The New York Times has an unusually good Sunday:

• Matthew Connelly is to population policy what Bill Easterly is to development

• Papa Doc is back from the grave in Haiti

• A history of bombing civilans

• Who knew that the Surinamese are as likely to speak Indonesian, Hindi and Sranan Tongo (literally Suriname tongue) as they are Dutch and English?

• A new book of ultimate blogs

There may be even more, but the rogues in the DC distribution center failed to include my Week in Review section. Fortunately, there are other distractions.

• Does the World Bank need a sociological and constructivist approach?

• ‘Learning by doing’ takes a body blow from Rebecca Thornton and Peter Thompson.

• The problem with U.S. Presidential development strategies

• Could gamma rays annihilate the Earth?

• Sloppy writing leads to sloppy thinking, decrees B.R. Myers in The Atlantic

Finally, Blake Hounshell at the FP blog makes me depressed:

I was struck today by the disturbing parallels between sentiments expressed by a Tibetan social worker and Osama bin Laden. Here’s the social worker:

“Tibetan youth are frustrated,” the social worker says. She talks about her 21-day hunger strike in front of the United Nations office in New York, meant to raise awareness about the Tibetans’ plight. “It didn’t help,” she says bitterly. The first TV cameras arrived only after 12 days. “But when a bomb explodes or a house goes up in flames,” she says, “the UN is right there. The world only reacts to violence. Just like in Kosovo.”