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Stanley Turkel, Manager and Avid Historian of Hotels, Dies at 96
Stanley Turkel, whose career as a hotelier, hospitality consultant and historian required him to check into more hostelries than a…
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Earnie Shavers, Hard-Punching Heavyweight, Is Dead at 78
Earnie Shavers, who was regarded as one of the hardest punchers in boxing history, but who failed in his two…
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A price cap on Russian oil wins the backing of G7 ministers.
WASHINGTON — The top economic officials of the world’s leading advanced economies agreed on Friday to forge ahead with a…
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‘That Nurse Should Be Alive’: How Police Delays Left a Suspect at Large
On the night of June 18, 2018, a hospital in New York City summoned the police to meet a woman…
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How the Editor in Chief of Elle Decor Spends His Sundays
When Asad Syrkett became the youngest-ever editor in chief of Hearst Magazines, one of his goals at Elle Decor, the…
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What Urban Planners Can Learn From This Idealistic Coffee Shop
By any measure, the area around an industrial patch of Ninth Street in Brooklyn, straddling Park Slope and Gowanus, ought…
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They Have Debt but No Degree. Could Loan Forgiveness Send Them Back to School?
A car dealership employee is hoping she can return to community college with a clean slate. An operations manager is…
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How Many Drinks a Week Are Safe? Canada Considers a Much Lower Limit
The Labor Day weekend has long been promoted by the alcohol industry as summer’s last great drinking opportunity. But a…
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Lawsuits Over Tragedies Can Drag On. Not in the Florida Condo Collapse.
MIAMI — Each day, before the unusual hearings unfolded inside Judge Michael A. Hanzman’s Miami courtroom this summer, the judge’s…
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Serena Williams Willed Her Way to a Glorious Goodbye
It was match point, which Serena Williams had faced many times before. It was career point, which was startlingly new…