الاثنين، 30 أبريل 2012

Afternoon Update: Obama, Silent on Dissident, Urges Freedom in China

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Obama, Silent on Dissident, Urges Freedom in China

By STEVEN LEE MYERS and JANE PERLEZ

President Obama pressed China on Monday to improve its record on human rights, while declining to discuss Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer who escaped house arrest.

In Fight Over Obama Health Law, a Front in Minnesota

By ROBERT PEAR

An icy clash between Minnesota's Democratic governor and Republican lawmakers shows the politics involved in a crucial element of the new federal health care law.

DealBook

Microsoft to Take Stake in Barnes & Noble's Nook

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and JULIE BOSMAN

Microsoft announced on Monday that it would invest $300 million in the Nook division for a 17.6 percent stake.

Profiles in Science

From the Minds of Babes

By NATALIE ANGIER

Elizabeth S. Spelke studies infants and toddlers to understand how the brain works by determining what, if anything, humans are born knowing.

The Caucus

Romney Says He Would Have Order Bin Laden Killing

By MICHAEL BARBARO and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Mitt Romney said, dismissing a challenge by President Obama's campaign.

N.Y. / Region

At 92, a Bandit to Hollywood but a Hero to Soldiers

By ALAN SCHWARZ

Hyman Strachman found a fulfilling hobby after his wife died: sending hundreds of thousands of illicitly copied Hollywood hits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Opinion

Campaign Stops

Culture Warriors Don't Win

By GIL TROY

Is Mitt Romney learning the right lessons from Ronald Reagan? Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich didn't.

BUSINESS
DealBook

Barnes & Noble Shares Leap on News of Microsoft Deal

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

The hedge fund Jana Partners and the billionaire Ronald Burkle are among the big winners as shares of Barnes & Noble surge on the Nook news.

DealBook

Energy Transfer to Buy Sunoco for $5.3 Billion

By MARK SCOTT

Energy Transfer agreed to buy the energy transportation and distribution company Sunoco for $5.3 billion, marking the latest deal in America's fast-expanding oil and natural gas industry.

Agency Scandal Highlights Conference Contracts

By MARTHA C. WHITE

Meeting experts said the uproar over costs for the General Services Administration's 2010 conference shows negotiations for events are largely misunderstood.

Wall Street Slips on Spending Data

By REUTERS

Stocks on Wall Street edged lower following data that showed Americans only modestly increased spending in March.

Consumer Income and Spending Rise

By REUTERS

Household income in the United States rose in March, the Commerce Department said, but consumers only modestly increased spending.

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الأحد، 29 أبريل 2012

News Alert: 7 Reported Dead as Vehicle Falls From Parkway at Bronx Zoo

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As many as seven people were believed to have been killed after a vehicle went over the Bronx River Parkway Sunday afternoon and fell to the street below, just south of the Bronx Zoo, a spokesman for the Fire Department said.

Three of the dead are children, the spokesman, Jim Long, said. All the victims are believed to be have been in the vehicle, Mr. Long said.


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السبت، 28 أبريل 2012

Theater Fanatic Searches for Tennessee Williams' New Play

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الجمعة، 27 أبريل 2012

Afternoon Update: Spain Is Still Waiting for the Payoff From Austerity

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Spain Is Still Waiting for the Payoff From Austerity

By LANDON THOMAS, Jr.

Stringent fiscal policy has failed to attract foreign bond investors to Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and the approach is now being severely tested in Spain.

U.S. Growth Slows to 2.2%, Report Says

By SHAILA DEWAN

Gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 2.2 percent, easing from the prior quarter's rate but maintaining what economists have called a "sustainable" recovery.

Blind Activist Escapes House Arrest in China

By ANDREW JACOBS and JONATHAN ANSFIELD

Chen Guangcheng, the blind rights lawyer who had been under extralegal house arrest for 19 months, escaped from his heavily guarded home and is in hiding.

On Day of Reckoning, Recalling Horror That Swallowed Liberia

By HELENE COOPER

The soldiers of Charles Taylor, who on Thursday was found guilty of war crimes, ripped apart the lives of a reporter's family members in the 1990s.

Florida's Crucial Hispanic Voters Remain Wary of Romney

By TRIP GABRIEL

Mitt Romney is trying to shift the debate away from the harsh immigration rhetoric of the primaries to focus on jobs and the economy.

N.Y. / Region

At 92, a Bandit to Hollywood but a Hero to Soldiers

By ALAN SCHWARZ

Hyman Strachman found a fulfilling hobby after his wife died: sending hundreds of thousands of illicitly copied Hollywood hits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Opinion

Campaign Stops

Culture Warriors Don't Win

By GIL TROY

Is Mitt Romney learning the right lessons from Ronald Reagan? Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich didn't.

BUSINESS

How Swiss Does a Swiss Watch Have to Be?

By RAPHAEL MINDER

The Swiss watch industry wants to tighten requirements so that 80 percent of the value of the watch has to be made locally, rather than in countries like China.

DealBook

Barclays's Board Is Heckled Over Pay

By JULIA WERDIGIER

Facing angry shareholders, the British banking giant pledged to reduce executive pay levels in favor of its investors and apologized for poor communication.

Stocks Edge Higher

By REUTERS

Major market indexes were slightly higher, attempting a fourth consecutive day of gains, after more encouraging earnings reports.

Trouble With the Top Man

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

Chesapeake Energy, whose stock has fallen 45 percent in a year, said it would not extend a controversial compensation plan for Aubrey McClendon that provided him with a right to personally invest in the company's new wells.

British Minister to Hand Over Messages on Murdoch TV Bid

By ALAN COWELL and SARAH LYALL

Jeremy Hunt, the embattled culture minister who has drawn criticism for his dealings with Rupert Murdoch's media empire, promised on Friday to hand over messages to the Leveson inquiry.

Books Update: Migratory Hearts

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On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

Nell Freudenberger

'The Newlyweds'

In Nell Freudenberger's second novel, a Bangladeshi woman and American man meet online and, though they barely know each other, agree to marry.

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Also in the Book Review

'HHhH'

Laurent Binet's novel goes inside the assassination of the SS general Reinhard Heydrich.

'Are You My Mother?'

In a new graphic memoir, a sequel to "Fun Home," Alison Bechdel turns her gaze on her distant and complicated mother.

'When God Talks Back'

Evangelicals draw on the insights of modern psychotherapy and ancient traditions of spiritual formation to learn to pray.

'Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics'

Ross Douthat laments America's departure from its "Christian center."

'The Right-Hand Shore'

Christopher Tilghman's latest novel delves further into the history of a Chesapeake Bay estate.

'The Bully Society'

What drives one teenager to torture another?

'Tinderbox'

Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin offer warnings on how to fight the spread of AIDS in Africa.

'The Song of Achilles'

Madeline Miller retells the "Iliad" from the point of view of Achilles' inseparable companion, Patroclus.

Patrick Flanery

'Absolution'

In this first novel, an aging author and her biographer revisit old grievances in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright: By the Book

The former secretary of state and author of a new memoir about her childhood, "Prague Winter," once wore a mustache in a high school production of "Pride and Prejudice."

Back Page

Susan Cain at the 2012 TED conference.

An Introvert Steps Out

How the author of "Quiet" overcame her retiring personality to deliver a rousing speech at the TED conference.

Carole King

Inside the List

You have to look closely for the dark edges in the songwriter Carole King's humble, earnest memoir, which is at No. 11 in its second week on the list.

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Book Review Podcast

This week, Nell Freudenberger discusses "The Newlyweds," her new novel; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; T. M. Luhrmann talks about how evangelical Christians relate to God; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

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