14 October 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Pre-empted by Obama's Monday policy details, McCain offers critique, releases his own economic prescriptions.
Why, format-wise, the third debate may be the best yet.
Video: Fired-up Donna Brazile on the election's final days.
106-year-old nun barraged with attention after endorsing Obama, now just wants to be left alone.
Obama is big in Obama, Japan; Palin's "middle class" Japanese eyeglasses are boosting orders.
"U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" she continued, leading many of them in chant.
"New research into the science of rumors" (wha?) says Obama's "Fight the Smears" tactic may be working.
Battery of economists blog to briefly approve the Treasury's capital injection.
Interesting notes on academic word counting and why "John Lennon's songs have more 'negative emotion' words than Paul McCartney's."
Alex Ross blogs fantastic musical annotations, e.g., for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
Twenty-one amazing photos of the sun.
Print for the commute: What it's like to be a post-apartheid Afrikaner.
Berlusconi gets nostalgic as Bush era nears end, declares "friends forever."
I like stupid questions. A guy sent me an email about squid. Notes from recent Haruki Murakami visit to Berkeley.
