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...what the Times symbolizes to the media is nothing next to its outsize symbolism in the larger world. Entire websites are dedicated to critiquing it. To certain conservatives, it's a liberal Manhattan rag and élitists' pedestal; to certain progressives, it's a ruling-class newsletter and corporate tool (not contradictory charges, considering the Times's roots in liberal, moneyed New York City...
...York Times articles, show that there's still a desire for an arbiter of truth. The idea that I can believe it because I read it in the Times was never 100% true, nor was it true for any other news organization. But the paper represented a certain baseline of agreed-on information. If that no longer exists, what distinguishes a news report from an e-mail rumor your uncle forwarded...
...curves and loops; your age in years seems to detach from your age in experience. You get fired at 32 and feel 12 again, or you're invited to teach for the first time and feel ancient standing in front of all those wide eyes. You circle back on certain ages, replaying them until you get it right. If the middle-school cafeteria is the setting for your recurring nightmares, you can spend decades as a preteen in your head, refining the snappy comeback that you never mastered at the time. What is a midlife crisis if not an adolescent...
After six months of deliberation, a panel of 32 French lawmakers netted just enough votes to submit a report to Parliament recommending a ban on full-facial veils in certain public institutions. Originally a proposal had been made to pass a law prohibiting the coverings anywhere in public. But after a long and divisive debate, legislators were able to agree only on a ban in government offices, in public hospitals and on mass transit. Parliament will now decide whether any such law should be passed, although it's not expected to act until March...
...money out of politics is like trying to keep a basement dry in New Orleans, which made the issue a perfect subject for the Supreme Court: nothing revs up Justices like a symbolic fight over an intractable issue. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the court struck down certain limits on corporate campaign spending--upholding the First Amendment or selling American politics into bondage, depending on your view...