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Marvin Levy, Oscar-Winning Publicist to Spielberg, Dies at 96

admin24 April 2025

For 42 years, Mr. Levy strategized behind the scenes to promote Steven Spielberg’s movies and ensure that the director was seen as Hollywood’s de facto head of state.

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Brad Holland, 81, Dies; His Subversive Art Reinvented Illustration

admin24 April 2025

Brad Holland, an idiosyncratic artist who upended American illustration in the 1970s with his startling imagery for Playboy magazine and The New York Times’s opinion page, spawning a generation of imitators, died on March 27 in Manhattan. He was 81 ...

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Trump Joins Japan Trade Talks, Says ‘Big Progress’ Made

admin24 April 2025

For his first face-to-face talks on tariffs, the president chose Japan, a U.S. ally that decades ago stirred his anger over the unequal balance of trade and his penchant for tariffs.

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The Ice Bucket Challenge Worked. Why Not Try It Again?

admin24 April 2025

The trend that dominated social media a decade ago — and raised millions for A.L.S. research — has been reborn as a vehicle to raise mental health awareness.

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My Research Under Trump Started Unraveling With a Text That Read, ‘Call Me’

admin24 April 2025

It started with a text in late January: “Call me.” I was in the Sonoran Desert, fleeing the Pacific Northwest’s winter gloom, and I pulled into a gas station to make the call. “All work on the National Nature Assessment is to stop,” a Trump White ...

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Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf

admin24 April 2025

Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much ...

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Pope Francis’ Gay Muddle

admin24 April 2025

“Who am I to judge?” Pope Francis uttered those words in July 2013, just four and a half months into his papacy, when he was asked about gay priests, and the remark was greeted by some observers as a revelation and revolution. At long last, the Roman ...

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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards

admin24 April 2025

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

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Hidden Above a Trap Door, 17th-Century Frescoes Come to Light

admin24 April 2025

Imagine mounting a scaffold in the atrium of a historic Roman estate. You spy a small trap door in the vaulted ceiling; on inspection the hatch opens into a cavity between the new ceiling and an older one. In the older ceiling is a second trap door ...

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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

admin24 April 2025

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity that the defendants faced charges of forgery, fiscal fraud and the sham sale of slaves. Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but ...

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