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  • Azarenka Wins Australian Women's Title, Claims No. 1 Ranking

    By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    Victoria Azarenka defeated Maria Sharapova convincely, 6-3, 6-0 on Saturday to win the Australian Open and take over the women's No. 1 ranking.

  • It’s Not Me, It’s You

    By ALEX WILLIAMS
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Thanks to Facebook, the concept of “defriending” has become part of the online culture. But in the real world, breaking up is a lot more difficult.

  • The Early Word: Rebuttal

    By JADA F. SMITH
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Political news from today's Times and around the Web, plus a look at the president's weekly address and happenings in Washington.

  • Greece Inches Toward Deal in Talks With Its Creditors

    By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:58 am
    The latest progress comes in the wake of two days of talks in Athens between the bankers lobby representing most investors, and Greece’s political leadership.

  • French Elle's Black Eye

    By HARVEY MORRIS
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:36 am
    A magazine spread meant to praise style and elegance inspired by African-American women has brought charges of racism and calls for a boycott of the French-language edition of Elle, highlighting, once again, the fashion world's sometimes tin ear when it comes to race.
 
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  • No More Nice Guys: Fans Love ‘Nuclear Newt’

    By TRIP GABRIEL
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:04 am
    The qualities of the bombastic, take-no-prisoners candidate are the same ones opponents cite in concluding that Newt Gingrich is too hot-headed and undisciplined to win the nomination.

  • Syria Armed Force Helps Rebels Gain Ground

    By KAREEM FAHIM
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:58 am
    The growing assertiveness of a loosely organized force in Syria hinted at the expanding role of the armed opposition in a movement that began peacefully more than 10 months ago.

  • Greece Inches Toward Deal in Talks With Its Creditors

    By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:58 am
    The latest progress comes in the wake of two days of talks in Athens between the bankers lobby representing most investors, and Greece’s political leadership.

  • Azarenka Routs Sharapova to Win Australian Title

    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:55 am
    Victoria Azarenka beat Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 Saturday night to win the Australian Open and take over the women's No. 1 ranking, all in her first Grand Slam final.

  • Early Patriots Were a Comical Traveling Sideshow

    By BILL PENNINGTON
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:47 am
    The Boston Patriots bounced from stadium to stadium and played “home” games as far away as San Diego. Bizarre occurrences seemed to follow them wherever they went.
 
 
 
 
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  • F.T.C. Sues to Block Omnicare's Bid for PharMerica

    By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:15 pm
    The Federal Trade Commission sued Omnicare, seeking to block the pharmacy service provider's hostile $441 million bid for PharMerica.

  • Perelman Loses Court Battle Over $16 Million Suit

    By WILLIAM ALDEN and SUSANNE CRAIG
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Ronald O. Perelman, the billionaire financier, lost a bitter legal battle as a federal jury decided that his company must pay $16 million to Donald Drapkin, a former business associate.

  • Delta Explores Possible Bid for US Airways

    By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and JAD MOUAWAD
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:30 pm
    Delta is exploring a possible bid to purchase US Airways, according to a person familiar with the matter. But Delta has not yet approached its smaller rival and it may decide against making an offer.

  • S.&P. Lowers Outlook on Jefferies and Cantor

    By KEVIN ROOSE
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:34 pm
    Standard & Poors lowered its outlook on the Jefferies Group and Cantor Fitzgerald to negative from stable, saying the European debt crisis could weigh on their profits.

  • Buzz on a Facebook I.P.O. Grows Louder

    By EVELYN M. RUSLI
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:59 pm
    Facebook may file a prospectus as early as next week, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who demanded anonymity because discussions are private. But the company is still hammering out a final date.
 
 
 
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    NYT > Technology

  • How to Catch iPhone Thief? Officer Knows Buttons to Push

    By C. J. HUGHES
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:10 am
    A quick-witted policeman who is an Apple aficionado proved more than a match for a man who fled after taking a woman’s iPhone in Manhattan on Thursday.

  • When Twitter Blocks Tweets, It’s #Outrage

    By SOMINI SENGUPTA
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:34 pm
    Twitter’s announcement that it would agree to block certain messages in countries where they were deemed illegal prompted outcry, argument and even calls for a boycott.

  • DealBook: Buzz on a Facebook I.P.O. Grows Louder

    By EVELYN M. RUSLI
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:08 pm
    Facebook may file a prospectus as early as next week, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who demanded anonymity because discussions are private. But the company is still hammering out a final date.

  • For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews

    By DAVID STREITFELD
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:09 pm
    Agencies like the Federal Trade Commission have been trying to crack down on online product reviews that do not disclose the connection between a merchant and the person doling out the praise.

  • Riff: The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg

    By CARINA CHOCANO
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Many of the keepsakes we used to hold in our hands now exist as data on digital devices. What happens when the data disappears?
 
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  • Technology and Philanthropy Merge at Davos

    By NICK BILTON
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:51 pm
    Saying there are a lot of rich people at the World Economic Forum is like noting that there is a lot of water in the ocean. And where there are millionaires and billionaires, there is also talk of philanthropy. Mobile payments and micro-giving were two of the main themes discussed during a panel on e-philanthropy at Davos.

  • Buzz on a Facebook I.P.O. Grows Louder

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:12 pm
    Facebook may file a prospectus for its initial public offering of stock as early as next week. The company is still hammering out a final date, but it is expected to submit its filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission within the next three weeks.

