Video Digest: April 13, 2007
Videos compared to Patrick Swayze dancing: The worst CGI ever, Coldplay’s Chris Martin talking about the mental state of racism with Ricky Gervais, ultimate beer pong, Philip Graham in Lisbon, creepy “Heaven’s Gate.”
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Model Behavior
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we share some tips for a young reader who wants to take her strut for a walk down the runway.
13 April 2007: Morning
Yesterday's Iraqi Parliament bomber was likely a security guard, possibly connected to al Qaeda. "Nowhere is safe," says Paliament member. That said, pockets of stability are beginning to emerge in Baghdad. White House seems to have lost--or allowed to be deleted--several years of Karl
12 April 2007: Afternoon
In what is considered to be the most severe security breach of the Green Zone yet, a blast inside the Iraqi Parliament kills at least one BBC leads international day of action to free its kidnapped reporter who is reported "safe and well" in Palestine. Turkey hopes now
12 April 2007: Morning
Yesterday's bomb attacks in Algeria linked to Al Qaeda's escalating violence in North Africa. Math on the likelihood of a nuclear attack in the U.S. Global economics as model trains: The world will decouple if U.S. has a soft landing; it will not decouple
11 April 2007: Afternoon
Al Qaeda's involvement is suspected as two separate bomb attacks kill at least 17 in Algeria today. Philadelphia woman shot in head at vigil for shooting victim; murder rate higher in Philly this year than in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. All charges dropped in the Duke
11 April 2007: Morning
Militants and residents fight Iraqi Army and Americans in longest sustained battle since Baghdad's new security plan. Red Cross: Life is getting worse for all Iraqis; Oxford Research Group: The war in Iraq supports terrorism. Four-star generals spurn Bush's offer to become "war czar.
Catalog of Dreams
Our resident poet of the orange blossoms discovers the literary charms of gardening catalogs: reading for aesthetic pleasure, also for planning the future.
Our Quarterly Review
The book’s closed on the first three months of 2007, which makes now as good a time as any to take stock of the quarter that’s just ended. Here are our favorite tracks from the year thus far. Rosecrans Baldwin “Fake Empire” by the National The digital revolution
10 April 2007: Afternoon
Serbian court convicts four ex-policemen for their involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The International Criminal Tribunal continues prosecuting, keeping things quiet on Serbia's behalf. U.S. military blames Guantanamo hunger strike on media's presence at recent trial. U.K. panel advocates for a watered-