2 May 2011: Afternoon

  • Legal question of killing Osama bin Laden isn't exactly cut and dry, though any outcry is unlikely.
  • Day of military operation was "excruciating," says Obama aide.
  • Pakistani military shamed by bin Laden's death; chief visited academy next to Osama's hideout last month.
  • Hitchens: Obama's speech will be worthless if we go on arming and financing the same people who dragged out Osama's hunt.
  • "Postmodern tourism"--visiting Roswell for the spectacle of American alien fascination.
  • Notes from a goddess festival in India where up to three million women gather and break down castes.
  • In Rome, 1.5 million gather for beatification of John Paul II; result was "a Catholic Woodstock."
  • African countries seek to lure white South African farmers north, in hopes of agricultural gains.
  • Op: Climate war and environmental activists have made the very act of gardening a political act.
  • Bill Benzon explains how Road Runner cartoons are an allegory for humanity's failed schemes.
  • Inside the brainwashing, burger-flipping, academic credit-promising world of Disneyland interns.
  • Translucent origami to make your paper cranes look like a joke.
  • Werner Herzog on being shot, his mainstream films, and the pitfalls of self-analysis.
  • Author self-promotion protrayed in brief history--Woolf goes shopping! Simenon writes in a box!
  • From 1977, Woody Allen profile of Knick great Earl Monroe, whom he was supposed to interview and did not.
  • The Internet's most comprehensive examination of the watches worn by Fox Mulder on TV's 'The X-Files'.