Headlines from April 4, 2007
- Iran plans to release hostages; British families and government prepare for their return.
- Nancy Pelosi meets with Syrian president over Bush administration's objections.
- Ethics policies explain why Wolfowitz's partner works at the State Department, not why she makes more than the Secretary of State.
- H&R Block celebrates as more than 125 Jackson Hewitt branches shut down for tax fraud.
- Mitt Romney balances a fine line when it comes to thanking Mormons for his $21 million war chest.
- Video: Watch Dick Cheney puzzle over whether to stand next to the bush or Bush.
- Keith Richards' manager asserts the rocker's confession to snorting his father was only "said in jest."
- Fans of NBC's You're The One That I Want face Broadway ticketbuyer's remorse when favored contestants lose.
- British police cameras soon to be equipped with loudspeakers and shrill warnings.
- The Guardians's top 10 books set in Japan.
- Sweden denies couple's application to name baby girl Metallica.
- "Within the industry, he's known as The Man, the Michael Jordan of his game." Don LaFontaine, "that voice-over guy," gets a second wind.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews college pranks.
- Is Bush more isolated from his party than any recent president? Has he lost his gut-level bond with America? No, he says.
- Is a botched bid to kidnap Iranian officials to blame for the captured Britons?
- Boomers and losers in world population.
- With election year fast approaching, coastal reporters will soon "rediscover" the Midwest, and miss out on how a quarter of the country lives.
- Op: In terms of terrorism, is Montreal New York's sword of Damocles?
- There has been no public outcry concerning the curious case of the severed head, and no one knows to whom it really belonged.
- David Sedaris's police, parts one, and two, love to make hay--but hey, it fills columns.
- Probably unreliable rumors about U.S. plans for Iran; Russian press review.
- Upcoming arms-control talk: "Wassenaar Arrangement: Unsexiest of International Regimes."
- Fine wine is a warrant on wealth creation, or, how Parker's scores have become credit ratings.
- Fingerprint evidence may be infallible, but not the experts who study it.
- Maira Kalman's final "Principle of Uncertainty," and for those who don't have Times Select, they'll soon be collected in book form.
- How to deconstruct anything, or, a computer professional meets postmodern literary criticism.
- The internet began as 12 million index cards.
- Video: Because some days deserve an internet rewind; i.e., the whistles go wooo.