Next month in Styles: "For Lockhart Steele, Quotewhoring Is More Than Just a Night Out."

• The real deal behind the noise levels at East Village bar Heathers. [NYO/The Real Estate]
  

The Times continues to speculate about what on earth the poor sad book publishing industry will do once series-closer Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows kills off Ron Weasley this summer. (What? Come on, you know it's gonna happen.) The article, co-penned by Motoko Rich and Julie Bosman, hits the usual alarmist notes: what will Scholastic do now?? (A: continue to sell lots of other books, just like they've always done), how will this affect stockholders (who cares), and will children stop reading books and start just start staring raptly into their video iPods all the time (well, yes). One question remains, though: what will be Rich's and Bosman's new beats once Pottermania dies down? Seriously, the ladies are obsessed. Watch your back, Ginny Weasley!

• Sulzberger to Morgan Stanley: "I'd like my money back, thanks." [Fortune]
  

Visitors to TV-hogging English celebu-chef Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in The London hotel on 54th Street yesterday found something missing from their New York Times—the Dining section.

As you've seen in the past, when we're deprived of the Photoshop services of Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley our own efforts are somewhat wanting. Still, we're not one of the biggest news organizations in the world; how the heck did this get through?

So what's behind the mystery of Rebecca Dana's employment status? Dana, you'll remember, was plucked from the Observer to join the Times. Yesterday's Broadcasting & Cable suggested that she might be staying at the pink paper after all. Why would that be? The following rumor is making the rounds:

From the Times:

• Hey, ladies, Sheryl Crow reads the Wall Street Journal. Shouldn't you? [NYT]
  

• Scooter Libby would call Judy Miller at all hours just to tell her that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. [WaPo]
  

The Observer breaks this one:

• Joey Ramone's mom, Charlotte Lesher, died of a heart attack on Saturday night. R.I.P. [JoeyRamone.com]
  

Apart from the previously noted tarditude in yesterday's Styles, there was a fascinating look at the world of tiny-cocked men and the e-mails that upset them. Lisa W. Foderaro immersed herself in the world of spam, and how it's now taking a personal toll on its recipients:

Ghetto Pass correspondent The Assimilated Negro weighs in on yesterday's groundbreaking NYT coverage of black people who listen to white people music (which, the paper helpfully informs you, was actually invented by black people. His report follows.

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

• CNBC is backing Maria Bartiromo because, really, what else do you know about CNBC apart from Maria Bartiromo? [NYT]
  

So remember back when the NYT misquoted John Kerry's "botched joke" back in November and had to run a correction? It's now corrected online, but the original article, by Kate Zernike, quoted Kerry as making the joke exactly as it'd appeared in his prepared remarks — "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush" — except with the omission of the word 'us.' The actual quote, as per the correction the Times originally ran on 11/3: ""You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

• Keith Kelly gets the "exclusive": Time Warner is selling its Time 4 Media properties to the Bonnier Group for a sum considerably less than the $300 million they wanted. Tough break for AdAge, which had the story yesterday but pulled it. [NYP]
  

• 'NYT' hottie Warren St. John writes about refugee soccer players, gets insta-movie deal. [Variety]
  

Over the past couple months, you've probably become familiar with the work of New York Times writer Eric Konigsberg, who seems to have been hired to focus exclusively on rich people living on the Upper East Side. Today's piece, about how Upper East Siders have taken to dropping off their over-indulged spawn at nursery school in chauffeured luxury cars, is typical Konigsberg work: