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October 21, 2003 A Face Lift for The Times, Typographically, That IsBy THE NEW YORK TIMES tarting today, the front page and main news sections of The New York Times are receiving a gentle typographical face-lift. In place of a miscellany of headline typefaces that have accumulated in its columns over the last century, the newspaper is settling on a single family, Cheltenham, in roman and italic versions and various light and bold weights. A narrow variation will be used for The Times's signature one-column headline, which often appears at the top right of Page A1 on the main article...

One of the more peculiar claims in today's political debate is the contention that gay marriage will undermine heterosexual marriage. I'm sorry; any logical connection between the two escapes me. I don't understand the mechanism by which one can possibly affect the other. But that's not surprising. Logic has its limitations in explaining human behavior. In this case, a lot of people are concerned about the decline of family and marriage as social institutions, and I guess it's just human nature to blame whatever seems new and threatening. In this case, gay marriage. The problem itself is very real, of...

Flag wasn't the root of Barnes' fall Jay Bookman E-mail: jbookman@ajc.com It's fun to see a myth take shape, to watch as it emerges unformed from the early fog of facts and then be polished and sanded and finally cast in bronze, so that in time it seems as real and solid as a statue. Consider, for example, the myth of Roy Barnes and the Georgia flag. Make no mistake, the former governor fully deserved the Kennedy Profile in Courage Award he recently accepted at Harvard. His decision to engineer a change in the Georgia flag, despite the risk it...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 5/1/03 Tax cut woos Greediest Generation The president's proposed $726 billion tax cut is not an economic policy. It is a crass appeal to greed, pitched to a nation conditioned to believe that greed is not a vice but a downright virtue. And that's just the beginning of the deceptions and distortions being used to sell this policy. The money that the tax cut would allegedly "return" to the taxpayer never came from the taxpayer in the first place. Every penny that taxpayers send to the federal government is spent by the federal government. So how is...

For the hell of it... I'm conducting a survey. What was your favorite Seinfeld episode? I need a good laugh.