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The Cleveland Orchestra has been given the autograph score, which was sold at auction to a previously anonymous buyer for $5.6 million.

The score will then be housed nearby at the [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://www.clevelandart.org/), which is led by William M. [Gilbert Kaplan](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/arts/music/gilbert-e-kaplan-publisher-and-improbable-conductor-dies-at-74.html), the Mahler devotee who had bought the 232-page manuscript in 1984 from the foundation of Willem Mengelberg, a Dutch conductor who had received it from the composer’s widow, Alma. Clasart distributes Met in HD broadcasts internationally, and has made visual recordings of the Clevelanders playing [Bruckner](https://www.clevelandorchestrastore.com/collections/dvd-and-blu-ray/products/fwmdvdboxbruckner) and [Brahms](https://www.clevelandorchestrastore.com/collections/dvd-and-blu-ray/products/johannesbrahmscycledvd) with their music director, Franz Welser-Möst. [Cleveland Orchestra](https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/) announced today that it has received the manuscript of [Mahler’s Second Symphony](https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/compositions/symphony-no-2/symphony-no-2-manuscript/) as a gift. For Welser-Möst, who occupied Mahler’s post of general music director at the Vienna State Opera from 2010 to 2014, examining the pristinely preserved manuscript — unaltered, unbound and marked in blue crayon with the composer’s own edits — was an emotional experience, not to mention a nerve-racking one. When Kaplan died in 2016, he left the manuscript to his widow with the intention that it be sold. “We are still working on where it will be exhibited, but we want people to see that score. And in doing so, it revealed the [identity](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/arts/music/as-prices-for-classical-scores-soar-one-beethoven-is-in-question.html) of the mystery buyer who paid $5.6 million for that autograph score in 2016: Herbert G. “They are a lovely lot,” Kloiber said. “When I opened the score in our apartment in Vienna, I got really teary,” Welser-Möst said. “Whilst everybody else was doing horse routes or playing golf, we were sitting at the bar talking about Gustav Mahler, and his particular inclination to the Second Symphony.” It’s not just any collector who bought the score.”

Louis A. Molina, New York City's jail commissioner, told his senior staff to ensure that a dying man was “off the department's count.”

Mr. Molina replied that the detainee was no longer in city custody, according to an email obtained by The Times. In the days before he was released, Mr. “We expect the department to be accountable for their actions in Mr. To date, the department has failed to demonstrate accountability for the death toll, but instead rests in obfuscation and delay.” On the operating table, Mr. Given only Tylenol by jail medical staff, he visited the jail clinic about six days later, and a doctor noted that his heart rate was elevated and his stomach was swollen and tender, according to jail records and Mr. Molina, saying the commissioner was trying to show compassion to Mr. “If we get it from under the Department of Correction, then we can treat that family in a humane way,” Mr. On at least one other occasion in the past year, Mr. But the direct involvement of the city’s top jail official appeared to show the lengths to which Mr. Molina wrote on Thursday in an email obtained by The New York Times, to ensure the man was “off the Department’s count.”

Louis A. Molina, the commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, is under intense pressure to show improvements on Rikers Island and avoid a ...

While many of the nation’s criminal justice systems occasionally release people who are elderly, incapacitated or gravely ill, Molina’s actions expose how the practice can be used to avoid accountability. Molina has taken a special interest in whether people in custody have fallen ill and might be at risk of dying and, thus, eligible for compassionate release. Molina, the commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, ordered the “compassionate release” of an inmate dying from cardiac arrest to a nearby hospital in order to ensure that his death was not counted as occurring in-custody and the infamous jails death figures were kept down,

Under Francisco Franco's rule, thousands of newborns were secretly taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. Now they are beginning to ...

