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Nyhetsbreven från N Y Times menar jag tillhör gruppen "De obligatoriska". Härunder, dock inte riktigt färsktdet det senaste (har tyvärr legat orört i min mailbox under ganska många timmar). Obs jag har lagt till några bilder. Här anmäler man sig för den viktiga tidningens nyhetsbrev: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/register?URI=https://myaccount.nytimes.com/mem/email.html&OQ=Q5fQ72Q3dQ31   TOP NEWS Obama Presses Stripped-Down Plan to Limit Tax Increase By JACKIE CALMES and JONATHAN WEISMAN President Obama, conceding that a "grand bargain" for deficit reduction with Speaker John A. Boehner is unlikely, called for Congress to approve a more modest measure by year's end. Video: Fiscal Cliff Looms News Analysis Events Recall a More Bipartisan Era, and Highlight Gridlock of Today By MICHAEL D. SHEAR A political opposition that is still bitter about President Obama's victory remains unwilling to compromise on social policy, economics or foreign affairs. Video: Obama's New Fiscal Proposal Varied Paths Toward Healing for Sites of Terrorized Schools By WINNIE HU Officials in Newtown, Conn., are not ready to think about the future of Sandy Hook Elementary, but some lessons may come from what has happened to other terror scenes. • NYTimes.com Home Page » QUOTATION OF THE DAY "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." WAYNE LAPIERRE, vice president of the National Rifle Association.

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WORLD Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times A school with old posters of Mohamed Morsi, now the president, in Al Talbeya, a neighborhood in Giza, where disaffection with the government is growing.     Support for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Erodes in an Islamist Bastion By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Residents complain about the government's confusing economic policies, its near-monopoly on power and the use of force against opponents. Slide Show: Potential Backlash for the Muslim Brotherhood   Italian Quits Post, but Can't Be Counted Out By RACHEL DONADIO Whether he runs in early elections or not, Prime Minister Mario Monti has already radically shifted Italy's political landscape. Tunisian Dictator's Possessions to Be Sold at Public Auction By MONICA MARKS Cars, jewelry, carpets and other assets that once belonged to the deposed president of Tunisia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, will be auctioned at a monthlong sale and exhibition. • More World News »  Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the National Rifle Association,  took no questions at a news conference addressing the shootings in Newtown, Conn.   U.S. Dangerous Abscesses Add to Tainted Drug's Threat By DENISE GRADY The contaminated drug that caused a nationwide meningitis outbreak has created a second, growing wave of serious spinal infections.   N.R.A. Envisions 'a Good Guy With a Gun' in Every School By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MOTOKO RICH After a weeklong silence, the National Rifle Association implicated violent video games, the news media and lax law enforcement - not guns - in a rash of mass shootings. Video: Wayne LaPierre's Statement | Full Text Shop Owners Report Rise in Firearm Sales as Buyers Fear Possible New Laws By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD With gun-control legislation getting more serious discussion after the mass shooting in Connecticut, some dealers report they've run out of some models as consumers stock up on weapons and ammunition. Gaps in F.B.I. Data Undercut Background Checks for Guns | Graphic • More U.S. News » POLITICS Boehner Again Finds the Speaker's Chair Can be Lonely By JENNIFER STEINHAUER By defeating his tax proposal, House Republicans left Speaker John A. Boehner in a familiar position - alone in deciding whether to continue seeking a deal with the White House. Video: House Speaker on Canceled Vote FiveThirtyEight In House of Representatives, an Arithmetic Problem By NATE SILVER With the failure of his tax plan, the difficulty for Speaker John A. Boehner is in finding any winning coalition of votes in the House. Debt Ceiling Rises Again as Threat for the U.S. Kerry Named for the Role of a Lifetime By MARK LANDLER The appointment of Senator John Kerry, an established Obama loyalist, to be secretary of state is likely to further centralize decisions in the White House. Kerry Suggests Military Role in Diplomats' Security Interactive Feature: Kerry on Global Issues • More Political News » BUSINESS Engineered Fish Moves a Step Closer to Approval By ANDREW POLLACK The Food and Drug Administration concluded that a genetically engineered salmon would have "no significant impact" on the environment. Retailers Try to Adapt to Device-Hopping Shoppers By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Online merchants are trying to figure out how to tie together the several methods a customer may use on the way to buying something. Your Money Walking the Tightrope on Mental Health Coverage By RON LIEBER While many people with health insurance also have mental health coverage, some are reluctant to use it - or can't find a practitioner who will accept it. Post a Comment • More Business News » TECHNOLOGY Instagram Reversal Doesn't Appease Everyone By DAVID STREITFELD and NICOLE PERLROTH Even as the social network furiously backpedaled on its proposal to change its privacy terms, some users said they were carrying through on plans to leave. Retailers Try to Adapt to Device-Hopping Shoppers By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Online merchants are trying to figure out how to tie together the several methods a customer may use on the way to buying something. Italian Appeals Court Acquits 3 Google Executives in Privacy Case By ERIC PFANNER A decision that Google hailed as a victory for Internet freedom overturned a 2010 ruling that the company was too slow to remove a video in which teenagers bullied an autistic boy. • More Technology News »  Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, a sports bar chain, is one of  the corporate sponsors engulfing bowl season SPORTS Bulls 110, Knicks 106 Ugly Game at the Garden Looks Beautiful to the Bulls By NATE TAYLOR The Knicks' Carmelo Anthony and three others were thrown out of a foul-filled game as the Chicago Bulls beat the Knicks on Friday night for the second time this season. Box Score Football, and It's Not Political By MARK LEIBOVICH When Senator Marco Rubio attends a Miami Dolphins game, do not ask him if he will run for president; the subject is the N.F.L., period.   Essay Explosion Of Brands And Erosion Of Soul By BILL MORRIS The corporate sponsorship binge in college football, particularly during bowl season, tells us something about the soul of the country. • More Sports News » Musica Sacra's 32-member chorus and 21-player orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Thursday. ARTS Beyond Wizards and Vampires, to Sex By LESLIE KAUFMAN "New adult" is emerging as a popular fiction genre as young-adult authors spice up their stories with some sex. Beltway Stop in the Oscar Race By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES Washington has become an unusual second front in the battle for Hollywood's best picture Oscar, as three leading contenders find their prize campaigns entwined with the nation's politics.   Music Review Outbursts of Full-Bodied Joy By ANTHONY TOMMASINI The Musica Sacra Chorus and Orchestra is presenting a wonderfully natural and flowing performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Carnegie Hall. • More Arts News » NEW YORK / REGION On Ravaged Coastline, It's Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, CHARLES V. BAGLI and SARAH MASLIN NIR While officials debate whether storm-battered communities should be rebuilt and to what standards, some homeowners are forging ahead. Surveying the Destruction Caused by Hurricane Sandy Hurricane Relief Bill Clears Hurdle in the Senate By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ A $60.4 billion bill to pay for recovery efforts in states pummeled by Hurricane Sandy still faces great uncertainty in the Republican-controlled House. Man, 52, Is Convicted as a Juvenile in a 1976 Murder, Creating a Legal Tangle By KATE ZERNIKE Carlton Franklin was tried this year for a murder committed when he was 15, and even the lawyers in the case are unsure of how he will be sentenced. • More New York / Region News » TRAVEL Inside Disney's New Fantasyland By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM With a new generation of princesses and a new generation of visitors thronging to see them, Disney World had only one option: more. Slide Show: Manifest Fantasy | A Magical Day at Disney Questions About Disney World? Ask the Reporter Overnighter In Toledo, Layers of Spanish History By GEOFFREY GRAY Just 30 minutes from Madrid by train, Toledo feels like a living museum, its textured history left largely intact through the many violent takeovers of Spain. Clockwise from top left: Dutch Kills, Museum of the Moving Image, Layali Dubai, India Sari Palace,  Louis Armstrong House Museum, food court at New World Mall. Center: La Gran Uruguaya.   36 Hours in Queens, N.Y. By SETH KUGEL If you want an alternative New York experience, something with grit and spice, consider Queens, where a splintered world collides in a jumble of diversity.   Slide Show: Culture and Cuisine in Queens 36 Hours? In Queens, Enough Frugal Options for a Week • More Travel News » EDITORIALS Editorial The N.R.A. Crawls From Its Hidey Hole Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s vice president, accuses everyone but his group of being responsible for the Newtown massacre. Editorial Russian Orphans as Political Pawns Barring United States citizens from adoptions is a cynical and cruel response to a new American human rights law. Editorial Wanted: Transit Wizard Gov. Andrew Cuomo should quickly find one talented person to take over the most important public transit job in the nation. • More Opinion » OP-ED Op-Ed Columnist Guns, Smoke and Mirrors By CHARLES M. BLOW The National Rifle Association blames gun violence on everything except the proliferation of guns. Columnist Page Op-Ed Columnist Wish You a Gun-Free Christmas By GAIL COLLINS Did that National Rifle Association press conference have you wondering if the world had imploded per the Mayan calendar after all? No wonder! Columnist Page Op-Ed Columnist Guns and Their Makers By JOE NOCERA It's a little late for the firms behind the gun manufacturers to have a conscience after reaping all those profits. Columnist Page • More Opinion » ON THIS DAY On Dec. 22, 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to President Abraham Lincoln from Georgia, saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." • See This Front Page • Buy This Front Page PS Ett nytt brev kom strax efter efter avslutandet av ovanstående inlägg. Här början på det nyaste (December 23, 2012   09.40 svensk tid):             TOP NEWS For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall By JASON DePARLE Low-income students have long trailed affluent peers in school performance, but from grade-school tests to college completion, the gaps are widening. Video: The Diploma Divide Graphic: Affluent Students Have an Advantage and the Gap Is Widening As Charter Nears Passage, Egyptians Face New Fights By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MAYY EL SHEIKH An Islamist-backed constitution appeared to be headed for approval, propelling deeply split political factions into a new phase in the battle over Egypt's future. Genetic Gamble Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct By GINA KOLATA Three pharmaceutical firms are trying to restore a mechanism that normally tells cells to die if their DNA is badly damaged, an approach that might work against half of all cancers. • NYTimes.com Home Page » QUOTATION OF THE DAY "It's becoming increasingly unlikely that a low-income student, no matter how intrinsically bright, moves up the socioeconomic ladder. What we're talking about is a threat to the American dream." SEAN REARDON, a sociologist at Stanford.