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March 12, 2009
Blog: News Desk
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Close Read: Table Pounders and Shoe Throwers
- The Times, in a piece on France’s decision to rejoin NATO—yes, France hasn’t been a member of NATO since Charles de Gaulle had a temper tantrum in 1966—notes that in France “‘Atlanticism’ is a...
March 11, 2009
Blog: News Desk
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Close Read: Jets, Ships, and Baseball
- Some financial institutions are sorry they ever got involved with this bailout—it’s so needy and demanding: The conditions are necessary to prevent Wall Street executives from paying lavish bonuses and buying corporate jets, some experts...
March 9, 2009
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Close Read: A Note from a Lawyer
- Who’s responsible for the excesses of the war on terror? Some people involved had notes from White House lawyers saying that what they were doing was fine, which may make it hard to take them...
March 5, 2009
Blog: News Desk
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Close Read: Sibling Rivalry
- The Times has a depressing piece on Hamid Karzai’s brother Mahmoud, who makes other dodgy Presidential brothers, from Neil Bush to the Confederate Todds, look like the Hardy Boys. Critics have asked how Mahmoud...
March 4, 2009
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Close Read: Random Murder, Political violence
- Chandra Levy’s alleged killer is finally being charged. It’s a sad story, from what feels like another era—and it’s jarring, how even her clothes and hair look dated—and a reminder that things are not all...
March 2, 2009
Blog: News Desk
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Close Read: Like Soldiers Do
- What’s the job of a soldier these days? In Ciudad Juarez, where drug cartels ran the police chief out of town, it’s taking over for civilian law enforcement. Five thousand federal troops are being deployed...
March 09, 2009
Shoe Leather
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Roid Warriors
- Talk story about Teri Thompson and the I-Team of Daily News reporters who have been investigating steroid use in baseball. For Alex Rodriguez, we now know, the early years of this decade, when he was pumping himself full of Primobolan and testosterone, seemed like a “different culture…
March 09, 2009
Annals of Business
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Not Quite Cricket [ABSTRACT]
- ANNALS OF BUSINESS about billionaire Robert Allen Stanford, his sponsorship of cricket in the West Indies, and the charges of fraud and running a massive Ponzi scheme brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The largest prize that two sports teams have ever played for was twenty million…
February 26, 2009
Blog: News Desk
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Close Read: Politicians and Their Children
- The death of Ivan Cameron, the six-year-old son of the Conservative leader, David Cameron, has been a huge story in Britain. Cameron was very open about his son’s medical problems, which followed him from birth....
February 23, 2009
Blog: News Desk
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Close Read: War Widows, Paper Dresses
- Iraq’s war widows are living as beggars on the streets of Baghdad in increasing numbers, the Times reports, sleeping with their children in parks and gas-station restrooms. For a lot of them, the options...