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Headlines for 20 February 2004

New York’s currently: loving the girl in the tight jeans

 Former Enron CEO Skilling pleads not guilty to fraud and conspiracy.

 Caucus-voting plan discarded in Baghdad, Iraqi leaders call for expanding the governing council.

 Hussein’s booty proves elusive outside Iraq for U.S. investigators.

 Review of dynamo Sarah Jones’s one-woman/many-person show. (See Jones performing for Lily Tomlin at the Kennedy Center.)

 Fascinating, alarming details behind problems plaguing the CIA in Baghdad and Afghanistan.

 New York subway map redrawn as new trains cruise over the Manhattan Bridge.

 U.S. deploying military team to Haiti.

 AFL-CIO backs Kerry. Related: Edwards guns for New York’s rich lode, but gets ripped by Bloomberg.

 Oldish but fascinating New Yorker article by Katherine Boo about women, wedlock, and poverty in Oklahoma.

 Weekly emailed summaries of your representatives’ votes.

 New wormy illustrations at Presstube.

 Gosh, there’s a lot of countries that are very much involved in Iraq. Transcript of Bush interview on U.S.-run Middle East Television Network.

 Man lies to order Viagra online, takes it in church, describes raptures.

 Food events in New York. Related: Short devotion to the all-day breakfast.

 World’s most miserable sweater model. [ via the godly cs ]

 Michael Bierut on the collapse of the magazine cover.

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