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Wife: Bin Laden Loves Gardening, Cars, Jihad

New memoir describes family life in the bin Laden household

Oct 17, 09 6:30 AM CDT

 9-Year-Old to Obama: 
 'Why Do People 
 Hate You?' 

Replies prez: 'Some of it is just what's called politics.'

Oct 15, 09 9:45 PM CDT

Mexico City
Puts 1,300 Cops
on a Diet

Mustn't give up tortas, but told to mix in some veggies now and then

Oct 15, 09 9:11 PM CDT

 Serena's 
 Nude Shot 
 'Classy, 
 Not Trampy' 

Tennis hottie: Williams is naked on the cover of ESPN

Oct 9, 09 8:22 AM CDT

 UN Names Norway 
 Best Place to Live 

Niger, Afghanistan round out list of 182 nations; China makes big gains

Oct 5, 09 2:39 PM CDT

Osama Warns Europe to Leave Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda mastermind says Obama 'has no regard for human life'

Sep 25, 09 1:15 PM CDT

 Paralyzed Rats Run in 
 Breakthrough Experiment 

Application for humans with spinal injuries not far off

Sep 21, 09 1:19 AM CDT

Euro Farmers Protest Falling Prices With Huge Milk Dump

800,000 gallons in Belgian field after recession takes big toll

Sep 16, 09 6:41 PM CDT

 Swine Flu Can Burrow 
 Deep Into Lungs: Docs 

H1N1 can infect cells where seasonal flu can't: study

Sep 10, 09 4:31 PM CDT

Uruguay Legalizes
Gay Adoption

First Latin American nation to let same-sex couples adopt

Sep 10, 09 1:48 AM CDT

 NATO Probes 'Disastrous' 
 Air Strike; 90 Dead 

Horrific injuries reported after fireball engulfs villagers

Sep 4, 09 8:27 AM CDT

Researchers Discover Why Pot Makes You Forget

Scientists identify pathway for cognitive impairment under the effects of cannabis

Aug 3, 09 2:55 PM CDT

Scientists Retract Paper Touting Sperm From Stem Cells

But say attribution, not science itself, at issue

Jul 31, 09 2:56 PM CDT

Bill Gates Too Popular for Facebook

He signs off
over w-a-y too
many friend requests

Jul 26, 09 5:17 AM CDT

 Carla Bruni to Sing 
 at Mandela's Birthday 

French first lady will perform at Mandela's 91st birthday celebration

Jul 15, 09 4:43 PM CDT

 S. African 
 World Cup 
 Laborers 
 End Strike 

Workers building new stadiums negotiate 12% pay raise

Jul 15, 09 2:09 PM CDT

 French Are 
 World's Worst 
 Tourists: Survey 

Poll of 40,000 hotels ranks visitors on politeness, generosity

Jul 9, 09 3:20 PM 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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