Question: Who is the former armed forces chief?

The cabinet’s resignation also illustrated a political dilemma facing Mr. Sisi, the former armed forces chief who took power during a wave of nationalist fervor following the military’s removal of Mr. Morsi. In spite of the significant cult of personality around Mr. Sisi, his government has failed to resolve a number of problems facing Egypt. Those troubles include a steady deterioration in its security. The government has been unable to end a violent insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula in which militants have been carrying out ever more brazen attacks. Egypt also faces deep economic uncertainty, disappointing hopes raised at a much-promoted international investment conference in March and the opening of an expansion of the Suez Canal in August. The stock market has swooned since the conference, which had been billed as a move to restart the economy after years of instability in the wake of the 2011 uprising that ejected President Mubarak from power.

Answer: Mr. Sisi

<hl> The cabinet’s resignation also illustrated a political dilemma facing Mr. Sisi , the former armed forces chief who took power during a wave of nationalist fervor following the military’s removal of Mr. Morsi. <hl> In spite of the significant cult of personality around Mr. Sisi, his government has failed to resolve a number of problems facing Egypt. Those troubles include a steady deterioration in its security. The government has been unable to end a violent insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula in which militants have been carrying out ever more brazen attacks. Egypt also faces deep economic uncertainty, disappointing hopes raised at a much-promoted international investment conference in March and the opening of an expansion of the Suez Canal in August. The stock market has swooned since the conference, which had been billed as a move to restart the economy after years of instability in the wake of the 2011 uprising that ejected President Mubarak from power.

The cabinet’s resignation also illustrated a political dilemma facing <hl> Mr. Sisi <hl>, the former armed forces chief who took power during a wave of nationalist fervor following the military’s removal of Mr. Morsi. In spite of the significant cult of personality around Mr. Sisi, his government has failed to resolve a number of problems facing Egypt. Those troubles include a steady deterioration in its security. The government has been unable to end a violent insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula in which militants have been carrying out ever more brazen attacks. Egypt also faces deep economic uncertainty, disappointing hopes raised at a much-promoted international investment conference in March and the opening of an expansion of the Suez Canal in August. The stock market has swooned since the conference, which had been billed as a move to restart the economy after years of instability in the wake of the 2011 uprising that ejected President Mubarak from power.

The cabinet’s resignation also illustrated a political dilemma facing <hl> Mr. Sisi <hl> , the former armed forces chief who took power during a wave of nationalist fervor following the military’s removal of Mr. Morsi.


Question: When did market adulation reach its highest point?

Moreover, editorials in China’s state-run news media celebrated the rising indexes as affirmation of Mr. Xi’s recipe for national strength: a measured easing of state controls on the economy while keeping political power firmly in the hands of the party elite. Market adulation reached its peak in April, when a commentary on the website of People’s Daily, the party’s flagship newspaper, told readers the 4,000 point mark reached by the Shanghai Stock Exchange was “only the start of the bull market.” “What’s a bubble? Tulips and Bitcoins are bubbles,” the author, Wang Ruoyu, wrote, scoffing at warnings that the Chinese stock markets were bound to burst. He expressed confidence in the long-term prospects of the common stocks known as A Shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges.

Answer: in April

Moreover, editorials in China’s state-run news media celebrated the rising indexes as affirmation of Mr. Xi’s recipe for national strength: a measured easing of state controls on the economy while keeping political power firmly in the hands of the party elite. <hl> Market adulation reached its peak in April , when a commentary on the website of People’s Daily, the party’s flagship newspaper, told readers the 4,000 point mark reached by the Shanghai Stock Exchange was “only the start of the bull market.” <hl> “What’s a bubble? Tulips and Bitcoins are bubbles,” the author, Wang Ruoyu, wrote, scoffing at warnings that the Chinese stock markets were bound to burst. He expressed confidence in the long-term prospects of the common stocks known as A Shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges.

Moreover, editorials in China’s state-run news media celebrated the rising indexes as affirmation of Mr. Xi’s recipe for national strength: a measured easing of state controls on the economy while keeping political power firmly in the hands of the party elite. Market adulation reached its peak <hl> in April <hl>, when a commentary on the website of People’s Daily, the party’s flagship newspaper, told readers the 4,000 point mark reached by the Shanghai Stock Exchange was “only the start of the bull market.” “What’s a bubble? Tulips and Bitcoins are bubbles,” the author, Wang Ruoyu, wrote, scoffing at warnings that the Chinese stock markets were bound to burst. He expressed confidence in the long-term prospects of the common stocks known as A Shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges.

Market adulation reached its peak <hl> in April <hl> , when a commentary on the website of People’s Daily, the party’s flagship newspaper, told readers the 4,000 point mark reached by the Shanghai Stock Exchange was “only the start of the bull market.”


Question: How are Joe Swanberg's character investigations different from Woody Allen's character investigations?

You might almost mistake this for a middle- or late-period Woody Allen movie, in other words. Mr. Swanberg shares Mr. Allen’s abiding interest in the swerves and reversals of romance, but he conducts his investigations on firmer moral and philosophical ground. His characters evince mumbling anomie rather than eloquent neurosis. Their conversation is stripped of cultural references and instead of grappling with the meaning of existence they struggle with the competing demands of hedonism and responsibility. They want to be cool, fun, laid back and nonjudgmental, but they also want to behave decently.

Answer: firmer moral and philosophical ground

You might almost mistake this for a middle- or late-period Woody Allen movie, in other words. <hl> Mr. Swanberg shares Mr. Allen’s abiding interest in the swerves and reversals of romance, but he conducts his investigations on firmer moral and philosophical ground . <hl> His characters evince mumbling anomie rather than eloquent neurosis. Their conversation is stripped of cultural references and instead of grappling with the meaning of existence they struggle with the competing demands of hedonism and responsibility. They want to be cool, fun, laid back and nonjudgmental, but they also want to behave decently.

You might almost mistake this for a middle- or late-period Woody Allen movie, in other words. Mr. Swanberg shares Mr. Allen’s abiding interest in the swerves and reversals of romance, but he conducts his investigations on <hl> firmer moral and philosophical ground <hl>. His characters evince mumbling anomie rather than eloquent neurosis. Their conversation is stripped of cultural references and instead of grappling with the meaning of existence they struggle with the competing demands of hedonism and responsibility. They want to be cool, fun, laid back and nonjudgmental, but they also want to behave decently.

Mr. Swanberg shares Mr. Allen’s abiding interest in the swerves and reversals of romance, but he conducts his investigations on <hl> firmer moral and philosophical ground <hl> .


Question: Who founded SAC Capital?

Mr. Ganek and Mr. Chiasson were once star traders at SAC Capital, the former hedge fund founded by the billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen, and long a focal point of the government’s investigation. Although SAC ultimately pleaded guilty to insider trading, the government never raided its offices, highlighting the rarity of such an aggressive move. Mr. Ganek is not the first to question the government’s tactics.

Answer: Steven A. Cohen

<hl> Mr. Ganek and Mr. Chiasson were once star traders at SAC Capital, the former hedge fund founded by the billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen , and long a focal point of the government’s investigation. <hl> Although SAC ultimately pleaded guilty to insider trading, the government never raided its offices, highlighting the rarity of such an aggressive move. Mr. Ganek is not the first to question the government’s tactics.

Mr. Ganek and Mr. Chiasson were once star traders at SAC Capital, the former hedge fund founded by the billionaire investor <hl> Steven A. Cohen <hl>, and long a focal point of the government’s investigation. Although SAC ultimately pleaded guilty to insider trading, the government never raided its offices, highlighting the rarity of such an aggressive move. Mr. Ganek is not the first to question the government’s tactics.

Mr. Ganek and Mr. Chiasson were once star traders at SAC Capital, the former hedge fund founded by the billionaire investor <hl> Steven A. Cohen <hl> , and long a focal point of the government’s investigation.


Question: Who is the Democratic assemblyman and former speaker accused of corruption?

“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: Sheldon Silver

“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. <hl> 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.

“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 <hl> Sheldon Silver <hl>, 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.

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 <hl> Sheldon Silver <hl> , a Democratic assemblyman and former speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader in the Senate.


Question: Which Hudson Valley religious organization will feature musicians on April 11th?

Music and Dance BEACON Towne Crier Cafe Al Stewart, folk and pop. April 9 at 7:30 p.m. $35 and $40. Le Vent du Nord, folk. April 10 at 8:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Galbo and Wiggins, blues. April 11 at 8:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Máirtín O’Connor Trio, Ireland. April 12 at 7:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Towne Crier Cafe, 379 Main Street. 845-855-1300; townecrier.com. CROTON-ON-HUDSON Croton Free Library Westchester Klezmer Program. April 12 at 2 p.m. Free. Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive. crotonfreelibrary.org; 914-271-6612. CROTON-ON-HUDSON Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley Loren Stillman, alto saxophone, and Gary Versace, piano. April 11 at 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation, $20. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley, 2021 Albany Post Road. 914-271-4283; uucroton.org. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON Common Ground Coffeehouse, at First Unitarian Society of Westchester Bumper Jacksons, jazz and country. April 11 at 7:30 p.m. $18. Common Ground Coffeehouse, at First Unitarian Society of Westchester, 25 Old Jackson Avenue. commongroundfusw.com; 914-693-1065. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON The Purple Crayon Lyra Lynn, folk. April 18 at 8 p.m. $18. The Purple Crayon, 52 Main Street. 914-231-9077; purpl.org.

