Editor's Letter
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Editor's Letter: The Outrage Game
feature It seems that a day doesn’t go by without some offended party demanding an apology for some arguably outrageous slur.
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Editor's Letter: A margin for error
feature The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's admission that it keeps two train schedules for its commuter lines—one for the public and one for train crews—is the most cheering news I’ve heard in ages. <
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Editor's Letter: Bob Dole sends his regrets
feature Political gamesmanship and health reform
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Editor's Letter: Barack Obama, war president?
feature Americans would very much like to be done with the “war on terror,” but “turning the page” is a lot easier in political rhetoric than it is in reality.
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Editor's Letter: Collision insurance: A knife vs. a kiss
feature There are 8 million people in New York City, and sometimes they bump in into each other, as Sirmone McCaulla and Christopher Gutierrez did on the sidewalk.
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Editor's Letter: Reforming America’s public schools
feature At the conventions of the two national teachers unions this month, President Obama was persona non grata and Education Secretary Arne Duncan was denounced in absentia.
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Editor's Letter: The money-happiness nexus
feature A study of more than 136,000 people in 132 countries was the first to differentiate between “life satisfaction”—respondents’ overall sense of how it’s going—and day-to-day emotions like feeling upbeat or blah.
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Editor's Letter: Advocates for truth
feature I found it striking that veteran journalist Daniel Schorr passed away last week just as tens of thousands of classified U.S. documents relating to the Afghanistan war were published by WikiLeaks.
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Editor's Letter: A marriage that lasts
feature What, you have to wonder, did Chelsea learn about marriage from her parents’ notorious union? While countless other marriages have fallen apart, something kept the Clintons together.
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Editor's Letter: Total transparency or rebellion?
feature Have you ever sent a snarky e-mail you wouldn’t want published?
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Editor's Letter: Human fallibility
feature Let us not put too much trust in those who navigate this world with smug certainty; the truly wise concede their fallibility up front, and keep learning from their mistakes.
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Editor's Letter: Older and happier
feature A new study found that people in the turbulent rapids of life, in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, are actually quite unhappy most of the time—stressed, confused, full of self-doubt.
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Editor's Letter: How we meet the enemy
feature Having searched for common ground among scheming sheiks, will the Iraq and Afghanistan vets who return home and run for public office be able to use similar skills to straddle the divide between their blue and red compatriots?
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Editor's Letter: "Sealing the borders"
feature In 1986, the House of Representatives demanded that the Pentagon “seal the borders” within 45 days against illegal drugs.
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