22 July 2009: Morning By The Morning News — 22 Jul 2009 Analysis of Holder's plans for interrogation investigation and how the White House will react. The government has a database for almost everything, including vending machine injuries. How [Obama] handles [health care] over the next several weeks could shape the rest of his presidency. Somalia's radical Islamists "melt" into and out of Kenya, beheading detractors and threatening first-world ways. Campus novels for the recently college-educated. Interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr. about being arrested, including his account of what happened. Highlights from diplomatic karaoke bouts during the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Among financial innovations, credit unions offer lottery to encourage patrons to save. Berlin in the 1920s boasted the forgotten precursors of Disneyland and Las Vegas. Brief history of German theme restaurants. Isaiah Berlin's letters reveal "the brilliant chatterer," also a treacherous and malicious one. Report from a trip to Israel, coping with actual and figurative religious baggage. Dispatch from a casting call for a new Bravo show, hyped to be the art world's Project Runway. Home-burial enthusiasts able to use coffin as bookshelf prior to death. Photos of abandoned space technology.
