Question: Where are Berlusconi's current interests focused?

Even worse for the aging tycoon, many of his own members of Parliament supported the new president. They are frustrated because Mr. Berlusconi is more interested in sorting out his own legal and business problems than providing a dynamic vision to take the center-right back into power. There is one potential blemish on Mr. Renzi’s victory. He still needs Mr. Berlusconi to push through legislation, especially to finalize the Senate reform. If the pact between the two men is irreparably damaged, the prime minister could yet rue his Machiavellian maneuvers.

Answer: sorting out his own legal and business problems

Even worse for the aging tycoon, many of his own members of Parliament supported the new president. <hl> They are frustrated because Mr. Berlusconi is more interested in sorting out his own legal and business problems than providing a dynamic vision to take the center-right back into power. <hl> There is one potential blemish on Mr. Renzi’s victory. He still needs Mr. Berlusconi to push through legislation, especially to finalize the Senate reform. If the pact between the two men is irreparably damaged, the prime minister could yet rue his Machiavellian maneuvers.

Even worse for the aging tycoon, many of his own members of Parliament supported the new president. They are frustrated because Mr. Berlusconi is more interested in <hl> sorting out his own legal and business problems <hl> than providing a dynamic vision to take the center-right back into power. There is one potential blemish on Mr. Renzi’s victory. He still needs Mr. Berlusconi to push through legislation, especially to finalize the Senate reform. If the pact between the two men is irreparably damaged, the prime minister could yet rue his Machiavellian maneuvers.


Question: How many new jobs would be created?

Their main pitch: The overhauled plan, updated from a widely panned version first offered in January, would generate millions of dollars in new tax revenue, create tens of thousands of new jobs and produce thousands of new housing units, parks and other neighborhood amenities that would provide a lasting legacy. And with taxpayer help, to the tune of more than $700 million, the Games would spur the much-needed upgrade of the transportation infrastructure, improving local roads as well as the beleaguered subway system. Officials argued that these were costs that taxpayers would have to bear regardless of whether Boston won the Olympics. The plan went into great detail on how the Games would transform two Boston neighborhoods: Widett Circle, the home of a temporary Olympic Stadium, and Columbia Point, home to the athletes’ village.

Answer: thousands of new jobs

<hl> Their main pitch: The overhauled plan, updated from a widely panned version first offered in January, would generate millions of dollars in new tax revenue, create tens of thousands of new jobs and produce thousands of new housing units, parks and other neighborhood amenities that would provide a lasting legacy. <hl> And with taxpayer help, to the tune of more than $700 million, the Games would spur the much-needed upgrade of the transportation infrastructure, improving local roads as well as the beleaguered subway system. Officials argued that these were costs that taxpayers would have to bear regardless of whether Boston won the Olympics. The plan went into great detail on how the Games would transform two Boston neighborhoods: Widett Circle, the home of a temporary Olympic Stadium, and Columbia Point, home to the athletes’ village.

Their main pitch: The overhauled plan, updated from a widely panned version first offered in January, would generate millions of dollars in new tax revenue, create tens of <hl> thousands of new jobs <hl> and produce thousands of new housing units, parks and other neighborhood amenities that would provide a lasting legacy. And with taxpayer help, to the tune of more than $700 million, the Games would spur the much-needed upgrade of the transportation infrastructure, improving local roads as well as the beleaguered subway system. Officials argued that these were costs that taxpayers would have to bear regardless of whether Boston won the Olympics. The plan went into great detail on how the Games would transform two Boston neighborhoods: Widett Circle, the home of a temporary Olympic Stadium, and Columbia Point, home to the athletes’ village.


Question: B building was considered Management-intensive why?

A. They are easier to buy. We did start our business in the B office building, and we found ourselves in that niche and felt very, very comfortable there. B buildings are very management-intensive, because there are many, many tenants involved. But we find that we do that very well and we can create value. We like to give our tenants a high-quality office environment. We don’t want them to think that they’re in a low-quality, traditional, old-fashioned B building, where they feel like they’re giving something up. Q. Would you ever consider investing in Class A buildings?  A. Absolutely, but right now it would not be possible given the competition.

Answer: many, many tenants involved

A. They are easier to buy. We did start our business in the B office building, and we found ourselves in that niche and felt very, very comfortable there. <hl> B buildings are very management-intensive, because there are many, many tenants involved . <hl> But we find that we do that very well and we can create value. We like to give our tenants a high-quality office environment. We don’t want them to think that they’re in a low-quality, traditional, old-fashioned B building, where they feel like they’re giving something up. Q. Would you ever consider investing in Class A buildings? A. Absolutely, but right now it would not be possible given the competition.

A. They are easier to buy. We did start our business in the B office building, and we found ourselves in that niche and felt very, very comfortable there. B buildings are very management-intensive, because there are <hl> many, many tenants involved <hl>. But we find that we do that very well and we can create value. We like to give our tenants a high-quality office environment. We don’t want them to think that they’re in a low-quality, traditional, old-fashioned B building, where they feel like they’re giving something up. Q. Would you ever consider investing in Class A buildings? A. Absolutely, but right now it would not be possible given the competition.

B buildings are very management-intensive, because there are <hl> many, many tenants involved <hl> .


Question: Who was in the opposite goal of Lundqvist during practice?

When practice started, Lundqvist took his place in the same goal he always does, and Talbot took his place at the opposite end. The Rangers began to scrimmage, but much of the action seemed to gravitate toward Talbot’s end. Lundqvist knelt down, waiting. He started stretching again. He looked bored. But the purpose of this practice was mostly to get the players moving around, their blood flowing on their day off, and Lundqvist would probably be better served saving his energy. The series against the Capitals has been grueling.

Answer: Talbot

<hl> When practice started, Lundqvist took his place in the same goal he always does, and Talbot took his place at the opposite end. <hl> The Rangers began to scrimmage, but much of the action seemed to gravitate toward Talbot’s end. Lundqvist knelt down, waiting. He started stretching again. He looked bored. But the purpose of this practice was mostly to get the players moving around, their blood flowing on their day off, and Lundqvist would probably be better served saving his energy. The series against the Capitals has been grueling.

When practice started, Lundqvist took his place in the same goal he always does, and <hl> Talbot <hl> took his place at the opposite end. The Rangers began to scrimmage, but much of the action seemed to gravitate toward Talbot’s end. Lundqvist knelt down, waiting. He started stretching again. He looked bored. But the purpose of this practice was mostly to get the players moving around, their blood flowing on their day off, and Lundqvist would probably be better served saving his energy. The series against the Capitals has been grueling.


Question: What is the new platform on Facebook being used to share political ads by campaigns?

But at the same time, more partisan political videos may trickle into news feeds as campaigns deploy Facebook’s new video advertising platform to reach specific groups. A video by the Clinton campaign, for instance, would probably not be targeted toward those using Mr. Cruz’s campaign logo as their avatar. And Facebook is ready to tap these intensifying political passions as a revenue stream. Some campaigns are proving particularly nimble at steering the conversation on Facebook. Vincent Harris, the chief digital strategist for Senator Rand Paul’s campaign, equipped the candidate’s many followers with avatars, photographs, videos, memes and links to post on their Facebook walls on the day Mr. Paul announced that he was running for president. Tagged correctly, the posts were intended to bombard others’ news feeds as well. The rise of political chatter on Facebook does not mean the site has become as polarized as Texas is red or California is blue. Some actually do use the site to stay informed about the other side.

Answer: video advertising platform

<hl> But at the same time, more partisan political videos may trickle into news feeds as campaigns deploy Facebook’s new video advertising platform to reach specific groups. <hl> A video by the Clinton campaign, for instance, would probably not be targeted toward those using Mr. Cruz’s campaign logo as their avatar. And Facebook is ready to tap these intensifying political passions as a revenue stream. Some campaigns are proving particularly nimble at steering the conversation on Facebook. Vincent Harris, the chief digital strategist for Senator Rand Paul’s campaign, equipped the candidate’s many followers with avatars, photographs, videos, memes and links to post on their Facebook walls on the day Mr. Paul announced that he was running for president. Tagged correctly, the posts were intended to bombard others’ news feeds as well. The rise of political chatter on Facebook does not mean the site has become as polarized as Texas is red or California is blue. Some actually do use the site to stay informed about the other side.

But at the same time, more partisan political videos may trickle into news feeds as campaigns deploy Facebook’s new <hl> video advertising platform <hl> to reach specific groups. A video by the Clinton campaign, for instance, would probably not be targeted toward those using Mr. Cruz’s campaign logo as their avatar. And Facebook is ready to tap these intensifying political passions as a revenue stream. Some campaigns are proving particularly nimble at steering the conversation on Facebook. Vincent Harris, the chief digital strategist for Senator Rand Paul’s campaign, equipped the candidate’s many followers with avatars, photographs, videos, memes and links to post on their Facebook walls on the day Mr. Paul announced that he was running for president. Tagged correctly, the posts were intended to bombard others’ news feeds as well. The rise of political chatter on Facebook does not mean the site has become as polarized as Texas is red or California is blue. Some actually do use the site to stay informed about the other side.


