March 20, 2015
By The Morning News
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- With an eye toward legacy, Obama emerges as a leading architect of an emerging global climate treaty.
- Survey of Federal Reserve transcripts shows officials laughed most just before 2008's crash, and Greenspan landed the most jokes.
- Chicago police commander resigns following "black site" revelations and civil rights lawsuit.
- Cleveland man to receive $1 million restitution after being wrongfully imprisoned for 39 years.
- In 1979 black male high-school dropouts had a 15% chance of going to prison by age 35; today it's 70%.
- The Voting Rights Act requires fixed attention now that its value has become a partisan issue.
- University of North Carolina, nation's oldest public university, now run by Republicans intent on embracing Ayn Rand.
- See also: Scientists discover nine-foot-tall beast with "bladelike teeth" that stalked North Carolina prior to dinosaurs.
- For a black girl fighting to get an education in the South, fraternities were an early introduction to privilege.
- Photos of Bihar parents scaling walls to help students cheat go viral in India, where reaction is split between shock and pride.
- Georgia State's coach falls off his chair after his son hits the game-winning three-pointer to upset Baylor.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, All the Light We Cannot See faces The Paying Guests.
- As good and great restaurants worldwide embrace best practices, travelers get less of what they truly desire.
- Professional travel writer explains the woes of professional travel writers.
- Start-up recycles unused medications, trying to reduce billions lost from destroyed prescriptions.
- Wonderful essay on 11 reasons why computers can’t understand or solve our problems without our judgement.
- Based on DNA evidence, Nietzsche had a "flat, smooth" voice with a "honeyed tone."
- In a perfect world, Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 18 wouldn't still seem so revolutionary.
- "Catfishing"—con artistry using a fake identity—has a long history, from the Bible to "Lonely Hearts Killers."
