27 September 2002

New York's currently: going out to a fancy dinner on friends

Zombie nutritionist recommends all-brain diet.

Bush works on war resolution with congress, Daschle says 'We've got a long way to go.' Powell drafts U.N. resolution with U.K., dispatches aide to lobby France and Russia; admits, 'We're a long way from getting agreement.'

Related: Baghdad plans for urban warfare.

Related: Kristof reporting from Iraq: 'Is America really prepared for hundreds of casualties, even thousands, in an invasion and subsequent occupation that could last many years?'

Bush claims al Qaeda and Iraq work 'in concert.' Fleischer works to cover up mistake.

'I work hard and anybody can just throw a computer up and download my music for free,' says Eminem. 'It could kill the whole purpose of making music.' Musicians bring out ads asking fans to stop downloads.

Angolan life in the wake of war.

Bank robber has quick drink before job, passes out, busted.

Anti-abortionists pose as little girls to snare Planned Parenthood receptionists.

During meetings when the whole admissions committee voted up or down on specific students, committee members had to restrict their fluid intake--if they left for a bathroom break, they might miss a student's case. More on America's colleges, this time a conversation with The Gatekeepers author Jacques Steinberg and James Fallows.

I read about Mary McCarthy worrying about eating dinner alone in a second-floor restaurant on Eighth Street and about Elizabeth Bishop cooking artichokes and hollandaise sauce in her walkup at 16 Charles Street. Books make New York easier.

Most teenagers, when doing it, have sex at home, at night.

Attention Academics: This will make you stifle a chortle: Postmodern urban legends.