Puzzle No. 1290 Puzzle No. 1290
ACROSS
1 How a character of The Oxbow Incident was upset making a projection. (11)
Feb 17, 2010 / Frank W. Lewis
Business as Usual, South of the Border Business as Usual, South of the Border
San Francisco
Feb 17, 2010 / Greg Grandin and a Reader
Set Apart Set Apart
Set apart from the compound friction of forest, a rough-barked bur oak, mostly trunk, outlives its understory. A sapling in 1700, it rose like smoke from leaf litter, a totem for those who told tales vertically, every episode the offspring of earth and sky. Carotenoids flare through its vascular system in slow time, releasing aromas of black tea and tobacco. Winter-hardened, the oak endures, a column supporting nothing but its own fixed extension. The fine point of a feeding warbler-- a drifting spark or cursor-- ghosts its crown.
Feb 17, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Devin Johnston
It’s Greek to Goldman Sachs It’s Greek to Goldman Sachs
"What is this Goldman Sachs and why has it caused us so much grief?" is a question they must be asking in even the most remote of Greek villages, as they are throughout much of thi...
Feb 17, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer
Human Interest In Bank Practices Human Interest In Bank Practices
How much senior executives earn, in cash and stock, is public information. How they make it is public too. Trouble is, the two are barely brought together in reporting.
Feb 17, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Bye Bayh, Hello Mellencamp? Bye Bayh, Hello Mellencamp?
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel proposes rocker John Mellencamp as a successor to Evan Bayh and considers the likelihood of a Republican majority.
Feb 17, 2010 / MSNBC
Odierno: Chalabi, Lami Tied to Iran Odierno: Chalabi, Lami Tied to Iran
Yesterday, during his appearance at the Institute for the Study of War, I had a chance to ask General Ray Odierno, the US commander in Iraq, about the role of Iran in the recent pu...
Feb 17, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
President Palin? Don’t Make Hillary Clinton Laugh President Palin? Don’t Make Hillary Clinton Laugh
America will have a woman president. But it is not likely that the first one will be Sarah Palin.
Feb 17, 2010 / John Nichols
After Bayh, Less Bipartisanship Needed After Bayh, Less Bipartisanship Needed
So Evan Bayh, the Senate's poster boy for bipartisanship, is, in the immortal words of the Jackson 5, "goin' back to Indiana." The senator explains, "There is too mu...
Feb 16, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel