18 November 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is not Magneto; a judgment in New York will remind us of the strength of our own values.
Baldwin, Alec, preference for Stephen over, 314. Index for Going Rogue.
Winning in Aghanistan means thinking like an Afghan politician, not a peacebuilder; i.e., think bribes.
The case for suspending mail on Saturdays, seeing how the U.S.P.S. may soon be eliminated entirely.
An E.U. anthem will likely need to avoid its members' own soldier-y lyrics.
Op: The occupation has eroded Israel's moral fiber, and now its leaders can slough off charges of war crimes.
Maersk Alabama attacked again by Somali pirates.
Merticus, spokesperson for the Atlanta Vampire Alliance, says vampires "are mostly like anyone else."
In Pakistan, conspiracy rumors are the currency of people completely locked out of power.
Video: Trailer for Slackistan.
Upset about noise in libraries, gasbag professor of Renaissance studies can't stop complaining.
Inside the molecular gastronomy lab of Microsoft's Myhrvold, soon-to-be cookbook author.
Op: Millions spent to market drugs yields billions for Pfizer & Co.--and this disgusting practice needs to stop.
Mega-marathoners: obsessives who run hundreds of marathons, age be damned.
The list doesn't destroy culture; it creates it. Umberto Eco on lists.
Blockbuster would like its movies back, please.
