5 September 2001

  • Loyalists protesting Catholic school replace rocks with bomb, wounding policemen.
  • More rioting expected in Belfast after Protestant boy killed while cycling.
  • The Durban race conference is not going smoothly: an overview.
  • Bush doesn't commit--as Republicans want--to vetoing spending bills that will spend next year's Social Security surplus.
  • China will allow News Corp. and AOL television access to its population in return for broadcasting a Chinese government-sponsored channel in the U.S.
  • Michael Chabon and Rick Moody sound out about the Bulgari-sponsored novel.
  • A 1994 interview with Pauline Kael.
  • Pigeon racer to sue cellular companies for scaring off birds.
  • True is True updates to include poetry.
  • The map that first named America has made its way to the Library of Congress.
  • The White House website gets re-designed, now including the First Lady's diary!