November 4, 2011: Morning
- Eleventh Tibetan since March self-immolates to protest Chinese rule: Qiu Xiang/Palden Choetso, 35.
- Month-old baby with university degree receives salary from Nigerian government.
- Summary of this week's collapse of the Euro's “comprehensive package."
- Marine Le Pen, dogged by French reporters, has an awkward day of being snubbed by D.C. politicians.
- List of items cited in the last few months as the greatest threat to America's national security.
- Media reaction to Conan's plan to "push the envelope" by hosting the first same-sex wedding on TV.
- Pictures of a day on a flying yacht.
- Photographs from the J.J. Sullivan book tour include Eudora Welty’s birdbath.
- Deeper into our Pulphead love: Sullivan and his GQ editors discuss his stories' origins.
- Lolita covers compared, analyzed by Peter Mendelsund.
- First prelude from Bach's Cello Suites visualized by Alexander Chen, with all the notes as strings.
- Katie Roiphe sees a fight.
- Photographs of women struggling to drink water.
- Boxing association tries to mandate skirts for women so they can be distinguished from men.
- Momentum building to dismantle the NCAA's amateurism sham.