17 June 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Al Jazeera profiles the Iranian power players behind the headlines.
Reaction to Iran's uprising shows how little of the neocon agenda "really was about freedom."
"Realism" in foreign policy is what sent Scowcroft to raise a champagne toast to China's leaders in the wake of Tiananmen Square.
Bill Keller reports from Tehran, finding ways to connect Iranian driving with the desire for freedom.
Dowd loves "louche," finds study on the top 50 Times words that send readers to the dictionary.
You mean there's a Palin daughter out there who's not pregnant?
Lewis Lapham to start a blog and "turn it into an art form...along the lines of a Japanese haiku."
The stupid, negative ones make one angry, and the clever, negative ones make one sad. Critic James Wood on his own critics.
One wonders how much of the giant Times magazine profile of Nadal needed to be respun post-French Open.
The workbench of Oliver Sacks catalogued and captioned.
Profile of Pentecostalism in Ghana: not just African Christianity, but Christianity, period.
Video footage of various kinds of trance states--"rituals, dance, shamanic, church-based."
Video: Obama
defeats a fly.
