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Want to Understand Your Neighbors? Go to a Municipal Meeting.
Part theater, part dirge, occasionally part circus, the meetings on any given night fill with people united by a common…
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World
Tea, a Train and an Epic Sunrise at a Summer Retreat of the Raj
Darjeeling, in the Himalayan foothills, is famous for its tea, its elevated railroad and the view of dawn breaking over…
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World
In Texas, Vietnamese American Shrimpers Must Forge a New Path Again
ACROSS THE COUNTRY In Texas, Vietnamese American Shrimpers Must Forge a New Path Again They overcame the trauma of war,…
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News
The Holmdel Horn, a Cosmic Shrine in New Jersey, Stays Put
The radio telescope that discovered the Big Bang has survived a real estate battle — for now.
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World
Fierce Fighting Flares Around Eastern Ukrainian Town of Avdiivka
Russia’s assault there may be a sign that Moscow is trying to regain the initiative in the war, after it…
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Books
When the Turner Prize Came to ‘God’s Waiting Room’
The town of Eastbourne, England, hopes the contemporary art prize can help it shake off a geriatric image, and bring…
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World
Russians Press Assault Near Southeastern Town of Avdiivka
The intensifying push is one of Russia’s few offensive operations in months, as it tries to seize land in Ukrainian…
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News
Can Britain Boom and Bloom at Once?
“I feel somehow / That it isn’t going to last,” Philip Larkin wrote in “Going, Going,” his lament for the…
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News
Try Tolerance in a Small Town
It’s been a long time since I cared about a country song. Perhaps that’s because when I heard Zac Brown…
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Business
How to Revive a Dying Main Street? One U.K. Landlord Offered Free Rent.
For two decades, Steven Wyatt was in a cycle of drug addiction and rehab. In 2006, during a stint at…