Should Moseley-Braun's nomination be approved by the committee, the full Senate could take up the question by Wednesday.

CNN: Satisfied Senate committee goes easy on Moseley-Braun

It is very likely that more states will take up the question of death-penalty repeal in the years ahead.

CNN: Executions, death sentences remain steady over past year

The Supreme Court could likely take up the larger question of whether juveniles should be executed and with that Malvo's case really would be irrelevant.

CNN: Malvo likely won't be part of campaign to end juvenile death penalty

There is in any case a large a question mark over the take-up of elected mayors outside London.

BBC: A mayor for the millennium

Alex Russell, an engineer on the Chrome team, was kind enough to take up my question, with an answer which I think is too good not to share broadly, and which he was kind enough to let me share it.

FORBES: Chrome: A Google Eye View

Critics of the UPP (Pacifying Police Unit) in Rio de Janeiro are quick to question how community organization and development projects will take shape in the years leading up to the World Cup and Olympics.

FORBES: Alternative Models For Community Development Emerge Far From Rio's Bright Lights

That raises the question of whether cronyism really is dead, or whether fresh cronies are popping up to take the old ones' places.

ECONOMIST: The big clean-up