New York's currently: grape crazy! Deadline for Darfur peace agreement passes with no accord. Kadima signs up Shas for coalition government in Israel (by leaving evacuating settlements off the table). White House plan to lower gas prices won't do much, says White House. Even Limbaugh feels
New York's currently: a la luz de la aurora Hoping to stem rising gasoline costs, Senate Republicans propose $100 rebate for taxpayers and extra taxes on oil companies. ExxonMobil announces first-quarter earnings, is on track to break last year's record profits. Iraq's top
In our continuing series, a profile of the pornographer who put Paris Hilton in your living room, and a fascinating look at “pseudo-events” in our culture and the media that can't get enough of them.
New York's currently: about to completely unravel, possibly Sister of Iraq's new vice-president gunned down, two weeks after another of her brothers was murdered. FEMA yanks back housing benefits from thousands of hurricane evacuees. FEMA is in shambles, beyond repair, and should be abolished, say
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
It’s the last Wednesday of the month, so it’s time for another page of what the writers have been watching, reading, eating, hearing, quaffing, and loving oh so much.
There’s something to be said for working smarter, and not harder, and humans have been looking for—and finding—loopholes to enable it for centuries.
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
“In fact, Weitz has sympathy for all his characters—the scheming Sally, the self-loathing Tweed, even the terrorists, who turn out to be as riveted to cheap musical diversion as we are.”
City or country? Weekends of restoration or weeks of relaxation? With one renovated country house behind him, can our food writer take the plunge and finally open a preserves shop in the woods?
