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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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Today’s Feature: “Bright Inaugural Day, Washington” by Lauren Frey
Latest in Digest: Lincoln Logorrhea

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Headlines for Monday, June 16, 2008

Afternoon Edition

The tragicomic demise of the Ron Paul-less Libertarian Party.

Profile of Obama’s managerial skills.

Gallery of “photobombers”—guys who ruin otherwise awesome pictures of you and your friends.

How we are when we read online: “selfish, lazy, and ruthless.”

“Sleep texting” may be more a matter of amnesia than deep dozing.

New York story from 1984: “The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood.”

TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin’s latest “Digital Ramble” for T Magazine’s “The Moment.”

Print for the commute: Jon Lee Anderson on the motives and means of Chávez.

The hows and whys of Radiohead’s environmentally sound lighting design.

Why Priuses, why Berkeley: the role of geography in buying green.

Is Video Skype deepening our long-distance relationships, or just making them more frustrating?

Pearls of wisdom for how to eat oysters.

Is preferring Mozart to Schoenberg a matter of natural inkling for consonance, or a matter of nurturing?

Why you’re more likely to get more popcorn with the medium bag than the large one.

Morning Edition

McCain makes moves on Hillary supporters; polls cite Republican policy ills, show many women are siding with Obama.

Hillary supporters who won’t vote for Obama exist—but what do we call them?

Op: With the W.H.O.’s statement that AIDS is confined to high-risk groups, we can forget the pandemic and focus on helping.

Puppy memoirs: They’re optimistic, spiritual, and—when culminating in euthanasia—controversial.

Photos of actors crying—Robin Williams can really shed them.

The war between landlords who want to live in their buildings and tenants who don’t want to move out.

Some critics spoil new movies to elucidate 18 points of disgust.

Critic remember Ang Lee version. A monosyllabic review of The Hulk.

George Saunders has an idea for a TV show about superheroes without superpowers.

It’s cool. Don’t fight it. Banker seeks hipster.

Less than a year after EMI’s new boss stepped in, the music publisher is buckling under massive debt, layoffs, and an uncertain future.

“This last year has been astounding…We have to keep it going.” Ron Paul ends his bid for the presidency—this time.

Video: Reverse graffiti—“I make pictures by cleaning.”

TODAY’S FEATURE

Bright Inaugural Day, Washington

The U.S. presidential inauguration in January will be one for the ages. LAUREN FREY concludes her series of election-related verse with a hat tip to Langston Hughes.

DIGEST

Lincoln Logorrhea

In his cabinet choices, as in his home state, our president-elect mirrors our 16th president. Gore Vidal’s historical novel about Lincoln helps to balance the dozens of more rigid bios.

My Incredulous Face

Holiday Travel Hell

Nicole Pasulka compiles tales of horror from the TMN writers.

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The Morning News Annual 2008

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