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Headlines for Thursday, September 3, 2009

Afternoon Edition

South African politicians root for Semenya’s dignity; too bad it’s not the same case for rape victims.

Status of secret classification: a complete mess, but Obama is trying to fix it.

Ten common strategic blunders in business and in war; Japan’s first lady believes she’s been to Venus.

An automatic music generator, played by the moon.

Remember the story of the rapper who got her doctorate on Warner Music’s bill? It never happened.

Appreciation of Japan’s aesthetics of restraint: “The only way to leave a smaller footprint would be to die.”

Op: Mailer was a dunce and a bastard, never mind a shoddy author.

Roosevelt was a divider, not a uniter; by gleefully waging class war, he got things done.

Obama’s Dreams from My Father places second in Travelodge’s “books left behind” index.

Because Britons are not reared on chilli, they have a tendency to view it as “macho” food. Chillies invade Britain.

Bertrand Russell becomes a comic-book superhero of philosophy (really).

Arab organization to be tried for publishing a cartoon offensive to Jews.

List of inventors killed by their own inventions.

Investigative reporter in Chicago gets mugged and investigates the racial angles.

Instapaper for the commute: Big Times magazine profile of Spike Jonze’s career thus far, and the differences between plot and attitude.

Morning Edition

To win the war in Afghanistan, Obama may find more Republican support than help from his own party.

The report exposed that the Taliban takes a percentage of the billions of dollars in aid from U.S. and other international coalition members.

More than half of the nation’s college campuses are reporting students infected with H1N1.

The state of bee nation: Experts update us on where we are in the effort to halt hive loss.

World Wildlife Fund admits ad depicting dozens of planes crashing into New York City was in poor taste.

Ultra-conservative Domino’s founder failed at founding a law school but managed to take theocratic control of a small Florida town.

Collectible “Torture Team” trading cards feature George “Mission Accomplished” Bush, Dick “Strangelove” Cheney, and more.

From 2006, a list of recommended nicknames for every member of Bush’s incoming Democratic Congress.

Denmark’s Living Library allows humans to borrow other humans.

Chuck Peterson found himself constantly hounding 17-year-old Warren Buffett to clean up after himself.

I resent that the painfully animated Wonder Pets has an unholy grip on my daughter’s affections. Bourdain reviews his children’s favorite shows.

At Infinite Summer, the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy keeps pace, anticipates an infinite autumn.

A visit to E.L. Doctorow’s tidy house.

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