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As a Script Doctor, Tom Stoppard Was Stealthily Erudite

The playwright won an Academy Award for “Shakespeare in Love.” But he also helped provide dialogue for the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Indiana Jones.

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Sean Connery, left, and Harrison Ford during the motorcycle chase scene from the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”
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Rubio Says ‘Much Work’ to Be Done After Talks With Ukrainian Officials

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials met with a Ukrainian delegation led that was without Andriy Yermak, who resigned as chief of staff to Ukraine’s president on Friday.

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Andriy Yermak, center, at the beginning of talks this month with a U.S. delegation in Geneva. Mr. Yermak was the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff before he resigned on Friday.
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Two Retail Chiefs Take Stock of a Make-or-Break Holiday Shopping Season

The leaders of Nordstrom and Selfridges are dealing with tariffs, a tough economy and a fight for relevance.

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Pete Nordstrom, left, outside the Nordstrom flagship store in Manhattan and André Maeder inside the London flagship Selfridges department store.
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Remembering WW2 Camps, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.

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Nicole Suzuki, left, and Amy Oba drive around the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles looking for immigration agents.
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There are those on the left and right who offer only grievance: Labour is getting on with the job of economic renewal | Keir Starmer

Judge last week’s budget in the light of our bold plans to sweep away red tape, tackle inactivity among young people and pursue a closer trading relationship with the EU

At the budget last week, we made the right choices for Britain, cutting the cost of energy with £150 off bills, protecting the NHS and tackling the scourge of child poverty by removing the two-child limit. We also ensured that the revenue we raised through taxes was done fairly, with everyone contributing but those with the broadest shoulders contributing their fair share. As a result of the choices we made, the budget created a more stable economic environment, driving down inflation and government bond yields. This is vital for protecting our public services, when £1 in every £10 spent by government goes on debt interest.

The budget builds on the action we have already taken to improve the economy: providing £120bn in extra capital investment in such things as roads, rail and energy; enacting the biggest planning reforms in a generation to back builders, not blockers; supporting the expansion of Heathrow and Gatwick; and signing trade deals with the EU, India and the US. Taken together, these have allowed us to exceed our growth forecasts.

Keir Starmer is the prime minister of the United Kingdom

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© Photograph: Temilade Adelaja/Reuters

© Photograph: Temilade Adelaja/Reuters

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