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How long before a Republican can say Trump's tariffs were a mistake out loud and survive a primary? @Scaramucci’s guess is 2032. https://t.co/ZsaNVhHdno

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Generational talent Robert Icke finds new ways to take the audience on a journey to the extraordinary in his stage adaptation of "The Lives of Others," according to critic John Lahr. https://t.co/SkzOOuWfEJ

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Opera fans and impresarios waste no time spotting future Alberichs, but spotting future Wotans is quite the party game. https://t.co/Qd8K6exhA3

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These days, there aren’t many moral and spiritual leaders to turn to, and Leonard Cohen, who lived for five and a half years as a Zen monk, could seem as close to some of us as our doubts. https://t.co/JVdEfFD0gb

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According to Alexandre Ponnavoy, the chief wine-maker for Taittinger and Evremond, it’s the chalky local soil that makes Kent, England, ripe for a neo-champagne. https://t.co/Tc1nqSTQ9e

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Behind the sleek sunglasses and effortless glamor inextricably linked with the Ray-Ban name lies a messy family feud that is anything but stylish. https://t.co/uciMvPy2cm

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"I couldn’t even have attended this ball had I been busy being human-trafficked by warlords in Vienna," writes party columnist Caroline Calloway. "What I’ve learned is that life only ever punishes and redirects me when I’ve self-abandoned." https://t.co/RQbkHjnASq

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In an unexpected turn for someone who spent his youth in solitude, Leo Reich plays a central character in "It Gets Worse," putting him on the screen more than ever before. https://t.co/lwfulokZOP

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Silicon Valley has a honey trap problem, so much so that OpenAI is holding security briefings to train its staff, and Anthropic and Google have issued similar warnings to their employees. https://t.co/BRRVaPBgx8

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The paradox of the 2026 midterms is that Trump produced the antibodies that beat him, writes @Scaramucci. https://t.co/ZsaNVhHdno

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Robert Icke’s cunning adaptation of "The Lives of Others" is a daring exception to what is becoming the boulevard formula of adapting hit films for the stage, theatre critic John Lahr says. https://t.co/SkzOOuWfEJ

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The tight circle of artists who have done both Wotan and Alberich often say that the latter is harder to sing, and baritone Brian Mulligan concurs. https://t.co/Qd8K6exhA3

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The ghost of Leonard Cohen still lingers a decade after his death. https://t.co/JVdEfFD0gb

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Winston Churchill had many existential concerns during World War II, but one of his smaller worries was that the German occupation of France had interrupted supplies of his beloved Pol Roger. Today he could find consolation closer to home. https://t.co/Tc1nqSTQ9e

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For her sixth “Letters from Scamelot” party dispatch, Caroline Calloway reports on a regretful dinner with a warlord, returning to suburbia, and a gala at the Met. https://t.co/RQbkHjnASq

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With his new A24 series “It Gets Worse,” British comedian Leo Reich enters uncharted territory. https://t.co/lwfulokZOP

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The playboy heir to the Ray-Ban fortune has two yachts, jokes of being a billion dollars in debt, and claims to have slept with 2,000 women. Now he's at war with his late father’s handpicked C.E.O. https://t.co/uciMvPy2cm

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The roughly 750-mile journey has five stops, beginning outside Morocco’s Agadir and ending at Tighmert. https://t.co/C3Ool7KIi4

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The audition for “The Greatest” lasted from May 2023 to January 2024. Jaalen Best faced off with three other young men in a two-day physical examination, learning the steps of a fight in the ring. https://t.co/DeeNF4QCMZ

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Whether he was invoking the language of Calvary or delivering a rowdy sing-along about “Closing Time,” Leonard Cohen's songs and poems were constantly finding new ways of saying good-bye, not just to everything he loved but to himself. https://t.co/JVdEfFD0gb