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The art of suffering

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By Pascal Bruckner, Steven Rendall (Translator)

Weekly Review — December 7, 2004, 12:00 am

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By Benjamin Austen

Ukraine’s Supreme Court ordered a second presidential run-off to be held by December 26 after it ruled last month’s fraud-plagued election invalid.New York TimesSupporters of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the winner in the November 21 run-off, threatened to form a separate nation in the country’s east; theNew York Timesopposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, who promises to increase Ukraine’s ties to the West, celebrated the court’s decision with thousands of protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square. Stricken by a mysterious illness that has left his face a mask of puffy, red cysts and lesions, Yushchenko said to the crowd, “This is the face …

Weekly Review — May 14, 2002, 12:00 am

Weekly Review

By Roger D. Hodge

The House Appropriations Committee passed a measure authorizing the President to use force to free any American detained by the new International Criminal Court, which Tom DeLay, the majority whip from Texas, called a “rump” and a “rogue” court. After noticing that some members of the committee seemed ignorant of the court’s location, David Obey, a Democrat from Wisconsin, pointed out that “we would be sending troops to invade the Netherlands.” The measure also bans military aid to countries that ratify the treaty creating the court (which President Bush “unsigned” last week) but specifically exempts NATO countries and other major …

Weekly Review — March 20, 2001, 12:00 am

Weekly Review

By Roger D. Hodge

After a heavy lobbying campaign by the electric industry, President George W. Bush broke a campaign promise and decided not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, humiliating Christie Whitman, his EPA administrator, and effectively killing the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. The President said that he was worried about an energy crisis and that he wasn’t entirely convinced that global warming was real. OPEC decided to cut production by 4 percent in order to keep oil prices high. North and South Korea exchanged mail for the first time since the Korean War. Apparently offended by President Bush’s comments last week …

Readings — From the January 1993 issue

Why the happy are nuts

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By Richard P. Bentall

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Bliss . . .

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The happy and the unhappy

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By Peter Schjeldahl

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The rich are happier

By Ed Diener, Jeff Horwitz, Robert A. Emmons

Wraparound — From the July 1974 issue

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A personal lament

By Homer H. Shannon

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“Happiness in every box”

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The great American illusion

By Ernest Augustus Boyd

Personal and otherwise — From the February 1923 issue

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Are we a happy people?

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Poetry — From the July 1912 issue

O giorno felice!

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By Florence Earle Coates

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Happiness. (A butterfly)

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Poetry — From the October 1894 issue

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By John Vance Cheney

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To a witty writer. (December 25th)

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By Carlotta Perry

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“During the early 1990s, farmers throughout the Great Plains began to notice a decline in their wells. Irrigation systems from the Dakotas to Texas dipped, and, in some places, have been abandoned entirely.”

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