Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:42:54 -0500 (EST) From: Mahim Mishra To: toieditorial@timesgroup.com Subject: Summary of your front page Dear Sir/Madam, I promised in a letter to you 3 days ago to send a daily summary/categorization of your front page (this it the text of the letter: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mahim/toiletter.txt). Unfortunately, circumstances intervened and I could not do as promised for the last two days. Things are better now, so here is a list of today's stories: 1. America denies India share in Iraqi pie News 2. 'We don't feel like coming back' News 3. 'Indians killed, left to rot in Oman' Sensationalized news 4. Vedanta Resources lists on LSE economic issues that the ToI mistakenly thinks the world cares for 5. Urmila is mast in Lahore movies and half-naked women 6. NRIs still seek desi cure-all for ills issues that the ToI mistakenly thinks NRIs care for (this is a new category; hope you like it) 7. A well made-up dollar dream issues that the ToI mistakenly thinks NRIs care for 8. 'I will find justice at Sonia's door' News (you get the benefit of the doubt here) 9. Pretty girls do make men irrational etcetera By your usual standards, I must say 3 or 4 news stories out of the top 9 on your home page is rather alarming. This puts you in danger of losing your King of the Tabloids status. You need to be careful. Thanks, Mahim -- Mahim Mishra Graduate Student, CS Dept, 8203 Wean Hall, CMU School of Computer Science, +1-412-268-3562 Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mahim