8 November 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 08 Nov 2010 Chilean miner sings Elvis, finishes New York Marathon in 5 hours, 40 minutes. Portraits of 99 runners after they crossed yesterday's finish line. From 2004, Rion Nakaya's post-race portraits of New York marathoners. New York Public Library digs up snapshots from the 1979 Marathon. Literary giants like Cynthia Ozick are regularly judged and denigrated by critical pygmies (like myself). Birnbaum reviews Ozick's latest. "Sometimes some things are just unacceptable." Adventures in product recalls. Canton, Ohio, residents gather to honor a man who anonymously helped them weather the Great Depression. [They feel] it is possible for them to be patriots again in the nation that once tried to wipe them out. Germany's young Jews are joining the military. From underneath Manhattan, archaeologists dig up a ship that "built New York." As laborers abandon cocoa farms, chocolate may become the expensive luxury of the future. How to write a good diplomatic speech. In heavily censored Singapore, drag queen Kumar is one of few who can speak the truth. Senegal experiences annual exodus of young to Spain, where they hope to make enough to send back home.
