6 February 2003

  • New York's currently: wondering what to do about so many things
  • Recent intelligence breakthroughs made Powell comfortable linking Iraq to Al Qaeda.
  • CSM Middle East editor and Flak chief James Norton reports from a week of traveling in Jordan and Israel.
  • War continues between N.Y. peace protesters and the NYPD over parade permit.
  • Photographs of pedestrians at Marble Arch, London, by Simon Høgsberg.
  • Williamsburg waterfront slowly being developed into a power plant, apartment buildings, or a beach volleyball court for the 2012 Olympics.
  • A British dove's guide on how to be an honest critic of the war.
  • Jack Welch lived at the top of the Trump Building because '[he] felt he had the world by the ass.'
  • Ashcroft orders attorneys in New York to seek the death penalty in cases where prosecutors didn't ask for capital punishment.
  • I want to be who I am, out of the rat race. I am fed up with my life being about work. I want to be a real man. 'Bug-chasers' want to bareback their way to HIV, then have the disease change their lives.
  • Australian Paul Crake wins Empire State Building Run-Up race fifth time in a row, taking 1,576 stairs in 9 minutes, 33 seconds.
  • Manhattan wasn't a psycho story; it was a love story. And it was New York, and I loved New York. Powells.com interview with Mariel Hemingway.
  • This Is A Magazine, issue 8: The Beautiful Losers. Better every time.
  • 555-XXXX telephone numbers rarely exist, except in movies and television. A full explanation why.
  • Scientists want to make suits out of corn.
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