22 January 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 22 Jan 2008 Snap: The Atlantic drops its firewalls and frees its articles. And thus: James Fallows on China's subsidizing your lifestyle; Jeffrey Goldberg on the new Middle East. Examining conflicts in Kenya in light of the (Martin Luther) King model. Print for the commute: Blame it on the media, or blame it on the voters, but American politics requires something more than purpose. Fred Thompson drops out of the race; eight questions for Hillary Clinton. How to start a question: "I'm a 42-year-old gay man with a superhero fetish. Like a lot of fetishists my age..." Young Catholics breathe new life into pro-life; Pope's noontime blessing draws record crowds after secularists cancel his speech. Musharraf goes abroad to prove he's got a handle on things at home; ultra-orthodox residents in Jerusalem come out against ultra-orthodox violence. Saudi women now able to stay in a hotel alone, though the police will still be notified. Tajikistan cracks down on lavish weddings, declaring "no more than two hot dishes served at the reception." Legless skier/artist uses his X Games winnings to travel the world and photograph reactions to him (see photos here). Reactions mixed to Elisha Cooper's strategy for defending his daughters against seven-year-old boys. Our reaction, says this editor, is pure love for Hercules and Love Affair. Linguists, we imagine, love to be imagined as Indiana Jones types.
