18 February 2005 By The Morning News — 18 Feb 2005 New York's currently: a refrigerator being open and closed and open and closed… Bush nominates Negroponte for director of national intelligence job, overseeing 15 spy organizations. Top spy position has little political power attached to it without the president's ear, which Negroponte is said to have. Blasts at two Shiite mosques in Baghdad kill at least 15 on the holiest day of their calendar. The frenzy continues! Today Mark Sarvas makes the call between Susanna Clarke and Cynthia Ozick in the Tournament of Books! Behind the photos that became Smiths' album covers. [via svc] Experience mesmerization with Amy Sedaris's Built by Wendy model shots. John Travolta: "If an employee gets it wrong I get a little anal. I think I'm a little bit of a pain in the a*s that way." Microsoft doesn't like its employees' iPods, but they haven't known how to relate to the kids for a while now. Buy your Italo Calvino Invisible Cities ViewMaster set. Some beautiful pinhole photos of Paris. Details emerge from Afghanistan of alleged abuse by U.S. forces, and now an inquiry is underway over two possible shooting deaths. Studies show that antidepressants may increase chances of suicide. Lebanon wants objectivity to rule over finger-pointing in ex-PM's death. Learning to speed-read, and learning not to. Israel ceases destruction of Palestinian militants' homes. Inside Detroit's Grande Ballroom, where the Stooges and the MC5 played in the mid-'60s.
