• MDs retreating from hospital-based practice for many reasons, including legal [Happy Hospitalist]
• Mark Twain: “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” Know that feeling [h/t @lawfirmblogger]
• Among Murdoch properties, stolid WSJ has begun sharing stories with tabloid NYPost, think of the satiric possibilities [Calderone/Politico]
• Oral history of libertarian magazine Reason over 40 years, lots I didn’t know about its past [Brian Doherty and many others]
• As rescuers neared, “immaculate” champagne service: sang-froid of staff and guests under Taj siege [Daily Mail] Security at Mumbai’s Oberoi hotel couldn’t get gun permits from gov’t [WSJ] Tunku Varadarajan: What India must do now [Forbes]
• Good! Obama camp hedging support for EFCA (card-check, imposed union contract) bill [Las Vegas Sun h/t @Eric_B_Meyer]
• Lap dancing “is not sexually stimulating”, British parliamentary committee is told [Guardian via Feral Child]

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