19 May 2012 at 12:00am  ATHENS — At 37, and looking not a bit his years, Alexis Tsipras is clearly enjoying his moment. He vaulted to prominence less than two weeks ago, when his previously obscure left-wing party placed second in national elections with the promise of repudiating the loan agreement Greece ’s previous leaders signed in February. Since then, he...
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1 May 2012 at 12:00am  Amarillo Slim, the pencil-slender, cornpone-spouting Texan who became poker's first superstar by overpowering opponents with charm, cunning and preternatural coolness, died on Sunday in Amarillo, Tex. He was 83. The cause was colon cancer, his son, Thomas Preston III, said. After honing his gambling skills as a pool hall hustler and illegal...
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25 Mar 2012 at 12:00am  The 1.7 million members of the Class of 2011 witnessed, within the four-year span of their college careers, one of the greatest bull markets in United States history and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Last spring, they shed their caps and gowns and joined a kind of B.A. bread line. Unemployment among recent liberal-arts...
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