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Tom Sizemore, Intense Actor With a Troubled Life, Dies at 61
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Tom Sizemore, a tough-guy actor whose career, which included roles in major films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down,” was overshadowed at times by his problems with substance abuse and the law, died on Friday in Burbank, Calif. He was 61.
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I Gave Her My Only Olive
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She had the most beautiful profile. I don’t mean her dating profile, which is how we connected. I mean the side of her actual face. Her features — from her long brown hair to her flat-tipped nose, voluptuous lips and strong rounded chin — were full of character.
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Defending Its Rankings, U.S. News Takes Aim at Top Law Schools
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U.S. News & World Report said little last fall as Yale, Harvard and other elite law schools announced that they would no longer submit data to the publication’s rankings, charging that the influential list was an engine of inequality. But in the last few days, U.S. News has fired back.
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They Sneaked Into a Derelict Arms Plant: Instagrammers or Spies?
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The three espionage suspects — two Russians and one Ukrainian — were hardly discreet. They arrived at the derelict Albanian weapons factory in a bright orange Chevrolet Camaro in broad daylight.
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Lesion Removed During Biden’s Physical Was Cancerous
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WASHINGTON — President Biden had a cancerous lesion removed from his chest during his physical last month, the president’s doctor said Friday. The existence of the lesion was included in the summary of Mr. Biden’s physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in mid-February.
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The Truth About the ‘Censorship’ of Roald Dahl
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When it was reported last month that hundreds of words had been changed or removed in the most recent British editions of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and other books by Roald Dahl in an effort to make them less offensive, everyone from the queen consort and the British pri
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Black Equestrians Want to Be Safe. But They Can’t Find Helmets.
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Chanel Robbins has been riding horses most of her life, ever since her grandmother traded a cow from their family’s farm in Ontario for a pony when she was 7.
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Dead birds still fall from the sky near my hometown. Their bodies hit the ground as part of the fallout of an environmental disaster that dates back to the 1970s, the result of corporate pollution that made the county I grew up in the home of one of Michigan’s most notorious Superfund sites.
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YPSILANTI, Mich. — From time to time, Emoni Bates shows flashes of the player he was supposed to be.
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Everyone Loves Flaco the Escaped Owl. But Why, Exactly?
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Once upon a time, there was an owl named Flaco who lived in a small zoo in the middle of a big park in America’s largest city. His story was a cliffhanger about escape and freedom and resilience.
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When Clothes Fly Off, This Intimacy Coordinator Steps In
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It takes a lot of people to make a movie. You’ve got the director for overall vision, the gaffer on the lights, the set decorators to add texture to the film’s world, and the costume designers to envision the actors’ looks.
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Why Alex Murdaugh’s Quick Conviction Worries Me
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As I watched the gripping murder trial of the prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh over the last few weeks, I found myself wrestling with difficult questions about how data from smartphones and other digital technologies should be relied upon in the criminal justice system.
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With Drifts 15 Feet Deep, Snowstorms Bury Yosemite
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Yosemite National Park, an iconic symbol of American wilderness, has seen plenty of snow in its 133-year history. But the snow drifts piling up there this week have been extreme, and they’ve kept the park closed for five days and counting.
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5 Key Takeaways From the Murdaugh Murders Trial
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The murder case against Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son, concluded with a guilty verdict on Thursday after a six-week trial that probed the mysteries, manners and machinations of a fallen legal dynasty.
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Alex Murdaugh Convicted of Murdering Wife and Son
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WALTERBORO, S.C.
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House Ethics Committee Opens Inquiry Into George Santos
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The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday that it had opened a broad investigation into Representative George Santos, the embattled Republican from New York under scrutiny for lies about his background and questions about his campaign finances. The inquiry will cover several areas where Mr.
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The Excellence of Kamala Harris Is Hiding in Plain Sight
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Vice President Kamala Harris occupies an office that can be the butt of jokes and criticism. The only duties of the vice president spelled out in the Constitution are to cast tiebreaking votes in the Senate and to become president if the office becomes vacant.
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Leave Russia? A Year Later Many Companies Can’t, or Won’t.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, a phalanx of Western companies pledged to get out fast from what had once been an important market. McDonald’s dismantled its golden arches after 32 years. The oil giant BP moved to divest its mammoth Russian investments.
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The freight elevator doors opened onto 50,000 square feet of office real estate. Right now, it is empty, but Seth Besmertnik, chief executive of the software company Conductor, gestured at the beams and concrete floor with pride.
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Wayne Shorter, the enigmatic, intrepid saxophonist who shaped the color and contour of modern jazz as one of its most intensely admired composers, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89. His publicist, Alisse Kingsley, confirmed his death, at a hospital.
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The little QR code is ubiquitous across India’s vastness. You find it pasted on a tree next to a roadside barber, propped on the pile of embroidery sold by female weavers, sticking out of a mound of freshly roasted peanuts on a snack cart.
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Harry and Meghan Told to Leave Their Royal Cottage in the U.K.
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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have been asked to move out of Frogmore Cottage, their five-bedroom Georgian house on the grounds of Windsor Castle, the couple’s press secretary said, in a further sign of the bitter rupture between them and the British royal family since they withdrew from roya
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Once the World’s Largest, a Hotel Goes ‘Poof!’ Before Our Eyes
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To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Bit by bit, floor by floor, the building that once rose 22 stories over Penn Station is shrinking before the city’s very eyes.
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Canadians Fume as Migrants Surge at Their Border
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Hélène Gravel’s house sits on Roxham Road near Canada’s most famous illegal border crossing, used by migrants leaving the United States to seek asylum up north.
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America Is In Over Its Head
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The greatest blunder President Vladimir Putin may have made so far in Ukraine is giving the West the impression that Russia could lose the war. The early Russian strike on Kyiv stumbled and failed. The Russian behemoth seemed not nearly as formidable as it had been made out to be.
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