23 May 2002
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: working on new, exciting ideas
President Bush continues to disappoint EU with bland, relentlessly repetitive tie selection.
World's diplomats fear total war after India's Prime Minister prepares for 'a decisive battle.'
Over 1,000 dead in southern Indian heat wave.
Nauseating Chandra Levy coverage continues as body is discovered in park; media once again remarkably self-important, self-fulfilled; sad facts overlooked.
The hearty sexual appetites--requiring many plates--of Catherine M., French art critic and editor, come to the States, where they're judged as melancholy, desperate.
Fascinating case in First Amendment law: Court prevents anti-abortion activists from publishing Wild West wanted posters of abortion doctors. [thanks dave for the correction]
Microsoft blunders by bombarding Pentagon with demands to stop using open-source software.
England's Booker Prize rumored to be opened to American books; Rushdie, Ishiguro, McEwan all in favor.
jetBlue and Commerce Bank are success stories for staying small, while other businesses gorged, got sick.
Excellent pre-and-post-war advertising design. [via coudal]
Amazon offers beta restaurant service with menus from across the U.S.; must eat again soon at Balthazar.
Nigella Lawson invites friends over for lunch.
Drunk cowboy tips waitress $2,000.
The New Republic offers a guide to the pundits.
