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VIP, RIP
The time Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer winner, dropped by JWR's, ahem, 'executive offices'
By Jimmy Breslin

Mr. Breslin, a friend of JWR's publisher since his early career and to whom he owes a great deal, died Sunday after a short illness. He was 88

Diplomacy
UN agency head quits rather than retract report calling Israel an 'apartheid regime'
By Ruth Eglash

Trump's threat seems to have worked

Keep What's Yours
Verified: 'Tricks' to save money on your property taxes
By Elisabeth Leamy

Less than 5 percent of homeowners appeal their assessment. But with a little time and effort, you could save a bundle. Here's what to do

Coupling
10 Signs you're in a better-than-nothing relationship
By Melinda Fox

Is it really better to be in a loveless relationship than to be alone?

Consider this and don't waste your life

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bonnie S. Benwick

Asian Salmon Rice Bowl is simple, soft food but feels substantial. And is foolproof

Breakthru
Powerful heart drug sharply cuts risk for cardiac patients on statins
By Lenny Bernstein

You know somebody who can gain from this news!

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On this day in . . .

• 1345, according to scholars at the University of Paris, the Black Death is created from what they call "a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius, occurring on the 20th of March 1345". The Black Death, also known as the Plague, swept across Europe, the Middle East and Asia during the 14th century, leaving an estimated 25 million dead in its wake

• 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule

• 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was first published

• 1854, in what is considered the founding meeting of the Republican Party, former members of the Whig Party met in Ripon, Wis., to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories

• 1915, just two days after its navy suffered a demoralizing defeat against Turkish forces at the Dardanelles, the British government signs a secret agreement with Russia regarding the hypothetical post-World War I division of the former Ottoman Empire

• 1945, the 14th Army, under British Gen. William J. Slim, captures the Burmese city of Mandalay from the Japanese, bringing the Allies one step closer to liberating all of Burma

• 1953, the Soviet government announces that Nikita Khrushchev has been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. Khrushchev's selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union-an advance that culminated in Khrushchev being named secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, and premier in 1958

• 1956, union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp

• 1976, San Francisco newspaper heiress and kidnapping victim Patty Hearst was convicted of bank robbery

• 1977, voters in Paris chose former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to be the French capital's first mayor in more than a century

• 1986, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at more than 1,800 for the first time

• 1991, Baghdad was warned to abide by the cease-fire after U.S. fighter jets shot down an Iraqi jet fighter in the first major air action since the end of the Persian Gulf War

• 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members

• 1997, President Clinton and Boris Yeltsin opened talks in Helsinki, Finland, on the issue of NATO expansion. ALSO: Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes, settled 22 state lawsuits by agreeing to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive and admitting the industry markets cigarettes to teenagers

• 1999, Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain became the first aviators to fly a hot-air balloon around the world nonstop

• 2002, Three days ahead of a visit by President Bush, a car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Lima, killing 10 people. ALSO: Seven Israelis died when a practitioner of that "religion of peace" blew himself up in a packed bus. AND: Congress approved the most far-reaching changes to the nation's campaign finance system since the Watergate era. AND: Accounting firm Arthur Andersen pleaded not guilty to charges it had shredded documents and deleted computer files related to Enron. (Andersen was later found guilty of obstruction of justice; it received probation and was fined $500,000.)

• 2003, a subdued Saddam Hussein appeared on state-run television after the initial U.S. air strike on Baghdad, accusing the United States of a "shameful crime" and urging his people to "draw your sword" against the invaders. American combat units rumbled across the desert into Iraq from the south and U.S. and British forces bombed limited targets in Baghdad. The start of war in Iraq triggered one of the heaviest days of anti-government protesting in years, leading to thousands of arrests across the United States and prompting pro-war counter-demonstrations

• 2007, Saddam Hussein's former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was hanged in Baghdad, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites. ALSO: Rescuers found Michael Auberry, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, who was dehydrated and disoriented after four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina

• 2008, in a setback for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, a drive for a second Michigan presidential primary collapsed as the state Senate adjourned without taking up a measure calling for a do-over contest

• 2011, Japanese officials said all reactors crippled at the Fukushima nuclear plant by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami were cooling as the battered facility beset by explosions and fires and threatened with a meltdown moved slowly toward normalcy

• 2012, the Cairo Criminal Court found 11 police officers guilty of killing anti-government protesters in January 2011 and sentenced them to one year in jail. Three others were acquitted. ALSO: A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a California pilot who sued after the federal government publicly revealed he had HIV. The high court decided claims of mental and emotional distress aren't covered under the Privacy Act.

• 2014, President Barack Obama ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and a major bank that provided them support, raising the stakes in an East-West showdown over Ukraine. ALSO: Four gunmen opened fire in a crowded restaurant frequented by foreigners at the Serena Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing nine peopl

• 2016, President Barack Obama opened a historic visit to Cuba





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Kelly Riddell: Milk: The new symbol of racism in Donald Trump's America

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Wait --- You Mean This Is Illegal?

The News in Zingers! by Argus Hamilton

Stephen Carter: Details make 'The Americans' great again

Max Ehrenfreund & Antonio Olivo: Seizure-inducing tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution for a new era

Elise Viebeck: Trump's First 100 Days: A crucial week on Russia, Supreme Court and health care

Karoun Demirjian: Five things to watch at the House Intelligence Committee's Russia hearing

Greg Jaffe: The battle to define an 'America First' foreign policy divides the Trump White House

Ed Rogers: In search of truth? GOP better not be baited

Debra J. Saunders: Trump's Budget Turns 'Policies Into Numbers'

Albert R. Hunt: Win or lose, Trumpcare is bad for Republicans

(LIB; BUT ALWAYS THOUGHT PROVOKING) Noah Feldman: Dems' misguided argument against Gorsuch

Jeff Jacoby: Ditch Obamacare, and don't stop there

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Fact-checking Dems' rhetoric on the GOP health-care bill

Cheryl K. Chumley: Marines, sadly, go soft for snowflakes

George Will: Questions for Judge Gorsuch

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore