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The Dystopian Myths of Red America
Desensitization is an amazing thing. At this point most political observers simply accept it as a fact of life that…
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Pac-12 Commissioner Keeps It Professional, but Pointed, After Defections
LOS ANGELES — When the Pac-12 Conference’s schools congregated Friday at a downtown theater for the summer ritual of football…
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Business
Ernst & Young to Pay $100 Million Fine After Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams
Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest auditing firms, has agreed to pay a $100 million fine after U.S.…
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World
Are Large Corporate Profit Margins Causing Inflation?
Markups and profits of businesses in the United States last year were the highest since at least the 1950s, according…
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Sports
N.C.A.A. Men’s Tournament: What to Watch as the Field Narrows to 16
The first weekend of the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament will wrap up on Sunday with eight games from Pittsburgh, Greenville,…
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‘Blimey, He Looks High.’ A Gale-Force Play-by-Play at Heathrow Goes Viral.
LONDON — As a winter gale with 70 mile-per-hour wind gusts tore across the British Isles on Friday, the government…
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Business
Far From the Big City, New Economic Life
GAINESBORO, Tenn. — There is not much to suggest prosperity in Gainesboro, a hamlet of 920 in Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland…
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Arts
Whether He’s Talking ‘Amélie’ or ‘Bigbug,’ Jean-Pierre Jeunet Doesn’t Hold Back
The French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a conjurer of whimsical visions for the big screen, like his most beloved work,…
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Business
Stocks rally, erasing losses from a turbulent week.
Wall Street finally found a foothold on Friday, rebounding from days of back-to-back declines with its biggest gain in 18…
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Arts
‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey
Movies love to menace Earth. It’s human nature. In some of the most plausible doomsday flicks — “Meteor,” “Deep Impact”…
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