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Headlines for Friday, June 27, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Neo-conservatives “apoplectic” over Condoleezza Rice’s emerging North Korea deal.

There’s a guy running for president who knows who Jay-Z is. What’s on Obama’s iPod?

People holding degrees from Harvard or Yale…constitute 83 percent of the presidential nominees of the past 20 years.

Ivy League schools are teaching students to be “excellent sheep” who cater to the status quo.

Spanish Parliament approves “human rights” for apes.

Protected red-winged blackbirds go on spree of attacks in Chicago; citizens advised to “stare back into its eyes.”

North Pole projected to be ice-free this summer.

How Haagen-Dazs really does depend on the bumblebee to make ice cream.

Video: If American Apparel had TV ads, they’d be like this; and like this, they wouldn’t be safe for work.

Op: So what’s so bad about having a pregnancy pact, anyway?

Americans lose jobs in the U.K., where a third of people believe the U.S. is a “force for evil.”

Taipei skyscraper contains “earthquake bell” to act as a counterweight against seismic shifts.

Video: Another “public freezing” incident, this time in a Taco Bell.

No Country for Raising Arizona: Scene similarities between Coen Brothers’ movies.

Morning Edition

Citizens of voting age without an inked finger…will be regarded as traitors and subject to reprisals. It’s election day in Zimbabwe.

Interviews with former Mugabe henchmen reveal young men motivated by the fear that they’ll be the next victim.

Supreme Court rules rifle and pistol bans are unconstitutional; few changes are expected outside of D.C., but expect local litigation.

Op: Obama may not be able to sway the evangelical vote, but he’s doing the work to lessen its opposition.

Pyongyang televises its sincerity, demolishing its main nuclear reactor’s cooling tower.

Analysis: Bush reversed on N. Korea, but won’t credit at home for the diplomatic win—likely the last of his presidency.

He had the grace of Gollum as he quarreled with his questioners. Cheney’s chief of staff dragged, kicking into the sunlight.

“Part of the problem with perfectionism is that by nature, you’re always failing.” As Mad Men returns, a nine-year journey ends.

A photo tour of Olso’s Vigeland Sculpture Park, where human birth, life, and death is set to stone.

After a daycare begins fining late parents, parents arrive even later—it became “another commodity they could purchase.”

On managing 20-somethings and their needs.

Audio clips and stories from octogenarian working professionals.

Today is Bill Gates’s last day at Microsoft.

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