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Headlines for 17 November 2004

New York’s currently: sincerely high-fiving dude with “Kill Your Television” bumper sticker

 U.S. and Iraqi troops race to retake Mosul, the first step in a counter-insurgency plan that will only get harder.

 Condoleeza Rice picked to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state.

 Video of slain woman believed to show Margaret Hassan; Video of marine killing unarmed insurgent gets wide play on Arab TV.

 I’m not a fighter, I’m a lover. But I want to have a sense of accomplishment. Interviews with New Yorkers who enlisted in the Army last week.

 Chinese apology for errant nuclear sub said to mollify the Japanese.

 Op: North Korea remains the least accessible, least understood, and potentially most dangerous of the world’s countries of concern.

 Bureaucrats battle over CIA’s future with anonymous page-one leaks.

 Video: The Beatles and Jay-Z mashed up once again, but this time John breakdances.

 Interview with Smoosh, a sisters-singing act that opened for Pearl Jam, with a few of their songs.

 History of the many times Atlantis has been discovered.

 Using the internet and ranches: You can watch John Cleese goof solo (go here), or you can shoot animals with your mouse (go here).

 Round-up of cooking magazines’ Thanksgiving issues finds oodles of dreck, bad advice, overrefined editors.

 Very neurotic and tends to chew tobacco and spit in a cup while lecturing. Students review Professor David Foster Wallace.

 Trial exposes spammers’ methods.

 TMN’s Danny Gregory goes on a drawing trip to the Met.

 Consider The Incredibles as an example of living in a spacey age of great design. [ via things ]

 Video: Encode your angry emails with pleasant punctuation.

 Two hand claps and one big gong for yesterday’s two TMN supporters who gave generously, and we give them thanks.

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