Fight for net neutrality unites internet

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: For once, the constant bickering on the internet and social media has been put aside. People of all beliefs and affiliations have come together to unite on the net neutrality issue, campaigning, persuading, and getting more people involved.

In a span of 24 hours, over 27,000 emails have been sent to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) through the website savetheinternet.in responding to the regulator's call for public consultation. An online petition on change.org has nearly 150,000 supporters petitioning Union minister for communication and information technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, the department of telecom, and the TRAI to act against the violation of net neutrality by corporate interests.

Obama Meets Raúl Castro, Making History

nytimes.com - PANAMA — President Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba met here Saturday in the first face-to-face discussion between the leaders of the two countries in a half-century.

Seated beside Mr. Castro in a small room in the convention center downtown where the Summit of the Americas was being held, Mr. Obama called it a “historic meeting.”

“Our governments will continue to have differences,” he said at a news conference wrapping up the summit meeting. “At the same time, we agreed that we can continue to take steps forward that advance our mutual interests.”

He Missed a Shot? Give That Man a Hand

nytimes.com - N.B.A. players are among the most graceful athletes in the world, and they showcase their skills almost nightly. Their movements are precise, their timing impeccable.

But for all the dazzling dunks and clever passes, some of their most impressive choreography often goes unnoticed: the brief ballet that plays out between free throws, when teammates come together to exchange an assortment of high-fives, pats on the backside and hand gestures.

“I don’t even know why we do it,” Mike Miller of the Cleveland Cavaliers said, “but we have to do it.”

Hillary Clinton Set to Announce 2016 Presidential Bid

nytimes.com - Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce on Sunday that she will seek the presidency for a second time, ending two years of speculation and immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee.

The announcement will effectively begin what could be one of the least contested races, without an incumbent, for the Democratic presidential nomination in recent history — a stark contrast to the 2008 primaries, when Mrs. Clinton, the early front-runner, ended up in a long and expensive battle won by Barack Obama.

2 College Students Charged in Sexual Attack on Florida Beach

nytimes.com - PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Two college students have been charged with sexually attacking a woman on a crowded Florida beach filled with spring break revelers who apparently did nothing to stop it, authorities said.

Delonte' Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, were arrested Friday and charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, according to the Bay County Sheriff's Office. The Panama City News Herald (http://bit.ly/1I3NbsV ) reports both men are students at Troy University in Alabama.

The attack, recorded on a cellphone video, happened sometime March 10-12 in Panama City, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen said at a news conference.

In Performance | Tessa Ferrer

nytimes.com - Ms. Ferrer in a scene from Tracey Scott Wilson’s new play about race and real estate in a gentrifying neighborhood. The show, directed by Anne Kauffman, opens on Wednesday at the Public Theater.

Jordan Spieth Ready for a Roaring Good Time at the Masters

nytimes.com - AUGUSTA, Ga. — As much as he enjoyed his first Masters last year, Jordan Spieth left Augusta National Golf Club with one regret. Not the chunky chip he hit on the eighth hole of the final round, which opened a crack at the top of the leaderboard that the eventual champion, Bubba Watson, blazed through.

Spieth lamented that his runner-up finish in his Masters debut came against a field that did not include the four-time champion Tiger Woods, who missed the tournament after having back surgery.

“I wish that Tiger was there,” Spieth said then, adding, “In order to feel like I can reach a goal one day of becoming No.

How Low Can the Philadelphia 76ers Go?

nytimes.com - There has never been a professional sports team quite like the 2014-15 Philadelphia 76ers, a roster of basketball castoffs and drifters that could be the least capable assemblage of players ever to suit up for an N.B.A. game. The franchise — widely believed by those who follow pro basketball to be deliberately in “tank mode,” in order to lose games and get a top pick in this summer’s N.B.A. draft — has offended sensibilities, provoked curiosity, inspired bizarre mathematical theorems. How low could they go?

States Tighten Conditions for Receiving Food Stamps as the Economy Improves

nytimes.com - BRUNSWICK, Me. — The food pantry here, just off the main drag in this neat college town, gets busiest on Wednesdays, when the parking lot is jammed and clients squeeze into the lobby, flipping through books left on a communal shelf as they wait their turn to select about a week’s worth of food.

The Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is intended to be a supplemental food pantry, but a growing number of clients here and at pantries around the state have little else to rely on because of a change in state policy this year.

Modern Love | An Imaginative Love Story

nytimes.com - While battling Alzheimer’s disease, Deenie Hartzog-Mislock’s grandmother invents a wild story and the family learns to love an imaginary man named Nick Stephanopoulos.

What It Really Means to Call Hillary Clinton ‘Polarizing’

nytimes.com - Late in George W. Bush’s first term, the conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome,” which he defined as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of George W. Bush.” In other words, there were a whole bunch of people, presumably on the left, who not only didn’t like George W. Bush, but also disliked him to an irrational and perhaps unhinged degree. By coining a “syndrome” to describe the state, Krauthammer, a formerly practicing psychiatrist with an M.D.

Tibetan Nun Calling for End to China Rule and Dalai Lama’s Return Sets Self on Fire

nytimes.com - BEIJING — A nun set herself on fire in the past week in a Tibetan area of western China to protest Chinese rule and to call for the return of the Dalai Lama from exile, according to two pro-Tibet advocacy groups.

The nun, Yeshi Khando, is believed to have died because of the intensity of the fire. The death could not be confirmed because the police took her away after dousing the flames with fire extinguishers, said the groups, which had spoken with people in the area where the self-immolation occurred on Wednesday.

Alan Blinder

twitter.com - @alanblinder @nytimes We All Need To STOP , THINK AND MAKE A GOOD CHOICE...THIS IS A TRAGEDY FOR BOTH FAMILIES AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY

To Keep Free of Federal Reins, Wyoming Catholic College Rejects Student Aid

nytimes.com - LANDER, Wyo. — An insurrection is brewing here at Wyoming Catholic College, a tiny redoubt of cowboy-style Catholicism where students learn about horseback riding and Thomas Aquinas, and take grueling mountain hikes conducted entirely in Latin.

Citing concerns about federal rules on birth control and same-sex marriage, the school decided this winter to join a handful of other religious colleges in refusing to participate in the federal student-aid programs that help about two-thirds of students afford college.

Where Are the Teachers of Color?

nytimes.com - GROWING up in the 1970s and ’80s in the Chicago suburb of Blue Island, Ill., Gladys Marquez, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, never once had a Hispanic teacher. Sometimes, when trying to explain to her parents her plans for college — or even why she wanted to play softball or try out for the cheerleading team — she wished she had a mentor who shared her background.

“It would have been nice to have a teacher in the classroom who could help you bridge over and help you become a better version of yourself,” she said in a recent interview.

Why Writers Love to Hate the M.F.A.

nytimes.com - It was peak reading season, and Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was gamely juggling a call from a reporter, interruptions from her 7-year-old as well as a 10 percent surge in applications to the University of Iowa’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. Ms. Chang was in the thick of decisions about who would fill 50 spots evenly divided between the fall fiction and poetry workshops.

“I’m deluged,” she said, surprised by the number of applications she was sorting through — 1,380 — especially in a year with a stronger economy, a condition that typically causes graduate school applications, never mind those to fine arts programs, to drop.

Iraq Empties Mass Graves in Search for Cadets Killed by ISIS

nytimes.com - BAGHDAD — Among the mass graves being unearthed in Tikrit, soldiers spotted an old man carrying a large trash bag and trying to sneak away.

“Our men asked the old man, ‘What’s in the bag?’ ” said Haider Majeed, an official with the prime minister’s office who was there to help supervise the exhumations. He told the story on the Iraqiya television channel on Tuesday.

“This is my son,” the old man was quoted as saying. Officials took the bag and looked inside, finding a pile of bones and some clothing, but no proof of identity.

Julie Wilson, Sultry Cabaret Legend and Actress, Dies at 90

nytimes.com - Julie Wilson, the revered nightclub performer and actress widely regarded as the queen of cabaret, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 90.

She died after having a stroke, her son Holt McCallany, an actor, said.

The rail-thin Ms. Wilson, her hair pulled back, a gardenia tucked behind one ear, cut a striking and elegant figure onstage in clinging custom-made gowns usually augmented by a feather boa. As she wove her spell, performing standards from the American songbook in addition to humorously racy material, she was by turns naughty and intense, digging so deeply into the lyrics she sang that she seemed to be living them.