Answer: Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Music and Dance BEACON Towne Crier Cafe Al Stewart, folk and pop. April 9 at 7:30 p.m. $35 and $40. Le Vent du Nord, folk. April 10 at 8:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Galbo and Wiggins, blues. April 11 at 8:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Máirtín O’Connor Trio, Ireland. April 12 at 7:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Towne Crier Cafe, 379 Main Street. 845-855-1300; townecrier.com. CROTON-ON-HUDSON Croton Free Library Westchester Klezmer Program. April 12 at 2 p.m. Free. Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive. crotonfreelibrary.org; 914-271-6612. <hl> CROTON-ON-HUDSON Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley Loren Stillman, alto saxophone, and Gary Versace, piano. <hl> April 11 at 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation, $20. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley, 2021 Albany Post Road. 914-271-4283; uucroton.org. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON Common Ground Coffeehouse, at First Unitarian Society of Westchester Bumper Jacksons, jazz and country. April 11 at 7:30 p.m. $18. Common Ground Coffeehouse, at First Unitarian Society of Westchester, 25 Old Jackson Avenue. commongroundfusw.com; 914-693-1065. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON The Purple Crayon Lyra Lynn, folk. April 18 at 8 p.m. $18. The Purple Crayon, 52 Main Street. 914-231-9077; purpl.org.

Music and Dance BEACON Towne Crier Cafe Al Stewart, folk and pop. April 9 at 7:30 p.m. $35 and $40. Le Vent du Nord, folk. April 10 at 8:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Galbo and Wiggins, blues. April 11 at 8:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Máirtín O’Connor Trio, Ireland. April 12 at 7:30 p.m. $25 and $30. Towne Crier Cafe, 379 Main Street. 845-855-1300; townecrier.com. CROTON-ON-HUDSON Croton Free Library Westchester Klezmer Program. April 12 at 2 p.m. Free. Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive. crotonfreelibrary.org; 914-271-6612. CROTON-ON-HUDSON <hl> Unitarian Universalist Congregation <hl> of the Hudson Valley Loren Stillman, alto saxophone, and Gary Versace, piano. April 11 at 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation, $20. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley, 2021 Albany Post Road. 914-271-4283; uucroton.org. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON Common Ground Coffeehouse, at First Unitarian Society of Westchester Bumper Jacksons, jazz and country. April 11 at 7:30 p.m. $18. Common Ground Coffeehouse, at First Unitarian Society of Westchester, 25 Old Jackson Avenue. commongroundfusw.com; 914-693-1065. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON The Purple Crayon Lyra Lynn, folk. April 18 at 8 p.m. $18. The Purple Crayon, 52 Main Street. 914-231-9077; purpl.org.


Question: What did the Solviet Union acquire that was mentioned in The Times article?

Yankees players and Manager Casey Stengel were fined a total of $500 for their intemperance. The Yankees won two of three against the Philadelphia Athletics, and the Red Sox matched that in Washington. With two games to play, Boston still led by one game. The tension in the pennant race riveted both cities. In an article on reaction in New England to the Soviet Union’s getting an atomic bomb, The Times wrote: “People appeared almost unanimous in their opinion that if the Russians had the atomic bomb and intended to use it, there was nothing that they, individually, could do about it. A more immediate pressing concern was whether Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox would hit any home runs against the New York Yankees.” Pneumonia had put DiMaggio in the hospital, and he had lost 18 pounds, but he decided it was time to return. The Yankees proclaimed it Joe DiMaggio Day, and for an hour before the game, he was lauded and showered with gifts, including 300 quarts of ice cream and a speedboat.

Answer: Soviet Union’s getting an atomic bomb

Yankees players and Manager Casey Stengel were fined a total of $500 for their intemperance. The Yankees won two of three against the Philadelphia Athletics, and the Red Sox matched that in Washington. With two games to play, Boston still led by one game. The tension in the pennant race riveted both cities. <hl> In an article on reaction in New England to the Soviet Union’s getting an atomic bomb , The Times wrote: “People appeared almost unanimous in their opinion that if the Russians had the atomic bomb and intended to use it, there was nothing that they, individually, could do about it. <hl> A more immediate pressing concern was whether Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox would hit any home runs against the New York Yankees.” Pneumonia had put DiMaggio in the hospital, and he had lost 18 pounds, but he decided it was time to return. The Yankees proclaimed it Joe DiMaggio Day, and for an hour before the game, he was lauded and showered with gifts, including 300 quarts of ice cream and a speedboat.

Yankees players and Manager Casey Stengel were fined a total of $500 for their intemperance. The Yankees won two of three against the Philadelphia Athletics, and the Red Sox matched that in Washington. With two games to play, Boston still led by one game. The tension in the pennant race riveted both cities. In an article on reaction in New England to the <hl> Soviet Union’s getting an atomic bomb <hl>, The Times wrote: “People appeared almost unanimous in their opinion that if the Russians had the atomic bomb and intended to use it, there was nothing that they, individually, could do about it. A more immediate pressing concern was whether Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox would hit any home runs against the New York Yankees.” Pneumonia had put DiMaggio in the hospital, and he had lost 18 pounds, but he decided it was time to return. The Yankees proclaimed it Joe DiMaggio Day, and for an hour before the game, he was lauded and showered with gifts, including 300 quarts of ice cream and a speedboat.

In an article on reaction in New England to the <hl> Soviet Union’s getting an atomic bomb <hl> , The Times wrote: “People appeared almost unanimous in their opinion that if the Russians had the atomic bomb and intended to use it, there was nothing that they, individually, could do about it.


Question: Who wrote "Reporting Always?"

Ross has said she writes only about people she likes. In her introduction to “Reporting Always,” she elaborates on this reportorial ethos: “I have never wanted to write about anybody who did not want to be written about.” She writes “only what can be observed, what I see and hear and never what the subject might be ‘thinking.’ ” Ross’s respect and fondness for her subjects does not drain her profiles of acuity. A default tone of light irony offers a built-in distance. And naturally a point of view is implicit in Ross’s choice of focus and her selection of details. She has a knack for locating the peripheral actor — the bartender at a gathering of Beat writers, the balloon salesman at a society function — who makes a tableau snap into focus. But where exactly Ross stands in relation to her material is generally impossible to confirm. Hemingway loved her article on him, even though others told him he ought to have been offended by the way Ross captured his stagy sportsman’s shtick.

Answer: Ross

<hl> Ross has said she writes only about people she likes. <hl> In her introduction to “Reporting Always,” she elaborates on this reportorial ethos: “I have never wanted to write about anybody who did not want to be written about.” She writes “only what can be observed, what I see and hear and never what the subject might be ‘thinking.’ ” Ross’s respect and fondness for her subjects does not drain her profiles of acuity. A default tone of light irony offers a built-in distance. And naturally a point of view is implicit in Ross’s choice of focus and her selection of details. She has a knack for locating the peripheral actor — the bartender at a gathering of Beat writers, the balloon salesman at a society function — who makes a tableau snap into focus. But where exactly Ross stands in relation to her material is generally impossible to confirm. Hemingway loved her article on him, even though others told him he ought to have been offended by the way Ross captured his stagy sportsman’s shtick.

<hl> Ross <hl> has said she writes only about people she likes. In her introduction to “Reporting Always,” she elaborates on this reportorial ethos: “I have never wanted to write about anybody who did not want to be written about.” She writes “only what can be observed, what I see and hear and never what the subject might be ‘thinking.’ ” Ross’s respect and fondness for her subjects does not drain her profiles of acuity. A default tone of light irony offers a built-in distance. And naturally a point of view is implicit in Ross’s choice of focus and her selection of details. She has a knack for locating the peripheral actor — the bartender at a gathering of Beat writers, the balloon salesman at a society function — who makes a tableau snap into focus. But where exactly Ross stands in relation to her material is generally impossible to confirm. Hemingway loved her article on him, even though others told him he ought to have been offended by the way Ross captured his stagy sportsman’s shtick.


Question: Who was traded to Chicago?

It never happened, thanks to a mix of injuries, bad luck and a handful of flameouts in the playoffs. The shine on one of hockey’s biggest success stories has dimmed. Dan Bylsma and Ray Shero, the coach and general manager who helped make the Penguins one of the league’s must-see attractions, are gone. Forward Pascal Dupuis, long the glue in a dressing room of diverse personalities, retired abruptly last week because of lingering health concerns. Defenseman Rob Scuderi, brought in more than two years ago to provide the blue line with some needed grit, became a pariah as his game deteriorated and was shipped off to Chicago on Monday night for Trevor Daley. The owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle are shopping the club.

Answer: Rob Scuderi

It never happened, thanks to a mix of injuries, bad luck and a handful of flameouts in the playoffs. The shine on one of hockey’s biggest success stories has dimmed. Dan Bylsma and Ray Shero, the coach and general manager who helped make the Penguins one of the league’s must-see attractions, are gone. Forward Pascal Dupuis, long the glue in a dressing room of diverse personalities, retired abruptly last week because of lingering health concerns. <hl> Defenseman Rob Scuderi , brought in more than two years ago to provide the blue line with some needed grit, became a pariah as his game deteriorated and was shipped off to Chicago on Monday night for Trevor Daley. <hl> The owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle are shopping the club.

It never happened, thanks to a mix of injuries, bad luck and a handful of flameouts in the playoffs. The shine on one of hockey’s biggest success stories has dimmed. Dan Bylsma and Ray Shero, the coach and general manager who helped make the Penguins one of the league’s must-see attractions, are gone. Forward Pascal Dupuis, long the glue in a dressing room of diverse personalities, retired abruptly last week because of lingering health concerns. Defenseman <hl> Rob Scuderi <hl>, brought in more than two years ago to provide the blue line with some needed grit, became a pariah as his game deteriorated and was shipped off to Chicago on Monday night for Trevor Daley. The owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle are shopping the club.

