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+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. +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. +RBG: When I was working on a book about civil procedure in Sweden , in 1962 and ’63. +The defendant, Omar Shalabi, 45, a father of six from East Jerusalem, was sentenced to nine months in jail for 10 posts to his 5,000 friends and 755 followers that urged them to undertake “violent acts and acts of terrorism,” said the Hebrew-language indictment. +At 1:30 p.m. , 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, fourth floor, 212-579-0528, vitaltheatre.org. +After an attempt to form a leveraged-buyout group within Bear Stearns was rejected, the three men struck out on their own. +The agreement, forged with the New Mexico Energy Department, allows the plant to reopen. +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. +The expense of prescription drugs has come to the forefront in the presidential campaign with proposals by Bernie Sanders and Mrs. Clinton to rein in drug prices. +Beneath the pyrotechnics, Mr. Putin seemed most concerned with driving home the point to his domestic audience that Russia’s battered economy had bottomed out, an indication that Russia’s recession had his full attention. +• Australia’s richest person, the mining magnate Gina Rinehart , 61, today lost control of the $4 billion family trust to her 38-year-old daughter, Bianca, after a long legal battle. +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 . +They got on a bus , were taken to the airplane hangar and waited in an unseasonable chill to cheer the senator when he arrived with his family by chartered plane. +I had taken refuge in what could’ve been , but my task was not to try to restore a life that had slipped away. +Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer representing the drivers, called the ruling “a major victory for Uber drivers.” +For the last six years , Douglas Elmendorf has been the director of the C.B.O. 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Henderson, “ to make it as accurate as possible . +Don’t you want to go make some calls?’ ” 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. +Mr. Farley is firm about what it takes for a ballet dancer to succeed. +It is considered one of the most comprehensive snapshots of trends among recent high school seniors and is of particular interest to people involved in mental well-being. +That’s the neighborhood in which the heroine, Alex ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead ), grew up and that, with her family, she still calls home. +But some of the crossings The Times examined have problems that safety experts say can increase the chances of a collision, like roads and tracks meeting at harsh angles and traffic signals in proximity that, in heavy traffic, can contribute to drivers’ getting stuck on the tracks. +Theakston’s best bitter and XB were excellent, with more of that yeast aroma I’d noticed at the Black Sheep. +Douglas MacArthur and Lucius Clay set up school feeding for millions of children in Japan and Germany , respectively. +Cooked vertically in the manner of a gyro, the meat preparation for the dish was likely influenced by Lebanese immigrants who brought gyro-style lamb to Mexico. +The 2016 presidential campaign has barely begun, but it is already clear this will be the super contest of the “super PACs” — the fast evolving political money machines that are irresistible to candidates because they can legally raise unlimited money from donors seeking favor and influence. +The Islanders (13-8-4) , who have won three of four, are expected to have their first sellout since opening night in October. +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. +914-788-0100 ; hvcca.org. PURCHASE Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College An artist talk by Artie Vierkant. +A few nights after his release, Mr. Norris phoned the person he credits most for his coming home: Ms. Francik , the student with whom he had not spoken since she delivered news of his clemency three months ago. +But that is hardly an issue now for much of Europe, which is mired in high unemployment . +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.” +LOS ANGELES — I first met Eva Chow — encountered would actually be a better term — in 2013 in the courtyard of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. +Conducted by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles’s Higher Education Research Institute for almost 50 years, the survey assesses hundreds of matters ranging from political views to exercise habits. +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.” +The game had all the classic ingredients, including a contrast in coaching styles, with the dour and opaque Belichick in charge of the Patriots and the animated chatterbox Pete Carroll directing the Seahawks. +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. +The Hurricanes scored four tries to claim a bonus point in the standings under Super Rugby’s scoring system, but it was a physical and bruising match that saw the lead change hands several times before the New Zealanders landed the knockout blow in the final 10 minutes . +“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? +Line: Cardinals by 7 ½ The Cardinals sound like a setup for a feel-good Hollywood movie: A 62-year-old coach with a 36-year-old quarterback and a 32-year-old wide receiver who are going against opponents who grew up with posters of them on their walls. +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. +So Daryl and Sandy walked to the bathroom together, and Daryl sat outside the door while his dying wife sat on the toilet. +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. +Kyrgios’s older brother, Christos , made crude comments about Vekic and threatening comments toward Wawrinka and was kicked off the air during a radio interview for making a crude 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then be entitled to pump a certain amount out in dry years. +The defendant, Khaled al-Fawwaz , is one of the earliest and most senior alleged members of Al Qaeda to be tried in the United States. +Eichel prevailed in five tests: bench press, pull-ups and agility, and vertical and standing broad jumps . +Ms. Rousseff’s predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had boldly predicted Brazil would rise to greatness in the 21st century, a forecast that seemed entirely plausible when, in 20 10 , the country’s economy expanded at the rate of 7.5 percent, its greatest performance in 24 years. +Here, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg , he was surrounded by his band in static “Ed Sullivan Show” style, singing songs that recalled the peak Sam Cooke era. +As his grandson, Gordon Davis , wrote on the Op-Ed page on Tuesday: “By April 1914, the family farm was auctioned off. +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 .” +Manuel Leite de Araújo, the president of a union representing prison employees , said some guards oppose Mr. Silva Neto’s “sentimental,” friendly approach with inmates, noting that a committee of guards asked the union to support ousting him from his position. +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. +Activists like Ms. Williams say they fear that much of the video will never be seen publicly. +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. +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. +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. +The writer, a clinical social worker , is the author of “Witness to Resilience: Stories of Intimate Violence.” +Rocio Fidalgo , a spokeswoman for the Diocese of Brooklyn, to which the church belongs, said that from time to time, people leave unwanted children at its churches, though she declined to say how often this happened. +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. +Both Mr. Kateb and Mr. Mortensen, who deliver their dialogue in Arabic and French (Mr. Mortensen also speaks a little Spanish ), are generous performers and they share the screen easily. +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. +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. +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. +Bharara on Thursday, claiming that the government violated his constitutional rights by fabricating accusations against him. +The United States has been supportive of the intervention, though quietly concerned about its long-term ramifications and the humanitarian impact. 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. +In a statement, the union president, Dennis Williams , praised the accord, saying, “We believe that this agreement will present stable long-term significant wage gains and job security commitments to U.A.W. members now and in the future.” +Through the decades, Mr. Ingrasselino would respond as a police officer and chief to a number of tragedies at the crossing, where Midland Avenue intersects with New Jersey Transit tracks at a sharp angle through his Bergen County town. +But the expansion also amounts to an open admission that the United States’ main legacy in Afghanistan — the creation of nationalized police and army forces numbering more than 350,000 members — is failing under pressure even before any final American military withdrawal. +Let’s start with an update from our last episode, which you may recall concerned a battle between a monk and United Airlines . +The couple met through mutual friends over cocktails in 1995 in New York. +On the second floor the fabulous Cabinet of Art and Curiosities leads to even more often outstanding paintings – Baroque to Modernism – accompanied by an array of decorative objects, especially porcelains. +Still, Sergeant Faranda said, the Ukrainians’ willingness to go into combat was all the more notable for their lack of preparation for it. +203-562-4183; newhavenmuseum.org. 