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Headlines for Friday, November 7, 2008

Weekend Edition

Op: Washington’s new “Death with Dignity” act does make some people somewhat freer, but not enough.

South Africa is facing a period of protracted instability, perhaps leading to civil war.

Spain faces big changes to avoid “Italy’s fate of seemingly remorseless decline.”

Lessons Obama can learn from other presidential rookies.

Profile of investigative journalist extraordinaire Seymour Hersh, “the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist.”

New Ze Frank project brings together Obama voters and McCain voters with pictures of support.

Arguments for cynicism when confronting the Obama hope explosion.

Instapaper for Saturday morning: Inside the mind of a pro-life assassin; see also: “After the Imperial Presidency.”

Study finds standard plastic lab equipment may be inadvertently affecting research.

Gambling odds offered on God’s existence: 4-1.

One man’s mission to raise 100 head of (miniature) cattle on the internet.

Op: Really want to save the planet? Forget local food and eat some New Zealand apples.

If visiting New York this weekend: William Eggleston at the Whitney.

Stevie Wonder, Martha Reeves, and others on the history of Motown.

Morning Edition

New accounts suggest Georgia’s military attacked separatist capital, that it wasn’t acting in defense of Russian aggression.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Anti-Americanism will not suddenly, magically disappear. But it will have a harder time surviving…

Colson Whitehead: Not since Sammy Davis Jr. have Skinny Black Guys had so much to hope for.

A photo set of Obama and the family backstage on election night.

It begins: Pelosi promises bipartisanship; G.O.P. criticizes “broken promise” of bipartisanship.

As he shouted each name, he stabbed the table with his steak knife: “Nat Landow! Dead! Cliff Jackson! Dead.” The new chief of staff’s most infamous moments.

How the satire industry can survive the next four years.

Daring “inner-tube” robber nabbed through DNA from chewing-tobacco spit.

Demise of Chinese dynasties linked to monsoon changes.

Votes cast for Democrats have been on a steady rise for 28 years; however, Republican voting varies.

Photos from the set of Star Wars.

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