9 December 2003

  • New York's currently: keeping the bench warm for you
  • Suicide bomber blows up car filled with explosives, injures 41 U.S. troops.
  • Gore to endorse Howard Dean in a move that may assure Dean the Democratic frontrunner position, leaving Lieberman 'blindsided.'
  • On the first day of the bear hunting moratorium in New Jersey, 61 bears were killed.
  • Bush signs legislation for prescription drug benefit for Medicare.
  • Human-rights activist, lawyer, and author Samantha Power describes how things got so bad in Zimbabwe.
  • 83-year-old Uptown Theatre in downtown Toronto collapses, kills at least one, injures 14.
  • 'A lot of places have nuts in bread, but there are restaurants, like Le Cirque and Daniel, that are very sympathetic to this…' Food allergies among the rich and powerful.
  • Seattle cabbies can now dress like Elvis.
  • Give: Harlem School of the Arts
  • Who'd have thought it would come to this? Love John. Ringo digs up some postcards from his old bandmates.
  • Do you want to get together with The Morning News? Then help us start Third Thursdays.
  • Supreme Court rules Rosa Parks allowed to sue OutKast.
  • The rules: all the people must cross the river; only two people can be on the raft at a time; only the police officer, the mother, or the father can operate the raft; the father cannot be left with the girls without the mother; the mother cannot be left with the boys without the father; the prisoner cannot be left with anybody without the police officer present. A game of logic.
  • Now that he's completed Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson wants to make The Hobbit. Related: The Mushroom House, inspired by a familiar Shire dwelling.