In what way is the book you wrote different from the book you set out to write? When I set out to write it, I was thinking more in terms of doing a corrective on popular literature on the Bushmen. Historically the Bushmen have been a canvas that people have …
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Review: U.S. Youth Orchestra Inspires a Chinese Counterpart
Photo The conductor Marin Alsop leading the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America in a program that included a short John Adams work and a premiere by Gabriela Lena Frank at Carnegie Hall on Friday. Credit Harrison Hill/The New York Times Imitation can be the sincerest form …
Read More »Technician Yamada examines strength of tech rally ahead of earnings
There’s a trend lurking that could disrupt technology’s historic winning streak ahead of this week’s earnings burst. Longtime technician Louise Yamada recently made the observation based on a special chart of the Nasdaq. “You’ve got the event decline line for both the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange at …
Read More »Another Look at Princess Diana, With a Notable Difference
The princes agreed, and offered to show photographs from recently discovered albums created for them by Diana. The documentary opens with William, 35, and Harry, 32, looking at a photograph of a pregnant Diana holding her very small first son. “Believe it or not, you and I are both in …
Read More »More Than 90 at Chance the Rapper Concert Hospitalized
Photo Chance the Rapper in concert. Credit Whitten Sabbatini for The New York Times More than 90 people at a Connecticut concert featuring Chance the Rapper were hospitalized on Friday, according to a report in The Hartford Courant. The concert, Hot 93.7’s Hot Jam at Xfinity Theater in Hartford, also …
Read More »French President Macron’s popularity rating drops
Etienne Laurent | Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron walks through the Galerie des Bustes (Busts Gallery) to access the Versailles Palace’s hemicycle for a special congress gathering both houses of parliament (National Assembly and Senate), near Paris, France, July 3, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity rating has slumped by …
Read More »‘The Big Sick,’ South Asian Identity, and Marriage
The dinner was mostly me being a nervous chatterbox, trying in vain to spark conversation between two people with little in common. My mother didn’t talk much, if at all. She grew up in a different culture and a different generation. She was too polite to say it, but I …
Read More »White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says he’ll delete tweets the internet already recorded
Jonathan Ernst | Reuters New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci addresses the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 21, 2017. Just one day into his job as White House, communications director Anthony Scaramucci announced on Twitter that he’d be deleting past tweets. Not only is …
Read More »This is ‘the most important chart’ in the market right now, according to Dennis Gartman
The most important chart in the market right now could be rather disturbing to equity investors, according to commodities king Dennis Gartman. On Thursday, the Gartman Letter editor and founder joined CNBC’s “Futures Now” to point out something in the market that he believes has been overlooked: That stocks are …
Read More »What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Story of a Girl’ and ‘Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White’
Photo Ryann Shane and Kevin Bacon in “Story of a Girl.” Credit Bettina Strauss/Lifetime Kyra Sedgwick makes her directorial debut opposite her husband, Kevin Bacon, and their daughter, Sosie. And Michael Phelps races (sort of) a great white during Discovery’s Shark Week. What’s on TV STORY OF A GIRL (2017) …
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