Christmastime is when the pens in my house get their biggest workout of the year. Like many Americans above grammar-school age, I seldom write by hand anymore, outside of barely legible grocery lists. But the end of the year brings out a slew of…

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A pensioner was gobsmacked when he discovered a mouse had been tidying his garden shed at night. Stephen Mckears, from Severn Beach, South Gloucestershire, became curious when he noticed items moving in his shed last month - even thinking it might…

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Only a tiny number of black students were offered admission to the highly selective public high schools in New York City on Monday, raising the pressure on officials to finally confront the decades-old challenge of integrating New York's elite…

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“To create today is to create dangerously,” Albert Camus wrote in the late 1950s as he contemplated the role of the artist as a voice of resistance. “In our age,” W.H. Auden observed around the same time across the…

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