1+ hour, 36+ min ago (108+ words) What conclusions do you draw from your quick introduction to Summers, which, presumably, you stitched together from YouTube Shorts, Wikipedia, and ChatGPT? More to the point, if you believe yourself to be a rational person who draws inferences based on the evidence in front of you, what should you believe? Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

14+ hour, 56+ min ago (80+ words) Helen, Help Me!E-mail your questions about dining, eating, and anything food-related, and Helen may respond in a future newsletter. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (208+ words) It's not a done deal," the Mayor said, then rambled for a little while. It's imperative that everyone comes out and sit down, and be part of the process to voice your concerns." An elderly woman wearing a NO TIMES SQUARE CASINO" T-shirt said, Yes, it might be good for some people, but it's not gonna be good for any of the residents who are here." A big, bald man said, Casinos are exploitative." A gray-haired guy reading from a clipboard said, The two worst places I've ever been are Atlantic City and Las Vegas. Both are ugly and depressing, and I grew up in Florida, so that's saying something." Hooks shouted, Security, please! The young lady in the red sweater, please, has to be removed." After the vote, P.J. O'Doherty, another union leader from Queens, who has spent the past…...

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (1551+ words) In a new global history, capitalism is an inescapable vibe'responsible for everything, everywhere, all at once. A tearful Keayne bewailed his "covetous and corrupt heart" but claimed to have been misled. The situation, the magistrates conceded, was tricky. Profit-taking was not technically illegal, and the just appraisal of goods remained a redoubtable challenge despite the best efforts of wise men. Keayne's sentence was commuted to a two-hundred-pound fine and a remedial sermon: Scripture showed that it was a "false principle" to believe "that a man might sell as dear as he can, and buy as cheap as he can." Fourteen years later, Keayne devoted his final testament to a hundred-and-fifty-eight-page justification of his commercial activities as a service to his community and to God. He wanted his two hundred pounds back, to be pledged as a donation to Harvard. Our…...

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (292+ words) Recently, I endeavored to visit as many lounges as I could in the span of a week without leaving New York, like Buntut but without the fraud. I have a fondness for free stuff and a willingness, on occasion, to sit around and do nothing. I do not have status'of any kind'but I do have a Priority Pass. Thus I found myself at the HelloSky Lounge, in a busy corner of J.F.K.s Terminal 4. "Its not very crowded," Matt said. "Ive been in some that are like being on the subway. You might as well sit out there." He gestured to the concourse. Id heard that the Air India lounge had toilets, so I made my way over. The lounge looked like a college cafeteria and smelled of fenugreek. I loaded up a plate at the buffet. The cheesecake bite tasted…...

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (1297+ words) One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call from eleven strangers locked inside a secretive detention camp in a forest in Ghana. Their faces looked glazed with sweat and stricken with fear. In the background, I could hear birdsong and the drone of insects. An armed guard watched over the group as they huddled around a shared cellphone. "There are big snakes here, and scorpions!" a male voice with an American accent called out. "My stomach is really hurting, and we have to beg for food," another man said. A third added, "We fear we'll be tortured and killed." One of the men, a car salesman and a real-estate agent from Miami, whom I'll call Jim, gave me a tour of the scene: an open-air military complex known as Bundase Training Camp, some forty miles from…...

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (373+ words) She who threw marigolds over you, stone,A child,She is a crone now with cindery breath.You, stone,Two younger stones curve beyond you. Thomas hadn't visited the site before, and she marvelled to Cummings, "You think everything in Orkney has been found, but there's always more." She zeroed in on a two-foot-wide slab of flagstone resting atop a wall in the north cell. Scratched on the stone's outer face were three short, sharp parallel lines. On the top, a lattice of faint lines ran parallel and perpendicular to the outer face. Here in our village in the westWe are little regarded.The lords of tilth and lochAre Quarrying (we hear)Great stones to make a stone circle...They come here from BirsayTo take our fish for taxes. OtherwiseWe are left in peaceWith our small fires and pots. In…...

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (60+ words) I'm taking a break from social media. You'll feel better if you go outside. Reasons our plans tonight should be in my neighborhood. Popular parental advice to teens throughout history. What I imagine strangers think when they see me reading a book in public. My name is Gilligan, and I'd like to get off this island now....

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (349+ words) The Little N-Bomb That Could: A hands-down fair favorite, this missile nose-dived out of the clouds to blow a simulated Kremlin to kingdom come every thirty minutes, in an entertaining and educational example of what the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command is all about. Conformorama featured a dream home, a plastics factory, a regional airline terminal, and other structures utilizing the exact same design'underscoring the importance of conformity in architecture, thought, and behavior. Without it, America would have no defense against threats like diversity and the unfamiliar. The Atomic Energy Commission's Up and Atom Pavilion, patterned after the commission's logo, was the free world's first and only atomic-powered thrill ride. Two giant passenger-carrying titanium rings spun around and around in elliptical orbits high above the fair. What a ride! So satisfying for thrill-seekers that nobody ever took it twice! Casa…...

20+ hour, 36+ min ago (192+ words) It's very moving," Laurent said. Amaury-Urbain, who happened to be celebrating his ninetieth birthday, chimed in. As you can see, she didn't burn. She was asphyxiated. The galleries were packed. Saint P'rier beelined straight to the Vicomtesse. In the portrait, she's thirty-four. She wears a gauzy red gown with a sweetheart neckline and holds a garland of pink and white roses, another flower festooning her swept-back hair. This was her golden age," Saint P'rier observed. She'd been married ten years. She'd had her children." In the Mus'e d'Orsay, Saint P'rier stood in front of the portrait for a long time. He saw a family resemblance. Blue eyes, long face," he said. That could be from the de Kergorlay side." But it was Sargent's expressive brushstrokes that bowled him over. He has such a quick touch," he said. It's like his…...