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9 August 2002

By The Morning News —
  • New York's currently: Operation Anticipating Freedom
  • Bush, fearing U.S. citizens will judge a four-week vacation harshly, hosts PR economic summit in Texas, featuring business leaders who donated to his campaign. Related: Britney Spears answers Bush's challenge with a six-month vacation.
  • Boston charter students taught by MIT students, who are probably less equipped to teach than to turn teddy bears into evil network hubs.
  • Bloomberg moves to ban smoking in all New York City restaurants and bars. Related: Bloomberg threatens to start towing diplomatic vehicles that have racked up $22 million in unpaid parking tickets since 1997; Powell makes a phone call, Bloomberg takes a breath. Related: Eating with the delegates.
  • Iraqi opposition leaders to meet State Department and defense officials (and the mysterious, elusive Cheney, who will not be allowed in the public eye for another three months) to discuss toppling Hussein.
  • John Adams, the official composer of Sept. 11.
  • Naval engineering: 50,000 surgeries a year in the U.S. to re-shape belly buttons.
  • The movie star strolled into a Wizards of the Coast hobby shop [and] started reading a spell-casting manual. Vin Diesel, muscle-bound star of XXX, is...a Dungeons & Dragons player?
  • High school cheerleader Andrea Warren sues for the captain title she lost smoking cigarettes and boozing, wants $50,000 in damages. 'She will miss out on significant social and school activities because she can't be a captain,' said Tanick, Warren's lawyer; 'activities' include not playing captain's role during homecoming, or having captain title next to yearbook photo.
  • The next year in candy, including Popart Hologram Lollipops (assorted fruit flavors feature cool words like 'flirt,' 'rock star'), and Scorned Woman Chocolate Jalapeno Fudge (described as 'sweet heat').
  • Beautiful composition, humor in Tim Wilson's oil paintings. [at ak]
  • Ever read wine reviews and wish your liquor store had better inventory? Risotto-purist Bruce Cole, of SauteWednesday, lines the bottles next to the books.