NY TIMES News, Mar 19, 2012

NY Times on police powers Drug WarRant Attorney General Eric Holder is rightly reviewing the constitutionally suspect surveillance practices that the New York City Police Department has employed against law-abiding Muslims. The Justice Department should also review other practices — chief ... See all stories on this topic »

NY Times Unfair to Christians, Again Opposing Views You can't even say it," Geller told The Times according to a variety of reports. Will The New York Times actually ever run the "It's Time To Quit Islam" ad? I wouldn't hold my breath. The Times has a history of left-leaning bias. See all stories on this topic » Opposing Views

NY Times article about MAS, Matt de la Peña Tucson Citizen I promised a story about de la Peña's visit in today's NY Times. Right on schedule, here's the NY Times article, Racial Lens Used to Cull Curriculum in Arizona. Quite a bit of the article is about the history of the demolition of the MAS program, ... See all stories on this topic »

NY Times, as usual, misleads National Review Online (blog) By Mona Charen The NY Times hardly needs to mention contraception. It is the word currently uppermost in the minds of Americans everywhere (especially women) who have learned within the last month, to their utter incredulity, that Republicans think ... See all stories on this topic »

Gwyneth Paltrow Lashes Out at NY Times for Claiming She Used a Ghostwriter for ... Hollywire Lots of celebrities use ghostwriters. Memoirs, novels, lifestyle books... they might have the celebrity's name on the cover but more often than not, they were written by someone else. However, Gwyneth Paltrow is an exception -- she wrote her book ... See all stories on this topic »

The NY Times's Nine Questions for Tammy Baldwin Advocate.com By Neal Broverman The New York Times's Andrew Goldman quizzes Congresswoman and Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin on everything from her mother to gay marriage to President Obama. Baldwin, a Democratic congresswoman from Wisconsin, is hoping in November ... See all stories on this topic » Advocate.com

Charts that prove Obama doesn't set gas prices CNN (blog) Source: Energy Information Administration and NY Times. The issue of gas prices has not only been misunderstood but thoroughly distorted by relentless ideological spin from industry and its political allies, mainly Republican. See all stories on this topic » CNN (blog)

The Goldman Sachs Resignation Drills Into The Rot Under Wall Street U.S. Politics Today But the NY Times chose to elevate the Smith resignation letter to prominence on its op ed page. And then Goldman Sachs and much of Wall Street went nuts reacting to it. Why? Because Smith's letter hit an exposed nerve. All involved know that what Smith ... See all stories on this topic »

The Charts That Prove Obama Doesn't Set Gas Prices ThinkProgress Source: Energy Information Administration and NY Times. The issue of gas prices has not only been misunderstood but thoroughly distorted by relentless ideological spin from industry and its political allies, mainly Republican. See all stories on this topic » ThinkProgress

Goldman Panics over NY Times Op-Ed Dallas Blog (blog) As reported by the Houston Chronicle, “Goldman was stung by an Op-Ed article published in the New York Times by a young banker who was quitting the company. He accused Goldman executives of privately insulting clients and not acting in the customers' ... See all stories on this topic »

Mets Settle With Madoff Trustee For $162 Million Gothamist The AP reports that earlier, Rakoff "was skeptical that lawyers could succeed in convincing the nine-person civil jury that the Mets owners believed that Madoff's business was a fraud but continued their investments anyway because they were making a ... See all stories on this topic » Gothamist

Morning Links: Times Conservative Wunderkind or Prudish Whit Stillman Character? New York Observer [NY Times] In this hagiographic look at The Hunger Games marketing team, the bestselling books are practically a footnote. [NY Times] File under: meta-media news; Observer alumni newsletter. John Koblin to Deadspin! [Capital NY] Clint Eastwood's ... See all stories on this topic »

