Puzzle No. 258 Puzzle No. 258
ACROSS
1 Remembers what one does when the line is busy. (7)
Dec 16, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis
Unidentified Unidentified
Hands touch--set off another round of deals and betrayals! I only hope I don't mistake whose lips and hands! Don't mix up all these break-ups and insomnias. When we let go, I'll try, my friend, to charge my memory! So you won't languish and expire like the others in my poems (the garbage heap of all my Casanovas!). So you won't be washed by rains for millennia, buried in my breast (mass grave for a thousand breasts!)... So you won't --you, my two-starred utter dark!-- end up one more corpse, gravemarker: Unknown. (Translated from the Russian byCatherine Ciepiela)
Dec 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Marina Tsvetaeva
Blackwater, Blackwater Blackwater, Blackwater
No one keeps track--so let's take a crack.
Dec 16, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Ten Things for the Holidays Ten Things for the Holidays
One lesson we've learned from the economic crisis is that it's even more crucial during the holiday season to give more meaningfully.
Dec 16, 2009 / The Nation
U.S. delegation brings COP15 negotiations to a halt. U.S. delegation brings COP15 negotiations to a halt.
Progress on REDD. But little hope for forests without greater rich country commitments on emissions cuts and finance.
Dec 16, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman
No Public Option: Worse Than Nothing? No Public Option: Worse Than Nothing?
In search of the elusive, filibuster-proof sixtieth vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has eviscerated the Senate's healthcare reform bill.
Dec 16, 2009 / Lindsay Beyerstein
McCain Rejects Quetta Attack McCain Rejects Quetta Attack
On Pakistan, at least, Senator John McCain appears slightly to the left of Barack Obama. Just as it was during the 2008 presidential campaign. Yesterday, during his appearance at ...
Dec 16, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Recall Lieberman (If Only We Could) Recall Lieberman (If Only We Could)
Democrats have had more than enough of Joe Lieberman and his antics, including in his home state. "No one should hold health care hostage, including Joe Lieberman, and I'll s...
Dec 16, 2009 / Ari Berman
Bad News Deserves Bad Verse. Bad News Deserves Bad Verse.
It's holiday season. And besides I've been feeling too grumpy to take the news "straight." So I came up for a ditty for today. You're welcome to send me yours. Here goes...
Dec 16, 2009 / Laura Flanders