New York's currently: thanking you for this balloon mug filled with Tootsie Pops, not really meaning it Bush proposes using the strategic petroleum reserve to offset high gas prices--though he already tried this, and it didn't work. Fox News commentator Tony Snow to step in
New York's currently: avoiding the doctor for another ten years McCarthy's lawyer says in the WaPo she didn't leak jail secrets; "senior intel officer" says she wasn't a "key source." Third attack at a Sinai resort in two
New York's currently: dreaming of square footage Evidence of torture and abuse found at Iraqi jails as recently as February--and stemming it is no longer a priority. Only a month into its control of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas is already internationally isolated, deep in debt, and in
New York's currently: sometimes dream burdened, sometimes more chris burden-ed China gives nothing solid during discussions with U.S., gets Falun Gong in the face. A day of indignities for Chinese President Hu. Despite shoot-to-kill curfew, thousands of Nepalese protesters return to the streets. With
New York's currently: trying hard to find something to complain about White House spokesman Scott McClellan resigns; Rove no longer in charge in policy, will instead focus on November elections. Why the White House shake-up? Big win for Democrats in November will send Bush into a lame-
New York's currently: peachy Only one major building project in Iraq is on schedule and within budget: the new American embassy. U.K. surgeons say China harvests prisoners' organs for transplant sales. Bush worried that China's "locking up" global oil supplies. When one
New York's currently: about to leave the coat at home Suicide bombing in Tel Aviv--the deadliest attack in Israel in two years--receives approval from Hamas, condemnation by Abbas. Mississippi senators earmark $700 million in a war spending bill to relocate a Gulf Coast rail line that&
New York's currently: trying hard not to seize, preferring to quell Dozens of Taliban rebels killed; Dozens of Iraqi police still missing. Iran pledges $50 million to Palestinian government. Zawahiri's visibility suggests he's worried about losing leadership of the jihad movement. Iraqi political cartoons.
Gone hooping: Post-Rooster haze means we need a day off; see you on Monday! New York's currently: cock-a-hooping! Iran won't back down "even one iota"; U.S. says "it's time for action." Sectarian violence sends thousands of
New York's currently: waiting for Mr. Jordan Iran announces advance in uranium enrichment, assures the world that energy, not bombs, are the true goal; still, speculation on both sides abounds--as does political theater. American military deaths in Iraq for April already outnumber those in all of March.