  • Today's Scuttlebot: The First Password and Cool Data Centers

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:08 pm
    The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Friday's selection includes items on the first computer password, what the world's coolest data centers look like and the threat of a boycott against Twitter.

  • Barnes & Noble Uses Apps to Lure Customers Into Stores

    By BRIAN X. CHEN
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:03 pm
    Will tablets and e-readers kill bookstores of the nonvirtual variety? Not if Barnes & Noble can help it. The company is using apps on its Nook devices to help drive store traffic and sell physical books, board games and toys. Since last year, it has teamed up with software makers to run cross-promotions, the largest involving Angry Birds.

  • Faking It to Make It: A Beautiful Try

    By DAVID STREITFELD
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pm
    How far will companies go to create a favorable impression online? Much farther than you might think. The cosmetic surgery chain Lifestyle Lift, which was fined $300,000 two years ago for creating fake Web sites with fake testimonials, provides the clearest case to date of aggressive deceit.
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  • Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop With Eyes Only

    By DAVID POGUE
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:43 pm
    Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how fast you're going.

  • A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth

    By DAVID POGUE
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:57 am
    Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.

  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA

    By DAVID POGUE
    19 Jan 2012 | 11:50 am
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, government listened, and that's good. But let's do it responsibly, people. Both sides have an obligation to do the right thing.

  • A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

    By DAVID POGUE
    5 Jan 2012 | 2:36 pm
    If you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.

  • The New Improved Heckling of Movies

    By DAVID POGUE
    4 Jan 2012 | 9:54 am
    If you're willing to watch a movie DVD on your computer (instead of your TV), then you can use the new Rifftrax Player app to simultaneously play the DVD and the usually hilarious Rifftrax audio, which is like sitting in an audience of hecklers.
 
 
 
 
 
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    NYT > Real Estate

  • So You’re Priced Out. Now What?

    By JIM RENDON
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Five pairs of neighborhoods that look and feel alike, without costing the same amount.

  • On the Market in the Region

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pm
    A four-bedroom 1928 Tudor in Hempstead, N.Y., and a four-bedroom colonial in Bridgeport, Conn.

  • On the Market in the Region

    By VIVIAN S. TOY with Marcelle S. Fischler, Suzanne Hamlin and Lisa Prevost
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:09 pm
    A four-bedroom 1928 Tudor in Hempstead, N.Y., and a four-bedroom colonial in Bridgeport, Conn.

  • On the Market in New York City

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:08 pm
    A Lincoln Square maisonette, a Greenwich Village one-bedroom and a Prospect Heights co-op.

  • On the Market in New York City

    By VIVIAN S. TOY with Marcelle S. Fischler, Suzanne Hamlin and Lisa Prevost
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:07 pm
    A Lincoln Square maisonette, a Greenwich Village one-bedroom and a Prospect Heights co-op.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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    NYT > Pro Basketball

  • Streaking Nuggets Roll Over Raptors

    By REUTERS
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:11 am
    The streaking Denver Nuggets capitalized on a slow start by the visiting Toronto Raptors to complete a wire-to-wire 96-81 win at the Pepsi Center on Friday in a contest between teams heading in opposite directions.

  • Heat 99, Knicks 89: With Anthony on Sideline, Knicks Bow to the Heat

    By HOWARD BECK
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:39 am
    The injured Carmelo Anthony watched the Knicks keep it close before they succumbed against the Heat.

  • Thunder Top Warriors 120-109 to Start Road Trip

    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:16 am
    Kevin Durant had 37 points and 14 rebounds, Russell Westbrook dazzled with 28 points and 11 assists and the NBA-leading Oklahoma City Thunder started a critical road stretch with a 120-109 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Friday night.

  • Heat Missed Me, Says High-Flying Wade

    By REUTERS
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:14 am
    The Miami Heat have won eight of their nine games without Dwyane Wade but after he returned with 28 points in Friday's victory over the New York Knicks, the face of the franchise laughed off the idea the team could get by without him.

  • Aldridge Leads Blazers Past Suns 109-71

    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:51 pm
    LaMarcus Aldridge had 23 points and seven rebounds and the Portland Trail Blazers blew out the Phoenix Suns 109-71 Friday night for their sixth straight win at home.
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    NYT > Soccer

  • Soccer: A Tribal Clash in F.A. Cup

    By ROB HUGHES
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:37 am
    Liverpool and Manchester United engage in the oldest knockout tournament of them all, the F.A. Cup, in a soccer match that also has its share of worldly overtones.

  • U.S., Canada Secure Olympic Berths

    By REUTERS
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:08 am
    The United States and Canadian women's soccer teams booked their spots in this year's London Olympics with semi-final victories at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament on Friday.

  • Scottish Government Takes on Soccer Violence

    By SARAH LYALL
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:29 pm
    The Scottish government recently passed a law making it illegal for fans to attack each other using religious or ethnic slurs in chants, Internet postings and even stray remarks at the pub.

  • On Soccer: A Goalie Should Never Dance With a Moose

    By JERÉ LONGMAN
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:26 pm
    Hope Solo helped the United States defeat Costa Rica on Friday night, but her availability had been in doubt, and “Dancing With the Stars” may have been to blame.

  • Goal: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: Theo Walcott 2.0?

    By GRAHAM RUTHVEN
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:08 pm
    Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, whose similar skills and similar path to Arsenal have created inevitable comparisons between the two wingers, could be a better version of the player he followed to North London.
 
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    NYT > Paul Krugman

  • Is Our Economy Healing?

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    There is a case for modest optimism.

