The path to the best NBA Finals debut in seven years began in Cameroon and has stretched from New Mexico to the suburbs of Toronto. Pascal Siakam had to emerge from some small settings before he could reach the big time. That made Siakam’s 32-point performance in Game 1 even more impressive. The players who […]
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Everett Raymond Kinstler, who went from drawing Zorro and Hawkman to painting hundreds of portraits of the glamorous and powerful, including several American presidents, died on Sunday in Bridgeport, Conn. He was 92. His wife, Peggy Kinstler, said the cause was heart failure. Mr. Kinstler had homes in nearby Easton, Conn., and Manhattan. Attracted to
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Because that sponsor is considered a public charity in its own right, donors get the tax deduction when they donate to the fund. When the money is doled out to other public charities, donors do not get a second deduction. By law, the donors have given up control of their donation when they put the
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Image copyright EPA An attempt to make Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg step down as the company’s chairman has failed. At the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday, shareholders had the opportunity to vote on Mr Zuckerberg’s leadership. Mr Zuckerberg is both Facebook’s chief executive and the chairman of its board of directors. He controls about
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You grew up in Berkeley, Calif. Did any of the counterculture influence you? I was running from tear gas even before I could walk, because I was on my dad’s shoulders as he was running from tear gas at a protest against the Vietnam War. A willingness to think for yourself was probably one of
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Steve Kerr has seen a little of almost everything during his wildly successful five-year run as coach of the Golden State Warriors. This, however, is something new. For the first time, Kerr and the Warriors are staring at a 1-0 deficit in the NBA Finals. They’ve trailed in series before, faced plenty of adverse moments
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The Trump administration has sent a message to the world with its new tariff threats against Mexico: No deal is ever a done deal. That effect may be bigger than the immediate 5 percent tax on Mexican imports set to go into force June 10 and escalate to 25 percent over time. Mexico had seemed
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Uber and Lyft, the two leading ride-share companies, have lost a great deal of money and don’t project a profit any time soon. Yet they are both trading on public markets with a combined worth of more than $80 billion. Investors presumably expect that these companies will some day find a path to profitability, which
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Image copyright Getty Images New Chinese tariffs of up to 25% have been imposed on $60bn (£46bn) worth of US goods. The tariffs, which came into force at midnight in Beijing on 1 June, are in retaliation for the US doubling tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods in May. China had previously imposed tariffs of
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In the 19th century, the city of Barcelona was an important port in the transatlantic trade between Spain and its colonies. In 2018, an intense polemic broke out in the Catalan capital after the city council decided to remove a statue of Antonio López, a well-known merchant and patron who was linked to the slave
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