April 2010
1 post
“Decades of research suggest that venting mostly serves to make the venter more...”
– The Importance of Being Angry - WSJ.com
August 2009
1 post
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to the wider Middle East what off-Broadway...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Green Shoots in Palestine - NYTimes.com
July 2009
3 posts
“After John F. Kennedy won, the new president had a June 1961 summit meeting in...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - The Cold War’s Hot Kitchen - NYTimes.com
“Mr. Smith, a former teacher, ran for office on an anticorruption platform,...”
– 3 New Jersey Mayors and 5 Rabbis Among Those Arrested in Federal Inquiry - NYTimes.com
“A Sarah Palin who stepped down for the sake of her family and her media-swarmed...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Palin and Her Enemies - NYTimes.com
June 2009
11 posts
“I live in a tormented state now, knowing all of the pain and suffering that I’ve...”
– Madoff in Court to Learn His Fate - NYTimes.com
“. MTV, which was born in part as a result of Mr. Jackson’s groundbreaking...”
– Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50 - NYTimes.com
“it took 15 minutes of anxious conversation to convince the guards that he had...”
– With a Plan and a Rope, Captives Fled From Taliban - NYTimes.com
“the initial quest to have Moussavi’s votes properly counted and Ahmadinejad...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets - NYTimes.com
“Even if defeated electorally, the Islamists and their regimes have a trump card:...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Virtual Mosque - NYTimes.com
“The set of the show here, with a desk made of sandbags painted as an American...”
– Stephen Colbert Takes His Show on the Road to Baghdad - NYTimes.com
“I was the Beijing bureau chief for this newspaper, and I was cowering behind a...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Bullets Over Beijing - NYTimes.com
“American success in Afghanistan should be measured by “the number of Afghans...”
– U.S. Report Finds Airstrike Errors in Afghan Deaths - NYTimes.com
“It all started with a man in a white shirt who walked into the street and raised...”
– CRACKDOWN IN BEIJING; One Man Can Make a Difference: This One Jousted Briefly With Goliath - The New York Times
“When young Arabs and Muslims see an American president who looks like them, has...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Obama on Obama - NYTimes.com
“G.M. executives became practiced at the art of explaining their problems,...”
– Symbol of America in Motion and Ascendancy, Now Humbled - NYTimes.com
May 2009
54 posts
“Mr. Clinton said one of his biggest regrets was the lack of United States action...”
– Bush-Clinton Policy Talk Strikes a Congenial Tone - NYTimes.com
“Some claim that the Federal Reserve is printing lots of money, which must be...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Big Inflation Scare - NYTimes.com
“Disgust emerged as a protective mechanism against health risks, like feces,...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal - NYTimes.com
“Japanese and South Korean officials acknowledge, they are less concerned about a...”
– Tested Early by North Korea, Obama Has Few Options - NYTimes.com
“Who would have thought that America’s largest state, a state whose economy is...”
– State of Paralysis - Paul Krugman (via jonathanmarcus)
“The main difference between the Obama and Bush administrations concerns not the...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Cheney Lost to Bush - NYTimes.com
“We can do a lot better than a government-run health care system,” says a...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Blue Double Cross - NYTimes.com
“Ahmadinejad was shown after the [missle] launching, waving out of an open-roofed...”
– Iran Test-Fires Missile With 1,200-Mile Range - NYTimes.com
“He said he was taken, along with about 60 others, after being assembled in the...”
– Witch Hunts and Foul Potions Heighten Fear of Leader in Gambia - NYTimes.com
“The war seems to have shattered norms and trained some men to think that when...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - After Wars, Mass Rapes Persist - NYTimes.com
“Being briefed on terror threats as president is a lot different than placating...”
– Flip-Flops and Governance - WSJ.com
“1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight … [which means the recidivism rate...”
– 1 in 7 Transferred From Guantánamo Returns to Terrorism, Pentagon Report Says - NYTimes.com
“Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally...”
– Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories - NYTimes.com
“Roman Catholic bishops have been somewhat distracted, having focused their...”
– Gay Marriage Fight Is Slow to Stir New York Foes - NYTimes.com
“Most of the stories never make their way into print. The public that professes...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - War’s Psychic Toll - NYTimes.com
“When Washington is a profit center, C.E.O.’s are forced to adopt the traits of...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - In Praise of Dullness - NYTimes.com
“On Tuesday morning, researchers will unveil a 47-million-year-old fossil they...”
– The Missing Link … to a Bigger Audience? - NYTimes.com
“G.E. is a responsible party in 52 active Superfund sites across the country”
– G.E. Begins to Dredge Hudson for PCBs - NYTimes.com
“I wanted to warn people whose children were studying abroad and small businesses...”
– The Saturday Profile - A Financial Prophet Online Is Vilified in Reality - Biography - NYTimes.com
“As the white players walked toward the North Carolina College gym, they pulled...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Treasures Lost to Time - NYTimes.com
“A place that holds one important aspect of credit card reform is giving people...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Guns, Geysers and Mr. Reid - NYTimes.com
“It’s a reminder of how quickly we lose the real nuances of governing when you...”
– News Analysis - Obama After Bush - Leading by Second Thought - NYTimes.com
“The first hints of something strange at Apartment 4D came one night last May:...”
– An Inwood Apartment With a Past - NYTimes.com
“All Democrats in favor of standing with your president to shout out the evils of...”
– Potomac Watch: Democrats Discover Gitmo’s Virtues - WSJ.com
“The goal of education is the creation and transmission of knowledge — not the...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - A Degree in English - NYTimes.com
“The average Chrysler dealer sells 303 vehicles a year, compared with 1,292 for a...”
– Chrysler Tells 1 in 4 Dealers to Close - NYTimes.com
“Certainly, one can imagine an Afghanistan or an Iraq that becomes a Jeffersonian...”
– Richard N. Haass - Defining Success Down on Afghanistan, North Korea and Iran - washingtonpost.com
“in a city filled with struggling artists, writers, dancers, singers, academics...”
– Letter - Root, Root, Root for the Taxpayers - NYTimes.com
“This is what has always bothered me about wasteful procurement stories. They end...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Trouble on Air Obama - NYTimes.com
“The American left likes to advertise itself as pro-consumer. But the curious...”
– Target: Intel, and Competition - WSJ.com
“West Africa where many children lack the vitamin, child mortality drops by...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - What a Little Vitamin A Could Do - NYTimes.com
“Ten thousand men were rounded up and coached to make false claims of sterility...”
– ‘A Blatant Extortion’ - WSJ.com
“[His] job entailed salvaging and rebuilding robots that set off roadside bombs”
– Counseling Was Ordered for Soldier in Iraq Shooting - NYTimes.com
“To spend time with these Indiana community bankers is to step into an alternate...”
– We’re Dull, Small Banks Say, and Have Profit to Show for It - NYTimes.com