New York's currently: resolute as often as it can afford to be Massachusetts takes stab at nearly universal health coverage. Despite Katrina, insurance companies saw record profits last year--executives call it a fluke. Emphasis on abstinence and fidelity promotion stymying government AIDS plan. Hussein charged with genocide;
New York's currently: chock full of broadcasters Feeling "liberated," Tom DeLay announces he'll leave Congress and not seek reelection. By bowing out now, DeLay can apply any leftover campaign cash to his legal bills. Jury decides to permit death penalty for Moussaoui. Today in
New York's currently: avoiding the 4/5 Fifty killed in Iraq yesterday, including six Americans. With the most rapid growth in spending since FDR, the government now burns 21 cents of every buck earned. Today in the ToB: Never Let Me Go vs. Home Land, judged by Mark
New York's currently: wanting to take this weather, put it on its johnson, and just start spinnin' it around like a goddamn pinwheel... punch it in! Cost of levee rebuilding in New Orleans triples, plans may be downgraded. Earthquakes hit western Iran--Rice offers humanitarian aid, one
New York's currently: up with rb Kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll has been freed. U.N. Security Council send Iran a strongly worded letter, asks IAEA to report back in a month. Experimental avian flu vaccine is 12 times the size of a standard flu vaccine. No word yet
New York's currently: watching the wheels White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card resigns, replaced by longtime Bush aide Joshua Bolten, a "policy geek" who also plays in a band called Deficit Attention Disorder. [Bush] has also defined "the bolten" as a new unit
New York's currently: engineering less often than reverse-engineering Senate Judiciary Committee votes to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants. Mexican towns emptied of working-age men and women; $20 billion sent home last year. County testing wastewater to learn how many citizens are doing coke. How to sell
New York's currently: toying with its meteorologists Protests held across the U.S. in support of illegal immigrants, whose choice of residence may soon be a felony. Illegal immigrants do the work other Americans won't--and it's no longer a question of wage. Bomb
New York's currently: worshipping at the Temple Iraq informed it can no longer rely on U.S. funding for rebuilding. Representatives want to know why Bush needs so much money to build so many bases in Iraq. Cheney's tour rider asks for 68 degrees, Fox News,
New York's currently: noticeably beard Raid on house in Iraq frees Norman Kember and two other Christian peace workers. Still reeling from last year's financial losses, G.M. to offer buyouts to 113,000 union workers. Sonia Gandhi resigns from Indian parliament over moonlighting allegations. We&
