Worries That the Good Times Were a Mirage
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For years many spent freely. Now comes the big payback.
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Hope and skepticism as Israel and the Palestinians try again
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If you spend time looking back, you'll miss what's coming up.
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The somber official end to mourning for  Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of  optimism in the Middle East after his death.
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Sometimes the market overreacts to marginal news, good or bad.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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By Anonymous  Editorial Perhaps it's churlish to preach prudence in an issue dedicated to a celebration of the growth of digital, but for those people around in the last internet boom, the sense of deja vu in current times is unsettling.
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Not that long ago, only the aristocratic or famous felt entitled to special privileges, but nowadays we seem to be living in an age of excessive exceptionalism.
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The 50th anniversary of a plane crash that devastated the Manchester United soccer team has occasioned a wave of nostalgia in Britain.
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The ups and downs in the stock market are among the mildest experienced for more than a century, and that is provoking anxiety in some investment advisers.
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At a time when the country is faced with a new tangle of problems, the return of the â80s action hero suggests that some Americans, particularly men, are looking to revel in the vestigial pleasures of older times and seemingly simpler ways.
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Was the counterculture festival's eco-friendly theme a success, or just a mirage? Maybe both.
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Business & money: Fears grow of market turbulence stunting global growth.
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It was a fine occasion, but it could have been a grand one without a touch of avarice. There were plenty of empty seats here despite the presence of two of the most charismatic sides in the world.
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I'm unsure what good will come out of this whole incident. The problem is that when emotions run high, as they did here, people tend to spend more time fortifying their own positions rather than exploring new ones.
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Hopes that healthy local economies might escape the force of a U.S. recession evaporated and fear gripped investors instead.
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The somber official end to mourning for Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of optimism in the Middle East after his death.