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Headlines for 1 September 2003

New York’s currently: wondering when a Queer Eye pun will headline a North Korea story

 Many voters cannot name any Democratic candidates.

 Car bomb explodes outside Baghdad police headquarters, injures 14. Related: Bomb kills two U.S. soldiers in southern Baghdad, now among the 10 troops a day declared ‘wounded in action.’

 The real story behind the time-travel spammer.

 Masked man shoots spectator in Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Carnival Parade, followed by unrelated throat slashing.

 Obit for Charles Bronson, dead at 81, and a review of Bronson’s career.

 Russian artists under Orthodox fire after Moscow exhibit prompts vandalism, criminal charges.

 Notes from the International Association of Obituarists. Related and Remarkable: The society’s greatest hits.

 NYPD resists taping trend.

 Massive online dictionary, including medical terms and explanations of dream subjects.

 English Al-Jazeera Web site back online.

 I’m a late-middle-aged midlist fair-to-middling writer with a comfortable midriff, and it gives me quite a bit of pleasure. Interview with Garrison Keillor.

 Schwarzenegger commits to a single ‘fantastic debate.’

 52 Projects completes.

 The very real world of competitive eating.

 Videos from the talent show that brought us Matrix ping pong.

 These days, when you hear Bach in a film, he tends to accompany serial killers, Nazis, and mad scientists. The use of music in movies.

 On being related to the Three Stooges.

 Fawning profile of Sofia Coppola.

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