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    Does Emotion Ever Have a Role in Foreign Policy?

    Jun 01, 2012 03:05 PM EDT

    ... year-old who described how he dropped to the floor in his house after his family members had been murdered, smeared his six-year-old brother's blood on himself, and played dead. These are the scenes we remember and struggle with, passed along by journalists, as we think about ...

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    The Silent, Deadly Epidemic of Non-Communicable Disease

    Sep 08, 2011 05:00 PM EDT

    ... in the richest countries on earth? Obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes...do these changes simply mean people in poor countries are becoming more like their brothers and sisters in the rich world? Sure, but with a key difference. In wealthy countries, individuals, insurance companies, and governments spend 10, 50, 100 ...

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    British Resident Suspected in Sweden Bombing, North Korea Warns of War

    Dec 13, 2010 01:25 PM EDT

    ... news agency, referring to Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan and to a cartoon depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, saying "so will your children, daughters, brothers and sisters die, like our brothers, sister and children die." North Korea Warns of Nuclear War on Korean Peninsula North Korea's state-run ...

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    Conversation: Jonathan Franzen

    Sep 30, 2010 08:00 PM EDT

    ... a very powerful experience of it, these really giant figures in my life, and I was this little kid and I had two much older brothers and these powerful and often clashing parents, and every novel I’ve written — it’s been four novels — I’ve tried to draw on ...

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    Conversation: Ethan Hawke on Directing Shepard's 'A Lie of the Mind'

    Feb 24, 2010 07:08 PM EDT

    ... a major off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s 1985 play, “A Lie of the Mind,” produced by the New Group. The story of two brothers, a pair of highly dysfunctional families in the American West and a husband who mistakenly thinks he’s beaten his wife to death, “A ...

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    Why Can't We Let Too-Big-to-Fail Companies Fail?

    Jan 06, 2010 05:43 PM EDT

    ... m afraid not. Or more to the point, OTHERS are afraid not. The reason they’ve been saved is that when one wasn’t — Lehman Brothers, thought NOT too big to fail — the world financial system pretty much froze. No one dares chance that again. The real question, then, is ...

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    Levon Helm: Rambling on the Roots

    Feb 02, 2009 05:35 PM EDT

    ... the early 1980s (replacing guitarist Robbie Robertson) and played until 1996, when Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer. The voice known from songs like “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” fell silent, but eventually returned. Helm chose to record songs his parents used to sing, and ...

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    Bernanke and Paulson Urge Congress to Act; Lawmakers Call for More Time

    Sep 23, 2008 04:00 PM EDT

    ... inclined to lend and easing one of the biggest choke points in the credit crisis. If the plan works, it could help lift a major weight off the sputtering national economy. Paulson calls the effort "the single most effective thing" that can be done to help "the American people and ...

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    Profiles of the Troubled Financial Giants

    Sep 22, 2008 05:10 PM EDT

    INVESTMENT BANKS Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the last surviving members of the big five investment banks that ruled Wall Street for the past 20 years, were given approval by the Federal Reserve to turn themselves into bank holding companies as the financial sector continues to buckle under the weight ...

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    House Majority Leader DeLay Criticized over Ethics Concerns

    Mar 15, 2005 05:00 AM EDT

    House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, on Tuesday categorically denied allegations that two of his overseas trips were paid for by special interest groups.