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The recently opened Bacchanalia serves a feast inspired by ancient Rome in an unabashedly luxurious setting that Nero would have loved.

Given the fate of the Roman Empire, the role comes with a tricky edge. (Job requirements: “gorgeous hands” and a “basic grasp of Greek and Latin.”) Hundreds applied for the job, and all were disappointed. At the bottom are runners — the men and women who deliver the food — who dress in workaday togas, and jobs rise in status from there, segueing to chic western attire for those at or near the top. He seemed acutely aware of the chasm between the festivities he’d orchestrated and the misery everywhere else. In the run up to its opening, the restaurant announced that it was looking for “London’s first grape feeder,” which was advertised in a full-page ad in The London Times. The original was meant by Couture as a rebuke to the Romans, who look bored and exhausted by their orgy and whose empire is doomed. Caring concurred in remarks that he made on opening night, before and after he mingled with attendees, while being trailed by a large man with an earpiece. [Emma Thynn](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/viscountess-weymouth-emma-thynn), the Marchioness of Bath, the fashion designer Harris Reed and the model Naomi Campbell. Around 2005, he segued into the hospitality business and today owns an empire of mid- and high-priced restaurants here, many of them better known for buzz and snazzy décor than quality cuisine. The lobster paccheri pasta, with black truffle and creamy bisque sauce, costs $162 and a cocktail called Freddo, made of Don Julio Blanco and Don Julio 1942 Tequila, cocoa butter, coffee and banana, is $31. You can either recoil at the cartoonish debauchery of it all, or surrender to this immersive production and snap some selfies, along with everyone else. Guests are greeted there by women in dark red togas wearing gilded arm cuffs, looking like they just walked off the set of “Ben-Hur,” the 1959 Hollywood epic about the Roman empire and chariot races.

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[‘The Crown’ and the Appeal of a Royal TV Interview](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/arts/television/the-crown-royals-television.html) [Jacques Pépin, in Search of Lost Cars and Cuisine](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/business/jacques-pepin-french-cars-cuisine.html) [Can’t Talk, I’m Busy Being Hot](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/style/self-care/hot-girl-megan-thee-stallion-tik-tok.html) [When Motherhood Is a Horror Show](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/arts/motherhood-horror-movies-tv.html) [Cooking Online, Arab Women Find Income and Community](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/dining/arab-women-youtube-cooking-videos.html) [two million people annually — a 500 percent increase since 1970](https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration). Wright](https://kellywright5.wixsite.com/raciolinguistics). [A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/business/remote-work-office-life.html) [one in three American adults](https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/barriers-to-work-individuals-with-criminal-records.aspx) have criminal records. [California Air Resources Board](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/topics/lawn-garden-landscape-equipment). [In Glitter and Leotards, They Took a Stand: Carnival Must Go On](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/americas/brazil-carnival.html) I leave you with that.” [Oscars Rewind: When Rita Moreno Made History and Thanked No One](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/movies/rita-moreno-oscar-west-side-story.html)

Google, Apple and Meta offer near-limitless digital basements in which to store photos, videos and important documents, but you should keep a copy of what ...

