Some Reading

-- Bryan Wooley from the Dallas Morning News takes us back.

-- Kurt Streeter on how an Iraqi girl wound up in LA: IT WAS shrapnel that brought her to Los Angeles. Hot and sharp, it pierced her legs, her stomach and her right hand. It mangled her face around her deep brown eyes, and it tore off her nose. "I'm hurt," Marwa cried. "Mommy, I'm hurt in my face. I'm hurt, Mommy. My face."

-- Michael Brick on how the cops nabbed some would-be toughs.

-- "Meet The Mets" in yiddish. (Now that's convergance.)

-- John Doherty on Newburgh's problems: guns and cats.

-- Michael Kruse's big project.

-- Lane Degregory's Stranger In The Room.

-- Elizabeth Leland with the story of a tree (props to M&M).