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Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we look at why people push the elevator call button even when it’s already illuminated.
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29 August 2002
New York's currently: struggling to keep its umbrellas open Juries in Detroit and Seattle charge six men as members of terrorist 'sleeper cells' in the U.S. Major League Baseball strike deadline is midnight tonight. If terms are unresolved between players and owners, will be ninth
Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights
Four terms this column will not use to describe the album: ‘Joy Division,’ ‘Ian Curtis,’ ‘New Wave,’ ‘Eighties.’ One that it will: ‘one of the finest albums of the year.’ Yes, Interpol may never shirk its reputation. After all, there’s that voice. It’s a strong, booming voice singing
John Ashcroft’s 2002 College Football Preview
Thanks to the 2001 PATRIOT Act, we can learn the dark secrets that lurk in the hearts of men. The time is upon us to take this information and put it to good use: predicting the 2002 college-football champions.
28 August 2002
New York's currently: gleaming the cube Michael Skakel to be sentenced today in Norwalk. Related: 'Behind the Scenes: The Skakel Trial.' Andersen will pay $40 million to Enron shareholders. 'We didn't want to come in right away, so we just put it in
This Is the [Best]...Article...of the Summer!
Ever been suspect of the reviews that accompany movie ad posters? You probably have good reason. A look at the true origins of those reviews.
The Alaina Rautio Interview
A controlled rainstorm, dolls that come to life, an accidental fire. Joshua Allen talks with architect Alaina Rautio about a house she built in a bottle in Portland, Maine.
27 August 2002
New York's currently: cooling its boots Cheney claims threat of Iraqi nuclear capabilities justifies attack. Related: Iraq says it doesn't care. Related: The Iraq-Palestine connection. Domestic worker says she was kept as a prisoner by a Merrill Lynch executive in Queens. U.S. Open begins.
The Illustrierter Bacillus
While looking through his parents’ attic our writer finds the May 14, 1942, issue of the Nazi party propaganda paper Illustrierter Beobachter. Nobody has any idea how it got there. A look between the pages.
No Place Special
I don’t leave New York all that much. Last week I went to California. I’ll just say: I didn’t fare so well. And I really do think there was something wrong, perhaps even deadly, about that hotel. I also had a layover in Phoenix. Here are photos.