World
32 minutes ago
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By RAVI SOMAIYA
Crowds of hundreds of thousands are expected, along with 8,500 journalists and support personnel, all under the watchful eyes of 5,000 police officers.
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U.S.
58 minutes ago
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By MICHAEL BARBARO
Energized by President Obama’s release of his full birth certificate, Donald Trump broadened his critique of the White House.
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After Storms Kill Hundreds, South Tries to Regroup
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and KIM SEVERSON
Marvin Gentry/Reuters
Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama said that at least 204 people had died in his state, bringing the number of people killed to at least 291 across six states.
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Sports
00:16
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Canucks Win Game 1
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Roberto Luongo stopped 20 shots and made Chris Higgins’s second-period goal stand up in the host Vancouver Canucks’ 1-0 win over the Nashville Predators in the opener of the Western Conference semifinals.
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U.S.
00:01
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Word of the Day | coagulate
By THE LEARNING NETWORK
This word has appeared in three New York Times articles in the past year.
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Sports
Yesterday
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Ochoa Is Pregnant
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lorena Ochoa, the retired former No. 1 player, is expecting her first child. She announced the news on Twitter in English and Spanish.
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Sports
Yesterday
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New Rules for Basketball and Football
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The N.C.A.A.’s directors adopted a new withdrawal date from the N.B.A. draft and will toughen academic standards for football players beginning this fall.
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Technology
Yesterday
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Hackers Claim to Have PlayStation Users' Card Data
By NICK BILTON
Security researchers have seen claims that the hackers responsible for the attack on the Sony PlayStation Network were trying to sell credit card records.
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N.Y. / Region
Yesterday
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Rutgers Students End Sit-In Over Tuition Increases
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nine students who had occupied an administration building since Wednesday left it voluntarily a day later.
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Sports
Yesterday
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2 Share Lead in Louisiana
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matt Jones holed out from 57 feet on his final hole for a six-under-par 66 and a share of the first-round lead with Bubba Watson at the Zurich Classic in Avondale, La.
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Sports
Yesterday
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Red Bulls to PlayIn London This Summer
By JACK BELL
The Red Bulls will take advantage of a two-week lull in their M.L.S. schedule in late July and early August to travel to London to play in the Emirates Cup against Arsenal.
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N.Y. / Region
Yesterday
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Arrest of a Bronx Prosecutor Is Said to Uncover Possible Favored Treatment in Past
By AL BAKER
Jennifer Troiano, an assistant district attorney, faces drunken driving and related charges from her involvement in a crash last August.
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Sports
Yesterday
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St. John’s Signs Player Named God’s Gift
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The St. John’s men’s basketball team has signed God’s Gift Achiuwa, a 6-foot-9, 240-pound junior college all-American who becomes the ninth member of the Red Storm’s 2011-12 recruiting class.
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Sports
Yesterday
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I.O.C. Clears Hardy
By JULIET MACUR
Jessica Hardy, a breaststroke world-record holder, was cleared this week to compete in the 2012 London Olympics if she makes the United States team next year.
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U.S.
Yesterday
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Michigan: Baggage Handlers Charged in Drug Bust
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baggage handlers working for Delta Air Lines conspired to smuggle drugs to Detroit from airports in Houston and Jamaica over several years, the authorities said.
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U.S.
Yesterday
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Mississippi: River Surge To Test Levees
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A surge of water not seen since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 is forecast in coming days to test the enormous levees lining the Mississippi River on its course through the Deep South.
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Corrections
Yesterday
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Corrections
Corrections appearing in print, April 29, 2011.
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U.S.
Yesterday
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GTT ?
By MICHAEL HOINSKI
Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week.
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U.S.
Yesterday
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After Fire, Wind and Drought, Something Good Will Follow
By JOE NICK PATOSKI
Alberto Tomas Halpern/Associated Press
Unfortunately, the greatest chronicler of such dire conditions is no longer with us to make sense of it all. It’s fair to ask, rhetorically: What would Elmer Kelton say?
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U.S.
Yesterday
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For Accused, Long Waits to Appeal Child Abuse Allegations
By EMILY RAMSHAW
Todd Spoth for The Texas Tribune
Once a person’s name goes on a statewide database of people who are accused of mistreating children, it is difficult — and time consuming — to have it removed, even if the initial charges were never proved.
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U.S.
Yesterday
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Proposal Seeks to Expand List of Organ Donors
By JULIÁN AGUILAR
A bill in the Texas Legislature would transfer control of the state’s organ-donor registry to a new nonprofit organization in the hope of increasing the number of prospective donors.
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World
Yesterday
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London Readies for Royal Wedding
By RAVI SOMAIYA
As last-minute preparations drew to a close, London braced for a royal wedding that promises to be one of its largest and most watched events in recent memory.
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N.Y. / Region
Yesterday
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Vincent O’Leary, Who Revived Albany University, Dies at 86
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
As president at the State University of New York at Albany, Mr. O’Leary developed 27 specialized graduate programs, invigorating the school after a period of decline.
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Business Day
Yesterday
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A Big Question for Berkshire
By AGNES T. CRANE and ROBERT COLE
At the company’s annual meeting, the issue of whether Warren E. Buffett’s conglomerate should remain one company will undoubtedly be raised.
