The New York Times just couldn't lure me to their Web site today. Not even with these teases:<p>Report Calls U.S. a Top Target for Terror Attack Within a Year By DON VAN NATTA Jr. The United States is the fourth most likely of 186 countries to be the target of a terrorist attack, a new report says. (**Snazzy lede, Don, but just tell me, are we ahead of or behind Tonga.**)<p>In Calm Blackout, Views of Remade City By MARTIN GOTTLIEB If the blackout can be seen as a metaphor for the civic psyche, this time it appeared to be saying that New York City is under control. (**Are you saying it wasn't such a big story after all?**)<p>Schwarzenegger's Next Goal on Dogged, Ambitious Path By BERNARD WEINRAUB and CHARLIE LeDUFF Thirty-five years ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted he would become a rich movie star with a glamorous wife and political power. (**Two out of three ain't bad.**)<p>- FASHIONS OF THE TIMES - Guilty Pleasures For dancing on tables and acting the star, sleek 30's-style evening wear can transform a Pop-Tart like Britney Spears into a Cosmopolitan. (**Britney, Arnold. Arnold, Britney.**)<p>Everyone's a Film Geek Now By ELVIS MITCHELL Film esoterica, formerly consumed only by cineastes, is now aimed directly at, and snapped up by, all of us. (**Even by my 91-year-old grandmother in the nursing home? "Gram, you just trashed Todd Solondz's third movie 10 minutes ago, don't you remember? And yes, Gram, you're going back to your house. Tomorrow ...." **)<p>David Byrne's Alternate PowerPoint Universe By VERONIQUE VIENNE (**Alors! Quel bizarre!**)
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