Carolina Blues
A year after winning the championship, the University of North Carolina's men's basketball team is suffering its worst season in recent history. A New York-based Tar Heel laments.
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A collection of 14257 issues
16 March 2010: Morning
More than 50 new corruption cases opened against Americans who bilked Iraq reconstruction projects. Washington hopes Obama has a strategy for handling Netanyahu; AIPAC allies urge drawdown. Hitchens: Let's not forget that Ratzinger made it a crime to report child rape. Op: China will become the new Middle
Where We Are
Before the literary landscape became littered with all types of annuals entitled Best American This or That, or simply Best Blah Blah Blah 20__, I would look forward to what I took to be a precious yearly harvest. Happily, there is still one book issued every year that I count
Heads You Lose
I suppose it was inevitable that once Caleb Carr (The Alienist) wrote a so-called historical fiction using a real historical figure—in that case, Theodore Roosevelt, from when he was the NYC police commissioner—the reductio ad absurdum would be the employment of a president or royal figure hunting
15 March 2010: Afternoon
Thai protesters hoping to gather 2,000 pints of blood, potentially to douse Government House. Gunmen believed to be linked to Mexican cartels kill a U.S. consulate worker and her husband. Ten things to know about Burkina Faso (because why not?). Op: I am one of those people that
15 March 2010: Morning
Defense official ran private network of contractors, setting up assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Georgia panics after fake TV newscast says the Russians are coming. Brief profile of world's biggest bond investor: backs Obama, stiff on Greece. Guide to Dodd's financial overhaul bill to finally debut
The Big Trouble
If my recall is correct, I have only spoken to Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Blind Side) twice. It seems like more—probably because his books and his journalism (New York Times Magazine or Vanity Fair) are so engaging they seem like natural extensions of our conversations. And given the decent
Remembering the Dead
North African expatriate writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (The Blinding Absence of Light) is well-regarded in his adopted home of France (awarded a Prix Goncourt in 1987) and around the world, having garnered an International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2004 (one impressive aspect of this award is that the
12 March 2010: Weekend
Welcome to Trinidad: The world's newest narcostate. Op: I will never forgive the senile Soviet power for not allowing a single Western mega-rock-group into Moscow in the '70s. New law allows Berlusconi to evade corruption charges again. Must-read: José Saramago's incredible, vicious
Are Your Cats Really Adorable or Just Regular Adorable?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show you the 50 questions on this year’s census you didn't see coming.