Question: What does state television use to promote progress and water management?

More than 15 percent of the approximately 150,000 acres of pistachio trees in the main producing area in Kerman Province have died in the last decade or so. A nationwide network of dams, often heralded by state television as a sign of progress and water management, is adding to water shortages in many places while helping deplete groundwater. In Isfahan, the once-iconic Zayanderud River is now a dusty scar the size of the Seine snaking through the city, because officials were forced to divert its water to the desert city of Yazd.

Answer: A nationwide network of dams

More than 15 percent of the approximately 150,000 acres of pistachio trees in the main producing area in Kerman Province have died in the last decade or so. <hl> A nationwide network of dams , often heralded by state television as a sign of progress and water management, is adding to water shortages in many places while helping deplete groundwater. <hl> In Isfahan, the once-iconic Zayanderud River is now a dusty scar the size of the Seine snaking through the city, because officials were forced to divert its water to the desert city of Yazd.

More than 15 percent of the approximately 150,000 acres of pistachio trees in the main producing area in Kerman Province have died in the last decade or so. <hl> A nationwide network of dams <hl>, often heralded by state television as a sign of progress and water management, is adding to water shortages in many places while helping deplete groundwater. In Isfahan, the once-iconic Zayanderud River is now a dusty scar the size of the Seine snaking through the city, because officials were forced to divert its water to the desert city of Yazd.

<hl> A nationwide network of dams <hl> , often heralded by state television as a sign of progress and water management, is adding to water shortages in many places while helping deplete groundwater.


Question: Which rookie will be on the forward-line?

“I know he does some acting on the side,” Julien said in a postgame news conference Friday, “but it doesn’t need to be on the ice.” Lundqvist called Julien’s remarks “disrespectful,” adding that his head and neck were still sore from the collision. “Diving has never been an option for me,” Lundqvist said. With Stepan out indefinitely, Vigneault recast his forward-line combinations Saturday, with the rookie Oscar Lindberg centering J. T. Miller and Jesper Fast, and Kevin Hayes centering Emerson Etem and Chris Kreider, who has one goal in his last 10 games.

Answer: Oscar Lindberg

“I know he does some acting on the side,” Julien said in a postgame news conference Friday, “but it doesn’t need to be on the ice.” Lundqvist called Julien’s remarks “disrespectful,” adding that his head and neck were still sore from the collision. “Diving has never been an option for me,” Lundqvist said. <hl> With Stepan out indefinitely, Vigneault recast his forward-line combinations Saturday, with the rookie Oscar Lindberg centering J. T. Miller and Jesper Fast, and Kevin Hayes centering Emerson Etem and Chris Kreider, who has one goal in his last 10 games. <hl>

“I know he does some acting on the side,” Julien said in a postgame news conference Friday, “but it doesn’t need to be on the ice.” Lundqvist called Julien’s remarks “disrespectful,” adding that his head and neck were still sore from the collision. “Diving has never been an option for me,” Lundqvist said. With Stepan out indefinitely, Vigneault recast his forward-line combinations Saturday, with the rookie <hl> Oscar Lindberg <hl> centering J. T. Miller and Jesper Fast, and Kevin Hayes centering Emerson Etem and Chris Kreider, who has one goal in his last 10 games.


Question: How many bodies were found in the mass grave?

DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish officials are investigating reports that a mass grave has been found near the town of Sinjar that holds the remains of more than 70 Yazidis, including older women, a Kurdish security official said Saturday. Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014. On Saturday, local officials told news agencies that Islamic State members had executed older Yazidi women, ages 40 to about 80, in and around the town, whom they did not want to keep as sex slaves. The Kurdish security official said that the allegations appeared plausible and that mass graves had been found in other areas that had been captured from the Islamic State. A Kurdish government team plans to excavate the site to try to confirm the suspicions. “For now, it seems credible,” said a Kurdish official who asked not to be named to discuss internal reports. However, he said, further investigation must wait for excavation of the site.

Answer: 70

<hl> DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish officials are investigating reports that a mass grave has been found near the town of Sinjar that holds the remains of more than 70 Yazidis, including older women, a Kurdish security official said Saturday. <hl> Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014. On Saturday, local officials told news agencies that Islamic State members had executed older Yazidi women, ages 40 to about 80, in and around the town, whom they did not want to keep as sex slaves. The Kurdish security official said that the allegations appeared plausible and that mass graves had been found in other areas that had been captured from the Islamic State. A Kurdish government team plans to excavate the site to try to confirm the suspicions. “For now, it seems credible,” said a Kurdish official who asked not to be named to discuss internal reports. However, he said, further investigation must wait for excavation of the site.

DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish officials are investigating reports that a mass grave has been found near the town of Sinjar that holds the remains of more than <hl> 70 <hl> Yazidis, including older women, a Kurdish security official said Saturday. Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014. On Saturday, local officials told news agencies that Islamic State members had executed older Yazidi women, ages 40 to about 80, in and around the town, whom they did not want to keep as sex slaves. The Kurdish security official said that the allegations appeared plausible and that mass graves had been found in other areas that had been captured from the Islamic State. A Kurdish government team plans to excavate the site to try to confirm the suspicions. “For now, it seems credible,” said a Kurdish official who asked not to be named to discuss internal reports. However, he said, further investigation must wait for excavation of the site.


Question: who aimed to leave the cortez?

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. After luring the children into the hotel’s dungeon (where Ramona Royale is still lurking) the Lowes tumble into bed, much to Sally’s murderous fury. “What we have is an addict’s high,” John explains to Sarah Paulson’s junkie ghost. “In the moment, it seems like it’s never ends. 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. But what will happen when Alex discovers John has spent the past five years slaughtering people to appease a ghost? Or when John realizes there’s something different about his wife? But sure, cancel the divorce papers, romance is for optimists! The Countess, meanwhile, threatens the ghost of Will Drake, her former fiancé and current owner of the Cortez: “I don’t kill children,” she explains after reminding Drake that his young son, her legal ward, is his sole heir, “but I could make him a blood relative.” Keeping his son uninfected might just be Will Drake’s unfinished business.

Answer: Alex, John and Holden

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. After luring the children into the hotel’s dungeon (where Ramona Royale is still lurking) the Lowes tumble into bed, much to Sally’s murderous fury. “What we have is an addict’s high,” John explains to Sarah Paulson’s junkie ghost. “In the moment, it seems like it’s never ends. <hl> 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. <hl> But what will happen when Alex discovers John has spent the past five years slaughtering people to appease a ghost? Or when John realizes there’s something different about his wife? But sure, cancel the divorce papers, romance is for optimists! The Countess, meanwhile, threatens the ghost of Will Drake, her former fiancé and current owner of the Cortez: “I don’t kill children,” she explains after reminding Drake that his young son, her legal ward, is his sole heir, “but I could make him a blood relative.” Keeping his son uninfected might just be Will Drake’s unfinished business.

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. After luring the children into the hotel’s dungeon (where Ramona Royale is still lurking) the Lowes tumble into bed, much to Sally’s murderous fury. “What we have is an addict’s high,” John explains to Sarah Paulson’s junkie ghost. “In the moment, it seems like it’s never ends. But it always ends.” <hl> Alex, John and Holden <hl> leave the Cortez, hopefully to retrieve daughter Scarlett, as forgotten by them as by the show’s writers. But what will happen when Alex discovers John has spent the past five years slaughtering people to appease a ghost? Or when John realizes there’s something different about his wife? But sure, cancel the divorce papers, romance is for optimists! The Countess, meanwhile, threatens the ghost of Will Drake, her former fiancé and current owner of the Cortez: “I don’t kill children,” she explains after reminding Drake that his young son, her legal ward, is his sole heir, “but I could make him a blood relative.” Keeping his son uninfected might just be Will Drake’s unfinished business.


Question: What effect do video cameras have on police behavior?

Dashboard cameras are far more prevalent — more so among state police and highway patrol forces than among local police forces — but experts say they know of no national tally of those, either. Yet despite the growing use of police video cameras, evidence is mixed about what effect they are having on police behavior. Experts say that cameras probably change for the better how the police and the public treat each other, but they do not know how much. And the fact that one viral video after another surfaces, showing officers treating civilians harshly, demonstrates the limits of that change.

Answer: evidence is mixed

Dashboard cameras are far more prevalent — more so among state police and highway patrol forces than among local police forces — but experts say they know of no national tally of those, either. <hl> Yet despite the growing use of police video cameras, evidence is mixed about what effect they are having on police behavior. <hl> Experts say that cameras probably change for the better how the police and the public treat each other, but they do not know how much. And the fact that one viral video after another surfaces, showing officers treating civilians harshly, demonstrates the limits of that change.

