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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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Hasan Asked Cleric When Jihad Was OK

'I can't wait to join you' in the afterlife, accused shooter wrote in email

CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL

Defense Accuses Man Who Found Caylee's Body

Cops have already cleared utility worker

Fort Hood Suspect
Feared He 
Had HIV 

Hasan was worried about recent test

Amanda Knox Fled Murder Scene, Court Is Told

Convicted killer Rudy Guede says Kercher and Knox argued

 Janet Blames Doc 
 for Michael's Death 

Dr. Conrad Murray is responsible, she says, and should stop practicing

Hasan Sought to Turn in Patients for 'War Crimes'

Senate committee delays briefing on
Fort Hood rampage

 Steve Phillips' 
 Galpal Talks 
 Affair 

Brooke Hundley says she sympathizes with ESPN analyst's wife

Fingertip Amputations Force Maclaren Stroller Recall

Company offers hinge covers on 1M models

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 Women's Soccer Player 
 Gets Down and Very Dirty 

New Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert is a YouTube sensation—the bad kind

 Rihanna: 'I Was 
 Battered, I Was 
 Bleeding' 

'I fended him off with my feet,' she says of Chris Brown attack

Wife Allergic to Husband's Sperm Plans to Adopt

Couple discover wife has rare condition on wedding night

Mom-to-Be Plans
to Broadcast Birth Online

Minnesota woman births new level of online sharing

H1N1 OUTBREAK

Wal-Mart Sick Policy Creates Flu 'Threat,' Say Critics

Report: Ill workers are pressured to report for duty

CIA Officer: We 'Broke the Law' With Kidnapping

She's one of 23 Americans convicted in Italy for 2003 rendition

you are not here

 Google Maps Invents UK Town 

There is no Argleton, England, despite what you see

'Runaway Car' Owners Don't Believe Toyota's Explanation

They fault electronics, not recalled floor mats

HYPE VS. REALITY

 Rihanna's ABC Interview a Bust 

Source says she gives no details on beating by Chris Brown

Down Syndrome on Decline as Moms Abort

Trend bucks statistics, raises fears that funding will dry up

Interview

 Lieberman: I'll Back 
 Republicans 
 in 2010 

Sort-of Democrat says he'll 'call them as I see them'

Americans Skip Bar, Buy Booze at Grocery Store

Sales of beer, wine surge at convenience shops, drug stores

Golf Carts—Sorry, LSVs—Win Big in Stimulus

Electric car credit goes to street-legal carts

Autopsy: Madoff Buddy Died of Natural Causes

Jeffry Picower, 67, had
a heart attack, then drowned in pool

Fido, Fetch
My Tax Break!

Longshot GOP bill wants to make pet expenses deductible
to boost economy

 Abuse Victim Fights 
 for Homeless Sex Offenders 

Woman, father were behind ordinances that forced abusers under bridge



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Books Are Bad for You

12
Nov 23, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not selling—I wrote the line “books suck,” subjecting me to much middlebrow opprobrium. I’d like to revise that line: Books are evil. They’re pernicious. They represent themselves as being one thing, when they’re insidiously the opposite. Sarah Palin, for instance, did not write her... More »

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

11
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view,... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

17
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

8
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

7
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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