24 September 2010: Weekend By The Morning News — 24 Sep 2010 Big Beer in California opposes marijuana legalization while microbrews and prison guards remain neutral. Dangerous succession gets under way in North Korea. Probably. Swiss politics nearly impossible to explain to outsiders--an attempt at translation. British football fans try to evict Liverpool FC's American owner by scaring away banks who might help him. Plain English translation provided for the Federal Reserve's current economic views. Actors debate how to give new meaning to "To be or not to be." Scariest device seen this morning: Communication prosthesis. "Exotic effects" of "time dilation" can be seen in living rooms equipped with atomic clocks (primer on relativity). See TMN's Kevin Guilfoile in the commentator booth in today's match of Layer Tennis. Remembrance of "nude psychotherapy," hoping to inspire "feeling of being all part of one human mass." I was the worst criminal. Profile of The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin. Chronicle of the long fight between city and countryside. Photographs: Profiles captured in Oslo Airport. Audio guide to Alex Ross's new book, Listen to This. Related: 2004 TMN talk with Ross on the state of classical music. Improviser Robert Levin discusses how he reconstructs Mozart's unfinished works.
