctor . +A long-awaited bipartisan proposal to overhaul the criminal justice system, to be unveiled in the Senate today, would reduce jail time for nonviolent offenders. It would cut a 10-year mandatory minimum to five years for those who meet certain criteria and would trim penalties for prior drug offenses. +François Hollande , the French president, planned his own commemoration at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. +You appeal a verdict or accept it , at which point, like freshly poured concrete, it quickly hardens into accepted fact. +Relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority took a turn for the worse after President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party signed a reconciliation agreement last April with Hamas , the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, contributing to the breakdown of troubled American-brokered Middle East peace talks. +“I would be utterly shocked and dismayed and aghast if the Assembly Democrats were to offer Mr. Silver any leadership role whatsoever,” said Assemblyman Brian M. Kolb, a Republican from the Finger Lakes region who serves as minority leader. +“This is connected to the Malaysian Boeing,” Sergei A. Markov , a former member of Parliament in the pro-government United Russia party, said in a telephone interview. +Dolan announced that Thomas, a Hall of Fame point guard, would serve as president of the W.N.B.A.’s Liberty , the city’s women’s basketball team. +As that last awkward inquiry unfolded, Venus — who has won two singles titles here and seven majors altogether — played with her hair, then rested her chin on her left hand. +Shooting images for the print magazine component of “The Displaced,” Addario accompanied Hana Abdullah, a 12-year-old Syrian girl now living in a refugee settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, for 21 hours a day, documenting her daily life. +It would almost be a spoiler to tell you when and in what capacity they do, but it’s fun to anticipate the arrival of Melanie Lynskey, Sam Elliott, Brie Larson, Chris Messina (who gets naked) and Anna Kendrick (who almost does). +That unwavering support from Capitol Hill is but one reason the C.I.A . +Mr. Renzi, the leader of the center-left Democrats, has been relying on an uneasy pact with Mr. Berlusconi, the much-diminished leader of the center-right Forza Italia, since gaining power last year. +Through June 26 . +He also said that Showtime had worked with the university on story lines and on putting the show together and that it retained control over the program’s content. +The Obama administration took an important step in the right direction when it created new oversight rules for the industry and stepped up its investigations into companies like Corinthian Colleges — one of the largest operators of for-profit colleges and trade schools in the country until it collapsed last year amid state and federal lawsuits and fraud investigations. +Mr. Jones, an officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and a federal deputy, measured the fish and placed the 72 he deemed too small in a crate. +Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick, a Democrat whose district includes the area and who was a plaintiff in the case, said the decision “puts the limited open space that we jealously guard and protect totally at risk everywhere in the city.” +He emerged saying the group “is united in strongly opposing the proposed deal,” contending it “would pose a grave danger to the region and to the world, and would threaten the very survival of the state of Israel.” +After his 27th hole, Woods was 19 strokes off the leader’s pace. +IOWA 40, NORTHWESTERN 10 +When Rolls buyers do not feel like doing the driving, they often have another option. +“I think they just want assurance that adopting the federal statue isn’t going to weaken too much of what we did in our state version . +In the words of Chancellor Angela Merkel , whose apparent mercilessness during the Greek bailout talks prompted mocked-up photographs of her dressed in Nazi uniform: “The world sees Germany as a country of hope and opportunity, and that was certainly not always the case.” +Democrats also say that Mr. McConnell benefited from the pent-up demand he helped create by bottling up so much legislation as the leader of the minority. +Over lunch, Mr. Shoemaker said that he first heard of Mr. Connell while listening to the KPFA radio show hosted by the poet Kenneth Rexroth. +After a newborn was abandoned by his mother and discovered in the crèche of a Roman Catholic church in Queens last month, calls and emails offering help poured into the parish and to New York City ’s child welfare agency. +During a practice drill in 2010, Minnesota goalie Alyssa Grogan dived for a poke check, and a player fell and kneed her in the forehead while another landed on the back of her head. +She also recalled being driven all the way to Massachusetts one football weekend (the sweethearts were Amherst and Williams men) in a white Cadillac with a hired driver named Coffee Jackson . +It also sets out to reflect how architects and interior designers are behaving today, mixing historical periods and styles to achieve a casual, if studied, eclecticism . +( Eleven other states , including Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia, have gone the other direction, banning cities from enacting paid sick leave.) +It is typically inserted down the throat of an anesthetized patient to examine the very small ducts that drain the liver or gallbladder. +It is an improbable reversal of fortune, given that the Yankees have dominated the market so clearly since they won four World Series from 1996 to 2000 , capped by a triumph over the Mets in the so-called Subway Series. +But in recommending only three projects for a license last month, the board warned about the possibility of cannibalizing an already crowded gambling market in the Northeast. +Mr. Hatz’s viewpoint won out and the technology-sharing arrangement was soon scrapped. +New York officials said they had contained the city’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which sickened 10 1 people and killed 10. +The House vote in May fell 17 votes short of that mark. +Arizona, the Pacific-12 Conference regular-season and tournament champion , will meet No. 10 Ohio State on Saturday for a slot in the round of 16. +Johannsson has played with the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar since 2013 , scoring 38 goals in 84 games across all competitions. +With his mouth, I have no idea what he would say to people.” Democratic voters seem more enthusiastic about Mrs. Clinton as the party’s possible nominee than Republicans do about Mr. Trump. +JAKARTA, Indonesia — Two educators at a prestigious international school in Indonesia were freed from prison on Friday after an appeals court overturned their convictions and 10-year prison sentences on charges of sexually assaulting kindergartners , in a case that the school said was fabricated and that led to international concern about the competence of the country’s judicial system. +“The lesson for the fund-raising community is that if you’re interested in accessing the 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it a signature entree and promising meat out of the shell from a one-and-a-half-pound lobster. +Some of the women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault and other misconduct discuss why they came forward and what comes next on “Cosby: The Women Speak” at 9 p.m. Eastern on A&E. +When the package arrived, FedEx also dropped off two huge boxes that I insisted were not part of my order. +And in a move sure to make Apple old-timers squirm, the newest version of the iPad, which has an optional keyboard that attaches to the tablet, is even imitating some of the features of Microsoft’s competing product, called the Surface . +“It was certainly disappointing for me,” Sam Geli , a retired Adventist chaplain who considers himself an independent, said of Mr. Carson’s remarks about Muslims. +The managing director class that will be inducted starting in January is being culled now, said Gary Cohn , president and chief operating officer, who added he had “no real concerns” about the culture of the bank. +The bride, 30, and groom, 31, met at Pickard Chilton , an architecture firm in New Haven, where she is an archivist and he is an architect. +LeBron James and the Cavaliers suit up for Game 4 of the N.B.A. finals against the Warriors at 9 p.m. Eastern (ABC). +Toby Gad, a producer who has also written with Beyoncé, worked on 14 songs with Madonna; seven, including “Joan of Arc” and “Living for Love, ” reached the album. +But my favorite part of this outfit is definitely my gold shoes . +In keeping with the paternalistic traditions of czarist Russia +And different generations see the issue differently. +That night, she sat with her parents and Robyn while they discussed the situation. +News of the discussions was reported earlier by Reuters. +He said the demands the department had received for video during the testing period had been too burdensome . +He struck out four and walked two . +Reporters in Istanbul covered a police raid on their own offices on Wednesday, as the Turkish government seized control of two television stations and a newspaper group critical of the governing party just four days before national elections. +Authorities were going house to house to assess the damage, but that proved difficult amid the heavy rainfall, Judge Rex Fields of Eastland County said. +Capt. Nicholas Salimbene , an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. +There is yearning at the core of “A Cure for Suicide,” and in that yearning is the reason for carrying on when doing so feels impossible. +Though this has become true to a certain extent for every tournament (save, perhaps, Wimbledon , where the insistence on traditional white limits the fashion options to a meaningful degree), it reaches its apogee with the United States Open, in part because of a certain boundary-pushing ethos associated with New York and in part because, according to Mr. Eisenbud, it is the Grand Slam event with the most nontennis news-media coverage attached, and hence the greatest potential reach. +“I would say this is completely up in the air,” said Mr. Burlison, a Republican from Springfield. +Instead, the film’s emotional climax comes as Mr. Homsi himself reaches Istanbul , released from captivity and torture by the Islamic State. +Netflix was the biggest gainer in the S.&P. 500 index. +The two came to the idea of an alternative approach to neuroscience on a backpacking trip on Vancouver Island in 2011 . +“ Digging for Fire ,” Joe Swanberg’s new feature is, like many of his previous movies, a case study in heterosexual ethics. +But news of reality, cold and harsh, seeped in. He knew he had to face it , and one night he left home for good, his horse carried aloft by gods so its hoof beats wouldn’t be heard. +Market adulation reached its peak in April , when a commentary on the website of People’s Daily, the party’s flagship newspaper, told readers the 4,000 point mark reached by the Shanghai Stock Exchange was “only the start of the bull market.” +While Cheryl Strayed was a student at Syracuse , where Ms. Karr teaches, she did not study with Ms. Karr. +When Mr. Clinton worked as a co-chairman of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Mr. Rodham and his partners sought a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the country. +He said there was no indication that the grand jury had been handled improperly, and concluded that political contributions can be considered “things of value to influence official acts.” “The Constitution does not protect an attempt to influence a public official’s acts through improper means, such as the bribery scheme that has been alleged in this case,” he wrote in his decision. +NXP Semiconductors, a big chip manufacturer , is near a deal to acquire a smaller peer, Freescale Semiconductor, in a cash-and-stock transaction, people briefed on the matter said on Sunday. +And he failed to give Latino voters any persuasive evidence that he had anything better to offer them than his opponents in a revoltingly xenophobic Republican campaign. +Residents of Midwood cloistered in their homes and synagogues during the Sabbath, from nightfall on Friday to nightfall on Saturday , recalling a band of conscientious children they had seen rushing to synagogue and building snowmen in the yard. +( The Supreme Court just handed the Inclusive Communities Project an important victory in a lawsuit seeking to make more housing available. +Everywhere she goes she finds a copy of Dr. David Schnarch ’s “Passionate Marriage,” which feels like both an earnest, obvious metaphor and a sly running joke. +Plans for this weekend include an hourlong live show at 6 p.m. Friday, with player interviews and an appearance by the basketball great George Gervin . +According to Ricky Riccardi , one of Armstrong’s biographers, the song had not been in his repertoire for a decade or more. +But the full chamber then deadlocked for hours, as more than two dozen Democrats refused to vote . +French officials, pleased with the successful collaboration of the French and the U.S. against jihadists in Africa, Libya, Mali and Syria, were more inclined to treat the wiretapping as an old story. +On one side of the foyer are a breakfast room and a kitchen, with appliances updated over the last 10 years . +He bootstrapped the research laboratory with his own money and now supports it with funding from a variety of private individual contributions and scientific research grants. +The Italian master of modern still life , +Willis Carto, a reclusive behind-the-scenes wizard of the far-right fringe of American politics who used lobbying and publishing to denigrate Jews and other minorities and galvanize the movement to deny the Holocaust , died last Monday at his home in Virginia. +At least one defector from Camp 18 recognized Mr. Shin’s father as a fellow inmate, pressuring Mr. Shin to admit that his story didn’t hold together, leading to the retraction. +The company commissioned a report by Tom Ridge , a former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who outlined several safety and operational risks of locating a stadium in Inglewood just a few miles from the runways at Los Angeles International Airport. +“It doesn’t work very well if a movie is supposed to make you feel difficult emotions,” Mr. Apatow said. +The cabinet’s resignation also illustrated a political dilemma facing Mr. Sisi , the former armed forces chief who took power during a wave of nationalist fervor following the military’s removal of Mr. Morsi. +For some years , Siddhartha lived a bubble-baby existence. +We don’t see anywhere near the kind of public problems that the other drugs in Schedule I have.” +They name them Sir John and Lady Jane, raising anatomy to the level of aristocracy. +One of her teachers, Andrea Long-Naidu — a former City Ballet dancer — encouraged her to audition for the school. +He also supported efforts to overhaul campaign finance laws , lending his backing to the McCain-Feingold legislation that passed in 2002. +I was looking at the building and I said, well, if this building was for sale now and one of the major brokers had it on the market it would come with a high-gloss book and it would show all of the possibilities a buyer could do with the building. +“ In fact, the footage of the fetus was “stock footage” that “was added to the video to dramatize its content,” according to PolitiFact, which rated Fiorina’s comments as “ mostly false. ” FactCheck.org also said: “We are aware of no video showing such a scene.” +But it most certainly was an issue for Gordon College, a multidenominational Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, Mass. Like the Girl Scouts, the college said it was acting in accordance with its core beliefs when, in July 2014, the college’s president, D. 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Andrii Syurkalo , a Ukrainian officer, said it was commendable that the trainers were willing to use the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal as an element in a class on the Geneva Conventions. +It can be read as an ode to Mr. Lloyd Webber’s rock ’n’ roll coming-of-age, containing snippets of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (an inescapable radio hit from his adolescence); Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” (a nod to that band’s lead singer, Ian Gillan , the original Jesus of “Superstar”); and “Walk on the Wild Side,” by Lou Reed (whose music was ubiquitous on his early visits to New York). +As with the stop-and-frisk approach, they say, the aggressive enforcement of minor offenses unfairly targets young black and Hispanic men . +Now globalization is a huge factor,” said James Roundell, a director at the London and New York dealer and adviser Dickinson, who, while working at Christie’s in 1987 , represented the winning Japanese telephone bidder for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” +James Miller , a spokesman for the corrections officers’ union, the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, said in an email last month that Mr. Harrell was “acting violently and appeared delusional as a result of apparently ingesting drugs.” +Fans at T.P.C. 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world’s largest social networking site, with some users deploying their “unfollow” buttons like a television remote to silence distasteful political views. +The Sports Business column on Wednesday, about the reaction of sponsors to the resignation of FIFA’s president , Sepp Blatter, misspelled, in some editions, the name that a Women’s World Cup commentator goes by. +“There’s a number of members, male and female, who have young families now,” said Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, who has had three children since she was elected to Congress in 2004, and who serves on the House Republican leadership team. +During the raid, one of the items the F.B.I. collected was a “list of artwork ” belonging to Mr. Ganek in addition to a DVD that contained “extractions” from his iPhone and BlackBerry. +Disciplining Beckham could not have been easy for the N.F.L., which moved the Giants’ next game, in Minnesota, to Sunday night from its original 1 p.m . +And that, in turn, helped increase long-term interest rates in the United States . +The Rangers eventually won that game, 3 -2, and on Friday, after the Mets had finished, they pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory. +“The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “The Imitation Game” were named best original and adapted screenplay, respectively, at the Writers Guild of America Awards, given out Saturday in Los Angeles and New York . +Truth be told, this overarching theme for the Rubin Museum of Art ’s Cabaret Cinema series is fairly accommodating. +Instead, the many pitfalls of the typical middle school relationship of victimizer and victim are revealed through wit, humor and a killer of a sly twist. +I turned out to be completely wrong in questioning his ability to return Starbucks to financial strength; its market value today is around $72 billion, up from $5.3 billion in 2008. +As the Timberwolves continue to search for an offensive rhythm, Ricky Rubio , now one of the team’s more experienced players, said he was getting a better feel for where and when Karl-Anthony Towns wanted the ball. +Two films with a more narrow focus are the chintzy hostage melodrama “Rock All Night,” with its marvelous tagline “Some Have to Dance … Some Have to Kill!,” and “Machine-Gun Kelly,” starring Charles Bronson . +If you listen with half an ear, they sound, in combination, like the ordinary sentences you overhear every day . +Proposed university overhauls, widely disliked by voters, stalled in Parliament, and a paid parental leave plan and a co-payment for visits to the doctor covered by Australia’s Medicare system were either amended or dropped by the government , which could not negotiate the passage of the legislation. +But since the financial crisis, European investment banks have steadily lost market share to their United States rivals. +The film, A.F.P. said, “relied on documents, photos and videos, particularly from the months before Rabin’s assassination, including those showing speeches from politicians such as Netanyahu at rallies against the Oslo accords, where Rabin was depicted in a Nazi uniform .” +But in what is supposed to be a year that tests the ability of the Afghan security forces to fend off enemy threats on their own, his moves have also raised a serious question: Amid a territory-gobbling insurgent offensive, will the strongmen and former warlords prominent in the Afghan government honor the national security system, or will they remobilize militias that in the 1990s caused the chaos that gave rise to the Taliban in the first place? +Videos posted by each side showed lines of uniformed soldiers trotting away across a field as what sounded like rifle and artillery fire echoed in the background; the government claimed that they reached safety , while insurgents claimed that many were killed or captured. +“We had a cease-fire before, but it was not observed, almost from the beginning, so how can we have much faith?” said Dmitri Kolesnik, 18 , a student in Kharkiv, a city in southeastern Ukraine that has been touched sporadically by violence. +That $39.9 million was the first of the modern “art boom“ prices. +At night , when his mother went to her nursing jobs, a neighbor whose bedroom was directly below Mr. Harper-Mercer’s frequently heard him pacing until 3 or 4 in the morning, the neighbor said. +“ It’s a love story, a children’s book and a fairy tale at once, ” Mr. Mosterd said. +The museum, which charges a 5-euro ($5.35) general admission fee, has already drawn about 204,000 visitors. +So they planned a second date a few days later, at the driving range at Chelsea Piers, where they shared their first kiss. +Another ethnic group, the Tharus , are pushing for their own province. +Catholicism was, as I learned after the Pius XII incident, the largest faith in my city. +Earlier in the week, word leaked out that during private interviews with team staff members , Eichel had told the Sabres that he was the best player in the draft. +In addition, on Friday, the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL , seized a military outpost near Palmyra, after its takeover on Thursday of a border crossing between Syria and Iraq farther east. +After three hours, Mapstone gave a preliminary diagnosis: amnestic mild cognitive impairment . +“To completely eliminate it is a pipe dream,” Mr. Kashyap said of motorist multitasking. “ The best way to handle it is to make it as safe as you can.” +He has unearthed a rusty gun and a possibly human bone from a patch of dirt on the far side of the swimming pool , and over the next 24 hours his curiosity blossoms into obsession. +There is also evidence that older children, particularly boys , often struggle in new neighborhoods. +My family has its share of divorces and second marriages; my friends’ romantic paths are varied; my closest friend from high school just exchanged vows with his longtime boyfriend. +While Mr. Hatz was referring to carbon dioxide regulations, and Volkswagen’s cheating scandal is centered on smog-forming pollutants , managing both kinds of emissions presents an interlocking puzzle for automakers. +This was also true despite the stiff headwinds facing the National Football League: the dead-serious concerns about head trauma and domestic violence, and the less-weighty obsession with whether Tom Brady and the New England Patriots were responsible for deflating footballs earlier in the playoffs in search of an unfair advantage. +(Dargis) ★ ‘ Spotlight ’ (R, 2:07) +“We’re in a critical condition right now,” said Mario Santoyo, a board member and technical adviser for the California Latino Water Coalition , as he stood on the deck of a motorboat in the middle of Millerton Lake, built in 1942. +Channel swimmers must begin “ toes dry, ” and Jirkovsky took several steps beyond the tide line to make sure the swim would qualify. +He said that, Mr. Fawwaz helped to publicize Bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa stating that Muslims should kill Americans anywhere in the world, and he vetted journalists who wanted to interview Bin Laden, who was living in the mountains of Afghanistan . +When the Yankees play in their wild-card showdown on Tuesday, many will no doubt recall the team’s most famous one-game do-or-die affair, Game 163 in Boston in 1978, when Bucky Dent hit a three-run homer over the Green Monster to win the division title. +We do not think the A.L.P. has worked — especially in the north , where they have become the extension of local interest groups.” +It was 1948 when they set sail, and Ms. Booth recounted how one of the Yale men kept trying to sneak up to the first-class deck from third class. +The victory, combined with a loss by the Washington Nationals, gave the Mets a six -and-a-half-game lead in the National League East. +According to records from the ambulance service, a call came reporting a possible overdose at the Fishkill prison at 9:16 p.m.; the ambulance team arrived there at 9:30 p.m. and reached Mr. Harrell by 9:34 p.m. +The actor Roger Rees renders Bradford beautifully; it was among his last performances before his death in July. +House Republicans have recently changed the rules: The Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation are now required to use “dynamic scoring” when evaluating major changes in tax and spending policy. +Still, if Mr. Cameron, as expected after negotiations with Brussels, decides to support Britain’s staying in the European Union, it is very likely that a sizable number of Tory backbenchers will oppose him and campaign to leave Europe. +So he decided to give the artist her first solo show in the United States, traveling to Belgium recently to choose the paintings and watercolors for the exhibition, which opens Jan. 8 at his 10th Avenue gallery. +Over lunch, Mr. Shoemaker said that he first heard of Mr. Connell while listening to the KPFA radio show hosted by the poet Kenneth Rexroth . +A spokesman for the regulator said that after “perfecting” the system for initial public offerings, China would allow an initial group of 28 companies to proceed with listings in the coming weeks and would seek to streamline and strengthen oversight of the listing process, Xinhua said. +And they reaffirmed their determination to be a force on Wall Street . +Levegh, 49 , was thrown from the car and killed instantly. +Get the league’s top free-agent prize in LaMarcus Aldridge ? +For instance, the tax authorities have increased the use of digital filing methods , cutting into the mountains of paperwork. +Often it turns in a small profit, but that is a result of legally sanctioned accounting wizardry . +Next up on the program is Ms. de Lavallade herself, who at 84 will perform the 1972 solo “The Creation,” which Mr. Holder scored and choreographed (with vocals by the Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble). +An environmental engineer, he had been to the island two years before for work, and ever since, he had been thinking about a return trip and about swimming the 70-mile channel back to the Southern California mainland. +In September of this year, Volkswagen , then the world’s largest automaker, admitted to installing software designed to cheat on emissions tests, setting off one of the largest corporate scandals in the industry’s history. +American instructors intend to recommend top performers to serve as trainers within other Ukrainian units, and in this way spread the instruction more broadly. +“Citizenfour,” about the National Security Agency leaker Edward J. Snowden , won best documentary, and its makers thanked Mr. Snowden, who is still in Russia, for his courage. +Mr. Watkins, a tourist from Utah visiting New York for the United States Open , was stabbed in the chest on Sept. 3, 1990, in a struggle with at least six young men who had tried to rob his family inside the Seventh Avenue subway station at 53rd Street. +The fortunate audiences of his recent festival performances — including sets at the Global Citizen Festival and Bonnaroo — can assert to his charisma , still broad onstage. +The landmark surgeon general’s report in 1964 first declared that smoking caused lung and laryngeal cancer and chronic bronchitis. +Another was Russia, where Ukraine’s entry into NATO has always been a red flag . +518-828-1915; carriehaddadgallery.com . +In an interview, Mr. Cardin said, “I recognize the numbers, believe me, I do,” sounding anguished about opposing Mr. Obama , whom he normally supports. +The former student, Kenneth M. Stancil III , was accused of killing Ron Lane, who was shot as he arrived for his job Monday morning at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro. +But since last November , when his company won regulatory approval for a new fund vehicle that seeks to marry the best features of active and passive investing, Mr. Faust has been arguing that the mutual fund industry — or stock-picking funds at least — must either embrace his model or die. +A judge ruled that the long-claimed copyright on “Happy Birthday to You” is invalid. +The battle to broadcast the English soccer games had set Sky, which is partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox , against BT, the former British telecommunications monopoly that has aggressively expanded into live sports programming as a way to promote its array of cable television and Internet services. +Companies are almost entirely run by white guys. +After three days in the hospital, Natalie got better. +The plight of Shohret Hoshur’s brothers — a third brother, Tudaxun, was convicted of endangering state security last year and sentenced to five years in prison — has become an issue between the two countries before President Xi Jinping’s summit meeting with President Obama in Washington next month. +“There is no agreement on border control at all, and this is the weakest part,” she told reporters in Brussels during a European Union summit meeting . +The euro fell to 1.20 against the dollar on Friday, its lowest since June 2010, while the yield, or market interest rate, on German two-year government bonds fell to a new low of minus 0.11 percent . +But throwing money at the military doesn’t guarantee security, especially when it is spent on programs that don’t make the country safer and is denied to programs that enhance security. +Both measures need a second House vote and also would have to pass the Senate, where Democrats have previously blocked proposed ID requirements. +For good reasons, Serena , 33, has been everyone’s reference point this year. +But her red-carpet-worthy turnout, evocative of Beyoncé at the top of her form, seemed especially well timed, inciting, predictably, an outpouring of mostly upbeat social commentary that eclipsed the event and all but engulfed the web. +He was mischievous and flamboyant — he was known to wear an electric lime-green suit — and fond of rhyming and hyperbolic fantasy musings. (He invented the Planet Lovetron business when he was in high school.) +“We hope he will give us another chance,” Ms. Carpenter wrote, “to show him the top-notch shopping