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The military junta continued to restrict foreign aid shipments but forged ahead with a constitutional referendum intended to cement its power.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/asia/11myanmar.html"><img

Shiite leaders in Parliament and in the Sadrist movement agreed to a truce that would end more than a month of bloody fighting in the Baghdad ghetto.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/middleeast/11iraq.

U.S. soldiers in Sadr City search for roadside bombs around the clock, in dangerous missions hidden behind the bland job description of ?route clearance.?<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/middleeast/11

The move raised hopes for a political settlement after street battles that have killed at least 29 people.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/middleeast/11lebanon.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/im

The weight of Gazprom, Russia?s corporate leviathan, extends far beyond its fields of natural gas all the way to the Kremlin, now headed by Dmitri A. Medvedev, its chairman.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/

The use of overseas recruiting agents, who are paid both by colleges seeking students and students looking for advice on college selection, is raising uncomfortable questions.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/1

Serbs will vote Sunday in parliamentary elections that have become a tug of war between old-guard nationalism and a European future.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/europe/11serbia.html"><img src="htt

As the president heads to the region this week for the second time in five months, some are already looking to his successor.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/washington/11prexy.html"><img src="http://www.ph

The voting was marred by accusations of fraud and ballot-stuffing carried out apparently by supporters of the governing party, while a series of attacks was attributed to the Tamil Tiger rebels.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.ny

Bodies washing up onto the riverbanks or floating downstream are all but ignored by the living, whether the villagers or the authorities whose presence is barely felt.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/

The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for closer oversight of the count and peacekeepers to halt the violence.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/africa/11zimbabwe.html"><img src="http://www.phe

Two Israeli airstrikes on police occurred hours after an Israeli civilian was killed by a mortar round fired by militants in Gaza.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/middleeast/11mideast.html"><img src="

Darfurian rebels advanced to within a few miles of the center of Khartoum, and the government deployed troops, essentially shutting down the city.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/world/africa/11sudan.html">

The U.S. government relied on Vang Pao and his Hmong soldiers to battle Communism in the jungles of Laos. Why is the Justice Department now calling him a terrorist?<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/magazine/

Patrick Cockburn?s life of the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/books/review/Glanz-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http:/

Why expedited security scans for elite travelers would be hard to curtail.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/magazine/11wwln-lede-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c

The author?s childhood in Botswana was anything but conventional.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/books/review/Mabry-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=htt

In this examination of power, Fareed Zakaria focuses not so much on the decline of America, but on the rise of China and India.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/books/review/Joffe-t.html"><img src="http://ww

France's Legion of Honor singles out those who serve, including Barbra Streisand.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/fashion/11chevalier.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b

As part of Generation Faithful, our series examining the lives of young people across the Muslim world, The New York Times has established an Arabic-language blog.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/

An alphabetical list of contact information and links for some agencies that plan to provide relief to the victims of the cyclone in Myanmar.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/myanmar-disaster-relie

The removal of a general involved in overseeing Guantánamo prosecutions was a new blow to the Bush administration?s military commission system.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/10gitmo.html"><img src="htt

Conservative voices offered perhaps the broadest defense of reporters? rights during oral arguments in a case involving the refusal of a reporter to disclose sources.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/washing

Senator John McCain has portrayed Senator Barack Obama as being the favorite of the militant Palestinian group.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/politics/10mccain.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img

Despite pledges by the White House and Democrats to work together, the bill to rescue homeowners and their lenders produced partisan recriminations the day after it passed the House.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/20

President Bush is determined to veto a string of emerging Democratic bills, and is encouraging House Republicans to stand by him.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/washington/10memo.html"><img src="http://www

Supervisors made sexual jokes and racially derogatory comments about blacks, according to internal messages.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/washington/10inquire.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.ph

Retailers are pushing consumers to spend their windfall, but some offers require hundreds of dollars.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/business/10rebate.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=87d35

The Pentagon is recommending changes after it was revealed that Delaware crematoriums contracted by the military are used for both humans and animals.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/10remains.html"><img

Hillary Rodham Clinton?s trump card began slipping from her grasp, and her speeches took a more conciliatory tone.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/politics/10clinton.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com

John Edwards appeared to let slip his candidate of choice during a television appearance, referring to his primary choice as ?him.?<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/politics/10edwards.html"><img src="http

