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· Did The Times suppress a report on Bush's debate night bulge? [FAIR]

The residents of Philadelphia weren't the only ones weeping last night. Our own Henry the Intern was crying into his remote control over his missing muse.

This week in her always fascinating look at The New York Times Book Review, Intern Alexis responds to the letters, recalls her Parisian girlhood, and gets excited about a Barbara Ehrenreich's son. Oh, and did we mention she wants to eat Christopher Hitchens? Read on...

What exactly does 'new' mean? Does it mean 'six months old'?

This weekend's New York Times Magazine featured a three page ad for the America Prepared Campaign, all about how to make an emergency plan for your family in the event of another domestic terror attack.

This week's New York devotes two articles (nearly 3,000 words combined) to Inside Deep Throat, the new documentary about the pioneering skin flick.

On Friday we alerted you to some of Condé Nast prodigal son Ron Galotti's wit and wisdom, on display in today's edition of The Daily.

A conspiracy-minded reader alerts us to a sketchy theory: Could the cover illustration of Vogue editor Anna Wintour from Jerry Oppenheimer's Front Row look any more like the FBI sketch of Ted Unabomber Kaczynski that was circulated around in the 90s?

Is Iraq just one big frat party? What else are we to assume based on the fact that, a) soldiers are whipping out their 'Big Shockers' during the obligatory wartime salute to the troops in the Superbowl pre-game show (above); and, b) female soldiers at Camp Bucca, in southern Iraq are mud-wrestling for the delight of their male colleagues, according to The New York Daily News.

The Daily News has an item on an up-coming interview with former Condé Nast "Mr. Big" Ron Galotti that will be running in The Daily just in time for Fashion Week.

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Last night, we had the pleasure of attending the launch party for Topic magazine; it was populated by the sort of impoverished young intellectuals one comes to expect from a pseudo-Granta publication. During said event, we spent most of the time assuring fellow partygoers that we weren't "on duty," and, as such, it was "safe to talk to us." Heh.

This just in: reportedly, the publicity department at St. Martin's Press recently dropped off a several boxes in front of the Condé Nast building at 4 Times Square. The contents? Copies of our favorite Anna Wintour biography, Front Row. Sneaky.

We know you've been waiting for your daily escape into the life of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, in which we open her biography Front Row and pick a passage at random. Today's treat, from page 123:

When we read Rob Schneider's attack ad nuking the LAT's Patrick Goldstein for a Deuce Bigalow joke the reporter made last week, we shouldn't have assumed that Schneider's research was thorough. (We imagine it involved googling "Patrick Goldstein journalism awards.") A reader informs us that Goldstein was the recipient of an award from the publicists guild last year, as noted in Variety last February:

The Nation, Feb. 21, 2005... The New Yorker, April 17, 1995... Hustler, April 1978

· Star magazine darklord Bonnie Fuller has reportedly enlisted the services of political spin doctor Howard Wolfson. While the official line is that he's working with Fuller on her personal book project, the proverbial insiders say Wolfson is around to manage Fuller's public image problem. Need we note that this man his job cut out for him? [Page Six]
· James Gandolfini's fiancée Lora Somoza has ended the couple's engagement. Somoza is relocating to Los Angeles, leaving Gandolfini free to ogle young reporters' asses. [R&M]
· Madonna's Kabbalah-fueled rage continues, as the incredibly limber star has become frosty with friend Debi Mazar and brother Christopher after they expressed doubts about her cult religious devotion. [Page Six]
· Nicole Richie insists that when she's not speeding down PCH with a bag of horse in her glove compartment, she's a totally normal girl. [Lowdown]

WWD's 'Memo Pad' column reports today that New York Post copy editor (and one-time Gawker interview subject), Dawn Eden (right), was fired from the paper because she:

Geraldo Rivera joins the fight for justice, the only way he knows how: