{image-1} Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, we would rather not have known that Assad is sending YouTube videos to his wife’s iPad that mock the attack on Homs.
* Iran's guns meet Zimbabwe's uranium—matchmaking in the crushing-sanctions world. * Depardieu to play Strauss-Kahn. * "Dawn of design" found in India, though skilled young people prefer to be artists "for money and glory." * Sixty-five percent of Indian households still use
* Taliban suspends talks with the U.S.; Karzai calls for troops to leave now. * Over five years, Gail Collins has mentioned Romney's dog-on-roof goof in at least 50 New York Times columns. * Conservative analysis of Democrats' Maine problem. * Despite "transparency week," the White
Today marks the 75th anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft's death. From Stephen King's It to “The Call of Cthulhu,” a survey of the 20th century's greatest horror writer's afterlife of influence.
* Guardian reads cache of Assad's emails, finds him mocking reforms, exchanging YouTube videos with his wife. * Nobel winner Shirin Ebadi urges Arab Spring reformers to learn from women's suffering after Iran's revolution. * Three months shy of its 10th birthday, the Hague's International
For some Americans, the French way of life is best. Other people simply prefer "freedom fries." A two-week journey across the U.S.—passing through a handful of towns named Paris—to find out what Americans really think about France today. (Part two of four.)
* Ex-employees of Google, Goldman Sachs, and Yahoo air grievances. * Refining the Sundem/Tierney theory to predict the demise of celebrity marriages. * Today in #TheRooster: writer and actor Wil Wheaton on different ideas of travel. * Buy anything from Field Notes during the ToB and receive a red notebook free with
Once in a while I think about giving up city life for the great unknown. Somewhere people don’t spit on the subway platform, or where you can get respite from the internet beyond the subway platform. Basically, any place where you don’t spend so much time thinking about the subway platform.
Selections from three series—one in the studio and two in the street—where the photographer waits until his subject finds a moment of perfect lighting.
* Santorum heads to Puerto Rico after sweeping Southern Republican ballots. * Amnesty identifies 31 forms of torture presently used in Syria, on a scale not seen in decades. * What it's like to be "blasted" by the Pentagon's pain ray. * We've come to think
