4 June 2002

  • New York's currently: surrounded by kleenexes
  • Egypt's Mubarak says they warned U.S. intelligence a week before Sept. 11 about an al Qaeda attack.
  • On eve before Sept. 11 investigation, CIA says it warned FBI about hijacker, contradicting FBI's assertion it didn't have the information.
  • Similar to South African government's inability to say the word 'AIDS,' anti-conservation White House finally admits existence of Greenhouse effect, calls for voluntary measures to correct legacy of voluntary measures.
  • Woody Allen and Judge stick to comic routines as Allen takes the stand in lawsuit against former business partners.
  • Atlanta suspects freed after lawyers don't appear, some in jail for weeks or over a month, longer than the longest likely sentence.
  • White House refuses to supply Lieberman with subpoenaed Enron papers, saying his aides can come over for a play-date.
  • English dolphin attempts to rape swimmers.
  • Portrait of New York death row revealed in correspondence.
  • The facts on the death penalty, including this: 87 people freed on grounds of innocence.
  • Interesting interview with origami master Michael LaFosse.
  • Hendrik Hertzberg, writing about rock like E.B. White on television, has a crush on Bono.