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Headlines for 15 November 2004

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 Iran vows to freeze nuclear programs in exchange for avoiding U.N. sanctions, though Europeans are cautious about sealing the deal.

 Reconstruction planned for devastated Fallouja, while violence flares around Iraq.

 Hot water for Italy’s Berlusconi after he tried to build a secret boat tunnel into his Sardinian villa.

 Anthony Lane explains where Peter Pan came from.

 PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas unharmed after gunmen stormed Arafat’s mourning tent.

 Scientist claims to find Atlantis off Cyprus.

 Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, dies from self-inflicted gunshotread 2003 interview with Robert Birnbaum.

 Fascinating Malcolm Gladwell story tracing plagiarism and soul-stealing in the production of Frozen.

 Uproar over this year’s National Book Awards castigates writers, who don’t seem too upset.

 Large correspondence collection of letters responding to scammers’ emails offering millions.

 70,000 estimated dead in ongoing Darfur massacres.

 Travel & Leisure’s guide to best new American restaurants in 2004.

 My relationship with Peel began sometime in early 1977. I was desperate. Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker remembers John Peel.

 Putin slowly building ghost of Soviet Union through economic pressure.

 Jonathan Franzen implores you to read more Alice Munro.

 Caskets available at Costco.

 Baseball-geek math for predicting who is the most likely pitcher to have thrown a no-hitter not to have thrown one.

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