Headlines from June 27, 2008
- Neo-conservatives "apoplectic" over Condoleezza Rice's emerging North Korea deal.
- There's a guy running for president who knows who Jay-Z is. What's on Obama's iPod?
- People holding degrees from Harvard or Yale...constitute 83 percent of the presidential nominees of the past 20 years.
- Ivy League schools are teaching students to be "excellent sheep" who cater to the status quo.
- Spanish Parliament approves "human rights" for apes.
- Protected red-winged blackbirds go on spree of attacks in Chicago; citizens advised to "stare back into its eyes."
- North Pole projected to be ice-free this summer.
- How Haagen-Dazs really does depend on the bumblebee to make ice cream.
- Video: If American Apparel had TV ads, they'd be like this; and like this, they wouldn't be safe for work.
- Op: So what's so bad about having a pregnancy pact, anyway?
- Americans lose jobs in the U.K., where a third of people believe the U.S. is a "force for evil."
- Taipei skyscraper contains "earthquake bell" to act as a counterweight against seismic shifts.
- Video: Another "public freezing" incident, this time in a Taco Bell.
- No Country for Raising Arizona: Scene similarities between Coen Brothers' movies.
- Citizens of voting age without an inked finger...will be regarded as traitors and subject to reprisals. It's election day in Zimbabwe.
- Interviews with former Mugabe henchmen reveal young men motivated by the fear that they'll be the next victim.
- Supreme Court rules rifle and pistol bans are unconstitutional; few changes are expected outside of D.C., but expect local litigation.
- Op: Obama may not be able to sway the evangelical vote, but he's doing the work to lessen its opposition.
- Pyongyang televises its sincerity, demolishing its main nuclear reactor's cooling tower.
- Analysis: Bush reversed on N. Korea, but won't credit at home for the diplomatic win--likely the last of his presidency.
- He had the grace of Gollum as he quarreled with his questioners. Cheney's chief of staff dragged, kicking into the sunlight.
- "Part of the problem with perfectionism is that by nature, you're always failing." As Mad Men returns, a nine-year journey ends.
- A photo tour of Olso's Vigeland Sculpture Park, where human birth, life, and death is set to stone.
- After a daycare begins fining late parents, parents arrive even later--it became "another commodity they could purchase."
- On managing 20-somethings and their needs.
- Audio clips and stories from octogenarian working professionals.
- Today is Bill Gates's last day at Microsoft.