Selected Articles from The New York Times
(* denotes news of special interest)

Monday, April 30, 2001:
On This Day: April 30 (St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle 4/30/1651-4/7/1719, Eugen Bleuler 4/30/1857-7/15/1939, Franz Léhar 4/30/1870-10/24/1948, John Crowe Ransom 4/30/1888-7/4/1974, Joachim von Ribbentrop 4/30/1893-10/16/1946, Simon Kuznets 4/30/1901-7/8/1985, Eve Arden 4/30/1912-11/12/1990, Robert Shaw 4/30/1916-1/25/1999, Richard Farina 4/30/1937-4/30/1966, Princess Juliana 1909, Al Lewis 1910, Cloris Leachman 1926, Willie Nelson 1933, Gary Collins 1938, Burt Young 1940, Bobby Vee 1943, Jill Clayburgh 1944, Perry King 1948, Merrill Osmand 1953)
Communists Take Over Saigon; U.S. Rescue Fleet Is Picking Up Vietnamese Who Fled in Boats
(By George Esper, April 30, 1975)
Theodore Schultz, 95, Winner Of a Key Prize in Economics
[4/30/1902-4/30/1998] (By PETER PASSELL, March 2, 1998)
Whites in Minority in Largest Cities, the Census Shows (By ERIC SCHMITT, Apr. 30, 2001)
Smithsonian Chief Draws Ire in Making Relics of Old Ways (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Apr. 30, 2001)
Political Memo: Gore's Silence Rings in the Ears of Some Allies (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 30, 2001)
Public Lives: Cheney Aide Will Eat Horse Guts Before He'll Spill Beans [I. Lewis Libby] (By ERIC SCHMITT, Apr. 30, 2001)
China, Easing Its Stance, Will Let U.S. Inspect Spy Plane (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 30, 2001)
Chinese Court Sentences Falun Gong Supporter to Life Term (By REUTERS, Apr. 30, 2001)
Metropolitan Diary (By ENID NEMY, Apr. 30, 2001)
SPORTS: Gertrude Ederle, Pioneer Swimmer, Looks Back on Her Unforgettable Feat (By ELLIOTT DENMAN, Apr. 30, 2001)
OP-ED: The Guilt of Political Leaders [Bob Kerrey] (By ROBERT MANN, Apr. 30, 2001)
OP-ED: Let the Stories Go (By LAWRENCE LESSIG, Apr. 30, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Syndrome Returns (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 30, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Disparities at Harvard (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 30, 2001)
* The Internet Bubble Bursts on the Screen (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 30, 2001)
New Reality Show to Place Ads Between the Ads (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 30, 2001)
While a Utility May Be Failing, Its Owner Is Not (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & LAURA M. HOLSON, Apr. 30, 2001)
Some Web Radio Broadcasts Are Halted Over Fees (By CLEA SIMON, Apr. 30, 2001)
New Economy: Interactive TV May Be More Talk Than Interaction (By SETH SCHIESEL, Apr. 30, 2001)
E-Commerce Report: Content That Sells (By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 30, 2001)
* Compressed Data: How to Gauge E-Mail Responses (By SUSAN STELLIN, Apr. 30, 2001)
Compressed Data: A Pessimistic Assessment of Privacy (By SUSAN STELLIN, Apr. 30, 2001)
Patents: Easing Bottleneck on Online Customer-Service Traffic (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Apr. 30, 2001)
Media Talk: Gore Questions Report in Woodward Book (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 30, 2001)
Media Talk: Against Advice, Denise Rich Courts Media (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Apr. 30, 2001)
Media Talk: CNN and CBS News Are Discussing Links (By JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 30, 2001)
ARTS ONLINE: Guggenheim's Latest Branch Is to Open in Cyberspace (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Apr. 30, 2001)
BOOKS: In an Adventure Novel, Scamps Intrigue, Heroes Battle, and Women Wait (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Apr. 30, 2001)
DANCE REVIEW: Clairvoyant (or Charlatan) With Friends and Enemies [Blavatsky] (By JACK ANDERSON, Apr. 30, 2001)
MUSIC: A Pianist Seeks the Essence in Quietude and Intensity (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Apr. 30, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: From India, Many Sounds, All Pulling Inward (By ANN POWERS, Apr. 30, 2001)
ROCK REVIEW: Billy Idol: Still Shaking Those Fists, Sneer Intact (By ANN POWERS, Apr. 30, 2001)

Sunday, April 29, 2001:
On This Day: April 29 (Alexander II 4/29/1818-3/13/1881, Henri Poincaré 4/29/1854-7/17/1912, William Randolph Hearst 4/29/1863-8/14/1951, Sir Thomas Becham 4/29/1879-3/8/1961, Harold Urey 4/29/1893-1/5/1981, Sir Malcomm Sargent 4/29/1895-10/3/1967, Duke Ellington 4/29/1899-5/24/1974, Fred Zinnemann 4/29/1907-3/14/1997, George Allen 4/29/1922-12/31/1990, Celeste Holm 1919, Carl Gardner 1928, Keith Baxter 1933, Rod McKuen 1933, Zubin Mehta 1936, Jerry Seinfeld 1954, Kate Mulgrew 1955, Michelle Pfeiffer 1957, Uma Thurman 1970)
Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted In Taped Beating of Rodney King
(By Seth Mydans, April 29, 1992)
Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan, Is Dead at 87
[4/29/1901-1/7/1989] (By SUSAN CHIRA, January 7, 1989)
Dan Lacy, 87, an Expert on Copyright Law, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2001)
Giacomo Gentilomo, Director, Dies at 92 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 29, 2001)
Richard Scammon, Analyst of Political Trends and Statistics, Dies at 85 (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Apr. 29, 2001)
In Early Battles, Bush Learns Need for Compromises (By DAVID E. SANGER & MARC LACEY, Apr. 29, 2001)
Baby Not Crawling? Reason Seems to Be Less Tummy Time (By GINA KOLATA and HOWARD MARKEL, Apr. 29, 2001)
China Looks to Foil U.S. Missile Defense System (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 29, 2001)
Chinese Hackers Invade 2 Official U.S. Web Sites (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2001)
Document Reveals 1987 Bomb Test by Iraq (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Apr. 29, 2001)
Those Little Town Blues, in Old New York? (By PETER APPLEBOME, Apr. 29, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mr. Bush's Beginning (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2001)
OP-ED: Presidents Who Aim High (By NEWT GINGRICH, Apr. 29, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: I Have a Nickname!!! (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 29, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: The Real Wolf (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Why No Star Shines as Bright [Marilyn Monroe] (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Apr. 29, 2001)
* What's Taught and Learned About Who Killed Christ (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Apr. 29, 2001)
Why Japan Resists Change (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Apr. 29, 2001)
A Feathery Theory Takes Wing (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 29, 2001)
PRACTICAL TRAVELER: When the Sky's the Limit (By BETSY WADE, Apr. 29, 2001)
Say What You Mean. Vaguely. (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 29, 2001)
BUSINESS: By the Water Cooler in Cyberspace, the Talk Turns Ugly (By REED ABELSON, Apr. 29, 2001)
* A Software Company Runs Out of Tricks [Computer Associates] (By ALEX BERENSON, Apr. 29, 2001)
* At Financial Web Sites, More Than the Scores (By CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ, Apr. 29, 2001)
Economic View: Have Rate Cuts Lost Their Magic? (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Apr. 29, 2001)
Business World: A High-Tech Lifeline in Europe's Rust Belt (By PETER S. GREEN, Apr. 29, 2001)
Workers, and Bosses, in a Visa Maze [Indian programmers] (By LESLIE WAYNE, Apr. 29, 2001)
Market Watch: Holding Executives Answerable to Owners (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Buffett Stuck to His Stocks, and He's Up as Wall Street Is Down (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Apr. 29, 2001)
Why Wait for That Money? Download It Instead (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Apr. 29, 2001)
Portfolios, Etc: It May Still Be Too Soon to Plunge Back Into Argentina (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Apr. 29, 2001)
* My Money, My Life: I Told You So? Well, Not Exactly (By HARVEY LIEBERMAN, Apr. 29, 2001)
Planning a Defense Before the Layoff (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Investing With Val Jensen: Jensen Portfolio (By CAROLE GOULD, Apr. 29, 2001)
Market Insight: For Airlines, Profits May Remain Elusive (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Apr. 29, 2001)
Private Sector: A Benign Compaq Shark in Silicon Valley's Pond (Compiled By RICK GLADSTONE, Apr. 29, 2001)
Business Dairy: In a Default Record, a California Flavor (By Rick Gladstone, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Investing Diary: A Rising Market, as a Health Hazard (By, Apr. 29, 2001)
Personal Business Diary: At I.B.M., Less Support For a Pension Challenge (By, Apr. 29, 2001)
* ARTS: Richard Koshale: A Champion of Fresh Minds (By JOSEPH GIOVANNINI, Apr. 29, 2001)
* ART: Shining a Light on Taoist Art (By SHEILA MELVIN, Apr. 29, 2001)
DANCE: Ballet, Flamenco, Hip-Hop: One Spaniard's Spice Rack (By AMY SERAFIN, Apr. 29, 2001)
FILM: Brian De Palma: Audacity, Mayhem and Images You Don't Forget (By RICHARD T. JAMESON, Apr. 29, 2001)
MUSIC: Destiny's Child: In Tune With the New Feminism (By ANN POWERS, Apr. 29, 2001)
* MUSIC: Judy Garland: Acting as She Sings, She Makes Each Song a Drama (By DOUGLAS McGRATH, Apr. 29, 2001)
* THEATER: A Love for Words and the Works They Give Birth To (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Apr. 29, 2001)
TV: 'On Golden Pond,' the Event: Yes (Sigh), I'll Watch (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 29, 2001)
TV: On the Trail of Television's Lost Treasures (By DAVID EVERITT, Apr. 29, 2001)
FASHION: On the Street: Up to the Elbows in Formality (Photographs By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Apr. 29, 2001)
Vows: Mary Brosnahan and John Sullivan (By ENID NEMY, Apr. 29, 2001)
OUT THERE / LONDON: Faded Jeweler Turns to House of Jagger (By GORDON F. SANDER, Apr. 29, 2001)
STYLES: Why Johnny Can't Mate: Dysfunction as a Game Show (By JESSE McKINLEY, Apr. 29, 2001)
Counterintelligence: Still Playing a Tough Dame (By ALEX WITCHEL, Apr. 29, 2001)
TRAVEL: San Francisco Has a Lot on Its Plate (By RICK LYMAN, Apr. 29, 2001)
Boston on the Run: Dürer to Jim Dine (By AMY WALDMAN, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Eclipse-Chasers Pay for Shade [June 21, 2001] (By SUZANNE MacNEILLE, Apr. 29, 2001)
* On Language: Sorry (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 29, 2001)
My Kingdom, A Horse (By JANE SMILEY, Apr. 29, 2001)
Questions for Jane Swift, Governor of Massachusetts (Interview by RORY EVANS, Apr. 29, 2001)
The Ethicist: Honor Bound (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 29, 2001)
How to Look Gainfully Employed (By CAMERON STRACHER, Apr. 29, 2001)
* The Machine Age: High-End Watches (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 29, 2001)
One Awful Night in Thanh Phong [Bob Kerrey] (By GREGORY L. VISTICA, Apr. 29, 2001)
David Byrne is the Same as He Ever Was (By MARSHALL SELLA, Apr. 29, 2001)
Strom in the Balance (By JAMES BENNET, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Lemony Snicket Says, 'Don't Read My Books!' (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Apr. 29, 2001)
STYLE: Making a Scene: For Centuries, Wallpaper Landscapes Have Brought the Outdoors In
(By PILAR VILADAS, Apr. 29, 2001)
FOOD: The Insider: Hiding Under the Hard Shell&3151; a Soft, Sweet Oyster (By JULIA REED, Apr. 29, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2001)
Bugging the World [James Bamford, 'Body of Secrets: National Security Agency'] (By JOSEPH FINDER, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Analyze This Guy [Ronald Hayman, 'A Life of Jung'] (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Apr. 29, 2001)
* Swim Meet [Tim Birkhead, 'Promiscuity'] (By PAUL RAEBURN, Apr. 29, 2001)
Loved Humanity, Hated People [Ray Monk, 'Bertrand Russell: Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970'] (By SYLVIA NASAR, Apr. 29, 2001)
Broadway Returned His Regards [Steven Bach, 'Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart'] (By BRAD LEITHAUSER, Apr. 29, 2001)
Here She Comes to Save the Day! [Julie Hecht, 'Was This Man a Genius? Talks With Andy Kaufman']
(By RICK MARIN, Apr. 29, 2001)
Boox: A Comic (By MARK ALAN STAMATY, Apr. 29, 2001)
SCIENCE: Millionaire Embarks on Joy Ride in Space (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Apr. 29, 2001)

Saturday, April 28, 2001:
On This Day: April 28 (James Monroe 4/28/1878-7/4/1831, Marie-Joseph Chenier 4/28/1764-1/10/1811, Tobias Asser 4/28/1838-7/29/1913, Erich Salomon 4/28/1886-7/7/1944, Johan Borgen 4/28/1902-10/16/1979, Bart Jan Bok 4/28/1906-8/7/1983, Kurt Gödel 4/28/1906-1/14/1978, Ferruccio Lamborghini 4/28/1916-2/20/1993, Carolyn Jones 4/28/1929-8/3/1983, Harper Lee 1926, James A. Baker III 1930, Saddam Hussein 1937, Ann-Margret 1941, Jay Leno 1950, Mary McDonnell 1953, Chris Young 1971)
* Kon-Tiki Trip Ends on Pacific Reef; Party Safe After 4,000-Mile Drift
(By Thor Heyerdahl, April 28, 1947)
* Lionel Barrymore Is Dead at 76; Actor's Career Spanned 61 Years
[4/28/1878-11/15/1954] (NY TIMES, November 16, 1954)
Wendell Winship Witter, Brokerage Firm Partner, Dies at 90 (NY TIMES, Apr. 28, 2001)
Donald Dorfman, 67, Professor of Psychology and Radiology, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 28, 2001)
Hal Prieste, America's Oldest Olympian, Dies at 104 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 28, 2001)
Li Yuqin, Chinese Emperor's Widow, Dies at 73 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 28, 2001)
Richard McGee Morse, Latin America Expert, Is Dead at 78 (By SIMON ROMERO, Apr. 28, 2001)
A River-Loving City Finds a Fondness for Its Flood Wall (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 28, 2001)
Acting Presidential, in Senatorial Sort of Way (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Apr. 28, 2001)
Bush Honors a Kingmaker and Mentor [Bob Bullock] (By DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 28, 2001)
Beliefs: A Professor Argues for Religious Tradition (By PETER STEINFELS, Apr. 28, 2001)
Dogs' Sight Restored With Gene Therapy (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 28, 2001)
Foes Remain of Two Minds on One China (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 28, 2001)
F.B.I. Warns That Chinese May Disrupt U.S. Web Sites (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Apr. 28, 2001)
Prewar File Told of Hitler's Mental State (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Apr. 28, 2001)
* Parents Hungry for ABC's Find Schools Don't Add Up (By KATE ZERNIKE, Apr. 28, 2001)
NYC: Daughters at Work - Two Views (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Apr. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: War and Memory (By TOBIAS WOLFF, Apr. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: A War Against Ourselves (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Apr. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: It's Closure Mongering Time (By FRANK RICH, Apr. 28, 2001)
LETTERS: Just Ask Elmo: Is 'B' for Bite, or Byte? (By ALISON CRAIGLOW HOCKENBERRY, Apr. 28, 2001)
BUSINESS: A Rally as Growth Report Stirs Optimism
[Dow +118, Nasdaq +41] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 28, 2001)
Economy Grew at Estimated 2% in Quarter (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 28, 2001)
A Backwater Is Turning to Cutting-Edge Technology (By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 28, 2001)
* Economist Is Honored for Use of Psychology (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Apr. 28, 2001)
Earnings Decline by 16% at Taiwan Semiconductor (By MARK LANDLER, Apr. 28, 2001)
* ARTS: IDEAS: Adding Art to the Rigor of Statistical Science (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 28, 2001)
* ARTS: IDEAS: Vivid Color in a World of Black and White (By SARAH BOXER, Apr. 28, 2001)
DANCE: 'Pour Ainsi Dire': Life as a Frozen Game of Tag (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 28, 2001)
FILM: 'The Forsaken': A Throatful of Vampires, Defanged (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 28, 2001)
MUSIC: David Robertson: An American Maestro Gets an A (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 28, 2001)
OPERA: 'Les Huguenots': Meyerbeer Claims a Place in the Present (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Apr. 28, 2001)
* Think Tank: If Baseball Expands to the Moon, Be Sure to Back Up Those Fences (By BRUCE WEBER, Apr. 28, 2001)
TV: 'Dwarfs: Not a Fairy Tale': On Being Very Small in a World of Giants (By RON WERTHEIMER, Apr. 28, 2001)
GARDENING: Cuttings: A Lifting of Small Voices Heralding the Spring (By ANNE RAVER, Apr. 28, 2001)
SCIENCE: NASA Racing to Fix Problem With Computer (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 28, 2001)

