Editor's Letter
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Editor's Letter: It seemed like a good idea at the time
feature Dear Reader: Okay, okay, we should not have sacrificed the Music Page for the Puzzle Page.
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Editor's Letter: Their disaster can be our disaster, too
feature It’s not every day you can pull up a chair and wait for a natural disaster to show up. But that’s what Hawaiians did last week, as they studied the horizon, searching for a tsunami racing 6,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
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Editor's Letter: Dear friends
feature While some in Washington use weasel words to shirk responsibility, I’ve always made a habit of honest talk—which is how I’ll address your question about federal spending. If by "spending" you mean...
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Editor's Letter: New Yorkers pull a NIMBY
feature Until recently, many New Yorkers were relishing the opportunity to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants to justice near the scene of their monstrous crime.
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Editor's letter: A new political landscape
feature The Republican attempt to unseat Barack Obama has revealed two essential truths about the nation's electorate.
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Editor's letter: The myth of social mobility
feature Americans believe that “moving on up” is more likely to happen here in the land of opportunity than anywhere on earth.
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Editor's letter: Sandy's chaos
feature I’m reasonably eager to come to work every Monday morning, but this is the first time I’ve walked up five flights of stairs in the dark and kicked in a door to get to my desk.
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Editor's letter: Turning away from football
feature The suicide of Junior Seau has once again raised the issue of the brain damage suffered by professional football players.
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Editor's letter: The nice guy defense
feature If Rajat Gupta and Lance Armstrong thought their good works would exempt their sins from scrutiny, they were mistaken.
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Editor's letter: Another banking scandal
feature Investigators have only begun unraveling the Libor scandal, and more nauseating revelations are sure to come.
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Editor's Letter: The tip of an iceberg
feature Whenever a prominent pillar of the community is accused of some form of sexual misconduct, friends and admirers insist that the charges don’t square with the really fine person they know.
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Editor's Letter: Advice from the older you
feature If you were to compose a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would you say?
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Editor's Letter: The upcoming presidential campaign
feature We are heading into what may be the dirtiest presidential campaign in history—at least in pure mega-tonnage of dirt.
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Editor's Letter: Who should pay?
feature In theory, most people accept the need to make do with less. In practice, we think it would be far fairer for someone else to surrender benefits and pay higher taxes.
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