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Filmed in New York, Hold the Taxis and Radiators

On a rainy morning this past January, Roosevelt Avenue in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens was a stream of yellow cabs, honking buses and weaving cyclists. Nearby, a film crew peering out the windows of a Chinese pharmacy discussed how to make all of that invisible. The film it was …

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How Can I Get My Boss to Notice Me?

Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. The Male Gaze, Averted You should definitely not let it go. Especially, as you say, because it’s eroding your self-confidence. That’s an enormous …

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Opinion | When Trump Rants, This Is What I Hear

I’ve never considered “immigrant” my calling card, even though it’s one I’ve always carried. I arrived here first as a 3-year-old boy in the mid-1970s, settling with my family in Northern California, in a small town with trees so thick that their branches mingled high over the roads. My mother …

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