24 October 2003

New York's currently: taking orders from management

Kofi Annan urges reluctant countries to donate aid toward the reconstruction of Iraq.

Bill Clinton brokers deal for price cut on AIDS drugs for developing countries.

Rumsfeld laughs off leaked memo criticizing Pentagon.

Senate votes to ease travel restrictions on American travel to Cuba. Related: Senate votes itself fifth straight pay raise. (Vacation cash?)

INS raids Wal-Marts across the country, arresting over 300 illegal workers.

Irish smoking ban goes into effect in January.

Forty-nine Russian miners trapped.

The Kid Gets Stays Goes oh, never mind: Robert Evans interview from 2002. 'The thing is, [Hollywood is] taking me more seriously than ever. Not my peers, but the young people, like Wes Anderson. He's a pal of mine. And David O. Russell's a good friend of mine.'

Really: Lightning strikes actor playing Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ – twice. Related: Gibson's film to open on Ash Wednesday.

Illustrating the invisible lines in Austin, Texas.

'The way your mother knows exactly what you should get when you add two and two and the answer is a banker's hand.' After You Set Your Head on Fire the Rest Will Follow.

I DO NOT KNOW crap about these things. You are bidding on 'Collection of 26 Beanie Babies from Ex-Wife.'

All joking aside, a man was jailed for smuggling snakes in his trousers. The joking may now commence.

The stunt double: Who the hell is that guy? It sure isn't Keanu Reeves.

World Wide Words: 'international English from a British viewpoint.'

Buick LaCrosse to be renamed in Canada because the name is slang for masturbation in French-speaking Quebec. 'LaCrosse,' not 'Buick.'