Reason Morning Links: A Reporter, a Gangster, and a Surfing Madonna

• Barack Obama announces his troop drawdown plan in Afghanistan.
• Minot, North Dakota, prepares for floods.
• A former Washington Post reporter reveals that he's in the country illegally…
• …and he does it in the Times, because the Post passed on the story.
• Fugitive mobster (and onetime beneficiary of police protection) Whitey Bulger is arrested.
• Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is out on bail, though strict restrictions on his movements still apply.
• New Age guru James Arthur Ray is found guilty of negligent homicide.
• Geert Wilders is acquitted of hate speech.
• The Gingrich campaign is still imploding.
• The Surfing Madonna comes down.

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