11 November 2004

  • New York's currently: upped its cheeseburger index to five patties weekly
  • Arafat dies a statesman and a salesman, and successors wait in the wings while reporters wonder about buried treasure.
  • Troops control much of Fallujah "with the gloves off;" Smoking soldier seduces many U.S. newspapers.
  • Bush's pick for attorney general (Gonzales) to provide excellent shield for Bush.
  • Doping scandal rocks Britain's pigeon community--will Brooklyn be plagued as well?
  • 22 killed around northern Iraq, prompting curfews in Mosul and Baiji.
  • Hemingway's rotting house, and fishing tackle, caught between preservationists' good will and Treasury Department's Cuban policies.
  • New Murray's Cheese Shop opens in Manhattan.
  • Since leaving the CIA, George Tenet has made over $500,000 for off-the-record speaking engagements.
  • Only in NY: What do you get when socialites become publicists? Exactly: socialists.
  • Education boom sees record number of Americans now studying in the Middle East.
  • 101 ideas for 2005, including intelligent shoes and brand-name adjectives, though still no flying cars.
  • Thought of the Day, as provided by a cell phone and the London Tube.
  • Large doses of vitamin E may be harmful.
  • At some point today (perhaps) the Paris Review will make all of its interviews, ever, available online for free.
  • Prophecies predicting the end of the world before 2010.
  • They munch pastries and steak frites from breakfast cocktails to last call, and still they stay thin--another look at "The French Paradox."
  • Very unsafe for work: Pictures of couple breaking known sex laws.