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Well: Serving Up That Old Chestnut

Few foods have a stronger holiday theme than chestnuts, but most of us don't cook with them.

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City Room: ‘Beedle the Bard,’ Now on View

A handmade copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," J. K. Rowling's latest book and a kind of appendix to her "Harry Potter" series, is on view at the New York Public Library.

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Harvard Endowment Loses 22%

University officials have been told to expect a 30 percent drop in the endowment’s value because of the financial turmoil.

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Autoworkers’ Union Pledges to Make Concessions

The U.A.W. president said it would suspend its jobs bank and let carmakers delay a health-care fund payment.

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Sundance Tilts to Heart-Tuggers

If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year.

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Ex-U.S. Official Cites Pakistani Training for India Attackers

American intelligence has concluded that former Pakistani military and intelligence officers helped train the gunmen, an ex-Pentagon official said.

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Paterson Voices Support for M.T.A. Rescue Plan

New York’s governor expressed support for a plan that includes charging tolls on the East River bridges.

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Conservatives Expected to Split Episcopal Church

Conservatives disaffected over the ordination of an openly gay bishop are prepared to create a competing province.

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Zimbabwe Police Break Up Protest

Demonstrators were calling for better pay and working conditions in a nation suffering from a cholera epidemic.

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Obama Names Richardson as Commerce Secretary

Barack Obama denied that the job was a “consolation” prize for Bill Richardson, considered a candidate to be secretary of state.

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Executive Suite: Lonely Prophets of a Bust

Have you seen this video? Entitled Peter Schiff Was Right, 2006-2007, it is an amazing, nine-minute compilation that features Mr. Schiff, the president of Euro-Pacific Capital, suffering the slings and arrows of various market gurus like Arthur Laffer, as he bravely predicts - again and again and again - in various television appearances that [...].

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On the Runway: Cathy Horyn in Austin

Shortly before Thanksgiving, I boarded Jet Blue ($440) for Austin to spend some time with Katy and Matt Culmo, who own a store called By George. I wanted to see how an independent retailer was coping with the recession, and I thought I'd get a more honest view outside of hyper, impress-me-silly New York. At [...].

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ArtsBeat: Major Reorganization at Random House

The shake-up at the world’s largest publisher of consumer books includes the resignations of two top executives.

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Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77

The singer, whose voice wove together American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday.

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