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Headlines for Monday, April 9, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Justice firing scandal reveals disproportionate influence of Pat Robertson’s Regent University grads.

Elizalde’s narcocorrido, or drug trafficker’s ballad, sparked what is believed to be an unprecedented cyberspace drug war. Mexican gangs take their fights, musical and non-, to YouTube.

Businesses need to learn to take online beatings; bloggers need to learn to stop dishing them out.

Particle accelerator worth $4 billion explodes when physicists get basic calculations wrong.

Why the government, airlines, and phone companies want to keep in-flight cell phone use banned. And we hope you don’t convince them otherwise.

Program brings DUI trials to school cafetoriums, where students seem kind of impressed.

The youngest Ghandi, a “Kennedy in a kurta,” makes his latest political debut.

Zero-rupee note created to help Indians politely and discreetly say no to bribes.

B.C. and Wizard of Id creator Johnny Hart dies. (His last puzzling Easter comic.)

In today’s gallery, Olga Chernysheva shows us the faces on duty in Moscow’s subway.

Federal contractors create Peep dioramas to their hearts’ content.

The formula is: N = C + {fb (cm) . fb (tc)} + fb (Ts) + fc . ta. Your perfect bacon sandwich, right there.

Morning Edition

Freed Iranian diplomat says he was tortured by the CIA; U.S. says blame the Iranian propaganda machine.

Critics say Iran wins when British sailors are allowed to sell their stories to the media.

Gingrich: Gonzales should resign; Schumer: Gingrich is my friend.

White House catches flack all because Karl Rove couldn’t tell his laptops apart.

Hundreds of thousands of Iraq’s Shiites hear Sadr’s appeal, protest U.S.-led troops.

Seventy-eight percent of Iraqis oppose the U.S. presence, 51 percent approve of attacks on U.S. troops—but only 35 percent want immediate withdrawal.

The next real-life horror movie: Climate refugees.

Today’s long read: The multitude of global problems with the new biofuels.

As you witnessed in Casino Royale, the fire-escape-hopping sport of parkour.

China’s Supergirl, its version of American Idol, to be replaced by Happy Boy Voices.

Mp3s of Jeffrey Sachs’s Reith Lectures; other recent interesting podcasts.

Video: Wonderful story as America’s best classical musician earns $40 busking.

Reader letters requesting that Lois Lane receive a spanking. See also, the best in unintentionally funny comic book panels.

Sol LeWitt dies at 78; cue jokes about leaving behind instructions for his funeral.

The facts of the Phil Spector murder trial you’re not following.

What to do with your leftover Easter eggs; yes, those cream eggs are shrinking; how to make your own giant Cadbury egg.

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The Corruptibles

Sitting at our new surveys desk, MIKE DERI SMITH rounds up the recent trends in global corruption, from Berlusconi to Jersey Shore, to New Yorkers paying rent to the Shah of Iran.

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