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Nafis Sadik, U.N. Official and ‘Proud Champion of Choice,’ Dies at 92
Dr. Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani obstetrician who as a top United Nations official ensured that women’s rights — not least…
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Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity
Brahms’s Fourth Symphony doesn’t mean anything. Like much of the classical music repertory, it has no text, no plot. It…
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In Two London Plays, Being Black Means Looking From the Outside In
LONDON — It was my second time here, and I kept trying to remember if I had felt as conspicuous…
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Help! I’m 93, My Postponed Cruise Has Been Postponed Again, and I’d Like My Money Back.
Dear Tripped Up, My travel companion and I booked a river cruise and tour to Portugal and Spain for this…
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Delft Tiles Get a Playful, and Sometimes Raunchy, Update
A broad-shouldered farmer, scythe in hand, gazes out over a field of asparagus. At first, the young man, subtly veined…
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This Fall’s Fashion Is a Study in Contrasts
Louis Vuitton top, sweater and miniskirt, price on request, louisvuitton.com; Ann Demeulemeester skirt (worn underneath), $1,310 ...
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Europeans Debate Barring Russian Tourists Over the Invasion of Ukraine
BRUSSELS — A proposal that the European Union ban visas for all Russian tourists because of the Ukraine invasion has…
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‘A Last Act of Intimate Kindness’
The message I had dreaded for years appeared on my phone: “Looking to find the sister of my patient, Jay…
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Overlooked No More: Regina Jonas, Upon Whose Shoulders ‘All Female Rabbis Stand’
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported…
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1972: Greece Grants Political Asylum to 6 Russian Sailors
Credit...International Herald TribuneATHENS, Aug. 18 (Reuters) — A Greek government spokesman said here last night that six Russian seamen who…