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Slump Moves From Wall St. to Main St. By PETER S. GOODMAN  The economic downturn is seeping into new parts of the country, to communities that seemed insulated only months ago.

Oil and Gold Prices Continue to Slide

 

 

Monet Meets the Colt .45 in Hartford

 

Storming the Campuses By BRAD STONE  The historic rivalries of the Ivy League have reached the Internet in the form of an online computer game that is a riff on classic territorial-conquest board games, such as Risk.

• Go to the Slide Show

 

prnewswire.com

PLAYSTATION 3 To Support New Interactive Blu-ray Movie Features

 

Crave: The gadget blog

Bezos apologizes for Kindle delays, says more coming

 

At Harvard, Students’ Muslim Traditions Are a Topic of Debate By NEIL MacFARQUHAR  The controversy focused on whether the call to prayer should ring out across Harvard Yard and whether the university should grant women separate gym hours.

 

In Iraq, U.S. seeks jobs for surplus hired guns

By Alexandra Zavis

As calm returns to some areas, the U.S. military is faced with the question of what to do with the tribesmen it hired to defend their neighborhoods.

 

 

 

Pentagon battle breaks out over a spy plane

By Peter Spiegel

Defense Secretary Gates wants more unmanned Predator aircraft in Iraq. But the Air Force worries about the long-term viability of the spy plane program.

 

 

 

Tribune hits one out of Wrigley Park

By P.j. Huffstutter

The paper secretly enters a contest sponsored by rival Chicago Sun-Times over CEO Sam Zell's plan to sell the park's naming rights. And its entry wins.

 

 

 

War-ravaged Iraq city 'alive again'

By Tony Perry

Fallouja has been rebuilt since the 2004 battles. Stores again are doing a brisk business, and the population is nearly back up to 300,000.

 

 

 

U.S. sea power in crisis 
Former Navy secretary says industrial base needs rebuilding
--WND

 

 

 

Israeli ex-security guard solves 38-year-old math problem
'Even in layman's terms it is completely counterintuitive, but somehow it works'
--Associated Press

 

 

Rev. Wright was White House guest in '98
Clinton reportedly told assembled clerics he had 'repented' after Lewinsky scandal
--Politico

Ferraro resents being lumped with Wright
'To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said ... is unbelievable'
--Torrance Daily Breeze, California

What do Pennsylvanians think of Obama's speech?
'I don't want to hear that you are blaming us for [Rev. Wright] saying this'
--Politico

Kerry: Obama can bridge Islam gap 'because he's a black man'
Would be 'symbol of empowerment' for those who have been disenfranchised around world
--ABC News

 

addenda

Ars Poetica: Poems about Poetry

"What a poem is / Is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful," writes Hayden Carruth. With National Poetry Month only two weeks away, discover the many ways poets have sought definitions of poetry and defined their craft. Read a new essay on the history of poems about poetry, complete with a selection of poems that explore and expand views on verse, including newly added work by C. D. Wright, Ruth Stone, Howard Nemerov, Marvin Bell, W. S. Merwin, and many others.

On the web at: www.poets.org/arspoetica