New York’s currently: greeted as the natural noise of good

 Fascinating U.S. News report finds Saudi Arabia the single greatest force in spreading Islamic fundamentalism for the last 25 years.

 Halliburton subsidiary overcharged the government $61 million for fuel, though Halliburton didn’t profit.

 Suicide bomber infiltrates heavily guarded U.S. base, kills one solider, wounds 14.

 French report recommends banning ‘conspicuous’ religions symbols in public schools (e.g., head scarves, yarmulkes, large crosses).

 Government doesn’t know how terrorists move their money.

 Bicycling in New York slowly becoming more European, better planned and more popular.

 In the world as a whole, according to the WHO, more people are obese than malnourished. Consumers may want to be healthy, but they also want their cheeseburgers.

 Debt forgiveness and reconstruction contracts: Krugman calls sabotage; the Journal says good policy, bad timing.

 Was Mugabe’s defeat at the Commonwealth summit also Mbeki’s?

 Give: NY Cares.

 Trial begins for 14 accused of orgy-mongering for group sex with 400 Japanese men and 500 Chinese women.

 Les Enquêtes de Dick Spader and other French cartoons.

 It is the pitfalls of punctuation that fascinate. Bolshevik printers, greengrocer’s apostrophes, and how not to render extra-marital sex as coconuts.

 Small drawings by Witold Riedel.

 Punchy case by the great, unpronounceable Schjeldahl for seeing the mid-career Currin solo show.

 Backgammon: A Platonic Dialogue.

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