Part of the NYT's online home page, right now at 10:25pm. Note placement of the stories with arrows, of which there will be clearer views below.
Closer look at the two stories. First:
And a few inches down:
I won't belabor the different kinds of "beasts within" under discussion here, one in a competitive athlete and the other in a rogue unit in Afghanistan. In the print paper, these stories and headlines would obviously be separated, among other reasons since one of them is for a magazine story that won't come out until this weekend. I wonder how long till someone notices the juxtaposition on the home page. No larger point, just one of the artifacts of this New Media Age.
Update: 10:45pm, it's gone. Interesting while it lasted.
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James Fallows is a staff writer for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter. He and his wife, Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the new book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, which has been a New York Times best seller and is the basis of a forthcoming HBO documentary.