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one monday

Today Princeton ended early admissions in order to make the college application process more fair to low-income students.

Today Lance Armstrong turned 35.

Today a suicide bomber killed 18 people in Afghanistan, and does anyone open these articles anymore? What could a journalist possibly come up with to say?

Today the Mets beat the Marlins to clinch the division, apparently for the first time since 1988, which doesn’t seem all that long ago. But clearly I’m no Mets fan.

Today the president of Somalia’s transitional government narrowly escaped assassination. He used to be a warlord. The Times reported a foreign minister explaining that politicians in this region are “not very popular.”

Today pump prices went down 12 cents.

Today The Who is playing at Madison Square Garden, and Carrot Top is performing in Las Vegas, and Mariah Carey cancelled her show in Denver.

Today I finished my job for Metro, really, completely, burned it on a disc and that’s that. And then I went on a lunch date involving pho in a noodle shop and ice cream in the Portland Rose Garden and a little less crazy than I prefer. Actually a lot less.

And today, at two a.m., my friend Julien gave birth to her first child, a seven pound two ounce baby girl. She has Julien’s nose. Julien and David are pretty kickass and no doubt their daughter will be the same. Welcome to the world, Sean Lee Kern.

posted by tortaluga @ 8:41 PM