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Obama Calls for New Curbs on Offshore Tax Havens
By JACKIE CALMES and EDMUND L. ANDREWS
The proposed tax overhaul, aimed at benefits enjoyed by those harboring cash in offshore accounts, could help raise $210 billion, the administration estimates.
Where Home Prices Crashed Early, Signs of a Rebound
By DAVID STREITFELD
In areas hardest hit by the housing crisis, like Sacramento, and parts of Florida and Nevada, more robust markets suggest the housing sector may be in the early stages of recovery.
More Middle-Class New Yorkers Face Eviction
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
More of the city's middle-class tenants, their jobs gone, are falling behind on rent, straining legal and financial services once used mostly by lower-income New Yorkers.
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"It's kind of dehumanizing. They see you as a certain kind of person. We've never been that certain kind of person."
KEVIN BREWSTER-STREEKS, who, with his partner, was forced to leave his Bronx apartment after owing $7,000 in back rent.
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Porous Border With Pakistan Could Hinder U.S. Troops
By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
Afghan militants are able to cross the border with ease, according to interviews with a logistics tactician for the Taliban.
Even as Fears of Flu Ebb, Mexicans Feel Stigma
By MARC LACEY and ANDREW JACOBS
Mexicans around the world say they have been cast as disease carriers and subjected to humiliating treatment.
Health Officials Begin to Ease Public Alerts About Swine Flu
By GARDINER HARRIS and ELISABETH MALKIN
Mexican officials said they would lower the public alert over swine flu and allow most businesses to reopen.
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Court Bars Identity-Theft Law as Tool in Immigration Cases
By ADAM LIPTAK and JULIA PRESTON
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the law may not be used against many illegal workers who used false Social Security numbers to get jobs.
Justices Agree to Take Up Sentencing for Young Offenders
By ADAM LIPTAK
The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the reasoning that led it to strike down the death penalty for juvenile offenders should also apply to life-without-parole sentences.
Schumer Offers Middle Ground on Health Care
By ROBERT PEAR
To address fears that a public program would drive private insurers from the market, Senator Charles E. Schumer proposed that any program must comply with the rules that apply to private insurance.
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S.&P. 500 Erases 2009 Losses as Stocks Jump
By JACK HEALY
As stocks climbed on Monday, a leading stock index crossed a milestone that seemed unthinkable during the worst declines of the bear market: It turned positive for the year.
India, Suddenly Starved for Investment
By VIKAS BAJAJ and SOMINI SENGUPTA
India's phenomenal growth in recent years was largely financed by foreign investments and loans, which have fallen sharply in the downturn.
Chrysler and Fiat Have Hopes for Happy Relationship
By BILL VLASIC and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Many automotive mergers and alliances have done poorly but Fiat is determined not to let that happen in its link with Chrysler.
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Apple and Google Ties Investigated
By MIGUEL HELFT and BRAD STONE
The two companies share two directors, and several people briefed on the F.T.C. inquiry say the agency is studying whether this is an antitrust violation.
E.U. to Hear Proposal for Cross-Border Net Copyright
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
Two European commissioners are proposing the creation of a Europe-wide copyright license for online content that could clear the way for cross-border sales of digital music, games and video.
Sprint Nextel Earnings Decline as Customers Leave
By JENNA WORTHAM
The net loss of 182,000 customers was not as severe as in the previous quarter, but it came despite a gain of 764,000 customers who bought prepaid phone subscriptions.
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The Metropolitan Museum Looks Anew at Americana
By CAROL VOGEL
After two years of construction and renovation, the museum's American Wing now houses marbles, bronzes and other pieces that can be examined up close.
A Writer's Violent End, and His Activist Legacy
By PATRICIA COHEN
PEN along with Guernica, the online literary magazine, sponsored a panel to discuss the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's literary and political legacy.
THEATER REVIEW | 'DEATH OF A SALESMAN'
Willy Loman Is Lost, Still Looking for Stimulus Plan and Some Dignity
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Charles S. Dutton stars in a new production of this 20th-century American classic for Yale Repertory Theater, featuring an all-black cast.
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A Battle to Preserve a Visionary's Bold Failure
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
A fight is looming on Long Island over the ghostly remains of Nikola Tesla's biggest and most audacious project.
FINDINGS
Ear Plugs to Lasers: The Science of Concentration
By JOHN TIERNEY
For the focused life, forget multitasking and try meditating.
Shuttle Crew Prepares a Long-Delayed Last Goodbye for Hubble
By DENNIS OVERBYE
On May 11, if all continues to go well, a crew will blast off on an 11-day maintenance and repair mission that will leave the Hubble Space Telescope at the peak of its powers.
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10 Genes, Furiously Evolving
By CARL ZIMMER
Potent and complex despite its tiny size, a virus is life reduced to its essentials.
WELL
Worry? Relax? Buy Face Mask? Answers on Flu
By TARA PARKER-POPE
The swine flu may not be as virulent as thought, but it could return with force.
Health Officials Begin to Ease Public Alerts About Swine Flu
By GARDINER HARRIS and ELISABETH MALKIN
Mexican officials said they would lower the public alert over swine flu and allow most businesses to reopen.
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| EDITORIALS |
Tax Salvos
There are no easy fixes to tax problems posed by global profits. The Obama proposals oversimplify the challenge.
No Fix for Public Transit
It comes as no surprise to hear that many of Albany's politicians would rather go with a cheap political fix for public transit than one with a long-range approach.
The Cost of Staying Home Sick
If President Obama is serious about responsible action to control infectious disease threats, he should back a law to grant Americans at least seven paid sick days a year.
APPRECIATIONS
Still Singing
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
Will a new generation write and sing songs to fight power with truth, as Pete Seeger has done, or will they forget the part of folk singing that was never sweet for its own sake?
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The Long Voyage Home
By DAVID BROOKS
Republicans are so much the party of individualism and freedom that they are no longer the party of community and order.
Jack Kemp's Futile Quest
By BOB HERBERT
Jack Kemp meant well, but the great irony that cloaked his career was that it was not possible to achieve the ends he sought using the means he pushed with such zeal.
A Hole in the Center
By ROSS DOUTHAT
The Republican Party needs centrists, but not unprincipled ones like Arlen Specter.
Bailout Justice
By JOHN ASHCROFT
The government must hold accountable any individuals who acted illegally in this financial meltdown, while preserving the viability of the companies that received bailout funds or stimulus money.
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On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. |
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