There was also a lot of “data exhaust,” as the security technologist Matt Mitchell calls it, a polite term for the record of my life rendered in Google searches, from a 2011 query for karaoke bars in Washington, D.C., to a more recent search for the closest Chuck E. Rather than just keeping a full digital copy of everything, I decided to take the archivists’ advice and pare it down somewhat, a process the professionals call appraisal. Recently, my iPhone served me “Waterfalls over the years,” which, as promised, featured a slide show with instrumental music and photos of myself and others in front of a random assortment of waterfalls. The granularity of what was in my digital archive accentuated the parts of my life that were missing entirely: emails from college in a university-provided account that I hadn’t thought to migrate; photos and videos I took on an Android phone that I backed up to an external hard drive that has since disappeared; and stories I’d written in journalism school for publications that no longer exist. Companies shut down, as happened to GeoCities, an early, popular place for hosting personal websites, or a service cuts back on the amount of free storage it’s offering, as when the new owner of Flickr [announced in 2019](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/how-to-save-flickr-photos-deleted-download) that free accounts had a limit of 1,000 photos and anything more would be deleted. With something called “bit rot” — the degradation of a digital file over time — the files may not be in good shape. Brian Fitzpatrick, a former Google employee in Chicago who led the team, said he thought it was important that the company’s users have an easy “off ramp” to leave Google and take their data elsewhere. Kondo suggested better labeling and organization of emails, photos and documents to make it “easy to find the memories that spark joy.” Google gives all users 15 gigabytes free, a quarter of what comes standard on an Android phone, and I have not managed to max it out in 18 years of using the company’s many services. These people may have had plans to move to a different service, simply wanted their own copy or were preserving what they had on Google before deleting it from the company’s servers. I had captured the 2007 evening in Tampa pre-smartphone on a digital Canon camera that had a relatively small memory card that I regularly emptied into Google Photos. Added to the list this year, alongside outside influences and health concerns, is the possibility that my daughters could inadvertently lock me out of my digital life.

Family reunions, play dates and holidays never looked so good. But for some, isolation and sadness linger.

A lasting change was “the fear of going out in public,” one said. One in five said they were glad to be reunited with family and friends, and one in 10 mentioned freedom — from masks, from quarantines, from restrictions. Nearly the same share, 42 percent, said the pandemic had changed their lives in lasting and significant ways. In the Dynata survey, 46 percent of respondents said that while the pandemic had affected their lives, most of the changes it brought were temporary. We also surveyed 500 adults around the country, in partnership with Dynata, a data and survey firm. Returning to the theater, to restaurants, to playgrounds, to parties, to school.

Some of the highest-profile complaints show how America's culture wars are affecting the nation's children.

McSwain unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor of the state last year and came under fire during his campaign for [calling a middle-school gender and sexuality alliance group](https://www.inquirer.com/news/bill-mcswain-pa-governor-candidate-gender-sexuality-school-20220310.html) “leftist political indoctrination.” [heightened visibility of the population](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/us/transgender-teenagers-how-many.html) and the backlash over laws that are designed to protect them. student, but said in a statement that the district “takes allegations of discrimination very seriously,” and is conducting its own investigation. complaint](https://www.smore.com/6xyu5-the-central-bucks-board-note?ref=email) as a “partisan, political tool” and announced the board had hired a high-powered legal team led by Bill McSwain, a former Trump-appointed U.S. Among the programming they asserted violated the laws was a [“Families of Color Playground Night”](https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-denver-elementary/fact-check-denver-elementary-school-says-families-of-color-event-was-open-to-all-families-idUSL1N2T1207) in Colorado and an advertised “Students of Color Field Trip Opportunity” in Illinois. Another [complaint](https://www.aclupa.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/cbsd_administrative_complaint_-_final_10-6-22_redacted3.pdf) filed by the state chapter of the A.C.L.U. “But I was concerned that I would be complicit if I became aware of this information and allowed it to sit.” “At the same time, the scope and volume of harm that we’re asking our babies to navigate is astronomical.” “We cannot underestimate the normalizing of intolerant behaviors,” said Liz King, the senior program director of educational equity at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 civil rights groups. “It reflects the confidence in the Office for Civil Rights as a place to seek redress,” Ms. In both cases the reforms included educating students to recognize and report discrimination, and training school staff in how to respond to it. The surge reversed the decline in complaints filed to the office under the Trump administration, which

More than offering prescriptions, suggestions — good or bad — about how we should live broaden our worldview and put us in touch with our desires.

