July 15, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Demonstrations intensify in Syria; in three months, more than 2,000 soldiers have deserted.
- Gradual fall of Libya and Syria's leaders shows Arab world's mood changing irrevocably.
- Ezra Klein on the Reid-McConnell debt deal, which the White House considers a last resort.
- Op: If you think America wants you to cut their government benefits by 40%—well, then it's not Washington that's out of touch with the rest of America.
- Births overtake immigration as "main driver" behind growth of Mexican-American population.
- Gordon Brown ignored.
- Prosecutors botch evidence, and judge orders mistrial for Clemens.
- Recent French Elle lists feminist types—“La Féminerd” (“She signs all the petitions on the Internet”)—in issue with nude cover.
- Pocket notebooks: part of a long, important, "manly" American tradition.
- History of the humble pizza box.
- Jonathan Brown on the golf ball's design history: dimple, impact, and records.
- Lucid, light history of metaphor.
- Paul Muldoon's Bennington verse commencement.
- New York artist will visit you by appointment to read you to sleep.
- Spin journalist recounts interview with Q-Tip that later caused uproar inside A Tribe Called Quest.
- Found photos of rock's innocence, when musicians passed through a Cleveland radio station.
- See also: Contest to win signed copy of photos' book, 1950s Radio in Color, by Chris Kennedy.
