Question: Which voters are strongly for Hiliary Clinton?

“I like Ben Carson because he’s not government, and I’m tired of government,” said Doug May, 70, a retired chief information officer in Bluffton, S.C. Mr. May added, referring to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin: “What worries me the most about Donald Trump is what he would do if put into a situation where he is sitting down with Putin. With his mouth, I have no idea what he would say to people.” Democratic voters seem more enthusiastic about Mrs. Clinton as the party’s possible nominee than Republicans do about Mr. Trump. Forty-eight percent of Democrats said they would support her enthusiastically, and 35 percent of Republicans said the same of Mr. Trump.

Answer: Democratic

“I like Ben Carson because he’s not government, and I’m tired of government,” said Doug May, 70, a retired chief information officer in Bluffton, S.C. Mr. May added, referring to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin: “What worries me the most about Donald Trump is what he would do if put into a situation where he is sitting down with Putin. <hl> With his mouth, I have no idea what he would say to people.” Democratic voters seem more enthusiastic about Mrs. Clinton as the party’s possible nominee than Republicans do about Mr. Trump. <hl> Forty-eight percent of Democrats said they would support her enthusiastically, and 35 percent of Republicans said the same of Mr. Trump.

“I like Ben Carson because he’s not government, and I’m tired of government,” said Doug May, 70, a retired chief information officer in Bluffton, S.C. Mr. May added, referring to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin: “What worries me the most about Donald Trump is what he would do if put into a situation where he is sitting down with Putin. With his mouth, I have no idea what he would say to people.” <hl> Democratic <hl> voters seem more enthusiastic about Mrs. Clinton as the party’s possible nominee than Republicans do about Mr. Trump. Forty-eight percent of Democrats said they would support her enthusiastically, and 35 percent of Republicans said the same of Mr. Trump.


Question: Who named the apprentice's at the school?

“Maybe she wanted me to follow in her footsteps,” Ms. Bradley said. And now Ms. Bradley has a chance to get into City Ballet, which rarely accepts dancers who have not trained at its school. Still, she said that she has had friends tell her that the school “probably needs a black girl to make it look more diverse.” She disagrees. “The teachers don’t care about that,” she said. “They just want you to do your tendu. I’m glad S.A.B. is like that. Lately, with this whole Misty Copeland thing — she’s black. It just shouldn’t have anything to do with that. It should just be like, she’s so good at ballet, she should be a principal. Now she is a principal, but it shouldn’t have taken all of that.” Last spring, of the five apprentices Mr. Martins named for City Ballet only one was white. In the main company, Mr. Farley, Olivia Boisson, Preston Chamblee, Taylor Stanley and Lara Tong have become familiar dancers. Is the company ready for a black female principal, too? “We’ve always been ready!” Mr. Martins exclaimed. “But where is she? Show me her. I’ll take her in a minute.”

Answer: Mr. Martins

“Maybe she wanted me to follow in her footsteps,” Ms. Bradley said. And now Ms. Bradley has a chance to get into City Ballet, which rarely accepts dancers who have not trained at its school. Still, she said that she has had friends tell her that the school “probably needs a black girl to make it look more diverse.” She disagrees. “The teachers don’t care about that,” she said. “They just want you to do your tendu. I’m glad S.A.B. is like that. Lately, with this whole Misty Copeland thing — she’s black. It just shouldn’t have anything to do with that. It should just be like, she’s so good at ballet, she should be a principal. Now she is a principal, but it shouldn’t have taken all of that.” <hl> Last spring, of the five apprentices Mr. Martins named for City Ballet only one was white. <hl> In the main company, Mr. Farley, Olivia Boisson, Preston Chamblee, Taylor Stanley and Lara Tong have become familiar dancers. Is the company ready for a black female principal, too? “We’ve always been ready!” Mr. Martins exclaimed. “But where is she? Show me her. I’ll take her in a minute.”

“Maybe she wanted me to follow in her footsteps,” Ms. Bradley said. And now Ms. Bradley has a chance to get into City Ballet, which rarely accepts dancers who have not trained at its school. Still, she said that she has had friends tell her that the school “probably needs a black girl to make it look more diverse.” She disagrees. “The teachers don’t care about that,” she said. “They just want you to do your tendu. I’m glad S.A.B. is like that. Lately, with this whole Misty Copeland thing — she’s black. It just shouldn’t have anything to do with that. It should just be like, she’s so good at ballet, she should be a principal. Now she is a principal, but it shouldn’t have taken all of that.” Last spring, of the five apprentices <hl> Mr. Martins <hl> named for City Ballet only one was white. In the main company, Mr. Farley, Olivia Boisson, Preston Chamblee, Taylor Stanley and Lara Tong have become familiar dancers. Is the company ready for a black female principal, too? “We’ve always been ready!” Mr. Martins exclaimed. “But where is she? Show me her. I’ll take her in a minute.”


Question: Who runs the Secret Cup?

“The medical benefits of cannabis are undeniable,” said Jeremy Norrie, a medical marijuana user in West Hollywood, Calif., who operates the Secret Cup, a cannabis trade show. “To keep it in the Schedule I classification is knowingly ignorant. It seems more to me that this judge wanted to avoid controversy and having to deal with the issue. We don’t see anywhere near the kind of public problems that the other drugs in Schedule I have.” A spokesman for the D.E.A., Matthew R. Barden, said it would not comment until officials saw Judge Mueller’s written ruling.

Answer: Jeremy Norrie

<hl> “The medical benefits of cannabis are undeniable,” said Jeremy Norrie , a medical marijuana user in West Hollywood, Calif., who operates the Secret Cup, a cannabis trade show. <hl> “To keep it in the Schedule I classification is knowingly ignorant. It seems more to me that this judge wanted to avoid controversy and having to deal with the issue. We don’t see anywhere near the kind of public problems that the other drugs in Schedule I have.” A spokesman for the D.E.A., Matthew R. Barden, said it would not comment until officials saw Judge Mueller’s written ruling.

“The medical benefits of cannabis are undeniable,” said <hl> Jeremy Norrie <hl>, a medical marijuana user in West Hollywood, Calif., who operates the Secret Cup, a cannabis trade show. “To keep it in the Schedule I classification is knowingly ignorant. It seems more to me that this judge wanted to avoid controversy and having to deal with the issue. We don’t see anywhere near the kind of public problems that the other drugs in Schedule I have.” A spokesman for the D.E.A., Matthew R. Barden, said it would not comment until officials saw Judge Mueller’s written ruling.

“The medical benefits of cannabis are undeniable,” said <hl> Jeremy Norrie <hl> , a medical marijuana user in West Hollywood, Calif., who operates the Secret Cup, a cannabis trade show.


Question: Where did the reports come from to expel the vote?

We might never fully know how the voting went down four years ago and how hosting rights were won and lost. Media reports, particularly in England, forced FIFA to expel — temporarily — two members before the vote. But allegation after continuing allegation prompted FIFA’s ethics committee to commission an independent investigation led by the former federal prosecutor Michael J. Garcia. His 350-page report remains secret, locked in a labyrinth of FIFA procedures to decide which, if any, of the findings will be released to the public.

Answer: England

We might never fully know how the voting went down four years ago and how hosting rights were won and lost. <hl> Media reports, particularly in England , forced FIFA to expel — temporarily — two members before the vote. <hl> But allegation after continuing allegation prompted FIFA’s ethics committee to commission an independent investigation led by the former federal prosecutor Michael J. Garcia. His 350-page report remains secret, locked in a labyrinth of FIFA procedures to decide which, if any, of the findings will be released to the public.

We might never fully know how the voting went down four years ago and how hosting rights were won and lost. Media reports, particularly in <hl> England <hl>, forced FIFA to expel — temporarily — two members before the vote. But allegation after continuing allegation prompted FIFA’s ethics committee to commission an independent investigation led by the former federal prosecutor Michael J. Garcia. His 350-page report remains secret, locked in a labyrinth of FIFA procedures to decide which, if any, of the findings will be released to the public.

Media reports, particularly in <hl> England <hl> , forced FIFA to expel — temporarily — two members before the vote.


Question: What did the truck hit?

RABAT, Morocco —  A fiery head-on collision between a semitrailer truck and a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco on Friday killed 33 people and injured seven, according to the state news agency and local news media reports. The crash took place just before sunrise at 7 a.m. in the Chbika district, near Tan-Tan, a southern desert city, the news agency reported. A video posted by the French-language newspaper L’Economiste shows the flaming wreckage of the tour bus, which caught fire after a collision with what the newspaper identified as a tanker truck carrying hydrocarbons. The video shows people wandering around the burning hulk in a desert landscape.

Answer: bus

<hl> RABAT, Morocco — A fiery head-on collision between a semitrailer truck and a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco on Friday killed 33 people and injured seven, according to the state news agency and local news media reports. <hl> The crash took place just before sunrise at 7 a.m. in the Chbika district, near Tan-Tan, a southern desert city, the news agency reported. A video posted by the French-language newspaper L’Economiste shows the flaming wreckage of the tour bus, which caught fire after a collision with what the newspaper identified as a tanker truck carrying hydrocarbons. The video shows people wandering around the burning hulk in a desert landscape.