experience that more accurately represents Wayfair.” +The stranded members were assisted by Team Alvimedica and were rescued after a harrowing night in breaking waves and razor-sharp coral. +Please save the ones you like to your recipe box , so you can find them later with ease. +The last time the euro was so low, Greece ’s debt problems were causing havoc in the eurozone and there was fear the common currency would not survive. +One moment he is lamenting the hazards of life in Pakistan, where death can come in the form of militant terror attacks and American drone strikes, and where one can be killed for “being liberal, for being mystical, for being in politics, the army or the police, or for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.” +Between furious rounds of auctioneering and a live set from Debbie Harry, the dinner’s main course was still coming out at midnight — and even the presence of Naomi Campbell at the podium to introduce the evening’s Award of Courage honoree, Renzo Rosso , the founder of Diesel and the chairman of Only the Brave, the parent company of Maison Margiela and Marni, didn’t cow conversationalists until she demanded testily, “Can you please be quiet? +But the clandestine collaboration is endearing, if mostly because mother and son are bonding again despite the constant surveillance of Lucious and Thirsty. +914-375-5100; bluedoorartcenter.org . +Mr. Brezner, who began his professional life as a New York City public-school teacher , managed a stable of artists that over the years also included Bette Midler, David Letterman, Robert Klein and Martin Short. +But the arresting stories of the two unarmed women, and most of all the vivid images of Ms. Sabbagh ’s death, have dramatized the police violence more effectively than any statistics, rights advocates say. +The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months . +Created by the writer Virginie Brac and the director Gilles Bannier of the labyrinthine crime drama “Spiral,” and starting Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 11 p.m. Eastern on TV5Monde, it’s a moody mashup of cool and grit featuring the César-winning actor Éric Caravaca, the Swiss model Julie Ordon and the French rapper Kool Shen; a score by the keyboardist Hervé Salters; and a graphic intro that soars through the innards of the Eiffel Tower. +Prosecutors presenting evidence against two motorcyclists accused of taking part in a gang assault on a young family have put a larger phenomenon on trial: wild motorcycle tours, organized on the Internet, that occasionally rip through New York City , with riders snarling traffic, doing stunts, running red lights and generally creating a nuisance. +His twice-weekly trip to Columbia involves the crosstown bus and the subway. +“Vincent” wrote a directive, but as Dr. Zitter acknowledges, since it hadn’t been updated in 10 years , there was concern about its relevancy. +Some 30 percent of DuPont’s shareholder base is made up of retail investors, many of whom may cast votes (but like much of the American electorate, probably won’t). +“She said it was growling and stuff like that, but maybe they do that all the time, walk around and make noise,” Mike Miller , executive director of the conservation center, said. +Mr. Rudd was ousted in an internal party coup in 2010 and replaced by Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister. +He criticizes incarceration policies that he says target the poor for nonviolent drug charges . +Toys and games , a small but increasingly critical part of the business, provided a bright spot, growing nearly 15 percent in the last quarter. +At the beginning of the second half, when the game was tightly contested, the sophomore guard Kyle Davis picked off an inbounds pass, raced downcourt and laid the ball in the basket . +June 26 at 8 p.m . +Imagine a day in the life of the Pope family at Hill-Stead, their 33,000-square-foot , white clapboard, Colonial Revival-style home perched on a hilltop in Farmington. +According to records from the ambulance service, a call came reporting a possible overdose at the Fishkill prison at 9:16 p.m.; the ambulance team arrived there at 9:30 p.m. and reached Mr. Harrell by 9:34 p.m . +The first was the role jazz played during the Cold War. +PLANO, Tex. — Lamesa White and her four children moved in February from the most dangerous public housing project in Dallas to a single-family home in this affluent suburb. +Defining “ American lager” was difficult. +Just as there are conspiracy theorists who will never be satisfied with the Warren Commission report on the Kennedy assassination, there are some who passionately believe that Mr. Rather and his producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) conspired to tarnish George W. Bush’s reputation. +In another room, a Turkish magnate waited to get his photograph for a residence card. +Almost five years later, there is a different aura surrounding the Mets, who are guaranteed to enter September in first place after a 9- 4 win Wednesday night against the Philadelphia Phillies. +Literature has given us especially brilliant stories about office work — “Bartleby the Scrivener,” by Melville; “Something Happened,” by Joseph Heller; “Then We Came to the End,” by Joshua Ferris — and, also, oddly enough, about working in hotels: “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser; “I Served the King of England,” by Bohumil Hrabal; “Confessions of Felix Krull,” by Thomas Mann . +The research group recently published work exploring the basis of neural activity needed to support movement in an environment . +In Athens , Mr. Tsipras spent most of the day behind closed doors meeting with party officials. +He referred to Madeleine K. Albright , seated beside him, as his “mentor.” +Ildefons Cerdà, the engineer who drew up the 1859 plan for the expansion of Barcelona, envisioned his Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes as a new town center. +After discussions, the Italian team rejected the idea of supplying Red Bull, although it did accept to supply Toro Rosso , Red Bull’s second team. +Mr. Heastie, who hails from the Bronx, described the trip to central New York as part of an effort to humanize “what we do in Albany,” as well as a kind of personal fact-finding mission. +And yet the app is a pleasure to use, with an intuitive design and an eye-pleasing color scheme. +she called to Vito Schnabel , her art-dealer and -curator boyfriend. +In recent months, Freedom Partners , the nonprofit that oversees the Kochs’ political donor network, has also persuaded some of its donors to put their names to op-ed articles in national and local newspapers, helping shift attention away from the two brothers. +Coach Mike Davis coached at Indiana for six seasons, leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 championship game. +They told Thai officials that they were Turkish citizens , and they were later visited by diplomats from the Turkish Embassy in Bangkok. +And I tried to pay for our dinner, which ended up about $200 — and this was in the ’70s, when $200 meant something. +But Monza was always a track in a park. +The remarks bore little resemblance to Mrs. Clinton ’s previous dismissals of Mr. Trump. +The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie ; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. +Most Russian goods are transported by large ferries across the Sea of Azov and through the Kerch Strait , but bad weather can halt service despite significant improvements during the last year. +The Rangers eventually won that game, 3- 2 , and on Friday, after the Mets had finished, they pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory. +Nur Moznu, a manager who has worked for Zaro’s for nine years, said many customers had come in to say they would miss the fresh bread and bagels . +“I came into it expecting them not to know much of the basics,” said Sgt. Michael Faranda , who is teaching maneuvers. +But only in 2009 were I.R.S. rules put into effect to make clear that is an acceptable practice and what employers must do to make auto-enrollment legal. +The seventh-seeded Spartans will play Duke , the top seed from the South Region, in the national semifinals Saturday in Indianapolis. +At the time, he said, his interrogators wanted him to confess to having encouraged the pro-democracy demonstrations that shook Hong Kong last year. +In California, Mr. Harper-Mercer was enrolled at El Camino College from 2010 to 2012, but officials there would not confirm whether he obtained any degree or certification. +“We always pull out all the stops for the Open,” said Serena Williams , discussing her Open outfits the week before it started. +(Mr. Shane’s knowledge comes in part from his book, due for September publication, on the 2011 drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki , the American-born imam.) +Recent research she did with a graduate student, Landon Marston, found that 18.5 percent of the American grain supply, an essential link in the food chain, is coming from parts of the country where the aquifers are being depleted. +Alaska began distributing the money, which comes from oil royalties, in 1982 . +The company expects to receive gross proceeds of €100 million from the offering, which will be used to repay debt and give it additional financial flexibility . +The answer, according to M.I.T.’s Ricardo Caballero and others, is that the debt of stable, reliable governments provides “safe assets” that help investors manage risks, make transactions easier and avoid a destructive scramble for cash. +As Mrs. Clinton began her 2016 campaign for the presidency, Hugh Rodham and Roger Clinton had faded from public view, but Tony Rodham emerged as a controversial figure. +Five of them were secondary prevention trials — meaning that they involved only men with known problems already. +The stop at the Red Cross blood drive — held in the two-story lobby of Driver’s Village , a dealership north of Syracuse — was near the end of nearly a dozen stops that Mr. Heastie made at the start of a three-day visit upstate this week. +But as the neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the psychologist Alfred Kaszniak recently lamented, “There are still very few methodologically rigorous studies that demonstrate the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in either the treatment of specific diseases or in the promotion of well-being.” +In the middle of September, New York magazine’s website ran an article claiming that Bruno’s $18 plate of bread and fermented mozzarella “might just be the city’s most impressive new bread course.” +Mr. Brezner, who began his professional life as a New York City public-school teacher, managed a stable of artists that over the years also included Bette Midler, David Letterman, Robert Klein and Martin Short. +But Mr. Turnbull will have to lead not only the lawmakers in his own party — 44 of whom did not vote for him on Monday night, against 54 who did — but also a country where policy in recent years often seems to have been made on the run, and often in response to flagging opinion polls. +He will go for his 20th in a row as Chicago returns home from a six-game Western trip. Sidney Crosby in 2010 was the last player to record a point in 20 straight games. +Renewal would mean leaving the broken system intact .” +The Mets’ offense did not help Harvey much; Hamels held them to one run and four hits in seven innings. +Representative Nita M. Lowey of New York, the ranking Democrat on the committee, urged the agency’s director, Joseph P. Clancy, who took over last month , to demand discipline. +But around 1 p.m., a parish maintenance worker, José Morán , returned from an hourlong lunch and heard the cries of a baby in the front of the nave. +He calls the heroin Blue Magic and takes over the market. +A front-page news analysis by Scott Shane , for example, included this memorable paragraph, not in a quote but in the author’s own voice: “Every independent investigation of the strikes has found far more civilian casualties than administration officials admit. +Of players still active, the next ranked, at 19.4, is Matthew Dellavedova , the undrafted Australian whose rate in the regular season was 12.6. +There was a second, similar explosion of volatility in October 2014, as the Fed’s intentions to raise interest rates in 2015 became clearer. +PG: Rap names aside, your careers unfolded side by side at the forefront of the women’s movement . +Mr. Obama ’s budget for 2016 asks for $1.94 billion, an increase of $273.3 million over the current year. +The company claims that efficiency upgrades to Unilever factories have created savings of 400 million euros, or $430 million, since 2008. +He had the best endurance result ( 12 minutes 15 seconds ) in a grueling test in which the prospects pedal a bike against stiff resistance while wearing an oxygen mask. +‘Love’ (No rating, 2:14) Telling the story of a romance entirely through explicit sex, the Argentine director Gaspar Noé creates a visual tranquillity and dreamy eroticism that strips the film of salaciousness and highlights the only conversation it cares about: The one that runs from between the legs to between the ears. +“ As a sapling bent low stores energy for a violent backswing ,” they wrote, “blacks bent double by oppression have stored energy which will be released in the form of rage — black rage, apocalyptic and final.” +But the crust has been slightly different each time I’ve tried it. +Aaron Carroll , who has been writing about a host of nutrition myths for The Upshot, passed on this graphic about the risks of consuming meat. +Let’s start with an update from our last episode, which you may recall concerned a battle between a monk and United Airlines . +The city’s Education Department said the director, Iris Chen , who was appointed by Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña less than 16 months ago, had resigned “to pursue other opportunities.” +It explicitly dismissed statements by Rudolf Höss, one of the commanders at Auschwitz , that a cyanide gas, Zyklon B, had been used to commit mass murder. +(This is, after all, a woman who, when she cuts back on her drinking, donates her booze to a derelict played by Dave Attell .) +Marcelo Aguirre, a paramedic in Newark and suburban New Jersey. +Reporters in Istanbul covered a police raid on their own offices on Wednesday , as the Turkish government seized control of two television stations and a newspaper group critical of the governing party just four days before national elections. +Patricia Arquette ’s feminist call to arms at the end of her acceptance speech for supporting actress was unexpected and fierce. +A real solution would involve more opportunities for employment and education, stricter policies on gun control and safe spaces for those who have been traumatized, in order to minimize the chance of violence being perpetuated — the same things people have spent half a century calling for in these neighborhoods. +One day, a gendarme, Balducci (Vincent Martin) , rides up on horseback to Daru’s schoolhouse with an Arab prisoner, Mohamed (Reda Kateb), on foot. +On Nov. 2, the server and storage businesses of Hewlett-Packard will split off from its PC business , in what top executives hope is a move for a faster-moving business. +Tariq, who was 15 at the time, was spending the summer with relatives in East Jerusalem when violence broke out over the gruesome killing of his cousin Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, by Jewish extremists who said they wanted to avenge the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths by Palestinian militants in the West Bank. +Another was Russia, where Ukraine’s entry into NATO has always been a red flag. +■ Sam Querrey, a semifinalist last week in Memphis, injured his back midmatch and retired from the Delray Beach Open in Florida while leading Alejandro Gonzalez, 6-3, 1-2. +Still, about one in 20 high school students used the drugs in 2014; about one in 30 adults age 19 to 28 used them in 2013, the most recent data available for that age group. +After the verdict, Dolan and Thomas made a show of suggesting that the jury was gullible and that they would appeal. +His last memorable public performance was an open-air Valentine’s Day concert in Istanbul in February . +Inside John Jay, which sits on a busy thoroughfare near Lackland Air Force Base , a statue of a giant white mustang stands near the entrance, rearing up with a front hoof reaching skyward. +It is a drone, and its pilot is a farmer named Jean Hediger , one of a growing number of American agrarians who have taken to using unmanned aircraft — better known for their use in war-torn lands far from the wheat fields of eastern Colorado — to gather information about the health of their crops. +“He’s a rare athlete who has played at a very high level before. +Already a polarizing figure when he took office, Mr. Abbott saw his popularity decline amid a slowing economy as he made a series of political missteps and alienated many voters with his strongly conservative stances and often abrasive style. +While Mr. Hatz was referring to carbon dioxide regulations, and Volkswagen’s cheating scandal is centered on smog-forming pollutants, managing both kinds of emissions presents an interlocking puzzle for automakers. +That word has a fluid definition, but it was clear that for these women, their definition of feminine is based on body image, and it can be inferred that the body type they desire is lacking in strength or substance . +At the same time, he had to bring engines to market that could meet a complex suite of toughening regulations in the United States, particularly in California and other states like New York that opt to follow California’s more stringent air quality rules. +According to a report released by the Census Bureau in August, car-pooling fell to a low of just over 9 percent in 2013, the last year for which figures are available, from nearly 20 percent in 1980. +SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea formally announced on Wednesday that it would try to raise the 6,825-ton ferry that sank more than a year ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them high school students. +Several people had tears in their eyes as they wondered what they would do without people who knew their order before they opened their mouths. +the United States is the solitary power. +He’d just come out and do lip-sync battles , and they were the great days.” +After Emily walked out, Sandy turned to Bev and asked, “Who is that person’s mother?” +Invented in China, about 1,000 years ago , porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. +“I can’t believe we have to leave ,” Mr. Moznu said. +“You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” +Harris, 35 , was a subtle craftsmen among a clutch of flamethrowers, relying on control and variation. +A major focus of the Iraqi pavilion this year (held at Ca’ Dandolo, a palazzo on the Grand Canal) is a set of drawings by adult Iraqi refugees who fled the Islamic State’s onslaught. +Gov. Jerry Brown has not said whether he would sign it. +While the company posted lower losses in its Nook division in the most recent quarter, sales were still disappointing, as the Nook segment tumbled 31.9 percent to $43.5 million , primarily because of lower digital content sales. +Mr. Robins sued under a part of the credit law that provides damages of up to $1,000 without proof of direct harm, and he sought to represent a class of people with similar claims . +Mr. Foley is a son of George D. Foley of College Station, Tex., and the late Maryursula W. Foley. +Monday’s plan, called Bid 2.0, was seen as Boston’s major chance to convince the U.S.O.C. to stick with Boston, which it picked over Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington in January. +They were the top seed in the Eastern Conference, seeking a playoff rematch against LeBron James and the Miami Heat . +But his business dealings have often invited public scrutiny and uncomfortable questions for the Clintons as Mr. Rodham has cycled through a variety of ventures, leveraging his ties to them and sometimes directly seeking their help. When Mr. Clinton worked as a co-chairman of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Mr. Rodham and his partners sought a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the country. +His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, Angela , for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence. +That enduring appetite for investigative journalism may hold the key. +Liz Taylor, our stylish concierge and bar tender, has seen it all, but what touches her most is an old couple come to the Cortez to end their lives together . +Boko Haram fighters crossed the Komadougou River separating Nigeria from Niger and attacked Bosso, a remote town that is a local seat of government with an open-air market that has been sheltering thousands of refugees from the conflict. +Towering stone pillars change position in Julia Hansen’s sets, suggesting the protean power of tyranny and the danger of lives lived in the shadows, but they transform awkwardly. +The penalty, as well as criticism from regulators who said the bank failed to recognize signs of misconduct , damaged the reputation of the bank as well as Mr. Jain, who was head of Deutsche Bank’s investment bank operations in London, where most of the mischief took place. +Five years later, Mr. Stus, who had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature , died at the age of 47 in a forced labor camp in Russia. +Naomi Sturm , a folklorist from Staten Island Arts, will moderate the event, which will include storytellers from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. +Passers-by found the man, Diego Piedrahita, lying face down in Forest Park shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the police said, in the area of Park Lane South and Woodhaven Boulevard. +But Scott died on Jan. 4 . +Invented in China , about 1,000 years ago, porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. +Mr. Rouhani has been leading an effort to bring down inflation, while the end of sanctions might mean a return to oil production of more than two million barrels per day, only half what Iran once produced but twice its output in recent years. +Magakwe was barred from international athletics for two years, ruling him out of the Rio Olympics and the world championships in Beijing this year. +His 350 -page report remains secret, locked in a labyrinth of FIFA procedures to decide which, if any, of the findings will be released to the public. +Dr. García, 68, had immigrated to Miami at age 14 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, during which 14,000 unaccompanied minors were flown to the United States from Cuba. +George Benjamin’s “Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra,” a glistening, texturally rich work, fared better, its complexity revealed in clear detail here. +As of Oct. 3 , it will resume flights to the main airport from Guadeloupe and St. Maarten. +His wife, Ernesta , who testified at his trial that she had been with him the night of the fire and who stayed with him throughout his time in prison, said she felt “happy, happy, happy, happy.” +That’s when “Big Night,” a much-admired foodie movie , was released. +For many New Yorkers this week, as the blizzard panic lifted from the city, the pressing culinary question on Tuesday was, “Now what do I do with all this Dinty Moore?” +Speaking of children, Alex and John are reunited when Alex confesses that both she and Holden are in danger from the Countess unless the pack of rabid vampire children Alex inadvertently created are dealt with. +In a play that seemed to unfold in slow motion so that you could see the heartbreak coming long before it arrived, Edgar Martinez doubled into the left-field corner off Jack McDowell, scoring two runs, including Ken Griffey Jr. on an all-out sprint from first base. +“We have to think differently,” said Michael Connor , the deputy secretary of the Interior Department, which includes the Bureau of Reclamation. +The move to expand the police militias, prompted by the disastrous loss of the northern city of Kunduz to the Taliban almost three weeks ago, is being described by officials speaking privately as an attempt to head off panic in Afghan cities threatened by the insurgents . +The N.H.L. has locked out its players three times, once for a full season. +Most lenders’ wholesale units have destroyed value for seven years . +Mr. Kissin is the first pianist at Carnegie since Vladimir Horowitz in 1979 to double up like this on a solo recital, and his ability to draw big crowds, with additional seats set up behind him onstage, proves the depth of the public’s craving for his blend of technical mastery and eloquent artistry. +And drape the sauce — thick and almost clumpy — across them, and onto the negative space between them as well. +But he has also said that European sanctions against Russia for its aggression in Ukraine are a “dead-end policy.” +To the Editor: Re “Letter to the Catholic Academy ” (column, Nov. 1): Ross Douthat is wrong about Pope Francis. +With Roger, I can easily press a button, record a quick message and shoot it off to my girlfriend, who is based in Boston , when I don’t have time to call. +But Bank of America , the nation’s second-largest bank by assets after JPMorgan Chase, passed only provisionally and could still fail later this year if it does not fix deficiencies that the Fed identified. +STORRS William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut “Remembering the Vietnam War.” Through Aug. 9 . +WOLFSBURG, Germany — Volkswagen said on Wednesday that it would be able to bring its diesel cars into line with European clean-air standards by updating engine software and installing a small, tube-shaped part roughly the same diameter as the cardboard tube in a roll of paper towels. The technical patch that Volkswagen presented at company headquarters here is valid only for Europe, where it will be installed beginning next year. +Representative Nita M. Lowey of New York, the ranking Democrat on the committee, urged the agency’s director, Joseph P. Clancy, who took over last month, to demand discipline. +“Unfortunately, you know, mine was in a public forum , in a public setting.” Is it worrisome that Woods’s worst day as a pro coincided with one of the best by his heir apparent, Rory McIlroy, who posted a 64 in the second round of the Dubai Desert Classic? +“It is questionable how the residency requirement is being applied,” said Tonio Fenech, a member of Malta’s Parliament Lawyers, accountants and real estate agents say the citizenship program has catapulted Malta onto the radar of the global elite . +• Thomas W. Libous , a Republican state senator, was convicted of lying to F.B.I. agents about his son’s hiring at a law firm. +“They don’t want to play the game,” said W. McIntyre Burnham, a neuropharmacologist at the University of Toronto , with whom Dr. Ohayon studied. +In the suit, filed last week , Manuela Herzer, who once had a romantic relationship with Mr. Redstone, said that he had been unable to “communicate reliably or competently manage his own health care” for weeks. +“A negative is that police might say, ‘We just won’t put ourselves in bad situations ,’ that they say, ‘We are not going to jeopardize our lives because if we make a good-faith mistake, it is going to look like a crime, and we’re going to get prosecuted for murder,’ ” said Francis T. Cullen, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. +The United States attorney’s office in Newark is investigating whether United reinstated flights to a South Carolina airport close to the weekend home of David Samson , the former Port Authority chairman, in exchange for concessions the airline sought from the agency. +Trian also claims that DuPont has bloated costs in both administrative and research and development efforts , as well as bad corporate governance practices. +Google is a mobile force in many different ways: In the United States and several other countries, search queries to Google on mobile devices now outrank search queries on desktop and laptop computers. +“He’s got to explain things . +FRANKFURT — Anshu Jain, the co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank , chuckled when he was asked on Monday whether the United States had become inhospitable to foreign banks. +And, the Pittsburgh Penguins hope, an alarm clock. +Endorsing the Strong Start for America’s Children Act is an organization called Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national bipartisan nonprofit made up of nearly 5,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors and others who see investment in child care as crime prevention. +The Bears (21-7, 9-6) shot 14 of 26 from 3-point range and hit their last seven, becoming the first team other than Kansas to win in Ames since 2012. +This is not a plea for less debate, but for more constructive debate ,” Ms. Sandberg wrote. +Matthew Dellavedova and J.R. Smith both missed. +That means cloud computing leaders like Amazon and Google could benefit even more, and expand their online operations. +Maybe the sun wasn’t really powered by fusion. +Those tax breaks would be negotiated with the city, but the report suggested that the developer might pay just 15 percent of real estate taxes for the first decade. +The United States is also providing advanced courses for military professionals known as forward observers — the ones who call in targets — to improve the accuracy of artillery fire, making it more lethal for the enemy and less so for civilians. +such nimbleness . +Moreover, the economy is still 2.8 million jobs short of where it would have to be to match pre-recession employment levels while also absorbing new entrants into the work force, according to the Hamilton Project, a research group associated with the Brookings Institution in Washington. +On paper, Mr. Andrews’s book is lovely : sensitive and rueful and attuned to both the solipsism and the ethical seriousness of adolescence. +In recent days, the police have detained a number of other lawyers, including Li Chunfu, the brother of Li Heping , a prominent rights defender who is among those who disappeared in an earlier police sweep. +Érica Rivas and Diego Gentile , “Wild Tales” Damián Szifrón’s tragicomic allegory of modern-day Argentina comprises five suites of perfectly choreographed insanity, the last of which begins as a perfectly ordinary wedding reception and mutates into a war among the betrothed and their guests. +Two of them came during a streak in mid-July when he matched the record for most consecutive games with a home run — eight — actually hitting 10 in eight games. +Earlier, he was chief executive of Court TV Network, the home of live court coverage that gained attention during the O. J. Simpson trial . +After Saturday’s game, in which goaltender Henrik Lundqvist did not play, he answered several questions about Boston Coach Claude Julien’s remark that Lundqvist had embellished a collision with Bruins forward Brad Marchand. +It was very intimate, just Sandy, Daryl, Emily, Karen, Bev and Robyn . +“ It’s amazing what you can bounce back from when you have to, ” Obama said on Tuesday. +Although “ Electric Ursa ” was released just last September, Ms. Shelley devoted much of her set to new songs that were no less resonant and, perhaps, a little