What to Do in Antigua, Guatemala

nytimes.com - Less than an hour away from the concrete sprawl of Guatemala City, Antigua feels like a portal to another century. The nearly 500-year-old city is cradled by three volcanoes and filled with colonial-era mansions, churches and convents, many with orange and yellow facades. In the evening, residents gather in the jacaranda-lined plazas to listen to musicians tapping mallets on marimbas, or wander between lively night spots. Once the capital of this Central American country (before a series of devastating earthquakes forced the colonial government to move to Guatemala City in the late 1700s), Antigua, population 41,000, is a Unesco World Heritage site.

House That Wouldn’t Budge (or Float Away) Faces a Last Stand

nytimes.com - SEATTLE — Asuman Engin and her family, making their first visit to Seattle recently from their home in San Diego, spotted what may be the most famous tiny house in the world as they were coming over a nearby bridge.

“This is the house! This is the house!” Ms. Engin shouted. And so a few minutes later, here they were: Ms. Engin and her husband, Ege, pinning balloons to the chain-link fence that cordons off the property, and trying to explain to their somewhat bewildered-looking sons, ages 5 and 11, why they were here.

U.S. Steps Up Bombing Raids in Anbar After Shiite Militias Withdraw

nytimes.com - BAGHDAD — Under pressure from American officials here, Iraq has withdrawn Shiite militiamen from the Ramadi area in Anbar Province, and the American-led coalition immediately responded by stepping up bombing raids to support Iraqi forces there, according to Iraqi officials involved in the decision.

The American ambassador to Iraq, Stuart E. Jones, met with Anbar tribal leaders and provincial officials Saturday and expressed his dissatisfaction that Shiite militiamen were in the thick of a local offensive against extremists of the Islamic State near the provincial capital, according to two participants in the meeting, who were interviewed Sunday.

The Wise Words of Maya Angelou. Or Someone, Anyway.

nytimes.com - THIS week the United States Postal Service celebrated the life and work of Maya Angelou, unveiling a stamp with her portrait and a lyrical quotation. Unfortunately, the words on the stamp do not appear to have originally been uttered by the poet. Instead, they come from the children’s book author Joan Walsh Anglund.

Ms. Anglund, 89, graciously called the misattribution of her epigram to Ms. Angelou “interesting.” The line, “A bird doesn’t sing because he has an answer, it sings because he has a song” appeared in her 1967 book of poems, “A Cup of Sun.” (The version on the stamp uses “it” instead of “he.”)

American Among Nearly 40 Sentenced to Life in Prison for Egypt Protests

nytimes.com - CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced an American citizen, Mohamed Soltan, to life imprisonment for supporting an Islamist protest against the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in the summer of 2013.

The presiding judge, Mohammed Nagi Shehata, sentenced more than 35 other defendants in the case to the same penalty and also confirmed death sentences in the same case for about a dozen defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s top spiritual guide, Mohamed Badie, 71, as well as Mr.

Homemade Pizza, Easier and Faster

nytimes.com - I’m betting this will not be the first time someone has tried to seduce you into making pizza at home — meaning homemade dough, from scratch. There are almost 100 recipes for pizza or calzone or focaccia in NYT Cooking, The New York Times’s recipe resource, and a new recipe, from Roberta’s in Bushwick, Brooklyn, appeared in these pages a year ago.

So let’s assume you already know that homemade pizza is better and quicker and cheaper than what you can buy at the neighborhood pizza place. You know the reasons to make your own, which are as obvious as they are appealing: You can top a pizza with virtually anything (from special ingredients to leftovers) or almost nothing (one of my favorites is little more than a smear of caramelized leeks dotted with taleggio).

U.N. Official Visits Syria to Press Urgency of Besieged Refuge Camp

nytimes.com - The top United Nations official for aiding Palestinian refugees visited Syria on Saturday as part of an intensified effort to avoid a humanitarian calamity at the besieged Yarmouk camp. About 18,000 civilians are trapped there as government forces clash with Islamic State militants who seized control of that area more than a week ago.

The official, Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, was undertaking “an urgent mission” in coordination with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the agency’s spokesman, Christopher Gunness, said in a statement.

Anatomy | ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’

nytimes.com - In this Anatomy of a Scene, the writer and director Olivier Assayas narrates a sequence from “Clouds of Sils Maria,” featuring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.

Pastor Denounces Racism at Walter Scott’s Funeral One Week After Police Shooting

nytimes.com - SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday for the funeral of Walter L. Scott, the black man whose killing by a white police officer was captured on video, instantly catapulting a once anonymous forklift operator and father of four into the nation’s debate about excessive use of force by the police.

The pastor at WORD Ministries Christian Center, where Mr. Scott worshiped, minced no words, telling the standing-room-only crowd that Mr. Scott had died because he was black. The pastor, the Rev.

U.S. Capitol Locked Down After Shots Are Fired in Apparent Suicide

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The United States Capitol was temporarily locked down by law enforcement authorities Saturday after a man committed suicide by gunshot outside the elegant west front of the building, officials said.

Witnesses described the suicide victim as a middle-aged male. He fired a single gunshot about 1 p.m., witnesses said, and did not interact with any nearby police officers or bystanders.

Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine, speaking at an outdoor news conference near the scene of the shooting, said the victim carried a sign bearing a message about social justice.

The Fifth Man: Brian Epstein and the Beatles

nytimes.com - In a ceremony last year at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the Beatles’ original manager, Brian Epstein, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The honor was well deserved. Epstein’s early oversight of what many consider to be the most popular musical act of the 20th century led some to call him the fifth Beatle. Some of the strategies he used to propel the Beatles to prominence (while also probably costing them a fortune in lost potential revenue) would be ill suited to today’s world of digital streaming, music piracy and YouTube, which makes Epstein a case study in how much music management has changed since the early 1960s.

Hillary Clinton Weighs How to Recast Ties to Obama

nytimes.com - He defeated her in a grueling Democratic nomination battle. Then she pursued his agenda across the world as secretary of state. Now, the delicate relationship between Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama is about to get even more complicated.

For months, Mrs. Clinton and her team have pored over Mr. Obama’s poll ratings, policies and constituencies, seeking to solve a central riddle for the campaign she is about to begin: How can she run for president as her own person, without criticizing the sitting president she served — while her Republican opponents will be working to demonize them both?

Mets’ Jenrry Mejia Is Suspended 80 Games for Doping Violation

nytimes.com - ATLANTA — On Monday, baseball’s new commissioner, Rob Manfred, stood with reporters before the Mets played the Nationals in Washington and ruminated on a sudden run of positive drug tests in his sport, all of them surprisingly involving stanozolol, an old, easily detectable steroid.

Manfred said the fact that the same drug had shown up in positive tests for Atlanta Braves pitcher Arodys Vizcaino, Seattle Mariners pitcher David Rollins and Minnesota Twins pitcher Ervin Santana had made him suspicious.

‘Daily Show’ Successor Trevor Noah Finds Himself Catching Criticism, Not Dealing It Out

nytimes.com - If an announcement of a presidential candidacy were as rocky as Comedy Central’s introduction of Trevor Noah, “The Daily Show” would have a field day with it.

Since Mr. Noah, a 31-year-old South African comic, was named to succeed Jon Stewart as that show’s host, he has been embroiled in a controversy over jokes he posted on Twitter about women and Jews that some viewed as offensive and others as merely lame. (He was the subject of a brief defense by Mr. Stewart.)

Now there’s a new dust-up: Russell Peters, a popular and well-traveled Canadian stand-up comic, called Mr.

Pope Calls Armenian Slaughter '1st Genocide of 20th Century'

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday honored the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by calling it "the first genocide of the 20th century" and urging the international community to recognize it as such, a politically explosive declaration that will certainly anger Turkey.

Francis, who has close ties to the Armenian community from his days in Argentina, defended his pronouncement by saying it was his duty to honor the memory of the innocent men, women, children, priests and bishops who were "senselessly" murdered by Ottoman Turks.

Why can’t Mr Zaveri live where he wants?

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - Ali Asghar Zaveri bought a house in Krishnanagar, a so-called 'Hindu' area of Bhavnagar, and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad started mobilizing Hindu residents to try and evict him. The story went 'national' when a video surfaced of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia threatening violence against the Muslim family.

Modi chose to respond only indirectly. "Petty statements by those claiming to be BJP's well wishers are deviating the campaign from the issues of development & good governance," he tweeted about no one in particular.

Panicking Tories need to calm down, dear

thetimes.co.uk - The defence secretary’s ill-advised attack on Ed Miliband showed just how jittery senior Conservatives have become

The Tory election campaign is in Michael Fallon’s debt this weekend. Please, God, give me more confidence that Mr Fallon wasn’t put up to this. With beautiful precision the defence secretary has shown us how not to do things, and the warning could hardly have come at a better point. There is time, but none to lose; and a peak for the Conservatives to conquer first.