Defenseman <hl> Rob Scuderi <hl> , brought in more than two years ago to provide the blue line with some needed grit, became a pariah as his game deteriorated and was shipped off to Chicago on Monday night for Trevor Daley.


Question: What did Mr. Perkins call America's road transport system?

The development of United States infrastructure, meanwhile, was centered on road transport. “In a way, it is a kind of historical accident,” Mr. Perkins said. “If you have the lines there already from an earlier period, you can just carry on supporting and improving them. “But putting that kind of rail access in retroactively is very expensive.” Their more consistent upkeep of rail systems has allowed European and Asian countries to devote a growing share of spending to state-of-the-art high-speed trains that run on dedicated rail lines fitted with sophisticated sensors and signal technology.

Answer: historical accident

The development of United States infrastructure, meanwhile, was centered on road transport. <hl> “In a way, it is a kind of historical accident ,” Mr. Perkins said. <hl> “If you have the lines there already from an earlier period, you can just carry on supporting and improving them. “But putting that kind of rail access in retroactively is very expensive.” Their more consistent upkeep of rail systems has allowed European and Asian countries to devote a growing share of spending to state-of-the-art high-speed trains that run on dedicated rail lines fitted with sophisticated sensors and signal technology.

The development of United States infrastructure, meanwhile, was centered on road transport. “In a way, it is a kind of <hl> historical accident <hl>,” Mr. Perkins said. “If you have the lines there already from an earlier period, you can just carry on supporting and improving them. “But putting that kind of rail access in retroactively is very expensive.” Their more consistent upkeep of rail systems has allowed European and Asian countries to devote a growing share of spending to state-of-the-art high-speed trains that run on dedicated rail lines fitted with sophisticated sensors and signal technology.

“In a way, it is a kind of <hl> historical accident <hl> ,” Mr. Perkins said.


Question: In which year was the author shot?

That category could easily have included me. In 2006 I was shot at by a drunken 20-something man on the North Side of Chicago while riding in a car with three female friends. The reason? I was in the back seat next to the man’s ex-girlfriend. Enraged, he burst from his house, pistol popping. Luckily, his aim was bad, and my friend was a good defensive driver: The shooter only managed to crack the rear window. I learned later that he had loose ties to a Hispanic set. Since then, I have sometimes wondered how close I came, as a brown man, then in my mid-20s, to having my death trivialized by a two-word phrase in a police blotter. The chimera of devious street tribes might give people a scapegoat for Chicago’s gun violence, but it doesn’t reflect the complex reality on the ground. And sending in tactical units to “destroy the gangs,” as the former Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy recently vowed, distracts from the structural problems that lead to gun violence in inner-city neighborhoods. When our solution to crime is to target gangs, we risk targeting whole swaths of people in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, almost all of them black and Hispanic. A real solution would involve more opportunities for employment and education, stricter policies on gun control and safe spaces for those who have been traumatized, in order to minimize the chance of violence being perpetuated — the same things people have spent half a century calling for in these neighborhoods.

Answer: In 2006

That category could easily have included me. <hl> In 2006 I was shot at by a drunken 20-something man on the North Side of Chicago while riding in a car with three female friends. <hl> The reason? I was in the back seat next to the man’s ex-girlfriend. Enraged, he burst from his house, pistol popping. Luckily, his aim was bad, and my friend was a good defensive driver: The shooter only managed to crack the rear window. I learned later that he had loose ties to a Hispanic set. Since then, I have sometimes wondered how close I came, as a brown man, then in my mid-20s, to having my death trivialized by a two-word phrase in a police blotter. The chimera of devious street tribes might give people a scapegoat for Chicago’s gun violence, but it doesn’t reflect the complex reality on the ground. And sending in tactical units to “destroy the gangs,” as the former Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy recently vowed, distracts from the structural problems that lead to gun violence in inner-city neighborhoods. When our solution to crime is to target gangs, we risk targeting whole swaths of people in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, almost all of them black and Hispanic. A real solution would involve more opportunities for employment and education, stricter policies on gun control and safe spaces for those who have been traumatized, in order to minimize the chance of violence being perpetuated — the same things people have spent half a century calling for in these neighborhoods.

That category could easily have included me. <hl> In 2006 <hl> I was shot at by a drunken 20-something man on the North Side of Chicago while riding in a car with three female friends. The reason? I was in the back seat next to the man’s ex-girlfriend. Enraged, he burst from his house, pistol popping. Luckily, his aim was bad, and my friend was a good defensive driver: The shooter only managed to crack the rear window. I learned later that he had loose ties to a Hispanic set. Since then, I have sometimes wondered how close I came, as a brown man, then in my mid-20s, to having my death trivialized by a two-word phrase in a police blotter. The chimera of devious street tribes might give people a scapegoat for Chicago’s gun violence, but it doesn’t reflect the complex reality on the ground. And sending in tactical units to “destroy the gangs,” as the former Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy recently vowed, distracts from the structural problems that lead to gun violence in inner-city neighborhoods. When our solution to crime is to target gangs, we risk targeting whole swaths of people in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, almost all of them black and Hispanic. A real solution would involve more opportunities for employment and education, stricter policies on gun control and safe spaces for those who have been traumatized, in order to minimize the chance of violence being perpetuated — the same things people have spent half a century calling for in these neighborhoods.


Question: Who was the Port Authority chairman in 2011?

The United States attorney’s office in Newark is investigating whether United reinstated flights to a South Carolina airport close to the weekend home of David Samson, the former Port Authority chairman, in exchange for concessions the airline sought from the agency. Mr. Samson is said to have raised the issue with United officials at a dinner that Mr. Fox attended in Manhattan in September 2011. Mr. Christie, a Republican, nominated Mr. Fox to be commissioner a year ago. He was hired in hopes that he could broker a deal with New Jersey’s Legislature, led by Democrats, to replenish the state’s fund for roads and transportation, which, if current trends continue, would be out of money next year.

Answer: David Samson

<hl> The United States attorney’s office in Newark is investigating whether United reinstated flights to a South Carolina airport close to the weekend home of David Samson , the former Port Authority chairman, in exchange for concessions the airline sought from the agency. <hl> Mr. Samson is said to have raised the issue with United officials at a dinner that Mr. Fox attended in Manhattan in September 2011. Mr. Christie, a Republican, nominated Mr. Fox to be commissioner a year ago. He was hired in hopes that he could broker a deal with New Jersey’s Legislature, led by Democrats, to replenish the state’s fund for roads and transportation, which, if current trends continue, would be out of money next year.

The United States attorney’s office in Newark is investigating whether United reinstated flights to a South Carolina airport close to the weekend home of <hl> David Samson <hl>, the former Port Authority chairman, in exchange for concessions the airline sought from the agency. Mr. Samson is said to have raised the issue with United officials at a dinner that Mr. Fox attended in Manhattan in September 2011. Mr. Christie, a Republican, nominated Mr. Fox to be commissioner a year ago. He was hired in hopes that he could broker a deal with New Jersey’s Legislature, led by Democrats, to replenish the state’s fund for roads and transportation, which, if current trends continue, would be out of money next year.

The United States attorney’s office in Newark is investigating whether United reinstated flights to a South Carolina airport close to the weekend home of <hl> David Samson <hl> , the former Port Authority chairman, in exchange for concessions the airline sought from the agency.


Question: Where does H. Rodgin Cohen work?

The Wall Street lawyer H. Rodgin Cohen hit a sour regulatory note this week. Mr. Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell’s top bank advocate, thinks watchdogs have gone overboard to prove they’re not captured by the industry. That may resonate with many in Congress, where a bill to blunt the work of bank examiners is making the rounds. But the 2008 financial crisis exposed the necessity of more robust oversight. Although firms overstate the pain, room remains to ensure that regulators are constructive, rather than overzealous.

Answer: Wall Street

<hl> The Wall Street lawyer H. Rodgin Cohen hit a sour regulatory note this week. <hl> Mr. Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell’s top bank advocate, thinks watchdogs have gone overboard to prove they’re not captured by the industry. That may resonate with many in Congress, where a bill to blunt the work of bank examiners is making the rounds. But the 2008 financial crisis exposed the necessity of more robust oversight. Although firms overstate the pain, room remains to ensure that regulators are constructive, rather than overzealous.

The <hl> Wall Street <hl> lawyer H. Rodgin Cohen hit a sour regulatory note this week. Mr. Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell’s top bank advocate, thinks watchdogs have gone overboard to prove they’re not captured by the industry. That may resonate with many in Congress, where a bill to blunt the work of bank examiners is making the rounds. But the 2008 financial crisis exposed the necessity of more robust oversight. Although firms overstate the pain, room remains to ensure that regulators are constructive, rather than overzealous.


Question: When did the local PD announce the autopsy results?

The local police department, however, announced on April 16 that an autopsy determined the cause to be “synthetic cannabinoid intoxication.” The increases in cases in Mississippi and Alabama demonstrate the challenge facing law enforcement officials. Last year, D.E.A. agents made about 40 arrests and seized more than 400 pounds of synthetic drugs in those states as part of a wider national operation. Yet supply chains clearly remain. “Is it frustrating? Yes, but when you’re in this business what you come to understand is that total eradication of a drug threat just isn’t going to happen,” said Keith Brown, the special agent in charge of the D.E.A.’s New Orleans field division, which covers Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. “Until we can control the demand there’s going to be someone with supply.”

