Trimming The Times

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There are still several ways to bypass the 10 article limit of the NYT paywall. Here’s one, that if used in conjunction with normal access should help. Access these stories from link at bottom. Service is not available on the weekend.

Now that The New York Times pay wall is live, you only get 10 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.

Top Stories: Though the details behind killing of labor organizer Aminul Islam in Bangladesh remain a mystery, the "death has inspired a fledgling global campaign."

World: Poverty in Gaza is political, as some say it shows Israeli restrictions have worked and others say the problems get more attention than other troubled regions.

U.S.: In Miami a celebration of La Virgen de la Caridad, the patron saint of Cuba, for her 400th anniversary.

Politics: The presidential election may also rest on "last-minute legal battles over when and how ballots should be cast and counted.
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New York: Though it might be hard to determine when one New York neighborhood starts and another begins, people are taking to Google Maps and Wikipedia to draw the lines.

Media & Advertising: David Carr on the struggles of Homicide Watch DC.

Technology: Google and Amazon are "waging a war to become the pre-eminent online mall."

Sports: Serena Williams emerges victorious in the U.S. Open.

Opinion: Bill Keller on the question "Can we live with a nuclear Iran?"

Music: Though British soul might be best known for Amy Winehouse and Adele, the genre's "countermovements have long been more experimentally inclined than their more popular British cousins and also their American counterparts."

Theater: Charles Isherwood on Athol Fugard's The Train Driver

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Now that The New York Times pay wall is live, you only get 10 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.

Top Stories: The teachers' strike in Chicago illuminates "just how much teachers’ unions, which have provided sizable donations and many grass-roots volunteers to countless Democratic campaigns, have been thrown back on their heels in recent years."

World: Many in Ecuador, a "politically divided country," have supported their president's decision to grant asylum to Julian Assange, seeing Britain as a bully.

Politics: Bill Clinton, who is now on the trail for Obama campaigns, "has reinvented himself as a bipartisan figure from a mythical era of across-the-aisle cooperation."

New York: Even as the city prepares for the effects climate change, "critics say New York is moving too slowly to address the potential for flooding that could paralyze transportation, cripple the low-lying financial district and temporarily drive hundreds of thousands of people from their homes."

Technology: With the new iPhone coming out attention is once again turned to Foxconn.

Science: An essay on the trouble with suburban lions in Nairobi. More and more frequently veterinarians and human doctors are communicating and collaborating.

Health: With funds from the Affordable Care Act, local governments are attempting to target unhealthy lifestyles in their communities.

Sports: Andy Murray's road to his first Grand Slam victory.

Opinion: Kurt Eichenwald on the warnings President Bush had of a terrorist attack before 9/11.

Television: The first episode of Katie Couric's new talk show "looked a lot like a one-woman Today show."

Theater: Ben Brantley reviews Chaplin: The Musical which he calls "soppy."

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Now that the New York Times paywall is live, you only get 10 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.

Accessing these NYT stories via link at bottom "MAY" not affect your limit. Works for me.

Top Stories: How the violence in Cairo and Benghazi unfolded and its aftermath.
World: J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador killed Tuesday, "knew better than most diplomats in the American Foreign Service the opportunities and travails facing Libya after the fall of Colonel Qaddafi, and was undaunted."

Politics: The Obama campaign has become more dependent on big time donors and fund-raisers. How Romney's controversial response to the American Embassy in Cairo statement came to be.

U.S.: With the Chicago teachers' strike still up in the air "tolerance was hanging in the balance."

New York: As New York seeks to instate parental consent forms acknowledging risk in a circumcision procedure that involves oral suction, Jewish leaders disagree about the necessity of that element.

Technology: Apple's new connector "could be a boon to the hundreds of companies that sell accessories for iPhones and iPads," despite how annoying it might be to customers.

Sports: At 15, Lydia Ko is a golf "prodigy."

Opinion: Gail Collins on Romney's instability in the wake of the violence in the Middle East.

Movies: The controversy over the casting of Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone, which focuses on the fact that Saldana is light skinned and Simone was not.

Fashion & Style: Street style is becoming "infiltrated by tides of marketers, branding consultants and public relations gurus, all intent on persuading those women to step out in their wares."

