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Headlines for 12 November 2004

New York’s currently: an army of galoshes

 Arafat’s body arrives in Cairo, four new Palestinian leaders are installed.

 Jimmy Carter on Arafat’s life and legacy.

 “They just keep coming at us.” As fierce fighting continues in Fallujah, insurgents take control of sections of Baghdad, as well as the once-stable Mosul.

 Bodies of foreign fighters, executed by insurgents, discovered in Fallujah.

 Amid violence, upheaval in Ivory Coast, 4,000 inmates escape from the nation’s largest prison.

 Rumors of voting fraud, as speculated by bloggers, is getting serious attention even if its sources seem too easily dismissed.

 Electronic sign at W. Fourth St. station claims pretty girls don’t ride the subway.

 Christian evangelicals, who helped push Bush into a second term, show concern as they see the Republican party separating itself from the faith.

 Musicplasma depicts the interstices of music and musicians.

 Feeling down? Attract some compliments.

 Fellowship 9/11: Michael Moore’s searing examination of the Aragorn administration’s actions in the wake of the tragic events at Helms Deep.

 Fascinating: How to make a model of your city.

 Editor and Punisher happily takes the New Yorker down a peg.

 During the freeze on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the regal Fortitude was swathed embarrassingly in a giant electric blanket. Saving the lions at the library.

 OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form.

 Thank you a ba-zillion times over to yesterday’s supporter, as well as to everybody else who’s ever donated to The Morning News.

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