The Buddhist monk who lives alone in a storage-room-turned-temple behind London’s Peace Pagoda was doing dishes on a recent summer evening. “There he is,” said Vilma Ramsay, a habitual visitor to the park where the pagoda stands, pointing at a small window through which the bald monk could be seen scrubbing away. “I’ve seen him…
En agosto de 2021, un misterioso paquete procedente de Sarasota, Florida, apareció en el buzón de Nicole Archer, en Manhattan. Archer subió apresuradamente a su apretado departamento de Chelsea con el grueso sobre en la mano y lo abrió en la mesa del comedor, revelando un documento legal que llevaba meses rondándole la cabeza. Sabía…
In the eyes of many of his fellow Greenlanders, Jorgen Boassen is a traitor. A few weeks ago at a dive bar in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, someone slugged him in the face, sending him to the hospital. But whatever the consequences of his convictions, he insists he isn’t scared. “The United States has my back,”…
Walking into the crowded hotel conference room, Andrew Batey looked like any other tech guy attending ETHDenver, an annual cryptocurrency conference. A venture capital investor based in Florida, Mr. Batey wore a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the logos of more than a dozen crypto companies, with names like LunarCrush and bitSmiley. He had arrived in…
On a frigid day in early January, as she worked in her office in the Boston suburb of Billerica, Mass., Siyu Huang received a two-word text message. “Spinning wheels,” it said. Attached was a short video clip showing a car on rollers in an indoor testing center. To the untrained eye there was nothing remarkable…
Robert Francis Prevost was elected on Thursday by 133 cardinals to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. The first pope from the United States, he chose the name Leo XIV. Here’s what to know about the new pope, how he was chosen and the issues he will face as the successor to Pope Francis,…
Warren Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, said he would step down from that position by the end of the year. Mr. Buffett, 94, transformed Berkshire Hathaway, once a textile company, into a powerful business investor, making billions along the way. Here’s a look back at some of the defining moments in his life….
Investors had speculated in recent years that Warren E. Buffett might eventually retire. But the 94-year-old billionaire still surprised many on Saturday, when he announced that he planned to step down as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway after nearly six decades. Less surprising is who he said he intended to succeed him as the leader…
When Jonathan Neman was a student at Georgetown in the mid-2000s, he and some friends wanted to start a restaurant. A fast-food restaurant, but it would be healthy. And cool. The documentary “Super Size Me” had made waves, and “we were going to be rejecting the fast food of the previous generation,” Mr. Neman said….
Any clue about William Shakespeare’s life usually excites scholars, but one piece of evidence had been neglected for decades. Now, a new analysis of that overlooked document seems to shatter a longstanding narrative about the Bard’s bad marriage. Shakespeare was 18 in 1582 when he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a family friend in…