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10 of Our Best Weekend Reads + One Great Video - The New York Times

posted onDecember 31, 2017
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Article snippet: This weekend is one for reflecting and looking ahead; for family, friends and football; for sleeping in and starting things off right; for bundling up and bingeing on good (or bad) TV. Whatever you’re doing, take a minute, or a bit more, and indulge in some great journalism. Happy New Year! The magazine embarks on its annual remembrance of some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. The collection includes essays on Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Dick Gregory and Sam Shepard (whose hat is pictured above). Magazine _____ Trump versus Hollywood. Echoes of the Confederacy. Taylor Swift and the alt-right. Here’s a not-so-nostalgic look back at some of the year’s fiercest fights. Arts & Leisure _____ Oaxaca has become popular during the holiday season when the temperate weather, the food and the festive spirit attract travelers from near and far. Travel _____ Most chefs work a lifetime for a Michelin star. Jérôme Brochot is giving his back. Why? He can’t afford it. Neither can his declining old mining town. International _____ The victims of sexual harassment who have recently come forward are far from alone: Nearly half of women say they have experienced some form of it at work at least once in their careers. But there has been little research about those responsible. In a new survey, about a third of men said they had done something at work within the past year that would qualify as objectionable behavior or sexual harassment. Upshot _... Link to the full article to read more

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