FAA Admits That It's Going To Rethink Whether You Can Use Kindles & Tablets On ... Techdirt (blog) Nick Bilton, over at the NY Times, asked the FAA what was up with that, and they admitted that they're taking "a fresh look" at those devices and whether or not they should be allowed to be used at those times. Of course, as he notes, this might just ... See all stories on this topic »

Required Reporting of C. Diff Could Reduce Cases ADVANCE (blog) I last spoke about C. difficile in April of 2010 when a NY Times article pointed out the alarming increase in cases in our country. Well, the bad news is C. difficile is still a problem in US health care settings. Although a small percentage of people ... See all stories on this topic »

Gowanus-Based Tinkerer Ready To Defend Against Zombies Gothamist The last time professional tinkerer Christopher Hackett was featured in a NY Times story, it was when an confetti gun he invented exploded in his face, an "ordeal ordeal that ultimately involved the emergency room, the Police Department's bomb squad ... See all stories on this topic » Gothamist

Revolutionary camp, Bach birthday concert, lectures, theater DavidsonNews.net “Stones in His Pockets” continues on stage at Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius, while Davidson College hosts its annual Media Conference Saturday, as well as a lecture by NY Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson. The Cornelius Parks, Arts, ... See all stories on this topic » DavidsonNews.net

Ups and downs in U.S. gasoline prices track with those in Britain, France and ... Leavenworth Times (blog) But as the NY Times pointed out Sunday, facts don't stop the GOP. The Times put together some great charts using [Energy Information Administration] data. They make clear 1) oil prices are set on a global market and 2) the strategy of “Drill, Baby, ... See all stories on this topic »

Mets Owners Settle With Madoff Trustee For $162 Million The Inquisitr The NY Times reports that Picard originally sued the Mets for $1 billion. A judge dropped a large portion of the lawsuit last year and today the two parties agreed to a $162 million settlement for the”fictitious profits” that Ktaz and Wilpon withdrew ... See all stories on this topic » The Inquisitr

Santorum Blows it in Puerto Rico, Bin Laden Secrets Revealed, and What You ... PolicyMic NY Times' Nate Silver says Rick Santorum may have made the worst tactical decision of his campaign by spending resources in Puerto Rico. After the weekend, Romney has 521 delegates, Santorum has 253, Gingrich has 136, and Ron Paul has 50. See all stories on this topic »

EUROPEAN EQUITY OPENING NEWS INCLUDING: The Treasury is set to offer ... Proactive Investors UK (NY Times) UPS – Co. said to reach agreement to buy TNT Express in Europe for EUR 9.50- EUR 10.00 per share. (Sources) Xerox – Co. will use part of the USD 2bln in free cash flow generated last year to make acquisitions in Europe according to the co. See all stories on this topic »

American killed in Yemen 'highly respected' Islam msnbc.com (yes, I know their history, but that is long in the past) Or how about the NY Times allowing an anti-Catholic ad, but not a corresponding anti-Muslim ad? I need more coffee. I know how many "constitutions" we have... D'oh! It's because the poor, ... See all stories on this topic »

Goldman Sachs' Culture: When Making Money Isn't Enough QFINANCE.com (blog) Now, because he's written an Op-Ed piece for the NY Timestaking the lid off of Goldman so that we can all see what he's been seeing - and what has led him to decide to resign - there's no stopping the commentary. For the business and finance types ... See all stories on this topic » QFINANCE.com (blog)

Rubio moves publication of memoir before GOP convention -- Paul Ryan unveils ... Politico Susan will report to Joel Kaplan, Vice President-US Public Policy and head of the Facebook Washington, DC Office. Susan [has] been working with [Facebook] as a fulltime consultant since August. … Susan spent more than eight years at Comcast [and] sits ... See all stories on this topic »

6 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Reinvest Your Apple Dividends Forbes According to an article in the NY Times last September, written by Paul Sullivan, dollar cost averaging is a bad idea. According to Sullivan, a study by New York money manager Gerstein Fisher proves that lump sum investing performs better the majority ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

