21 October 2005

  • New York's currently: squeezing in all the tennis it can get
  • U.N. says top Syrian and Lebanese officials killed former prime minister Rafiq Hariri (click here for PDF report).
  • Congress finally gives the gun industry a giant shield.
  • Derogatory stereotypes banned at school, including offensive images of witches.
  • Wilma slows its march somewhat, expected to hit Florida tomorrow.
  • Basketball players say new NBA dress code--suits between games, and no jewelry--is anti-hip-hop. Hockey players feel their pain.
  • "Real human bodies" coming to South Street Seaport.
  • American ambassadors in London refuse to pay the congestion charge.
  • Explicit details from firsthand accounts of torture of Iraqi detainees by the 82nd Airborne Division.
  • Former dollar chopper--Nigerian email scammer--recounts life inside cyber cafes.
  • Begin planning your pumpkin carving.
  • New photographs from devastated south Asia post-earthquake.
  • Homeless millions fear onset of winter. Donate to Unicef to help victims.
  • For 16 hours, FEMA dismissed urgent warnings from its only staffer in New Orleans, staffer says.
  • If Miers isn't confirmed, blame her parents for not teaching her how to write a thank-you note. (Here's proper technique.)
  • Maintain vigilant watch on today's Gary Benchley give-away contest!
  • Abducted Guardian journalist freed.
  • Taliban step up Afghan attacks, insurgent-style, to attract money from extremist financiers.
  • Things people say besides "pop" or "soda."
  • Tale of grave-robbing in D.C. involves attorney general, an eccentric collector, and a mysterious skull.
  • Op: The case for author photographs to be abolished.
  • Celebrating its 100-year anniversary, Lombardi's to sell five-cent pizzas on Nov. 10.
  • Twenty-two comic panels that always work.
  • Greenwich residents tired of being whores.
  • Experiments in doorway decorum.