Dashboard cameras are far more prevalent — more so among state police and highway patrol forces than among local police forces — but experts say they know of no national tally of those, either. Yet despite the growing use of police video cameras, <hl> evidence is mixed <hl> about what effect they are having on police behavior. Experts say that cameras probably change for the better how the police and the public treat each other, but they do not know how much. And the fact that one viral video after another surfaces, showing officers treating civilians harshly, demonstrates the limits of that change.


Question: What did Joan Shelley let her songs do?

Although “Electric Ursa” was released just last September, Ms. Shelley devoted much of her set to new songs that were no less resonant and, perhaps, a little more concrete. One, with a melody that would have suited the Carter Family, captured the moment in a breakup when the thought of freedom balances a sense of loss. In that song, and throughout the set, she was open yet composed, never pushing or overplaying the music; she let the songs speak for themselves. With its quiet purity, the music held the club audience rapt.

Answer: she let the songs speak for themselves

Although “Electric Ursa” was released just last September, Ms. Shelley devoted much of her set to new songs that were no less resonant and, perhaps, a little more concrete. One, with a melody that would have suited the Carter Family, captured the moment in a breakup when the thought of freedom balances a sense of loss. <hl> In that song, and throughout the set, she was open yet composed, never pushing or overplaying the music; she let the songs speak for themselves . <hl> With its quiet purity, the music held the club audience rapt.

Although “Electric Ursa” was released just last September, Ms. Shelley devoted much of her set to new songs that were no less resonant and, perhaps, a little more concrete. One, with a melody that would have suited the Carter Family, captured the moment in a breakup when the thought of freedom balances a sense of loss. In that song, and throughout the set, she was open yet composed, never pushing or overplaying the music; <hl> she let the songs speak for themselves <hl>. With its quiet purity, the music held the club audience rapt.

In that song, and throughout the set, she was open yet composed, never pushing or overplaying the music; <hl> she let the songs speak for themselves <hl> .


Question: What type of order was the gunman in Louisiana a subject of?

Where Congress has faltered, the states have moved to tighten safety aspects of gun ownership. For instance, 10 states have made it harder for people with domestic violence convictions to obtain weapons. Court records show that the gunman in Louisiana had a history of mental illness and had once been the subject of a protective order in Carroll County, Ga., which may have been detected with a stronger mental health reporting systems. That too is the subject of legislation languishing in Congress.

Answer: protective

Where Congress has faltered, the states have moved to tighten safety aspects of gun ownership. For instance, 10 states have made it harder for people with domestic violence convictions to obtain weapons. <hl> Court records show that the gunman in Louisiana had a history of mental illness and had once been the subject of a protective order in Carroll County, Ga., which may have been detected with a stronger mental health reporting systems. <hl> That too is the subject of legislation languishing in Congress.

Where Congress has faltered, the states have moved to tighten safety aspects of gun ownership. For instance, 10 states have made it harder for people with domestic violence convictions to obtain weapons. Court records show that the gunman in Louisiana had a history of mental illness and had once been the subject of a <hl> protective <hl> order in Carroll County, Ga., which may have been detected with a stronger mental health reporting systems. That too is the subject of legislation languishing in Congress.


Question: Who brews Lawnmower Lager?

Amber, hoppy aroma but not overbearing; pleasantly bitter and deliciously refreshing. ($1.70, 12 oz.) NINKASI BREWING VENN DORTMUND-STYLE LAGER, EUGENE, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden, aromas of malt and hops, balanced and refreshingly bitter. ($2, 12 oz.) GREAT LAKES BREWING DORTMUNDER GOLD LAGER, CLEVELAND ★★1/2 Pale amber, lightly bitter, with lively flavors of malt and hops. ($1.70, 12 oz.) CALDERA BREWING LAWNMOWER LAGER, ASHLAND, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden with grassy aromas, fresh, subtle and pleasantly bitter. ($1.90, 12 oz.) SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER, BOSTON/CINCINNATI ★★1/2

Answer: CALDERA BREWING

Amber, hoppy aroma but not overbearing; pleasantly bitter and deliciously refreshing. ($1.70, 12 oz.) NINKASI BREWING VENN DORTMUND-STYLE LAGER, EUGENE, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden, aromas of malt and hops, balanced and refreshingly bitter. ($2, 12 oz.) GREAT LAKES BREWING DORTMUNDER GOLD LAGER, CLEVELAND ★★1/2 Pale amber, lightly bitter, with lively flavors of malt and hops. <hl> ($1.70, 12 oz.) CALDERA BREWING LAWNMOWER LAGER, ASHLAND, ORE. <hl> ★★1/2 Golden with grassy aromas, fresh, subtle and pleasantly bitter. ($1.90, 12 oz.) SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER, BOSTON/CINCINNATI ★★1/2

Amber, hoppy aroma but not overbearing; pleasantly bitter and deliciously refreshing. ($1.70, 12 oz.) NINKASI BREWING VENN DORTMUND-STYLE LAGER, EUGENE, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden, aromas of malt and hops, balanced and refreshingly bitter. ($2, 12 oz.) GREAT LAKES BREWING DORTMUNDER GOLD LAGER, CLEVELAND ★★1/2 Pale amber, lightly bitter, with lively flavors of malt and hops. ($1.70, 12 oz.) <hl> CALDERA BREWING <hl> LAWNMOWER LAGER, ASHLAND, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden with grassy aromas, fresh, subtle and pleasantly bitter. ($1.90, 12 oz.) SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER, BOSTON/CINCINNATI ★★1/2


Question: What must happen first prior to further investigation of the mass graves?

Answer: excavation

DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish officials are investigating reports that a mass grave has been found near the town of Sinjar that holds the remains of more than 70 Yazidis, including older women, a Kurdish security official said Saturday. Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014. On Saturday, local officials told news agencies that Islamic State members had executed older Yazidi women, ages 40 to about 80, in and around the town, whom they did not want to keep as sex slaves. The Kurdish security official said that the allegations appeared plausible and that mass graves had been found in other areas that had been captured from the Islamic State. A Kurdish government team plans to excavate the site to try to confirm the suspicions. “For now, it seems credible,” said a Kurdish official who asked not to be named to discuss internal reports. <hl> However, he said, further investigation must wait for excavation of the site. <hl>

DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish officials are investigating reports that a mass grave has been found near the town of Sinjar that holds the remains of more than 70 Yazidis, including older women, a Kurdish security official said Saturday. Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014. On Saturday, local officials told news agencies that Islamic State members had executed older Yazidi women, ages 40 to about 80, in and around the town, whom they did not want to keep as sex slaves. The Kurdish security official said that the allegations appeared plausible and that mass graves had been found in other areas that had been captured from the Islamic State. A Kurdish government team plans to excavate the site to try to confirm the suspicions. “For now, it seems credible,” said a Kurdish official who asked not to be named to discuss internal reports. However, he said, further investigation must wait for <hl> excavation <hl> of the site.


Question: How are violent crimes treated today, compared to 30 years ago?

Studies of imprisonment rates have shown that violent crimes are prosecuted much more severely today than they were 30 years ago. Nationwide, prosecutors are now far more likely to charge violent criminals as felons, rather than bring a misdemeanor charge. This could account for the reason the jails remain full even as crime declines. 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.”

Answer: are prosecuted much more severely today

<hl> Studies of imprisonment rates have shown that violent crimes are prosecuted much more severely today than they were 30 years ago. <hl> Nationwide, prosecutors are now far more likely to charge violent criminals as felons, rather than bring a misdemeanor charge. This could account for the reason the jails remain full even as crime declines. 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.”

Studies of imprisonment rates have shown that violent crimes <hl> are prosecuted much more severely today <hl> than they were 30 years ago. Nationwide, prosecutors are now far more likely to charge violent criminals as felons, rather than bring a misdemeanor charge. This could account for the reason the jails remain full even as crime declines. 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.”


Question: What is Marcelo studying to be?

The #nightshift hashtag is especially well populated by the armed professions and the healing ones. Sometimes they are almost one and the same, as in the case of @armedmedic3153, a.k.a. Marcelo Aguirre, a paramedic in Newark and suburban New Jersey. He owns an AR-15, a 9-millimeter and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera. He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be a doctor. Nights are good preparation for that: You get more serious cases. You learn on the job. A 12-hour course each night you’re on. Twenty-four hours if you take a double. After a while, the adrenaline that juices you when you’re new — when you’re still keeping a tally of the lives you’ve saved — disappears. You just do the job. “High speed and low drag,” Aguirre told me when I called. “Please ignore the siren,” he said. “We’re going to a call.” A stroke. Nothing to get excited about. Coffee sustains him. He stays clean. Some guys, he said, use Provigil, but that’s prescribed. “For shift-work disorder,” he said.

