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Tag Archives: new york times
Reactions to Osama bin Laden’s death: Female and non-U.S. residents more ambivalent. Via the NYT Reactions Matrix
This (totally not-double-checked) analysis is a riff off of the excellent New York Times visualization (The Death of a Terrorist: A Turning Point?) of how people reacted to Osama bin Laden’s death. In the days following the news, the Times… Continue reading
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Tags 9/11, new york times, Osama bin Laden, visualizations
John Sullivan, 48. A notable non-notable obituary in the New York Times
One of my favorite assignments as a metro newspaper reporter was the occasional obituary. Not so much the ones about people whose lives (or deaths) were notable in a news sense (such as a local prominent politician, or a murder… Continue reading
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The NYT’s Cop Stop-and-Frisk Graphic
Update: This redditor said “I find it amusing that an article about misleading graphics uses a misleading graphic of its own,” when in fact, my edited graphic was not misleading, it was just wrong. Corrected now. This is a week… Continue reading
Fries and Flavor
For your Friday reading pleasure, a 2001 Atlantic article (adapted from his “Fast Food Nation“) by Eric Schossler on Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good: The taste of a french fry is largely determined by the cooking oil. For decades… Continue reading
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Tags Eric Schlosser, fast food, food, french fries, longform, Malcolm Gladwell, McDonalds, new york times, The Atlantic, the new yorker
NYT: U.S. Funding Both the Afghan Government, and an Afghan Warlord Who Undermines It
An illuminating front-page story today by the Times’ Dexter Filkins, on how the U.S./NATO strategy to mesh Special Forces with the locals has led to a situation in which millions of dollars – monthly – is given to a Matiullah… Continue reading
David Brooks: Maybe Sandra Bullock should’ve stayed in the kitchen
So David Brooks in the NYT, using an almost-current event (Sandra Bullock winning the Oscars, then getting humiliated by hubby Jesse James) takes another (not half-bad) try at an argument that feminists might characterize as “Maybe women would be happier… Continue reading
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Tags david brooks, health care, new york times, sandra bullock
The banality of Godliness: The Vatican and Sex Scandals and a Slow Mail System
Ross Douthat, the cherubic Catholic on the NYT’s column head, tries to take a stab at his church and its recent spate of sex scandal revelations: There has been some accountability for the abusers, but not nearly enough for the… Continue reading
The Foreclosure crisis, on an Arizona Street
Loved this story in the New York Times about the loathing, self-loathing, and helplessness in the real-estate crash, epitomized by the residents on a single Arizona street racked with foreclosures. She said she did not feel she deserved to have… Continue reading
“Unmasking Horror: Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity” from the archives of the New York Times
A 1995 article by the NYT’s Nicholas Kristof, with an unforgettable, chilling lede: ORIOKA, Japan— He is a cheerful old farmer who jokes as he serves rice cakes made by his wife, and then he switches easily to explaining what… Continue reading
Stand to lose weight
A NYT Opinionator reminding us how the gradual drag of modern-day-life makes us fat and die. “Stand Up While You Read This” For many people, weight gain is a matter of slow creep — two pounds this year, three pounds… Continue reading