25 March 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 25 Mar 2008 Bulletpoints from the future in international relations, as drafted by Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Annotated page from Graham Rawle's new novel that "consists entirely of phrases clipped from sixties women's magazines, in collage form." Why don't publishers catch fake memoirs? Because it's not their job. Pakistan may now have "a chance at genuine democracy instead of the rotten-to-the-core one that Musharraf replaced." Print for the commute: the Obama Doctrine. The new beauty sales pitch: You don't need our product, you're great as is. Colorado town experiences salmonella outbreak due to bad water supply. Disaster in the bat world when no one knows why they're dying. It will always suck to work for large organizations, and the larger the organization, the more it will suck. The eight least impressive Guinness World Records. Fashion designers get copyrights to protect their clothes, and then start suing. Reading is an act of improvisation--when you read, you're actually using parts of the brain that were designed to do other things. In today's feature, Pasha Malla and Nicole Pasulka debate racism and Y-fronts in reporting on traveling through India. In the new People We Like, Heesun Lee explains what Christian Rap means to her. Gary Shteyngart upsets the National Book Award with his judgment in today's Rooster match.
