17 March 2004
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: on a three hour tour, a three hour tour
U.S. gives $5,000 and apologies to families of civilian casualties in Iraq.
Members wavering, Bush pleading, Iraq coalition threatening to come undone: Netherlands, Honduras, El Savador, Guatemala may pull troops after June.
Ski resorts protect guests from avalanches with cannons, and from other ski resorts' cannons with detente.
Democrats lament seven-year truce with Republicans on ethics investigations.
Queens can't find new poet laureate who's written 'poetry inspired by the borough.'
How Bush resists the empirical: Pentagon spanking, Medicare lockdown, EPA End Run.
300 Pakistani troops clash with 500 highly-trained Islamic militants, miles from the Afghan border. Related: Border tribesmen say bin Laden's elsewhere, bristle at army's presence.
New York art: Mari Lyons, Gael Mooney, Ellis Wood this weekend.
Waters continue to rise. Riverdance, the longest running stage show in world history, closes after 5,417 years. A look into the future, now that Ireland's shrinking.
Considering the sacred human on cloning's slippery slope. Related: Rothstein in 1979 on Gödel, Escher, Bach.
Calling on Bush and Kerry to resign from Skull & Bones.
Mel Gibson has plans for Chanukah movie.
Young Chechens make painstaking efforts to acquire books by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The current state of literature in Chechnya.
Diane Keaton on being funny looking as opposed to funny.
The Guardian on the Madrid bombings, and Andrew Sullivan on The Guardian.