She started a new suggestion box after the “candy period” so that she wouldn’t have to sift through the hundreds of candy-related suggestions to get to the new ones. Her ideal suggestion from others is something she may have never thought of — like the suggestion to read the particular sermon by Mr. Even if we discard most of the guidance we get from others, it can be hard to imagine life without it. “That’s not what’s always happening with advice.” It could be that we want counsel from people who are familiar with who we are, even if they’re not experts, she said — or from someone who has been in a similar situation, even if they blundered as much as we did. [sanduq-i ’adalat](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pivot_of_the_Universe/xdFu7X2UtpAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA393),” or “the box of justice,” in response to public criticism of the court’s ministers. She didn’t take suggestions to become a vegetarian or spend more time with her children, for example — but she did consider her diet and asked others how much time their parents spent with them growing up. Most of the 28 that I received were reading recommendations, like “The Warden” by Anthony Trollope, or the archives of the sci-fi Twitter bot account @botfic. Set up near the entrance of Edo Castle in 1721, the meyasubako, or petition box, would open three days a month for “advice that is beneficial to the shogun’s governance or reveals wrongful doings of civil servants,” according to a [ 2003 academic paper](https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/118328). “A lot of times, we assume that what we want is for somebody who knows better to tell us something we don’t already know ourselves,” Ms. Senator from Indiana, proposed [starting a publication](https://www.nytimes.com/1890/08/25/archives/editorial-article-5-no-title.html) called “The Petition Box,” which would give any American a chance to make a suggestion. A link in her bio takes users to a Google form, prompting them to answer the question: “How should I improve?” It’s at most a reason to think about something or it draws that issue to my attention.”

To rise through the Trump-era G.O.P., a young congresswoman gave up her friends, her mentors and her ideals. Will it be enough?

Her alma mater had [decided](https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/elise-stefanik-says-harvard-ousted-her-to-please-woke-left/) to “cave to the woke Left,” she said; getting kicked off the board was a “badge of honor.” [once calling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyPqtqrGLB4) her a “huge asset in the role.” But Ms. Stefanik had secured $205,000 for job training in Warren County, though a news release from her Washington office, quoting the congresswoman, [proclaimed](https://twitter.com/BrianMannADK/status/1502401736845234193?s=20&t=8zynILzX5kzNypks74tERQ) that she could not support “Speaker Pelosi’s bill,” which was “drafted in the dead of night.” [circulating](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/nov/22/viral-image/no-rep-stefanik-didnt-flip-camera-impeachment-hear/) a doctored picture of her supposedly giving the finger to a photographer during the hearings. Stefanik had raised the idea of a cabinet job with anyone on the Buttigieg campaign was “stupid and false,” and that she had never expressed reluctance about defending Mr. [attacked](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/27/trump-calls-baltimore-a-disgusting-rat-and-rodent-infested-mess-in-attack-on-rep-elijah-cummings.html) the Baltimore district of a Black lawmaker as a “rat- and rodent-infested mess” and urged four Democratic lawmakers of color to “go back” to where they came from, Ms. Paladino, her future ally, to denounce her as a “fraud” and “Washington elitist establishment sellout.” Around that time, she returned to Cambridge for an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Politics. When the “Access Hollywood” tape broke, she drafted a statement demanding that he drop out of the race, according to a person familiar with her decision-making process, before settling for a Ms. [who called](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/us/politics/jan-6-congress.html) for the arrest and execution of those responsible for the “fraud” of Mr. [at the age of 30,](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elise-stefanik-youngest-woman-elected-congress/story?id=26694806) Ms. “Republican voters determine who is the leader of the Republican Party, and it’s very clear President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party,” she said, putting her loyalty on display in the way that Mr.

No one knows how many are helped or how much Veterans Treatment Courts in New York cost. Supporters say it gives defendants who were in the armed forces a ...

Mr. He complimented Mr. Within five minutes, the judge smiled at Mr. The judge remembered Mr. Two months later, Mr. “He was there for us, at one time in his life,” Mr. July 6 of this year was the first time Mr. Within a week of his return to New York City, he met a woman who became his wife and the mother of his two children. He was sent to Fort Jackson, S.C., and later transferred to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. He added that the office is working to increase the number of referrals to specialized courts and to improve data collection on such programs. But even at a time when veterans are in real need of support, the cost and effectiveness of such courts are difficult to determine. He had been clean since he overdosed in the spring of 2021, when he had stents and a pacemaker put in to keep his heart beating.