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Greisch , the Hill-Rom president and chief executive, said in a news release. +a speedboat . +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. +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. +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. +Over the next months, Sandy and Daryl boarded a bus early in the morning every few weeks and rode down to Manhattan for the treatments. +‘Fancy Nancy the Musical’ (Saturday and Sunday) One of the arts’ youngest divas has returned to the McGinn/Cazale Theater . +“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. +Altogether, the evening raised $1.6 million . +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. +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. +“We’re expecting more of students: There’s a sense of having to compete in a global economy, and they think they have to be on top of their game all the time. 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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. +“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.” +Currently their whereabouts remain unknown . +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. +“She is a member of a very tame opposition party , by no means a revolutionary, and yet she is subjected to this brutal force,” said Amr Abdel Rahman, a researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. +Through June 26 . +Mr. Harschel estimates that the couple spent 350,000 euros, or $380,000, to build the 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+Mr. Cohn said Goldman had learned to adapt and change over the years as its model shifted from a traditional private partnership to a global publicly traded company. +“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.” +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. +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. +In many cases, activism in Asia plays out over a longer horizon , with players favoring persistent behind-the scenes lobbying over public campaigns. +■ 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. +( One person did not vote on Thursday.) +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. +Two days later, a state police sergeant happened upon Mr. Sweat on a rural road a mile and a half from the Canadian border. +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. +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. +In his testimony, Mr. Clancy urged lawmakers to approve a 16.4 percent increase in the Secret Service budget to confront staffing, training, facility and infrastructure shortcomings that he says helped lead to the problems. +their 27 World Series championship and 20 retired numbers. +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 . +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. +Giving people health insurance often enables them to get just this sort of preventive care — and Obamacare requires insurers to offer most preventive services without charging any co-payments . +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. +THUNDER 123, 76ERS 118 Russell Westbrook set career highs with 49 points and 16 rebounds, and added 10 assists for his fourth consecutive triple-double, helping host Oklahoma City defeat Philadelphia in overtime. +Fines and settlements pulled down the figure . +The Minnesota Department of Revenue stopped accepting electronic filings from TurboTax on Thursday and resumed accepting them Saturday afternoon, after TurboTax put new security measures in place. +The pastry chef, Krista Guiwo, was trained at the French Culinary Institute in New York City and usually has eight frequently changing choices on her menu. +But allegation after continuing allegation prompted FIFA’s ethics committee to commission an independent investigation led by the former federal prosecutor Michael J. 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+Still, Sergeant Faranda said, the Ukrainians’ willingness to go into combat was all the more notable for their lack of preparation for it. +Tariq, who said he had only been watching the clashes, was taken to a hospital and returned to the United States about two weeks later. +Laudomia Pucci, the interim chief executive of Emilio Pucci and Mr. Pucci’s daughter, attested to Mr. Fairchild’s particular mixture of kindness and cutting. +Harris, 35 , was a subtle craftsmen among a clutch of flamethrowers, relying on control and variation. +Shortly after the approval, Sprout, which was privately held, agreed to be acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals for $1 billion. +Apple’s iMessage has an audio-chat feature that allows you to send voice messages to friends on the same platform as text messages. +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 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Kolb, a Republican from the Finger Lakes region who serves as minority leader. +“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. +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. +It is illegal to fly drones for commercial purposes without permission from federal authorities, and those who do so risk penalties in the thousands of dollars. +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. +To help make their case, they repeatedly cited the election of Mr. Ghani , a Columbia graduate who lived in Washington for 15 years, as a central reason to stay in Afghanistan, despite the relative weakness of his government. +Women with impaired liver function were also advised not to take it. Ms. Whitehead will continue to consult with Valeant and Sprout executives after her departure, according to the statement from Valeant. +Alexis Jefferson, who worked with Ms. Harper at a Southern California subacute care center around 2010, said the gunman’s mother sometimes confided the difficulties she had in raising her son, including that she had placed Mr. Harper-Mercer in a psychiatric hospital when he did not take his medication. +The bill would expand federal background checks to cover gun sales between private parties . +“There are about 70 or 80 scenes per episode, and I’m in most of them. +The Stanhope House Milo Z, funk , featuring the Defending Champions. +This culminates in a grim chapter on Allach porcelain, made by the Nazis , using slave labor, in Dachau. +Hicklin said he will eventually launch projects such as in-room book selections at hotels, or perhaps book-concierge services on flights. +Over four decades at Common Cause, the Advocacy Institute and other nonprofit groups, Mr. Cohen helped galvanize resistance to the war in Vietnam, defeat financing for the MX multiple warhead missile system and thwart the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert H. 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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. +(He was, however, granted Patent No. D294290 in 1988 for a tub shaped like a champagne glass , which also became popular at Cove Haven.) +Meanwhile, experts tell us that most child care is mediocre to poor , including care by relatives — who are often too busy trying to get work done themselves. +TITANS 42, JAGUARS 39 Tennessee ended the N.F.L.’s longest home skid at 11 games . +In comments to reporters last week, however, he said he was “just not sure” what new ethics laws could be passed to stop the series of scandals that have shaken Albany, noting that several new laws passed last spring have yet to take effect. +Mr. Cooper plays Adam Jones , a hot chef in Paris until he flamed out, thanks to a self-destructive personality abetted by substance abuse. +Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Fridays , 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and by appointment. +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. +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. +Colleges have increasingly followed this practice by raising published prices and offering more financial aid based on a family’s resources. +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.” +Our sport is a gentleman’s sport . +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. +A pop romp that exhumes Mary Shelley’s famous monster-maker (James McAvoy) for a jaunty bromance with his bestie, Igor ( Daniel Radcliffe ). +Named Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis , the plant-eater stood on its hind legs and was about the size of a spaniel. +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. +Dan Bilefsky contributed from London , Simon Romero from Rio de Janeiro, and Merna Thomas from Cairo. +The dinner portion wrapped up (or was it that the after-party began?) with a bouncy performance by Icona Pop, the Swedish electronic music duo. +Aside from an initial distaste for diving into the style that epitomized industrial brewing, many early craft brewers had other reasons for avoiding lagers, one of the two major forms of beer, along with ales . +The store is currently carrying the cruise collection, but still it captures the conflict between Mr. Michele’s responsibilities to the brand as a source of innovation and as a source of gift-shop totems, two approaches to luxury that don’t always complement each other. +Gallardo, 29, was traded before the season from the Brewers to the Rangers in the American League, so his opportunities to add to that total will be limited. +Amtrak also depends on money from states, and its relationship with Gov. 