New York’s currently: flying paper to Italy

 Weeklong tributes to Reagan begin today, with his body in repose at his presidential library in Simi Valley, then to Washington to lie in state at the Capitol on Wednesday, culminating with Friday’s state funeral.

 Bush orders federal government closed Friday as part of national day of mourning for Reagan.

 In deference to Reagan, Kerry closes campaigning for the week; and political advisers both Democrat and Republican worry GWB will over-liken himself to the former president.

 “In the trench in the farmyard we find three or four Germans. We ask them ‘Tommy come?’ They say yes, with conviction.” D-Day, through the eyes of a French woman. And: The original AP story on the invasion, and a “local color” piece from the Louisville Courier-Journal.

 A history of bellowing dramatics surrounding Presidential D-Day speeches.

 Beauty salons have been shut down and barbers told to eschew Western cuts and not shave off beards. Following truce in Fallujah, the city has turned to hardline Islam for governance.

 On resuscitating a D.O.A. Stepford Wives in the editing room, and other movies flops that were flipped in their final cuts.

 Australian sentenced to nine years in prison for conspiring with Al Qaeda says he was prepared to go informant in 2000, but found no agencies interested in his wares.

 U.S. troop numbers in South Korea to see drastic cuts.

 “Suicide” poem penned by Abraham Lincoln discovered in an 1838 Springfield newspaper.

 Perhaps because so much of New York life is played out in public—on the subway, on the streets—city residents often seem to find consolation in the city’s varied corners.

 Proposed picture-taking ban on subways gets a protest of many flashbulbs.

 A literary agent with the stars of politics in his rolodex.

 Prior to Iraq invasion, administration lawyers argued for Presidential-ordered torture.

 Extraordinary finds, great research on lost bands from the New Wave.

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