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Published: Feb 21, 2012
SOWETO, South Africa — Shortly after Michel Sidibé became executive director of the United Nations ’ AIDS prevention agency, a court in Senegal sentenced nine gay men, all AIDS educators, to eight years in prison for “unnatural acts.” In one of his first moves as the new chief of U.N.AIDS , Mr. Sidibe flew to Senegal

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Published: Feb 20, 2012
In a trial that featured lurid and clinical details of a rape at the Plaza Hotel , a different sort of story line emerged: the tremendous wealth and opulent lifestyle of an unnamed Saudi prince. A member of the prince’s entourage was accused of raping one of two women who fell asleep in his hotel bed after a night of bar hopping in January

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Published: Feb 18, 2012
In a crucial step toward the ultimate approval of new  oil  drilling off the North Slope of Alaska, the Interior Department on Friday tentatively approved   Shell’s   plans  for responding to a potential spill in the frigid Arctic waters. Shell still needs to cross several more regulatory barriers before it will be

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Published: Feb 15, 2012
NEW YORK — Linda Sarsour and Faiza Ali are two people who keenly felt the recent controversy over the film, “The Third Jihad,” which had been shown to some police officers attending a 2010 counterterrorism course offered by the New York City Police Department . Some Muslim leaders in New York protested against the film and said it

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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON — China ’s next leader, Xi Jinping , may never have heard of American Superconductor Corporation before he arrived here Monday, but by the end of his visit United States officials hope to make the small Massachusetts wind-energy company an object lesson in the impact of Chinese trade secret theft on American business. Senator

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Published: Feb 15, 2012
NEW YORK -- Linda Sarsour and Faiza Ali are two people who keenly felt the recent controversy over the film, ''The Third Jihad,'' which had been shown to some police officers attending a 2010 counterterrorism course offered by the New York City Police Department. Some Muslim leaders in New York protested against the film and said it would encourage

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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON -- China's next leader, Xi Jinping, may never have heard of American Superconductor Corporation before he arrived here Monday, but by the end of his visit United States officials hope to make the small Massachusetts wind-energy company an object lesson in the impact of Chinese trade secret theft on American business. Senator John Kerry,

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Published: Feb 12, 2012
PHILADELPHIA BETSEY STEVENSON and Justin Wolfers might sound like almost any upscale couple. They have impressive degrees and serious careers and the social markers that go with them. They have one child, but there are two strollers, a Bugaboo and a Bob baby jogger, parked in the front hall of their stylish home here. Their daughter, Matilda, who

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Published: Feb 12, 2012
Readers debate whether a new primary and voting system proposed by a letter writer would improve how we elect a president. The Letter To the Editor: Every four years a handful of the same old states effectively pick party nominees for president, voting earlier and earlier with campaign spending mattering more and more. The parties should winnow

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Published: Feb 12, 2012
About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 12, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending January 28, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers

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Mainland Chinese Flock to Hong Kong to Have Babies 23-Feb-2012

HONG KONG — For years, Hong Kongers have nursed complaints about the growing parade of visitors to their city from mainland China . The mainlanders spit, litter, jaywalk and cut in line, the locals grouse; they talk too loudly, eat on the subway and otherwise flout Hong Kong’s more refined standards of public behavior. Those are
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Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling 23-Feb-2012

CAIRO — Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs on Wednesday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar al-Assad . Among the scores of people that activist
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Campaigns Use ‘Microtargeting’ to Attract Supporters 21-Feb-2012

Political campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are now fully engaged on the latest technological frontier in advertising: aiming specific ads at potential supporters based on where they live, the Web sites they visit and their voting records. In recent primaries, two kinds of Republican voters have been seeing two
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Shares Close Down First Time in 4 Trading Days 23-Feb-2012

Stocks closed lower Wednesday for the first time in four trading days. Some investors worried about the details of a bailout deal reached for Greece on Tuesday. But analysts said investors were mostly in a holding pattern after seeing the market hit an important psychological mark. “The market is pausing for the next slew of good news,”
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Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling 23-Feb-2012

CAIRO — Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs on Wednesday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar al-Assad . Among the scores of people that activist
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Two Seek to Claim Control of Field at G.O.P. Debate 23-Feb-2012

MESA, Ariz. — Mitt Romney called into question the fiscal conservative credentials of Rick Santorum in a fiercely combative debate on Wednesday evening, taking urgent steps to redefine Mr. Santorum while trying to reassert his command in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination. With the Arizona and Michigan primaries only six
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