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| Eat: Grill ’Em All Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT What could possibly compete with a spice-rubbed grilled rib-eye? A grilled Caesar salad. |
| Drink: It’s Time to Update the Wine Spritzer Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT Wine can be festive and fizzy without evoking memories of the late ’70s. |
| Regina Spektor Has Piano, Will Travel Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT How the Soviet-born pop star’s shortcomings as a classical pianist turned her into a songwriter. |
| Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? Wed, 16 May 2012 21:26:01 GMT Psychologists now believe fledgling psychopaths can be identified as early as kindergarten. The hope is to teach these children empathy before it’s too late. |
| Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle Tue, 15 May 2012 22:52:03 GMT One man’s ruthless, relentless pursuit of market minutiae. |
| In Libya, the Captors Have Become the Captive Tue, 15 May 2012 23:20:21 GMT The future of Libya depends on mercy or revenge. |
| Eat: Twelve Summer Cocktails That Taste Like Booze Tue, 15 May 2012 23:40:03 GMT Twelve uncomplicated cocktails for summer. |
| Riff: The Great Pulitzer Do-Over Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:04 GMT This year, the Pulitzer Prize committee declined to award a prize for fiction. So we asked these eight experts to do it instead. |
| Talk: Andy Cohen’s Triumph Over Popular Culture Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:04 GMT The Bravo executive on his memoir, coming out and the ethics of the “Real Housewives.” |
| Makers: Who Made That Clothespin? Tue, 15 May 2012 22:27:04 GMT If Vermont was the Silicon Valley of 19th-century clothespin technology, the early history of the device is more difficult to trace. |
| Lives: What Do I Owe to My Father’s Far-Flung Family? Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:04 GMT No matter what my father gave back to his family in Pakistan, it was never enough. |
| Last Ones Left in Treece, Kan., a Toxic Town Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:03 GMT Treece, Kan., has been torn down and may soon be erased from maps. But don’t tell that to the Busbys, who live there. |
| It’s the Economy: Making Choices in the Age of Information Overload Tue, 15 May 2012 13:46:45 GMT The Internet was supposed to make us smarter shoppers. So why should we still listen to the signals that brands send us? |
| The 6th Floor Blog: Do Commencement Speeches Matter? Wed, 16 May 2012 23:25:07 GMT The staff of The New York Times Magazine share memories from their graduation days. |
| The 6th Floor Blog: Real Designs for Fake Buildings Are Going to Venice Tue, 15 May 2012 21:47:57 GMT Rob Walker's creation of absurd, hypothetical building designs has been chosen to be included in the Architecture Biennale in Venice. |
| The 6th Floor Blog: The Great Pulitzer Do-Over: Results Show Mon, 14 May 2012 22:50:24 GMT What should have won the Pulitzer for fiction this year? Readers decide. |
| Diagnosis: At First Glance Thu, 10 May 2012 21:36:20 GMT A lifetime of eye problems leads to an odd question from a specialist. |
| The Ethicist: Office Detectives Tue, 15 May 2012 21:00:04 GMT Also: trip tip; free samples. |
| The One-Page Magazine Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:04 GMT Outlawing rudeness, Asian airports and toilet sociology. |
| Diagnosis: At First Glance Tue, 15 May 2012 21:00:04 GMT A lifetime of eye problems leads to an odd question from a specialist. |
| Reply All | Letters: The 4.29.12 Issue Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:07 GMT Readers respond. |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.