Religious Condition Stirs Protest at a Caucus Site

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/us/colorado-seeks-own-roadless-rule-for-national-forests.html?scp=2&sq=colorado&st=cse

State Goes Its Own Way to Regulate Forest Roads

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/nyregion/some-churches-hope-albany-will-act-to-allow-renting-school-space-to-pray.html?scp=1&sq=congregations&st=cse

For Congregations Gathering in City Schools, Time to Move

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/nyregion/some-say-new-york-city-health-ads-should-inspire-not-scare.html?scp=5&sq=city&st=cse

New York City Defends Health Ads That Frighten the Viewer

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/sports/football/super-bowl-resilient-giants-edge-patriots-to-win-super-bowl-xlvi.html?hp

Giants Beat Patriots in Final Rally

Police Kill 4 Protesters as Egyptians Unleash Fury Over Soccer Riot Deaths

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/world/middleeast/gaza-protesters-throw-slippers-at-un-chief.html?scp=2&sq=gaza&st=cse

Protesters in Gaza Throw Shoes and Sticks at U.N. Chief

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/world/middleeast/effort-to-rebrand-arab-spring-backfires-in-iran.html?scp=7&sq=iran&st=cse

Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran

Panetta Says U.S. to End Afghan Combat Role as Soon as 2013

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/world/asia/residents-vote-in-chinese-village-at-center-of-protest.html?scp=1&sq=wukan&st=cse

Residents Vote in Chinese Village at Center of Protest

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/world/middleeast/scores-killed-in-egyptian-soccer-mayhem.html?scp=1&sq=egyptian&st=cse

Egyptian Soccer Riot Kills More Than 70

Banks to Make Customers Pay Fee for Using Debit Cards

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/nyregion/wall-street-occupiers-protesting-till-whenever.html?hp

Wall Street Occupiers, Protesting Till Whenever

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/nyregion/a-harsh-view-of-police-power-in-pepper-spray-episode.html?scp=3&sq=pepper&st=cse

Pepper Spray and a Police Dept. Whose Power Grows Unchecked

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/business/flouting-the-law-pastors-will-take-on-politics.html?scp=1&sq=pastors&st=cse

The Political Pulpit

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/sports/baseball/5-hour-joy-ride-like-no-other.html?scp=1&sq=twists&st=cse

A Night of Twists and Collapses

Egypt Revamps Cabinet as Protesters Seem to Lose Steam

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/world/asia/19beef.html?scp=3&sq=radiation&st=cse

Radiation-Tainted Beef Spreads Through Japan’s Markets

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/sports/soccer/widespread-match-fixing-cases-rattle-soccer.html?scp=2&sq=soccer&st=cse

Game Fixing Rattles Soccer Around World

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/world/europe/19hungary.html?scp=1&sq=hungarian&st=cse

Twice Guilty, Hungarian, 97, Is Acquitted in World War II Massacre

Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/us/10abortion.html?scp=2&sq=abortion&st=cse

Wichita Doctor Takes Up Fight for Abortions

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/magazine/sheila-bairs-exit-interview.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Sheila Bair’s Bank Shot

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/sports/baseball/jeter-relentlessly-consistent-reaches-3000-hits-with-a-home-run.html?scp=2&sq=jeter&st=cse

Jeter Reaches Fabled 3,000, and It’s a Blast

In Deficit Plan, Taxes Must Rise, President Warns

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/us/30health.html?ref=politics

Round 1 in Appeals of Health Care Overhaul Goes to Obama

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/us/politics/30confirm.html?scp=6&sq=senate&st=cse

Senate Votes to Streamline the Confirmation Process

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/us/30unions.html?scp=1&sq=rhode&st=cse

Rhode Island Lawmakers Approve Civil Unions

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/us/30mine.html/?scp=1&sq=mine&st=cse

Mine Owners Misled Inspectors, Investigators Say

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/sports/softball-case-raises-question-who-qualifies-as-gay.html?scp=1&sq=softball&st=cse

Three Straights and You’re Out in Gay Softball League

Cost of Wars a Rising Issue as Obama Weighs Troop Levels

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/us/politics/22powers.html?scp=1&sq=mission&st=cse

U.S. Mission Exposes Divisions in Congress and Within G.O.P.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/business/22labor.html?scp=1&sq=n.l.r.b.&st=cse

N.L.R.B. Rules Would Streamline Unionizing

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/health/policy/22smoke.html?scp=1&sq=cigarette&st=cse

