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Real Estate
How Six Italian Brothers Shaped the Story of New York
Few people have shaped the streetscape of New York as prominently as the stone-carving Piccirilli brothers, six Italian immigrants who…
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News
What Pain Will a New Wave of Student Loan Payments Bring?
This summer, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s debt relief plan. The resumption of payments this month after a…
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News
What Happens When a Woman Chooses Career Dominance Over Her Relationship
In 2020 the economist Robin Ely and the sociologist Irene Padavic wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled “What’s…
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News
Rudy Perez, a Pioneer of Postmodern Dance, Is Dead at 93
In New York and later in Los Angeles, he challenged notions of what dance is and isn’t with choreography built…
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News
Ryuzo Yanagimachi, Researcher Who Cloned Mice, Dies at 95
Working separately from the Scottish team that had earlier cloned Dolly the sheep, he and his team pioneered an easier,…
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US
Federal Firefighters Face Steep Pay Cuts
A temporary pay raise for federal wild-land firefighters is set to end next month. Officials have said that more workers…
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World
A Nanny Got 15 Minutes of Fame. An Industry Remains in the Shadows.
Liliana Melgar made a cameo appearance in Shakira’s latest music video, putting a spotlight on domestic workers and their struggles.
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News
Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice
Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved…
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News
Behind the Most Famous Men in Economics There Have Always Been Women
When the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in economics on Monday to the Harvard professor Claudia Goldin — the first…
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News
New Novels Brimming With Mystery, Mayhem and Quite a Bit of Murder
Glory Broussard, the star of Danielle Arceneaux’s fabulous debut mystery, GLORY BE (Pegasus Crime, 257 pp., $26.95), differs from most…