You're reading The Morning newsletter. Make sense of the day's news and ideas. David Leonhardt and Times journalists guide you through what's happening — and ...

[wine glasses](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-wine-glass/) Wirecutter has tested recommended [putting them in the dishwasher](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/how-to-clean-wine-glasses-dishwasher/) over hand-washing. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). [six years of Donald Trump’s tax records](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/us/politics/trump-tax-returns-released.html), offering insights that further undermined his self-promoted image as a successful businessman. [my request](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/briefing/best-of-2022.html) for your nontraditional, highly specific bests of 2022. [smoked salmon spread with capers](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/8497-smoked-salmon-fromage-blanc-and-caper-spread?action=click&module=Global%20Search%20Recipe%20Card&pgType=search&rank=21) is celebratory, fancy, incredibly quick and easy — key points since, by now, you don’t have much time to plan. [this energizing anthem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0hTw2sTKjw&list=OLAK5uy_mgYNf2YoDxbgHrWJ1n9cut7uhEFn-1Kwk&index=9) — ideally more than once and played at top volume — singing along with gusto. I, like everyone else you know, am a sucker for a suspenseful crime story, and this one comes from one of the best: the filmmaker behind the “ [Paradise Lost](https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX2odqQUHJx6fnAEAAALU)” docs, Joe Berlinger. (Triscuits are my personal favorites.) And if you happen to be serving caviar to usher in 2023, this velvety spread would make a delightful cushion underneath. We tend to think of the dishwasher as a dangerous place for delicate objects. He’s often compared ( We made lists of the best bars with non-pretentious dance scenes we wanted to try out and themed parties we wanted to host. Literally stop and say out loud, “This is a happy time.” It’s a way to ground yourself in the joyful parts of your life.

Small talk on the M15, an autograph at Yankee Stadium and more reader tales of New York City in this week's Metropolitan Diary.

I was wearing a knitted hat with bits of silver tinsel in it at the time. As I unlocked my bike, a member of the club arrived. I couldn’t tell who the man was from a distance. on a Tuesday when the bus stopped abruptly near the entrance to the Midtown Tunnel. Reach us via email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) or follow [@NYTMetro](https://twitter.com/#%21/nytmetro) on Twitter. I would love to go to your church, I said. I was on my way home on a downtown M15 at around 9 p.m. I came out of a meeting on the Upper West Side on a wintry evening and hurried down the block to catch my bus home. He pulled a tool out of his pocket and applied it to the wheel. Dear Diary: The man laughed and said he had worked at a Raleigh factory at the time. I explained that some friends had gotten it for me at a garage sale in Massachusetts and that it had probably been made in the 1960s.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights logged a record nearly 19,000 discrimination complaints in the last ...

At the same time, the scope and volume of harm that we're asking our babies to navigate is astronomical," the report quoted Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights, as saying. "It reflects the confidence in the Office for Civil Rights as a place to seek redress ... Education Department's Office for Civil Rights logged a record nearly 19,000 discrimination complaints in the last fiscal year from Oct.

Short people don't just save resources; as resources become scarcer owing to overpopulation and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term ...

