One of the fiercest debates among fans and observers each N.B.A. season is over who should win the Most Valuable Player Award. This season —…
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The Golden Globes’ Biggest Winner May Be the Group That Hands Them Out
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been widely viewed as colorful, generally harmless, perhaps venal and not necessarily journalistically productive. But because the group puts…
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Peyton Manning Selected for Pro Football Hall of Fame
A pair of Aarons pulled off an N.F.L. hat trick Saturday night. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers earned his third Associated Press Most Valuable…
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Kathleen Heddle, Rower Who Won 3 Olympic Gold Medals, Dies at 55
Kathleen Heddle, who won three Olympic gold medals rowing for Canada in the 1990s and inspired a generation of athletes, died on Monday at her…
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Who Else Has Declined a Presidential Honor?
But not many people have declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “Very few have done it, whether it was out of modesty or for special…
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Calls Grow for Belichick to Decline Presidential Award
On the eve of Election Day in 2016, President Trump read a letter of congratulations from the New England Patriots’ longtime coach, Bill Belichick, who…
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N.B.A. 2020-21 Predictions: LeBron vs. Luka for M.V.P.
The last time the sports staff of The New York Times and assorted friends gathered to make the annual set of N.B.A. preseason predictions, we…
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Dick Allen’s Hall of Fame Case Ran Out of Time
Allen had 351 homers and 1,848 hits. He never played in the World Series and was traded five times in a six-year stretch. He won…
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Pedophile Scandal Can’t Crack the Closed Circles of Literary France
PARIS — One of France’s most prestigious literary awards, the Renaudot can change a writer’s career overnight. Prizewinners jump onto best-seller lists. Publishers earn bragging…
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52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman
In August 1968, Lynn Conway, a promising computer engineer at IBM in Sunnyvale, Calif., was called into the office of Gene Myron Amdahl, then the…
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