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Western Nations Expel Syrian Envoys Over Massacre
thestate.com 1 day, 23 hours agoEyewitness accounts from the Syrian massacre emerged Tuesday, describing shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes and targeting the most vulnerable in poor farming villages. Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the killing of more than 100 people. U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan met with Assad in Damascus to try to salvage what was left of a peace plan, which since being brokered six weeks ago has failed to stop any of th
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Wonkbook: The Economics Of Gay Marriage
washingtonpost.com 2 weeks, 2 days agoDon't think of gay marriage as a cultural issue. Don't think of it even as an equality issue. Don't even think of it as a political issue. Think of it, just for a moment, as an economic issue. In the traditional view of marriage, write economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, "the joining of husband and wife yields a more productive firm, because it allows one spouse to specialize in earning income from working in the market, while the other specializes in the domestic sphere. The division of labor a
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