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Lessons Learned: The Upside of Being Knocked Around (11 May 06:53) |
| Maybe hard-hitting Hillary Rodham Clinton has been the best thing that could have happened to Barack Obama — a teaching adversary who made him stronger.
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The World: The Dangers of the Deltas (11 May 03:56) |
| From the Mekong to the Mississippi, river mouths have long lured farmers, fishers and traders. But the same geography also guarantees they will be periodically inundated.
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The World: Oil Prices Are Up and Politicians Are Angry. Yawn. (11 May 02:07) |
| What can Washington do to reduce gas prices in the near term? The short answer, alas, is not much.
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Ideas & Trends: Time to Tie a String Around That Strad (11 May 02:00) |
| Why do musicians keep getting separated from their precious, often priceless instruments?
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The Nation: In Dixie, Signs of a Rising Biracial Politics (11 May 01:25) |
| The South went solidly red state in the ’90s, but that tide may be receding.
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Almighty: The Dollar: Shrinkable but (So Far) Unsinkable (11 May 01:11) |
| What are the chances that a day of reckoning is coming, when the dollar would be so weak that America would have to play by the rules that apply to every other country?
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Q.& A. | Dmitri Nabokov: His Father’s Siren, Still Singing (04 May 08:41) |
| A last novel’s 30-year wait to be published is finally about to end. |
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The Nation: When Law Prevents Righting a Wrong (04 May 08:41) |
| When does the attorney-client privilege go too far? |
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Ideas & Trends: A Psychedelic ‘Problem Child’ Comes Full Circle (04 May 08:40) |
| Albert Hofmann, the chemist and father of LSD, lived just long enough to see his “problem child” brought back into the lab. |
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Ideas & Trends: Stopping Traffic in the People’s Republic (04 May 08:39) |
| A blond man no longer stuns the Chinese, but mixed-race children do. |
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Race and The Race: A Fiery Theology Under Fire (04 May 08:35) |
| The ideas of black liberation churches were born in slavery and adapted to modern times in the 1960s. |
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Race and The Race: A Fault Line That Haunts the Democrats (04 May 08:34) |
| A new test for a coalition of blacks and working-class whites that has been fragile for four decades. |
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Ideas & Trends: ‘Vert Acres’? France Sees the Joy of Being Stuck in the Sticks (29 April 11:28) |
| The embrace of a rural tale may be a rebuke of Nicolas Sarkozy’s chic ways. |
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Ideas & Trends: Muslim Rebel Sisters: At Odds With Islam and Each Other (29 April 11:27) |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji are two of the most prominent and outspoken critics of what they and others see as “mainstream Islam,” but their approaches couldn’t be more different. |
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The World: How to Show a Dictator the Door (29 April 11:26) |
| What lessons can be learned from past attempts to oust seemingly immovable oppressors? Do the lessons apply in the case of Robert Mugabe? |
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The Nation: Rifts Mend, Unless Identity Politics Is a Different Stripe (29 April 11:26) |
| Blacks or women might balk if their candidate loses. Then again, they might reconsider. |
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Ideas & Trends: When the Times Make the Man (29 April 11:24) |
| John McCain is the latest — and almost certainly the last — hope for Americans born in the 1930s to send one of their own to the White House. |
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Counting Birthdays: The Short End of the Longer Life (29 April 11:21) |
| Ever rising longevity is not a given for all Americans anymore, especially women. In some rural counties, lifespans have actually declined. |
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The Nation: The Wage That Meant Middle Class (20 April 11:18) |
| $20 an hour has a special place in labor history. And history is mostly what it is. |
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The Nation: A Spy’s Motivation: For Love of Another Country (20 April 11:17) |
| Gone are the days when money or ideology best explained betrayal. |
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Ideas & Trends: I Waste People’s Time Online. How? Don’t Ask Me. (20 April 11:16) |
| It’s not easy to distract you. The taste of the Internet user is as idiosyncratic as it is fickle. |
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Barreling Along: The Big Thirst (20 April 11:12) |
| Oil’s future is murky. With China and India rising, the supply question looms. |
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The Nation: Gore-Lieberman: A Hyphen Apart? Try Poles (20 April 11:07) |
| Imagine for a moment the Supreme Court had gone the other way in Bush v. Gore in 2000. We would now be in year eight of the Gore-Lieberman administration. |
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Ideas & Trends: No End of the Affair (19 April 10:03) |
| Despite the bargain with Eleanor, Franklin Roosevelt loved Lucy Mercer throughout. |
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One Final Round: Requiem for Two Heavyweights (13 April 04:52) |
| In the space of a week, two of the city’s cultural giants received tribute: a Mass for William F. Buckley Jr. at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and a memorial for Norman Mailer at Carnegie Hall... |