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Top Stories: The fossil fuel industry is working against Obama.

World: The unknown whereabouts of Xi Jinping provoke some to say "Chinese political ship is adrift, with factions jockeying to shape an impending Communist Party conclave."

Politics: Romney's advisers explain how he would handled foreign policy, in light of this week's events.

U.S.: Aging bikers have turned to trikes, which are "equal parts 'Easy Rider' and easy chair."

New York: The Ramble in Central Park is where worlds of lewdness and bird watching intersect.

Business: in the organic world over a California proposition insisting on the labeling of genetically modified foods.

Technology: Google's block of the anti-Muslim video in Egypt and Libya "raises fundamental questions about the control that Internet companies have over online expression."

Baseball: Tyler Kepner on the power of home runs.
Pro Football: An obituary for the mustache of Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride.

Opinion: Prudence Bushnell on making diplomacy safer. Paul Krugman on whether the iPhone can boost the economy.

Art & Design: Roberta Smith pans the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new Andy Warhol show.

Movies: A. O. Scott calls The Master "imposing, confounding and altogether amazing."

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Top Stories: True the Vote, one of a "network" of conservative groups seeking to combat voter fraud, "is mobilizing a small army of volunteers to combat what it sees as a force out to subvert elections."

World: In the Middle East "protesters and their sympathizers" explain that they seek "the right of a community, whether Muslim, Christian or Jewish, to be free from grave insult to its identity and values."

U.S.: Football games at Florida A&M University won't feature the sounds of the school band, the Marching 100, as it serves out a suspension following the hazing-related death of Robert Champion, 26.

New York: One of New York's "unlikeliest sightseeing ventures" is a walk through the city to Kennedy Airport.

Media & Advertising: David Carr on quotation approval.

Technology: The "incremental" changes in smartphone technology. Internet companies deal with what speech should be outlawed on their platforms.

Sports: William C. Rhoden argues that "we are addicted to video replay in a way that has become unhealthy."

Opinion: Bill Keller on Republicans and gay marriage in New York. Seth Anziska examine's the United States' part in the "massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps."

Music: Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is " an exhilarating revival."

Television: Alessandra Stanley on Revolution.


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Recently I believe Sky were showing the Rooster Cockburn film on one of their channels. I notice that the title was changed to 'Rooster Cogburn'.

We are that bollicksed now in the head.

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Top Stories: Young immigrants who can stay in the country will "not be eligible for health insurance coverage under President Obama’s health care overhaul" in a decision that has "infuriated many advocates." The robot Baxter from Rethink Robotics "is a significant bet that robots in the future will work directly with humans in the workplace."

World: Michael B. Oren, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., has the tough job of "representing a prime minister who has infuriated the White House."

U.S.: A historic courtroom in Mississippi faces closure as "a victim of its quietness and the fiscal urgencies of Washington."

New York: The breakfast room at the Loews Regency Hotel — a watering hole for New York's "political elite" — has to move.

Technology: After creators raise money on Kickstarter for projects, the follow through can be the hard part and "some projects, including several prominent and in-demand ones, have run into missteps and lengthy delays."

Media & Advertising: The Internet Archive will, as of Tuesday, include "every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs devoted to news."

Science: Scholars have published a 2,000-page dictionary of the Demotic language online

Sports: Jose Reyes got the "dubious milestone" of baseball's unofficial 500,000th error. 



Opinion: David Brooks on "Thurston Howell Romney" who he says is "running a depressingly inept presidential campaign." 



Music: Christina Aguilera, with her role on The Voice, "almost single-handedly reshaped music-competition reality programming." 



Art & Design: Edvard Munch's 1895 "The Scream" bought for $120 million in May will go on view at MoMA.

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Top Stories: Wisconsin's electoral votes may be a "a critical backup plan" for Romney, but a poll finds Obama leading in the state.

World: In light of the outbreak of Middle Eastern violence, the American-led military coalition in Afghanistan has "temporarily curtailed joint operations with the Afghan Army and police forces."

U.S.: Dallas deals with West Nile virus.

New York: An ad is set to hit New York subway stations that reads, in part, "Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."

