28 September 2007: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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I've never understood the appeal of "soft partition" to anyone other than dedicated pro-Kurdish activists.
Maliki calls Biden's separation proposal a "catastrophe."
Further frightening news about Biden's bru-ha-ha, though both leftie pols and hawk-y politik-ers are happy to toe up.
Op: Backed into a corner, Hamas will eventually snap. The question is, how?
Freddie Mac chief executive bleats out a 40-45 percent risk of recession for the U.S. economy.
Roy Blount Jr.: Let's bring back yodeling, considering its majestic history.
TMN's Kevin Guilfoile offers advice for bands struggling to find reliable drummers.
How to translate the Book of Psalms, by Robert Alter, and how to review it, by James Wood.
Excerpt from the beautiful graphic novel, The Arrival.
The 10 most common titles of short stories submitted to the Virginia Quarterly Review.
A dash of genocide: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary kills off 16,000 hyphens.
Tall people should dash or swim, short people should bike, and the rest of us should study our bodies to figure out which sports we'll excel at.
The best way to reduce the booming number of small jets may be congestion pricing.
New York brothel used current fervor for ping pong to draw college customers.
In today's video Digest (i.e., your Friday distraction), Llew Hinkes reviews the best of supergroup tributes and anti-drug messages.
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