If I may adopt John Bunyan’s 17th-century imagery from The Pilgrim’s Progress, that peak is called Mount Calm, its foothills are Mount Authority and Mount Courtesy, and the dangers along the way are the

Prehistoric art on show in replica cave

thetimes.co.uk - A giant frieze showing lions chasing a herd of bison covers one wall. An abstract drawing featuring female genitalia, a figure that is half-man, half-stag and a bison’s head adorns another. Below is a bear’s skull on a pedestal that may have been an altar.

These are among the masterpieces that went on display yesterday as President Hollande opened a replica of the Chauvet cave in southern France, which contains the world’s oldest known art.

The copy, built at a cost to the French taxpayer of €55 million, combines digital technology with prehistoric techniques.

Isis video shows vast explosion destroying ancient city of Nimrud

thetimes.co.uk - Islamic State has released a video showing militants razing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq.

Jihadists are seen hacking at monuments with sledgehammers before blasting through the remains of the 3,000-year-old city with explosives in footage suggesting that that the site was completely levelled.

The terror group was reported last month to be using heavy vehicles to bulldoze the city, which lies southeast of modern-day Mosul, but the release of the undated video last night shows the extent of the devastation.

Smartphones could predict earthquakes

thetimes.co.uk - Oliver Moody Science Correspondent

By the time the first cracks appeared in the plaster and the first books tumbled off the shelves, the Sicilian town was deserted. Fifteen minutes earlier a ripple of warnings had spread across the island from smartphone to smartphone, outstripping the powerful earthquake and saving dozens of lives.

This is the vision of a group of American geologists who believe they can use thousands of ordinary mobile phones to predict the paths of violent tremors.

Forecasting earthquakes dependably is too expensive for many parts of the world where seismic activity is an occasional but serious threat.

The Things I Carried Back

nytimes.com - CAMBRIDGE, England — THE light was fading on the hills above the Arno, and my closest friend in the careworn ranks of foreign correspondents was sitting cross-legged on a canopied Chinese daybed, in a lovely old tree-shaded house in his native village, a brisk walk from the heart of Florence.

His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, Angela, for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence.

What Hillary Clinton Would Need to Do to Win

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Hillary Rodham Clinton in March in New York City. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

The Coalition

Mrs. Clinton can expect little if any opposition in the Democratic primaries. In the general election, she will need to win over the so-called Obama coalition of blacks and young, college-educated white voters who supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. But she will also need to maintain her base of support among white working-class women while battling it out for college-educated women in the suburbs.

Presidents Who Knew the Babe

nytimes.com - In September 1928, at Griffith Stadium in Washington, Babe Ruth refused to pose for a photograph with the Republican candidate for president, Herbert Hoover. “Nothing doing,” the Babe reportedly said. “I’m for Al Smith.” (Later Ruth issued a statement explaining his brushoff as a “misunderstanding” and said posing with Hoover would be an “honor.”)

When baseball’s most famous player publicly endorsed Smith, the governor of New York, that fall, he became one of the first American sports stars to attempt to lend his popularity to a presidential candidate.

Hillary Clinton Set to Announce 2016 Presidential Bid

nytimes.com - Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce on Sunday that she will seek the presidency for a second time, ending two years of speculation and immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee.

The announcement will effectively begin what could be one of the least contested races, without an incumbent, for the Democratic presidential nomination in recent history — a stark contrast to the 2008 primaries, when Mrs. Clinton, the early front-runner, ended up in a long and expensive battle won by Barack Obama.

Critics Call for 2nd Officer to Be Prosecuted in Walter Scott Shooting

nytimes.com - CHARLESTON, S.C. — As questions were being raised about police conduct in the April 4 shooting death of Walter L. Scott, critics were calling for the prosecution of a black police officer for his actions in the episode.

After the shooting, an amateur video was made public showing a police officer, Michael T. Slager, firing eight rounds at Mr. Scott as he attempted to run away. Mr. Slager, who is white, has been charged with murder.

A second officer, Clarence Habersham, did not fire any rounds at Mr. Scott and arrived on the scene in North Charleston shortly after the confrontation between Mr.

Inside 13 of New York City’s Stunning Landmarks

time.com - In honor of the 50th anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Law, the New York School of Interior Design has launched an exhibit called “Rescued, Restored, Reimagined,” which shines light on some of the city’s most overlooked protected spaces.

“Often, when we think of landmarks, we think of exterior architecture,” said NYSID President David Sprouls in a release. “A building’s exterior may be protected, but the interiors are frequently disregarded. This exhibition turns that notion on its head by focusing on the important role that interiors play in our lives.”

Now You Can Visit the World’s First Selfie Museum

time.com - Forget about those stodgy art institutions banning selfie sticks. Now there’s a museum specifically designed for social media snapshots.

Like something straight out of out of a Tumblr exec’s fantasy, a new attraction called Art in Island in the Philippines uses 3D replicas of paintings to put visitors in the center of art’s most famous masterpieces. It has thus been dubbed the planet’s first-ever selfie museum.

Actively encouraging guests to share their experiences with friends, family, and followers, museum corporate secretary Blyth Cambaya explains that, “here, art paintings are not complete if you are not with them, if you don’t take pictures with them.”

Pope Calls Armenian Slaughter ‘1st Genocide of 20th Century’

time.com - (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis sparked a diplomatic incident with Turkey on Sunday by calling the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks “the first genocide of the 20th century” and urging the international community to recognize it as such.

Francis, who has close ties to the Armenian community from his days in Argentina, defended his pronouncement by saying it was his duty to honor the memory of the innocent men, women and children who were “senselessly” murdered by Ottoman Turks 100 years ago this month.

In California, the Grass Is Greener at Coachella

nytimes.com - INDIO, Calif. — All across the state, the big worry is about the dwindling water supply. But at Coachella, the annual music festival here in the desert east of Los Angeles, tens of thousands of well-hydrated fans are dancing the weekend away on green grass.

With California facing severe drought for the fourth year in a row, Gov. Jerry Brown this month ordered a 25 percent reduction in water use across the state. Yet that order came just as organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — one of the country’s biggest and most celebrated music events, drawing up to 100,000 fans a day over two weekends — were finishing preparations for this year’s event.

For Margaret Cho, Nothing Is Too Private for a Punch Line

nytimes.com - “I can’t think of a thing that should be hidden,” Margaret Cho said on a blustery Sunday in early March.

It was the morning after her wildly kinetic performance at the Gramercy Theater, and she was feeling brash. “My sexuality or experiences I’ve had that amused me, I’m willing to share,” she said.

That she did. Bright-eyed and pink-cheeked, swaddled against the elements in a kaleidoscopically patterned scarf and a hat shaped like a cinnamon bun, she offered, as she does onstage, the embarrassing minutiae of her day-to-day life.

A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks

nytimes.com - It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive.

Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused on blocking Mr. Obama’s agenda and denigrating him personally since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop, and even by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone of the current attacks is disturbing.

No One to Meet? How About a Tweetup?

nytimes.com - Is everyone really worth meeting? Here’s one way to find out: Next time you are alone in a strange city, post an open invitation on Twitter and see who shows up.

For some hyper-networking travelers, rallying a last-minute dinner guest or a drinking buddy through open calls on social media is a favorite method of avoiding lonely time. Take Peter Shankman, an author and entrepreneur who has sold two online networking businesses over the last 10 years. He has long been sending such invitations from airports, hotel bars, coffeehouses, yogurt shops, even a highway in Arizona.

Cuban President Raul Castro Says Obama ‘Is an Honest Man’

time.com - (PANAMA CITY)—President Barack Obama declared his refusal to refight the Cold War battles of the past on Saturday while Cuban President Raul Castro rallied to his defense, absolving Obama of fault for the U.S. blockade in a stunning reversal of more than 50 years of animosity between the United States and Cuba.

Castro, in a meandering, nearly hour-long speech to the Summit of the Americas, ran through an exhaustive history of perceived Cuban grievances against the U.S. dating back more than a century—a vivid display of how raw passions remain over American attempts to undermine Cuba’s government.

Transgender Teen Commits Suicide After Bullying

time.com - (SAN DIEGO)—A 16-year-old transgender girl who spoke on YouTube about being bullied at school in Southern California killed herself, a support group said, raising questions about what educators can and should do to support students who change gender identity.

Taylor Alesana was constantly picked on by peers before taking her life last week, the North County LGBTQ Resource Center said.

“With few adults to turn to, and with no support from her school, her life became too difficult,” the group said. “Taylor was a beautiful and courageous girl, and all she wanted was acceptance.”

Oldest Neanderthal DNA Ever Found Is Discovered in Skeleton in Italy

time.com - Researchers studying a skeleton from a cave in Italy have discovered the oldest Neanderthal DNA ever found.