Media & Advertising: Scott Rudin and Barry Diller are teaming up to enter the book publishing scene.

Science: As climate change makes it easier to get to oil, gas and minerals "the world’s superpowers are increasingly jockeying for political influence and economic position" in the Arctic.

Sports: Harvard's cheating scandal weighs on the school's athletics.

Opinion: Maureen Dowd writes, "Romney in private stands for so many bizarre things that it’s hard to tell what’s crazier — his domestic policy or his foreign policy."
Thomas Friedman on events in the Middle East: "We should respect the faiths and prophets of others. But that runs both ways."

Theater: Charles Isherwood on Detroit, which he says is "as rich and addictively satisfying as a five-layer dip served up with a brimming bowl of tortilla chips."

Dining & Wine: Pete Wells reviews Le Cirque and explains that "the kitchen gave the impression that it had stopped reaching for excellence and possibly no longer remembered what that might mean."

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Nice piece on the “Is Rory Irish or British” dilemma

Top Stories: Working class young people are "what experts call one of the most potentially powerful but often overlooked voting blocs."

World: Secularism in Europe has led to what some religious leader see as intolerance, a trend which is reflected in a debate over circumcision.

U.S.: To get to its retirement home the space shuttle Endeavour has to travel through Los Angeles' landscape and its bureaucracy.

Health: Donated kidneys from the deceased are being discarded and "experts agree that a significant number of discarded kidneys — perhaps even half, some believe — could be transplanted if the system for allocating them better matched the right organ to the right recipient in the right amount of time."

New York: In a new campaign the city is painting "LOOK!" at intersections.

Technology: Though the iOS 6's mapping system has some features that Google Maps does not, "it has a lot more work to do before its service is as robust as Google’s."

Sports: Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, chummy on the course, "could have a fascinating discussion about identity politics."

Opinion: Nicholas Kristof writes "the Republican Party has moved far, far to the right so that, on some issues, it veers into extremist territory."

Music: Jon Caramanica says of Carly Rae Jepsen's album Kiss: "In places it’s lightweight, in places it’s surprisingly savvy, but it almost never stops to breathe."

Art & Design: In a project to house its Islamic art, the Louvre will now have "ground- and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre’s south wing."

Fashion & Style: Still riding the wave of the Olympics, London Fashion Week thrives on British heritage.

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The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune are taking one tit each on the Duchess of Cambridge story.

The New York Times is running with 'It isn't a tit, it is a cuban immigrant attempting to enter the United States by attaching itself to someone with diplomatic credentials'. The International Herald Tribune is being a little more restrained by asking Standard & Poors to rate their tit in the hope that Max Keiser will dedicate a video to demystifying the tit.

Uplifting stuff.

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The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune are taking one tit each on the Duchess of Cambridge story.

The New York Times is running with 'It isn't a tit, it is a cuban immigrant attempting to enter the United States by attaching itself to someone with diplomatic credentials'. The International Herald Tribune is being a little more restrained by asking Standard & Poors to rate their tit in the hope that Max Keiser will dedicate a video to demystifying the tit.

Uplifting stuff.

Heard a radio clip of Jeremy Paxman getting all upset with the editor of a Swedish mag that has now published the photos. Could they not show some respect?

Scuse me, but isn’t that the line the Muslims are taking over the video? Most unbecoming of Jeremy.

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Top Stories: The life expectancy for America's least-educated whites has fallen four years since 1990.

World: There were two separate attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, which targeted rescuers and was "shorter in duration than the first, but more complex and sophisticated. It was an ambush."

U.S.: Members of an Amish sect were convicted of federal conspiracy and hate crimes in the beard and hair cutting case, vindicating "federal prosecutors, who made a risky decision to apply a 2009 federal hate-crimes law to the sect’s violent efforts to humiliate Amish rivals."

Politics: Romney's outlook is "more daunting than he expected by this stage in the contest."

New York: Residents and animal activists rallied in the Bronx to save Rusty, a mystery horse left in a stable. A man searching for someone to date makes his intentions clear in Union Square Park.

Sports: The NFL leaves the decision regarding helmets up to players though "head injuries have become a major concern."

Opinion: Christopher C. Sellers on environmentalism's lost popularity.

