Storm Writes A New Script In Campaigns For Mayor
This is when the New York City mayor’s race goes off-script. Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, argued that the advances of the Bloomberg years failed to...
View ArticleFate’s Cruel Hand Nearly Ices a Heart
Hattie Shepherd, the title character of Ayana Mathis’s piercing debut novel, is at once a tragic heroine with mythic dimensions and an entirely recognizable mother and wife trying to make ends meet....
View ArticleDon’t Use Debt Ceiling as Weapon, Obama Tells G.O.P.
WASHINGTON — President Obama warned Republicans on Wednesday not to use the debt ceiling as leverage on spending and tax decisions, saying he refused to engage again in the sort of brinkmanship that...
View ArticleThe Sun Rises Again on Café Royal
In 1865, a nearly penniless Frenchman fleeing his debts opened Café Royal in London. The club’s heyday lasted more than a century, as celebrities swirled through its sumptuous precincts. (Max Beerbohm...
View ArticleFor Fighting Foreclosures, a $100,000 Award
In 1989, Tom Cox, a lawyer for a Maine bank at the time, wrote the book on mortgage foreclosures (“Maine Real Estate Foreclosure Procedures for Lenders and Workout Officers”), detailing the most...
View ArticleAnswers About Female Sexuality, Part 2
Readers recently submitted questions about female sexuality to Susan Kellogg, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia; a professor of...
View ArticleWith Apps and Accessories, the iPad Can Be a Scaled-Down Darkroom
Over the years, I’ve fallen in love with more cameras than women. Enlarge This Image Nick Bilton/The New York Times The iPad will automatically detect when a camera is connected and give you the...
View Article3 Suppliers for Walmart Made Goods in Bangladeshi Factory Where 112 Died in...
Documents found at the Tazreen apparel factory in Bangladesh, where 112 workers died in a fire nearly two weeks ago, indicate that three separate apparel companies were using the factory during the...
View ArticleSuits in Search of Holiday Cheer
THE holiday season brings many challenges, from the practical (what to give your boss) to the emotional (what to give your boss that will kill him in his sleep). Enlarge This Image Gregory Vaughan for...
View ArticleSeeking a Bounce, the Jets Turn to the Chairman of the Clipboard
Even in today’s high-tech N.F.L. — with its aerial cameras and triaxial knee braces — there’s still room for the humblest of technologies. You Jets fans know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about...
View ArticleHearing on WikiLeaks Suspect's Confinement Resumes
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Military prosecutors are slowly working up the chain of command of a Marine Corps brig to show the government was justified in keeping an Army private tightly confined after he...
View ArticleUnlike Blasphemy in Video, a YouTube Ban Is Shrugged Off
KABUL, Afghanistan — When it comes to YouTube, the government of Afghanistan intends to keep its hand on the switch for now. Related Times Topic: The 'Innocence of Muslims' Riots (Nakoula Basseley...
View ArticleTracking a Body-Rattling Saxophone Storm
The biggest brace-yourself moment in Donny McCaslin’s first set at the Jazz Standard on Tuesday night came at the last possible moment, near the end of the encore, when he uncorked an impromptu tenor...
View ArticleAnother Avedon Behind the Lens
MOST students taking a one-year course at the International Center of Photography are lucky to get people on the street to pose for them. Michael Avedon, 21, who lives in his grandmother’s Upper West...
View ArticleThe Bobcats Were the Worst, but Much Has Changed
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte Bobcats took the “Bob” off their uniforms, adjusted the design and altered the team colors for 2012-13. So at least they no longer look like the franchise that posted...
View ArticleAn Abduction Shines Light on Ukraine Asylum Policy and on Kremlin Methods
KIEV, Ukraine — For two and a half days in October, Leonid Razvozzhayev, a little-known leader of the Russian political opposition, moved furtively from one part of Kiev to another, meeting with...
View ArticleSecularism in Search of a Nation
NEW DELHI — In 1976, India made an amendment to its Constitution that inserted the word “secular” to describe the great republic. It was a national aspiration and still is, and is glorified as a...
View ArticleEva Zeisel’s Designs Shine On
Leucos is producing two glass lamps by Eva Zeisel, who died last year at 105. She first created versions five years ago for a friend of her granddaughter who was designing a coffee shop. “Eva was...
View ArticleDave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91
Dave Brubeck, a pianist and composer whose distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility made him one of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1950s and ’60s, died Wednesday morning in...
View ArticleIn Louisiana, Growing Rice to Trade on Some Creatures That Eat It
GUEYDAN, La. — Donald Benoit’s rice fields are pristine enough for a picture postcard. Long, straight rows of bright green grain protrude from crystal clear water, with not a weed in sight. But one...
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