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Letters from Edinburgh: Term Break Fashion
In the sixth installment of her letters from Scotland, Claire Miccio, who is living in Edinburgh for a year, considers the weather on her term break, then jaunts down to London and attends an alternative fashion show.
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31 March 2004
New York’s currently: all of 27
 Five soldiers and at least four foreign nationals killed in separate attacks in Iraq, some bodies burned, mutilated, hanged from a bridge.
Rice to give sworn testimony to Sept. 11 panel, Bush and Cheney to answer questions together in private, not under oath.
In the process of being detained, 20 terrorists blew themselves up. As many as 23 dead in third day of violence in Uzbekistan.
Ten years after the end of apartheid, eight out of ten South Africans believe in a democratic future.
Fare hike for New York City cabs.
Musharraf threatens to sink peace talks with India if no progress is made on Kashmir by August. Related: Hunting al Qaeda in Pakistan’s hinterlands, Masharraf wages war against remote clans.
TMN’s Choire Sicha beats Hilton sisters and Queer Eye cast to become the 15th most loathsome New Yorker.
Fascinating account of visiting Kubrick’s fabled estate, including the Napoleon room and a severed head.
Fact-check the candidates.
Iraqi police underarmed and unprepared to manage security, for now and seemingly for a long time.
Why Rice’s sworn testimony, and Bush and Cheney’s behind-the-scenes chat, will be great for the White House, and bad for the country.
23-year-old New York artist seeks to marry dead-at-24 French poet.
PEN/Faulkner award proves vitality, relevance by picking Updike’s stories from 1953 to 1975 for top prize.
Message boards hop with chatter about Juror No. 4 in the Tyco trial.
Lessons learned, or forgotten, 10 years after Rwanda’s genocide.
World’s flags graded.
Ekta Kapoor
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I Make Bad Trebek
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones, and people who write questions for contests should avoid ambiguous phrases, lest they spend their weekend in the library double-checking...
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Short-Term Memory
Recently I was faced with a crisis. Not a major crisis, but one where skill and memory were of utmost importance. This steak is supposed to be cooked to temperature,...
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