After all my puzzling over how to create permanent links to articles in the New York Times (see "Easier New York Times Linking [1]," 2007-02-26), I was amused to hear from a friend that the New York Times is now making TimesSelect free [2] to any student or faculty member with a valid college or university email address. TimesSelect includes access to articles from the New York Times Op-Ed and news columnists in both text and podcast forms, along with up to 100 articles per month from the full New York Times Archive, which contains content back to 1851.
[1]: http://db.tidbits.com/article/8881
[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/gst/ts_university_email_verify.html