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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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States Consider Uniting to Offer One Bar Exam

Move could save consumers money

 Once-Profitable Services 
 Are Killing Local Budgets 

Utilities, transport, even gambling, are now $3.5B drains

box office roundup

 New Moon Vamps to $141M Haul 

Latest 'Twilight' entry enjoys 3rd-biggest weekend ever

PALEONTOLOGISTS SAY

 100M Years Ago, Africa 
 Was Crocodile Central 

3 new species unearthed from Sahara include DogCroc

INVESTIGATION

Ex-Generals Cash in as
Gov't 'Mentors'

They collect millions... while also working for defense contractors

Olympics, anyone?

 Afghans Revive 
 Goat-Carcass Sport 

Buzkashi draws sponsors in post-Taliban economy

DETENTE?

 Fox News Lands 
 Obama Interview 

Prez will sit down with Garrett in Beijing

Holiday Shipping Costs Get the Heave-Ho-Ho

Charges ditched as online competition heats up

MUSIC REVIEW

 50 Cent 
 Fails With 
 Self Destruct
 

Rapper can't quite nail a return to his glory days on new album

box office roundup


 2012 Soars 
 to Top Spot 

Apocalypse flick does $65M as 'Precious' cracks top 5

Runaway Plane

FAA Admits Flubs on Wandering Northwest Flight

Miscommunication marked regulator's response to stray airliner


 Fed Restricts Overdraft Fees 

Customers must opt in for coverage of ATM, debit transactions

 Travolta: Religion 
 Helps Us Cope 

John, Kelly speak publicly for first time since Jett's tragic death

all in


 Logger Earns 
 World Series 
 of Poker Final 

Darvin Moon will take on 21-year-old Joe Cada

 Ford's Inflatable 
 Seat Belts Not 
 Just Hot Air 

More comfortable, and safer than regular airbags

 Beer Gets Boozier 

States allow drinks up to 16% alcohol to be called beers

tHEY'RE MAGICALLY NUTRITIOUS

 Kellogg's 
 'Immunity' Claim 
 Stokes H1N1 Ire 

Company profiting from parents' swine flu fears, critics charge

CAMPAIGN MEMOIR

 Bill Sank Hillary's 
 VP Chances: Plouffe 

Clinton was still in contention in June: new memoir

Filipino Teachers Brought
to US in 'Virtual Servitude'

Union alleges scheme to exploit poor educators

 Concert Earnings 
 Defy Recession 

Big-name acts, up-and-comers see modest rise in attendance

A SORT-of Sneak Peek

 Jacko's 
 This Is It
 
 Is...What?

It's not a concert film—but King of Pop 'very much alive' for 111 minutes

85% more sugar, anyone?

Worst Cereals Are Most Heavily Marketed to Kids

Industry's promise to self-regulate an 'abject failure'

 Naptime Nothing New for Pilots 

Cole, Cheney interview by NTSB investigators

mlb playoffs


 Umps Under Fire 
 After Rash of 
 Botched Calls 

Postseason miscues have MLB considering drastic changes



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Books Are Bad for You

14
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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