RABAT, Morocco — A fiery head-on collision between a semitrailer truck and a <hl> bus <hl> carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco on Friday killed 33 people and injured seven, according to the state news agency and local news media reports. The crash took place just before sunrise at 7 a.m. in the Chbika district, near Tan-Tan, a southern desert city, the news agency reported. A video posted by the French-language newspaper L’Economiste shows the flaming wreckage of the tour bus, which caught fire after a collision with what the newspaper identified as a tanker truck carrying hydrocarbons. The video shows people wandering around the burning hulk in a desert landscape.


Question: What is the name of the church's Central Atlantic Conference minister?

The church’s boycott resolution reflects what supporters call the growing momentum of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement, which seeks to pressure Israel economically over the long-paralyzed Middle East peace process. The church said in a statement that it “considers Tuesday’s actions a next step in the U.C.C.’s involvement with peace in the Middle East.” The Rev. John Deckenback, conference minister of the church’s Central Atlantic Conference, which submitted the boycott resolution, called the outcome a reflection of the church’s “spirit of love for both Israelis and Palestinians.”

Answer: Rev. John Deckenback

The church’s boycott resolution reflects what supporters call the growing momentum of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement, which seeks to pressure Israel economically over the long-paralyzed Middle East peace process. The church said in a statement that it “considers Tuesday’s actions a next step in the U.C.C.’s involvement with peace in the Middle East.” <hl> The Rev. John Deckenback , conference minister of the church’s Central Atlantic Conference, which submitted the boycott resolution, called the outcome a reflection of the church’s “spirit of love for both Israelis and Palestinians.” <hl>

The church’s boycott resolution reflects what supporters call the growing momentum of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement, which seeks to pressure Israel economically over the long-paralyzed Middle East peace process. The church said in a statement that it “considers Tuesday’s actions a next step in the U.C.C.’s involvement with peace in the Middle East.” The <hl> Rev. John Deckenback <hl>, conference minister of the church’s Central Atlantic Conference, which submitted the boycott resolution, called the outcome a reflection of the church’s “spirit of love for both Israelis and Palestinians.”

The <hl> Rev. John Deckenback <hl> , conference minister of the church’s Central Atlantic Conference, which submitted the boycott resolution, called the outcome a reflection of the church’s “spirit of love for both Israelis and Palestinians.”


Question: What did Madonna do for the album which arrived Tuesday?

Madonna was perfectly turned out and running nearly an hour late for an interview at her Upper East Side home on Wednesday evening. She looked tense as she apologized. “I’m late for everything now,” she said. She added that she has been in a rush since December, when a hacker put unfinished songs online from her new album, “Rebel Heart”; a suspect has been indicted in Israel. Madonna’s immediate response was to release the finished, and much improved, versions of six songs for sale; they zoomed into the top 10 worldwide. She also worked frantically to finish the rest of the album, which arrives on Tuesday. It’s at once familiar — full of love, dancing, empowerment, blasphemy and raunch — and up-to-the-minute, made with a huge number of collaborators and tweaked by multiple hands under Madonna’s constant supervision. “I intended to think about things, choose things more slowly — the whole process,” she said. “Then I got forced into putting everything out, and now I’m trying to catch up with myself.”

Answer: She also worked frantically to finish the rest of the album

Madonna was perfectly turned out and running nearly an hour late for an interview at her Upper East Side home on Wednesday evening. She looked tense as she apologized. “I’m late for everything now,” she said. She added that she has been in a rush since December, when a hacker put unfinished songs online from her new album, “Rebel Heart”; a suspect has been indicted in Israel. Madonna’s immediate response was to release the finished, and much improved, versions of six songs for sale; they zoomed into the top 10 worldwide. <hl> She also worked frantically to finish the rest of the album , which arrives on Tuesday. <hl> It’s at once familiar — full of love, dancing, empowerment, blasphemy and raunch — and up-to-the-minute, made with a huge number of collaborators and tweaked by multiple hands under Madonna’s constant supervision. “I intended to think about things, choose things more slowly — the whole process,” she said. “Then I got forced into putting everything out, and now I’m trying to catch up with myself.”

Madonna was perfectly turned out and running nearly an hour late for an interview at her Upper East Side home on Wednesday evening. She looked tense as she apologized. “I’m late for everything now,” she said. She added that she has been in a rush since December, when a hacker put unfinished songs online from her new album, “Rebel Heart”; a suspect has been indicted in Israel. Madonna’s immediate response was to release the finished, and much improved, versions of six songs for sale; they zoomed into the top 10 worldwide. <hl> She also worked frantically to finish the rest of the album <hl>, which arrives on Tuesday. It’s at once familiar — full of love, dancing, empowerment, blasphemy and raunch — and up-to-the-minute, made with a huge number of collaborators and tweaked by multiple hands under Madonna’s constant supervision. “I intended to think about things, choose things more slowly — the whole process,” she said. “Then I got forced into putting everything out, and now I’m trying to catch up with myself.”

<hl> She also worked frantically to finish the rest of the album <hl> , which arrives on Tuesday.


Question: What country was the movie filmed in?

Before long, the men are tramping through the desert, where step by step, over one and then another crest, they walk and periodically speak, sharing meals and assorted dangers. With the director of photography Guillaume Deffontaines, Mr. Oelhoffen conveys the striking, multicolored glories of this rough landscape, with all its sun-shot gradations of red and brown, without descending into picture-postcard banality. (The movie was shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.) Many of the movie’s most effective scenes involve the men just walking through this extraordinary landscape, the warring splendor and harshness of their surroundings — equally inviting and foreboding — as seemingly at odds as the attraction-repulsion that initially defines Daru and Mohamed’s relationship.

Answer: Morocco

Before long, the men are tramping through the desert, where step by step, over one and then another crest, they walk and periodically speak, sharing meals and assorted dangers. With the director of photography Guillaume Deffontaines, Mr. Oelhoffen conveys the striking, multicolored glories of this rough landscape, with all its sun-shot gradations of red and brown, without descending into picture-postcard banality. <hl> (The movie was shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco .) <hl> Many of the movie’s most effective scenes involve the men just walking through this extraordinary landscape, the warring splendor and harshness of their surroundings — equally inviting and foreboding — as seemingly at odds as the attraction-repulsion that initially defines Daru and Mohamed’s relationship.

Before long, the men are tramping through the desert, where step by step, over one and then another crest, they walk and periodically speak, sharing meals and assorted dangers. With the director of photography Guillaume Deffontaines, Mr. Oelhoffen conveys the striking, multicolored glories of this rough landscape, with all its sun-shot gradations of red and brown, without descending into picture-postcard banality. (The movie was shot in the Atlas Mountains of <hl> Morocco <hl>.) Many of the movie’s most effective scenes involve the men just walking through this extraordinary landscape, the warring splendor and harshness of their surroundings — equally inviting and foreboding — as seemingly at odds as the attraction-repulsion that initially defines Daru and Mohamed’s relationship.

(The movie was shot in the Atlas Mountains of <hl> Morocco <hl> .)


Question: Where does Kenneth Lieberthal work?

The political implications of the crisis will depend “on how much farther this will go, what measures the government will still deploy to deal with it and how it is explained to those who are losing money,” said Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a scholar of Chinese politics at the Brookings Institution and a former senior director for Asia on the United States’ National Security Council.

Answer: Brookings Institution

The political implications of the crisis will depend “on how much farther this will go, what measures the government will still deploy to deal with it and how it is explained to those who are losing money,” said Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a scholar of Chinese politics at <hl> the Brookings Institution and a former senior director for Asia on the United States’ National Security Council. <hl>

The political implications of the crisis will depend “on how much farther this will go, what measures the government will still deploy to deal with it and how it is explained to those who are losing money,” said Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a scholar of Chinese politics at the <hl> Brookings Institution <hl> and a former senior director for Asia on the United States’ National Security Council.


Question: Around how many residents are spread across three docks?

$1,033 SETTING: This floating house is on Lake Union, a freshwater lake in the middle of Seattle. The neighborhood, Eastlake, is a mix of dockside and waterfront communities and conventional single-family houses and condos on land. This particular house is in the lake’s southernmost floating house community, which has about 50 residences spread across three docks. Shops and restaurants are concentrated in and around Eastlake Avenue, not far from the water; downtown Seattle is about four miles away. A six-mile-long trail loops around the lake, stopping at pocket parks along the way.

Answer: Eastlake Avenue

$1,033 SETTING: This floating house is on Lake Union, a freshwater lake in the middle of Seattle. The neighborhood, Eastlake, is a mix of dockside and waterfront communities and conventional single-family houses and condos on land. This particular house is in the lake’s southernmost floating house community, which has about 50 residences spread across three docks. <hl> Shops and restaurants are concentrated in and around Eastlake Avenue , not far from the water; downtown Seattle is about four miles away. <hl> A six-mile-long trail loops around the lake, stopping at pocket parks along the way.

$1,033 SETTING: This floating house is on Lake Union, a freshwater lake in the middle of Seattle. The neighborhood, Eastlake, is a mix of dockside and waterfront communities and conventional single-family houses and condos on land. This particular house is in the lake’s southernmost floating house community, which has about 50 residences spread across three docks. Shops and restaurants are concentrated in and around <hl> Eastlake Avenue <hl>, not far from the water; downtown Seattle is about four miles away. A six-mile-long trail loops around the lake, stopping at pocket parks along the way.

Shops and restaurants are concentrated in and around <hl> Eastlake Avenue <hl> , not far from the water; downtown Seattle is about four miles away.


