Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 26 April 2011


TOP NEWS

Syria Escalates Crackdown as Tanks Go to Restive City

By ANTHONY SHADID
The army deployed tanks in Dara'a on Monday, according to accounts by human rights activists, who said that at least 25 people had been killed.

Public Pensions, Once Off Limits, Face Budget Cuts

By MICHAEL COOPER and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
As the fiscal crisis has lingered, officials in strapped states have begun looking for loopholes to cut retirement benefits for current employees.

In Dossier, Portrait of Push for Post-9/11 Attacks

By SCOTT SHANE and BENJAMIN WEISER
Saifullah Paracha was one of a small circle of Al Qaeda operatives who explored ways to follow up on the hijackings with new attacks, according to classified Guantánamo files.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"I was just praying to God that he would free me."
ALLAH MOHAMMED AGHA, who was among nearly 500 fighters freed from Saraposa Prison in Afghanistan by the Taliban.


nytimes.comVideo
World

Video: The Future For Guantanamo

Following the release of classified assessments of Guantanamo detainees, Rebecca Corbett and Scott Shane discuss the prison's future.
Opinion
Op-Ed Contributor

Finish the Job

By JAMES M. DUBIK
The United States must accept that there is no easy way out of the intervention in Libya.
WORLD

Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Detainees

By CHARLIE SAVAGE, WILLIAM GLABERSON and ANDREW W. LEHREN
Classified assessments of detainees at Guantánamo Bay prison obtained by The Times give the fullest public picture to date of the prisoners held there.

Judging Detainees' Risk, Often With Flawed Evidence

By SCOTT SHANE and BENJAMIN WEISER
Analysts sometimes released detainees wrongly judged a minimal threat and held others who were no threat.

Libyan, Once a Detainee, Is Now a U.S. Ally of Sorts

By ROD NORDLAND and SCOTT SHANE
A former prisoner at Guantánamo is now a leader of the NATO-backed Libyan rebels.
U.S.
Gender Games

College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity

By KATIE THOMAS
To produce an appearance of gender equity, colleges have given roster spots to unqualified players, counted male practice players as women and trimmed men's rosters.
Baltimore Journal

For Late 'Mr. Mayor,' a Last Tour of Town

By SABRINA TAVERNISE
William Donald Schaefer, the former mayor of Baltimore, was ushered through the city Monday like a head of state, his coffin on a whirlwind tour of this city that he loved.

Rivet Manufacturing Flaw Suspected in Jet's Roof

By MATTHEW L. WALD and JAD MOUAWAD
Investigators say they found rivet holes that were too big and appear to be misshapen from wear in a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that peeled open in flight earlier this month.
BUSINESS

Preserving a Market Symbol

By GRAHAM BOWLEY
As a fight for ownership of the New York Stock Exchange continues, both bidders have pledged to preserve the 219-year-old capitalist symbol.

Phone Data Used to Fill Digital Map

By MIGUEL HELFT
Apple and Google use data about users' locations to better pinpoint specific spots, which could lead to lucrative advertising.

M.I.T. Media Lab Names a New Director

By JOHN MARKOFF
Joichi Ito is a 44-year-old Japanese venture capitalist who has played important roles in the development of the Internet and invested in many high-tech start-ups.
SPORTS

Before Manny Became Manny

By SARA RIMER
Before Manny Ramirez captivated baseball fans with his swing, swagger, antics, and eventual exit amid failed drug tests, he was a regular high school star from Washington Heights.

N.F.L. in Limbo as Owners Try to Preserve Lockout

By JUDY BATTISTA
A judge's decision ending the lockout and the expected appeal by owners has created uncertainty about whether the league will have to open for business.

A Player Is Back at Home With Dreams of a Recovery

By GREG BISHOP
In his first group interview since he left the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation last month, the former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand expressed confidence that he would walk again.
ARTS
Architecture Review

Nostalgia Wrapped In Steel

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
With the HL23 condominium tower in west Chelsea, Neil Denari establishes himself, midcareer, as an architect with something to say about the road American culture has followed since the postwar era.
Books Of The Times

'The Wizard of Lies'

By CHARLES FERGUSON
Diana B. Henriques dissects the Madoff Ponzi scheme in "The Wizard of Lies."
Music Review

Strumming Solo, With the Reverb of a Full Band

By BEN RATLIFF
Neil Young, playing a solo show at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, performed a mix of songs - some from his latest release, "Le Noise" - on guitars, pianos and an organ.
SCIENCE TIMES

Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science

By JOHN MARKOFF
Computer power is transforming the sciences, giving scientists tools as important to current research as the microscope and telescope were to earlier scientists.
Scientist at Work | Jesse H. Ausubel

A Passion for Nature, and Really Long Lists

By NICHOLAS WADE
An environmental researcher has so far started four major international programs to survey the planet and catalog its biological diversity.
Findings

A Generation's Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics

By JOHN TIERNEY
After a computer analysis of three decades of hit songs, psychologists report finding a statistically significant trend toward narcissism and hostility in popular music.
EDITORIALS
Editorial

The Guantánamo Papers

Newly released documents underscore the travesty of the Bush detention practices.
Editorial

Boeing and the N.L.R.B.

Is a move to South Carolina a way to avoid unions or retaliation against them?
Editorial

So Much for That Ounce of Prevention

Republicans passed a bill that would eliminate a program intended to help prevent diseases. The Senate should reject it.
Editorial

Marriage Equality in New York

We applaud Gov. Andrew Cuomo's active engagement and apparent willingness to exercise gubernatorial leadership in the cause of same-sex-marriage.
OP-ED
Op-Ed Columnist

The Big Disconnect

By DAVID BROOKS
Our national discontent runs deeper than dollars and cents.
Op-Ed Columnist

The Limits of School Reform

By JOE NOCERA
What happens outside of school matters just as much as what happens inside.
Op-Ed Columnist

The Arab Gyre

By ROGER COHEN
Deep and unstoppable forces drive the Arab push for representative government.
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