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Good Reads: Qaddafi's African mercenaries, Tripoli's water, and Mexican gangs

Today's must reads include an interview with a mercenary in Timbuktu; Qaddafi's control of water pipelines; and how a US government policy to arm Mexican gangs may have backfired.
Spitzer lawsuit: Ex-N.Y. gov. faces $90M defamation lawsuits

Spitzer lawsuit: The two executives, William Gilman and Edward McNenney, worked for Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., and were the target of a prosecution by Spitzer when he was attorney general of New York.
Chapter & Verse
A new D.B Cooper book – and a new lead

Yesterday a new lead was announced in the infamous D.B Cooper case, a week before a new book about the Cooper case is scheduled for release. Coincidence?
The Daily Reckoning
Government growth does not equal economic growth

How much government growth is too much government growth?
The Daily Reckoning
Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman advocates return to simpler America

Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, penned a parable about a country that looks very much like the US. Its title? "Basically, it's over."
Gates case: What's race got to do with it?

A predominately white segment of America sees the incident as further evidence that the country is becoming a post-racial society. Many blacks disagree.
Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

Write an inaugural speech for Obama, learn where the real dragons live, listen to Bonnaroo in the dead of winter, and more.
Russia's case on Georgia territories: Like Kosovo or not?

Tuesday, after invoking Kosovo to recognize two separatist republics, Russia changed its tack.
Memoirs: whose truth – and does it matter?

Two years after the James Frey scandal, a still-roiled genre thrives.
Memoirs: whose truth – and does it matter?

Two years after the James Frey scandal, a still-roiled genre thrives.