Tuesday's Daily Brief

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Gaddafi Forces Firing On Civilians In Misrata: NATO POLITICS Jan Brewer Vetoes Presidential Birther Bill MEDIA Pulitzer Prize Winners For 2011: See The Full List POLITICS Supreme Court Hears Arguments In New Global Warming Case BUSINESS Trading Down: Long-Term Unemployed Often Settle For Less TECHNOLOGY Winklevoss Twins Won't Back Down From Facebook Suit BLOG POSTS Tony Blair: The G20 Needs to Support Reformist African Leadership African citizens deserve elections that are about changing lives, not just changing leaders. The international community needs to find new ways to support, not just exhort, leaders in Africa to do the right thing. Keli Goff: Gwyneth Paltrow Is Right. We're All Jealous. (Of Her and George W. Bush.) In an age in which America's class-divide is greater than it's ever been, our patience has simply waned for people who were born on third base and act like they hit a triple. Leon Friedman: Fixing the Deficit by Getting Help From the Top 1% Our richest Americans can afford a modest diminution of their wealth. And they certainly would have no right to complain, since it was previous government actions that enabled them to accumulate it. John Konrad: Fire on the Horizon The investigations into the Deepwater Horizon rig's demise over the one year since that tragedy have all pointed toward the corrupting influence of the same forces I experienced first hand working for the same company. Rabbi Jason Miller: Making the Four Children Speak to Us on Passover One of goals of the Passover seder is to make this ancient, traditional ritual speak to us today. For me, the most poignant part of the seder ritual is the section describing four different individuals.

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