19 February 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 19 Feb 2009 Zimbabwe's stock market reopens, now trading U.S. dollars; article features word, "hexillion." Op: If college athletics is controlled by a cartel, the players deserve a cut. As part of a tax-evasion probe, Swiss bank UBS to divulge names of 250 account holders. China's unemployment problems blamed on job candidates being too choosy. Egypt releases Mubarak's top rival from prison; kindness of Mubarak's heart not cited as m.o. Israel pegs lifting Gaza border blockage to release of Shalit. Christopher Hitchens assaulted by skinhead gang after he defaces Nazi poster in Beirut. I was born in Chicago in 1969. Shortly afterward, in 1941, my entire family was rounded up. Ben Greenman's Holocaust Memoir. Old, terrific talk between Jonathan Lethem and Paul Auster. We're working nights and weekends. Ads don't sell books. In-depth roundtable on publishing today. On the lamentations and grudges of Wallace Stegner, ignored by the East Coast elites. A few notes on the difficult life of fashion photographers. Low-tech fixes for high-tech problems. Long read on the mysterious causes and cures of "phantom noise." New proposed Sierra-style entertainment: The Blogosphere Adventure Game.