Answer: a doctor

The #nightshift hashtag is especially well populated by the armed professions and the healing ones. Sometimes they are almost one and the same, as in the case of @armedmedic3153, a.k.a. Marcelo Aguirre, a paramedic in Newark and suburban New Jersey. He owns an AR-15, a 9-millimeter and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera. <hl> He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be a doctor . <hl> Nights are good preparation for that: You get more serious cases. You learn on the job. A 12-hour course each night you’re on. Twenty-four hours if you take a double. After a while, the adrenaline that juices you when you’re new — when you’re still keeping a tally of the lives you’ve saved — disappears. You just do the job. “High speed and low drag,” Aguirre told me when I called. “Please ignore the siren,” he said. “We’re going to a call.” A stroke. Nothing to get excited about. Coffee sustains him. He stays clean. Some guys, he said, use Provigil, but that’s prescribed. “For shift-work disorder,” he said.

The #nightshift hashtag is especially well populated by the armed professions and the healing ones. Sometimes they are almost one and the same, as in the case of @armedmedic3153, a.k.a. Marcelo Aguirre, a paramedic in Newark and suburban New Jersey. He owns an AR-15, a 9-millimeter and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera. He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be <hl> a doctor <hl>. Nights are good preparation for that: You get more serious cases. You learn on the job. A 12-hour course each night you’re on. Twenty-four hours if you take a double. After a while, the adrenaline that juices you when you’re new — when you’re still keeping a tally of the lives you’ve saved — disappears. You just do the job. “High speed and low drag,” Aguirre told me when I called. “Please ignore the siren,” he said. “We’re going to a call.” A stroke. Nothing to get excited about. Coffee sustains him. He stays clean. Some guys, he said, use Provigil, but that’s prescribed. “For shift-work disorder,” he said.

He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be <hl> a doctor <hl> .


Question: Where was a civil war taking place?

Along with mounting economic pressures, it seemed that the government was willing to give ground for the sake of stability. Similarly, the rebels, who form an alliance known as the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, came to the talks under a new political reality. The regional dynamics that once bolstered them have shifted. With the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya and a civil war consuming South Sudan, the rebels no longer seemed as able to garner support from neighbors. Yet some analysts question whether the divided Sudanese government can, or even really wants to, reach a deal right now. “The question is whether the government of Sudan, comprised of the ruling National Congress Party, the military and National Security under President Bashir, is cohesive to make the bold steps, which involve politically difficult sacrifices,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation. With the end of the rainy season, fighting is expected to resume. Commanders in the Sudanese Army still believe that a military victory over the rebels is possible, and they seem to want to delay negotiations until further gains can be made. Another problem is the dizzying number of competing interests in a country awash in rebel movements. In the provinces of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement-North, once part of the party that now governs the nation of South Sudan, has been fighting an insurgency since 2011.

Answer: South Sudan

Along with mounting economic pressures, it seemed that the government was willing to give ground for the sake of stability. Similarly, the rebels, who form an alliance known as the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, came to the talks under a new political reality. The regional dynamics that once bolstered them have shifted. <hl> With the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya and a civil war consuming South Sudan , the rebels no longer seemed as able to garner support from neighbors. <hl> Yet some analysts question whether the divided Sudanese government can, or even really wants to, reach a deal right now. “The question is whether the government of Sudan, comprised of the ruling National Congress Party, the military and National Security under President Bashir, is cohesive to make the bold steps, which involve politically difficult sacrifices,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation. With the end of the rainy season, fighting is expected to resume. Commanders in the Sudanese Army still believe that a military victory over the rebels is possible, and they seem to want to delay negotiations until further gains can be made. Another problem is the dizzying number of competing interests in a country awash in rebel movements. In the provinces of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement-North, once part of the party that now governs the nation of South Sudan, has been fighting an insurgency since 2011.

Along with mounting economic pressures, it seemed that the government was willing to give ground for the sake of stability. Similarly, the rebels, who form an alliance known as the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, came to the talks under a new political reality. The regional dynamics that once bolstered them have shifted. With the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya and a civil war consuming <hl> South Sudan <hl>, the rebels no longer seemed as able to garner support from neighbors. Yet some analysts question whether the divided Sudanese government can, or even really wants to, reach a deal right now. “The question is whether the government of Sudan, comprised of the ruling National Congress Party, the military and National Security under President Bashir, is cohesive to make the bold steps, which involve politically difficult sacrifices,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation. With the end of the rainy season, fighting is expected to resume. Commanders in the Sudanese Army still believe that a military victory over the rebels is possible, and they seem to want to delay negotiations until further gains can be made. Another problem is the dizzying number of competing interests in a country awash in rebel movements. In the provinces of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement-North, once part of the party that now governs the nation of South Sudan, has been fighting an insurgency since 2011.

With the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya and a civil war consuming <hl> South Sudan <hl> , the rebels no longer seemed as able to garner support from neighbors.


Question: Who interviewed brother Noah about the batter?

Let’s start with an update from our last episode, which you may recall concerned a battle between a monk and United Airlines. The confrontation between a tranquillity-seeking man and an immovable corporation proved irresistible to websites like Yahoo News, Gawker and Boing Boing, to name a few. And a reporter from a local TV station was dispatched to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, in Abiquiu, N.M., where the monk, Brother Noah, was asked to repeat his not very hostile kiss-off to an unyielding United phone rep: “Thank you for speaking. God bless you. I will pray for you. But you have not been helpful.” The column reverberated enough that the Haggler worried it had disturbed the otherwise placid life of the monastery. But Brother Noah emailed a few days after publication with reassuring words. “I am sure that nobody enters a monastery to become an Internet meme,” he wrote, “but the brothers and I are doing O.K.”

Answer: a reporter

Let’s start with an update from our last episode, which you may recall concerned a battle between a monk and United Airlines. The confrontation between a tranquillity-seeking man and an immovable corporation proved irresistible to websites like Yahoo News, Gawker and Boing Boing, to name a few. <hl> And a reporter from a local TV station was dispatched to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, in Abiquiu, N.M., where the monk, Brother Noah, was asked to repeat his not very hostile kiss-off to an unyielding United phone rep: “Thank you for speaking. <hl> God bless you. I will pray for you. But you have not been helpful.” The column reverberated enough that the Haggler worried it had disturbed the otherwise placid life of the monastery. But Brother Noah emailed a few days after publication with reassuring words. “I am sure that nobody enters a monastery to become an Internet meme,” he wrote, “but the brothers and I are doing O.K.”

Let’s start with an update from our last episode, which you may recall concerned a battle between a monk and United Airlines. The confrontation between a tranquillity-seeking man and an immovable corporation proved irresistible to websites like Yahoo News, Gawker and Boing Boing, to name a few. And <hl> a reporter <hl> from a local TV station was dispatched to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, in Abiquiu, N.M., where the monk, Brother Noah, was asked to repeat his not very hostile kiss-off to an unyielding United phone rep: “Thank you for speaking. God bless you. I will pray for you. But you have not been helpful.” The column reverberated enough that the Haggler worried it had disturbed the otherwise placid life of the monastery. But Brother Noah emailed a few days after publication with reassuring words. “I am sure that nobody enters a monastery to become an Internet meme,” he wrote, “but the brothers and I are doing O.K.”


Question: How are the breadcrumbs prepared?

8. In a separate pan, fry the breadcrumbs with a generous amount of butter until light golden brown and sprinkle over the casserole. Bake at 350 degrees for around 30 minutes. 9. Serve with bean sprouts on top and the lime, ketchup and mustard on the side. *Béchamel sauce with cheese

Answer: fry

8. <hl> In a separate pan, fry the breadcrumbs with a generous amount of butter until light golden brown and sprinkle over the casserole. <hl> Bake at 350 degrees for around 30 minutes. 9. Serve with bean sprouts on top and the lime, ketchup and mustard on the side. *Béchamel sauce with cheese

8. In a separate pan, <hl> fry <hl> the breadcrumbs with a generous amount of butter until light golden brown and sprinkle over the casserole. Bake at 350 degrees for around 30 minutes. 9. Serve with bean sprouts on top and the lime, ketchup and mustard on the side. *Béchamel sauce with cheese


Question: Who should read to a child as soon as possible and use expressive gestures?

Ms. Jefferson said Ms. Harper had described bringing her son to the Del Amo Behavioral Health System in Torrance, Calif., near where they had lived before moving to Oregon. “He calls and says, ‘Take me out, take me out,’ ” Ms. Jefferson said, recalling her conversations with Ms. Harper. “She didn’t take him out until the doctor said he was ready to get out.” One piece of advice Ms. Harper dispensed online for a parent with an autistic infant was to start reading to the child as soon as possible and to use expressive gestures. An online posting from six years ago included the unlikely revelation that she used to read to her son a book by Donald J. Trump, the real estate mogul now running for president, who recently suggested that childhood vaccines cause autism — a claim Ms. Harper dismisses in her postings.

