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  • Khaled Hosseini Afghanistan gains must not be lost

    On my visits to Afghanistan, I witnessed with each trip improved access to regular electricity . There are today two main story lines when it comes to Afghanistan: the scheduled pullout of the U.S. troops in 2014, and what a hopeless cause the country has turned out to be.The widely accepted impression is that, for all the resources poured into Afghanistan, little of value has been achieved on ...

  • Farewell to hotel room service

    A cart with finished room-service orders at the New York Hilton Midtown, June 2, 2013. In August, the hotel will discontinue food and drink service to all 2,000 of its rooms; in its place will be a new cafeteria-style restaurant that will be stocked with grab-and-go ...

  • What was Seattle mayor candidate Peter Steinbreuck thinking

    , the 1899 story collection by African-American writer Charles Chestnutt about race relations in South post-Civil War. Strangely, Steinbrueck chose to read it in dialect, making him sound like Chris Rock impersonating a white Seattle architect trying to ...

  • Immigration Reform in the Senate and beyond

    An immigration activist holds up a sign on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol during an All In for Citizenship rally April 10, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. [Alex Wong/Getty ...

  • Nicklesville draws attention as City Council fights homelessness

    Patience with Nicklesville has proved useless. ["Editorial: Seattle Council presses on against homelessness," Opinion, June 17.] But the first priority of the Seattle City Council and the Legislature is the construction or securing of buildings to house the homeless.The Times is right to urge more mental health and chemical dependency services, but wrong to not first emphasize getting ...

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A Woman is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) [DVD]

A Woman is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) [DVD]

Jean-Luc Godard spend the decade of the 1950s writing influential film criticism for the French journal Cahiers du cinma, and when he launched his own filmmaking career in 1959, he dove in and never looked back. In just over a year, from 1959 to 1960, he had completed three ... ...

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  • Charles B. Rangel Obamas Syria plan has many dangers

    meets with world leaders, I hope that he can reach an international consensus on engaging in Syria because we should not get drawn into another proxy war that would entangle us with Hezbollah, Iran and Russia. While I understand that President Obama's ...

  • Punchlines Iran out with the old in with the moderate

    The newly elected president of Iran is a moderate. What does that mean exactly? The late-night comics ponder that question and say goodbye to outgoing leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Check out our favorite jokes about the Iranian election, then vote for yours in the quick poll to the right. Watching this from your smartphone or tablet? Then go ...

  • Bait And Twitch Vice Magazine Suicide Glamour And Not Staying Quiet

    Magazine unveiled a fashion spread featuring images based on famous women writers who killed themselves. To call it merely tasteless would be to understate how calculated it was as well as how revolting it was -- it literally created an image based on a real writer who really hanged herself with a pair of stockings, and then it told you where to buy the stockings. And because it was ...

  • Is Lansing serving the people

    Readers are disappointed that state Sen. Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, abandoned talks on road and education funding. (Dale G. Young/The Detroit ...

  • Wanted Kids with manners

    Illustration by Donna Grethen Summertime brings us parents into much closer contact with the kids in our children’s’ lives. Play times that normally happen during the school day or in after-school programs are now front and center. I take a hands off approach to choosing my son’s friends. We talk about the need for honest, supportive friends. He can spot a bully a mile off. And ...

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