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Year after year, it’s the unique ways we celebrate the holidays that make them worth celebrating. Our STAFF AND READERS share their uncommon customs.

As athletes claim a larger chunk of the entertainment world, there is a plethora of sports biographies.

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“You’ve been to New Jersey, haven’t you?” An Iranian reporter’s story of imprisonment and interrogation. Finalists from National Geographic’s international photography contest, open to amateurs and professionals alike. Since tak...

Nation source says Xe, formerly Blackwater, runs assassination ops in Pakistan; Xe and Defense officials deny charges. Obama to announce his Afghanistan decision next Tuesday...

Amidst waves of apology to Britons shipped to Australia as children, Gordon Brown may wait, weigh demands for reparations. Isn’t life is too short to…split hairs, semantically, over what a waiter or even a T-Mobile customer support specialist said to you? Claude Vordell out-ops an op-ed. N...

Memo shows the Pentagon agreeing with the White House on how much new service members in Afghanistan will cost. The Tajikistan plan: The best-case scenario for Afghanistan is a two or three-decade struggle toward stability. Squirrel economics: Rather than storing away for next year, the U.S...

F.I.F.A. turns down Ireland’s request to replay the handball-tainted playoff match against France. Brooks: Geithner and Obama saved the global economy and deserve credit. The case for This American Life as the newest propaganda arm of the conservative movement. ...

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts organization that hosts a biennial series of performance art pieces in New York City. PERFORMA…

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.








