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How Banks Fail

April 11, 2014Liaquat AhamedApril 11, 2014URL:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/books/review/fragile-by-design-by-charles-w-calomiris-and-stephen-h-haber.html

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U.S. Promotes Network To Foil Digital Spying | The New York Times

April 20, 2014Sascha Meinrath, founder of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research group in Washington that has been developing the mesh system, said that his...

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A Deadly Fungus and Questions at a Hospital

April 28, 2014Sheri Fink Ian Urbina April 28, 2014URL:  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/us/a-deadly-fungus-and-questions-at-a-hospital.html?hp&_r=0&referrer=

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Defending The Open Internet | The New York Times

May 10, 2014Tim Wu, 41, a law professor at Columbia University, isn't a direct participant in the rule making, but he is influencing it. A dozen years ago, building on the work of more senior scholars,...

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Defending the Open Internet | The New York Times

May 10, 2014Click here to read the full article.

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Qaeda Affiliate Steps Up Video Propaganda Push | The New York Times

May 12, 2014It is the latest evidence that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula “is a much more nuanced political actor” than its cousins around the region, said Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism scholar...

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Charging Into The Minefield Of Genes And Racial Difference | The New York Times

May 15, 2014Conservative scholars like the political scientist Francis Fukuyama have long argued that social institutions and culture explain why Europe beat Asia to prosperity, and why parts of the...

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A Decision That Helped Shape Michelle Obama | The New York Times

May 15, 2014Still, Mrs. Obama does not often explicitly evoke the volatile topic of race in her speeches, particularly since her experience in the 2008 presidential campaign, when her critics...

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U.S. Mines Personal Health Data To Aid Emergency Response

May 15, 2014Sheri FinkMay 15, 2014URL:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/us/us-mines-personal-health-data-to-aid-emergency-response.html?hpw&rref=politics

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House Votes to Limit N.S.A.’s Collection of Phone Data | The New York Times

May 22, 2014“If House leaders had backed up their members and stood behind the bill that passed unanimously out of two committees, rather than caving to the intelligence community’s list of demands, a...

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The Wrong Afghan Friends | The New York Times

May 30, 2014Anand Gopal is a journalist based in New York, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan...

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Oil Industry In Iraq Faces Setback to Revival | The New York Times

June 13, 2014“All the oil companies are on alert,” said Daniel Yergin, the oil historian. “They are going to worry about the security of their people and installations. Obviously, no one is going to do...

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Rebels' Fast Strike In Iraq Was Years In The Making | The New York Times

June 14, 2014“What we see in Iraq today is in many ways a culmination of what the I.S.I. has been trying to accomplish since its founding in 2006,” said Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism researcher at...

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Critics Point To Drawbacks In Starbucks Tuition Program | The New York Times

June 16, 2014“Given the upfront cost, it pushes a lot of risk onto the student,” Rachel Fishman, an education policy analyst at the New America Foundation, wrote in a blog post dissecting the program....

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Don’t Fight in Iraq and Ignore Syria

June 17, 2014Anne-Marie SlaughterJune 17, 2014URL:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/opinion/dont-fight-in-iraq-and-ignore-syria.html?_r=0

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College Group Run for Profit Reaches Deal for U.S. Cash | The New York Times

June 23, 2014“I find it disturbing that at a time when Corinthian is close to going out of business, they’re still going to allow new students to come to the ones they’re trying to sell,” said Stephen...

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Fear Not the Coming of the Robots

June 21, 2014Steven RattnerJune 21, 2014URL:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/steven-rattner-fear-not-the-coming-of-the-robots.html

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Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End, Panel Concludes in Report...

June 26, 2014Other members of the group are Philip Mudd, a former deputy director of the C.I.A.'s Counterterrorism Center; Jeffrey Smith, who served as the C.I.A.'s general counsel during the Clinton...

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Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. | The New York...

June 28, 2014Kevin CareyJune 28, 2014URL:  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/upshot/americans-think-we-have-the-worlds-best-colleges-we-dont.html?_r=0

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The Dangers of High-Tech Profiling, Using Big Data | The New York Times

August 6, 2014Seeta GangadharanAugust 6, 2014 The rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech...

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