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Headlines for Thursday, June 26, 2008

Afternoon Edition

“The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass…in a horror version of Weekend With Bernie, handcuffed to a corpse.” Republicans endorse Obama.

On the incredibly intricate wiretapping legislation that passed today, and why it’s worse than you think.

Nicaraguan leftists fight to reclaim the sombrero as a political symbol.

Crafting the “Dream Prius”: the secret subculture of “ecomodding.”

There are more semicolons in the New York Review of Books personals than balls in a gay bar.

Video: Honda’s Asimo robot directs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Internet to loosen regulations on domain names, presenting huge opportunity for “cybersquatters” to buy up valuable URLs.

In China, netizens mob against immoral bloggers, humiliate them, have them arrested.

Maggie Mason’s guide to the best sporks on the internet.

Early paper-and-pen concept sketches for web apps like Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo.

Tarantino “a real happy dude” after finishing script for new “in-your-face” WWII movie.

New laws result in adults afraid to talk to children for fear of pedophilia labeling.

Video: “Thou shalt not think any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a pedophile, some people are just nice.”

Morning Edition

Supreme Court rules that the line of execution drops somewhere between treason and child rape.

Also yesterday, the Court ended two decades of litigation, deciding Exxon owes $500 million—of what was once $5 billion—for the Valdez spill.

Pending the verification of nuclear documents, the U.S. is set to remove N. Korea from terror list.

In his own way, Dr. No was something of a pioneer in nuclear energy. McCain calls Obama the “Dr. No” of energy policy.

The candidates offered hope for a new political discourse—instead it’s the same old, negative campaigning.

Seeking to reverse the beard’s reputation in Japan, Shick and Braun educate on what beards look like—and how to trim them.

M.T.A. drops free lifetime passes for board members, holds firm they did nothing illegal.

In this week’s digital ramble, Rosecrans Baldwin detects acts of culture jamming.

Halfway through its summer blockbusters, Hollywood reflects on what’s selling, and what movie about killer trees is not.

The entire Nuyorican Poets Cafe movement emerged from a back pocket in Patti’s black jeans. Moody on Smith.

Troy McClure’s résumé.

From 2003, Matthew Baldwin explains the 10 steps to crafting a bulletproof résumé.

Kermit Love, co-creator of Big Bird, other Muppets, dies at age 91.

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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