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SYLVIA RECTOR | WORD OF MOUTH: Like mom's aunt used to make (Detroit Free Press)
The world can always use another good place for corned beef sandwiches, homemade potato salad and chicken soup, I figure. So when the new Detroit Deli opened on Southfield Road in Beverly Hills a few weeks ago, I dropped in to check out the food and menu.

50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers (New York Press)
"How come you guys are such haters?" someone asked us recently. Shocked and insulted, we shook our heads. Our biggest issue thus far—last September's Best of Manhattan issue—was a compendium of positivity. On any given week we're founts of compassion: lovers, not haters; uniters, not dividers.

Andrew J. Bacevich, The (New Matilda)
Andrew J. Bacevich, The Limits of Power (Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2008) Published earlier this year when the eventual electoral victory of Barack Obama was still fairly remote and unknowable, Andrew Bacevich’s book was addressed not so much to the future occupant of the White House as it was to the American people at large: warning us that ‘change we can believe in’ will require a ...

Fiction Chronicle (New York Times)
New novels by Céline Curiol, Michel Jouvet, Nicholas Drayson, Andreï Makine and Attila Bartis.

Donate now » (Human Rights Watch)
Human Rights Watch strives to maintain the highest level of accuracy in our reporting.

CNN Student News Transcript: November 14, 2008 (CNN)
November 14, 2008

Vladimir Putin 'wanted to hang Georgian President Saakashvili by the balls' (Times Online)
Nicolas Sarkozy saved the President of Georgia from being hanged “by the balls” — a threat made last summer by Vladimir Putin, according to an account that emerged yesterday from the Élysée Palace.