Headlines from March 18, 2008
- Director Anthony Minghella dies at 54 of complications from surgery to treat tonsil cancer.
- Grief counselors are standing by for Bear bankers, considering that employees own over 30 percent of the company.
- Chief executives often take full responsibility, but rarely are consequences involved.
- China accuses the Dalai Lama of orchestrating riots as an Olympics sabotage; Dalai Lama threatens to resign if violence continues to escalate.
- Germany to get its first Chinatown.
- Print for the commute: Calvin Trillin's rickshaw piece for National Geographic.
- Hundreds of aging draft dodgers in Canada to help hundreds of Iraq war deserters.
- Informal names for unknown or unspecified persons in various regions (e.g., "John Doe").
- The ultimate lyrics quiz: Matthew Baldwin's challenge for supposed pop-music masters.
- Meta what? New reality series, films, and books capture the documentation generation.
- Professors deny the value of literature; professors' intellectual agendas being set by teenagers.
- Twenty years after giving up music, David Philip of the Automatics describes what it's like to tour Japan.
- We're pretty sure it's just a fish that says "PHISH." The 25 best band logos.
- Helen DeWitt outwits Guilfoile and Warner in today's Rooster match-up.
- Love the ToB? Put your money where you mouth is, win prizes, and get books in kids' hands.
- New favorite website: Kill the cliché: tracking tropes in journalism.
- Whether or not lawmakers can affect the economy, the candidates will start stumping to that effect.
- Fla. Democrats say they don't want to re-vote by mail, abandon attempt at a do-over.
- New N.Y. governor Paterson and his wife admit to past affairs.
- The Conservative party is now groovier than anyone could have imagined. Labour party protests Smiths-homage photo of Tory leader at Salford Lads Club.
- Researchers unsure why, as Americans increase consumption of leafy greens, food-borne illnesses rise exponentially.
- Geography is not dead: High-schooler spots a Frosted Flake shaped like Illinois, auctions it on eBay.
- System for student surveillance actually monitors--and hinders--their teachers.
- New book offers a Cold War-era peek below the submarine-infested Arctic ice.
- Russia introduces a vodka for "upwardly mobile women," doctors brace for addiction recovery.
- Audio: Cigarettes won't buy happiness.
- It sounds like Arsenic and Old Lace...but it doesn't have Cary Grant. In L.A., a pair of diabolical old ladies.
- Forensic tests at Charles Manson's ranch reveal evidence of buried bodies.
- Video: From 1971, a terrifying commercial for the opening of Walt Disney World.
- Photos of tiny cars throughout history.