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+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. +It all leads up to Jan. 1, when “Only Yesterday,” released in Japan in 1991 , will have its United States theatrical premiere. +Yale Zhang , managing director of the Shanghai-based consultancy Automotive Foresight, said connectivity was a deciding factor for Chinese customers buying a car. +What was clear was that those trapped had been living in difficult conditions . +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 . +The Predators spent 7:21 on the power play, as Dan Girardi (interference), Keith Yandle (holding) and Stepan (double-minor for 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Hurley III, a senior Manhattan prosecutor, said in his closing argument that Mr. Hincapie’s story made no sense, because the escalator he claimed to have run down was going up at the time . +When she complained to top officials at the Garden, Dolan personally insisted on firing her. Who among us does not believe in repentance and second chances? +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. +“By combining Aruba’s world-class wireless mobility solutions with HP’s leading switching portfolio, HP will offer the simplest, most secure networking solutions to help enterprises easily deploy next-generation mobile networks .” +Rising Star Chef of the Year Tanya Baker, Boarding House, Chicago Alex Bois, High Street on Market, Philadelphia +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. +He did not mention the federal investigation . +“A Christian can never be an anti-Semite , especially because of the Jewish roots of Christianity,” it stated. +He promised his wife, who died in January 2013 , that he would take care of her mother. +“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. +The normally obscure Export-Import Bank, whose main job is to help American businesses sell their goods and services abroad , will cease to exist on July 1 if Congress does not renew its authorization. +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 . +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. +“The fundamental principle underpinning news feed is the more you interact with specific types of content and content from specific places, the more likely you are to continue to see” that kind of content, said Andy Stone , a spokesman for Facebook. +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. +They paid $995,000 for a two-bedroom two-bath condominium built in 2007. +Under the tentative plan developed on Sunday , the Assembly majority leader, Joseph D. 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Mondays, noon to 7 p.m.; Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays, noon to 5 p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. +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 like Mr. Swanberg’s “Drinking Buddies” and “Happy Christmas,” the film has an appealing honesty and an enjoyably low-key comic style. +An army detachment is always posted at the river’s shallowest point, which can be easily crossed. +An event on Sunday in Trussville, Ala ., included residents who had attended Mr. Trump’s rally in nearby Birmingham last month. +The rhinoceros, for instance, lost its horn to poachers . +“The officers attacked him and this is borne out entirely by the video evidence from the bar +She said in an interview that the police had confiscated a computer and memory stick from the apartment and had said Mr. Yu would face criminal charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a nebulous, catchall accusation increasingly lodged against Chinese rights advocates. +When Tianjin imposes a strict odd-even license plate driving restriction under orange and red alerts, it does so only in six urban districts. +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. +BEIJING — The police in Shanghai have arrested 10 Turkish citizens and two Chinese citizens and accused them of providing altered Turkish passports to terrorist suspects from the western region of Xinjiang, a state-run newspaper reported on Wednesday. +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. +He looked bored. 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stamfordartassociation.org. +Pam MacKinnon, the play’s director and a Tony winner for “ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?,” disagreed. +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. +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. +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. +“Spy” has had about 10 test screenings, he said, although unlike “ Bridesmaids ,” it scored well with audiences out of the gate. +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 . +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. +(Germany was the top marketplace until Indonesia slid past it two years 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. +While many of these items were produced by big manufacturers like BRIO and Playsam, many others are one-of-a-kind wonders like a miniature baking set from around 1900 that includes rolling pins, spatulas and other implements all lovingly carved from wood and fitting into a tray just eight inches long. +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?” +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. +WHITE PLAINS ArtsWestchester Veera Hiranandani discusses her book “The Whole Story of Half a Girl.” April 11 at 2 p.m. Free. +The United States trails only Germany in the FIFA world rankings, but the Americans have not won a Women’s World Cup since 1999 . +“It took four months and a lot of getting yelled at.” +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. +But within two years, she says, she was earning enough that she bought a new car and a house . +He added, “The future looks bright . +The bigger threat for Google is that the web , the search company’s favored domain, has been increasingly overrun by the world of apps. +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. +Her long side-swept hair and black off-the-shoulder gown by the Chinese-American designer Vera Wang revealed an acute political savvy that was more than mere words could convey. +In the first three months of this year, officers conducted 7,135 stops , about half of the total over the same period last year. +Republican and Democratic bill sponsors saw the need to reform misleading truck and bus safety ratings. +They described the scent as rotting cabbage, dead mice and, oddly, Italian sausage when they stepped close to lean into the blooming flower, named Stinky . +On Thursday, ahead of the team’s loss to the Denver Nuggets on Friday, Mitchell was asked what was next for Towns in his development. +The Mets’ average television audience, which reached a high of 314,171 in 2007, bottomed out at 138, 62 7 in 2013 before a slight revival to just over 144,000 last season. +RBG : My mother was a powerful influence. +But it always ends.” Alex, John and Holden leave the Cortez, hopefully to retrieve daughter Scarlett, as forgotten by them as by the show’s writers. +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. +In the Act III wedding pas de deux, Sarah Lane and Herman Cornejo (on Thursday) eschew the celebrated and traditional fish dives. +From the earliest days of the war , the government in Kiev had asked for military help from the United States. +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. +But when Callistene arrests Nearco, another Christian, Poliuto puts his faith before his love, and confesses his baptism . +The fact that he would fail to discharge his obligation to pay his fair share if the son told the truth is a reason not to tell him the truth. +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. +To help keep banks in check, China’s deposit insurance plan will require the banks to pay a two-part premium: a fixed minimum rate, plus an adjustable rate based on the riskiness of their lending practices. +The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months . +“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. +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. +Mohamed refuses to flee . +The decade-old United Nations-backed tribunal has delivered guilty verdicts to only three defendants. +The Giants could still withdraw their franchise tag offer, which would make Pierre-Paul an unrestricted free agent, but Mara said that was not in the team’s immediate plans. +A Times analysis finds that, despite the intervening intense debates and promises of change, Ferguson, Mo. , remains one of the most segregated places in the country. +For the past 50 years, the evidence about tobacco’s dangers has been mounting. +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. +Here are the best games to watch in N.F.L. Week 4: Vikings (2-1) at Broncos (3-0) 4:25 p.m . +“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 players jogged onto the field holding hands, drawing a roar from the crowd of 3,139 fans at Gustafson