24 July 2002

New York's currently: currently busy with other customers

Rivalry between Afghanistan's president Karzai and defense minister Fahim threatens government's stability.

San Francisco puts medicinal marijuana to a vote, may become first city to defy ban on growing weed.

Though Bush will most likely find the veto stamp he dropped behind the toy chest, House votes to end Cuba travel restrictions.

With less and less authority, White House denounces Israeli missile attack as 'heavy handed.'

Today's Times food section's excellence (including a look at the often baseless restaurant term 'market menu,' also fancy shirts in fancy restaurants and Amanda Hesser on yet another Italian restaurant in the city) makes us wonder why its writers can't be loaned to other desks, say, Arts & Mindbending Boring Blather. Related: Interview with chef, visionary, author Alice Waters.

Woody Allen props for sale, including autumn leaves.

Tyrant Mugabe's Zimbabwe condemns EU sanctions, will continue land seizures.

Playboy busts into Japan.

Woman receives wedding rings in mail after dropping them down the drain, 33 years ago.

Tobey Maguire, other celebrities sued for money manager's mistakes.

The failure to sign the Kyoto Protocol, the sheer wastefulness of the U.S., where no one seems to have ever heard of lights with timers--these things look very bad from over here. As do adult men in shorts and baseball caps. Interview with expat Jeffrey Eugenides.

One has to imagine that someone cares: Salon has blogs.