Headlines from December 14, 2007

Clinton campaign apologizes about drug-use comments, though manages to leak "cocaine use" into apology announcement.
Leaked proposal says EU will offer Serbia a fast-track acceptance once Kosovo goes independent.
A small example of why Europe and Britain are united in viewing Brown as Eliot's cat--i.e., never seeing him when trouble hits.
"Vulture investors," decried by regulators, become unlikely ally for progress against corruption in Congo.
Embedding charity donations into retail purchases may sound good--except it's unregulated, not accounted for, and potentially a scam.
Videos: The worst holiday movies; the best "we destroyed New York" moments.
In today's feature, the values of enslaving children and spreading malaria are upheld.
In yesterday's People We Like, learn how to get all freaky with an umlaut in your name.
Op: Perhaps these batters are just freaks of nature who, coincidentally, started getting freakish when the 'roids market took off.
German learns that if you can't take your vodka past airport security, your stomach is not a safe place to store it.
Proprietor of Tennessee's Body Farm on maggots, expansion, and exhuming Harry Houdini.
Exhume your imagination: Poet Geoffrey Hill, your Friday inspiration.
The pornography of regret in a Lands' End catalog.
Mitchell report names names to portray "baseball's steroid era," and the players call foul; names, bios, and reactions.
British report on bungled attacks in London and Glasgow link the bombers with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
Notes on the rich history of bans on artists by the BBC.
Tina is aware that Ike passed away earlier today. Tina Turner's brief response to Ike's death.
Italians exclude joy for winter, declaring themselves the least happy in Western Europe.
Death of the black turtleneck: Paris writers exclude real life from writing, felling oaks that "make barely a sound in the wider world."