NewMexiKen subscribes to The New York Times — yes, beginning again this week to the actual dead-tree version. Anyway, as those of you who don’t subscribe (print or digital) may know, you only get 20 free articles a month. So, borrowing an idea from The Atlantic Wire, I’ll feature articles that I think are worth spending your allowance on.
Here’s two very different stories, which I think describe people and how they react to very real, yet very different kinds of crises. Neither story is particularly long, and both I thought were good reads.
A Town’s Few Holdouts Wait Out the Flood at the Bar
In Misurata, Qaddafi’s Soldiers Receive Respect, if Not Honors