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Distances: The View From My Pew (13 April 04:06) |
| Confessions of an American Catholic: His Holiness and my faith are not wholly connected. |
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Positively 116th Street: Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What? (13 April 03:12) |
| When a legend is honored, the award-giver surely is more excited than the award-getter. |
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The World: Long Memories May Ensnare a Dictator (13 April 01:30) |
| A former dictator goes on trial in Suriname — in a style that stands in stark contrast to the rest of South America’s inability to come to terms with past crimes. |
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Ideas & Trends: A Fresh Look at the Apostle of Free Markets (13 April 01:10) |
| As the economy deteriorates, the calls grow louder for government intervention. Is it time to reconsider Milton Friedman’s legacy? |
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Ideas & Trends: A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming (06 April 02:06) |
| Emissions caps are not enough, say advocates of radically new technologies. |
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The World: The Atheist Urging Italy to Get Religion (06 April 08:34) |
| In the coming Italian elections, the most gripping personality isn’t a front-runner. Meet Giuliano Ferrara, Italy’s most operatic and most mercurial intellectual provocateur. |
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The World: Imagining a Future for Zimbabwe (06 April 06:43) |
| Whenever President Robert Mugabe does leave, his legacy will be a lot of damage to fix. |
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Over Here: Generally Speaking (06 April 06:42) |
| Iraq may be President Bush’s war, but Gen. David H. Petraeus has become its front man. Now some pundits suggest the general might have a political future of his own. |
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A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming (06 April 05:57) |
| Emissions caps are not enough, say advocates of radically new technologies. |
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They Got Game. It Just May Be the Wrong Game. (06 April 02:29) |
| Barack Obama, who bowled a ludicrously low 37 the other night, isn’t the first presidential contender to have risked self-respect in the pursuit of sport. |
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Ideas & Trends: How to Turn a Herd on Wall St. (06 April 01:46) |
| Experts see psychological factors in making bulls out of a lot of sheepish bears. |
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Ideas & Trends: Ode to an Onion Ring, and Other Fast Food in the Slower Lane (30 March 07:27) |
| Give me the second-tier joint; the burger kings can take care of themselves. |
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Bad Dreams: Alley Fighters (30 March 05:46) |
| The Mahdi Army militiamen may look ragtag, but they know their way around the slums in which they fight. |
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Insure Me, Please: The Murky Politics of Mind-Body (30 March 04:09) |
| Mental health insurance parity raises all sorts of tricky questions. Is an ailment a legitimate disease if you can’t test for it? |
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Word for Word | Viagra: Recalling the Madness (30 March 01:42) |
| 10 years after Viagra hit the market, revisiting some of The Times’s reporting on the drug’s first months. |
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The World: The Drug Scare That Exposed a World of Hurt (30 March 01:20) |
| Following the heparin scandal, weak oversight of a global market for medicines gets new attention. |
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Ideas & Trends: Edison ...Wasn’t He the Guy Who Invented Everything? (30 March 01:19) |
| Behind and beside every big-name inventor are typically lots of others whom history forgot. |
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Ideas & Trends: The Fuzzier Crystal Ball (23 March 07:58) |
| When technology evolves so rapidly that the present already feels like the future, can there be another visionary author like Arthur C. Clarke? |
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Ideas and Trends: A Sage for Our Time (23 March 07:57) |
| Larry David’s cynical “Curb Your Enthusiasm” might hold the secret to understanding the world these days. |
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Ideas & Trends: A Guide to the French. Handle With Care. (23 March 07:56) |
| The Times’s departing Paris bureau chief offers eight lessons for living in France. |
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Reading File (23 March 07:55) |
| China’s media strategy for the Tibet protests; the peace symbol, explained; the chairman of the Hess Corporation on oil prices and the future. |
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Code-Breaking: What Politicians Say When They Talk About Race (23 March 07:48) |
| Whether Barack Obama’s speech on race helped or hurt him, the moment was unlike virtually any other in American politics since the civil rights movement. |
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The Nation: Depression, You Say? Check Those Safety Nets (23 March 07:47) |
| Is it possible our economy could speed past a recession into a full-blown depression like that of the 1930s? Economists don’t think so. |
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Sex Lives: Fear of Not, Er, Flying (23 March 07:41) |
| In a season of sex scandals, we all want to know how we stack up against those who let their libido lead the way. |
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Ideas & Trends: Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias (15 March 09:34) |
| Recent news bodes well for knowledge, but not for the bulky books. |
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