Question:
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New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to "The New Yorker", it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister.

In its 21st-century incarnation under editor-in-chief Adam Moss, "The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the cityat least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense", wrote then "Washington Post" media critic Howard Kurtz, as the magazine has increasingly published political and cultural stories of national significance.

Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more National Magazine Awards than any other publication, including the 2013 award for Magazine of the Year. It was one of the first dual-audience "lifestyle magazines", and its format and style have been emulated by some other American regional city publications.

In 2009, its paid and verified circulation was 408,622, with 95.8% of that coming from subscriptions. Its websitesNYmag.com, Vulture.com, The Cut, and Grub Streetreceive visits from more than 14 million users per month.
1. What magazine is this about?
2. Is that the same as the New Yorker?
3. What topics does New York cover?
4. How does it differ from the New Yorker?
5. Are the two magazines in competition?
6. When was it founded?
7. By whom?
8. Who are some of the writers it has featured?
9. Who else?
10. Does it have a website?
11. How many?
12. How many visits do they get a month?
13. Who is the editor-in-chief?
14. Has it ever been redesigned?
15. When?
16. Do other magazines try to copy it?
17. Has it received awards?
18. Like what?
19. When was that?
20. Does it post national stories or just local?

Numbered answers:
1. New York
2. no
3. magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style
4. brasher and less polite
5. yes
6. 1968
7. Milton Glaser and Clay Felke
8. Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin
9. Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister.
10. yes
11. Four
12. more than 14 million
13. Adam Moss
14. yes
15. 2004
16. yes
17. yes
18. Magazine of the Year.
19. 2013
20. national

Question:
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U.S. billionaire Bill Gates went to watch a game of his friend, U.S. teen player Ariel Hsing, at the ExCel Centre while the girl was playing against Chinese Li Xiaoxia. Gates wore an orange jacket and dark blue baseball cap. He sat in the front row of thespectators' stand andapplauded for every point Hsing scored. "I'm wishing her the best of luck, but the opposite player is really great," Gates said. Hsing was in her third match at London 2012. She had already beaten Mexico's Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian. Hsing is known in the U.S. as a close friend with billionaires Warren Buffett and Gates. She is close enough to call them "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill". Buffett met Hsing when she was only 9. Two years later, he invited her to play against his friends. She has returned several times after that. Earlier this year after winning a position on the U.S. team, she took a few points off Buffett and Gates. When asked whether he has won a point off Hsing, Gates said, "She beat me when she was nine. She has been nice to me."
1. Who are two of Hsing's billionaire friends?
2. Is she friends with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates?
3. Are they billionaires?
4. What does Hsing call them?
5. How was old was she when she met Bill Gates?
6. How old was she when he invited her to play against his buddies?
7. What did Bill wear to the game at ExCel Centre?
8. Did he have a good seat?
9. Who did Hsing defeat from Mexico?

Numbered answers:
1. unknown
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill".
5. Nine
6. 11
7. orange jacket and dark blue baseball ca
8. Yes
9. Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian.

Question:
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CHAPTER XVIII: DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

'Truly the tender mercies of the weak, As of the wicked, are but cruel.'

And how did Lilias show that she had been truly benefited by her sorrows? Did she fall back into her habits of self-indulgence, or did she run into ill-directed activity, selfish as her indolence, because only gratifying the passion of the moment?

Those who lived with her saw but little change; kind-hearted and generous she had ever been, and many had been her good impulses, so that while she daily became more steady in well-doing, and exerting herself on principle, no one remarked it, and no one entered into the struggles which it cost her to tame her impetuosity, or force herself to do what was disagreeable to herself, and might offend Emily.

However, Emily could forgive a great deal when she found that Lily was ready to take any part of the business of the household and schoolroom, which she chose to impose upon her, without the least objection, yet to leave her to assume as much of the credit of managing as she chose--to have no will or way of her own, and to help her to keep her wardrobe in order.

The schoolroom was just now more of a labour than had ever been the case, at least to one who, like Lilias, if she did a thing at all, would not be satisfied with half doing it. Phyllis was not altered, except that she cried less, and had in a great measure cured herself of dawdling habits and tricks, by her honest efforts to obey well- remembered orders of Eleanor's; but still her slowness and dulness were trying to her teachers, and Lily had often to reproach herself for being angry with her 'when she was doing her best.'
1. Who could forgive a great deal?
2. Who was she forgiving?
3. Were her old routines ones of altruism and generosity?
4. Was it the long-term that she would describe as giving pleasure?
5. Who may be offended?
6. How many rooms was she ready to assist with?
Numbered answers:
1. Emily
2. lily
3. yes
4. unknown
5. Emily
6. any