At a time when so many people she knew were losing their parents to old age — when she herself had lost the people who raised her — she gained two parents. She talked about the search that began in her garage and led to her neighbors and television studios, a journey which now seemed to have reached its conclusion, that night, at that dinner table. He had read her story in a local newspaper and was an “intimate friend” of a woman named Pilar Villora García, someone who lost a child around the same time that Pintado was born. But the message was clear: Some in her family preferred to believe Pintado was the one who lied, not her parents. “It was a big fat lie,” she said of her childhood to the reporter from the society section of El Economista, a financial publication popular among Spain’s elites. She said that after giving birth, she was told by the hospital that her child was stillborn, but she now suspected that her child was stolen, even though the baby was born in 1992, nearly a decade after the last documented kidnappings. A representative from one of the victims’ groups took down her information, and a prosecutor from Madrid got in touch with Betegón and asked her to give a deposition. On the bottom of the screen flashed the words: “I’m looking for my daughter, they stole her from me the moment she was born.” The father was then shown on a split-screen alongside dramatic footage of a car driving up to the studio. “You had to submit to your father, then to your husband and then to the state.” That afternoon, a doctor arrived at Betegón’s room to tell her that one of the twins had died. But she had sold the family bakery where she had worked much of her life. The ruthlessness was typical of a new brand of authoritarianism that began toppling democracies one by one in Europe in the 1930s.

As newsroom frustrations over stalled contract negotiations spill out on Twitter, journalists inside are appealing to senior leaders, like executive editor ...

“The financial piece of it is genuinely affecting people in a very real way,” said another, “and the dismissive tone from management is really affecting people’s ability to do their jobs well.” Whether or not it leads to a strike, as New York magazine And because the Times is a place where people sometimes spend their whole career, there are reporters who, during this round of bargaining, are remembering sacrifices they’ve made in the past for the company, such as furloughs and pay cuts taken during the financial crisis to help the Times get through the painful period. “Throughout negotiations we’ve stressed how central our journalistic colleagues are to the success of The Times and our mission.” Rhoades Ha pointed out that the Times has “strengthened our commitment to journalism and journalists with an unmatched level of investment” as their competitors have cut newsroom costs.) “We’re offering a 10% wage increase: 4% upon ratification of a new contract, and 3% increases both in 2023 and 2024,” she said, as well as a “2.5% retroactive bonus to recognize the time in which employees have been working since the old contract expired in March 2021.” Under the old contract, which was [ratified in December 2017](https://newsguild.org/7429/), members of the union received a 2% annual increase. [reported](https://s23.q4cdn.com/152113917/files/doc_news/2022/08/Press-Release-6.26.2022-Final-X69kQ5m3-(1).pdf) an adjusted operating profit of more than $76 million in the last fiscal quarter alone, [increased](https://seekingalpha.com/news/3794762-new-york-times-company-declares-missing-dividend) its dividend payout to shareholders this year, and has [increased compensation](https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2022/03/The-New-York-Times-Company-2022-Proxy-Statement.pdf) for some top officers. I’m told some reporters and newsroom veterans have privately reached out to the company’s most senior leaders in the hopes of persuading them to shift the Times’ bargaining stance. Then, hitting that goal a few years early, the company [announced](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/business/media/nyt-earnings-q4-2021.html) a new aim: at least 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027. (Rhoades Ha claimed the company’s proposal “would provide greater medical benefits than employees enjoy today” and that their proposal to shift unit members to the company’s 401k plan from the Guild’s adjustable pension plan is “about offering a better plan with higher returns and more flexibility to employees, not cost-cutting.”) “This is the first time that I feel a lot more invested and outraged, and I am not the only one,” one Times reporter told me. Union members’ outrage over stalled contract negotiations has increasingly spilled out into public view as the New York Times Guild has turned up the organizing pressure, with Times staffers [tweeting](https://twitter.com/kristinllin/status/1569401392766324739) their frustration and more than 300 of them [sending](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/new-york-times-union-coordinated-email-campaign) emails to leadership about the effects of stagnant wages, as well as [making](https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-staff-demands-more-pay-newspaper-offers-lunch-boxes) [headlines](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-12/new-york-times-staff-pledges-to-work-from-home-in-protest-over-office-push) with a [refusal](https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/nearly-1300-new-york-times-workers-pledge-not-to-return-to-office/) to return to office. “We’ve been at the table for a year and a half. Staff were so rattled by her dispassionate response that they began to draft an open letter asking Pollock, who is known for being blunt and fearless with the brass, to communicate to the people above her that the company’s approach is getting in the way of her staff’s ability to do their jobs.

