tid bits

¤  Bush serves up rice

¤  Corrections: "A restaurant review in the Dining section last Wednesday about Spice Market, on West 13th Street in Manhattan, awarded it three stars. The review should have disclosed this."

¤  A Vermeer, Once Suspect, Will Be Offered at Sotheby’s

¤  Sex makes you clever.

¤  Jake lusts but does not carp the diem.

¤  Handsome, rich, famous (even though at 5-feet-7, he is a bit vertically challenged).