  • Taxes at the Top

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    As Mitt Romney dances around calls for him to release his tax returns, a question about U.S. tax policy comes up: Why do the rich bear a startlingly light tax burden?

  • How Fares the Dream?

    15 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Martin Luther King would see a nation that judges people by the size of their paychecks.

  • America Isn’t a Corporation

    12 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    What’s with the notion that this country needs a successful businessman as president? Making good economic policy isn’t at all like maximizing corporate profits.

  • America’s Unlevel Field

    8 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    So where is that evidence that Mitt Romney or his party cares at all about equality of opportunity?
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    NYT > Thomas L. Friedman

  • Trust, but Verify

    17 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Some recent news out of Egypt shows just how tough diplomacy is going to be going forward.

  • Getting to Know You ...

    14 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    As a new government takes shape, Egyptians are finding their voices again and rediscovering their neighbors.

  • Political Islam Without Oil

    10 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Egyptian Islamists, the newly elected majority in government, have some big decisions to make. It’s going to be fascinating to watch this play out.

  • Watching Elephants Fly

    7 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    When something extraordinary happens, like the uprising and subsequent truly free elections in Egypt, you just shut up and take notes.

  • So Much Fun. So Irrelevant.

    3 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Those Republican debates sure have been a lot of fun to watch. But the candidates haven’t been answering the most crucial questions.
 
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    NYT > Andrew Ross Sorkin

  • DEALBOOK; One Way To Look At Private Equity

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Andrew Ross Sorkin DealBook column on private equity firms, which have come under attack following widespread criticism by Republican presidential candidates of Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital; debunks popular myth that private equity firms as raiders that do nothing but strip vulnerable companies and then sell them. Photo (M)t

  • One Way to Look at Private Equity

    15 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    One low-key private equity executive, Paul S. Levy, defends his business, saying "I think it's a pretty honorable industry."

  • DEALBOOK; The Paradox Of Smaller Wall Street Paychecks

    9 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Is Wall Street cutting bonuses enough? That is a question worth considering amid chatter that investment banking bonuses are expected to be the lowest they have been since 2008 amid lackluster profits.

  • DEALBOOK; Raising A Glass To 2011

    2 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Andrew Ross Sorkin presents DealBook's annual closing dinner celebrating the best and worst in the world of finance in 2011. Photos

  • Raising a Glass to 2011

    1 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    DealBook's annual closing dinner celebrates the best and worst in the world of finance in 2011.
 
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    NYT > David Leonhardt

  • How Readers Cut the Pentagon Budget

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Among the more than 12,000 who used an interactive calculator, reducing troop levels in Europe and Asia was the most popular choice, and many saw potential administrative savings.

  • The Role of Austerity

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Government spending helped mitigate the recession, but its decline has been a significant drag on growth for more than a year now.

  • Buffett vs. Mankiw on Taxes

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard professor and adviser to Mitt Romney, argues that Warren Buffett's tax rate is higher than Mr. Buffett says it is.

  • Putting Candidates' Tax Rates in Perspective

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Newt Gingrich and President Obama each pay a federal tax rate typical of most affluent Americans, with rates well above those of most middle-class households. Mitt Romney pays a federal tax rate more typical of an upper-middle-class household.

  • Why Americans Think the Tax Rate’s High, and Why They’re Wrong

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    When Mitt Romney said that his federal tax rate was about 15 percent, many wrongly assumed that their own rate was higher.
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    NYT > David Pogue

  • Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop With Eyes Only

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how fast you're going.

  • Financing the Stuff of Dreams Through Kickstarter - State of the Art

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Kickstarter is a site where creative people solicit start-up money for various projects. And people actually pledge money to help the projects in return for, maybe, a T-shirt or a CD.

  • A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.

  • Finding Headphones to Shut Out the World - State of the Art

    18 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    What do you look for in noise-canceling headphones? Music fidelity? Reasonable price? Bose has dominated the market, but here’s a look at the latest models from 10 other companies.

  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA

    18 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, government listened, and that's good. But let's do it responsibly, people. Both sides have an obligation to do the right thing.
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    NYT > Joe Nocera

  • Et tu, Harvard?

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Even one of the nation’s most prestigious universities won’t stand up to the N.C.A.A. when it comes to idiotic policies.

  • Living in Fear of the N.C.A.A.

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In the saga of Ryan Boatright, Part II, more evidence of how the N.C.A.A. wrecks careers, ignores due process and punishes the innocent.

  • In ‘Porgy and Bess,’ Variations on an Explosive Theme

    20 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    An opera supplies a prism through which African-Americans have viewed their history.

  • Guilty Until Proved Innocent

    20 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The N.C.A.A.’s outrageous case against a freshman on Connecticut’s basketball team is an example of just how unjust the system is.

  • Keep It Simple

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    An influential critic says banking regulations are too complex, and she offers some solutions.
 
 
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    NYT > Charles M. Blow

  • Newt’s Southern Strategy

    20 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    His plan seems to be to appeal to an ugly, gut-level anger and animosity among a sizable portion of the Republican electorate.

  • Bitter Politics of Envy?

    13 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The presidential candidates need to get a grip on our nation’s income inequality.

  • The G.O.P.’s ‘Black People’ Platform

    6 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Big surprise. Some of the Republican presidential candidates are once again using race to pander to the right.

  • Inconvenient Income Inequality

    16 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    Some recent surveys seem to suggest that many Americans are in denial about the seriousness of the gap between the rich and poor.

