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Since Wednesday, at least 100 have been killed in Syria by Assad regime

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel casts doubt on whether Greece can be saved

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Iran warns EU over oil embargo

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Congresswoman Giffords to step down as her district grows restless

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How Washington changed Obama

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Gingrich opens up lead in Florida

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Taliban-recruited Afghan soldier kills four French troops

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Did Santorum beat Romney in Iowa?

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SOPA, PIPA lead to web blackout protest

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Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder, steps down from board

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Andrew Sullivan on Obama’s long game

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Captain of stricken cruise ship fled the scene

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Another Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated

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New Hampshire blog (from the lefty Nation): Romney, then Paul

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As US pulls back armed forces, Europe faces dismal miltary reality

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IDF chief says Israel ready to absorb Syrian Alawite refugees once Assad regime falls

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Iran sentences so-called CIA agent to death

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Out in the Cold: Federal government cuts home heating assistance as winter begins

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Syrian media awaken despite crackdown

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Iraq suicide bombing kills 30

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Romney (barely) wins Iowa; Bachmann quits; New Hampshire next

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Gingrich predicts defeat in Iowa

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With Arab League monitors in Syria, protests grow

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Obama signs bill providing more military aid to Israel

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Syrian regime blames Al Qaeda for bomb blasts; protesters say ruling regime was responsible

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Charles Baxter on Don DelLillo’s new story collection

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Patti Smith, the Mother Courage of Rock

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London Review of Books: A new history of Scientology

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Etta James dead at 73

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Salman Rushdie cancels India visit after death threat

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Drugs, murder, and books in (London’s) Soho

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Why read anymore?

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NYT: The advantages of working alone

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Expect uproar from the reissue of the Jefferson Bible

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Lapham’s Quarterly: Poor Hartley Coleridge

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Why do Americans love Downton Abbey?

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Cattelan at the Guggenheim

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The always entertaining William James

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NYT: Why authors tweet

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The many lives of Sherlock Holmes

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Egypt: The military and the mayhen

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A.N. Wilson on Wodehouse

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An undocumented American looks at the election

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N+1 on the crisis at the New School

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Vachel Lindsay, father of the Beats

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Do the classics have a future?

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Anthony Lane on Otto Preminger’s Laura

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The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

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Eve Babitz’s Hollywood

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Richard Russo, Farhad Manjoo, and Amazon

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Censored tweets?

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HBR: To-do lists don’t work

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It’s now up to China to save capitalism

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Apple has more cash than the GDP of Singapore. What should it do with it?

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5% of patients account for half our healthcare spending

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Another instant classic? Federer and Nadal to meet in Australian Open semis

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Gingrich will skip debate if audiences aren’t allowed to applaud

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The United States’s great shame: its sprawling, growing prison system

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Weighing the Joe Paterno legacy

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Mitt Romney feels your pain, Floridians

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Will the US ever have a viable third party?

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The iPhone and what’s wrong with the American job market

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Joe Paterno dies

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In an age of hyperconnectivity, the joys of going it alone

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Katha Pollitt on Ron Paul

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G-spot definitely does not exist, scientists say

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St. Louis Rams become first NFL team to commit to hosting regular season games in Europe

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Bill McKibben on Keystone XL

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Paula Deen now selling diabetes medication

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The key to understanding South Carolina GOP politics? Barbecue, of course

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Do sports build character?

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The depressing pseudoscience of Blue Monday

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The myth of American productivity

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Half-brother of North Korea’s new leader predicts regime collapse with or without reforms

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The greatest running shoe never sold

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