5 September 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Despite Bush's pageants in Iraq, the surge is being weighed, and feeling light.
If Petraeus pulls off the surge, could he also become the next Veep?
Today's long read, with ambition: Al Qaeda in Iraq, how to understand it, how to defeat it.
Finding praise for Ted Stevens, the Senate's angriest, most authentic, possibly self-enriching jerk.
Where Facebook and the top-secret intelligence world share a border; prostitution targeted on Craigslist.
Story of a small Swiss town named Zug, possibly the most powerful tax haven in the world.
Video courses in basic economics.
Statistically, the most delayed flight in America flies from Newark to Chicago; anecdotally, the only way to avoid delays is to avoid flying.
Among truths, we can't go faster than light, and we'll never invent an unhackable copyright protection program.
Op: Amidst worshippers, saying that Kerouac was a mediocre writer does him the service of telling the truth.
American critics push their favorite underrated novels of the past 10 years; Brits do the same.
Lee: These people in Hollywood don't see James Brown as the universal figure that he is; they only see him as the subject for a black film.
Recreating Ferris Bueller's Day Off, complete with rare Ferrari.
Supergrass bass player sleepwalks out of hotel window, breaks back and heel.
Video: Regrets recounted, including bird-watching.
