28 September 2004

  • New York's currently: pressing pause on ambition for a few months of hope and fury
  • Twice as many Iraqis (mostly civilians) killed by U.S., multinational forces, and Iraqi police as killed by insurgents.
  • Oil prices surge past $50 on Monday, and may continue to rise.
  • Fewer than two-thirds of former soldiers reactivated for duty in Iraq have shown up for work.
  • JFK transformed as pop singer, surrounded by groovy back-up chorus.
  • Kidnappings and murders by Iraqi insurgents threaten to turn Ramadi into another Fallouja.
  • Edward P. Jones, Aleksandar Hemon, C.D. Wright among MacArthur winners.
  • The President's grandfather profited from companies closely tied to Hitler's money machine. (Other Nazi friends: Henry Ford, the Lindberghs.)
  • Report on congress taking trips sponsored by outside interests (see how often your representative power-trips).
  • Virgin's Richard Branson to launch the wealthy into space by 2010.
  • Details of scummy politics--police intimidation, vote wrangling--in Florida.
  • Conan O'Brien to take over The Tonight Show in 2009.
  • Map showing distribution of adult entertainment sites in Manhattan in 1993 and 2003--find your favorite!
  • TMN's Danny Gregory interviewed on the BBC.
  • Intelligence unit that wrote gloomy Iraq forecast in July warned Bush about anticipated divisions, violence two months before the 2003 invasion.
  • New Yorkers: Book your $50 appointments now for the first annual Spa Week.
  • You will vote in the presidential election, right? Because some states have October 2 registration deadlines.
  • Bruce Springsteen's hero Philip Roth lauded by The Guardian for hauling the reader past "mere critical appraisal."
  • How to make a violin in 45 pictures.
  • Bush: The mission was accomplished then, and the mission is accomplished now.