23 April 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 23 Apr 2009 Borrowing a Bushism, Clinton calls Pakistan an "existential threat"; Kerry says U.S. lacks "a real strategy." Gates says disclosure of interrogation memos was inevitable. Op: I interrogated Abu Zubaydah, I didn't torture, and I got good intel. Pros and cons considered while Obama anticipates meeting (or not) the Dalai Lama in October. Instapaper for the commute: Introducing choice blindness: a wedge between intentions and actions in the mind. Remnants of Madoff's empire attract auction bidders. TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on what you need to know to become a furniture designer. For trustworthiness, physiognomy works, but we don't know which features label someone as trustworthy. PhD Comics takes on cancer. Rise of the obituary renaissance, where storytelling trumps curt narratives and no one is ordinary. For McEwan, I suspect, a story is indeed a long fuse of heaped improbabilities. James Wood on Ian McEwan's manipulations. Alternate-reality marketing games enter American book publishing. Andy Rooney interviews Twitter founders.
