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October 2009
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- October 30th
- The news at a glance
- New on DVD
- Parents vs. Halloween: Too scary!
- Amelia
- Antichrist
- (Untitled)
- Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns
- Book of the week: Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
- Politics: Is Obama becoming ‘Nixonian’?
- Global warming: Why is skepticism growing?
- The pope: Playing the Anglican angle
- Obama: The gender politics of basketball
- The world at a glance . . . International
- The Week contest: The Nobody Awards - Nov. 6, 2009
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- The world at a glance . . . Europe
- Tony Blair, president of Europe?
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- Cronyism in the Obama White House
- Health care reform’s endgame
- Obama, Dover, and the war dead
- Droid vs. iPhone
- Larry David’s Jesus joke
- Richmond High gang rape
- October 29th
- Stage: Heroes
- Stage: Memphis
- For those who have everything: Optoma Pico mini-projector
- Best websites for basketball fans
- Tip of the week: How to make a photo book
- The best ... emergency helpers
- New cars: Buick LaCrosse CXS
- Getting the flavor of ... Mount St. Helens now
- This week’s travel dream: A new path through Nepal’s highest peaks
- Lou Jacobi
- Jack Nelson
- Soupy Sales
- Show of the week: By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
- The economy grows, office holiday parties shrink
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Washington’s world-class Rieslings
- Minnesota meat: Dried, cured, or cooked just right
- Recipe of the week: Korean home cooking: Steak from New York’s noodle king
- Exhibit of the week: Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889
- The last word: Kidnapped by the Taliban
- Chelsea Handler’s Playboy spread
- Author of the week: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Also of interest ... in screen celebrities
- Best books ... chosen by Harold Evans
- A White House truce with Fox News
- The CIA-Afghanistan bombshell
- Is unbiased news dead?
- The bottom line
- Issue of the week: Who should manage Internet traffic?
- Michael Jackson: 'This Is It' Inc.
- Fund fees: Why ‘the house’ always wins
- What the experts say
- Workplace
- Health & Science
- Aid to Pakistan comes with a price
- ESPN’s sex scandal silence
- International justice: An accused war criminal fights back
- Wit & Wisdom
- Mormon Muffins: Too Sexy?
- Is the recession over?
- Drunk Minnesotan crashes motorized La-Z-Boy chair, and more
- Diane Keaton’s solo act
- Witness to the execution
- Jay Leno’s automotive obsession
- Gossip: Angelina Jolie
- Gossip: Michael Jackson
- Gossip: Steve Phillips
- Gossip: Justin Timberlake
- Swine flu: Are we prepared for the worst?
- Giant rocket launched
- Fox News, and more
- Florida man loses suit over "defective" underwear
- Health reform advances, with a ‘public option’
- Editor's Letter: The democratic impulse
- Feds crack down on executive pay
- 5-year-old saves mother's life, and more
- October 28th
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's vulgar veto note
- Facebook for the dead
- The end of Scientology?
- Joe Lieberman vs. a public option
- Matthew Hoh: Leaving Afghanistan
- Golden Globes’ Ricky Gervais coup
- It's Army vs. CIA in Afghanistan
- Sarah Palin: Honest but unqualified?
- 9 most controversial "Family Guy" scenes
- Alan Grayson’s gaffe
- October 27th
- October 26th
- Obama and the public option
- Obama's swine flu 'emergency'
- Paying for Hulu
- Shepard Fairey, Obama, and ‘Hope’
- What the Iraq bombings mean
- Defending Balloon Boy's dad
- Deadspin vs. ESPN
- Why ESPN fired Steve Phillips
- Obama’s sexist hoops game
- Is America a conservative nation?
- Roger Ailes for president?
- A midterm message in Virginia and New Jersey
- October 23rd
- New on DVD
- New York, I Love You
- Paranormal Activity
- Where the Wild Things Are
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Iran: Hope for a nuclear deal?
- Issue of the week: A blockbuster insider-trading case
- Whose fault is Afghanistan?