Answer: April 16

<hl> The local police department, however, announced on April 16 that an autopsy determined the cause to be “synthetic cannabinoid intoxication.” <hl> The increases in cases in Mississippi and Alabama demonstrate the challenge facing law enforcement officials. Last year, D.E.A. agents made about 40 arrests and seized more than 400 pounds of synthetic drugs in those states as part of a wider national operation. Yet supply chains clearly remain. “Is it frustrating? Yes, but when you’re in this business what you come to understand is that total eradication of a drug threat just isn’t going to happen,” said Keith Brown, the special agent in charge of the D.E.A.’s New Orleans field division, which covers Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. “Until we can control the demand there’s going to be someone with supply.”

The local police department, however, announced on <hl> April 16 <hl> that an autopsy determined the cause to be “synthetic cannabinoid intoxication.” The increases in cases in Mississippi and Alabama demonstrate the challenge facing law enforcement officials. Last year, D.E.A. agents made about 40 arrests and seized more than 400 pounds of synthetic drugs in those states as part of a wider national operation. Yet supply chains clearly remain. “Is it frustrating? Yes, but when you’re in this business what you come to understand is that total eradication of a drug threat just isn’t going to happen,” said Keith Brown, the special agent in charge of the D.E.A.’s New Orleans field division, which covers Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. “Until we can control the demand there’s going to be someone with supply.”


Question: What will make the way to the average boater?

Team Abu Dhabi finished third in Lorient behind Team Vestas Wind, extending its overall lead in the race. Lessons learned from the Vestas team’s accident have been put into effect in the race, and navigational improvements will probably make their way to the average boater in the future. On Nov. 29, the boat was reaching nearly 20 miles per hour when it drove into the Cargados Carajos Shoals, an atoll 200 miles from Mauritius. The crew of nine was unhurt and left stranded on the reef. The stranded members were assisted by Team Alvimedica and were rescued after a harrowing night in breaking waves and razor-sharp coral.

Answer: navigational improvements

Team Abu Dhabi finished third in Lorient behind Team Vestas Wind, extending its overall lead in the race. <hl> Lessons learned from the Vestas team’s accident have been put into effect in the race, and navigational improvements will probably make their way to the average boater in the future. <hl> On Nov. 29, the boat was reaching nearly 20 miles per hour when it drove into the Cargados Carajos Shoals, an atoll 200 miles from Mauritius. The crew of nine was unhurt and left stranded on the reef. The stranded members were assisted by Team Alvimedica and were rescued after a harrowing night in breaking waves and razor-sharp coral.

Team Abu Dhabi finished third in Lorient behind Team Vestas Wind, extending its overall lead in the race. Lessons learned from the Vestas team’s accident have been put into effect in the race, and <hl> navigational improvements <hl> will probably make their way to the average boater in the future. On Nov. 29, the boat was reaching nearly 20 miles per hour when it drove into the Cargados Carajos Shoals, an atoll 200 miles from Mauritius. The crew of nine was unhurt and left stranded on the reef. The stranded members were assisted by Team Alvimedica and were rescued after a harrowing night in breaking waves and razor-sharp coral.


Question: Who is Marcelo Aguirre?

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 paramedic

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. <hl> Marcelo Aguirre, a paramedic in Newark and suburban New Jersey. <hl> 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.

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, <hl> a paramedic <hl> 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.


Question: Which show is shown July 11 through 19?

RAHWAY Union County Performing Arts Center “Hurlyburly,” play by David Rabe and directed by Michael Burdick. July 10 through 19. $20. Union County Performing Arts Center, 1601 Irving Street. 732-499-8226; ucpac.org. WEST WINDSOR Kelsey Theater, West Windsor Campus, Mercer County Community College “Guys and Dolls,” with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. July 10 through 19. $16 to $20. Kelsey Theater, West Windsor Campus, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road. 609-570-3333; www.kelseytheatre.net. Museums and Galleries ASBURY PARK Heaven Gallery “Photographic Memoir,” Tim Horn and Maribel Guerrero. Through June 28. Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Heaven Gallery, 721 Cookman Avenue. heavengallery.net; 732-774-4799. ASBURY PARK Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace “Critters,” artworks. Through June 28. Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace, 716 Cookman Avenue. 201-981-2395. ASBURY PARK Parlor Gallery “Beautiful Squalor,” works by Max Kauffman and Jesse Reno. Through July 19. Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon to 7 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 9 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 6 p.m. Parlor Gallery, 717 Cookman Avenue. 732-869-0606; parlor-gallery.com. BRANCHBURG Raritan Valley Community College The 12th Annual Creativity Expo, featuring artworks by brain injury survivors at the art gallery. July 11 through 19. Reception: July 11, from noon to 4 p.m. $27 and $32. Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28 and Lamington Road. 908-526-1200; raritanval.edu. CLIFTON Clifton Arts Center “A Humanist Vision: The Paintings and Drawings of Michael Lenson.” Through July 25. $3. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 1 to 4 p.m. Clifton Arts Center, 900 Clifton Avenue. 973-472-5499; cliftonnj.org. CLINTON Hunterdon Art Museum “The Collage Journal: The First Decade,” the Art of Peter Jacobs. Through Sept. 6. “New Works on Paper,” solo show by Lisa Macchi, abstract expressionist works. Through Sept. 30. Sundays and Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hunterdon Museum of Art, 7 Lower Center Street. 908-735-8415; hunterdonartmuseum.org.

Answer: The 12th Annual Creativity Expo

RAHWAY Union County Performing Arts Center “Hurlyburly,” play by David Rabe and directed by Michael Burdick. July 10 through 19. $20. Union County Performing Arts Center, 1601 Irving Street. 732-499-8226; ucpac.org. WEST WINDSOR Kelsey Theater, West Windsor Campus, Mercer County Community College “Guys and Dolls,” with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. July 10 through 19. $16 to $20. Kelsey Theater, West Windsor Campus, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road. 609-570-3333; www.kelseytheatre.net. Museums and Galleries ASBURY PARK Heaven Gallery “Photographic Memoir,” Tim Horn and Maribel Guerrero. Through June 28. Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Heaven Gallery, 721 Cookman Avenue. heavengallery.net; 732-774-4799. ASBURY PARK Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace “Critters,” artworks. Through June 28. Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace, 716 Cookman Avenue. 201-981-2395. ASBURY PARK Parlor Gallery “Beautiful Squalor,” works by Max Kauffman and Jesse Reno. Through July 19. Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon to 7 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 9 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 6 p.m. Parlor Gallery, 717 Cookman Avenue. 732-869-0606; parlor-gallery.com. <hl> BRANCHBURG Raritan Valley Community College The 12th Annual Creativity Expo , featuring artworks by brain injury survivors at the art gallery. <hl> July 11 through 19. Reception: July 11, from noon to 4 p.m. $27 and $32. Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28 and Lamington Road. 908-526-1200; raritanval.edu. CLIFTON Clifton Arts Center “A Humanist Vision: The Paintings and Drawings of Michael Lenson.” Through July 25. $3. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 1 to 4 p.m. Clifton Arts Center, 900 Clifton Avenue. 973-472-5499; cliftonnj.org. CLINTON Hunterdon Art Museum “The Collage Journal: The First Decade,” the Art of Peter Jacobs. Through Sept. 6. “New Works on Paper,” solo show by Lisa Macchi, abstract expressionist works. Through Sept. 30. Sundays and Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hunterdon Museum of Art, 7 Lower Center Street. 908-735-8415; hunterdonartmuseum.org.

RAHWAY Union County Performing Arts Center “Hurlyburly,” play by David Rabe and directed by Michael Burdick. July 10 through 19. $20. Union County Performing Arts Center, 1601 Irving Street. 732-499-8226; ucpac.org. WEST WINDSOR Kelsey Theater, West Windsor Campus, Mercer County Community College “Guys and Dolls,” with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. July 10 through 19. $16 to $20. Kelsey Theater, West Windsor Campus, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road. 609-570-3333; www.kelseytheatre.net. Museums and Galleries ASBURY PARK Heaven Gallery “Photographic Memoir,” Tim Horn and Maribel Guerrero. Through June 28. Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Heaven Gallery, 721 Cookman Avenue. heavengallery.net; 732-774-4799. ASBURY PARK Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace “Critters,” artworks. Through June 28. Palette Gallery/ArtsSpace, 716 Cookman Avenue. 201-981-2395. ASBURY PARK Parlor Gallery “Beautiful Squalor,” works by Max Kauffman and Jesse Reno. Through July 19. Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon to 7 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 9 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 6 p.m. Parlor Gallery, 717 Cookman Avenue. 732-869-0606; parlor-gallery.com. BRANCHBURG Raritan Valley Community College <hl> The 12th Annual Creativity Expo <hl>, featuring artworks by brain injury survivors at the art gallery. July 11 through 19. Reception: July 11, from noon to 4 p.m. $27 and $32. Raritan Valley Community College, Route 28 and Lamington Road. 908-526-1200; raritanval.edu. CLIFTON Clifton Arts Center “A Humanist Vision: The Paintings and Drawings of Michael Lenson.” Through July 25. $3. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 1 to 4 p.m. Clifton Arts Center, 900 Clifton Avenue. 973-472-5499; cliftonnj.org. CLINTON Hunterdon Art Museum “The Collage Journal: The First Decade,” the Art of Peter Jacobs. Through Sept. 6. “New Works on Paper,” solo show by Lisa Macchi, abstract expressionist works. Through Sept. 30. Sundays and Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hunterdon Museum of Art, 7 Lower Center Street. 908-735-8415; hunterdonartmuseum.org.

BRANCHBURG Raritan Valley Community College <hl> The 12th Annual Creativity Expo <hl> , featuring artworks by brain injury survivors at the art gallery.


Question: What Did McConnell warn against Democrats trying again?

