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Friday, November 21, 2008

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Today’s Feature: “I Will Sing When You’re All Dead” by Matt Evans
Latest in Digest: The Chicagoan

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Headlines for Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Afternoon Edition

“August is a special month for ending dictatorships.” Celebrating Musharraf’s resignation in Benazir Bhutto’s house.

Somali warlord talks about the next step in his career: running for president.

Behind Warsaw’s support of the missile shield: what Russia hates points to what’s in Poland’s best interests.

Op: We shouldn’t let Russia pick each of our countries off separately.

Those who benefit from Russia-Georgia 2008? Defense contractors and their lobbyists.

Science Monitor starts new year-long series to follow the life of “Little” Bill Clinton.

Print for the commute: Taking the long view, we are running out of dirt.

University presidents call for lowering the drinking age to 18, say it would reduce on-campus binge drinking.

Four-point evaluation system of this season’s caffeinated snacks.

Graphic novel of fall fashion.

The ambiguity of “big penis book” is a familiar one in English linguistics. Linguistic analysis for the rest of us.

Studying the execution orders in a chameleon’s program, and how that relates to Michael Phelps.

Cheerleading accounted for 65 percent of all “catastrophic” sports injuries among high school girls over the last 25 years.

Morning Edition

Two days after Medvedev’s vow to withdraw, Russian forces capture 21 Georgian troops in Black Sea port.

McCain’s 1973 U.S. News & World Report article claimed V.C. guards were gay, enjoyed beating him.

As the Iron Curtain threatens to fall once more, Eastern Europe looks to a thinly stretched U.S. for reassurance.

No sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session—294 so far—than this one.

Tilting away from windmills: U.S. farmers discover the problems wind-turbines bring a community.

The road to energy autonomy: capturing solar power from asphalt.

Microloans are a great success story—their profitability could see the poor exploited by keen multinationals.

John Irving loves it, Vonnegut hated it, Americans distrust it: the semicolon.

Walking in the sky, in the clouds, means a form of ecstasy…There’s a truth in it… Werner Herzog talks with tightrope walker Phillippe Petit.

From the attic: Rosecrans Baldwin uncovers Herzog’s diaries.

“Don’t be evil,” is put to the test every day. A look back at 10 years of Google.

Op: With films like The Dark Knight and Inglorious Bastards, evil has become post-modernized.

The man who added snaps to the cowboy shirt died last week, age 107.

TODAY’S FEATURE

I Will Sing When You’re All Dead

Professional opera singer, mountain climber, race car driver, and Vladimir Nabokov’s best translator and collaborator, Dmitri Nabokov has led an impassioned life. MATT EVANS offers an impassioned profile.

DIGEST

The Chicagoan

The Second City citizen’s eponymous magazine, which initially ran from 1926 to 1935, is revived in the form of a well-produced, well-illustrated coffee table book.

Cause and Effect

What’s the Point of Giving Thanks?

Matthew Baldwin investigates the grand tradition of gratitude.

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