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A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
If the baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte has found a secret to life, it is stories. At the Santa Maddalena…
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Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off.
Israeli security officials scored a major intelligence coup in 2018: secret documents that laid out, in intricate detail, what amounted…
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She Was Crowned Miss Universe. Then Her Government Cracked Down.
Sheynnis Palacios, the first Nicaraguan to win the pageant, became a symbol of resistance. The authoritarian leadership soon came after…
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Disney Is a Language. Do We Still Speak It?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower once praised Walt Disney for his “genius as a creator of folklore.” When Disney died in…
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Carbon Markets Are in Limbo. That’s Not Stopping This Firm.
An Emirati company wants to broker a nascent market in which nations trade emission reductions even before regulations are agreed…
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The Debt Problem Is Enormous, and the System for Fixing It Is Broken
Economists offer alternatives to financial safeguards created when the U.S. was the pre-eminent superpower and climate change wasn’t on the…
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Chaos, Injustice and Joy: This Year’s College Essays About Money
Some of the most basic questions about money are also central to figuring out what and who you want to…
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Jury Orders Giuliani to Pay $148 Million to Election Workers He Defamed
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, wrongfully accused by Rudolph W. Giuliani of having tried to steal votes from Donald J.…
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Mike Grgich Dies at 100; His Wine Stunned the French by Besting Theirs
A Croatian immigrant’s California chardonnay was judged the top one in a famous Paris tasting. He later established the respected…
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Merle Goldman, a Leading Expert on Communist China, Dies at 92
A lifelong academic, she stood apart in her ability to communicate her insights about the country to nonacademic readers.