Stadium. +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. +As international attention to the women’s case mounts, some rights advocates see echoes of the public relations maelstrom surrounding the female Russian dissident group, Pussy Riot , whose members were arrested in 2012 for their protests against President Vladimir V. Putin. +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. +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. +To Dine: Three Racines Chefs Unite for One Dinner The Racines NY restaurant and wine bar that opened last year in TriBeCa, is actually the third in a group: the other two restaurants, Racines and Racines 2, are in Paris . +From the earliest days of the war, the government in Kiev had asked for military help from the United States. +The American negotiators had preferred a step-by-step approach, but the Iranians seem to have gotten their way, for the most part. +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 . +“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.” +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. +“They’re very specific to niche transportation needs,” said Tony Dutzik, a senior policy analyst at the Frontier Group, a research company in Boston. +Last year, 11 states and cities did so, up from only two in 2011. +“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 . +“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 . +By proposing a grand coalition against the Islamic State and providing the weapons to back it up, Mr. Putin has already leveraged himself into a meeting expected Monday with a reluctant President Obama . +The country faces daunting security challenges — from the Islamic State to Russia in Ukraine and China in the South China Sea. B ut 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. +As Cihan reported, Bugun TV had “emerged as a main platform for opposition politicians over recent months.” +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. +Some details still need to be worked out. 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Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.; 209 West 42nd Street, Manhattan ; 646-223-3010, newvictory.org. +“It’s called a chauffeur . +Fan mail poured in from busy professionals and parents who confided to Ms. Basford that they found coloring in her books relaxing. +BuzzFeed and Vox recently each announced that they had raised $200 million from NBC Universal . +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. +POUND RIDGE The Lionheart Gallery “Art by Whit,” Whit Conrad . +Tennessee is looking to return to national prominence in its third season under Coach Butch Jones. +Of the world’s 12 largest banks, only Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs generated returns above their cost of capital last year, according to an analysis in Financial News by Roy Smith and Brad Hintz, professors at NYU Stern School of Business . +“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. +I won’t say ‘ Moby-Dick ’ because that’s impossible. +The science of climate change shows that in the future, there will be less still. +Mr. Elmendorf has a long affiliation with Democrats , and the Republicans want someone who shares more of their perspective. +Her follow-up, “Enchanted Forest,” which came out in February , is briskly selling through its first print run of nearly 226,000 copies. +St. Paul’s Church, 897 South Columbus Avenue . +At the request of the United States, Switzerland arrested Yevgeny Adamov , the former head of the Russian atomic energy ministry, in 2005. +Maher Bawady, 43 , of Queens, woke at 2:30 a.m. on Monday to set up his food cart outside 500 Park Avenue in Manhattan. +And I don’t like Charli XCX. ” It is such an intimate and personal connection that you’re making. +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. +He got out of his sickbed to sing with his wife, Ipek Acar, and Nilufer . +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. +“When Picasso came to Barcelona after studying in Madrid, he tried to establish himself here as an artist ,” said Malén Gual, curator of the exhibition, during a recent tour. +she called to Vito Schnabel , her art-dealer and -curator boyfriend. +The kitchen was updated during renovations with a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a Miele range, a Jenn-Air oven and quartz countertops. +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. +Keflezighi has kept the same coach, Bob Larsen , since his college days at U.C.L.A. He remains committed to the mundane routines of stretching and strength work. +With “so much clutter and information overload,” said Rohit Deshpande, a professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, “just getting attention is the hardest thing to do right now for brands. +But Beckham was the key to the final Giants drive, beating Norman for a touchdown to cap a comeback and tie the score at 35-35 with 1 minute 46 seconds left. +Twenty-four hours if you take a double. +Second, it gives Mr. Putin the opportunity to play the statesman, too busy reasserting Russia’s rightful position in the world to get caught up in problems like recession, 16 percent inflation and a weak ruble. +203-869-0376 ; brucemuseum.org. +He died in 1928. ” +One thing you won’t find: the popular Monster Shark Tournament, which was discontinued last summer, thanks in part to the shark activist wife, Wendy Benchley , of the “Jaws” author (and screenwriter), Peter Benchley. +One of them, Meir Ettinger, is the grandson of Meir Kahane , the American-Israeli rabbi regarded as the father of far-right Jewish militancy. +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. +Coach Mike Davis spent six seasons at Indiana, succeeding Bobby Knight, and led the Hoosiers to the national championship game in 2002. +She can create her own “in group, ” where only kind women are welcome. +Closings began in 2014 , and only a $46.5 million penthouse remains to be sold. +Under the terms of the agreement, HP will pay $24.67 a share in cash. +Pratt Institute is the neighborhood’s centerpiece, its greensward campus’s brick pathways braiding through a sculpture garden. +The law firm that filed the brief, now called Sidley Austin , has filed a new one by former military officials in the same-sex marriage cases to be heard next week. +More: ■ In 2011, Richard A. 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.” +One’s surroundings, one’s wishes and expectations, conscious and unconscious, can certainly be co-determinants in mishearing , but the real mischief lies at lower levels, in those parts of the brain involved in phonological analysis and decoding. +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. +But she gained even more momentum after the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, in which 130 people were killed. +MOSCOW — In recent years, trade relations between Russia and the Netherlands have at times blossomed and at times wilted. +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. +“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. +Dr. Lam and Dr. Ohayon have begun to travel around the country, speaking about the moral quandary they believe faces neuroscientists . +The boy was arrested on suspicion of murder . +Precinct had been reviewing surveillance video of the woman, who, the police said, secretly left the boy in the Church of the Holy Child Jesus and disappeared. +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. in living people. +The ADX is the toughest prison in the federal system, and the defense has twice shown an aerial photo of the facility, covered with snow in the shadow of the Rockies, appearing so remote that it could be in Siberia. +But she also likes honest, harsh critics to say things as they are . +that Barack Obama is actually president might cheer some Democrats. +France’s CAC 40 rose 0.4 percent and Germany’s DAX edged up 0.2 percent . +They’re just very clean, very to the core of the music . +In health care, 70 percent of the companies offered stock units as part of director pay. +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. +“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. +On Facebook, Twitter and in a full-page ad in The New York Times on Sunday, the show is trumpeting its status as “Loser!” in the best-musical race. +The villages’ Chinese heritage has been played up in recent years as locals seek to cater to a small but growing number of tourists, mostly Thai , who come seeking cool weather, Chinese food and locally grown oolong tea. +After making the move to Division I from Division II in 2006, it found a temporary spot in the Great West Conference — a mishmash of colleges mostly from the Midwest and the West. +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. +At a board meeting Tuesday, Kevin Law , the chairman, said that he saw “no harm” in soliciting new proposals solely for the Southern Tier, as the governor suggested. +The impact of 17,000 gallons of water a minute was used to collapse walls, exposing the flames inside the warehouse. +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. +One person in Louisiana died Wednesday and two others were in intensive care, said Mark Ryan, the director of the Louisiana Poison Center . +During a seven-and-a-half-hour deposition behind closed doors before the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Mr. Blumenthal identified the official as Tyler Drumheller, according to a person with