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Sundown: Shells Hit a Syrian University

Plus Barbara Walters is retiring

by
Adam Chandler
March 28, 2013
(AFP)
(AFP)

• Mortar shells struck a cafeteria at Damascus University in Syria killing at least a dozen students and wounding scores others. Last week, a bombing in central Damascus killed more than 40. [NYT]

• After half a decade of broadcasting, enchanting, and frustrating, Barbara Walters will reportedly call it quits next year. [NYDN]

• Are you up on the connection between fracking and Jews? Here’s one take on the issue. [NYJW]

• Apparently we’ve been hard-boiling our eggs all wrong for all this time. Here’s an easy fix, just in time for…Easter? [Slate]

• Following the latest cover of Leonard Cohen’s classic “Chelsea Hotel #2” by Lana Del Ray, a debate has emerged about who has done the song the most justice. [Awl]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.