Scientists have dated the molecules to about 130,000 to 170,000 years ago, according to Live Science. The skeleton was first found in 1993, but a new study evaluating the DNA from a piece of its right shoulder blade suggests that the fossil was a Neanderthal, the closest extinct relative of modern humans.

“We have a nearly complete human fossil skeleton to describe and study in detail. It is a dream,” Fabio Di Vincenzo, the study’s co-author, told Live Science.

Ian McKellen to Play Cogsworth the Clock in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

time.com - Ian McKellen will take on the role of Cogsworth the clock in Disney’s new, live-action version of Beauty and the Beast.

McKellen, popularly known for playing Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and Magneto in X-Men, will star alongside Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad and Emma Thompson, Variety reports. The film, set for a mid-March 2017 release, will be directed by Bill Condon, who helmed Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls and the final two movies in the Twilight series.

Beauty and the Beast is just one of several live-action reboots in the making.

Dogs in London Are Feasting on Artisanal Organic Cuisine This Weekend

time.com - A handful of dogs in east London are eating like kings this weekend.

At a two-day pop-up restaurant called The Curious Canine Kitchen, organizer Natasha Mason and certified raw-food chef Emily Stephenson served a five-course organic meal—including quinoa and buckwheat biscuits with apple and cinnamon—just for dogs.

Wearing a dress with a dog on it and a matching fascinator, Mason, a graphic designer-turned-yoga teacher and dog lover, greeted the dogs and owners as they made their way into the pop-up space on Saturday.

Here’s Where You Can Watch Coachella Online

time.com - If you weren’t able to nab a Coachella ticket—or prefer your couch to crowds—you can watch the rest of the weekend music and arts festival here online as well as on the three livestream channels below.

Saturday’s lineup includes Hozier, alt-J and Jack White, while Sunday features Florence + The Machine, David Guetta, St. Vincent and Drake, among dozens of others. The shows start around 3:30 p.m. PT both days. See the full schedule here.

American Sentenced to Life in Prison in Egypt After Participating in Protests

time.com - An Egyptian court has sentenced a 27-year-old American citizen to life in prison.

Mohamed Soltan, a graduate of Ohio State University, was arrested in 2013 after Egyptian security forces stormed a sit-in protest of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Soltan was shot during the violent break-up of the protest, and was taken into custody along with his father, who was an active political opposition figure within the Muslim Brotherhood.

Soltan faced terrorism-related charges, including belonging to the now banned-Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news.

Murderer on life term walks out of Benglauru jail’s front door

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BENGALURU: It was a couple of years back that Jayashankar, a rapist-murderer, broke his back, while escaping from Bengaluru's central jail in Parappana Agrahara. Unable to move with injuries from his fall from the high wall, he was caught few kilometers away from the jail, days later.

However, when Manjunath, a convict serving life term for murder, decided to escape, he didn't want a broken back.

Centre to challenge ban on 10-year-old diesel vehicles

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NEW DELHI: The Centre is set to challenge the NGT order banning 10-year-old diesel vehicles in Delhi. Sources said government agencies would move the Supreme Court pointing out the decision was anti-consumer and it was not a practical solution to check the problem of emissions.

Consultations have started within the government to prepare a strong case to challenge the ban. First of all, as per existing motor vehicle laws, age of a vehicle is not the criteria for banning it from plying.

Iodine bindis for tribal women to fight deficiency

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - An iodine patch, designed like a regular bindi, is expected to help one lakh tribal women in north-west Maharashtra battle iodine deficiency. Since these tribals don't consume iodized salt, they are usually deficiency in this nutrient.

Last month, these iodine bindis were distributed free to tribal women in villages near Nashik and Ahmednagar. "Each woman got 30 bindis to last a month. When stuck on the forehead, it delivers the daily required amount of iodine — 100-150 micro grams — to the body by absorption through the skin," says Dr Prachi Pawar, president Neelvasant Medical Foundation and Research Centre, a Nashik NGO that organized the distribution after identifying population pockets deficient in iodine.

All glitter, little gold? Insist on purity check

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - As people across the country prepare for the annual goldbuying frenzy that Akshaya Tritiya whips up, jewellers and consumer activists in the city advise customers to ensure they only buy jewellery that is hallmarked and sealed by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Industry experts say Tamil Nadu has too few hallmarking centres despite being the largest market for gold jewellery in the country . Jewellers in the state sell around 250 tonnes of gold a year but there are only 58 hallmarking centres to guarantee quality.

Greenpeace’s leaky wallet got home ministry’s goat

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: The home ministry's inspection report on Greenpeace India Society cites its protest-creation activity through front organizations, expenditure on securing bail bonds for volunteers and staff without the donor's consent and the "unjustifiably large" amounts paid as salaries and consultation fees to its functionaries to allege that its "activities were neither charitable nor in line with its Articles of Association".

The report, accessed by TOI, claims that Greenpeace incurred an expenditure of Rs 25,000 in 2008-09 and Rs 55,000 in 2009-10 for securing bail bonds and payment of legal fee, apart from spending Rs 28.35 lakh in 2010-11 on financing and legal charges, without the consent of the donor as required by Section 8(1)(a) of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010.

Bitten by dog or monkey? In Uttarakhand, you can claim Rs 2 lakh

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NAINITAL: In an unprecedented order, the Uttarakhand high court on Thursday directed that any victim of a dog bite be given Rs 2 lakh as compensation.

It also mandated that the compensation amount, which is to be equally shared by the respective municipal corporation of a district and the state government, should be paid within a week of the person being bitten.

The order, delivered by a division bench of justices Alok Singh and Sarvesh Kumar Gupta, included those bitten by monkeys and apes in its ambit as well.

TOI bags 2 Golds, 2 Silvers at Abby awards

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - PANAJI: The Times of India Group bagged three of four Gold Abbys awarded in the Publisher category on Friday at a star-studded awards show in Goa. Considered the Oscars of the media and advertising world, two of the three Golds are for TOI campaigns: 'India Salutes' and 'Happy Streets'. This newspaper also won two Silver Abbys — for its Fifa World Cup super-special panorama spread, and its 'Rise Up' campaign. In all, the Times Group walked away with seven metals (as the Abby awards are called) across various categories.

First impressions: Asus Zenfone 2 with 4GB RAM

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: The first iteration of Asus' Zenfone smartphone got a pretty good response with consumers and experts hailing the devices as a perfect blend of good hardware, feature-rich software and attractive pricing. The Taiwanese PC giant is back with the Zenfone 2 that improvises on its predecessor and attempts to take the experience to the next level.

The USP of the top-end variant of the phone is 4GB RAM, a first among the current crop of devices. The Zenfone 2 will be available in different variants and the company says it will try its best to make consumers aware of the difference between each model.

13 scientifically PROVEN ways to be happy

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Being stressed is now a big, unwanted, part of our life. There's no escape from the miserable feeling of stress, which not only hampers productivity at work but affects the quality of our personal space too. So much so, it can also lead to health risks such as depression.

But fret not, while it is omnipresent, science has provided us ways to help keep stress at bay.

Andhra’s U-turn: Lift ban on red sander trees felling

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - HYDERABAD: Forsaking an environmental cause for monetary gain, the Andhra Pradesh government wants the Centre to lift the ban on felling the endangered and precious red sander trees. The state government has written to the Union forests ministry for removing red sanders from the endangered list, a move that has attracted protests from environmentalists.

Even as the state government is under fire for the killing of 20 woodcutters in Seshachalam forests, it wants to sell the highly expensive wood in the international market to generate revenue for the cash-strapped state.

Rafale fighter jets to be inducted into IAF in span of two years: Manohar Parrikar

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: Defence minister Manohar Parrikar said on Saturday that Rafale fighter jets will be inducted into the Indian Air Force in a span of two years.

Manohar Parrikar hailed the government's decision to directly purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets and said that "India has finally broken the ice over the deal which has been pending for the last 17 years."

"Rafale fighter deal is a great decision taken on the terms and conditions that are better," Parrikar added.

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India stun world champions Australia in Azlan Shah Cup

timesofindia.indiatimes.com - IPOH (Malaysia): Young striker Nikkin Thimmaiah scored a hat-trick as India produced their best performance of the tournament to stun world champions and title holders Australia 4-2 and secure a place in the third and fourth place play-off at the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament.

Already out of title race, India played without pressure and at last came up with a complete performance that had Australia on the backfoot for most part of the match.

The win gave also gave India's new chief coach Paul van Ass his best moment of a short career with the Indian team.

Obama Administration Plans New Offshore Drilling Rules to Prevent Oil Spills

time.com - The Obama Administration is planning to announce new safety regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling to help prevent a major explosion like the one that caused the BP oil spill, according to a report.

