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Cocaine Incorporated

One afternoon last August, at a hospital on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a former beauty queen named Emma Coronel gave birth to a pair of heiresses. The twins, who were delivered at 3:50 and 3:51,…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7640 words)

Why America's Love Affair with Cars Is No Accident

Drivers may feel spooked by seeing the first self-driving cars appear in coming years. But the new era could prove far less disruptive and bloody than the automobile's 20th-century battle to push…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (559 words)

Beyond Black Hawk Down

A lot has changed in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, since America’s ugly involvement in the 1990s (as captured in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down). Evgeny Lebedev travels to a city fighting for…
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1703 words)

Saving Aesha - CNN.com

Without a knock, the office door flies open. She barges into the room, a perfumed tornado disrupting every conversation and worker in her path. Wearing skinny jeans, UGG knockoff boots and a pea…
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9073 words)
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Romney’s Faith, Silent but Deep

BELMONT, Mass. — When Mitt Romney embarked on his first political race in 1994, he also slipped into a humble new role in the Mormon congregation he once led. On Sunday mornings, he stood in the…
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2645 words)

The Romance of Realism

Eisenhower in War and Peace By Jean Edward Smith (Random House, 950 pp., $40) The histories we write say as much about our own times as about those we study. The current polarization in Washington…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1388 words)
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Ten questions on Jane Austen

Jane Austen … 'Of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.' Photograph: Stock Montage/Getty Images Jane Austen's admirer Virginia Woolf said that "of all great…
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3789 words)

The Hemingway Papers / Bullfighting is Not a Sport – It is a Tragedy

It symbolizes the struggle between man and beasts. The three acts of the drama are the entry, the planting of the banderilleros, and the death of the bull. A Canadian at ringside. It was spring in…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4066 words)

Colin Powell on the Bush Administration's Iraq War MistakesThe General's Orders

On the evening of Aug. 5, 2002, President Bush and I met in his residence at the White House to discuss the pros and cons of the Iraq crisis. Momentum within the administration was building toward…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2623 words)
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