mallon – NYT 7:18Newsday 4:47LAT 4:28 (updated at 12:10 Saturday afternoon)Does it make one lick of sense to let NYT applet time hit and then spend 45 minutes making spring-break travel plans and getting all riled up and tired before doing the crossword? No, it does not. It doesn’t make unfamiliar words any easier to [...]

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by Frank James David Broder highlights in his Sunday column what he views as early missteps by the Obama presidential transition team — the misbegotten Bill Richardson nomination, President-elect Barack Obama’s initial opposition to Roland Burris’s appointment to fill the Senate seat Obama once occupied. The dean of the Washington press corps concludes, based on [...]

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JERUSALEM – Israel’s chief military spokesman says the army has begun sending reserve units into the Gaza Strip. The comments are a strong signal that Israel is entering a new phase of its 16-day offensive against Hamas. Source: Israeli Reservists Enter Gaza, Signaling New Phase

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Clint Eastwood, who was born during the Great Depression, scored by far the wide best opening of his career as audiences flocked to theaters in roughly comparable numbers to last weekend, with business up a whopping 24 percent from the same weekend a year ago. “Gran Torino,” a self-directed Eastwood vehicle that should land him [...]

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The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow,And what will poor robin do then, poor thing?He’ll sit in a barn and keep himself warmand hide his head under his wing, poor thing. The North Wind doth blow and we shall have snow, And what will the dormouse do then? Poor thing!Roll’d up like [...]

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