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☆ A Black Woman’s Rise in Architecture Shows How Far Is Left to Go
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Jane Margolies | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Kimberly Dowdell becomes president of the American Institute of Architects next month, her ascent will be noteworthy. Ms. Dowdell, an architect in a profession that is overwhelmingly white and male, is a Black woman, the first to fill the post in the group’s 166-year history. African Americans make up 13.6 percent of the U.S. population, but only 1.8 percent of licensed architects in the country are Black, according to the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. Fewer than a quarter of the nearly 120,000 licensed architects in the United States are women, and not even one half of 1 percent of architects are Black women. There are small signs of change: Nearly 3 percent of architects who received their license last year were Black, and 43 percent of new architects were women.

Persons: Kimberly Dowdell, Dowdell Organizations: American Institute of Architects, National Council of Locations: United States

☆ Getting Hollywood Back Up and Running Won’t Be Easy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Nicole Sperling | More About Nicole Sperling | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Daisy Edgar-Jones, the 25-year-old British actress with an increasingly crowded dance card, will soon experience just how complicated Hollywood’s rush to return to work is going to be. Now, with only weeks to finish the film for a planned release next summer, there’s no time to waste. That means Ms. Edgar-Jones will have to walk away from a role in a drama that Ron Howard is set to begin directing soon in Australia. He is set to portray Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” beginning in March. Details on how Mr. Chalamet would juggle production of one movie and publicity for another are being worked out.

Persons: Daisy Edgar, Jones, Ms, Edgar, ”, Ron Howard, Chalamet, Bob Dylan, James Mangold’s “, Austin Butler Organizations: Warner Bros Locations: Oklahoma, Australia

Donald J. Trump’s legal team on Friday repeatedly attacked a law clerk during the former president’s civil fraud trial, overshadowing Eric Trump’s second day on the witness stand and prompting the judge to bar the lawyers from making public statements about his private communications with his staff. The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, works closely with the clerk, Allison Greenfield, and the two often speak and pass notes on the bench. Ms. Greenfield previously worked as a trial attorney in New York City’s law department, and the judge appears to rely on her expertise when considering rules of evidence and other matters. But the former president has taken issue with her involvement in the monthlong trial — Ms. Greenfield is a Democrat and Mr. Trump believes she is biased against him — and his lawyers have complained about her regularly. He said that the lawyers’ arguments had no basis, that their accusations of bias were false and that failure to heed the order would result in “serious sanctions.”

Persons: Donald J, overshadowing Eric Trump’s, Arthur F, Allison Greenfield, Greenfield, Trump, —, Christopher M, Kise, Justice Engoron Locations: New York, Greenfield

☆ A US astronaut involuntarily set a record for time spent in orbit, after his mission home was aborted and added 6 months to his trip
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

US astronaut Frank Rubio landed back on Earth Wednesday after 371 days in space. AdvertisementAdvertisementUS astronaut Frank Rubio became an unwilling record-holder after spending 371 days on the International Space Station (ISS), the longest time spent on a single spaceflight by any NASA astronaut. A broken ride extended the missionRubio set off for the ISS on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on September 21, 2022. With his flight, Rubio beat the previous US record-holder Mark Vande Hei, who spent 355 days in space. Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days aboard the Mir space station in the 1990s.

Persons: Frank Rubio, —, Rubio, wouldn't, Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, It's, Mark Vande Hei, Valeri Polyakov, Thomas Pesquet, NASA Rubio, Bill Nelson, Nelson Organizations: Service, Space, NASA, Soyuz, CNN, Ars Technica, SpaceX, ISS Locations: Russian, French, USA

☆ Race to Be Trump’s Running Mate Begins, With Noem Likely to Endorse Him
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Michael C. Bender | More About Michael C. Bender | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just three — Mike Dunleavy of Alaska, Jim Justice of West Virginia and Henry McMaster of South Carolina — have backed Mr. Trump. Two others — Ron DeSantis of Florida and Doug Burgum of North Dakota — are running against him. Some close to the former president said that was most likely rooted in superstition that such consideration would jeopardize his own nomination. Mr. Trump raised eyebrows among some associates with private, offhand comments that Mr. Scott had not received much coverage for his performance during the first Republican presidential debate. Mr. Scott has been mentioned as a potential vice-presidential pick even though he is currently running against Mr. Trump, who didn’t participate in his party’s first debate.

Persons: Ms, Mike Dunleavy, Jim Justice, Henry McMaster of, Trump, Ron DeSantis, Doug Burgum, Noem, I’d, ”, Scott Organizations: South, Republican, West, Henry McMaster of South, Fox News, White House, Mr Locations: South Dakota, Alaska, West Virginia, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Florida, North Dakota

☆ Rockaway Shark Attack Victim Had 5 Surgeries and Faces Long Recovery
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Erin Nolan | More About Erin Nolan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Tatyana Koltunyuk pictured her life post-retirement, she imagined walking around New York City with a new puppy and traveling the world with her family. She talked about swimming in the ocean every day, her family said. But Ms. Koltunyuk’s vision for the future was irrevocably altered when she was bitten by a shark at Rockaway Beach in Queens last week. She was swimming alone near Beach 59th Street in the early evening when the shark bit her on the left leg, according to officials, and lifeguards responded when they heard her screaming for help. In the eight days immediately following the attack — days that her family described as “nightmarish” on a GoFundMe page raising money for Ms. Koltunyuk’s recovery — Ms. Koltunyuk underwent five surgeries, and her family said she will require more.