Question: Who plays Balducci?

One day, a gendarme, Balducci (Vincent Martin), rides up on horseback to Daru’s schoolhouse with an Arab prisoner, Mohamed (Reda Kateb), on foot. Balducci explains that the prisoner, who’s never named in the Camus story, has cut the throat of a cousin (“like a sheep”) and now Daru needs to take Mohamed to another town for some French justice and certain death. Daru refuses, but when Balducci rides off, the teacher is left with Mohamed and a quandary. After giving Mohamed dinner and a bed, and after a restive night with a gun by his side, Daru wakes to tell Mohamed that he can leave of his own accord. This seems as if it should be an easy call, but Daru’s assumptions about free will don’t pan out. Mohamed refuses to flee.

Answer: Vincent Martin

<hl> One day, a gendarme, Balducci ( Vincent Martin ), rides up on horseback to Daru’s schoolhouse with an Arab prisoner, Mohamed (Reda Kateb), on foot. <hl> Balducci explains that the prisoner, who’s never named in the Camus story, has cut the throat of a cousin (“like a sheep”) and now Daru needs to take Mohamed to another town for some French justice and certain death. Daru refuses, but when Balducci rides off, the teacher is left with Mohamed and a quandary. After giving Mohamed dinner and a bed, and after a restive night with a gun by his side, Daru wakes to tell Mohamed that he can leave of his own accord. This seems as if it should be an easy call, but Daru’s assumptions about free will don’t pan out. Mohamed refuses to flee.

One day, a gendarme, Balducci (<hl> Vincent Martin <hl>), rides up on horseback to Daru’s schoolhouse with an Arab prisoner, Mohamed (Reda Kateb), on foot. Balducci explains that the prisoner, who’s never named in the Camus story, has cut the throat of a cousin (“like a sheep”) and now Daru needs to take Mohamed to another town for some French justice and certain death. Daru refuses, but when Balducci rides off, the teacher is left with Mohamed and a quandary. After giving Mohamed dinner and a bed, and after a restive night with a gun by his side, Daru wakes to tell Mohamed that he can leave of his own accord. This seems as if it should be an easy call, but Daru’s assumptions about free will don’t pan out. Mohamed refuses to flee.

One day, a gendarme, Balducci ( <hl> Vincent Martin <hl> ), rides up on horseback to Daru’s schoolhouse with an Arab prisoner, Mohamed (Reda Kateb), on foot.


Question: What period is the image of Buddha from?

Technically, they’re demons, but they’re also fantastical fun, as are many of Buddhism’s supporting players, with their folk-art additives. These include guardian ogres with faces like pugs with tusks and nymphs with half-bird, half human bodies who, with a pretty dance and a flutter of stained-glass wings, bid you goodbye at the end of the show. But before you leave, there are a couple of things worth an extra look. One, in a case between the two nymphs, is a 17th-century gilded bronze image of the seated Buddha. With his short neck, cool shape-up haircut, plain off-the-shoulder robe, and round face bent forward and down, he’s as close as any Myanmar work here comes to embodying a Buddhist physical ideal.

Answer: 17th-century

Technically, they’re demons, but they’re also fantastical fun, as are many of Buddhism’s supporting players, with their folk-art additives. These include guardian ogres with faces like pugs with tusks and nymphs with half-bird, half human bodies who, with a pretty dance and a flutter of stained-glass wings, bid you goodbye at the end of the show. But before you leave, there are a couple of things worth an extra look. <hl> One, in a case between the two nymphs, is a 17th-century gilded bronze image of the seated Buddha. <hl> With his short neck, cool shape-up haircut, plain off-the-shoulder robe, and round face bent forward and down, he’s as close as any Myanmar work here comes to embodying a Buddhist physical ideal.

Technically, they’re demons, but they’re also fantastical fun, as are many of Buddhism’s supporting players, with their folk-art additives. These include guardian ogres with faces like pugs with tusks and nymphs with half-bird, half human bodies who, with a pretty dance and a flutter of stained-glass wings, bid you goodbye at the end of the show. But before you leave, there are a couple of things worth an extra look. One, in a case between the two nymphs, is a <hl> 17th-century <hl> gilded bronze image of the seated Buddha. With his short neck, cool shape-up haircut, plain off-the-shoulder robe, and round face bent forward and down, he’s as close as any Myanmar work here comes to embodying a Buddhist physical ideal.


Question: Which team is hasn't lost any games yet this season?

PICK: COLTS Panthers (3-0) at Buccaneers (1-2) 1 p.m. Line: Panthers by 3 The Panthers are undefeated despite playing most of the time without Luke Kuechly or Kelvin Benjamin. The team has rarely been associated with such perseverance, but Cam Newton has the Panthers just four wins short of the team’s division-leading total from last season. The team has endured another loss, with defensive end Charles Johnson sidelined, but a trade for Jared Allen should pay dividends soon even if he is limited this week.

Answer: Panthers

<hl> PICK: COLTS Panthers (3-0) at Buccaneers (1-2) 1 p.m. <hl> Line: Panthers by 3 The Panthers are undefeated despite playing most of the time without Luke Kuechly or Kelvin Benjamin. The team has rarely been associated with such perseverance, but Cam Newton has the Panthers just four wins short of the team’s division-leading total from last season. The team has endured another loss, with defensive end Charles Johnson sidelined, but a trade for Jared Allen should pay dividends soon even if he is limited this week.

PICK: COLTS <hl> Panthers <hl> (3-0) at Buccaneers (1-2) 1 p.m. Line: Panthers by 3 The Panthers are undefeated despite playing most of the time without Luke Kuechly or Kelvin Benjamin. The team has rarely been associated with such perseverance, but Cam Newton has the Panthers just four wins short of the team’s division-leading total from last season. The team has endured another loss, with defensive end Charles Johnson sidelined, but a trade for Jared Allen should pay dividends soon even if he is limited this week.


Question: Sometimes Marcelo does a double, what does that mean to him?

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: Twenty-four hours

Twenty-four hours if you take a double.

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. <hl> Twenty-four hours if you take a double. <hl> After a while, the adrenaline that juices you when you’re new — when you’re still keeping a tally of the lives you’ve saved — disappears. You just do the job. “High speed and low drag,” Aguirre told me when I called. “Please ignore the siren,” he said. “We’re going to a call.” A stroke. Nothing to get excited about. Coffee sustains him. He stays clean. Some guys, he said, use Provigil, but that’s prescribed. “For shift-work disorder,” he said.

The #nightshift hashtag is especially well populated by the armed professions and the healing ones. Sometimes they are almost one and the same, as in the case of @armedmedic3153, a.k.a. Marcelo Aguirre, a paramedic in Newark and suburban New Jersey. He owns an AR-15, a 9-millimeter and a shotgun, but the only thing he shoots on the night shift is his camera. He works nights so he can study days; he wants to be 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. <hl> Twenty-four hours <hl> 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: What is going to happen on Tuesday?

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — As a young girl in Colorado, April Heinrichs stuffed copies of Reader’s Digest into her socks as shin guards and slept in her cleats. “Why not?” Heinrichs said. She became a fierce, pioneering player and has assumed as many vital roles as a coach and futurist as anyone in women’s soccer in the United States. Her current job, as technical director for the American women’s national teams, is to find the next Mia Hamm or Abby Wambach and keep the United States in its customary spot among the best teams in the world. The United States trails only Germany in the FIFA world rankings, but the Americans have not won a Women’s World Cup since 1999. And their chances in the current tournament seem uncertain as a final group match approaches, against Nigeria here Tuesday.

Answer: current tournament seem uncertain as a final group match approaches, against Nigeria here Tuesday.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — As a young girl in Colorado, April Heinrichs stuffed copies of Reader’s Digest into her socks as shin guards and slept in her cleats. “Why not?” Heinrichs said. She became a fierce, pioneering player and has assumed as many vital roles as a coach and futurist as anyone in women’s soccer in the United States. Her current job, as technical director for the American women’s national teams, is to find the next Mia Hamm or Abby Wambach and keep the United States in its customary spot among the best teams in the world. The United States trails only Germany in the FIFA world rankings, but the Americans have not won a Women’s World Cup since 1999. <hl> And their chances in the current tournament seem uncertain as a final group match approaches, against Nigeria here Tuesday. <hl>

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — As a young girl in Colorado, April Heinrichs stuffed copies of Reader’s Digest into her socks as shin guards and slept in her cleats. “Why not?” Heinrichs said. She became a fierce, pioneering player and has assumed as many vital roles as a coach and futurist as anyone in women’s soccer in the United States. Her current job, as technical director for the American women’s national teams, is to find the next Mia Hamm or Abby Wambach and keep the United States in its customary spot among the best teams in the world. The United States trails only Germany in the FIFA world rankings, but the Americans have not won a Women’s World Cup since 1999. And their chances in the <hl> current tournament seem uncertain as a final group match approaches, against Nigeria here Tuesday. <hl>


Question: Did Dayton beat the Broncos?

It was an ugly game — the teams combined for three baskets in the first 11 minutes of play — that eventually gave way to something of an encore for the Dayton fans who had watched their team rally to beat the Broncos on Wednesday. As time ticked off the clock, their cheers boomed off the rafters of the arena. At the beginning of the second half, when the game was tightly contested, the sophomore guard Kyle Davis picked off an inbounds pass, raced downcourt and laid the ball in the basket. The play fueled a rally that gave Dayton its second win in three days. The Flyers will play third-seeded Oklahoma on Sunday evening in the round of 32.

Answer: beat the Broncos

<hl> It was an ugly game — the teams combined for three baskets in the first 11 minutes of play — that eventually gave way to something of an encore for the Dayton fans who had watched their team rally to beat the Broncos on Wednesday. <hl> As time ticked off the clock, their cheers boomed off the rafters of the arena. At the beginning of the second half, when the game was tightly contested, the sophomore guard Kyle Davis picked off an inbounds pass, raced downcourt and laid the ball in the basket. The play fueled a rally that gave Dayton its second win in three days. The Flyers will play third-seeded Oklahoma on Sunday evening in the round of 32.

It was an ugly game — the teams combined for three baskets in the first 11 minutes of play — that eventually gave way to something of an encore for the Dayton fans who had watched their team rally to <hl> beat the Broncos <hl> on Wednesday. As time ticked off the clock, their cheers boomed off the rafters of the arena. At the beginning of the second half, when the game was tightly contested, the sophomore guard Kyle Davis picked off an inbounds pass, raced downcourt and laid the ball in the basket. The play fueled a rally that gave Dayton its second win in three days. The Flyers will play third-seeded Oklahoma on Sunday evening in the round of 32.


Question: How did Rousey start the fight?

Rousey started the fight on the attack, perhaps looking for another quick win. But she found herself chasing Holm around the Octagon, all the time taking hard punches and kicks. She struggled to get Holm on the ground, thanks in part to Holm’s superior reach. Even when Rousey began to apply her signature armbar, Holm eluded it and continued the barrage. A nasty kick to the head finished Rousey off. Rousey was taken to a hospital to be checked after the fight and did not make a postfight statement. But in a brief post on Instagram on Monday, she wrote, “I’m going to take a little bit of time, but I’ll be back.”

Answer: on the attack

<hl> Rousey started the fight on the attack , perhaps looking for another quick win. <hl> But she found herself chasing Holm around the Octagon, all the time taking hard punches and kicks. She struggled to get Holm on the ground, thanks in part to Holm’s superior reach. Even when Rousey began to apply her signature armbar, Holm eluded it and continued the barrage. A nasty kick to the head finished Rousey off. Rousey was taken to a hospital to be checked after the fight and did not make a postfight statement. But in a brief post on Instagram on Monday, she wrote, “I’m going to take a little bit of time, but I’ll be back.”

Rousey started the fight <hl> on the attack <hl>, perhaps looking for another quick win. But she found herself chasing Holm around the Octagon, all the time taking hard punches and kicks. She struggled to get Holm on the ground, thanks in part to Holm’s superior reach. Even when Rousey began to apply her signature armbar, Holm eluded it and continued the barrage. A nasty kick to the head finished Rousey off. Rousey was taken to a hospital to be checked after the fight and did not make a postfight statement. But in a brief post on Instagram on Monday, she wrote, “I’m going to take a little bit of time, but I’ll be back.”

Rousey started the fight <hl> on the attack <hl> , perhaps looking for another quick win.


Question: Why use snapchat

The book begins at the moment when everything collapses. A box of incriminating correspondence — a deceptively mild-looking thing — arrives at the Shanleys’ home, poised to spray shrapnel everywhere. Sent by Jack’s most recent ex-mistress, it contains dozens of printed pages of filthy emails delineating exactly what the couple wanted to do to each other and how. (Adultery Rule No. 1: Do not use email! What do you think Snapchat is for?) Unfortunately, when it arrives, Kay is the only one home. She opens it, thinking it might be an early birthday present.

Answer: Adultery Rule No. 1: Do not use email

The book begins at the moment when everything collapses. A box of incriminating correspondence — a deceptively mild-looking thing — arrives at the Shanleys’ home, poised to spray shrapnel everywhere. Sent by Jack’s most recent ex-mistress, it contains dozens of printed pages of filthy emails delineating exactly what the couple wanted to do to each other and how. <hl> ( Adultery Rule No. 1: Do not use email ! <hl> What do you think Snapchat is for?) Unfortunately, when it arrives, Kay is the only one home. She opens it, thinking it might be an early birthday present.

The book begins at the moment when everything collapses. A box of incriminating correspondence — a deceptively mild-looking thing — arrives at the Shanleys’ home, poised to spray shrapnel everywhere. Sent by Jack’s most recent ex-mistress, it contains dozens of printed pages of filthy emails delineating exactly what the couple wanted to do to each other and how. (<hl> Adultery Rule No. 1: Do not use email <hl>! What do you think Snapchat is for?) Unfortunately, when it arrives, Kay is the only one home. She opens it, thinking it might be an early birthday present.

( <hl> Adultery Rule No. 1: Do not use email <hl> !


Question: How many Americans smoked marijuana in the past year?

The number of marijuana users in Mexico is believed to be small. One 2011 drug-use survey estimated that 2 percent of Mexicans had smoked marijuana in the past year. Although that figure is probably low, it is less than the 7.5 percent of people in the United States who said in a 2013 survey that they had used marijuana in the previous month. If Mexicans are allowed to grow and consume their own marijuana, casual users will not have to commit a crime to obtain it. Now, marijuana users are currently vulnerable to extortion by the police and are locked up by the thousands every year on charges of consumption and possession. “There is an enormous institutional and social cost to enforcing the laws against marijuana,” said Ms. Pérez Correa, whose surveys of state and federal prisons suggest that 60 percent of the inmates sentenced for drug crimes were convicted in cases involving marijuana. “How many resources are being used up to reduce these low-impact crimes?” The ruling on Wednesday was the culmination of an effort to change the law by four members of a prominent Mexican anticrime group, Mexico United Against Crime.

Answer: 7.5 percent

The number of marijuana users in Mexico is believed to be small. One 2011 drug-use survey estimated that 2 percent of Mexicans had smoked marijuana in the past year. <hl> Although that figure is probably low, it is less than the 7.5 percent of people in the United States who said in a 2013 survey that they had used marijuana in the previous month. <hl> If Mexicans are allowed to grow and consume their own marijuana, casual users will not have to commit a crime to obtain it. Now, marijuana users are currently vulnerable to extortion by the police and are locked up by the thousands every year on charges of consumption and possession. “There is an enormous institutional and social cost to enforcing the laws against marijuana,” said Ms. Pérez Correa, whose surveys of state and federal prisons suggest that 60 percent of the inmates sentenced for drug crimes were convicted in cases involving marijuana. “How many resources are being used up to reduce these low-impact crimes?” The ruling on Wednesday was the culmination of an effort to change the law by four members of a prominent Mexican anticrime group, Mexico United Against Crime.

The number of marijuana users in Mexico is believed to be small. One 2011 drug-use survey estimated that 2 percent of Mexicans had smoked marijuana in the past year. Although that figure is probably low, it is less than the <hl> 7.5 percent <hl> of people in the United States who said in a 2013 survey that they had used marijuana in the previous month. If Mexicans are allowed to grow and consume their own marijuana, casual users will not have to commit a crime to obtain it. Now, marijuana users are currently vulnerable to extortion by the police and are locked up by the thousands every year on charges of consumption and possession. “There is an enormous institutional and social cost to enforcing the laws against marijuana,” said Ms. Pérez Correa, whose surveys of state and federal prisons suggest that 60 percent of the inmates sentenced for drug crimes were convicted in cases involving marijuana. “How many resources are being used up to reduce these low-impact crimes?” The ruling on Wednesday was the culmination of an effort to change the law by four members of a prominent Mexican anticrime group, Mexico United Against Crime.


Question: Is retroactively installing rail lines cheap or expensive?

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: very expensive

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. <hl> “But putting that kind of rail access in retroactively is very expensive .” <hl> 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 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 <hl> very expensive <hl>.” 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.

“But putting that kind of rail access in retroactively is <hl> very expensive <hl> .”


Question: What is the age of Ms. Berman?

Ms. Berman, 34, will keep her name. She works in New York as the finance director and a senior adviser for the campaign to re-elect Senator Gillibrand in 2018. She graduated from Wesleyan. The bride’s father is a trial lawyer in New York. Mr. Schrock, 29, is a manager in the internal consulting group at Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, in New York. In May, he received an M.B.A. from Cornell, where he also received a doctoral degree in pharmacology. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

Answer: 34

Ms. Berman, 34 , will keep her name.

<hl> Ms. Berman, 34 , will keep her name. <hl> She works in New York as the finance director and a senior adviser for the campaign to re-elect Senator Gillibrand in 2018. She graduated from Wesleyan. The bride’s father is a trial lawyer in New York. Mr. Schrock, 29, is a manager in the internal consulting group at Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, in New York. In May, he received an M.B.A. from Cornell, where he also received a doctoral degree in pharmacology. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

Ms. Berman, <hl> 34 <hl>, will keep her name. She works in New York as the finance director and a senior adviser for the campaign to re-elect Senator Gillibrand in 2018. She graduated from Wesleyan. The bride’s father is a trial lawyer in New York. Mr. Schrock, 29, is a manager in the internal consulting group at Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, in New York. In May, he received an M.B.A. from Cornell, where he also received a doctoral degree in pharmacology. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

Ms. Berman, <hl> 34 <hl> , will keep her name.


