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Headlines for 20 March 2006

New York’s currently: crowing

 Three years on, Bush and Cheney see success in Iraq, though Allawi says a civil war is underway.

 Details of abuse from U.S. anti-terrorism unit, like inmates used as paintball targets.

 Villepin indicates he won’t back down on labor law; unions say 1.5 million demonstrated Saturday.

 Op: Patriarchy is the new black, everyone submit to father!

 World War II’s conclusion delayed by pancake breakfast.

 Michael Crichton: This essay breaks the law.

 Speak Arabic? Feel like checking some Army translations?

 Parkinson’s drugs may turn patients into obsessive gamblers, sex maniacs.

 Screenplays by scientists, hoping to make biochemistry sexy on the big screen, evaluated by Hollywood pro.

 TMN’s Choire Sicha lunches with Hugo Weaving, the man behind Vendetta’s mask.

 South Dakota faces tourism boycott in wake of abortion ban.

 Better editing would have put more space between “cleft palate” and “jaw drops.”

 Books that changed the world.

 The math behind multiple blades on your razor.

 Sixty-four Tickle Me Elmo dolls turned into woman’s full-body-vibration coat.

 New music magazine: Famous for 15mb. See also, smutty mp3s.

 Enrollment’s up at Protestant seminaries, but pupils aren’t seeking the pulpit.

 Art that disappears in the rain.

 Douglas Coupland: Interviewing Morrissey pinpoints the bankruptcy of interviewing as a form of expression.

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