the sunday times

1. Salman Rushdie gets married

2. room for thought

   The mutation that lifted us above the other apes had nothing directly to do with our brain. Rather, it had to do with our jaw.

3. The Orwellian Olsens

   "It's their reality. We just live and die in it.
   In Bushworld, our troops go to war and get killed, but you never see the bodies coming home."

4. "'Massachusetts should not become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage"

   Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said.

5. ''If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.''

   In public, there's no expectation of privacy.