Thursday roundup

Some of this was supposed to be your Thursday morning roundup, but, alas, Blogger fritzed out on me (at least Firefox/Blogger combo--I'm on Chrome now), so here's a combined roundup.

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Calcutta is rife with child prostitution.
African immigrants are not find Europe to be the promised land.
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More parsing of the President's Middle East Speech: Milbank thinks it rallied Israeli moderates around the conservatives, but on the ground, the reaction is missed. Sargent demands clarity from the press on what was actually said, and Fareed Zakaria puts it in historical perspective.

The health care demagoguery chickens are coming home to roost, but it's still best not to dwell. More on that from Gail Collins.

I'm glad this expose on Air India came out after our trip.

The debate over the relevance and significance of Gingrich's bling: either it matters because it's politically tone deaf or it doesn't matter because it's okay to be wealthy and show it. Either way, that's some fugly jewelry. Really, Tiffany?

go on vacation and
love whatever bikini body you have while you're there.

By the way, on Sunday my friends and I (who all studied abroad) talked about the value of study abroad. Apparently, the same people who are questioning the value of a college education are reducing study abroad to 'getting drunk in another language,' so it's great to see empirical findings to the contrary.

Really, people? take the million