Video Games : By SETH SCHIESEL
There are video games that try to make you cry. There are games that gross you out. There are games that tell a sweeping story. There are games that make you think seriously about the world around you.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which was released by Nintendo this week, is none […]
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By DENNIS OVERBYE : The winking star has sand in its eye.
Back in 2002, astronomers from Wesleyan University concluded that a star brightening and waning in an unusual 48-day rhythm was dipping in and out of stuff swirling around the star in a so-called protoplanetary disk. At the time one astronomer called the system “a […]
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal jury convicted five former executives of a health care finance company on Thursday in a $1.9 billion scheme to defraud investors.
The officials worked for National Century Financial Enterprises, described as the nation’s largest health care financing firm before its 2002 bankruptcy. The five, some […]
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Art Review | ‘Anatomy of a Masterpiece’ : By HOLLAND COTTER
From his terrace, the world is blue and green — mountains and trees — or almost green. Spring is on the way; the geese are back. One, then two, alight on the river, with more still invisible but close behind. Pavilion living! The only way. […]
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Weekend Explorer : By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH
ON a recent sunny but frigid morning, I strolled up Broadway through Times Square with Näkki Goranin, a visitor from Vermont making a pilgrimage through the swirling crowds and the sensory overload of all the signage. We stopped on the west side of Broadway between 51st and 52nd Streets. It […]
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By JULIA MOSKIN : AT what point in the chef-diner relationship is it O.K. to offer a backrub?
One night last week, during dress rehearsals for the tiny new restaurant Momofuku Ko, David Chang could barely stand, much less cook. (“Back pain, stress-related,” one of the sous-chefs opined under his breath.) Each of the 12 diners, […]
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