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Facebook’s ho-hum IPO

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Does Brussels have a secret plan for Greece’s Eurozone exit?

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J Street founder says US politicians live in fear of pro-Israel intimidation

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Former News of the World executive Rebekah Brooks to be charged for perverting justice

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49 mutilated bodies found near Mexico border town courtesy of Zetas drug cartel

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Greece Euro exit fears grow

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IDF closes Palestinian school to make way for West Bank training zone

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News roundup: The day after President Obama’s historic announcement supporting same-sex marriage

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North Carolina voters ban same-sex marriages

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Kadima joins Likud in unity government in Israel

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Hollande wins in France in blow to austerity hawks

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French socialists celebrate. Greek voters reject austerity. Live blogging from Europe (from The Guardian)

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Putin sworn in for third term

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A new allegation of rape against Dominique Strauss-Kahn emerges

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A Chinese dissident is back in Chinese custody. Watch Obama and Romney spin

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Chinese dissident wants to leave on Clinton’s plane

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Hamas’s secret election?

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Ethics group pushes FCC on Fox

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Live updates from the May Day Occupy protests

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Obama deciding the fate of Chinese dissident who sought refuge in US embassy

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British doctor found beheaded in Pakistan

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Syria ceasefire plan is failing

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Rupert Murdoch admits to cover-up of phone-hacking at his company. Says he was misinformed by senior executives

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James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks walk into your office …

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Basement search for Etan Patz ends with no leads

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Wyatt Mason on Regina Spektor

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Disco queen Donna Summer dead at 63

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Meeting Gary Snyder

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Auden’s obsession with the number 7

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The Fast and the Furious and the dying art of driving a stick

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What would Juares do?

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James Wood on Laurent Binet’s HHhH

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RIP Maurice Sendak

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Cornel West’s public and private lives

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The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice

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Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, dies of cancer

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Gary Wills on Robert Caro’s latest installment of his Lyndon Johnson epic biography

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EO Wilson on altruism

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Titanic II: No, it’s not a sequel to the film. It’s another ship.

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TLS: Three new biographies of Elizabeth II

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Ian McEwan: Hand on the Shoulder

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The New York Review of Books review of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve, which just won the Pulitzer

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The New York Film Academy, something of a sham, goes to Africa

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JM Coetzee on Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther

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The Google Art Project

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Whit Stillman and dancing

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My so-called ex-gay life

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Learning to love Mozart

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Thomas Kincade, beloved by middlebrow America, dies

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Why is it so hard to share the road?

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How to be poor

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Minority babies now majority in US

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Eduardo Saverin and the Facebook IPO

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Paul Krugman: Why we regulate

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David Brooks’ parallel universe

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Gay rights in the US, state by state

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Sectarian conflict in Bahrain

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Why there’s no such thing as a perfect chair, or even a good one

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In Fukushima

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Is there a technical solution to global warming?

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East Haven’s taco mayor and anti-immigration politics in Connecticut

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How Arab Israelis consume Arab and Hebrew news

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At least a hundred dead in Indian ferry disaster

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NFL great Junior Seau dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to chest

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The art of the art heist

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Leaving Wall Street

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N+1 on debt

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Did Woodward and Bernstein embellish their account of Deep Throat?

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NYT: How Apple avoids paying billions in taxes

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The internal battle over the future of organized labor

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The problem with Netflix

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The gym-towel theft epidemic

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The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy center

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The Koch brothers vs. the Cato Institute

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Friends pay tribute to the late Christopher Hitchens in New York

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