Mr. Cressman, a pioneer in the use of computers to predict the weather, was a former director of the National Weather Service.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/10cressman.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo

Jenna Bush will wed at the president?s ranch in Texas on Saturday, and don?t think that local merchants are unmindful of it.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=87d35928314e4a26b903afd3d33451f0&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/washington/10bush.html"><img src="http://www.phee

The nation has a long road to travel in attaining arrest and incarceration policies that are effective for fighting crime and promoting racial justice.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10sat1.html"><

It will take a lot of effort for two competitors such as China and Japan to overcome their past. All in all, President Hu Jintao?s visit to Tokyo this week was a start.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opini

New York State would be better off finding a source of revenue that doesn?t prey upon its own people.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10sat3.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d084

Not surprisingly, May ?68 and Nicolas Sarkozy?s first year as president of France are being treated quite differently.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10sat4.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/im

To the Editor:.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/l10elect.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/l10elect.html"

To the Editor:.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/lweb10terror.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/lweb10terro

To the Editor:.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/lweb10china.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/lweb10china.

To the Editor:.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/lweb10turkmen.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/lweb10turk

The Clintons should be ashamed of themselves for deliberately trying to wreck the presidential prospects of their party?s likely nominee.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10herbert.html"><img src="ht

The people of Staten Island seemed prepared to forgive Vito Fossella for the drunken driving, but the second family threw them for a loop.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10collins.html"><img src="h

Until free and reliable news and information become available in Myanmar, the Burmese will continue to suffer horrors that are literally untold.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10alampay.html"><img

A nation need not be wealthy or technologically advanced to be well prepared for natural disasters.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinion/10ghosh.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d0848

Looking at Hillary Clinton's campaign across the gender gap.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/kinder-gentler/index.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e41

Although voters nationwide lean Democratic, older voters could reverse that trend this fall.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/the-widening-gap/index.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.

The Grammy-award-winning songwriter explains how being an incurable ?people person? lies at the heart of his creative process.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/it-takes-two-baby/index.htm

Outwitting a lie detector, with the help of the city of Detroit.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/polygraphically-perverse/index.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312

Vicious curveballs are tricky, both on and off the field. And while knowing they?re coming doesn?t necessarily help, they can be dealt with.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/opinion/09glanville.html"><img sr

When it comes to molecules, DNA is the spotlight-grabber and RNA the messenger ? but reverse transcriptase is the one to keep an eye on.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/when-genes-go-retro/index.ht

The genius of some recent car-rental commercials is that they foreground the sexuality between the car owner and the object of his/her affection.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/the-other-car/index.h

We believe it is Senator Hillary Clinton?s right to stay in the fight and challenge Senator Barack Obama as long as she has the desire and the means to do so.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/opinion/09fri1.

A new law on student lending could be a first step toward the goal of making college more attainable ? if political leaders will take the next necessary steps.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/opinion/08thu1

The last Democratic primary is less than a month away. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama can spend that time tearing each other up or they can debate the issues that separate Democrats from Republicans.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http:/

As authorities continue rounding up illegal immigrants in these harsh days of ever-stricter enforcement, the potential for abuse will grow ? largely out of sight.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/opinion/06t

What is needed ? now ? is for Congress to extend jobless benefits for people who exhaust their initial 26 weeks of payments.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/opinion/05mon1.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.

When a woman does ascend through the glass ceiling into the White House, it will be, in part, because of the race of 2008, when Hillary Clinton got down with the boys.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/opinio

Most economists oppose the Clinton-McCain gas tax holiday. Nevertheless, I think it?s an idea worth supporting.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/opinion/08caplan.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phd

If Hillary Clinton can catch Barack Obama in the popular vote, she could paint the race as a repeat of the election of 2000, with herself as Al Gore and Mr. Obama as George W. Bush.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/200

Austrians are on the defensive again, this time about our status as, in the words of a marketing executive quoted in The Times of London, ?the land of dungeons.?<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/opinion/02wr

As I watch Robert Mugabe tighten his 28-year-old stranglehold on Zimbabwe, I can?t help thinking back to a conversation he and I once tried to have about T. S. Eliot.<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0fe0d084892b4e4cb312a37499e415b9&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion