Tag: uncertainty
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Uncertainty reigns in an election closer ‘than any I have ever seen’
James Carville was on the Upper East Side of Manhattan recently when he kept being stopped by anxious New Yorkers begging the famed Cajun political sage for some kind of guidance about how the November election would turn out. He had nothing for them. “They firmly believed that I had some kind of secret knowledge,”…
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Migrants selling fruit and candy in New York’s subway are plagued by fear and uncertainty
They’ve become a part of the fabric of New York City life, slipping in and out of subway cars and calling out to riders as they try to sell their wares, typically an assortment of candy bars and gum. On train platforms, they sell various fruits like mango and watermelon, cut up and divided into…