Bloomberg loves that The New Yorker thinks only Bloomberg can love Bloomberg, but New Yorkers love Bloomberg, too. (Cityroom)
Realizing how greatly the were outnumbered, Wal-Mart bailed on a City Council hearing regarding their own plans to open a store in East New York. (Gothamist, NYT)
Since the New York City schools chancellor attends school-closing hearings, New Yorkers have the satisfaction of heckling her to her face. (NY Post)
Cornell’s police broke-up their second annual “Epic Snowball Fight.” Some students retaliated, but fortunately the only casualty was a six-foot snow penis. (Cornell Daily Sun)
In Egypt, pro-Mubarak “protesters” and government thugs have been systematically stalking and beating foreign journalists. ABC news has a long list of all the attacks so far. (NYT, ABC)
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@Correction For the record, Cathie Black is new york city schools chancellor, not “education secretary.”
@sigh While it pains me to think of Anderson Cooper’s beautiful locks all mussed up, I’m not a fan of all the focus on the danger foreign journalists are in. Fact is, they’re being targeted by Mubarak’s rent-a-mob, but unlike the Egyptians they’re not being run over with trucks and shot and killed.