A new wave of college players enters professional football with branding deals in place and fashion on their minds.Hours before Ashton Jeanty, a running back with Sonic the Hedgehog speed, was selected by the Las Vegas Raiders with the sixth pick at Thursday’s first round of the N.F.L ...
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As a woman working in a men’s high-security prison, I was told not to care about the incarcerated population. But my job was to love.Wearing a protective vest, I stood on the compound of the federal penitentiary where I had just been hired as the prison’s first female ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaAnxious AffectionMy mother’s love language was worry. An anxious woman, she believed panic was a form of protection. “It’s what you don’t see coming that gets you,” she said, searching out the unlikeliest dangers. If ...
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The video-streaming platform has revolutionized how we watch things. Here’s a timeline of its biggest moments.The video is short — just 19 seconds — and not particularly compelling. A viewer would be forgiven for clicking away before it ends.The grainy footage, uploaded on April 23, 2005, of a ...
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For the past five years, Jack Sivan has been running a small tailoring and men’s wear business out of the Brooklyn apartment he shares with his wife and three guinea pigs (Bagel, Panda and Faun). Recent events have had him thinking about working someplace other than his home.Mr ...
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A lapel pin in the likeness of President Trump, worn by the chairman of the F.C.C., raises some questions.Earlier this month Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, decided to swap out his usual American flag lapel pin. Instead of the stars and stripes, he pinned ...
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You might not guess what it is, but it makes a lot of sense.President Trump is not the only one with the last Gilded Age on his mind. On Thursday, Ralph Lauren held his fall 2025 fashion show in the bank hall of the Clock Tower Building in ...
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The maker of numerous pop hits has always had trouble getting respect.Almost as soon as the pop star Katy Perry had returned from a very brief trip to space with a group hosted by Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, the derisive comments started.In Slate, Heather Schwedel wrote: “It ...
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“Your Friends & Neighbors” strives to comment on the vacuousness of wealth while simultaneously glorifying the spoils of being really, really rich.It appeared as if Jon Hamm were, once again, selling us something.Mr. Hamm, who has lent his assertive baritone to Mercedes-Benz ads, an American Airlines spot and ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaLucky Lost LuggageWe were dating long-distance because of me. I had decided that New York City’s bodegas couldn’t possibly provide what I needed to sustain a complete life, so I left, and Sam stayed. I ...
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The baronial manors, rolling lawns and private clubs in the fictional suburban backdrop of the new Apple TV+ series “Your Friends & Neighbors” bear little resemblance to the buzzing sidewalks, neon lights and hidden warrens of Tokyo. But for the actress Olivia Munn, who plays an outsider turned ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube |iHeartRadio‘When I actually think of the sex acts that I’ve been engaging in, I mean, they’re good, but they’re not so off-the-wall like hanging from chandeliers or by clamps and straps. No, that’s not ...
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The co-hosts! The ticket prices! The dress code! A guide to the party of the year.By now, you probably know the first Monday in May is not just any old Monday: It’s the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a.k.a. the Oscars of the East Coast or ...
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The W.N.B.A. draft began not just with odds-making, taking bets on what player would go at what pick to what team (well, except for Paige Bueckers, who was a lock as the No. 1 pick for Dallas), but with an announcement.Coach, the New York Fashion Week brand known ...
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