6 October 2003 By The Morning News — 06 Oct 2003 New York's currently: a beautiful town to avoid raising children Syria gets no vote on U.N. resolution condemning Israel for Sunday's attack. Related: Overview of Middle East roadmap. Ahmad Kadyrov wins vote for Chechnya's Presidency in a world-derided bogus election. More Chechnya: Interview with Aslan Maskhadov, Chechnya's elected President in 1997 (in French); former Moscow Times editor Matt Bivens on Bush's conflicted endorsement of Putin. Woman who lived with Harlem tiger says 'we all became family.' Related: Animals banned in New York City. Inside look from the dangerous gun-buying world of NYPD's Firearms Investigation Unit. Advice from Charles Mingus on how to toilet-train your cat. Tad Friend on the allure of suicide via the Golden Gate Bridge. Universities install aquariums, climbing walls, and water parks in the arms race to snag students. Old but great Birnbaum interview with Alan Furst. Tickets still available for the NY Film Festival. Cartoonist William Steig dies at 95. Exactly what happens when the Pope expires. Brits vote on rubbish-towns. Good debate between Clifford May and Spencer Ackerman over the Ambassador Wilson blow-up. Interview with John Lennon about Paul McCartney's assassination. Prepare for the World Beard and Mustache Championships this November.
