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[ad_1] LAS VEGAS – In the closing moments of the final round of the light-heavyweight title battle between Saúl Álvarez and Dmitry Bivol, a ring guard struck a wooden mallet to indicate that there were only 10 seconds left in the match. Álvarez, known as Canelo, pulled back exhausted after 12 rounds of bruising against …
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[ad_1] Have you ever wondered why we love sad songs or drown in the “Thank You Mom” Olympics commercial? Questions like these have been the impetus for Susan Cain’s new book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Unite Us. Believing that we experience the deepest states of love, happiness, fear and creativity, writes Ms. Cain, “Bitter …
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[ad_1] It wasn’t a hard sell. Replied to Doerries via email. “You want me to play an old blind transgender prophet? It’s a dream come true!” He remembered what he had written. “We have a great admiration for nurses and you just say yes to them,” Atwood later said in a call from her home …
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[ad_1] In Josephine Decker’s gorgeous young adult drama “The Sky Is Everywhere,” Lennie (Grace Kaufman) is a high school clarinettist who is relearning to embrace the joys of life after the sudden loss of her older sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). Lennie begins the story sad and withdrawn. She suffers with Bailey’s reticent boyfriend Toby …
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[ad_1] Purdue’s #1 men’s team and the third-place indomitable Connecticut women played against unranked opponents on Thursday night. The results would have looked predictable. The results were anything but. Purdue was the 11½-point favorite for the Rutgers outing, with a deflated record of 4-4 and a loss to Lafayette on his resume. But after Ron …
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[ad_1] Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, a prolific writer on mourning and known for serving those who mourned loved ones in the September 11 attacks, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and other times of loss, died at his home on October 15. Evi, Belmont, Mass. He was 96 years old. His daughter, Sharon Grollman, said the …
[ad_1] How then to proceed and why? “On Consolation” takes the erosion of organized religion for granted and is aimed at secularists who still seek meaning and purpose: not nihilists but non-believers. Still, Ignatieff believes scriptures of all denominations can be extracted even by non-believers for comfort and insight, for customized spirituality like one of …
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[ad_1] For Andrew Avilá, the dancer I met at a Party Called Rosie Perez, one form of movement prompted another: Initially paralyzed by pandemic despair, she regained her desire to dance when she “walked the whole city” last summer to protest police brutality. . Setting the pulse that precedes any choreography was a relief to …
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[ad_1] At the beginning of “Wild Tongues”, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s third novel, Iranian-American narrator Arezu arrives in Marbella, Spain. For the first time in 20 years, she meets her 17-year-old stepmother’s nephew, Omar, who was then 40 years old. He will be “my lover, my tormentor, my confidant and my enemy,” he says. …
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[ad_1] BREATHby Joyce Carol Oates One of my favorite pieces of advice to my graduates is this: Don’t write a story about a ball rolling down the hill. Flannery O’Connor argued for something similar when he said that the ending of a story should be surprising but inevitable. In fiction, the simply inevitable is predictable. …
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[ad_1] USA men’s basketball team Saddened by Nigeria in its first exhibition match ahead of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday evening, it’s a stunning result, even if its effects are more symbolic than likely to affect US eventual gold medal hopes. Nigeria defeated a Team USA roster of All-NBA players 90-87 at the Mandalay Bay …
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