The former Times columnist Russell Baker, in The New York Review of Books, wrote: “Among the Lelyvelds, confusion, misunderstanding, and too much silence at all levels were the makings of an obviously unhappy family, whose members, if asked, Lelyveld says, would have called themselves a happy family. His book is more like life than memoir.”…
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During his wedding ceremony at a picturesque resort in the Southern California desert, Gerry Turner made his way down an aisle lined with roses. Then he turned around and walked back. The crowd murmured. Cold feet? No, the redo was for the cameras broadcasting the wedding on ABC. “For real this time!” Mr. Turner mouthed…
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Epstein was accused of exploiting numerous teenage girls before his 2019 suicide in federal custody US financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry on March 28, 2017, and obtained by Reuters on July 10, 2019. — Reuters The recent release of…
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Oscar Pistorius, now 37, shot Steenkamp multiple times, initially claiming he mistook her for a burglar Paralympian Oscar Pistorius looks at and girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at an event in this undated picture — File/AFP Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, infamous for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been released on parole from a South…
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Peloton Interactive and TikTok are teaming to develop fitness content, the exercise equipment maker and social platform said Thursday. The partnership marks the first time that Peloton will produce custom social content for use outside its own network, according to to the New York company and China’s TikTok said. The co-branded hub, which will be…
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The Las Vegas Raiders will be conducting a head coaching search heading into the offseason. And one Raiders star wants interim coach Antonio Pierce to keep the job. Davante Adams spoke to the media Wednesday, backing Pierce and adding that others in the locker room support him. “It’s obviously who I wanted, that’s my vote,…
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After 14 years running the Frick Collection, during which this art museum finally realized a controversial expansion of its Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue — and temporarily took up residence in the modernist Breuer building on Madison Avenue — its director, Ian Wardropper, said he would retire next year. “My goal is to leave…
Police are expanding their investigation into Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler, who came under the microscope in October after a rape accusation. Detectives are now looking into whether he committed video voyeurism by secretly recording the victim during the alleged sexual encounter, FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported. Ziegler is accused of raping a woman with…
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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Homeowners bracing for their two-year fixed mortgage deals to end could be spared thousands of pounds in higher interest repayments after major lenders kicked off the new year by slashing rates. Rapid rises…
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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save StarSolidStarSolidStarOutlineStarOutline(2 stars) The title character we meet at the beginning of “Freud’s Last Session” — a talky, speculative drama that imagines a meeting between avowed atheist Sigmund Freud, who invented psychoanalysis, and the Christian apologist writer C.S. Lewis, author of “The Chronicles of Narnia” —…
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