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Buffalo has been plunged into chaos as brazen looters wreak havoc on storefronts amid a historic blizzard that dumped six feet of snow on the northern New York city. It has become the deadliest storm to hit the western part of the state in 50 years, with at least 27 people reported dead as scores of others remain trapped in their houses and cars. Roads in the city remain impassable under several feet of heavy snow, as first responders struggle to reach those who remain trapped days after the storm hit.

G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times “I don’t want to preside over an institution that puts on exhibitions that have limited popular appeal.” Louise Mirrer THE "puppet" scuttlebutt - that her latest career move has strings attached and that she's not the person pulling them - rankles Louise Mirrer. Hence that furrow in the brow of the otherwise self-possessed president of the New-York Historical Society, who is inaugurating her tenure with a $5 million blockbuster exhibition on Alexander Hamilton, a founding father hitherto best known for decorating $10 bills with his somber visage. According to some historians, Ms. Mirrer...