4 November 2005 By The Morning News — 04 Nov 2005 New York's currently: watching its friends reproduce Scooty pleads not guilty to lying in leak case. Where the anger just won't cool, eight nights of rioting in Paris yield hundreds of cars torched (video here). Louisiana owes FEMA $3.7 billion unless Congress forgives its debt. Houellebecq loses the Goncourt to François Weyergans; the Renaudot goes to Nina Bouraoui. Master of the Computer Who Surprised the World. Titles supposedly used by world leaders when referring to Kim Jong-Il. Senate passes $35 billion in cuts, including measure to open Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to oil drills. Amazon.com to begin selling books by the page. Every guitar on Amazon.com. Op: Right-wing honcho novelists--Cap Weinberger, Oliver North--show how reality is perceived by conservatives. Construction begins at the World Trade Center with little fanfare. Military looks to economically depressed, rural areas for recruits. Reasons to live in NYC: Man kills buck with bare hands in bedroom; $75,000 in bull semen stolen from farm. Vincent Gallo's sperm for sale, preferably to a Jew (so as to win a Sundance prize), though not to black people. Greg Sandow composes book online on the future of classical music. DeLay emails show request to raise money for him through private charity. Illegal fish pirates flout laws using "flags of convenience" bought online. D.C. has country's highest AIDS rate: 1 in 20 residents infected. Philosophers answer your questions, e.g., "is it wrong to eat people?" and "is it cool that I don't like dildos?"
