June 20, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Diplomats scurry to mollify Karzai over U.S.-Taliban talks after the Taliban portrayed itself as a government in exile.
- Report gives Russia lowest grade for failing to address human trafficking; government doesn't even investigate reported abuses.
- Police stop 35,000 protesters from entering a stadium in Brazil, but fans inside pass along the message.
- Graphs show Brazilians have seen the cost of many parts of urban life rise at rates that surpass inflation.
- Doctors protest force-feeding at Guantanamo, saying detainees have "very good reason" not to trust the doctors looking after them.
- Sopranos star James Gandolfini dies at 51 on vacation in Rome, possibly from a heart attack.
- There is no underestimating his devotion to the part of a lifetime that was given to him.
- Full episode footage from when Gandolfini appeared on Inside the Actor's Studio in 2004.
- The TV show $h*! My Dad Says was extremely bad, and Hollywood showed brilliance in canceling it fast.
- Utopia began as an urban construct, in a streamlined apartment building, and now it's being sold as "micro-living."
- "We Will Use Your Phone as a Coaster Since You Don't Have any Manners."
- Fascinating Freakonomics podcast episode on tipping includes secret waiter practices, ethnic studies, and why tipping is probably illegal on racial grounds.
- At this very moment, Andrew WK is trying to break the world record for nonstop drumming.
- Tennis, baseball, and golf suffer from giving players too much time to pretentiously prepare before doing simple things.