Staffers at The New York Times are openly discussing the possibility of a work stoppage as talks with management have reportedly hit an impasse.

Despite the gaps in their position, there are signs of progress in talks. The spokesperson added that the newspaper is “proud to offer among the highest compensation packages and most generous benefits for our industry and we’re also proud to have a large and growing newsroom.” A Times spokesperson told Insider: “We’re actively working with the NYT NewsGuild to reach a collective bargaining agreement that financially rewards our journalists for their contributions to the success of The Times, is fiscally responsible as the company remains in a growth mode, and continues to take into account the industry landscape.” “I think people feel that management doesn’t listen unless everybody is beside themselves and ready to walk out the door, so if that’s what it’s going to take, then that’s what it’s going to take,” Frances Robles, a Times correspondent based in Florida who is also a member of the union’s bargaining committee, told Insider. Kevin Draper, a sports reporter for the Times, told Insider that the union’s demands were “eminently reasonable.” He also noted that the publicly shared company has paid out handsome rewards to executives as well as dividends to stockholders. A spokesperson for the New York Times Company told Insider that the union’s demands are “far outside the bounds for any organization, especially in such an uncertain economic climate.”

Times journalists are battling over salary increases and the return to the office as contract talks drag on.

Times staffers in the union said that they view this moment as the best opportunity to get a salary hike, since merit raises are hard to come by at the Times, which historically has leaned on its prestigious status to keep talent from heading for the exits. (The Times spokesperson countered that the paper was not seeing record profits). She added: "Though we've had a remarkable digital transformation, we still haven't returned to the levels of net income we achieved in the years before the great recession when we were a bigger company." The Times is offering a 2.5% retroactive bonus once a new contract is ratified. The chief issue in the talks, however, is still wages, particularly given the rising cost of living. Staffers at The New Yorker magazine [narrowly averted](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-yorker-union-deal-avoid-strike_n_60caa0eae4b0b80b49eb30ba) a strike last year as well. [Analysis from the union](https://www.nyguild.org/2022-nyt-performance-evaluations-report) found stark racial disparities in the evaluation system. New York Times reporters have walked off the job before, like as part of a 1962-1963 citywide newspaper strike. On Twitter, journalists mocked Times-branded lunch boxes that the paper offered as a return-to-office perk. But Times insiders said the Kahn administration risks losing the support of rank-and-file newsroom members in enacting his agenda if a bargaining agreement isn't hashed out soon. Some union members are advocating for a strike authorization vote, a negotiating tactic that gives the bargaining committee the authority to call one if it sees fit, Robles said. They point to the paper's strong financial position, with nearly

New York Times staffers are weighing a strike as salary disputes between the Times union and its management hit an impasse, Insider reported.

In August, the Guild released a lengthy report that accused the Times of treating white employees [more favorably](https://freebeacon.com/media/nyt-union-accuses-paper-of-systemic-racism-in-performance-reviews/) than its minority employees, the Washington Free Beacon reported. With inflation at a [record](https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/prices-rise-in-august-surprising-economists/) 8.3 percent this year, Times employees are asking for almost double that average—for four years straight. Amid record-high inflation, the Times staffers are demanding an 8 percent annual salary increase year-over-year for four years.

In recent years, hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels have begun to operate almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week, off the coast of South America. The ships ...

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In a city where rental prices keep setting records and the real estate firm Douglas Elliman says the median for a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan is now ...

Suddenly, a sanitation worker jumped out of the truck’s cab, ran onto the sidewalk and threw his arms straight up in the air. 18, according to jail records and two people with knowledge of the episode. Pondexter had complained of chest pain and difficulty breathing in the days before his death. His heart function was restored, but after doctors determined days later that he was brain-dead, his lawyers with the Legal Aid pressed for his release. So far, 16 people have died this year after being held in the city jail system, including Bradley and Pondexter — as many as died in all of 2021. Aside from Pondexter, the Correction Department under Mayor Eric Adams’s administration has freed at least one other incarcerated person before he died — Antonio Bradley, 28, who had tried to hang himself in June while unsupervised in a pen at the Bronx courthouse. Nor did it send word to the city Board of Correction, an oversight panel, or issue a news release, as it normally does when people held at Rikers die there. But they couldn’t bring themselves to walk away from Rasmussen’s loft and the ultralow rent — or the space, enough for a family. “Essentially my rent is locked in at the rate it was when they first started renting in this building,” he said. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to stay in the city.” Gibson, “I gave her all the money, and she gave me the loft.” They also make the studios available, free, to artists and community organizations.

In crypto havens such as Meia Praia beach, the confidence in digital currencies remains undimmed even after this summer's crash.

Moving to Portugal could lower his taxes and give his family the chance to buy affordable property in a warm climate, he said. They had made enough from investing in Ether and other cryptocurrencies over the past few years to pay for their travels, she said. Roessler was concerned about the drop in crypto values but said he was convinced the market would rebound. “You prove that it is possible to run some part of the world, even if it’s just one,” said Mr. At the time, the price of a single Bitcoin was about $900, versus about $19,000 today. For now, Portugal remains popular with the optimists and amateur traders who are trying to use their crypto investments to travel and live without a traditional job. In May, Fernando Medina, the finance minister, said the government was considering taxing crypto earnings like regular income and “intends to legislate on this matter.” A decision could come next month when Portugal releases its annual budget. “It has all the ingredients.” “Portugal should be the Silicon Valley of Bitcoin,” Mr. He said his crypto holdings were down about 80 percent from the peak but added, “I’m investing more.” Their buoyancy and cheer endure across Portugal and in other crypto hubs around the world, such as The conversations about cryptocurrencies and a decentralized future flow.

With historic architecture, stunning river views and a lower-key vibe than other upstate areas, this Greene County community is growing in popularity.

“A great number of creative people live in this village, and people who share the values we have.” This is low for the region and a fraction of the typical Hudson tax bill; some residents say it factored into their decision to buy a home in Athens. The Amtrak train station in Hudson is a 15-minute drive. “We found we don’t need some of the things we thought we needed,” Ms. You have people who have lived here for five or six generations, and you have a lot of newcomers who moved in even before Covid.” Next to the park is the Stewart House, a restaurant, event space and nine-room hotel built in 1883 that residents describe as the heart of the community, especially during the warmer months, when they gather on its riverfront patio. “It’s this super-cute town right on the Hudson, and it seemed like it had a lot of potential,” said Ms. “We were interested in doing a renovation that respected the history but moved forward,” said Ms. That’s led to the movement of people going across the bridge to Athens.” Wright, 51, who is now the chief diversity officer for Unispace, a commercial design firm based in Boston, and the mother of 9-year-old twin boys. In February, she closed on a three-bedroom home in Athens, just a few blocks from the river, paying $595,000. Wright, who grew up in Kansas, yearned for the sense of community the area offered — but without a high-maintenance antique house.

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. On a recent summer afternoon, Whoopi Goldberg led ...

