Opinion Today: Rooms Worth Keeping

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September 03, 2010 Opinion Today

Living Rooms Rooms Worth Keeping By JOAN DEJEAN What draws museum visitors to carefully preserved period rooms? ADVERTISEMENT Wall Street's Still-Warped Incentives By WILLIAM D. COHAN An exchange with Senator Carl Levin about Goldman Sachs and the new financial reform law. Room for Debate To Nap or Not to Nap By THE EDITORS Should Americans take more naps? Would they be more productive if they did? Bloggingheads Blame Bush? Noam Scheiber of The New Republic and Megan McArdle of The Atlantic debate whether President Obama should campaign against predecessor. Dot Earth Another Item for Climate Panel's To-Do List By ANDREW C. REVKIN The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would do well to cultivate contacts between its authors and reporters in poor countries. Schott's Vocab Mandelsonian By BEN SCHOTT An unlikely eponym, modestly defined by its subject Peter Mandelson, as "subtle, strategic, hard-working and ultimately very loyal." ADVERTISEMENT Get home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week.

Conscience of a Liberal Paradoxes of Deleveraging and Releveraging By PAUL KRUGMAN Sometimes the solution to debt is more debt. Evaluations Life Imitates Franzen By ROSS DOUTHAT 9/11, the Discovery Channel hostage-taker, and the weird timeliness of Jonathan Franzen. Freakonomics on NYTimes.com The authors Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner and guest contributors blog about the hidden side of the economy. Read More » Today's Columns Paul Krugman: The Real Story David Brooks: The Alternate History Roger Cohen: Obama's Post-Iraq World ADVERTISEMENT

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