Answer: a parent with an autistic infant

Ms. Jefferson said Ms. Harper had described bringing her son to the Del Amo Behavioral Health System in Torrance, Calif., near where they had lived before moving to Oregon. “He calls and says, ‘Take me out, take me out,’ ” Ms. Jefferson said, recalling her conversations with Ms. Harper. “She didn’t take him out until the doctor said he was ready to get out.” <hl> One piece of advice Ms. Harper dispensed online for a parent with an autistic infant was to start reading to the child as soon as possible and to use expressive gestures. <hl> An online posting from six years ago included the unlikely revelation that she used to read to her son a book by Donald J. Trump, the real estate mogul now running for president, who recently suggested that childhood vaccines cause autism — a claim Ms. Harper dismisses in her postings.

Ms. Jefferson said Ms. Harper had described bringing her son to the Del Amo Behavioral Health System in Torrance, Calif., near where they had lived before moving to Oregon. “He calls and says, ‘Take me out, take me out,’ ” Ms. Jefferson said, recalling her conversations with Ms. Harper. “She didn’t take him out until the doctor said he was ready to get out.” One piece of advice Ms. Harper dispensed online for <hl> a parent with an autistic infant <hl> was to start reading to the child as soon as possible and to use expressive gestures. An online posting from six years ago included the unlikely revelation that she used to read to her son a book by Donald J. Trump, the real estate mogul now running for president, who recently suggested that childhood vaccines cause autism — a claim Ms. Harper dismisses in her postings.


Question: on what date does the 421-a housing program end?

“We’re going to support it, including the mansion tax,” said Steven Spinola, president of the real estate board. “We’re not happy about everything, but we think it will lead to building more affordable housing.” Mr. de Blasio has also been outspoken on another contentious affordable-housing issue — the need to strengthen rent regulations to preserve the city’s existing affordable-housing stock. His proposals still face a battle in Albany, which has been thrown into turmoil in recent months by the arrest on corruption-related charges of Sheldon Silver, a Democratic assemblyman and former speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader in the Senate. Both the 44-year-old 421-a housing program and the rent stabilization law, which governs rents for one million apartments in New York City, are set to expire on June 15.

Answer: June 15

“We’re going to support it, including the mansion tax,” said Steven Spinola, president of the real estate board. “We’re not happy about everything, but we think it will lead to building more affordable housing.” Mr. de Blasio has also been outspoken on another contentious affordable-housing issue — the need to strengthen rent regulations to preserve the city’s existing affordable-housing stock. His proposals still face a battle in Albany, which has been thrown into turmoil in recent months by the arrest on corruption-related charges of Sheldon Silver, a Democratic assemblyman and former speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader in the Senate. <hl> Both the 44-year-old 421-a housing program and the rent stabilization law, which governs rents for one million apartments in New York City, are set to expire on June 15 . <hl>

“We’re going to support it, including the mansion tax,” said Steven Spinola, president of the real estate board. “We’re not happy about everything, but we think it will lead to building more affordable housing.” Mr. de Blasio has also been outspoken on another contentious affordable-housing issue — the need to strengthen rent regulations to preserve the city’s existing affordable-housing stock. His proposals still face a battle in Albany, which has been thrown into turmoil in recent months by the arrest on corruption-related charges of Sheldon Silver, a Democratic assemblyman and former speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader in the Senate. Both the 44-year-old 421-a housing program and the rent stabilization law, which governs rents for one million apartments in New York City, are set to expire on <hl> June 15 <hl>.

Both the 44-year-old 421-a housing program and the rent stabilization law, which governs rents for one million apartments in New York City, are set to expire on <hl> June 15 <hl> .


Question: What day of the week did the incident take place?

Video taken at the scene showed the flames erupting within the crowd at the event — called Color Play Asia and organized by a group using the same name — about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, after nightfall. Some people were shown carrying the injured from the scene in inflatable rafts, and others were shown running away, silhouetted by flames. The fire was quickly controlled, but not before hundreds were hurt. Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said on its website that Taipei-area hospitals had victims requiring skin grafts. The ministry said hospitals were also urgently requesting other medical supplies needed to treat burns. The victims were mostly from Taiwan, but among the injured were four people from Hong Kong, one person from the United States, one from Singapore, one from Japan, one from Macau and one from Malaysia, according to the local public health department.

Answer: Saturday

<hl> Video taken at the scene showed the flames erupting within the crowd at the event — called Color Play Asia and organized by a group using the same name — about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday , after nightfall. <hl> Some people were shown carrying the injured from the scene in inflatable rafts, and others were shown running away, silhouetted by flames. The fire was quickly controlled, but not before hundreds were hurt. Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said on its website that Taipei-area hospitals had victims requiring skin grafts. The ministry said hospitals were also urgently requesting other medical supplies needed to treat burns. The victims were mostly from Taiwan, but among the injured were four people from Hong Kong, one person from the United States, one from Singapore, one from Japan, one from Macau and one from Malaysia, according to the local public health department.

Video taken at the scene showed the flames erupting within the crowd at the event — called Color Play Asia and organized by a group using the same name — about 8:30 p.m. on <hl> Saturday <hl>, after nightfall. Some people were shown carrying the injured from the scene in inflatable rafts, and others were shown running away, silhouetted by flames. The fire was quickly controlled, but not before hundreds were hurt. Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said on its website that Taipei-area hospitals had victims requiring skin grafts. The ministry said hospitals were also urgently requesting other medical supplies needed to treat burns. The victims were mostly from Taiwan, but among the injured were four people from Hong Kong, one person from the United States, one from Singapore, one from Japan, one from Macau and one from Malaysia, according to the local public health department.

Video taken at the scene showed the flames erupting within the crowd at the event — called Color Play Asia and organized by a group using the same name — about 8:30 p.m. on <hl> Saturday <hl> , after nightfall.


Question: The guidelines about consumption of fat have changed from limiting overall fat to what fat?

So, as the guidelines have recommended cutting down on meat, especially red meat, this meant that many people began to increase their consumption of carbohydrates. Decades later, it’s not hard to find evidence that this might have been a bad move. Many now believe that excessive carbohydrate consumption may be contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemics. A Cochrane Review of all randomized controlled trials of reduced or modified dietary fat interventions found that replacing fat with carbohydrates does not protect even against cardiovascular problems, let alone death. Interestingly, the new dietary recommendations may acknowledge this as well, dropping the recommendation to limit overall fat consumption in favor of a more refined recommendation to limit only saturated fat. Even that recommendation is hotly contested by some, though. The committee is also bending a bit on salt, putting less emphasis on the 1,500-milligram daily limit on sodium for special populations, in light of the mounting evidence that too little sodium may be as bad as too much, if not worse.

Answer: saturated fat

So, as the guidelines have recommended cutting down on meat, especially red meat, this meant that many people began to increase their consumption of carbohydrates. Decades later, it’s not hard to find evidence that this might have been a bad move. Many now believe that excessive carbohydrate consumption may be contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemics. A Cochrane Review of all randomized controlled trials of reduced or modified dietary fat interventions found that replacing fat with carbohydrates does not protect even against cardiovascular problems, let alone death. <hl> Interestingly, the new dietary recommendations may acknowledge this as well, dropping the recommendation to limit overall fat consumption in favor of a more refined recommendation to limit only saturated fat . <hl> Even that recommendation is hotly contested by some, though. The committee is also bending a bit on salt, putting less emphasis on the 1,500-milligram daily limit on sodium for special populations, in light of the mounting evidence that too little sodium may be as bad as too much, if not worse.

So, as the guidelines have recommended cutting down on meat, especially red meat, this meant that many people began to increase their consumption of carbohydrates. Decades later, it’s not hard to find evidence that this might have been a bad move. Many now believe that excessive carbohydrate consumption may be contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemics. A Cochrane Review of all randomized controlled trials of reduced or modified dietary fat interventions found that replacing fat with carbohydrates does not protect even against cardiovascular problems, let alone death. Interestingly, the new dietary recommendations may acknowledge this as well, dropping the recommendation to limit overall fat consumption in favor of a more refined recommendation to limit only <hl> saturated fat <hl>. Even that recommendation is hotly contested by some, though. The committee is also bending a bit on salt, putting less emphasis on the 1,500-milligram daily limit on sodium for special populations, in light of the mounting evidence that too little sodium may be as bad as too much, if not worse.

Interestingly, the new dietary recommendations may acknowledge this as well, dropping the recommendation to limit overall fat consumption in favor of a more refined recommendation to limit only <hl> saturated fat <hl> .


Question: Senator John L. Sampson is from what borough?

Updated 8:27 a.m. Good morning on this bright Tuesday. As Election Days in New York go, this year’s is pretty quiet: nothing statewide, no federal elections and several uncontested seats. But there are a few interesting races, and three seats in the State Legislature are open because their prior occupants left under a criminal cloud. • Thomas W. Libous, a Republican state senator, was convicted of lying to F.B.I. agents about his son’s hiring at a law firm. In today’s race for his Binghamton seat, the Republican candidate, Fred Ashkar, an undersheriff, leads the Democrat, Barbara Fiala, a former county executive, by 52 points. •  State Senator John L. Sampson, Democrat of Brooklyn, was convicted of trying to thwart a federal investigation. Roxanne Persaud, a Democratic assemblywoman, and Jeffrey Ferretti, a Republican real estate executive, are vying to replace him.

Answer: Brooklyn

Updated 8:27 a.m. Good morning on this bright Tuesday. As Election Days in New York go, this year’s is pretty quiet: nothing statewide, no federal elections and several uncontested seats. But there are a few interesting races, and three seats in the State Legislature are open because their prior occupants left under a criminal cloud. • Thomas W. Libous, a Republican state senator, was convicted of lying to F.B.I. agents about his son’s hiring at a law firm. In today’s race for his Binghamton seat, the Republican candidate, Fred Ashkar, an undersheriff, leads the Democrat, Barbara Fiala, a former county executive, by 52 points. • State <hl> Senator John L. Sampson, Democrat of Brooklyn , was convicted of trying to thwart a federal investigation. <hl> Roxanne Persaud, a Democratic assemblywoman, and Jeffrey Ferretti, a Republican real estate executive, are vying to replace him.

Updated 8:27 a.m. Good morning on this bright Tuesday. As Election Days in New York go, this year’s is pretty quiet: nothing statewide, no federal elections and several uncontested seats. But there are a few interesting races, and three seats in the State Legislature are open because their prior occupants left under a criminal cloud. • Thomas W. Libous, a Republican state senator, was convicted of lying to F.B.I. agents about his son’s hiring at a law firm. In today’s race for his Binghamton seat, the Republican candidate, Fred Ashkar, an undersheriff, leads the Democrat, Barbara Fiala, a former county executive, by 52 points. • State Senator John L. Sampson, Democrat of <hl> Brooklyn <hl>, was convicted of trying to thwart a federal investigation. Roxanne Persaud, a Democratic assemblywoman, and Jeffrey Ferretti, a Republican real estate executive, are vying to replace him.

Senator John L. Sampson, Democrat of <hl> Brooklyn <hl> , was convicted of trying to thwart a federal investigation.


Question: Where do concussions rank among injuries in women's hockey?

Despite increased public discussion, there is a dearth of information focused on concussions in women’s hockey. The few published studies available are unsettling. An eight-year study released this year by the International Ice Hockey Federation analyzed women’s hockey injuries at the world championships and the Olympics. It found that concussions were the third-most-common injury (15.5 percent), behind contusions (28 percent) and sprains (20.8 percent). A 2014 summary of self-reported concussions among N.C.A.A. student-athletes said that women’s hockey had the largest percentage of players who had experienced at least one concussion, at 20.9 percent.

Answer: third-most-common

Despite increased public discussion, there is a dearth of information focused on concussions in women’s hockey. The few published studies available are unsettling. An eight-year study released this year by the International Ice Hockey Federation analyzed women’s hockey injuries at the world championships and the Olympics. <hl> It found that concussions were the third-most-common injury (15.5 percent), behind contusions (28 percent) and sprains (20.8 percent). <hl> A 2014 summary of self-reported concussions among N.C.A.A. student-athletes said that women’s hockey had the largest percentage of players who had experienced at least one concussion, at 20.9 percent.

Despite increased public discussion, there is a dearth of information focused on concussions in women’s hockey. The few published studies available are unsettling. An eight-year study released this year by the International Ice Hockey Federation analyzed women’s hockey injuries at the world championships and the Olympics. It found that concussions were the <hl> third-most-common <hl> injury (15.5 percent), behind contusions (28 percent) and sprains (20.8 percent). A 2014 summary of self-reported concussions among N.C.A.A. student-athletes said that women’s hockey had the largest percentage of players who had experienced at least one concussion, at 20.9 percent.


Question: The changes proposed by Volkswagen are?

The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be surprisingly simple, deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software. Volkswagen said German regulators had approved the changes. Cars with 2-liter diesel motors can be repaired by simply updating the engine-control software, the company said.

Answer: surprisingly simple

<hl> The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be surprisingly simple , deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software. <hl> Volkswagen said German regulators had approved the changes. Cars with 2-liter diesel motors can be repaired by simply updating the engine-control software, the company said.

The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be <hl> surprisingly simple <hl>, deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software. Volkswagen said German regulators had approved the changes. Cars with 2-liter diesel motors can be repaired by simply updating the engine-control software, the company said.

The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be <hl> surprisingly simple <hl> , deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software.


Question: Who had a combative manner that hindered the governments ability to get major budget measure through the houses of Parliament?

Mr. Rudd was ousted in an internal party coup in 2010 and replaced by Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister. As Ms. Gillard’s poll numbers fell, the party reinstalled Mr. Rudd months before the election of 2013, which Mr. Abbott’s conservative coalition won. Already a polarizing figure when he took office, Mr. Abbott saw his popularity decline amid a slowing economy as he made a series of political missteps and alienated many voters with his strongly conservative stances and often abrasive style. His combative manner contributed to his government’s inability to get major budget measures through the lower and upper houses of Parliament.

Answer: Mr. Abbott

Mr. Rudd was ousted in an internal party coup in 2010 and replaced by Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister. <hl> As Ms. Gillard’s poll numbers fell, the party reinstalled Mr. Rudd months before the election of 2013, which Mr. Abbott ’s conservative coalition won. <hl> Already a polarizing figure when he took office, Mr. Abbott saw his popularity decline amid a slowing economy as he made a series of political missteps and alienated many voters with his strongly conservative stances and often abrasive style. His combative manner contributed to his government’s inability to get major budget measures through the lower and upper houses of Parliament.

Mr. Rudd was ousted in an internal party coup in 2010 and replaced by Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister. As Ms. Gillard’s poll numbers fell, the party reinstalled Mr. Rudd months before the election of 2013, which <hl> Mr. Abbott <hl>’s conservative coalition won. Already a polarizing figure when he took office, Mr. Abbott saw his popularity decline amid a slowing economy as he made a series of political missteps and alienated many voters with his strongly conservative stances and often abrasive style. His combative manner contributed to his government’s inability to get major budget measures through the lower and upper houses of Parliament.

As Ms. Gillard’s poll numbers fell, the party reinstalled Mr. Rudd months before the election of 2013, which <hl> Mr. Abbott <hl> ’s conservative coalition won.


Question: How many bedrooms did Garcia want his place to be?

Dr. García, 68, had immigrated to Miami at age 14 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, during which 14,000 unaccompanied minors were flown to the United States from Cuba. At Columbia, he teaches multiplatform design and storytelling, preparing his students for “the media quintet,” which includes journalism delivered via smartwatch along with the existing quartet of phone, tablet, computer and print. As a runner, Dr. García set his sights on his “geographic essential” — a location on or near Central Park West. He wanted to buy a one-bedroom in good condition with a doorman to receive packages. His budget topped out in the high $600,000s.

Answer: one-bedroom

Dr. García, 68, had immigrated to Miami at age 14 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, during which 14,000 unaccompanied minors were flown to the United States from Cuba. At Columbia, he teaches multiplatform design and storytelling, preparing his students for “the media quintet,” which includes journalism delivered via smartwatch along with the existing quartet of phone, tablet, computer and print. As a runner, Dr. García set his sights on his “geographic essential” — a location on or near Central Park West. <hl> He wanted to buy a one-bedroom in good condition with a doorman to receive packages. <hl> His budget topped out in the high $600,000s.

Dr. García, 68, had immigrated to Miami at age 14 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, during which 14,000 unaccompanied minors were flown to the United States from Cuba. At Columbia, he teaches multiplatform design and storytelling, preparing his students for “the media quintet,” which includes journalism delivered via smartwatch along with the existing quartet of phone, tablet, computer and print. As a runner, Dr. García set his sights on his “geographic essential” — a location on or near Central Park West. He wanted to buy a <hl> one-bedroom <hl> in good condition with a doorman to receive packages. His budget topped out in the high $600,000s.


Question: Who choreographed "The Creation"?

That night Garth Fagan Dance performs outside. The company’s work has roots in Afro-Caribbean dance — a fit for Mr. Holder, who emigrated from Trinidad. The dancers will perform a new piece that honors Mr. Holder as well as three other short works. Next up on the program is Ms. de Lavallade herself, who at 84 will perform the 1972 solo “The Creation,” which Mr. Holder scored and choreographed (with vocals by the Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble). Tickets are not required, but you may want to grab a seat at least an hour in advance.

