12 October 2004

  • New York's currently: sunny and cold, with everyone in blazers
  • Senate passes $137 billion paycheck for lobbyists, a corruption nightmare any way you look at it.
  • Germans work hard to improve their manners.
  • Karzai's challengers in Afghanistan agree to election inquiry.
  • How 29 high-school freshmen and sophomores, in one month, got 17 letters printed in the Times.
  • Stories of solo flights, capes, and literature in the life of Christopher Reeve.
  • Anticipating the political career of former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.
  • Times public editor passes torch, says paper doesn't prefer one candidate over the other.
  • Houston Astros win first playoff series in 43 years of existence.
  • I am constantly disturbed by what I did in the bush. Accounts of children abducted in Uganda.
  • Interview with Slate founder Michael Kinsley, describing why newspapers can't call lies when they see them.
  • New York's best characters, including "Best Anonymous Sex Symbol: Neckface."
  • Bones found in reputed mob cemetery in Queens.
  • Videos: Terrifying first-person account of Manhattan on a bike, and a terrifying Carl Lewis music video made in the gym.
  • Fashion magazine for Mormon teens: Modest clothing, positive media, and clean music reviewed.
  • Central Park to host 50 truckloads of tag sale this week.
  • Jonathan Franzen, who is voting for Kerry because his wife is hot hot hot, among novelists to warn us about their votes.
  • Videos: Short films by Pes, including "Drowning Nut."
  • Quiz from the 2004 campaign for president.
  • Life is short, enjoy it, take your girl and run away. Profile of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, author of craze book Snow.
  • Watercolors by Warren E. Saul; drawings by Mark Lewis Hodgson.