17 September 2007: Morning

  • The morning's quotes say Democrats likely to approve Bush's ex-judge pick to replace Gonzales; read how last month he said terror trials hurt the nation.
  • Forking apart the hay around last week's nuclear stories set in Syria.
  • Explaining why, if a man tells you he knows what's happening politically in Moscow, "he will be lying."
  • In case you were wondering, child pornography is legal, and likely to remain that way, in the Czech Republic and three other EU countries.
  • When young pop tartlets forget their lyrics on TV, blame the death of memorizing poetry.
  • All America knows of dance it knows from TV: auspicious C-list celebrities, but not Baryshnikov or Cunningham.
  • On the fringe of the dance world, contemporaries recreate 18th-century forms.
  • Sacks: Remembering music is not, in the usual sense, remembering at all. Remembering music, listening to it, or playing it, is wholly in the present.
  • TMN's Anthony Doerr on the best in this year's science writing.
  • The top 20 most bizarre experiments of all time.
  • Two years later, the Vatican brings the Schiavo case back to life, and Fred Thompson says Congress overplayed its hand.
  • A call for rejuvenating the ancient game of bridge, though not when it leads to murder.
  • Op: No two cities in one country have the same bloodthirsty cycle of cultural rivalry as Sydney and Melbourne.
  • Vicious cycle of your zip code defining who you are, and the government and businesses making sure you stay that way.
  • When clouds are not just clouds; when a fence is not just a fence.