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Editor's Letter
feature When you’re running for president, you’ll take any endorsement you can get—especially if it’s from a celebrity. In his uphill quest to overtake Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama is now stumping through Iowa with Oprah Winfrey, hoping that the queen of daytime
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Editor's Letter: A taste of our own medicine
feature Now that newspapers have fallen on hard times, the industry finds itself in the unusual position of being on the receiving end of well-intentioned, if sometimes mistaken, advice.
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Editor's Letter: When bad news is also good news
feature There is—there really is—a silver lining in the Wall Street meltdown.
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Editor's Letter: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions
feature In spite of their pledges and promises, the world’s industrialized nations are unlikely to take serious action to cut carbon emissions.
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Editor's Letter: The great American vacation
feature The great American vacation is slipping away. It is increasingly reduced to a couple of days tacked on to a long weekend.
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Editor's Letter: How stupid do they think we are?, How stupid are we?
feature What do AIU, Bank of America Home Loans, Ally Bank, AirTran, The Altria Group, and Xe have in common?
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Editor's Letter: Neda Agha-Soltan
feature Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships. In death, Neda’s face, too, has acquired force, though the extent, and consequences, of its political power are not yet clear.
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Editor's Letter: India's urban slums
feature A great deal of fanfare was made over the two child stars of Slumdog Millionaire when the shantytowns in which they lived were razed. What will become of their less famous neighbors?
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Editor's Letter: Rationing health care
feature Health-care rationing sounds cold and heartless, except when you consider that the only real alternative to rationing is unlimited medical treatment—including a refusal to “lose” the battle with death even when de
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Editor's Letter: California and New York at the edge
feature In California and New York, the public interest has been sacrificed to petty, entrenched partisanship.
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Editor's Letter: The end of voice mail?
feature People under 30 are four times more likely to respond within minutes to a text message than to a voice message.
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Editor's Letter: End Times for the shopping mall?
feature In my suburban area there are a half-dozen small, medium, and large malls, and these meccas of consumption are now often eerily quiet.
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Editor's Letter: O, be some other name!
feature Hog farmers and pork producers would like us to call the swine flu “the North American flu.” And it is not only the pork industry that is suffering from irresponsible naming conventions.
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Editor's Letter: Why pundits misjudge
feature Presidents are powerful men, but not everything that happens in the world is within their control.
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