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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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Editor's Letter: Still clueless about how to educate our kids
feature Diane Ravitch, one of the nation’s most influential education policy advocates admits she was wrong, wrong, wrong about the policies she long championed.
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Editor's Letter: The aid flotilla
feature The complex truth is that the terrorists who run Hamas really are committed to killing Israelis, while innocent Gazans really are suffering under the blockade.
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Editor's Letter: Our chaotic times
feature I lifted my hand to wave, but her head was fixed straight ahead. All I could do was stand and watch as the ground beneath me registered a subtle quake.
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