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Editor's Letter: The democratic impulse
feature Marathon season is upon us, and once again elite runners are at odds with the growing number of average running Joes who enter the contest and straggle toward the finish line.
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Editor's Letter: The “Aarrggghhh!” element and global warming
feature The 2009 hurricane season officially ended this week, and in case you hadn’t noticed (good news is no news), not a single hurricane-level storm touched down in the U.S. Not one.
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Editor's Letter: Our shrinking brains
feature As if life weren’t complicated enough, now we have to get our heads around this: The human brain has been shrinking.
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Editor's Letter: Bailouts and a level playing field
feature It’s actually quite fitting that the Yankees are, at this miserable juncture in history, once again baseball’s champions.
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Editor's Letter: When Citigroup was First National City Bank
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Editor's Letter: The discomfiting currency of 1929
feature Learning a lesson from the Great Depression
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Editor's Letter: What will happen to the "green" sensibility now that the price of gas has gone down?
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Editor's Letter: The new N-word
feature Why do officials bristle at the suggestion that they are moving toward bank "nationalization"?
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Editor's Letter: Merry Christmas, my friends, and happy Hanukkah
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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: The appeal of boundaries and limits
feature According to Facebook’s “in-house sociologist,” the average Facebook user has 120 friends in his or her network, but maintains a genuine rapport with only a handful. Is there a natural curb to our appetite for mor
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Editor's Letter: Alone with one's self
feature Does the Facebook generation live too much in the blab-o-sphere to appreciate the value of a little solitude?
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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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