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From the New York Times Headlines

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NYTimes.com, April 5-6, 2008.

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APRIL5, 2008:

U.S. Charges Contractor at Iraq Post in Stabbing
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
"The charge was made under expanded authority that the United States Congress provided the military to crack down on contractor abuses."

Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore ?Abortion?
By ROBERT PEAR
"Popline, the world?s largest database on reproductive health, once again will accept the term ?abortion? after being programmed to ignore it since February."

A Legal Filing Alleges a Detainee Was Abused
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
"Friday?s filing claiming abusive interrogation techniques is expected to set the stage for many other challenges centering on the treatment of detainees"

Day on Campaign Trail to Remember Dr. King
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JOHN M. BRODER
"The presidential candidates all commented on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Dr. King?s assassination."

Lines Drawn for Microsoft and Yahoo, and Neither Is Ceding Ground
By MIGUEL HELFT
"Microsoft, which remains steadfast in its refusal to raise its bid for Yahoo, is growing increasingly frustrated with the company?s refusal to enter into negotiations."

Budget Practice Trips Quinn, a Backer of Openness
By DIANE CARDWELL and RAY RIVERA
"The New York City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, has been embarrassed by the discovery of the disturbing system her office used for stashing away taxpayer dollars."

Pataki Slow to Release Documents to Archives
By SAM ROBERTS
"George E. Pataki has shipped 12 years of press releases to the State Archives ? while ignoring archivists? requests for other, perhaps more revealing, internal documents."

Catholic School Teachers Strike Over Health Care and Plan Another Walkout
By JOHN ELIGON
"Catholic social ideals and harsh financial truths are colliding at an inopportune time for the Archdiocese of New York: The Pope is coming to town."

EDITORIAL OBSERVER
The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users
By ADAM COHEN
"If George Orwell had lived in the Internet age, he could have painted a grim picture of how Web monitoring could be used to promote authoritarianism."

OP ED COLUMNIST

Beware the New New Thing
By DAMIAN KULASH Jr.
"It would be absurd to let the handful of companies who connect us to the Internet determine what we can do online"

APRIL 7, 2008:

In Egypt, Technology Helps Spread Discontent of Workers
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
"The calls for a strike underscored a new challenge to the government: rising public outrage and a growing willingness by workers to press their demands by striking."

Court to Rule on Release of Vote Count in Zimbabwe
By CELIA W. DUGGER
"A court in Harare will decide whether to grant the opposition?s demand for the immediate release of the final tally of last week?s presidential vote, or call for a recount."

Trees Block Solar Panels, and a Feud Ends in Court
By FELICITY BARRINGER
"California?s Solar Shade Act was an obscure curiosity until Carolynn Bissett and Richard Treanor were convicted."

Yahoo Is Said to Rebuff Microsoft Threat Over Bid
By MIGUEL HELFT and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
"Yahoo?s is expected to reject merger negotiations with Microsoft and explain why its board believes the current offer price is too low."

Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital
By BRAD STONE
"With the No. 1 source of music sales now an online downloading service, Amazon.com looks at the development of its digital offerings with a sense of urgency."

Behind the Emperor?s Club Escort Service
By RUSS BUETTNER and RAY RIVERA
"A rejuvenated tax specialist, a boarding school pixie, a literature major from Virginia and a clog-wearing nutritionist unwittingly did what political foes could not: bring down Eliot Spitzer."

CITYWIDE
With an Ex-Inmate?s Help, Returning to Life Outside
By DAVID GONZALEZ
"At the Redemption Center in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 17 recently released men and women are trying to find their way back into the world they left."

EDITORIALS:

Another Test for Habeas Corpus
"Supreme Court justices should rule that two American civilians held in Iraq have a right to review by a United States court."

That Old Albany Rut
"Going forward New York Gov. David Paterson will need to re-establish his credentials as a reformer before it is too late."

OP-ED COLUMNISTS:

The Last Wish of Martin Luther King
By TAYLOR BRANCH
"Dr. King challenged everyone to find a Lazarus somewhere. That quest in common becomes the spark of social movements, and is therefore the engine of hope."

Home Economics
By JONATHAN RABAN, DEIRDRE McNAMER, LEE SMITH and THOMAS LYNCH
"The Op-Ed Page asked four writers from around the country to provide quarterly snapshots of their local economies. Here are their final dispatches."

 

 

 

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