The WSJ and critical thinking skills

I spend 1-2 hours every day reading the WSJ cover to cover. Having the print edition is superior to the on-line addition as it allows for a faster, deeper sweep of all the articles. Today's paper, 9/14/10, presented the connection between two people that required a review of history that would otherwise not have occured to me:
1. Liu Xiabo and Andrei Sadharov. In: The Peace Prize's Subversive Potential by Gal Beckerman
2. Charles Mitchell and Ferdinand Pecora. In: Out for Blood by James Grant, in Bookshelf