The New Yorker: To-Do List: New Leaders in Tunisia, at Apple, Among Starbucks Cup Sizes

January 24, 2011

The unthinkable has happened. The Scrambler’s first paper edition arrived this weekend. I’ve joined the ranks of the snobby elite. To quote an excellent film…

I have foresworn myself. I have broken every law I have sworn to uphold, I have become what I beheld and I am content that I have done right!

A t-shirt to the first person who comes back with the movie. No googling.

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To know: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is making a promising recovery—doctors have upgraded her condition from critical to serious—but the political climate in Arizona continues to suffer: three Republican district officials have resigned due to increasing concern for their own safety….Chinese President Hu Jintao will meet with President Obama in Washington this week. And three ministers in Tunisia have already withdrawnfrom the country’s new national unity government, which was formed after the president fled the country on Friday. (Read Amy Davidson on the Tunisian protests and WikiLeaks, and Erin Overbey on The New Yorker’s past coverage of Tunisia.)

To read: President Obama’s op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on the executive order that he is signing today to review and revamp the federal regulatory system.

To get the first shot at Facebook stock: Foreign investors only.

To be the new Michael Steele: Reince Priebus, who ousted Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee on Friday afternoon. Priebus plans to start by removing several staffers who had been closest to Steele, according to Politico’s Alexander Burns.

To be the new Steve Jobs? Timothy Cook, who will take over day-to-day operations of Apple with Jobs on his third medical leave in under a decade. Some investors are worried that, this time, Jobs won’t return, according to the New York Times.

To one-up the Venti: Starbucks newest and biggest beverage size, the Trenta. The thirty-one-ounce cup will be introduced today in fourteen states. New York is not among them.

To one-up the grand piano: The Stuart and Sons grand piano, which has fourteen more keys (nine low, five high) than the typical, eighty-eight-key grand.