Friday, April 27, 2001:
On This Day: April 27 (Claude Gillot 4/27/1673-5/4/1722, Nikolay Novikov 4/27/1744-7/31/1818, Mary Wollstonecraft 4/27/1759-9/10/1797, Samuel Morse 4/27/1791-4/2/1872, Herbert Spencer 4/27/1820-12/8/1903, Edward Whymper 4/27/1840-9/16/1911, Rogers Hornsby 4/27/1896-1/5/1963, Wallace Hume Carothers 4/27/1896-4/29/1937, Walter Lantz 4/27/1900-3/27/1900, Jack Klugman 1922, Coretta Scott King 1927, Anouk Aimee 1932, Casey Kasem 1932, Judy Carne 1939, Sheena Easton 1959)
* 58,339 Acclaim Babe Ruth in Rare Tribute at Yankee Stadium
(By Louis Effrat, April 27, 1947)
* The Career of a Soldier: Ulysses S. Grant Dies at 63
[4/27/1822-7/23/1885] (NY TIMES, July 24, 1885)
Ben Wright, Former Magazine Publisher, Dies at 89 (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2001)
J.H. Gallet, 58, Federal Judge Who Transcended Disabilities, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 27, 2001)
Isaac Cole, Jazz Musician, 73, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 27, 2001)
Charlie O'Hearn, Kicker and Three-Sport Man at Yale, Dies at 99 (By JACK CAVANAUGH, Apr. 27, 2001)
Al Hibbler, a Singer With Ellington's Band, Dies at 85 (By BEN RATLIFF, Apr. 27, 2001)
Study Finds Number of Mosques Up 25% in 6 Years (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Apr. 27, 2001)
Flooded City Awaits Word on U.S. Help (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 27, 2001)
Kerrey Defends Account of Navy Seals' Raid in Vietnam (By AMY WALDMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)
News Analysis: Intelligence Fallouts for Bush (By JAMES RISEN, Apr. 27, 2001)
* Beijing Journal: A Pilot Is Lost, and a Communist Titan Is Found (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 27, 2001)
Mrs. Clinton Gives Girls a Peek Inside Her Purse (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 27, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Policy Adjustments on Taiwan (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: A Need for Ambiguity (By MICHAEL O'HANLON, Apr. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: Why Not Try Vouchers? (By JAMES Q. WILSON, Apr. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: It Takes a Village (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Garden State Grippe (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 27, 2001)
BUSINESS: Blue-Chip Shares Climb, but Technology Suffers Setback
[Dow +67, Nasdaq -25] (By REUTERS, Apr. 27, 2001)
Floyd Norris: Looking for a Low Interest Rate? How About Zero? (By FLOYD NORRIS, Apr. 27, 2001)
Acne: No Longer Just a Market for Teenagers (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Apr. 27, 2001)
* I.B.M. Project Seeks to Reduce Need for Human Action (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 27, 2001)
Microsoft and Qwest Form Internet Partnership (By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 27, 2001)
Nasdaq, Becoming Corporation, Plans an Offering of Its Shares (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 27, 2001)
Scientists Drop Plan to Present Music-Copying Study [digital watermarks] (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 27, 2001)
* ARTS: A Little Bit of Hollywood Starring India (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Apr. 27, 2001)
ART: In the Studio With Tony Oursler: A Sculptor of the Air With Video (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)
ART: Browsing in the Galleries: From the Puzzling to the Self-Evident (By ROBERTA SMITH, Apr. 27, 2001)
* ART: 'Kiki Smith: Telling Tales': Fairy Tales in a Forest of Women and Fruit (By SARAH BOXER, Apr. 27, 2001)
* Inside Art: Renaissance Beauties [National Gallery] (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 27, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Morning': Rise and Fall of a Dave Garroway Trying to Be Gatsby (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Apr. 27, 2001)
DANCE: 'Shazam!': A Droll Illusionist Who Makes Old Tricks New (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 27, 2001)
FILM: Watching Movies With Harvey Weinstein (By RICK LYMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)
FILM: 'The Golden Bowl': All the Sensibility That Money Can Buy (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 27, 2001)
FILM: At the Movies: Three Directors in New Roles (By RICK LYMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)
FILM: 'Town and Country': If Infidelity Had an All-Star Game, This Would Be It (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 27, 2001)
FILM: 'Bad Blood': When Love Without Love Gets Dangerous (By WALTER GOODMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)
FILM: 'Driven': Crashes! Women! But, Hey, What's Under the Hood? (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 27, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'John Yang/Mount Zion': Heartbreak and Faded Joy Amid Tombstones (By MARGARETT LOKE, Apr. 27, 2001)
THEATER: 'The Tragedy of Hamlet': Sweet Prince, You're a Scamp (By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 27, 2001)
TV WEEKEND: '61*': He Beat the Babe. Period. (By RON WERTHEIMER, Apr. 27, 2001)
LIVING: The Outsider: Taking Flight, Tension-Free (By JAMES GORMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)
SCIENCE: Persistence, and $20 Million, Buy Dream of Visit to Space (By TODD S. PURDUM, Apr. 27, 2001)
* Scientists, Using New Material, Push Toward Tinier Computers (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 27, 2001)
* Archaeological Site in Peru Is Called Oldest City in Americas (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 27, 2001)
HEALTH: Stem-Cell Advances Are Likely to Heighten Ethics Debate (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 27, 2001)
Microbe in Salon Footbath Is Suspected in Boil Outbreak (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Apr. 27, 2001)

Thursday, April 26, 2001:
On This Day: April 26 (John James Audubon 4/26/1785-1/27/1851, Friedrich Flotow 4/26/1812-1/24/1883, Alfred Krupp 4/26/1812-7/14/1887, Frederick Law Olmsted 4/26/1822-8/28/1903, Harold Rothermere 4/26/1868-11/26/1940, Ma Rainey 4/26/1886-12/22/1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein 4/26/1889-4/29/1951, Anita Loos 4/26/1893-8/18/1981, Cass Canfield 4/26/1897-3/27/1986, Morris West 4/26/1916-10/9/1999, Carol Burnett 1933, Duane Eddy 1938, Bobby Rydell 1942, Claudine Auger 1942, Joan Chen 1961)
Soviet Announces Nuclear Accident at Electric Plant at Chernobyl
(By Serge Schmemann, April 26, 1986)
* Bernard Malamud Dies at 71; Chronicled Human Struggle
[4/26/1914-3/18/1986] (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, March 19, 1986)
Leon Sullivan, 78, Dies; Fought Apartheid (By PAUL LEWIS, Apr. 26, 2001)
John M. Edmond, Expert on Ecology of Oceans and Rivers, Dies at 57 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 26, 2001)
Kermit Hunter, Historical Dramatist, Dies at 90 (NY TIMES, Apr. 26, 2001)
Hamlet Inundated in '93 Battles the River Anew (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 26, 2001)
Bush Tells Beijing the U.S. Is Ready to Defend Taiwan (By DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 26, 2001)
Former Philippine President Jailed on Corruption Charges (By SETH MYDANS, Apr. 26, 2001)
Falun Gong Holds Protests on Anniversary of Big Sit-In (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: Tilting the Scales Rightward (By CASS R. SUNSTEIN, Apr. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: An Unwinnable War on Drugs (By ETHAN A. NADELMANN, Apr. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Championing Cities (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 26, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Les Cents Jours (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 26, 2001)
LETTERS: Say Hey, Coast to Coast [Willie Mays] (By MARIANNA P. SULLIVAN & MEREDITH WATTS, Apr. 26, 2001)
BUSINESS: Share Prices Gain on Better-Than-Expected Housing Sales
[Dow +171, Nasdaq +43] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 26, 2001)
Market Place: Procter & Gamble Wants to Jettison Jif and Crisco (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Apr. 26, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 26, 2001)
Let the Game Wars Begin (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Apr. 26, 2001)
* Punching Holes in Internet Walls (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Apr. 26, 2001)
Ellis Island Web Site Leaves Visitors Adrift (By JAYSON BLAIR, Apr. 26, 2001)
Online Shopper: Following the Herd Right Over the Cliff (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Apr. 26, 2001)
* Family Recipe Sites Build Connections (By KIMBERLY STEVENS, Apr. 26, 2001)
* For Those Who Would Click and Cheat (By LISA GUERNSEY, Apr. 26, 2001)
Countries That Track Internet Activity (NY TIMES, Apr. 26, 2001)
Before Slate Was Online, It Was in the Ground (By SHELLY FREIERMA, Apr. 26, 2001)
Hard Drive With CD Burner That Acts Like a Tape Deck (By IAN AUSTEN, Apr. 26, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Sir Colin's Players to Offer Their Poise and Pleasure (By WARREN HOGE, Apr. 26, 2001)
* BOOKS: A Writer's Tough Lesson in Birthin' a Parody ["The Wind Done Gone"] (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 26, 2001)
Making Books: In Deep Trouble and Loving It (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Apr. 26, 2001)
DANCE: France Moves: Nudged and Squeezed in a Kafkaesque World (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 26, 2001)
MUSIC: Dawn Upshaw and Richard Goode: An Interrupted Melody, Then Pleasure (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 26, 2001)
THEATER: Students by Day, Stars at Night: Acting at City Lights (By DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 26, 2001)
* LIVING: At Home With Michael Korda: Power! Success! Pigs! Pesticides! (By TRACIE ROZHON, Apr. 26, 2001)
* Design Notebook: Old University Incubates Tomorrow's Architecture [Utrecht] (By ALASTAIR GORDON, Apr. 26, 2001)
When City Hall Smiles on Public Art (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Apr. 26, 2001)
GARDENING: Garden Q&A: Reblooming Magnolia (By DORA GALITZKI, Apr. 26, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Feathered Dinosaur Fossils Are Unearthed in China (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 26, 2001)

Wednesday, April 25, 2001:
On This Day: April 25 (Oliver Cromwell 4/25/1599-9/3/1658, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky 4/25/1840-10/25/1893, John Frank Stevens 4/25/1853-6/2/1943, Howard Garis 4/25/1873-11/6/1962, Guglielmo Marconi 4/25/1874-7/20/1937, Wolfgang Pauli 4/25/1900-12/15/1958, William Brennan 4/25/1906-7/24/1997, Claude Mauriac 4/25/1914-3/22/1996, Ella Fitzgerald 4/25/1917-6/15/1996, Paul Mazursky 1930, Meadowlark Lemon 1932, Al Pacino 1940, Talia Shire 1946, Hank Azaria 1964, Renee Zellweger 1969, Emily Bergl 1975)
Two Soviet Armies Inside Berlin; 46 Nations Ready to Organize Peace; Only Poles Absent
(By James B. Reston, April 25 , 1945)
* Edward R. Murrow, Broadcaster And Ex-Chief of U.S.I.A., Dies at 57
[4/25/1908-4/27/1965] (NY TIMES, April 28, 1965)
The Final American Tour of Charles Dickens (Harper's Weekly, April 25, 1868)
Lionel Abel, 90, Playwright and Essayist, Dies (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 25, 2001)
Maria Karnilova, 80, Star of Ballets and Broadway, Dies (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 25, 2001)
Gene Thompson, Novelist, Dies at 76 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 25, 2001)
James Parton, a Founder of American Heritage, Dies at 88 (By ERIC PACE, Apr. 25, 2001)
Field Marshal Habes al-Majali, 87, Military Leader in Jordan, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Apr. 25, 2001)
Iowa Town on the Defensive Against Flooding and Critics (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 25, 2001)
Cambridge Journal: Protesters Blooming in Harvard Yard (By CAREY GOLDBERG, Apr. 25, 2001)
Military Analysis: U.S. Weapons Help Taiwan Stave Off Threat (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 25, 2001)
China Expresses Concern Over Arms Sale to Taiwan (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 25, 2001)
People in Streets of Taiwan Are Underwhelmed by Arms Sales (By MARK LANDLER, Apr. 25, 2001)
* French and Italian Preschools: Models for U.S.? (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 25, 2001)
Man in the News: Junichiro Koizumi (By STEPHANIE STROM, Apr. 25, 2001)
Diallo and Controversy Return to Bronx, as Art (By DEXTER FILKINS, Apr. 25, 2001)
TV SPORTS: The Summer Mantle and Maris Chased Babe Ruth's Ghost (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 25, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Getting It Right on Taiwan (NY TIMES, Apr. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: Time for Europe to Lead (By CAROLINE ATKINSON, Apr. 25, 2001)
Look to the Sun (By DALE MAHARIDGE, Apr. 25, 2001)
LIBERTIES: The Gabbiest Generation (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 25, 2001)
RECKONINGS: Purging the Rottenness (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 25, 2001)
To Fight Depression [St. John's wort] (By MICHAEL MCGUFFIN, Apr. 25, 2001)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Lose Ground; Nasdaq's Decline Is Deeper
[Dow -78, Nasdaq -43] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 25, 2001)
* Business Travel: Singapore Airlines Introduces In-Flight E-Mail (By JOE SHARKEY, Apr. 25, 2001)
Rising Gasoline Prices Pose Threat to Slowing Economy (By NEELA BANERJEE, Apr. 25, 2001)
Big Media Vulnerable to Strike by Writers (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT with JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 25, 2001)
Market Place: Lucent Posts Big Losses in Quarter (By SIMON ROMERO, Apr. 25, 2001)
JDS Uniphase Issues Profit Warning and Plans to Cut Jobs (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 25, 2001)
Amazon Pares Quarter Loss as It Increases Some Sales (By SAUL HANSELL, Apr. 25, 2001)
* Sun Plans System for Sharing Computer Files Over Internet (By PAUL ANDREWS, Apr. 25, 2001)
I.B.M. Will Acquire Database Unit of Informix for $1 Billion (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 25, 2001)
Workplace: Unrequited Job Seekers Kept in the Dark (By JOYCE COHEN, Apr. 25, 2001)
Life's Work: The Contradictory Truths of 9 to 5 (By LISA BELKIN, Apr. 25, 2001)
Management: A Factory's Crash Course in Economics Pays Off (By WELD ROYAL, Apr. 25, 2001)
The Boss: The Discovery of Flying Solo (By Philip M. Condit, CEO Boeing, Apr. 25, 2001)
ART: Blushing, Then Brushing, Artist Covers Nude Christ (By SUSAN SAULNY, Apr. 25, 2001)
ART CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Get Out Your Shoulder Pads: The 80's Are Here (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Apr. 25, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'April 1865': The Month That Lincoln Was Shot (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Apr. 25, 2001)
FILM: 'Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story': 4,500 More Seconds for Warhol Star (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 25, 2001)
OPERA: 'The Makropulos Case': A Bored Diva, 337 Years Old, Again Commands the Stage (By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 25, 2001)
THEATER: Another Bit Part? Not When Joseph Wiseman Plays It (By JESSE McKINLEY, Apr. 25, 2001)
TV Notes: 'Weakest Link' Is Anything But (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 25, 2001)
FOOD: Pork Belly: Luxury Cut, Surprise Source (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Apr. 25, 2001)
The Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton: Warm and Comforting, With a Twist (By GABRIELLE HAMILTON & AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 25, 2001)
* The Minimalist: As a Fish Needs Green Tea (By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 25, 2001)
* HEALTH: Sex Differences Called Key in Medical Studies (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 25, 2001)
HEALTH: School Bullying Is Common, Mostly by Boys, Study Finds (By ERICA GOODE, Apr. 25, 2001)