  • The Brutal Side of Hazing

    9 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    We must end hazing, and the “conspiracy of silence” that shrouds the widespread practice in secrecy and shame.
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    NYT > David Brooks

  • Hope, but Not Much Change

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    President Obama seems sure of himself, but where’s the big agenda? It wasn’t in the State of the Union address.

  • Free-Market Socialism

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In his State of the Union address, here’s hoping President Obama promotes policies that will help more people realize the American dream.

  • The Wealth Issue

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Money didn’t make Mitt Romney. A legacy of persistence and dogged determination did.

  • South Carolina Diarist

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    On a visit to South Carolina just days before the primary, getting a feel for what people on the scene are thinking about the candidates.

  • The C.E.O. in Politics

    12 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Does Mitt Romney’s success in business tell us anything about whether he would be a successful president?
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    NYT > Roger Cohen

  • The Sarkozy Effect

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The French president’s political courage is undeniable: A lot of people who can’t stand him now sense they may need him.

  • Don’t Do It, Bibi

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Temptation rises for Israel to make a terrible mistake.

  • America Abroad

    9 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Smarter U.S. power could still confound the “declinists.”

  • A Time to Tune Out

    2 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Addiction to the hand-held device is a modern curse.

  • The American Hitch

    19 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    Like Voltaire, Christopher Hitchens did not view the deathbed as a place for a last-minute rethink.
 
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    NYT > Maureen Dowd

  • Hunting, Dear Sir? Delighted!

    17 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    To the manner, and manor, born in an American version of Downton Abbey, Mitt and Poppy have a lot in common, warts and all.

  • Mitt’s Big Love

    14 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In fashion next fall: enigmatic, elusive, analytical Harvard grads.

  • A Perfect Doll

    10 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    One Mitt Romney was born with a silver spoon, the other one’s was wooden. Both want your vote.

  • The Grating Santorum

    7 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In New Hampshire, Rick Santorum’s hot politics of aggrievement are competing with Mitt Romney’s cold politics of convenience.

  • Oedipus Rex Complex

    3 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Shakespeare would have a field day with all the fathers and ghosts of fathers haunting the political landscape.
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    NYT > Nicholas D. Kristof

  • Is Banking Bad?

    18 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Will capitalists be the death of capitalism?

  • Why Is Europe a Dirty Word?

    14 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Republican accusations that President Obama is a quasi-European reflect a caricature of Europe that is flat wrong. Oh, and pass a croissant.

  • The Value of Teachers

    11 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    A new study suggests a great teacher is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased earning power to students. It’s time to overhaul our education policy.

  • A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug

    7 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The American Academy of Pediatrics is warning that a harsh early environment can lay the groundwork for lifelong achievement gaps, health problems and poverty.

  • Waiting for Mitt the Moderate

    4 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    If Mitt Romney ends up winning the Republican presidential nomination, let’s hope that he reverts to the moderate pragmatist he was for most of his career.
 
 
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    Bats

  • Bolstering Staff, Yankees Complete Deal With Kuroda

    By DAVID WALDSTEIN
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:09 pm
    Hiroki Kuroda, a right-handed starter, wrapped up a one-year, $10 million deal, and reliever Boone Logan signed a one-year contract and avoided arbitration.

  • Fielder Comes Home

    By JOANNE C. GERSTNER
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:03 pm
    Prince Fielder's world came full-circle, as he officially became part of his favorite childhood team, the Detroit Tigers, with a nine-year, $214 million contract.

  • After Fielder Deal, Leyland Works on His Lineup

    By JOANNE C. GERSTNER
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm
    Prince Fielder will play first base and Miguel Cabrera will move to third next season for the Tigers, and manager Jim Leyland is already working on his projected lineup.

  • Franco Named to Mets Hall of Fame

    By ANDREW KEH
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:43 pm
    The former closer John Franco, a Brooklyn native and childhood fan of the Mets, will become the 26th member of their Hall of Fame.

  • Tigers' Infield Defense Could Be Brutal

    By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Miguel Cabrera is set to slide over to third base for the Tigers to make room for Prince Fielder. The pair of poor defenders could be a liability while in the field.
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    The Caucus

  • The Early Word: Rebuttal

    By JADA F. SMITH
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Political news from today's Times and around the Web, plus a look at the president's weekly address and happenings in Washington.

  • Gingrich Releases Two Attack Ads

    By JEREMY W. PETERS
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:05 pm
    Newt Gingrich goes on the full offensive, and so does his "super PAC."

  • First Day for New Chief of Staff

    By JACKIE CALMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:22 pm
    At midday Friday, William M. Daley, a former commerce secretary, passed the baton as White House chief of staff to Jacob J. Lew, the former budget director.

  • Santorum's Attacks on Romney Health Plan Could Help Democrats

    By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:11 pm
    If Democrats wants a step-by-step instruction manual for how they might try to neutralize Mitt Romney on the health care issue, they might want to watch Rick Santorum's coldly efficient critique.

  • Polls Highlight Florida's Diverse Electorate

    By ALLISON KOPICKI
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:58 pm
    The challenges for Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in Florida are far different than in the earlier nominating contests.
 
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    City Room

  • The Week in Pictures for Jan. 27

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:40 pm
    Subjects include the first snowfall in 2012, a great apartment deal in the West Village and a subway track that doubles as a wishing well.

  • Judge Moves Congressional Primary Date to June

    By THOMAS KAPLAN
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:01 pm
    Gary L. Sharpe's decision in federal court in Albany could mean New Yorkers have primaries in April for president, June for Congress and September for legislators.

