Headlines from April 19, 2011

Banks ordered to freeze international assets face Arabic spelling challenges.
Turned down for 826, Austin lures teachers from its local music and film scene to start a creative tutoring center.
A new business finds there's money to be made introducing unconnected parents to private school administrators.
Cuba's Communist Party agrees to allow private property for the first time since the revolution.
The Long Island mansion that may have inspired Gatsby will be razed to make room for five new homes.
For decades, the thread running through Picasso's personal and artistic life was mistress Marie-Therese Walter, 28 years his junior.
Elizabeth Abbott on why today's liberal climate means we should be open to the ancient institution of polygamy.
Mango jelly bean bearing a vague resemblance of Kate Middleton selling for only £500.
Op: Today's most powerful viruses are the memes that change the face of our civilization.
Info pirates hope their new religion, based on file sharing, will be officially recognized.
Scientists trace the smallest discrepancies in language to build a linguistic family tree that debunks some of Chomsky's theories.
How police officers face the worst part of their jobs: breaking bad news.
Summary of Nigerian politics: a federal system of fiefdoms ruled by godfatherism.
Protests in Nigeria, Uganda, and Burkina Faso don't symbolize a broader African movement.
Cousins of Roomba deployed to Fukushima reactor building.
See also: Video shot by an unmanned helicopter of the destruction of Fukushima's buildings.
Hitchens to Kate Middleton: If you really love him, honey, get him out of there, and yourself, too.
People regularly say "it fits in a handkerchief." Francisco Goldman's short paean to Mexico City's surrealism.
Our Tournament of Books is currently batting 3-for-5 as a Pulitzer predictor.
2011 Pulitzer winners available for long reads on your cellphone/tablet/computer/thingie.
See also: 2011 Pulitzer-winning poet Kay Ryan's "Sharks' Teeth."
Verizon man gets his life back, but can no longer wear Buddy Holly glasses in public.
What to do when you can do anything you want, as in the case of Jeff Bridges.
Human capital is the bedrock of local and national success. The message of the Sun Belt is more complicated.
Star Wars producer on why the film worked: People wanted to actually live in the environment created onscreen.
Video: Moments in symmetry; Yo-Yo Ma plays while Lil Buck jooks.