28 June 2004

  • New York's currently: the last place you'd expect to find peace, but there it is
  • While you were sleeping: U.S. transfers sovereignty to Iraq, surprise ceremony to avoid attacks.
  • Average college tuition at public universities has fallen nearly a third since 1998.
  • Beheadings threatened against kidnapped Marine and Pakistani, another serviceman and three Turkish contractors also abducted.
  • America's security umbrella has allowed Europeans to underfund their militaries and go slack when responding to crises.
  • Meet Timothy Goeglein, Rove's right hand and Bush's link to far-right Christian groups and their most conservative supporters.
  • New York's sex workers prepare extra girls for summer's Republican convention.
  • What you forgot to grapple with: Last week was "United States Olympic Team for Women's Freestyle Wrestling Week."
  • 250,000 protest violent crimes, corruption in Mexico City.
  • Hot to read: New rules on maritime terrorism may cause massive trade disruptions.
  • Guide to the memos on torture.
  • How Bush lost royally to North Korea's Kim Jong-il for a nice deck of nukes.
  • Everyone's favorite word wonk Barbara Wallraff talks grammar with Robert Birnbaum.
  • Betty Dukes leads giant discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart, class action of 1.6 million women, potentially for billions.
  • NY promoter reserves Giants Stadium for Bruce Springsteen (drafted, but as yet unsigned) to upstage George W. Bush this summer.
  • Kill your speed, not us! Children draw "Slow Down" signs.
  • Safety's relativity when any suitcase can be a bomb.
  • Judge says artists may now make fun of Barbie dolls.
  • I'm in a coconut shy, and people are throwing these balls at me. Paul Burrell remarkably survives talking about the Royal Family's quirks.