Staff Picks - May 7, 2009; 8:13 AM ET

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Administration Is Keeping Ally at Arm's Length Washington Post | This story is fascinating for international political junkies. It's a well-reported narrative about the situation in Afghanistan, with news of a resurgence of the Taliban.

If Big Mama Could See Me Now Washington Post | I love reading Michelle Singletary's "Color of Money" columns and I love the stories she tells about her grandmother and how she handled finances.

Say Cheese: Obama Lunch Turns Juicy Eat-and-Greet Washington Post | This is a great tale about a president, vice president and their cheeseburgers. Why no ketchup?

Nation's First Face Transplant Patient Shows Face Associated Press | Read this online and in the newspaper because this is one of those amazing stories that you want to tell other people to read.

Trapped New Yorker | This is a deep review of August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." Read it because what theatre lover can resist lines like this: "His theatrical mission was 'to articulate the cultural response of black Americans to the world in which they found themselves,' a world, he said, 'that did not recognize their gods, their manners, their mores."

By Ben Pershing | May 7, 2009; 8:13 AM ET
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