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söndag, oktober 28, 2012

 
NEW YORK TIMES
TOP NEWS

In Final Days of the Race, Fighting County by County

By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG
The fight for the White House is being waged on intensely local terrain, in places whose voting histories and demographics have been studied in minute detail by both sides.






 

Iraqi Sects Join Battle in Syria on Both Sides

By YASIR GHAZI and TIM ARANGO
Many Iraqi Shiites see the Syrian war, pitting the Sunni majority against a government dominated by Alawites, as a religious conflict.
The New American Job

A Part-Time Life, as Hours Shrink and Shift

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Retailers are relying on part-time workers, a trend that has frustrated millions of Americans who want full-time jobs but must instead settle for reduced pay and benefits.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"It's almost like sharecropping - if you have a lot of farmers with small plots of land, they work very hard to produce in that limited amount of land."
BURT P. FLICKINGER III,  a retail consultant, on a sharp decrease in full-time jobs as companies cut costs.

Business

Video: Part Time, by Necessity

Tamara Green is one of the eight million part-time workers in the United States who would prefer full-time employment, and her shifts have been getting shorter and shorter.
Opinion

Opinionator | Bedside

Saving Your Own Skin

By THERESA BROWN
Patients don't act according to market models when the "skin in the game" is, well, their own skin.
WORLD

A Village Rape Shatters a Family, and India's Traditional Silence

By JIM YARDLEY
An outcry over a string of recent rapes has focused national attention on India's rising number of sexual assaults and exposed the male-dominated power structure in Haryana.
News Analysis

Al Qaeda-Inspired Groups, Minus Goal of Striking U.S.

By ROBERT F. WORTH
Jihadis of various kinds are flourishing in Africa and the Middle East, where the chaos that followed the Arab uprisings has given them greater freedom to organize and operate.
" --- The organization that planned the Sept. 11 attacks, based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is in shambles; dozens of its top leaders have been killed since Mr. Obama assumed office, and those who remain appear mostly inactive.---"

Chinese Premier's Family Disputes Article on Riches

By KEITH BRADSHER
The statement about a New York Times article marks a rare instance of a powerful Chinese political family responding directly to a foreign media report.
U.S.

Urgent Warnings as Hurricane Sandy Heads to Northeast

By MARC SANTORA
Thousands of people were evacuated and officials said that the storm's impact would stretch inland all the way to the Ohio Valley.

Pentagon Reopens Program Allowing Immigrants With Special Skills to Enlist

By JULIA PRESTON
Late last month, the Pentagon reopened a program to recruit legal immigrants with special language and medical skills, which was active for a year before being suspended in January 2010.

U.S. Set to Sponsor Health Insurance

By ROBERT PEAR
The Obama administration will soon take on a new role as the sponsor of at least two nationwide health insurance plans that will be offered to consumers in every state.
POLITICS

A Troubleshooting 'Wingman' Plotting Romney's Trajectory

By MICHAEL BARBARO and ASHLEY PARKER
Bob White, an in-house consultant for Mitt Romney's campaign, has helped steady a wobbly candidacy and reverse its trajectory in recent weeks.

Ex-Outsiders, Running on Record in Congress

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Representative Bobby Schilling is one of 87 Republicans elected in 2010, a great many of them conservative newcomers now wearing the badge of incumbency that they scorned when they first ran.

Tracking Voters' Clicks Online to Try to Sway Them

By NATASHA SINGER and CHARLES DUHIGG
A hallmark of this presidential campaign is the use of data-mining techniques to customize ads for voters based on the digital trails they leave.
BUSINESS

In Dairy Industry Consolidation, Lush Paydays

By ANDREW MARTIN
Through certain deals, huge paychecks went to a small group of people, including the chief executive of Dean Foods and a former head of a dairy cooperative.

