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Headlines for 24 November 2003

New York’s currently: trying out a new haircut

 Acting Georgian President pledges friendliness with the West, after former President Shevardnadze resigned.

 Fiscal discipline dashed in GOP bills rushing through Congress, also: Companies spend big money on lobbyists to win back big money in the Medicare bill.

 The lives of spies tracking Democratic contenders.

 What good is a fancy, expensive apartment if you live beneath a stonecutter?

 PATH train service resumes to World Trade Center.

 Man who reads the entire New York Times everyday (minus Sports, Escapes, and Circuits) is one year, five months, and four days behind.

 Movies of the head.

 Five U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash north of Kabul.

 How scallions can pick up Hepatitis A. Related: North Carolina outbreak of green onion Hepatitis A linked to Georgia strains.

 Beliefs people held as children.

 I really do believe a novel is nothing more than a strongly expressed opinion and that you need to respond strongly and with vitality. Dale Peck, as critic, reviewed in England.

 Congress passes HR 3077 to prevent ‘hotbeds of anti-American sentiment’ in schools accepting Title VI funding.

 Profile of über-New Yorker, Marvel Comics’s editor in chief.

 Malcolm Gladwell on principles missing from institutions.

 Details involved in auditioning for a major symphony orchestra.

 Only known recording of South African language Kukasi now available for streaming.

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