Cheap Slate: What's in Today's 'In Today's Papers'

Russian Dressing: TP notes that Boris Yeltsin's night of the long knives leads at USAT and the NYT. Meanwhile, the LAT noodles on the economic impact of oil production cutbacks (a 13 percent one-day rise in prices) and the WP takes on a SCOTUS nondecison on partial birth abortion. The semantic conundrum that has SS tied in knots: Just what exactly is a 'partial-birth' abortion. Answers are requested...

Quotes of the Day »

RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.