The announcement is expected to coincide with the disaster’s five-year anniversary later this month, the New York Times reports.

The new regulations would likely tighten safety requirements on blowout preventers. The devices, seen as a last line of defense, malfunctioned and failed to stop the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010.

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Gunmen Kill 20 Workers at Pakistan Dam Construction Site

time.com - (QUETTA, Pakistan)—Gunmen in restive southwestern Pakistan shot and killed at least 20 workers early Saturday at a dam construction site, the deadliest recent attack targeting civilians in a region facing a low-level insurgency, authorities said.

The violence targeted the Gobdan area of the Turbat district in southwestern Baluchistan province, a region where nationalist and separatist Baluch groups have fought against the Islamabad-based government for years. However, no group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Pakistan, a country that faces a deadly Taliban insurgency and threats from other Islamic extremists.

Watch Live Video of the Newborn Giraffe at the Dallas Zoo

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The Dallas Zoo’s newest addition is here: Katie the reticulated giraffe—not to be confused with the expectant Kate Middleton—gave birth on Friday. (On the count of three: one, two, three … awww!)

The zoo teamed up with Animal Planet to bring viewers 24/7 coverage via live cam.

Watch the live feed below to see/aww over the calf, whose sex is unknown. Animal Planet will also air a one-hour special, Giraffe Birth Live, Saturday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Katie is one of about 4,700 of her kind, down from an estimated 31,000 in 1998, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.

Teen Activist Malala Yousafzai Gets Her Own Asteroid

time.com - Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize-winning teenage activist, now has an asteroid named in her honor.

The more-than-2-mile-wide asteroid—officially now known as “316201 Malala”—orbits the sun every five-and-a-half years in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Amy Mainzer, the NASA astronomer who discovered the rock, was the one who named it after Yousafzai.

“If anyone deserves to have an asteroid named after them, she does!” Mainzer wrote on Malala Fund Blog.

“My postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carrie Nugent brought to my attention the fact that although many asteroids have been named, very few have been named to honor the contributions of women (and particularly women of color),” Mainzer added.

How Your Kids Can Help Cut Your Tax Bill

time.com - As a busy parent, you may feel fortunate just to finish your income tax returns by April 15, let alone find the time to investigate ways to reduce your state and federal income tax bills

But devoting a few extra minutes of your precious time to these potential tax breaks could save hundreds or thousands of dollars on what you owe to Uncle Sam for 2014, as well as in the years to come.

1. Think Broadly About Who Depends on You

Each dependent you declare on your 2014 tax return can reduce your taxable income by $3,950.

Funeral Planned for Man Shot by Police in South Carolina

time.com - (SUMMERVILLE, S.C.)—Mourners are expected to gather Saturday in Summerville, S.C. to remember Walter Scott, the 50-year-old black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North Charleston.

A steady stream of people gathered Friday afternoon at a wake to pay their respects to Scott, whose open casket was draped in an American flag and adorned with a Dallas Cowboys sign and a miniature figure of a player. A heart-shaped flower arrangement to the left of his casket during the wake read “Beloved Father” and a ribbon on the right read “St.

Vast menu of fad diets gives rise to new eating disorder

thetimes.co.uk - The symptoms vary. In some patients the illness manifests as an obsessive interest in the eating habits of cavemen, in others, those of Gwyneth Paltrow.

Then there are more subtle warning signs: a tendency to make “pasta” out of courgettes, broth out of bones or — most worryingly — an ability to pronounce “quinoa”.

In all cases, however, the diagnosis is the same: orthorexia nervosa.

Dieticians have suggested that this should be added to the list of eating disorders. Orthorexia is not about how much or what you eat but rather the way you do it.

Improve your relationship: the therapist’s guide

thetimes.co.uk - The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that 42 per cent of marriages are expected to end in divorce, with half of those occurring in the first ten years. Psychotherapist Wendy Bristow, who specialises in personal and family relationships, gives her advice for maintaining your relationship

If you make a complaint, do it with recommendations

After ten years, if your partner never cleans the kitchen floor even though it’s his assigned chore, it’s likely you’ll stop bothering to leave the mop in the middle of the room.

Seven injured by Thai resort car bomb

thetimes.co.uk - A girl of 12 was among seven people injured by a car bomb attack at a shopping mall in the popular Thai resort island of Koh Samui, police have said.

The bomb, packed inside a Mazda pick-up truck with false number plates, exploded late Friday in the car park of the Central Festival mall on the popular island while late-night shoppers were inside the building.

“It’s a car bomb but we cannot confirm what type of explosive materials they used,” Lieutenant-General Prawut Thavornsiri, a spokesman for Thai national police said.

Two teenagers detained for fatal unprovoked attacks on strangers

thetimes.co.uk - Two teenage boys were sentenced to be detained yesterday for separate, random and fatal attacks on complete strangers.

A boy, 13, was ordered to be detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure for 11 years at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to the murder of Christopher Barry, 53, in an unprovoked stabbing in Edmonton, north London, last December.

The London teenager cannot be named for legal reasons but at Preston crown court restrictions were lifted on naming Kyle Major, 14, after he admitted the manslaughter of Paul Walker, 52, who died when he was knocked to the ground in Blackpool in

Drivers Catch Cash Spilling From Armored Truck on Texas Highway

time.com - Motorists on a Texas interstate stopped Friday to catch cash spilling from an armored Brinks truck.

The truck, riding on Interstate 20 to Abilene, released an unknown amount of cash after a plastic bag fell from a side passenger door and split open, Reuters reports. A police officer for Weatherford, which is west of Fort Worth, said that “most” of the money has not been returned to the authorities or to Brinks.

“We strongly encourage those individuals to come forward and turn the money back into the Weatherford Police Department,” said the department.

Bookies could lose £30m on AP McCoy

thetimes.co.uk - Bookmakers have said they could pay out tens of millions if AP McCoy delights punters by winning the Grand National on Shutthefrontdoor, bringing the curtain down on a stunning career.

His horse is the best-backed in recent Aintree memory and could spell one of the worst days in bookmaking history if he finishes first over the famous fences after the 4.15pm start.

It is a huge sports betting weekend, with the Masters golf, Manchester derby, Chinese grand prix and Boat Race adding to the £200m betting bonanza.

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie sentenced to death

thetimes.co.uk - The leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 13 other senior members of the group have been sentenced to death, an Egyptian court announced today.

Egypt’s highest Islamic legal official, the grand mufti, upheld the death sentence of Mohamed Badie for inciting chaos and violence after his group was voted into power but then overthrown by the military, banned and declared a terrorist organisation.

Thousands of members have been arrested and several mass trials have been heavily criticised by the international community.

Life without April

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The murder of five-year-old April Jones horrified the nation and plunged a small Welsh community into the headlines. But what happened afterwards? For the first time, April’s parents Paul and Coral Jones talk about the aftermath of grief

The wind is like ice, whipping around the side of the mountain that overlooks the small town of Machynlleth, in mid Wales, but still Paul Jones pushes on, jumping over puddles and boulders with his sturdy walking boots, moving so fast he is almost running uphill.

GP ‘blackmailed Muslim lover over sexual photos’

thetimes.co.uk - A family doctor has been accused of blackmailing his Muslim former lover by threatening to send sexual photographs of her to her fiancé’s parents days before their wedding.

Mohamed Dastagir, who is married with two children, allegedly had a long-standing affair with Nada Hassan, a family friend.

When she got engaged to another man, Dr Dastagir threatened to show photographs of her in sexual poses to her family as well as her fiancé’s family unless she returned to him as his wife or lover, the High Court was told.

Photographer hurt at Murray wedding rehearsal

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A shadow was cast over today’s wedding of Andy Murray to Kim Sears when a photographer was taken to hospital after falling in the grounds of Dunblane Cathedral as the tennis player arrived for a dress rehearsal.

Murray was feet away from the man yesterday when he appeared to lose his balance while taking photographs and fell, hitting his head on a gravestone.

The Scot leant towards the photographer, Gordon Jack, with visible concern after the incident, until he was ushered away by his security team.

Egyptian Court Sentences U.S. Citizen to Life in Prison

nytimes.com - CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced an American citizen, Mohamed Soltan, to life imprisonment for supporting an Islamist protest against the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in the summer of 2013.

The presiding judge, Mohamed Nagy Shehata, sentenced more than 35 other defendants in the case to the same penalty and also confirmed death sentences in the same case for about a dozen defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s top spiritual guide, Mohamed Badie, 71, as well as Mr.

The Young Hopes of Kenya, Laid in the Grave

nytimes.com - GATUNDU, Kenya — The cars swung out onto Thika Road, one by one.