Tuesday, April 24, 2001:
On This Day: April 24 (St. Vincent De Paul 4/24/1581-9/27/1660, Giovanni Battista Martini 4/24/1706-10/4/1784, Robert Bailey Thomas 4/24/1766-5/19/1846, Anthony Trollope 4/24/1815-12/6/1882, Henri-Philippe Petain 4/24/1856-7/23/1951, John R. Pope 4/24/1874-8/27/1937, Willem de Kooning 4/24/1904-3/19/1997, J. D. Cannon 1922, Shirley MacLaine 1934, Sue Grafton 1940, Barbra Streisand 1942, Richard Sterban 1943, Michael O'Keefe 1955)
Spain Declared War on the U.S. (NY TIMES, April 24, 1898)
* Robert Penn Warren, Poet and Author, Dies at 84
[4/24/1905-9/15/1989] (NY TIMES, September 16, 1989)
David M. Walker, Astronaut and Aviator, Dies at 56 (By WARREN E. LEARY, Apr. 24, 2001)
Robert Starer, Composer of Ballets and Operas, Dies at 77 (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 24, 2001)
Bush Strong on Defending Taiwan (By REUTERS, Apr. 24, 2001)
* OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Elmo Gets Wired (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Protesting for Whom? (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: Buy SilkPurse.com! (By ANDY BOROWITZ, Apr. 24, 2001)
* Market Place: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Bear Market? (By DANNY HAKIM, Apr. 24, 2001)
Lucent Reports Quarterly Loss of $3.7 Billion (By SIMON ROMERO, Apr. 24, 2001)
ART: In Vegas, Steve Martin Shows His Art Collection (By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 24, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Venezuela's President Attacks Elitism, and Museum Founder Is a Casualty (By LARRY ROHTER, Apr. 24, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'The Love Artist': A Poet Who Makes Love as Artfully as He Writes (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Apr. 24, 2001)
POP: Willie Nelson: Grizzled Baby All Grown Up to Be a Cowboy (By ANN POWERS, Apr. 24, 2001)
THEATER: 'The Dead Eye Boy': A Smack Upside the Head From Mother (By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 24, 2001)
Fashion Dreams in Brooklyn (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Apr. 24, 2001)
SCIENCE: Who Built the H-Bomb? Debate Revives (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Apr. 24, 2001)
What Do Those Barks Mean? To Dogs, It's All Just Talk (By MARK DERR, Apr. 24, 2001)
My Fiji Souvenirs: Shells, Driftwood, Space Debris... (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 24, 2001)
A Scientific Niche for Women in a Male-Dominated Era (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Brie, Back to Basics (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 24, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Grandma Knows Best (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 24, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Beyond Superfund (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 24, 2001)
* HEALTH: Science's Elusive Realm: Life's Little Mysteries (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Apr. 24, 2001)
'Maximum' Heart Rate Theory Is Challenged (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 24, 2001)
As Technology Improves, More People Breathe With Machines (By SANDEEP JAUHAR, Apr. 24, 2001)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Getting High on Life Without Abusing Alcohol (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 24, 2001)
* Research Suggests Positive Effects From Eating Fish (By JIM ROBBINS, Apr. 24, 2001)
Up Everest, for the Ultimate in Exercise (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 24, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / TREATMENTS: A Good Night's Sleep, Without the Pills (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 24, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / HAZARDS: When Lead Paint Vanishes and Returns (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 24, 2001)
* VITAL SIGNS / PERCEPTIONS: A Song in Your Head Can Turn Deadly (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 24, 2001)
* VITAL SIGNS / THERAPY: Of Light, Tissue and Better Moods (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 24, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / NUTRITION: Some Snacks Putting on a Few Calories (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 24, 2001)
Q&A: Pigment Loss (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 24, 2001)

Monday, April 23, 2001:
On This Day: April 23 (William Shakespeare 4/23/1564-4/23/1616, St. Catherine 4/23/1522-2/2/1590, Sir William Penn 4/23/1621-9/16/1670, J.M.W. Turner 4/23/1775-12/19/1851, James Buchanan 4/23/1791-6/1/1868, Stephen Douglas 4/23/1813-6/3/1861, Edwin Markham 4/23/1852-3/7/1940, Johannes Fibiger 4/23/1867-1/30/1928, Michel Fokine 4/23/1880-8/22/1942, Sergey Prokofiev 4/23/1891-3/5/1953, Lester Pearson 4/23/1891-12/27/1972, Roy Halston 4/23/1932-3/26/1990, Janet Blair 1921, Shirley Temple Black 1928, Alan Oppenheimer 1930, David Birney 1939, Lee Majors 1940, Sandra Dee 1942, Blair Brown 1948, James Russo 1953, Judy Davis 1955, Valerie Bertinelli 1960)
Sirhan Sentenced to Gas Chamber on 5th Jury Vote (By Douglas Robinson, April 23, 1969)
* Max Planck Dead; Noted Physicist, 89
[4/23/1858-10/4/1947] (NY TIMES, October 5, 1947)
Jack Haley Jr., Director of 'That's Entertainment,' Dies at 67 (By RICK LYMAN, Apr. 23, 2001)
Mike Schacht, Baseball-Loving Painter, Dies at 65 (By GLENN COLLINS, Apr. 23, 2001)
Wang Enmao, 87, Ruler of a Rebellious Chinese Province, Dies (By PAUL LEWIS, Apr. 23, 2001)
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Intense and Physical Conductor, Dies at 54 After Collapsing Onstage (By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 23, 2001)
Public Lives: An Unrepentant Nader Sees a Positive Side of Bush Policy (By ROBIN TONER, Apr. 23, 2001)
As Rain Falls, Mississippi Keeps Rising (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 23, 2001)
Flood of Civil Suits Keeps JonBenet Ramsey Murder in the Public Eye (BY JIM MOSCOU, Apr. 23, 2001)
Another Secret Tiananmen Document Is Leaked (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 23, 2001)
Metropolitan Diary (By ENID NEMY, Apr. 23, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: After the Fall, the New Economy Goes Retro (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Apr. 23, 2001)
* OP-ED: Heroes With Solid Feet (By KIRK DOUGLAS, Apr. 23, 2001)
OP-ED: ESSAY: Of Human Wrongs (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 23, 2001)
* OP-ED: IN AMERICA: The Say Hey Kid (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 23, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Time Inc. Staff Adjusts Warily to Life Within AOL (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Apr. 23, 2001)
'Reality' Shows May Undercut Writers' Strike (By JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 23, 2001)
* Start-Up Hopes to Shape Future of Technology (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 23, 2001)
Advertising: Four A's Discuss 'Creativity With a Purpose' (By STUART ELLIOTT, Apr. 23, 2001)
CNN Video Archives to Become Digital Database (By SUSAN STELLIN, Apr. 23, 2001)
Intel Product Could Set Off a Price War (By CHRIS GAITHER, Apr. 23, 2001)
New Economy: Amid Ruins, Bargain Hunting (By TODD LAPPIN, Apr. 23, 2001)
Internet 'Bad Boy' Takes On a New Challenge (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 23, 2001)
E-Commerce Report: Record Labels Struggle With Napster Alternatives (By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 23, 2001)
* Media Talk: Newspaper Budget Cuts Pinch Book Pages (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 23, 2001)
Compressed Data: Survey on Women's Role in Silicon Valley (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 23, 2001)
BOOKS: Meg Greenfield's Secret Book Offers Insights but No Dish (By JILL ABRAMSON, Apr. 23, 2001)
BOOKS: A Biography of Moss Hart Searches for a Showman (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 23, 2001)
DANCE: To Preserve Dance on Film, a Passionate Infusion of Oxygen (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 23, 2001)
MUSIC: Children's Musicians Struggle to Make It Big (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 23, 2001)
THEATER: 'Love, Janis': More Than a Little Piece of Her Heart (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 23, 2001)
TV: Stephen Foster: Songwriter, Sad and Weary (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Apr. 23, 2001)
TV: 'Kiss My Act': A Woman With a Problem, but It's Not Like Cyrano's (By JULIE SALAMON, Apr. 23, 2001)
* Writers on Writing: The Glory of a First Book (By BRAD LEITHAUSER, Apr. 23, 2001)

Sunday, April 22, 2001:
On This Day: April 22 (Isabell I 4/22/1451-11/26/1504, Henry Fielding 4/22/1707-10/8/1754, Immanuel Kant 4/22/1724-2/12/1804, Germaine de Stael 4/22/1766-7/14/1817, Emily Davies 4/22/1830-7/13/1921, Vladimir Ilich Lenin 4/22/1870-1/21/1924, Vladimir Nabokov 4/23/1899-7/2/1977, Dorothy Alexander 4/22/1904-11/17/1986, Yehudi Menuhin 4/22/1916-3/12/1999, Charles Mingus 4/22/1922-1/5/1979, Eddie Albert 1908, Aaron Spelling 1923, George Cole 1925, Charlotte Rae 1926, Glen Campbell 1936, Jack Nicholson 1937, Jason Miller 1939, Mel Carter 1943, John Waters 1946, Peter Frampton 1950, Joseph Bottoms 1954, Chris Makepeace 1964, Sheryl Lee 1967)
Land Rush: Into Oklahoma at Last (NY TIMES, April 22, 1889)
* J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atom Bomb Pioneer, Dies at 62
[4/22/1904-2/18/1967] (NY TIMES, February 19, 1967)
Tana Matisse, 58, a Force in Art Foundation, Dies (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 22, 2001)
Alice Gritsavage, 98, Korean War's Chief Nurse, Dies (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2001)
Carolyn Payton, 75, Is Dead; Peace Corps Director in 70's (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 22, 2001)
F.B.I. Rejected Spy Warning 2 Years Before Agent's Arrest (By JAMES RISEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, Apr. 22, 2001)
The Blues Is Dying in the Place It Was Born (By RICK BRAGG, Apr. 22, 2001)
Seattle Journal: The Boom Is Over. Need Furniture? (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Apr. 22, 2001)
Bush Team Sensed Economic Slump Early (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Apr. 22, 2001)
On the Rise in Japan: Assertive Daughters-in-Law (By STEPHANIE STROM, Apr. 22, 2001)
Chinese Youths' Adopt a Darkening View of U.S. (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 22, 2001)
Abortion in India Is Tipping Scales Sharply Against Girls (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Apr. 22, 2001)
FRUITS OF DEMOCRACY: Guess Who's a Chinese Nationalist Now? (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 22, 2001)
In Hong Kong, Scholars Keep Safe Distance From Trouble (By MARK LANDLER, Apr. 22, 2001)
SPORTS: Rahman Takes Lewis's Belts in Big Upset (By HENRI E. CAUVIN, Apr. 22, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Digitized History (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Cuomos vs. Sopranos (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 22, 2001)
RECKONINGS: Hearts and Heads (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 22, 2001)
Science, Studies and Motherhood (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Apr. 22, 2001)
A Signal Clash in Rural China (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 22, 2001)
Cookie Brake [Online Privacy] (By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr., Apr. 22, 2001)
The Perfect Non-Apology Apology (By BRUCE McCALL, Apr. 22, 2001)
* FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE: Chinese Students Look at America (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 22, 2001)
BUSINESS: Sitting Pretty: How Baby Bells May Conquer Their World (By SETH SCHIESEL, Apr. 22, 2001)
* Market Watch: A Splash of Cold Water on Technology Stocks' Revival (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Apr. 22, 2001)
* Click and Win: Inventors Cash In on Their Ideas (By DEBORAH KONG, Apr. 22, 2001)
In Some Funds, Hedging Is No Haven (By DANNY HAKIM, Apr. 22, 2001)
When Online Hearsay Intrudes on Real Life (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 22, 2001)
Economic View: Persuading Consumers The Economy Is Still 'New' (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 22, 2001)
Investing With Joel C. Tillinghast: Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund (By DANNY HAKIM, Apr. 22, 2001)
Strategies: This Cash-Heavy Portfolio Cut Risk but Kept Rewards (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 22, 2001)
Book Value: Even the Best Boats Need Rocking ["Creative Destruction"] (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2001)
Search. Destroy. Improve. (By FRED ANDREWS, Apr. 22, 2001)
Five Questions for Laurie Wachter: The Census: A Marketing Data Trove (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Apr. 22, 2001)
Midstream: Asset Allocation, for Income Taxes (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Apr. 22, 2001)
On the Job: Playing 'Jeopardy' of a Different Sort [repo man] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 22, 2001)
Personal Business Diary: Online Banking Remains a Tough Sell (By Vivian Marino, Apr. 22, 2001)
Banks, Bonds and Derring-Do [Main Kohda, "Japanese Government Bonds"] (By STEPHANIE STROM, Apr. 22, 2001)
Letters: Gauging the Tumble of Initial Public Offerings (By THOMAS W. WEISEL et. al., Apr. 22, 2001)
ART: Industry and Art: A Long Embrace (By VICKI GOLDBERG, Apr. 22, 2001)
ART: American Folk Art From the Melting Pot (By DEBORAH WEISGALL, Apr. 22, 2001)
ART: Brigid Berlin: A Warholian Finds a New Center of Gravity (By DANIEL ZALEWSKI, Apr. 22, 2001)
* DANCE: The French Profess Their Love for an Immigrant Dance Form (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 22, 2001)
DANCE: Angelin Preljocaj: A Choreographer's Judo Training Makes Contact Easy (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 22, 2001)
FILM: Uma Thurman: A Goddess From Union Square (By JENNET CONANT, Apr. 22, 2001)
Nabokov Won't Be Nailed Down Onscreen (By PETER KOBEL, Apr. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: Taking Movie Music Seriously, Like It or Not (By DAVID SCHIFF, Apr. 22, 2001)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: Retracing the Path of a Photographer's 30-Year Quest [Edward S. Curtis] (By TED LOOS, Apr. 22, 2001)
THEATER: A Lyricist Who Only Has Sighs (By MARY CLEERE HARAN, Apr. 22, 2001)
LIVING: On the Street: Busting Out [14 photos] (Photographs By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Apr. 22, 2001)
Vows: Wen Lin and Zachary Schieffelin (By ENID NEMY, Apr. 22, 2001)
* On Language: Schtick (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 22, 2001)
The Ethicist: Help-Wanted Help (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 22, 2001)
I, Pollinator ["Botany of Desire"] (By MICHAEL POLLAN, Apr. 22, 2001)
Your Cheating Heart: Questions for David Barash and Judith Eve Lipton (Interview by DAVID RAKOFF, Apr. 22, 2001)
PROCESS: A Day at the Track (By RICK LYMAN, Apr. 22, 2001)
DESIGN: Freezing Time: Plans for a Giant Cryonics Facility Are Heating Up (By ABBY ELLIN, Apr. 22, 2001)
* Inescapably Connected: Life in the Wireless Age (By JAMES GLEICK, Apr. 22, 2001)
The Next Kate (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Apr. 22, 2001)
STYLE: James at 21: In the Life of Model, Five Years Is an Eternity (By JOYCE CHANG, Photos by ELLEN von UNWERTH, Apr. 22, 2001)
FOOD: Cut and Paste: No Inspiration for Tonight's Dinner? Try a New Glue (By MOLLY O'NEILL, Apr. 22, 2001)
LIVES: Hook, Line and Blinkers (By DAVID ALLYN, Apr. 22, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2001)

