Sunday’s NYT: The Drive-by Edition

“She would say if anyone asks you what you want to be when you grow up, tell them you want to be the first Negro president of the United States. And just the words were so far-fetched, so incredible that we used to really have fun, just saying it.”

What the NYT terms ‘defiant’ the Guardian calls ‘clearing the decks for the Obama show.’

These are the sort of stories we worry about losing in the great budget cutting of 2009.

The City section today appears to be all about the baseball stadiums.

Except this ‘eye of the beholder’ bit, which maybe some people take to the baseball stadiums?

All signs point to the Twitter groupie phase.

You know, in his spare time.

“The system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved.”

IT’S HERE: “The incredible shrinking real estate market has arrived right here in Manhattan, and now that the first quarter is over, not even the most ebullient broker [or the NYT] will be able to dispute it.”

Is everyone aware you can now rent movies on iTunes?

Sign us up!

“This crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.”

Frank Rich is off today.

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