- The Week contest: Human Resources - Oct. 30, 2009
- The world at a glance . . . International
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- The world at a glance . . . Europe
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- Fraud vs. homebuyer tax credits
- Obama: The fire from the Left
- Sarah Palin's GOP shakeup
- Medical marijuana: A victory for states’ rights?
- Facebook takes a cut from the Mafia, NWA pilots miss the target
- Liz Cheney: A new face for the GOP
- Balloon boy: An icon of our age?
- Anderson Cooper: Media vs. Obama
- Nokia: Suing Apple over iPhone
- Bong water: Drug or paraphernalia?
- ESPN's sex scandal fallout
- October 22nd
- Stage: The Royal Family
- For those who have everything: Sony Party-shot
- Best websites for travel deals
- Tip of the week: How to hitch a ride abroad
- The best ... animal-inspired designs
- New cars: Volvo XC70 T6
- Hotel of the week: Best Western Hotel Tomo, San Francisco
- Getting the flavor of...Lincoln’s life in Washington, D.C.
- This week’s travel dream: Malaysia’s multicultural feast
- 'Going Rouge': A Sarah Palin parody book
- Where to eat in Faulkner’s hometown
- Craft beer from Italy, land of wine
- Recipe of the week: Cooking for one: A single-serving Moroccan-style feast
- Al Martino
- Bruce Wasserstein
- Show of the week: American Experience: The 1930s
- Movies on TV
- Steve Jobs' $300 million Wednesday; Microsoft's seven-patty BK Whopper
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Carrie Fisher’s brutal honesty
- Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, and the fight for Republican ‘purity’
- The woman who ate 372 oysters
- Bill Murray’s dark moods
- Gossip: Hollywood's anti-Twitter campaign
- Gossip: Kanye West
- Gossip: Madonna
- Windows 7: The Vista do-over
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan
- Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
- Exhibit of the week: Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
- The last word: The unbearable lightness of breast cancer
- Eric Williamson: Arrested for drinking coffee naked at home
- Sexual harassment: A fine line
- Author of the week: Jeff Kinney
- Also of interest ... in books inspired by books
- Best books ... chosen by Tracy Kidder
- Obama’s big bailout pay cuts
- ACORN: Another undercover video
- Obama and the ‘enemies list’
- Investment: Getting real about risk
- What the experts say
- Workplace
- Health & Science
- Plotting attacks against Iran
- Canada: The truth about our health system
- Tony Blair: The first president of the EU?
- John C. Reilly: 'Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant'
- Book of the week: The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
- Logicomix written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; illustrated by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna
- 'Give us the public option!'
- Tom Cruise, Bronson Pinchot, and homophobia
- Wit & Wisdom
- Man arrested for baggie of pot stuck to forehead, and more
- Wall Street: The good times are rolling again
- Body armor problems
- Fast thumbs, and more
- Bus driver suspended for wearing pink tie, and more
- Pakistan unleashes an assault on militants
- Twitter, Google, and Bing
- Editor's Letter: A margin for error
- Afghan leader agrees to a runoff vote
- Boston's splashy electrical boxes, and more
- Hilary Swank: 'Amelia'
- Stage: Sammy
- October 21st
- Do models get thinner as women get fatter?
- Nook, Kindle, and the e-book war
- Moving pianos pays big, Windows 7 topples Harry Potter
- The Vatican’s Anglican lure
- Pat Buchanan and 'white America'
- 'Illegal Alien' costume: Funny?
- Is the H1N1 vaccine pointless?
- Carrie Prejean and breast implants: Who pays?
- Prelude to Republican fratricide
- Jake Tapper's Fox News defense
- George W. Bush, motivational speaker
- Suzanne Somers’ controversial cancer advice
- Afghan re-vote: Credibility at last?
- October 20th
- Will NBC cancel Jay Leno's show?
- Republicans, Jews, and Jim DeMint
- Afghanistan: Should Obama wait?
- The CIA's social networking deal
- Bear Stearns’ smoker-in-chief, Credit card issuers’ shafty new fees
- How many jobs did Obama save?
