Ya feel me?
There’s pain all over; we feel it.
Wall Street Journal Blog
Lehman Employees and the Wall Street Compensation: Along with all their other creditors, many of Lehman’s 24,000 employees are fighting for their piece of the pie–their salaries, tied up in stocks. Get in line.
Moscow Times
Mixing Love Triangles With Global Affairs: Russia wants to be liked by the West. Really. But the US can’t love anyone with ties to the KGB. Really?
StandPoint Magazine
Writers, Visible and Invisible: Think you know a writer? Not likely, Cynthia Nozick writes: “Writers are what they genuinely are only when they are at work in the silent and instinctual cell of ghostly solitude, and never when they are out industriously chatting on the terrace”.
in character
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, I Feel Your Pain After All: “Mirror neurons may hold the key to understanding how human beings respond to one another.”
saber rattling
On the seventh anniversary of September 11, threats abound between nations, in nature, and the world of finance.
Palin’s Dangerous Saber Rattling
The Huffington Post
Ilan Goldenburg, policy director of the National Security Network, explains why it was imprudent of Sarah Palin to advocate invasion of Russia by the United States, given a history of painstaking diplomacy between the two countries. Her statements were made during an interview with Charles Gibson for ABC News.
Putin Warns West Against Starting Arms Race
International Herald Tribune
Russia’s Vladimir Putin warns Western nations that setting up a missile defense in Europe may provoke an unnecessary arms race, reserving his harshest criticism for the US and Britain.
Bush Said to Give Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan
