New York’s currently: knock knock; who’s there?; to; to who?; to whom, sucker

 Hundreds of same-sex couples marry in Massachusetts.

 Hersh: Rumsfeld’s and Cambone’s anti-terror black-op ran interrogations at Abu Ghraib to shame Arabs into informing.

 Doctors flout insurers’ common sense by apologizing to wronged patients, and avoiding lawsuits.

 Bush under fire for gas costs.

 Who will Kerry pick for VP? Veep-O-Matic matches candidates to possibly necessary characteristics.

 The presidential election, often symbolized as U.S. democracy, in fact is the game and competition for the rich people. From China, ‘The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003.’ [ via PS ]

 Photos: Bill Brandt, Martin Parr.

 Mark Bowden on Abu Ghraib: Americans are not a superior race, and American soldiers are not morally superior to the soldiers of other nations.

 White House AIDS prevention programs push abstinence, using fake facts to say condoms are less effective.

 Interviews with TMN’s Maggie Berry and Matthew Baldwin.

 59 of the country’s 100 largest publicly traded fed contractors had at least one subsidiary in a ‘tax haven’ country overseas in 2001. [PDF]

 Old Gurley story nails Spring quandaries for sex in the city when women switch to skirts and tees, and men watch them.

 Hitchens on 1908 Boy Scout Manual, one of few books that inspired a worldwide movement.

 The Man Who Invented The Internet blogs backwards to the web’s hey-days of greed and fear.

 Rats put to work sniffing for mines.

 Quizzes never die: Yankee or Dixie?

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Opposite of silent treatment for yesterday’s two people who put their wallets on the line for TMN