New York’s currently: tired but thrilled

 Pakistani military officers have difficulty explaining why their children need superior schools, and a petting zoo.

 Eva Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues demands name-change from Jackie Clarke’s Big Vagina Monologues.

 Down with beauty!: Youths riot in Nigeria, killing upwards of 100, over newspaper article suggesting Muhammad would have approved of the Miss World contest.

 Top British artists hide postcard-size work among student postcards.

 There’s nothing like visiting the big tree at Rockefeller Center to get you in the mood, especially if you’re a bumper.

 Doctor’s excessive child-porn-downloading almost crashes Hospital computer system.

 Bobby Fischer’s endgame is not working out so well, especially when he’s pursued by ‘Jews, secret Jews, or CIA rats who work for the Jews.’

 Rodney Dangerfield still gets no respect, still makes movies, and is still, amazingly, alive.

 Princess Anne becomes first royal with a record after setting her royal dogs on innocent, squealing children.

 The new practice of installing ousted dictators in academics; being run at Boston University as the Lloyd G. Balfour African Presidents in Residence Program.

 Raise a paw! Dogs have been man’s best friend for 15,000 years.

 Hundreds sick on Disney cruise ship.

 Giant interview with Michael Moore.

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