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All the News That's Fit to Eat — Mar. 25, 2009
- The new Yankee Stadium will serve up sushi by Morimoto and specialties from Le Cirque. — New York Times
- A few creative ways to make the most of leftover wine. — Washington Post
- Learn how one pizza fanatic constructed a hand-built firebrick oven at home for $15.
Font Page: Lebanese Rockets Could Open Second Front
- A second round of rockets launched from Lebanon have hit Israel. The rockets caused no damage or deaths, but resulted in a counterattack. — LA Times
- The US Commerce Department announced that retail sales fell a seasonably adjusted 2.7 percent in December, compared to November.
Kids Flock to Hezbollah Shrine, Abu Ghraib to Open Museum
Two commemorative destinations established in the Middle East will help shape the historical consciousness of the region's newest generation. In Lebanon children flock to a shrine dedicated to Imad Mugniyah, the dead commander of Hezbollah, who is considered a martyr to some and a terrorist responsible for numerous bombings throughout the 1980s and 90s to others.
At the exhibit schoolchildren wait to see Mugniyah's bloodstained clothes, the shoes he died in, his cell phone, or the desk he sat at while he planned his attacks.
Front Page: Julia Child Was a Spy, Inflation Hits Major High, Lebanon Bombing Kills 15
- Julia Child Was a Spy: Newly released files show that famous chef Julia Child was a World War-II era spy. The CIA declassified 35,000 top-secret personnel files that detailed the huge spy network run by the OSS, which later became the CIA. Former OSS agents are pleased with the release of the information, a list which includes other notables like Ernest Hemingway's and Teddy Roosevelt's sons.
- Inflation Hits Major High: Consumer prices rose at twice the rate expected to post the fastest rate of growth in 17 years.
Propaganda 2.0? Israel Condemns Released Killer on YouTube
The Israeli government, no longer willing to wait to for an Arab television interview, is sending their message to the Arab world via YouTube. Israel's government uploaded a video in Arabic and English condemning Lebanese militant Samir Qantar as "the most despicable of murderers." Qantar, released Wednesday in a prisoner swap, received a hero's welcome back in Lebanon.Front Page: Israel/Hezbollah Prisoner Swap, Consumer Prices Balloon, US Troops Abandon Afghan Outpost
- Israel/Hezbollah Prisoner Swap: Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah have completed their prisoner swap: Israel handed over five Lebanese prisoners and the bodies of 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters in exchange for the bodies of two soldiers, captured in 2006. Lebanon declared a national holiday to observe the swap, as now Israel holds no more Hezbollah militants.
- Consumer Prices Balloon: A telling measure of inflation rose last month at its fastest rate in 16 years.
Front Page: Bomb in Sri Lanka, Lebanon Has a New President
- Bomb in Sri Lanka: At least seven people were killed and 62 injured in a bombing on a packed Sri Lankan commuter train. The military has blamed Tamil Tiger separatists for the attack, the latest in many attacks targeting public transport. The military says it also defused two bombs found on buses over the weekend.
Front Page: Tornadoes Rip Midwest & South, First US Aid Lands in Myanmar, Fighting in Beirut
- Tornadoes Rip Midwest and South: Emergency crews are searching through the aftermath of violent storms that tore from the Midwest to the South and killed at least 23 people this weekend in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Georgia. In Oklahoma at least seven people were killed and officials said 150 people in the town were injured. In Missouri emergency crews are “ensuring that we have found any potential survivors or anyone unaccounted for.” The governor says at least 85 people had been injured in the storm.
Front Page: Not al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader, UN Halts Myanmar Aid, Hezbollah Seizes West Beirut
- Not al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader: The United States military in Iraq says a man arrested and detained yesterday in Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, though an earlier statement from the Iraqi defense ministry said that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been captured. An American military spokeswoman said al-Masri had not been arrested and that confusion had arisen because a man with a similar name to the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader had been detained.
- UN Halts Myanmar Aid: The UN has suspended relief supplies to Myanmar today after the military government seized the food and equipment that had been sent into the country. The government had said it would accept supplies but not aid workers and would distribute the supplies as it saw fit.
Hezbollah Says Lebanon Has Declared War
This morning Beirut, Lebanon has devolved into heavy gunfire as Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah said of statements against Hezbollah's telecommunications network, "the decision is tantamount to a declaration of war. . .
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