6 January 2003

  • New York's currently: very well-rested
  • Bush's new budget plan, with keystone to eliminate taxes on corporate dividends paid to shareholders, aims to boost stock market, but is read as long-term damaging and barely helpful for now.
  • Two bombings in Tel Aviv kill 23, injuring over 100 in immigrant neighborhood.
  • David Sanger reports from the spoon: U.S. plan for governing Iraq after invasion unveiled, includes footnote: Can be managed easily alongside rebuilding Afghanistan, American economy, Presidential election.
  • Dear God, buy tickets now: Sam Mendes directs back-to-back productions at BAM of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya with cast including Russell Beale and Emily Watson.
  • Academic life seems a bit anxious, as defined by M.L.A. conference. Related: TMN roundtable on academia.
  • You can still win the Coudal Rock and Roll Quiz.
  • Best for the headline: Times Q&A: Is Prince Charles gloomy and depressed? Not related: New Year's Eve gun shooting not supported in Chicago.
  • Pepys diary now published as blog format, beating, as we'd expect, all bloggers at the form.
  • Cheap classical music on Friday mornings at the Philharmonic.
  • Art is better, especially in the case of Degas, with dinosaurs.
  • The Smoking Gun's gallery of mugshots, including celebrities.
  • Emo fashion turns Hawaii into Williamsburg; meanwhile, the mob makes Williamsburg look like New Jersey.
  • Itasca, Texas, gets all its news from teenagers.
  • Friend of TMN, Leila Segan, precious game show contestant. [ see nellybelly.mov ]
  • Darien, represent.