Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help two readers with vital questions of national security: Can cars backtrack mileage if driven in reverse, and who is responsible for forcing celebrities down our throats?
New York's currently: just a song inside your head Suicidal man in L.A. drives SUV onto commuter rail tracks, decides to jump at the last moment and causes a chain-reaction wreck that kills 11, injures 180. Douglas Feith, Defense Department strategist for post-war Iraq, announces
Elisabeth Eckleman just left home, and has a lot of difficult decisions ahead of her. In this installment, Elisabeth decides that when her date becomes a ho, she will too. You decide what happens next.
New York's currently: hacking its lungs up all night long White House predicts budget deficit will reach $427 billion this year; Officials insist they can still cut it in half by 2009. 31 marines feared dead in a helicopter crash in western Iraq--if confirmed, single worst loss
While the influence of Wagner’s oeuvre is heard today even in such folksy phrases as “It ain’t over ’til the prom queen sings,” what endures most from Wagner’s one true masterpiece is its totally bitchin use of character motifs.
New York's currently: where the best will fall, and the rest will follow Fire in Lower Manhattan knocks C train offline--for up to five years. Report from Human Rights Watch reveals that Iraqi security forces frequently torture prisoners. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas seems close to getting militant
A used-book store stocks its customers’ tastes and perversions, and then sells them to their neighbors. A Brooklyn shop find life after New York’s Book Row heyday by providing a service computers can’t beat.
A frazzled woman struggles to keep her three children from running wild through the magazine shop, and finally screams, “Tyler! Jackson! Monroe! Front and center, now!” A man, presumably her husband, looks on sheepishly, mismatched carry-on bags jumbled at his feet. He looks like a very confused Government teacher.
New York's currently: annually enraged by Bahamas ad campaign on the subway Zarqawi declares war on "evil principle of democracy", opposing heightened security for Sunday's elections. Genius Johnny Carson returns to gaseous state, remembered as private, even shy, ever a great joke writer. Haunted
Our man in Boston talks with author Louis de Bernières about his most recent book, “Birds Without Wings,” during a fascinating discussion about the Ottoman Empire, how good people go astray in crowds, and the richness of Arab proverbs.
