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Is This Teen Girl A 'Cougar'?

2012-05-30T09:58:15Z

Bringing a date from a lower grade level to prom is a ritual almost as old as the dance itself. Guys have long been asking sophomore and junior girls ...

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Jason Salzman: New York Times Sends Wake-up Call to Major Front-Range Media

2012-05-30T12:02:21Z

The name "Tisha Casida" has yet to appear in the Denver Post, and other legacy media in Denver, but that didn't stop The New York Times from including Casida in a front page article Wednesday.

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Alan Singer: School Budgets Pass, Students Continue to Lose

2012-05-30T11:30:43Z

If you keep cutting the budget, the school system will eventually fall apart, maybe not this year, maybe not the next, but it is going to happen.

Read more: Uniondale New York, Public Schools, Newsday, Long Island, Andrew Cuomo, Education, Budget Cuts, Budget, New York Times, Public Education, School Budget Cuts, New York News

Robert Teitelman: The Complexity of the Simplicity Solution

2012-05-30T10:22:18Z

If JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s big ugly trade managed to escape the bank's internal risk management operation -- not to say regulators -- how would that have found its reflection in the bank's overall risk number? It's a rule: It's the stuff we don't know, or don't want to know, that tends to kill us.

Read more: New York Times, Robert Teitelman, Sallie Krawcheck, Joe Nocera, Dodd-Frank, JPMorgan Chase, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Devan Sipher: New York Times 'Vows' Writer Recalls His 'First Divorce'

2012-05-30T03:00:52Z

At the Times, it makes no difference if you're writing an article about a wedding or a Page One story, you're expected to do thorough investigating and rigorous fact-checking. But can love be fact-checked?

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Jamil Zaki: Failing to Understand the Social Sciences

2012-05-29T16:58:57Z

Gutting succumbs to an old stereotype: believing that there is a bright line between "hard" natural sciences -- which produce real information -- and "soft" social sciences, which do not.

Read more: Anthropology, Social Science, New York Times, Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Nyt, Media News

Fox News Chief Makes False Attack On New York Times

2012-05-29T11:36:20Z

A transcript of Roger Ailes' fiery talk at Ohio University revealed that the Fox News chief falsely accused The New York Times of publishing a questio...

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Daniel R. Schwarz: What is the Cultural Significance of Facebook's IPO?

2012-05-29T11:18:23Z

Worrying about the fluctuating price of Facebook and whether Morgan Stanley properly managed the IPO misses the major historical and cultural point of what happened.

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Lee Crockett: The Bottom Line: A Small 'Catch' in Recent Fisheries Coverage

2012-05-29T09:47:17Z

I want to make an important distinction between catch limits and catch shares, a difference that has been inadequately explained by NOAA and has resulted in some understandable confusion.

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Steven Cohen: Clean Energy Caught in the Political Mire

2012-05-29T08:24:00Z

Forget about oil depletion allowances -- how about the construction of the interstate highway system? How about the deduction for mortgage interest and property tax? Both stimulated increased use of fossil fuels.

Read more: Renewable Energy, Politics, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Sustainability, New York Times, Green News

Harry Shearer: Could New York Be Wronger About New Orleans?

2012-05-28T18:47:14Z

Where have all the advertisers gone? In New Orleans, as elsewhere, classified advertising has moved online. That onetime cash cow ain't givin milk no more. But another dominant advertising segment has suffered a different fate.

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Daniel R. Schwarz: What Is the Cultural Significance of Facebook's May 18, 2012 IPO?

2012-05-27T20:13:23Z

I am less interested in the business model than the value our culture is putting on what is still perhaps the most important news gathering institution in the world -- versus the value it is placing on a social media company.

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Dark Days At The New York Times

2012-05-27T07:18:00Z

As the paper's stock price has declined in recent years, there has been increasing unease among the Ochs-Sulzberger clan, who control the paper throug...

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Laverne H. Bardy: Why I Love Eating at Restaurants

2012-05-24T19:03:55Z

Most retirees spend money doing things they couldn't afford or didn't have time for before they retired. My guilty pleasure is eating out. Here's why.

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Robert Teitelman: Glass-Steagall and Private Equity: Fact and Fiction

2012-05-24T09:57:01Z

The "success" of private equity must mean that everyone must be an entrepreneur, an engineer or an M.B.A. "Change" that worked in the conditions of the '70s must be the solution in times that even Brooks admits are "radically different."

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Andy Plesser: (Video) New York Times Debuts Google+ 'Hangouts On Air' As Video Platform

2012-05-23T13:05:23Z

The New York Times used Google+ 'Hangouts On Air,' streaming live video on its home page, YouTube channel and Google+ page for the first time. ...

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Jerry Lanson: Memo to The New York Times : The Public Editor Needn't Wear a Bow Tie

2012-05-23T11:53:57Z

I confess. I am a man of words and thus, increasingly, a dinosaur. The New York Times' public editor, conduit to America's most influential news organization, should be more.

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Paula Crossfield: Cooking for Solutions: An Alternative to Chef-Provocateurs

2012-05-22T16:58:26Z

The proliferation of farm-to-table restaurants, farmers' markets and small food businesses, and the increased visibility of food policy issues in the media all speak to a sea change under way.

Read more: Environment, Sustainability, New York Times, Chefs, Thomas Keller, Agriculture, Cooking for Solutions, Food News

Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Men in Pink

2012-05-22T10:40:11Z

I saw a piece in the NYT about men taking jobs in traditionally female-dominated fields. It features male dental assistants, nurses (paging Gaylord Focker!) and teachers. Which is cool. Mostly.

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David Crisanti: Citizen Bane

2012-05-21T14:46:43Z

I agree with Jonathan Macey's opinion piece in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal ("Losing Money isn't a Crime") that we don't need to vilify JPMorgan for...

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New Republic Changes Top Editor

2012-05-20T18:01:53Z

NEW YORK -- Franklin Foer is returning as editor of the New Republic, the first major shake-up at the political magazine since Facebook co-founder Chr...

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Tim Giago: Touching an Eagle Feather to the Brow of Warren Buffett

2012-05-20T14:36:08Z

When I started NSN, even some of my best friends thought I was losing it. The comment I heard the most was, "Newspapers are dying so why are you starting one now?"

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GOP-Driven Earmark Puts $17,000 Pans On Army Aircraft

2012-05-19T13:53:28Z

WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, the military had its infamous $800 toilet seat. Today, it has a $17,000 drip pan....

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Obama's War On Leaks

2012-05-18T14:48:51Z

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Obama administration Friday morning continued its headlong attack on the right of reporters to protect their confidential sources...

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Former NYT Ombud Goes To Broadway

2012-05-18T14:25:49Z

NEW YORK (AP) — There's an easy trick to writing a good Jewish joke — just make the idiot at the center of it sound Jewish.
"Any jo...

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