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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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YES, THOSE ARE UDDERS

 The World's 10 Weirdest Eats 

From chicken knees to grub guts, someone considers them a delicacy

fort hood shooting

Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army

Suspect moved to
San Antonio hospital

 Rogue Afghan Cop 
 Kills 5 Brit Soldiers 

Culprit escapes after turning weapon on training team

 Video Appeal 
 Renews 
 Maddy 
 Search 

Message accompanies interviews by Kate McCann

Karadzic Caught Discussing Genocide on Wiretap

Prosecutors reveal tape as Bosnian leader's trial goes on without him



 Pirates Hijack Yacht, 
 Kidnap UK Couple 

Brits reportedly safe after yacht seized off Somalia

 Karadzic Refuses to 
 Leave Cell for Trial 

Proceedings halted as alleged war criminal boycotts

Scientists Move Closer to Womb Transplant

Successful rabbit test means human test could be 2 years away

 China To Scour 
 Museums for 
 Looted Art 

Artifact team will hunt for Imperial Gardens booty

Dad Busted for Kidnapping Daughter's Killer

German was trussed up, dumped at French courthouse

Web Surfing
Can Help Slow Dementia

Brain scans show Google is more stimulating than books

 Clinton 'Misspeaks' Again 
 on Belfast Bombing 

Northern Ireland wasn't the warzone secretary claimed

 Taliban: Italy Paid Us
 Protection Money

Italian government denies bribing insurgents to leave its troops alone

Men More Likely to Abandon
Sick Partners

Seven times as many women stay when serious illness strikes

slideshow

 Thousands Marry in 
 Mass Moonie Wedding 

40,000 gather for blessing of Sun Myung Moon in Korea

Polanski Finishing Film Behind Bars

Filmmaker puts final touches on The Ghost  as he fights extradition

 French Vogue 
 'Black Face' 
 Sparks Row 

October edition triggers debate on racism

 Da Vinci Fingerprint 
 IDs Lost Painting 

15th-century portrait hailed as most important Da Vinci find in a century

Shakespeare Didn't Work Alone, Says Computer

Program developed to spot plagiarism shows Bard wrote Edward III With Kyd

MUSIC REVIEW

 New Jackson Single No Classic 

Response to 'This Is It' tepid from critics, all over the place from fans

 Parents Track 
 Sex Offender 
 Homes for 
 Halloween 

But critics warn that friends, family members are responsible for most kid assaults

 Berlusconi: Trials 
 'Laughable, Absurd' 

Italian PM goes on the attack after losing immunity from prosecution

Dad Let Toddler Drown in Sea as He Macked on Mistress

'We heard a plop,' father recalls

Jackson 5 Skit Sparks Outrage—It's in Blackface

Guest judge Harry Connick Jr. calls out Australian TV performers



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

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Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

10
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

15
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

25
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

21
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

17
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

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Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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