They moved together, in a line on Friday morning, past miles of apartment buildings, up into the hills, deeper and deeper into rich green farmland. In front, a hearse carried the body of Angela Nyokabi Githakwa, 21, one of the 142 students massacred last week at a Kenyan university.

As one of the first in her family to go to a national university, Ms. Githakwa’s prospects had been swiftly rising — just like Kenya’s.

Her generation witnessed the end of dictatorship, the growth of democracy, an incredible economic expansion, Kenya’s netting gold medals at the Olympics and a recent Oscar.

Elena Perminova: the oligarch’s other half

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When Elena Perminova was arrested at the age of 16 and facing a prison sentence in Siberia, it was the oligarch Alexander Lebedev who rescued her. She describes what happened next

When she was 16, in front of a giant billboard that stood smack-bang in the centre of the Siberian capital, Novosibirsk, a Swat team of Russian police arrested Elena Perminova for dealing drugs, in an operation that could have been construed by passers-by as stage-managed for optimum visual impact.

On the giant billboard, spray-tanned, crouched panther-like and dressed in a metallic minidress, was Perminova herself.

Don’t turn health lessons into self-harm instruction manuals, teachers warned

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Teachers have been told not to turn lessons on body image into an instruction manual on self-harm or anorexia.

Graphic images of scars, emaciated young women, or pumped-up bodybuilders should not be used to shock, government-backed guidance says.

Teenagers could see extreme pictures as an inspiration or goal to work towards, or validation that they do not have a problem because they are not that thin or scarred.

The advice, from the Personal Social Health and Economic Education (PSHE) Association, suggests not teaching children about eating disorders until 11, or self-harm until the age of 14, but experts say the

Galloway accuses rival of lies about forced marriage

thetimes.co.uk - George Galloway was last night facing a criminal investigation after accusing his Labour election rival of lying about her forced childhood marriage.

The Respect MP produced a marriage certificate at a hustings and said it showed that Naz Shah was 16 when she married her first cousin in Pakistan, rather than 15 as she had claimed.

Labour has insisted that she had two wedding ceremonies, the second one for the purpose of getting her husband a visa to enter Britain.

The party produced a certificate that it described as her original marriage document showing that she was only 15 when

After Seven Hours and 19 Innings, One Hit Sinks the Yankees

nytimes.com - When it was over, when the Boston Red Sox had deftly turned a double play to end a game that had begun more than seven hours earlier, Yankee Stadium was empty enough to hear their celebratory shouts as players and coaches emptied out of the dugout.

On the other side, quietly and quickly, the Yankees turned and headed toward their clubhouse.

The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 6-5, in 19 innings, but this baseball game that began just after 7 on Friday night and finished Saturday at 2:13 a.m. felt instead like a test of endurance.

BuzzFeed Restores 2 Posts Its Editor Deleted

nytimes.com - After a flurry of criticism online, BuzzFeed on Friday reinstated two posts that had recently been removed from the site. Ben Smith, the editor in chief, said that he had overreacted when asking editors to delete them.

One of the posts that was taken down was critical of an advertising campaign for the cosmetics brand Dove, which advertises on the site. After Gawker reported on the item’s disappearance on Thursday, Mr. Smith posted a note from editors which suggested that it was removed because it did not fit BuzzFeed’s tone or editorial mission.

The Last Coal Miners of Spain

nytimes.com - Coal is on the way out in Europe, and it is dying a slow and ugly death. Its decline has been hastened by competition from the renewable-energy industry, cheaper imported coal from Russia and the United States and new air-quality regulations passed by the European Union. The death throes have been especially violent in Spain, where the national coal-mining industry was created by royal order in 1621 to exploit the coal basin at Villanueva del Rio y Minas in Seville. In 1990, 167 coal mines employed about 40,000 workers.

Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance

nytimes.com - In July 2013, the smart money was saying the company that runs the Caesars and Harrah’s casinos would go bankrupt, when a big investor, Apollo Global Management, offered a lifeline: It was willing to pump millions of dollars into the parent of the struggling casino company.

And where would Apollo get the money?

Not a problem. Apollo, which already had a big stake in Caesars, also had been building a life insurance division called Athene. That division was bursting with cash from the premiums paid by life insurance policyholders.

Do-It-All Era Ending as G.E. Returns to Core

nytimes.com - General Electric’s announcement on Friday that it will sell off most of GE Capital, its once-sprawling finance unit, is both another nail in the coffin of the American conglomerate and a stark recognition that it has become harder for financial services businesses to make big profits in the postfinancial crisis environment of tighter regulation and lower risk.

“It’s the end of an era,” said Bruce Greenwald, a professor of finance and asset management at Columbia Business School. Since the financial crisis destabilized G.E., its chief executive, Jeffrey R.

Can I Hire Someone to Write My Résumé and Cover Letter?

nytimes.com - I’m looking for a new job in the nonprofit sector and am considering using a résumé service to write my résumé and cover letter. Part of me feels morally conflicted about this process. Is it fair to have someone else write the two materials that show the quality of my writing skills to my future employer? NAME WITHHELD, WASHINGTON

Kenji Yoshino: To the extent that we are saying this shows the quality of your writing skills, you are not being transparent or honest about your writing skills vis-à-vis your future employer if you have somebody else write the materials that are supposed to reflect those abilities.

Gunmen Kill 20 Workers in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 20 workers were killed by gunmen early Saturday in southwestern Pakistan in what officials said appeared to have been an attack by Baluch separatists.

The killings took place in a remote area in the Turbat district of Baluchistan Province, where a separatist movement has operated for decades. Baluchistan is the country’s largest province by area — about 44 percent of Pakistan’s total area — and is rich with mineral resources and natural gas deposits.

“The laborers were working on a bridge that links Turbat to a national highway,” Imran Qureshi, the top police official in Turbat, said by phone.

Cooper Union Offers to Let President Go as Part of Deal With State Attorney General

nytimes.com - Cooper Union has offered not to renew its president’s contract to try to address an inquiry into the college’s finances and a lawsuit over its decision to charge undergraduates tuition for the first time in more than a century.

Last week, the Cooper Union board voted to offer to let the college’s president, Jamshed Bharucha, go after his contract expires next year, as part of a larger deal with the state attorney general’s office, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.

The office of Attorney General Eric T.

To Keep Free of Federal Reins, Wyoming Catholic College Rejects Student Aid

nytimes.com - LANDER, Wyo. — An insurrection is brewing here at Wyoming Catholic College, a tiny redoubt of cowboy-style Catholicism where students learn about horseback riding and Thomas Aquinas, and take grueling mountain hikes conducted entirely in Latin.

Citing concerns about federal rules on birth control and same-sex marriage, the school decided this winter to join a handful of other religious colleges in refusing to participate in the federal student-aid programs that help about two-thirds of students afford college.

How Traumatic Life Events During Childhood Affect Diabetes

time.com - Type 2 diabetes tends to get more attention than type 1, mainly because the risk factors for type 2—obesity, for instance—are thought to be more in our control. Type 1 is believed to be primarily a genetic disease, triggered by an unfortunate DNA configuration that signals the body’s immune system to destroy insulin-producing beta cells.

Now, in a report published in the journal Diabetologia, Dr. Johnny Ludvigsson, a pediatrician from Linkoping University in Sweden, and his colleagues say that life events, including traumatic experiences such as the death of a family member or a serious accident, can triple the risk that young children have of developing the disease.

Environmental Order in China to Prevent Building of Contested Dam

nytimes.com - BEIJING — The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued an order preventing dam-building on a stretch of the upper Yangtze River, which will result in the scrapping of a proposed hydroelectric dam near the western metropolis of Chongqing that had been opposed for years by environmentalists.

The Xiaonanhai Dam would have cost billions of dollars to build and operate, and it was supported by Bo Xilai, the former Chongqing party chief who was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for corruption.

Scientists Question Environmental Impact of China’s Winter Olympics Bid

nytimes.com - JIUZHANBAO, China — A few times a year, rains sprinkle the dry mountains north of Beijing, feeding streams that trickle down to catchments like the Yunzhou Reservoir. From its shores, the water shimmers and sparkles, a mirage that local farmers can see but not touch.

“We can’t use it,” said Cheng Lin, a 68-year-old farmer who, like others here, plants corn once a year and hopes for spring rain. “It’s for others, not us.”

Instead, the water is earmarked for the greater Beijing area to the south, and in the winter, increasingly, for making snow.

Exploring the Fun Side of China’s War on Corruption

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For officials under scrutiny, China’s corruption crackdown is no laughing matter. But for many others, it is.

