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Occupying Boston and beyond, with tent libraries BOSTON (NY Times) — This city, home to the nation’s first large public library, has a new and somewhat grittier venue for reading. Housed in a green military tent, the library at the Occupy Boston encampment is overflowing with scholarly tomes that have no due dates or late fees. The growing collection includes more than 500 books, sorted by genre — consumerism, gender, activism/organizing — and overseen by a bookstore owner and a number of librarians supporting the movement, including some from a group calling themselves the Radical Reference librarians. It has a simple checkout system, an expanding archive of Occupy Boston’s meeting notes and proposals and a nascent program of speakers and writing workshops. John Ford, 30, who owns the Metacomet alternative bookstore in Plymouth, Mass., said the library was intended to help protesters learn about systems they find frustrating and explore possible alternatives. “I hope, at the very least, it just makes people more inclined to be thoughtful about what they’re doing here,” said Ford
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Obama: U.S. troops to leave Iraq by year’s end WASHINGTON (NY Times) — President Obama said Friday that the last American soldier would leave Iraq by the end of the year, bringing to an end a nearly nine-year military engagement that cost the lives of 4,400 troops and more than $1 trillion, divided
the American public, and came to define America’s role in the world. Obama said that as of Jan. 1, 2012, the United States and Iraq would begin “a normal relationship between two sovereign nations, and equal partnership based on mutual interest and mutual respect.”
In a videoconference on Friday morning with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Obama told him of the administration’s decision, which grows out of an inability of the United States and Iraq to come to an agreement on leaving a few thousand military trainers in the country.
Libyan leaders differ over Qaddafi burial MISURATA, Libya (NY Times) — Euphoria in Libya over the death of Col. Muammar elQaddafi was tempered on Friday by frictions and confusion over where and when to bury the former strongman, as well as rising pressure from abroad for a fuller accounting by the interim government of the fi nal moments before his violent, messy demise while in the custody of the fighters who captured him. The United Nations and Amnesty International called for a thorough investigation into precisely how Colonel Qaddafi -- shown in viral
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Puerto Rico’s plan for natural gas pipeline has many critics
PORTUGUES, P.R. (NY Times) — It is his retirement refuge, a tiny house in the Central Mountain Chain, surrounded by banana and orange trees, coffee bushes and the melody of coquí frogs. “I like the peace and tranquillity after so much time spent working and sacrifi cing,” said Luis Rodriguez Cruz, 59, who bought his home, nestled in the center of the island, for $10,000 a few years ago, after a lifetime of factory work. “We came here for peace. Now we have to worry whether this thing will explode next to our house.” The pipeline, which has provoked demonstrations and widespread opposition over environmental and safety concerns, would run 92 miles from Peñuelas in the south, across the mountains to the island’s northern coast, then east to San Juan. For Gov. Luis G. Fortuño, who has made the pipeline a centerpiece of his first term, the project represents one of the island’s best attempts at revving up its fl ailing economy, by reducing stratospheric electricity costs.