11 March 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 11 Mar 2008 Augmenting the deadly sins, the Vatican adds seven "social" sins. Audio: Captain Ahab is "a hell of a politician" and not too far from today's leaders. McCain's got nothing on these guys: the world's oldest leaders. Viagra ruled kosher for Passover. Schoolchildren receive citizenship lessons to hone their "Britishness"; teachers deem it "un-British." London's Madame Tussauds deems Gordon Brown too boring for a wax figure, though Blair's remains popular. For the first time since Sept. 11, foreign tourists set a record high in the U.S. This is Montana, the only state to permit...the double-proxy wedding, wherein the presence of neither the bride nor the groom is required. Nicaraguan town hosts special canine mass to ward off pet illness. How jazz musicians' brain activity compares when playing a tune versus improvising. Photos: Madonna, Mellencamp, and the rest of the Rock Hall's class of 2008. As we mourn the end of The Wire, in this week's Book Digest Birnbaum grills Pelecanos about what's on his bedstand. From the attic: Birnbaum's 2004 chat with Pelecanos. Terrifying security video of car crashes in Russia's "Tunnel of Death."