more concrete. +The Citigroup report said the information on the attacks involving Covington and Fried Frank had come from iSight Partners, a security consulting firm based in Dallas that has received financial backing from Blackstone. +He’s new to the night himself, working as a nurse’s aide on the behavior unit at an assisted-living home in Akron, Ohio. +That means constantly reassessing, never taking anything for granted . +The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. +It was only the second time in 303 PGA Tour starts as a professional that Woods had failed to break 80 (the other time was in the third round of the 2002 British Open, played in hellacious conditions). +The attack on a market in Baga Sola killed at least 16 people, said Gen. Banyaman Cossingar, the director general of Chad ’s gendarmerie, or armed police force. +The inmates said that during the encounter, an officer they identified as Robert Michels appeared to have a medical emergency. +The Princeton boys came down to lead us, but we were Sweet Briar women and we had learned to be leaders. +I remember walking through the National Museum in Kyoto, Japan, some years back, taking in its rows of Buddhist sculpture, and being stopped by one piece, not because it was especially beautiful — it wasn’t — but because a vase with a single fresh flower had been placed in front of it, like an offering in a temple. +On Sept. 4, at precisely 12:01 a.m., the Walt Disney Company , which now owns Lucasfilm, kicked off a merchandising extravaganza with retailers like Walmart called “Force Friday.” +His night was punctuated by four interviews : one on the court with the in-house announcer, another with the local television broadcast team, a third with NBA TV (during which he did a solid impression of Shaquille O’Neal, one of the hosts) and finally a small news conference for reporters in front of his locker. +The Liangs, like some 200 other families here, are the veterans or descendants of what is known as China’s Lost Army, a unit of the Kuomintang’s Nationalist Army, which lost to the Red Army of Mao Zedong in 1949. +These enablers have given the unusual, original pizzas and visually arresting appetizers at Bruno more media attention than you may expect for a fledgling East Village pizzeria whose chefs have never run a full restaurant kitchen. +Mr. Harris ran through backstage corridors and onto the stage in white briefs and his black socks and shoes. But because Mr. Harris is in good physical shape, there wasn’t much humor or bravery to the sketch, just bravado. +Mr. Brezner’s first marriage, to the singer and songwriter Melissa Manchester, whom he met when she appeared at his coffeehouse and whom he managed for a time, ended in divorce; he was also divorced from his second wife, Bett Zimmerman. +Iranian officials called the agreement a “statement” and a “solution,” in keeping with Mr. Khamenei’s pronouncement that any deal would have to lift all sanctions in one step . +( The current rules for hourly workers would remain intact.) +But, he added, most lenders haven’t yet recognized that market shift. +a mortgage interest tax deduction. +A wunderkind rapper and spoken word performer equally influenced by Wu-Tang Clan and Joyce, Bukowski and Blake ; an English poet whose musical sense of language bridges the worlds of rap and traditional lyric verse; a fan favorite at the Glastonbury music festival who became the youngest winner of the Ted Hughes poetry prize. +The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar ; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. +That said, his more forward -looking items — I tried on an excellent bomber with an embroidered bee on the chest ($1,890) — show a possible pathway through the tension. +Taking a small step to address segregation in New York City schools, the Education Department announced on Friday that it would allow seven schools to reserve slots for children from low-income or non-English speaking families. +Defensive tackle Jonathan Hankins said the players were heartened to speak directly to Fells and to see him on a big screen in the team’s auditorium . +The Bronx led the city’s five boroughs in the largest percentage of new chain stores from 2014 to 2015, up to 944 from 914. +Over the next two years, along with the landlord of its flagship location at 534 West 25th Street , the gallery will oversee the construction of an eight-story building, at 540 West 25th Street, that will give it 30,000 more square feet for shows, for staff now working at offices on East 57th Street and for visible storage of art in transit through the gallery, an idea that has been growing in the museum world but that will be a novelty in a commercial gallery. +As someone who flew more than 400,000/year internationally for work , I can definitely echo other travelers’ sentiments. +The team rebuilt the boat in four months and rejoined the fleet last weekend in Lisbon for the final two legs of the 39,000-nautical-mile race . +Spending on government building projects slipped 1 percent, although it has risen over the last year largely because of the construction and maintenance of highways and streets. +CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Inside Courtroom 201 , the families of the dead and wounded watched in taut silence on Thursday afternoon as the judge shuffled through a stack of verdict forms containing the fate of James E. Holmes, the gunman who slipped into a Colorado movie theater in 2012 and opened fire on their sons and daughters, friends and loved ones. +Rosenblatt was built on a hill , and the prevailing wind blew out. +In recent decades, the ecology of the delta deteriorated to the verge of collapse, with many of California’s native fishes believed to be in danger of extinction. +The 1994 baseball players’ strike came at the expense of the World Series. +But Francis has unique advantages in Cuba, given that he is a native Spanish speaker bearing a popular message of social justice and the pitfalls of capitalism. +Gizmodo, which recently hired a new editor, Katie Drummond, from Bloomberg, will take over the coverage of science fiction, fantasy and futurism that was previously handled by the site io9 . +A) “In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, Republicans prefer an outsider to a candidate with experience in the political system by a 24-point margin (60 to 36).” +At the request of the United States, Switzerland arrested Yevgeny Adamov , the former head of the Russian atomic energy ministry, in 2005. +But by declaring the preservation of his family life a key concern in taking on a job that is a seven-day-a-week venture — the sort of job he sought once before, in 2012, when he was the Republican vice-presidential nominee — Mr. Ryan, 45, may be ushering in a new era for a position traditionally held by older congressmen who spent years rising through party ranks. +— Margaret Atwood on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly Tentative Speculation In 2003, Ken Kalfus published “ Our 9/11 ,” a story about a husband and wife who (happily) each believe that the other perished in the attacks when neither did. +(9 p.m., 121 Ludlow Street, second floor, spectrumnyc.com.) +Stress and jail have turned his hair gray, slimmed him down by 40 pounds and landed him last year in the hospital with a heart attack. +Mr. Reed is creating a work for Mr. Blum’s West 57th Street gallery — seven adjacent Technicolor canvases making a 42-foot-long horizontal piece that appears to extend through a wall and into Mr. Blum’s office. +SUNS 105, MAGIC 100 Brandon Knight had 28 points and 7 assists in his best game for Phoenix, and the Suns overcame a 15-point deficit to beat host Orlando. +Although SAC ultimately pleaded guilty to insider trading , the government never raided its offices, highlighting the rarity of such an aggressive move. +Two other American churches — the Episcopal Church and the Mennonite Church USA — were also debating Israel i divestment measures this week at their conventions. +Among them, according to a university spokesman, is Columbia, where the president, Lee C. Bollinger , lives in the official residence. +Graffiti on the walls read, “Assad or we damn the country.” In one video posted by insurgents, voices can be heard, apparently those of insurgents watching the escape. +A 40-pound male wolverine named Kasper was being shipped from a zoo in Norway to a conservation park in Alaska. +Some families, the statement said, are subsisting on one meal a day of fish and water lilies. +On a quiet Friday morning in November 2010, Sandy sat down with a mug of honey-­ginger tea to read two books that Daryl had brought her. +Some phone makers, like Samsung with its Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S6 models, let you take a screen shot by touching the phone’s display with the side of your hand and swiping from left to right; the Power and Volume Down button combination works as well. +For him, opening night is April 9 , the first day of the Masters. +“It was a book this thick, but we were free,” joked Mr. Harschel, waving an imaginary building code volume. +Talent contracts like Simmons’s typically contain nondisparagement clauses, so if Simmons strikes out angrily before negotiating his exit — if, say, he verbally slapped Skipper or ESPN — he would forfeit about a third of his estimated $5 million salary, based on just over four months left on his contract. +Though “The Starters’ “ television audience is growing, Mr. Elder and Mr. Melas, with the show’s other personalities, Trey Kerby and Leigh Ellis , have not abandoned podcasting. +The judge’s ruling came after lengthy hearings, starting in February, during which Mr. Hincapie testified that a detective had beaten a confession out of him and a previously unknown witness, Mariluz Santana, came forward to swear she had not seen Mr. Hincapie on the subway platform when the murder happened. +The civil war in neighboring Syria and the more than 1.2 million refugees who have fled to Lebanon are taxing the economy and the government’s ability to provide services. +Dr. Lam and Dr. Ohayon have begun to travel around the country, speaking about the moral quandary they believe faces neuroscientists. They start by reviewing dystopian futures as described in science fiction. +Filled with a sensational mix of romance-gone-wrong murder mysteries like “Scorned: Love Kills” and “Deadly Affairs,” hosted by the former soap opera queen Susan Lucci, Investigation Discovery has attracted a global audience of fans so dedicated that they complain to the network that its logo is permanently visible on their television screens. +So Ms. Basford and her publisher were surprised to learn that there was a robust — and lucrative — market for coloring books aimed at grown-ups . +People who can come up with a great idea and execute it , soup to nuts, are really valuable. +Ms. Enger built a clean-lined limestone mantel for a spec house in Hoboken that she and her husband sold last May , she said, and it became one of the home’s most talked-about selling features. +Russian television focused much of its attention on the fact that roadblocks were being manned with the help of members of Right Sector , a Ukrainian nationalist organization banned in Russia, where the news media frequently portray it as neo-fascist. +Nobody ever really sits you down and says, “Here’s some Management 101 on how to do it.” +Still, the prosecutor made Mr. Bresloff, a Long Island motorcycle mechanic , narrate the tapes, explaining how he and other bikers drove up on sidewalks, ran red lights and did wheelies on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. +They contend that Californians need to move aggressively to more modern methods of water management, reducing waste to a minimum and learning to live within the limits imposed by an arid environment. +The attack on a market in Baga Sola killed at least 16 people, said Gen. Banyaman Cossingar, the director general of Chad’s gendarmerie, or armed police force. +The measure is often imposed by Israel at the funerals of Palestinian militants in Jerusalem and when security officials fear that a funeral will turn rowdy or violent. +“The large group of Republicans who have supported working families in the state of Missouri are the reason we’re not right to work today,” said Albert L. Bond, assistant executive secretary-treasurer of the Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity. +A New York City police officer who arrested a man as he tried to film him and other officers with a cellphone camera was charged on Tuesday with official misconduct and lying on a criminal complaint. +McCarran International Airport’s three remaining runways were operating normally, airport officials said. +That was the lowest share since Dealogic began keeping track in 1995 . +Commissioners for the Northeast Conference , the America East Conference and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference each congratulated N.J.I.T. on the announcement of the new arena. +The real struggle is over civic identity . +We spoke in her sitting room , where a Fernand Léger painting presides from above the fireplace. +Still, they will have money to spend this summer after shedding the onerous contracts that belonged to Amar’e Stoudemire and Andrea Bargnani , among others. +“No matter how they explained their position, the state is falling apart,” he said in 2012 . +Ms. Harper , who divorced her husband a decade ago, appears to have been by far the most significant figure in her son’s troubled life; neighbors say he rarely left their apartment. +Speaking to a symposium on Ferguson at the St. Louis University School of Law , Mr. McCulloch defended the timing of the announcement, along with his handling of the grand jury, which was widely criticized in the days after the rioting. +It is especially popular among women , ranking as a top five cable network for women 24 to 54 years old in the United States. +Holland Cotter (Through Sept. 7 . +When I find something that works, I tend to wear it over and over . +Jo Ann Soderquist Kramer, class of ’64 , said that when she arrived for her freshman year, she and her roommate each unpacked identical framed 8-by-10 photographs of their high school sweethearts and set them carefully on their bureaus. +AVALANCHE 4, JETS 1 Cody McLeod scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, and Colorado won at Winnipeg. +Mr. Obama’s budget for 2016 asks for $1.94 billion , an increase of $273.3 million over the current year. +Cookie’s celebration of her son’s victory ends abruptly when Lucious’s sneer informs the after-party that her sister Candice is outside the club. +They include President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund , and Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, the executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. +“And there is no doubt that police violence has racial dimensions, because communities of color are so much more heavily patrolled than white communities,” and because many officers — and many people generally — believe there is a greater presumption of danger with African-Americans, Mr. Cohen said. +Created by the writer Virginie Brac and the director Gilles Bannier of the labyrinthine crime drama “Spiral,” and starting Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 11 p.m. Eastern on TV5Monde, it’s a moody mashup of cool and grit featuring the César-winning actor Éric Caravaca, the Swiss model Julie Ordon and the French rapper Kool Shen; a score by the keyboardist Hervé Salters; and a graphic intro that soars through the innards of the Eiffel Tower. +The fate of Mr. Rasputin’s childhood villages became fodder for one of his most famous works, the 1976 novel “ Farewell to Matyora .” +The United investigation grew out of the federal inquiry into the 2013 closing of lanes at the George Washington Bridge, and Mr. Fox is the latest high-ranking figure to leave his post amid those investigations. +Until that changes, states and cities have the constitutional authority and moral obligation to protect the public from the scourge of gun violence. +Cruz said he wanted to eliminate five and named the Commerce Department twice. +minormemoriallibrary.org; 860-350-2181 . +Moreover, editorials in China’s state-run news media celebrated the rising indexes as affirmation of Mr. Xi’s recipe for national strength: a measured easing of state controls on the economy while keeping political power firmly in the hands of the party elite. +Capt. Nicholas Salimbene , an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. +But even with such complaints, few expect Mr. Silver to challenge Speaker Heastie, in part because of Mr. Heastie’s success in navigating the transition of power . +This weekend, insatiable Deadheads can see all of the group’s so-called core four living members in just two stops: Madison Square Garden, which will host Dead & Company — featuring Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined by the pop singer and guitarist John Mayer, the bassist Oteil Burbridge and the keyboardist Jeff Chimenti — for two sold-out shows on Saturday and Sunday; and at the Capitol Theater, about 30 miles north in Port Chester, N.Y., where the Dead bassist Phil Lesh will play three consecutive nights starting Friday (with another run Nov. 5 to 7). +In between songs, he mumbled words quickly and unintelligibly. +Don Mattingly is the author of one of baseball’s most preposterous statistical anomalies. +We’ll never know what the first three days on the Beautiful Dreamer were like, but when Sarah Lotz’s satirical scream of a novel, DAY FOUR (Little, Brown, $26), opens, the cruise ship is figuratively dead on course for the Bermuda Triangle. +845-358-0877; rocklandartcenter.org. +Stephen J. Gardner , Amtrak’s executive vice president for the Northeast Corridor business development, said, “The investment levels necessary to stabilize and improve the Northeast Corridor need to grow substantially both from New Jersey Transit and others if the railroad’s performance is to get better.” +Ferrari , which is scraping its way back from its worst period in more than a decade, did not want to give the same engine that its cars use to a team that could well beat it. +By this point, a year and a half after her amnestic M.C.I. diagnosis, she had progressed to what Duffy said was Alzheimer’s disease. +After a night in the beautiful walled city of York and an afternoon in Tadcaster, Samuel Smith’s hometown, I headed down to Sheffield, the South Yorkshire manufacturing city. +In 2008, she was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, now the lieutenant governor of California, to be the director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management , overseeing emergency response teams for the Police and Fire Departments. +She has traveled extensively, speaking out for women’s and human rights, winning numerous awards for her work in media and advocacy , including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. +Once the team got public financing , it stayed put. +10 P.M. (FX) JUSTIFIED Timothy Olyphant plays Raylan Givens, the fictional United States marshal created by Elmore Leonard in his novel “Pronto.” +The cast also includes Alfred Molina , giving an amusing caricature of a machine politician, and a number of actors who do good work as various cogs in the political and legal apparatus: Bob Balaban as the judge, Terry Kinney as the head of the Yonkers housing authority, Clarke Peters as a smooth-talking consultant and, especially, Catherine Keener as an anti-integration protester. +Coach Mike Davis spent six seasons at Indiana, succeeding Bobby Knight, and led the Hoosiers to the national championship game in 2002 . +Mr. de Blasio has said broken windows must evolve with the times. +Like so many of the plans for Afghanistan laid out in Washington since the war’s outset in 2001, realities on the ground appear to again be forcing American officials to consider revamping their strategy for ending the war. +And now Ms. Bradley has a chance to get into City Ballet , which rarely accepts dancers who have not trained at its school. +(Sometimes you wonder if the show isn’t made up of scenes culled from the wastebaskets of the “ Saturday Night Live ” staff.) +“There are creeping worries that inflation, which was seen as nonexistent, will soon be part of landscape,” said Mark D. Luschini , chief investment strategist for Janney Montgomery Scott. +This is not a good thing, Mapstone told her gently; most cases of amnestic M.C.I. progress to full-­blown Alzheimer’s disease within 10 years. +“There’s no reason we shouldn’t be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse,” he said, in his big 2009 address to Congress, urging passage of the bill. +Because the department used federal funding to replace much of its aging fleet, “that makes them regional assets,” said Chief Ferro . +Clint Dempsey was the last American to establish himself in an elite league; his best season was in 2011-12 with Fulham, when he scored 17 goals in the Premier League and 23 over all. +Bobby himself was the seventh of nine. +914-835-3794; bullseyeglass.com . +What we now call the “traditional” view of sexuality was a then-radical idea separating the early church from Roman culture , and it’s remained basic in every branch of Christianity until very recently. +Mrs. Clinton announced her patient spending cap as part of a plan that includes requiring most drug makers to spend a defined portion of their profits on research and development , ending tax breaks for pharmaceutical advertising and allowing Americans to import lower-priced drugs from other countries. +Some even look to Britain, where Prime Minister David Cameron has described them as “swarms.” +The legal ruling on Wednesday barely referred to the bloody backdrop of the drug war. Instead, Justice Arturo Zaldívar wrote an 88-page opinion based on principles of human rights, arguing that the state recognizes an individual’s autonomy to engage in recreational activities that do not harm others. +But Bank of America , the nation’s second-largest bank by assets after JPMorgan Chase, passed only provisionally and could still fail later this year if it does not fix deficiencies that the Fed identified. +He owns an AR-15, a ­9-millimeter­ and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera . +A fire marshal found what he testified was evidence of arson, but Mr. Hale said evolving fire science meant that the 1980 analysis did not hold up today. +Feig cheered. +Re “Falling Through the Legal Cracks” (Business Day, Dec. 30): The failure of General Motors to take appropriate actions when it learned that a defective ignition switch in vehicles it sold caused the injuries and deaths of innocent people speaks volumes about corporate morality and accountability. +Although American politics is full of stories of the ultimate triumph of also-rans, from Richard M. Nixon to Ronald Reagan, Mr. Huckabee would seem to face greater obstacles than during his first presidential campaign, when he battled only a couple of rivals for the party’s conservative base . +Upon his retirement from Kohlberg & Company in 1994, Jerome Kohlberg focused in large part on philanthropy , including efforts to provide education for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. +I will not let foreigners come and talk to scientists and dear children of the nation who have developed this science up to this level.” +Through her (according to Cookie) practiced hysteria about their third sister’s alleged drug bender, we learn from Candice that Cookie’s real name is Loretha . +“Banks are on notice if they raise rates and then engage in what the regulators regard as riskier lending, they will have to pay higher insurance premiums,” said Nicholas Lardy, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics who has studied China’s financial system for decades. +They’re just very clean, very to the core of the music . +Part of the reason is the work of Judge Sérgio Moro , who is overseeing the investigation, officially known as Operação Lava Jato, or Operation Carwash. +Mr. Norris’s younger son, Raymond , who could not travel to the reunion from New Mexico, received Mr. Norris’s first phone call and a promise: “It’ll be my last game of basketball — I’m going to show you what Daddy’s got left and then retire.” +Currently, the state has a “mansion tax” of 1 percent on the sales of homes over $1 million . +Still hopeful Yankees fans thronged Grand Central Terminal to greet the team as it arrived that night from Boston on Track 17. +After serving as chairman of the department of psychiatry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville in the early 1970s, Dr. Grier started a psychiatric practice in San Diego, from which he retired in the 1990s . +Needles sits above one of those shallow bowls , a subterranean valley packed with porous gravel that is easily filled with water. +I remember walking through the National Museum in Kyoto, Japan, some years back, taking in its rows of Buddhist sculpture, and being stopped by one piece, not because it was especially beautiful — it wasn’t — but because a vase with a single fresh flower had been placed in front of it , like an offering in a temple. +With his short neck, cool shape-up haircut, plain off-the-shoulder robe, and round face bent forward and down, he’s as close as any Myanmar work here comes to embodying a Buddhist physical ideal. +David Cohen, a self-styled Washington white-hat lobbyist who as the president of Common Cause successfully fought for post-Watergate laws on ethics, campaign financing and public disclosure, died on Nov. 29 in Westport, Conn. +One standard way to adjust historic art prices to account for inflation is to run them through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index inflation calculator . +And in the last half of his career he was a diminished player, his skills attenuated by the persistent back problems that forced him to quit prematurely at 34 , his spirit likely withered by the mortifying shenanigans of the Yankees’ principal owner, George Steinbrenner, and his minions (who once ordered Mattingly fined and benched for not getting a haircut), not to mention the ignominy of a last-place finish in 1990. +But now, in an election cycle where the Republican Party’s grass-roots wing is angry and looking for a presidential candidate who projects a visceral sense of their frustration, some of Jeb Bush’s supporters say he may need to learn the fine art of negative campaigning . +Judge Bork was rejected by a Senate vote of 58-42 . +Standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square, periodically drowned out by the noise of construction and traffic, Mr. Faulkner said Mr. de Blasio had proved to be a divisive leader without the charisma to lead a great city. +His parents were from the Tours region +There is clearly something about the way the brain processes music that makes it robust, even in the face of imperfect hearing; and, conversely, something about the nature of spoken language that makes it much more vulnerable to deficiencies or distortions. +Each of the three programs offers a different configuration of artists, who include Goblin Party, Ju Bin Kim, Youn Puluem, Won Kim, Moonsuk Choi, Suksoon Jung, Moon Ei Lee and Eun-Me Ahn . +A few years ago, a team of researchers led by Daniel Esty of Yale looked at the environmental health of 150 countries. +But in this case, the commodities were teenagers, the top draft-eligible hockey prospects in the world, who last week were examined and tested — physically and mentally — at the 2015 N.H.L. scouting combine here at HarborCenter, part of a two-rink hockey complex completed in 2014 by the host Sabres. +For years, chemists were unable to explain how the bonds were being rearranged . +Investigation Discovery, which made its debut in the United States in 2008 , has become one of the fastest growing cable television networks in the country. +For example, when Mr. Sweat was trying to cut through a concrete wall and heat from steam pipes in the underground passage became unbearable, he rigged a fan taken from his cell using electricity from the tunnel’s lights. +For him, free expression was nothing without the right to offend. And Charlie Hebdo has been an equal-opportunity offender: Muslims, Jews and Christians — not to mention politicians of all stripes — have been targets of buffoonish, vulgar caricatures and cartoons that push every hot button with glee. +“From all we heard on the news, this was our last chance to reach Europe, so we left in a hurry,” she said, as she got off the first bus that pulled into Sentlij border crossing between Slovenia and Austria about midday Saturday. +This time, Ms. Clyne used facsimiles of letters by Dickinson to jump-start the creative process, projecting her handwriting onto a wall and retracing the magnified letters with an indelible marker. +PICK: COLTS Panthers (3-0) at Buccaneers (1-2) 1 p.m. +The state House is again pushing forward with a Republican priority to require photo identification at the polls, after similar measures were stymied by the Senate or courts in recent years. +Harris, 35 , was a subtle craftsmen among a clutch of flamethrowers, relying on control and variation. +In a statement, Mr. McGinty said, “Once the investigation is complete — and in the death of Tamir Rice , it is not at this time — all evidence and expert analysis will be presented to the grand jury.” +Mark Tapson, the editor in chief of Truth Revolt, a conservative website , said that Ms. Pelosi was trying to “rope in young voters” who may be more inclined to vote with popular culture idols, who tend to be liberal. +RBG : My mother was a powerful influence. +“Since mobile search results are about half of what Google handles, anyone might be at risk,” said Danny Sullivan, the founder of Search Engine Land, which closely tracks changes to Google’s search engine. +This year, in addition to Ms. Arquette’s speech, the question of race in Hollywood was addressed with both humor — in his opening monologue, Mr. Harris made a barbed allusion to the lack of diversity among the Academy by saying, “Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest, sorry, brightest” — and emotion. +“We’ve come so far here just recently; it’s pretty amazing the speed of the change,” said Janet Smith , a plaintiff in the case, who is seeking to adopt the 8-year-old daughter, Hannah Marie Phillips, she is raising with her wife, Donna Phillips. +“When I would meet with recruits , I would tell them, ‘We plan on building a new $100 million facility,’ but it was just pictures. +In a letter to Prisoners’ Legal Services , Mr. Aponte, who also worked in the tailor shop, described going through a similar interrogation two days later. +Brooklyn-born Chris Mullin, who played his high school ball in the city and was the N.C.A.A.’s player of the year for St. John’s in Queens in 1985 before becoming an N.B.A. All-Star, said he often watches college games and finds himself thinking a player is likely to be from his old stamping grounds based on the way he carries himself on the court. +Towns has attached himself to Garnett as much as possible. “Talking, watching, learning,” Towns said. +Based on a true story, “Imperium,” which was a best seller in Europe, is the fablelike account of a scrawny, nervous vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt. +And, as in 1960s America , many women stay