24 April 2002
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: mostly sunny, light winds.
Why somedays we love the Post: Despised bully foreman found with pickax in skull.
Chirac refuses to debate Le Pen to save France's soul; Le Pen calls protestors an 'ultra-minority.'
Egypt's Mubarek accuses Israel of using 'state terrorism.'
Nepal's democracy under attack by Maoist rebels; execution and torture popular on both sides.
140 employees in D.C. airports indicted for lying about their identities or criminal pasts.
Abstinence movement gains political ground for swell moral sense, sparks wave with 'elite' teenagers for preventing genital warts.
Hot! New author Jonathan Safran Foer gets double mentions in today's press, first in the Times with ridiculously heavy petting, little substance, and much jealousy on part of reporter, second in the Observer for allegedly working with Franzen's media coach; if true, is well-proven by Times blather. [to be fair, Foer's book has great cover, mixed reviews, and may be good]
German teenagers send money, apologies to former slaves.
AOL/Time Warner quarterly loss expected to exceed $50B.
Missouri prepares to be The State of Contemporary Art.
Museums have gotten too large, boring, and impersonal.
Times art critics pick new shows they're looking forward to, including Joan Mitchell and Max Beckmann.
Andy Crewdson on the Journal's redesign; Designers Hoefler & Frere-Jones discuss problems of designing for itsy-bitsy numbers.
Harper's editor Lapham chain-smokes, complains about media coverage of war, compares running magazine to funding an 18th century orchestra.
