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  Her Father's Trial - What's life like for a child of the Patriot Act?

  This semester at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, a professor kicked off a seminar on newspaper reporting by asking his students a few questions. One woman, he knew from his files, had attended the University of South Florida. "We...

  by John Gravois on December 13, 2005

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  Home for the Holidays - 'Tis the Season for Sneaking Around at Mom and Dad's

  The holiday season offers candy, parties, and for many of us, visits with family. Families can be an odd mix of devoted love and constant aggravation. Throw significant others in the mix and things can get dicey. Taking them home, for the first or 15...

  by Rachel Kramer Bussel on December 13, 2005

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  Make Levees, Not War - Serious hurricane protection could take 30 years to build

  Make Levees, Not War: That's the most popular slogan among several Katrina T-shirts seen around New Orleans. Without stronger, reinforced levees, everyone in New Orleans agrees, the recovery is doomed. So many breathed a sigh of relief on December 1...

  by Anya Kamenetz on December 13, 2005

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  Bush Had No Choice on Torture Ban - Evidence of 'enhanced interrogation' just kept piling up

  George Bush's retreat on tortureas shown by his agreeing yesterday not to veto a measure backed by Senator John McCain that would ban U.S. interrogators from engaging in itcomes less because he checked his conscience, than because he had no other c...

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  A Half-Century of Spying on U.S. Citizens - From Able Danger to Oklahoma City, evidence of domestic intelligence

  Washington, D.C.This mornings revelation of spying on Americans by the National Security Agency caused an uproar in the Senate, with members demanding an explanation from President Bush. The Senate then refused to authorize the extension of cer...

  by James Ridgeway on December 13, 2005

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  Astor Wines to Leave Astor Place - Village institution to open wine school, library

  "It is going to be, to my knowledge, the only green wine store in the United States," said Astor Wines & Spirits owner Andrew Fisher, elaborating on his plans for the Fisher family liquor shop that has occupied Astor Place for the past 38 years. In F...

  by Corina Zappia on December 13, 2005

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  Coffee Abuse - Starbucks Christmas Lattes: What the hell?

  I've only tasted hazlenut coffee by accident. America's flavored coffee movement, which initially seemed like a fad that would quickly disappear, has really passed me by. I'm starting to feel like one of those kids who grew up without TV, and doesn't...

  by Nina Lalli on December 13, 2005

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  Tight and Neat - I always dreamed of living in a place like this. I sucked it up and paid the broker's fee.

  Location Hell's Kitchen Rent $1,400 (market) Square feet 370 (studio in walk-up building) Occupant Brian Anstey (managing art director, Entertainment Weekly) This will be the Christmas column because you have a tree. Perfect angles in here....

  by Toni Schlesinger on December 13, 2005

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  Mr. Bring-'Em-Home - An interview with Representative John Murtha

  He's drawn the scorn of the Bush administration and Iraq war supporters for coming out last month in favor of a rapid drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq. Now Representative John Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran known...

  by Laura Rozen on December 13, 2005

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  Bush Just Keeps on Talking - President says wiretaps will continue, and so will his speeches and press conferences and photo ops and

  WASHINGTON, D.C.When even Matt Drudge starts noticing the sudden gabbiness of President Bush, you know something's up. Readers of the Drudge Report were treated this morning to a photo of Bush with the caption of "Now a Press Conference." Turns ou...

  by James Ridgeway on December 13, 2005

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  'It's a Wonderful Presidency!'

  by Ward Sutton on December 13, 2005

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  Bush's Spin Doctor - Condoleezza Rice's failed European mission to reignite faith in U.S. rule of law

  Around the world we are talking to people about the importance of the rule of law, and so we have to also live . . . under the rule of law. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Brussels, December 8 The United States said Friday that it would...

  by Nat Hentoff on December 13, 2005

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  Wiretaps: Two Who Got Away - President Bushunawares?trumpets botched case

  WASHINGTON, D.C.When President Bush acknowledged ordering the National Security Agency to intercept domestic phone communications between terrorists here and terrorists abroad, he gave as an example the activities of two hijackers who lived in t...

  by James Ridgeway on December 13, 2005

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  I Smell Dead People - If you visit 'Bodies: The Exhibition' do so slowly, and with great care

  Outside an exhibit of the dead, a ticket for which is $24.50, you will encounter the following: The Gap, a Baby Gap, a Guess store, Brookstones, The Body Shop, J. Crew, and a boldly-lettered sandwich board for the Buskers Hall of Fame. There is one e...

  by Nathan Deuel on December 13, 2005

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  NY Mirror

  It's time for the eagerly unawaited year-end awards column, which, like everything from Million Dollar Baby to War of the Worlds to The March of the Penguins, will be narrated by the mellifluous tones of MORGAN FREEMAN. Or it would have been had h...

  by Michael Musto on December 13, 2005

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  Life Lesson - He took a gig with Teach for America in New Orleans and ended up working for FEMA

  New OrleansIf things were normal in Louisiana right now, Colin Reingold would be living a made-for-Showtime inspirational movie. The tall, blond, bearded Yale grad, 25, had been on a typically meandering post-college path. First, he did a year abroa...

  by Anya Kamenetz on December 13, 2005

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  Tortured Logic - McCain-Bush deal has a big loophole

  The McCain-Bush accommodation on torture may well turn out to be a disappointment to those who thought that, at long last, the government would embrace a simple, clear ban on torture. Instead, the actual agreement is loaded with coded phraseology tha...

  by James Ridgeway with Michael Roston on December 13, 2005

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  Jack Anderson: An Appreciation - The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

  Former columnist and muckraker Jack Anderson died on Saturday, quietly at his home. He was 83 years old, and suffering from Parkinson's. From Joe McCarthy to Richard Nixon, he took them all on. Despite all his shortcomings, when it came to his j...

  by Murray S. Waas on December 13, 2005

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  EPA Screws New York - New plan for cleaning up 9-11 toxins worse than the old one

  Just four months ago, on the fourth anniversary of 9-11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a message to New Yorkers: Trust us. At the time, the agency was locked in a debate with dozens of people who live and work in Lower Manhattan ove...

  by Kristen Lombardi on December 13, 2005

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  Selling Kurdistan - With the rest of Iraq descending into civil war, Kurds hard-sell their state within a state

  Erbil, IraqFor days leading up to the December 15 federal elections, this northern city hosts what is probably the world's biggest round-the-clock outdoor party. Kurds in traditional dressthe men in drab trousers and tunics, the women in colorful...

  by David Axe on December 13, 2005