The End of the World News

Good Morning. A few new items.

• Pierre reveals his long-ago short-lived affair with Meredith Vieira, victim since to the degradation of television news into America's sensory aristocracy in the service of popular doping. See "The End of the World News."
  

• Islamic Law in the Netherlands? Oliver Wendell Holmes would have approved. See "Democracy's Full Circle of Hell."
  

• In Case you missed it: Pakistan's Infatuation with rape.

• Tony Judt on the Strange Death of American Liberalism.
  

• And in Candide's latest: The Montreal college killer's death diaries, Colin Powell's letter bashing George Bush, and wordplay over the "Clash of Civilizations."

Have a good weekend everyone, and thanks for reading.pt