Continuing difficulties today. Will be shutting down for the rest of the week--back with new features, headlines, and modems on Monday. Thank you for your patience. New York's currently: feeling everybody's weather London bombs appear to have been detonated by timers; similarities to Madrid attacks
New York's currently: looking eastward Series of blasts in London hit tube and double-decker bus, leave large numbers of casualties, two dead. Not only was the attack timed with the G8 summit, but Israel was holding an economic conference near one of the London terror sites; Scotland
New York's currently: the mosquitos' leftovers White House asks conservative allies to stop giving Gonzales the business. Op: Conservative attacks on Gonzales may make him more appealing to liberals and thus, a better candidate. Days after an Egyptian envoy was abducted in Iraq, diplomats from Bahrain and
New York's currently: back to being dependent China criticizes U.S. for politicizing attempted takeover of Unocal. Nets plan for Brooklyn now includes half a dozen skyscrapers as high as 60 stories. Matthew Cooper's Plame source may have been Karl Rove. Did Russell Crowe attack a
New York's currently: having a hot summer, but definitely not in a 1968-in-Germany kind of way note: TMN will be manning the grill on Monday, keeping things black and blue Blair may snub Bush on global warming at G-8. After all, he backs the protesters.
New York's currently: the exception to the rule of "one size fits all" Intelligence czar Negroponte gets more control over spies with consolidated National Security Service. Black man clubbed by white attackers in Howard Beach. Us Weekly launches scholarly Us Quarterly to explore celebrity issues in
New York's currently: terrified of high-rise a/c window-unit meteors With no new strategies to fight off attacks, Bush declares daily sacrifice of American lives in Iraq to be "worth it." Immigrants' fingerprints expire every 15 months, though no one at the immigration
New York's currently: downloading pirated music while walking between subway cars Context tips the scales in Supreme Court decision to permit Texas Commandments and bar Kentucky's. On heels of Court ruling, Christian groups announce plans for similar monuments in 100 cities and towns. New subway rules
New York's currently: battling with server issues U.S. military meeting with insurgency leaders in Iraq to enfold native Sunnis but expel foreign fighters. Trial unlikely for 13 CIA operatives ordered arrested by Italian judge. Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," the
New York's currently: thinking it could move entirely by subway to a new apartment across Brooklyn, given a whole month to do it Supreme Court rules that un-blighted homes can be seized to make way for public works such as, say, a mall. Op: Government seizure is
