27 September 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 27 Sep 2010 Rwanda thanked for leaving troops in Darfur despite its fury over report accusing Rwandan troops of genocide. More private contractors than soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010; many were local civilians. Op: Tea partiers who venerate the Constitution are infantile, and they worship an ahistorical version. Gladwell: Social networking ties are too weak to foment revolution. For many Pakistanis, it was a reaffirmation: their country made kickass music. Pakistan TV popularizes folk music. Brief notes on Psychology Today's games division, creator of "Blacks & Whites" and "Woman & Man." Terrific short essays by four British writers given an hour with a question. Wall Street Journal editor discusses launch of new books section. History of the debate over the evolutionary puzzle of altruism and human kindness. Op: Attending the Met opera is no more costly than seeing the Rolling Stones, no less silly, and possibly more stunning. See also: Defense of dead white men. Interview with John Lennon, now pushing 70, "remains enviably slim and has a deep late-summer tan." Molly Young's backstage reporting during a Brooklyn Sleigh Bells show. How to have your remains pressed into a customized vinyl record. From the TMN Galleries: Interview with Jack Burman, photographer of the dead. Primer on Tolstoyism, philosophy that had European intellectuals and Christian flocking to the Russian novelist.
