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Headlines for 24 March 2006

New York’s currently: worshipping at the Temple

 Iraq informed it can no longer rely on U.S. funding for rebuilding.

 Representatives want to know why Bush needs so much money to build so many bases in Iraq.

 Cheney’s tour rider asks for 68 degrees, Fox News, and caffeine-free Diet Sprite (though if his wife’s in town, make it Perrier).

 Praising Condoleezza Rice with racial slurs doesn’t help you keep your job.

 South Africa’s “culture of rape” under the spotlight while former deputy president goes on trial.

 High Times not a gateway magazine to harder readings.

 The U.S. does not “torture” people—but if it does, it’s considering not accepting evidence obtained during “torture.”

 First pro-life monument to birth features nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug.

 1,280 people remain missing after Katrina, some by choice.

 Red Cross investigating accusations of impropriety, even criminal behavior, among post-Katrina volunteers.

 Op: Malign neglect is wrecking people from New Orleans.

 Survey of Katrina evacuees finds most have burned through their savings and have no permanent place to live.

 Work by Kara Walker finds new context post-Katrina.

 How to build a food nerd’s apocalypse kit; how to preserve a snowflake.

 Girl missing for ten years was only two miles away.

 Today in the ToB: Home Land vs. The Historian, judged by Jessica Francis Kane.

 Remembering Auden and what he believed.

 Filmmaker follows Herzog’s advice to walk from Madrid to Kiev (see trailer).

 Op: The French student protests are a question of dignity, not sense.

 Request a workplace interruption.

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