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'Family Friendly' White House Proves Less So for Many Aides - New York Times

WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

'Family Friendly' White House Proves Less So for Many AidesNew York TimesTo support working parents, the Obamas distributed laptops to aides with families — before those without children — so they could work from home. …and more »

• ‘Family Friendly’ White House Is Less So for Aides - New York Times
• ‘Family Friendly’ White House Proves Less So for Many Aides - New York Times
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Resolved: The New York Times Should Be Staffed By Volunteers, Like Meals On Wheels

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Flaming Eggheads: In the current New Yorker , Malcolm Gladwell gives an energetic pan to Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price . As Anil Dash points out , there's a vehement tone to Gladwell's review that suggests some harder feelings at work than you'd expect in a standard piece of intra-Condé Nast logrolling. Anderson has replied somewhat snippily too. (Disclosure: I know Anderson...

Late at Night and Hard at Work - New York Times

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Late at Night and Hard at WorkNew York TimesHad Cubic Zirconia emerged sometime between 1983 and 1986, the era that it most plainly covets, it would have found a neat home amid the …and more »

Dr Bex Lewis quoted in the New York Times

drbexl searches the 'net (Free subscription) | yesterday

Not that I'm excited by this or anything! Read more on my WordPress blog relating to the Keep Calm and Carry On posters etc.!

Paul Krugman: That ’30s Show | New York Times

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“[T]he deeper the hole gets, the harder it will be to dig ourselves out. The job figures weren’t the only bad news in Thursday’s report, which also showed wages stalling and possibly on the verge of outright decline. That’s a recipe for a descent into Japanese-style deflation, which is very difficult to reverse.” Also see: Japanese [...]

• Making the same mistakes again - Later On
• Paul Krugman: That ’30s Show - Economist's View

Astana Has a Leader (Maybe Two) - New York Times

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Telegraph.co.uk Astana Has a Leader (Maybe Two) New York Times “If Alberto is better,” Lance Armstrong, right, said earlier this week of his Astana teammate, Alberto Contador, “I will ride for him.” By JULIET MACUR MONACO — As his riders made final preparations for the Tour de France, the Astana team manager, ... Armstrong Just May Take a Back Seat Washington Post Tour...

New York Times Talks About Catholic Sisters and Their Fear of the Vatican

Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

The Anchoress has a major post on this that is very good. See Nuns & Sisters & bad hymns . She has a line here I love (which I bold in Red ). Here is a part A few people yesterday asked me to comment on the NY Times piece, but I really have nothing to say. The only reason this is a story at all is because of a rather notoriously unwelcoming (and yes, paranoid) email (approved-for publication...

New York Times - Nollywood Babylon - Inside the Nigerian Film Industry - NYTimes.com

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While Americans sweat the fate of independent film at places like Sundance or South by Southwest, movie-mad Nigerians flock to the outdoor electronic markets of Lagos to buy the latest offerings from Nollywood.

This week's New York Times' Bestsellers (June 30th)

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In hardcover: Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game debuts at number 3. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Laurell K. Hamilton's Skin Trade is down five positions, ending its third week at number 11. Charlaine Harris' Dead and Gone is down one spot, finishing its seventh week on the charts at number 13. Stephenie Meyer's The Host is down four positions, ending the week at...

NYTimes sneers at Christianity and Patriotism

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No surprise here; after all, isn't this kind of antogonism toward America and the faith that the majority of Americans follow, exactly what we've learned to expect from the New York Times?

NYTimes Sneering at Christianity, Patriotism

VOT3R (Free subscription) | 36 minutes ago

It seems that on July fourth, The New York Times saw fit to smirk at both American patriotism and Christianity. A recent Times article about the erection of a giant, though strategically altered, replica of the Statue of Liberty by a showman of a Memphis pastor presented a perfect example of the...

NYTimes Sneering at Christianity, Patriotism

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

It seems that on July fourth, The New York Times saw fit to smirk at both American patriotism and Christianity. A recent Times article about the erection of a giant, though strategically altered, replica of the Statue of Liberty by a showman of a Memphis pastor presented a perfect example of the ridicule and disdain with which the Times views Christianity and American patriotism , both. In Memphis,...

Lawyer Says 2003 Clemens Drug Test Was Negative (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times)

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times : Lawyer Says 2003 Clemens Drug Test Was Negative — In recent months, Alex Rodriguez and Sammy Sosa have been linked to the list of 100 or so players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, the first season such tests were conducted by Major League Baseball.

Days late, and during the "Friday News Dump", New York Times FINALLY reports on Cynthia McKinney

What Really happened (Free subscription) | yesterday

Also Thursday, Palestinian reports said that a girl, 17, had been killed by a shell from an Israeli tank in central Gaza and that several others had been wounded. The Israeli military said an army patrol had come under fire along the border in the evening and fired mortars in response. Military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity under army rules, said initial investigations indicated that...

• Activists Held by Israel for Trying to Break Gaza Blockade - New York Times
• Palestinians killed, wounded in violence - Times of the Internet
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The New York Times' love affair with the Honduran Junta

Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday

"They removed him over fears that he was trying to undermine the Constitution and extend his tenure."