12 January 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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North Korea, complete arseholes. Revelations from Wikileaks reduced to three points.
Letter from Brazil on current views on TV Globo and from the president's office of favela violence.
Saudi Arabia releases vulture accused of spying for Mossad, saying Saudis too have espionage animals.
Hitchens: Besides obsessive and homicidal anti-Semitism, Islamic jihadism has nothing to say.
Michael Palin's father's stammer helped make A Fish Called Wanda great.
David Mitchell: If you have a stammer, stop trying to kill it, and befriend it instead.
Long read: History of bounty hunting shows bondsmen deserve respect, and they don't like Dog Champman.
More media lessons from Loughner: white guy shooting = "crazy," brown guy shooting = "terrorist."
Tourism in Palestinian Authority up by 35%, accounting for 15% of the economy.
Florida prison inmates buy 270,000 honey buns a month.
Where there's murder, there's fascinated spectators--that means there's literary industry.
Find best-selling books on the New York Times list for your birth date.
Times's Tommasini's 10 best music composers begins with Bach.
Seventeenth-century oil paintings reveal denim worn by Italian peasants--jackets and aprons made from "genes."