at home to keep house and raise their children, creating a captive audience for parties run by saleswomen who have begun to sidle past conservative social mores and into the work force. +Her son, a “foodie” who lives upstairs, keeps her informed, she said, about “all the great restaurants opening up” on Fifth Avenue and Flatbush Avenue. +The bank will aim for a 10 percent return on capital, down from a previous target of 12 percent and a far cry from the 25 percent return that Deutsche Bank sought to achieve before the financial crisis. +“It’s certainly feasible, but a lot of people might find this intrusive.” Advanced digital keys — whether a physical key or a smartphone app — could also be authorized for one-time use, allowing other people to enter vehicles but locking them out if they tried to do so again. +Sergei Aksyonov , the prime minister of Crimea appointed by Russia, said Monday that the blockade would have little effect, as only about 5 percent of the goods consumed in Crimea came through Ukraine. +Dust clogged the ranks and dirt marred the case. +The parish, established in 1910, has a congregation that now numbers about 1,500 people, he said, with about a quarter foreign-born. +Its full title, “ Reread Another A Play to Be Played Indoors or Out I Wish to Be a School ,” offers an accurate idea of what to expect. +Kathleen Parthé, the director of Russian studies at the University of Rochester and the author of two books that address village prose, said of Mr. Rasputin in an email, “Like many of Russia’s best-known writers, he was always slightly out of step with the times — too bold in the 1960s and 1970s with his nostalgia for the radiant village past, too critical of the Soviet destruction of the environment around his beloved Lake Baikal, too disdainful of Western-style democracy, too bitter about those he said had brought a millennium-old civilization to an end in 1917 .” +The last time the voting age was a major issue was in 1971, when lawmakers passed the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21, aligning it with the minimum age for military service during the Vietnam War . +In their new clip for the slippery nü-disco track “ I Won’t Let You Down ,” off their fourth record, “Hungry Ghosts,” they zip around on motorized scooter chairs, weaving among choreographed dancers, as the action is filmed above by a drone. +By mid-July, the report was sent up the United Nations hierarchy to a director of field operations, a Swede named Anders Kompass . +As that last awkward inquiry unfolded, Venus — who has won two singles titles here and seven majors altogether — played with her hair, then rested her chin on her left hand. +She added that she has been in a rush since December, when a hacker put unfinished songs online from her new album, “Rebel Heart”; a suspect has been indicted in Israel . +This seemed to be the case with a salad of pink watermelon with green needles of okra . +Delivered in stark terms that surprised some foreign policy analysts and left no room for questioning whether the agreement is good for American security — “ It’s not even close ,” Mr. Obama declared at one point — the president’s speech was a striking display of certitude about a diplomatic deal that has split the American public and presented a dilemma for lawmakers, including many in his own party. +Several recalled being hungry and receiving food and cash after the abuse. +It was the 70th time since 2008 that the Supreme Court has declined to consider a lawsuit challenging a federal, state or local gun regulation. +But as he arrives in Havana on Saturday, the first stop of a nine-day papal trip to Cuba and the United States, Francis faces a new challenge altogether: Having helped open up Cuba to the world, the first Latin American pope must now try to fully open up Cuba to the Roman Catholic Church. +The United Nations has had eight secretaries general. +The advertising giant Interpublic Group of Companies is gaining a stronger foothold in Russia . +Recognizing that, American Girl, a subsidiary of Mattel, recently increased the number it sent out, spending more on catalogs last year than in any year over the last decade, according to Kathy Monetti, senior vice president for marketing. +Declining birthrates can also lead to labor shortages, and Germany has faced a gap in skilled labor. +In the end, James and Brown are separated by age and their sports but connected by Cleveland and by a real understanding of the role leadership plays in championship moments. +“We’re going to support it, including the mansion tax,” said Steven Spinola, president of the real estate board . +American officials have said it will take six to nine months for Iran to carry out all the steps required before sanctions are lifted. +The foundation also said Mr. Rodham’s project had not been among the more than 300 submitted for consideration at the expo. +A week after Russia began burning and burying European food items like cheese and peaches deemed to have been imported illegally, Russian agricultural inspectors started torching flowers from the Netherlands that they said were insect ridden, in what has become known locally as the flower war. +At the beginning of their new Broadway show, now in previews, the magicians Penn & Teller invite the audience to turn on their cellphones as part of a magic trick. +The program grew out of recommendations that the schools’ principals made to the Education Department last year, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced growing pressure from principals and community leaders to increase diversity . +500 company directors had some of their pay in cash, 36 percent had some stock and 59.4 percent had restricted stock units. +Jake Arrieta threw a three-hitter to become the first pitcher to reach 20 wins this season, as the Chicago Cubs closed in on a playoff berth by shutting out Milwaukee, 4-0. +Eskisehir (pronounced Es-ki-SHARE) itself has a large sugar refinery, using sugar beets from nearby fields as its raw material; the city exports about $30 million worth of cookies, cakes, crackers and other foods to Russia, according to the local chamber of commerce. +Mr. Atassi scrutinizes Mr. Saleh’s ordinary side, filming him asleep, legs poking from under a comforter, or flinching at the sound of shelling, when he is not giving interviews over Skype to a Western journalist who tells him, “Your voice is very important.” +Mrs. Geller, 27, is a litigation associate at the law firm Farber, Pappalardo & Carbonari in White Plains. +Microsoft once had a dominant position in the worldwide market for computer operating systems : Windows was installed on nearly 90 percent of desktop computers. +Glen Sather, who has been at the helm of the Rangers since 2000, said Wednesday that he was relinquishing his role as general manager in favor of his assistant Jeff Gorton. +You appeal a verdict or accept it, at which point, like freshly poured concrete, it quickly hardens into accepted fact. +It’s a dry show, but it’s fascinating for its revelation of memes and trends that continue to resonate in photographic art around the world . +Two days later , a state police sergeant happened upon Mr. Sweat on a rural road a mile and a half from the Canadian border. +He helped Sandy back into bed, and within five minutes she was unconscious. +“It is an occasion to ask for more openness,” said the Rev. Jorge Cela , who oversaw the Jesuit religious order in Cuba from 2010 to 2012. +He was a stride piano player who had a big band in the ’30s and ’40s. +“But it’s kind of cool to say you have your own TV show and you’re part of a TV show.” Showtime has shown Notre Dame in a positive light, though Kelly was not happy that it carried a teaser of him telling the team that tackle Ronnie Stanley was unable to accept being a captain. +Because two of the detainees are lesbian and another is bisexual, overseas gay rights organizations like All Out have jumped into the fray, collecting more than 85,000 signatures and popularizing the hashtag #freethefive on Twitter. +‘Love’ (No rating, 2:14) Telling the story of a romance entirely through explicit sex, the Argentine director Gaspar Noé creates a visual tranquillity and dreamy eroticism that strips the film of salaciousness and highlights the only conversation it cares about: The one that runs from between the legs to between the ears. +Mr. Norris , 58, was one of 22 federal prisoners released on July 28 through a continuing bipartisan push to shorten the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders who, during the war-on-drugs fervor of decades ago, received punishments far lengthier than they would have drawn today. +When the Yankees play in their wild-card showdown on Tuesday, many will no doubt recall the team’s most famous one-game do-or-die affair, Game 163 in Boston in 1978, when Bucky Dent hit a three-run homer over the Green Monster to win the division title. +We’re used to the hype in Miami, with the hurricanes . +All the shirts are advertisements, but they go about their job in vastly different ways: +Schools, workplaces and shops have been shut for nearly a month in many of the southern districts. +Enhanced by films and a soundtrack, the show is largely archival, with lots of works on paper, including the 151 hand-typed note cards that, in 1964, became “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings,” and demonstrate how radical this artist’s early experiments with language and performance were. +The sections on art and writing are, for the most part, banal — predictable musings about whether characters ought to be “likable” or not, and the pleasures of rereading favorite short books. +It’s very reassuring for employees to understand what is expected of them . +The victim, an exchange student from China whom the police did not publicly identify, was taken to Long Island Jewish Medical Center with wounds that Chief Boyce said were not considered to be life-threatening. +He referred to Madeleine K. Albright, seated beside him, as his “ mentor .” +The French President, François Hollande , says France is “at war” against “a jihadi army.” +It is a codpiece into which Nigel, played with rather charming nerdiness by Mr. Cariani, reaches when he tells the girl he adores, Portia (Kate Reinders, doing an impression of Kristin Chenoweth ), “I have something to show you.” +There will also be inevitable blowback from business interests, but their Republican allies in Congress should think twice about backing them up: No party and no politician that opposes the new overtime rules can credibly claim to care about the middle class. +In May, he received an M.B.A. from Cornell , where he also received a doctoral degree in pharmacology. +Experts warn that the popular term “synthetic marijuana” is a misnomer, as the substances merely resemble marijuana but can be 100 times as potent . +While the rest are now growing at twice the rate of the top seven, Ms. Bryant said, the big companies are unusually demanding customers, even designing their own chip modifications to make their global clouds work better. +Croatia and Namibia are leading an effort to give the organization’s 193 member states a greater say in the selection of the secretary general as part of a yearly resolution that is being drafted. +I tried to get a much less prestigious job, at Time magazine . +One of them, Meir Ettinger, is the grandson of Meir Kahane, the American-Israeli rabbi regarded as the father of far-right Jewish militancy . +The Musical . +The bonds made for hot investments across the mainland United States because the interest is often “ triple tax exempt ,” meaning the holder does not pay state, federal or city income taxes. +Whatever the cause, the shift came so fast that it forced banks to raise cash by selling Treasury bonds , traders said. +Stern men, rocking back and forth, blinked out tears. The grief was felt throughout the Orthodox neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and in Israel, where Ms. Sassoon had met her husband. +The Chiefs’ secondary has had a hard time defending the pass, which makes a trip to Cincinnati to go against the Bengals’ thriving offense a case of unfortunate timing. +The exhibition — “Alexander, Napoleon & Josephine, A Story of Friendship, War and Art From the Hermitage” — dutifully includes a hall full of wartime wares , including pistols, swords, uniforms and large-scale paintings depicting battle scenes of the French invasion of Russia in 1812 (all of them commemorating Russian victories). +EXTRA POINTS Wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Rueben Randle have hamstring injuries that could jeopardize their readiness for the Giants’ next game, at Philadelphia on Oct. 19. +Yale Zhang , managing director of the Shanghai-based consultancy Automotive Foresight, said connectivity was a deciding factor for Chinese customers buying a car. +While there appear to be no challengers to Mr. McCarthy for the speakership at this point, there is little doubt that Tea Party conservatives will be looking for a candidate to back. +The Rev. Jill Flowers , who was ordained by the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, is to officiate. +Separately, Hill-Rom said it would pay $1.625 billion in cash and issue about 8.1 million in shares to acquire Welch Allyn in an effort to enhance its scale . +You have black users overindexed to Twitter, and yet we don’t have any representation of that audience in the upper management or the board of that company, and that’s just weird . +Now Mr. Boire, 54, the former chief executive of Sears Canada and a retail veteran who has worked at Brookstone, Best Buy and Toys “R” Us , is under pressure to reverse the fortunes of the beleaguered bookstore chain, which has been stung in recent years by the rise of Amazon, steep losses from its Nook e-reader division and a string of store closings. +averypointarts.uconn.edu ; 860-405-9052. +MOUNT KISCO Mount Kisco Public Library “Hudson River Moods,” landscape paintings by June Farnham. +The couple told their architect that they wanted a home that would blend in with its setting yet also incorporate key elements of modern design , such as underfloor heating throughout. +There was recently a vogue for polemical antifracking documentaries like “ Gasland ” that purport to show that fracking is causing flammable tap water and other horrors. +But whatever was left of it was interred by the 2014-15 Blue Devils, who won a national title on the backs of four freshmen , three of whom — Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow and Tyus Jones — promptly declared for the N.B.A. draft and were selected in its first round. +Through Oct. 4. $6 for adults , $4 for children. +There is yearning at the core of “A Cure for Suicide,” and in that yearning is the reason for carrying on when doing so feels impossible. +Many have written him off . +A custom-made staircase to the side of the reception hall leads up to a galleried landing, which gives on to the six bedrooms and family bathroom. +Jirkovsky and Stewart swam back toward the boat, and only Stewart got out. +The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months. +Venture capitalists are funding new search start-ups that treat information and the web as legacy products and that focus on actions and apps instead. +The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie ; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. +“Immigrants weigh on the economic life of our country, ” Jean-Marie Le Pen told an interviewer that year — words that could have come from his daughter. +The papers arrived last week from Croatia, where they had been kept by Ms. Kodar , Mr. Hallman said. +The new commissioner, Rob Manfred , is emphatically in favor of keeping the link between the sport’s so-called jewel events. +The United investigation grew out of the federal inquiry into the 2013 closing of lanes at the George Washington Bridge, and Mr. Fox is the latest high-ranking figure to leave his post amid those investigations. +Over the past decade, companies doing business in Colombia, like Chiquita Brands and Dole Food , have incurred the wrath of Terrence Collingsworth, a lawyer who has accused them of mistreating workers or conspiring to kill labor activists. +As of Dec. 31, the company had more than 1.3 million members and generated revenue of £630 million. +Brad Pitt, left, received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Benjamin Button, a man born in his 80s in 1918 New Orleans, who ages in reverse into the 21st century, in this adaptation of a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. +The email was intended to make his affair with Ms. Gamrat, 42, appear less believable if it was exposed by an anonymous blackmailer who Mr. Courser said had demanded his resignation . +(Bans on interracial marriage were generally a white supremacist innovation, not an inheritance from Christendom or common law.) +When Mr. Rodham was short on cash in 2010, Mr. Clinton helped get him a job for $72,000 a year raising investments in GreenTech Automotive, an electric car company then owned by Terry McAuliffe , an old friend of Mr. Clinton’s and now the governor of Virginia. +The ancillary benefits for Visa, however, suggest that just as Visa’ chief executive, Charles W. Scharf, said in April : “Sooner is better.” +If defectors say they had high-level connections in Pyongyang or came from an esteemed institution in the North, they can gain better employment in the South, where life can be very difficult for North Koreans. +It aims to force Greece once again to tackle many issues it has kicked aside for years, from simple ones like getting reliable economic statistics to more complex ones like opening up product and service markets , further streamlining the pension system, improving tax collection and moving ahead on privatization. +Andrew Zimbalist , a sports economist at Smith College and author of “Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup,” questioned whether the organizers could get any “master developers” to sign on for the village and the stadium. +It’s a Catch-22 that ends up excluding potentially valuable drugs from ever even being considered for development. +Between 1987 and 1996, Ms. Simpson (whose birth name is Leslie and who prefers female pronouns when referring to her drag persona) took some 5,000 photographs of drag performers posing in clubs, on the street and on gay-pride parade floats, unwittingly creating a time capsule of an era when drag queens were the de rigueur jesters and goddesses of the underground. +But he and two younger men whom he had mentored, Henry R. Kravis and George R. Roberts, eventually left in 1976 to form a new investment firm bearing their names. +He also believes the pyramids of Egypt were built to store grain rather than as tombs for kings and queens. +“The Russians have fought what is largely a proxy war in eastern Ukraine — and on the cheap, too,” Mark Galeotti, a military analyst , wrote in Foreign Policy magazine. +Mike Massaroli, from Staten Island, says that his postings are often ignored and that he is occasionally unfollowed even by his fraternity brothers, who playfully cast him off as “ the dude who is voting for Bernie Sanders ” for his frequent praise of the Vermont senator. +Representatives of small businesses, like William Schubert, president of a small infrastructure export firm outside Houston , flooded the hallways of Congress in February and confronted usual Republican allies on the other side of the Ex-Im divide. +Still, “Immediate Family” includes a picture from 1989 that may be the most gruesome so far: a nude Virginia seeming to have hanged herself by a rope from a tree. +Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) leads S.H.I.E.L.D. , the agency that oversees the Avengers, the superhero team made up of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). +He said during his long incarceration he had at times nursed “a desire for full reprisal and revenge .” +A federal judge declined on Wednesday to order the removal of marijuana from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of the most harmful and addictive drugs, disappointing those who had hoped the courts might help settle growing conflicts between federal and state laws. +Sanders told the assembled media that while he liked the president’s speech, “he was wrong on one major issue, and that is the Trans-Pacific Partnership .” +Ranking second to James on the team is Kyrie Irving, who rated at 25.1 in the one finals game he played before being injured. +J.D.: He twice finished a head behind my top choice, Dortmund , before winning the Sunland Derby in New Mexico. +Its request for a sophisticated antitank missile went nowhere, as Washington feared it would just encourage Russia to send more weapons and men to Ukraine. +By the end of the fourth episode, two brothers (along with Mr. Gooding) break into a suburban house, hold a family hostage while being trailed by a detective hired by their mother and by a team of drug traffickers with machine guns . +It can be read as an ode to Mr. Lloyd Webber’s rock ’n’ roll coming-of-age, containing snippets of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (an inescapable radio hit from his adolescence); Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” (a nod to that band’s lead singer, Ian Gillan, the original Jesus of “Superstar”); and “Walk on the Wild Side,” by Lou Reed (whose music was ubiquitous on his early visits to New York). +He has also said that further military action was necessary to stem terrorist acts like the ones that struck Paris on Nov. 13 , leaving 130 dead, and that it would be an essential component of any diplomatic solution to the Syrian civil war, which has displaced up to half that country’s population. +Our sport is a gentleman’s sport . +The biggest setback for this kind of litigation came two years ago when the Supreme Court sharply limited the use of an obscure law adopted in 1789, the Alien Tort Statute , to bring international claims in American courts. +Mr. Garcia said he was neither relieved nor disappointed by the blizzard’s last-minute zag to the east. +Earlier in the week, word leaked out that during private interviews with team staff members, Eichel had told the Sabres that he was the best player in the draft. +Serve with bean sprouts on top and the lime, ketchup and mustard on the side. +The plight of Shohret Hoshur’s brothers — a third brother, Tudaxun , was convicted of endangering state security last year and sentenced to five years in prison — has become an issue between the two countries before President Xi Jinping’s summit meeting with President Obama in Washington next month. +Recent debates over relics of the Confederacy — in South Carolina, the United States Capitol, and elsewhere — only underscore how successful 150 years of revisionism can be. +BANGKOK — Myanmar’s election commission on Friday announced the final tally of the country’s Nov. 8 landmark election, a rout by the opposition, led by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. +One of the most glorious moments in D.H. Lawrence’s “ Lady Chatterley’s Lover ,” once a banned book, occurs when Connie and Mellors adorn their genitalia with flowers. +Delivered in stark terms that surprised some foreign policy analysts and left no room for questioning whether the agreement is good for American security — “It’s not even close,” Mr. Obama declared at one point — the president’s speech was a striking display of certitude about a diplomatic deal that has split the American public and presented a dilemma for lawmakers, including many in his own party. +Governor Cuomo initially supported the decision, saying that a casino was not likely to spur economic development in the relatively sparsely populated area near Binghamton. +Router manufacturers have more recently improved Wi-Fi technology with mobile devices in mind , said Mr. Fraser. +Greece’s backsliding on its pledges has stirred speculation in recent days of a possible “ Grexit ,” or Greek exit, from the 19-nation group that uses the euro. +Senator Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming, the chairman of the Budget Committee, hailed a plan that he said would “protect the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, strengthen national defense and bring robust economic growth.” +Many also support the latest Wi-Fi standard — 802.11ac — which has top speeds that are nearly three times faster than the previous standard, 802.11n , for the fastest wireless devices you can buy today. +Credit Suisse estimated in a research note this week that 80 percent of urban Chinese households held stakes in the stock market, either directly or through equity funds that invest in it . +He blamed the government for keeping energy and water prices low, saying that he paid only $270 a month for his electricity bill, covering his huge pump and 20 employees . +My family has its share of divorces and second marriages ; my friends’ romantic paths are varied; my closest friend from high school just exchanged vows with his longtime boyfriend. +Ricky Rubio tied a career high with 17 assists for the Timberwolves, who held off a late charge from the Jazz that cut a 15-point deficit to 6 even as Utah was playing without Derrick Favors . +Nic Moore scored 18 points , and No. 21 Southern Methodist (22-5, 13-2 American Athletic Conference) rallied from 10 points down in the second half to end a seven-game winning streak by visiting Temple (19-8, 10-4). +With financial help from Sprout , women’s groups and other supporters started a campaign to win F.D.A. approval for Addyi, noting that the agency had approved comparable treatments for men. +The tit for tat has been so obvious that even pro-Kremlin commentators have dropped the pretense, saying the flower burning is intended as a warning to the Netherlands over risks to trade if the investigation proceeds unfavorably for Russia. +Arielle Sosland, writer and director of this musical, based it on “The Can Do Duck” series of children’s books by her father, Morton Sosland , a child psychiatrist. +“It is perverse,” the Chadbourne & Parke brief said, “for the government to grant leave to enable a same-sex couple to travel to a state where they can legally marry , for the government to recognize that marriage as valid for however many more years the service member continues to serve, and then suddenly ignore that marriage as soon as the service member retires and obtains veteran’s status.” +“So it was 50 years ago during the civil rights movement, and so it must be today.” +The Alliance for Tenant Power and the Community Service Society, an anti-poverty group, recently called for abolishing 421-a . +The end of days looms — Mr. Andersson makes jokes about get-rich-quick crucifix salesmen — and over-the-top doomsday sights appear, like self-flagellating crowds, the dead rising and even a sacrificial rite. +The cause of the fire remained a mystery, but many assumed arson . +But Mr. Jain argued that Deutsche Bank needed to be a force on Wall Street to serve blue-chip German companies that almost always have large operations in the United States. +And angry or disappointed party legislators are a great danger for small parliamentary majorities. +You’re better off to take a job you’re excited about than to do the one you think somebody wants you to do.” +Jason Dorsey, the chief strategy officer at the Center for Generational Kinetics, which studies marketing to young people , said the message was not harmful. +And average hourly earnings rose 0.2 percent , which was what forecasters expected but also doesn’t suggest that wage inflation is starting to break out. +Through July 25 . +“Rejection of immigration, this is what it is has been for more than 40 years ,” Laurent Bouvet, a political scientist who specializes in the National Front, said in an interview. +From the earliest days of the war, the government in Kiev had asked for military help from the United States. +But later on my first reaction was, “I’m not going to go into the business, I’m going to find my own identity, and do my own thing,” which is why I studied art history and languages and started working in the art world and then the fashion industry . +The Wanderu app’s home screen asks “Where to?” and the temptation to type in all your dream destinations (New Orleans! +This creates a big opportunity for Americans to put pressure on their state and local leaders, especially since Congress refuses to approve even uncontroversial measures like universal background checks for gun sales, which are supported by nearly nine in 10 Americans. +Suspicions of insider trading were cited this week in the arrest of the owner of one of the country’s top investment firms, Xu Xiang , a billionaire who has been called the Carl Icahn of China. +Outside, shaking women wept into tissues. Stern men, rocking back and forth, blinked out tears. +Willingly overlooking that fact amounts to a fundamental failure of water management that has left states more vulnerable to drought and less prepared to adapt to the effects of climate change. +DAKAR, Senegal — The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram on Friday morning struck across Nigeria’s border into Niger for the first time, broadening the regional conflict to a fourth country in West Africa. +It tops this year’s state rankings in the Kauffman Index, which measures new business activity throughout the nation. +“That’s a lot of pressure to live up to sometimes.” +The antitrust case against Google filed by European Union regulators on Wednesday will inevitably draw comparisons to the long-running prosecution of Microsoft, in which regulators on both sides of the Atlantic pursued the software giant for anticompetitive behavior. +Before applying for a mortgage, the co-borrowers should fully reveal their income, debt and credit status to each other, said Mike Venable, a senior vice president and head of underwriting for retail bank operations at TD Bank . +They are the Kitchen and Performance Space 122 . +She graduated in May and just started work as a public defender in Shelby County, Tenn. +We spoke in her sitting room, where a Fernand Léger painting presides from above the fireplace. +Because of an editing error, an article on Dec. 20 about Xavier Gabriel, a Spaniard whose lottery business has become a national emblem of luck and a formidable merchandising brand, misstated, in some editions, the timing of the crash of the Virgin Galactic space plane, on which Mr. Gabriel has booked a $200,000 seat. +The chief distinction of the choreography lies in its effort to mix hip-hop styles with steps from tap, ballet and West African dance . +Broadway Playhouse: Frank Loesser (Sunday) +It seems more to me that this judge wanted to avoid controversy and having to deal with the issue. +And his supporters, including the Guardian commentator Owen Jones , praised his effort to reach those Britons who feel alienated by politicians and the system in general. +For nearly a year, banks and law firms have talked about forging a closer partnership to share some information about hacking incidents . +With 14 percent of American households not getting enough food to live active, healthy lifestyles, it is unforgivable to allow wasted food to rot in landfills. +Results can be sorted by time ( earliest and latest buses and trains on a given day) and price. +( Germany was the top marketplace until Indonesia slid past it two years ago.) +“At a certain point he realized that he had been given very bad advice,” said Aristos Doxiadis, an economist and venture capitalist who writes about politics and has been critical of Mr. Tsipras in the past. +And in the last half of his career he was a diminished player, his skills attenuated by the persistent back problems that forced him to quit prematurely at 34, his spirit likely withered by the mortifying shenanigans of the Yankees’ principal owner, George Steinbrenner, and his minions (who once ordered Mattingly fined and benched for not getting a haircut ), not to mention the ignominy of a last-place finish in 1990. +British Airways said a small number of passengers and crew had been taken to the hospital as a precaution. +BEIRUT, Lebanon — Scores of Syrian government soldiers and civilians besieged by insurgents for nearly a month in a hospital in northern Syria fled on Friday in a dramatic exit that both the army and its opponents promptly claimed as a victory. +The eclectic, historically progressive school said not only would it divest itself of all fossil fuel investments in coming years, but it is also reshaping the entire curriculum to focus more on climate change and sustainability. +“The irony, of course, is that the newspaper which first raised the alarm about the breast augmentation ads runs far more explicit advertisements in their own 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the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander . +The petition included personal details, including claims that Mr. Redstone is incontinent, requires suctioning to remove phlegm up to 20 times day, is “obsessed with eating steak ” even while on a feeding tube, and “demands, to the extent he can be understood, to engage in sexual activity every day.” +Then I went to the University of Kansas to get an M.B.A. +The city’s population of children in foster care hit its peak in the early 1990s, amid a crack epidemic, topping 49,000 in December 1991 . +Steve Cainas, 43, who received an associate’s degree in film from Full Sail in 1992 , makes his living in Atlanta as a production coordinator. +So it was that Mr. Heastie , the recently elected speaker of the New York State Assembly, was at a blood drive here in suburban Syracuse on Tuesday, gamely donating a pint in front of a group of somewhat perplexed phlebotomists and schedule-obsessed aides. +You can sign up for the email here to get this and all of the best of The Upshot. +A moment later, in what appeared to be a well-practiced demonstration, he asked the phone, “Which person was struck by lightning seven times and survived?” +Ms. Sabbagh was walking in a small group of fellow party members on Saturday with a wreath of flowers to lay in Tahrir Square to honor demonstrators killed there during previous protests, according to a witness account and a video recording of the scene. +“He wants to keep the society consolidated and to present himself continuously as a high-profile leader who lives somewhere above everything in the country,” Mr. Trudolyubov said, “so you cannot connect anything that he is doing to what is happening with the ruble, or the hospitals or the schools or the roads. +The Democrats’ stance, articulated in several proposals released by Speaker Carl E. 