Hur ts so good

The Times was not outside the door yesterday a.m.; that evening, finally leaving the house, I saw that it was in the lobby. I was going to chuck it—but I'm glad I didn't! I would never have read this Jennifer 8. Lee story about the Elmhurst Hospital Center losing some key lights in its sign—



—nor this story (by John Eligon) titled "It Was Some Day in Court for Ampersands":

Just 30 minutes after a lawyer announced that four women were filing a sex discrimination lawsuit against B & H, the electronics superstore in Midtown, Manhattan prosecutors held a news conference to announce the indictment of the owner of H & H Bagels, the legendary bagel shop on the Upper West Side, on charges of tax fraud.