Opinion Today: War and the City: The Gyre

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September 07, 2010 Opinion Today

War and the City: The Gyre By ROY SCRANTON The second of a five-part memoir chronicling an Iraq war veteran's passage from youth to soldier to civilian writer. ADVERTISEMENT The Stone Mystery and Evidence By TIM CRANE Is it realistic to expect religion to satisfy the demands of science? Room for Debate Assessing a Teacher's Value By THE EDITORS What are the benefits and pitfalls of using student test scores to measure a teacher's effectiveness? Bloggingheads Failed Stimulus? Ann Friedman of The American Prospect and Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation debate the efficacy of the stimulus package. Dot Earth In Earthquakes, Poverty, Population and Motion Matter By ANDREW C. REVKIN Why the New Zealand earthquake, a tad stronger than the Haitian disaster, had a relatively minor impact. Schott's Vocab Mercury Is in Retrograde By BEN SCHOTT This weekend, co-vocabularists have generously shared the excuses they have used, overheard or been offered. ADVERTISEMENT Get home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week.

Conscience of a Liberal Infrastructure By PAUL KRUGMAN Yes, we need more. On the Ground Is Islamophobia the New Hysteria? By NICHOLAS KRISTOF An invitation to readers to comment on my column about the waves of intolerance that preceded today's invective about Islam. 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 David Brooks: The Gospel of Wealth Bob Herbert: Rising to the Occasion Roger Cohen: Europe and Benign Neglect Peter Orszag: One Nation, Two Deficits ADVERTISEMENT

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