The Reading List

“I think Mr. Bush was probably eating a hard pretzel.”The snack-food industry fights back. “Everything you ever wanted to know about the stuff but were too drunk to ask.”“Alcohol: The Inside Story,” in New Scientist

“For the 11th-largest defense contractor in the United States, wartime is boom time.”

Connecting the multinational Carlyle Group dots.

“Our primary concern is the safety of the learning environment.”

Why University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian might lose his job.

“What’s the next move in the search for the suspected terror mastermind?”Osama bin Laden has left the cave.

“No, Oliver North didn’t warn us back in 1987 about Osama bin Laden’s ‘potential threat to the security of the world.’”Just in case you heard that rumor, too.