* Former Libyan leader Gadhafi killed, says Libyan Prime Minister Jibril. * Yankee fans take pride believing one of their own found Gadhafi in his hole. * "Super-entity" of 147 companies, mainly banks, hold disproportionate power over the global economy. * Jon Bon Jovi opens "pay what you can"
Lesley Kinzel’s Open Letter to Teenage Girls contains some awesome advice. I wish someone had told me this stuff when I was a teenager. I don’t know if I would have listened, but maybe some of it would have gotten through. I’ve been thinking a lot about
When London’s Tottenham district fell to youth-driven chaos this past August, an elderly barber almost lost everything. Then other young people stepped in to keep him cutting.
* Conflicting reports from Libyan commanders say Gadhafi's been captured and/or injured, and/or killed. * Some Pakistani military officers find this year's Army book club choice—Woodward's Obama's Wars—disturbing. * Rushdie talks about religion, Arab Spring, "addictive garbage" Game of
* Greece paralyzed by general strike, which now includes petrol bombs and tear gas. * Today: Send us cell-phone pics of the Recession creeping toward your door. * George Washington told servants to wait three days after his death before burying him. * Fungus from U.S. troops in WWII now killing Europe&
On Saturday I took the subway farther north than I ever had, coming to the 5 train’s end at the Eastchester–Dyre Avenue stop. Technically I wasn’t even in the Bronx anymore, but in Westchester County. Walking about 10 minutes north from the stop put me at the
For Israelis of a certain age, marriage beckons. But in this cradle of so many religions, a tangle of ancient rules and modern laws makes things surprisingly complicated.
* Primer on the long-running French scandal—Bettencourt/L'Oreal—that may be coming to an end. * Great Recession hitting Friendly's, Fuddruckers, Benningan's hard. * Empire, Nevada, dead. * Related: History of Crush, Texas, town that existed for one day's event. * "Active commuters"
* Traffic accidents down over 40% in Abu Dhabi during recent Blackberry outage. * Animal mating rituals don't translate well to barroom banter. * World population, which hit six billion in 1998, to reach seven billion in a few weeks' time. * Malaria deaths fell over 20% worldwide in the last
Then Morse died and Lewis got a promotion and his own show, Lewis, to keep solving murder cases in Oxford, the university town he dislikes. You’d think they’d let Lewis to retire to Newcastle, but no. At the start, his wife’s killed in a car accident. And
