9 March 2007: Evening

Which was longer in coming, the backlash against Ann Coulter, or against anti-gay hate in general?

The danger of rape by other soldiers is so widely recognized in Iraq that their officers routinely told them not to go to the latrines or showers without another woman for protection. Female soldiers face worse things than mortar fire in Iraq.

Though most professors lean left, they probably don't affect their students' votes.

Does paying students and teachers for passing AP exams cheapen the experience?

Hint for teachers looking to sell pilfered textbooks on eBay: don't use your home address on your account.

French unhappy with nonprofessional journalists (i.e., citizens) videotaping and broadcasting "acts of violence."

South Dakotans unprepared for French performance art.

German divorce settlements: precise measurements, equal distribution.

British tabloid has too much information about elephant semen collection.

Science disproves time travel, destroys dreams.

Most nobody but the sponsors think clubbing with babies is all that great an idea.

Everybody is not fat and there will be room enough for people who are not circus or museum folk. The history of New York's five-foot-wide "Spite House."

In today's Iditarod news, missing musher found at Ptarmigan Pass.

Slate writer Emily Yoffe needs some Facebook friends. Tell her The Morning News sent you.