12 July 2002
By The Morning News
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12 Jul 2002
New York's currently: couchez-ing avec toi, ce soir
Lawmakers fight to out-do the White House's penalties for corporate crimes.
Q: Do bananas drink coke or pepsi? A: Neither, they drink blood because they're evil. Extremely good banana jokes.
Animal locomotion, including Where's That Gold?, Hitler Running!, and Hello! I'm Here to Meet You!
Jordan to allow U.S. troops to use soil in preparation for attack on Iraq; King Abdullah assured attack will not happen this year. Related: Attention Iraq: British special forces will blow up your weapons plants!
Americans flock to Spain for bull-running, many ignorant in ways to avoid trampling.
So at a certain point my opinion, my feeling, very strong, that I would stay suddenly started to be not so strong. You know, when people start flying in kind of unannounced, it gets your attention. And phone calls from people in Paris, and gifts from children of executives. Koppel and Letterman talk over the failed ABC bid for Late Night.
The story behind Jared Fogle, Subway's new, skinny spokesperson. Related: Jared stats.
South African Sesame Street to introduce HIV-positive muppet.
Brooklyn gets its own Zagat's Guide.
Man sells entire life, then travels to see it again. [via ak ]
In case you haven't seen it...Click to add title: Powerpoint battles.
Maya Lin consulting on World Trade Center memorial. Ah yes, Maya Lin...
Samuel Beckett's Molloy has a terrific ending: 'I can't go. I'll go on.' Some variations, then, on a theme.
Antiques Roadshow dealer goes to prison for defrauding show's guests by giving too-low appraisals, purchasing the goods, and reselling them at their true value.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. Ian McEwan talks to the Paris Review. Related: Wilson/Nabokov letters, Three poems by Kenneth Koch.