The New York Times Magazine - USA (2022-01-23)

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incursion by an aggressive enemy but also a spe- cies of civil war. The rebellion of the D.P.R. and L.P.R. has lasted this long ...

culture.’’ It is a grope at plausible deniability that is implausible in at least two ways. The fi rst is that Russia very obvio ...

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Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum, for The New York Times 33 A coal mine in Toretsk, on the front line. Donbas’s vast seams o ...

34 1.23.22 that the fi re was probably more symbolic than strategic. Aug. 24 would mark the anniversary of Ukrainian independenc ...

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derived from a word for borderland, and that was true most of all in what is now the coun- try’s east. It was the steppe frontie ...

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HOW A.I. CONQUERED POKER. BY KEITH ROMER ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAT R I C I A DORIA 38 ...

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November in the cavernous Ama- zon Room of Las Vegas’s Rio casino, two dozen men dressed mostly in sweatshirts and baseball caps ...

Commissioned Art Credit by Patricia Doria The New York Times Magazine 41 tournament, I visited Koon at his multimillion-dollar h ...

for bad players, ‘‘There are a lot of really strange plays now that these guys are making that are eff ective — but if people sa ...

and all the players who were eliminated before him, received nothing. Given the small sample size of several hundred hands that ...

44 1.23.22 anticipation of Ukraine Independence Day going on up and down the line, but the day before had been Russian Air Force ...

The New York Times Magazine 45 sector of the Red Zone, outside the L.P.R., near the Russian border. In the war’s fi rst days, im ...

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Ukraine is entirely the product of the Soviet era.’’ When Ukraine became independent, it was ‘‘taken away’’ from its ‘‘historica ...

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