4 April 2007: Morning

Is Bush more isolated from his party than any recent president? Has he lost his gut-level bond with America? No, he says.

Is a botched bid to kidnap Iranian officials to blame for the captured Britons?

Boomers and losers in world population.

With election year fast approaching, coastal reporters will soon "rediscover" the Midwest, and miss out on how a quarter of the country lives.

Op: In terms of terrorism, is Montreal New York's sword of Damocles?

There has been no public outcry concerning the curious case of the severed head, and no one knows to whom it really belonged.

David Sedaris's police, parts one, and two, love to make hay--but hey, it fills columns.

Probably unreliable rumors about U.S. plans for Iran; Russian press review.

Upcoming arms-control talk: "Wassenaar Arrangement: Unsexiest of International Regimes."

Fine wine is a warrant on wealth creation, or, how Parker's scores have become credit ratings.

Fingerprint evidence may be infallible, but not the experts who study it.

Maira Kalman's final "Principle of Uncertainty," and for those who don't have Times Select, they'll soon be collected in book form.

How to deconstruct anything, or, a computer professional meets postmodern literary criticism.

The internet began as 12 million index cards.

Video: Because some days deserve an internet rewind; i.e., the whistles go wooo.