What outcome do the striking journalists want?
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The Bid to Stop Gun Trafficking
A national crackdown on the devastating flow of illegal guns is long overdue.
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Titillation, With Breeding and Manners as the Tease
Season 3 of “Downton Abbey†begins on Sunday with Shirley MacLaine as Lady Mary’s pushy and presumptuous visiting American grandmother.
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W. Eugene Smith: ‘I Didn’t Write the Rules, Why Should I Follow Them?’
In a newly rediscovered interview from the 1950s, W. Eugene Smith discussed a then-controversial and now taboo practice in documentary photography: the staging of photographs.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/w-eugene-smith-i-didnt-write-the-rules-why-should-i-follow-them/
For Brooklyn Entrepreneur, Bolivian Jail and an Actor’s Aid
The arrest and 18-month imprisonment of Jacob Ostreicher has turned into an international affair that has drawn the attention of the State Department and the actor-director Sean Penn.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/nyregion/from-brooklyn-to-bolivian-rice-venture-prison-and-sean-penns-help.html
Congressional Proposal Could Create ‘Bubble’ in Tax Code
One proposal being floated as an alternative to raising the top marginal rate would place its heaviest tax burden on the somewhat wealthy as opposed to the very wealthy.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/congressional-proposal-could-create-bubble-in-tax-code/
Is Rice Cooked?
Why can’t women named Rice, yearning to be secretary of state, stop spinning?
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/dowd-is-rice-cooked.html
Going on the Pill. The Blue One.
I was among the early, and from what I gather, rare female users of Viagra.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/booming/the-time-she-tried-viagra.html
Palestinians Prepare for Arafat Exhumation
The expected exhumation comes four months after a television investigation raised new suspicions that the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat had been poisoned.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/world/middleeast/palestinians-prepare-for-arafat-exhumation.html
China’s Aristocratic Class Wields Its Influence to Shape Politics
Despite rising controversy over their prominent role, China’s princelings are emerging as a class that has an increasingly important say in ruling the country.
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