31 March 2004

  • New York's currently: all of 27
  • Five soldiers and at least four foreign nationals killed in separate attacks in Iraq, some bodies burned, mutilated, hanged from a bridge.
  • Rice to give sworn testimony to Sept. 11 panel, Bush and Cheney to answer questions together in private, not under oath.
  • In the process of being detained, 20 terrorists blew themselves up. As many as 23 dead in third day of violence in Uzbekistan.
  • Ten years after the end of apartheid, eight out of ten South Africans believe in a democratic future.
  • Fare hike for New York City cabs.
  • Musharraf threatens to sink peace talks with India if no progress is made on Kashmir by August. Related: Hunting al Qaeda in Pakistan's hinterlands, Masharraf wages war against remote clans.
  • TMN's Choire Sicha beats Hilton sisters and Queer Eye cast to become the 15th most loathsome New Yorker.
  • Fascinating account of visiting Kubrick's fabled estate, including the Napoleon room and a severed head.
  • Fact-check the candidates.
  • Iraqi police underarmed and unprepared to manage security, for now and seemingly for a long time.
  • Why Rice's sworn testimony, and Bush and Cheney's behind-the-scenes chat, will be great for the White House, and bad for the country.
  • 23-year-old New York artist seeks to marry dead-at-24 French poet.
  • PEN/Faulkner award proves vitality, relevance by picking Updike's stories from 1953 to 1975 for top prize.
  • Message boards hop with chatter about Juror No. 4 in the Tyco trial.
  • Lessons learned, or forgotten, 10 years after Rwanda's genocide.
  • World's flags graded.