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Cornell Food Fight Leads Gabre-Madhin to Battle Africa Scarcity

When Eleni Gabre-Madhin climbed onto a cafeteria table as a junior at Cornell University almost 30 years ago and begged students to end the tradition of dinnertime food fights, she was mocked. No one…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1690 words)

Our dad, Joe Strummer, remembered

Joe Strummer's daughters Lola (left) and Jazz, with Jazz's daughter Boudicca. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Ten years ago, the angry young man of punk and legendary frontman of the Clash,…
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1890 words)

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The God of Gamblers

AUTHOR:Evan Osnos
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7715 words)

The Obama Memos

On a frigid January evening in 2009, a week before his Inauguration, Barack Obama had dinner at the home of George Will, the Washington Post columnist, who had assembled a number of right-leaning…
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 44 minutes (11168 words)

Counter-Terrorism Is Getting Complicated

On November 1, 2011, four codgers who gathered at this Waffle House in Toccoa, Georgia, as well as at the Shoney's and in the home of Fred Thomas, were arrested by the FBI for plotting acts of mass…
AUTHOR:Tom Junod
PUBLISHED: Jan. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1952 words)

Tough Times at Newsweek

Rosenthal, who in her short time there is already well liked, struck some as a curious decision since she came from a publication few ever heard of. For a while, foreign policy wonk Leslie Gelb…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1120 words)

King of Kings

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PUBLISHED: Nov. 7, 2011
LENGTH: 41 minutes (10301 words)

Capital New York

You live in Manhattan below 125th Street, or gentrified Brooklyn, or a quiet part of Queens. You want Chinese food. Youre not following some recommendation from an old…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4608 words)
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