"Big City - Interest Grows in Arabic Class at Friends Seminary" - NYTimes.com

This is a great story that needs to be repeated all over the country. How can we hope to share the planet with so many other people who get up each morning thinking in a language we cannot understand. Bravo for this school and the students who have opted to study Arabic. I wish I could back to that age and join them in the decision.

"Sarkozy s'immisce dans le rachat du Monde" - SudOuest.fr

"Administration Hardens Stance Against Leaks to Press" - NYTimes.com

This is so very disappointing.

""La Repubblica" mène la rébellion contre la "loi-bâillon" de Berlusconi" - or La Repubblica without ink - LeMonde.fr

"BP and Officials Block Some Coverage of Spill" - NYTimes.com

I wonder who will fight for this access if we start losing significant major media enterprises.

"Caradeux Camp Journal - Haiti’s Displaced See Their Stories on TV" - NYTimes.com

We see very little about any role the Haitian newspapers are playing, and even less about the role newspapers in other countries are playing.

"Editorial - The Wrong Message on Deficits" - NYTimes.com

So many people sending so many conflicting signals on such a complex and criticially imporant matter.

"Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers" - Onion News Network

"Cameron Warns Britons of ‘Decades’ of Austerity" - NYTimes.com

"Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price" - NYTimes.com

"The iPad Pulse Reader Scales the Charts" - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

"Hungary, Despite Comparisons, Is No Greece" - NYTimes.com

"Summary Box - Bar Codes Get Around, Get More Useful" - NYTimes.com

How many of these are being printed in newspapers? What's the average number of bar codes in a average US newspaper today?

"Bravo Will Make You a Reality Star (if the Web Agrees)" - NYTimes.com

The implicaitons of this for news judgment exercised by other media companies are huge and troubling.

"Spillonomics - Underestimating Risk" - NYTimes.com

I look forward very much to reading this.

"Oil Spill Resources" - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

Is this as good as it could be? Couldn't it be designed and presented in a much more dynamic and easy-to-use manner?

"Wal-Mart to Offer Workers College Degree Program" - NYTimes.com

Which newspapers in the world have entered into similar agreements with universities that could provide newspaper customers with a college education? The New York Times has some such relationships, but it seems too bad that Wal-Mart is beating the local knowledge leader in so many markets - the local newspaper - with an offering to help customers further their educations.

"4 Parties Make Initial Bids for Newsweek Magazine" - NYTimes.com

What a commentary this is.....

"Editorial - Israel and the Gaza Blockade" - NYTimes.com

Extremely well stated!

"Israel should lead investigation into attack on Gaza flotilla, says US" - The Guardian

If this is true, I find it outrageou that the OBAMA administration is asking the attacking party (Israel) to carry out the investigaiton when an international inquiry would be so much better for everyone involved unless Israel is really guilty of some of the charges leveled against it in this matter. In that case, it would not be so good for Israel.

In any case, I want my President to support the most objective and inclusive determinations in this matter and one cannot expect that result when the fox is asked to asses its assault in the middle of the nigth on the hen house. That is not to denigrate Israeil, but rather to make such an obvious point.

At worst, let their be two inquiries. The truth can then sort itself out between them.

This is very disturbing news.