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By that time Mr. Peng had been blacklisted from returning to Taiwan, after a military court in 1964 convicted him of sedition over his involvement with two of his students in the printing of a manifesto calling for the overthrow of the Republic of China government and the establishment of…

When she and Captain Larson had met in 2016, she said, he was already taking mushrooms once every few months, often with other pilots. He also took MDMA — known as ecstasy or molly — a few times a year. The drugs might have been illegal, but, he told her,…

To the Editor: Re “College Has Become the Default. Let’s Rethink That,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, April 7): I was puzzled and disappointed by Dr. McWhorter’s essay. Puzzled by his assumption that so many students are biding their time until they get that “piece of paper” so they can get…

“Everyone?” I asked the rabbi. “He struck everyone?” “Everyone,” the rabbi said. “Yay!” my classmates cheered. God, it seems, paints with a wide brush. He paints with a roller. In Egypt, said our rabbi, he even killed first-born cattle. He killed cows. If he were mortal, the God of Jews,…

After selling his interest in Atlas for $600, Mr. Rupe created his own company, Juke Box Records, in 1944. “I called it Juke Box because the jukebox was the medium then for plugging records,” he told Arnold Shaw. “If you got a record into the boxes, it was tantamount to…

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VENICE, Italy — From the time he was a child, Edoardo Beniamin could envision paddling a gondola through the waterways of Venice, his native city. He saw himself, dressed in a striped jersey and ribboned straw hat, following his father and an uncle into a profession that has served as…

MOSORIOT, Kenya — Feet lightly clap on an empty road just after sunrise on Sunday, 15 days out from the 126th Boston Marathon. Benson Kipruto, the Kenyan runner, is pounding out miles in the small town of Mosoriot, just past the rusty blue arch at the border of Nandi County…

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The plains would seem to favor Russia’s raw advantage in weaponry. But as a defending force, Ukraine has an advantage in striking from entrenched positions at Russian troops as they advance over open ground and into artillery range. Both sides are mustering troops for a major battle, with the Russian…