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Headlines for Monday, July 9, 2007

Afternoon Edition

White House denies debate over White House pullback, and presumably ignores the big Times op-ed.

Cindy Sheehan threatens to run against Pelosi if the congresswoman won’t impeach Bush.

They bought Diet Coke and turned it into bottled milk. CBS and Katie Couric, optimists. See other nuts.

Performance artist takes 72 hours to prepare for a date.

London theater gets flack for showing a 1953 musical about the joy and merriment of Baghdad.

Paris’s grimy Les Halles to get a canopied makeover

Inspector Collector goes to Japan, collects English mistakes, other typos.

Big oral history of The Simpsons; Conan on working on the show.

Las Vegas, NV: 1 store per 3,922 residents. Statistics on where the Starbucks are.

Photo gallery of the new seven wonders of the world; Spaniards disappointed that La Alhambra didn’t make the cut.

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TMN’s People We Like has returned.

Pennsylvania’s government, however, has shut down over budget face-off.

And police rake in a man who robbed a New Hampshire bank Saturday dressed as a tree.

Morning Edition

Weekend violence and political fall-outs follow Friday’s tragedy, and there seem few signs in Iraq to be hopeful about.

Britain finally gets its Wimbledon champion—in mixed doubles.

Sarkozy won’t mass-pardon prisoners on Bastille Day, breaking with tradition.

Belated happy birthday, President Bush.

Today’s long read: Oates on amnesiac novels.

New York to get its own “ring of steel,” or a whole bunch of cameras below Canal Street.

Forty years later, Newark tries to account for the violence, whether it was a riot or a rebellion.

Our impressions are no less valid. Profile of Avraham Rabby, the U.S.’s (blind) diplomat in Trinidad.

High schoolers, rejoice: Bartenders can’t tell whether or not you’re underage.

The “last generation of newspaper critics” laments their fall, having proved “their right to an opinion.”

The unofficial Frontline video podcast.

A Russian wife is like a multi-functional home device. Informational guide to contemporary Russia.

Guide to free bus routes in London.

Synthetic biologists threaten to take over Mars, and then Venus, and then Earth.

Portraits of famous scientists.

Gallery from Philip Johnson’s New Canaan Glass House.

Pictures of men sitting together on the moon.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Bright Inaugural Day, Washington

The U.S. presidential inauguration in January will be one for the ages. LAUREN FREY concludes her series of election-related verse with a hat tip to Langston Hughes.

DIGEST

Lincoln Logorrhea

In his cabinet choices, as in his home state, our president-elect mirrors our 16th president. Gore Vidal’s historical novel about Lincoln helps to balance the dozens of more rigid bios.

My Incredulous Face

Holiday Travel Hell

Nicole Pasulka compiles tales of horror from the TMN writers.

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