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Headlines for 8 September 2003

New York’s currently: a cat, rocking chairs

 Bush wants $87 billion to continue war on terrorism.

 Henin-Hardenne, Roddick win US Open.

 Mock chemical attack staged in London.

 Michael Skakel demands new trial after new evidence identifies two Bronx youths as the alleged killers of Martha Moxley in 1975.

 Three writers on loving New York: Jan Morris, Robert Lipsyte, Joyce Maynard.

 New Web site helps locate art stolen by the Nazis.

 Photographs of the sometimes transparent US-Canadian border: ‘Where Here Ends and There Begins’

 Real ghostbusters in Kentucky.

 Reviving the mystery of the disappearance of Lord Lucan.

 CD price cuts hope to revive the ailing music industry.

 Claire Zulkey interview with George Saunders.

 The children of September 11.

 A history of pirates at The Atlantic.

 Satanicide rocks the comedy metal.

 Some games and puzzles for fun: Scrabblog and random puzzles.

 And, of course, the Jesus of the Week.

vive la you

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