“It has been a mess for a very long time under majorities of both parties, and I am going to try very hard to fix that next year,” Mr. McConnell said as he warned Democrats against trying the same tactic again. “Hopefully we will not see some new excuse for not doing the basic work of government because we have already agreed on how much we are going to spend.” Mr. McConnell considered the appropriations fight a low point in the year, while he rated his chief victory the mere fact that the Senate showed actual signs of life. “We have demonstrated that if you open the place up, give people the opportunity to participate, they will cooperate in getting an outcome in a body that requires fairly significant bipartisan buy-in to get somewhere,” he said.

Answer: the same tactic again

<hl> “It has been a mess for a very long time under majorities of both parties, and I am going to try very hard to fix that next year,” Mr. McConnell said as he warned Democrats against trying the same tactic again . <hl> “Hopefully we will not see some new excuse for not doing the basic work of government because we have already agreed on how much we are going to spend.” Mr. McConnell considered the appropriations fight a low point in the year, while he rated his chief victory the mere fact that the Senate showed actual signs of life. “We have demonstrated that if you open the place up, give people the opportunity to participate, they will cooperate in getting an outcome in a body that requires fairly significant bipartisan buy-in to get somewhere,” he said.

“It has been a mess for a very long time under majorities of both parties, and I am going to try very hard to fix that next year,” Mr. McConnell said as he warned Democrats against trying <hl> the same tactic again <hl>. “Hopefully we will not see some new excuse for not doing the basic work of government because we have already agreed on how much we are going to spend.” Mr. McConnell considered the appropriations fight a low point in the year, while he rated his chief victory the mere fact that the Senate showed actual signs of life. “We have demonstrated that if you open the place up, give people the opportunity to participate, they will cooperate in getting an outcome in a body that requires fairly significant bipartisan buy-in to get somewhere,” he said.

“It has been a mess for a very long time under majorities of both parties, and I am going to try very hard to fix that next year,” Mr. McConnell said as he warned Democrats against trying <hl> the same tactic again <hl> .


Question: What did Mr. Milarski open the concert with?

The concert, led by Mr. Milarsky, opened with Mr. Adès’s “Origin of the Harp,” whose glittering surfaces were dulled to an ambiguous hue in this tentative reading. An early work inspired by a painting of the same name by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise, this enigmatic chamber tone poem is scored for clarinets, violas and cellos, instruments whose dark sonorities combine to luminous effect, along with percussion, including a rainstick. George Benjamin’s “Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra,” a glistening, texturally rich work, fared better, its complexity revealed in clear detail here. Completed in 1995 as a tribute to Messiaen and Alexander Goehr, Mr. Benjamin’s mentors, it features colorful use of winds and brass (including contrabass clarinet, fluegelhorn and euphonium) and harp (an instrument conspicuously absent from Mr. Adès’s piece), with low rumbling sonorities and jittery fragments in the strings, punctuated by gongs.

Answer: Origin of the Harp

<hl> The concert, led by Mr. Milarsky, opened with Mr. Adès’s “ Origin of the Harp ,” whose glittering surfaces were dulled to an ambiguous hue in this tentative reading. <hl> An early work inspired by a painting of the same name by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise, this enigmatic chamber tone poem is scored for clarinets, violas and cellos, instruments whose dark sonorities combine to luminous effect, along with percussion, including a rainstick. George Benjamin’s “Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra,” a glistening, texturally rich work, fared better, its complexity revealed in clear detail here. Completed in 1995 as a tribute to Messiaen and Alexander Goehr, Mr. Benjamin’s mentors, it features colorful use of winds and brass (including contrabass clarinet, fluegelhorn and euphonium) and harp (an instrument conspicuously absent from Mr. Adès’s piece), with low rumbling sonorities and jittery fragments in the strings, punctuated by gongs.

The concert, led by Mr. Milarsky, opened with Mr. Adès’s “<hl> Origin of the Harp <hl>,” whose glittering surfaces were dulled to an ambiguous hue in this tentative reading. An early work inspired by a painting of the same name by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise, this enigmatic chamber tone poem is scored for clarinets, violas and cellos, instruments whose dark sonorities combine to luminous effect, along with percussion, including a rainstick. George Benjamin’s “Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra,” a glistening, texturally rich work, fared better, its complexity revealed in clear detail here. Completed in 1995 as a tribute to Messiaen and Alexander Goehr, Mr. Benjamin’s mentors, it features colorful use of winds and brass (including contrabass clarinet, fluegelhorn and euphonium) and harp (an instrument conspicuously absent from Mr. Adès’s piece), with low rumbling sonorities and jittery fragments in the strings, punctuated by gongs.

The concert, led by Mr. Milarsky, opened with Mr. Adès’s “ <hl> Origin of the Harp <hl> ,” whose glittering surfaces were dulled to an ambiguous hue in this tentative reading.


Question: Who is the Academy's President?

“This industry is so far behind sports, it’s ridiculous,” Mr. Lee continued. “It’s easier to be president of the United States as a black person than be head of a studio. Honest.” And so it went, as the film academy — stung by fierce criticism of its failure to nominate any black actors or directors in the last round of Oscar voting — used its annual Governors Awards to face its diversity issues head on. As the evening began, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s president, set the tone with a speech about inclusiveness, and the disclosure of a five-year plan, called “A2020,” to broaden the demographics of the group’s membership, staff and governing board.

Answer: Cheryl Boone Isaacs

“This industry is so far behind sports, it’s ridiculous,” Mr. Lee continued. “It’s easier to be president of the United States as a black person than be head of a studio. Honest.” And so it went, as the film academy — stung by fierce criticism of its failure to nominate any black actors or directors in the last round of Oscar voting — used its annual Governors Awards to face its diversity issues head on. <hl> As the evening began, Cheryl Boone Isaacs , the Academy’s president, set the tone with a speech about inclusiveness, and the disclosure of a five-year plan, called “A2020,” to broaden the demographics of the group’s membership, staff and governing board. <hl>

“This industry is so far behind sports, it’s ridiculous,” Mr. Lee continued. “It’s easier to be president of the United States as a black person than be head of a studio. Honest.” And so it went, as the film academy — stung by fierce criticism of its failure to nominate any black actors or directors in the last round of Oscar voting — used its annual Governors Awards to face its diversity issues head on. As the evening began, <hl> Cheryl Boone Isaacs <hl>, the Academy’s president, set the tone with a speech about inclusiveness, and the disclosure of a five-year plan, called “A2020,” to broaden the demographics of the group’s membership, staff and governing board.

As the evening began, <hl> Cheryl Boone Isaacs <hl> , the Academy’s president, set the tone with a speech about inclusiveness, and the disclosure of a five-year plan, called “A2020,” to broaden the demographics of the group’s membership, staff and governing board.


Question: Craig Elbert is the VP for marketing where?

Members of the so-called millennial generation, accustomed to online shopping, may share Mr. Wright’s opinion in greater number. Still, some e-commerce retailers like Bonobos see printed materials as having modern appeal across age groups and have embraced them. Craig Elbert, vice president for marketing at Bonobos, called them helpful for building relationships and for measuring effectiveness. “You know if you ultimately made a sale,” he said. “You know where you ship a catalog and where you ship your orders.”

Answer: at Bonobos

Members of the so-called millennial generation, accustomed to online shopping, may share Mr. Wright’s opinion in greater number. Still, some e-commerce retailers like Bonobos see printed materials as having modern appeal across age groups and have embraced them. <hl> Craig Elbert, vice president for marketing at Bonobos , called them helpful for building relationships and for measuring effectiveness. <hl> “You know if you ultimately made a sale,” he said. “You know where you ship a catalog and where you ship your orders.”

Members of the so-called millennial generation, accustomed to online shopping, may share Mr. Wright’s opinion in greater number. Still, some e-commerce retailers like Bonobos see printed materials as having modern appeal across age groups and have embraced them. Craig Elbert, vice president for marketing <hl> at Bonobos <hl>, called them helpful for building relationships and for measuring effectiveness. “You know if you ultimately made a sale,” he said. “You know where you ship a catalog and where you ship your orders.”

Craig Elbert, vice president for marketing <hl> at Bonobos <hl> , called them helpful for building relationships and for measuring effectiveness.


Question: What year does the movie "The Dreamers" take place in?

8:05 P.M. (Starz Cinema) THE DREAMERS (2004) Louis Garrel (top), Eva Green (center) and Michael Pitt (above) portray the points of a photogenic triangle in this drama from Bernardo Bertolucci (“Last Tango in Paris”) about an American who befriends French twins in Paris during the 1968 student riots. This adaptation of Gilbert Adair’s novel “The Holy Innocents” is “disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. “The sex in this movie is, as measured by the display of body parts and the amount of time the actors spend out of their clothes, more explicit than even the most notorious scenes in ‘Last Tango,’ ” he said. “But it is hard to imagine a voyeur more benevolent than Mr. Bertolucci, whose eager scrutiny of the eros of the young is, like Jeremy Irons’s in ‘Stealing Beauty,’ less a matter of prurience than of an honest, nostalgic appreciation of natural human vitality.” 8:30 P.M. (TV5Monde) ELLES ÉTAIENT EN GUERRE (1914-18) Nathalie Baye narrates this 2014 French documentary, which examines World War I from the perspective of Marie Curie, Edith Wharton, Mata Hari, Rosa Luxemburg and Louise Bodin.