- How 'Balloon Boy' fooled the media
- Iran’s nuclear poker game
- Day-care sex abuse case haunts Massachusetts Senate race
- Obama’s medical marijuana truce
- Is Afghanistan another Vietnam?
- Adam Lambert's 'Details' photo shoot
- October 19th
- Obama's war with Fox News
- Hamid Karzai's election setback
- Elvis' big hair day, Maldives sinking government
- Galleon: Hedge fund or mafia?
- Debunking SuperFreakonomics
- 'Droid Does': Going after iPhone
- Punishing the Balloon Boy hoax
- Obama and the GOP: 2008 debate foretold all
- Spike Jonze and Kanye West: 'We Were Once a Fairytale'
- October 16th
- Couples Retreat
- A Serious Man
- An Education
- The baby stroller train video
- New on DVD
- Issue of the week: What’s so bad about a falling dollar?
- Moscow's ban on snow
- Glenn Beck: Targeting Anita Dunn
- Finland's right to broadband, the Pentagon's 400-dollar-a-gallon gas bill
- Limbaugh: Will he buy an NFL team?
- Obama vs. Fox: The gloves are off
- Obama’s New Orleans TLC
- The Nobel Peace Prize: Why did Obama win?
- The world at a glance . . . International
- Keith Bardwell and interracial marriage
- The world at a glance . . . Europe
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- Ken Lewis’ negative pay day
- Falcon Heene: Balloon boy hoax?
- The Week contest: Days of Yore - Oct. 23
- October 15th
- Football's wounded gladiators
- Has '30 Rock' jumped the shark?
- Theater: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
- Theater: Hamlet
- David I. Shapiro
- Israel Gelfand
- Irving Penn
- Show of the week: Latino in America
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Getting the flavor of...Roosevelt’s Georgia retreat
- This week’s travel dream: Bicycling through Castro country
- Health & Science
- Why Winona Ryder dropped out
- Living with a son’s terrible legacy: Susan Klebold
- Mickey Rourke’s days of rage
- Gossip: Miley Cyrus
- Gossip: Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise
- Gossip: Amy Winehouse
- Gossip: Roman Polanski
- Wall Street bonuses: Where's the outrage?
- Languedoc wines: Going beyond Fat Bastard
- A California restaurant with unrivaled views
- Recipe of the week: The lost supper: Rediscovering a mid-Atlantic staple
- Exhibit of the week: Warhol
- The last word: Who owns home plate?
- Author of the week: David Benedictus
- Also of interest ... titles in the news
- Best books ... from the Freakonomics guys
- Meghan McCain's Twitter photo
- Rush Limbaugh: Cut out of the NFL
- Champagne at The Wall Street Journal, Frugality among women
- Pakistan’s escalating Taliban war
- Maria Shriver's cellphone trouble
- Jaycee Dugard’s People photos
- Stocks: A historic ‘drought’ of dividends
- What the experts say
- Workplace
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Book of the week: A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
- Did Obama deserve the peace prize?
- Afghanistan: Where boys are kept as concubines
- Italy: Berlusconi is not going quietly
- Wi-Fi Direct vs. Bluetooth
- Health-care reform passes a key test
- Gen. McChrystal is a good soldier
- Wit & Wisdom
- Public pension funds lost $1 trillion in market crash, and more
- Man hits on nurse while wife delivers baby, and more
- A bigger bunker buster
- Paul Anka, and more
- School suspends cub scout for camping utensil, and more
- Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler: 'Law Abiding Citizen'
- Rare film footage of Babe Ruth, and more
- The Internet: When a blog is actually an ad
- Meghan McCain: Twitter quitter?
- ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’: Is the end near?
- Editor's Letter: Collision insurance: A knife vs. a kiss
- Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy
- Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
- For those who have everything: SoleMates High Heeler
- Obama, New Orleans, and Katrina recovery
- Best websites for selling homemade crafts
- Tip of the week: How to make small spaces seem big
- The best ... trail shoes
- New cars: BMW X6 M
- October 14th
- Zachary Christie's second chance
- Rush Limbaugh: Victim of a smear campaign?
