19 October 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 19 Oct 2009 Obama unveils softer approach--both sticks and carrots--for Sudan. Tóibín: One benefit of a referendum--e.g., Ireland's vote on the Lisbon Treaty--is seeing who holds the power. What life's like in Kandahar for Westerners without blast walls: isolated, boring, depressing. Moving story of a teenager who cut a remarkable album in spite of cancer. Frere-Jones calls 2009 the year hip-hop dies. Ben Schott charts various divisions of a human's lifespan. Profile of the Barber brothers reveals high level of twin closeness. New favorite style blog: I Get a Fever; new favorite sports blog: Free Darko. All directors have a God complex; Cameron takes his unusually seriously. James Cameron profile. Aesthetic notes on Hockney's working life in East Yorkshire. Renovated French zoo tries to put animals in their element, stylishly. Fall foliage maps entrenched in hope, sadness. Audio and photo tour of Edison's workshop where the light bulb was perfected. Drawings from an eight-day drive on the Oregon trail. Video: What up with that?