Answer: 1968

8:05 P.M. (Starz Cinema) <hl> THE DREAMERS (2004) Louis Garrel (top), Eva Green (center) and Michael Pitt (above) portray the points of a photogenic triangle in this drama from Bernardo Bertolucci (“Last Tango in Paris”) about an American who befriends French twins in Paris during the 1968 student riots. <hl> This adaptation of Gilbert Adair’s novel “The Holy Innocents” is “disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. “The sex in this movie is, as measured by the display of body parts and the amount of time the actors spend out of their clothes, more explicit than even the most notorious scenes in ‘Last Tango,’ ” he said. “But it is hard to imagine a voyeur more benevolent than Mr. Bertolucci, whose eager scrutiny of the eros of the young is, like Jeremy Irons’s in ‘Stealing Beauty,’ less a matter of prurience than of an honest, nostalgic appreciation of natural human vitality.” 8:30 P.M. (TV5Monde) ELLES ÉTAIENT EN GUERRE (1914-18) Nathalie Baye narrates this 2014 French documentary, which examines World War I from the perspective of Marie Curie, Edith Wharton, Mata Hari, Rosa Luxemburg and Louise Bodin.

8:05 P.M. (Starz Cinema) THE DREAMERS (2004) Louis Garrel (top), Eva Green (center) and Michael Pitt (above) portray the points of a photogenic triangle in this drama from Bernardo Bertolucci (“Last Tango in Paris”) about an American who befriends French twins in Paris during the <hl> 1968 <hl> student riots. This adaptation of Gilbert Adair’s novel “The Holy Innocents” is “disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. “The sex in this movie is, as measured by the display of body parts and the amount of time the actors spend out of their clothes, more explicit than even the most notorious scenes in ‘Last Tango,’ ” he said. “But it is hard to imagine a voyeur more benevolent than Mr. Bertolucci, whose eager scrutiny of the eros of the young is, like Jeremy Irons’s in ‘Stealing Beauty,’ less a matter of prurience than of an honest, nostalgic appreciation of natural human vitality.” 8:30 P.M. (TV5Monde) ELLES ÉTAIENT EN GUERRE (1914-18) Nathalie Baye narrates this 2014 French documentary, which examines World War I from the perspective of Marie Curie, Edith Wharton, Mata Hari, Rosa Luxemburg and Louise Bodin.


Question: How long was the column written by Walt Mossberg on Mr. Sorkin?

Walt Mossberg, who was a technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal for many years before co-founding ReCode, wrote a 1,400-word column on how Mr. Sorkin “chose to cherry-pick and exaggerate some of the worst aspects of Jobs’ character,” proclaiming over and over that the Steve Jobs portrayed in the film “isn’t the man I knew.” Steven Levy, who covered Apple for Newsweek and Rolling Stone, said that the Steve Jobs portrayed wasn’t “the person I knew.” And Larry Magid, who covered Apple as a syndicated technology columnist for The San Jose Mercury News, wrote in Forbes that the movie was “not about the man I knew.”

Answer: 1,400-word

<hl> Walt Mossberg, who was a technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal for many years before co-founding ReCode, wrote a 1,400-word column on how Mr. Sorkin “chose to cherry-pick and exaggerate some of the worst aspects of Jobs’ character,” proclaiming over and over that the Steve Jobs portrayed in the film “isn’t the man I knew.” <hl> Steven Levy, who covered Apple for Newsweek and Rolling Stone, said that the Steve Jobs portrayed wasn’t “the person I knew.” And Larry Magid, who covered Apple as a syndicated technology columnist for The San Jose Mercury News, wrote in Forbes that the movie was “not about the man I knew.”

Walt Mossberg, who was a technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal for many years before co-founding ReCode, wrote a <hl> 1,400-word <hl> column on how Mr. Sorkin “chose to cherry-pick and exaggerate some of the worst aspects of Jobs’ character,” proclaiming over and over that the Steve Jobs portrayed in the film “isn’t the man I knew.” Steven Levy, who covered Apple for Newsweek and Rolling Stone, said that the Steve Jobs portrayed wasn’t “the person I knew.” And Larry Magid, who covered Apple as a syndicated technology columnist for The San Jose Mercury News, wrote in Forbes that the movie was “not about the man I knew.”


Question: Who always waited for someone to pay for their bill?

“You’re not listening!” he said. “After that, whenever I went out with people more successful than me, I always judged them by the words of my boss. The people I wanted to do business with or start a friendship with were those who offered to pick up the bill; the shady characters were those who just sat back and waited for someone to pay. And when I started picking up the tab for my friends and on business meals as I became wealthier, everyone’s view of me changed. They knew me now as someone who would take care of business,” whether that meant the meal in front of them or things of more substance. “How about if I pay this time, and you pay next time?” I said. “But you don’t pay the bill to build a reputation,” he replied, ignoring my offer. “You pay because it’s the right thing to do. You really don’t know the financial situation of the other person whenever you go out, so just offer; if the person is wealthier than you, he’ll take care of you, no worries. You always take care of those worse off than you — call it Jesus or charity or good business or whatever, but you always do. Now, let me pay the bill.” He won. Best business lunch I ever had (high-end chilaquiles, by the way). The lesson I learned that day is a mantra I’ve followed ever since and have repeated to everyone I know, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also because of what my exec pal told me as we left the restaurant:

Answer: shady characters

“You’re not listening!” he said. “After that, whenever I went out with people more successful than me, I always judged them by the words of my boss. <hl> The people I wanted to do business with or start a friendship with were those who offered to pick up the bill; the shady characters were those who just sat back and waited for someone to pay. <hl> And when I started picking up the tab for my friends and on business meals as I became wealthier, everyone’s view of me changed. They knew me now as someone who would take care of business,” whether that meant the meal in front of them or things of more substance. “How about if I pay this time, and you pay next time?” I said. “But you don’t pay the bill to build a reputation,” he replied, ignoring my offer. “You pay because it’s the right thing to do. You really don’t know the financial situation of the other person whenever you go out, so just offer; if the person is wealthier than you, he’ll take care of you, no worries. You always take care of those worse off than you — call it Jesus or charity or good business or whatever, but you always do. Now, let me pay the bill.” He won. Best business lunch I ever had (high-end chilaquiles, by the way). The lesson I learned that day is a mantra I’ve followed ever since and have repeated to everyone I know, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also because of what my exec pal told me as we left the restaurant:

“You’re not listening!” he said. “After that, whenever I went out with people more successful than me, I always judged them by the words of my boss. The people I wanted to do business with or start a friendship with were those who offered to pick up the bill; the <hl> shady characters <hl> were those who just sat back and waited for someone to pay. And when I started picking up the tab for my friends and on business meals as I became wealthier, everyone’s view of me changed. They knew me now as someone who would take care of business,” whether that meant the meal in front of them or things of more substance. “How about if I pay this time, and you pay next time?” I said. “But you don’t pay the bill to build a reputation,” he replied, ignoring my offer. “You pay because it’s the right thing to do. You really don’t know the financial situation of the other person whenever you go out, so just offer; if the person is wealthier than you, he’ll take care of you, no worries. You always take care of those worse off than you — call it Jesus or charity or good business or whatever, but you always do. Now, let me pay the bill.” He won. Best business lunch I ever had (high-end chilaquiles, by the way). The lesson I learned that day is a mantra I’ve followed ever since and have repeated to everyone I know, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also because of what my exec pal told me as we left the restaurant:


Question: How many antiques does the musuem have?

Aficionados of lowbrow aesthetics are also heading to Glòries, thanks to the arresting Encants Barcelona, the new home for the area’s historic flea market — a ramped space, open on the sides, with slender columns supporting an angular reflective metal canopy. Since the market moved here in 2013, it’s been drawing 120,000 antiques- and junk-seekers a week to early morning auctions and the stalls that open directly after the last lot has sold. Ironically, the building housing the Barcelona Design Museum — a squat, zinc-clad structure with front and rear cantilevers — hasn’t exactly been celebrated for its exterior form. Some have taken to calling it “the Stapler.” The museum, which unites collections of Catalan decorative arts, graphics, ceramics, textiles and fashion that previously had been scattered throughout the city, was originally to be the building’s sole occupant. But in an effort to make use of its vast interior spaces — and lure people to what is still considered an off-the-beaten-path area — municipal leaders also moved the city’s major design organizations here and named the whole enterprise Design Hub Barcelona, or DHUB, hoping it truly would become a hotbed of design activity. Today, while design professionals show up for events in the building, museum-goers make their way through exhibits that sprawl on four floors, displaying everything from corsets to cruets. The museum, which charges a 5-euro ($5.35) general admission fee, has already drawn about 204,000 visitors. While its holdings may never achieve the popularity of the offerings at the flea market next door, the institution is already helping attract traffic — foot traffic — to the Glòries area. “In the future Glòries will be a place not for cars, but for people,” said Isabel Roig, executive director of Barcelona Design Center, a trade group and one of DHUB’s new tenants.

Answer: 120,000

Aficionados of lowbrow aesthetics are also heading to Glòries, thanks to the arresting Encants Barcelona, the new home for the area’s historic flea market — a ramped space, open on the sides, with slender columns supporting an angular reflective metal canopy. <hl> Since the market moved here in 2013, it’s been drawing 120,000 antiques- and junk-seekers a week to early morning auctions and the stalls that open directly after the last lot has sold. <hl> Ironically, the building housing the Barcelona Design Museum — a squat, zinc-clad structure with front and rear cantilevers — hasn’t exactly been celebrated for its exterior form. Some have taken to calling it “the Stapler.” The museum, which unites collections of Catalan decorative arts, graphics, ceramics, textiles and fashion that previously had been scattered throughout the city, was originally to be the building’s sole occupant. But in an effort to make use of its vast interior spaces — and lure people to what is still considered an off-the-beaten-path area — municipal leaders also moved the city’s major design organizations here and named the whole enterprise Design Hub Barcelona, or DHUB, hoping it truly would become a hotbed of design activity. Today, while design professionals show up for events in the building, museum-goers make their way through exhibits that sprawl on four floors, displaying everything from corsets to cruets. The museum, which charges a 5-euro ($5.35) general admission fee, has already drawn about 204,000 visitors. While its holdings may never achieve the popularity of the offerings at the flea market next door, the institution is already helping attract traffic — foot traffic — to the Glòries area. “In the future Glòries will be a place not for cars, but for people,” said Isabel Roig, executive director of Barcelona Design Center, a trade group and one of DHUB’s new tenants.