  • Charter School Releases an Ad Supporting Cuomo

    By THOMAS KAPLAN
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:45 pm
    Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation filmed a video inspired by Governor Cuomo's declaration in his State of the State address that he intended to be a lobbyist for public school students.

  • The Lam Family of Ludlow Street

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:10 pm
    An update on the Lam family-their compact existence in a 350-square-foot downtown apartment is again documented in pictures.

  • Cablevision Workers in Brooklyn Vote to Join Union

    By CHRISTOPHER REEVE
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:43 pm
    By 180 to 86, the cable television employees decided to join the Communication Workers of America, despite a vigorous management campaign to reject the affiliation.
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    Diner's Journal

  • Salad From the Soup Pot

    By MELISSA CLARK
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pm
    After making the beef broth for French onion soup, shred the meat and make a salad with it.

  • Weekend Fare

    By BAO ONG
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am
    Food-related events around New York.

  • For Super Bowl, JoeDough and No. 7 Sub Go the Extra Yard

    By FLORENCE FABRICANT
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:25 am
    Two new sandwich shops in New York are selling six-foot heroes for Super Bowl Sunday.

  • What We're Reading

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:07 am
    A collection of links from the reporters and editors of the Dining section.

  • Dragon Wings

    By DAVID TANIS
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:15 am
    Chicken wings for the Super Bowl or the Chinese New Year.
 
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    Economix

  • The Role of Austerity

    By DAVID LEONHARDT
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:10 pm
    Government spending helped mitigate the recession, but its decline has been a significant drag on growth for more than a year now.

  • The Quiet Driver of Economic Growth: Exports

    By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:53 am
    Exports accounted for almost 14 percent of gross domestic product in 2011, the largest share since at least 1929.

  • How Readers Cut the Pentagon Budget

    By DAVID LEONHARDT
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    Among the more than 12,000 who used an interactive calculator, reducing troop levels in Europe and Asia was the most popular choice, and many saw potential administrative savings.

  • Do Big-Time Sports Mean Big-Time Support for Universities?

    By JUDITH SCOTT-CLAYTON
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Even if most major athletic programs make little if any net revenue, their benefit to universities' bottom lines can be quantified in many ways, an economist writes.

  • Latinos on the Economy: Hard Hit but Hopeful

    By JULIA PRESTON
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:27 pm
    Latinos are keenly aware that they have fared worse than other groups in the economic downturn, a Pew survey found, but they remain surprisingly optimistic that things will improve for them.
 
 
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    Gadgetwise

  • TiqIQ: The Kayak of Live-Event Tickets

    By SAM GROBART
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:24 am
    TiqIQ is a Web site that pulls together vast amounts of data to help people find the best price for tickets to sporting events and concerts.

  • Tip of the Week: Gmail's Pop-out Feature

    By J.D. BIERSDORFER
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    What to do if you're composing an e-mail in Gmail, but want to refer to an earlier message at the same time.

  • Q&A: Setting Up a Mac Printer

    By J.D. BIERSDORFER
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:06 am
    Ways to simplify the printer setup process for technophobic Mac owners.

  • 3-D Printing for the Masses: MakerBot's Replicator

    By WARREN BUCKLEITNER
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:43 pm
    A new 3-D printer for consumers, the Replicator, from MakerBot, will reach consumers starting next month. Here's what you need to know about running a high-tech fabrication shop in your home.

  • Bang & Olufsen's Homage to Its Past

    By ROY FURCHGOTT
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am
    Bang & Olufsen, best known as makers of high-style audio equipment, has begun the subbrand B&O Play, with a high fidelity music dock, the Beolit 12.
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    In Transit» Globespotters

  • Artistic Collaboration (Couples Only) Is Focus of Show in Paris

    By ALICE PFEIFFER
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    A multimedia exhibition in northern Paris entitled "Je hais les couples" ("I hate couples") consists entirely of pieces by artistic and romantic duos and aims to question the process of living and working under the same roof.

  • Contemporary Dance From Around the Globe in The Hague

    By VALERIE GLADSTONE
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:25 am
    Holland Dance presents a comprehensive and exciting program of contemporary dance from Thursday through Feb. 26 at the Hague, only 30 miles from Amsterdam.

  • A Festival of Experimental Music in Madrid

    By GRACE DUGGAN
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    For less than the cost of café con leche and an order of churros, music lovers in Madrid can take in a top-notch concert at the Festival Internacional de Improvisación Hurta Cordel, an annual celebration of experimental and improvised music started in 1996.

  • Madrid Food Festival Celebrates Tapas, and More

    By VALERIE GLADSTONE
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    Madrid is a gourmet's paradise through Feb. 5, as restaurants and chefs across the city take part in Gastrofestival. For this multifaceted event, organizers have enlisted restaurants, bars, and even cultural institutions to promote culinary life in the city.

  • In Paris, Examining the Art of Cuisine

    By MOLLY HANNON
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    The city of lights is home to the fourth annual Paris des Chefs festival, an event that seeks to blend cooking and art by having chefs prepare food with a creative partner.
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    The Lede

  • Paratroopers' Anti-Putin Song Stirs the Opposition

    By GLENN KATES
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:49 pm
    A video of a musical group, apparently featuring former Russian paratroopers, performing a song with lyrics sharply critical of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, quickly became an Internet sensation after it was posted to YouTube on Thursday.

