19 March 2002

  • Cheney changes direction, plans to meet with Arafat if truce takes hold; Sharon lifts travel ban, anticipating Arab summit.
  • Democrats receive giant cash infusion, just as legislation to ban similar gifts is pushed.
  • A study of the President's delicate shopping within Congress.
  • Thieves leave Heathrow airport with $3M; Chan, Tucker put on immediate stand-by.
  • Simon & Schuster beam new Stephen King book to fans; mention of box, and being outside it.
  • 10 Questions Randy Cohen would love to answer as "The Ethicist."
  • 3 characters that killed Bill Paxton: "The Alien," "The Terminator," and "The Predator."
  • Coder testifies that systematic evidence proves Milosevic's guilt; PDF of report available.
  • Neurologist Oliver Sacks lusts priviately, and now with full disclosure, for ferns.
  • The Whitney Biennial will never get a good review.
  • Raymond Chandler on the Oscars: a 1948 article by LA's best scribe of desperation.
  • Proofs for Harrison Cady's Peter Rabbit illustrations in the New York Herald.