Question: What two weapons was used to break down a door?

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.

Answer: sledgehammer and a crowbar

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. <hl> The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar ; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. <hl> When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a <hl> sledgehammer and a crowbar <hl>; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.

The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a <hl> sledgehammer and a crowbar <hl> ; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready.


Question: Which team did Mattingly go onto coach after coaching the Yankees?

After retiring as a player, Mattingly was successful as a coach for the Yankees. In 2004, when he was the hitting coach, the team belted 242 homers, the most of any Yankee team in history. Now, of course, he’s the manager of the Dodgers, which strikes me as ridiculous — wrong shade of blue. After Joe Torre stepped down as manager of the Yankees, I favored Mattingly over Joe Girardi to replace him. Girardi is like the new stadium — he’s fine, spiffy, a good face for the organization. But not for the fans who saw Mattingly in his prime.

Answer: Dodgers

After retiring as a player, Mattingly was successful as a coach for the Yankees. In 2004, when he was the hitting coach, the team belted 242 homers, the most of any Yankee team in history. <hl> Now, of course, he’s the manager of the Dodgers , which strikes me as ridiculous — wrong shade of blue. <hl> After Joe Torre stepped down as manager of the Yankees, I favored Mattingly over Joe Girardi to replace him. Girardi is like the new stadium — he’s fine, spiffy, a good face for the organization. But not for the fans who saw Mattingly in his prime.

After retiring as a player, Mattingly was successful as a coach for the Yankees. In 2004, when he was the hitting coach, the team belted 242 homers, the most of any Yankee team in history. Now, of course, he’s the manager of the <hl> Dodgers <hl>, which strikes me as ridiculous — wrong shade of blue. After Joe Torre stepped down as manager of the Yankees, I favored Mattingly over Joe Girardi to replace him. Girardi is like the new stadium — he’s fine, spiffy, a good face for the organization. But not for the fans who saw Mattingly in his prime.

Now, of course, he’s the manager of the <hl> Dodgers <hl> , which strikes me as ridiculous — wrong shade of blue.


Question: What is on display at the University of Connecticut's Benton museum of art until August 9?

STORRS William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut “Remembering the Vietnam War.” Through Aug. 9. “Speak Up! Speak Out! Bread and Puppet Theater.” Through Oct. 11. Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 4:30 p.m. William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 245 Glenbrook Road. benton.uconn.edu; 860-486-4520. WATERBURY Mattatuck Museum “The Coast and the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America.” Through July 12. “The Serious and the Smirk: Portraits From the Permanent Collection.” “Fred Otnes: Collage Paintings.” Through July 12. “Signature Moments: Historic Letters and Documents.” Through Nov. 15. $6 and $7; members and children under 16, free. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main Street. 203-753-0381; mattatuckmuseum.org. WESTPORT Westport Arts Center “Solos 2015,” group show. Through June 27. “East Meets Westport: Marton Nemes.” Through June 27. Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Westport Arts Center, 51 Riverside Avenue. 203-222-7070; westportartscenter.org. WILTON Wilton Historical Society “In the Making: Historic Inspirations/New Quilts,” Denyse Schmidt. “One Loop at a Time: June Myles’s Hooked Rugs.” Through Oct. 3. Suggested donation, $5. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wilton Historical Society, 224 Danbury Road. wiltonhistorical.org; 203-762-7257.

Answer: Remembering the Vietnam War

<hl> STORRS William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut “ Remembering the Vietnam War .” <hl> Through Aug. 9. “Speak Up! Speak Out! Bread and Puppet Theater.” Through Oct. 11. Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 4:30 p.m. William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 245 Glenbrook Road. benton.uconn.edu; 860-486-4520. WATERBURY Mattatuck Museum “The Coast and the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America.” Through July 12. “The Serious and the Smirk: Portraits From the Permanent Collection.” “Fred Otnes: Collage Paintings.” Through July 12. “Signature Moments: Historic Letters and Documents.” Through Nov. 15. $6 and $7; members and children under 16, free. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main Street. 203-753-0381; mattatuckmuseum.org. WESTPORT Westport Arts Center “Solos 2015,” group show. Through June 27. “East Meets Westport: Marton Nemes.” Through June 27. Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Westport Arts Center, 51 Riverside Avenue. 203-222-7070; westportartscenter.org. WILTON Wilton Historical Society “In the Making: Historic Inspirations/New Quilts,” Denyse Schmidt. “One Loop at a Time: June Myles’s Hooked Rugs.” Through Oct. 3. Suggested donation, $5. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wilton Historical Society, 224 Danbury Road. wiltonhistorical.org; 203-762-7257.

STORRS William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut “<hl> Remembering the Vietnam War <hl>.” Through Aug. 9. “Speak Up! Speak Out! Bread and Puppet Theater.” Through Oct. 11. Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 4:30 p.m. William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 245 Glenbrook Road. benton.uconn.edu; 860-486-4520. WATERBURY Mattatuck Museum “The Coast and the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America.” Through July 12. “The Serious and the Smirk: Portraits From the Permanent Collection.” “Fred Otnes: Collage Paintings.” Through July 12. “Signature Moments: Historic Letters and Documents.” Through Nov. 15. $6 and $7; members and children under 16, free. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main Street. 203-753-0381; mattatuckmuseum.org. WESTPORT Westport Arts Center “Solos 2015,” group show. Through June 27. “East Meets Westport: Marton Nemes.” Through June 27. Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Westport Arts Center, 51 Riverside Avenue. 203-222-7070; westportartscenter.org. WILTON Wilton Historical Society “In the Making: Historic Inspirations/New Quilts,” Denyse Schmidt. “One Loop at a Time: June Myles’s Hooked Rugs.” Through Oct. 3. Suggested donation, $5. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wilton Historical Society, 224 Danbury Road. wiltonhistorical.org; 203-762-7257.

STORRS William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut “ <hl> Remembering the Vietnam War <hl> .”


Question: Who are her parents?

Dr. Rhein (left), 45, is a veterinarian in Huntington and the owner of Dix Hills Animal Hospital in Dix Hills, N.Y. She graduated and also received a veterinary medicine degree from Cornell. She is a daughter of Carol Heller Rhein and Dr. Harvey Rhein of Dix Hills. Her father retired as the owner of the veterinary clinic that she now owns. Her mother retired as an owner of A Special Place, a women’s clothing boutique in Huntington. Ms. Stark-Rhein, 40, is a psychotherapist in the Smithtown, N.Y., clinic of New Horizon Counseling Center. She graduated from the University of Maryland and received a master’s degree in social welfare from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Answer: Carol Heller Rhein and Dr. Harvey Rhein

Dr. Rhein (left), 45, is a veterinarian in Huntington and the owner of Dix Hills Animal Hospital in Dix Hills, N.Y. She graduated and also received a veterinary medicine degree from Cornell. <hl> She is a daughter of Carol Heller Rhein and Dr. Harvey Rhein of Dix Hills. <hl> Her father retired as the owner of the veterinary clinic that she now owns. Her mother retired as an owner of A Special Place, a women’s clothing boutique in Huntington. Ms. Stark-Rhein, 40, is a psychotherapist in the Smithtown, N.Y., clinic of New Horizon Counseling Center. She graduated from the University of Maryland and received a master’s degree in social welfare from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Dr. Rhein (left), 45, is a veterinarian in Huntington and the owner of Dix Hills Animal Hospital in Dix Hills, N.Y. She graduated and also received a veterinary medicine degree from Cornell. She is a daughter of <hl> Carol Heller Rhein and Dr. Harvey Rhein <hl> of Dix Hills. Her father retired as the owner of the veterinary clinic that she now owns. Her mother retired as an owner of A Special Place, a women’s clothing boutique in Huntington. Ms. Stark-Rhein, 40, is a psychotherapist in the Smithtown, N.Y., clinic of New Horizon Counseling Center. She graduated from the University of Maryland and received a master’s degree in social welfare from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.


Question: Who is Matt Harvey's favorite hockey team?

PHILADELPHIA — Matt Harvey had not exactly had a good day at work. He felt off. He struggled stringing together what would normally be typical pitch sequences. He made two critical outs at the plate. He took his first loss in six starts this season. And the Rangers, his favorite hockey team, were heading to overtime in an elimination playoff game. Understandably, he might have wanted to go blow off steam and watch the end of the game. He was standing at his locker late Friday night when he was asked whether he had checked the score of the game yet. “No,” Harvey said gruffly. “I don’t know why you’re asking me that question.” And he walked away. The Mets lost to the Phillies, the last-place team in the National League East, 3-1. Harvey threw six innings, allowing three runs and recording four strikeouts. He might have gotten by with a start like that if Cole Hamels, the Phillies’ starter, had not stifled the Mets for seven strong innings.

Answer: Rangers

PHILADELPHIA — Matt Harvey had not exactly had a good day at work. He felt off. He struggled stringing together what would normally be typical pitch sequences. He made two critical outs at the plate. He took his first loss in six starts this season. <hl> And the Rangers , his favorite hockey team, were heading to overtime in an elimination playoff game. <hl> Understandably, he might have wanted to go blow off steam and watch the end of the game. He was standing at his locker late Friday night when he was asked whether he had checked the score of the game yet. “No,” Harvey said gruffly. “I don’t know why you’re asking me that question.” And he walked away. The Mets lost to the Phillies, the last-place team in the National League East, 3-1. Harvey threw six innings, allowing three runs and recording four strikeouts. He might have gotten by with a start like that if Cole Hamels, the Phillies’ starter, had not stifled the Mets for seven strong innings.

