16 March 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 16 Mar 2010 More than 50 new corruption cases opened against Americans who bilked Iraq reconstruction projects. Washington hopes Obama has a strategy for handling Netanyahu; AIPAC allies urge drawdown. Hitchens: Let's not forget that Ratzinger made it a crime to report child rape. Op: China will become the new Middle East, though Beijing appears not yet ready or willing to be a world leader. Japan has poked USSR. World War II as enacted on Facebook. Instapaper for the commute: Life of a lady king in Ghana. (See also: That's what Bea said.) New white-collar career path: interim executive. Dick Armey's history of socialism a tad flawed; Clarence Thomas's wife starts a tea-party nonprofit (interview). What you're really paying for when you buy $300 jeans: L.A. drama. Roald Dahl was a neurology writer, and even helped design a shunt valve. You're cutting off noses now? Set visit for new video by Method Man, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah. Video: Piano improvisation on ChatRoulette. Monuments repaired with Lego. Op: Because digital networks measure our place, we know exactly who the powerful people are; it's like high-school, except on a massive scale.
