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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/opinion/22friedman.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

100 Days, by Thomas L. Friedman

“Hold your breath. We’ve got a ways to go until Inauguration Day 2013.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/opinion/22dowd.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

Sing Out, Hillary, by Maureen Dowd

“Drive, she said. But only after some pressure.”

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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/no-food-safety-in-these-numbers/?pagemode=print

No Food Safety in These Numbers, by Mark Bittman

“The House’s reactionary majority wants to dismantle…the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC), one of the most effective of all social welfare programs, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), among whose jobs is the increasingly difficult one of protecting us from the kind of outbreak of E. coli that just killed at least 39 people in Germany, gravely — perhaps mortally — sickened another 800 and gave another couple thousand a few of those days none of us ever wants.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/opinion/22Lichtenstein.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

Wal-Mart’s Authoritarian Culture, by Nelson Lichtenstein

“It forces ambitious workers to choose between job and family.”