PHILADELPHIA — Matt Harvey had not exactly had a good day at work. He felt off. He struggled stringing together what would normally be typical pitch sequences. He made two critical outs at the plate. He took his first loss in six starts this season. And the <hl> Rangers <hl>, his favorite hockey team, were heading to overtime in an elimination playoff game. Understandably, he might have wanted to go blow off steam and watch the end of the game. He was standing at his locker late Friday night when he was asked whether he had checked the score of the game yet. “No,” Harvey said gruffly. “I don’t know why you’re asking me that question.” And he walked away. The Mets lost to the Phillies, the last-place team in the National League East, 3-1. Harvey threw six innings, allowing three runs and recording four strikeouts. He might have gotten by with a start like that if Cole Hamels, the Phillies’ starter, had not stifled the Mets for seven strong innings.

And the <hl> Rangers <hl> , his favorite hockey team, were heading to overtime in an elimination playoff game.


Question: What are the initials of Erdogan's party?

One of the final guests interviewed in the Bugun TV studio during the raid was Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P. Mr. Demirtas called the move to seize the media group “mafia-like” behavior by Mr. Erdogan’s party, which is known by its Turkish initials, A.K.P. On Wednesday night, Mr. Erdogan suddenly claimed on live television that the opposition H.D.P. campaign was secretly being run by President Obama’s election team. Although the accusation was widely mocked on social networks, it reached many Turkish ears unchallenged. The raid was condemned as an attack on press freedom by opposition politicians, rights groups and European diplomats.

Answer: A.K.P.

<hl> One of the final guests interviewed in the Bugun TV studio during the raid was Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P. Mr. Demirtas called the move to seize the media group “mafia-like” behavior by Mr. Erdogan’s party, which is known by its Turkish initials, A.K.P. On Wednesday night, Mr. Erdogan suddenly claimed on live television that the opposition H.D.P. campaign was secretly being run by President Obama’s election team. <hl> Although the accusation was widely mocked on social networks, it reached many Turkish ears unchallenged. The raid was condemned as an attack on press freedom by opposition politicians, rights groups and European diplomats.

One of the final guests interviewed in the Bugun TV studio during the raid was Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or H.D.P. Mr. Demirtas called the move to seize the media group “mafia-like” behavior by Mr. Erdogan’s party, which is known by its Turkish initials, <hl> A.K.P. <hl> On Wednesday night, Mr. Erdogan suddenly claimed on live television that the opposition H.D.P. campaign was secretly being run by President Obama’s election team. Although the accusation was widely mocked on social networks, it reached many Turkish ears unchallenged. The raid was condemned as an attack on press freedom by opposition politicians, rights groups and European diplomats.


Question: In what theater did the School of American Ballet hold its Winter Ball?

The School of American Ballet held its annual Winter Ball on Monday night, and absolutely no one seemed to mind that it felt more like spring. In a cocktail area in the front of the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, guests primped and posed in floor-length gowns. Hair was sprayed to perfection, and many of the faces did not appear to move. A young crowd this was not. But perhaps the most surprising thing about the evening was that while David H. Koch and his wife, Julia, held court in one area of the lobby, Chelsea Clinton was in another. Ballet apparently makes for strange bedfellows. Mr. Koch, the conservative billionaire who oversees a well-funded political network, said he has met the Clintons before, including at a benefit last year for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Answer: David H. Koch Theater

The School of American Ballet held its annual Winter Ball on Monday night, and absolutely no one seemed to mind that it felt more like spring. <hl> In a cocktail area in the front of the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, guests primped and posed in floor-length gowns. <hl> Hair was sprayed to perfection, and many of the faces did not appear to move. A young crowd this was not. But perhaps the most surprising thing about the evening was that while David H. Koch and his wife, Julia, held court in one area of the lobby, Chelsea Clinton was in another. Ballet apparently makes for strange bedfellows. Mr. Koch, the conservative billionaire who oversees a well-funded political network, said he has met the Clintons before, including at a benefit last year for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The School of American Ballet held its annual Winter Ball on Monday night, and absolutely no one seemed to mind that it felt more like spring. In a cocktail area in the front of the <hl> David H. Koch Theater <hl> in Lincoln Center, guests primped and posed in floor-length gowns. Hair was sprayed to perfection, and many of the faces did not appear to move. A young crowd this was not. But perhaps the most surprising thing about the evening was that while David H. Koch and his wife, Julia, held court in one area of the lobby, Chelsea Clinton was in another. Ballet apparently makes for strange bedfellows. Mr. Koch, the conservative billionaire who oversees a well-funded political network, said he has met the Clintons before, including at a benefit last year for the Wildlife Conservation Society.


Question: How does he describe these issues, besides difficult?

First, these issues are difficult and personal, and I don’t presume that my approach is always right. Second, details matter. My closest gay friends are fairly secular. But I would be uncomfortable attending same-sex vows in the style of a Catholic mass — or being hired to photograph such a ceremony. I don’t think that discomfort should be grounds for shutting down a business. Well, that discomfort may seem religious, but segregationists felt justified by scripture too. They got over it; their churches got over it; so will yours.

Answer: personal

<hl> First, these issues are difficult and personal , and I don’t presume that my approach is always right. <hl> Second, details matter. My closest gay friends are fairly secular. But I would be uncomfortable attending same-sex vows in the style of a Catholic mass — or being hired to photograph such a ceremony. I don’t think that discomfort should be grounds for shutting down a business. Well, that discomfort may seem religious, but segregationists felt justified by scripture too. They got over it; their churches got over it; so will yours.

First, these issues are difficult and <hl> personal <hl>, and I don’t presume that my approach is always right. Second, details matter. My closest gay friends are fairly secular. But I would be uncomfortable attending same-sex vows in the style of a Catholic mass — or being hired to photograph such a ceremony. I don’t think that discomfort should be grounds for shutting down a business. Well, that discomfort may seem religious, but segregationists felt justified by scripture too. They got over it; their churches got over it; so will yours.

First, these issues are difficult and <hl> personal <hl> , and I don’t presume that my approach is always right.


Question: Who  taking the lead in protecting a pope who does not want to stay in his popemobile?

At 11, Francis will officially meet with President Obama, with topics likely to include climate change, income inequality and the refugee crisis in Europe.  The pope’s views on these issues have made him popular with non-Catholics. Francis will hold Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine for about 30,000 people at 4:15 p.m. The Secret Service is taking the lead in protecting a pope who does not want to stay in his popemobile. Live video from St. Matthew’s Cathedral and live updates of the papal visit. • Cybertruce?

Answer: The Secret Service

At 11, Francis will officially meet with President Obama, with topics likely to include climate change, income inequality and the refugee crisis in Europe. The pope’s views on these issues have made him popular with non-Catholics. Francis will hold Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine for about 30,000 people at 4:15 p.m. <hl> The Secret Service is taking the lead in protecting a pope who does not want to stay in his popemobile. <hl> Live video from St. Matthew’s Cathedral and live updates of the papal visit. • Cybertruce?

At 11, Francis will officially meet with President Obama, with topics likely to include climate change, income inequality and the refugee crisis in Europe. The pope’s views on these issues have made him popular with non-Catholics. Francis will hold Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine for about 30,000 people at 4:15 p.m. <hl> The Secret Service <hl> is taking the lead in protecting a pope who does not want to stay in his popemobile. Live video from St. Matthew’s Cathedral and live updates of the papal visit. • Cybertruce?


Question: What instrument was he writing his concerto for?

MARC-ANDRÉ DALBAVIE, composer: I just studied conducting with Boulez, but it had an enormous influence on my writing. In the beginning it wasn’t clear, but progressively in the 1990s, I started to understand what he was teaching me. Around ’95 and ’96, I was writing my concerto for violin and I was living in Rome, so I had less contact with Pierre. The less contact I had, the more I realized his influence. If you know his piece “Mémoriale,” it revolves around this E-flat and you don’t know if it’s a tonality or a gravity center. This idea also became for me very strong. It was a sort of post-atonal moment.

Answer: violin

MARC-ANDRÉ DALBAVIE, composer: I just studied conducting with Boulez, but it had an enormous influence on my writing. In the beginning it wasn’t clear, but progressively in the 1990s, I started to understand what he was teaching me. <hl> Around ’95 and ’96, I was writing my concerto for violin and I was living in Rome, so I had less contact with Pierre. <hl> The less contact I had, the more I realized his influence. If you know his piece “Mémoriale,” it revolves around this E-flat and you don’t know if it’s a tonality or a gravity center. This idea also became for me very strong. It was a sort of post-atonal moment.

MARC-ANDRÉ DALBAVIE, composer: I just studied conducting with Boulez, but it had an enormous influence on my writing. In the beginning it wasn’t clear, but progressively in the 1990s, I started to understand what he was teaching me. Around ’95 and ’96, I was writing my concerto for <hl> violin <hl> and I was living in Rome, so I had less contact with Pierre. The less contact I had, the more I realized his influence. If you know his piece “Mémoriale,” it revolves around this E-flat and you don’t know if it’s a tonality or a gravity center. This idea also became for me very strong. It was a sort of post-atonal moment.


