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Headlines for 2 February 2004

New York’s currently: winter’s muddy poodle

 56 killed in two suicide attacks against Kurdish parties in northern Iraq.

 In the future there will be no Jews in Gaza. Sharon to order 17 settlements evacuated in Gaza, no timetable yet.

 Analysis of the White House’s plan to investigate pre-war intelligence, perhaps allowing Bush to avoid admitting error.

 One-third of Iran’s Parliament resigns in protest over ban against candidates running for election.

 The stage should be a place where that word, an ugly, irredeemable epithet, is tested in a particular fire, in the fire of unbridled imagination. Interview with Bill T. Jones, on interpreting O’Connor’s ‘Artificial Nigger.’

 Halliburton allegedly overcharged $16 million, says Pentagon, for meals at a U.S. base in Kuwait.

 John Kerry strips from the Doonesbury archives.

 More noodling: Wonderful old Burkhard Bilger article on catching catfish by hand. [ Thanks Bruce ]

 Movie: How a cell phone gun works.

 Mugabe hunts opponents through the courts, dismantling challengers with set-ups and cries of treason.

 Love Jay-Z, love The Beatles, love the idea of remixed collaboration, wondering where in hell to hear the hot ticket?

 Paintings by Vincent Desiderio (including ‘Cockaigne’).

 Straight Edge, as drawn in 1906.

 Other candidates have registered to run for president, but Putin will surely win, even when only 15 percent of Russians think he’s ‘handling Russia’s problems successfully.’

 Not above: Nice tits.

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