The space that the designer Rei Kawakubo used for Saturday’s Comme des Garcons show reduced the usual allocation of front-row seats from 80 to 30, and the overall seating from 300 to 160.

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On the Runway: For Commes des Garçons, Kawabuko Chooses Art Over Front Row

Bird experts hope for an early spring and an end to the harsh winters as owl deaths run at three times their usual rate.

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Harsh winters threaten barn owls

President Hosni Mubarak has reacted to calls for his resignation with his usual change-resistant manner.

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Prizing Status Quo, Mubarak Resists Pressure

Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite, who starred in “Inception” and “The Usual Suspects,” has died at the age of 64, his agent said Monday.

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Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies

Harry Potter cast his usual spell on moviegoers Friday: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the latest installment in the long-running series, took in $61.2 million on opening day. Though it didn’t break any all-time records its first day, it…

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Deathly Hallows Rakes it In

This huge and confusing thing we call the United States of America is in the midst of a major epochal reality check, not your usual, garden-variety recession. The roots of today’s crises go back at least 60 years or more. Politics in such a crisis state is naturally volatile, swinging this way, then that way, affected by fear and pride and all the usual human emotions. Like the stock market, electoral politics operates with rapid, shifting en-mass movements like a school of little fish into which one throws a rock. read more

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OK Mr. Boehner, Let’s Really Cut the Budget

The soldiers charged with murders of Afghan civilians operated out of their usual chain of command, interviews and documents show.

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G.I.’s Accused in Deaths Were Isolated From Officers

On June 5, 2010, Mark Wedeven arrived at his usual climbing spot on Washington’s Mount Rainier. He had climbed the mountain since a boy scout expedition at age 13 and had a deep passion for the highest mountain in the state. Rangers had declared the mountain unsafe that day, but 29-year-old Wedeven was not among the ones warned. As The Bellingham Herald reports, he got to 12,000 feet when he was swept away by an avalanche.

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Mark Wedeven struck down by avalanche on Mount Rainier