1 August 2002

New York's currently: horribly reminded of Carnival Cruises when listening to Iggy Pop

U.N. says no massacre in Jenin, deaths include 52 Palestinians, 23 Israeli soldiers.

You thought Traficant's hair was real? Wrong. Jailed congressman forced to remove hairpiece during routine search.

Bush criticizes companies that avoid taxes by going offshore; both Harken Energy (Bush, director 86-93) and Halliburton (Cheney, CEO 95-00) had subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands.

Chicago mob kills men who struck women with van.

In response to EU's post-corrupt-election sanctions, Mugabe plans 'sanctions' against his opponents.

Bloomberg plans to float the city's garbage away on barges, cutting down on trash traffic.

McDonald's attacker Jose Bove out of jail after 40 days of a three-month sentence.

Durham's Bullock's Barbecue celebrates 50 years of pork. Related: A fascinating article about the racial segregation in North Carolina slaughterhouses, from the Times series on race in America. (thanks Molly)

Conflict of interest? Group of online publishers claims people are ready to pay for web content.

'We've been trying to figure out what we can do with Anna because we know there's this fascination that people have with her,' said Mark Sonnenberg, E! executive vice president. New Anna Nicole Smith reality show debuts Sunday; editors go wild with bust-puns.

The week in reviews, including Kakutani's trashing of Amis and de Botton's 'fetish for revelation in the prosaic.' Related: Interview with Arthur Phillips, author of Prague and five-time Jeopardy champion.

For AVV: V.S. Naipaul in Iran, 1981, 'Among the Believers.' Related: Also in the Atlantic, Reading Keats's 'To Autumn.' Related: Yeatsian economics.

Bruce Springsteen rules.