26 March 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 26 Mar 2009 Iran accepts U.S. invitation to Afghanistan meeting. E.U. president, recently ousted by his own parliament, calls Obama's recession remedies "the road to hell." Without assistance and/or a five-day week, the Postal Service says it's going out of business. Obamas reported popping up all around D.C. Where to find beer for a buck (or a quarter) in New York. Lego is now so popular that there are 62 little coloured blocks for every person on the planet. The world's "cheapest car of modern times" has gone on sale, but its maker is beleaguered by more expensive holdings. Ford in talks to sell Volvo; Sweden reports it's mainly China doing the bidding. Who to blame in Albany for the MTA's new fare hike. IBM to cut 5,000 U.S. jobs while building up forces overseas. Op: IBM may want 30 billion stimulus bucks from the U.S., but the "I" stands for "India." Blast from the past: Neal Stephenson's epic 1996 "Mother Earth Mother Board." Your daily morals-and-biology puzzle: "My long-lost daughter is a terror, and I want nothing to do with her." Descriptions of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes from the DirecTV guide. From 1962, Mary McCarthy writes about Nabokov's Pale Fire.