1 March 2004
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: remembering Hunter Thompson, Larry Darrell, Carl Spackler, Peter Venkman, Phil Connors, Polonius, etc.
Aristide flees Haiti with some help from the U.S., while the U.S.'s role in Haiti is again considered.
Interim constitution agreed upon by Iraqi leaders, to be signed on Wednesday.
Studies show: 50 percent of blacks don't graduate high school in the U.S., while 48.2 percent of black men ages 16 to 64 in New York City didn't have a job in 2003.
'Playboy Playmate Mother Teresa of Haiti' Susie Scott Krabacher provides education for 2,000 kids and care for 150 orphans.
With Kerry's aides saying he doesn't like Edwards, and little charisma between them, how likely is the golden boys ticket?
An evening with Mel [is] one long fiesta of boring but graphic jokes about anal sex. Hitchens on Mel Gibson, i.e., a coward, a bully, a big mouth, and a queer-basher (and apparently also a widow come salvation-time).
Harvard to build stem cell research center with private money. Related: Californians seek voter-approval for $3 billion in public financing for stem cell research.
Customer complaints drop when N.Y. cab drivers take charm classes.
Saunders on God on not wanting feminine men marrying masculine women, or, The Manly Scale of Absolute Gender.
Candidates on events that shaped their lives: Edwards, Kerry.
Losing submissions to win a fifties-style burger stand.
Did Jack Kerouac really have sex with Gore Vidal? Yes. Literary mysteries solved by the literary detective.
Capturing the Friedmans DVD offers new perspective on case, including: should the filmmakers have worried less about drama and more about wrongful conviction?
Sasha Frere-Jones on Arthur Russell's dance music, specifically disco, the avant-garde's silent partner.
Short movie: Cat with hands.
Gallery of small signs.