Answer: Mr. Holder

That night Garth Fagan Dance performs outside. <hl> The company’s work has roots in Afro-Caribbean dance — a fit for Mr. Holder , who emigrated from Trinidad. <hl> The dancers will perform a new piece that honors Mr. Holder as well as three other short works. Next up on the program is Ms. de Lavallade herself, who at 84 will perform the 1972 solo “The Creation,” which Mr. Holder scored and choreographed (with vocals by the Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble). Tickets are not required, but you may want to grab a seat at least an hour in advance.

That night Garth Fagan Dance performs outside. The company’s work has roots in Afro-Caribbean dance — a fit for <hl> Mr. Holder <hl>, who emigrated from Trinidad. The dancers will perform a new piece that honors Mr. Holder as well as three other short works. Next up on the program is Ms. de Lavallade herself, who at 84 will perform the 1972 solo “The Creation,” which Mr. Holder scored and choreographed (with vocals by the Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble). Tickets are not required, but you may want to grab a seat at least an hour in advance.

The company’s work has roots in Afro-Caribbean dance — a fit for <hl> Mr. Holder <hl> , who emigrated from Trinidad.


Question: How old is Xabi Alonso?

That is not even half the question of what Bayern needs to know. The team against Barcelona was gutted by injuries, most importantly to its flying wingers, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry. But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. The Germans among those players deny themselves the excuse that the Champions League semifinals they lost last year and this year sandwiched an event that was just as important to them, and arguably more so: the 2014 World Cup. Age is becoming a factor to the German club, too. Six from the Bavarian team — which peaked two years ago when it won the treble of the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup in the same season — are now over 30. That need not be a terminal age for a player today, thanks to improved medical and dietary care and rosters that are large enough to rotate star players. However, Ribéry and Robben may never again reach the peak they did in 2013 under Jupp Heynckes’s final season as coach. Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is 31. Alonso is 33, Lahm 31, and dear old Schweinsteiger, though only just 30, looks what he is — a ferocious competitor who has pushed himself through countless knocks and strains while playing for both club and country.

Answer: 33

That is not even half the question of what Bayern needs to know. The team against Barcelona was gutted by injuries, most importantly to its flying wingers, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry. But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. The Germans among those players deny themselves the excuse that the Champions League semifinals they lost last year and this year sandwiched an event that was just as important to them, and arguably more so: the 2014 World Cup. Age is becoming a factor to the German club, too. Six from the Bavarian team — which peaked two years ago when it won the treble of the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup in the same season — are now over 30. That need not be a terminal age for a player today, thanks to improved medical and dietary care and rosters that are large enough to rotate star players. However, Ribéry and Robben may never again reach the peak they did in 2013 under Jupp Heynckes’s final season as coach. Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is 31. <hl> Alonso is 33 , Lahm 31, and dear old Schweinsteiger, though only just 30, looks what he is — a ferocious competitor who has pushed himself through countless knocks and strains while playing for both club and country. <hl>

That is not even half the question of what Bayern needs to know. The team against Barcelona was gutted by injuries, most importantly to its flying wingers, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry. But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. The Germans among those players deny themselves the excuse that the Champions League semifinals they lost last year and this year sandwiched an event that was just as important to them, and arguably more so: the 2014 World Cup. Age is becoming a factor to the German club, too. Six from the Bavarian team — which peaked two years ago when it won the treble of the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup in the same season — are now over 30. That need not be a terminal age for a player today, thanks to improved medical and dietary care and rosters that are large enough to rotate star players. However, Ribéry and Robben may never again reach the peak they did in 2013 under Jupp Heynckes’s final season as coach. Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is 31. Alonso is <hl> 33 <hl>, Lahm 31, and dear old Schweinsteiger, though only just 30, looks what he is — a ferocious competitor who has pushed himself through countless knocks and strains while playing for both club and country.

Alonso is <hl> 33 <hl> , Lahm 31, and dear old Schweinsteiger, though only just 30, looks what he is — a ferocious competitor who has pushed himself through countless knocks and strains while playing for both club and country.


Question: Who was Mr. Connell's longtime editor?

Back when it was the Glad Hand, a guy named John Hamilton tended the bar. “We used to sit in there and drink beer after he closed the place,” Mr. Seymour recalled, “and plot what the No Name would be like. It was going to be Sausalito’s living room, and it would be crowded from the day it opened.” I didn’t see any reason to go inside Scoma’s; it didn’t seem that the Glad Hand spirit would have survived. After all, the guys who drank there were plotting their escape back in the 1950s. So I continued up the Bridgeway to Poggio, the Italian restaurant where I had planned to meet Jack Shoemaker, Mr. Connell’s longtime editor. Mr. Shoemaker is Bay Area literary history: He has also edited or published Robert Hass, Guy Davenport, Wendell Berry, M.F.K. Fisher and Anne Lamott. But Mr. Connell was one of his first writers, and the No Name years came at the beginning of a 50-year friendship.

Answer: Jack Shoemaker

Back when it was the Glad Hand, a guy named John Hamilton tended the bar. “We used to sit in there and drink beer after he closed the place,” Mr. Seymour recalled, “and plot what the No Name would be like. It was going to be Sausalito’s living room, and it would be crowded from the day it opened.” I didn’t see any reason to go inside Scoma’s; it didn’t seem that the Glad Hand spirit would have survived. After all, the guys who drank there were plotting their escape back in the 1950s. <hl> So I continued up the Bridgeway to Poggio, the Italian restaurant where I had planned to meet Jack Shoemaker , Mr. Connell’s longtime editor. <hl> Mr. Shoemaker is Bay Area literary history: He has also edited or published Robert Hass, Guy Davenport, Wendell Berry, M.F.K. Fisher and Anne Lamott. But Mr. Connell was one of his first writers, and the No Name years came at the beginning of a 50-year friendship.

Back when it was the Glad Hand, a guy named John Hamilton tended the bar. “We used to sit in there and drink beer after he closed the place,” Mr. Seymour recalled, “and plot what the No Name would be like. It was going to be Sausalito’s living room, and it would be crowded from the day it opened.” I didn’t see any reason to go inside Scoma’s; it didn’t seem that the Glad Hand spirit would have survived. After all, the guys who drank there were plotting their escape back in the 1950s. So I continued up the Bridgeway to Poggio, the Italian restaurant where I had planned to meet <hl> Jack Shoemaker <hl>, Mr. Connell’s longtime editor. Mr. Shoemaker is Bay Area literary history: He has also edited or published Robert Hass, Guy Davenport, Wendell Berry, M.F.K. Fisher and Anne Lamott. But Mr. Connell was one of his first writers, and the No Name years came at the beginning of a 50-year friendship.

So I continued up the Bridgeway to Poggio, the Italian restaurant where I had planned to meet <hl> Jack Shoemaker <hl> , Mr. Connell’s longtime editor.


Question: What did the extortionist do when one of the Bitcoin advocates didn't pay them?

Beyond these attacks, extortionists went after two longtime Bitcoin advocates last year, threatening to exploit personal information about the men’s families if they did not pay up. When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home, resulting in a SWAT team taking over the home, the family has said. The other victim, Roger Ver, threw off his attacker by offering a Bitcoin bounty of roughly $20,000 for his attacker’s arrest.

Answer: called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home

Beyond these attacks, extortionists went after two longtime Bitcoin advocates last year, threatening to exploit personal information about the men’s families if they did not pay up. <hl> When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home , resulting in a SWAT team taking over the home, the family has said. <hl> The other victim, Roger Ver, threw off his attacker by offering a Bitcoin bounty of roughly $20,000 for his attacker’s arrest.

Beyond these attacks, extortionists went after two longtime Bitcoin advocates last year, threatening to exploit personal information about the men’s families if they did not pay up. When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant <hl> called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home <hl>, resulting in a SWAT team taking over the home, the family has said. The other victim, Roger Ver, threw off his attacker by offering a Bitcoin bounty of roughly $20,000 for his attacker’s arrest.

When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant <hl> called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home <hl> , resulting in a SWAT team taking over the home, the family has said.


Question: Who's policies were a death knee for traditional village life?

But Khrushchev’s agricultural and industrial policies were also a death knell for traditional village life. The fate of Mr. Rasputin’s childhood villages became fodder for one of his most famous works, the 1976 novel “Farewell to Matyora.” The novel is about an island village on the Angara River that is about to be subsumed in the 1960s by construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric plant, and the elderly residents who try to resist resettlement and cannot adapt to city life. After a vivid description of the beginning of spring in the opening chapter, Mr. Rasputin — an ardent environmentalist who fought to protect Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake — continues, “Everything was in place, but everything was wrong.”

