* Occupy Wall Street march in Rome hijacked by rioters; bomb injures 100. * Life of Generation G-Chat. * Jessa Crispin on the sauicier side of capitalism: the desire and passion that drives hoarding. * Hotel employee brings in brass band to help him quit his job. * Charts demonstrate what Occupy Wall Street
* Leaked Saudi demands for U.S. to attack Iran may have led to recent plot. * U.S. rushing contractors to Libya to secure anti-aircraft missiles. * U.S. troops deployed in central Africa to hunt down Lord's Resistance Army leaders. * How bankers see OWS. * Six years and $49
* Press secretary reveals Putin's PR escapades are mostly his own doing. * Romney's foreign policy ideas may not set the world on fire—good!—but he seems in denial about spending. * Arab world's reliance on exploiting natural resources has prevented private industry from developing. * One
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* Cleanup called off in Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park. * Of Iran-Mexico's plot to invade the States: the main lesson is that Tehran's man in Corpus Christi was gullible. * Policy at the EU. * French prosecutors drop attempted-rape case against Strauss-Kahn. * DSK accuser
* NYPD officers available to Wall Street firms for $37/hour— indemnified by the taxpayer. * Likely source of virus affecting software in military drones: Mafia Wars. * Spanish politician sues FBI over its use of his likeness to make bin Laden mock-up. * "GM Backpedals on Anti-Cycling Ad." * Extensive
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* Iranian dissidents, analysts hard-pressed to see Ahmadinejad plotting the assassination attempt. * Potential Gadhafi hiding places. * Hersh on the lawyer who helped him break his My Lai story. * Myanmar to free 6,300 prisoners. * Helen Mirren on silly interviews: "hard labor in the mines of marketing." * Notoriously sexist
* "Largest recorded animal liberation ever in the U.S" ruins environmentally minded San Francisco high schoolers' big day. * Complaint choirs a global phenomenon, frequently voicing the same complaints. * California bans shark fin soup. * Rules for actors from the Economist. * Bit character from Austin Powers, already in jail
* Remember Gilad Shalit? Israel approves swap of 450 Palestinian prisoners for the IDF soldier. * Hermain Cain's foreign-policy positions itemized--mostly, he doesn't know, but he'll decide later very quickly. * To be frank: Herman Cain is alive because he's rich. * Obama campaign