knowledge of his testimony. +Stars shine overhead, and rivers flow nearby in songs by Joan Shelley, who performed on Thursday night at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. +She graduated from Wellesley and received a professional certificate in culinary arts from the French Culinary Institute in New York. +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 separate, and “it would be a huge upset to the economy to do away with that.” +Gary A. Rizzo, a 1993 recording arts graduate, has been nominated for four sound-mixing Oscars, winning in 2011 for Christopher Nolan’s “Inception.” +a high-quality office environment . +A court sentenced a nurse to life in prison on Thursday for killing patients at a clinic with overdoses of heart medication that he confessed to administering because he enjoyed trying to revive them . +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. +He mustn’t waste the chance as Italy is living on borrowed time . +It was impossible not to feel a sense of relief watching the Democratic debate after months dominated by the Republican circus of haters, ranters and that very special group of king killers in Congress. +The Washington Post tried to assess how well the candidates who are governors did in their states. +RBG: Between 20 and 25 percent of the law students in Sweden were women. +He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be a doctor . +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. +The Pentagon recently approved the sale of 600 Patriot defense missiles , valued at $5.4 billion. +Last year, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approved a resolution to divest from three companies that it said supplied Israel with equipment used in the occupation of Palestinian territory. +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. +The health care providers who challenged the North Carolina law urged the justices to turn down the state’s appeal. +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. +“ Wolf ,” he said. +Ms. Yellen ’s stance offers a reason to explain those benefits. +On one side of the foyer are a breakfast room and a kitchen, with appliances updated over the last 10 years . +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. +Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, 300 Riverside Drive . +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. +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. +All the parts are there — he recorded his album live to tape, on vintage equipment , with producers obsessed with 1950s soul. +“Hence, my first request is: Study and research the incentives behind this widespread tarnishing of the image of Islam .” +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. +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). +The stronger dollar caused a sell-off in commodities as well. Benchmark crude oil fell 91 cents, or 2 percent, to settle at $44.29 a barrel. +Sochi , of course, hosted the 2014 Winter Games, despite concerns at the time about corruption, spiraling costs, terrorism and Russian legislation that was criticized as anti-gay. +Heinrichs is trying to keep the Americans at the forefront at a time when a number of European girls are playing primarily against boys to develop their technical skills and are turning professional as young as 14 . +The resetting of part of Don Quixote de la Mancha’s story concluded the final program in a charming production featuring puppets and witty visuals designed by Doug Fitch . +The giddiest investors, including those who took on debt to buy stock , are wondering if they can recover their fortunes. +Andrew Berman, the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation , said his organization was consulting its lawyers about any other legal recourse that might stop or alter the expansion. +Australia’s current political turmoil dates from the Labor Party government of Kevin Rudd , who became prime minister in 2007. +“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. +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. +But this year, the hosts of “The Jones” will be broadcasting for the league itself. +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. +The decision was made to painstakingly remove the mangled boat from the reef and rebuild it in half the original build time at Persico Marine in Genoa, Italy . +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. +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. +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. +And it was reported Thursday that the New York attorney general is starting an investigation to determine whether the company lied about the risks of climate change. +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. +Diverse storytelling benefits all readers, gay or straight, Mr. Griepp of ICv2 said. +“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. +AMC, however, is more reluctant to switch game plans . +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. +“ 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.” +Mr. Cradle , who was on probation for driving while intoxicated, had several prior arrests, though some were sealed. +The Berkeley Carroll School, a private institution for prekindergarten through 12th grade, has its lower school on Carroll Street and middle and high schools on Lincoln Place. +Mr. Gilligan appreciated how he could help with marketing efforts for both of his shows, even when he “was a nobody +RBG: There were many firms who put up sign-up sheets that said, “Men Only.” And I had three strikes against me. +The Pace Gallery, which turns 55 this year , making it one of the country’s oldest contemporary art galleries, has never been in the real-estate business. +“The analogy I like to use is, complaining that Google is lifting its own vertical search engine over other vertical search engines would be like complaining that The New York Times is not carrying The Los Angeles Times’s sports section,” said Danny Sullivan, founder of Search Engine Land, an online publication that tracks the search industry . +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. +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.” +On Tuesday evening, this star pianist presented an uncommonly introspective solo recital built around Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and selections of Spanish music . +The Books of The Times review on Thursday, about “The Art of Memoir” by Mary Karr , referred incorrectly to Ms. Karr at one point. +It was the latest in a series of attacks in Yemen against the Red Cross, one of the few international humanitarian organizations that has continued operations in Yemen since a civil war started in March . +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 . +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. +Other customers who stopped in Zaro’s to grab a loaf of challah bread or a cheese Danish voiced similar concerns about changes in Parkchester. +As President Obama once said, elections have consequences. That includes the Republican sweep of 2014. +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 . +“The message being that Apple is trying to push the iPad to be more of a PC replacement, a converged device of a tablet notebook that has broader computing powers.” +PATERSON Lambert Castle Annamaria Stefanelli and Rory Angelicola , “An Afternoon of Operatic Favorites.” +If “ Scream Queens ” does get a renewal, we could be looking at a subtitle: “Scream Queens: Asylum.” +The victims — who have ranged from ordinary computer users to financial firms and police departments — are told that their only way out is through a Bitcoin payment that is sometimes more than $20,000. +‘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. +Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. +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. +Michael Gbinije’s 21 points led Syracuse (7-3), which has lost three of four. +The Mozambique ruby and diamond ring, named La Divine , was derived from Rubel’s Undersea Flower clip of turquoises, rubies and diamonds. +Her shrewdly calibrated allure , which easily rivaled that of any first lady in recent memory, suggests that Mrs. Obama has embraced an enviable position at the intersection of pop culture and politics — just because she can. +“If he hears about a hot show, he’ll be there,” said Alastair, 23 , a junior A&R manager at that label. +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. +On paper, “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” should be dreadful . +The game had all the classic ingredients, including a contrast in coaching styles, with the dour and opaque Belichick in charge of the Patriots and the animated chatterbox Pete Carroll directing the Seahawks. +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. +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 . +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. +He was mischievous and flamboyant — he was known to wear an electric lime-green suit — and fond of rhyming and hyperbolic fantasy musings. +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.” +Werek played three seasons in the American Hockey League and is now under contract to play for the Florida Everblades of the ECHL. +As laid out in the Conservative manifesto, the cuts would be deep outside certain protected areas like the National Health Service, and might be about 30 billion pounds , or about $49 billion. +(Dargis) ★ ‘Brooklyn’ (PG-13, 1:51) Saoirse Ronan gives a remarkably lively and subtle performance as Eilis Lacey, a young woman who emigrates from Ireland to New York in the early 1950s, in John Crowley’s lovely adaptation of the novel by Colm Toibin. +When I was 8, I decided to publish a literary magazine, and I would solicit contributions from all the kids on my street . +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. +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). +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. +In front of a friendly crowd Friday night, Dayton, the East Region’s No. 11 seed, used a second-half to surge to defeat sixth -seeded Providence, 66-53, at Nationwide Arena. +He got out of his sickbed to sing with his wife, Ipek Acar, and Nilufer. +An article on Wednesday about research suggesting that chimpanzees have the cognitive ability to cook misstated, at one point, the surname of the Harvard anthropologist who hypothesized that cooking has driven changes in human evolution. +The new commissioner, Rob Manfred, is emphatically in favor of keeping the link between the sport’s so-called jewel events . +Netflix was the biggest gainer in the S.