Question: The author of Prudence believes that what type of personality trait can kill people?

The poetics of damage permeates David Treuer’s elegantly bitter fourth novel, “Prudence,” which unites a distinctly modern sociopolitical perspective with a more old-fashioned moral rigor about the consequences of emotional cowardice, complicity and repression. On the evidence here, Treuer believes in bravery. Moreover, he believes that a lack of bravery isn’t just sad, it’s deeply destructive — and the destruction can’t be undone. Cowardice can kill people. While there’s much hope in this lyrical novel, as evidenced by the freedom with which it examines some of the more transgressive interstices of race, sexual orientation and gender, there’s also an obdurate insistence on taking responsibility, particularly if one is a man. Treuer’s perspective is bracingly tough. This author values honor. Who dares to take that kind of stance anymore?

Answer: Cowardice

Cowardice can kill people.

The poetics of damage permeates David Treuer’s elegantly bitter fourth novel, “Prudence,” which unites a distinctly modern sociopolitical perspective with a more old-fashioned moral rigor about the consequences of emotional cowardice, complicity and repression. On the evidence here, Treuer believes in bravery. Moreover, he believes that a lack of bravery isn’t just sad, it’s deeply destructive — and the destruction can’t be undone. <hl> Cowardice can kill people. <hl> While there’s much hope in this lyrical novel, as evidenced by the freedom with which it examines some of the more transgressive interstices of race, sexual orientation and gender, there’s also an obdurate insistence on taking responsibility, particularly if one is a man. Treuer’s perspective is bracingly tough. This author values honor. Who dares to take that kind of stance anymore?

The poetics of damage permeates David Treuer’s elegantly bitter fourth novel, “Prudence,” which unites a distinctly modern sociopolitical perspective with a more old-fashioned moral rigor about the consequences of emotional cowardice, complicity and repression. On the evidence here, Treuer believes in bravery. Moreover, he believes that a lack of bravery isn’t just sad, it’s deeply destructive — and the destruction can’t be undone. <hl> Cowardice <hl> can kill people. While there’s much hope in this lyrical novel, as evidenced by the freedom with which it examines some of the more transgressive interstices of race, sexual orientation and gender, there’s also an obdurate insistence on taking responsibility, particularly if one is a man. Treuer’s perspective is bracingly tough. This author values honor. Who dares to take that kind of stance anymore?


Question: what was the young man concealing from his father?

Not only is this young man entitled to conceal the truth from his father, but he doesn’t owe him a repayment later when he can afford it. Threatening not to do your duty if your son turns out to be gay — which is, after all, something over which he has absolutely no control — is awful in many ways. The fact that he would fail to discharge his obligation to pay his fair share if the son told the truth is a reason not to tell him the truth. Kenji Yoshino: Yes, I agree with both of you. The father is behaving unethically, given that his support is accompanied by the demand that the letter writer change something that is not susceptible to change. So the question is how to conduct yourself ethically when a person with power over you is not doing so.

Answer: the truth

<hl> Not only is this young man entitled to conceal the truth from his father, but he doesn’t owe him a repayment later when he can afford it. <hl> Threatening not to do your duty if your son turns out to be gay — which is, after all, something over which he has absolutely no control — is awful in many ways. The fact that he would fail to discharge his obligation to pay his fair share if the son told the truth is a reason not to tell him the truth. Kenji Yoshino: Yes, I agree with both of you. The father is behaving unethically, given that his support is accompanied by the demand that the letter writer change something that is not susceptible to change. So the question is how to conduct yourself ethically when a person with power over you is not doing so.

Not only is this young man entitled to conceal <hl> the truth <hl> from his father, but he doesn’t owe him a repayment later when he can afford it. Threatening not to do your duty if your son turns out to be gay — which is, after all, something over which he has absolutely no control — is awful in many ways. The fact that he would fail to discharge his obligation to pay his fair share if the son told the truth is a reason not to tell him the truth. Kenji Yoshino: Yes, I agree with both of you. The father is behaving unethically, given that his support is accompanied by the demand that the letter writer change something that is not susceptible to change. So the question is how to conduct yourself ethically when a person with power over you is not doing so.


Question: What physical reaction did the author experience as he was being prayed for?

A young man gave me this account of his first encounter with the Holy Spirit at a retreat to which his girlfriend had dragged him. “So they started praying for me. ... It doesn’t feel necessarily like electricity, but it feels like your body would be, like, touched by some kind of extreme power and you’re just shaking, like you just can’t handle all this stuff that’s being poured into you, and all they’re saying is, ‘Come on, Holy Spirit, and fill him up to overflowing.’ ... I felt like there was somebody else in me, like, dwelling, trying to get out to this extreme degree, and I was just overwhelmed in it.” As one says in Christian circles, it convicted him and made him realize that God was real.

Answer: shaking

A young man gave me this account of his first encounter with the Holy Spirit at a retreat to which his girlfriend had dragged him. “So they started praying for me. ... <hl> It doesn’t feel necessarily like electricity, but it feels like your body would be, like, touched by some kind of extreme power and you’re just shaking , like you just can’t handle all this stuff that’s being poured into you, and all they’re saying is, ‘Come on, Holy Spirit, and fill him up to overflowing.’ ... <hl> I felt like there was somebody else in me, like, dwelling, trying to get out to this extreme degree, and I was just overwhelmed in it.” As one says in Christian circles, it convicted him and made him realize that God was real.

A young man gave me this account of his first encounter with the Holy Spirit at a retreat to which his girlfriend had dragged him. “So they started praying for me. ... It doesn’t feel necessarily like electricity, but it feels like your body would be, like, touched by some kind of extreme power and you’re just <hl> shaking <hl>, like you just can’t handle all this stuff that’s being poured into you, and all they’re saying is, ‘Come on, Holy Spirit, and fill him up to overflowing.’ ... I felt like there was somebody else in me, like, dwelling, trying to get out to this extreme degree, and I was just overwhelmed in it.” As one says in Christian circles, it convicted him and made him realize that God was real.

It doesn’t feel necessarily like electricity, but it feels like your body would be, like, touched by some kind of extreme power and you’re just <hl> shaking <hl> , like you just can’t handle all this stuff that’s being poured into you, and all they’re saying is, ‘Come on, Holy Spirit, and fill him up to overflowing.’ ...


Question: how far back was Deba from Jeptoo's time in the prior year?

Deba’s 2:19:59 last year was 62 seconds behind Jeptoo’s course record and also beat the old mark. In all, nine women in the 2015 field have personal bests of 2:22:38 or better. “This is a field with a lot of women who have the same capabilities,” Flanagan said. “It will be exciting.”

Answer: 62 seconds

<hl> Deba’s 2:19:59 last year was 62 seconds behind Jeptoo’s course record and also beat the old mark. <hl> In all, nine women in the 2015 field have personal bests of 2:22:38 or better. “This is a field with a lot of women who have the same capabilities,” Flanagan said. “It will be exciting.”

Deba’s 2:19:59 last year was <hl> 62 seconds <hl> behind Jeptoo’s course record and also beat the old mark. In all, nine women in the 2015 field have personal bests of 2:22:38 or better. “This is a field with a lot of women who have the same capabilities,” Flanagan said. “It will be exciting.”


Question: How did the tourists feel about the blizzard?

“We got to eat at the Boathouse for Sunday brunch, and we really enjoyed that, so we were talking about doing the more touristy things,” she said. “It’s nice to come back and have more of an excuse to do the touristy things.” Mr. Garcia said he was neither relieved nor disappointed by the blizzard’s last-minute zag to the east. “I’m indifferent,” he said. “It was nice weather. I enjoyed it. I was out till midnight walking Monday night — had a late dinner at Quality Meats and walked around. So it was great. We’re used to the hype in Miami, with the hurricanes. I guess it’s terrible if you have to run a business, but for us it didn’t affect us.”

Answer: neither relieved nor disappointed

“We got to eat at the Boathouse for Sunday brunch, and we really enjoyed that, so we were talking about doing the more touristy things,” she said. “It’s nice to come back and have more of an excuse to do the touristy things.” <hl> Mr. Garcia said he was neither relieved nor disappointed by the blizzard’s last-minute zag to the east. <hl> “I’m indifferent,” he said. “It was nice weather. I enjoyed it. I was out till midnight walking Monday night — had a late dinner at Quality Meats and walked around. So it was great. We’re used to the hype in Miami, with the hurricanes. I guess it’s terrible if you have to run a business, but for us it didn’t affect us.”

“We got to eat at the Boathouse for Sunday brunch, and we really enjoyed that, so we were talking about doing the more touristy things,” she said. “It’s nice to come back and have more of an excuse to do the touristy things.” Mr. Garcia said he was <hl> neither relieved nor disappointed <hl> by the blizzard’s last-minute zag to the east. “I’m indifferent,” he said. “It was nice weather. I enjoyed it. I was out till midnight walking Monday night — had a late dinner at Quality Meats and walked around. So it was great. We’re used to the hype in Miami, with the hurricanes. I guess it’s terrible if you have to run a business, but for us it didn’t affect us.”


Question: How large Land's End decrease in Sales as a result of reducing catalogs in 2000?

