Pelé in 2014. Luiz Maximiano SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Pelé once confessed that he had long been troubled by a conundrum, one he’d only be able to crack when he met God, face-to-face, and could demand an explanation. What plagued him was a feeling of dual identity: There was “Pelé,” the world’s greatest living sports legend …
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Lately I’ve been feeling disconnected from my friends, which is strange, as I speak to them all the time. When I say “speak”, I mean we send messages to each other on WhatsApp. I hear their voices when they send voice notes. But mostly we type. WhatsApp is indisputably convenient. Free to use, intuitive, immediate …
"All I knew was that she wasn’t going to take her final breath in a hospital." "It rained every single day, but that didn't stop us from doing anything," says the author of this 1988 trip to Boston with her mother. When my vibrant 89-year-old mom stopped eating, I didn’t think much of it. She’d …
Herschel Walker campaigning in Georgia on Monday.Damon Winter/The New York Times Donald Trump loved Herschel Walker. He told him so when he “fired” him from “Celebrity Apprentice.” As Trump put it: “You know how much I like you. I love you. I love you. I am not a gay man, and I love you, Herschel. …
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Musicians and fans from Africa have been diligently constructing the sound of the future. Now it's here. Ckay, Fireboy DML, and Amaarae (from left) Illustration by Sean McCabe. Images used with illustration, from left: Atlantic Records; Tomm; Sacha Leccanone In 2006, a crew of young musicians from Nigeria set up the Hottest Coalition of Nigerian DJs. The …
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