Saturday, April 21, 2001:
On This Day: April 21 (Lodovico Carracci 4/21/1555-11/13/1619, Friedrich Froebel 4/21/1782-6/21/1852, Charlotte Bronte 4/21/1816-3/31/1855, Joss Billings 4/21/1818-10/14/1885, Max Weber 4/21/1864-6/14/1920, Billy Bitxer 4/21/1874-4/29/1944, Randall Thompson 4/21/1899-7/9/1984, Marcel Camus 4/21/1912-1/13/1982, Anthony Quinn 1915, Queen Elizabeth II 1926, Elaine May 1932, Charles Grodin 1935, Paul Davis 1948, Tony Danza 1951, Andie MacDowell 1958, Hohn Cameron Mitchell 1963)
* Mark Twain is Dead at 74 (NY TIMES, April 21, 1910)
* John Muir, Aged Naturalist, Dead at 76
[4/21/1838-12/24/1914] (NY TIMES, December 25, 1914)
* Octavio Paz, Mexico's Literary Giant, Dead at 84 (By JONATHAN KANDELL, April 21, 1998)
* Alfred Moen, Whose Hands Found Need for a New Faucet, Dies at 84 (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Apr. 21, 2001)
Merton Davies, 83, Mapper of Orbs and a Satellite Pioneer Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 21, 2001)
Walter Stanton, Audio Stylus Innovator, Dies at 86 (By AMY HARMON, Apr. 21, 2001)
Mitchell Stern, a Violinist, Concertmaster and Busy Coach, Dies at 45 (NY TIMES, Apr. 21, 2001)
Kurt Hohenemser, Early Helicopter Designer, Dies at 95 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 21, 2001)
A Town Waits for the River to Have Its Way (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 21, 2001)
Little Change in Views of Bush 3 Months Into His Presidency (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Apr. 21, 2001)
Therapists Convicted of Abuse in Girl's Death During Treatment (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 21, 2001)
U.S. Visa for Ex-Taiwan Leader Risks Irritating China More (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 21, 2001)
China Detains and Isolates Liberal Computer Wiz (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 21, 2001)
Singapore, Hoping for a Baby Boom, Makes Sex a Civic Duty (By SETH MYDANS, Apr. 21, 2001)
U.S. Missionaries on Plane Downed by Peru (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 21, 2001)
* Gospel Message, Rap Style (By CHRIS HEDGES, Apr. 21, 2001)
For Protesters at Yale, a Who's Who (By PAUL ZIELBAUER, Apr. 21, 2001)
Still Alma Mater, but More Distant [Columbia Nursing] (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Apr. 21, 2001)
Ellis Island Web Site Is Deluged by Family Historians (By JAYSON BLAIR, Apr. 21, 2001)
NYC: This Mark* Isn't Going, Going, Gone (NY TIMES, Apr. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: For an Old Flag, a New Rationale (By ROBERT S. MCELVAINE, Apr. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: Stick to Testing the Basics (By HOWARD GARDNER, Apr. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: A Test of Civilization [prison inmates] (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Apr. 21, 2001)
LETTERS: The Huddled Masses, Now on the Web (By FRANCES B. SINGH, Apr. 21, 2001)
LETTERS: If China Attacks Taiwan (By BURTON KREINDEL, Apr. 21, 2001)
BUSINESS: Stocks Droop but End Week Up Sharply
[Dow -114, Nasdaq -19] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 21, 2001)
* Court Halts Book Based on 'Gone With the Wind' (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 21, 2001)
* The Paperless Office? Not by a Long Shot (By JAMES BROOKE, Apr. 21, 2001)
Nokia's Earnings Meet Expectations, While Ericsson Disappoints (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Apr. 21, 2001)
* ARTS: Anthropology's Alternative Radical (By EMILY EAKIN, Apr. 21, 2001)
* ARTS: A Legionnaire, She Was Never Timid in Amour or War [Susan Travers] (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 21, 2001)
* ART: A Museum in Florida for a Spanish Original [Dali] (By FRANCINE PROSE, Apr. 21, 2001)
* ARTS: Court Ends Fight Over Pasternak's Archives (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Apr. 21, 2001)
* BOOKS: Shelf Life: Discovering Dimensions Beyond Imagining [Abbott's Flatland] (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 21, 2001)
DANCE: One Duet Becomes a Solo, and Another Is Added Late (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 21, 2001)
MUSIC: Peter Lieberson: Broadway Legacy Tuned to a 12-Tone Scale (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 21, 2001)
OPERA: 'The Rape of Lucretia': Tale of Lust and Violence, So Tastefully Told (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 21, 2001)
TV: 'Varian's War': A Pantheon of Artists Rescued From Hitler (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 21, 2001)
GARDENING: Cuttings: Magnolias Despite Frost (By PATRICIA A. TAYLOR, Apr. 21, 2001)
SCIENCE: Tiny Bits of Soot Tied to Illnesses (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Apr. 21, 2001)
Scientists Find Way to Gauge Earth's Glow Methods (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 21, 2001)

Friday, April 20, 2001:
On This Day: April 20 (Johann Agricola 4/20/1494-9/22/1566, Odilon Redon 4/20/1840-7/6/1916, Daniel Chester French 4/20/1850-10/7/1931, Charles G. Curtis 4/20/1860-3/10/1953, Harold Lloyd 4/20/1893-3/8/1971, Joan Miro 4/20/1893-12/25/1983, William Dollar 4/20/1907-2/28/1986, Lionel Hampton 1908, John Paul Stevens 1920, Nina Foch 1924, George Takei 1940, Ryan O'Neal 1941, Jessica Lange 1949, Carmen Electra 1972)
Supreme Court, 9-0, Backs Busing to Combat South's Dual Schools, Rejecting Administration Stand
(By Fred P. Graham , April 20, 1971)
Hitler Fought Way to Power Unique in Modern History, Dies at 56
[4/20/1889-4/30/1945] (NY TIMES, May 2, 1945)
* Hiroshi Teshigahara, Avant-Garde Japanese Film Director, Dies at 74 ["Woman in the Dunes"] (By CALVIN SIMS, Apr. 20, 2001)
Peter Maag, Conductor With a Fondness for Mozart, Dies at 81 [Spinoza thesis & Buddhist monastery]
(By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Apr. 20, 2001)
As Waters Rise, a Town Combats the River It Loves (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 20, 2001)
Days Before Arrest, Suspected Spy Sought Job Outside F.B.I. (By JAMES RISEN, Apr. 20, 2001)
Shuttle Endeavour Heads to Space Station (By WARREN E. LEARY, Apr. 20, 2001)
Chinese Raid Defiant Village, Killing 2, Amid Rural Unrest (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 20, 2001)
U.S.-China Collision Talks End With Need for More Talk (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 20, 2001)
Japan Risks China's Anger With Visa Plan [Lee Teng-hui] (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2001)
Rome Journal: Official Favors Make Italy Go Round (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 20, 2001)
NEW YORK: Ads for Teachers in a City Where Even Subways Are Clean (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Apr. 20, 2001)
SPORTS: Wizards' New Coach Wants Jordan to Play Again (By IRA BERKOW, Apr. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: A Foreseeable End to the Fed's Magic (By JAMES GRANT, Apr. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: Wanting to Be Joey Ramone (By JONATHAN LETHEM, Apr. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: To Tell the Truth (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Try a Little Helpfulness (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 20, 2001)
LETTERS: To Guard an Image: Keep It Near or Dear? [Corbis storage of Bettmann archive in a mine]
(By ANDREW ROBB et. al., Apr. 20, 2001)
BUSINESS: Possible Plan to Keep Treasury Market Alive Is Floated
[Dow +78, Nasdaq +103] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Apr. 20, 2001)
* Floyd Norris: Some Patients Are Too Sick to Be Helped by the Fed (By FLOYD NORRIS, Apr. 20, 2001)
Small Bookshops End Fight, Dropping Suit Against Chains (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 20, 2001)
Sales Up 14% in a Microsoft Profit Surprise (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 20, 2001)
Hope Grows in Most of Asia That Downturn Will Be Mild (By MARK LANDLER, Apr. 20, 2001)
EBay Bucks Online Trend With a Strong First Quarter (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 20, 2001)
5 Companies Said to Bid on Lucent Optical Unit (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Apr. 20, 2001)
Advertising: An Agency Chairman Gives a Stern Assessment of the Dot-Com Era (By STUART ELLIOTT, Apr. 20, 2001)
Sun Meets Lowered Estimates for Its 3rd-Quarter Earnings (By CHRIS GAITHER, Apr. 20, 2001)
As Its Losses Grow, Nortel Plans to Cut More Jobs (By SIMON ROMERO, Apr. 20, 2001)
* ART: The Cone Collection: Sisters Ahead of Their Time (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 20, 2001)
* ART: Gérôme & Goupil: A Return to the Junction of Art & Commerce (By KEN JOHNSON, Apr. 20, 2001)
* ART: Yale University Art Gallery: Rearrange the Furniture (By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 20, 2001)
Inside Art: The Morgan Makes Amends (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 20, 2001)
Antiques: Lost Treasure From Tibet (By SUZANNE CHARLE, Apr. 20, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Electric Light': Seeing the Present in the Glow of the Past (By RICHARD EDER, Apr. 20, 2001)
FILM: 'The Girl' (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Apr. 20, 2001)
FILM: 'The Body' (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Apr. 20, 2001)

Thursday, April 19, 2001:
On This Day: April 19 (Roger Sherman 4/19/1721-7/23/1793, Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre 4/19/1832-9/4/1916, Ole Evinrude 4/19/1877-7/12/1934, Richard von Mises 4/19/1883-7/14/1953, Sir Thomas Hophinson 4/19/1905-6/20/1990, Glenn T. Seaborg 4/19/1912-2/25/1999, Jayne Mansfield 4/19/1933-6/29/1967, Hugh O'Brian 1925, Don Adams 1926, Dudley Moore 1935, Tim Curry 1946, Ashley Judd 1968)
At Least 31 Are Dead, Scores Are Missing After Car Bomb Attack in Oklahoma City Wrecks 9-Story Federal Office Building (By David Johnston, April 19, 1995)
Vargas Adopted 'Strong Man' Role, Brazilian President Dies at 71
[4/19/1883-8/24/1954] (NY TIMES, August 25, 1954)
Eugene Goltz, Journalist, Dies at 70 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2001)
Burt Gwirtzman, the Ultimate Sports Fan, Is Dead at 75 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Apr. 19, 2001)
Frank Balun, Gardener, Is Dead at 76 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2001)
Mississippi River Continues to Rise (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 19, 2001)
Beirut Journal: In the Once Fabled City, Real Estate Battles Rage (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Apr. 19, 2001)
The President Tours the State of His Birth (but Shh, It's Connecticut) (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 19, 2001)
Political Hay and 'Johnny' Bring a Presidential Visit (By PAUL ZIELBAUER, Apr. 19, 2001)
Public Lives: Teaching Students to Outsmart Tests He Dislikes (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Apr. 19, 2001)
* SPORTS: Bonds Soars Into Record Books With 500th (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Alan Greenspan's Surprise Move (NY TIMES, Apr. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: The Work of a Hemisphere (By COLIN L. POWELL, Apr. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: Ballpark Figures (By MARK S. ROSENTRAUB, Apr. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Riots, Then and Now (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: ESSAY: The Privacy President? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 19, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Dow and Nasdaq Soar After Rate Cut by Federal Reserve
[Dow +399, Nasdaq +156] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 19, 2001)
* News Analysis: Is the Fed's Action Just in Time or Too Late? (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 19, 2001)
* Market Place: The Fed Gets a Case of the Nerves (By FLOYD NORRIS, Apr. 19, 2001)
Fed, in a Surprise, Cuts Rates Again, Spurring Markets (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Apr. 19, 2001)
Apple Returns to Profitability on Strength of New Portable PC (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 19, 2001)
Hewlett-Packard Warns of Dismal Earnings and Job Cuts (By CHRIS GAITHER, Apr. 19, 2001)
Losses Narrow as AOL Posts Higher Revenue (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Apr. 19, 2001)
I.B.M. Shares Rise on Earnings Report (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 19, 2001)
Microsoft Exceeds Estimates With Profit and Sales Gains (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 19, 2001)
Digital Unit at Times Co. Cuts More Jobs [Abuzz layoffs] (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 19, 2001)
* ARTS: Granddaughter of Lewis Carroll's Muse Puts Collection Up for Sale (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 19, 2001)
* ART: Jean Dubuffet: A Loner, Restlessly Mapping Nonplaces (By JOHN RUSSELL, Apr. 19, 2001)
BOOKS: 'The Last Time They Met': An Affair to Remember, and Remember (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 19, 2001)
MUSIC REVISIONS: An Echo of Merman: Nothing to Hit but the Heights (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Apr. 19, 2001)
MUSIC: A Rare Chance to Hear, Then Read, Debussy's 'Faune' (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Apr. 19, 2001)
MUSIC REVIEW: Robert Taub: A Little Moonlight, a Lot of Sonatas (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 19, 2001)
THEATER: A Writer at His Wit's End? Burrows Winds Up in the Library (By MEL GUSSOW, Apr. 19, 2001)
LIVING: Designer Show House: Best-Dressed Rooms for an Age of Haut Décor (By GUY TREBAY, Apr. 19, 2001)
Wallpaper for the MTV Generation [Oxygen Media] (By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNE, Apr. 19, 2001)
Garden Q&A: Quick! Divide and Conquer (By LESLIE LAND, Apr. 19, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 19, 2001)
Another Version of Windows Is on the Way (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Apr. 19, 2001)
State of the Art: If Typing Won't Do, Speak Up (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 19, 2001)
Online Shopper: When Familiarity Breeds Temptation (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Apr. 19, 2001)
* Basics: Safe Online at Home: Keeping Out Uninvited Guests (By JOE HUTSKO, Apr. 19, 2001)
* Easing Web Anxiety by Going Online (By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS, Apr. 19, 2001)
* HEALTH: Link Found Between Behavioral Problems and Time in Child Care (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Apr. 19, 2001)

Wednesday, April 18, 2001:
On This Day: April 18 (Lucrezia Borgia 4/18/1480-6/24/1519, Gaeetano Vestris 4/18/1729-9/23/1808, George Henry Lewes 4/18/1817-11/28/1878, Max Weber 4/18/1881-10/4/1961, Leopold Stokowski 4/18/1882-9/13/1977, George H. HITCHINGS 4/18/1905-2/27/1998, Little Brother Montgomery 4/18/1906-9/6/1985, Barbara Hale 1921, James Drury 1934, Hayley Mills 1946, James Woods 1947, Cindy Pickett 1947, Melody Thomas Scott 1956, Conan O'Brien 1963)
* Over 500 Dead, $200,000,000 Lost in San Francisco Earthquake (NY TIMES, April 18, 1906)
Clarence Darrow, Famous Criminal Lawyer Is Dead at 80 in Chicago
[4/18/1857-3/13/1938] (NY TIMES, March 14, 1938)
* Cartoon about the latest shoe fashion fad (Harper's Weekly, April 18, 1885)
Michael Ritchie, 62, Director of 'Smile' and 'Downhill Racer' Is Dead (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 18, 2001)
Thomas H. Stix, Plasma Physicist, Dies at 76 (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 18, 2001)
Mississippi Votes to Keep Flag With Confederate Emblem (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Apr. 18, 2001)
Girl's Death Brings Ban on Kind of Therapy [rebirthing] (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Apr. 18, 2001)
Lessons: Novel Way on Teacher Pay (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 18, 2001)
U.S. May Withhold Main Radar Item on Taiwan's List (By DAVID E. SANGER & ERIC SCHMITT, Apr. 18, 2001)
Military Analysis: Taiwan's Guppy-Size Force (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 18, 2001)
* The Bread's Hot in Germany, The Internet Is Lukewarm (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Apr. 18, 2001)
Media Baron's Latest Loss: Russian Magazine (By MICHAEL WINES, Apr. 18, 2001)
Those Interactive Britons Are Turning on Their Tellies (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Apr. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: The Urgency of Constructing Peace (By YOSSI BEILIN, Apr. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Of Divas and Ditzes (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 18, 2001)
* OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Chip of Fools (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 18, 2001)
BUSINESS: Investors Ignore Cisco as Shares End Higher
[Dow +58, Nasdaq +14] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 18, 2001)
* Yahoo Turns to Hollywood for a Chief (By SAUL HANSELL and GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Apr. 18, 2001)
* Intel Reports Sharp Drop in Chip Sales (By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 18, 2001)
* News Analysis: Investors Seem to Have Faith in Cisco (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Apr. 18, 2001)
Online Seller's Book Business Is Up in Quarter [Barnesandnoble.com] (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 18, 2001)
EBay Suspends Coin Seller Over Delivery Concerns (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 18, 2001)
Workplace: Mate, Don't Call These Bouncers Babe (By BECKY GAYLORD, Apr. 18, 2001)
My Job: I'm a Door-to-Door Accountant (By SHARON HILLS, Apr. 18, 2001)
* The Boss: I Have a Bartender to Thank (By ALAN STILLMAN, Apr. 18, 2001)
* You Want Repeat Customers? Try E-Mail (By BERNARD STAMLER, Apr. 18, 2001)
* As They Like It: Leasing and Selling Artwork Through the Internet (By DONNA WILKINSON, Apr. 18, 2001)
* Employee Training, Without the No-Doz (By SUSAN STELLIN, Apr. 18, 2001)
How Ducati Roared Onto the Internet [motorcycles] (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Apr. 18, 2001)
Moving the Accountants Out of the Building and Onto the Web (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Apr. 18, 2001)
For the Stock-Weary, Online Bond Trading (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Apr. 18, 2001)
Last Boom in Town: Demand Still Grows for Online Security (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 18, 2001)
Post-Napster Musicians' Unlikely Ally: A Songwriting Senator (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Apr. 18, 2001)
* ARTS: Japanese Agree to Return a Stolen Statue to China (By CALVIN SIMS, Apr. 18, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Smithsonian Shows Are Making Friends on the Road (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Apr. 18, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Displaced Persons': A Boy Dodges Shadows in a Sunny New Land (By JONATHAN ROSEN, Apr. 18, 2001)
FILM: 'The Center of the World': Contracting for a Sexual Fantasy (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 18, 2001)
THEATER: 'Blast!': Giving It the Old College Try (By BRUCE WEBER, Apr. 18, 2001)
THEATER: 'What You Will': Shakespeare With Boogie, Blues and Barbershop (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Apr. 18, 2001)
TV Notes: A Ratings Rise With 'Link' (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 18, 2001)
LIVING: Madeleines: When a Sweet Nothing Becomes Really Something (By AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 18, 2001)
A Celebrity Chef Unpacks a Legacy in New York (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 18, 2001)
The Minimalist: The Secret's in the Sherry (By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 18, 2001)
The Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton: Smoked Paprika, Revealed (By GABRIELLE HAMILTON & AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 18, 2001)
* HEALTH: Study Finds Herbal Remedy Useless Against Depression (By DENISE GRADY, Apr. 18, 2001)

