Reconciliation

–Incoming freshmen to Congress are advised they’ll have to spend half their workdays fund-raising.

–At long last, actual video footage of the elusive giant squid.

–What kind of dinosaur meat would be tastiest? This is probably the definitive analysis.

–In Japan, even the yakuza live in fear of the country’s gun-control laws.

–The male skew of the Obama administration: ”About 43 percent of Mr. Obama’s appointees have been women, about the same proportion as in the Clinton administration, but up from the roughly one-third appointed by George W. Bush”