5 January 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Israel's rigorously planned diplomatic offensive focuses on the 20 Israelis killed in eight years, not the 1,700 Palestinians killed in three.
Op: Tribal blindness makes proportionality, civilian deaths irrelevant in Israel: It's actors, not actions that matter.
"I just tried to dress well and show up and hope they'd think I was smart." How to become a senator.
Safire tracks the media's bleeping, necessitated by the profanity-prone Blagojevich.
Take-home heated Sister Parish seat cushion; conviviality waiver; no alcoholic-beverage cutoff. We look forward to your check.
Libraries provide recession sanctuary, community hub, rhetorical anchor for Obama.
Kristof: Sex trafficking is slavery; the Obama administration could lead a 21st-century abolitionist movement.
Chavez's supporters will bear the burden of oil revenue loss--just ask the children of a similar downturn-revolution in the late '80s.
Mick Foley, three-time WWE champion, on The Wrestler.
Pre-Short Cuts, a student films a Carver story: part one, part two.
Call it a New York friendship: mercantile devotion disguised as bonhomie. New fiction from TMN's Jessica Francis Kane.
Rove says he trounced Bush in their annual reading battle--Rich calls foul.
Dorothy Gambrell charts her 10 closest friends by location, status over time.
Thousands of mp3s on your hard drive can't compete with an entire room jammed floor to ceiling with wax. Love and loss for a record obsessive whose vinyl goes AWOL.