Soon after the success of the “The Color Purple,” Goldberg learned of a forthcoming adaptation of “The Princess Bride” and wanted to audition for the title role. Goldberg won a Tony Award in 2002 for producing the musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” the 1991 best-supporting-actress Oscar for “Ghost” and a Grammy in 1986 for her comedy album. She was beautiful and confident and told me she learned English by watching episodes of “Friends,” but the thing I hated most about her was that all she ever seemed to tell me was that I was normal. [Ted Danson, her boyfriend at the time, wore blackface](https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/14/garden/after-the-roast-fire-and-smoke.html) to a roast of her in 1993, Goldberg thinks she has really been canceled only once. She had been tasked with spit-shining the junk given to her — in [“Theodore Rex,”](https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2386542361/?playlistId=tt0114658&ref_=tt_ov_vi) a film she was contractually obligated to complete, she played a detective assigned to an investigation with a dinosaur — but she still became a punchline: The comedian Sam Kinison joked in an interview that Whoopi Goldberg is what happens when “a nation is afraid to hurt a person’s feelings.” She plays a maid who, during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., has to walk to and from her job. (Emma died in 2010; Clyde died five years later.) In “Book,” she writes that her childhood was largely sheltered from racism; the civil rights movement “didn’t resonate the way it did in the rest of the country. The most recent one unfolded this winter, during an episode of “The View” about a school board’s decision to ban the book “Maus,” when she claimed that the Holocaust was not really about race because both Germans and Jews were white; she tried to apologize but ended up doubling down on the comments during an appearance that evening on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” (The next day, she apologized on “The View” and was suspended from the show for two weeks.) Goldberg has never wanted to be called “African American.” When she became famous, one of her first controversial positions was rejecting the label. Throughout her career, Goldberg has taken it upon herself — whether as a comic, or a social critic on “The View,” or the author of “Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There?,” her ode to public civility, or even a producer of films like the forthcoming “Till,” about what happened after Mamie Till decided to send her son away for the summer — to temper that ignorance. Alex Martin Dean, her daughter, and Dean’s children streamed in and out of the kitchen, draping themselves over one another as they stood around the kitchen island, bare except for a box of Popeyes and a script for “Harlem,” the Amazon TV show in which Goldberg has a small role.

A Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was “born to play.”

And he asked me to write about it, so that a reader would understand how much all of this means to him. “I am humbled to be here now for them, to honor them, to honor their desires,” he said. He has dreamed about death throughout the rehearsal process — his own death, those of his loved ones — and had been preoccupied with how much time he has left and if he has used his time well. “My disruption has been that personal aspect,” he said. “When we see that through the lens of a Black family, we really see how much further away that dream is.” “I’m tired to the death,” his Willy said. “His Willy is so lovable,” she said in a recent interview. “There is a complication within him and a vulnerability.” As Marianne Elliott, who co-directed the London production of “Salesman” put it in a recent conversation: “He was kind of born to play it. When the writer David Simon began to dream up his next series, “Treme,” created with Eric Overmyer, he built a role, that of the trombonist Antoine Batiste, with Pierce explicitly in mind. A few years ago, while directing “Angels in America,” Elliott had an idea for a “Death of a Salesman” with a Black family at its center. And yet, all of this — the everyman quality, the realism, the vexed relationship to his own success — makes him ideal for Willy.

Whoopi Goldberg said in an interview with New York Times Magazine that she believes she's only been "canceled once" and that it was at a fundraiser for John ...

The only thing she was guilty of was being funny, and then unfairly maligned," the piece said. Goldberg encouraged people to vote for Kerry and said "someone's tarnished the name of Bush." "I would describe that situation as a lot of people covering their backsides, because the joke was never about him," Goldberg said at the time. She said everyone was taking "potshots" at Bush, and added that Goldberg told a joke as well. "Because I didn’t say anything that was bad." During the interview, Goldberg told author Jazmine Hughes, that she believes "she has really been canceled only once."

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The next instance is at 26A, where “A LOT” is written as [ALO](T). Eventually, the idea of “unpacking” a rebus sprang to mind. And I noticed that the circled square pattern was emerging from the bottom of the grid in a pleasing pattern. This “Beach mold” is not the kind of mold you want to eradicate. I understood that SNEER at 35A was a “bad look” because it is mean, but I wasn’t sure why SCAN at 34A was a “good look.” It turns out that “bad” and “good” are not antonyms in this case. (Have I ever mentioned that I like wordplay?) The “Result of an architect’s winging it?” does not hint at improvisation in building a structure. It’s a mold for building sand castles, and the answer is PAIL. Here, “good” means thorough and probing, as in “I took a good look at your X-ray.” “Cartesian sum?” sounds as if it’s a math question because of the word “sum.” The “sum” in this clue is actually Latin for “I AM.” The first principle of René Descartes’s philosophical method in his 1637 “Discourse on the Method” is “Cogito, ergo sum,” or “I think, therefore I am.” It is the “Maker of the Split Decision Breakfast.” A wing added to a structure is an ANNEX. I may be the only person in the United States who has never been to IHOP for breakfast, so I needed a couple of crossings to get this one.