Who? Cyprus. You’ve been tearing through the news sites, trying to catch up on all this before that conference call or cocktail party. You’ve read the user-friendly stories, the Q&A’s, the “Cyprus: What’s Going on Here?” sidebars. They are aimed...
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Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
Outside parliament in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Why Do I Wake to News of Cyprus?
When North Korea Won’t Take Your Calls
“We called at 9 a.m. and there was no response,” a South Korean official said of the hotline in place with the North since the armistice in 1953. When North Korea won’t take your calls And the landlord demands the...
Read more »Are You Going to Kill Us or Not? Drone Questions for Eric Holder
So are you going to kill us? Just wondering, because you mentioned you might. You mentioned some drones. They’ll be up there, buzzing and swooping, and we’ll be down here, walking with a slice of mushroom pizza. And the reason...
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Photograph by Sasha Weleber
Why I Hate the Fiscal Cliff
By Joshua Neiman, Ms. Fenster’s Class I hate the Fiscal Cliff and here is my Supporting Evidence for it. Firstly, it is a cliff. As with any cliff you could fall off and break your face, if you landed on...
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