Britons continue to debate the Blair government's now-discredited claim that Iraq was 45 minutes away from launching chemical or biological weapons. Glenn Frankel and Rajiv Chandrasekaran British review in detail the history of the 45-minute claim and Blair's failure to "disclose that the claim had come secondhand from a single, uncorroborated source, and that some of the government's own experts believed it was questionable."

A Seattle forum on "Fixing Radio" focused on the fallout from Janet Jackson's exposed breast and Clear Channel Communications' suspension of Howard Stern. (Clear Channel executives were shocked, shocked to discover that Stern's show features sexually explicit talk.) But panelist Bruce Wirth of KBCS 91.3 FM commented, "What I think is really indecent is that we're focusing on this and Janet Jackson's (breast) ...

The U.S. government is threating legal action against anyone who edits manuscripts from Iran and other disfavored nations, on the ground that it amounts to trading with the enemy. "Anyone who publishes material from a country under a trade embargo is forbidden to reorder paragraphs or sentences, correct syntax or grammar, or replace 'inappropriate words,'" reports Adam Liptak. "Adding illustrations is prohibited, too.