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May 13, 2012 | | MOTHER’S DAY Some moms bake apple pie—others use their kids as paths to power, slap them, and have public meltdowns. From Betty Draper to Vivian Banks, watch video of TV’s perfect and not-so-perfect mothers. DESPERATE Matters may be out of Karolos Papoulias’s hands. The Greek president will meet with the leaders of other political parties Sunday in a last-ditch bid to form a unity government in the country where voters are outraged by austerity measures. “Things in Greece are quite difficult,” Papoulias told the press Sunday. A government must be formed by May 17, or new elections will be held next month. Papoulias plans to meet with leaders of the New Democracy and PASOK parties—both of which are willing to compromise on austerity measures—as well as the far-left Syriza coalition, which has opposed the restrictions imposed by the bailout. ROMNEY It’s been a long time since the country elected a man as personally unappealing as Mitt Romney. Michael Tomasky wonders if Americans can overlook their deeply held conviction that he’s a jerk. ASSASSINATION A onetime Taliban leader who defected to work for peace was shot dead Sunday in what seems to have been a drive-by shooting in the capital of Kabul. The Taliban has denied involvement in the killing of Maulvi Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of the country’s High Peace Council who police said was sitting in traffic when gunmen drove up alongside him and opened fire. Rahmani, who was appointed to his position on the council by President Hamid Karzai, was traveling to a meeting in the capital’s high-security diplomatic center when he was killed. No one had been arrested Sunday in the shooting. PINCHED Taxes will have to increase or cuts will be made to fill the $16 billion hole in California’s budget, Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday. “This means we will have to go much farther and make cuts far greater than I asked for at the beginning of the year,” Brown said, as the state struggles to make up shortfalls in taxed income. In the online video, the governor appealed directly to the state’s taxpayers, saying that “we can’t fill this hole with cuts alone without doing severe damage to our schools.” Republican state lawmakers argued against the governor’s plan, saying that the state would be better served by leaving taxpayers alone and allowing the economy to grow. | | 
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