3 September 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 03 Sep 2009 South African politicians root for Semenya's dignity; too bad it's not the same case for rape victims. Status of secret classification: a complete mess, but Obama is trying to fix it. Ten common strategic blunders in business and in war; Japan's first lady believes she's been to Venus. An automatic music generator, played by the moon. Remember the story of the rapper who got her doctorate on Warner Music's bill? It never happened. Appreciation of Japan's aesthetics of restraint: "The only way to leave a smaller footprint would be to die." Op: Mailer was a dunce and a bastard, never mind a shoddy author. Roosevelt was a divider, not a uniter; by gleefully waging class war, he got things done. Obama's Dreams from My Father places second in Travelodge's "books left behind" index. Because Britons are not reared on chilli, they have a tendency to view it as "macho" food. Chillies invade Britain. Bertrand Russell becomes a comic-book superhero of philosophy (really). Arab organization to be tried for publishing a cartoon offensive to Jews. List of inventors killed by their own inventions. Investigative reporter in Chicago gets mugged and investigates the racial angles. Instapaper for the commute: Big Times magazine profile of Spike Jonze's career thus far, and the differences between plot and attitude.
