http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/opinion/13sat1.html A stinging editorial rebuke from the New York Times on the Bush administration’s handling of Guantanamo inmates, and the American lawyers who want to represent them.
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Back in View, a First Lady With Her Own Legacy – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/us/31betty.html I’m Times-heavy this morning – I’d forgotten how much I’ve missed reading it in this too-busy year. Here’s another nice piece on Betty Ford; a kind of living obituary to thank her for her contribution to 1970s American society, which appears to have been enormous. A pleasant contrast to the current Stepford First Lady, […]
Tea’s Got a Brand New Bag – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/dining/13tea.html “Entry level” teas? How American! Interesting to see if this new popularisation (and elitism) of tea changes anything in Britain.
What Netflix Could Teach Hollywood – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/technology/07leonhardt.html?ei=5087 A short, yet edifying, piece on Netflix. This stunning statistic gives me hope that the studios’ business model will flounder long before they pull their heads from their DRM-holes: Out of the 60,000 titles in Netflix’s inventory, I ask, how many do you think are rented at least once on a typical day? The […]
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The Animal Self – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/magazine/22animal.html?ei=5070&en=4310ac193649ccfa&ex=1138165200&pagewanted=all Fascinating NYTimes article on how anthropomorphism is losing its pejorative stamp; animal behaviourism is now being looked in some labs at as the study of animal personalities, with unintentionally hilarious observations: “You don’t think of drosophila in that way,” Stamps told me. “They can be very territorial, and some of the males are fairly […]
Movie Reviews, Showtimes and Trailers – Movies – New York Times – The New York Times
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/movies/13kong.html?8dpc I have long had a crush on A.O. Scott, the nerdly and literate NY Times film reviewer. Wonder why? Try this quote from his King Kong notice: At times, the blending of computer-generated imagery and live action is pushed to a point where the seams begin to show, as in a Pamplona-style running of […]
In the Beartooth Range, It’s Disappearance Season – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/national/05missing.html Stolen from Potter00‘s site: Nobody knows exactly how many people disappear in the woods, ravines, hollows, craters, creeks, deserts and bogs of the more than 500 million acres of public land in the United States. The federal land agencies say they do not keep such records. But more people are hiking than ever before; […]
In Mississippi, History Is Now a Salvage Job – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/garden/08history.html New Orleans is obviously the human tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but the Times brings to light how much of Mississippi’s historical buildings and landmarks were devastated by the storm. Very sad.
War? Turmoil? Try Fantasy Instead. – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/movies/11scot.html Exactly how much of a geek am I, you ask? (I’m sure it’s obvious, but humour me) The Toronto Film Fest is upcoming, and while many people hunt out the big stars around town, I secretly hope to bump into A.O. Scott. By far the best movie reviewer on the NYTimes’ staff, I love […]
Someone Tell the President the War Is Over – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/opinion/14rich.html?pagewanted=2&incamp=article_popular Love him or loathe him (I’m with the former), Frank Rich is always on the ball: “The endgame for American involvement in Iraq will be of a piece with the rest of this sorry history. “It makes no sense for the commander in chief to put out a timetable” for withdrawal, Mr. Bush declared […]