Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Harry Potter, Round 6: Darker, Richer and All Grown Up

By RICHARD CORLISS

Death Eaters blight the skies, sent on their sorties by the fiendish Lord Voldemort, and in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a grim fate encircles one teenage boy like a noose around his soul

Michael Jackson's Death: How Culpable Are the Doctors?

By ALISON STATEMAN / LOS ANGELES

The LAPD is looking into the singer's drug history. What might the consequences be for the people who procured prescriptions for him?

Obama's Stimulus Plan: Failing by Its Own Measure

By STEPHEN GANDEL

President Obama's economic advisers said back in January that the stimulus package would quickly arrest rising unemployment. Boy, were they wrong

Playing Good Cop/Bad Cop With Sotomayor

By JAY NEWTON-SMALL

The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are either playing a very delicate game of good cop/bad cop with President Obama's nominee to the nation's highest court

The CIA's Secret Program: Why Wasn't Panetta Told?

By BOBBY GHOSH / WASHINGTON

Vice President Cheney reportedly hid a secret CIA program from Congress. Why did it take so long for the new CIA director to find out about it?

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Managua

How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ

By By Tim Rogers / Managua

Boxing legend Alexis Arguello was laid low by drugs and scandal, then lifted himself for a new life of serving the poor through politics. His suicide followed a disastrous sojourn in public life

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