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28 Oct 09

Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists seeking to demonstrate innocence of wronfully convicted- NYTimes.com

Prosecutors are asking grades and other overreaching information on
students working on cases of wrong convictions

www.nytimes.com/...25innocence.html - Preview

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17 Sep 09

Nicholas Thompson Unearths His Grandfather�s Cold War Secrets - NYTimes.com

Paul Nitze orchestrated the leak of misleading information
about Soviet soldiers in Cuba at a critical moment in the
debate over an agreement that Mr. Warnke negotiated.
The Senate failed to approve the treaty, known as SALT II.
Thirty years later, Gen. Nikolai Detinov, one of the Soviet
arms negotiators, told Mr. Thompson that the failure to ratify
SALT II in the summer of 1979 hardened the Kremlin’s
position; if it had been approved, the general said, “we would
not have gone into Afghanistan.”

www.nytimes.com/...12hawk.html - Preview

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31 Aug 09

An Apology for My Lai, Four Decades Later - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

Last week, William Calley, the only American soldier to be held legally responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in and around the village of My Lai in March, 1968 by a platoon under his command, apologized for the first time.

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13 Aug 09

Disabled Students Are Spanked More - NYTimes.com

More than 20 states do not prohibit physical punishment at
schools

www.nytimes.com/...11punish.html - Preview

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21 Jun 09

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress

The National Security Agency's intercepts of Americans'
phone calls and e-mail messages are broader than previously
acknowledged, officials said.

www.nytimes.com/...17nsa.html - Preview

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