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Brian Sauder, who grew up attending a small Anabaptist church in rural Illinois, the moment came in a college classroom. +Many apps have similar features, including WhatsApp and WeChat . +Over a hundred thousand Americans may have died prematurely, “not from stress, but from the belief that stress is bad for you, ” as the health psychologist Kelly McGonigal notes. +(Read Jenny Offill ’s “Dept. of Speculation” for a recent literary example.) +Mr. Lander allotted $ 225,000 toward the project in 2010. +These include guardian ogres with faces like pugs with tusks and nymphs with half-bird, half human bodies who, with a pretty dance and a flutter of stained-glass wings, bid you goodbye at the end of the show. +It explicitly dismissed statements by Rudolf Höss, one of the commanders at Auschwitz , that a cyanide gas, Zyklon B, had been used to commit mass murder. +The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar ; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. +With a once-mighty circulation of 5.6 million now hovering around 800,000, Playboy has been left with no choice but to put on its big-girl panties and try to compete with other glossy lad mags and their versions of the Good Life. +The Washington Post tried to assess how well the candidates who are governors did in their states. +“I’m going to fallow two acres of my land immediately,” said Geoffrey C. 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Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security, spoke this month at an American Bar Association conference in New Orleans, impressing on the lawyers the need to promptly inform clients and law enforcement authorities of attacks that could compromise confidential information. +The Sweet Briar finishing-school moniker hit her only once, when she was at graduate school back in Michigan , where she earned a doctorate in health management and policy. +At 16, he joined the Dominican Republic ’s national team for a summer of exhibitions. +that military preparedness would be threatened if service academies could not ensure a diverse officer corps. +Her music is folky and pastoral , with a sense of scale that makes her humble about her place in mankind and the universe, and her songs are serene but never complacent. +What “Picasso I Els Reventós” pinpoints in this period is not only the letters between Picasso and the Reventós brothers and the intimate illustrations he included in many of them, but also early artwork that was directly influenced by the friendships, including drawings from around 1900 of each brother decked in dapper outfits, with Ramón smoking a pipe. +John P. Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security , spoke this month at an American Bar Association conference in New Orleans, impressing on the lawyers the need to promptly inform clients and law enforcement authorities of attacks that could compromise confidential information. +203-562-4183; newhavenmuseum.org. 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McIntyre Burnham, a neuropharmacologist at the University of Toronto , with whom Dr. Ohayon studied. +The world this award-winning 72-year-old Swedish filmmaker creates is an indelible one. 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But where did they find their DJ.? +For Children GALLOWAY Stockton University Performing Art’s Center “ The Emperor’s New Clothes ,” a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale. +1 tablespoon chopped garlic6 tablespoons vegetable oil1 teaspoon chili powder, preferably Thai (or cayenne pepper)4 tablespoons palm sugar4 tablespoons tamarind purée½ cup chopped, roasted peanuts1 block firm tofu or, if possible, smoked tofu, diced into small cubes1.5 ounces preserved turnip, finely chopped 1.5 ounces Chinese chives3 tablespoons fish sauce1.5 ounces of pork loin, diced into small pieces10 ounces rice vermicelli noodles (sen lek)3 eggs1 pound of bean sprouts1 lime To turn the dish into a bastard (optional*):Béchamel sauce with cheese (recipe below)Breadcrumbs and butter to topKetchup and mustard to serve 1. +This brings us back to Pope Francis, a humble man who accepts that he’s very powerful . +The damage began with an innocuous fly ball off the bat of Curtis Granderson that was dropped by center fielder Odubel Herrera. +“Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” by Thomas Hardy; “Another Country,” by James Baldwin; “If This Is a Man,” by Primo Levi; “Watership Down,” by Richard Adams; “A Collection of Essays,” by George Orwell; “The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker,” by Maeve Brennan; “ A Handful of Dust ,” by Evelyn Waugh; “Eastern Approaches,” by Fitzroy Maclean; “The Line of Beauty,” by Alan Hollinghurst; “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt. +Watch: Ukrainian nationalists clashed with security forces in Kiev , killing a police officer, after a bitterly debated parliamentary vote set the stage for greater autonomy in separatist regions in the country’s war-torn east. +The Japanese ambassador, Hirosi Saito, who was planning to meet with the United States secretary of state “ to take whatever action was possible to remedy the situation, ” went on to explain that “while he fully comprehended that in this country, where caricatures of the highest public officials are every day fare in the press, no slight to the person of the Emperor was necessarily intended, yet in Japan a representation of the Emperor as engaged in the menial task of pulling a cart could not be understood or taken lightly.” +But in recommending only three projects for a license last month, the board warned about the possibility of cannibalizing an already crowded gambling market in the Northeast . +Accompanied only by his backup singer, he began to play “River.” It’s the final song on his album, and the one on which the allusions to Mr. Cooke are the strongest, taking advantage of the slickness of Mr. Bridges’s voice. +Sound, web and digital works start at $100 and increase by edition to a top price of $2,800; for video, the starting price is $200, increasing by increments to a top price of $5,600 . +There have certainly been times when the church has challenged the government. +The penalty, as well as criticism from regulators who said the bank failed to recognize signs of misconduct, damaged the reputation of the bank as well as Mr. Jain , who was head of Deutsche Bank’s investment bank operations in London, where most of the mischief took place. +Its implications are broad and complex, as our food system is deeply interconnected with our water and energy systems . +Unilever brought on the United Soybean Board and the Iowa Soybean Association , two trade groups, to give the program bona fides. +The corridor’s ridership has doubled in the last 30 years even as its old and overloaded infrastructure of tracks, power lines, bridges and tunnels has begun to wear out. +Aron Johannsson, a striker for the United States men’s national soccer team , is on the verge of a transfer to Werder Bremen of Germany’s Bundesliga, his Dutch club announced Tuesday. +Long Island’s high electric costs have made it an attractive market for solar. +At Princeton Junction train station in New Jersey on Friday morning, an announcement informed the crowded platform that trains to New York’s Pennsylvania Station were delayed by 30 minutes. +Mamava, a brand dedicated to promoting the culture of breast-feeding, created the 4-foot-by-8-foot spaces, which are equipped with two benches and an electrical outlet. 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Yale Zhang, managing director of the Shanghai-based consultancy Automotive Foresight, said connectivity was a deciding factor for Chinese customers buying a car. +Her party, the National League for Democracy, won 390 seats compared with 42 for the governing party, a state-run television station reported in its Friday evening broadcast. +An inductee to Full Sail’s Hall of Fame, honoring its most successful alums, Mr. Cainas has production coordinator credits on several films and TV series, including Parts 1 and 2 of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” and HBO’s “True Detective.” “A lot of these kids coming out now think they can just send a couple emails and get a great job,” he said. +Built to suit the couple, the basement includes two bedrooms, a master bathroom, an infrared sauna, a study and, according to Mr. Harschel, one of the most important rooms in the house: a two-and-a-half-square-meter woodworking and repair shop. +At 7:29 a.m., the temperature sank to a low of 3 degrees in Central Park, the lowest since the record of 1 degree was set in January 2004, said Tim Morrin, the observation program leader for the National Weather Service. +He knows there are places where Catholics are suffering terribly for their faith, but when he looks at an embattled flock, he also sees Muslim immigrants who need Christian countries to open their borders . +Moreover, static scoring biases the analysis of proposed policy changes . +Meanwhile, he said, the state had started cracking down ahead of the pope’s visit, detaining some dissidents and stationing police officers outside dissidents’ houses. +I confess I use these “work” books the way other people use alcohol or exercise or SSRIs or sleeping pills — I turn to them for an altered state. +On the evening of April 21 in Building 21 at the Fishkill Correctional Facility , Samuel Harrell, an inmate with a history of erratic behavior linked to bipolar disorder, packed his bags and announced he was going home, though he still had several years left to serve on his drug sentence. +Mills, who was seated alongside representatives of 13 other teams, watched as Mark Tatum, the league’s deputy commissioner, opened 14 envelopes, one by one, each containing a team logo. +clayartcenter.org; 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So far, whenever I have asked officials that question, they seemed pretty sanguine. +At TD Ameritrade, the wind often blows in , knocking down well-hit balls in the alleys and straightaway center. +Instead, I stared at the matrix on my phone, my own red eyes scanning a tiny sample of some 670,000 photographs under #nightshift. +Last year, 78 percent of students met state standards on the state English test, and 80 percent on the math test, versus 30 and 39 percent citywide. +The judge also reject ed the prosecution’s argument that Mr. Hincapie could have called the witnesses at his first trial and chose not to. +At 94, I welcome confrontational thinking. +The list includes Fabrizio Donato, the bronze medalist in triple jump at the 2012 London Olympics, and Andrew Howe, the silver medalist in long jump at the 2007 world championships. +A red-tailed hawk named Pale Male became a celebrity after starring in a film, “The Legend of Pale Male,” that opened at the Angelika Film Center in Greenwich Village in 2010. +The charges, brought by the Clinton County district attorney, Andrew M. 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we call it a journal,” said Susy Korb , chief marketing officer of Anthropologie, whose materials show women wearing dresses in fields, on beaches and “where the rolling heather meets the broad, brisk sky,” as one recent spread detailed. +Since then, she’s appeared in a campaign for Prada — and for T, she joined Aya Jones on a trip exploring the fashionable side of American sportswear. +After his run to the final of the United States Open last year, which included a five-set win over Wawrinka in the quarterfinals , Nishikori was expected by many to move one step further at this tournament. +An article on Wednesday about Diana Taurasi ’s experiences playing professional basketball in Yekaterinburg, Russia, misidentified the church there that is built over the cellar where the Romanovs were assassinated. +The proposals, which would require approval by the State Legislature, are central to the mayor’s promise to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over 10 years . +Mr. Kohlberg rose through the ranks of the investment bank Bear Stearns, where he started working in 1955 . +Besides, knowing the Countess, it’s just a matter of time before she slits my throat .” +Asked whether the mostly male culture of Silicon Valley is likely to change, Mr. Sacca, one of Twitter’s major investors , said, “It’s changing, slowly. +June 22 through July 14 . +Social Security number to collect a refund . +The Rangers were preparing to play Game 7 of their second-round playoff series against the Washington Capitals, set for Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, and Lundqvist was acting as if it were any other game. +He expressed confidence in the long-term prospects of the common stocks known as A Shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. +Several Mets, led by Juan Uribe, were singing along to pop songs by the Backstreet Boys , the popular boy band from the late 1990s. +“This is a very important indication of how dysfunctional the government is and how incapable it is of dealing with the basic demands of the population,” said Mario Abou Zeid, a research analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. +I do, however, want to see a spinoff show, “ The Radwells Plus Eight .” +Mr. McConnell said he thought it was telling that Mr. Cardin and Mr. Menendez, the two most senior Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee, both opposed the deal . +The World Wildlife Fund signed up as a scientific consultant. +The Japanese ambassador, Hirosi Saito, who was planning to meet with the United States secretary of state “to take whatever action was possible to remedy the situation,” went on to explain that “while he fully comprehended that in this country, where caricatures of the highest public officials are every day fare in the press, no slight to the person of the Emperor was necessarily intended, yet in Japan a representation of the Emperor as engaged in the menial task of pulling a cart could not be understood or taken lightly.” +I’m the only one who’s biracial . +Texas Southern, from the Southwestern Athletic Conference , represented a potential land mine for the Wildcats. +Yes, but when you’re in this business what you come to understand is that total eradication of a drug threat just isn’t going to happen,” said Keith Brown, the special agent in charge of the D.E.A.’s New Orleans field division , which covers Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. +“The D.E.A. and M.P.S. continue to exchange information in this joint investigation into the manufacturing and trafficking of synthetic cannabinoid compounds and other dangerous drugs,” the statement said. +In an open letter last month, 12 of Sweden’s top women’s rights lobbies noted that a number of countries were looking toward the Swedish model of combating prostitution. +But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. +Several performing arts organizations, including some in the classical music world, have designated “ tweet seats ” where use of social media during selected performances is encouraged. +When Monsignor Harrington started work at St. Joseph in 2008 , the organ had not been played in nearly 50 years. +Readers are on a reverse migration to print, and one bookstore owner says that the “e-book terror has kind of subsided.” Digital sales have slowed sharply, though analysts once predicted that e-books would overtake print by 2015. +Several Mets, led by Juan Uribe, were singing along to pop songs by the Backstreet Boys, the popular boy band from the late 1990s. +Instead, the statement said that Mr. Fox would “make his anticipated transition back to the private sector by the end of the month .” +For those unfamiliar with Oaxacan cuisine, it is known for chocolate-infused moles, which Charritos does serve, and grasshoppers, which it does not. From this tiny terrace perched on the Palisades, you can peer as far north as the George Washington Bridge and as far south as the Verrazano. +Outside California, the educational gap between rich and poor is much wider – and not narrowing very rapidly. +Monday’s plan, called Bid 2.0, was seen as Boston’s major chance to convince the U.S.O.C. to stick with Boston, which it picked over Los Angeles , San Francisco and Washington in January. +Like a lot of white people, Ms. Schumer can fumble when latching onto race; unlike a lot of white performers, she takes on race directly . +Monday was the eighth anniversary of Mr. Levinson’s disappearance, which occurred during a visit he made to Kish Island, Iran . +Cheryl Yvette Dawson and Madifing Kaba are to be married Sunday evening at the Alger House, an event space in Manhattan . +We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group’s mentors twist their minds with fanaticism. +Singaporean food courts, better known as hawker centers , are lined with stalls whose proprietors make a small number of dishes, or just a single one, over and over. +During the granted period of market exclusivity, pharmaceutical manufacturers can price drugs higher than they could if there were competition from firms marketing the same molecule. +The report released Friday by the County Administrative Board of Stockholm found that while there had been a huge increase in online ads for escorts selling sex to men, one seller was often behind multiple ads. “Against this background, there is nothing indicating that the actual number of individuals engaging in prostitution has increased,” it said. +The Mets’ average television audience, which reached a high of 314,171 in 2007, bottomed out at 138,627 in 2013 before a slight revival to just over 144,000 last season. +And he asked McAuliffe to give me a job,” Mr. Rodham said during the court proceedings, which were the result of a lawsuit over unpaid legal bills filed by his lawyer in a child support case . +And now my son invests in the stock market along with me, turns a profit and is working on a degree in finance . +That day at Mapstone’s office, she vowed that she would figure out a way to take her own life before the disease took it from her. +Coach Bob Stoops replaced the offensive coordinators Josh Heupel (now at Utah State) and Jay Norvell (now at Texas) with Lincoln Riley, who installed a spread “air raid” offense. +The Afghan Local Police were established by American commanders as a low-cost auxiliary force trained by the United States Special Forces . +The awards show, on June 7 , opened with Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming teasing a producer, Harvey Weinstein, about the lack of nominations for his big Broadway adventure, “Finding Neverland,” and closed with Larry David and Jason Alexander in an extended riff on the lack of nominations for their show, “Fish in the Dark.” +It employs more than 1.3 million people, and in the last fiscal year earned about 1.6 trillion rupees, or $25.2 billion , or less than 14 percent of the revenue of Apple. +My 18 years worth of experience with and knowledge about Asperger’s syndrome is paying off.” +Without F.D.A. approval , a drug cannot be marketed. +Declining birthrates can also lead to labor shortages, and Germany has faced a gap in skilled labor. +Mr. Rodham eventually settled his bill with his former lawyer, Gwendolyn Jo M. Carlberg . +The last six weeks, he’s just been electric. ” +The book, about a lesbian cartoonist and her closeted gay father, has been a best seller since its release in 2007 , he said. +In another example of the Pentagon’s growing criticism of China’s efforts, a senior Navy commander, Rear Adm. Christopher J. Paul, said last month in Australia that there were countries “who attempt to constrict movement through international waters , who create land areas where there were none; who create exclusion zones where there should be shared use.” +Only in the realm of mishearing — at least, my mishearings — can a biography of cancer become a biography of Cantor (one of my favorite mathematicians), tarot cards turn into pteropods, a grocery bag into a poetry bag, all-or-noneness into oral numbness, a porch into a Porsche, and a mere mention of Christmas Eve a command to “Kiss my feet!” +Scientists said the new addition, which lived about 125 million years ago , had layers of dense feathers covering its wings and tail, but experts believe that the feathers were more for display than for flight. +In the first two weeks of training, the Americans found the Ukrainians ’ soldierly skills lacking, and the group generally in need of instruction. +The after-parties often start at 1:30 a.m. and can run til 4 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had agreed on the list of those attending the Pugwash Conference, but overruled some, such as the High Peace Council’s secretary general, Masoom Stanikzai , if they seemed too obviously representative of the government. +Marcelo Aguirre, a paramedic in Newark and suburban New Jersey. +Bryant received a huge ovation when he was announced for the starting lineups, but he was jeered the first time he got the ball , a nod to his role in what is perhaps the league’s best rivalry. +Court records show that the gunman in Louisiana had a history of mental illness and had once been the subject of a protective order in Carroll County, Ga., which may have been detected with a stronger mental health reporting systems . +Gottfried Ludewig is a young member of the Berlin City Parliament from the center-right Christian Democratic Union, Angela Merkel’s party. +In the end, both channels disappeared from the airwaves during a shared live broadcast on Wednesday afternoon, which Bugun’s Suna Vidinli reported on Twitter . +1 tablespoon chopped garlic6 tablespoons vegetable oil1 teaspoon chili powder, preferably Thai (or cayenne pepper)4 tablespoons palm sugar4 tablespoons tamarind purée½ cup chopped, roasted peanuts1 block firm tofu or, if possible, smoked tofu, diced into small cubes1.5 ounces preserved turnip, finely chopped1.5 ounces Chinese chives3 tablespoons fish sauce1.5 ounces of pork loin, diced into small pieces10 ounces rice vermicelli noodles (sen lek)3 eggs 1 pound of bean sprouts1 lime To turn the dish into a bastard (optional*):Béchamel sauce with cheese (recipe below)Breadcrumbs and butter to topKetchup and mustard to serve 1. +“Top Gear,” which began as a straight show about cars, has in its current incarnation become popular worldwide, watched by about 350 million viewers in 170 countries. +A month later, he became the focus of an awkward standoff after he refused to accept a list of political prisoners presented to him by two dissidents during a reception at the United States Interests Section (the building soon reopened this summer as the American embassy when diplomatic relations with Cuba were restored). +Oil was central to Brazil’s strategy, and that gave Petrobras a leading role in the nation’s growing influence — and pride of place. +LeBron James was 0 for 3. +Kurdish militias — not the U.S. military by any means — have made rapid inroads. +Disciplining Beckham could not have been easy for the N.F.L., which moved the Giants ’ next game, in Minnesota, to Sunday night from its original 1 p.m. scheduled start, in part to feature Beckham in prime time. +But Mr. Turnbull will have to lead not only the lawmakers in his own party — 44 of whom did not vote for him on Monday night, against 54 who did — but also a country where policy in recent years often seems to have been made on the run, and often in response to flagging opinion polls. +He took his first loss in six starts this season. +“About two years ago, I saw him at the Ritz,” Donatella Versace, Mr. Versace’s younger sister and since his death the steward of his label, said in a note. +Aron Johannsson, a striker for the United States men’s national soccer team, is on the verge of a transfer to Werder Bremen of Germany’s Bundesliga , his Dutch club announced Tuesday. +The same, however, could not be said of James’s teammates, who seemed disoriented during the game, with expressions as dull as old pennies. +He led Maynard Evans High School in Orlando to the Florida state championship in 1975. +The issue is that short-term financing like construction loans, which are usually 12 months or less , is exempt from existing disclosure requirements under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, but disclosure requirements would apply under the new rules. +Sound, web and digital works start at $100 and increase by edition to a top price of $2,800; for video, the starting price is $200, increasing by increments to a top price of $5,600. +You can find other recipes for the weekend at Cooking . +But in singling out Tunisia, whose 2011 street rebellion overthrew an entrenched dictatorship and launched the “Arab Spring,” the Norwegian Nobel committee also underscored the dismal failure of the uprisings that followed in other Arab states. +In a statement, Mr. McGinty said, “Once the investigation is complete — and in the death of Tamir Rice, it is not at this time — all evidence and expert analysis will be presented to the grand jury.” +My Irish grandmother, who completed third grade, had a more accurate understanding of the “sense of the faithful” than many of the agenda-driven academics I have met. +RABAT, Morocco — A fiery head-on collision between a semitrailer truck and a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco on Friday killed 33 people and injured seven, according to the state news agency and local news media reports. +Tennessee running back Alvin Kamara, a transfer from junior college , rushed for 144 yards and two touchdowns in his debut last week against Bowling Green. +While critics of the agreement in the United States said the compromise gave Iran latitude to cheat, Mr. Amano and his subordinates said it conformed to their standards. +Lawmakers should join him, reject the false attacks and act in the interests of the students , who have been failed terribly and must not be made to wait any longer. +At 11 a.m. , 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan, 212-501-3330, kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch. +But at least 20 members ended up voting against their constituents. +■ Thomas Pieters of Belgium won his second European Tour title, two weeks after his first, shooting a five-under-par 65 to win the KLM Open in Zandvoort, Netherlands, by one shot after Lee Slattery faltered on the final hole. +FRONT PAGE Because of an editing error, an article on Nov. 29 about the Islamic State’s control of the Libya n city of Surt, which Western agencies say may give it a fallback option in case it is ousted from its territories in Iraq and Syria, misstated the location of the city of Darnah, close to where Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi leader of the Islamic State, was killed by an American airstrike in November. +And Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader , believes they have been pretty good at it — particularly when measured against the vicious stalemate of the previous four years. +But critics have taken aim at the rollout. +FRONT PAGE An article on Saturday about Israel’s success in ensuring a sufficient supply of water even during droughts by desalinating Mediterranean seawater and recycling of wastewater referred imprecisely to Sidney Loeb, an American who moved to Israel in 1967 and taught water professionals how to desalinate seawater. +The Titans had not won on their own field since Oct. 12, 2014, when a blocked field-goal attempt helped them beat, coincidentally, Jacksonville. +The United States defended its women’s world hockey championship with a 7-5 victory over Canada in the final in Malmo, Sweden . +(Apple’s iTunes Match and Apple Music services can also make all your music easily available on all your devices, but are subscription-based and cost money .) +And at 8:30 p.m., the museum will repeat the morning’s free demonstration of pi (location to be announced), with visitors standing in huge circles and holding glow sticks as measuring tools. +LITCHFIELD Wisdom House “Ephemera: Holding a Moment in Your Hand,” Jean Linville . +Moreover, analysts say, exchanges like Nasdaq as well as broker dealers will have to make significant investments to accommodate the new