The cost of a healthy life The Spokesman Review (blog) The story today in the NY Times reveals all the disparity – another gender gap – in health care policy costs between men and women. One company claimed it might lose male customers if the premiums were increased. Part of Obama's health care reform is ... See all stories on this topic »

Royal Ivey: Always Have a Backup Plan Welcome to Loud City What his career has shown him thus far is to have a healthy and realistic perspective on life and the NY Times' William Rhoden digs into Ivey's journey. The story is an excellent one so be sure to read it. Here are a few select quotes I've extracted to ... See all stories on this topic »

Pew Report Shows More Hunger, but Less Revenue, for News ... By By BRIAN STELTER In a Pew Research report, most sectors of the news media had a decline in total revenue in 2011, with newspapers and their Web sites affected most acutely. Media Decoder

Two Graduate Schools Provide Incorrect Data to U.S. News ... By By LILY ALTAVENA U.S. News and World Report received faulty data for its graduate school rankings from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and the University of Houston in Texas, Inside Higher Ed reported. The Choice

A Weekly Roundup of Small-Business News - NYTimes.com By By GENE MARKS CBIZ sees a slight rebound in small-business employment. State unemployment rates were generally lower last month. The Employment Trends Index reaches a three-and-a-half year high. A Manpower report says employers are planning to ... You're the Boss

Climate News Roundup: Week of 3/11 – Climate Matters - State of ... By Anna Mazhirov Slicing Silicon Thinner to Cut the Price of Solar Cells, NY Times, Mar 13: The cost of silicon has been an important barrier to expanding the penetration of solar photovoltaic power. New manufacturing techniques using less silicon could help ... State of the Planet

Alexander Radulov Said to Be Near Return to Predators - NYTimes ... By By JEFF Z. KLEIN But as of 12:01 a.m. Eastern time, no Russian news outlet had reported a deal. Instead, Sport-Express carried a report saying that Radulov was due to arrive at Salavat's training camp in Ufa later on Monday morning. The article speculated that ... Slap Shot

6 Q's About the News | A Testament to a Sioux Warrior--and ... By By SHANNON DOYNE 6 Q's About the News | How Much Progress Has Been Made on South Dakota's Monument to Crazy Horse? ... it for confirmation. After the whole class reportedback it helped us all understand the situation a lot better.” — Australian Teacher... The Learning Network

NYPD Investigates Alleged Threatening Tweet, Phone Calls Against ... By wcbsmark Instead the NYPD has launched a PR campaign to exploit this stupid comment in an attempt to drown out the news reports about the NYPD's own inexcusable violation of citizen's rights last night. see e.g. NY Times reporting. March 19, 2012 at ... CBS New York

NY Times on police powers | Cannabis News By Pete Guither Excellent editorial in the New York Times: Police Powers in New York Attorney General Eric Holder is rightly reviewing the constitutionally suspect surveil... Cannabis News

Monday Reading: Tips for Getting the Best Airline Seats - NYTimes ... By By ANN CARRNS Tips for getting the best airline seats, timing a mortgage and a job hunt, a casino for nonsmokers and other consumer news from The New York Times.... All the news from The Times that will hit you in the wallet. A variety of consumer-focused ... Bucks

CNN Is Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Mashable - NYTimes.com Pete Cashmore of Mashable wrote to his staff on Monday about reports that CNN ... CNN, a unit of Time Warner, and the social news Web site Mashable are in ... mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../cnn-in-talks-to-acquire-m...

Disruptions: Time to Review F.A.A. Policy on Gadgets - NYTimes.com That's going to be welcome news to the people in the United States who, ...The National Aeronautics and Space Administration collects reports from pilots of ... bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.../disruptions-time-to-review-f-a-a-pol...

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses ... In a Pew Research report, most sectors of the news media had a decline in total revenue in 2011, with newspapers and their Web sites affected most acutely. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../after-244-years-encyclop...

