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Headlines for 4 May 2004

New York’s currently: caffeinating to bad-breath city

 Careers ended for seven officers who supervised torture at Abu Ghraib.

 Million displaced by ethnic-cleansing militia tied to Sudanese government.

 U.S. drops well-liked (especially by Saddam) General in Fallujah for former intelligence officer who was imprisoned by Hussein.

 Père Lachaise cemetery would happily evict Jim Morrison’s grave.

 50 U.S. diplomats complain (via mail) about lost reputation, primarily based on Sharon-endorsement.

 Presidential race could become this country’s first billion-dollar campaign.

 Bloomberg plugs $200 million into city’s budget for public hospitals.

 Smugglers in Kaliningrad worry for their ‘shuttle trade’ as neighbors join the EU.

 Profiles of young New Yorker cartoonists, proving Acocella does look like her vixens.

 50 great moments in pop’s history.

 Military lawyers assigned to defend prisoners at Guantánamo denounce tribunal system as inherently unfair and rigged. E.g., see blogged reaction to lawyers’ speech.

 Photo: Alpha male.

 Details of service à la française, when going out to dinner (150 years ago) was different.

 Need a login for a news site? Use bugmenot.com

 Contemporary spats in the Medici family over exhumations.

 Virtual knee surgery.

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