funds. +Security forces disrupted what was described as a “large-scale attack” in Burkina Faso , arresting 13 suspects and seizing weapons and bomb-making materials in the west near Mali’s border, the security minister said Friday. +SOUTH ORANGE South Orange Performing Arts Center “SOxSO: Creative Collisions,” 12 interactive sessions, 15 musical performances and community art projects. +the nearly $100 million it pays Amtrak each year was being used properly. +Scientists said that excessive pumping was a contributing factor. +The first home he lived in cost $6,000 a month. +Experts say that cameras probably change for the better how the police and the public treat each other, but they do not know how much . +American instructors intend to recommend top performers to serve as trainers within other Ukrainian units, and in this way spread the instruction more broadly. +The concert hall was packed , and the crowd was ecstatic. +But the Illini solved that problem for at least one week, getting 16 carries for 180 rushing yards and two touchdowns from Vaughn, a freshman; 12 carries for 133 yards from Ferguson, a senior in his first game back from injury; and a total of 382 yards on the ground in a dominating 48-14 victory over the Boilermakers. +Under orders from the White House , the Bureau of Reclamation has begun studies on the impact of global warming on 22 Western water 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Ryan of Wisconsin and two of his three children strung Halloween decorations across their Janesville lawn. +Last month, the chief executive of United, Jeff Smisek, resigned, as did two other top United executives who also attended the September 2011 dinner. +Motley (1891-1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago , where he painted the cultural life of the city’s African-American neighborhood known as Bronzeville, portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context. +Vilifying Americans during a time of growing unrest and a deepening economic crisis might galvanize his base in the short term, but over the long haul it can only damage his government. +Friends gave him a knife and a revolver, which he hid in his bed . +Night after night for months, David Sweat slipped through a hole he had sawed at the back of his cell in the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York . +The United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers , with Boeing’s help, have organized Exporters for Ex-Im, which has mobilized dozens of Boeing suppliers and other small companies to knock on Capitol Hill doors, call lawmakers and generally do the public work that the biggest recipients of Ex-Im help — Boeing, General Electric, Caterpillar and Applied Materials — avoid. +Bringing on great people , he said, is paramount. +So he decided to give the artist her first solo show in the United States , traveling to Belgium recently to choose the paintings and watercolors for the exhibition, which opens Jan. 8 at his 10th Avenue gallery. +So instead of talking about how to end the war, Afghan and American officials are preparing for violence to intensify as the snow melts in the high passes that separate the insurgents from their safe havens in Pakistan and what is known as the fighting season gets underway. +Mr. Shin has been examined by doctors who believe he was subjected to torture and child labor, given the evidence of his scars and unnaturally bowed arms . +STAMFORD P.M.W. Gallery “Noir 2,” etchings, lithographs, drawings and paintings by Ann Chernow . +SALONEN I got to know him in the early ’80s when I worked quite a bit at IRCAM [an avant-garde music institute founded by Mr. Boulez] and was conducting his Ensemble InterContemporain . +The assailant was shot and killed , and one soldier and one bystander were wounded. +What I want is comfort and convenience , just like everyone else who boards a plane. +We are close with two of their families, not so much with the third . +Prime Minister Habib Essid presented his second government in two weeks on Monday, this time including more parties and a position for Islamists. +If you bought a song in the iTunes Store on your work computer, open iTunes on your home computer, click Sign In (or on your account name) at the top of the window and select Purchased from the menu. +For the dish, seven jumbo tiger prawns are marinated overnight in yogurt, red chili powder and ginger garlic paste , and are then baked in a tandoor, a clay oven. +The mother of a baby who was left this week in an unadorned crèche inside a Roman Catholic church in Queens was found and will not face criminal prosecution, the county district attorney said late Wednesday. +Ms. Sabbagh was walking in a small group of fellow party members on Saturday with a wreath of flowers to lay in Tahrir Square to honor demonstrators killed there during previous protests , according to a witness account and a video recording of the scene. +Also, Tesla began shipping the Model X, its super-expensive new crossover vehicle. I don’t get the business case for selling a $130,000 sport utility vehicle with rap-star doors, but it does make for some good press. +Sent by Jack’s most recent ex-mistress, it contains dozens of printed pages of filthy emails delineating exactly what the couple wanted to do to each other and how . +That project came about when Sheldon Drobny , an old friend, contacted Mr. Rodham about making a connection for a Chicago-area contractor, who wanted to become involved in building houses in Haiti. +Rogan josh, lamb shank cubes marinated in yogurt and spices and cooked in a curry redolent of garam masala, was deep with flavor and satisfying along with a scoop of the accompanying basmati rice . +If it takes 10 years to make a dancer — and you can’t waste a minute — diversifying ballet must begin with children. +In a recent interview at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. , Mr. Singhal laid out a widely held thesis for why smartphones are fundamentally changing how people are consuming information: Phones have small screens that are annoying to type on, and people have grown so addicted to their phones that they carry them everywhere and go to bed with them by their side. +Marian Gaborik and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the visiting Kings, and Quick stopped 31 shots. +The coach and the club have been dodging the wrong questions this week as the club was blasted out of the Champions League by a Spanish opponent for the second straight year. +We sum up who’s fighting whom five years into the Syrian crisis. +Sondos Reda Abu Bakr , a 17-year-old high school student, was killed Friday by police officers firing birdshot at a demonstration in Alexandria in support of ousted President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. +Indeed, in his first session of Parliament as prime minister on Tuesday, Mr. Turnbull made it clear that on at least two issues over which he has criticized Mr. Abbott in the past — climate change and same-sex marriage — his predecessor’s policies would continue. +He was also a choreographer , an actor, a painter — the list goes on. +Applications are pouring in, and the program aims to raise €2 billion, more than a quarter of Malta’s gross domestic product . +What You’ll Pay In the third quarter of 2015, the median sales price of a condo in Clinton Hill was $849,000, an increase of 28 percent from the same period last year, according to Gregory J. Heym, the chief economist at Terra Holdings, who said the small size of the market can cause data fluctuations. +In the recent interview, Mr. Singhal illustrated the evolution of Google’s search business by taking out his phone and asking questions about things like music and trivia. +Even the most optimistic Conservatives were talking about winning 300 seats, which pollsters thought was hallucinatory. +“About two years ago, I saw him at the Ritz,” Donatella Versace, Mr. Versace’s younger sister and since his death the steward of his label , said in a note. +This puts her in a position to glimpse flashes of dead people’s memories when she eats their brains. +At the moment, a single Bitcoin can be sold online or on the street for around $290 . +Kristiansand Zoo in Norway, which had sent Kasper, was closed on Wednesday evening when a reporter called, and no one there could be reached. +“ Please ignore the siren ,” he said. +‘The Last Witch Hunter’ (PG-13, 1:38 ) +We don’t yet know how Mr. Hall’s leadership will differ from Mr. Elmendorf’s +But Robert Stern, one of the scientists at the Boston University center, told me that he expected a test to be developed within a decade that will be able to diagnose C.T.E . +• Oregon’s medicinal marijuana shops began sales to recreational users today. +BRAC, however, does not apply to the more than 700 United States bases overseas, including 174 in Germany, 113 in Japan and 83 in South Korea, as well as hundreds more in some 70 countries from Aruba to Kenya to Thailand. +It explicitly dismissed statements by Rudolf Höss, one of the commanders at Auschwitz, that a cyanide gas, Zyklon B , had been used to commit mass murder. +Our server pushed the $56 Lobster Maxime , calling it a signature entree and promising meat out of the shell from a one-and-a-half-pound lobster. +One witness described hearing his friend cry out in pain as he was raped by a Chadian soldier . +Now he has returned to the research: In the Green Neuroscience Laboratory, a sandboxlike table is home to small robot used to model neural network behavior . +REAL ESTATE A cover article last Sunday about new developments in New York City that have drawn criticism from neighbors described incorrectly plans by the developer Fortis Property Group to address concerns about the loss of Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. +His latest credit is “ Inside Out ,” about the inner workings of a young girl’s brain, which he directed and co-wrote. +On Thursday, a bipartisan group of senators dropped a new bill into the hopper to regulate the regulators, forcing quicker verdicts on exams and reviews when financial institutions complain . +My favorite appetizers, however, were the tacos al pastor, three junior-size tacos filled with pungent cubes of pork that were well seasoned with dried chilies and achiote paste, a thick, spicy red sauce, and then roasted beneath a wedge of juicy pineapple. +Depending on the measurement period, DuPont is either a growth machine or a laggard . +But if the brick is an integral part of the wall, a cover-up job may be required . +This lack of reaction was symptomatic of why the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was swept aside last month — the first time an incumbent president has been successfully voted out of office in the history of our nation. +When Goldberg er describes how Goldberg became Gehry, he portrays a blend of someone who manipulates and is manipulated. +$25 to $30 . +At a Trump town hall event, the first questioner began: “ We got a problem in this country. 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+Like many who followed the prison break, Mr. Sweat and Mr. Matt could not help but compare their efforts to the escape in “The Shawshank Redemption. ” Indeed, Mr. Sweat told investigators that he and Mr. Matt had joked that while it had taken Andy Dufresne, the character in the movie played by Tim Robbins, 20 years to escape, it would take them only 10 years. +Asked on Friday about Mr. Netanyahu’s new demand, a State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, told reporters in Washington that the negotiations with Iran on the agreement were “only about the nuclear issue.” +On Nov. 2, the server and storage businesses of Hewlett-Packard will split off from its PC business, in what top executives hope is a move for a faster-moving business. +The Islanders (13-8-4) , who have won three of four, are expected to have their first sellout since opening night in October. +Outfielder Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins would be an obvious starter for the N.L., having won the league’s player of the month award for June with a .344 average and 12 home runs. +Mr. Thrasher, who had the Facebook falling out with his father, created a separate list of conservative friends from his hometown to keep tabs on what “Republican friends were saying about the latest craze.” And Facebook counts its vast user base as evidence that it is much more than a political echo chamber. +ISight makes 90 percent of its revenue from subscriptions to its six intelligence streams, each focused on a particular threat, including cyberespionage and cybercrime. +The Pilgrims and their fellow travelers weren’t terrorists, of course (despite an instance of putting the severed head of a perceived enemy on a pole ), but they and those who followed certainly did effect a cultural conquest. +The United States trails only Germany in the FIFA world rankings, but the Americans have not won a Women’s World Cup since 1999 . +Bruce Cannon , the theater’s artistic director, has revised the script, and a human actor now stars in the show along with the company’s hand-built marionettes. +Now, car keys — or key fobs, as they are also known — include chips to prevent theft, cannot be duplicated at the local locksmith and often never have to be removed from pockets. +And a reporter from a local TV station was dispatched to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, in Abiquiu, N.M ., where the monk, Brother Noah, was asked to repeat his not very hostile kiss-off to an unyielding United phone rep: “Thank you for speaking. +Even if China’s stock markets end their dizzying falls — and analysts say there is still room to tumble even after a respite on Thursday — the sense of supreme control that once cloaked the Communist Party leadership may take longer to recover. +a veterinary medicine degree from Cornell. +It is 12.8 million worldwide — not 5.5 million , which is the number outside the United States. +So Mr. Shoemaker read that book, in 1962 . +LONDON — Students at Cardiff University have begun an online petition trying to bar Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist author, from speaking there next month because of her views on transgender women . +But it would have been difficult, because she’s always naked out here.” +Spike will be moved on Thursday back into a production greenhouse, where it will either pollinate ( unlikely ) or enter a dormant phase. +Under Ms. Chen , the organization’s staff shrank to 10, from 21. +Arielle Sosland, writer and director of this musical, based it on “The Can Do Duck” series of children’s books by her father , Morton Sosland, a child psychiatrist. +When Mr. Rodham was short on cash in 2010, Mr. Clinton helped get him a job for $72,000 a year raising investments in GreenTech Automotive, an electric car company then owned by Terry McAuliffe, an old friend of Mr. Clinton’s and now the governor of Virginia. +The potential cost was enough to raise questions from Assemblywoman Deborah J. 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Roth , the chairman and chief executive of Interpublic. +Mr. Constantine once told a State University interviewer that after working in a radiator factory in Buffalo, he joined the Erie County sheriff’s office because “law enforcement was a chance for people of my generation, usually people of ethnic groups — Irish, Italian, Polish — who grew up in city neighborhoods and who had not gone to college, to get into an occupation with a challenging environment that had a great deal of flexibility and autonomy.” +Mr. Cameron has announced an increase in military spending in real terms of 3 percent over the next four years, including for special forces, intelligence gathering and a doubling of Britain’s drone fleet. +In the first three months of this year, officers conducted 7,135 stops , about half of the total over the same period last year. +When she complained to top officials at the Garden, Dolan personally insisted on firing her. 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Leonard, an associate professor and chairman of the department of critical culture, gender and race studies at Washington State University , said that despite highly publicized cases like the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, many questionable deaths of minorities still received little attention. +With his short neck, cool shape-up haircut, plain off-the-shoulder robe, and round face bent forward and down, he’s as close as any Myanmar work here comes to embodying a Buddhist physical ideal . +Days later, when he was finally taken to the prison clinic , officers warned him not to tell the medical staff how he got his injuries, he wrote in a letter. +But the Wizards scored the next 7 points . +Its request for a sophisticated antitank missile went nowhere, as Washington feared it would just encourage Russia to send more weapons and men to Ukraine. +He argued against intervention by outside powers in Syria as well, adding that Russia was “not concerned 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Oppel Jr. of The New York Times wrote about the effect of a shift in sentencing guidelines: “After decades of new laws to toughen sentencing for criminals, prosecutors have gained greater leverage to extract guilty pleas from defendants and reduce the number of cases that go to trial, often by using the threat of more serious charges with mandatory sentences or other harsher penalties.” +She saw Sweet Briar in the spring , “and, oh my God, what a contrast,” she said. +The nameless, shape-shifting horror that stalks the blond, 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe) in David Robert Mitchell’s cool, controlled horror film, “It Follows,” might be described as the very incarnation of paranoia . +It boasted as much in advertisements published in The New York Times in 1919, during the magazine’s first heyday. +Of course, they’ll also perform on more conventional instruments, like French horn and trumpet, at this free concert, part of the Saturday Morning Show series for families at Brookfield Place . +(Full disclosure: Mr. Elmendorf is a friend and former student of mine, so I am not entirely objective. +In his biographical essay, Mr. Chauvin recounted fond memories of looking out of his bedroom window, over the family’s large garden, and watching barges ply the Lys River , where it separates France from Belgium, towed by horses or men. +Muslims disagree over most things , about this life and the afterlife as well. +Last year, after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over Ukraine, there were calls for Formula One to pull out of its first Grand Prix race in Russia, in the Winter Olympic city of Sochi. +After the construction spending report, analysts at Barclays projected that the economy was on track to grow 2.6 percent in the third quarter and that the second-quarter growth rate would be revised up to 3.8 percent . +David Gill Arguably the goofiest object at Salon is the “Jungle V.I.P.” chandelier from 2014, designed by Barnaby Barford . +John Rakis, a consultant in New York, spent more than $189,000 in less than two years for caregivers and other expenses for his mother-in-law, 92, who has dementia and lives in a housing project in Manhattan. +RBG : Justice O’Connor once said: “Suppose there had been no discrimination when we finished law school. +In the early 1990s , an experiment called Moving to Opportunity required some families to use their vouchers in more expensive neighborhoods. +JPMorgan kicks off results season next week and its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, said in his annual letter to shareholders on Wednesday that returns could be attractive in the long run, if not the short term. +In Maryland, Takoma Park lowered the voting age to 16 for municipal contests in 2013, and Hyattsville did so in 2015 , after local advocates pushed for changing it. +Nine of the most popular stocks owned by hedge funds, including Valeant and Cheniere Energy , lost more than 20 percent over the quarter, according to research by Novus. +The museum will open early, at 9:30 , with a daylong pi scavenger hunt. +Through June 30. “ From Clocks to Lollipops: Made in New Haven .” +It’s hard not to view the settlement as the cynical effort by the N.F.L. to contain its potential C.T.E. liability; 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When Mr. Clinton worked as a co-chairman of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Mr. Rodham and his partners sought a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the country. +The renamed Fierce Government Relations soldiers on for Delta, with Kirk Blalock, a senior official in the George W. 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the services to which they are entitled. +If your house is so large that a new router won’t be able to cover every inch with a great Wi-Fi signal, you could install a Wi-Fi extender, which enhances an existing Wi-Fi connection to increase coverage . +And when Arsenal did break through, about 30 minutes in, Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was able to make a wonderful save as he dove low to his left to block a header by Theo Walcott from six yards out. +Experts say high-profile figures in present-day Cambodian politics fear that they could be implicated in the defendants’ testimony. +Unlike most funds that hold bonds that can be bought and sold, albeit with some difficulty, private equity funds are not required to pay back investors on demand — it is a must for mutual funds. +Revenue from investment banking rose 15 percent, to €4.7 billion . +The other day I walked part of the 606, Chicago’s down-home twist on the chic High Line in New York: a 2.7-mile elevated park along a derelict 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fashion’s cutting edge, igniting flurries of debate with her bangs and bare, gym-toned arms — has irrevocably pulled out the stops. +Even when hobbyists pamper them in aquariums, turquoise killifish survive only a few months , making them among the shortest-lived vertebrates on Earth. +During one of the Sunday services, the church’s pastor, Bishop Octavio Cisneros, referred to the baby as “our little one.” +an “ unindicted co-conspirator . +The strange ones, the restless ones, the story­tellers . +The move signals that the government is beginning to step back from the extraordinary measures it took over the summer to stop a steep sell-off in the country’s stock markets. +Dramatic video, posted online on Friday by a Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet Daily News, showed a Turkish fishing boat saving a baby from drowning on Wednesday in the Aegean Sea off the resort town of Kusadasi , not far from the beach in Bodrum where the Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, was discovered, face down in the sand. +“The worst thing is people tolerate it and accept it as a natural part of life, but no one believes beating a man is O.K.” As a project manager at the Beijing Gender Health Education Institute, Ms. Wei helped stage an annual AIDS Walk on the Great Wall, attended women’s conferences in India and South Korea, and started collecting footage for a documentary about bisexuality in China. +Such dichotomies not only attest to the 29 -year-old Kate Tempest’s gift for shattering — and transcending — convention and conventional genres, but they also underscore the tensions and contradictions that fuel her dynamic art. +You should use birth control. ” +When Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in on Tuesday, he did not only become Australia’s 29th prime minister — he also became its fourth in just over two years. +The photograph that Markisha McClenton posted on Instagram is a self-portrait, a close-up that is muted in dim light. +Using a new technique called Crispr , he created molecular scissors that could 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Sabathia is struggling with a bad knee and the wear and tear of pitching nearly 3,000 innings in his career, and the Yankees’ current top pitcher, Masahiro Tanaka, is soldiering on with a slightly torn elbow ligament. +Investors clearly shared Mr. Smith’s pessimism . +After Saturday’s game, in which goaltender Henrik Lundqvist did not play, he answered several questions about Boston Coach Claude Julien’s remark that Lundqvist had embellished a collision with Bruins forward Brad Marchand. +The company claims that efficiency upgrades to Unilever factories have created savings of 400 million euros, or $430 million , since 2008. +The authors followed up with “The Jesus Bag” (1971), a critical analysis of the role of religion in black life. +Scuffles between officers and reporters unfolded on live television as the police broke into the shared headquarters of the two channels, KanalTurk and Bugun TV, and ushered in court-appointed trustees who were placed in charge of the company that owns the media group, Koza Ipek Holding. +Against a broad basket of currencies, the dollar has risen more than 13 percent since September to its highest level in almost six years . +It would almost be a spoiler to tell you when and in what capacity they do, but it’s fun to anticipate the arrival of Melanie Lynskey, Sam Elliott, Brie Larson, Chris Messina (who gets naked) and Anna Kendrick (who almost does). +Ellsbury has been out since May 20 with a sprained knee, and Gardner has shifted over to replace him in center field and at the top of the batting order. +Lenders need more guidance on the form these disclosures should take , Mr. Weinberg said. +After faltering in a previous debate exchange with Senator Marco Rubio , Mr. Bush — perhaps more than anyone else onstage — might be compelled to prove he has the strength and passion not just to lead the nation, but to hold his own in the aggressive Colosseum of modern politics. +By the end of the fourth episode, two brothers (along with Mr. Gooding) break into a suburban house, hold a family hostage while being trailed by a detective hired by their mother and by a team of drug traffickers with machine guns. +During a bank run last year at a rural lender in the eastern province of Jiangsu, the central bank delivered cash by the truckload and local politicians went on television to reassure people their savings were safe. +But what hasn’t changed is what makes the island so magical: breathtaking natural beauty, rich ethnic heritage, a vibrant cultural scene and an abundance of farms and fisheries that feed a savvy foodie community. +“The large group of Republicans who have supported working families in the state of Missouri are the reason we’re not right to work today,” said Albert L. 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for an announcement speech, Mr. Huckabee’s address on Tuesday included a plea for money, specifically donations of $15 or $25 a month . +Though it is tempting to describe the market for her books as niche, Ms. Basford, a 31 -year-old illustrator in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, has quickly outgrown that label. +At 2 p.m. , Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn College, Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 718-951-4500, brooklyncenter.org. +The United States Census Bureau’s 2009-2013 American Community Survey estimated the population as 39 percent white, 36 percent black, 16 percent Hispanic and 5 percent Asian. +He recognized an opportunity and made it happen, correctly reading the pick play and slant route the Seahawks were counting on and beating Ricardo Lockette to the ball as he and Lockette collided. +Prosecutors presenting evidence against two motorcyclists accused of taking part in a gang assault on a young family have put a larger phenomenon on trial: wild motorcycle tours, organized on the Internet, that occasionally rip through New York City, with riders snarling traffic, doing stunts, running red lights and generally creating a nuisance. +Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was a fascinating demonstration of political savvy — Israeli political savvy. +On “The Late Show,” which has no worries of being dropped, Secretary of State John Kerry is a guest (11:35 p.m. Eastern, CBS). +Ms. Clyne is at work on a chamber opera about the poet Emily Dickinson, parts of which will be performed at Miller by the Ensemble Signal under the direction of Brad Lubman . +Recently, Mr. Bush has hired a media coach , and has become more willing to take on his rivals, particularly Mr. Trump, dismissing him as “not a serious leader” and “unhinged.” +Slovenia has accused Croatia of dumping thousands of desperate people at random locations on the border and leaving them to find their own way across, while Croatia has complained that the European Union has failed to come up with a common strategy to cope with the crisis. +At a neon-drenched Leviticus, Lucious, still reeling from his estranged son’s pointed emasculation of his music production, coolly sends Hakeem a rap call-to-arms via his Gutter Life Records protégé, Freda Gatz. The missive’s brutally coy hook — “Daddy’s little girl / You’re just daddy’s little girl” — inflames Hakeem as much as it ennobles Gatz, who has been groomed into something between surrogate child and unknowing executor of the barely-hidden id of the man who killed her father in prison. +“The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “The Imitation Game” were named best original and adapted screenplay, respectively, at the Writers Guild of America Awards, given out Saturday in Los Angeles and New York. +Delta has its own array of lobbyists, including a former top aide of Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, and Steve Elmendorf, a former top Democratic aide in the House and one of Washington’s pre-eminent schmoozers . +The Rangers had performed well against Western Conference teams this season, especially on the road; they were 7-1-0 in away games against the West entering Saturday. +Kythera, which is based in Westlake Village, Calif., was founded in 2005 and is focused on the aesthetic medicine market , including its treatment for submental fullness, also known as double chin. +But like most other magazines, Rolling Stone’s newsstand sales have diminished significantly, to about 58,000 copies from 134,000 in 2004. +“You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” +But there are some potentially valuable drugs we’ll never get drug companies to invest in — those that cannot be patented . +“I don’t know of other incidents like this, which is why it’s so shocking,” said H. G. Bissinger, the author of “Friday Night Lights,” which chronicled the Permian Panthers in Odessa, Tex . +She added that when reading Frank’s diary, which is in epistolary form , she would think, “What does she say that might spark a response from him?” +But more importantly during Wednesday’s debate, Fiorina unleashed a scurrilous attack in her pitch to defund Planned Parenthood, saying of the attack videos released about the group: “I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. +The Complete Studio Ghibli (through Dec. 31) IFC Center’s retrospective of the complete works of Studio Ghibli, the beloved Japanese animation house, varies from the wistful and pleasant, like Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro,” to the crushingly sad, like Isao Takahata ’s “Grave of the Fireflies,” about childhood alienation, set in Kobe at the end of World War II.) +Separately, Bernadette Meehan , a spokeswoman for the