5 January 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 05 Jan 2011 Mexico's La Familia publishes public letter offering to suspend January activities to prove authorities are behind violence. What undermines student writing today isn't slang, it's unchecked prose. Ever-shortening print quotes and sound bites indicate smart journalism. A writer tells how she won a coat from Edward Gorey's fur collection at an auction. Elephant-lassoing Thai masters try to get the animals out of the city and back to the wild. Rice cakes: one of Japan's silent annual killers. I haven't been to Al di la, because you have to wait on line, and I'm not going to Brooklyn to wait on line. Never said about restaurant websites; women laughing alone with salad. Why Republicans will finally back stem cell research: It's the cause of male pattern baldness. Op: Separating home and work complicates policy-making in Washington, is bad for us all. Like all love songs, and all loves, it's down to delivery, not originality. Why The-Dream's "Yamaha" is the best song of 2010. Related: The top 10 albums of 2010, where The-Dream placed no. 8.