March 2012 Archives
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This Week
Wanting to Be Loved
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, some people wanted...
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#TheRooster
Today in the 2012 Tournament of Books
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Portraits by Other Means
Mind the Law
John Henry Browne “Attorney John Henry Browne,” read a headline on the cover of Pacific, a Seattle news magazine. “He shoots from the hip to defend the...
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Gallery
Photographs for 18 Photographers
Pictures where the eye lingers not only on the image, but in it, as if something is waiting still deeper inside.
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Web Songs
The Sound of the Internet
If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to JPGs—into music.
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Husband, Father, Writer, War
I Didn’t See You There
Then I noticed a fleet of jet-black SUVs, windows tinted, creeping down the block. The old man closed his curtains. Street lights kicked on with a buzzing of white light....
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This Week
Growing Pains
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, jungle growth was...
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The Madness Within
Humans Playing Humans
As Mad Men enters its much-anticipated fifth season, the New York psychotherapist who consulted on the show’s development explains why its characters and storylines feel so ineffably real.
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The News From America
Here People Keep Christmas Lights Up All Year Round
The United States is much too big for the nightly news to cover thoroughly. Continuing our series of randomly telephoning people around the country—from Santa Claus, Ind., to Brilliant, Ala.—to find out what’s really going on.
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Portraits by Other Means
Work, Work, Work, Die
Ron Akana, longest-serving flight attendant Yes, Mr. Akana has worked as a flight attendant for 63 years, clocking some 20 million miles along the way, the equivalent of circling the globe about 800...
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Paris, USA
Our French Connection
For some Americans, the French way of life is best. Other people simply prefer “freedom fries.” A two-week journey across the U.S.—passing through a handful of towns named Paris—to find out what Americans really think about France today. (Part three of four.)
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Personal Essays
The Art of Choking
Some people require the Heimlich Maneuver a bit more than the rest of us. A report on the four times—so far—that the author has relied on the assistance of others.
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Gallery
Individuals at War
Photographs of people at war by the co-director of Restrepo, from an upcoming show at New York’s Yossi Milo Gallery.
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
My friends Bex and Todd had shown interest in going to the park, so we decided to meet up there in the afternoon. It was a lovely day fit for...
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This Week
Can’t Look Away
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, we would rather...
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Profiles
H.P. Lovecraft, Author, Is Dead
Today marks the 75th anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft’s death. From Stephen King’s It to “The Call of Cthulhu,” a survey of the 20th century’s greatest horror writer’s afterlife of influence.
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Paris, USA
Our French Connection
For some Americans, the French way of life is best. Other people simply prefer “freedom fries.” A two-week journey across the U.S.—passing through a handful of towns named Paris—to find out what Americans really think about France today. (Part two of four.)
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Portraits by Other Means
Get Me Out of Here
Centennial, Wyo. ...I liked Centennial, with its funky main drag, its ancient police car parked near the highway to deter speeders and, when I first arrived, its five bars to...
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Gallery
The Setup
Three series where the photographer waits until his subject finds a moment of perfect lighting.
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Tournamenting
Rebellion Rules in a Conformist World
Last year, our correspondent entered a March Madness pool with brackets filled out by his mother, who knows nothing about NCAA men’s basketball. He won. Now it’s time for lightning to strike twice.
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Husband, Father, Writer, War
Tensions Run Through It
At the same time, tensions in Lebanon were escalating. The national army was perhaps the most respected institution in a country still reeling from civil war. Around Beirut, soldiers were...
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This Week
Exploding Conventional Wisdom
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, conventional wisdom was...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
Two Sundays ago I trekked out to the Bronx to visit the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage. (Although Poe was better known for bouncing between Richmond and Baltimore, he spent several...
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Portraits by Other Means
Myers-Briggsing Our Leaders
Newt Gingrich As often as not, Mr. Gingrich grasps the extended hand and offers a noncommittal greeting, the same as saying “Nice to see you” at a cocktail...
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Letters From Moscow
Russian Spring
I did it. In doing so, I confirmed a few things for myself: I’m still a Russophile. I’m an old one at that. It’s...
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Paris, USA
Our French Connection
For some Americans, the French way of life is best. Others simply prefer “freedom fries.” A two-week journey across the U.S.—passing through a handful of towns named Paris—to find out what Americans really think about France today. (Parts one through three of four.)
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The Tournament of Books
The 2012 Pre-Game Primer
Booth commentators Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner introduce the eighth annual Tournament of Books, sponsored by Field Notes.
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Profiles
Smoke the Fire
Hank Williams III blew the doors off country music last fall when he released three ambitious, experimental albums all on the same day. A conversation about tradition, hardcore, and punishment.
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Husband, Father, Writer, War
Citizen of Somewhere
Consider the falafel sandwich. At under $2, it was my obvious move. But I was sick and sad, and the kids behind the stove looked like 12-year-olds who should have been...
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Gallery
How I Learned to Love the Bomb
Elegance found inside an Arizona parking lot of retired B-52 bombers, where function and form can be equally disturbing.
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This Week
Austerity Bites
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. Signs of ongoing austerity were...
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End Zone
Postseason
Even if your team makes it to the playoffs, it’s only a brief stay of execution: The season extends, at the most, five weeks. Which means, for those...
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Letters From Moscow
Boots March on Bolotnaya Square
This winter, a burgeoning protest movement laid its cornerstone in a former swamp and up grew hope. Our correspondent talks to protesters, editors, commentators, and Kremlin-watchers in anticipation of this weekend’s election and what comes next.