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Editorial The Taliban Agree to Talk
The Taliban, more used to lobbing mortars and laying improvised explosive devices on the battlefields of Afghanistan, used a televised address in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday to declare their interest in a negotiated peace agreement. After nearly three years of stumbling starts, the announcement counts as a breakthrough of sorts. Given ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Postcard From Turkey
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Editorial Details on Spying Not More Assurances
Battered by weeks of criticism about surveillance abuses, President Obama has embarked on a reassurance offensive. The spy programs have been used narrowly, he said on ...
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Op-Ed Contributors How to End the Stalemate With Iran
THE stunning election of a pragmatic former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, has offered the Obama administration a once-in-a-lifetime chance to end the atomic stalemate with Iran. In the West, Mr Rowhani is widely seen as a turbaned politico from inside the establishment. One of us has worked for him directly, as his deputy in nuclear talks. The other has conducted research ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Our Genes Their Secrets
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Op-Ed Contributor Surviving the Next Gulf Oil Spill
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Editorial Reading is fundamental
ENJOY the summer break, but don’t forget to pick up a book - often. Summer is a good time to help the very youngest kids hold onto basic literacy skills. Tweens and teens can curl up with a book without fear of having to write a report about it. A collective "hooray" echoing around Puget Sound signals the end of the school year, but the prospect of students falling ...
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Editorial Quit paying salary of SPD union president
The city of Seattle’s contract with the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild should be reopened, as soon as it is signed, to end paying the president’s ...
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Letter Unpaid Internships
To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ...
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Letter Unpaid Internships
To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ...
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Letter Unpaid Internships
To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ...
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Letter Unpaid Internships
To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ...
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Letter Competition and Jobs
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Letter Competition and Jobs
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Letter Competition and Jobs
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Letter Protecting Your Privacy
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Letter Competition and Jobs
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Letters Developing Drugs for Rare Diseases
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Letter Delay of a Lifesaving Rule
To the Editor: The ability of the Office of Management and Budget to delay important federal agency regulations goes beyond energy efficiency standards for household appliances ...
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Letter Coal Exports and Prosperity
To the Editor: As ...
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Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda
forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...
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Just what are we getting into in Syria
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged buildings during battles between the rebels and the Syrian government forces, in Aleppo, Syria, June 13, ...
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Some context What bugs us so much about surveillance
This same question might fairly be asked about the controversy dominating the news since the leak that revealed the intelligence community’s highly classified electronic surveillance program. Why are we so fascinated with this case? Why are some Americans outraged at the government while others are outraged at the leaker? Why do so many of us have such firm and passionate views about all ...
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Regarding Iran Optimism and realism
Hasan Rowhani as president of Iran creates a chance for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over that country's potential nuclear-weapons program. But a diplomatic solution is far from a sure ...
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Editorial NYC graduation rate gets an incomplete
Photo credit: (Getty Images) No one thinks the New York City public school system's 64.7 percent high school graduation rate is a cause for celebration. But when Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that achievement this week for the Class of 2012, school reformers in every part of every borough felt a powerful sense of relief. That's because members of the Class of 2012 were the ...
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