7 November 2005

  • New York's currently: questioning the accuracy of "Diet Coke" when it doesn't curb your appetite
  • After 11 nights of rioting, violence in France peaks--10 officers are shot, 1,400 vehicles burned.
  • Rescuers search for survivors from deadly Kentucky-Indiana tornado.
  • In speech, Bush slams Chavez, says Latin America is better off with democracy, free trade.
  • A one-second difference in New York City's closest ever marathon victory.
  • Presenting the long-awaited debut film by Coudal Partners: Copy Goes Here.
  • For the past year Vice President Cheney has--to little fanfare--kept safeguards off treatment of military prisoners.
  • Noah Baumbach's vision incriminates Park Slope residents, who love his new movie for it.
  • There is an increasing number of reverse commuters--those who travel out of New York City to go into the job.
  • A neighborhood profile, understandably brief, of Michiko Kakutani, "the most feared book critic in the world."
  • Where evangelicals and environmentalists see eye to eye: "creation care."
  • Brooklyn father intervenes in bar fight, is fatally stabbed while protecting his daughter.
  • Somalian pirates attack luxury liner, ship's captain makes tricky maneuvers. (Watch the video.)
  • College officials relish student suffering, require more Friday and early morning classes.
  • Hip hop tours of New York explore the last three decades of music in the city.
  • "Country [Music] Takes New York?" Too late.
  • Photos: Fantastic gallery of cassette tapes.
  • Japanese schoolgirl, inspired by 1970s British murderer, poisons mother, blogs it.
  • There are good strips, there are venerable strips, but Calvin and Hobbes was the last great comic strip.
  • Garfield sucks.
  • Photos: Evidence of World War II from sites across England.
  • Eight-year-old physics genius enters university.