Books: Michiko Kakutani says that Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her "is a miniaturist performance — a modest, musically structured riff that works variations on one main subject: a young Dominican man’s womanizing and its emotional fallout."

Art & Design: Holland Cotter on “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life" at the International Center for Photography.

Television: PBS, with more Emmy nominations than previous years, has "the tantalizing possibility of winning what is arguably the most sought-after award of the night: best drama."

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Top Stories: Even Republican governors critical of Obama's health care law are starting to make the necessary moves to implement it.

World: The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi has resulted in the evacuation of numerous CIA operatives from Libay, marking "a major setback in its intelligence-gathering efforts at a time of increasing instability in the North African nation."

Politics: Republicans would prefer if Paul Ryan didn't fade into the background as a vice presidential candidate.

New York: Andrew Cuomo's trip to the Adirondacks exemplifies how Cuomo has "adapted practices he learned from the White House, periodically dispatching top officials around the state for activities he hopes will capture the attention of the news media and call attention to his administration’s priorities."

Technology: The story of Microsoft in Quincy, Wash., shows "when these Internet factories come to town, they can feel a bit more like old-time manufacturing than modern magic."

Media & Advertising: Though the logic of the fall television season is based trends that aren't relevant anymore, the framework still exists "in large part because it still works."

Sports: With N.F.L. officials locked out "it seems inevitable that instead of the officiating improving as expected, it is merely building up to bigger blunders."

Opinion: Paul Krugman on how Romney's optimism "should make you very pessimistic about his chances of leading an economic recovery." Bill Keller on the video that incited violence in the Middle East and Salman Rushdie.

Dance: Alastair Macaulay reviews four Balanchine ballets from the New York City Ballet, which joined the company's repertory "to heartening effect."

Television: With Homeland's success at the Emmys, the show has "ushered Showtime, the premium cable channel owned by CBS, into a new realm."

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Top Stories: Democratic super PACs are "finally drawing the kind of wealthy donors who have already made Republican outside groups a pivotal force in the 2012 campaign."

World: Rebels in Syria work to curb the government's military influence in the sky.

U.S.: With Georgia set to become "the only state without an archives open to the public on a regular basis," the situation there reveals "a greater crisis facing permanent government collections in nearly every state, professional archivists say."

New York: A look at Bruce Ratner who is "one of the most prominent and polarizing figures in real-estate-mad New York" and "may portray himself as a reluctant developer, but he will do what is necessary to get a deal done."
Business: Russians are willing to participate in medical experiments, a fact that "illustrates a remarkably advantageous development for the international pharmaceutical industry."

Media & Advertising: Build-A-Bear goes digital.

Sports: Resentment remains as the N.F.L. and its officials reach a deal.

Opinion: Nicholas Kristof on Obama's stand against human trafficking. Gail Collins on Ohio.

Art & Design: "We the People" an exhibit from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is "its attempt to inject a little of contemporary art’s voice into a presidential election cycle in which it has been largely absent."

Books: Michiko Kakutani reviews J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy and says "the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing — it’s dull."

Fashion & Style: The "new generation of mom and pops" in Brooklyn, of course.

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Top Stories: A look at "'the backlog': the crushing inventory of claims for disability, pension and educational benefits that has overwhelmed the Department of Veterans Affairs."

World: In Japan "many voters have embraced a largely unknown new party led by a brash young leader who promises a drastic overhaul of the government."

U.S.: As part of the program Sustainability in Prisons prisoners in Washington state work with frogs.

New York: As Keith Hernandez shaves a legendary mustache, a discussion of that form of facial hair and its role in baseball.

Business: Greece is trying to make sure their wealthy with houses in London are paying up.

Sports: The Marlins are giving Adam Greenberg, who was called up in 2005 for the Chicago Cubs but was hit just below his ear by the first pitch he saw, a chance at bat after a long struggle to come back.

Opinion: Richard A. Easterlin on Chinese happiness.

Television: With Homeland the show's only enemy is itself.

Music: The Barclays Center will "fundamentally transform the music scene in New York City."

Movies: Manohla Dargis reviews Looper, which she calls "an obstreperously entertaining, bullet- and attitude-ridden science-fiction pastiche."

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