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Headlines for 2 December 2003

New York’s currently: enjoying the season’s first semi-snow

 Majority of Iraq’s Governing Council supports Bremer’s regional caucuses plan to make government, not Shiite leader’s call for national election.

 Moment-by-moment account of Sunday’s four-hour battle in Samarra.

 Thai politicians outraged at new ban on mistresses and whores.

 In rare display of unity, Democrats vow to defeat Dean.

 India plans free AIDS therapy for people in the six states with the highest rates of H.I.V. and AIDS. Related: Who cares about AIDS in Cambodia?

 Black comic director Neil LaBute’s top 10 black comic films.

 A novel method for foie gras under vacuum.

 Fearing Manhattan, DeLay wants the Republican National Convention held entirely on a boat in the Hudson River.

 All these decades on from raising consciousness, it seems that the vagina still needs a light shone on it. Jenny Diski on recent vagina research.

 New York City crime at its lowest point in 35 years.

 Archive of Julian Barnes’s cookery columns for the Guardian.

 NYC citizens against car alarms! Related! Everything you want to know about the subway!

 Three types of opinion, including one that drove Flaubert mad.

 Large index of American folklore, also, a giant index of nurse books.

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