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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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 2 American NATO Troops 
 Missing in Afghanistan 

Western region has seen a recent uptick in violence

Nov 6, 09 11:44 AM CST

 Israel Captures Alleged 
 Iranian Arms Ship 

Smuggled weapons were headed for Hezbollah, Israel says

Nov 4, 09 10:58 AM CST

 Court Bans Crucifixes 
 in Italian Classrooms 

Government plans to appeal European decision

Nov 3, 09 3:32 PM CST

Karzai Promises Change; Taliban Disses 'Puppet'

Insurgent 'brothers' reject the Afghan president's call for unity

Nov 3, 09 6:48 AM CST

'Tortured' Rendition
Victim Told
He Can't Sue

Canadian sent to
Syria plans to appeal

Nov 3, 09 4:01 AM CST

 Obama Calls for 
 New Afghan Chapter

Karzai congratulated, told to clean up his government

Nov 3, 09 2:50 AM CST

 Junk Food Linked 
 to Depression 

Fatty, refined foods jack risk by 58%

Nov 2, 09 9:53 AM CST
UPDATED

 Dozens Dead in Pakistan Blast 

Suicide bomber duo injure 40 near bank

Nov 2, 09 5:42 AM CST

 Blaze Erupts on Aussie Oil Rig 

Leak spewing 400 barrels of oil daily

Nov 2, 09 1:44 AM CST

Somali Pirates Demand $7M Ransom for UK Couple

Paul and Rachel Chandler went missing a week ago

Oct 30, 09 5:02 PM CDT

 Somali Man, 112, 
 Marries Teen Bride 

Father of 80-year-old says he wants more kids with wife

Oct 30, 09 3:58 AM CDT

 Radio Station Fined $16M  For Fatal Contest 

Mom died of water intoxication in effort to win Wii for her kids

Oct 30, 09 3:37 AM CDT

 Wal-Mart Enters 
 Coffin Biz 

Funeral homes face competition from discount caskets

Oct 30, 09 2:08 AM CDT

 UK Yacht Couple 'OK' 
 With Somali Pirates 

'We are well,' Paul Chandler says by phone

Oct 29, 09 7:11 PM CDT
eye of the beholder

 Men Prefer 
 'Normal' Weight Women 

Pictures of faces give info about subjects' health, too

Oct 29, 09 11:08 AM CDT

 Swiss Crack Down 
 on 'Suicide Tourism' 

Assisted suicides to be restricted to the terminally ill

Oct 29, 09 3:55 AM CDT

 Coyotes Kill Canadian Singer 

Teen folk musician attacked in national park

Oct 29, 09 3:03 AM CDT

 Curry Spice Kills Cancer Cells 

Chemicals in turmeric turn cancerous cells on themselves

Oct 28, 09 11:15 AM CDT

 UN to US: Drone Attacks 
 Could Be Unlawful 

Human rights watchdog wants more accountability from CIA in Pakistan

Oct 28, 09 10:58 AM CDT

Amnesty: Israel Is Denying Palestinians Water

Report slams Israel's 'total domination' of water supplies

Oct 27, 09 3:58 AM CDT

Brits Hold Up Hacker's  Extradition

Asperger's sufferer accused of cracking Pentagon systems

Oct 27, 09 2:20 AM CDT

Madonna Starts Malawian Girls School

Star breaks ground
on $15M project in children's homeland

Oct 26, 09 4:39 PM CDT

Cocaine Sub Nabbed
Off Guatemala

US Navy helps make biggest drug bust in Guatemalan history

Oct 23, 09 3:13 AM CDT


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
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

11
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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