&P. 500 index. +She was devout, though starting to read progressive Catholic magazines like Commonweal , which published the essays of Hannah Arendt and the poetry of W.H. Auden. +We’ve also worked with a group of high-net-worth investors ; many of them are in the real estate business. +The linebacker, Elikena Fieilo, who is now a Euless police officer , told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram last week that his intentional hit had resulted in disciplinary action and the loss of several Division I scholarship offers. +And the number of Swedes in favor of a ban on the sale of sex as well as its purchase appears to have grown. The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education — known by its Swedish initials, R.F.S.U. — said the results of the research review raised questions about the law’s effectiveness, as well as its impact on prostitutes and on women like Daniella seeking to leave prostitution. +Capt. Nicholas Salimbene , an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. +In folklore, the figure of the changeling often involves an enchanted piece of wood placed in a crib by fairies that a parent finds instead of her baby. +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 . +St. John’s did what it had not been doing most of the season — shoot well and control the boards — and the Red Storm delighted the Madison Square Garden crowd in beating Syracuse , 84-72. +‘Love the Coopers’ (PG-13, 1:47) +I mean, he’s played 20 games , guys, and you want to — his next development? +Criticizing others can trick us into feeling better about ourselves (for 35 seconds). +On Thursday, a special House committee recommended the expulsion of both the first-year Tea Party lawmakers, who had based legislation on their Christian beliefs and had clashed with Republican leadership even before the controversy broke. +When 80 people hold the same amount of wealth as 3.6 billion of the world’s poorest, that equation of inequality can catch the attention of even the most heartless. +There is also a great deal of important historical work by Poles on the Holocaust, some of which is now available in English. +“No player has to prove anything, because this is not a competition,” said Dan Marr , the N.H.L.’s director for central scouting, while describing the three components of the combine — medical screening, personal interviews and physical testing. +As with the stop-and-frisk approach, they say, the aggressive enforcement of minor offenses unfairly targets young black and Hispanic men . +a 15 percent royalty on each sale. +the $100,000 a donor asked us to return because we welcome transgender girls,” read the headline on the page, which included a video about the Girl Scouts’ commitment to inclusivity. +Other beers well worth seeking out include the pleasantly bitter District Common from Atlas Brew Works; 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total, beating the United States , 16 ½ to 9 ½, at Royal Lytham and St. Annes in England. +the chief executive of Massey Energy Company when 29 workers were killed in a company mine in 2010. +But senior administration officials said the new actions were a routine step, and not an escalation of economic sanctions aimed at pressuring Mr. Putin and the Russian government. +“When a Man Loves a Woman” was his first recording for Atlantic Records, after a patient at the hospital introduced him to the record producer Quin Ivy. +Its nearly 350 pieces — expertly shoehorned into six themed spaces — cover the cultural ferment of the fragile Weimar Republic, as it came to be known, which was sandwiched between the end of World War I and the onset of the Third Reich and was Germany’s first attempt at full democracy. +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 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She served as captain of the United States team that won the inaugural Women’s World Cup, in 1991. +The House bill invests millions of extra dollars in a questionable missile defense program. 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(Bravo) BEST NEW RESTAURANT This week’s theme, Battle of the Burger, pits Porter Ale House Gastropub of Austin, Tex., against Tongue & Cheek of Miami. +The Cavaliers lost the ball 19 times, and their defense was again missing in action for too much of the game. +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 . +Convinced that poetry could be therapeutic, he asked the Sarah Neuman Center, the Westchester County campus of a sprawling nonprofit, Jewish Home Lifecare , based near his home in New Rochelle, to let him give readings, and the administration agreed. +ROME — Catholics should not try to convert Jews , but should work together with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday in a far-reaching document meant to solidify its increasingly positive relations with Jews. +Amtrak officials countered that New Jersey Transit’s payments mostly go toward operating costs , like train dispatching and inspections, and for electricity to run the trains, and that in the 2014 fiscal year, for example, only about $13.6 million was left for system upgrades. +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. +A. Syncing files through Dropbox is one way to share them between computers, but if you bought the tracks you want to copy from Apple , you have an easier way to get them. +It would be a public relations triumph for Mr. Putin if Mr. Tsipras publicly criticized the sanctions while he was in Moscow. +Harrison added that he believed Kokkinakis and Kyrgios were hiding behind tennis ’s genteel code of conduct. +Although Latvia has produced only a few basketball players who have played in the United States, the sport has had a following there since 1935, when the national team won the first-ever Eurobasket European championship. +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. +Jon Lester is a war horse of a pitcher, Anthony Rizzo is a franchise cornerstone, and Kris Bryant looks like a star in waiting. +Oil had rallied over the previous four days as traders speculated that low prices would force more energy companies to curtail exploration and production. +The city’s reforms have included increased training and community engagement in the aftermath of the 2001 riots, which were sparked by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. +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. +He listens as a woman he knows as the “examiner” tells him how a story works. +The foundation chose Philippe Van Cauteren , artistic director of the S.M.A.K. contemporary art museum in Ghent, Belgium, to put together the exhibition, and funded it with 600,000 euros (about $675,000) from private Iraqi companies and individuals. +In 2000 , that retailer reduced the number of catalogs it sent consumers. +“They don’t want to play the game,” said W. McIntyre Burnham, a neuropharmacologist at the University of Toronto, with whom Dr. Ohayon studied. +Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. +NEW HAVEN New Haven Museum “ Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace. ” Through June 21. +Employers took on all the risk — the stock market dropping, people living longer than expected. +There were eight contenders where there had once been 11 — back in the glory days of Scott Walker. +Only a fool would trade him for Gary , a glum, pudgy blob. +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. +“The left is, then, the last rampart of Republican France against the xenophobic extreme right,” he said, calling on all the left-leaning parties to join together to defeat the National Front. +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. +After he connected on a 17-foot jump shot toward the end of regulation, he bowed for the crowd . +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. +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. +“We are committed to providing the best service to our clients and will remain committed to ensuring accepted standards are met,” Mr. Moyer said. +When Loki does as villains do and begins wreaking havoc on New York City , the Avengers must put aside their differences and save the world. +“It’s more effective than anything else going on out there,” said Ana Paula Taveres , interim