11 August 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 11 Aug 2009 MI6 says it doesn't torture, though it occasionally works with those that do (i.e., the U.S.). A lesson from Obama's mother's research: No nation--even if it is our bitterest enemy--is incomprehensible. Hitchens: The Kim Jong Il gang makes slaves of its people, and we just flattered the hell out of them. Europe and U.S. united in condemning Burma's/Myanmar's sentencing of Suu Kyi. Big Picture portraits of Typhoon Morakot. India discovers divorce, even remarriage. American Indian David Treuer's wonderful accounts of visiting an Indian casino. Conservatives love Jon Stewart because he listens to them, thus so do those who normally tune them out. Complex extra-dimensional theory of the universe translated into complex multi-dimensional version of opera. Cheerleading is the leading cause of catastrophic injury in young women. Interesting notes on how different societies name the world. The most difficult--and most moving--piano pieces. British archaeologists to exhume 17th-century tomb in search for Shakespeare's true identity.
