TOP NEWS
A Year at War
After Combat, the Unexpected Perils of Coming Home
By JAMES DAO
One would think that going home would be the easiest thing troops could do. But it is not so simple.
Go to Interactive: A Year at WarRepublican Legislators Push to Tighten Voting Rules
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Republicans
say the new rules, which have recently advanced in 13 states, weed out
fraudulent votes. Democrats say they impede the young and minorities.
For Anarchist, Details of Life as F.B.I. Target
By COLIN MOYNIHAN and SCOTT SHANE
Scott
Crow, an organizer of anticorporate demonstrations, is among dozens of
political activists to have come under scrutiny by the F.B.I.'s
counterterrorism operations since Sept. 11, 2001.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"A lot of people were excited about coming home. Me, I just sat there and I wondered: What am I coming back to?"
SGT. BRIAN KEITH, part of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry in Fort Drum, N.Y., which recently finished a yearlong tour in Afghanistan.
World
Video:
Coming Home
The men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry, return home from Afghanistan to joy, loneliness and new risks.
Opinion
Op-Classic, 1992
Letting Ratko Mladic Run Wild
The columnist Anthony Lewis on Washington's failure to intervene in Bosnia.
WORLD
Egypt Lifts Blockade, Along With the Gazans' Hopes
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Hundreds
of Gaza Strip residents arrived to make the crossing, taking the first
tangible steps out of Israeli occupation after years of deadlocked peace
talks.
Obama Cites Poland as Model for Arab Shift
By MARK LANDLER
Visiting
Warsaw, the president said Poland's peaceful overthrow of Communism
provided lessons for countries struggling with the chaotic aftermath of
popular revolts.
In Libyan Rebel Capital, Shouts of Thanks to America and the West
By ROD NORDLAND
In Benghazi, Libya's rebel capital, Westerners are treated with a warmth and gratitude rarely seen in any Muslim country.
U.S.
When Everything Is Gone, Including a Sense of Direction
By DAN BARRY, RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and A. G. SULZBERGER
The
tornado that carved through southwestern Missouri last Sunday leveled
parts of Joplin so completely that the community's inner GPS remains out
of whack.
Obama Expected to Name Army's Leader to Head Joint Chiefs
By THOM SHANKER
Gen.
Martin E. Dempsey is thought to be up for an unexpectedly rapid
promotion after President Obama passed over the current vice chairman.
In Florida, Criminals Pose as Police More Frequently and for More Violent Ends
By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
In
South Florida police impersonators have become better organized and,
most troubling to law enforcement officials, more violent.
BUSINESS
Retro Russian Import Lures Older, Easier Riders
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
By
the 1990s Irbit Motor Works seemed to be sputtering into the sunset,
but then it discovered a niche market in the United States for its
sidecar motorcycles.
Funny or Die: Groupon's Fate Hinges on Words
By DAVID STREITFELD
The
e-mail marketer hopes that its staff of 400 writers and editors will
keep it one step ahead of its discounting competitors on the Web.
The Fitness Revolution Will Be Televised (After Leno)
By ANDREW MARTIN
Tony
Horton and his business partners have built a $400-million-a-year
empire on what might seem like a foundation of schlock: TV infomercials.
SPORTS
Barcelona 3, Manchester United 1
Prized Possession for Barcelona: Champions League Title
By JOHN BRANCH
By
defeating Manchester United, Barcelona staked its claim to the most
prestigious club title in the world and fueled a historical debate about
whether it is one of the best teams in soccer history.
Bin Hammam Withdraws From FIFA Presidential Race
By REUTERS
Mohamed
Bin Hammam of Qatar withdrew his candidacy for the post of FIFA
president on Saturday, one day before he is due to face an ethics
committee hearing into bribery allegations.
Sports of The Times
Success and Scandal Can Leave Everyone Weary
By GEORGE VECSEY
Saturday's
Champions League final drew the interest of millions of people around
the world, and took the spotlight off FIFA's latest scandal.
ARTS
The Pietà Behind the Couch
By KEVIN FLYNN and RANDY KENNEDY
How a Michelangelo, across centuries and continents, may have ended up outside Buffalo.
Old-Time Stuff Is Not Forgotten
By NEIL GENZLINGER
"Gettysburg,"
"History Detectives" and "American Picker" scrutinize the Civil War
through varying perspectives, often focusing on the history of an
artifact.
Slide ShowOn Top, Unafraid to Step Back
By NATE CHINEN
My Morning Jacket went back to Louisville, and its roots, to record its new album, "Circuital."
MAGAZINE
Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?
By SUSAN DOMINUS
The miraculous life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan and what it could reveal about the human brain.
Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser
By FRANK BRUNI
He
constructs his movies like magical boxes, full of intriguing mysteries.
Of course, eventually he has to let everyone see what's in there.
Egypt's Next Crisis
By ROBERT F. WORTH
The country's exhilarating, terrifying brush with freedom.
EDITORIALS
Editorial
Passive in the Senate
Democrats are too afraid of political risk to put forward bold thinking of their own.
Editorial
A Further Overreach on Political Money
The Supreme Court's ruling on Citizens United was bad enough.
Editorial
Spammers and Their Bankers
If banks or credit card companies refused to settle payments with spammers' banks, they could disrupt spam.
Editorial
Final Goodbye to a Mars Explorer
In a mission that lasted six years, the rover Spirit helped change the way we look at the red planet.
OP-ED
Op-Ed Columnist
For Office Civility, Cherchez La Femme
By MAUREEN DOWD
Can a woman who made it in a man's world go to a man's world and make it safe for women?
Op-Ed Columnist
Pay Attention
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The
Egyptian revolution is not over. It is now in the utterly vital phase
of deciding who gets to write the rules for the new government.
Op-Ed Columnist
Slums Into Malls
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Watch out, China: With its liberated news media and booming economy, India could nibble your lunch.
Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
By JONATHAN FRANZEN
Our infatuation with technology encourages shallow self-reflection, and liking, rather than the harder work of loving.
Op-Ed Contributor
The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy
By TIMUR KURAN
The chronic weakness of civil society suggests that viable Arab democracies will not emerge anytime soon.
Op-Ed Contributors
Why Medical School Should Be Free
By PETER B. BACH and ROBERT KOCHER
To address the looming shortage of primary care doctors, make medical school free but charge specialists for their training.
Op-Ed Contributor
A Verb for Our Frantic Times
By SIMON WINCHESTER
Why "run" has surpassed "set" as the word with the most meanings.
The Public Editor
Loitering on the Fringes
By ARTHUR S. BRISBANE
The Times is following society to places that it need not go.
