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U.S.

Veterans to Serve as ‘Human Shields’ for Dakota Pipeline Protesters

By CHRISTOPHER MELE | Nov 29th 2016

A group called Veterans Stand for Standing Rock planned a nonviolent intervention to defend demonstrators from the police, organizers said.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/23/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-map.html

"Beggar thy neighbor."

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Science

How Good Is a Bad Night’s Sleep?

By C. CLAIBORNE RAY | Nov 28th 2016

Sleep with disturbing nightmares is better than no sleep, researchers say, but the bad dreams can cause all sorts of other problems.

Sleep,  it is good.

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Opinion

The Truth About Young Immigrants and DACA

By JANET NAPOLITANO | Nov 30th 2016

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, for the so-called Dreamers, is both lawful and rational.

These are immigrants we want.

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Opinion

C.I.A. Doctors, Ethics and Torture

Nov 29th 2016

The psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls for an inquiry, and a New York assemblyman sponsors a preventive bill.

The first rule of a field agent is "Don't get caught."

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N.Y. / Region

An Angry Encounter, Then a Hug

By BETH BENGUALID | Nov 30th 2016

Two women make peace on the subway.

The older woman was having a bad day.
So was the younger one.

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U.S.

Hampshire College Draws Protests Over Removal of U.S. Flag

By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH | Nov 28th 2016

Military veterans protested the decision this weekend, adding their voices to a debate on the Massachusetts campus that has seen the flag lowered, removed and even burned since the election.

The American flag is not an idol or other object of worship.
The veterans should get over it.

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Opinion

An Indian Protest for Everyone

By DAVID TREUER | Nov 26th 2016

March. Fight. But go to planning meetings, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/23/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protest map.html

If the pipeline is too dangerous for Bismark it is too dangerous.

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U.S.

David Petraeus, Secretary of State Candidate, Meets With Trump

By MARK LANDLER | Nov 29th 2016

Mr. Petraeus, a retired general and former C.I.A. director, has emerged as a new contender after bitter internal feuding over the State Department post.

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/david%20petraeus

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N.Y. / Region

Domestic Abuse Killings Climb as Murders Drop, Frustrating New York Officials

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and ASHLEY SOUTHALL | Nov 30th 2016

The persistence of such killings has frustrated the police, prosecutors and social service providers struggling to prevent intimate tensions that play out behind closed doors from turning deadly.

Put people to work.

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N.Y. / Region

Brooklyn Prosecutor Accused of Using Illegal Wiretap to Spy on Love Interest

By ALAN FEUER | Nov 29th 2016

Tara Lenich, a high-ranking prosecutor in the district attorney’s office, was arrested and fired after investigators learned she had spied on a police detective and a colleague, an official said.

Obsession is often destructive.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.


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