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Friday, April 29, 2016

Today’s Paper

The Times in Print for Friday, April 29, 2016

Donald Trump’s Gender-Based Attacks on Hillary Clinton Have Calculated Risk

Mr. Trump, the Republican favorite, has already proved willing to attack Mrs. Clinton in ways that many women find sexist and that her supporters consider out of bounds.

Clampdown in China Restricts 7,000 Foreign Organizations

The new law is aimed at limiting the work of foreign nongovernmental organizations and their local partners, mainly through police supervision.

Divided Aleppo Plunges Back Into War as Hospital Is Destroyed

A hospital assisted by Doctors Without Borders was struck in a government airstrike, killing dozens, and rebels retaliated with deadly mortar strikes.

The Upshot

Why Is Productivity So Weak? Three Theories

The rate of economic output is not increasing much. Or is there work below the surface that will pay big dividends in the future?

Missing Money, a Vicious Attack and Slow Healing for a Charity’s Leader

A three-year drama involving accusations of embezzlement, a cover-up and collusion at a New York nonprofit led to a lye attack on a Queens street, and three arrests.

DreamWorks Animation Sale Leaves Jeffrey Katzenberg at a Crossroads

Jeffrey Katzenberg energetically ran the boutique studio, but its fortunes often seemed star-crossed.

What’s in a Name Change? Politics, Some at George Mason University Fear

The planned renaming of a law school after Justice Antonin Scalia is creating worries among faculty and students that the public university is becoming an ideological outpost.

2,000 Pigeons Will Put on a Light Show in Brooklyn

This mass performance piece — an avian-powered show at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — is the artist’s valentine to the vanishing world of rooftop pigeon fanciers.

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Quotation of the Day
"It’s as incomprehensible as the Internet and social media can get, but people enjoy it."
ED BALLS, a former member of Parliament in Britain, on the unofficial holiday #EdBallsDay recalling the day that Mr. Balls mistakenly tweeted nothing more than his own name.

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