6 August 2010: Weekend

  • Vatican continues to believe its abuse crisis is a question of housecleaning.
  • It amounts to our playbook for the past several years. Pentagon tells WikiLeaks to yank the logs.
  • In case you missed it, Chechnya's top terrorist, apparently no longer tired, has un-retired.
  • Quick, insightful profile of Rwanda's formidable if fearsome President Kagame.
  • Kenyans vote, thus it's time for Americans to consider, why do foreigners like Fanta so much?
  • Op: We Americans should recognize all our trillions belong to oil defense.
  • The Earth is a recycling scheme that has been running for a third of the age of the universe.
  • Britain has some of the world's best miniature villages; sadly, they're occasionally demolished.
  • We wrote about someone's youngest child being her first, which was obviously not the case. Editor corrects staff.
  • Critic responds to David Mamet's conversion to "a free-market understanding of the world."
  • Richard Price to begin writing detective novels under the pen name Jay Morris.
  • Long before feminism, 18th-century Indian literature portrayed sex workers positively.
  • First novel by TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin, You Lost Me There, scores a rave in Entertainment Weekly, profiled in the Chicago Tribune.
  • History, analysis, examples, and study of the "Bed Intruder" meme, including the star's reaction.
  • Slideshow: Japan's latest ultra-small houses start at 300 square feet.
  • It's never too soon to reread "The Making of Caddyshack."
  • List of the 50 highest-earning U.S. athletes; $28,847,406 separates no. 1 Tiger Woods from no. 2 Phil Mickelson.
  • Jil Sander's back, seeking fashion's equivalent to the iPhone.
  • Newly released British files include claims of clairvoyant dreams, UFO cover-ups.
  • Related: TMN staff and readers' favorite shadowy plots.