Dear Readers, who have time, will not regret these uusual articles:
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/business/media/in-boston-cnn-stumbles-in-rush-to-break-news.html?pagewanted=all
Rushed, and therefore awful, reporting during the Boston Marathon bombing week.
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/arts/music/brad-paisleys-wheelhouse.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Country Music star Brad Paisley gently tries to talk down country fans from the more extreme rural positions
-- such as racism.
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/opinion/we-can-love-form-1040.html
Filing tax returns can be an act of civic virtue.
Ralph Kramden, in a 1953 episode of The Honeymooners, tells his wife Alice,
"I didn't mean that before what I said about income taxes. Boy, we should give everything to the government> We're living in a great country. This is the greatest country in the world."
4. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/a-fairer-corporate-tax.html
If, as Mitt Romney said, "corporations are people, my friends," then let's tax them too, on a sliding scale, just the way we used to!
5. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/world/africa/anna-merz-protector-of-black-rhinos-dies-at-81.html
"Samia, an orphan rhino whom she raised from babyhood, even crawled into bed with Mrs. Merz -- not entirely to her delight. Samia would follow her around like a dog . . . If Mrs. Merz fell, Samia would extend her tail to help her up."
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/world/europe/israel-and-palestinians-reach-deal-on-unesco.html
Israel & Palestine actually agree on something!
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