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Headlines for 22 September 2003

New York’s currently: pleased as punch

 Jacques Chirac urges transfer of power in Iraq to the Iraqi people, says France will only approve a UN measure that addresses this.

 September 11 reports say plot originally involved ten planes.

 Untrammeled with Party Obligations and other ways for generals to get elected President.

 Galileo mission ends with suicide plunge.

 About finding photographs, imagining what they could be, at Look at Me.

 Activists call for sale of Brooklyn jail.

 Re-release of Scarface brings with it celebrities, praise, gold chains, and not shaving.

 When JetBlue delivered passenger records to a Defense Department contractor working on a security profiling system, it violated its own privacy policy.

 Fifth-graders illustrate their interpretations of Radiohead songs.

 Jim Traficant for President? From prison?

 How file-sharing helps startup labels.

 Harry Shearer presents outtakes and missteps from personalities who probably regret what they said and did.

 Utterly crazy: a day-by-day (!) history of Nirvana.

 65,000 gather on Sunday to hear Dalai Lama in Central Park. How many know he explicitly condemns homosexuality?

 How the whiskey commercial in Lost in Translation was filmed.

 Ronald Reagan’s letters on sex and superpowers.

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