Tuesday, April 17, 2001:
On This Day: April 17 (Samuel Chase 4/17/1741-6/19/1811, William Simms 4/17/1806-6/11/1870, J. P. Morgan 4/17/1837-3/31/1913, Sir Leonard Woolley 4/17/1880-2/20/1960, Artur Schnabel 4/17/1882-8/15/1951, Isak Dinesen 4/17/1885-9/7/1962, Thornton Wilder 4/17/1897-12/7/1975, Sir Vincent Wigglesworth 4/17/1899-2/11/1994, Harry Reasoner 4/17/1923-8/6/1991, Lon McCallister 1923, Jan Hammer 1948, Olivia Hussey 1951, Liz Phair 1967)
Anti-Castro Units Land in Cuba; Report Fighting at Beachhead; Rusk Says U.S. Won't Intervene (By Tad Szulc, April 17, 1961)
* Khrushchev's Human Dimensions Brought Him to Power and to His Downfall, Dies at 77
[4/17/1894-9/11/1971] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, September 12, 1971)
Josephine Premice, Actress Who Dazzled on Broadway, Dies at 74 (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 17, 2001)
Joey Ramone, Raw-Voiced Pioneer of Punk Rock, Dies at 49 (By ANN POWERS, Apr. 17, 2001)
THE CENSUS / The Suburbs: 90's Suburbs of West and South: Denser in One, Sprawling in Other (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Apr. 17, 2001)
* Before College, Year Off Beckons to Well Off (By JODI WILGOREN, Apr. 17, 2001)
Cattle Disease Poses Threat to Run Wild, U.S. Finds (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Apr. 17, 2001)
Bush to Tackle Delicate Issue of Resuming China Spy Flights (By DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 17, 2001)
China Has Trade Woes With Asia Neighbors (By MIKI TANIKAWA & DON KIRK, Apr. 17, 2001)
* Public Lives: Carrying a Bit of Cornell, and Argentina, to Qatar (By CHRIS HEDGES, Apr. 17, 2001)
Pulitzer Prizes Include 3 for News Coverage of Immigration and Ethnic Complexity (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 17, 2001)
* OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Those Who Can't, Test (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 17, 2001)
* OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Myth-Matched Nations (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 17, 2001)
BUSINESS: Nasdaq Drops on Chip Report
[Dow +32, Nasdaq -52] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 17, 2001)
* Cisco Issues a Warning on Its Sales and Earnings (By ALEX BERENSON & CHRIS GAITHER, Apr. 17, 2001)
ARTS: Complete List of Pulitzer Prize Winners (NY TIMES, Apr. 17, 2001)
POP REVIEW: Clamorous Sounds for Dancing and Feminist Enlightenment (By ANN POWERS, Apr. 17, 2001)
LIVING: Front Row: Another Morality Tale About a Model's Tragic Life [Gia Carangi] (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Apr. 17, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Astronomers Debate What Makes a Planet (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 17, 2001)
Auroras Give Earth That Colorful Glow (NY TIMES, Apr. 17, 2001)
* OBSERVATORY: Clues From Vesuvius (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 17, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: A Fault Is Found [Assam earthquake of June 12, 1897] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 17, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Cleaning Up With Clay [soaking up radium] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 17, 2001)
Q&A: Swarms of Pests (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 17, 2001)
* SCIENTIST AT WORK / Leroy Hood: Approaching Biology From a Different Angle (By ANDREW POLLACK, Apr. 17, 2001)
PERSONAL HEALTH: An Author Explores 222 Paths to Sobriety (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 17, 2001)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: A Correspondent Recalls His Days as a Medical Sleuth (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Apr. 17, 2001)
Tighter Rules Are Sought for Dietary Supplements (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 17, 2001)
When Purchasing Medicine in Mexico, Buyer Beware (By SARAH LUNDAY, Apr. 17, 2001)

Monday, April 16, 2001:
On This Day: April 16 (Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun 4/16/1755-3/30/1842, Sir John Franklin 4/16/1786-6/11/1847, Ford Madox Brown 4/16/1821-10/6/1893, Anatole France 4/16/1844-10/12/1924, Wilbur Wright 4/16/1867-5/30/1912, John M. Synge 4/16/1871-3/24/1909, Nikolay P. Akimov 4/16/1901-9/6/1968, Sir Kingsley Amis 4/16/1922-10/22/1995, Henry Mancini 4/16/1924-6/14/1994, Spike Milligan 1918, Barry Nelson 1920, Peter Ustinov 1921, Herbie Mann 1930, Bobby Vinton 1935, Queen Margrethe II 1940, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1947, Gerry Rafferty 1947, Ellen Barkin 1954)
Blasts and Fires Wreck Texas City of 15,000; 300 to 1,200 Dead (Associated Press, April 16, 1947)
* Chaplin's Little Tramp, an Everyman Trying to Gild Cage of Life, Enthralled World
[4/16/1889-12/25/1977] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, December 26, 1977)
Jérôme Lindon, Publisher of Prizewinners, Dies at 75 (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 16, 2001)
Stephen Prokopoff, Curator With an Eye for Neglected Art, Dies at 71 (By ROBERTA SMITH, Apr. 16, 2001)
Devi Lal, Expert in Weaving His Way Through Indian Politics, Dies at 86 (By PAUL LEWIS, Apr. 16, 2001)
Donald McKay Shafer, 89, Eye Surgeon (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 16, 2001)
Joey Ramone, Punk's Influential Yelper, Dies at 49 (By ANN POWERS, Apr. 16, 2001)
For Texas Now, Water and Not Oil Is Liquid Gold (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 16, 2001)
Harvard Law Is Trying to Be More Appealing (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Apr. 16, 2001)
Roger Clinton Is Subpoenaed to Testify About Pardons (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Apr. 16, 2001)
Washington Cites Shortage of Linguists for Key Security Jobs (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Apr. 16, 2001)
Japanese Princess Is Expecting a Child (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Apr. 16, 2001)
An African Train Ride in Evelyn Waugh's Tracks (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 16, 2001)
Ex-Taiwan Leader Faults Japan Over Visa [Former President Lee Teng-hui] (By REUTERS, Apr. 16, 2001)
* In Europe, Some Fear National Languages Are Endangered (By SUZANNE DALEY, Apr. 16, 2001)
Metropolitan Diary (By ENID NEMY, Apr. 16, 2001)
Hispanic Influx Slowly Altering a Town Veneer (By DAVID W. CHEN, Apr. 16, 2001)
Soot Washed From Easter Best, a Church Finds Itself in a Temple (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Apr. 16, 2001)
OP-ED: The Trouble With Airlines (By RICHARD FREEMAN, Apr. 16, 2001)
* OP-ED: What's Not for Sale [The Pineapple Man] (By JOSEPH VENAFRO, Apr. 16, 2001)
OP-ED: ESSAY: Octogenarian Futurist (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 16, 2001)
IN AMERICA: What if You're Not Guilty? (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 16, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Sales Growth in Books Online Is Leveling Off (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 16, 2001)
* Popular Web Publishing Service to Get Help From Trellix (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Apr. 16, 2001)
News Analysis: Path to AT&T Breakup Has Become a Rocky Road (By SETH SCHIESEL and GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Apr. 16, 2001)
Advertising: Bluefly Hopes to Make Big Splash With Vogue (By STUART ELLIOTT, Apr. 16, 2001)
New Economy: Curdled Musical Romance Gets Couples Counseling (By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 16, 2001)
Early Defector to a Dot-Com Is Leaving Online Grocer (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 16, 2001)
* E-Commerce Report: TV-Web Link Succeeds in Shopping (By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 16, 2001)
Sale of DVD's Is Challenging Movie Rental Business (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Apr. 16, 2001)
Media Talk: For One Week, CNN Finds Its Old Sparkle (By JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 16, 2001)
Media Talk: Latest Reality Mix Is Singles and Shackles (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 16, 2001)
* Journalists Use Web More Than Ever, Study Says (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2001)
* Arts Online: Artists Share Their Files and Lives on the Web (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Apr. 16, 2001)
* ART: A Sculptor's Gift to His Native Romania Is Gilded in Squabbles (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Apr. 16, 2001)
ART CRITIC: New Shows Strike Poses Far From Reality (By CARYN JAMES, Apr. 16, 2001)
BOOKS: P.D. James's Dogged Inspector Has New Mystery (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 16, 2001)
Culture Notes: Short on Time (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 16, 2001)
* MUSIC: A Chorus Celebrates Itself in a Work About God's Love (By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 16, 2001)
OPERA: A Soprano in Her Element, as a Stand-In Eases Into Hers (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 16, 2001)
THEATER: Shakespeare Staged in a Sandbox Where Nobody Wants to Play Nice (By BRUCE WEBER, Apr. 16, 2001)
TV: 'When Billie Beat Bobby': A Tennis Star Confronts a Chauvanist (By RON WERTHEIMER, Apr. 16, 2001)
SCIENCE: Shark Trips Lure Tourists, but the Critics Are Circling (By DANA CANEDY, Apr. 16, 2001)

Sunday, April 15, 2001:
On This Day: April 15 (Leonhard Euler 4/15/1707-9/18/1783, Charles Wilson Peale 4/15/1741-2/22/1827, Walter Channing 4/15/1786-7/27/1876, Henry James 4/15/1843-2/28/1916, Hohannes Stark 4/15/1874-6/21/1957, Max Wertheimer 4/15/1880-10/12/1943, Thomas Hart Benton 4/15/1889-1/19/1975, Bessie Smith 4/15/1898-9/26/1937, Arshile Gorky 4/15/1904-7/21/1948, Nilolaas Tinbergen 4/15/1907-12/21/1988, Ed O'Brien 1968, Roy Clark 1933, Claudia Cardinale 1939, Lois Chiles 1947, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason 1948, Michael Tucci 1950, Amy Wright 1950, Heloise 1951, Emma Thompson 1959, Samantha Fox 1966)
* Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued By Carpathia, Probably 1,250 Perish; Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing (NY TIMES, April 15, 1912)
A. Philip Randolph Is Dead at 90; Pioneer in Rights and Labor
[4/15/1889-5/16/1979] (Associated Press, May 17, 1979)
* Jacob Getzels, 89, Educator and Researcher on Creativity Is Dead (By JODI WILGOREN, Apr. 15, 2001)
Kay Willis, 71, an Adviser and Writer on Being a Parent, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 15, 2001)
* A Century's Photo History Destined for Life in a Mine (By SARAH BOXER, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Moving From Scruffy Quarters to a Limestone Labyrinth (By SARAH BOXER, Apr. 15, 2001)
Doing Without the Extras Amid a Flagging Economy (By PETER T. KILBORN, Apr. 15, 2001)
Possible Clue to What Sank Civil War Sub (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 15, 2001)
EDITORIAL: China and the United States (By, Apr. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: A Short History of American Indifference (By JOSEF JOFFE, Apr. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: Bush Isn't All Wrong About the Endangered Species Act (By BRUCE BABBITT, Apr. 15, 2001)
* OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Hainan Noon, Starring Gary W. Cooper (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Let Them Shovel (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 15, 2001)
LETTERS: The Great Books (Yes!) (By JACOB HOWLAND, Apr. 15, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Just Who Brought Those Duds to Market? (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Barron's Says Semiconductor Market Can Only Get Worse (By REUTERS, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Yahoo to Stop Selling Porn (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 15, 2001)
Iomega Settles Zip Drive Lawsuit (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 15, 2001)
A Digital Divide Threatens Public TV (By JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 15, 2001)
Market Watch: Employers Dodge a Bullet That Their Workers Can't (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Apr. 15, 2001)
Private Traders See Gold in Venture Capital Ruins (By AMY CORTESE, Apr. 15, 2001)
* INVESTING: New Funds, to Match the Market's Moods (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 15, 2001)
Once Burned, but Still Bold [Covad Communications] (By WILLIAM SANTIAGO, Apr. 15, 2001)
Love & Money: This Old Thing? I've Had It Forever (By ELLYN SPRAGINS, Apr. 15, 2001)
Economic View: Bear Market? The Young Needn't Be Restless (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 15, 2001)
Market Insight: Seeing Blue Skies, Again, For Chips (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Apr. 15, 2001)
Portfolios, Etc.: If the Bond Market Is a Haven, Its Walls Are Shaking (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Apr. 15, 2001)
Grass-Roots Business: Oil-Patch Epicenter, Embracing the Web (By JOEL KOTKIN, Apr. 15, 2001)
Preludes: Dot-Coms' Loss Is Peace Corps' Gain (By ABBY ELLIN, Apr. 15, 2001)
Investing With The Capital Management Small Company Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Apr. 15, 2001)
Business Diary: An Investor Plunges Into Unknown Territory (By Danny Hakim, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Investing Diary: A Tool to Measure Closed-End Bond Funds & A Flashback to the 70's?
(By Carole Gould & Robert D. Hershey Jr., Apr. 15, 2001)
Personal Business Diary: Some Job Networks Are Still Unplugged (By Vivian Marino, Apr. 15, 2001)
The Right Thing: In a Downsizing, Loyalty Is a Two-Way Street (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, Apr. 15, 2001)
LIVING: Fashion's Gadfly Tangos With Legend Jacqueline Kennedy at the Met (By CATHY HORYN, Apr. 15, 2001)
Latino Style Is Cool. Oh, All Right: It's Hot. (By RUTH LA FERLA, Apr. 15, 2001)
Vows: Alisha Tlumacki and John Head (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Apr. 15, 2001)
On The Street: Bags, Not Bonnets [12 photos] (Photographs By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Apr. 15, 2001)
Noticed: When 200 Women Are Happily Crammed Into a Boutique (By KAREN ROBINOVITZ, Apr. 15, 2001)
View: Spring Shopping but Lacking a Cue (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 15, 2001)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2001)
A Sanctuary in the Yucatán [7 photos] (By JILL KNIGHT WEINBERGER, Apr. 15, 2001)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2001)
ART: An Artist's Long Eclipse Yields to Light [Alexis Smith] (By MARTIN FILLER, Apr. 15, 2001)
ART: Pop Art Was Part French? Mais Oui! Just Ask Them (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 15, 2001)
FILM: An Independent Filmmaker for Whom Love Is Also Wisdom (By JAMIE MALANOWSKI, Apr. 15, 2001)
MUSIC: Closing the Melodramatic Book on the Mahler 10th (By NANCY RAABE, Apr. 15, 2001)
* THEATER: In Tibetan Rituals, Metaphors for Freedom (By RON JENKINS, Apr. 15, 2001)
* THEATER: The Music Man in Mel Brooks (By MEL BROOKS, Apr. 15, 2001)
* On Language: Foot/Hoof in/and Mouth (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 15, 2001)
Questions for Ernest Adams, Author of "Dogma 2001," a Video Game Manifesto (By CRAIG TAYLOR, Apr. 15, 2001)
LIVES: A Union of East and West [Omani wedding] (Photographs and Text by ANYA E. LIFTIG, Apr. 15, 2001)
The Ethicist: Sad Song (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 15, 2001)
PROCESS: How to Plan Chaos [Quebec City Summit] (By ANDREW O'HEHIR, Apr. 15, 2001)
The Sad Life of a Superstar: Darryl Strawberry's Odyssey of Self-Destruction (By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE, Apr. 15, 2001)
Keeping Up With the Shidhayes: India's New Middle Class (By JAMES TRAUB, Apr. 15, 2001)
In Italy, the Rerun of Berlusconi (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 15, 2001)
* FIVE FROM SUSAN STROMAN: Director & Choreographer Susan Stroman Names the Best Musicals with Dance
(Interview by LIZ WELCH, Apr. 15, 2001)
FOOTNOTES: Future Shop (By PILAR VILADAS, Reported by FRANCIS R. LOMENTO JR., Apr. 15, 2001)
FOOD: Party Animals: A Chinese Feast with Pigs and Ducks— and Friends (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Apr. 15, 2001)
STYLE: The Emporium Has New Clothes: Recapturing the Glamour of Bullock's Wilshire (By PILAR VILADAS, Styled by ELIZABETH STEWART, Apr. 15, 2001)
A Plan to Save the Economy: Buy and Hold (By RICHARD TODD, Apr. 15, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Paper Chase [Nicholson Baker's 'Double Fold'] (By DAVID GATES, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Ex-Father of the Nation [Stanley Wolpert, 'Gandhi's Passion'] (By PANKAJ MISHRA, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Pot Luck [Ruth Reichl, 'Comfort Me With Apples'] (By PAUL MATTICK, Apr. 15, 2001)
Sects and Drugs [Garrett Epps, 'To an Unknown God'] (By HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE, Apr. 15, 2001)
Land of the Setting Sun? [Alex Kerr, 'Dogs and Demons'] (By RICHARD J. SAMUELS, Apr. 15, 2001)
Profiles in Corruption [Sally Denton & Roger Morris, 'The Money and the Power'] (By JAMES McMANUS, Apr. 15, 2001)
* Network: Fungi and other microbes [Tom Wakeford, 'Liaisons of Life'] (By MARK RIDLEY, Apr. 15, 2001)
Peter Balakian, "June-tree: New & Selected Poems, 1974-2000" (By SUSAN SHAPIRO, Apr. 15, 2001)
Bill Knott, "Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems, 1969-1999" (By KEN TUCKER, Apr. 15, 2001)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: What Goes Around Comes Around (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Apr. 15, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Reproductive Gerontology: Ask Not for Whom the Clock Ticks (By TAMAR LEWIN, Apr. 15, 2001)

