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Headlines for 9 September 2003

New York’s currently: indestructible

 More than a third of Sept. 11 emergency grant money intended for small businesses went to investment firms, financial traders, and lawyers.

 How the Patriot Act affects you, Part I.

 Michael Paul Ragusa, last of the 343 firefighters killed on Sept. 11 to be memorialized, laid to rest.

 Comparison: The New Yorker 2003 has officially become McSweeney’s 2000.

 12-year-old Manhattan girl sued by the record industry for file-sharing.

 My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields on scoring film for Sofia Coppola.

 Quiet dignity in the photography of Finn Mannford.

 It’s all about being and not being together… but I have no idea who the guy was. Popular songwriters on where their lyrics come from. Related: Warren Zevon links around the Web.

 Incredible resource: Why the Towers Fell.

 Louis Menand on the history of The Manchurian Candidate.

 The importance of snark in literary reviews.

 Radio interview with typographer Matthew Carter. [ via ir ]

 The video to spend your lunch with: Hippies from Hell.

 Birnbaum interview with short-story writer and playwright Joshua Furst.

 Royals gossip from 1843.

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