February 28, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Beppe Grillo, whose movement now holds the balance of power in Italy's parliament, rules out a coalition with the center-left.
- Only half of Americans believe the U.S. is the no. 1 military power in the world.
- South African paper The Daily Sun publishes amateur footage of police officers dragging a man behind their van.
- If Nigeria's Boko Haram is holding seven French tourists hostage, then it shows a local group becoming a more international jihadist outfit.
- Newspaper baron Conrad Black on America's prison system, which he now knows from the inside-out.
- Great Texan pianist Van Cliburn, whose career was short but sparkled, dies at 78.
- In case you missed it: The Morning News Tournament of Books, presented by NOOK® by Barnes & Noble, begins Monday.
- Now available: Clinical psychologist who acts as a mediator when parents don't know how to negotiate with their nannies.
- National survey finds children who eat school breakfast score an average of 17.5% higher on math tests.
- As dozens of U.S. corporations back gay marriage, how much longer can the NFL ask future employees if they like girls?
- Portrait of Bob “Rosebud” Butt, credited with inventing the Long Island Iced Tea.
- Oxford defeats Cambridge in 60th contest where participants identify 12 unmarked wines by grape, country of origin, region, subregion, vintage, and taste.
- In praise of concision and the world's shortest, most effective poems.
- In articles without datelines designating the writer’s location, be especially careful about your comings and goings, bringings and takings and heres and theres.
