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Two American tourists kidnapped in Egypt, then freed

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Investigators probe Don Cornelius’s death

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Live updates from Egypt following deaths at Port Said soccer game

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Russia refuses to stop selling arms to Syria

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Anger in Egypt over 70 deaths at a soccer match

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Romney takes Florida; Newt vows to fight on

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Mossad holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran’s nuclear ambitions

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UN resolution calling for Assad to step down moves forward

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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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Ben Gazzara dies

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Another Mona Lisa?

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Why they loved Hitchens

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So you want to go to film school

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DeLillo and delirium

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The London Review of Books on Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding

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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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What Obama can learn from Elizabeth Warren (how to get female votes)

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Migrants and borders

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A busy season for Sherlock Holmes

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Self-deportation: The joke the GOP doesn’t get

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Recession? What recession? Pointless speculation on the details of Facebook’s IPO

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Can Italy change?

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Why the Clean Tech boom went bust

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Cities: the smart way to ruin the earth more slowly

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Frum, Kagan, Obama, and American Decline

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The suicide of Tyler Clementi, gay Rutgers student

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Novak Djokovic topples Nadal in epic 5-set Australian Open final

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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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