22 April 2004

  • New York's currently: ready for testing
  • Suicide bomber kills four, wounds 148 yesterday in Riyadh; Attack claimed by group linked to al Qaeda.
  • Fascinating: Patriot Act based on fraudulent Air Force claim in 1953, establishing government's 'state secrets' privilege.
  • U.S. to rehire former Baath Party officials, senior military officers; U.S. generals to be pleased.
  • Police find 110 illegal immigrants imprisoned in small Los Angeles house.
  • Logs from Saddam Hussein interrogations.
  • Archive of Fitzgerald's screenplays--showing he worked perhaps more than he drank but with less success--added to U.S.C's collection.
  • U.N. Security Council to investigate U.S. Treasury's claim: $10 billion was made off the back of the oil-for-food program.
  • Excerpts from Kerry's military records.
  • 'You break it, you own it' rule does not exist, Pottery Barn officials explain.
  • Bloomberg picks Ed Koch to coax liberals into welcoming Republicans to New York.
  • Know your Mafia: Junior Persico, The Pajama King, Wing Yeung Chan.
  • Eventually people will wonder what all the fuss is about. They will say 'Of course these [computers] are conscious. They're good company.' Profile of Daniel Dennett, philosopher with an instinct for the jugular.
  • Less than 10 percent of BBC viewers find arts or religious programs to have particular value for society.
  • American novelist admits loving comics as child.
  • Overview of New York's thriving restaurant scene. Related: Overview of political shifts in South Korea and Japan.
  • Encounters with burglars and whores.