U.S. Releases Graphic Images to Deter Smokers

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/us/politics/22panetta.html?scp=2&sq=panetta&st=cse

100-to-0 Vote Puts Panetta in Top Post

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/us/politics/22huntsman.html?scp=9&sq=huntsman&st=cse

Huntsman Enters Race With Promise of Civility

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/deal-on-rent-laws-and-property-tax-cap-in-albany.html?scp=2&sq=albany&st=cse

Albany Reaches Deal on Tax Cap and Rent Rules

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/sports/baseball/jeters-3000th-hit-will-bring-about-as-many-marketing-possibilities.html?scp=1&sq=3,000&st=cse

After 3,000, Even Dirt Will Sell

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/when-its-not-just-a-roll-with-a-hole-in-the-center.html?scp=1&sq=whiff&st=cse

Last Whiff of Bagels, Mixed With Despair

Justices Rule for Wal-Mart in Bias Case

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/06/20/business/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Climate-Change.html?hp

States Cannot Bypass E.P.A. on Power Plant Emissions, Justices Rule

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/business/20bonanza.html?scp=2&sq=linkedin&st=cse

Small Group Rode LinkedIn to Big Payday

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/us/politics/20nominate.html?scp=1&sq=nominees&st=cse

Nominees at Standstill as G.O.P. Flexes Its Muscle

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/sports/golf/mcilroy-wins-us-open-and-fans-with-disarming-dominance.html?scp=1&sq=fresh%20young&st=cse

A Fresh Young Star Easily Wins the Open, and the Fans’ Affection

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/business/media/20pundit.html?scp=3&sq=challenging&st=cse

At New Network, Olbermann Sets Sights on MSNBC

Cuomo Urges Broad Limits to N.Y. Public Pensions

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/us/politics/09arguments.html?scp=2&sq=judges&st=cse

Judges Weigh Limits of Health Law’s Powers

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/business/media/09press.html?scp=1&sq=federal&st=cse

A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/us/09wildfire.html?scp=2&sq=arizona&st=cse

2,500 Firefighters Struggle to Restrain Arizona Blaze

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/us/09dodger.html?scp=1&sq=opening&st=cse

Opening Day Attack Has Dodger Fans Seeing Blue All Over

This is the Big One. Maybe the Last Big One. Never before have so many loose strands of an unraveling empire come together in a single event accessible to those who mourn or cheer America. Let’s start with the conceit that this game is the only super thing we have left. Super power, super economy, super you-name-it… gone.. we’re all out of super — except for the Super Bowl. That celebration of an all-American $9 billion industry (estimated because the National Football League has never opened its books), not to mention millions more in subsidiary and dependent businesses, offers us a national holiday that has arguably superseded Thanksgiving (thanks for what?) and Christmas (electronic excess and obsolescence). Even little Everytrader has a shot here. Without insider connections, you undoubtedly have a far better shot at winning a football wager than gambling in the stock market

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House Republicans Seek to Extend Antiterrorism Law

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/politics/05thomas.html?_r=1&sq=justice&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

Justice Thomas’s Wife Sets Up a Conservative Lobbying Shop

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/business/economy/05jobs.html?scp=2&sq=job&st=cse

Jobs Report Offers a Mixed Bag, but Little Comfort

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/sports/baseball/05mets.html?sq=madoff&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=3&adxnnlx=1296925238-55sH1VN3SnVB4RpqS39AhQ&pagewanted=print

Madoff Profits Fueled Mets’ Empire, Lawsuit Says

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/05kelly.html?sq=giffords&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print

Public Drawn to Choice by Giffords’s Husband

Speech, Cranky and Free

“Even a guy who’s a pest can count on the protections of the First Amendment.”

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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/the-cant-do-nation/?pagemode=print

The Can’t-Do Nation, by Timothy Egan

“A delayed football game doesn’t represent the end of American values.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/opinion/30kristof.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

Primero Hay Que Aprender Español. Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen, by Nicholas D. Kristof

“That headline says: First learn Spanish. Then study Chinese.”

