24 September 2008: Morning
By The Morning News
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Palin meets Karzi, Urbe, Kissinger--her staff allows photo ops, but no questions.
Lawrence Lessig compares Palin's experience to every other U.S. vice president.
"Obama only has two "must-win" states while McCain has half a dozen." An interview with poll expert Nate Silver on Obama's chances, battleground states.
Electoral college votes are close--a tie in November could lead to an unexpected acting president in January.
The Economist's Global Electoral College lets the world decide who the next president will be.
Aid is critical... ask Germany, ask Ireland. See it as a leg-up, not a hand-out. Bono blogs about the U.N. assembly, celebrity sightings, bureaucracy for The Financial Times.
Video: Erik Bryan captures My Bloody Valentine's earth-shaking musical finale, "You Made Me Realise."
Babar the Elephant: It's not about colonialism, it's about the travails of bourgeois life!
On Cartier-Bresson's "grab" shots: street photography as thievery.
PETA asks Ben and Jerry's to start using human milk.
Video: "The Renewed Mind Is the Key."
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"--a proverb's history.
On those days I'll type your name and my name right after it, because it's nice to see us next to each other like that. Anonymous notes to ex-lovers.