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Saturday, May 17, 2008

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Digest: “Video Digest” by Meave Gallagher

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Headlines for Friday, March 28, 2003

New York’s currently: waking up to the sound of helicopters for a week now

31 March: Taking the day off for a birthday, publishing will resume tomorrow. Quicktime movie of Bush/Blair serenade.

Williamsburg Bridge closed, three men spotted climbing after a long night’s drunk.

Japan launches two spy satellites, North Korea calls it a ‘hostile act.’

Mugabe sics army and militia against opposition leaders, after claiming last week he could be ‘a black Hitler, tenfold.’

Late to this one, but fascinating: U.K. and U.S. claims of Iraq’s nuclear capabilities based on phony letters. (And, how the CIA covered its ass afterwards.)

Early films of New York, 1898-1906. (E.g., Newsies.)

Time traveler busted for insider trading.

City counts 1,780 homeless people living on the streets.

Girl fights python to save kitten. Related: Girls eating sandwiches.

Walks to spot monsters on buildings around New York. [via the useful mug]

Richard Perle resigns as chairman of Pentagon advisory board, but stays on as a member.

Central Park jogger Trisha Meili reveals her identity in a memoir.

The type of thing we live for: Imagery from the history of medicine.

Community site for NY Dog owners: Urbanhound.

Official briefings from Central Command in Kuwait.

Collection of Atlantic articles about George Bush the first.

Beautiful illustrations and desktops by Arthur Mount.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Ladies First

Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week ERIC FEEZELL solves the origins of “Mrs.,” and presents a new nomenclature to fill the gender gap, once and for all.

DIGEST

Video Digest

May 16 | The government is watching you right now. Don’t believe it? Meave Gallagher has the video to p…

» Mp3 Digest, May 14
» Book Digest, May 12

PURE GIBBERISH

My Father Speaks Another Language

Sarah Hepola listens, her mother translates.

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ONE YEAR AGO

Suicide bomber kills himself and 25 others in Pakistani restaurant with anti-Taliban ties. (See the Washington Post’s slideshow.)

At least 13 killed by Hamas-Fatah fighting in Gaza.

Rev. Jerry Falwell dead at 73 from heart attack.

U.S.-Iranian dual-national director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East program arrested in Iran for “crimes against national security.”

Chrysler’s new owner will soon face the question of what to do with the $18 billion—that’s $1,500 a car—owed to employees in health insurance and pensions.

» Headlines May. 15, 2007

FIVE YEARS AGO

New York’s currently: enjoying a long spring

Announcement forecast: the U.K. is not ready for the Euro.

Manhattan judge rules transit fare hikes unfair.

Doctor catchs SARS, returns home and infects relatives, then beats the disease after it kills his father, mother, and wife, then is arrested.

A gallery of Saddam Hussein’s fantasy art collection.

» Headlines May. 15, 2003