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The emblem of the militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq was prominent in a recent rally in Baghdad that celebrated attacks on Americans. |
Political Role for Militants Worsens Fault Lines in Iraq
By JACK HEALY and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
A move by Iraq's government to welcome a deadly insurgent group into its political system is adding to sectarian tensions and could tilt the nation's center of gravity closer to Iran. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/world/middleeast/iraqi-moves-to-embrace-militia-opens-new-fault-lines.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
Explosions Across Iraq Kill Dozens Amid Political Crisis
Political Memo
Obama Testing 2-Tier Strategy for Re-election
By HELENE COOPER
From making a recess appointment to inserting itself into the Iowa caucuses, the Obama campaign is trying to tie his rivals to the unpopular Congress.
After Santorum Left Senate, Familiar Hands Reached Out
By MIKE McINTIRE and MICHAEL LUO
When he lost his 2006 re-election bid, Rick Santorum built a lucrative career in the private sector based largely on income from businesses his work in Congress had benefited.
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"It's not a good sign that Maliki is so keen to work with a group that has been responsible for the deaths of many Americans."
MARISA COCHRANE SULLIVAN, director of the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, on efforts by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to include the militant group Asaib Ahl al-Haq in Iraqi politics.
Magazine
Slide Show: A Day With Stephen Colbert
A suburban dad. A fictional television blowhard. And now a political money launderer.
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Opinion
Opinionator - Fixes
In a Second Career, Working to Make a Difference
By TINA ROSENBERG
ReServe, a program that helps people over 55 find meaningful work, doesn't pay much, but it has other benefits.
WORLD
Immigration Upended
Migrants' New Paths Reshaping Latin America
By DAMIEN CAVE
In Mexico and Latin America, old migratory patterns are changing as migrants move to a wider range of cities and countries, creating regional challenges and opportunities. The Road to Oaxaca
Articles in this series are exploring the changing patterns of immigration between the United States and Mexico.
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Prosecutors in Egypt Call for Mubarak to Be Hanged
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
In their closing arguments at the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, prosecutors said he was ultimately responsible for the killings of hundreds of peaceful protesters.
NEW WORK A tightened grip on diamond mining by Zimbabwe’s president has stifled Mozambican smugglers. Many now pan for gold instead. |
By JOHN ELIGON
Ever since President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe began to control the diamond mines on the Mozambique border, the nearby towns have become shadows of what they once were.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/world/africa/diamond-crackdown-in-mozambique-leaves-smugglers-behind.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22
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U.S.
Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain
By ANNIE LOWREY
Effects on students' lives beyond academics, in areas as varied as teenage-pregnancy and adult earnings, are cited.
Graphic: Benefits of Good Teachers
Students of Online Schools Are Lagging
By JENNY ANDERSON
Far fewer of them are proving proficient on standardized tests compared with their peers in other privately managed charter schools and in traditional public schools.
In Act of Defiance, Democrat Stalls Obama Choice for Court
By KATE ZERNIKE
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, without explanation, is holding up President Obama's nomination of Patty Shwartz to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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POLITICS
Students Jeer Santorum on New Hampshire Blitz
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
At a midday event in front of a gathering of college students, Mr. Santorum compared allowing gay couples to marry to polygamy, apparently equating the two as equally undesirable.
The Caucus Independent Voices: Katharine Q. Seelye reports from New Hampshire on the role of Independent voters in New Hampshire, who can participate in the Republican primary on Tuesday. |
Voters Without a Party Splinter New Hampshire
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Undeclared voters can vote in the primaries for either party and between 35 percent and 40 percent of them are expected to turn out for the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/us/politics/undeclared-voters-have-some-pull-in-new-hampshire.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha24
The Caucus
Boston Globe Endorses Huntsman
By JIM RUTENBERG
The endorsement provides a potentially major boost to Jon M. Huntsman Jr.'s dark-horse candidacy.
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BUSINESS
DealBook
Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times Bill Croll, an Oneida designer, works on a prototype for a sterling spoon. |
Private Equity Firm Sees a Future in Flatware
By KEVIN ROOSE
Oneida's new owner, Monomoy Capital Partners, is helping the 132-year-old cutlery company rise from the aftermath of bankruptcy, and expansion is now the goal.
DealBook
MF Global Inquiry Turns to Its Primary Regulator
By BEN PROTESS and AZAM AHMED
Federal authorities investigating the collapse of MF Global have expanded their inquiry to include the CME Group, the operator of the main exchange where the firm conducted business.
A Coal-Fired Plant That Is Eager for U.S. Rules
By MATTHEW L. WALD
After investing $885 million on retrofits, Constellation Energy in Maryland is frustrated by a court-ordered delay on tighter pollution rules.
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TECHNOLOGY
DealBook
Barnes & Noble Considers Spinning Off Its Nook Unit
By JULIE BOSMAN and MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED
The company said that it is beginning "strategic exploratory work" to separate the Nook division to help the e-reader business grow. But a spinoff would raise questions about Barnes & Noble's ultimate fate.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/barnes-noble-considers-spinning-off-its-nook-unit/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26
Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World's Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.
Arieso, a company in Newbury, England, that advises mobile operators in Europe, the United States and Africa, documented the statistical gap when it tracked 1.1 million customers of a European mobile operator during a 24-hour period in November.
The gap between extreme users and the rest of the population is widening, according to Arieso. In 2009, the top 3 percent of heavy users generated 40 percent of network traffic. Now, Arieso said, these users pump out 70 percent of the traffic. >> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/technology/top-1-of-mobile-users-use-half-of-worlds-wireless-bandwidth.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26
Making a Play for Video Gamers
By DANIA SAADI
Thanks to a computer-savvy young generation and a high level of disposable income, the Middle East is seen as a booming market for both creative talent and potential video-game buyers.
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SPORTS
Bolton's Adam Bogdan flailed at a ball hit by Everton's Tim Howard on Wednesday. |
He Shoots. He Scores?
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
When Tim Howard, the American goalkeeper for the English club Everton, scored a goal Wednesday, he joined a long list of mostly accidental scorers in soccer and several other sports.
Mr. Met Keeps His Head Up
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
These are dark times for Mets fans, but the team's lovable mascot has never had a losing streak.
Slide Show: Step Right Up and Meet Mr. Met
A Sportswriter's Hall of Fame Tribute Is Out of Place to Some
By ANDREW KEH
The columnist Bill Conlin's prominent portrait in the Baseball Hall of Fame's Scribes and Mikemen exhibit preceded accusations against him of child molesting.
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ARTS
Television Review - 'Absolutely Fabulous'
Still Hung Over From the '90s
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The hedonistic women of the groundbreaking British comedy "Absolutely Fabulous" return in a series of 20th anniversary specials.
Sequences of fish-eye-lens images create equirectangular panoramas of the new galleries for painting, sculpture and decorative arts at the Met’s American Wing, opening on Jan. 16. |
Grand Galleries for National Treasures
By CAROL VOGEL
Renovated painting and furniture galleries on the second floor of the American Wing will reopen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Jan. 16 in the third and final phase of a $100 million project.
Frame
Serendipity as Urban Curator
By RANDY KENNEDY
Crossing the Manhattan Bridge on the N or Q train gives riders access to one of the greatest cheap views in America, with the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan.
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NEW YORK / REGION
A Mother Pays Tribute to Her 'Little Girl Tribe'
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Mourners gathered at Saint Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue to remember the three girls who died in a Christmas morning house fire in Stamford, Conn.
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Private Chen's Family Learns More About Hazing by Fellow G.I.'s
By DAVID W. CHEN
Army officials detailed the slurs and mistreatment directed at Danny Chen, whose suicide in Afghanistan led the military to bring charges against eight members of his battalion.
Quinn's Coffers Reach Goal for Mayoral Primary
By KATE TAYLOR
Christine C. Quinn is the first candidate to raise all the money she is allowed to spend in the primary while accepting public financing.
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MOVIES
"Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema" at MoMa includes “Shree 420,” starring Kapoor, right, and Nargis. |
Singing Hindi in the Rain
By RACHEL SALTZ
"Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema" at MoMa offers a selection of films by this great Indian actor and director.
The Carpetbagger
When an Actress Prepares (No Eye Contact, Please)
By MELENA RYZIK
Rooney Mara, Meryl Streep and other actresses in this year's crop of Oscar hopefuls sometimes went to extraordinary lengths to get, and stay, in character.
The Carpetbagger: Transforming a Body - and a Performance
Movie Review - 'Norwegian Wood'
Young Love as Divine, but a Perilous Insanity
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
"Norwegian Wood," a film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel about the obsessional aspects of youthful passion.
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EDITORIALS
Editorial
A Leaner Pentagon
President Obama has put forward a generally pragmatic vision for the 21st century, while also addressing the nation's deep fiscal problems.
Editorial
Judicial Ethics and the Supreme Court
Adopting a conduct code would clarify the rules that apply to the justices and greatly bolster public confidence in the court.
Editorial
Donors, Secrecy and That Loophole
The F.E.C. ended another abysmal year with its three Republican commissioners blocking an attempt to unmask secret donors.
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OP-ED
Op-Ed Contributor
Joan of Arc: Enduring Power
By KATHRYN HARRISON
Six hundred years after her birth, Joan of Arc continues to captivate the imagination. Why?
Op-Ed Columnist
Bain, Barack and Jobs
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Mitt Romney says that President Obama has been a job destroyer, while he was a job-creating businessman. But those claims border on dishonesty.
Columnist Page
Blog
Op-Ed Columnist
A New Social Agenda
By DAVID BROOKS
Rick Santorum's ideas may need some massaging, but their roots offer an important seedbed for a new 21st-century philosophy of government.
Columnist Page - Blog
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ON THIS DAY
On Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.
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