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Headlines for 1 May 2006

New York’s currently: grape crazy!

 Deadline for Darfur peace agreement passes with no accord.

 Kadima signs up Shas for coalition government in Israel (by leaving evacuating settlements off the table).

 White House plan to lower gas prices won’t do much, says White House.

 Even Limbaugh feels whored by Republican $100 coupon plan.

 Candid camera catches Dennis Hastert ditching hydrogen-fueled car for his SUV.

 Pissed off about gas prices? Blame your rich trader buddies.

 Who decides when the flag should go half-mast? You do.

 Due to bugle player shortage, Pentagon purchased hundreds of “Taps” emulators.

 Bush reserves the right to be above 750 laws.

 Video: Black person visits Aspen. See also, Colbert visits the Correspondents’ Dinner.

 Whether choking on chicken or saving lives, celebrities have an alarming amount of Heimlich moments.

 Rocks in Your Head record store no longer able to afford Soho rent, moving to Williamsburg.

 The history of the proverbial “little guy.”

 Packer: If only the logic of desperation—a period of separation between groups, perhaps?—for some wisdom in Iraq right now.

 Free Berkeley classes on iTunes; MoMA podcasts to guide your art walks.

 Robots as included in fine art.

 So the joke goes: Eighty people in royal blue polos walk into a Manhattan Best Buy.

 Details behind the brother-on-brother civil war to succeed in Hasidic Williamsburg.

 Texas Ranch House hits the airwaves tonight.

 The truth behind Opus Dei’s Manhattan headquarters: it’s a non-campy frat house, they swear.

 Sedaris: Being dead for 300 years, there’s a lot a skeleton doesn’t understand.

 In the ’80s, this sport had a very serious cocaine problem—and that was a pretty consistent pattern. The incredible, terrible chronology of Steve Howe’s life.

 Video: Top 10 ping pong shots.

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