Aficionados of lowbrow aesthetics are also heading to Glòries, thanks to the arresting Encants Barcelona, the new home for the area’s historic flea market — a ramped space, open on the sides, with slender columns supporting an angular reflective metal canopy. Since the market moved here in 2013, it’s been drawing <hl> 120,000 <hl> antiques- and junk-seekers a week to early morning auctions and the stalls that open directly after the last lot has sold. Ironically, the building housing the Barcelona Design Museum — a squat, zinc-clad structure with front and rear cantilevers — hasn’t exactly been celebrated for its exterior form. Some have taken to calling it “the Stapler.” The museum, which unites collections of Catalan decorative arts, graphics, ceramics, textiles and fashion that previously had been scattered throughout the city, was originally to be the building’s sole occupant. But in an effort to make use of its vast interior spaces — and lure people to what is still considered an off-the-beaten-path area — municipal leaders also moved the city’s major design organizations here and named the whole enterprise Design Hub Barcelona, or DHUB, hoping it truly would become a hotbed of design activity. Today, while design professionals show up for events in the building, museum-goers make their way through exhibits that sprawl on four floors, displaying everything from corsets to cruets. The museum, which charges a 5-euro ($5.35) general admission fee, has already drawn about 204,000 visitors. While its holdings may never achieve the popularity of the offerings at the flea market next door, the institution is already helping attract traffic — foot traffic — to the Glòries area. “In the future Glòries will be a place not for cars, but for people,” said Isabel Roig, executive director of Barcelona Design Center, a trade group and one of DHUB’s new tenants.


Question: The athlete was asking fashion experts about the latest what?

“We always pull out all the stops for the Open,” said Serena Williams, discussing her Open outfits the week before it started. “I’m always asking my friends in fashion about what’s the new color, or the latest trend, so I can translate that in our collections.”

Answer: trend

“We always pull out all the stops for the Open,” said Serena Williams, discussing her Open outfits the week before it started. <hl> “I’m always asking my friends in fashion about what’s the new color, or the latest trend , so I can translate that in our collections.” <hl>

“We always pull out all the stops for the Open,” said Serena Williams, discussing her Open outfits the week before it started. “I’m always asking my friends in fashion about what’s the new color, or the latest <hl> trend <hl>, so I can translate that in our collections.”

“I’m always asking my friends in fashion about what’s the new color, or the latest <hl> trend <hl> , so I can translate that in our collections.”


Question: What type of play was read by Butler?

It made all the difference. Butler, a reserve cornerback and undrafted rookie who was understandably convinced he would be the goat after Kearse had played pinball wizard at his expense, turned out to be quite the contrary. This was not by chance. He recognized an opportunity and made it happen, correctly reading the pick play and slant route the Seahawks were counting on and beating Ricardo Lockette to the ball as he and Lockette collided. It was the first interception of Butler’s N.F.L. career.

Answer: pick

It made all the difference. Butler, a reserve cornerback and undrafted rookie who was understandably convinced he would be the goat after Kearse had played pinball wizard at his expense, turned out to be quite the contrary. This was not by chance. <hl> He recognized an opportunity and made it happen, correctly reading the pick play and slant route the Seahawks were counting on and beating Ricardo Lockette to the ball as he and Lockette collided. <hl> It was the first interception of Butler’s N.F.L. career.

It made all the difference. Butler, a reserve cornerback and undrafted rookie who was understandably convinced he would be the goat after Kearse had played pinball wizard at his expense, turned out to be quite the contrary. This was not by chance. He recognized an opportunity and made it happen, correctly reading the <hl> pick <hl> play and slant route the Seahawks were counting on and beating Ricardo Lockette to the ball as he and Lockette collided. It was the first interception of Butler’s N.F.L. career.


Question: From which country was the wolverine being sent?

If there were a manual for transporting wolverines, Rule No. 1 would probably go something like this: Make sure the wolverine cannot get out of the cage. At Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, it became clear that this precaution had not been taken. A 40-pound male wolverine named Kasper was being shipped from a zoo in Norway to a conservation park in Alaska. At around 3:30 p.m., he arrived in Newark to change planes and go through United States Customs. It was there that the animal’s handler, Sarah Howard, noticed there was a hole in Kasper’s cage. “His head was sticking out,” said Ms. Howard, a curator for the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, the wolverine’s intended new home. She had flown to Newark to meet him. The cage was made of metal, said Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. “It’s believed he chewed a hole in it.”

Answer: Norway

If there were a manual for transporting wolverines, Rule No. 1 would probably go something like this: Make sure the wolverine cannot get out of the cage. At Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, it became clear that this precaution had not been taken. <hl> A 40-pound male wolverine named Kasper was being shipped from a zoo in Norway to a conservation park in Alaska. <hl> At around 3:30 p.m., he arrived in Newark to change planes and go through United States Customs. It was there that the animal’s handler, Sarah Howard, noticed there was a hole in Kasper’s cage. “His head was sticking out,” said Ms. Howard, a curator for the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, the wolverine’s intended new home. She had flown to Newark to meet him. The cage was made of metal, said Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. “It’s believed he chewed a hole in it.”

If there were a manual for transporting wolverines, Rule No. 1 would probably go something like this: Make sure the wolverine cannot get out of the cage. At Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, it became clear that this precaution had not been taken. A 40-pound male wolverine named Kasper was being shipped from a zoo in <hl> Norway <hl> to a conservation park in Alaska. At around 3:30 p.m., he arrived in Newark to change planes and go through United States Customs. It was there that the animal’s handler, Sarah Howard, noticed there was a hole in Kasper’s cage. “His head was sticking out,” said Ms. Howard, a curator for the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, the wolverine’s intended new home. She had flown to Newark to meet him. The cage was made of metal, said Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. “It’s believed he chewed a hole in it.”


Question: What did face the Mayor Bill de Blasio during the previous year?

Taking a small step to address segregation in New York City schools, the Education Department announced on Friday that it would allow seven schools to reserve slots for children from low-income or non-English speaking families. Six of the seven schools that will change their policies are unzoned, meaning that they admit students by lottery rather than by drawing from the surrounding neighborhood, the Education Department said. Under the pilot program, students who qualify for free or reduced lunch, are in the child welfare system, are English-language learners or have incarcerated parents would be given priority in those lotteries. The schools would set aside from about 20 percent to 60 percent of their seats for students in those groups, many of them black or Hispanic. All the affected schools are elementary schools, and the changes will take effect for the upcoming kindergarten application cycle. The program grew out of recommendations that the schools’ principals made to the Education Department last year, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced growing pressure from principals and community leaders to increase diversity.

Answer: growing pressure from principals and community leaders to increase diversity

Taking a small step to address segregation in New York City schools, the Education Department announced on Friday that it would allow seven schools to reserve slots for children from low-income or non-English speaking families. Six of the seven schools that will change their policies are unzoned, meaning that they admit students by lottery rather than by drawing from the surrounding neighborhood, the Education Department said. Under the pilot program, students who qualify for free or reduced lunch, are in the child welfare system, are English-language learners or have incarcerated parents would be given priority in those lotteries. The schools would set aside from about 20 percent to 60 percent of their seats for students in those groups, many of them black or Hispanic. All the affected schools are elementary schools, and the changes will take effect for the upcoming kindergarten application cycle. <hl> The program grew out of recommendations that the schools’ principals made to the Education Department last year, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced growing pressure from principals and community leaders to increase diversity . <hl>

Taking a small step to address segregation in New York City schools, the Education Department announced on Friday that it would allow seven schools to reserve slots for children from low-income or non-English speaking families. Six of the seven schools that will change their policies are unzoned, meaning that they admit students by lottery rather than by drawing from the surrounding neighborhood, the Education Department said. Under the pilot program, students who qualify for free or reduced lunch, are in the child welfare system, are English-language learners or have incarcerated parents would be given priority in those lotteries. The schools would set aside from about 20 percent to 60 percent of their seats for students in those groups, many of them black or Hispanic. All the affected schools are elementary schools, and the changes will take effect for the upcoming kindergarten application cycle. The program grew out of recommendations that the schools’ principals made to the Education Department last year, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced <hl> growing pressure from principals and community leaders to increase diversity <hl>.

The program grew out of recommendations that the schools’ principals made to the Education Department last year, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced <hl> growing pressure from principals and community leaders to increase diversity <hl> .


Question: Who edited "Backward Ran Sentences?"

Parody ages fast, as its targets drop from public view. So do reviews of long-forgotten plays and movies. Gibbs was a critic temperamentally, not just when he was at the theater. Dour, melancholic, he was considered impossible to please. He committed offenses against basic fairness by showing up drunk to performances or leaving well before they ended. The reviews he wrote are undeniably droll. Many can be found, along with his short stories, Talk of the Town pieces and other occasional work in a 2011 collection of his New Yorker writings called “Backward Ran Sentences” (the title is pulled from the Time parody), edited by Thomas Vinciguerra. Page after page of lively, witty, lean prose demonstrates why Gibbs was so appealing to readers. He took down pretensions and uncannily mimicked the great voices of his era. His critique of film reviewers’ lazy vocabulary (“luminous,” “taut,” “haunting”) still stands as a rebuke today (and can equally be applied to book reviewers). Gibbs did in fact respond to quality in the theater, writing at least partial appreciations of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Death of a Salesman” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” although he despised “Waiting for Godot.” While his praise was far rarer than his condemnation, one can’t help feeling affection for a critic who sent the following form reply to readers who wrote in to quarrel with his views: “Dear Sir [or Madam]: You may be right. Sincerely, Wolcott Gibbs.”

