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Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and…

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Shecky Greene, High-Energy Comedy Star, Is Dead at 97

A Las Vegas institution, he would do just about anything for a laugh, including physical comedy so broad that it…

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He Killed His Molester as a Teenager. Should He Be Spared Deportation?

Marco Flores was months away from finishing his prison sentence when an immigration agent showed up last spring at the…

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Why Some Parents Give Their Children a Last Name Other Than the Father’s

Some American parents have been breaking the patrilineal tradition for generations, but the number who do so remains small.

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Helping a Child Navigate Grief? Open a Picture Book.

“But where did he go?” “Can she see us?” “Why didn’t Pop bring his glasses?” Kids have questions about death,…

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Can Hope Ever Be a Form of Medicine?

Of all the ways the body can go wrong, A.L.S. is one of the most frightening. It begins subtly —…

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Fantasia Barrino-Taylor on the Pain (and Joy) of ‘The Color Purple’

Throughout the six months of production on the new film adaptation of “The Color Purple,” Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, who plays the…

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He Was Ready to Die, but Not to Surrender

How a Ukrainian soldier escaped from the embattled Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol and sneaked 125 miles to Ukrainian territory.

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A Forgotten Chapter of Abortion History Repeats Itself

Much of the country no doubt watched in amazement last week as a woman with a doomed pregnancy was forced…

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Our Semicolons, Ourselves

When I go through students’ papers and flag the misplaced modifiers, note the clichés or explain that a 15-sentence paragraph…

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