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Headlines for 9 December 2003

New York’s currently: keeping the bench warm for you

 Suicide bomber blows up car filled with explosives, injures 41 U.S. troops.

 Gore to endorse Howard Dean in a move that may assure Dean the Democratic frontrunner position, leaving Lieberman ‘blindsided.’

 On the first day of the bear hunting moratorium in New Jersey, 61 bears were killed.

 Bush signs legislation for prescription drug benefit for Medicare.

 Human-rights activist, lawyer, and author Samantha Power describes how things got so bad in Zimbabwe.

 83-year-old Uptown Theatre in downtown Toronto collapses, kills at least one, injures 14.

 ‘A lot of places have nuts in bread, but there are restaurants, like Le Cirque and Daniel, that are very sympathetic to this…’ Food allergies among the rich and powerful.

 Seattle cabbies can now dress like Elvis.

 Give: Harlem School of the Arts

 Who’d have thought it would come to this? Love John. Ringo digs up some postcards from his old bandmates.

 Do you want to get together with The Morning News? Then help us start Third Thursdays.

 Supreme Court rules Rosa Parks allowed to sue OutKast.

 The rules: all the people must cross the river; only two people can be on the raft at a time; only the police officer, the mother, or the father can operate the raft; the father cannot be left with the girls without the mother; the mother cannot be left with the boys without the father; the prisoner cannot be left with anybody without the police officer present. A game of logic.

 Now that he’s completed Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson wants to make The Hobbit. Related: The Mushroom House, inspired by a familiar Shire dwelling.

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