council, said, “President Obama has not opened the door to anything larger than an embassy force after 2016.” +“It was a big thing for my parents, who had not gone to college, that I was going to college . +In years past, he has had sharp words for Washington, but this time he praised the efforts of Secretary of State John Kerry to find a political solution to the war in Syria . +“He’s the MacGyver of American politics +It’s “Late Show With David Letterman” and it’s going to come from a Broadway theater that seats about 400 to 500 people. +Trian, which has invested $1.7 billion in DuPont, disputes this and is putting forth an equally vigorous case that DuPont has underperformed. +The lodge has 25 bungalows and a restored stilt house that was remodeled to reflect Scandinavian design elements . +It was launched two years ago in the Northeast , then gradually expanded its range before releasing iPhone and Android apps earlier this year. +Staged by the Target Margin artistic director David Herskovits, a man celebrated for bringing cobwebbed theatrical arcana into the light, it is performed with tripping grace by Clare Barron, Purva Bedi and Ugo Chukwu (and a participatory sound man, Jesse Freedman), who wear kimonos and sailor stripes, suggesting extras from some hybrid Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. +The high-quality shrimp and lobster cocktail gained zip with a chunky sauce of diced tomatoes , olive oil and Fresno chiles. +I proudly took every meal to her on her finest china, placed carefully on an ornate tray and finished off with a single English flower. +Hedge fund managers who have gained sterling records in recent years are suffering, including Larry Robbins of Glenview Capital Management, who is down 13.5 percent . +Ms. Klum, auctioning an 11-foot-tall polyurethane snail sculpture by a collective called the Cracking Art Group , decided it must be hers. +The donations from countries with poor records on women’s rights, however, presented a difficult appearance problem for a candidate running in part as the embodiment of women’s aspirations to equality . +Such dichotomies not only attest to the 29-year-old Kate Tempest ’s gift for shattering — and transcending — convention and conventional genres, but they also underscore the tensions and contradictions that fuel her dynamic art. +Maurice Sendak’s picture book “ Outside Over There ” captures the horror with a rich gorgeousness, where the replacement baby is made of ice, and glows milky and terrifying and odd on the page. +Shortly after the approval, Sprout, which was privately held, agreed to be acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals for $1 billion. +Mr. Weisberg’s firm did not pay the ransom and repelled the bombardment of traffic with the help of one of its technical providers. +But that victory at Michigan State? Arizona Coach Sean Miller saw it on television in December. +“Then Lagares hit the double and Granderson walked, and you just knew it; you just knew it,” he added, referring to Juan Lagares and Curtis Granderson, who started the Mets’ ninth-inning rally. +Michael Roth , a spokesman for AEG, declined to comment on why the company commissioned the reports. +It’s maddening, however, when we ignore the results of randomized controlled trials , which can prove causation, to continue down the wrong path. +Still, Hyun Song Shin, a top economist at the Bank for International Settlements , a banking and research center for central banks worldwide, argued on Wednesday that this relentless reach for yield by such investors might just as well signal a good old-fashioned investment bubble. +This gaudy, overstuffed exhibition reveals an artist of extraordinary industry and canny versatility. +But she found herself chasing Holm around the Octagon, all the time taking hard punches and kicks. +Mr. Silver, 70, who is from the Lower East Side of Manhattan , is accused of abusing his office to obtain $4 million in payoffs. +The grade crossing is, as it turns out, among the most dangerous in the country, according to a little-known metric devised by the Federal Railroad Administration called the “accident prediction value.” The measure takes into account certain physical characteristics of crossings and recent accidents. +Our lawsuit says that the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance of Internet traffic on American soil — often called “upstream” surveillance — violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects the right to privacy, as well as the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of expression and association . +I am sad to say that I’ve very rarely had a good beer in a ballpark, certainly not in Yankee Stadium , home of the team I’ve rooted for all my life. +After the Glad Hand closed around 1959, the building became a coffee shop. +And when you’re done cooking? 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Leipold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. +Finally, he was returned to the church, where Daniel Irwin made up a “mattress and a blanket and pillow for me” and “brought me some food and water .” +He said it was the school’s strong financial standing, including an endowment of $133 million as of May, that made the program possible. +The bigger threat for Google is that the web, the search company’s favored domain, has been increasingly overrun by the world of apps . +A majority of residents who claim sets in Chicago are more like Trey, my close friend of 17 years and a member of the 81st Street Black P. Stones in Auburn Gresham. +Though Zaro’s is also a chain and not a mom-and-pop operation, it has survived in a changing part of the Bronx — a place where stromboli and red velvet cupcakes coexist with challah and hamantaschen, even as the neighborhood has transformed from heavily Jewish to one predominately of black and Hispanic residents. +I came of drinking age as the craft beer revolution was taking off in this country. +VENICE — When Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to the Islamic State in June , members of the Ruya Foundation, an Iraqi nonprofit that set up the country’s pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, considered scrapping all plans for this year’s exhibition. +And he’s been a really smart player for a long period of time, so if there’s anyone who can figure it out quickly, it would be Alex.” Rodriguez’s performance has moved him into the good graces of many, but not all, Yankees fans. +Others predicted a less visible role, and a potential retirement in 2016 when Mr. Silver is up for re-election. +About 2,400 Russians have joined the extremist movement, a senior security official announced recently, and an additional 3,000 men from Central Asian states are believed to be fighting in Syria. +Nearly all of the October gain came from the category that covers auto and student loans, while credit card borrowing edged up a mere $200 million . +Woods said he was able to joke after a round like Friday’s because on the PGA Tour, bad days come with the picturesque scenery. +“We have to treat neuroscience and robotics like we treat biological and chemical weapons ,” he said. +As a result, Mr. Tsipras has now agreed to have the International Monetary Fund survey every move he and his government make. +In July 2013, Mr. Putin sat next to Mr. Medvedchuk at an event the group held in Kiev and gave a speech about the deep historical ties between Russia and Ukraine, including “the common spiritual values that make us a single people.” +“The mantel serves as a center-point of the home, and you usually design a room around it,” said Joan Enger, owner of J. Patryce Design, in Hoboken, N.J. “So it has to be right.” +The agreement, forged with the New Mexico Energy Department, allows the plant to reopen. +When Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in on Tuesday, he did not only become Australia’s 29th prime minister — he also became its fourth in just over two years. +Live In Theater , known for its interactive murder mysteries, will present the case, a premiere production that unfolds throughout the museum galleries. +Cars are struck by trains regularly across the country, according to Federal Railroad Administration records. +On Wednesday the Board of Health followed through: It voted to abandon consent forms in favor of education and friendly persuasion. +WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said Sunday that the recent arrest of a black woman in Texas and her death while in police custody were bringing renewed attention to the fear and anger that characterize the relationship of blacks with the police. +Entering Tuesday’s games, Montreal led the N.H.L. with 39 points, but faced a second long stretch without goaltender Carey Price, who will miss at least six weeks with a lower-body injury (more on that later). +A guide to cultural and recreational events in the Hudson Valley . +(The best actor Oscar that year went to Michael Douglas for “Wall Street.”) +Because they could not earn much by depositing money in banks, a lot of Chinese families invested in risky real estate projects or the inflated stock market. +In the N.C.A.A. tournament, Trice has averaged 19.8 points a game , an increase from a season average of 14.8 entering the tournament. +Europe is once again wary of Germany . +A separate event, the Girls Prep Ultimate Pi Day 5K, a 3.14-mile run to raise funds for Girls Prep Schools , charter institutions in New York, is at 9:26:53 a.m. on Roosevelt Island, with a race for runners 9 and under at 10:30. +845-876-0543 ; montgomeryrow.com. +Butler, a reserve cornerback and undrafted rookie who was understandably convinced he would be the goat after Kearse had played pinball wizard at his expense, turned out to be quite the contrary. +He was a symbol of the good that I desperately wanted to believe was around me as a child growing up in the late 1960s and ’70s near Birmingham . +The rain led to a 21-minute delay from the scheduled start time of 1:10 p.m. Even after the Mets recorded the first three outs of the day, bringing about an early seventh-inning stretch, patrons were still trickling in, a mix of fans taking advantage of the opportunity to watch 11-plus innings of baseball and others anticipating the debut of Steven Matz in the second game. +These products allow borrowers to close on a short-term construction loan , which covers the building phase, and the longer-term permanent financing in one transaction. +There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance . +“ The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages ,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said at a news conference Monday morning, explaining her decision to accept the deal and recommend that the German Parliament also grant its approval. +The team against Barcelona was gutted by injuries, most importantly to its flying wingers, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry . +The Golden Dragon Acrobats ( Saturday ) Don’t expect ordinary handsprings and somersaults. +Both companies were previously parts of bigger corporations: NXP was formerly a division of Philips , while Freescale was a division of Motorola. +Labour even put together a website, torysecretplan.com, which features a fake email to Mr. Cameron from George Osborne , the chancellor of the Exchequer, laying out cuts not to be announced until after the election. +In an interview with investigators on Thursday, the engineer operating the train said he saw the S.U.V. moving onto the tracks as the northbound train approached the crossing at Commerce Street. +But it takes more than good intentions to make a good show, and Illstyle and Peace Productions ’ “IMpossible IZZpossible,” which played over the weekend at BAM Fisher as part of the BAM Kids series, is an incoherent jumble. +It was by far my favorite class at the University of North Carolina, which I attended in the mid-1980s, though I couldn’t and can’t think of any bluntly practical application for it, not unless you’re bound for a career on the stage or in academia . +N one were explicit studies of the recommended diet (and none involved women), but all explored the relationship between dietary fat, cholesterol and mortality. +“The security challenges cannot be seen in isolation,” said Mr. Mellbin, the European Union representative. +At his first New York City Marathon, in 2002, he finished ninth in 2:12:35 and grew so chilled that his father tried to massage warmth back into his legs and his mother told him, “No more marathons for you.” +Despite misgivings, the United States is preparing to resupply Saudi Arabia with thousands of precision-guided munitions to replenish stocks exhausted by the Yemen campaign . +But Judge Irene C. Berger of Federal District Court in Charleston said that she did not “have any reason to believe that they are deadlocked” and that extensive deliberations were not surprising after weeks of testimony. +Medicare paid almost the same amount for patients with each of those diseases — close to $100,000 — but dementia patients had many more expenses that were not covered. +After the Glad Hand closed around 1959, the building became a coffee shop . +He found the resources to commit to the 2 percent threshold, committed to buying F-35 fighter jets and maritime patrol planes for Britain’s new aircraft carriers, and vowed to renew Britain’s submarine-based nuclear deterrent. +European Union leaders met in Malta on Wednesday for their sixth meeting of the year on the issue. +And I tried to pay for our dinner, which ended up about $200 — and this was in the ’70s , when $200 meant something. +whose insider trading conviction in 2011 represented the government’s first major victory, also challenged wiretapped evidence the government collected against him. +The International Committee of the Red Cross said that two of its staff members were abducted by gunmen as they drove to work on Tuesday in Sana, Yemen’s capital. +Trinity Industries , which has been accused of making a guardrail that can malfunction and impale drivers, indicated on Friday that it would resume selling the product — days after the Virginia attorney general’s office said the guardrail had “failed miserably” in a crash test. +Family Day : ‘Spring Into Nowruz!’ +It has been almost a year since Trinity stopped shipping its guardrail system, called the ET-Plus, after a jury in a whistle-blower case found that the company had defrauded the federal government when it failed to disclose potentially hazardous changes it made in 2005. +“I don’t even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don’t like,” that Massachusetts representative and Democrat said before stepping down in 2013, tapping into what Rachel Maddow called “a sense of humor that he wields like a wrecking ball.” +For the dressing, which Baumgart builds out of what he calls ‘‘a deconstructed za’atar,’’ the Middle Eastern spice blend, some confidence is required. +The most powerful figure in the Cuban church is Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino , the archbishop of Havana, who is set to retire. +“I’ll put this on and not look at the score and just move to see if it feels right .” +But that assumes there was a financial motive to the theft; officials say it seems more likely that it was a national security motive . +The managing director class that will be inducted starting in January is being culled now, said Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer, who added he had “no real concerns” about the culture of the bank . +“The practical, realistic expectation is a frozen conflict with no effective control by Kiev over those areas, but no formal responsibility of Russia,” said Fyodor Lukyanov , the editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs. +The political implications of the crisis will depend “ on how much farther this will go, what measures the government will still deploy to deal with it and how it is explained to those who are losing money ,” said Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a scholar of Chinese politics at the Brookings Institution and a former senior director for Asia on the United States’ National Security Council. +This documentary chronicles Mr. Frank’s 32 turbulent years in Congress, where he was chairman of the Financial Services Committee as Wall Street was imploding. +Mr. Ganek and Mr. Chiasson were once star traders at SAC Capital, the former hedge fund founded by the billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen , and long a focal point of the government’s investigation. +In the first two weeks of training, the Americans found the Ukrainians’ soldierly skills lacking , and the group generally in need of instruction. +And the federal government is about to retire its decades-old warnings about another element in eggs: cholesterol . +Mr. Draghi and other top E.C.B. officials appear to be preparing financial markets for stronger action to combat low inflation. “ Low inflation is already a serious obstacle to economic recovery and rebalancing within the eurozone,” Jean Pisani-Ferry, an economist who serves as a policy adviser to the French government, wrote in a blog post this week. +Its request for a sophisticated antitank missile went nowhere, as Washington feared it would just encourage Russia to send more weapons and men to Ukraine. +Across China, many of the millions of middle-class investors have been asking why the party and the government talked up the market in the months leading up to the recent plunge , and then bumbled in their efforts to prevent the rout. +Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund magnate whose insider trading conviction in 2011 represented the government’s first major victory, also challenged wiretapped evidence the government collected against him. +That video — the one posted on YouTube — was a promotion commissioned by Navdy, one of a handful of start-up companies bringing a futuristic spin to the debate over distracted driving, and how to curb it . +Missouri, whose union footprint has decreased in recent decades as manufacturing jobs have moved abroad , is increasingly rare as a Midwestern state without a right-to-work law. +“Households will likely keep some resources in higher-return, higher-risk instruments, but they will properly recognize the risks involved,” said David Dollar, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former China-based official at the United States Treasury Department and the World Bank. +In almost all of my mishearings, however, there is a similar overall sound, a similar acoustic gestalt , linking what is said and what is heard. +Dr. Rhein (left), 45, is a veterinarian in Huntington and the owner of Dix Hills Animal Hospital in Dix Hills, N.Y. +“This builds on the overall approach that we’ve taken to be very student-centric, to listen to what students need,” said Nicholas W. Allard , dean of Brooklyn Law School. +“On a phone, the biggest intellectual difference is you don’t go to your search box as your first resort,” said Keith Rabois, a partner at the venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, who has invested in a search start-up called Relcy . +Three sky divers who parachuted off the 1 World Trade Center tower were acquitted on Monday of the most serious felony charge against them but convicted of three misdemeanors after a two-week trial in Manhattan. +“Adults have treated them with respect . +In the end, the plans went forward because it was “a statement,” she said. +Siem Reap, the gateway city to Angkor, is renowned for a lot of things — more than 100 ancient temple ruins dot the surrounding jungles — but shopping isn’t one of them. +Mr. Firat at the foreign ministry said that the Syrian refugees had caused resentment in some places, but also made cheap labor available that might help some businesses stay competitive. +She balks at claims by opponents that teenagers would just follow their parents’ political views. +He said he didn’t like to shop without reading product reviews , something often embedded in e-commerce platforms. +Look out Brookfield’s front window and see, clumped together across the street, One World Trade Center, which one recent afternoon was half-cloaked in spooky fog, eerily telegraphing impermanence; Santiago Calatrava’s bird, which would look majestic were it not beset at each side by new development; and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. +“We are committed to providing the best service to our clients and will remain committed to ensuring accepted standards are met,” Mr. Moyer said. +Myths used to be “the stories we used to explain ourselves,” she observes, and to her, myths, like art, are a way to universalize individual dreams and suffering: They lend continuity and weight to the everyday struggles of life — “deadlines, debts, divorces” — and remind us that every person, every passer-by on the street, has an “epic narrative” within. +If Mexicans are allowed to grow and consume their own marijuana, casual users will not have to commit a crime to obtain it. +But she gained even more momentum after the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, in which 130 people were killed. +By contrast, a surgical forceps may have roughly 100 bacteria on its surface after use in the operating room, he said, and is easily cleaned with heat, detergents and high-pressure sprays. +But Mr. Stubb of Finland, which also uses the euro, said he was happy to let Ms. Merkel and Mr. Hollande face down Mr. Tsipras late into the night, noting that “ there is always a lot of mayhem around these meetings.” +The department’s other decision was to abandon efforts to crack down on metzitzah b’peh, the ancient ritual of ultra-Orthodox Jews in which the circumciser, or mohel, sucks blood from a newly cut penis with his mouth. +Will , who is handsome in an appealingly scruffy way, is a faithful husband with a warm, self-deprecating sense of humor and an acute roving intelligence. +“The American people,” Barnum famously said, “like to be fooled.” +They advanced to the Eastern Conference finals three times in the last four seasons, including a trip to the Stanley Cup finals in 2014, when they lost to the Los Angeles Kings in five games. +Or they choose to not address it at all,” said Stanley A. Leake, a hydrologist with the United States Geological Survey who is a leading expert on properly accounting for the connection between ground and surface waters in the West. +The legislation is based on the idea, rejected by mainstream medical groups , that a fetus feels pain then. +Isa Kalantari, a former minister of agriculture, warns that more than half of Iran’s provinces could become uninhabitable within 15 years, displacing millions of people. +When Mr. Rodham was short on cash in 2010, Mr. Clinton helped get him a job for $72,000 a year raising investments in GreenTech Automotive, an electric car company then owned by Terry McAuliffe , an old friend of Mr. Clinton’s and now the governor of Virginia. +At the same time, conservative politicians oppose raising the minimum wage to livable levels with the argument that it will deprive Americans of their low-paying jobs. +Tiant was unable to return to Cuba for 46 years . +A review of research on the legislation that the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education commissioned from Malmo University found that it was unclear to what extent mobile phones and the Internet, rather than the law, may have accelerated the reduction in street prostitution by bringing buyers and sellers together electronically. +After the performance on Saturday afternoon, Brandon Albright , the Philadelphia-based company’s affable founder, director and choreographer, explained that the production was about the difficult process of achieving your dreams. +Mrs. Gant , 29, is studying for a master's degree in social work at New York University. +The story begins at a fifth birthday party for Will’s twin daughters ( Gia and Aundrea Gadsby ) in his family’s Brooklyn brownstone. +In the first three weeks of April, state poison control centers received about 1,000 reports of adverse reactions to spice — the street name for a family of synthetic substances that mimic the effects of marijuana — more than doubling the total from January through March, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. +It found that concussions were the third-most-common injury (15.5 percent), behind contusions (28 percent) and sprains (20.8 percent). +PICK: BENGALS Cowboys (2-1) at Saints (0-3) 8:30 p.m. +There are lots of ways water in the West is being mismanaged : farming subsidies for water-intensive crops; arcane laws encouraging waste; leaky infrastructure. +In the provinces of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement-North , once part of the party that now governs the nation of South Sudan, has been fighting an insurgency since 2011. +Moreover, the 2015 appropriations bill passed by Congress in December barred the Justice Department from spending money to interfere with any state’s efforts to carry out its medical marijuana laws. +Lessons learned from the Vestas team’s accident have been put into effect in the race, and navigational improvements will probably make their way to the average boater in the future. +The Gaming Facility Location Board reviewed 16 proposals for casino resorts in three regions north and west of New York City and recommended licenses for three projects on Dec. 17, but rebuffed two from the Southern Tier that it said were not viable. +The Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) was not only a great artist, but he was also an unusually prolific one. +We don’t want to provide patent protection for profit-increasing activities that do not benefit patients, like “me too” drugs — drugs that are only trivially different from existing ones . +Mr. Holmes quit the program in June 2012 , after he failed important oral exams, and declined the chance to retake them. +Ms. Jefferson said Ms. Harper had described bringing her son to the Del Amo Behavioral Health System in Torrance, Calif., near where they had lived before moving to Oregon. +Francis will hold Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine for about 30,000 people at 4:15 p.m. The Secret Service is taking the lead in protecting a pope who does not want to stay in his popemobile. +Though this has become true to a certain extent for every tournament (save, perhaps, Wimbledon, where the insistence on traditional white limits the fashion options to a meaningful degree), it reaches its apogee with the United States Open, in part because of a certain boundary-pushing ethos associated with New York and in part because, according to Mr. Eisenbud, it is the Grand Slam event with the most non tennis news-media coverage attached, and hence the greatest potential reach. +Nobody knows how many people read the December 1964 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, but apparently only one, Dr. Irwin Schatz , was so appalled by one of its articles, about a syphilis experiment using uneducated black men in Tuskegee, Ala., that he wrote the study’s author to protest. +Ms. Le Pen and her party have thrived on an anti-immigration message that has verged on anti-Muslim, as well as a call for re-establishing European borders. +Pete Docter is a director, writer, animator and voice actor for Pixar Animation Studios, part of the Walt Disney Company . +The person at whose expense Aveling generally made himself comfortable was, of course, Eleanor. +And now, as the end of the official rainy season approaches — this state gets 90 percent of its water from December through April, most of it in December and January — California is facing a punishing fourth year of drought. +Many current All-Stars will be retired before the completion of a multidecade project to upgrade the Interstate 75 roadway, ramps and an outdated bridge that carries 160,000 to 170,000 vehicles daily over the Ohio River . +Eileen Mora, Mr. Mora’s daughter, said she had “some sweet memories” of her father, who died of a heart attack in 1989 . +“I think the biggest thing, quite frankly, is our pitchers enjoy throwing it more,” said Louisiana State Coach Paul Mainieri , whose pitching staff struck out 93 more batters than it did last year. +Cowardice can kill people. +The report proposed the appointment of a state fiscal monitor , who would oversee all of the board’s financial and educational decisions and have the authority to override the board, when necessary, to protect the interests of the public-school community and improve education outcomes for public-school students. +Spurious arguments that the pope tried to manipulate the synod are vastly outweighed by evidence that he tried hard to encourage free debate and deliberation. +That day at Mapstone’s office, she vowed that she would figure out a way to take her own life before the disease took it from her. +While the filmmakers are not above trying to wring a few tears , they don’t wage an all-out assault on your feelings. +The exhibition — “Alexander, Napoleon & Josephine, A Story of Friendship, War and Art From the Hermitage” — dutifully includes a hall full of wartime wares, including pistols, swords, uniforms and large-scale paintings depicting battle scenes of the French invasion of Russia in 1812 (all of them commemorating Russian victories). +This year, he felt confident enough about his experience to write about it in The Journal of Poetry Therapy, in an article titled “A Poetry Program for the Very Elderly — Narrative Perspective on One Therapeutic Model.” +The perception that video or sound art is difficult to grasp is something that Mr. Gryn hopes will change with Daata. +Banks still need to shrink , though. +Although his Iron Curtain tour was not State Department sponsored, one gets the sense that he didn’t want to bad-mouth America while in a communist country, that to do so in the middle of the Cold War would be disloyal somehow. +“We have demonstrated that if you open the place up, give people the opportunity to participate, they will cooperate in getting an outcome in a body that requires fairly significant bipartisan buy-in to get somewhere,” he said. +At one point, they come 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commissioner, Dennis Thomas. +The pamphlet, created by the de Blasio administration, is a glossy but blunt warning about the dangers of metzitzah b’peh, an Orthodox circumcision ritual linked to herpes infections in infants. +Ending with a flourish, he struck out Harper looking at a stinging 98-mile-per-hour fastball, on his 99th and final pitch. +Oil had rallied over the previous four days as traders speculated that low prices would force more energy companies to curtail exploration and production. +Some 42 million American adults, 15 percent of women and 21 percent of men, still smoke. +In truth, as time passes, the results have mattered less than the time we had together . +Yves Théard in Le Figaro warned that “the invasion of the digital economy” risked loosening the screws of the French economic model, with its emphasis on workers’ rights and social protection, “one by one.” +Her party, the National League for Democracy, won 390 seats compared with 42 for the governing party, a 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Leonard, an associate professor and chairman of the department of critical culture, gender and race studies at Washington State University, said that despite highly publicized cases like the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, many questionable deaths of minorities still received little attention. +“Look for the defense to emphasize the fact that James Holmes truly suffers from a serious mental illness, that he is in dire need of ongoing treatment and that while incarcerated he does not pose any real threat or danger to society,” said Steven Pitt, a forensic psychiatrist in Arizona who has followed the case closely. +The only testimony Thursday concerned the conditions that Mr. Tsarnaev would face in the supermax penitentiary in Colorado, sometimes called the ADX, where he is likely to go if the jury sentenced him to life in prison. +He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be a doctor . +Two cubs from the ice age were recently uncovered in the Siberian Arctic, perfectly frozen in the permafrost. +It is a great pity that as important a country as Turkey should continue to object as strongly as it does to what is by now so clearly the verdict of history, particularly after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unprecedented and powerful offer of condolences last year to the victims’ grandchildren. +Against this backdrop, the experiences of Sweet Briar’s postwar graduates, who have been galvanized by the campaign and are reconnecting on Facebook, email and by phone , paint a vivid picture of an era marked by conflicting cultures: one that was still defined by hostess houses, white gloves and the “ring before spring” doctrine that cast women’s colleges as mere finishing schools, and one with a commitment to educating women for roles far from the home. +The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. +Davis revealed his scheduling strategy: Play the toughest games over the holidays in December — which is when Texas Southern beat Michigan State and Kansas State. +It is a sentiment shared by much of the older generation in Ban Rak Thai, who still speak of the past in terms of the traditional minguo calendar, which takes 1912 — the year the Republic of China was founded — as year one. +He did not, like Lillian Ross , have the freedom regularly to choose his subject matter. +“It’s more effective than anything else going on out there,” said Ana Paula Taveres , interim president of the Rainforest Alliance. +You can also use #NYTCooking on Twitter to show your creation to The Times’s food team, who helped start this culinary chaos. +The newly merged group may be easier to run with Yoox’s Mr. Marchetti as the single, clear leader. +Yet Venus hasn’t let her sister’s dominance distract her. +She was preceded by the model Tina Chow, who died in 1992 ; and, before that, Grace Coddington, who is now the creative director at Vogue. +Inside a two-family home nearby, her 22-year-old mother lay on the floor in a pool of blood, fatally stabbed several times in her torso and neck, the authorities said. +Mr. Roin, the M.I.T. professor, describes another approach: to provide a period of market exclusivity — long enough to motivate investment in clinical trials — to any organization addressing an unmet medical need with a drug that isn’t patentable . +The young woman’s mother, who immigrated from the Philippines, said that she had shared Filipino meals with Ms. Harper, and that Ms. Harper had taught her how to drive. +“But putting that kind of rail access in retroactively is very expensive .” +And the number is rising quickly as the federal government provides grants for cameras, said Lindsay Miller, a senior research associate at the group. +The Burlington, Vt.