Headlines from February 9, 2009

Timeline of dirty secrets and scuttlebutt behind the Merrill/Bank of America marriage.
Short answer to the big question: How did this economic crisis really come about?
Op: Save the economy by not humiliating your local investment banker in public.
Defining the Arbesman Limit: "the maximum number of concepts or ideas that can be named after a single person."
Starbucks works on tiny tricks to present a humbler face.
How half a million dollars gets spent (rather quickly) on the Upper East Side.
Instapaper for the commute: How the Super Bowl ends up on TV.
Fascinating in both business and creative terms: how Coraline was marketed off- and online.
Canada's Captain Sullenberger: Svein Tuft, top cyclist with an incredible story of mountains, miles, and bivouacs behind him.
TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on the very best Sherlock of all: Jeremy Brett.
Why Nadal will be the greatest ever tennis player, and why top players fail at 28.
Op: The Reader is the Worst Holocaust Film Ever Made.
Vatican removes Holocaust-denying Bishop.
Jewish conspiracy theories find appeal in China and Japan despite scarcity of Jews.
Videos we're then reminded of: Starfish Hitler; every swear in The Sopranos.
Obama pauses Afghan surge, concerned for lack of endgame, eager to avoid a quagmire.
U.S. aids Ugandan troops fighting terrorism, fails to appreciate volatility of Congolese border, swats the hornet's nest.
A posh time was had by all, and they remained in the pink. Postcards from grandparents' trip to Japan in the late 1920s.
A look back at the 1966 GE College Bowl, when Agnes Scott defeated Princeton, and where the contestants are today.
Things have been going downhill in America since the very beginning. Don't believe those who say America's best days are behind it.
Photos: Dogs waiting for their humans.
And what does John Lennon have to do with all of this? Surprisingly, nobody's built any animatronic Beatles yet. Lennon and the Uncanny Valley.
In the grand scheme of things, the way our brains are wired hasn't changed much over the past few centuries--we're running new software on old hardware.
Op: Technology is eroding our capacity to be alone; we are afraid of being left behind.
Dreamed that President Obama, Jamie Oliver & I saved the economy. Gathered from Twitter, dreams involving Barack Obama.
Gallery: Great achievements in American socialism.
"This is the happiest day of my life," lies man holding baby.