Persons: Tatyana Koltunyuk, Koltunyuk, Dasha Koltunyuk, Gregg Kallor Locations: New York City, Beach, Queens

☆ More Plants, More Life, More Pleasure: What Sets the Best Gardens Apart
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Margaret Roach | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Changing Your Mind-SetAlthough many people worry that having a more ecologically responsible landscape means letting go of cherished plants — their peonies, perhaps, or roses — Ms. West and Mr. Rainer are quick to clarify. “It’s about letting things in,” Mr. Rainer said. Especially flowering plants — a win for people of all ages, and for wildlife. “Imagine your site being initially 100 percent covered in planting, at 18 to 24 inches tall,” Mr. Rainer suggested. “And then you go in and mow through the spaces you want — the paths, the terraces, everything else.”

Persons: Rainer, ” Mr, Mr, ” Locations: mow

☆ What’s Happening in Giorgia Meloni’s Italy Is Scary - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( David Broder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

In recent weeks, Ms. Meloni spearheaded a European Union deal with Tunisia, whose authoritarian regime promotes the great replacement conspiracy theory, to curb migration in exchange for financial support. The new director general, Giampaolo Rossi, is a pro-Meloni hard-liner who previously distinguished himself as an organizer of an annual Brothers of Italy festival. Burying the antifascist legacy of the wartime Resistance matters deeply to the Brothers of Italy, a party rooted in its fascist forefathers’ great defeat in 1945. No matter its novelty, Ms. Meloni’s administration has every chance of imposing enduring changes in the political order. Instead, in galvanizing the political right behind a resentful identity politics, it risks becoming something else entirely: Europe’s future.

Persons: Ms, Meloni’s, ”, — Ms, Meloni, Giampaolo Rossi, ’, It’s, Éric, Democrats ’ Organizations: Union, Amnesty, RAI, “, Brothers, Conservatives, Democrats Locations: Italy, Tunisia, Libya, of Italy, Britain, Germany

☆ Greek Youths, Shaped by Debt Crisis, Plan to Vote for Stability
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Jason Horowitz | Niki Kitsantonis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Days before this Sunday’s election in Greece, three young women with piercings and ironic T-shirts who sat outside a hipster coffee shop in an Athens neighborhood best known as a hub of anarchist fervor said they wanted stability. “Money is important — you can’t live without money,” said Mara Katsitou, 22, a student who grew up during the country’s disastrous financial crisis and one day hoped to open a pharmacy. “There’s nothing that matters to someone more than the economy.”As a result, she said, she would cast her vote for Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, the square, conservative prime minister who graduated from Harvard, who is fond of riding his bike and who, polls suggest, will win convincingly on Sunday in a second national election. With Mr. Mitsotakis — who is also the son of a former prime minister — Ms. Katsitou said, she had “definitely a better chance.” About a third of young voters like her feel the same, polls indicate. After spending impressionable years amid so much panic, desperation and humiliation during the decade-long financial crisis that erupted in 2010 — and which collapsed the Greek economy — many of Greece’s depression-era children have grown up to say they have no interest in ever turning back.

Persons: ”, Mara Katsitou, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mitsotakis —, — Ms, Katsitou Organizations: Harvard Locations: Greece, Athens

☆ Why E. Jean Carroll Will Always Tell You She Is ‘Fine, Fabulous’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Taking the witness stand, she recalled that Ms. Carroll had phoned her immediately after the alleged incident with Mr. Trump “breathless, hyperventilating, emotional,” but that the subject did not come up between them again for another quarter century. Carroll is a very up person; she is not a victim,” Ms. Birnbach said. In the mid-1990s, decades after the sexual revolution, nearing the declining days of the AIDS crisis and the heyday of elite media, New York seemed to belong to women like E. Jean Carroll. A pair of big media personalities — Ms. Carroll was a well-known advice columnist by then — meeting so unexpectedly to do something vaguely conspiratorial. At the outset, the story seemed so paradigmatically “New York,” Ms. Carroll explained in her testimony.

With the term “personal taxes,” however, Mr. Garten appears to be conflating income taxes with other federal taxes Mr. Trump has paid — Social Security, Medicare and taxes for his household employees. Fragments of Mr. Trump’s tax returns have leaked out before. Mr. Agalarov’s father, Aras, a billionaire who boasts of close ties to Mr. Putin, was Mr. Trump’s partner in the event. Mr. Trump’s avoidance of income taxes is one of the most striking discoveries in his tax returns, especially given the vast wash of income itemized elsewhere in those filings. When they got to line 56, the one for income taxes due, the amount was the same each year: $750.

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