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Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Weekly Review for January 3, 2006
By Paul Ford
Every week I write the Harper's Weekly Review, a summary of the news for Harper's Magazine. Here is the first paragraph . . .
Seven people died in a suicide car bombing in Iraq, and a Norfolk, Virginia, man changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. Russia shut down a natural-gas pipeline to Ukraine; as a result, natural-gas supplies were diminished in Hungary, France, Italy, Poland, and Germany. U.S. financial giant Citigroup was attempting to purchase about 85 percent of the state-owned Guangdong Development Bank of China. The U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation into who leaked information about the NSA's domestic wiretapping program to the New York Times. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Times editor Bill Keller refused to answer any questions about the leak, even though the questions came from their own public editor. A 2-year-old in Patchogue, New York, was found drunk, and a judge ruled that John Hinckley Jr. could make unsupervised visits to his parents. In Malaysia people were searching for a 10-foot-tall ape that walks upright. The New Year was postponed by one second to accommodate for the slowing rotation of the earth. It was flooding in California, and parts of Oklahoma and Texas were on fire.
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