8 July 2003

New York's currently: unbaked despite the heat

White House says Bush was working with 'incomplete and perhaps inaccurate' information in Iraq uranium claim.

Iranian conjoined twins die after surgery.

Michael Savage fired by MSNBC for on-air anti-gay remarks.

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The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelise. Mel Gibson decides to get weird instead of considering stage direction and CGI options.

Restauranteurs get proper offices: Danny Meyer and Daniel Boulud sign leases on rooms devoted to fax machines, computers, and other things you'd think two guys with a combined eight successful New York restaurants would have.

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I heard that Faulkner's As I Lay Dying was pitched into the fireplace by an illiterate field hand, and Faulkner proceeded to get drunk and write the whole thing from memory in two days straight. Garrison Keillor works to break a slump.

The haul includes a sea spider with organs in its legs, a shark with sandpaper-like skin, and a squid with a big eye to find prey and a little one to avoid becoming it. Deep-sea expedition finds new species.

After all the hoopla, and having received more than enough media attention for it, TNN allowed to rename itself 'Spike TV.'

Buddy Ebsen dies at 95.

Redbook ups the sex ante, gets shut out by Wal-Mart.