Details on the suspects accused of plotting to attack New Jersey's Fort Dix. Apparently they were bad shots with machine guns. Pentagon says 35,000 troops will deploy to Iraq in August, and the Post provides a good summary of the current situation. Obama slightly overstates how many
My roommate my first year of college had spent the preceding summer traveling across Europe and buying albums by artists who never had a hope of getting distribution in the U.S. Was this invisible blockade yet another example of American cultural imperialism? Of the closed-mindedness of Western audiences?
Home is where writers often retreat to focus on work, not receive visitors. Here’s the author of The Ginger Man at his Irish estate. Lock your doors, Salinger.
In Iraq, government tensions ease after averted walkout, civilian tensions rise after bomber kills 16 in a residential neighborhood. Six Islamic militants living in the U.S. charged with plotting a deadly attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey. Graph: Presidential approval ratings put in perspective. A British view of
Europe says if Wolfowitz goes, it won't contest the tradition of the U.S. picking the World Bank president. Petraeus says by September we'll know if troop increases have worked; Congress wants a progress report in the fall. New leadership in Northern Ireland shares power between
So many news articles are the same; only the names are changed. This template takes the legwork out of your next general-interest piece.
One month later, killings continue following the stoning of a Northern Iraqi girl. Juan Cole on the lack of al Qaeda in Iraq. The M.T.A. loses its head. News media invited to tour Alaska's "son of Star Wars" missile defense facility, in case North
What becomes of resorts planned with big dreams—yachts, country clubs, roads paved and phone poles wired—that never materialize? Forty minutes from Palm Springs, photographer Marshall Sokoloff spent two years roaming the deserted zones of Salton City, tracking the desolation.
Sarkozy wins France's elections, promises major change; Royal promises to "renovate the left." Promised anti-Sarkozy riots materialize in minor forms around France. Paris Hilton sentenced to 45 days in jail, a punishment she finds "cruel and unusual." Ops: Life is better in Paris;
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