Answer: Khrushchev

<hl> But Khrushchev ’s agricultural and industrial policies were also a death knell for traditional village life. <hl> The fate of Mr. Rasputin’s childhood villages became fodder for one of his most famous works, the 1976 novel “Farewell to Matyora.” The novel is about an island village on the Angara River that is about to be subsumed in the 1960s by construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric plant, and the elderly residents who try to resist resettlement and cannot adapt to city life. After a vivid description of the beginning of spring in the opening chapter, Mr. Rasputin — an ardent environmentalist who fought to protect Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake — continues, “Everything was in place, but everything was wrong.”

But <hl> Khrushchev <hl>’s agricultural and industrial policies were also a death knell for traditional village life. The fate of Mr. Rasputin’s childhood villages became fodder for one of his most famous works, the 1976 novel “Farewell to Matyora.” The novel is about an island village on the Angara River that is about to be subsumed in the 1960s by construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric plant, and the elderly residents who try to resist resettlement and cannot adapt to city life. After a vivid description of the beginning of spring in the opening chapter, Mr. Rasputin — an ardent environmentalist who fought to protect Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake — continues, “Everything was in place, but everything was wrong.”

But <hl> Khrushchev <hl> ’s agricultural and industrial policies were also a death knell for traditional village life.


Question: What is the #2 city in Iraq?

VENICE — When Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to the Islamic State in June, members of the Ruya Foundation, an Iraqi nonprofit that set up the country’s pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, considered scrapping all plans for this year’s exhibition. “With all this carnage and death and rape, how could you even think of culture?” said Tamara Chalabi, chairwoman of the foundation. In the end, the plans went forward because it was “a statement,” she said. “When there’s so much else being destroyed, this is also one way of trying to preserve culture.”

Answer: Mosul

VENICE — <hl> When Mosul , Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to the Islamic State in June, members of the Ruya Foundation, an Iraqi nonprofit that set up the country’s pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, considered scrapping all plans for this year’s exhibition. <hl> “With all this carnage and death and rape, how could you even think of culture?” said Tamara Chalabi, chairwoman of the foundation. In the end, the plans went forward because it was “a statement,” she said. “When there’s so much else being destroyed, this is also one way of trying to preserve culture.”

VENICE — When <hl> Mosul <hl>, Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to the Islamic State in June, members of the Ruya Foundation, an Iraqi nonprofit that set up the country’s pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, considered scrapping all plans for this year’s exhibition. “With all this carnage and death and rape, how could you even think of culture?” said Tamara Chalabi, chairwoman of the foundation. In the end, the plans went forward because it was “a statement,” she said. “When there’s so much else being destroyed, this is also one way of trying to preserve culture.”

When <hl> Mosul <hl> , Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to the Islamic State in June, members of the Ruya Foundation, an Iraqi nonprofit that set up the country’s pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, considered scrapping all plans for this year’s exhibition.


Question: What is the name of the terrorist group?

What I can pledge, with absolute certainty, is that from the first day of my administration, Boko Haram will know the strength of our collective will and commitment to rid this nation of terror, and bring back peace and normalcy to all the affected areas. Until now, Nigeria has been wanting in its response to their threat: With our neighbors fighting hard to push the terrorists south and out of their countries, our military was not sufficiently supported or equipped to push north. As a consequence, the outgoing government’s lack of determination was an accidental enabler of the group, allowing them to operate with impunity in Nigerian territory.

Answer: Boko Haram

<hl> What I can pledge, with absolute certainty, is that from the first day of my administration, Boko Haram will know the strength of our collective will and commitment to rid this nation of terror, and bring back peace and normalcy to all the affected areas. <hl> Until now, Nigeria has been wanting in its response to their threat: With our neighbors fighting hard to push the terrorists south and out of their countries, our military was not sufficiently supported or equipped to push north. As a consequence, the outgoing government’s lack of determination was an accidental enabler of the group, allowing them to operate with impunity in Nigerian territory.

What I can pledge, with absolute certainty, is that from the first day of my administration, <hl> Boko Haram <hl> will know the strength of our collective will and commitment to rid this nation of terror, and bring back peace and normalcy to all the affected areas. Until now, Nigeria has been wanting in its response to their threat: With our neighbors fighting hard to push the terrorists south and out of their countries, our military was not sufficiently supported or equipped to push north. As a consequence, the outgoing government’s lack of determination was an accidental enabler of the group, allowing them to operate with impunity in Nigerian territory.


Question: How does Jesus change sex rules?

It’s not that simple. The debate about race was very specific to America, modernity, the South. (Bans on interracial marriage were generally a white supremacist innovation, not an inheritance from Christendom or common law.) The slave owners and segregationists had scriptural arguments, certainly. But they were also up against one of the Bible’s major meta-narratives — from the Israelites in Egypt to Saint Paul’s “neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free.” That’s not the case with sex and marriage. The only clear biblical meta-narrative is about male and female. Sex is an area of Jewish law that Jesus explicitly makes stricter. What we now call the “traditional” view of sexuality was a then-radical idea separating the early church from Roman culture, and it’s remained basic in every branch of Christianity until very recently. Jettisoning it requires repudiating scripture, history and tradition in a way the end of Jim Crow did not.

Answer: explicitly makes stricter.

It’s not that simple. The debate about race was very specific to America, modernity, the South. (Bans on interracial marriage were generally a white supremacist innovation, not an inheritance from Christendom or common law.) The slave owners and segregationists had scriptural arguments, certainly. But they were also up against one of the Bible’s major meta-narratives — from the Israelites in Egypt to Saint Paul’s “neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free.” That’s not the case with sex and marriage. The only clear biblical meta-narrative is about male and female. Sex is an area of Jewish law that <hl> Jesus explicitly makes stricter. What we now call the “traditional” view of sexuality was a then-radical idea separating the early church from Roman culture, and it’s remained basic in every branch of Christianity until very recently. <hl> Jettisoning it requires repudiating scripture, history and tradition in a way the end of Jim Crow did not.

It’s not that simple. The debate about race was very specific to America, modernity, the South. (Bans on interracial marriage were generally a white supremacist innovation, not an inheritance from Christendom or common law.) The slave owners and segregationists had scriptural arguments, certainly. But they were also up against one of the Bible’s major meta-narratives — from the Israelites in Egypt to Saint Paul’s “neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free.” That’s not the case with sex and marriage. The only clear biblical meta-narrative is about male and female. Sex is an area of Jewish law that Jesus <hl> explicitly makes stricter. <hl> What we now call the “traditional” view of sexuality was a then-radical idea separating the early church from Roman culture, and it’s remained basic in every branch of Christianity until very recently. Jettisoning it requires repudiating scripture, history and tradition in a way the end of Jim Crow did not.


Question: How many cousins of the father were helping lead the group?

Q. Your father and two of his cousins were then leading the group. How did you negotiate that relationship? A. Working with men from a different generation could have been difficult, and I’m not sure they believed in my vision, but I have to say they were rather benevolent and appreciative of my efforts. My father had always included me and my sister in the business, his office door was always open and even as children we would go in and sit at the end of the conference room and listen to his meetings. His secretary would give us Coca-Cola, which we were not allowed to have at home. He would also take us on business trips, too. Later I realized how much he had exposed me to a lot of things.

Answer: two

<hl> Q. Your father and two of his cousins were then leading the group. <hl> How did you negotiate that relationship? A. Working with men from a different generation could have been difficult, and I’m not sure they believed in my vision, but I have to say they were rather benevolent and appreciative of my efforts. My father had always included me and my sister in the business, his office door was always open and even as children we would go in and sit at the end of the conference room and listen to his meetings. His secretary would give us Coca-Cola, which we were not allowed to have at home. He would also take us on business trips, too. Later I realized how much he had exposed me to a lot of things.

Q. Your father and <hl> two <hl> of his cousins were then leading the group. How did you negotiate that relationship? A. Working with men from a different generation could have been difficult, and I’m not sure they believed in my vision, but I have to say they were rather benevolent and appreciative of my efforts. My father had always included me and my sister in the business, his office door was always open and even as children we would go in and sit at the end of the conference room and listen to his meetings. His secretary would give us Coca-Cola, which we were not allowed to have at home. He would also take us on business trips, too. Later I realized how much he had exposed me to a lot of things.


Question: What type of requirements would apply under the new rules?

The issue is that short-term financing like construction loans, which are usually 12 months or less, is exempt from existing disclosure requirements under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, but disclosure requirements would apply under the new rules. Lenders need more guidance on the form these disclosures should take, Mr. Weinberg said.

Answer: disclosure

<hl> The issue is that short-term financing like construction loans, which are usually 12 months or less, is exempt from existing disclosure requirements under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, but disclosure requirements would apply under the new rules. <hl> Lenders need more guidance on the form these disclosures should take, Mr. Weinberg said.

The issue is that short-term financing like construction loans, which are usually 12 months or less, is exempt from existing <hl> disclosure <hl> requirements under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, but disclosure requirements would apply under the new rules. Lenders need more guidance on the form these disclosures should take, Mr. Weinberg said.