Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 14 September 2015

Top News
Syrian and Afghan refugees swam toward the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday after the dinghy they were in deflated.
Germany Orders Curbs at Border in Migrant Crisis

By MELISSA EDDY, RICK LYMAN and ALISON SMALE

The move was seen as a strong sign that Germany was growing weary of shouldering so much of the burden for Europe's largest humanitarian crisis in decades.
An anti-American mural along a street in Tehran. The United States and Iran each face domestic pressures against closer relations, a nuclear deal notwithstanding.
U.S. and Iran Both Conflict and Converge

By TIM ARANGO and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

With the nuclear deal having cleared its biggest congressional hurdle, the United States will have to navigate an increasingly complicated regional maze with a newly empowered Iran.
Lisa Giordano of Brooklyn stopped making her loan payments to Lending Club last year.
Pitfalls for the Unwary Borrower Out on the Frontiers of Banking

By MICHAEL CORKERY

Marketed as a way to get out of debt, loans from online lenders are instead leaving some people deeper under water.
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Editors' Picks
A soccer game in July on a patch of fake grass at City Hall Plaza in Boston.

U.S.

Boston Enlivens City Hall Plaza by Rolling Out Green Carpet

By JESS BIDGOOD

Practically overnight, the setup, minimal as it is, has transformed this widely derided stretch of cityscape into a park space.

OPINION | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Don't Trust Putin on Syria

By ANDREW FOXALL

Russia's real aim is not­ to beat ISIS, but to prop up its puppet, Bashar al-Assad.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I would really like to go to Germany. But if they don't let me go, I will consider other options, like staying in Austria or trying to go to another country. I won't stop."
ABDELKAHAR SHERZAD, a 28-year-old from Afghanistan, after hearing about new border restrictions being imposed by Germany.
Today's Video
Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Diagnosis That Divides the Medical World

By CLYDE HABERMAN

For years, doctors swore by the symptoms of head trauma that were accepted as evidence of a crime against a child. Now, a growing number are not so sure.
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World
Egypt Forces Kill Tourists From Mexico

By LIAM STACK

Police and military forces mistakenly shot at a Mexican tourist convoy while pursuing militants in the country's Western Desert, killing at least 12 people, officials said.
The Justice Department is pushing to extradite Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, above, in Boston in 2013, a former vice defense minister linked to a slaughter of Jesuits in 1989.
U.S. Wants Former Salvadoran Ally to Face Justice in 1989 Massacre

By JONATHAN M. KATZ

The United States government, which spent more than $4 billion in assistance to El Salvador's military during its civil war, is now working to bring some of the officers to justice.
The election of Jeremy Corbyn, a leftist outsider, as the Labour Party leader is seen as a boon to Conservatives and their expected next leader.

MEMO FROM BRITAIN

Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn May Help Tories in Next British Elections

By STEVEN ERLANGER

It is difficult to imagine a British electorate that just handed Conservatives a majority turning to a party that has moved so far to the left by electing their new leader, Mr. Corbyn.
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U.S.
One Symptom in New Medical Codes: Doctor Anxiety

By ROBERT PEAR

Under the new coding regime, government programs and private insurers will require doctors, hospitals, clinics and nursing homes to report vastly more information about the care they provide patients.
Moving Fast, Fire Scorches Community in California

By IAN LOVETT and ASHLEY SOUTHALL

Two wildfires north of San Francisco had burned through more than 100,000 acres and destroyed at least 1,000 homes and commercial structures, according to state officials.
Panel Studying Racial Divide in Missouri Presents a Blunt Picture of Inequity

By MONICA DAVEY

A commission appointed by the governor after the death of Michael Brown is calling for sweeping changes on matters of policing, the courts, education, health care, housing and more.
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Business
Rivalry Builds Off the Field as Talent Agencies Turn to Sports

By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES

With the movie and television businesses facing an uncertain future, Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor are going all in on athletics.
Cambodian fishermen last year in Songkhla, Thailand. Many work in slavery-like conditions.
Consumers and Lawmakers Take Steps to End Forced Labor in Fishing