Democrats Back Third Parties to Siphon Votes

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/us/politics/23unions.html?sq=unions&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Democrats Look to Clout of Unions as Vote Nears

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/parties-ready-armies-of-recount-lawyers/?pagemode=print

Parties Ready Armies of Recount Lawyers

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/us/23california.html?scp=8&sq=california&st=cse

Emboldened G.O.P. Takes On Calif. Fixture

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/us/politics/23thomas.html?sq=thomas&st=cse&scp=6&pagewanted=print

Ex-Companion Details ‘Real’ Thomas

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/business/media/23williams.html?sq=NPR&st=cse&scp=7&src=busln&pagewanted=print

NPR Defends Firing Williams as Criticism Mounts

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/sports/baseball/23yankees.html?ref=baseball&pagewanted=print

Rangers Overpower Yankees to Gain Series Berth

The Mortgage Morass, by Paul Krugman

“It’s much worse than you think.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/opinion/15brooks.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

Would You Run?, by David Brooks

“Mark Kirk’s adventure in politics.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/opinion/15umpires.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

The Umpire in the Sky, by John Rosenthal

“How instant replay would improve baseball.”

A Scorecard for Calls, by Kirk Victor

“Baseball should make its umpire reviews public.”

So it seems the whole sports world is abuzz about the decision by the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints players to raise a finger in the air before the season-opening game as an expression of union loyalty — “We are one” — in a year in which the players and the owners are negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. I watched that gesture during the game and knew it was going to inspire the usual sneering … There were actually arguments across the media landscape to the effect that NFL players were out of line bringing their labor disagreement into our living rooms, the implication being that any display of union activity is somehow unseemly or ( I love this) selfish. We have a whole reality-show culture celebrating the cause of people eating centipedes and stabbing each other in the back for cash prizes and fame, but football players quietly showing union solidarity is tasteless

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Far From Ground Zero, Obscure Pastor Is Ignored No Longer

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/nyregion/26cabby.html?sq=cabdriver&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Rider Asks if Cabby Is Muslim, Then Stabs Him

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/us/politics/26quayle.html?scp=2&sq=quayle&st=cse

Surprise Victor in a Packed Race: Dan Quayle’s Son

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/us/politics/26primaries.html?scp=4&sq=alaska&st=cse

In Alaska, Murkowski Trails Tea Party Upstart

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/us/politics/26freedom.html?sq=campaign&st=cse&scp=8&pagewanted=print

Shaping Tea Party Passion Into Campaign Force

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/nyregion/26towns.html?sq=wrestling&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Politics, Wrestling and Accountability

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/business/26walmart.html?sq=wal-mart&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Hear Bias Suit

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/arts/music/26hendrix.html?scp=1&sq=hendrix&st=cse

A Hendrix Castle Where Musicians Still Kiss the Sky

Islamic Center Exposes Mixed Feelings Locally

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/politics/20zeleny.html?sq=clinton&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

On Midterm Stump, Clinton Is Defender in Chief

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/politics/20census.html?sq=survey&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

Census Survey Asks Too Much, G.O.P. Says

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/sports/baseball/20clemens.html?sq=clemens&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Clemens Lied About Doping, Indictment Charges

In China, Pollution Worsens Despite New Efforts

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/world/europe/30moscow.html?sq=rybkhoz&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

From Fires to Fish, Heat Wave Batters Russia

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/world/asia/30china.html?sq=chinese&st=cse&scp=5&pagewanted=print

Police Toss Out Arrest Warrant for Chinese Reporter in Hiding

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/business/global/30cloning.html?sq=europe&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

Cloned Livestock Gain a Foothold in Europe

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/world/europe/29spain.html?sq=spain&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print

Looking for Wedge From Spain, Catalonia Bans Bullfighting

Islamists Claim Attack in Uganda

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/world/middleeast/13flotilla.html?sq=israel&st=cse&scp=9&pagewanted=print

Israeli Military Finds Flotilla Killings Justified

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/world/asia/13factory.html?sq=chinese&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

Chinese Factories Now Compete to Woo Laborers

Swiss Reject U.S. Request to Extradite Polanski

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/world/africa/12uganda.html?sq=uganda&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print

Bombers Kill More Than 50 in Attacks in Uganda Capital

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/world/asia/12japan.html?sq=japan&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Japan’s Ruling Party Suffers Setback

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/world/americas/12venez.html?sq=chavez&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Curaçao Faces Friction With Chávez Over U.S. Planes

“The Decision” was simultaneously the most painful and most hilarious television show I’ve seen in a long time. Its entertainment value rested almost entirely in its scope .. I watched “The Decision” in breathless awe of the sheer scale of the narcissism involved. By any measure it was a landmark moment in the history of human self-involvement .. This is the beginning of our big Lost in Space journey together, where news and reality-show programming fuse completely and we all end up complete morons, voting strippers and X-games athletes into the White House.

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