March 20, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- More than a dozen car bombs and suicide blasts kill nearly 60 around Iraq on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
- Five takes on whether America is better off now than it was when Saddam Hussein was in power.
- Reed rejects Feinstein's assault-weapons ban after she was unable to line up support from "rural-state" Democrats.
- Switzerland, another country with a strong heritage of firearms, grapples with gun control legislation, too.
- Russia's deputy prime minister asks Steven Seagal to help sell more Russian rifles in the U.S.
- On his first trip to Israel as president, Obama will travel by helicopter, skipping over Israeli bulldozers, security barriers, and military deployments.
- In India, tourist jumps out a third-floor window to avoid sexual assault from the hotel's owner.
- India has just four percent of the world’s fresh water shared among 16 percent of its people.
- Zimbabwe peacefully votes on a new constitution, which includes limited presidential office terms and freedom of expression.
- BlackBerry Babes, a West African Sex and the City, shows the smart phone's high status in Nigeria.
- In case you missed it (from 2012): Part one in Janet Malcolm's investigation into a horrifying foster-car experience: "What Happened to Michelle in Forest Hills?"
- A People’s History of the United States has long been a publishing sensation; it is also a pretty lousy piece of work.
- "The History of Rap: Part 4" performed by Jimmy Fallon, the Roots, and Justin Timberlake.
- Lev Grossman, Elliott Holt, and Rosecrans Baldwin on the state of book criticism, awards, and publishing.
- Reporter randomly calls around small-town America to find out what's happening outside of the news cycle.