-based household and baby care company Seventh Generation was aware of that challenge and decided to take action by sponsoring the installation of four pumping and nursing pods in New York area airports: one in the JetBlue terminal at Kennedy Airport, two at Newark Liberty International Airport and one at La Guardia Airport. +How would you like to transfer to Princeton ?” +But again, the Christian idea is that God asks the seemingly impossible of all of us — and, fortunately forgives us when we fail. +Many other spectators were killed by the explosion . +Tens of thousands of children in Senegal are being exploited by Quranic teachers who force them to beg in the streets, Human Rights Watch said Monday, blaming the government for failing to carry out a 2005 law aimed at stopping the trafficking of children and their exploitation in Quranic schools. +In the last several months, Mandiant, the security firm that is a division of the security consultant FireEye, has been advising a half-dozen unidentified law firms that were victims of a breach or other attack , said a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. +Mr. Renzi, the leader of the center-left Democrats , has been relying on an uneasy pact with Mr. Berlusconi, the much-diminished leader of the center-right Forza Italia, since gaining power last year. +As the three guards, who wore no name badges, punched him and slammed his head against the wall, he said they shouted questions: “Where are they going? +The 26-year-old Chinese model Fei Fei Sun has, over the last five years, established herself as a well-known name in the industry. +FRANZ WELSER-MÖST, music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, which Boulez first conducted in 1965 : He has this unbelievable gift to convey something without showing it in his expression. +This three-panel portrait of the Apple co-founder, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle , portrays Jobs (Michael Fassbender) as a complicated, ambitious man caught in a tangle of messy personal and business relationships. +Matthew L. Wing, a spokesman for Uber , a ride-hailing service, said, “The behavior in the video is wrong and unacceptable, and we appreciate the N.Y.P.D. investigating the incident.” +Under the tentative plan developed on Sunday, the Assembly majority leader, Joseph D. Morelle of the Rochester area, and the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Herman D. Farrell Jr. , Democrat of Manhattan, would assume responsibility for budget negotiations. +But then Mr. Youssef took a piece of paper and started writing the names of participants in what would soon become known as the Petrobras scandal. +The rise of apps diminishes Google’s power to determine the fate of competing services . +Jillian Wu, a 17-year-old high school senior in San Francisco, said that granting 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote while they were still living with their parents would encourage a habit that continued once they left the nest. +The last pitchers to get to 300 strikeouts in a season were Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, who did it in 2002 as teammates on the Arizona Diamondbacks. +A government investigation in March found that GreenTech, which sought green cards for its Chinese investors through an American government program, had received special treatment in the handling of its visa applications. The report described instances when Mr. McAuliffe and Mr. Rodham contacted an official from the Department of Homeland Security to complain about the pace of the visa process. +“It is perverse,” the Chadbourne & Parke brief said, “for the government to grant leave to enable a same-sex couple to travel to a state where they can legally marry, for the government to recognize that marriage as valid for however many more years the service member continues to serve, and then suddenly ignore that marriage as soon as the service member retires and obtains veteran’s status.” A federal appeals court in Washington is considering a challenge to that interpretation, but the Supreme Court’s decision in the four same-sex marriage cases to be argued next week, among them Obergefell v. Hodges, No. 14-556, may make the challenge moot. +What “Picasso I Els Reventós” pinpoints in this period is not only the letters between Picasso and the Reventós brothers and the intimate illustrations he included in many of them, but also early artwork that was directly influenced by the friendships , including drawings from around 1900 of each brother decked in dapper outfits, with Ramón smoking a pipe. +Some even forgot their helmets on the first day of exercises. +Precipitation is erratic, and when it comes, it tends to fall in the mountainous northern and eastern parts of the state, while much of the population and farming are in the south and west. +The bright, clear days create ideal growing conditions. +At one point, they come across a small detachment of Algerian guerrillas that includes Slimane ( Djemel Barek ), a former army compatriot of Daru’s, and which for a short, eventful interlude swallows the travelers up. +Clad in often over-the-top anime -style costumes — platinum wigs, rubber vests — with an unabashed energy and a robust work ethic, he served as an inspiration to audiences weaned on a D.I.Y. techno-culture. +By midway through this year, 8.8 percent of all Chinese households had bought stocks directly, and the vast majority were urban dwellers , according to the China Household Finance Survey, conducted by the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. +When they had been told “This could be a rubber band,” 40 percent figured out that it could erase their mistake. +In a radio interview last week, Mr. Christie defended his decision in 2010 to kill a plan to build new tunnels under the Hudson River, saying he feared New Jersey would be responsible for cost overruns . +Colon said after the game through an interpreter that it felt as if he threw more changeups in Wednesday’s game than in any other over his 18-year career, but the strategy was successful. +Best Thing That Could Come of This Show Fox has yet to decide whether “Scream Queens” will be renewed — the social media following has been great, but the ratings have been soft. +And she is also writing a TV pilot centered on a young woman in Los Angeles who works at a vintage store that doubles as a drug front. +Islam teaches me to care about all human beings, and animals too, but life is short +The bill would expand federal background checks to cover gun sales between private parties. +Residents have objected and even staged a sit-in, but the tankers keep coming for the water, kicking up clouds of fine dust as they drive off . +Many independent experts, and almost all environmental groups, argue that dams would supply relatively little water for the money. +Film HARTFORD Cinestudio A screening of Julie Taymor’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” June 21 and 27 at 2:30 p.m. $12 and $20. +“Burnt” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian), because when things heat up in the kitchen, curse words fly. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. +He struck out Joc Pederson, another touted rookie , leaving him flailing at a curveball. +This is the first novel by Ms. Pierpont, a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program, and it shows a remarkably mature understanding of the delicate emotional balances in families — how feelings can flow back and forth like electricity in some kind of zero-sum game — and the subtle, irrational vicissitudes of people’s psyches. +Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the rest of the waterfront neighborhood, but left the Dell’s factory intact. +A convoy of army trucks carrying barbed wire and construction equipment arrived in the border town of Veliki Obrez at dawn on Wednesday. +Rising Star Chef of the Year Tanya Baker, Boarding House, Chicago Alex Bois, High Street on Market, Philadelphia +The books, “Splendid Cities” by the British artists Rosie Goodwin and Alice Chadwick and three titles by the French illustrator Zoé de Las Cases, feature detailed cityscapes with famous landmarks, cafes and street life. +On Sept. 25 the lead was gone, after the Red Sox beat the Yankees, 4-1, at Fenway Park behind Ted Williams’s 43rd home run and a four-hitter by Mel Parnell. +On July 27, stocks in Shanghai dropped 8.5 percent, which was the market’s biggest daily drop in eight years. +It has, in other words, a lot more potential to do good than harm . +Black-and-white images depict daily life — families around the breakfast table, a mother holding an infant, men and women heading off to work — as Mrs. Clinton reminds voters they are “not just electing a president, but a commander in chief.” +NXP Semiconductors, a big chip manufacturer, is near a deal to acquire a smaller peer, Freescale Semiconductor, in a cash-and-stock transaction , people briefed on the matter said on Sunday. +So it was that Mr. Heastie, the recently elected speaker of the New York State Assembly, was at a blood drive here in suburban Syracuse on Tuesday, gamely donating a pint in front of a group of somewhat perplexed phlebotomists and schedule-obsessed aides. +Next to it sits Hungary’s pavilion, a ribbed structure alluding to Noah’s ark, but also reminiscent of Pinocchio’s whale. +Dr. Grier and his co-author, who together ran a psychiatric clinic in San Francisco, opened the eyes of a broad audience to the psychological rather than the economic consequences of racism , drawing on case studies to illustrate their points. +During storms , the dead trees lose their branches, turning them into stumps, while the dust swirls about in ever-growing quantities. +“I’m going to fallow two acres of my land immediately,” said Geoffrey C. Galloway , who has a citrus grove on his ranch near Porterville, in the Central Valley. +Towns said he tried to learn as much as possible from teammates like Al Horford — lessons about the importance of repetition, about the complexities of defending the pick-and-roll . +This week, Tony Waag, the perpetually cheerful director of the American Tap Dance Foundation, presides over Tap City, a festival now in its 15 th year. +The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be surprisingly simple , deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software. +When mastodons and other large mammals became extinct 10,000 years ago, squash and gourds could have, too, said Logan Kistler, a molecular anthropologist at the University of Warwick in England and one of the study’s authors. +But all that debt, now totaling $72 billion, couldn’t solve the structural problems in Puerto Rico’s economy: high labor costs and shipping costs, an exodus of educated people to the mainland United States and the expiration of a special federal tax credit meant to attract big corporations to the island and keep them there. +Beside the nearly milelong road that is the spine of the fairgrounds, the British pavilion hunkers behind a massive aluminum-and-steel sculpture inspired by a beehive. +The neo-Slavophile current exerted significant influence in the past and is re-emerging as a strong political orientation in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, as Mr. Cohen notes with alarm. +The new rules are intended to make the mortgage process more transparent for consumers , mainly by providing them with simpler forms and giving them more time to review final loan terms before closing. +“Once they came and were interested, it was a pretty easy choice, because obviously I want to play for a better team in a better league, and the Bundesliga is one of the best leagues in the world ,” Johannsson said in a farewell interview posted online by AZ. +But when the game ended, he collapsed to the floor. “That’s the first time I’ve ever seen Travis cry,” said Dawson, who has been his teammate for many seasons. +MAREA WEXLER.Northampton, Mass., Jan. 20, 2015 +Both were members of Miles Davis groups, both have widely recorded on electric keyboards as well as piano, and both are among jazz ’s greatest pianists. +They were never effectively enforced . +Unfortunately, their anonymity is far from certain because, using upstream surveillance , the N.S.A. intercepts and searches virtually all of the international text-based traffic that flows across the Internet “backbone” inside the United States. +In an interview last month, he described weeks of abuse, including sleep deprivation and being tied to a metal chair for hours during questioning. +President François Hollande, speaking from outside the magazine’s office a couple of hours after the murder of 12 people, was crystal clear: This was an assault, he said, on “the expression of freedom” that is the “spirit of the republic.” +China’s central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan , said the base premium would be set at only 0.01 percent to 0.02 percent of deposits at the onset, a level he described as “much lower than the initial rates in the majority of countries when they introduced deposit insurance,” according to transcripts of interviews published this week in the Chinese press. +“I went to Tallahassee, ” he said proudly. +In 2000, George W. Bush defeated Senator John McCain in the South Carolina primary after fliers falsely accusing Mr. McCain of fathering a black baby out of wedlock began circulating in the state. +When Ashraf Ghani , the president of Afghanistan, stepped up to speak at a formal dinner in his honor this week at the State Department, he looked out at a room of familiar faces, a fact he quickly made clear. +“I have decided that he is not available for selection,” the president of France’s soccer federation, Noël Le Graët , said Thursday. +As his grandson, Gordon Davis , wrote on the Op-Ed page on Tuesday: “By April 1914, the family farm was auctioned off. +The series against the Capitals has been grueling. +The players jogged onto the field holding hands, drawing a roar from the crowd of 3,139 fans at Gustafson Stadium . +a sculpture garden . +Both Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and the School of American Ballet, the training ground for City Ballet, have initiated programs to spot and recruit young minority dancers. +The United States Department of Energy agreed on Tuesday to spend $73 million to improve the transportation and handling of nuclear waste stored in Carlsbad, where a leak exposed 17 employees to radiation in February 2014. +To date, most of the communication between the Giants and Pierre-Paul has been by text messages. +“Banks are on notice if they raise rates and then engage in what the regulators regard as riskier lending , they will have to pay higher insurance premiums,” said Nicholas Lardy, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics who has studied China’s financial system for decades. +With state funding declining, the University of California has been enrolling fewer in-state students (even as the population keeps growing) and a greater number of affluent students from other countries and states. +FRANKFURT — A strong indication on Friday that the European Central Bank is on the verge of aggressive action to stimulate the economy, just as the Federal Reserve is dialing back its stimulus, helped push the euro to its lowest level against the dollar since 2010. +Malta’s citizenship program, which offers a passport to those willing to pay 1.2 million euros, about $1.3 million, has been controversial since it was introduced more than a year ago. +In 1993, President Bill Clinton elevated her to the Supreme Court, making her the court’s second female justice, following Sandra Day O’Connor. +The roundabout has been torn down as part of a roadway reconfiguration , making the area more walkable. +On Friday, Mr. McCulloch devoted much of his talk to rebutting such criticism, which included that he gave incorrect instructions to the grand jury and that his assistants were not tough enough in their questioning of witnesses who supported Officer Wilson’s version of events. +State legislation allows for up to four casino licenses outside of the New York City area. +it may market the drug without competition . +A year before that, a jury found that Thomas had sexually harassed a team executive in the crudest of terms. The executive, now known professionally as Anucha Browne, testified that Thomas had used misogynistic slurs. +“So Saturday ’s date is the first five digits of pi.” +It was the museum’s third Art & Film Gala, and Mrs. Chow, a host with Leonardo DiCaprio, was working the room like a piranha in a goldfish bowl. +And after all, it’s their duty to be skeptical . +( Adultery Rule No. 1: Do not use email ! +This house is in Marble Cliff, a village of about 580 people just northwest of downtown Columbus, and one of the city’s first suburbs. +The Archer C7 ’s exceptional performance on a 5 GHz signal is its strength. +In the recent interview, Mr. Singhal illustrated the evolution of Google’s search business by taking out his phone and asking questions about things like music and trivia . +The last time the euro was so low, Greece ’s debt problems were causing havoc in the eurozone and there was fear the common currency would not survive. +Public records indicated that in 2008 he pleaded guilty to a felony drug conspiracy charge — one of 37 defendants in a long-term narcotics investigation in the Cypress Hills housing development — and served less than a year in state prison. +Speaking at a news conference to recognize the second anniversary of his election, Mr. Rouhani dismissed reports that Iranians would have to wait more than a few months for the lifting of sanctions , which have crippled Iran’s economy. +The baby, who was found on Monday, remained in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center , officials said. +(Major League Baseball, which calculates attendance differently, has the Yankees’ average home attendance at 40,086 .) +But research shows that even preventive care rarely ends up saving money . +“If we don’t see real progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreement, then we need to go further,” said Didier Reynders, the Belgian foreign minister . +ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, conductor and composer : Young people are attracted to black-and-white statements. +When Mr. Waag’s lineup did step out of the box, as with “Shiva’s Dance Yoga,” a kathak performance by Rachna Nivas , who sang, played the finger symbols and danced, the inclusion felt random — it wasn’t tap — and her execution uneven. +But that’s the trade-off for making a more popular and accessible public space . +Uber has contested the suit since its filing, asserting that the company is in the technology and logistics business , and is essentially an online marketplace that matches willing riders with available drivers. +In Dallas, the maximum subsidy for a three-bedroom apartment is now just $850 in the cheapest ZIP codes, but as much as $1,840 in the most expensive ZIP codes. +His wife, Gerda ( Alicia Vikander ), also an artist, is the emotional center of the film, in part because Mr. Redmayne’s performance, while technically flawless, keeps the audience at a distance from Lili’s experience. +His budget topped out in the high $600,000s . +Israel is not a party to the talks, which aim to reach a final accord by June 30 , and at times he has complained of being left out of the loop. +(Scott) ‘Tamasha’ (No rating, 2:35, in Hindi) Imtiaz Ali ’s Bollywood melodrama begins as an agreeable romance between a vacationing young man (Ranbir Kapoor) and woman (a charismatic but largely squandered Deepika Padukone); morphs into a professional identity crisis for the man; and concludes as a lavish self-serving ode by the director to his own calling. +Nine of the Turkish citizens arrested in Shanghai had come to China to hand over their passports to traffickers who were trying to smuggle out the Uighurs, Global Times reported, adding that the Turks were paid $2,000 a passport. +Thus on Saturday, the museum has planned a grand celebration, starting at 9 a.m. in Madison Square Park, where even small children can help form circles. +But Dr. Ohayon is treading gingerly, looking for ways to ensure that his findings are not misused . +Since then, he has consistently been part of the national team, including the World Cup squad in 2014, when injuries limited him to one appearance . +Because of the Ukraine crisis , he was thrown out of the G-8 countries of leading economic powers, and felt so snubbed at the last G-20 meeting in Australia that he flew home early. +Every month, at least 75,000 volunteers in the United States and around the world contribute their time and passion to writing those articles and keeping the site going — and growing. +Asked on Friday about Mr. Netanyahu’s new demand, a State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, told reporters in Washington that the negotiations with Iran on the agreement were “only about the nuclear issue .” +a 5-1 career record in Game 7s. +Indeed, Mr. Reed said he had been more warmly received in Europe where, in a series of recent shows, he explored the concept of the filmstrip in his paintings. +In a letter to Prisoners’ Legal Services, Mr. Aponte , who also worked in the tailor shop, described going through a similar interrogation two days later. +The rise of mobile devices and the prevalence of apps could make the traditional search engine less central. +“I know we’ve flipped some,” said Greg Mourad, a vice president at the National Right to Work Committee, which supports the legislation . +Mr. de Blasio has also called for the elimination of a provision of the rent-stabilization law that allows landlords to charge market rates once a rent-regulated unit reaches a monthly threshold of $2,500. +The only testimony Thursday concerned the conditions that Mr. Tsarnaev would face in the supermax penitentiary in Colorado, sometimes called the ADX , where he is likely to go if the jury sentenced him to life in prison. +With paintings, antiquities, historic garments, weapons, sculpture and porcelain, “Alexander, Napoleon and Josephine” tells a story that spans from 1807 to 1815 , beginning with the friendship between Czar Alexander and Napoleon and ending with their estrangement. +Such a report may suggest that I.S.S. is biased in favor of the activist hedge funds , but this statistic may not be truly surprising because hedge funds tend to pick struggling targets. +Unilever brought on the United Soybean Board and the Iowa Soybean Association, two trade groups, to give the program bona fides. +There have certainly been times when the church has challenged the government. +These conversions include 12 East 88th Street, a red-brick 13-story building near Fifth Avenue designed by Rosario Candela, the architect responsible for much of the Upper East Side’s elegant look . +“I can’t believe we have to leave,” Mr. Moznu said. +Whatever one’s take, Mr. Gilbert led a commanding performance, especially the spacious gravity he summoned during the expansive opening movement and the intensity bordering on sheer terror of the short Allegro . +The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. +He is expected to miss six weeks, putting the spotlight back on Mike Condon . +The new manager, Joe Maddon , won’t treat the 107-year wait for a championship as a 107-ton weight. +His compensation in 2013 included $360,000 that the university estimated was the annual fair-market rent of his use of the house. +Ford said it was in talks with Tencent , maker of the popular WeChat messaging app, to develop messaging functions for the manufacturer’s cars in China. +Ms. White’s escape from the Estell Village housing project — better known as The Pinks because the buildings were once painted that color — was made possible by an experiment in housing policy the federal government began in Dallas in 2011 and is now proposing to expand to most other large metropolitan areas. +“ Try and find answers yourself ,” he writes. +Trinity Industries, which has been accused of making a guardrail that can malfunction and impale drivers, indicated on Friday that it would resume selling the product — days after the Virginia attorney general’s office said the guardrail had “failed miserably” in a crash test. +When I got to junior high, I organized a walkout from the school to protest the first Iraq war . +The risk is that the department’s legendary bureaucracy will drag its feet and make it difficult for deserving plaintiffs to get relief. +Mr. Camara said he was in the day room, watching a playoff game between the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers , when he heard a commotion in the hallway. +Mr. Foley (left), 48, is a senior vice president and the director of business development for Rubenstein Communications, the public relations firm in New York, where he oversees the introduction of new clients into the firm. +Probate Judge Clifford L. Klein of the Los Angeles County Superior Court set a new hearing date, tentatively for late January , to consider the motion from Mr. Redstone’s lawyers to dismiss the suit. +Afterward, insurgents, including members of the Nusra Front , which is affiliated with Al Qaeda, captured the gutted hospital, completing their takeover of the town of Jisr al-Shoughour, a crucial location on the road from the mostly insurgent-held province of Idlib toward the government’s strongholds on the coast. +Last Friday, John Skipper, ESPN’s president , effectively fired Simmons, one of the company’s best known employees and the founding editor of its Grantland website, by announcing that he would not renew his contract. +One of the final guests interviewed in the Bugun TV studio during the raid was Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P. Mr. Demirtas called the move to seize the media group “mafia-like” behavior by Mr. Erdogan’s party, which is known by its Turkish initials, A.K.P. On Wednesday night, Mr. Erdogan suddenly claimed on live television that the opposition H.D.P. campaign was secretly being run by President Obama’s election team . +writerscenter.org; 914-332-5953 . +“Is Russell Westbrook a cat or a dog?” +Nearly 1,000 Long Island Rail Road trains have been held up this year because of problems or congestion in the short section of track they share with Amtrak at Penn Station. +“ They don’t get to study abroad. They don’t have summer jobs. They don’t wait on tables — what you get is a 23-year-old engineer at Google yelling at a chef because they ran out of pheasant that day. +It’s not that the other team in New York isn’t winning, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of spark to it, while what’s happening to the Mets feels fresh and novel .” +Two of his sisters suffered non-life-threatening cuts , and the suspect was held by the boy’s father until the police arrived, the arrest citation said. +It was 14-14 at halftime, then 24-14 in favor of Seattle in the fourth quarter, and then it really got good: +She starred in a revival of Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour” in London, opposite Keira Knightley, and as the scheming secretary in a Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow,” perhaps best remembered for Jeremy Piven’s abrupt departure, which he blamed on mercury poisoning from a sushi-heavy diet. +Sullivan hit all the right notes during his first couple of days on the job. +But in singling out Tunisia, whose 2011 street rebellion overthrew an entrenched dictatorship and launched the “ Arab Spring ,” the Norwegian Nobel committee also underscored the dismal failure of the uprisings that followed in other Arab states. +For good reasons, Serena , 33, has been everyone’s reference point this year. +“They’re driving out all the middle-income businesses” from Grant Circle , he said, “and they’re going to bring us another greasy spoon or a fast-food restaurant. \ No newline at end of file