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Headlines for Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Business is booming for people who can give good voice to debt-collection.

Cohen: It’s worth recalling that hateful, ultranationalist rhetoric is no Iranian preserve.

“How Jew-Friendly Persia Became Anti-Semitic Iran.”

Tutu: African leaders opposing the arrest of Sudan’s al-Bashir forget that his victims are Africans.

Mexican cab drivers run Hollywood-style tours of drug-trafficker haunts, complete with gun-battle reenactments.

Trial of Arizona guns dealer brings to light the many American guns toted by Mexcian drug thugs.

From the medical case files, the death of Libby Zion: catalyst for revising residents’ hours in hospitals.

Analyzing when and where landscape painting died, and how it’s returned to life in sometimes unrecognized places.

Notes on the medicinal value of Fowler’s Modern English Usage.

Instapaper for the commute: Profile of the Mugrabi family—investors in Pop, Koons, and Hirst—as canaries in the art mine.

Another printable option: Meet the oil sands industry.

Impressive analysis of previous years’ Tournaments of Books turns up interesting results (see also part II).

Mike Leigh discusses his filmmaking process, how he chooses actors, etc.

Rare photos of “Solburun” hunting festival in Kyrgyzstan.

Morning Edition

Yesterday U.S. stocks hit their lowest level since 1997—yet the dollar is gaining, as economic prospects abroad look comparatively worse.

We will no longer be serving complimentary cold cuts and soda on Cold Cuts and Soda Day. Stairs will go up, but not down.

Iraqis with new security and wealth are snatching up SUVs like they’re going out of style—and in the U.S., they are.

Every second: 1.6 cars made, 0.15 deaths by smoking, 200 stars born.

“Blackwater can’t change the fact that its lethal actions have resulted in the deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians.”

As instability continues in Sri Lanka, gunmen attack the national cricket team.

Photos from “Chicago,” an Israeli-built mock Arab town used to train military.

The media stays hush on the far-right politics of the Pirate Bay’s financial backer out of “geek sympathies.”

I’m actually on Bale’s side on this. A professional grip knows you don’t walk through the sightline. How to talk like you’re in the movies.

CPAC keynoter Limbaugh accuses Obama of “bastardizing” the Constitution, then bastardizes it himself by confusing it with the Declaration of Independence.

Jackassletters.com: When prank letters to corporations are answered.

General Mills begins shipping retro cereal boxes—the roller-skating Trix rabbit emits satisfaction rather than A.D.D.

Video: Robot meets lighthouse.

TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

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RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts...

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