In Moscow, a Battle for a Modernist Landmark

John Stubbs, the vice president for field projects at the World Monuments Fund, likens it (the Konstantin Melnikov house in Moscow) to Sir John Soane’s house museum in London and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, calling it “a rare and telling survivor of the extraordinary story of the Russian artistic avant-garde.”-by Christopher Mason, The New York Times

It's water!

Perhaps, but the humble water cooler doesn't make as much of a media splash as the $38-a-bottle Bling water (encrusted with Swarovski crystals) or the $5,000 Evian bath available at the Hotel Victor in Miami. (Tennis star Serena Williams recently dipped into the 350-gallon infinity tub, filled to the brim with Evian Natural Spring Water, and declared it refreshing.)

About such excess, generic water sipper Chuck Konfrst, 35, of Peachtree Corners, had only this dry comment: "If somebody has that kind of money to buy water, they've got too much money."-by Bo Emerson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Washington needs an entrepreneurial approach

The defining lessons of my business experience are central in my campaign: identifying the challenges that face our state and offering real solutions. Something clearly worked, because the voters decided to do what our Founding Fathers envisioned; they put their trust not in a career politician but in a concerned citizen and experienced businessman who promises to rock the boat down in Washington.—Ned Lamont, Opinion Journal, The Wall Street Journal