President Xi Jinping’s aggressive effort to curb graft has inspired a wave of political jokes, most of which are generally supportive of the campaign and mock the unscrupulous officials targeted by investigators. Some hint at the shortfalls in the system that have allowed graft to thrive. Others paint the crackdown as a farce.

But the growing comedic collection suggests that the Chinese have realized that the crackdown is no passing fad, and that they might as well have some fun with it.

When a Plane Seat Next to a Woman Is Against Orthodox Faith

nytimes.com - Francesca Hogi, 40, had settled into her aisle seat for the flight from New York to London when the man assigned to the adjoining window seat arrived and refused to sit down. He said his religion prevented him from sitting beside a woman who was not his wife. Irritated but eager to get underway, she eventually agreed to move.

Laura Heywood, 42, had a similar experience while traveling from San Diego to London via New York. She was in a middle seat — her husband had the aisle — when the man with the window seat in the same row asked if the couple would switch positions.

China’s Statement on Its Construction in the South China Sea

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During a regularly scheduled news conference in Beijing on Thursday, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman was asked about the infrastructure China has been constructing around reefs, rocks and shoals in waters of the South China Sea that are claimed by other countries. The question arose in response to a series of satellite photographs released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, based in Washington, depicting Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, which the Chinese call Meiji Reef in the Nansha Islands.

China Is Rapidly Adding Coast Guard Ships, U.S. Navy Says

nytimes.com - SINGAPORE — China is rapidly building Coast Guard ships, the vessels that China most commonly uses for patrols in the South China Sea, and in the last three years has increased the number of ships in that category 25 percent, a new report by the United States Navy says.

China has the world’s largest Coast Guard fleet, with more such ships than its neighbors Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines combined, the report shows.

The unclassified assessment of the Chinese Navy, the first in nine years by the United States Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence, says the rapid modernization over the last 15 years is yielding dramatic results.

Amid Political Confrontations in Bangladesh, a Search for a Missing Opposition Official

nytimes.com - DHAKA, Bangladesh — A jittery silence has fallen over the street where Salahuddin Ahmed, a top official of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is believed to have been abducted a month ago.

The caretaker who opened the compound gate to a group of men, and told several journalists they identified themselves as police detectives, can no longer be found, friends on the street say. Neither can the maid who opened the door to the apartment. The owner of the apartment, the deputy managing director of a bank, is also unreachable.

Taliban Attack in Northern Afghanistan Leaves at Least 10 Dead

nytimes.com - KABUL, Afghanistan — Assailants armed with heavy weapons and suicide vests stormed the provincial prosecutor’s office on Thursday in one of the most peaceful cities in northern Afghanistan, battling security forces for more than six hours and leaving at least 10 people dead and dozens wounded.

The attack took place in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province, which has long been seen as a model of economic prosperity and stability. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the latest in a string of bloody assaults ahead of what is expected to be an intense fighting season.

Ahead of World War II Anniversary, Questions Linger Over Stance of Japan’s Premier

nytimes.com - PELELIU ISLAND, Palau — Visiting the remote Western Pacific site of one of the fiercest battles of World War II, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan offered flowers and prayers on Thursday to mark the coming 70th anniversary of the end of a conflict that continues to haunt Japan as it seeks a larger role in the world.

The short trip by the imperial couple to Peleliu, a small island that is now a popular diving spot in the Republic of Palau, is part of Japan’s broader efforts to commemorate the approaching anniversary of its defeat by the American-led allies on Aug.

Tensions Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Deepen Over Conflict in Yemen

nytimes.com - CAIRO — Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia deepened on Thursday as Iranian leaders lashed out with rare vehemence against the continuing Saudi air campaign in Yemen, even hurling personal insults at the young Saudi prince who is leading the fight.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, on Thursday denounced the Saudi airstrikes in Yemen as “a crime” and “a genocide,” while all but taunting Saudi Arabia that its war in Yemen was doomed to fail.

A regional coalition led by Saudi Arabia extended its bombing campaign for a 16th night in its effort to stop the Houthi movement and its allies from dominating Yemen.

Inside Raf Simons’s House

tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com - The designer talks about a new film detailing the bumpy road to his first couture collection for Dior — and the intimate relationship with the women of his atelier.

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RAF SIMONS ISN’T good at hiding his feelings. The Belgian designer who took over as creative director at Dior three years ago, after running the minimalist house Jil Sander, may seem intense and watch-spring tight, but his emotions — fear, obsession, ecstasy — are instantly readable in his steel-blue eyes and at the corners of his mouth.

ISIS Kills 25 Police Officers and Soldiers in Iraqi Province of Anbar

nytimes.com - BAGHDAD — Islamic State fighters launched a heavy attack on government-held territory in Anbar Province late on Thursday and on Friday, killing 25 Iraqi police officers and soldiers, and then executing 15 family members of local police officers, according to Iraqi officials.

The attackers overran large parts of the town of Albu Faraj, just north of the provincial capital, Ramadi, less than two days after officials in the province declared that they had begun an offensive against the extremists to the east of the capital, police officials in Ramadi said.

Head-On Collision of Truck and Bus Kills 31 in Morocco

nytimes.com - RABAT, Morocco — A fiery head-on collision between a semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco on Friday killed 31 people and injured nine, according to the state news agency and local media reports.

The news agency quoted authorities saying the crash took place just before sunrise at 7 a.m. in the district of Chbika, near the southern desert city of Tan-Tan.

A video posted by the French-language economic daily L'Economiste shows the flaming wreckage of the tour bus, which caught fire after hitting what the newspaper identified as a tanker truck carrying hydrocarbons.

The Barbed Pen Behind the Best Sellers of Young Adult Fiction

nytimes.com - John Green still vividly recalls the opening line of a stinging critique that his editor, Julie Strauss-Gabel, delivered after reading an early draft of his novel “The Fault in Our Stars.”

“The first sentence was, ‘I really enjoyed reading the first draft of this promising and ambitious novel,’ and the rest was 20 pages of her tearing it apart,” Mr. Green said. “Her editorial letters are famous for their ability to make you cry and feel anxious. They’re very long, very detailed and very intimidating.”

De Blasio and Schumer Take the Subway. Many Fellow Riders Shrug.

nytimes.com - The well-dressed visitors had been at it for several minutes now, treating a semicaptive audience at the south end of an R train car to firm handshakes, a stack of fliers and a filibuster on the gas tax from New York’s senior senator.

“Is this your stop?” the senator, Charles E. Schumer, asked, as a woman rose to leave somewhere west of DeKalb Avenue.

She walked toward the doors but did not get off right away.

For about 20 minutes of the Thursday morning rush, Mr. Schumer and Mayor Bill de Blasio chatted with sporadically interested New York City subway riders as part of a national Stand Up for Transportation Day, urging Congress to increase transportation funding.

Retailers to Stop Sales of Controversial Supplements

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Some leading vitamin stores have announced that they were pulling from their shelves a group of supplements that may contain a dangerous stimulant.

Vitamin Shoppe, one of the country’s largest specialty retailers of dietary supplements, said that it planned to stop selling all supplements that list on their labels a plant known as acacia rigidula after a study published on Tuesday reported that many of these products contained an amphetamine-like stimulant called BMPEA.

Mocking Mao Backfires for Chinese TV Host

sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com - The television host Bi Fujian’s performance of a song from the Mao-era opera “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” with irreverent asides, was captured on video.

Mao Zedong famously said a revolution is not a dinner party. Nor, it seems, is a dinner party in China an occasion to mock Mao’s revolution.

In the past few days, some tipsy gibes by a Chinese television celebrity, Bi Fujian, have been enough to inspire tirades from the state media and imperil Mr. Bi’s career.

A crooning, avuncular regular on state-run China Central Television entertainment programs, Mr.

Australia’s Richie Benaud, ‘Voice of Cricket,’ Dies at 84

nytimes.com - MELBOURNE — Former Australia captain Richie Benaud, the celebrated 'voice of cricket', has died at the age of 84 after battling skin cancer, prompting a flood of tributes from around the world.

A giant figure in the game both on and off the field, Benaud died in his sleep in a Sydney hospice late on Thursday, his employer Channel Nine reported, citing family.

"Our country has lost a national treasure," Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards said in a statement.

"After Don Bradman, there has been no Australian player more famous or more influential than Richie Benaud."

When Work and Sleep Conflict, Work Wins

nytimes.com - There are a lot of advantages to earning more money, but getting a good night’s sleep may not be one of them.

It turns out that, in general, the more money people make, the less they sleep. That’s been true for decades in the United States, and in other countries as well. On average, adults earning the highest incomes — around $98,000 for a family of four — sleep 40 minutes less than people in the lowest-income families. And among short sleepers — those who are in the bottom 10 percent of nightly rest — high-income people are overrepresented, according to the government survey that sleep researchers trust most.

