6 January 2003
By The Morning News
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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.