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Plans to move more Israelis into Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem have been met with opposition from Israelis who favor the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in that part of the city.By ROBERT MACKEY

President Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill yesterday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive measure this year.


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I'm shocked, shocked that corporate lobbyists perceive a tie between campaign contributions and earmarks ["In e-mails, lobbyists perceive ties between campaign cash, earmarks," news story, March 6]. Imagine the dismay of the conservative Supreme Court majority when its members discover that the floodgates of corporate cash they opened may lead not to enlightening the public on the finer points of capitalism but rather to grasping taxpayer funds for the swollen pockets of corporations. Or was that their intent?
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Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 17 astronaut, who is also a former U.S. senator, is aghast at what President Obama is doing to the space program.

Joel Achenbach

JERUSALEM -- After spending most of Tuesday celebrating what he called the "unshakable" bond between the United States and Israel, Vice President Biden ended the day strongly condemning the longtime U.S. ally for approving 1,600 new housing units in disputed east Jerusalem -- an awkwardly timed ...

Janine Zacharia

I WAS dismayed to see Yousef Munayyer recycling the tired myth that all Palestinian misfortunes are “the fault of the occupying and devastating force of the state of Israel.’’


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I AM Jewish and a Harvard alumna, and I write to applaud Yousef Munayyer’s March 3 op-ed “Gaza’s youth not ‘superfluous.’ ’’ In Hebron on the West Bank, settlers scrawl “Death to the Arabs’’ and “Arabs to the gas chambers.’’ At conferences of Israeli intellectuals, such exhortations are no doubt considered impolitic, while the suggestion of Harvard visitor Martin Kramer ...


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According to analysts and commentators, few people in the Middle East saw the Iraqi elections as a success for democracy.By MICHAEL SLACKMAN

Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota's runaway-acceleration problems.

Kimberly Kindy

It's official: The extinction of the dinosaurs and a host of other species 65.5 million years ago was caused by a massive asteroid that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, creating worldwide havoc, according to an international team of researchers.


Thomas H. Maugh II

Liberals in the House, who have spent much of the past year complaining that other congressional Democrats and the White House are insufficiently progressive, will get a chance this week to vent about one of their biggest concerns: the war in Afghanistan.

Perry Bacon Jr.

The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform.

Amy Goldstein and Scott Wilson

Republicans claim that using reconciliation to pass health care reform would be unprecedented. History proves them wrong.

By THOMAS E. MANN, NORMAN J. ORNSTEIN, RAFFAELA WAKEMAN and FOGELSON-LUBLINER14554375497763680050

SOMEONE PLEASE explain why proponents of single-payer health care, such as Peter Lowy (Letters, March 3), believe this would lead to lower costs when in fact such a system would be a government monopoly.


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"I have family in Canada, and I am very aware of the vast superiority of Boston?s private insurance system over Montreal?s single payer socialized health care." -- David Cohen


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MOST AMERICANS who are covered by employer-subsidized health insurance just do not get it. When we lose that coverage and have to put up our own money to pay for health care, we will begin to understand the urgent need for health reform. Regrettably, that is probably what it will take for the United States to get the health care ...


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City was viewed as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many children were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-size swimming pool and another with recording studios.


Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press

Public opinion has not been kind to the Democrats lately, but there may be hope for them in a finance-regulation bill.

By JOHN HARWOOD

In some instances, the three principal challengers to Democratic Governor Deval Patrick this year say the measures that have incensed public employee unions did not go far enough.


Globe Staff

The "generation gap" endures as a staple of American political and social analysis. The notion that the special circumstances and experiences of each succeeding cohort imbue it with different perceptions, beliefs and values seems intuitively reasonable and appealing. It's also flattering. In a mass-market culture, belonging to a distinct subgroup, even if it numbers many millions, contributes to a sense of identity. In a 1969 Gallup poll, 74 percent of Americans believed in the generation gap. A poll last year found that 79 percent now do.Robert J. Samuelson01306381895612035258