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Sports
Is Soccer Ready to Retire Its Last Taboo?
A new documentary about gay players tells a story that is, in some ways, no longer a story.
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World
My Son Refuses to Play With an Outcast. Does That Make Him a Bully?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how a parent might address social exclusion among a group of schoolchildren.
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World
Review: For Jews, an Unanswered ‘Prayer for the French Republic’
In Joshua Harmon’s play about the legacies of antisemitism, a Parisian family must decide when it’s time to get out.
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World
‘Pirates of Penzance,’ ‘English’ and ‘Yellow Face’ Bound for Broadway
Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
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World
She Helped the Lillys Blossom. Now She’ll Champion Her Own Work.
After years of fighting to win parity and recognition for women in theater, Julia Jordan said: “Everybody gets produced now.…
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World
‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Will End Its Broadway Run in April
The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional…
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Sports
Out of Sight, Out of Mind No More
The Africa Cup of Nations and the Asian Cup, once seen as poorly timed intrusions by European soccer, may finally…
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World
Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris
Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game…
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Obituaries
Les McCann, Pianist, Singer and Soul Jazz Pioneer, Dies at 88
He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came…
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Sports
The Best Teams That Money Could Buy
The four teams in the College Football Playoff used cash payments from fan “collectives” in unique ways to build their…