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Headlines for 28 July 2004

New York’s currently: preparing secret Obama ballot to usurp spermsuit Kerry

 Suicide bomber kills 68 outside Iraqi police station.

 Ah yes: Conventions’ real work has lobbyists selling corporations to elected officials.

 Five Islamic charity leaders arrested for funneling millions to Palestinian terrorists.

 Darfur sum-up: Rebels possibly being deliberately intransigent, Russia possibly selling jets to Sudan, plus the LRA (rebelious Ugandan cult child-kidnappers) have possibly forced 1.8 million Ugandans to flee their homes.

 Mexican clown Brozo finds politicians in the underworld, wields great influence over national politics.

 Reading Choire Sicha is probably a lot more amusing than reading the book he read.

 Fact of the day (Albert Einstein was nominated for an Oscar in acting) from the great and subscribable Mental_floss.

 Aleksandar Hemon destroys first novel by snowboarder.

 Profile of mathematician who believes he’s solved the Riemann Hypothesis, though it’s unclear if anyone’s read his work.

 Former British colonies are phobes about buggery because they’re former British colonies?

 25 tall buildings studied.

 Loophole in NCAA regulations encourages recruits to bag graduating in favor of playing sooner in college.

 Terrorism on the web: Sites offer instructions for kidnapping and killing, Lawrence Wright on al Qaeda in Madrid.

 Photos from the Wagner festival in Bayreuth: Day 1, Day 2.

 Bushes Against Bush, Librarians Against Bush, Bikes Against Bush (see video). See also Catholics and Vets against Kerry.

 We pop sickles for the two who helped out TMN yesterday with money as thanks

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