12 May 2003 By The Morning News — 12 May 2003 New York's currently: glad to escape itself For the sake of those dining around you... No, Mr./Mrs. New Yorker, your taxes are not that bad. Times publishes giant apology for deceitful reporter Blair. Related: Le Monde under siege, with the lowest daily newspaper-reading public in the world. Foreigners visiting the Gaza Strip now required to sign a waiver absolving Israeli forces from responsibility if they shoot them. Tremendous: Danish Soundscapes. JFK diddled a 19-year-old White House intern. New McDonalds salad has as much cholesterol, and more fat and caolries than a Big Mac. Terrific commentary by Zadie Smith on her novel White Teeth being televised. Interview with Seymour Hersh on covering the war and Donald Rumsfeld's cabal. Tiniest seahorse found. Rocco DeSpirito (aka Rosecrans-imposter) auditions cute young things to appear in his reality food show, The Restaurant. Elvis Costello and Diana Krall to wed. Also tremendous: David Crawford's Stop Motion Studies. Elizabeth Kolbert confirms Albany's lunacy, as we've heard before from Tobias Seamon.