5 January 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 05 Jan 2011 Share 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.