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| Op-Ed Contributor: A Judge’s Plea for Medical Marijuana Thu, 17 May 2012 04:55:49 GMT For cancer patients, marijuana is a medical and a human rights issue. New York should pass the medical marijuana bill this year. |
| Op-Ed Columnist: Fun Plans for Summer Vacation Thu, 17 May 2012 03:57:16 GMT You heard it here first, people! The national debt is very, very big. So must be time for another debt-limit debate. |
| Op-Ed Columnist: The Winning Essays on Bullying Are ... Thu, 17 May 2012 04:42:30 GMT Wondering just how vicious teenagers can be? Listen to the winners of my essay contest on bullying. |
| Campaign Stops: Believing in Obama Thu, 17 May 2012 01:52:36 GMT The president’s supporters have more confidence in their candidate’s chances than Mitt Romney’s have in him, but how much does this matter? |
| Editorial: JPMorphing Thu, 17 May 2012 04:18:35 GMT JPMorgan Chase’s whopping multibillion-dollar trading loss has revived calls for a tougher version of the Volcker Rule, but Jamie Dimon isn’t dropping his campaign against regulation. |
| Opinionator: Goodbye to Gitmo Thu, 17 May 2012 02:20:09 GMT We may be reaching the end of the Guantánamo litigation. |
| Op-Ed Contributors: King’s Forgotten Manifesto Thu, 17 May 2012 04:44:39 GMT The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for John F. Kennedy to issue a second Emancipation Proclamation in 1962. |
| Room for Debate: How to Address Alcoholism on Indian Reservations Wed, 16 May 2012 21:06:15 GMT What steps can be taken, by tribes, states, the federal government and alcohol companies? |
| Opinionator | The Conversation: Playing Left, Right — or Center Wed, 16 May 2012 19:02:01 GMT Brooks and Collins on Cranbrook and Columbia, Romney and Obama. Can we really learn anything from what we've been told about their school days? |
| Opinionator: Things I Saw — No. 10 Thu, 17 May 2012 01:32:32 GMT The artist draws things he saw in North Carolina, New York and California. |
| Opinionator | Fixes: The Power of Nursing Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:24 GMT The work of the Nurse-Family Partnership and other groups like it bring long term benefits to mother, child and society. |
| On the Ground: Save the Date Tomorrow Thu, 17 May 2012 04:45:21 GMT Reminder to tune into a live Hangout on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. EST with Nicholas Kristof and Ambassador Susan Rice. |
| Editorial: Reform Stop-and-Frisk Thu, 17 May 2012 04:18:37 GMT Now that a federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit against the N.Y.P.D., the department should work to reform a policy that violates constitutional rights. |
| Editorial: The Grand Old Party and the Sea Thu, 17 May 2012 04:18:39 GMT The House voted to deny further financing to a program that helps regulate commercial fisheries, which has been important to the recovery of several at-risk species. |
| Opinionator | Draft: Turning a Phrase Tue, 15 May 2012 01:40:36 GMT Phrases can help give a sentence depth, detail and movement, but they can also create clutter. |
| Editorial: Ticks to the Slaughter Thu, 17 May 2012 04:18:40 GMT An experiment that lures deer to a bin baited with corn and rigged with rollers soaked with a tick-killing pesticide has shown encouraging results in tick control. |
| Opinionator | Borderlines: Enclave-Hunting in Switzerland Wed, 16 May 2012 16:21:45 GMT Do you know the way to Campione? Hint: the Italian exclave is only accessible via Switzerland. |
| Opinionator | Disunion: Ironclad Freedom Thu, 17 May 2012 05:08:12 GMT How a runaway slave, Josiah Carter, found refuge aboard the Monitor. |
| Taking Note: Michele Bachmann Questionnaire on Conservative Values Thu, 17 May 2012 02:13:07 GMT Q: Will President Obama’s lack of leadership on foreign policy be a deciding factor in your vote this November? A: Just take out “lack of” and the answer is yes. |
| Op-Docs: ‘Mitt Likes Music, Including This’ Tue, 15 May 2012 17:17:29 GMT The Gregory Brothers present a musical video mash-up about what Mitt Romney likes — from lakes and trees to music and cars to grits and “Twilight.” |
| Letters: Another Showdown on the Debt Ceiling? Thu, 17 May 2012 04:39:00 GMT Readers discuss the G.O.P.’s opposition to raising the debt limit without large spending cuts. |
| Letter: America’s Relationship With China’s Power Elite Thu, 17 May 2012 04:18:34 GMT An expert on China reflects on U.S.-China relations after a diplomatic crisis. |
| Letter: Soviet Immigrants’ Politics Thu, 17 May 2012 04:19:03 GMT A Soviet immigrant explains the attraction of his community to the Republican Party. |
| Letter: Access to Dignified Work Thu, 17 May 2012 04:19:02 GMT A Boston College professor argues that access to dignified employment is a community responsibility. |
| Letter: Regulating Gas Drilling Thu, 17 May 2012 06:47:01 GMT The American Petroleum Institute says states are regulating hydrofracking effectively. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.