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Swampland

Debate Expectations: A Hail Mary Ahead?

The CW this morning seems to anticipate fireworks (any one see today’s cover of the New York Daily News?) in the last presidential debate tonight: another Hail Mary pass from John McCain, though in exactly what form is anybody's guess. Read more

Real Clear Politics

10/14 Recap

Obama received nothing but good news today, exactly three weeks until Election Day. Read more

World

The Middle East Blog

The Freelancers Are Free

The good news is that the freelance American journalists who went missing in Lebanon earlier this month have been found ... in a Syrian jail. Read more

The China Blog

Questions Over Police Brutality

Last weekend in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin police beat to death a recent college graduate. It has raised once again questions about police brutality and official impunity in China. Read more

Business & Technology

The Curious Capitalist

Not a Panic, a Sigh of Resignation

A pretty convincing narrative thread for the day's events is that today's market reaction was no longer about financial-system panic but about the reality of recession Read more

Work in Progress

Man Booker Prize Goes to TIME Contributor

Are you kidding me? The Man Booker Prize, among the most prestigious of literary awards, was just announced: it went to Aravind Adiga, a former correspondent for TIME in India. Read more

Nerd World

Dead Space Review: It's Not Just the Space That's Dead

Finally somebody's going to film this book. I've been whining "forever" about the absence of a Forever War movie. Read more

Entertainment

Tuned In

David Alan Grier's Vanilla Sundae

The monologue, in which DAG exhorts America to "vote for the white half" of Barack Obama — and argues that the McCain-Palin ticket is the "blacker" choice — is hilarious: Read more

Looking Around

The Emperor Hadrian

The show of Roman artifacts at the British Museum was an interesting picture of a complicated man — and a good argument for why that museum needs more space. Read more

Photos

White House Photo Blog

About 15,000 supporters turned out to see John McCain McCain and Sarah Palin at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.View more

We are entering a new age in American history, and I'm so excited to be alive for it.

• - Posted by Steven Van Haren on Curious Capitalist in response to Justin Fox's "Treasury prepares for a TARP-and-switch. And it's a good thing, too"