However small, the recent resurgence in direct mail may be explained by a better understanding of the catalog’s power to drive sales, Mr. Cohen said. He pointed to Lands’ End as an early example. In 2000, that retailer reduced the number of catalogs it sent consumers. It experienced a $100 million drop in sales as a result, according to research by Kurt Salmon. Lands’ End later added a pop-up survey to its website and found that 75 percent of customers who were making purchases had first reviewed the catalog.

Answer: $100 million

However small, the recent resurgence in direct mail may be explained by a better understanding of the catalog’s power to drive sales, Mr. Cohen said. He pointed to Lands’ End as an early example. In 2000, that retailer reduced the number of catalogs it sent consumers. <hl> It experienced a $100 million drop in sales as a result, according to research by Kurt Salmon. <hl> Lands’ End later added a pop-up survey to its website and found that 75 percent of customers who were making purchases had first reviewed the catalog.

However small, the recent resurgence in direct mail may be explained by a better understanding of the catalog’s power to drive sales, Mr. Cohen said. He pointed to Lands’ End as an early example. In 2000, that retailer reduced the number of catalogs it sent consumers. It experienced a <hl> $100 million <hl> drop in sales as a result, according to research by Kurt Salmon. Lands’ End later added a pop-up survey to its website and found that 75 percent of customers who were making purchases had first reviewed the catalog.


Question: How much was the company worth per share?

Propelled by these robust asset flows, the company earned $822 million, or $4.84 a share, up 9 percent from the quarter a year ago. As has been the case in recent years, the fund giant’s booming exchange traded fund business has driven this growth. E.T.F.s are investment funds that trade like stocks and are linked to a wide variety of stock and bond indexes. Sophisticated investors have come to rely on the funds because they provide liquidity in areas of the market that traditionally have been hard to trade, like emerging markets and leveraged loans. Unlike other fund companies, BlackRock does not have any leveraged loan E.T.F.s.

Answer: $4.84

<hl> Propelled by these robust asset flows, the company earned $822 million, or $4.84 a share, up 9 percent from the quarter a year ago. <hl> As has been the case in recent years, the fund giant’s booming exchange traded fund business has driven this growth. E.T.F.s are investment funds that trade like stocks and are linked to a wide variety of stock and bond indexes. Sophisticated investors have come to rely on the funds because they provide liquidity in areas of the market that traditionally have been hard to trade, like emerging markets and leveraged loans. Unlike other fund companies, BlackRock does not have any leveraged loan E.T.F.s.

Propelled by these robust asset flows, the company earned $822 million, or <hl> $4.84 <hl> a share, up 9 percent from the quarter a year ago. As has been the case in recent years, the fund giant’s booming exchange traded fund business has driven this growth. E.T.F.s are investment funds that trade like stocks and are linked to a wide variety of stock and bond indexes. Sophisticated investors have come to rely on the funds because they provide liquidity in areas of the market that traditionally have been hard to trade, like emerging markets and leveraged loans. Unlike other fund companies, BlackRock does not have any leveraged loan E.T.F.s.


Question: How does Ms. Pierpont differentiate this novel from others on the same subject?

This is the first novel by Ms. Pierpont, a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program, and it shows a remarkably mature understanding of the delicate emotional balances in families — how feelings can flow back and forth like electricity in some kind of zero-sum game — and the subtle, irrational vicissitudes of people’s psyches. We follow first one character and then another as each tries to manage what has happened. It is an old story, a crumbling marriage, but Ms. Pierpont gives it fresh insights, making the particular unhappiness (and occasional happiness) of the Shanleys by turns poignant, funny and very sad.

Answer: fresh insights

This is the first novel by Ms. Pierpont, a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program, and it shows a remarkably mature understanding of the delicate emotional balances in families — how feelings can flow back and forth like electricity in some kind of zero-sum game — and the subtle, irrational vicissitudes of people’s psyches. We follow first one character and then another as each tries to manage what has happened. <hl> It is an old story, a crumbling marriage, but Ms. Pierpont gives it fresh insights , making the particular unhappiness (and occasional happiness) of the Shanleys by turns poignant, funny and very sad. <hl>

This is the first novel by Ms. Pierpont, a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program, and it shows a remarkably mature understanding of the delicate emotional balances in families — how feelings can flow back and forth like electricity in some kind of zero-sum game — and the subtle, irrational vicissitudes of people’s psyches. We follow first one character and then another as each tries to manage what has happened. It is an old story, a crumbling marriage, but Ms. Pierpont gives it <hl> fresh insights <hl>, making the particular unhappiness (and occasional happiness) of the Shanleys by turns poignant, funny and very sad.

It is an old story, a crumbling marriage, but Ms. Pierpont gives it <hl> fresh insights <hl> , making the particular unhappiness (and occasional happiness) of the Shanleys by turns poignant, funny and very sad.


Question: What did Maher have to hold near a heater?

For some New Yorkers, the subzero wind chill was the occupational hazard of making a living outdoors. Maher Bawady, 43, of Queens, woke at 2:30 a.m. on Monday to set up his food cart outside 500 Park Avenue in Manhattan. By 6:30 a.m., he had had two cups of coffee and was nursing a hot tea on what looked like his worst day on the street in more than 14 years as a vendor. He had to hold each latex glove by a heater so it would stretch over his hand. At 7:29 a.m., the temperature sank to a low of 3 degrees in Central Park, the lowest since the record of 1 degree was set in January 2004, said Tim Morrin, the observation program leader for the National Weather Service. As Mr. Morrin explained the meteorological reasons for the cold spell, he evoked a vast snow-covered landscape swept by arctic winds and a jet stream that had shifted south of the metropolitan region in January, opening the door to the coldest blasts in a decade. More snow is expected after midnight, he said, enough to affect the commute on Tuesday morning.

Answer: each latex glove

For some New Yorkers, the subzero wind chill was the occupational hazard of making a living outdoors. Maher Bawady, 43, of Queens, woke at 2:30 a.m. on Monday to set up his food cart outside 500 Park Avenue in Manhattan. By 6:30 a.m., he had had two cups of coffee and was nursing a hot tea on what looked like his worst day on the street in more than 14 years as a vendor. <hl> He had to hold each latex glove by a heater so it would stretch over his hand. <hl> At 7:29 a.m., the temperature sank to a low of 3 degrees in Central Park, the lowest since the record of 1 degree was set in January 2004, said Tim Morrin, the observation program leader for the National Weather Service. As Mr. Morrin explained the meteorological reasons for the cold spell, he evoked a vast snow-covered landscape swept by arctic winds and a jet stream that had shifted south of the metropolitan region in January, opening the door to the coldest blasts in a decade. More snow is expected after midnight, he said, enough to affect the commute on Tuesday morning.

For some New Yorkers, the subzero wind chill was the occupational hazard of making a living outdoors. Maher Bawady, 43, of Queens, woke at 2:30 a.m. on Monday to set up his food cart outside 500 Park Avenue in Manhattan. By 6:30 a.m., he had had two cups of coffee and was nursing a hot tea on what looked like his worst day on the street in more than 14 years as a vendor. He had to hold <hl> each latex glove <hl> by a heater so it would stretch over his hand. At 7:29 a.m., the temperature sank to a low of 3 degrees in Central Park, the lowest since the record of 1 degree was set in January 2004, said Tim Morrin, the observation program leader for the National Weather Service. As Mr. Morrin explained the meteorological reasons for the cold spell, he evoked a vast snow-covered landscape swept by arctic winds and a jet stream that had shifted south of the metropolitan region in January, opening the door to the coldest blasts in a decade. More snow is expected after midnight, he said, enough to affect the commute on Tuesday morning.


Question: Who filed the antitrust case against google?

The antitrust case against Google filed by European Union regulators on Wednesday will inevitably draw comparisons to the long-running prosecution of Microsoft, in which regulators on both sides of the Atlantic pursued the software giant for anticompetitive behavior. But Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, may not find the comparison entirely flattering. With more than a decade of hindsight, the theories supporting the case against Microsoft have all but fallen apart, and the pursuit of the company that makes Windows may suggest a reason for skepticism about this fight against Google: The tech marketplace is fluid and unpredictable. The giants that look most unbeatable today could falter in ways that may once have seemed unthinkable — and without a lot of help from the government.

Answer: European Union regulators

<hl> The antitrust case against Google filed by European Union regulators on Wednesday will inevitably draw comparisons to the long-running prosecution of Microsoft, in which regulators on both sides of the Atlantic pursued the software giant for anticompetitive behavior. <hl> But Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, may not find the comparison entirely flattering. With more than a decade of hindsight, the theories supporting the case against Microsoft have all but fallen apart, and the pursuit of the company that makes Windows may suggest a reason for skepticism about this fight against Google: The tech marketplace is fluid and unpredictable. The giants that look most unbeatable today could falter in ways that may once have seemed unthinkable — and without a lot of help from the government.

The antitrust case against Google filed by <hl> European Union regulators <hl> on Wednesday will inevitably draw comparisons to the long-running prosecution of Microsoft, in which regulators on both sides of the Atlantic pursued the software giant for anticompetitive behavior. But Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, may not find the comparison entirely flattering. With more than a decade of hindsight, the theories supporting the case against Microsoft have all but fallen apart, and the pursuit of the company that makes Windows may suggest a reason for skepticism about this fight against Google: The tech marketplace is fluid and unpredictable. The giants that look most unbeatable today could falter in ways that may once have seemed unthinkable — and without a lot of help from the government.