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Headlines for 1 June 2004

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 Car bomb explodes outside coalition headquarters in Iraq, less than two hours after governing council selects new president.

 What Iyad Allawi has to look forward to as Iraq’s prime minister. And, what he should keep in mind, in the land that gave the world the first written code of laws.

 Q&A for the June 30 handover in Iraq.

 Black chick-lit authors respond to lily whiteness of Sex & The City.

 Shiite leaders strive to save truce between Sadr and U.S. forces.

 Notes from a meeting of Dorkbots, including “Things That Might Fly If You Put Enough Rockets on Them.”

 Woman accused of boinking John Kerry goes step-by-step back through smear campaign.

 Gen. Musharraf: “Let it not be said by future generations that we, the leaders of today, took humanity toward the apocalypse.”

 More than a third of prisoners who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were shot, strangled, or beaten by U.S. personnel. (91 investigations open.)

 How to celebrate the America that rolled into Rome in 1944 alongside “the other America.”

 Russ Parsons tracks the arrival of summer in the farmers markets.

 Preparing to reenact the Burr/Hamilton duel.

 Hmm: Is New York City tap water kosher?

 Alex Ross on recent love for gritty Charles Ives.

 Bridge diving continues in Bosnia despite destruction.

 Princeton grad applies math to New Yorker fiction department, mostly during Buford era. Better: Quickie interview with David Sedaris.

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