“It’s not the height in and of itself that determines the outcome.” The future I envision is different: I want my children’s children to know the value of short. “Everything is big,” he said, “the buildings, the businesses,” and went on to explain that parents reflect the mind-set that bigger is better when envisioning their offspring. “Don’t be overly confident when you are tall because you are probably going to die younger, have more health problems and you are polluting more.” On average, [short people live longer](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12586217/) and have [fewer incidences of cancer](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25991828/). Thomas Samaras, who has been studying height for 40 years and is known in small circles as the Godfather of Shrink Think, a widely unknown philosophy that considers small superior, calculated that if we kept our proportions the same but were just 10 percent shorter in America alone, we would save 87 million tons of food per year (not to mention trillions of gallons of water, quadrillions of B.T.U.s of energy and millions of tons of trash). “There are some short people who thrive and do phenomenally well and lead fantastic lives, and there are some tall people who are miserable,” Dr. I understand why they felt that way, given how short people are treated in our society — a song with the lyric “Short people got no reason to live” was No. Now I have twins who are among the smallest in their kindergarten class, but instead of preparing to medicate them because of an antiquated societal bias, I’m going to let them be as they are: tiny. There is an ongoing debate about the stature of a population and what it means for the prosperity and fairness of a nation, but I’m interested in shortness on an individual level. [tall candidates](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/02/19/in-politics-height-matters) assuming that they are better leaders and often choose tall people as partners with no definitive data that they make better spouses. Even if it did, in an era of guns and drones, being tall now just makes you a bigger target.

The complaints were logged as schools struggled to recover from pandemic-related closures, and add to the declining test scores and growing mental health ...

At the same time, the scope and volume of harm that we're asking our babies to navigate is astronomical," the report quoted Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights, as saying. "It reflects the confidence in the Office for Civil Rights as a place to seek redress ... Education Department's Office for Civil Rights logged a record nearly 19,000 discrimination complaints in the last fiscal year from Oct.

For over 80 years, researchers at Harvard have studied what makes for a good life. They found one surefire, scientifically proven predictor of happiness: ...

[Julia Moskin writes](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/dining/resetting-your-routine.html). [preside over his predecessor’s funeral](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/world/europe/pope-benedict-funeral.html)for the first time in modern Catholic Church history. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Or it [may not be remembered at all](https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/we-do-not-know-which-events-will), Joachim Klement argues on Substack. You can do something small and actionable today. And I told her how grateful I was. I did this once with my fourth-grade teacher, Roseann Manley. It’s in every realm of your life. It’s about the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which started during the Depression. Many of us on the Well desk had read “The Good Life” by Dr. It’s a relationship challenge that will help you address and improve different parts of your social universe with seven science-backed exercises. A team of reporters on The Times’s health and wellness desk, Well, developed a seven-day challenge to help you do just that.

Jump to: Tricky Clues | Today's Theme. MONDAY PUZZLE — Congratulations to Seth Bisen-Hersh, who is the first debut constructor of 2023! Mr. Bisen-Hersh has ...

in L.A.” is the clue for PST — Pacific Standard Time — as opposed to P.D.T., which would be the summer hours in L.A. For some reason the song was in my head, and I said to someone in my dream: “This could be a crossword theme!” Indeed, I’m such a workaholic that I often write songs in my dreams, but this is the first time I came up with a puzzle theme subconsciously. or a phonetic hint for repeated pairs of letters in 19-, 27- and 42-Across.” I blinked at the clue. And then, with the help of some crosses, I filled in IT HAD TO BE YOU. The “it” in the clue “It’s very unlikely to happen” refers to the entry itself. Here’s a bit of crossword fill that veteran solvers will have memorized and new solvers may be perplexed by: Clues that take the form “[season] hours in [place]” are generally asking you to identify a time zone in relation to daylight saving time. The clue “8-Across (AWARD) for some New York plays” is evidently a personal one for Mr. Feeling completely at sea, I read the clue for the revealer at 50A with no small amount of trepidation: “Classic song about a soulmate … It’s nice to see ASS clued in reference to something other than the beast of burden! [Today’s Theme](#link-177cfbd) [MONDAY PUZZLE](https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2023/01/02) — Congratulations to Seth Bisen-Hersh, who is the first debut constructor of 2023! “___-backwards (utterly wrong, in slang)” is a fun clue for ASS. The thing that is very unlikely to happen is a BIG IF — which some solvers may recall was the theme of a different