Headlines from October 27, 2006

Violence against women in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan increases.
Wall Street workers hard-working, hard-drinking, therapy-adverse "Ice Men." Not to put on any labels.
Emilio Estevez totally, like, crushes on Tony Blair.
South Park perhaps "too soon" to mock Steve Irwin.
It could be a long weekend: Annoted Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes.
You're heard of sleepwalking, but what about sleep, ahem, lovemaking?
The most popular brothel in Pompeii has been restored, though not for business.
French regional farmers turn to creative products (chocolate foie gras, anyone?) to seduce customers' bored palates.
Study finds college eventually pays for itself, or about $23,000 a year.
Collection of emails chronicles the Enron debacle, shows what happened when the smartest guys in the room got sloppy.
Gary Shteyngart explains the mystical qualities of vodka, calls for New York writers to drink more.
The YouTube phenomenon is creating a new form of cinema, un-housetrained by conventions of narrative interest or good taste.
Discussion-prompting developments in Michelin's 2007 guide to New York restaurants.
Cynicism-prompting swapping of hugs in Washington Square Park.
Another reason to get your kids involved in boar hunting: they'll improve the world.
Birnbaum talks to Michael Lewis about the emotional platform of his new book, The Blind Side. (Read his previous chat with Lewis on TMN.)
We've linked it before, and we'll link it again: David Lynch is your weatherman.
This month was the deadliest for soldiers in Iraq, with 92 killed in hostile action.
If you are a critic of the war, Rumsfeld would prefer that you "back off, take a look at it, relax."
Also, Google would prefer that you no longer use "Google" to mean "search the web."
Cheney believes using waterboarding on prisoners is a "no-brainer."
Final-week attack ads are stranger this year, playing up empty souls and corrupt groins.
Attention Katrina victims: The IRS doesn't want your back taxes until after the elections.
Politicians regularly enjoy surf, turf served overseas by companies seeking contracts in the U.S.
Wind-whipped arson fire burns 24,000 acres, kills four firefighters west of Palm Springs.
Exxon Mobil posts $10.5 billion profit.
Client's perspective after an architect is hired to extend the family's brand.
Hunt for all the stuffed polar bears in England yields an interactive map.
Many Bills posted where they shouldn't be.
Some Minneapolis cabbies now practice "service refusal" when a customer is carrying alcohol.
Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, animated.
Sarah Hepola in today's Digest on the best of the week's web videos.
Scary stories--Sleepy Hollow, Dracula, Hawthorne's Black Veil--just in time for Halloween.
Debate rages as more players realize early-October's record-shattering Scrabble game was based on mistakes and flukes.
Self-portraits show slide into dementia over nearly 40 years.
Report from both sides of the (terrifying) Arizona border.
Writer grades rejection notice from the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Wedding in which even the flowers and sandwiches were knitted.
Video: A young Alec Guinness (not really) sends Stanley Kubrick an audition tape.