22 April 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 22 Apr 2008 Boston Marathon waives qualifying factors for those with deep pockets for charity. The New York governor's office adjusts to its new, blind occupant--from the lack of a teleprompter to Paterson's Batphone. France dispatches smiling officials to mollify China post-Olympic parade disaster. With more arms on the way to Zimbabwe, notes on news about China's growing role in Africa. Australia is now bigger; Australia doesn't tolerate handheld laser pointers. Op: Congratulations, journalists, on your cooler-than-you attitudes about comic conventions. Obama wasn't condescending to working-class rural Pennsylvanians; he was pandering to wealthy urban San Franciscans. Video: Bill Clinton's message to Pennsylvania voters. Il Cavaliere--as Berlusconi is known--has never managed to shake off the stigma among his European counterparts of being a leader who is not to be taken seriously. A handy chart to keep up with your favorite politican's history of drug use. The show has resurrected the potential for scripted dramas to be effective social satire. How Gossip Girl is changing television, for everyone, forever. Hello Kitty will be "modeling" the entire Dior collection in next month's issue of Japanese Vogue. Because, Men's Vogue, why not: skulls projected on trees. Video: Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett.