Saturday, April 14, 2001:
On This Day: April 14 (Christiaan Huygens 4/14/1629-7/8/1695, Augustus Pitt-Rivers 4/14/1827-5/4/1900, Gerhard Rohlfs 4/14/1831-6/2/1896, James Branch Cabell 4/14/1879-5/5/1958, Arnold Toynbee 4/14/1889-10/22/1975, Juan Belmonte 4/14/1892-4/8/1962, Francois Duvalier 4/14/1907-4/21/1971, Rod Steiger 1925, Bradford Dillman 1930, Loretta Lynn 1935, Julie Christie 1940, Pete Rose 1941, John Shea 1949, Sarah Michelle Gellar 1977)
* Awful Event: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin (NY TIMES, April 14, 1865)
Mrs. Macy Is Dead at 70; Aided Miss Keller
[4/14/1866-10/20/1936] (NY TIMES, October 21, 1936)
H. R. Ball, Ad Executive Credited With Smiley Face, is Dead at 79 (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Apr. 14, 2001)
Robert Moon, an Inventor of the ZIP Code, Dies at 83 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 14, 2001)
Nyree Dawn Porter, Actress in 'The Forsyte Saga' of the 60's, Dies at 61 (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 14, 2001)
Chester Posey, Shaped Exxon Ads, Dies at 77 [Exxon's tiger logo] (By DANNY HAKIM, Apr. 14, 2001)
Blacks in Cincinnati Hear Echoes Amid the Violence (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Apr. 14, 2001)
Investigation Finds No Bias Against Asians in U.S. Labs (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 14, 2001)
Cheney Income at $36 Million; Bush: $894,880 (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Apr. 14, 2001)
* Religion Journal: A 2,000-Year Challenge - How to Picture Jesus (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Apr. 14, 2001)
In New Mexico, Debate Over Arsenic Strikes Home (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Apr. 14, 2001)
U.S. Says Spy Crew Wiped Out Secrets in Frantic Landing (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 14, 2001)
THE PENTAGON: U.S. Tape Is Said to Show Reckless Flying by Chinese (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 14, 2001)
Good Friday in Jerusalem: Many Police, Few Visitors (By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr., Apr. 14, 2001)
INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING: Listening, Looking: Old Methods Still Work (By CHRISTOPHER DREW, Apr. 14, 2001)
No Bonnets? Dresses, Exotic Jelly Beans and Lilies Will Do (NY TIMES, Apr. 14, 2001)
SPORTS: Ramirez Pays Off for Red Sox (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 14, 2001)
RED SOX 3, YANKEES 2, 10 INNINGS: Rivera and Yankees Make the Wrong Choice (By BUSTER OLNEY, Apr. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Old Wounds in Cincinnati (By ARTHUR ALLEN, Apr. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Can Sheer Coincidence Be Trademarked? (By JAY JENNINGS, Apr. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: JOURNAL: What Big Test? (By FRANK RICH, Apr. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: The Two George W. Bushes (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Apr. 14, 2001)
LETTERS: Chinese Haven't Gotten the 'Sorry' They Want (By JAMES C. HSIUNG et. al., Apr. 14, 2001)
LETTERS: The Digital Dream [too costly to scan books & art online rapidly] (By ALLEN B. VEANER, Apr. 14, 2001)
BUSINESS: Asia Stocks Rise, With Many Markets Shut (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 14, 2001)
After Complaints, Yahoo to Close Access to Pornographic Sites (By SAUL HANSELL, Apr. 14, 2001)
Tax Filing Seem Easier? Thank Software, Not Congress (By JAN M. ROSEN, Apr. 14, 2001)
Businesses Cut Inventories, But Sales Fell In February (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 14, 2001)
Consumer Reports Refuses to Renew a Mass Subscription (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Apr. 14, 2001)
Merrill Lynch Says It Expects Additional Reductions in Jobs (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 14, 2001)
Is the Earth of France the Mother of Wine? (By MICHAEL STEINBERGER, Apr. 14, 2001)
ARTS: New Attention for the Idea That Abortion Averts Crime (By ALEXANDER STILLE, Apr. 14, 2001)
Think Tank: The Ultimate Victory of Vacuum Cleaners (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 14, 2001)
DANCE: A Blend of Flamenco and Tap, Blues and Jazz (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 14, 2001)
FILM: The Rewards of Obsessing About Film (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 14, 2001)
MUSIC: Gypsies Fiddle Madly as Classical Spirits Hover (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 14, 2001)
TV: When Billie Jean King Beat That Barnum Bobby (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Apr. 14, 2001)
GARDENING: Cuttings: Willows You Never Expected (By ANNE RAVER, Apr. 14, 2001)

Friday, April 13, 2001:
On This Day: April 13 (Peter Faber 4/13/1506-8/1/1546, Thomas Jefferson 4/13/1743-7/4/1826, Sir Thomas Lawrence 4/13/1769-1/7/1830, Eli Terry 4/13/1772-2/26/1852, Sir William Benett 4/13/1816-2/1/1875, Martinez Gonzalez 4/13/1871-2/19/1952, Gyorgy Lukacs 4/13/1885-6/4/1971, Sir Robert Watson-Watt 4/13/1892-12/5/1973, John Braine 4/13/1922-10/28/1987, Eudora Welty 1909, Howard Keel 1919, Stanley Donen 1924, Lyle Waggoner 1935, Paul Sorvino 1939, Bill Conti 1942, Jack Casady 1944, Tony Dow 1945, Ron Perlman 1950, William Sadler 1950, Gary Kasparov 1963, Page Hannah 1964)
Power Failure Imperils Astronauts; Apollo 13 Will Head Back to the Earth (By John Noble Wilford, April 13, 1970)
* Samuel Beckett Is Dead at 83; His 'Godot' Changed Theater
[4/13/1906-12/22/1989] (By MEL GUSSOW, December 27, 1989)
Richard E. Schultes, 86, Authority on Hallucinogenic Plants, Dies (By JONATHAN KANDELL, Apr. 13, 2001)
Larry Tucker, Writer and Producer, Dies at 67 (NY TIMES, Apr. 13, 2001)
Cincinnati Mayor Imposes Curfew to Quell Violence (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Apr. 13, 2001)
How Bush Had to Calm Hawks in Devising a Response to China (By DAVID E. SANGER & STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 13, 2001)
With Crew in U.S., Bush Blames China for Collision (By MARC LACEY and STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 13, 2001)
U.S.-Russia Relationship Warms Up a Bit (By JANE PERLEZ, Apr. 13, 2001)
The Simple Things That Underlie a Soccer Stampede (By HENRI E. CAUVIN, Apr. 13, 2001)
REACTION IN CHINA: Beijing Declares Victory but Chat Rooms Are Skeptical (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 13, 2001)
THE CREW: A Quick Heroes' Welcome, Then On to Long Hours With Debriefing Teams (By JOHN KIFNER, Apr. 13, 2001)
Senator Clinton Settling In as Just One of 100 (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Apr. 13, 2001)
Old Movie Palaces Rise to a Higher Calling (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Apr. 13, 2001)
Season Within a Season: Yanks Face Red Sox 19 Times (By BUSTER OLNEY, Apr. 13, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Art and Artifice of Apologizing to China (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Apr. 13, 2001)
OP-ED: Race and the Uses of Law [affirmative action in universities] (By RONALD DWORKIN, Apr. 13, 2001)
* OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: One Nation, 3 Lessons (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 13, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Nursing a Shortage (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 13, 2001)
LETTERS: Is U.S.-China Crisis Really Over? (By RAFEY OMAR et. al., Apr. 13, 2001)
LETTERS: Online Library for All (By MICHAEL PRAVICA, Apr. 13, 2001)
BUSINESS: Hope of Rate Cut Leads Shares Up
[Dow +113, Nasdaq +62] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 13, 2001)
A Smaller I.R.S. Gives Up on Billions in Back Taxes (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Apr. 13, 2001)
* Floyd Norris: Prospect of a Recession Seems Less Terrorizing (By FLOYD NORRIS, Apr. 13, 2001)
* CYBER LAW JOURNAL: Law Professor Sees Hazard in Personalized News (By CARL S. KAPLAN, Apr. 13, 2001)
Cisco to Offer 6-Month Severance (NY TYIMES, Apr. 13, 2001)
Confidence of Consumers at 8-Year Low (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 13, 2001)
Safety of Chocolate Egg Is Questioned (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Apr. 13, 2001)
I.B.M. to Show Advanced Chips for Net Use (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 13, 2001)
Companies Use Easter as Way to Create a December Rush (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Apr. 13, 2001)
Dow Jones and Times Co. to Cut Work Forces (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 13, 2001)
Juniper's Profit Rises, but It Warns on Revenue (By CHRIS GAITHER, Apr. 13, 2001)
LIVING: My Manhattan: From a Diverse Parish, the Joys of Harmony (By COLM TOIBIN, Apr. 13, 2001)
* HIKING: The Outsider: In the Hudson Highlands, a Little Punishment Is Fun (By JAMES GORMAN, Apr. 13, 2001)
ART: Islamic Calligraphy: When the Medium Really Was the Message (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 13, 2001)
Inside Art: The Shoe Still Fits (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 13, 2001)
Antiques: An Easter Feast of Rare Fabergé (By WENDY MOONAN, Apr. 13, 2001)
BOOKS: 'The Money and the Power': The Dark Side of Las Vegas (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Apr. 13, 2001)
CABARET: As Ageless as Springtime, Bobby Short Is in Bloom (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 13, 2001)
CIRCUS: 'Dralion': Eerie Dragon in a Time Warp [Cirque du Soleil] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 13, 2001)
FILM: 'Lakeboat': That Poetry of Mamet, Aboard a Boat, Dammit (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 13, 2001)
FILM: 'States of Control': Surrounded by Metaphors and Even Looking Like One (By DAVE KEHR, Apr. 13, 2001)
FILM: 'Bridget Jones's Diary': 120 Pounds and 1,000,000 Cigarettes Later (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 13, 2001)
FILM: At the Movies: 'Bridget Jones,' Child of the 80's (By RICK LYMAN, Apr. 13, 2001)
* MUSIC CRITIC: Grappling Onstage With Volatile Verdi (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 13, 2001)
* MUSIC: At a Tribute, a Composer, 70, Explains Heaven and Earth [Sofia Gubaidulina] (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Apr. 13, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Hans Bellmer: A German-Born Artist's Obsession With Doll Images (By VICKI GOLDBERG, Apr. 13, 2001)
THEATER: 'Bells Are Ringing': A Chameleon With a Phone (By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 13, 2001)
THEATER: Eula Mae's Beauty, Bait and Tackle: Rita Mae, Eula Mae, Anna Mae... (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 13, 2001)
TV Weekend: Turning to God's Disciples When Doctors Don't Help (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 13, 2001)
HEALTH: Doctor at Antarctic Station Is Stricken (By DENISE GRADY, Apr. 13, 2001)
SCIENCE: Studies Tie Rise in Ocean Heat to Greenhouse Gases (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Apr. 13, 2001)

Thursday, April 12, 2001:
On This Day: April 12 (Edward de Vere 4/12/1550-6/24/1604, Henry Clay 4/12/1777-6/29/1852, Sir James Mackenzie 4/12/1853-1/26/1925, Imogen Cunningham 4/12/1883-6/24/1976, Lily Pons 4/12/1904-2/13/1976, Pete Desjardins 4/12/1907-5/6/1985, Ann Miller 1923, Jane Withers 1926, Charles Napier 1936, Herbie Hancock 1940, Frank Bank 1942, David Letterman 1947, Scott Turow 1949, David Cassidy 1950, Andy Garcia 1956, Vince Gill 1957, Suzzanne Douglas 1957, Shannen Doherty 1971, Claire Danes 1979)
* President Roosevelt is Dead at 63; Truman to Continue Policies (By Arthur Krock, April 12, 1945)
* Jan Tinbergen, Dutch Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 91
[4/12/1903-6/9/1994] (By PETER PASSELL, June 14, 1994)
Michel Fribourg, Trader Who Opened Soviet Market, Dies at 87 (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 12, 2001)
Harry Secombe, 79, Known for 'Goon Show' Antics, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 12, 2001)
Raymond Patterson, Poet and Professor, Is Dead at 71 (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2001)
Promise and Pitfalls in Taking Religion to Prison (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Apr. 12, 2001)
Crew Arrives in Hawaii (By JOHN KIFNER with CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 12, 2001)
Delicate Diplomatic Dance Ends Bush's First Crisis (By DAVID E. SANGER & STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 12, 2001)
Chinese Claim a Moral Victory, Describing a Bigger Battle (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 12, 2001)
News Analysis: Taiwan and China's W.T.O. Application Will Test Relationship (By JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 12, 2001)
News Analysis: China Gets White House's Attention, and Some Respect (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 12, 2001)
THE FAMILIES: Finally, It's a Bit Better for the Families Who Wait (By PAM BELLUCK, Apr. 12, 2001)
CONGRESS: Tempers Over China Cooling, but a Cloud Remains on Capitol Hill (By ALISON MITCHELL, Apr. 12, 2001)
MIDWESTERNERS: In the Heartland, a Readiness to Let Bygones Be Bygones (By PETER T. KILBORN, Apr. 12, 2001)
Ile-Alatau Journal: Pristine Park Draws Poachers to Central Asia [Kazakhstan]
(By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Apr. 12, 2001)
SPORTS: Maddux Is Too Much as Mets Fall to Braves 2-0 (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 12, 2001)
ON BASEBALL: The Braves' Grandmaster Is Too Wily [Greg Maddux] (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 12, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Ending the Spy Plane Deadlock (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: China Policy, Without Regrets (By BATES GILL, Apr. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Death Row Survivor (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 12, 2001)
LETTERS: Dear Deer: No Grazing in My Backyard (By DAVID E. LICHT, Apr. 12, 2001)
BUSINESS: Nasdaq Extends Gains, but Dow and S.& P. Give Ground
[Dow -89, Nasdaq +47] (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Apr. 12, 2001)
* Yahoo Reports Quarterly Loss and Schedules Round of Cuts (By SAUL HANSELL, Apr. 12, 2001)
Kozmo to End Operations [online delivery] (By JAYSON BLAIR, Apr. 12, 2001)
Market Place: Utility Shares Still Attractive to Investors (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & DANNY HAKIM, Apr. 12, 2001)
Raising Funds After the Fall (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Apr. 12, 2001)
* Silicon Valley Reacts to Economy With a New Approach (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 12, 2001)
EMC Joins Motorola in Earnings Shortfall (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 12, 2001)
Advertising: Quisp Gains New Life on the Internet (By BERNARD STAMLER, Apr. 12, 2001)
Economic Scene: Don't Count on Stocks to Lead the Way Out of Downturn (By JEFF MADRICK, Apr. 12, 2001)
Kodak Chooses an Outsider to Speed Digital Transition [Lucent executive] (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Apr. 12, 2001)
Biggest Drop in Prices of Imports Since 1992 (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 12, 2001)
A New Editor Named at Wired Magazine (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2001)
* ART: Louvre Director Retires, Proposing a Lottery to Save France's Art (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 12, 2001)
* ARTS IN AMERICA: Newseum: A Press Pass to the Workings Behind the Headlines (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Apr. 12, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Mauve': The Color Purple (Not That One, the Other One) (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 12, 2001)
Making Books: Familiarity Breeds Content (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Apr. 12, 2001)
* CIRCUS: Peking Acrobats: The Greatest of Ease, All the Way From China (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 12, 2001)
DANCE: 'From the Horse's Mouth': Turning Introspective and Retrospective (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 12, 2001)
OPERA: Relentlessly Swept Along by the Tides of 'Il Trovatore' (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Apr. 12, 2001)
THEATER: 'References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot': Venus and Mars in a Regimented Match (By BRUCE WEBER, Apr. 12, 2001)
* GARDENING: Daffodil Growers, Start Your Engines (By BRADFORD McKEE, Apr. 12, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2001)
Teenage Overload, or Digital Dexterity? (By KATIE HAFNER, Apr. 12, 2001)
Online Shopper: Too Many Options Leads to Confusion (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Apr. 12, 2001)
What's Next: Helping Drivers Keep Their Eyes on the Road (By ANNE EISENBERG, Apr. 12, 2001)
Pulitzers: No Gowns, No Julia Roberts [www.pulitzer.org] (By SHELLY FREIERMAN, Apr. 12, 2001)
I.B.M. Tries to Convert Desktop From Dump Into Open Space (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Apr. 12, 2001)
State of the Art: Videodiscs With You as Director (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 12, 2001)
Q & A: Built-In Browser Tool for Cautious Parents (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Apr. 12, 2001)
HEALTH: Father's Age Linked to Risk of Schizophrenia (By ERICA GOODE, Apr. 12, 2001)
Company Says It Can Derive Stem Cells From the Placenta (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 12, 2001)

