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Headlines for Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Director Anthony Minghella dies at 54 of complications from surgery to treat tonsil cancer.

Grief counselors are standing by for Bear bankers, considering that employees own over 30 percent of the company.

Chief executives often take full responsibility, but rarely are consequences involved.

China accuses the Dalai Lama of orchestrating riots as an Olympics sabotage; Dalai Lama threatens to resign if violence continues to escalate.

Germany to get its first Chinatown.

Print for the commute: Calvin Trillin’s rickshaw piece for National Geographic.

Hundreds of aging draft dodgers in Canada to help hundreds of Iraq war deserters.

Informal names for unknown or unspecified persons in various regions (e.g., “John Doe”).

The ultimate lyrics quiz: Matthew Baldwin’s challenge for supposed pop-music masters.

Meta what? New reality series, films, and books capture the documentation generation.

Professors deny the value of literature; professors’ intellectual agendas being set by teenagers.

Twenty years after giving up music, David Philip of the Automatics describes what it’s like to tour Japan.

We’re pretty sure it’s just a fish that says “PHISH.” The 25 best band logos.

Helen DeWitt outwits Guilfoile and Warner in today’s Rooster match-up.

Love the ToB? Put your money where you mouth is, win prizes, and get books in kids’ hands.

New favorite web site: Kill the cliché: tracking tropes in journalism.

Morning Edition

Whether or not lawmakers can affect the economy, the candidates will start stumping to that effect.

Fla. Democrats say they don’t want to re-vote by mail, abandon attempt at a do-over.

New N.Y. governor Paterson and his wife admit to past affairs.

The Conservative party is now groovier than anyone could have imagined. Labour party protests Smiths-homage photo of Tory leader at Salford Lads Club.

Researchers unsure why, as Americans increase consumption of leafy greens, food-borne illnesses rise exponentially.

Geography is not dead: High-schooler spots a Frosted Flake shaped like Illinois, auctions it on eBay.

System for student surveillance actually monitors—and hinders—their teachers.

New book offers a Cold War-era peek below the submarine-infested Arctic ice.

Russia introduces a vodka for “upwardly mobile women,” doctors brace for addiction recovery.

Audio: Cigarettes won’t buy happiness.

It sounds like Arsenic and Old Lace…but it doesn’t have Cary Grant. In L.A., a pair of diabolical old ladies.

Forensic tests at Charles Manson’s ranch reveal evidence of buried bodies.

Video: From 1971, a terrifying commercial for the opening of Walt Disney World.

Photos of tiny cars throughout history.

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