- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A serious assault/missing child on West 109th St in Manhattan, a water condition near Moore Street in Brooklyn and high CO readings on Putnam Av in Queens.
- The NYC Department of Education will give students and their parents e-mail addresses. We eagerly await the first instance of an embarrassing mass-e-mail forward.
- The stock market is closed today, but get ready for earnings reports from companies like Johnson & Johnson, GE, and others this week.
- In spite of the ceasefire, Rutgers University has cancelled its study abroad program in Israel.
- An Ulster County landlord was charged with failing to provide heat or hot water to residents last week during the cold spell.
- No Impact Man Colin Beavan is in Sundance—and Variety loved the documentary about his and his wife's commitment to the no impact life.
- Rejoice, Anonymous in NYC: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are looking to make their home in the Big Apple.
- At a DC party last night, Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio saved a choking cookbook author's life with the Heimlich maneuver.
- And just because it's a cool story: How former Villanova basketball player and college basketball coach George Raveling came to possess Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech notes.





That's a great shot.
POWER OF PRAYER
With just one criminal day to go
Please join me in my prayer and hope
That after George Bush ends his term
We'll see him at the end of a rope.
Huh?
in spite of the ceasefire? so the school intentionally canceled the trip to get back at isreal?
i think "despite" would be better