  • Protesters Storm Syria's Embassy in Cairo

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Protesters stormed the Syrian embassy in Cairo on Friday, smashing an official portrait and waving the flag adopted by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

  • Twitter's New Policy on Blocking Posts Is Attacked, and Defended

    By J. DAVID GOODMAN
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pm
    Twitter incited anger among its international users on Friday after it announced a new method of blocking individual posts from appearing in certain countries. But some Internet advocacy groups defended it.

  • Voices of Chinese Workers in the 'iEconomy'

    By DANIEL MCDERMON
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:55 pm
    One of the filmmakers of "Dreamwork China," a new documentary focusing on the voices of young migrant workers in China, answers questions from The Lede.

  • Canadian Legonaut Returns From the Stratosphere Bearing Remarkable Images

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    A two-inch Lego man, with a fixed grin and a Canadian flag in his hand, traveled about 80,000 feet above the Earth's surface to the upper stratosphere this month, and he has the stunning video to prove it.
 
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    Lens

  • Five Years Later, a New Reality

    By SAM DOLNICK
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    From 2003 to 2005, Thomas Holton followed the Lams, a Chinese family living in a two-room apartment on Ludlow Street in Manhattan. Five years later, he returned to find a messier reality.

  • Pictures of the Day: Syria and Elsewhere

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:07 pm
    Photographs from Syria, Egypt, Bahrain and France.

  • Eye Onstage (While Mom's in the Car)

    By MARCIA ALLERT
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    After photographing countless concerts, the sight of parents waiting in the parking lot brings a flash of recognition to Chad Batka.

  • Pictures of the Day: India and Elsewhere

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:09 pm
    Photographs from India, Australia, Somalia and Pakistan.

  • Challenging the Silence of Others

    By JAMES ESTRIN
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    After confronting anti-Muslim hostility, Bharat Choudhary - himself a Hindu - set out to document how young Muslims navigate their way through the fears and stereotypes imposed on them in the West. His journey has taken him across several continents and cultures.
 
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    Economix» Floyd Norris

  • On Super Bowls, Elections and Stock Prices

    By FLOYD NORRIS
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:27 pm
    While the old Super Bowl theory of the stock market no longer seems to work, there is an election-year correlation that might be worth noting if the game is not close.

  • Remembering Tony Blankley

    By FLOYD NORRIS
    9 Jan 2012 | 5:05 pm
    A friend recalls the former Gingrich press secretary for his wit and intellectual honesty.

  • Under Obama, a Record Decline in Government Jobs

    By FLOYD NORRIS
    6 Jan 2012 | 11:53 am
    The loss of public sector jobs has been greater in the first three years of the Obama administration than even under Ronald Reagan.

  • A Razor-Thin Decline in Stocks

    By FLOYD NORRIS
    30 Dec 2011 | 4:25 pm
    It was a down year for the American stock market, at least by one measure. But the margin was tiny.

  • Pay for Our Mistakes? Not Us

    By FLOYD NORRIS
    9 Dec 2011 | 11:50 am
    Europe wants banks to believe that loans to shaky European governments are no longer risky, and that the private sector will never again have to take losses, as happened with Greece. The promise is not really ironclad, but it probably will hold at least through the next few years.
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    On the Runway

  • And in Couture Is ...

    By CATHY HORYN
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:43 pm
    DURING the Armani couture show, I kept glancing across the runway at Jessica Chastain. Probably many people were, and all with the same thought: Does she see a dress here she might like to wear to the Oscars?

  • Fashion Fund Confidential

    By ERIC WILSON
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:21 am
    I found myself oddly compelled by a new Web series that goes behind the scenes of the most recent CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition.

  • Valentino's Lawn Party

    By CATHY HORYN
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:54 pm
    In Valentino's spring couture show, a nod to dreamy young ladies in French courts.

  • Jean Paul Gaultier: All This Craziness

    By CATHY HORYN
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:43 pm
    Mr. Gaultier's couture collection took cues from Amy Winehouse, evoking her chaotic essence in a marvelous show.

  • Givenchy's Deco Punk

    By CATHY HORYN
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:45 pm
    Cameron Diaz was having a private tour of the Givenchy spring couture collection, courtesy of Riccardo Tisci, when I popped in to see the clothes.
 
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    Diner's Journal

  • Salad From the Soup Pot

    By MELISSA CLARK
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pm
    After making the beef broth for French onion soup, shred the meat and make a salad with it.

  • Weekend Fare

    By BAO ONG
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am
    Food-related events around New York.

  • For Super Bowl, JoeDough and No. 7 Sub Go the Extra Yard

    By FLORENCE FABRICANT
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:25 am
    Two new sandwich shops in New York are selling six-foot heroes for Super Bowl Sunday.

  • What We're Reading

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:07 am
    A collection of links from the reporters and editors of the Dining section.

  • Dragon Wings

    By DAVID TANIS
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:15 am
    Chicken wings for the Super Bowl or the Chinese New Year.
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    Prescriptions

  • Despite Generic Rivals, Branded Drugs Still Sell Well

    By BRUCE JAPSEN
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:36 pm
    Drug companies are finding lucrative foreign markets for their brand-name drugs after patents expire in the United States and unleash generic competition.

  • Doctors Refer More Patients to Specialists

    By REED ABELSON
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:16 pm
    A new study finds that primary care doctors are referring patients to other doctors at double the rate of a decade ago. The reasons are unclear but the researchers say the practice is driving up health care costs.

