* Frustrated new lawyers sue second-tier law schools for consumer fraud and inflated job-placement rates. * Illustrated guide to criminal law. * Wolf-whistles and sexist comments now illegal in much of Europe and possibly soon the UK. * Japanese researchers invent speech-jamming gun. * Science behind acidic tampons. * "Alcohol a
Sometimes—all the time—I think about presidents and presidential candidates, and what it would be like to meet them. My psychiatrist says it’s because I don’t get enough sleep, but I think it’s because I like to judge peoples’ personalities by their handshakes.
* The GOP is deeply divided, and it may be to the Party’s advantage to have the actual primaries fail. * How to make a Santorum cake. * Experts confused about new iPad's lack of new name; evidence says names don't affect Apple's sales. * Brazil overtakes
* Obama rebukes Republicans who beat war drums to stoke voter frenzy. * Israel "very happy" about new negotiations, though "without a real military alternative," Iran unlikely to give up its nuclear program. * White House rules out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria * "Who needs Democrats
I did it. In doing so, I confirmed a few things for myself: * I’m still a Russophile. * I’m an old one at that. It’s both easier and harder to be an informed Russia-watcher in the era of socially networked regime-change. * What’s going on in
* Former ImClone CEO proposes we fight the burden of rising pharmaceutical prices by only paying when the drugs work. * Scotland's premature births drop by 10% following a country-wide ban on smoking in public places. * The conservative movement that has taken over the GOP was nursed on hatred
For some Americans, the French way of life is best. Others 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. (Parts one through three of four.)
Booth commentators Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner introduce the eighth annual Tournament of Books, sponsored by Field Notes.
* Syria's Assad said to congratulate Putin on his election by telegram. * Guide to stealing elections: Obey the rules, assuming you wrote them in advance. * Belarus's pseudo-president says it's better to be a dictator than gay; gay German foreign minister appreciates confirmation of dictatorship.
* In the U.S., vast disparities found in different judges' sentencing for the same crime. * A chronological survey of the opening chords of Beethoven's Eroica. * Battle hymn of the accompanist: an homage to the unsung heroes of music. * Abraham Lincoln, technologist-in-chief, social anthropologist, proto-feminist.
