13 May 2011: Weekend

  • Pakistani Taliban kills 80, most of them newly trained cadets leaving paramilitary academy.
  • File under "inevitable"--the Taliban gets on Twitter.
  • Good op-ed about America pressing Pakistan by Zakaria ends with remarkably vapid last line.
  • McCain: Torture did not give us bin Laden; in fact, waterboarding Khalid Sheik Mohammed produced false info.
  • In what is likely to be a last trial of its kind, former U.S. citizen convicted for role in killing 27,900 Jews at Nazi camp.
  • Related: Other Nazis still at large.
  • EU interior ministers to end passport-free travel--"radical revision" to address fear of African migrants.
  • Dozens of journalists wonder, how did Gadhafi visit our hotel last night without interrupting our dinner?
  • Late-night reading list for Obama or anyone else who wants Arab-world opinions.
  • Op: Time to blow the whistle and offer hosting the World Cup on eBay.
  • Foxy structures from the future in fact WWII memorials commissioned by former Yugoslavian president.
  • Op: Lifetime of portraits has made Queen Elizabeth faceless.
  • TMN's Elizabeth Kiem: Osama's was not simply a "face of evil"--it happened to be a handsome face worth scrutinizing.
  • Paul Ford attacks New York lunching culture by preferring to stop by friends' offices to help fix their things.
  • Slideshows: Newt Gingrich's complete works; attempts at the first computer mouse.
  • Attention Amazon book critics: "The democratization of reviewing is synonymous with the decay of reviewing."
  • Venetians protest giant condos floating in their lagoon, carrying 5,000 shoppers.
  • Florida may have accidentally outlawed sex.