  • F.D.A. Delays Approval of New Diabetes Drug

    By ANDREW POLLACK
    19 Jan 2012 | 1:17 pm
    Federal drug regulators are seeking more data from AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb before deciding whether to approve dapagliflozin, a new drug aimed at Type 2 diabetes.

  • New Questions Raised About Tamiflu's Effectiveness

    By ANDREW POLLACK
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:01 pm
    A new study by the Cochrane Collaboration finds that the Roche drug Tamiflu does not reduce flu complications and transmission as much as previous studies suggested.

  • More Health Clinics Pop Up Inside Retailers

    By BRUCE JAPSEN
    9 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    The number of medical clinics inside retail stores is expected to boom, in part because of incentives under the new federal health care law. Chains like Safeway and Walmart already have big expansion plans.
 
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    Slap Shot

  • Lundqvist and Gaborik on Opposing Teams (and Now at Odds)

    By JEFF Z. KLEIN
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:18 pm
    Neither the quiet Marian Gaborik nor the debonair Henrik Lundqvist are noted for their comedic abilities, but they have a little shtick going at the N.H.L. All-Star festivities.

  • Thomas Faces Scrutiny Again at All-Star Media Day

    By JEFF Z. KLEIN
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:29 pm
    Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas told reporters Friday that his actions and statements regarding the team's White House visit were made "as an individual, not as a representative of the Boston Bruins."

  • N.H.L. All-Star Game Rosters

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am
    The N.H.L. All-Star Game is 4 p.m. Sunday at Scotiabank Place, the home of the Ottawa Senators. The teams were selected via a draft Thursday night.

  • At All-Star Draft, Spotlight Shines Brightest on Thomas

    By JEFF Z. KLEIN
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:44 pm
    There's a good chance this N.H.L. All-Star weekend may wind up being all about Bruins goalie Tim Thomas.

  • Kessel Passes Dubious Torch to Couture

    By JEFF Z. KLEIN
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:33 pm
    San Jose's Logan Couture, a 22-year-old forward, was picked last in Thursday's All-Star draft. As a consolation, he was given a car.
 
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    Green

  • New York's Fracking Deliberations Inch Along

    By MIREYA NAVARRO
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:39 pm
    A meeting with an advisory panel is deferred, suggesting that the decision-making process will not be rushed in coming months.

  • Racing Up (and Down) the Performance Index

    By FELICITY BARRINGER
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm
    In the latest Environmental Performance Index, Switzerland is at the top, Russia is much closer to the bottom and the United States has failed to gain much ground.

  • When Marine Mammals Become Food

    By DOUGLAS M. MAIN
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Rising human consumption of marine mammals in tropical regions poses a threat to animals like the dugong, which is similar to a manatee, and the Atlantic humpback dolphin, researchers write.

  • On Our Radar: 6 More Coal Plants to Close

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:45 am
    FirstEnergy says it would not be cost-effective to install scrubbing technology at aging plants to meet new federal emissions rules.

  • Reaping a Bonus From Cap-and-Trade

    By MIREYA NAVARRO
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:37 am
    Rather than imposing higher costs on consumers and businesses, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowered their bills.
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    Well

  • Caffeine Alters Estrogen Levels in Younger Women

    By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:16 pm
    A new study of women ages 18 to 44 found that drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages can alter levels of estrogen.

  • Pack and Go Lunch Recipes

    By TOBY BILANOW
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:28 am
    Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman offers a week's worth of light and simple ideas for dishes that travel well.

  • A Picture Collage of Life After Cancer

    By TARA PARKER-POPE
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    More than 1,150 people have submitted their photos and stories to the Picture Your Life After Cancer project, creating an inspiring collage of the life that is possible after cancer.

  • Have These Symptoms? Buy This Drug

    By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:18 am
    Checklists of symptoms have become a critical part of every major pharmaceutical marketing campaign, making it easy for patients to diagnose their own ailments -- and making it easy for drug makers to sell drugs.

  • Oral HPV More Common in Men Than Women

    By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:49 am
    About one in 15 Americans is infected with oral human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted virus that causes throat cancers, and the disease is especially common among men, new research shows.
 
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    In Transit

  • Artistic Collaboration (Couples Only) Is Focus of Show in Paris

    By ALICE PFEIFFER
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    A multimedia exhibition in northern Paris entitled "Je hais les couples" ("I hate couples") consists entirely of pieces by artistic and romantic duos and aims to question the process of living and working under the same roof.

  • Out of Perfume? Rosewood Hotels Enlist Fragrance Butlers

    By SHIVANI VORA
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:13 pm
    This month, eight Rosewood properties began supplying guests with a fragrance butler who is trained on the different scents being offered.

  • Contemporary Dance From Around the Globe in The Hague

    By VALERIE GLADSTONE
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:25 am
    Holland Dance presents a comprehensive and exciting program of contemporary dance from Thursday through Feb. 26 at the Hague, only 30 miles from Amsterdam.

  • A Festival of Experimental Music in Madrid

    By GRACE DUGGAN
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    For less than the cost of café con leche and an order of churros, music lovers in Madrid can take in a top-notch concert at the Festival Internacional de Improvisación Hurta Cordel, an annual celebration of experimental and improvised music started in 1996.

  • Where Our Readers #WanttoGo in 2012

    By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:31 am
    For our 45 Places to Go in 2012 article we asked readers to tell us on Twitter where they want to go this year. Here are some highlights.
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    Wordplay

  • What Cuts Power in Half

    By DEB AMLEN
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    In which a fairly common word appears, surprisingly, for the first time.

