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Gold and mineral trading fuels war in Congo; nothing works, and a new report makes the U.N. look complicit...
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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.
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As athletes claim a larger chunk of the entertainment world, there is a plethora of sports biographies.
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Nipple derbies aren’t tough to find in America, but novelist DANIEL WALLACE had never been to one before, even when he lived in a stripper house. An essay for the uninitiated.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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A new interview book gives cause to note a recent flurry of excellent writer chats.
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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…
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Colum McCann wins a National Book Award, and he’s not complaining about it.
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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.
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Reid introduces public option bill to the Senate, locates funds for the legislation in elective cosmetic procedures. Some claim doctors’ neckties harbor disease; for physicians who don’t want to lose the air of formality, there is now antimicrobial neckwear. E...