Morning News Roundup

• The NY Times dutifully reports on the 5 Pulitzer Prizes won by the NY Times - NY Times
• Bernie Madoff made off with money. Phil Markoff offed his marks. Hugh Jackman smiles nervously. - NY Daily News
• Twitter, WordPress execs in Iraq to help country use new media. OMG al-qda - wat r u up 2? - CNN
  
• China wants people to change their last names to make them more conformist. Resistance is futile - NY Times
• Chicago mayor Richard Daley declares Thursday "Talk Like Shakespeare Day." May I haveth a bribe, please? - CNN
  
• This is the guy that decides which letters to Obama actually reach his desk - NY Times
• The 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Competition is underway - NBC Los Angeles
• Actor from The Sandlot arrested for domestic violence - Film Drunk
  

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Morning News Roundup

• Waterboarding used 266 times on 2 suspects. Who knew Khalid Shaikh Mohammed loved to swim so much? - NY Times
  
• Britain looks for real life "Q" - AP via Fox40
• Boehner discusses farts. GOP has apparently made it to 4th grade - Daily Kos
• Father of Slumdog actress attempts to sell her. Hopefully someone can use the money to help him join the castrati - News of the World
  
• Pot vs. booze debate for 4/20. Respectable online journalism, indeed - Huffington Post
• Disney teaching English to children in China. Andy Mooney, chairman of Disney Consumer Products Worldwide, who put a Mickey Mouse sculpture in the foyer, created diction lessons starring Lilo and Stitch and has named lessons after Buzz Lightyear, noted that, "We never saw this as an effort to teach the Disney brand and Disney characters." - WSJ
• Emma Hendrickson, 100, becomes oldest competitor in U.S. Bowling Congress Women's Championships - ESPN
  

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Morning News Roundup

• David Brooks complains about Israeli bus drivers: NY Times
• Rasmussen delivers poll results fresh from 1861: Rasmussen Reports
• McDonald's - billions and billions crushed: Chicago Sun Times
• Abandon all hope, traditional marriages everywhere: NY Times
• Fox News' analysis of Anderson Cooper's analysis of...teabagging: Fox News
• Bush Administration discovered new way to bug detainees: Raw Story
• Top 10 videos of reporters getting destroyed (and not by the decline of their industry): Uncoached
• Obama details plans for running nationwide train network. President Clinton immediately offers his support: CNN

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