From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change

By NANCY F. KOEHN
Rachel Carson, who wrote the groundbreaking "Silent Spring" 50 years ago, offered an indelible example of the power of individual action.
Memo From London

European Union Exit? Concerns Grow for Britain

By STEPHEN CASTLE
With the euro zone almost three years in crisis, the British prime minister, David Cameron, has been hinting at a referendum on relations with the troubled union.
TECHNOLOGY
App City

A Deeper Look at the Elections, or Not

By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
New apps offer insights into political advertising; information about candidates, polls and predictions; a method for encouraging friends to vote; and a way to avoid facing the elections at all.
Circa Now
 

A Web of Answers and Questions

By HENRY ALFORD
How much information is too much, and what does all this Web searching say about ourselves?
Prototype

Innovation Also Means Finding Ways to Adapt

By NICOLE LaPORTE
The Elephant Trunk, a large, lockable mailbox, was devised a decade ago for deliveries of items like desktop computers; now it's back in a smaller version.
SPORTS
Game 3: Giants 2, Tigers 0

The Tigers Are Down, and Almost Out

By ANDREW KEH
The Giants, who now have an authoritative three-games-to-none lead, have won six straight games in the postseason and have not trailed a single inning in those games.

John Terry: Chelsea's Dark Knight

By SARAH LYALL
One of the canniest, toughest and best defenders in English soccer, John Terry is also perhaps the country's most reviled player.
No. 5 Notre Dame 30, No. 8 Oklahoma 13

Irish Continue Quest for Perfection, Knocking Off Sooners

By TIM ROHAN


The Irish defense supplied timely brawn as Notre Dame marched onward toward a chance at their first national championship since 1988.
ARTS

No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift

By JON CARAMANICA
On her new album, "Red," Ms. Swift, now 22, finally begins to sound like an adult.


Bettmann/Corbis
Recent scholarship has led to
re-examination of the 1913 show of
modern art that was held at the
 69th Regiment Armory in New York.
 

Back From the Future

By DAVE KEHR
The director Robert Zemeckis, who has been making motion-capture films for a decade or so, talks about "Flight," his first live-action movie since "Cast Away."

Rethinking the Armory Show

By HOLLAND COTTER
Exhibitions in New York and Montclair, N.J., will look back at the 1913 Armory Show, long thought to have shocked Americans with its displays of European modern art.
NEW YORK / REGION

Kings of a Small-Batch Empire in Brooklyn

By LIZ ROBBINS
From atop their borough's artisanal scene, the Brooklyn Flea partners Eric Demby and Jonathan Butler eye a bigger future, with help from $25 million from Goldman Sachs.

Poets Gather in Exile, in Queens

By JOHN LELAND
The Jackson Heights Poetry Festival began as an annual event and has gradually become monthly readings at a local night spot, keeping its ambitions modest.

No Charges Yet for Hospitalized Nanny

By WENDY RUDERMAN
Police officials have not been able to interview Yoselyn Ortega, who is accused of fatally stabbing two children on the Upper West Side, because she is intubated, but they say there is little doubt she is responsible.
MAGAZINE

The Family That Cobras Together

By ELIZABETH WEIL
For the Killicks, yoga is a team sport.

My Multiday Massage-a-Thon

By JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN
An epic quest to find comfort in being naked with strangers.

Safety Lessons From the Morgue

By ROBERT W. STOCK
Susan Baker has saved thousands of lives in her career by starting with a simple question: What is killing us?
EDITORIALS
Editorial

Barack Obama for Re-Election

We enthusiastically endorse President Obama, who has earned a second term; Mitt Romney offers dangerous ideas, when he offers any. "--- For these and many other reasons, we enthusiastically endorse President Barack Obama for a second term, and express the hope that his victory will be accompanied by a new Congress willing to work for policies that Americans need. ---"
Editorial | Sunday Observer

When Mass Hysteria Convicted 5 Teenagers

By BRENT STAPLES
A new documentary about the Central Park Jogger case and the exonerated teenagers takes us back to a time when things went very wrong.
OP-ED
Op-Ed Columnist

Of Mad Men, Mad Women and Meat Loaf

By MAUREEN DOWD
As Election Day looms, Barry strives for hipness as Mitt embraces fuddy-duddy.
Op-Ed Columnist

Obama's Squandered Advantages

By FRANK BRUNI
Despite the troubled economy, President Obama should be ahead of Mitt Romney. So why isn't he?
Opinion

The Price of a Black President

By FREDRICK C. HARRIS
The Obama presidency has marked the decline, rather than the pinnacle, of a political vision centered on challenging racial inequality.
SUNDAY REVIEW
News Analysis

How Prisoners Make Us Look Good

By SAM ROBERTS
Does the high incarceration rate of many black men mean that the gains made by blacks in the society are large are statistically overstated?
Capital Ideas

Who Gets Credit for the Recovery?

By DAVID LEONHARDT
A bullish economy is likely to strengthen whoever is elected.
ON THIS DAY
On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
 

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