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Top 5 Viewed Features on NYTimes.com
(Between Wednesday, Oct. 24 - Tuesday, Oct. 30)

1. Madness as Method
2. Apple Offers New Goodies in Leopard System
3. Five Easy Ways to Go Organic
4. Tracking the California Wildfires: Wednesday
5. Reports Suggest Broader Losses From Mortgages

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• J'adore Couture: This week, spend a few minutes "On the Runway" with Cathy Horyn. Her blog skillfully aggregates fashion and culture reporting and news. Read a Q & A with Jean Paul Gaultier about his provocative new work....or a review of the "Resurrection of Imitation of Christ."

• Joe Torre Haiku Contest

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• Water Cooler 2.0: Everyone's talking about Anderson Cooper's recent attempt to save the world (but not the cheerleader). Tune into Brian Stetler's new blog to find out why. TV Decoder: What Television types are talking about.

• Culinate: Looking for the perfect high-end entrée under $20? Maybe you're in the mood to talk about your grandmother's fried chicken recipe with preeminent restaurant and food critics. Well, you can. Just go to Diner's Journal.

Quick Links

FREAKONOMICS: Q & A with the MythBusters
THE OPINIONATOR: Target, Hillary
DEALBOOK: The Layoff League Tables
MEDIA & ADVERTISING: Talk to the Newsroom: Ask Phillip B. Corbett, Deputy News Editor, a question.
HEALTH: How Scared Should We Be?

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"I find myself, as I make my way through "War and Peace," flashing back to the final years of the Soviet Union... Most superficially, in the accounts of the aristocratic Russia of the early 19th century you can find the excesses and inequities that, combined with tightening oppression and misrule, made the country ripe for the upheaval that came a century later..."

Reader Comments

“Extreme oppression, I would guess, generates an emotion that drives the nemesis to extremes.”
— Posted by David

“Andrei says that emancipation of the serfs will be, in his opinion, best for the estate owner because it will free him from the moral corruption of unchecked power which saps him of humanity...“
— Posted by George