president of the Rainforest Alliance. +Mr. McCarthy rose quickly through the Republican ranks in part because of his fund-raising skills . +Mr. Carto raised funds to finance a right-wing military dictatorship in the United States, campaigned to persuade blacks to voluntarily return to Africa and, most influentially, started newsletters, a journal and conferences of academics and others to deny the scale, and even the existence, of the Holocaust. +The Stonewall was already part of the city-designated Greenwich Village Historic District, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. +Plumbers found the pipes for the voix humaine stop, and joked that they didn’t look as if they could carry water. +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. +One published by the Campaign to Elect a Woman U.N. Secretary General , an independent group, features the biographies of accomplished world leaders of diverse backgrounds. +minormemoriallibrary.org; 860-350-2181 . +Muhammad, a third-year wing and a part of the Timberwolves’ well-publicized kiddie corps, paused and considered the possibilities. +Re “Counterrevolutionary Russia” ( June 26 ) by Roger Cohen: There have been two alternative social, political and intellectual currents with deep roots in Russia. +About 90 million Americans make purchases from catalogs, according to the Direct Marketing Association; nearly 60 percent of them are women. +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. +The fund, which under former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg raised hundreds of millions of dollars for educational programs, has experienced declines in fund-raising under Mayor Bill de Blasio . +Like any large corporation, or any person frankly, DuPont could use some cleaning up . +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. +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. +“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. +LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw went to the mound on Sunday needing to strike out six batters to reach 300 for the season, something no major league pitcher had done in 13 years . +Here’s one for sports fans that our contributor Brendan Nyhan found: a scholarly article with lovely graphics on the structure of basketball defense . +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. +In January, officials at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle acknowledged that 32 patients had been infected with CRE by duodenoscopes from November 2012 to early 2014. +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. +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. +GROTON Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art , University of Connecticut “Summer Exhibition,” Harriet Moore Ballard, Alida Ferrari, Jeanne Heifetz and Michael McLaughlin. +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. +In 1988 , Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished the practice as a cost-cutting move. +Some families, the statement said, are subsisting on one meal a day of fish and water lilies. +The authority reviewed its standards after the request by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office last year . +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. +Ms. Slaughter has turned The Atlantic article into a book: “ Unfinished Business : Women Men Work Family” (Random House). +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.” +About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade. +One was Representative Sam Young, Democrat of Glover, a town in northeastern Vermont near the Canadian border . +Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive , called the new iPad Pro “the most capable” tablet the company has ever created. +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.” +Video shot by insurgents entering the grounds showed the hospital building in rubble, with dismembered or decomposing bodies strewn about . +But Dr. Ohayon is treading gingerly, looking for ways to ensure that his findings are not misused. +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. +“I came into it expecting them not to know much of the basics,” said Sgt. Michael Faranda , who is teaching maneuvers. +In the hands of a less skilled writer, these questions could be mistaken for science fiction cliché, a riff on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” but Ball deftly explores questions with the eye of a poet and the logic of a philosopher , revealing new facets with perfect timing and acuity. +At the meeting, Mr. Law noted that the board “never said” that two casinos in the Southern Tier-Finger Lakes region could not work. +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. +His parents were from the Tours region, he said, descending “from long-established families in the little village of Beaumont-la-Ronce .” +For most of his college years, hardship dogged him off the court. +An assailant wearing medical garb and 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percent return that Deutsche Bank sought to achieve before the financial crisis. +But Mr. Tian traveled to Los Angeles after a major customer of his became a confidential informant for the D.E.A. +“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. +But it would have been difficult, because she’s always naked out here.” +It was impossible not to feel a sense of relief watching the Democratic debate after months dominated by the Republican circus of haters, ranters and that very special group of king killers in Congress. +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. +“I relished every single moment of them .” +Get a few of those and you can make some stock tomorrow afternoon . +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. +I’m the only one who’s biracial . +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 . +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. +About 455,000 parents, mostly mothers, now receive the payments. +Like an essayist collecting quotations, Mann ransacks the history of photography for her imagery. +Tennessee is looking to return to national prominence 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supplies. +Both women are cautiously hopeful that the lawsuit will quickly change their situation. +She continued: “What started out as an invigorating, life-enhancing, joyous experience evolved into something quite crazy . +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. +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.” +At 11, Francis will officially meet with President Obama, with topics likely to include climate change, income inequality and the refugee crisis in Europe. +Hewlett-Packard will release its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2015 on Tuesday . +Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center , 280 Broadway, near Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan, 646-837-6809, 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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. +Re “Counterrevolutionary Russia” (June 26) by Roger Cohen : There have been two alternative social, political and intellectual currents with deep roots in Russia. +(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.) +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 . +To the surprise of the experts, Idahoans have embraced the private coverage available under the Affordable Care Act — “one of the most successful enrollments of any state,” as Kaiser Health News reported. +Tensions have risen over the 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Cullen, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. +Defense lawyers had argued in court filings that the charges should be dismissed in part because marijuana’s Schedule I classification was arbitrary and unconstitutional . +Her 20-year career has been built on collaborations with such top French jewelers as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Boucheron . +“I had to tell him five times , because he didn’t believe me,” Mr. Boehner said. +That, in turn, seems to be stoking anger about the deplorable quality of the education, health care, policing and other public services they receive in return. +Navdy’s device isn’t shipping until later this year, and it’s not clear if it will work as seamlessly as presented in the video when used in less perfect real-life conditions. +8 P.M. 