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Business Day
Yesterday
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Cheaper Drug to Treat Eye Disease Is Effective
By ANDREW POLLACK
The trial said that Avastin is just as effective at treating a form of macular degeneration as the more expensive Lucentis.
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Opinion
Yesterday
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The Causes of the Civil War, 2.0
By EDWARD L. AYERS
How digital tools can help historians - and the public - better understand the causes of the Civil War.
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Sports
Yesterday
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Hernandez Puts Aside Concerns About Investigation and Halts Mets’ Streak
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
Nationals pitcher Livan Hernandez faced the Mets a day after evidence was introduced that connects him, at least indirectly, to a convicted drug trafficker in Puerto Rico.
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Theater
Yesterday
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What Bubbie Did During the War
By BEN BRANTLEY
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Donna Murphy plays an elderly Yiddish actress with a secret from the Holocaust in the Roundabout Theater Company’s “People in the Picture.
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N.Y. / Region
Yesterday
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Lottery Numbers
Lottery numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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N.Y. / Region
Yesterday
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Bid to Limit Benefits Plan in New Jersey Is Dropped
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
“I said from the beginning that I wasn’t married to it,” the State Senate president, Stephen M. Sweeney, said about his proposal to prohibit a program from accepting new members.
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Crosswords/Games
Yesterday
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Friday: It May Be Assumed
By DEB AMLEN
A terrific example of what a Friday puzzle should be by David Quarfoot.
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World
Yesterday
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Syria: U.N. Atomic Watchdog Director Says Bombed Syrian Site Was Reactor
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that a target destroyed by Israeli warplanes in 2007 was a covertly built nuclear reactor, countering assertions by Syria.
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World
Yesterday
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China: Sentence Reduced for Hong Kong Academic
By ANDREW JACOBS
The sentence of a political scientist who was jailed on espionage charges in 2001 after he was accused of giving secret documents to a South Korean scholar has been reduced by five months, an American human rights organization said.
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World
Yesterday
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Russia: Chechen Says Hands Are Clean
By REUTERS
The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov testified by videolink in the Moscow trial of a prominent human rights activist he sued for defamation.
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N.Y. / Region
Yesterday
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Business Leaders, in Letter, Will Urge Albany to Legalize Gay Marriage
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
The executives argue that same-sex marriage would help companies attract and retain employees.
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Sports
Yesterday
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On to Round 2 After a Round 1 That Had Everything
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
Elise Amendola/Associated Press, Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press, Rich Lam/Getty Images, Tom Mihalek/Associated Press
The first round of this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs are a tough act to follow, but the show went on Thursday night, with Nashville visiting Vancouver to start the second round.
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Sports
Yesterday
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A Cosmic Comeuppance for the Dodgers
By GEORGE VECSEY
The Dodgers, one of baseball’s bedrock franchises, are caught up in the divorce charges by the Battling McCourts from Boston.
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World
Yesterday
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In Shift, Egypt Warms to Iran and Hamas, Israel’s Foes
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press
Egypt is planning to open the blockaded border with Gaza and normalizing relations with two of Israel and the West’s Islamist foes, Hamas and Iran.
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U.S.
Yesterday
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Predicting Tornadoes: It’s Still Guessing Game
By KIRK JOHNSON
Tornado records have been shattered and scientists can only guess when and where tornadoes will actually strike.
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Movies
Yesterday
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When Past and Present Collide
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Geisha Years
“We Go Way Back,” an early film by the director Lynn Shelton, maps the territory between young dreams and young-adult reality.
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Sports
Yesterday
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Sooner or Later, the Celtics Were Expecting to Face the Heat
By PETER MAY
Boston, the defending Eastern Conference champion, takes on LeBron James and Miami on Sunday in Game 1 of their series.
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Magazine
Yesterday
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Can Kristen Wiig Turn on the Charm?
By SUSAN DOMINUS
Suzanne Hanover/Universal Pictures
After making her name by playing annoying oddballs, a comedic sidekick gets her big shot.
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Business Day
Yesterday
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Berkshire Gets Tough With Sokol as Meeting Nears
By BEN PROTESS
After weeks of being quiet, the board of Warren E. Buffett's company is aggressively trying to distance itself from David L. Sokol ahead of Saturday's shareholder meeting.
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Opinion
Yesterday
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In the Wake of Wednesday’s Tornadoes
We hope clear weather will give Southerners a chance to mourn the lives that were lost and start the rebuilding.
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Sports
Yesterday
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Zobrist Sets Rays’ R.B.I. Record and Routs Twins All by Himself
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hannah Foslien/Getty Images
Ben Zobrist set a Tampa Bay record with eight runs batted in, hitting a homer and two two-run doubles to open a doubleheader.
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Opinion
Yesterday
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A Stronger and Clearer Clean Water Act
President Obama’s new guidelines are an important step in restoring legal safeguards to threatened wetlands and streams.
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Sports
Yesterday
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Homers Are Just a Part of the Yanks’ Big Night
By BEN SHPIGEL
Barton Silverman/The New York Times
After scoring twice without a hit in the third inning, the Yankees pounded out six runs in the fifth. C. C. Sabathia did not allow an earned run in seven innings.
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