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By David Frum, on May 21st, 2013 Years ago, Ben Stein published a sweet eulogy for his departed father, the economist Herb Stein. Ben wrote of the pang he felt when he saw his father's obsolete Cadillac land yacht parked in the basement of his apartment building, like a horse awaiting its rider.
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By Peter Beinart, on May 20th, 2013 Obama must not let Republicans further weaken the IRS, says Peter Beinart.
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By By JOE DRAPE, on May 16th, 2013 The Phipps family’s savvy business plan, which focuses on its stable’s female bloodlines, is an expensive one, but it helped produce the Kentucky Derby champion Orb.
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 13th, 2013 The Supreme Court has sustained Monsanto Co.’s claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company’s patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer.
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By , on May 13th, 2013
The prime minister arrives in Washington for talks with US President Obama as a debate rages within his party about the UK’s EU membership.
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By By TRIP GABRIEL and STEVEN YACCINO, on May 10th, 2013 Prosecutors say they may seek murder charges against a man accused of abducting three women, saying he forced at least one of them to miscarry.
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 7th, 2013 Lawyers for the James E. Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a Colorado movie theater, say he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
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By By STEVEN LEE MYERS and RICK GLADSTONE, on May 7th, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia jointly intensified pressure on Syria’s combatants to settle a conflict that has killed more than 70,000.
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By , on May 5th, 2013
Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault.
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By By JULIA PRESTON, on May 4th, 2013 The Department of Homeland Security ordered changes after finding that Azamat Tazhayakov, a friend of the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings, used a visa that should have been canceled.
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By By GARDINER HARRIS and EDWARD WONG, on May 2nd, 2013 A standoff between troops along a disputed border has entered a third week, causing alarm in New Delhi.
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By By MARK BITTMAN, on May 1st, 2013 A step-by-step battle plan for a memorable (and pretty impressive) dinner for Mom.
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By By HENRY FOUNTAIN, on April 30th, 2013 Doctors have built an implanted a windpipe, developed with plastic fibers and human cells, in a 2 ½-year-old girl — the youngest person ever to receive a bioengineered organ.
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By By NINA SIEGAL, on April 30th, 2013 Research casts a new light on van Gogh’s work, in an exhibition of the artist’s development at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
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By By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, on April 30th, 2013 For the second time in a week, the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, appeared at a news conference, a moment when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg would have presided.
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By , on April 28th, 2013
A pilot dies after his aircraft comes down at an airfield near Middle Wallop, in Hampshire.
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By , on April 26th, 2013 The Oklahoma City Federal Building tragedy kept this hilarious Mark Katz classic from being delivered.
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By , on April 24th, 2013
Patients are getting lost in UK hospitals because they are constantly being switched from ward to ward amid pressures on A&E departments, nurses say.
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By By DENNIS OVERBYE, on April 18th, 2013 Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission said Thursday that a pair of newly discovered planets in the constellation Lyra appear capable of supporting life.
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By By DECLAN WALSH, on April 18th, 2013 The former military ruler of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, fled a courtroom on Thursday, making a dramatic escape after a judge revoked his bail over a case dating to his years in power.
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Cameron in US as Tory EU row rages
The prime minister arrives in Washington for talks with US President Obama as a debate rages within his party about the UK’s EU membership.
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