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The important money move that women aren’t making

Recently, I invited some friends to my apartment to talk about money and I was surprised — and a bit alarmed — to learn that roughly half the group weren’t investing their money. Not in a 401(k) or a Roth IRA or a robo-advisor. Not a single dollar.  It can be hard …

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For 30 Years, He Assumed the Identity of His Dead Friend. Now He’s Coming Clean.

THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY By Maisy Card As family secrets go, Stanford Solomon’s is a whopper. “I was born Abel Paisley,” the dying 69-year-old confesses to his daughters in 2005. Having emigrated from Jamaica to London more than three decades earlier, Abel and his childhood friend — the original Stanford …

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In Post-9/11 New York, a Newlywed Reckons With Her Own Lost Past

THE EXHIBITION OF PERSEPHONE Q By Jessi Jezewska Stevens To the artist in love, a woman’s face is only a suggestion of what her portrait could be. “For centuries painters have been falling for their models, marrying their models, replacing their wives with mistresses-as-models,” says the narrator of Jessi Jezewska …

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The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later

She was an impoverished Jewish immigrant from Russia who had started working in a cigar factory at the age of 11; he was the scion of an old-money Episcopalian family who enjoyed a mansion on Madison Avenue and a weekend house with a bowling alley. When Rose Pastor married James …

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Threat of coronavirus hangs heavily over Rome Raphael spectacular

ROME (Reuters) – An exhibition commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance artist Raphael opens in Rome this week but the show risks being overshadowed by the coronavirus outbreak sweeping Italy. Members of media pass by painting titled “The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia” by Renaissance master Raphael during …

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A Novelist-Turned-Cabby Hates His Life. Thanks to Uber, It’s About to Get Worse.

It’s an ingenious setup for a novel, promising the reader the perfect vantage point for a panoramic view of society’s crosscurrents at a moment primed for revelatory confession. But deep down, Durkee seems relatively uninterested in the sociological; as Lou’s marathon shift drags on — fueled by stimulants, an anxiety …

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Summer at Bard: Nadia Boulanger, Music’s ‘One-Woman Graduate School’

She was a composer and a pioneering conductor — the first woman to lead performances by top orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And she was one of the most influential music teachers of the 20th century, shaping a roster of composers including Aaron Copland, Quincy …

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Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill

RUST A Memoir of Steel and GritBy Eliese Colette Goldbach Everyone who grows up in Cleveland is familiar with the sight of the orange flame that burns over the steel mill in the industrial valley along the Cuyahoga River. In “Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit,” Eliese Colette Goldbach …

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Don’t Like What’s Happening in Our Country? Run for Local Office

SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO ITWhy Cursing at the News Won’t Save the Nation, but Your Name on a Local Ballot Can By Adrienne Martini Adrienne Martini’s “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” is 50 percent memoir, 50 percent advice manual and 100 percent heart. Gutted by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential win, unsatisfied after …

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Summer at Bard: Nadia Boulanger, Music’s ‘One-Woman Graduate School’

She was a composer and a pioneering conductor — the first woman to lead performances by top orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And she was one of the most influential music teachers of the 20th century, shaping a roster of composers including Aaron Copland, Quincy …

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