15 June 2005 By The Morning News — 15 Jun 2005 New York's currently: seeing a lot more Faulkner on the subway all of a sudden, thank you Oprah With U.S. backing, Kurdish police secretly abduct hundreds in Kirkuk and toss them in northern prisons. Bomber kills 23 soldiers on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad. House subcommittee votes to eliminate all federal money for NPR and PBS. Doctor and patient flee robot gone bezerk in the San Francisco Medical Center (see second item). Author of books on city fires charged with starting one. TMN's--and now the Observer's--Choire Sicha reports on the insanity of a press line anticipating Nicole Kidman. Man sues magician David Blaine for borrowing his "godly powers." Same man has "the potential of saying the sexual to nearly anybody." Le Figaro submits Madame Bovary under different name to France's biggest vanity publishing houses. (Read Le Figaro's story in French.) New York's High Line takes major step forward towards development. Video: Steaks can catch fire. Gallery of winners of the Art of Science Competition. Woman with partial paralysis in her face fired from Sam's Club for not smiling enough. Chicago's best burgers. Whether an inspirer of nations or a spiritual twaddlist, Paulo Coelho still sells more books than anybody, even Rowling. Walking tour of Coney Island. Day in the life of a famous Iraqi actress. Knives and big expense accounts both tested in big-stakes advertising-world mutiny. Wonderful experimental food site: culiblog.