- A fortune in vodka bottles, Misfortune hits paychecks
- Schwarzenegger’s paparazzi hit
- The bumpy relaunch of GOP.com
- Filippa Hamilton: Too fat to model?
- Olympia Snowe vs. the GOP
- Is Obama a brute or a pushover?
- Why Bloomberg bought BusinessWeek
- The Cleveland Show: 'Family Guy in blackface'?
- What Dow 10,000 means
- Why the Nobel judges love Obama
- Will Hillary Clinton run again?
- October 13th
- Liz Cheney's 'Keep America Safe'
- Miss Plastic Hungary
- Punishing Zachary Christie
- Unveiling Dyson's new invention
- E-mail: No longer king?
- A key vote on health reform
- Is China dangerous?
- The White House's problem with liberal bloggers
- Olympia Snowe's health-care vote
- Jeffrey Skilling's appeal, Disney Stores' makeover
- October 12th
- October 9th
- Issue of the week: What does Comcast see in NBC?
- Will Silvio Berlusconi ever give up?
- Greenback sneak attack, Mustaches equal more money
- The bottom line
- The Invention of Lying
- Zombieland
- Whip It
- New on DVD
- Marge Simpson, nude in Playboy?
- Book of the week: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
- Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
- The Olympics: Obama comes up empty
- Letterman: Will his popularity suffer?
- The death penalty: On the way out?
- Rangel: Why Democrats still defend him
- Health & Science
- Should Obama turn down the Nobel?
- The opt-out public option buzz
- Chris Rock's 'Good Hair'
- Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
- Air travel: Why it will get worse
- Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau: 'Couples Retreat'
- Investing: New rules for charting a profitable course
- October 8th
- Marek Edelman
- For those who have everything: Play soapbox cart
- Should Charles Rangel resign?
- Best websites for families seeking elder care
- Tip of the week: How to master the moonwalk
- The best ... bicycles for any kind of rider
- Theater: A Steady Rain
- Show of the week: Frontline: Obama’s War
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Getting the flavor of...Long Island’s end
- This week’s travel dream: A solo drive through Kiwiland
- McDonald's at the Louvre, Hookers for Olympic gold
- Michelle Obama's slavery roots
- William Blake’s World: A New Heaven Is Begun
- Exhibit of the week: Luc Tuymans
- Where to order up a Down East feast
- The world’s best—and most expensive—scotches
- Recipe of the week: Beyond tapas: Small plates with Mediterranean flavor
- The last word: ‘It’s just actor sex’
- Levi Johnston's nude Playgirl photo shoot
- Detroit: A city on the brink
- Gold fever or gold rush?
- Author of the week: David Sibley
- Also of interest ... in new memoirs
- Best books ... chosen by John Krasinski
- Rush Limbaugh's football dream
- Afghanistan could decide this presidency
- What the experts say
- Workplace
- The CBO’s Baucus health bill boost
- The news at a glance
- The GOP: Do Beck and Limbaugh help, or hurt?
- The world at a glance . . . International
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- The world at a glance . . . Europe
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- Wit & Wisdom
- Bill Ayers: Obama’s ghostwriter?
- Brazil: Can Rio clean up in time for the Olympics?
- Canada: When ‘rights’ trump common sense
- Waffling over Afghanistan
- Quote of the week: Peggy Noonan
- The stolen election in Afghanistan
- Angry girlfriend makes a meal of boyfriend's goldfish, and more
- Reverse discrimination, and more
- Health-care moves
- 'Paranormal Activity' vs. 'The Blair Witch Project'
- Erasing the Bible's "liberal bias," and more
- Iran softens stance on nuclear inspections
- Editor's Letter: The Outrage Game
- An ominous rise in unemployment
- Another round for Sullenberger and Skiles
- Mika Brzezinski’s worst day
- How James Ellroy lost his mind
- Joan Baez’s persistent ghost
- Gossip: Erin Andrews
- Gossip: Emma Watson
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan
- Gossip: Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel
- Donal McLaughlin Jr.
- October 7th
- Penelope Trunk: Oversharing on Twitter?