General Electric to Sell Bulk of Its Finance Unit

nytimes.com - General Electric plans to sell off most of its finance arm within two years, redefining the multinational conglomerate as it seeks to complete a transformation begun amid the tumult of the financial crisis.

In addition to the huge planned sales of assets outlined by the company on Friday, General Electric will take other major steps, including bringing back about $36 billion in cash that currently resides overseas.

Rapidly shrinking the finance arm, GE Capital — once the most powerful driver of the company’s earnings until it rocked the parent company after the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008 — will erase one of the most prominent legacies of G.E.’s former chief executive, Jack Welch.

Pakistani Lawmakers Pass Resolution Urging Neutrality in Yemen Conflict

nytimes.com - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani Parliament voted on Friday to stay out of the conflict in Yemen, but it urged the government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to play a diplomatic role in defusing the crisis.

Analysts in the Arab world saw the decision as a significant setback for Saudi Arabia, which is leading a campaign of airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Houthi movement in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, a major donor to Pakistan, had incorrectly advertised Pakistani participation in the campaign from the night it began more than two weeks ago.

New York Detective Is Suspended Amid Inquiry on Theft at Deli

nytimes.com - A New York police detective has been suspended after a surveillance video appeared to show him taking money from a Brooklyn deli during a sweep of the store for loose cigarettes.

The detective, Ian Cyrus, 49, who was assigned to the Brooklyn North narcotics unit, was suspended “based on the nature of the allegations in this incident, in addition to the video provided to us,” Stephen Davis, the top spokesman for the Police Department, said in a statement on Thursday.

Detective Cyrus’s supervisor in the narcotics unit, Sgt.

Alleged Mumbai Attacks Mastermind Leaves Pakistani Jail

nytimes.com - ISLAMABAD — The suspected Pakistani mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was freed from a jail near Islamabad on Friday, following a court order that he be set free pending trial, his lawyer said.

Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, said to be the operations chief for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the organization blamed for the 2008 attacks, was out of detention early Friday morning, said attorney Rizwan Abbasi.

A Pakistani court first ordered Lakhvi's release on March 13, after Abbasi launched a legal battle claiming Lakhvi was being unlawfully held.

South Carolina Police Shooting Seen as Crime Strategy Gone Awry

nytimes.com - NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — It was after dark about five years ago, on a downtrodden strip of this city, when Alicia Delesline stopped trusting the police in the place where she had lived her entire life.

Ms. Delesline, 48, was walking to a store when she did something pedestrians do all the time: She suddenly changed her mind, and turned around to go elsewhere. Her movement caught the attention of a police officer, who stopped her and accused her of changing directions because she had seen the authorities farther ahead.

In Aftermath of East Village Blast, Business Owners Pledge to Rebuild

nytimes.com - They knew each other in passing, as customers, as neighbors, linked only by the fact that their businesses shared the same few blocks of the East Village in Manhattan.

But on Thursday, as about a dozen owners of restaurants, clothing shops, dry-goods stores and other establishments either demolished, damaged or left financially crippled in the aftermath of the gas explosion that leveled three buildings on Second Avenue last month met, they shared something else: a desire to rebuild.

“We’re alive,” said Roop Bring, the owner of Sam’s Deli, a bodega that operated for decades on the ground floor of 123 Second Avenue in Manhattan before being destroyed as a result of the explosion, which, according to the authorities, erupted in the basement next door, at 121 Second Avenue.

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Kanye West

tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com - For over a decade, the rap superstar has made music that pushes boundaries, courts controversy and divides critics. Now, the man who has compared himself to Jesus and Steve Jobs just wants to make clothes for the masses.

On a Sunday afternoon in early February, Kanye West was in a makeshift conference room at the downtown New York showroom of Adidas, mapping out his vision for fashion, and everything else, too. It was three days after the presentation of his first sportswear collection, Yeezy Season 1, at New York Fashion Week.

Richie Benaud, Commentator Whose Native Tongue Was Cricket, Dies at 84

nytimes.com - The path from the cricket field to the commentary box is well trod, but never with greater distinction than by Richie Benaud, known to many as the voice of cricket, who died in Sydney, Australia, on Friday. He was 84.

Cricket has numerous halls of fame, but none with the singular authority of the American institutions in Canton, Ohio, for football; Cooperstown, N.Y., for baseball; and Springfield, Mass., for basketball. If it did, Mr. Benaud would have been sure of enshrinement as a player if he had done nothing else in the game, or as a broadcaster had he never played.

Today in Politics: Guns Give Republicans a Reprieve From Discord

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Good Friday morning from Washington. Former Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island says he’s considering running for president, and Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia sees Lee’s surrender to Grant as a model for national grace. President Obama continues his trip to Panama, by way of Jamaica and Bob Marley‘s house, and the friendship between Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeb Bush, the state’s former governor, may be tested in a Republican primary.

Brought by Wild Neighbors, a Deadly Flu Attacks Turkey Flocks

nytimes.com - A virulent, deadly flu virus has hit the nation’s turkey flock, forcing culling and quarantines that are disrupting trade with various countries.

In the last several weeks, turkey producers in Minnesota, the largest turkey-producing state (46 million annually), have had to euthanize some 525,000 birds, and farms there and in other states affected by the virus are under quarantine in an effort to prevent it from spreading.

Experts are all but certain that the virus is being spread by the feathers, feet and feces of wild waterfowl like Canada geese that cruise three of the nation’s four flyways, the paths that migratory birds follow as they seek the perfect climate.

China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet

nytimes.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Late last month, China began flooding American websites with a barrage of Internet traffic in an apparent effort to take out services that allow China’s Internet users to view websites otherwise blocked in the country.

Initial security reports suggested that China had crippled the services by exploiting its own Internet filter — known as the Great Firewall — to redirect overwhelming amounts of traffic to its targets. Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Toronto say China did not use the Great Firewall after all, but rather a powerful new weapon that they are calling the Great Cannon.

Isis hackers declare a cybercaliphate after hijacking French TV

thetimes.co.uk - Media groups were urged to reinforce their defence against hackers yesterday after a TV network’s broadcast was hijacked by Islamist extremists.

Hackers claiming to belong to Islamic State (Isis) took over TV5 Monde, the French-language broadcaster, replacing programmes with a message on a black screen proclaiming a “Cybercaliphate”.

Having also gained control of the station’s websites and Facebook page, they posted identity documents apparently belonging to relatives of French soldiers.

Officials said that the attack had taken the information war between the West and Isis to a new level.

Amsterdam’s window prostitutes protest at closure proposals

thetimes.co.uk - Hundreds of Amsterdam’s window prostitutes took to the streets yesterday in protest against the city authorities’ attempts to clean up the red light district.

Sex workers say they have been targeted over the years as local politicians try to reinvigorate the area, under the guise of stopping human trafficking.

Some 250 prostitutes and their supporters marched against the latest proposals to shut down more of the city’s brothels.

Since 2008 115 of the 500 windows highlighted with red or pink illumination have been closed.

The Times Film Show: Woman Is Gold and John Wick

thetimes.co.uk - Watch Kate Muir and Wendy Ide discuss the weekend’s biggest film releases. Does Dame Helen Mirren cut it in Woman in Gold as an eightysomething Jewish refugee out to reclaim some Klimt paintings? And what of Keanu Reeves - does his John Wick offer a charisma comeback for the Matrix star?

Ricky Hatton Q

mytimesplus.co.uk - Join us on May 28 for a Q&A; with former professional boxer Ricky Hatton, in conversation with Matthew Syed.

Ricky Hatton's brilliance as a boxer, his down-to-earth demeanour and his live-wire sense of humour have made him a national treasure.

Five of Ricky's biggest and most explosive fights took place in the boxing Mecca of Las Vegas. Tens of thousands of British fans followed him there to watch these monumental bouts, and to soak up the unique atmosphere in Sin City.

In Ricky's Hatton's Vegas Tales, he recalls the most memorable moments: from fight negotiations, through trash-talking transatlantic promotional tours, gruelling training camps, bizarre encounters with opponents, fans, A-list celebrities and boxing legends; all the way to fight-week mayhem and the epic post-fight benders that followed.

Lost labour bears mark of the real Shakespeare

thetimes.co.uk - There’s a woman dressing up as a man, there’s unrequited love and there’s a heck of a lot of iambic pentameter. Some would say that the authorship should never have been in doubt.

Even so, the claim by researchers yesterday that a textual analysis of a long-disputed play proves that it really is by William Shakespeare is sure to cause double double toil and trouble among scholars.

To be or not to be has long been the question when it comes to Double Falsehood. The play is, at least in part, the work of an 18th-century Shakespearean scholar, Lewis Theobald