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Talking Obama in Paris
Talking Obama in Paris
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Publisher's Note — November 15, 2012, 12:49 pm
Talking Obama in Paris
Talking Obama in Paris
Readings — From the October 2012 issue
Readings — From the March 2012 issue
Weekly Review — December 23, 2008, 12:00 am
An American cattleman. President George W. Bush announced a $13.4 billion bailout for General Motors and Chrysler. The bailout, which will make use of funds authorized by Congress in October for the rescue of U.S. financial institutions, requires among other things that the automakers sell their fleets of private aircraft. “I’ve abandoned free-market principles,” said Bush, “to save the free-market system.”New York TimesBreitbartPresident-elect Barack Obama called for an expansion of his economic recovery plan in order to save a half-million more jobs atop the 2.5 million he already hopes to save, at a total cost of $600 billion or $700 …
Weekly Review — December 16, 2008, 12:00 am
Caught in the Web, 1860. Federal agents arrested hedge-fund manager Bernard Madoff and charged him with running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, possibly the largest in Wall Street history. Madoff faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $5 million in fines; he had hoped to distribute his last $200 million to friends, family, and favored employees before his arrest, but was turned in by his sons. SECNYTBloombergWSJNYTRepublicansenators killed a plan to loan $14 billion to American automakers, and the White House said it would consider other options to save the industry and as many as three million …
Weekly Review — December 9, 2008, 12:00 am
The Labor Department reported that 533,000 people lost their jobs in November, a further 621,000 people were forced into part-time employment, and 422,000 more simply dropped out of the labor force. The report, describing a situation far worse than economists expected, also recorded 24,000 layoffs by auto dealers.MarketwatchRepresentatives of the Big Three car companies, facing their lowest sales in decades and, in the case of Chrysler and General Motors, imminent collapse, again appeared before Congress (traveling by car and commercial flights this time, rather than on private jets) to ask for $34 billion in aid, a few billion less than …
Readings — From the March 2008 issue
Photography — From the February 2005 issue
Photography — From the February 2005 issue
Article — From the April 2000 issue
Exorbitantly abroad with Mademoiselle du Pamplemousse
Review — From the March 2000 issue
Walter Benjamin, the connoisseur of everyday life
Readings — From the October 1999 issue
Readings — From the January 1999 issue
Readings — From the January 1999 issue
Article — From the December 1997 issue
Gift merchandisers take license with history
Article — From the April 1977 issue
Wraparound — From the July 1973 issue
Fiction — From the October 1970 issue
Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city
Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device:
A reduction in distrust toward atheists was documented among pious Canadians who are reminded of the Vancouver police.
A Missouri cinema apologized for hiring an actor dressed in body armor and carrying a fake rifle to appear at a screening of Iron Man 3.
Winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
