Saddam’s Oil Partners – A list from the Iraqi daily Al-Mada of the 270 individuals and companies who received oil from Saddam Hussein
One Woman’s Fight Against Wal-Mart – Since 1993 a Kentucky woman who was injured while working at Wal-Mart has tried to have her day in court against America’s largest retailer.
“It has changed how I and my family look at people,” Hall said. “I feel like (CMI and Wal-Mart) have thrown every punch at me they could. I don’t know what else they could do to me — they have already done it.”
Wesley Clark Naked – A New Hampshire man finished his workout at the Greater Manchester YMCA and hit the showers where he ran into a very naked Wesley Clark. Clark, who works out every day before hitting the campaign trail, is one of the memorable stories from the New Hampshire primary that Andrew Cline profiles in TNR.
Are GOP Reservists Given Special Treatment – Tapped looks at the case of a Missouri Republican state senator who was allowed to return home from Iraq for a vote important to the Republican Party.
Joe Trippi In New Hampshire - Prometheus talks about his encounter with Joe Trippi on election eve in New Hampshire.
7 Teens In A Cinema – SFGate profiles seven teens who landed a multiplex for Petaluma after the efforts of local officials failed.
Sex Advice From Record Store Clerks – Nerve’s Q & A on sex and relationships with LA record store clerks.
Doonesbury – Today’s strip features both Clark and Dean
New Orleans Without Anne Rice – Chris Rose talks about Anne Rice leaving New Orleans for the suburbs.
Anne Rice is New Orleans. She is Gothic, costumed, passionate, creative, bullheaded and stubborn, eccentric as all get-out, stuck in the past, ceaselessly romantic, delusionally optimistic and eternally brokenhearted. In short, she is us.
Hermit Of Horn Island – Memphis Flyer profiles the exhibit of Walter Anderson’s works.
When he was a mental patient at the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, he tied blankets together and went over the wall. When he couldn’t make domestic life work, he would fill a small metal trash can with food and art supplies and row the 10 miles from his home in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to Horn Island, and there he would live like a hermit for months at a time, sleeping under his ramshackle boat, deciphering the language of pelicans, chronicling the mating habits of crabs, and obsessively producing artworks that rival the most famous American masters.
