An Asylum of Inflated Personalities
Date: 19 October 2004
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
"Newsical" is a fast, funny and irreverent topic musical revue that zestfully serves up its skewered famous and foolish.
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18th of October 2004 News
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There's No Politics in the Foxhole
Date: 18 October 2004
By Greg Kelly
Greg Kelly
Op-Ed article by Greg Kelly, former Marine jet pilot, says contrary to claims of Pres Bush and Sen John Kerry, morale of American service members in Iraq is not determined by politicians, pundits or press; says their spirits stem from more mundane concerns about everyday life in warfare, and their officers are more concerned about troop welfare than political debate; scores House Armed Services Committee for asking recently returned soldiers to weigh in on politically charged debates about Iraq; says citing troop morale to advance political campaign is unwelcome politicization of institution that strives to remain apolitical; drawing (M)
Radar Magazine Lines Up Financing
Date: 19 October 2004
By David Carr
David Carr
Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman and Wall Street financier Jeffrey Epstein agree to commit up to $25 million to back Radar, celebrity and pop culture magazine that published two test issues in 2003, and its editor and chief founder, Maer Roshan; first issue under new ownership will appear in April 2005, with issues to follow every other month for rest of year before it moves to monthly publication (M)
POLL SHOWS TIE; CONCERNS CITED ON BOTH RIVALS
Date: 19 October 2004
By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder
Adam Nagourney
New York Times/CBS News poll finds presidential race in tie two weeks before Election Day, with voters sharply critical of Pres Bush's record in office but holding strong reservations about Sen John Kerry; finds Bush's job approval rating is 44 percent, dangerously low number for incumbent president, and one of lowest of his tenure; majority of voters say they disapprove of way Bush managed economy and war in Iraq, and echo Kerry's charge that Bush's tax cuts favored wealthy; say Kerry would do better job of preserving Social Security, creating jobs and ending war in Iraq; majority of Americans see Kerry as untrustworthy politician who will say what he thinks people want to hear; over 50 percent of respondents echo Bush's charge that Kerry is liberal; poll was conducted over four days after final debate; some other polls taken at that time show Bush in slightly stronger position among likely voters; variations reflect difficulty of determining who is going to vote, particularly in campaign in which both sides have invested so many resources in registering new voters; graphs (L)
Bush Leads. Make That Kerry. Why Can't the Pollsters Agree?
Date: 19 October 2004
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
What is going to happen on Election Day? It depends on which pollster you ask. President Bush leads Senator John Kerry by a margin of eight points among likely voters, according to the most recent poll from Gallup, USA Today and CNN. The margin of sampling error was four points.
Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to Kennedy, Dies at 79
Date: 18 October 2004
By Todd S. Purdum
Todd Purdum
Pierre Salinger, debonair investigative reporter who became famous as John F Kennedy's White House press secretary and went on to work as prize-winning television correspondent for ABC News, dies at age 79; photo (M)
How Many Iraqis Are Dying? By One Count, 208 in a Week
Date: 19 October 2004
By Norimitsu Onishi
Norimitsu Onishi
Estimated 208 Iraqis were killed in war-related incidents in week of Oct 11-17, significantly higher than average week; 23 members of United States military died over same period; tally remains imprecise and does not fully answer many questions, including how to distinguish civilians from insurgents, and how to reconcile contradictory accounts of same death; deaths of Iraqis, particularly civilians, have become increasingly delicate topic; Iraqi Health Ministry recently stopped giving journalists casualty figures, which are clearly embarrassment to government as well as to Americans; many Iraqis blame American airstrikes and other military actions for taking lives of innocents, but they also believe that foreign fighters are behind suicide attacks that tend to kill more Iraqis than Americans; United States military emphasizes that targets of its actions have been insurgents; it blames insurgents for other deaths and damage that results from raids; map of Iraq showing where deaths occurred in week cited; photo (M)
Boss of Belarus Seems to Win Referendum, as Expected
Date: 18 October 2004
By Steven Lee Myers
Steven Myers
Belarussians approve constitutional referendum that would allow Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko to seek unlimited terms in office; result was considered foregone conclusion after truncated campaign marred by official harassment of opponents, accusations of ballot stuffing and relentless, one-sided promotion on state media; opposition leaders and voters describe referendum as another step in country's slide to dictatorship under Lukashenko; photo (M)
Subpoena Issued to Insurer Over Sales to G.I.'s
Date: 19 October 2004
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Diana
The American Amicable Life Insurance Company of Waco, Tex., confirmed yesterday that the Justice Department had subpoenaed documents relating to the company's sale of insurance products to military personnel and other federal employees.
2 Type Designers, Joining Forces and Faces
Date: 19 October 2004
By David W. Dunlap
David Dunlap
Hoefler & Frere-Jones Type Foundry has received wide attention for its Gotham font, designed by typographer Tobias Frere-Jones and used on Freedom Tower cornerstone; photo of Frere-Jones with his partner Jonathan Hoefler (M)