Headlines from March 29, 2007
- Senate approves the war-spending bill, and Bush renews his pledge to veto.
- Maryland becomes first state to kick-off the de facto disbanding of the electoral college.
- How to make a 75-year-old person's brain work like a 35-year-old's.
- How Wal-Mart enforces its "bare-knuckled no-expense-spared investigations of employees who break its ironclad ethics rules."
- Morality is not the right language. The more than 130 million people who shop at Wal-Mart each week, they'd be insulted by that frame.
- Op: To slightly extrapolate, most Germans see destroying Israel as no big deal.
- Iran dislikes Britain's attitude, such as raising a "ballyhoo" in the press, and may not release the woman sailor.
- Turkey would have preferred Chirac's going-away present from the E.U. not to depict the defeat of the Ottoman empire.
- California to blame for most moral evil in the western U.S.
- Speaking of combatting evil: Dell to begin shipping Linux-equipped consumer machines.
- In the information age, only a chump commutes to work in the city. And only a complete idiot actually lives in one.
- Moral crime of painting Thailand's king earns 10 years in prison.
- Video: Nothing evil about otters holding hands. (Though probably something wrong with Karl Rove rapping.)
- Video selections from This American Life's second episode.
- Sanjaya's advancement in American Idol as a precursor to the End Times.
- Damage to space shuttle means NASA astronaut may unexpectedly set a new record for longest period spent in space.
- Armchair semiotics as new Harry Potter cover revealed.
- Bush bullies back on Iraq, and Pelosi turns on him for picking a fight (Reid, meanwhile, keeps it real).
- New York D.A. Arthur Branch contemplates a run for president.
- Iran makes the captured British troops "confess" on TV.
- Zimbabwe undone: Loyalists turning disloyal, activists abducted and beaten, Mugabe jets to Tanzania to fight for his future.
- White House sniffles after Saudi King doesn't RSVP to dinner invitation.
- Fascinating breakdown of Russia's reconsideration of its nuclear friendliness with Iran.
- WHO says circumcision should be added to tools battling HIV, especially in southern Africa.
- Instances where future Nobel prize winners had their research rejected by journals.
- Pompidou architect Richard Rogers wins Pritzker Prize.
- The only warmth in my life is the heated toilet seat. Finalists in salaryman poetry contest reflect lonely life in Japan.
- Seven questions answered about Japan's "sex slave" problem.
- One in 30 people have fallen in love on a bus.
- Lovely spring has come to New York, and Thoth can sing again in the Angel Tunnel.
- Should you forget: August Wilson's plays are without equal in our time. And though not for Hedley, a king's house.