- The Mojave cross and the Constitution
- Banks and the overdraft racket
- Defining down drunkenness, Hotmail's most popular password
- The fatwa on fake-virginity kits
- Is Gen. McChrystal out of line?
- Verizon’s Android vs. the iPhone
- The trillion-dollar tedium of health reform
- The Axelrod-Ailes coffee talk
- October 6th
- Animal cruelty and free speech
- Steve Ballmer's 14-year-old quality guru, The Simpsons' health propaganda
- Is the Bible too liberal?
- Obama, doctors, and health care
- Levi Johnston's pistachio ad
- David Letterman’s apologies
- Why Conde Nast is closing Gourmet
- The FTC and blogger ‘payola’
- How cap-and-trade is like ritual self-flagellation
- The plagiarism lawsuit against Guns N' Roses
- October 5th
- October 2nd
- For those who have everything: Treasure Seekers’ Metal Detecting Sandals
- Obama's Olympic loss
- Best websites to find recipes
- Tip of the week: How to be a great storyteller
- The best ... reusable shopping bags
- New cars: Alfa Romeo 8C Spider
- New on DVD
- Coco Before Chanel
- Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor by Tad Friend
- Book of the week: The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
- The Week contest: Movie Rating - Oct. 9, 2009
- Is Glenn Beck really powerless?
- Soft toilet paper: Environmental threat?
- GE deals away NBC, Toymakers look back to the future
- Polanski: The long reach of justice
- Terrorism plot: The waterboarding question
- Mommy wars: Whose kids are healthier?
- Guantánamo: Not so easily closed
- Ardi and the human family tree
- Stay-at-home moms: Attacking the 'opt-out' theory
- Should Chicago want the Olympics?
- Letterman’s sex-extortion sting
- Glamour's nude plus-size models
- Why Ken Lewis is out of work
- Issue of the week: What did the G-20 accomplish?
- Why Kanye West and Lady Gaga's tour was cancelled
- Savings: No good place to stash your cash
- Workplace
- What the experts say
- October 1st
- The struggle over Israel's settlements
- Vampiro: The perfect morning-after cocktail
- Another day, another Wolfgang Puck restaurant
- Recipe of the week: The restaurant is forgotten, but the recipe lives on
- Health & Science
- Show of the week: NOVA: Darwin’s Darkest Hour
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Michelle Williams without Heath Ledger
- Merle Haggard’s life of crime
- Richard O’Brien’s divided self
- Gossip; Simon Cowell
- Gossip: Hugo Chávez
- Gossip: John Travolta
- Gossip: Mackenzie Phillips
- Getting the flavor of...B.C. before the Olympics
- This week’s travel dream: Learning to love Haiti
- Body in Fragments
- Exhibit of the week: Kandinsky
- Susan Atkins
- William Safire
- Google Wave hits eBay, the Internet goes world-wide
- The last word: Coming out in middle school
- Author of the week: Nick Hornby
- Also of interest ... in the comedy trade
- Drew Barrymore's 6 favorite books
- Best books ... chosen by Drew Barrymore
- China's 60th: What has changed?
- Is President Obama in danger?
- Alan Grayson’s Joe Wilson moment
- The White House vs. Glenn Beck
- Why the U.S. is pressuring Iran
- The Apple-Microsoft tablet race
- Europe: The persecution of Roman Polanski
- Quote of the week: Beliefnet founder Steven Waldman
- The world at a glance . . . International
- Joel and Ethan Coen: 'A Serious Man'
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- GM, Penske, and Saturn’s demise
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- Afghanistan: Will Obama change course?
- A defeat for the Democrats’ ‘public option’
- Confronting Iran on the nuclear issue
- Theater: Eclipsed
- Opera: Tosca
- Wit & Wisdom
- Global warming and a cold winter
- Sneezing fetish leads to arrest, and more
- Cashing in, and more
- Help for local housing
- Lawsuit claims alcoholism is a handicap, and more
- Editor's Letter: Barack Obama, war president?
- Ricky Gervais: 'The Invention of Lying'
- India's women-only trains, and more
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