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Brian Sauder, who grew up attending a small Anabaptist church in rural Illinois , the moment came in a college classroom. +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 transaction valued Wincor Nixdorf at 1.7 billion euros, or about $1.8 billion, including debt. +A San Francisco start-up is winning converts to its business of connecting “white hat” security sleuths with companies willing to pay bounties for their finds. +LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Slovenia began erecting a razor-wire fence at its border with Croatia on Wednesday to stem the inflow of migrants, as winter closes in and countries to the north tighten their own border controls. +As Judge Carlos Samour Jr. read the 165 counts against Mr. Holmes, the defendant stood silently between his lawyers, staring straight ahead, with his hands tucked into the pockets of a pair of khaki-colored pants. +(Through April 26 .) +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 current rules for hourly workers would remain intact.) +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. +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. +“Look for the prosecution to try and minimize the extent of Holmes’s mental illness and instead depict him as someone who is depraved and rotten to the core.” The district attorney , George Brauchler, has said that for Mr. Holmes, “justice is death.” +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. +In Germany, which expects 800,000 migrants this year alone, Chancellor Angela Merkel and big business are mounting a vocal campaign to get the new arrivals into jobs quickly . +Economists are looking for a solid 0.4 percentage point increase in income, with spending up 0.3 percent . +He struck out Joc Pederson, another touted rookie , leaving him flailing at a curveball. +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. +Dancing Korea (Friday through Sunday) +There are no definitive figures , but officials say that most police forces do not use body cameras, or use them on a very limited basis. +This one, from the collection of the Bagan Archaeological Museum, is larger, older — from the 11th century — and carved from sandstone. +The pastor said he had yet to speak with either of the city’s last two Republican mayors, Michael R. 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Giuliani , about his campaign. +“The problem with Instagram and Facebook is that they’re being used by career-minded people outside the original targeted audience — the college crowd — Ms. Sternheimer said. +It is also aggressively marketing sustainable brands in the hope of increasing sales (including a paid post from Ben & Jerry’s on the website of The New York Times ) +The Archer C7 is faster over longer distances than most routers that cost $150 or more , and it’s the best value of the more than two dozen routers The Wirecutter tested in the last two years. +New mines may be found, he said, and man-made diamonds — which are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from diamonds dug from the earth — could satisfy some market demand. +They sequenced the entire genome of the turquoise killifish, identifying a number of genes known to influence aging in other species, including mice and humans . +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. +This must begin with honesty as to whether the Chibok girls can be rescued. +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. +“Youssef had been a pilot for many years, and the cop was once an air traffic controller,” said Mr. Reinaldet, Mr. Youssef’s lawyer. +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. +“They have very similar messages,” said Steve McMunn , 63, who remains torn between the two. +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. +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. +“Citizenfour,” about the National Security Agency leaker Edward J. 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comics, applauded efforts by mainstream publishers to reach gay and lesbian readers , saying it was a smart business move. +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 raid was condemned as an attack on press freedom by opposition politicians, rights groups and European diplomats. +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. +After his N.B.A. career ended, Dawkins played professionally in Italy and spent a year with the Harlem Globetrotters . +a 5-1 career record in Game 7s. +“The practical, realistic expectation is a frozen conflict with no effective control by Kiev 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combination of speed, sorcery and delivery. +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. +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. +The East German reporters, hoping to get a similar reaction, peppered him with questions about race relations upon his arrival. +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. +Democrats also say that Mr. McConnell benefited from the pent-up demand he helped create by bottling up so much legislation as the 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spending $2,250 a month on rent for a one-bedroom in Hell’s Kitchen. +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. +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. +It found that concussions were the third-most-common injury (15.5 percent), behind contusions (28 percent) and sprains (20.8 percent). +Gamal Eid , executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, noted that only a small demonstration in support of President Sisi appeared to have escaped police violence. +They changed one of the antibiotics and the nausea she had had all but disappeared. +He expressed confidence in the long-term prospects of the common stocks known as A Shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. +Republican lawmakers seized on accusations that two drunken Secret Service agents crashed a government car into a White House barricade after a party this month. +MORRISTOWN Macculloch Hall Historical Museum “The Civil War Through The Eyes of Thomas Nast.” +In choosing to leave Miami and return to Cleveland, James publicly preached patience but seemed intent on winning another title as soon as possible. +In another room, a Turkish magnate waited to get his photograph for a residence card. +The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column gave him four Pinocchios, its highest rating for not telling the truth, noting: “ Trump’s repeated statements about immigrants and crime underscore a common public perception that crime is correlated with immigration, especially illegal immigration. +The free-speech and free-love warriors 2 Live Crew used pointed political and sexual slogans. +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. +Pope Francis is a wonderful example of how to be a truly good person. +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. +Mr. Lapointe and his team of analysts acted more like private equity investors , taking large stakes in companies that were either already bankrupt or emerging from bankruptcy. +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. +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. +The person at whose expense Aveling generally made himself comfortable was, of course, Eleanor. +Yet in the last 13 minutes, Neuer was beaten twice . +that aids ex-prisoners , said initial job searches typically last between nine months and two years and tend to lead to work that is custodial, or related to the restaurant or lodging industries. +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. +“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. +RAHWAY Union County Performing Arts Center “Hurlyburly,” play by David Rabe and directed by Michael Burdick . +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. +In 1990 , Mike Tyson was also unbeaten and had the same aura of invincibility as Rousey. +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 . +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. +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. +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. +But it has hit a roadblock, one that gay rights groups say the government created. +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. +“I know we’ve flipped some,” said Greg Mourad , a vice president at the National Right to Work Committee, which supports the legislation. +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. +Rodriguez’s performance has moved him into the good graces of many, but not all, Yankees fans . +Being stubborn, I refused .” +And so it’s just passé at this juncture,” said Scott Flanders, Playboy’s chief executive . +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. +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. +In a statement, Mr. Fox suggested the move was related to his inability to secure funding for the state’s transportation fund . +Two Republicans, Senators Mark S. Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine, joined 45 Democrats in opposition. +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. +“So Saturday ’s date is the first five digits of pi.” +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. +A comment by the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, Janet L. Yellen , suggesting that stocks were generally overvalued added to the selling pressure. +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. +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. +The legislation is not about punishing one group because of its religious beliefs ; it is about acting to make sure that the civil rights of a community of overwhelmingly low-income minority children are not denied and that their constitutional right to a sound basic education is enforced. +Visitors announce themselves by pressing a red nipple within the raised areola . +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. +Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and two of his three children strung Halloween decorations across their Janesville lawn. +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. +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. +When I got to junior high, I organized a walkout from the school to protest the first Iraq war . +Jirkovsky and Stewart swam back toward the boat, and only Stewart got out. +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. \ No newline at end of file