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How to shop for clothes you won’t have to purge in a year
Affordable fast fashion and social media make it seem as though clothing trends move more quickly than a runway model’s strut. But that churn is incompatible with building a wardrobe that has staying power.

Gates accuses Musk of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ with DOGE cuts
The feud between billionaires Bill Gates and Elon Musk ramped up this week, with Gates accusing Musk of “killing the world’s poorest children” through massive cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, one of the first targets of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service under the Trump administration.

Stow your tray tables and brace for comedy in ‘Fight or Flight’
Some actors are best left to weather outside until they’ve properly aged, like firewood or a good Scotch. (Humphrey Bogart being the ideal example.) Josh Hartnett was something of an It Boy at the turn of the millennium, with lead roles in “The Virgin Suicides,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Black Hawk Down” and more. Then, like with many It Boys, his career cooled.

Sister creates AI video of slain brother to address his killer in court
Stacey Wales had a daunting task ahead of her: preparing a victim impact statement for the sentencing of the man who had fatally shot her brother in a road-rage incident in 2021. She wondered how to convey the weight of her loss.

REVIEW: In ‘Juliet and Romeo,’ Shakespeare gets malled
Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a puppy. A puppy that chews the furniture, soils the rugs and projectile vomits on the guests, but a puppy nevertheless. This maladaption of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” only wants to please its target audience of early-middle-school girls by replacing iambic pentameter with lots and lots of pop songs, swooning with plastic sentiments and machine-tooled harmonies. Replace the Bard with a Top 40 production team and his soliloquies with sub-Swiftian lyrics (Taylor, not Jonathan) and you can imagine the results. This isn’t a movie, it’s a prom theme.
