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OPINION |
September 18, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Message: I Care About the Black Folks By FRANK RICH The worst storm in our history proved perfect for exposing this president because in one big blast it illuminated all his failings.

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OPINION |
September 3, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: United States of Shame By MAUREEN DOWD W. drove his budget-cutting Chevy to the levee, and it wasn't dry. Bye, bye, American lives.

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OPINION |
September 7, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Osama and Katrina By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN If President Bush goes back to his politics as usual, Katrina will have destroyed a city and a presidency.

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NATIONAL |
September 20, 2005 Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood By LOUISE STORY Women are being groomed to take their place in an ever more diverse professional elite. But many of these women say that is not what they want.

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REAL ESTATE |
September 25, 2005 Is It Better to Buy or Rent? By DAVID LEONHARDT Where prices have risen quickly, buying a home may be financially unwise unless you plan to stay for years.

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OPINION |
September 4, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Falluja Floods the Superdome By FRANK RICH The failures of 9/11 come home to roost.

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OPINION |
September 5, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: A Failure of Leadership By BOB HERBERT President Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever by a president during a dire national emergency.

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OPINION |
September 7, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Haunted by Hesitation By MAUREEN DOWD President Bush is stumbling in Iraq and he's stumbling on Katrina.

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OPINION |
September 14, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: A Fatal Incuriosity By MAUREEN DOWD The president should stop haunting New Orleans, looking for that bullhorn moment. It's too late.

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NATIONAL / NATIONAL SPECIAL |
September 7, 2005 The Former First Lady: Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off By THE NEW YORK TIMES President Bush's mother said that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.

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NATIONAL |
September 22, 2005 A New Deadly, Contagious Dog Flu Virus Is Detected in 7 States By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and CARIN RUBENSTEIN The virus has killed racing greyhounds in seven states and has been found in shelters and pet shops in many places, including the New York suburbs.

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OPINION |
September 5, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Killed by Contempt By PAUL KRUGMAN The government's lethal ineptitude in the Katrina disaster was a consequence of ideological hostility to the very idea of using government to serve the public good.

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OPINION |
September 12, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: All the President's Friends By PAUL KRUGMAN Is FEMA's decline and fall unique, or part of a larger pattern?

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OPINION |
September 14, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Singapore and Katrina By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The discipline that the cold war imposed on America seems to have faded.

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SCIENCE |
September 13, 2005 March of the Conservatives: Penguin Film as Political Fodder By JONATHAN MILLER Conservative groups have turned the documentary "March of the Penguins" into an unexpected battle anthem in the culture wars.

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OPINION |
September 16, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Still Eating Our Lunch By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN American parents had better understand that the people who are eating their kids' lunch in math are not resting on their laurels.

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OPINION |
September 10, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Neigh to Cronies By MAUREEN DOWD The cronies on the Homeland Security payroll.

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OPINION |
September 17, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: Disney on Parade By MAUREEN DOWD The slick White House TV production team was trying to salvage W.'s "High Noon" snap with some snazzy Hollywood-style lighting during his speech Thursday night.

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OPINION |
September 6, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: The Larger Shame By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Hurricane Katrina underscores a much larger problem: the growing number of Americans trapped in a cyclone of poverty.

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BUSINESS |
September 10, 2005 Your Money: Some Ways to Prepare for the Absolute Worst By DAMON DARLIN Getting ready for the next disaster doesn't seem so crazy anymore, and survivalist outfitters have advice on how to be prepared.

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BUSINESS |
September 17, 2005 Your Money: The 6 Percent Solution: Skip Real Estate Agents By DAMON DARLIN Homeowners across the United States are figuring out that they do not need to pay what agents demand and they may not need an agent at all.

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BOOKS |
September 28, 2005 Books of The Times | 'Born to Kvetch': To Provoke in Yiddish, Try 'How Are You?' By WILLIAM GRIMES Michael Wex's book is a thoughtful inquiry into what he calls "the national language of nowhere."

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SCIENCE |
September 20, 2005 Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore By NATALIE ANGIER Could cursing, a universal form of expression, be a peephole into the architecture of the brain?

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OPINION |
September 4, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: The Bursting Point By DAVID BROOKS Hurricane Katrina means that the political culture, already sour and bloody-minded in many quarters, will shift.

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THEATER / NEWS & FEATURES |
September 17, 2005 Roll Over, 'Cats.' The Real Thing Is Here. By DINITIA SMITH Moscow Cats Theater features 26 cats who do a total of nine different routines, including "Cats From Outer Space" and "Nutcracker."

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