Answer: Thomas Vinciguerra

Parody ages fast, as its targets drop from public view. So do reviews of long-forgotten plays and movies. Gibbs was a critic temperamentally, not just when he was at the theater. Dour, melancholic, he was considered impossible to please. He committed offenses against basic fairness by showing up drunk to performances or leaving well before they ended. The reviews he wrote are undeniably droll. <hl> Many can be found, along with his short stories, Talk of the Town pieces and other occasional work in a 2011 collection of his New Yorker writings called “Backward Ran Sentences” (the title is pulled from the Time parody), edited by Thomas Vinciguerra . <hl> Page after page of lively, witty, lean prose demonstrates why Gibbs was so appealing to readers. He took down pretensions and uncannily mimicked the great voices of his era. His critique of film reviewers’ lazy vocabulary (“luminous,” “taut,” “haunting”) still stands as a rebuke today (and can equally be applied to book reviewers). Gibbs did in fact respond to quality in the theater, writing at least partial appreciations of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Death of a Salesman” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” although he despised “Waiting for Godot.” While his praise was far rarer than his condemnation, one can’t help feeling affection for a critic who sent the following form reply to readers who wrote in to quarrel with his views: “Dear Sir [or Madam]: You may be right. Sincerely, Wolcott Gibbs.”

Parody ages fast, as its targets drop from public view. So do reviews of long-forgotten plays and movies. Gibbs was a critic temperamentally, not just when he was at the theater. Dour, melancholic, he was considered impossible to please. He committed offenses against basic fairness by showing up drunk to performances or leaving well before they ended. The reviews he wrote are undeniably droll. Many can be found, along with his short stories, Talk of the Town pieces and other occasional work in a 2011 collection of his New Yorker writings called “Backward Ran Sentences” (the title is pulled from the Time parody), edited by <hl> Thomas Vinciguerra <hl>. Page after page of lively, witty, lean prose demonstrates why Gibbs was so appealing to readers. He took down pretensions and uncannily mimicked the great voices of his era. His critique of film reviewers’ lazy vocabulary (“luminous,” “taut,” “haunting”) still stands as a rebuke today (and can equally be applied to book reviewers). Gibbs did in fact respond to quality in the theater, writing at least partial appreciations of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Death of a Salesman” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” although he despised “Waiting for Godot.” While his praise was far rarer than his condemnation, one can’t help feeling affection for a critic who sent the following form reply to readers who wrote in to quarrel with his views: “Dear Sir [or Madam]: You may be right. Sincerely, Wolcott Gibbs.”

Many can be found, along with his short stories, Talk of the Town pieces and other occasional work in a 2011 collection of his New Yorker writings called “Backward Ran Sentences” (the title is pulled from the Time parody), edited by <hl> Thomas Vinciguerra <hl> .


Question: What year did the author start a dining column?

I started writing for The Times in the mid-80s. In 1991, I wrote my first piece for the Living section, as it was known then, about how FedExing ingredients was changing the game for chefs. In 1994, Trish Hall, then the Living section’s editor, asked me if I wanted to write a column for the new Dining section. Duh — who would say no to that? Three years later (The Times doesn’t often move quickly) The Minimalist was born, thanks in large part to the editor Rick Flaste. For the next 13 years — 650 weeks, more or less, in a row — I never missed a deadline.

Answer: 1994

I started writing for The Times in the mid-80s. In 1991, I wrote my first piece for the Living section, as it was known then, about how FedExing ingredients was changing the game for chefs. <hl> In 1994 , Trish Hall, then the Living section’s editor, asked me if I wanted to write a column for the new Dining section. <hl> Duh — who would say no to that? Three years later (The Times doesn’t often move quickly) The Minimalist was born, thanks in large part to the editor Rick Flaste. For the next 13 years — 650 weeks, more or less, in a row — I never missed a deadline.

I started writing for The Times in the mid-80s. In 1991, I wrote my first piece for the Living section, as it was known then, about how FedExing ingredients was changing the game for chefs. In <hl> 1994 <hl>, Trish Hall, then the Living section’s editor, asked me if I wanted to write a column for the new Dining section. Duh — who would say no to that? Three years later (The Times doesn’t often move quickly) The Minimalist was born, thanks in large part to the editor Rick Flaste. For the next 13 years — 650 weeks, more or less, in a row — I never missed a deadline.

In <hl> 1994 <hl> , Trish Hall, then the Living section’s editor, asked me if I wanted to write a column for the new Dining section.


Question: Which group has approved of Volkswagen proposed changes?

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: German regulators

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


Question: Who did the American instructors recommend to help with training the Ukrainian units?

Capt. Andrii Syurkalo, a Ukrainian officer, said it was commendable that the trainers were willing to use the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal as an element in a class on the Geneva Conventions. American officers described the course work as equivalent to the latter months of basic training in the United States. The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months. The Ukrainian National Guard is rotating from the front what units it can spare for the training. American instructors intend to recommend top performers to serve as trainers within other Ukrainian units, and in this way spread the instruction more broadly.

Answer: top performers

Capt. Andrii Syurkalo, a Ukrainian officer, said it was commendable that the trainers were willing to use the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal as an element in a class on the Geneva Conventions. American officers described the course work as equivalent to the latter months of basic training in the United States. The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months. The Ukrainian National Guard is rotating from the front what units it can spare for the training. <hl> American instructors intend to recommend top performers to serve as trainers within other Ukrainian units, and in this way spread the instruction more broadly. <hl>

Capt. Andrii Syurkalo, a Ukrainian officer, said it was commendable that the trainers were willing to use the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal as an element in a class on the Geneva Conventions. American officers described the course work as equivalent to the latter months of basic training in the United States. The courses will train 705 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of $19 million over six months. The Ukrainian National Guard is rotating from the front what units it can spare for the training. American instructors intend to recommend <hl> top performers <hl> to serve as trainers within other Ukrainian units, and in this way spread the instruction more broadly.


Question: Where did a viewing take place for the film?

In the weeks since New York Times Magazine readers had the opportunity to experience the magazine’s “The Displaced” virtual-reality film with Google Cardboard V.R. viewers delivered to subscribers, the film has been shown around the world. Before a screening in New Delhi on Friday, Women in the World, a live-event series associated with The Times, hosted a discussion on the global refugee and migrant crisis moderated by the actress Cate Blanchett and featuring the photojournalist and frequent Times Magazine contributor Lynsey Addario among its guests.

Answer: New Delhi

In the weeks since New York Times Magazine readers had the opportunity to experience the magazine’s “The Displaced” virtual-reality film with Google Cardboard V.R. viewers delivered to subscribers, the film has been shown around the world. <hl> Before a screening in New Delhi on Friday, Women in the World, a live-event series associated with The Times, hosted a discussion on the global refugee and migrant crisis moderated by the actress Cate Blanchett and featuring the photojournalist and frequent Times Magazine contributor Lynsey Addario among its guests. <hl>

In the weeks since New York Times Magazine readers had the opportunity to experience the magazine’s “The Displaced” virtual-reality film with Google Cardboard V.R. viewers delivered to subscribers, the film has been shown around the world. Before a screening in <hl> New Delhi <hl> on Friday, Women in the World, a live-event series associated with The Times, hosted a discussion on the global refugee and migrant crisis moderated by the actress Cate Blanchett and featuring the photojournalist and frequent Times Magazine contributor Lynsey Addario among its guests.


Question: What beer style have big brewers altered?

And we can’t neglect good old American lager, the beer that made Milwaukee, St. Louis and so many other brewing centers famous. My ballpark concession would absolutely require a couple of good lagers, even if this style has been denatured by big brewers, who have used adjuncts to malted barley, like rice and corn, to create so banal a product it can only be enjoyed icy cold, bottle to forehead in the brutal heat. To the endlessly creative American craft brewer, plain old lager may not seem particularly exciting. Decades ago, with so many great styles of beer left moribund by industrial brewers, craft brewers had compelling reasons to concentrate elsewhere. But little by little, American craft brewers have now taken up the challenge.

Answer: lagers

And we can’t neglect good old American lager, the beer that made Milwaukee, St. Louis and so many other brewing centers famous. <hl> My ballpark concession would absolutely require a couple of good lagers , even if this style has been denatured by big brewers, who have used adjuncts to malted barley, like rice and corn, to create so banal a product it can only be enjoyed icy cold, bottle to forehead in the brutal heat. <hl> To the endlessly creative American craft brewer, plain old lager may not seem particularly exciting. Decades ago, with so many great styles of beer left moribund by industrial brewers, craft brewers had compelling reasons to concentrate elsewhere. But little by little, American craft brewers have now taken up the challenge.

And we can’t neglect good old American lager, the beer that made Milwaukee, St. Louis and so many other brewing centers famous. My ballpark concession would absolutely require a couple of good <hl> lagers <hl>, even if this style has been denatured by big brewers, who have used adjuncts to malted barley, like rice and corn, to create so banal a product it can only be enjoyed icy cold, bottle to forehead in the brutal heat. To the endlessly creative American craft brewer, plain old lager may not seem particularly exciting. Decades ago, with so many great styles of beer left moribund by industrial brewers, craft brewers had compelling reasons to concentrate elsewhere. But little by little, American craft brewers have now taken up the challenge.

My ballpark concession would absolutely require a couple of good <hl> lagers <hl> , even if this style has been denatured by big brewers, who have used adjuncts to malted barley, like rice and corn, to create so banal a product it can only be enjoyed icy cold, bottle to forehead in the brutal heat.