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When “Moby Dick” opens at the Metropolitan Opera this week, audiences will experience a deeply American story of unchecked ambition, fomented grievances and a self-destructive desire for revenge. Based on Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, the opera delivers an economical and resolute retelling of the fateful tale of the Pequod, a ship in pursuit of a…

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Mr. Schwarz says on his website biography that he lives in the Midwest. (A P.O. box in Ringwood, Ill., is listed on the People’s Union USA website.) On social media, he goes by TheOneCalledJai and has directed supporters of his organization to follow his personal accounts under the same name as he sells merchandise and…

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During most of the five years when the striking new home of Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art was under construction, Poland was governed by the conservative Law and Justice Party, whose lawmakers tried to shift the country’s culture to the right. Officials ousted liberal directors at major institutions and replaced them with conservatives whose shows…

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Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English translation of the last novel by Chaim Grade, one of the leading Yiddish authors of the 20th century. Grade was less well known than the Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer,…

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A representational image of a paraglider. — Reuters/File An Indian student found an innovative solution to hours-long traffic jams as he paraglided to his examination centre to avoid being late in Maharashtra’s Satara district.   A video of Samarth Mahangade, a student from Pasarani village in Maharashtra, flying through the sky with his college bag…

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President Trump appeared to strengthen his grip on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Monday, as 18 board members and the board chairman were removed from an official roster on the center’s website. The changes came three days after Mr. Trump announced his intent to purge the Kennedy Center’s…

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