Month May 2004

Nixon ‘too drunk’ for Cold War crisis chat Former US President Richard Nixon was too drunk to answer the phone when Britain’s prime minister rang him at the height of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, according to newly-released records. <Henry Kissinger…

Unclear on the concept? A schoolboy posed as a female British secret service spy in an internet chatroom to persuade a friend to try to murder him, a court heard yesterday.

Hybrids Call it revenge of the nerds. Gas-guzzling muscle cars are being overtaken by unassuming little hybrids. And the Toyota Prius is leading the charge. For the first four months of the year, sales of the Prius are up 80…

David Crosby on music and the music business On the effects of MTV  “But what happened? It changed it from being about the music to being about what you look like. And that was a terrible blow to music, because…

The kingdom is crumbling FBI investigates neocons! At a conservative thinktank in downtown Washington, and across the Potomac at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential…