Findings By JOHN TIERNEY
The next time you’re juggling options — which friend to see, which house to buy, which career to pursue — try asking yourself this question: What would Xiang Yu do?
Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy […]
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By ANDREW C. REVKIN
In 1980, after college, I joined the crew of a sailboat partway through a circumnavigation of the globe. Becalmed and roasting one day during a 21-day crossing of the western Indian Ocean, several of us dived over the side. Within a few swimming strokes, the bobbing hull seemed a toy over my […]
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
What age is the right age to have “the talk,” not just about where babies come from, but also about sex and AIDS?
How about, oh, 4?
A new documentary, “Please Talk to Kids About AIDS,” raises this question in a cute but discomfiting way. So far it has been seen only […]
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By WILLIAM YARDLEY
SEATTLE — As the Bush administration and Congress consider proposals to ease the home foreclosure crisis, local governments across the country have been lending money to imperiled homeowners and confronting some opposition.
Some of these municipal and state efforts have met resistance from people who consider the assistance undeserved and adamantly oppose anything […]
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By NORIMITSU ONISHI
SEOUL, South Korea — After he was sworn in Monday, President Lee Myung-bak pledged to revive South Korea’s economy, improve relations with the United States and draw North Korea out of its isolation.
Mr. Lee, a former mayor of Seoul and a construction industry executive, signaled a departure from a decade of left-leaning […]
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By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and MICHAEL CIEPLY
HOLLYWOOD — “No Country for Old Men,” Joel and Ethan Coen’s chilling confrontation of a desperate man with a relentless killer, won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday night, providing a more-than-satisfying ending for the makers of a film that many believed lacked one.
The Coens, who […]
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