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  • Big landowner gets closed-door deal

    The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions.
  • Inside Mugabe's violent crackdown

    When Robert Mugabe told security officials he had lost Zimbabwe's presidential election and planned to give up power, a top general responded the choice was not Mugabe's alone to make.
  • Both left and right pile on Obama

    Democrat Barack Obama's appeal to  centrist voters has further opened the door to Republican claims his message of change only applies to the positions he has taken in the past.
  • Liberty's crown may reopen to public

    The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.
  • Bank fined over $7.8B rogue trader scandal

    France's central bank announced Friday that it has fined Societe Generale $6.3 million for "serious shortcomings" that led to nearly $7.8 billion in trading losses announced earlier this year.
  • Op-Ed Columnist: Rove’s Third Term

    The Wesley Clark affair revealed something important about John McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove.
  • Editorial: New and Not Improved

    Barack Obama’s shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics. Yet now there seems to be a new Mr. Obama on the hustings.
  • Op-Ed Columnist: The Luckiest Girl

    One of the most remarkable of this year’s new college graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits her success to something utterly improbable: a goat.
  • 36 Hours in Pittsburgh

    Great restaurants, excellent shopping, breakthrough galleries and prestigious museums make this city of 89 distinct neighborhoods a hip destination.
  • The ’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire

    Hired during an expansion in higher education, baby boomers are being replaced by a new generation.
  • 10 Taliban killed while planting bomb

    Associated Press - Found 1 hour agoKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants ...
  • Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy

    New York Times - Found 19 hours agoThe word privacy now appears on Googles home page, with a link to the companys privacy policy. With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the ...
  • No reprieve for fire-ravaged California as crews work to contain ...

    International Herald Tribune - Found 3 hours agoBIG SUR, California: A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest ...
  • AMR to record costs

    The Detroit Free Press - Found 1 hour agoAmerican Airlines parent AMR Corp. will record costs of almost $1.3 billion in the second quarter to reduce the value of aircraft it will park and to ...
  • Obama mixes politics, holiday barbecue

    Washington Post - Found 13 hours agoBUTTE, Montana (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama mixed presidential politics with parades and barbecue on U.S. Independence Day on Friday, ...
  • Thirteen Hundred Rats

    There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the cer...
  • The Theatre

    OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER Second Stag...
  • The Island in the Wind

    Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. He is a beefy man with a mop of brown hair and an unpredictable sense of humor. When I arrived at his house, one gray mor...
  • The Garden of Last Days

    Dubus’s follow-up to “House of Sand and Fog” is inspired by the rumored visit of 9/11 hijackers to a strip club shortly before their attacks. In the fictional Puma Club, in Sarasota,...
  • The Chill

    If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,̶...
  • Longtime Sen. Jesse Helms Was Conservative Purist

    The five-term North Carolina senator retired in 2003 but left a legacy of strong conservatism — and controversy — in a state that hadn't seen a GOP senator for decades. He has died at the...
  • Blind Ambition: The Ultimate Braille Challenge

    Learning English in a month, moonlighting for the FBI — the talented participants in the Braille Challenge are used to wowing people with their accomplishments. Figuring out what to wear to dan...
  • Learning to Live in and Love Mumbai

    Shivani Dogra was overwhelmed by the squalor, stench and crowds of Mumbai when she first moved to the Indian city for work in 2003. But she eventually came to appreciate the vibrancy, and the possibil...
  • We Know What You've Been Watching on YouTube

    A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California In...
  • Remembering Sen. Jesse Helms

    Jesse Helms' 30-year career in the U.S. Senate was marked by controversy and racial politics. The fierce advocate for segregation and king maker in North Carolina politics died Friday at the age of 86...
  • Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages

    Colombian military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a media crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their...
  • Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

    Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Commun...
  • 3-alarm blaze damages two Victorians in Old Oakland

    Two historic Victorians in Old Oakland were damaged this afternoon in a three-alarm blaze apparently caused by a paint-removal heat gun, firefighters said. The fire started near the roof of a two-stor...
  • Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser

    "Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement. Jesse Helms mostly was a polari...
  • Big Sur Blaze rages, other fires spreading

    Firefighters and homeowners stood their ground against flames licking their way toward Big Sur on Friday, even as increasing state and federal resources were being rerouted to other fires around the s...
  • Steinway and Its Discontents

    Katie Hafner's A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano is published by Bloomsbury. This book is really the story of two eccentrics. The first is Gou...
  • The Return of Thomas Malthus

    Rises in food prices and global population, especially among the middle classes in India and China, have brought renewed respect to the philosopher of demographic catastrophe, Thomas Robert Malthus.
  • Outgunned

    D.C. vs. Heller, the most sweeping gun rights decision in decades, promises to change this year's political landscape. Like a lot of liberals, I'm used to cringing when the Supreme Cour...
  • Obama and the Evangelicals

    On his radio show, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson accused Barack Obama of "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible" and promoting a "lowest common denominator of m...
  • A Not-So-Sweet Environmental Victory

    Florida offered to buy U.S. Sugar Corp. for $1.7 billion and restore 187,000 acres to the Everglades. Environmentalists are swooning over the agreement, which could restart the natural...
  • Soldiers Re-Enlist on Independence Day

    It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.
  • Obama's Shifts to Center Give GOP Ammo

    Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?
  • They've Got to Get Rid of the Goop

    China struggled to move tons of algae from the site where sailors are to compete in the Olympics next month. Officials called in the military -- and a huge number of volunteers. How many? Find out in...
  • Fate of 'Boys Don't Cry' Killer Unclear

    For more than 10 years, John Lotter has faced death in Nebraska's electric chair for the grisly 1993 triple murder that spawned the movie "Boys Don't Cry."...
  • Chestnut wins hot dog contest after eat-off

    Joey Chestnut has reclaimed the top spot as winner of the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him...
  • Iran hands Solana atom offer response: report

    TEHRAN - Iran's ambassador in Brussels has submitted Tehran's response to an incentives package offered by six world powers over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, the official news agency IRNA r...
  • Bush salutes new citizens

    President George W. Bush greets a newly naturalized United States citizen during an Independence Day naturalization ceremony at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 2008 in Charlottesvill...
  • 4 people dead in Milwaukee shooting; no arrests

    At least one person fired a gun into a crowd in a street early Friday, killing four people and sending panicked revelers running for cover, police said.
  • Teens on You Tube quest attacked in NY's Oniontown

    Authorities say two Mahopack teenagers who traveled to the site where a You Tube video was filmed are recovering after a group of angry youths threw rocks at their car.
  • A Look at the Presidential Candidates

    This 4th of July, America celebrates its 232nd year of Independence, its break with the monarchy of England, and the start of a republic lead by a democratically elected president. In November, we wil...
  • Man on the Moon, Future and Past

    With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by five nations, with even more coming soon. NASA's pl...
  • Records Fall at U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials

    Two world records were set yesterday in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the men's 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:05.25,...
  • Xenophobia in South Africa

    Last month, during two weeks in May, 2008, a series of attacks took place all over South Africa. In a clash between the poorest of the poor, gangs of local black South Africans descended on informal s...
  • USA Olympic Diving Trials

    Indiana University recently hosted the 2008 USA Diving Olympic Team Trials, and the process of selecting the diving team to represent the United States is underway. (10 photos total)Troy Dumais twist...
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