* Convicted UK rioters receiving 25% longer sentences—one got four years for inciting violence on Facebook. * U.S. to review 300,000 illegal immigrant cases, dismiss deportation for those who pose no threat. * Libya's DC embassy reopens under TNC, who wants to unfreeze Gadhafi's assets, purchase
* UN indicts Hezbollah for assassination of Lebanon's Hariri. * Life in Ethiopia is not all famine. * Recent statistics about American drinking: wine ties beer. * According to studies, weed doesn't make you stupid, but may improve your imaginative powers. * New interpretive system Veritas turns sentences blue when they&
Four years ago, I bought a bottle of white wine, a pack of Parliaments, and muscled my way into the world of online dating. After years of being a stubborn holdout, I had finally committed to the possible discomfort of coffee with strangers. What I had not anticipated, however, was
From 2011, knowing the history of the phrase “going postal” helps us understand how America exports killing sprees to angry young men worldwide.
* Defense Dept. report finds Army did not properly test body armor, may have substandard field protection. * Downgraded by Fitch, New Jersey's credit is now the third-worst in the U.S., ahead of California and Illinois. * Capybara, the world's largest rodent, is now roaming California'
The economic crisis in Europe is already hard enough to understand. Journalists should inform us if we’re screwed, and how screwed we are. Thing unravels when they start substituting literary fiction and an extended scatological metaphor for fact.
* President Bachmann's foreign policy. * For desk-bound Sherlocks, a real-life Australian beach mystery from 1948, "one of the world’s most perplexing cold cases." * Mid-week short fiction: "Village 113," from TMN contributor Anthony Doerr's award-winning Memory Wall. * Color of
Just when companionship is the last thing you want at the hair salon, in walks Barry—who frankly couldn’t give two licks what you want.
* Local flavor may be lost as agricultural pageants become a path to Miss America. * Original Village People lead singer disputes work-for-hire claim, seeks rights to "Y.M.C.A." * WSJ: "Abercrombie and Fitch offers to pay 'The Situation' to stop wearing its clothes.
As Borders liquidates its merchandise, a former employee of store #21 looks back at a glorious workplace—of quirky managers, Borders gypsies, the odyssey to stack more than Hobby/Collectibles—and the moment when salvation seemed at hand to save the chain.