By IAN URBINA

Citing a recent New York Times series on lawlessness at sea, lawmakers have asked fishing and pet food companies to increase transparency and accountability in their labor practices.
Diane Weyermann, Jeffrey Skoll and Jonathan King took five Participant Media films to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Participant Media Delivers Batch of Films and Unfolds DreamWorks Idea

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Jeffrey Skoll hopes to conclude a deal between Participant, his 11-year-old activist entertainment company, and Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios.
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Sports
Novak Djokovic earned his second United States Open trophy. With 10 major singles titles, he is tied with Bill Tilden for seventh on the career list.
Novak Djokovic Defeats Roger Federer to Win U.S. Open

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY

After stopping Federer's momentum in four sets in this year's Wimbledon final, Djokovic did the same, earning a second U.S. Open singles title and a 10th Grand Slam singles title.
Browns quarterback Josh McCown fumbling near the Jets' goal line during the first quarter. The Jets wound up with the football, and McCown left the game with a concussion.

JETS 31, BROWNS 10

Big Win but Bigger Worries for Jets

By BEN SHPIGEL

Cornerback Antonio Cromartie and linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin were hurt during the game.
Malone, right, with Julius Erving after the 76ers defeated the Lakers for the 1983 N.B.A. championship.
Moses Malone, 76ers' 'Chairman of the Boards,' Dies at 60

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

Malone, a three-time league M.V.P., was the first modern player to go straight from high school to the pros when he made his A.B.A. debut in 1974.
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Arts
The musician Jenny Hval performed in a wig with teal highlights at Basilica Soundscape, a festival of music, art, poetry and style in Hudson, N.Y.

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Basilica Soundscape: A Festival of Pop, Punk and So Much Else

By NATE CHINEN

A weekend-long festival of music, art, poetry and style, this event celebrates music that aims beyond the visible horizon.
From left, Alex Shiozaki, Rebecca Krohn and Amar Ramasar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Review: Arvo Pärt and 9/11, Paired at the Metropolitan Museum

By JAMES R. OESTREICH

The Temple of Dendur - though unloved by musicians for its acoustics - only enhanced a sense of quasi-religious ritual.
Distractions: Snapping a photograph with an iPad after a performance at Carnegie Hall.

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

The Concert Hall as Refuge in a Restless, Web-Driven World

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

A case can be made for classical music as a tonic for an increasingly wired society.
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Obituaries
William Becker in 1995.
William Becker, Who Transformed Janus Films, Dies at 88

By SAM ROBERTS

Mr. Becker, a culturally minded businessman, acquired Janus Films in 1965 with a partner, and they vastly expanded its library and broadened its distribution.
Stanley Hoffmann at Harvard.
Stanley Hoffmann, Who Brought Passion to Foreign Policy Analysis, Dies at 86

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Hoffmann taught at Harvard for more than half a century and wrote a series of influential books that explored international relations.
The playwright Frank D. Gilroy in New York in 1991.
Frank D. Gilroy, Playwright Behind 'The Subject Was Roses,' Dies at 89

By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

Mr. Gilroy won a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony and a Drama Critics' Circle Award for that play, his 1964 Broadway debut, but it was his only major theatrical success.
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Editorials

EDITORIAL

Regulators Need to Scrutinize Health Insurance Mergers

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Antitrust regulators should make sure that mergers in the health care industry do not reduce choices.
The Internal Revenue Service Building in Washington, D.C.

EDITORIAL

Collecting Taxes Is Government Work

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Private tax collection is a bad idea, and it should be kept out of a highway bill.
Donald Trump piñatas for sale in San Francisco.

EDITORIAL OBSERVER

Latinos for Donald Trump

By ERNESTO LONDOÑO

Donald Trump's xenophobic campaign could be the jolt that unleashes the potential of the Latino electorate.
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