6 December 2006: Morning By The Morning News — 06 Dec 2006 Maliki would like a regional conference on stabilizing his country, insists Iraq is stable enough to host it. Kasparov: Iraq's endgame needs to be changed immediately. Beloved by senators, Gates agrees with the chess champ, and so does the Iraq Study Group. The sturm and drang of the sliding dollar: bad for the short term but good for the long. The Economist forecasts the world in 2007, and it's all about Bush, mafias, and the web as serial killer. It's true: TMN's staff holiday party last year destroyed a midtown restaurant. I used to live down there. Flying the Delta shuttle with President Carter. Thomas Pynchon comes out of hiding to defend Ian McEwan on charges of plagiarism. Fascinating global survey of world's teens (see graphs, PDF). Survey of Santas finds half of them believe children are lying when they say they've been good. Op: Psychics should die alone in windowless cells. Worldwide spam volumes doubled since last year. Philip Morris would prefer that you talk to your cooler children about cigarettes.
