Headlines from November 7, 2008
- Op: Washington's new "Death with Dignity" act does make some people somewhat freer, but not enough.
- South Africa is facing a period of protracted instability, perhaps leading to civil war.
- Spain faces big changes to avoid "Italy's fate of seemingly remorseless decline."
- Lessons Obama can learn from other presidential rookies.
- Profile of investigative journalist extraordinaire Seymour Hersh, "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist."
- New Ze Frank project brings together Obama voters and McCain voters with pictures of support.
- Arguments for cynicism when confronting the Obama hope explosion.
- Instapaper for Saturday morning: Inside the mind of a pro-life assassin; see also: "After the Imperial Presidency."
- Study finds standard plastic lab equipment may be inadvertently affecting research.
- Gambling odds offered on God's existence: 4-1.
- One man's mission to raise 100 head of (miniature) cattle on the internet.
- Op: Really want to save the planet? Forget local food and eat some New Zealand apples.
- If visiting New York this weekend: William Eggleston at the Whitney.
- Stevie Wonder, Martha Reeves, and others on the history of Motown.
- New accounts suggest Georgia's military attacked separatist capital, that it wasn't acting in defense of Russian aggression.
- Bernard-Henri Lévy: Anti-Americanism will not suddenly, magically disappear. But it will have a harder time surviving...
- Colson Whitehead: Not since Sammy Davis Jr. have Skinny Black Guys had so much to hope for.
- A photo set of Obama and the family backstage on election night.
- It begins: Pelosi promises bipartisanship; G.O.P. criticizes "broken promise" of bipartisanship.
- As he shouted each name, he stabbed the table with his steak knife: "Nat Landow! Dead! Cliff Jackson! Dead." The new chief of staff's most infamous moments.
- How the satire industry can survive the next four years.
- Daring "inner-tube" robber nabbed through DNA from chewing-tobacco spit.
- Demise of Chinese dynasties linked to monsoon changes.
- Votes cast for Democrats have been on a steady rise for 28 years; however, Republican voting varies.
- Photos from the set of Star Wars.