Many Congratulations!

To the Red Sox, and to all my Bostonian friends out there! You sure did wait long enough for it. Now let's all get behind the Cubs for next year.

Oh, yeah, and P.S., please don't burn down Boston in your rapturous joy. There's plenty of New York left to wreck. :P

I Won't Believe It

until I see him going through Charles De Gaulle Airport, but according to the LA Times, Arafat may be heading to Paris for medical treatment (try BugMeNot if LAT asks you to login). If he goes to Paris, this may be a one-way trip; Israel has guaranteed his safe passage out, but they haven't said whether he'd be allowed to return.

[Edit: Just read on the BBC that Israeli officials have said that Arafat will be allowed to return to the West Bank if he goes abroad for medical treatment. the news, it changes so fast!]