Headlines from October 6, 2008

Divisions rife between governments as Europe races to support banks.
Print for the commute: Soros's ability to read the tea leaves has enriched him before; betting against him now is a bad call.
Even as Lehman pleaded for a bailout, it approved millions in bonuses for its departing executives.
See also, from the inside-out: Two faces of Lehman's fall.
Consider the simple, cheap pleasures to be found online.
Tales of the crisis from Charlotte, N.C., home to Bank of America and Wachovia.
Please note: you may need to register to vote by the end of today.
The list of potential terrorist organizations Palin would have you investigate.
Portraying Obama as "not like us" is another potential appeal to racism.
Parallels in the writings of James Baldwin and Barack Obama.
Pinker: Palin didn't go through any difficult gauntlet; quit listening to her accent and focus on what she says.
James Woods on Palin's talent for starting a new sentence before finishing the old one.

Gallery: Iranian artists critique American-brand commercialism with "Operation Supermarkt."

Reversing course, seven Palin aides to testify in fast-tracked "Troopergate" investigation.
...A man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else. Rolling Stone is unconvinced McCain is a maverick.
The endorsements come rolling in: 61 Nobel laureates back Obama for anticipated support of scientific, technological advancement delayed for eight years.
On Meghan McCain's puzzling music blogging: Does she understand sarcasm?
She paused. The silence seemed to anticipate words of sympathy and identification from her. Ebert reviews the VP candidates' body language.
Woe to the musician who can actually play his or her instrument. Rick Moody reviews the misunderstood prog of Gentle Giant.
In the past year in Dubai, 230 Britons have been imprisoned for crimes "ranging from driving under the influence to bouncing a cheque"--and also, sex on the beach.
Paris plans a dramatic glass skyscraper that won't cast a shadow on the city's old buildings.
On the minor footprint humans will leave for discovery in millions of years.
After five years, the refrigerator convulses and dies with a great shudder, causing several pheasants to take flight. Ralph Gamelli's apartment, without him.
When Sha-Na-Na performed in pompadours and lamé at Columbia University in 1969, they invented "The Fifties."
My optimism [is] based on the thought that when consciousness develops at a certain point, it will break through that ceiling and something will change. Birnbaum's latest chat with Zinn.