New York’s currently: crisp!

 Iraqi PM Allawi pushes to allow Baathists back into politics, meets with strong Shiite, Sunni resistance, as top Shiite cleric calls upon all Iraqis to register to vote.

 Local insurgents in Fallujah, hoping to avoid military strikes, turn against foreign Islamic fighters, who they feel are too fundamentalist.

 There are nearly three times the number of flagged Democratic registrations as Republican. Broken down by race, no group had more flagged registrations than blacks. Black leaders confront the election office.

 Tonight’s final presidential debate elicits concern from Republicans.

 Taxpayers foot the bill for Bush election-year mailing.

 “I never should have left Kansas City” and other items Overheard in New York.

 Titles of Hardy Boys books in which the villain could have turned out to be George W. Bush.

 Reliever Mariano Rivera arrives late at Yankee Stadium, still grieving over family tragedy in Panama, to hold Yankees’ lead over Red Sox.

 U.S. wants Nato to take over Afghanistan, while Germany says if conditions change (read: John Kerry is elected), it will consider deploying troops in Iraq.

 Don’t know what this thing does, but it sure does a lot.

 Exhaustive trivia on ’80s movies. (There really is a Golf ’n Stuff in L.A.—just like they had in Karate Kid.)

 Elvis impersonator fakes heart attack and Blues Brother look-a-like steals car.

 OK, now it’s time to get off the internet and vote.

 The Supreme Court has agreed to hear his case, and it’s been a long journey for the homeless man who filed to have the Ten Commandments removed from the Texas State Capitol grounds.

 Choose your own Choose Your Own Adventure.

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