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Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5%

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Leonhardt - Nov. 07 (News Report) - The official jobless rate excludes millions of people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want to be working full time.

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Obama Faces His Anzio

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - President Obama chose a cautious approach rather than bold action on the economy, and the decision may haunt Democrats for years to come.

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Hark! The Voters Speak!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Gail Collins - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - Endorsements don’t work if they’re oblique and half-hearted, as if they had been sent via Candygram.

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The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Frank Rich - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through 2010, and perhaps beyond.

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Karzai Rival Says He Is Withdrawing From Runoff

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By CARLOTTA GALL, Alissa J. Rubin - Nov. 01 (News) - Abdullah Abdullah announced on Sunday that he would not participate in the Nov. 7 Afghan runoff election, effectively handing a new term to President Hamid Karzai.

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The Defining Moment

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - The health care legislation on the table isn’t perfect, but it’s as good as anyone could reasonably have expected. It is time for everyone to decide which side they’re on.

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Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti, James Risen - Oct. 28 (News Report) - Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and a suspected player in the opium trade, has gotten payments from the C.I.A. for eight years, officials said.

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Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Monica Davey - Oct. 25 - The Medill Innocence Project has been scrutinizing the work of law enforcement for decades. Now prosecutors say they want to scrutinize the students’ methods.

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How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tyler Cowen - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - How government-mandated health insurance could be detrimental to many people it was intended to help.

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Rightist on BBC Panel Draws Protests and Viewers

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John F. Burns - Oct. 24 (News) - The appearance of Nick Griffin, leader of the far right British National Party, on the BBC’s flagship politics show unleashed a storm of protests in London.

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Emanuel at the Epicenter - Then and Now

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Peter Baker - Oct. 22 (Review) - Mr. Emanuel was the driving force behind the Democratic campaign to recapture the House and he hunted down candidates even in unfriendly, conservative districts to find the 15 additional seats he needed. Idealism, as the film vividly shows, took a back seat to the crass bottom-line calculation of who could win.

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‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Rohde - Oct. 20 (Special Report) - The Taliban fighters who kidnapped David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghans were guided by a strident belief that the U.S. was waging a war against Islam. The third installment in Mr. Rohde’s account of his captivity.

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The Banks Are Not Alright

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Oct. 19 (Opinion) - While bank trading operations are highly profitable again, the part of banking that really matters — lending, which fuels investment and job creation — is not.

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Obama Threatens Insurers’ Anti-Trust Exemption

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Peter Baker - Oct. 17 (News) - In a radio address marked by sharp attacks, President Obama threatened to strip the health care industry of its longstanding exemption from federal anti-trust laws.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Impatiently Waiting

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles M. Blow - Oct. 17 (Opinion) - President Obama’s quixotic quest for bipartisanship and his administration’s lack of action has caused the fierce urgency of now to melt into the maddening wait for whenever.

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A Mother, a Sick Son and His Father, the Priest

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Laurie Goodstein - Oct. 16 (Special Report) - A rare look at how the Roman Catholic Church goes to great lengths to keep clergy members’ clandestine relationships hidden and the priests in active ministry.

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Senate panel clears health bill with one Republican vote

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David M. Herszenhorn, Robert Pear - Oct. 13 (Breaking News) - The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday to approve legislation that would reshape the American health care system and provide subsidies to help millions of people buy insurance, as Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, joined all 13 Democrats on the panel in support of the landmark bill.

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A Volley Between Fox News and Obama Administration

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Oct. 12 (News Analysis) - A presidential spokeswoman said, “We don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

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Heckuva Job, Barack

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ross Douthat - Oct. 12 (Opinion) - It was obvious President Obama wishes that the Nobel committee hadn’t put him in this spot. But he should have been brave enough to tell it no.

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Lobbyists Fight Efforts to Save on Health Care

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK - Oct. 11 (News Analysis) - Most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s vow to curb health care costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politics.

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The Uneducated American

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - ...in the years after World War II, America established a commanding position in higher education. But that was then. The rise of American education was, overwhelmingly, the rise of public education — and for the past 30 years our political scene has been dominated by the view that any and all government spending is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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Let Congress Go Without Insurance

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Oct. 08 (Opinion) - What better way to attune our leaders to the needs of their constituents without health insurance than to put them in the same position?

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Analysis Sees Baucus Bill Meeting Obama’s Cost and Deficit Targets

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David M. Herszenhorn, Robert Pear - Oct. 07 (News Report) - The cost analysis is in: the Senate Finance Committee’s health care legislation, as amended during seven days of debate, would cost a projected $829 billion over 10 years, up from $774 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And it would reduce the future federal deficit by $81 billion, up from an earlier projected deficit reduction of $49 billion. That would seem to be good news for Democrats and the White House. President Obama has insisted that the health care bill not add to the deficit and that the total price tag be held to about $900 billion. The Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, was on the Senate floor almost immediately, hailing the results. In its analysis, the budget office found that by 2019 the bill would reduce the number of uninsured Americans by 29 million, leaving about 25 million people uninsured — of whom one-third would be illegal immigrants. This means that the amended bill would cover roughly the same number of people over 10 years as was initially projected despite numerous changes, including some softening of penalties for people who fail to obtain health insurance as required under the legislation. In all, the proportion of Americans with health insurance is expected to rise to 94 percent from 83 percent, the budget office said in its report.

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A Texas-Sized Health Care Failure

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Cappy McGarr - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - THE Senate Finance Committee has for the moment rejected the idea of creating a public health insurance plan. It’s difficult to see how Americans will be able to find good, affordable health insurance without one. But if we are to go forward without a public option, it is more important than ever to make sure that we get another part of health reform right: the exchanges, where it is envisioned that small businesses and people without employer-sponsored insurance could shop for policies of their own.

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Advertising - F.T.C. to Rule Blogs Must Disclose Gifts or Pay for Reviews

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tim Arango - Oct. 06 (News Report) - The government will seek to slow the spread of false “word of mouth” promotions in exchange for free product samples.

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