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Churchill - A new meme equates Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, with Winston Churchill. As wartime leaders, it's apt. In every other way, it couldn't be more inaccurate. Zelensky, a successful entertainer,
Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly: Recipes from Southern Appalachia - “My place, in the midst of this abundance of nature, is back in a mountain hollow on a bad dirt road surrounded by forest, wild blackberries, mountain critters, wildflowers, a
Citizen: An American Lyric - An incident: It’s finally your turn, and then it’s not as he walks in front of you and puts his things on the counter. The cashier says, Sir, she was next.
City Secrets: New York City - Back when the Child was so young I collected her every afternoon at school, I often used to run into foreign couples at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 94th
Claridge’s: The Cookbook - A bargain hotel website can get you a room at Claridge’s next week for less than $1,000, though I’m pretty sure it’s not nearly as nice as the room I
Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris - There's always a Parisian who sees her city with wide-eyed romanticism --- and finds gold in that innocence. As Clotilde Dusolier walked her city, she learned to worship at the
Coffinman - In Japan, there's no job lower than washing corpses and putting them in coffins. This was, as Shinmon Aoki wryly tells us, not his dream job. He had dropped out
Colette: Break of Day - Sir, You ask me to come and spend a week with you, which means I would be near my daughter, whom I adore. You who live with her know how rarely
Colette: Cheri - When Colette sat down to write "Cheri," she was ready. Before 1914, she produced eight stories about the boy, sometimes using the name she'd give him in the novel. In
Columbine - Dave Cullen has a piece in The New York Times urging us not to draw conclusions too quickly about James Holmes, who killed a dozen people and wounded more than
Come Back - The cover shows a little girl, aloft. Her mother's open hands are at the bottom of the photograph. It's a lovely, joyous picture. And one that
Come Through: Bon Iver/Justin Vernon and TU Dance - There is “good,” and then there is “great,” and then, much higher on the quality scale, there is Bon Iver. Everything Justin Vernon and his band have done in the
Come to the Edge - The longtime girlfriend of John F. Kennedy, Jr. --- a woman he should have married, and didn’t --- writes a book about their long friendship, glorious romance and fraught break-up.
Comfort - Video Ann Hood talks about knitting and grief Comfort is a very great book. I don't think most people would read it if I paid them. Consider: In April of 2002, Ann Hood's
Comfort Food for Uncomfortable Weather (Real & Political) - It's been, as they say, an icebox here. Yes, it's a bit warmer now, but don't be fooled --- the big chill will return. And there's no better time to
Compulsion - Let's say that someone wants to kill four people, all in the same house, so quickly that no one can confront him --- and then disappear into the night, never
Connecting the Dots: How Sweet It Isn’t - It was a dinner so healthy I'd be a monster not to share the recipe. It's from The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, by Ina Garten, who also
Conning Harvard: Adam Wheeler, the Con Artist Who Faked His Way into the Ivy League - “Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there,” Woody Allen says in “Annie Hall.” I can think of others who have shamed their Harvard affiliation: Larry Summers when
Cook What You Love: Simple, Flavorful Recipes to Make Again and Again - It's easy to love --- or envy --- Melinda and Bob Blanchard. They have a charmed life: a restaurant on a Caribbean island so popular that people fly
Cooking with vegetables — if McDonald’s will do it, what’s stopping you? - It is a law among sensible investors that you do not buy individual stocks. But when I read about all the fast food chains that sell plant-based burgers and saw