Wednesday, April 11, 2001:
On This Day: April 11 (Margaret of Angouleme 4/11/1492-12/21/1549, Edward Everett 4/11/1794-1/15/1865, Sir Charles Halle 4/11/1819-10/25/1895, John Davidson 4/11/1857-3/23/1909, Charles Evans Hughes 4/11/1862-8/27/1948, Gustav Vigeland 4/11/1869-3/12/1943, Quentin Reynolds 4/11/1902-3/17/1965, Attila Jozsef 4/11/1905-12/3/1937, Leo Rosten 4/11/1908-2/19/1997, Dale Messick 1906, Oleg Cassini 1913, Hugh Carey 1919, Ethel Kennedy 1928, Johnny Sheffield 1931, Joel Grey 1932, Louise Lasser 1939, Ellen Goodman 1941, John Milius 1944, Bill Irwin 1950)
* Truman Relieves MacArthur of All His Posts; Finds Him Unable to Back U.S.-U.N. Policies;
Ridgway Named to Far Eastern Commands (By W. H. Lawrence, April 11, 1951)
Architect of Postwar Policy, Acheson Advocated Containment of the Soviet Union, Dies at 78
[4/11/1893-10/12/1971] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, October 13, 1971)
Marjorie Hunter, a Pioneering Washington Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 78 (By IRVIN MOLOTSKY, Apr. 11, 2001)
Gerald Brubaker, Arms Expert for U.N., Dies at 60 (By PAUL LEWIS, Apr. 11, 2001)
In a First, Woman Takes Over Governorship of Massachusetts (NY TIMES, Apr. 11, 2001)
Rich Cashed In a World of Chits to Win Pardon (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Apr. 11, 2001)
U.S. Air Crew Departs China, Ending 11-day Standoff (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 11, 2001)
U.S. Sends Beijing a Formal Statement Expressing Regret (By DAVID E. SANGER & JANE PERLEZ, Apr. 11, 2001)
Chinese State Media Cites Powell's 'Sorry' (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 11, 2001)
Standoff Over Plane Brings Calls to Boycott Chinese-Made Goods (By JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 11, 2001)
Detained Americans Interest Few on Hainan Island (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 11, 2001)
Satellite Photos Differ on Spy Plane (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Apr. 11, 2001)
BUSINESS: Stocks Surge, but Warnings Are Sounded on Volatility
[Dow +258, Nasdaq +6.09%] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 11, 2001)
* Shakeout Continues in Magazines for Internet [Time buying Business 2.0 ?] (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Apr. 11, 2001)
Market Place: Online Brokers Even Get a Lift From the Rally (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Apr. 11, 2001)
For Some Executives, Titles Surpass Power (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Apr. 11, 2001)
Motorola Reports an Operating Loss for the First Time in 15 Years (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 11, 2001)
Borders Is Said to Be Closing Its Struggling Online Unit (By SAUL HANSELL & DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 11, 2001)
Advertising: Humor Is at Center of Microsoft's New Campaign (By JOHN MARKOFF with STUART ELLIOTT, Apr. 11, 2001)
The Boss: Dealing Above the Table (By MICHELLE GARNAUT, Apr. 11, 2001)
Workplace: A Single Hour That Can Save the Day (By NANCY RUBIN STUART, Apr. 11, 2001)
Life's Work: Taking Audits Personally (By LISA BELKIN, Apr. 11, 2001)
EDITORIAL: THE RURAL LIFE: Ancient Tulips (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: Put On a Public Face [email] (By NAOMI S. BARON, Apr. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Herd on the Street (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Muddled in the Middle (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 11, 2001)
LETTERS: Evolution's Old Foe, in New Words (By RICHARD H. LESSARD et. al. , Apr. 11, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: It's a Circus Out There, and Cirque du Soleil Wants It Enlarged (By JAMES BROOKE, Apr. 11, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Beloved Stranger': For 50 Years, They Got Along by Her Going Along (By RICHARD EDER, Apr. 11, 2001)
OPERA: Fatal 'Lulu' Lures Again: 3 Husbands in 2 Acts (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 11, 2001)
TV Notes: Quiz Pro Wins Biggest Payoff (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 11, 2001)
LIVING: DESIGN NOTEBOOK: In Milan, Form Follows Fashion (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Apr. 11, 2001)
FOOD: Celebrating Greek Easter With an Aegean Idyll [3 recipes] (By DIANE KOCHILAS, Apr. 11, 2001)
FOOD: Discovering a Spanish Gem: Scrambled Eggs [2 recipes] (By AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 11, 2001)
The Minimalist: A Dish With a Hot Temper Attains a Milder Manner (By MATT BITTMAN, Apr. 11, 2001)
The Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton: Sweetbreads, Naturally (By GABRIELLE HAMILTON & AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 11, 2001)
Test Kitchen: Breadboxes, the Best Thing Since Unsliced Bread (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, Apr. 11, 2001)

Tuesday, April 10, 2001:
On This Day: April 10 (Hugh Grotius 4/10/1583-8/28/1645, Benjamin H. Day 4/10/1810-12/21/1889, Lewis Wallace 4/10/1827-2/15/1905, William Booth 4/10/1829-8/20/1912, Frank Baldwin 4/10/1838-4/8/1925, George Arliss 4/10/1868-2/5/1946, Vladimir Lenin 4/10/1870-1/21/1924, Frances Perkins 4/10/1882-5/14/1965, Robert Burns Woodward 7/8/1979, Harry Morgan 1915, Liz Sheridan 1929, Max von Sydow 1929, Omar Sharif 1932, John Madden 1936, Don Meredith 1938, Steven Seagal 1951, Peter MacNichol 1954, Haley Joel Oset 1988)
* Dodgers Purchase Jackie Robinson, First Negro in Modern Major League Baseball (By LOUIS EFFRAT, April 10, 1947)
* Joseph Pulitzer Dies Suddenly at 64 [4/10/1847-10/29/1911] (NY TIMES, October 30, 1911)
* Willie Stargell, a Force for the Pirates at Bat, Dies at 61 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Apr. 10, 2001)
Arthur Cantor, Broadway Producer With a Comic Touch, Dies at 81 (By JESSE McKINLEY, Apr. 10, 2001)
Deal Struck With Utility, California Governor Says (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Apr. 10, 2001)
THE OVERVIEW: U.S. Shies Away From Threats in Plane Standoff With China (By DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 10, 2001)
News Analysis: Many Voices for Beijing (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 10, 2001)
Chinese With Ties to U.S. Is Detained (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2001)
THE SEARCH: Crew May Be Held Until Pilot Is Found (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 10, 2001)
THE AMERICANS: New Threat for Crew: Boredom (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 10, 2001)
THE PENTAGON: Questioning by Chinese Is Intense (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 10, 2001)
The Week in Science: Inelegant Fixes (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 10, 2001)
* From Light to Darkness: Astronomy's New Universe (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 10, 2001)
* Astronomers Find 2 More 'Extreme' Galaxies (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 10, 2001)
* Sun Puts on a Show That Also Turns Disruptive (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Apr. 10, 2001)
SCIENTIST AT WORK / Marguerite Vogt: Molecular Biologist Is Still in Love With the Lab
(By NATALIE ANGIER, Apr. 10, 2001)
A Salamander Trove (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 10, 2001)
OBSERVATOR: Amphibians in Trouble (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 10, 2001)
* OBSERVATORY: Albatrosses in the Air (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 10, 2001)
Why Mathematicians Now Care About Their Hat Color (By SARA ROBINSON, Apr. 10, 2001)
Gene Study Shows Ties Long Veiled in Europe (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 10, 2001)
In Fires' Afterglow, Nature Runs Its Course (By JIM ROBBINS, Apr. 10, 2001)
Researchers Fear Navy's Sonar May Harm Whales (By RACHEL X. WEISSMAN, Apr. 10, 2001)
Q&A: 3-D Pictures (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 10, 2001)

Monday, April 9, 2001:
On This Day: April 9 (Isambard Brunel 4/9/1806-9/15/1859, Charles Baudelaire 4/9/1821-8/31/1867, Leon Blum 4/9/1872-3/30/1950, Frank King 4/9/1883-6/24/1969, Sol Hurok 4/9/1888-3/5/1974, Mary Pickford 4/9/1893-5/28/1979, Paul Robeson 4/9/1898-1/23/1976, Curly Lambeau 4/9/1898-6/1/1965, J. William Fulbright 4/9/1905-2/9/1995, Antal Dorati 4/9/1906-11/13/1988, Hugh Hefner 1926, Jim Fowler 1932, Jean-Paul Belmondo 1933, Dennis Quaid 1954, Paulina Porizkova 1965)
* Hang Out Your Banners; Union Victory! Peace! [Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox] (NY TIMES, April 9, 1865)
Dr. Pincus, Developer of Birth-Control Pill, Dies at 64 [4/9/1903-8/22/1967] (NY TIMES, August 23, 1967)
* Ex-Pirate Willie Stargell Dies at 61 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 9, 2001)
Cyrus Gordon, Scholar of Ancient Languages, Dies at 92 (By ERIC PACE, Apr. 9, 2001)
Vera Sandomirsky Dunham, an Expert in Russian Literature, Is Dead at 88 (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2001)
Rebuilt City Starts to Feel Effects of Slowdown (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Apr. 9, 2001)
Bankruptcy Filing of California Utility Tests Limits of Court (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Apr. 9, 2001)
Opposition Builds to Spending Cuts in Bush's Budget (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 9, 2001)
* Hispanic Voter Is Vivid in Parties' Crystal Ball (By ERIC SCHMITT, Apr. 9, 2001)
WASHINGTON: Powell Warns of Damage to Ties as Crisis Drags On (By JANE PERLEZ, Apr. 9, 2001)
* U.S. and China Look for a Way to Say 'Sorry' (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 9, 2001)
THE CREW: In Third Visit, U.S. Diplomats Meet With 8 of 24 Detained Americans (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 9, 2001)
A New Royal Blush in Britain's Press (By WARREN HOGE, Apr. 9, 2001)
Metropolitan Diary: A Fireman's Creative Proposal (By ENID NEMY, Apr. 9, 2001)
Cornell Will Open a Medical School in the Persian Gulf (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Apr. 9, 2001)
* SPORTS: Woods Wins Masters for His 4th Straight Major (By CLIFTON BROWN, Apr. 9, 2001)
* SPORTS: With Stakes Raised, Woods Draws a Straight (By DAVE ANDERSON, Apr. 9, 2001)
* GOLF: It's a Grand Feat, but a Grand Slam? (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 9, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Four in a Row for Tiger Woods (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2001)
EDITORIAL: China's Costly Rigidity (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2001)
OP-ED: America Is Borrowing Trouble [trade deficit] (By FRANCO MODIGLIANI & ROBERT M. SOLOW, Apr. 9, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: The Purloined Treaty (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 9, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: School Board Mystery (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 9, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Critics Say VeriSign Still Has Advantage (By SUSAN STELLIN, Apr. 9, 2001)
Market Place: How to Salvage Two Companies Buried in Debt (By BARNABY FEDER & GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Apr. 9, 2001)
New Economy: Even in Downturn, Sex Still Sells (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 9, 2001)
Compressed Data: When the Digitally Enhanced Face the Elements (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 9, 2001)
Compressed Data: Register for a Nest Egg Instead of a Gravy Boat (By SUSAN STELLIN, Apr. 9, 2001)
* Internet Critic Takes on Microsoft (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 9, 2001)
E-Commerce Report: Airline Travel Site Stirs Debate (By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 9, 2001)
BOOKS: A Memoir of Teaching (and Learning) in China (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Apr. 9, 2001)
DANCE: Les Ballets Grandiva: When Ballerinas Are Not What They Seem (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 9, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: The Vision for Carnegie, Fresh but Ambiguous (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 9, 2001)
Culture Notes: Music Man (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2001)
THEATER: Aside From Talking Up Shows, O'Donnell's Sidekick Coaches Stars (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 9, 2001)
THEATER: 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest': You're a Bad Boy and Nurse Will Punish You
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 9, 2001)
* Writers on Writing: Confession Begets Connection (By DAVID SHIELDS, Apr. 9, 2001)

