28 October 2008: Morning
By The Morning News
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When we awake Nov. 5, no failure of administration should have tarnished our outsize pride in our democracy. Election workers must rely on backup strategies, not litigation.
As Election Day approacheth, the press prepares boilerplate responses, trying to avoid Messiah, winds of change cliches.
In Indiana, call center workers protest McCain scripts, walk off job.
Envy and arrogance are the two opposite sides of the same black crystal. Teddy Roosevelt ponders the bailout, the campaign.
Obama's chief strategist, confidant explains how to win the white vote, why believing in the candidate matters most.
Today's long read: In the war on urban poverty cities are not victims, zoos won't help, another round of federal investment isn't the answer.
How both candidates have assumed the role of president while campaigning, to appear more presidential, surely.
Op: Important writers set themselves the task...of promoting Palin and, in the process, making perfect asses of themselves. They succeeded at both.
Scott Horton: Sarah Palin doesn't need to fear "a socialist state in which American freedoms are undermined"--it's already here.
"I'm not defending this; I'm not criticizing it." West Hollywood house hangs Palin effigy on a noose; police say it's not a hate crime, it's Halloween.
Do you understand The New Yorker's cartoons? Take the test and see.
The seven types of pet costumes; TMN's Geoff Badner and Todd Levin cover the Fort Greene dog costume parade.
Video: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne shows off his double-neck "Guitar Hero" guitar.
