26 January 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Hertzberg: Rather than choosing a hard or soft power narrative, Clinton will renew liberal internationalist "smart power."
Hamas offers yearlong ceasefire should siege of Gaza end, borders open.
Today's long read: In Egypt, Facebook is helping foster the rehearsal for revolution where freedom of speech, assembly cannot.
To combat hard economic times, Russian state alcohol agency proposes a tax cut on vodka.
Today is the last day you can vote in the 2009 Tournament of Books Zombie Poll.
Globish: English unintelligible to the English, which only angers the French more.
Billy's from my 'hood, mid-Long Island--Hicksville, to be precise (I'm from Bay Shore)--so I'm sensitive to his abuse of our common roots. Ron Rosenbaum explains the awfulness of Billy Joel.
The winter 2006 tour journal of the Piano Men, North America's only five-member Billy Joel tribute band, by Todd Levin.
Ecologist uses 18th-century British military maps to recreate the Manhattan island Hudson found.
Kate Moss wants to buy the farmhouse from Withnail And I.
In her web series, Smart Girls at the Party, Amy Poehler interviews awesome girls.
Video: Clip from adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.
Photos of old-school New York shoe shops.
