• The Real Thing, Baby: Coca-Cola opens heavily fortified bottling plant in strife-ridden Afghanistan.
• Down Under, Al Gore feeds the 08 speculation machine
• Secret Prison investigations prompt CIA counterterrorism officers to buy legal insurance. Former agency headman: "I'm deeply troubled that CIA officers have to buy insurance… There should be clear rules about what the officers can and can't do."
• Democrat who would be nation's first Muslim congressman teeters on victory's edge in tomorrow's primary.
• Weekend's Toronto film fest more politicized than ever: Dixie Chicks won't "Shut Up and Sing," Forest Whitaker plays despotic Idi Amin, British filmmaker's depict the "Death of A President," Richard Nixon wants John Lennon deported, Michael Moore slams health care coverage and the war.

[Rolling Stone]