Pew Report Shows More Hunger, but Less Revenue, for News ... In a Pew Research report, most sectors of the news media had a decline in total revenue in 2011, with newspapers and their Web sites affected most acutely. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../news-the-good-and-the-b...

Suspect in Afghan Attack 'Snapped,' U.S. Official Says - NYTimes.com Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. ... to an American base on Kuwaiti territory from news reports before the United States... www.nytimes.com/.../suspect-in-afghan-attack-snapped-us-offi...

AOL Slashes Staff at AIM Unit; Wider Cuts Expected - NYTimes.com Kara Swisher on the blog AllThingsD reported that Mr. Shellen and Van Miltenburg, another AOL ... scuttlebot News from the Web, annotated by our staff. bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.../aol-slashes-more-than-40-jobs-with-...

NY Times Magazine Profile: Jonny Greenwood | The Citrus Report ... The NY Times just ran a great profile on Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, not just on his new project with the works of Polish composer, Krzysztof. www.thecitrusreport.com/.../ny-times-magazine-profile-jonny-...

MF Global Customers Get Offers for Claims, NY Times Reports Some big financial firms have offered to buy the claims of thousands of MF Globalcustomers, whose money went missing after the brokerage firm collapsed last ... www.moneynews.com/FinanceNews/MF-Global.../432295

Public transit use increased last year, NY Times reports - Yahoo ... From Yahoo! Finance: The amount of rides on public transportation in the U.S. rose by 200M last year to 10.4B, a new report by the American Public ... finance.yahoo.com/.../public-transit-increased-last-ny-104629...

No Word Yet on Review of Police's Crime-Tracking System ... One Police Plaza: Wondering about an outside panel's report on the police's... Mr. Vallone noted that according to a news release issued by the department in ... cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/.../silence-continues-over-report-

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LOS ANGELES TIMES News, Mar 19, 2012

The Morning Fix: '21 Jump Street' cleans up! O'Donnell hits road. Los Angeles Times Monday's headlines include "21 Jump Street" taking the top spot at the box office, James Murdoch leaving Sotheby's board of directors and, of course, a story about "The Hunger Games." The Daily Dose: HBO appears to be taking a low-profile approach on ... See all stories on this topic »

First Edition: March 19, 2012 Kaiser Health News Today's headlines reflect the anticipation and anxiety that surrounds the Supreme Court's upcoming health law oral arguments. Kaiser Health News staff writer Marilyn Werber Serafini reports: "Against a backdrop of proposals to overhaul the popular ... See all stories on this topic »

Malibu kitchen worker killed by attackers Sacramento Bee Waldrop tells the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/ABsUxC) that the employee went to take out the trash and never came back. The motive for the attack is under investigation. Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, ... See all stories on this topic »

Must-Reads from Around the World: March 19, 2012 TIME (blog) Korean Quagmire – Following negative reaction to North Korea's planned satellite launch, China's Communist Party-linked Global Times defends Beijing's approach towards Pyongyang — under the headline “Why China Can't Persuade [North] Korea Alone. See all stories on this topic » TIME (blog)

LA fire agency to fix emergency dispatch glitches Sacramento Bee The Los Angeles Times reports Sunday ( http://lat.ms/yTjrEt) that a woman bled profusely for 45 minutes on March 7 while waiting for paramedics after a factory machine sliced off one finger and mangled the others. The delay was caused by a brief ... See all stories on this topic »

USC awards degrees to Japanese American internees Sacramento Bee USC is joining an initiative to award honorary degrees to the displaced Japanese students, known as nisei (ni-SAY) or the second generation of Japanese immigrants, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday ( http://lat.ms/AcO4xN). See all stories on this topic »

U.S.-Afghan divide seen in perceptions of village massacre Boston Herald By Laura King / The Los Angeles Times KABUL - There are days here, in these war-haunted times, when it seems that death might come in any guise, and from any direction. From a bomb buried in the earth. From the sky. From a rusted motorbike haphazardly ... See all stories on this topic »

