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Luger Tony Benshoof's back woes are back again
Tony Benshoof's back problem is back, already causing concern for the Olympic season.
Gators in the Olympics
Rings Blog
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Anglican Leader and Pope Hold ‘Cordial’ Talks
VATICAN CITY — A month after the Vatican announced the creation of a new Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday held “cordial discussions” with the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the Vatican said in a statement.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Fatal Blast Rocks Northeast India
Filed at 2:47 a.m. ET
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Suspect in Ft. Hood Shootings to Remain in Hospital
The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in a mass shooting this month will be confined until his military trial, a magistrate ruled on Saturday, The Associated Press reported.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Benedict Woos Artists, Urging ‘Quest for Beauty’
Pope Benedict XVI greeted more than 250 artists, architects, musicians, directors and writers in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday, pointing out “your great responsibility to communicate beauty.” (Osservatore Romano, via Associated Press)VATICAN CITY — In 1512, Raphael finished his ruminative portrait of Pope Julius II, who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1999, the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan produced “The Ninth Hour,” a wax sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
K. Thomas Elghanayan
Mr. Elghanayan, 64, is the chairman of TF Cornerstone, a company he recently started with his brother Frederick after they and their older brother Henry parted ways at the Rockrose Development Corporation. In the separation, TFC ended up with nearly a dozen residential properties and most of the commercial portfolio. Henry Elghanayan kept the Rockrose name. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)Q. Are you O.K. with the way the assets were divided up?
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Letters: Examining Doctors’ Pay
To the Editor:
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Go Ahead and Yell. He’s Everyone’s Punching Bag.
Banks often hire Norman Radow to handle the myriad unpleasantries of the real estate mess. He stood on an undeveloped lot at the West Bay Beach and Golf Club, a development in Estero, Fla. (Phillippe Diederich for the New York Times)ESTERO, Fla.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Blanche Lincoln Cements Role at Heart of Health Debate
“I'm thinking about the 450,000 Arkansans who have no health insurance,” Senator Blanche Lincoln said on Saturday. (Luke Sharrett/The New York Times)WASHINGTON — No sooner had Senator Blanche Lincoln promised to deliver one crucial vote in support of a health care overhaul than she threatened to withhold the next one.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
An Accidental Reformer Takes on the Constitution
Jim Wunderman is leading a movement to change the State Constitution. (Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press)Jim Wunderman hardly seems like someone you would peg to be a founding father of a new California.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
In Turkey, Trial Casts Wide Net of Mistrust
ISTANBUL — Few here doubt that the case began with something threatening: in June 2007, 27 hand grenades and fuses were found in the attic of a house in an Istanbul slum. Investigators claimed they were stashed there by an ultranationalist retired officer and they were later linked to an elaborate coup plot.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?
Greenhouses being built at the Jittu Horticulture farm at Awassa in southern Ethiopia. (Simon Norfolk for The New York Times)Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary staples, fluctuate violently on the world market over the previous three years, at one point doubling in just a few months. The Saudis, rich in oil money but poor in arable land, were groping for a strategy to ensure that they could continue to meet the appetites of a growing population, and they wanted Zeigler’s expertise.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Survey Finds Hard Times Preceded Recession
Even before the recession, more than one in five Americans needed help from family, friends or outsiders to pay for basic needs, according to a survey by the Census Bureau.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Survey of Pakistan’s Young Predicts ‘Disaster’ if Their Needs Aren’t Addressed
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan will face a “demographic disaster” if it does not address the needs of its young generation, the largest in the country’s history, whose views reflect a deep disillusionment with government and democracy, according to a report released here on Saturday.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
For the Volt, How’s Life After 40 (Miles)?
Milford, Mich.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:16 am
Frisco Feast
In the 1990s, boutiques and bars popped up between the Latino watering holes in San Francisco’s Mission District. Now the neighborhood is experiencing another surge, as a handful of Italian restaurants are bringing culinary sophistication to an area known more for burritos as big as your head.
