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Headlines for 26 October 2004

New York’s currently: seven days away from trusting its nation’s future to the integrity of lawyers

 Geneva Conventions don’t apply to some non-Iraqi prisoners captured in Iraq, says new White House legal opinion.

 Print and memorize: Large summary of president’s anti-proliferation record, with success in Libya but major failures in Iran and North Korea.

 Swing states wait under rancorous clouds while parties accuse opponents of rigging the ballots.

 Elvis leads list of highest-earning dead celebrities, with $40 million annually.

 Amateur election-guessers with heads for math go deep into building online crystal balls.

 Afghan president-to-be Karzai under pressure to build a party around him.

 Pentagon investigates claims that Halliburton subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions.

 If Iraqi insurgents steal more tons of explosives than we pull down of Saddam Hussein statues, do they win? Don’t forget to get your war on.

 Results still rolling in from Saturday’s parliamentary elections in Kosovo, which was boycotted by 99 percent of the province’s Serbs.

 Iraqis call American soldiers “the Jews.”

 Bleecker Street’s Joe’s Pizza, New York’s best street-slice shop, closes.

 Your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander. Authors respond to Anne Rice’s tantrum on Amazon. (See tantrum here.)

 Movie posters reworked for more literal titles.

 The Nation’s 100 facts to back an opinion: four more years of the Bush Administration will be a tragic period.

 Republican insider emails published, sent accidentally to www.georgewbush.org, not .com.

 The Anomalist tracks hauntings, unexplained theories around the world.

 A big glowing pumpkin of thanks to the donor who had TMN’s back yesterday.

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