Romney poised for Illinois win--Santorum gets no Puerto Rico delegates--DCCC ... Politico Story: http://reut.rs/wesjOJ ROMNEY CELEBRATES: Here's a 30-second YouTube video of Romney responding to the results (he's holding an iPad that has the Drudge Report declaring him the winner as he thanks Luis Fortuno for his help). See all stories on this topic »

Will Sanchez be ready on Opening Day? Sacramento Bee The Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press contributed to this report. Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "ReportAbuse" link below it. See all stories on this topic »

Bankrate: Just Half of Americans Confident Economic Recovery to Continue Sacramento Bee You are more likely to see inappropriate comments before our staff does, so we ask that you click the "Report Abuse" link to submit those comments for moderator review. You also may notify us via email at feedback@sacbee.com. Note the headline on which ... See all stories on this topic »

TCM And The Academy Team Up With TCM Classic Film Festival STYLE IN THE MOVIES ... We Are Movie Geeks Los Angeles Times fashion critic Booth Moore will trace the trends and politics of red carpet dressing, with photos of fabulous frocks and flops from the 1920s to the present. Join noir expert Eddie Muller and actress Rose McGowan as they select—and ... See all stories on this topic » We Are Movie Geeks

Mom of Iraq War vet who killed sister, self also feared dead msnbc.com (blog) ... that of his 11-year-old sister were found last week in his mother's apartment in Gilroy, Calif., the San Francisco Chronicle reported. His mother, Martha Gutierrez, has not been seen since her children's deaths, police told the Los Angeles Times. See all stories on this topic »

Tom Wheeler Named Keynote Speaker For Mobile Marketing Association Forum New ... Sacramento Bee Mr. Wheeler is author of two books on the Civil War, and his commentaries on current events have been published in the Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and other leading publications. The MMA Forum series has become the leading ... See all stories on this topic »

Egypt's Coptic Christians mourn loss of pope at 'difficult time' Sacramento Bee (Hassan is a news assistant in the Los Angeles Times' Cairo bureau.) Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "Report Abuse" link below it. See all stories on this topic »

Birthers, Racists, Sexists and Homophobes: 13 Toxic Endorsers of GOP ... AlterNet Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Election 2012 headlines via email. A man, the ancient fable tells us, is known by the company he keeps. In a presidential primary, the endorsement game is one of the great spectator sports. See all stories on this topic »

All red meat is bad for you, new study says - Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Thursday, March 15, 2012 Home Edition Main News Part A ... A majority of people in the study reported that they ate an average of at least ... articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/13/.../la-he-red-meat-20120313

UCLA Headlines March 15, 2012 / UCLA Newsroom U.S. News & World Report has released its 2013 rankings of the country's best graduate ... Bloomberg reports today, and a Los Angeles Times blogreported ... newsroom.ucla.edu/.../ucla-headlines-march-15-2012-230679...

Headline News: Who Writes the Headline Makes the News | Politics ... Headline News: Who Writes the Headline Makes the News ... in the era of HuffPost, the Drudge Report and other internet news aggregators, news has been ... And here's The Los Angeles Times, front page, February 29, 2012: “ Republican ... politicsandfilm.com/?p=202

Headlines and News - Immigrant Stories: How did you come to US ... Immigrant Stories: Headlines and News March 14, 2012 IMMIGRATIONNEWS: ... LOS ANGELES TIMES: Dream Act: Jailed illegal immigrant becomes N.C. ... immigrantstories.tumblr.com/.../immigrant-stories-headlines-a...

Maven's Morning Coffee ... Morning Coffee -- a listing of the important headlines, news conferences, public ... Los Angeles Sentinel · Los Angeles Times · Los Angeles Wave · Supervisor Zev ... The Downtown News reports major changes to the Wilshire Grand project. www.thecitymaven.com/2012/.../mavens-morning-coffee-211/

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