Trimming the Times

Russian Wives in Syria, Young Voters, and the Olympics

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Esther Zuckerman 1,035 Views Jul 2, 2012

Now that The New York Times pay wall is live, you only get 10 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.

Top Stories: Middle tier jobs at financial companies are moving out of New York and to places elsewhere in the country.  

World: Russia’s relationship to the Syrian conflict is complicated by the number of Russian-Syrian marriages.

U.S.: With their outlook characterized by the recession, young voters are not supporting Obama in the same way they were in 2008. 

Business: David Carr on Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. split

Technology: The London Olympic Games will be the "Social Media Olympics."

Sports: With three members of African American descent, the U.S. Olympic swimming team is seeing diversity it never has had before. 

Opinion: Bill Keller on national identification cards in light of the Supreme Court's decision last week on the Arizona immigration law. 

Books: Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's book "The Colonel," written in the early 1980s, has been published in the United States, but not in "an authorized Persian-language version."

 

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