20 August 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Stability of the Kurdistan region threatened by Iranian forces.
Gaza's main power plant shuts down after the EU halted financing of fuel deliveries.
Today's big read: How border violence is overflowing and bringing havoc into Southwestern cities.
Illuminating details on Iowa's non-illuminating straw poll.
A review of the various guide books--Wasps! Jews! Blacks!--we use to break one another down.
How exactly does one inject money into the economy?
Some suspect that Sarkozy's secret strength in resolving the French economic "crisis" may be that there is no crisis. Gopnik on Sarkozy and his plans for le bomb humain.
Putin orders resumption of long-range bomber patrols, hopefully less Tom Clancy, more "The Russians Are Coming!"
Pilots and passengers fled hijacked Turkish plane.
Formerly separate institutions, museums and auction houses now regularly hijack employees from each other's holdings, though it may mean tough business for museums down the road.
How photographer Martin Parr can improve your dinner conversation, even if you hate him (see Parr's TMN gallery).
Index of law articles of interest to visual artists.
Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei, creator of the new Beijing National Stadium, denounces the Olympics and "shitty foreign directors" for moral cluelessness.
Tom Green's resurrection, filmed live in his living room.
Young Frankenstein, the musical, quietly prepares to embark from Seattle for New York.
Where do most of the world's tigers burn bright? Why, Texas of course.
