Halfway through my last memoir, my editor, Susan Kamil, said, “Maybe you should just move on. This isn’t working.” I threw the phone across the room. I’d been working on the book for a couple of years, sending drafts back and forth to Susan. “I’m sorry,” she continued, “it’s good, but if you’re not willing…
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With investors and analysts gathered in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday for a day of presentations and store tours by the company that owns Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, Leslie H. Wexner, its chief executive and founder, spoke publicly for the first time about his longtime ties to Jeffrey Epstein. “More than a decade…
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Joan Johnson, who with her husband, George, founded Johnson Products, a hair-product concern that became one of the most successful black-owned businesses in the United States and the first to be listed on the American Stock Exchange, died on Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 89. The publicist Dori Wilson, who had known…
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Sara Danielle Muchnick and Isaac Zafarani are to be married Sept. 8 at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers, an events space in New York. Rabbi Ethan H. Witkovsky is to officiate, with the groom’s three brothers, Rabbis Eli, David and Ariel Zafarani, to participate. Ms. Muchnick, 27, is a copywriter at Pereira O’Dell, an advertising…
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Some lobsters aren’t meant for a roll. That was the case for a rare two-toned lobster that was plucked recently from the icy waters off Stonington, Me., and which scientists say is a one-in-50 million find. The lobster, split from head to tail into halves of black and orange, was found in Penobscot Bay by…
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Headliner Pasta Eater When Giusto Priola, a chef, opened Cacio e Pepe, a Roman-style restaurant downtown, he said his friends were surprised. “My friends know I’m from Sicily, and they kept asking why I was doing Roman restaurants,” he said. The simple answer is that his chef was Roman. Here, at his latest restaurant, Mr.…
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Fewer Americans are living in poverty but, for the first time in years, more of them lack health insurance. About 27.5 million people, or 8.5 percent of the population, lacked health insurance for all of 2018, up from 7.9 percent the year before, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. It was the first increase since the…
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Suicide is the No. 1 killer of active-duty airmen in the United States Air Force. In February, the crisis prompted the Air Force to release a memo calling for a culture change within the service. For me and many others, that shift is a personal charge. Six years ago, my best friend, Neil Landsberg, died…
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