  • Pandora's Problem

    By DEB AMLEN
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Joe Krozel opens with a question: when is a pangram not a pangram?

  • Stop Over in Paris

    By DEB AMLEN
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Making crossword puzzles is a start.

  • Missing The Forest

    By DEB AMLEN
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Gareth Bain puts a ring on it.

  • Darned Thing

    By DEB AMLEN
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Vowel play, courtesy of Alex Boisvert.
 
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    Abstract Sunday

  • On Hold

    By CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:35 am
    A story in doodles.

  • Modern Squash

    By CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
    24 Nov 2011 | 7:00 am
    Seasonal reinterpretations of design classics.

  • 26.2 Miles, 46 Sketches

    By CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
    7 Nov 2011 | 5:54 pm
    My attempt at live-illustrating the New York City Marathon.

  • Log In

    By CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
    30 Sep 2011 | 12:12 pm
    What? You can't remember the name of your mother's maiden's pet?

  • Rock Paper Scissors, 2011 Style

    By CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
    19 Aug 2011 | 4:00 am
    I've created a few additional hand gestures to the classic children's game for our representatives in Washington.
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    Opinionator

  • Lincoln Tells a Story

    By LOUIS P. MASUR
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Storytelling was at the core of Lincoln's character, and humor an essential outlet for the president.

  • Deconstructing a Demagogue

    By TIMOTHY EGAN
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:04 pm
    Over four decades, Newt Gingrich has perfected the politics of personal destruction.

  • Obama and Fairness

    By STANLEY FISH
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:37 pm
    President Obama should keep the focus on unfairness, not inequality.

  • The Navy's Stone Fleet

    By JAMIE L. JONES
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:30 pm
    Why did the Union sink dozens of whaling ships in Charleston Harbor during the Civil War?

  • Soap Operas With a Social Message

    By SARIKA BANSAL
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:15 pm
    In countries around the world, T.V. serials are being used to deliver important social messages to millions of viewers.
 
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    Opinionator» Timothy Egan

  • Deconstructing a Demagogue

    By TIMOTHY EGAN
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:04 pm
    Over four decades, Newt Gingrich has perfected the politics of personal destruction.

  • The Fraud of the Tea Party

    By TIMOTHY EGAN
    15 Jan 2012 | 9:38 pm
    It's obvious that governing was never the point.

  • A Murder at Paradise

    By TIMOTHY EGAN
    12 Jan 2012 | 8:00 pm
    A tragedy reminds us that rangers have to defend us as well as our national parks.

  • Newt's Shop of Horrors

    By TIMOTHY EGAN
    5 Jan 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Gingrich's alliance with Citizens United comes back to haunt him in Iowa.

  • Soldiers' Choice

    By TIMOTHY EGAN
    22 Dec 2011 | 8:00 pm
    Active-duty military are behind Ron Paul for one big reason.
 
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    Freakonomics

  • Sleep No More: Theater as Social Experiment?

    Stephen J. Dubner
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:29 pm
    Sleep No More. (Photo: nycscout)Have any of you seen Sleep No More? And if so, did your experience as an audience member make you think (as it did me) of the social experiments of Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo (though without the sadism)? And — bonus question — is anyone actually working on a social-science research project involving Sleep No More?

  • The Unintended Consequences of a Twitter Contest

    Stephen J. Dubner
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:32 am
    The other day, we woke up to realize that we were about hit our 400,000th follower on Twitter. So we put out the following tweet, offering some swag:Innocent enough, no?But we had walked right into an incentive trap.We monitored our Twitter status in order to identify the 400,000th follower. It happened very fast, as new followers were signing up at what seemed to be a rate of five or six per second. So we counted carefully and, voila, found our winner:But then, when we went back to our main Twitter page, we found that we were below the 400,000 mark, by quite a bit. In fact, we had fewer…

  • Question of the Day: What Does a Roommate’s Bad Habit Say About the Economics of Jealousy?

    Stephen J. Dubner
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    (Photo: Brad K)I have long been interested in the effects — psychological, economic, and otherwise — of jealousy (and, relatedly, disgust and repugnance). Even using the word “jealousy” is probably loaded. (Maybe “resentment” is better? Doubtful.) In any case: somewhere between the 99% movement and the Mitt Romney-as-private-equity-bloodsucker meme lies a discussion that includes a lot of legitimate questions about fairness and a lot of less-legitimate emotional reaction that gets turned into political and intellectual fodder.That’s what came to mind…

  • Of Booze and Bags

    Daniel Hamermesh
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    (Photo: Taber Andrew Bain)The Austin City Council is about to outlaw the paper and plastic bags you get at the grocery store. Retailers don’t like the ban. One particularly clever argument by liquor retailers is that it will encourage people to buy less — not a good thing, so they argue, when unemployment is high. This is a bad argument for so many reasons: 1) Booze demand and bag provision are at most only a tiny bit complementary — one can always carry the six-pack out by hand; 2) To argue that high unemployment is a reason for anything other than macro stimuli is totally…

  • The Hidden Side of the Super Bowl: A New Marketplace Podcast

    Stephen J. Dubner
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:32 am
    Fans of the New York Giants celebrate after the Giants win on Sunday. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast covers the upcoming Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript.)We figured that of the 100 million-plus people who “watch” the game each year, a lot of them aren’t what you’d call rabid football fans. Does that describe you? If so, this episode is a handy cheat sheet that’ll…
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