New York’s currently: pressing pause on ambition for a few months of hope and fury
Oil prices surge past $50 on Monday, and may continue to rise.
Fewer than two-thirds of former soldiers reactivated for duty in Iraq have shown up for work.
JFK transformed as pop singer, surrounded by groovy back-up chorus.
Kidnappings and murders by Iraqi insurgents threaten to turn Ramadi into another Fallouja.
Edward P. Jones, Aleksandar Hemon, C.D. Wright among MacArthur winners.
The President’s grandfather profited from companies closely tied to Hitler’s money machine. (Other Nazi friends: Henry Ford, the Lindberghs.)
Report on congress taking trips sponsored by outside interests (see how often your representative power-trips).
Virgin’s Richard Branson to launch the wealthy into space by 2010.
Details of scummy politics—police intimidation, vote wrangling—in Florida.
Conan O’Brien to take over The Tonight Show in 2009.
TMN’s Danny Gregory interviewed on the BBC.
New Yorkers: Book your $50 appointments now for the first annual Spa Week.
You will vote in the presidential election, right? Because some states have October 2 registration deadlines.
How to make a violin in 45 pictures.
Bush: The mission was accomplished then, and the mission is accomplished now.
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