24 March 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 24 Mar 2011 Possible stalemate: Gadhafi controls Tripoli and western Libya; rebels hold east under outside protection. Kuwait and Jordan offer logistic help to Libya intervention. There will be no different yardsticks. Departing Arab League head answers questions about hypocrisy. Portugal's prime minister quits after austerity measures are again rejected; bailout appears likely. Ivory Coast's rightful president unlikely to receive requested U.N. or West African government intervention. Design features of Obama's top secret tent, where he goes to call friends without being overheard. Photos from Haiti, Mexico City, Japan of people waiting in line this past week. Chart: Where arms go when they're exported. Popular Mechanics goes inside JFK's "ace in a hole," a Montana nuclear missile control capsule. Real headline: "Steven Seagal, Sheriff Raid Valley Home In Tank." Who can cross a busy road better, a varsity wrestler or a psychology major? The wrestler--for thinking faster. Roberto Bolaño remembers the books he stole. The Wire reviewed--excellently--as a 19th-century novel that influenced Dickens. Niemann on his nuclear-flower New Yorker cover's inspiration: "I thought it was a scarily quiet disaster." Stories of Burton and Taylor's long-running love disaster, drawn from Taylor's letters. Times Taylor obit prepared for so long, its principal author died in 2005.
