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Headlines for Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Geithner tells Congress bank report cards need to be kept secret for public’s own good.

They see it as a story where one man can have a vision and successfully complete it. Indian business students find Mein Kampf inspirational.

South Africans will vote for the ANC, but they’re deeply disappointed; poll finds fewer than half think they’re better off now than under apartheid.

Instapaper for the commute: Obama’s political philosophy and the logic of nudges.

Russia’s future in global affairs: Kantian partner or Hobbesian gladiator?

In a witch hunt, the witches have feelings, too. New York’s giant therapy session for shocked Wall Street-ers.

Former New York editor says the rich-people story epitomizes the magazine’s worst side.

Veterans connect with a “pussy” magazine writer during a bike ride from San Antonio to Dallas.

Video: Laid-back Indian motorcycling.

Tour from within a British asylum for untreatable anti-social personalities (psychopathic paedophiles, etc.).

Jonah Lehrer and Teller on the neuroscience of magic.

Ads versus the reality of fast food.

The prospect of solar-sailing to other stars lacks popular vision, not technological know-how.

An infinite bookstore at your fingertips is great news for book sales, but not so great for that most finite of 21st-century resources: attention.

Interview with Neil Gaiman about writing the final chapters of Batman.

Morning Edition

Investigations show none of the officials who approved the use of torture bothered to learn about their nation’s long-standing opposition to it.

If the U.S. doesn’t prosecute C.I.A. and Bush administration officials for torture crimes at home, Europe will, says the U.N.

Hitchens: The Turkish government really doesn’t like Denmark, jeopardizing its entry into the E.U.—for good reason.

International overachievers Sweden, North Korea, and Singapore punch well above their weight, while Japan does not.

China has been working on a standardized list of characters for people. China suggests people with unique names adopt common ones.

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“Respect,” “Wonderwall,” and 21 other songs that should never be covered again.

Ballard proves you should live a bit before writing.

We have become the channels or mediums for what appears to be an unstoppable force. “Susan Boyle and The Beauty of Crochet,” by Margaret Wertheim.

New Guinea tribesman portrayed as “blood-thirsty warrior” to sue Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar over New Yorker article.

As a teenager, I found that I was attracted both to serving Our Lord and to Jimmy Wiggins, the assistant coach of my high-school soccer team.

Cut-up and pasted-together photos of locations in New York depict unseen herds.

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