Headlines from January 7, 2009
- Everybody backs Egypt's cease-fire plan; Obama calls mounting civilian deaths "a source of deep concern for me."
- Analysis of Gates's recent media appearances to measure his appetite for finding opportunities in Russia.
- By laying low now, Hezbollah can use the Gaza attacks later on for political gain.
- Friedman's Middle East: a hotel, a Jew room, and a bar to be destroyed.
- Atheist ads on buses--"There's probably no God"--manage to offend a few in secular Britain.
- Instapaper for the commute: How not to make peace in the Middle East.
- Colorado army base says it's not seeing increased violence, just better crime reporting.
- Post-Katrina vigilante group attacked African-Americans, still hasn't been brought to justice.
- Self-help dropout tests three well-known productivity systems.
- Video: Yes, that's our favorite Todd Levin, designer of the Macbook Wheel.
- See also Todd's handy guide to choosing wine for tonight's dinner, complete with graph.
- Free endangered species ringtones.
- Slideshow: The evolution of Mickey Rourke's face.
- Top 24 worst special effects scenes.
- It's not a peace process; it's a war. Diplomats, presidents are powerless to stop Israel; generational change will make the difference.
- Politicians are fond of comparing things that aren't war to war. It's both an abuse of language and a rhetorical trick.
- Op: Pirates deserve justice, not modern-day imperialism--dumping waste on their shores, trawling for millions of dollars of seafood.
- Russian police raid a human-rights group trying to memorialize the Gulags, while teachers are told to explain Stalin's rationality.
- Op: If the New York Times were to go out of business in May it would be sentimental, but not disastrous.
- Terror experts warn next 9/11 could fall on different date.
- And more in the Bush injury file: Single-engine Cessna crashes into Bush.
- Pictorial: Kids who smoke.
- Video: Iggy Pop and David Bowie perform, chat with Dinah Shore in 1977.
- Pop's former bandmate, Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton found dead, age 60.
- Video: Look at that hat.
- If you find a fascinating new way to state the obvious, you're a Malcolm. The top 10 most abusively blurbed authors.