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23 October 2002

By The Morning News —
  • New York's currently: trying to focus on what's important
  • With recent bus-bombing, Palestinian statehood seems less likely.
  • Post carries full details of sniper's communications with police, including blunders on the switchboard when the killer called in.
  • French court acquits writer Michel Houellebecq, not guilty of inciting racism when he called Islam 'the stupidest religion.'
  • Washington ships oil to North Korea, taking its time in condemning nuclear program to allow Asian allies breathing room. Related: New Republic on how real nuclear threat in North Korea changes perceived nuclear threat in Iraq.
  • Garrison Keillor takes on Ron Popeil, when his Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler 'doesn't work for shit.'
  • The top 100 political donors since 1989. Also, the top 100 recipients of the money.
  • As named prematurely last week on website, Yann Martel's Life of Pi wins Booker Prize (link includes news report, interview, and excerpt).
  • Fox News, in what is probably not a marketing scheme to boost ticket sales for Red Dragon, asks the Son of Sam David Berkowitz for advice on the sniper attacks.
  • Cat starts fire, feels bad, rescues family.
  • Robin Hood Foundation and Weiss/Manfredi build new library in PS 42 in Queens; a dialogue about design and construction.
  • New York Times buys out the Post's stake in the International Herald Tribune, after it threatened to start its own international paper as a competitor, says the Post. Related: More details in the Observer.
  • Surgeon tells patient, 'you have cancer, I have asthma, we all have to die some time.' Surgeon fired. Related: Jerome Groopman in this week's New Yorker 'How should doctors deliver bad news?' [thanks provenance]
  • I have a lot of respect for what J.K. Rowling's done in her books. They're very pleasurable and enjoyable, but if I had a criticism of them it would be that Harry is too good and too talented too quickly and seems to take to the idea that he's the special one too easily. It's always about Harry winning. Interview with Michael Chabon about his new book Summerland.