Sunday, April 8, 2001:
On This Day: April 8 (Giuseppe Tartini 4/8/1692-2/26/1770, David Rittenhouse 4/8/1732-6/26/1796, John Loudon 4/8/1783-12/14/1843, William Welch 4/8/1850-4/30/1934, Harvey Cushing 4/8/1869-10/7/1939, Albert I 4/8/1875-2/17/1934, Sir Adrian Boult 4/8/1889-2/23/1983, Sir John Hicks 4/8/1904-5/20/1989, Carmen McRae 4/8/1920-11/10/1994, Michael Bennett 4/8/1943-7/2/1987, Betty Ford 1918, Franco Corelli 1923, Fred Ebb 1933, Seymour Hersh 1937, John Havelicek 1940, Julian Lennon 1963, Robin Wright Penn 1966, Patricia Arquette 1968)
* Picasso is Dead in France at 91 (NY TIMES, April 8, 1973)
* Sonja Henie, Skating Star, Dies at 57 [4/8/1912-10/12/1969] (NY TIMES, October 13, 1969)
Frederick Rath, Pioneer of Historical Conservation, Dies at 87 (By PAUL LEWIS, Apr. 8, 2001)
Ronald Van Dunk, 68, Chief of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 8, 2001)
Nursing Shortage Is Raising Worries on Patients' Care (By MILT FREUDENHEIM and LINDA VILLAROSA, Apr. 8, 2001)
Working Hard, Doing Well, Less Than Excited About Bush's Tax Plan (By CAREY GOLDBERG, Apr. 8, 2001)
Clinton Pays $25,000 Fine in Arkansas Case (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 8, 2001)
Political Memo: Bush's Moves to Assure Right Ignite Storm on Left (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Apr. 8, 2001)
Mourning Wards, a Store That Time Left Behind (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Apr. 8, 2001)
THE OVERVIEW: China Is Demanding That U.S. Do More to End Standoff (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 8, 2001)
MISSILES AND THREATS: China Buildup Has Taiwan on Edge (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 8, 2001)
THE QUANDARY: Bush Team Is in Search of Way Out of Impasse (By DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 8, 2001)
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Vote (By SUSAN SACHS, Apr. 8, 2001)
More Papers Found in French Archives Case (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Apr. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: Risking a New War in the Balkans (By RICHARD HOLBROOKE, Apr. 8, 2001)
* OP-ED: The Chapter After 'The End' ["The Wind Done Gone"] (By MARJORIE GARBER, Apr. 8, 2001)
* OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Xiao Bushi on the Tiger (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Two Untrue Things (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 8, 2001)
LETTERS: Is Food Just Another Scapegoat? (By ROGER HELLER et. al., Apr. 8, 2001)
* Japan Learns the Sun May Not Come Out Tomorrow (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Apr. 8, 2001)
FLYING BLIND: The Cold War Left No Maps for This Face-Off (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 8, 2001)
BETWEEN THE LINES: Getting to Know You: America Fills Fox's Dance Card (By ERIC SCHMITT, Apr. 8, 2001)
Whose Plane Is It, Anyway? (By MARC LACEY, Apr. 8, 2001)
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: How to Face the Past, Then Close the Door (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* It's Easier to Be Green [vegetarians] (By ERIC ASIMOV, Apr. 8, 2001)
IDEAS & TRENDS: Putting a Price Tag on the Priceless [arsenic in water] (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 8, 2001)
Tips for Terrorists: Lose the Toothpick, Don't Talk to Cabbies and Watch Where You Park (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Selling to Gen Y: A Far Cry From Betty Crocker (By COREY TAKAHASHI, Apr. 8, 2001)
Using Books as Evidence Against Their Readers (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 8, 2001)
A Hue, and a Cry, in the Heartland (By SUSAN SACHS, Apr. 8, 2001)
Woody Sounds Off (By JAMES BARRON, Apr. 8, 2001)
* BUSINESS: The Rainy Day Is Here. Now What Do We Do? (By DANNY HAKIM<, Apr. 8, 2001)
* The Diamond Game, Shedding Its Mystery (By LAUREN WEBER, Apr. 8, 2001)
* There's Money in Housing Internet Servers (By JAYSON BLAIR, Apr. 8, 2001)
An Earthly Idea for Doubling the Airwaves (By STEPHEN LABATON, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Market Watch: In Stock Prices, What a Difference a Digit Makes (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Market Insight: Which Way to Go After the Bear Market (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Apr. 8, 2001)
A Windfall From North of the Border Turns Sour [Nortel stocks] (By DANNY HAKIM, Apr. 8, 2001)
Fighting Back When Someone Steals Your Name (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Apr. 8, 2001)
Economic View: Smaller Paychecks Are Another Sign of Slowdown (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Apr. 8, 2001)
Five Questions for Nicholas R. Lardy: Will Business Suffer in a China Stalemate?
(By RICK GLADSTONE, Apr. 8, 2001)
* My Money, My Life: The Work That Drains Life (By PAULA M. RAYMAN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Backslash: You Have Psychotherapy! (By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 8, 2001)
Off the Shelf: After the Downsizing, a Downward Spiral (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Essay: The New 'Bots" Tell Us How to Invest -- Online (By DANNY HAKIM, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Are Index Funds Great Literature? (By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 8, 2001)
Once the Wallflower, Bonds Now Have Suitors (By JAN M. ROSEN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Active Managers Sat They Outshine the Index Funds. Are They Right? (By JOANNE LEGOMSKY, Apr. 8, 2001)
In Money Funds, Awaiting Dawn (By VIVIAN MARINO, Apr. 8, 2001)
Behind the Curtain, Minding the Manager (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Taking on the Saint of Indexing (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* To Turn Back a Vicious Tide, Three Funds Thought Small (By CAROLE GOULD, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Strategies: The Blinding Power of Data (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How a High-Cost Growth Fund Bounced Back to High Returns [Kaufmann Fund] (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Apr. 8, 2001)
Private Sector: Standing Up to the Men, With Nerve and a Step Stool (Compiled By RICK GLADSTONE, Apr. 8, 2001)
Personal Business Diary: A Move Against Claims Over Job Appraisals (By, Apr. 8, 2001)
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY/WEB-BASED PRODUCTS: For Realty Concerns, Internet Is a Disappointment
(By JOHN HOLUSHA, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Letters: New-Economy Worth (By BRUCE W. MORGAN et. al., Apr. 8, 2001)
* On Language: Hurr (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to E-Mail Like a C.E.O. (By BRUCE HEADLAM, Apr. 8, 2001)
QUESTIONS for Desnise Rich: How to Write a Hit Song (Interview by ABBY ELLIN, Apr. 8, 2001)
The Ethicist: How to Park Cheap (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Hit a Home Run Off Pedro Martínez (By MIKE SOWELL, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Strike Out Alex Rodriguez (By MIKE SOWELL, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Upgrade to First Class on an Airplane (By HOPE REEVES, Apr. 8, 2001)
FOOD: How to Cook the Basics Like Daniel Boulud (By AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 8, 2001)
* ENDPAPER: How to Solve the New York Times Crossword Puzzle (By WILL SHORTZ, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to: A User's Manual for Modern Living (By CHARLES MCGRATH, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Be an Imposter [8 photo vignettes] (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Raise a Genius (By NICHOLAS WEINSTOCK, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Be a Popular Teenager (By DEIRDRE DOLAN, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Tell If Your Parents Are Spying on You (By AUSTIN BUNN, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Get Into College After Being Rejected (By FERNANDA MOORE, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Dump a Friend (By LUCINDA ROSENFELD, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Invent a Brand Name (By JOSH ROTTENBERG, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Make a One-Person Firm Seem Like a Giant Corporation (By DAVID REINFURT, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Run a Successful Silicon Valley Business (By JEFF GOODELL, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Fire Someone Without Getting Sued (By CAMERON STRACHER, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Catch a Fugitive (By RUSSELL SHORTO, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Defend Someone You Know Is Guilty (By DAVID FEIGE, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Get In to See the President (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Run for President in 2004 (By NED MARTEL, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Harvest a Live Organ (By ANDY NEWMAN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Multitask (By CATHERINE BUSH, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Say Something That Sounds Nice But Isn't (Comic Strip by RAZ, Apr. 8, 2001)
* How to Salvage a Nasdaq Portfolio (By DANIEL GROSS, Apr. 8, 2001)
How to Back-Flip a Motorcycle (By STEPHEN SHERRILL, Apr. 8, 2001)
FORUM: How to... What? (Tell Us What You Do Best) (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2001)
Where Is It Written? Right Here [The Bible in English] (By SIMON WINCHESTER, Apr. 8, 2001)
* First Thought, Best Thought [Allen Ginsberg, 'Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996']
(By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ, Apr. 8, 2001)
Divorce Is for Life [Daren Karbo, 'Generation Ex: Tales from the Second Wives Club']
(By LAURA JAMISON, Apr. 8, 2001)
He Got Game Plan [Phil Jackson, 'More Than a Game'] (By ALLEN ST. JOHN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Angles of Approach [Kate Walbert, 'The Gardens of Kyoto'] (By ALIDA BECKER, Apr. 8, 2001)
Gail Godwin, Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Apr. 8, 2001)
William Zinsser, 'Easy to Remember: Great American Songwriters and Their Songs (By DAVID KAUFMAN, Apr. 8, 2001)
Marilyn Monroe, 'My Story' (By MARJORIE ROSEN, Apr. 8, 2001)
THE CLOSE READER: The Case of Pius XII (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Apr. 8, 2001)
TRAVEL: Total Immersion in Cuernavaca (By JANE BLACKBURN BORNEMEIER, Apr. 8, 2001)
Word-Starved in Heidelberg (By JOHN FREEMAN GILL, Apr. 8, 2001)
* CYBERSCOUT: Peckish in an Unfamiliar Place [Restaurants on the Road] (By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 8, 2001)
LIVING: Zero Tolerance Policies Change Life at One School (By JOHN LELAND, Apr. 8, 2001)
OUT THERE / PARIS: Rationing at Vuitton (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Apr. 8, 2001)
FASHION: On the Street: Socks Are Low but Not Low-Key (Photographs By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Apr. 8, 2001)
VOWS: Amanda Cutter and Christopher Brooks (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Apr. 8, 2001)
Noticed: This Star for Rent, Now That Stigma Fades (By RUTH LA FERLA, Apr. 8, 2001)
View: In Florida, Another Demand for a Do-Over (By JESSICA YELLIN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* ART: James Turrell's Lifelong Dream of Desert Light (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Apr. 8, 2001)
* ART: James Turrell: Using the Sky to Discover an Inner Light (By DAVID HAY, Apr. 8, 2001)
* ARCHITECTURE: Frank Lloyd Wright: Patterned Glass That Lets Light In (By RITA REIF, Apr. 8, 2001)
DANCE: When Dance Gets to Be Ordinary (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 8, 2001)
DANCE: Russians Ask the World, 'Shall We Dance?' (By JOEL LOBENTHAL, Apr. 8, 2001)
FILM: The Innocent Ways of Renée Zellweger (By MOLLY HASKELL, Apr. 8, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Evolutionists Battle New Theory on Creation (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 8, 2001)
* Biology Text Illustrations More Fiction Than Fact (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 8, 2001)
Odyssey Off to Mars, Seeking Water and a Bit of Redemption (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 8, 2001)
On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 8, 2001)

Saturday, April 7, 2001:
On This Day: April 7 (St. Francis Xavier 4/7/1506-12/3/1552, William Wordsworth 4/7/1770-4/23/1850, Jens Peter Jacobsen 4/7/1847-4/30/1885, W. K. Kellogg 4/7/1860-10/6/1951, John McGraw 4/7/1873-2/25/1934, Sir David Low 4/7/1891-9/19/1963, Allen Dulles 4/7/1893-1/29/1969, Walter Winchell 4/7/1897-2/20/1972, R. G. Armstrong 1917, Ravi Shankar 1920, James Garner 1928, Wayne Rogers 1933, Ian Richardson 1934, Hodding Carter 1935, Jerry BRown 1938, Francis Ford Coppola 1939, David Frost 1939, Bill Kreutzman 1946, John Oates 1949, Janis Ian 1951, Jackie Chan 1954, Tony Dorsett 1954, Victoria Adams Beckham 1975)
General Grant defeated Confederates at Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee (NY TIMES, April 7, 1862)
* Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44; Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence
[4/7/1915-7/17/1959] (NY TIMES, July 18, 1959)
Edward Roth, Master of Monster Cartoons, Dies at 69 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 7, 2001)
Francis Grasso, 60's D.J. and Master of the Club Mix, Dies at 52 (By NEIL STRAUSS, Apr. 7, 2001)
George C. Lamb Jr., Ex-Chief of United Parcel, Dies at 75 (By GREG WINTER<, Apr. 7, 2001)
100 Students Catch Illness During Break (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 7, 2001)
Publisher Who Resigned Urges Editors to Put Readers First (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 7, 2001)
Preserving the Birthplaces of the Atom Bomb (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Apr. 7, 2001)
* Beliefs [Haggadah] (By PETER STEINFELS, Apr. 7, 2001)
California's Largest Utility Files for Bankruptcy (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Apr. 7, 2001)
News Analysis: For Bush, Vote on Tax Cut Is a Lesson on Compromise (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Apr. 7, 2001)
Bush and Jiang Exchange Drafts of a Letter Stating U.S. Regrets (By DAVID E. SANGER with CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 7, 2001)
STATE DEPARTMENT: Powell Is in Driver's Seat on Plane Crisis Strategy (By JANE PERLEZ, Apr. 7, 2001)
THE CULTURE: China's Demand for Apology Is Rooted in Tradition (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Apr. 7, 2001)
London Journal: Soggy Pastures Where All Things Crash and Burn (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 7, 2001)
Cling, Cling, Cling to the Trolley? Newark Says No (By ANDREW JACOBS, Apr. 7, 2001)
Once Again, Clinton Discourages Talk About a Presidential Run (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Apr. 7, 2001)
Nature Meets Artifice, and a Ravine Is Reborn (By BARBARA STEWART, Apr. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: Our Soldiers May Pay for the Tax Cut (By JOE LIEBERMAN, Apr. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: Edison's Fate, The City's Future (By CHRIS WHITTLE, Apr. 7, 2001)
* OP-ED: A Computer Would Do Better Than the Fed (By T. J. RODGERS, Apr. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: For Love of the Game Show (By ROBERT MACKEY, Apr. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: Molehill Into Mountain (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Apr. 7, 2001)
LETTERS: Want to Get Into M.I.T.? Just Click Here (By CRISTINA MUÑOZ et. al., Apr. 7, 2001)
* LETTERS: © Homer and © Virgil (By JULIE CROSBY, Apr. 7, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Shares Finish Week in Skid as Nasdaq Plummets 3.6%
[Dow-127, Nasdaq -65] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 7, 2001)
Job Loss in March Biggest in 9 Years (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Apr. 7, 2001)
Intel Under Investigation by European Commission (By PAUL MELLER, Apr. 7, 2001)
Motorola Disputes a Report That It Could Be Short of Cash (By REUTERS, Apr. 7, 2001)
ARTS: IDEAS: Preserving Books? It's Easy on Paper (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Apr. 7, 2001)
ARTS: IDEAS: When Emotion Worms Its Way Into Law (By SARAH BOXER, Apr. 7, 2001)
ART CRITIC: A Festival of Images, via Rauschenberg and Others (By BRUCE WEBER, Apr. 7, 2001)
ART: Connections: Hidden in the Light of Vermeer's Window (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 7, 2001)
FILM: 'Hole in the Sky': Deepening a Romance by Painting the Roof (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 7, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: Upstart Violinist of 80 Plays a Quartet by a Fledgling of 92 (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Apr. 7, 2001)
* Sky Watch: Winter Stars (By JOE RAO, Apr. 7, 2001)

Friday, April 6, 2001:
On This Day: April 6 (Raphael 4/6/1483-4/6/1520, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 4/6/1671-3/17/1741, James Mill 4/6/1773-6/23/1836, Rene Lalique 4/6/1860-5/5/1945, Louis Raemaekers 4/6/1869-7/26/1956, Walter Huston 4/6/1884-4/7/1950, Anthony Fokker 4/6/1890-12/23/1939, Lowell Thomas 4/6/1892-8/29/1981, Lonald Douglas 4/6/1892-2/1/1981, Gerry Mulligan 4/6/1927-1/20/1996, André Previn 1929, Merle Haggard 1937, Billy Dee Williams 1937, Roy Thinnes 1938, Barry Levinson 1942, Michelle Phillips 1944, John Ratzenberger 1947, Marilu Henner 1952, Janet Lynn 1953, Ari Meyers 1969)
* Peary Discovers the North Pole After Eight Trials in 23 Years (NY TIMES, April 6, 1909)
Dr. Clarence E. McClung Zoologist, 75, Dies [4/6/1870-1/17/1946] (By ROBERT LINDSEY, January 19, 1946)
John B. Oakes, Impassioned Editorial Page Voice of The Times, Dies at 87 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Apr. 6, 2001)
Theodore Gottlieb, Dark Comedian, Dies at 94 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 6, 2001)
Theodore McCarty, Father of Iconic Guitars, Dies at 91 (By BEN RATLIFF, Apr. 6, 2001)
Carlos Ogden, War Hero in the Liberation of Cherbourg, Dies at 83 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Apr. 6, 2001)
In California, a Reversal on Energy Rates (By TODD S. PURDUM, Apr. 6, 2001)
Strikes Shut Down Hawaii Public Schools (By EVELYN NIEVES, Apr. 6, 2001)
Bush Aides Saying Some Hope Is Seen to End Standoff (By JANE PERLEZ & DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 6, 2001)
Chinese Pilot Reveled in Risk, Pentagon Says (By STEVEN LEE MYERS with CHRISTOPHER DREW, Apr. 6, 2001)
* THE MOOD IN CHINA: Students' Unease Over Weakness Could Threaten Beijing's Leaders
(By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 6, 2001)
Standoff Worries U.S. Companies in China (By MARK LANDLER, Apr. 6, 2001)
* Pulling Coney Island's Sweet Tooth (By NICHOLE M. CHRISTIAN, Apr. 6, 2001)
Judaism Meets Islam, With Volumes of Criticism for One Author (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Apr. 6, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Passionate Voice, Stilled [John B. Oakes] (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: The Silent Majority Party (By GEORGE PACKER, Apr. 6, 2001)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Sorry About That (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 6, 2001)
PUBLIC INTERESTS: California Schemin' (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 6, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Rally on Wall Street Sends Dow Soaring by More Than 4%
[Dow +403, Nasdaq +146] (By ALEX BERENSON, Apr. 6, 2001)
Floyd Norris: Is a 95% Decline Discouraging? Not to These Investors (By FLOYD NORRIS, Apr. 6, 2001)
* Advertising: Site Offers Everything About Brands in the Internet Age (By STUART ELLIOTT, Apr. 6, 2001)
CYBER LAW JOURNAL: Legal Victory for Internet Advertising Industry (By CARL S. KAPLAN, Apr. 6, 2001)
LIVING: Weekend Excursion: True Blue Charm at Yale University (By RICHARD RUDA, Apr. 6, 2001)
* ARTS: Cirque du Soleil: Along the Hudson, a Tent of Dreams (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 6, 2001)
* ART: Seeking Japan's Prints, Out of Love and Need (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 6, 2001)
ART: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Out of the Jewish Ghetto and Into the Mainstream (By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 6, 2001)
Inside Art: New Treasures for a New Site (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 6, 2001)
* ARCHITECTURE: 'Architecture + Water': Just Add Water to Instant Inspiration (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Apr. 6, 2001)
FILM: 'Shadow Magic': When Movies Fomented a Cultural Revolution (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 6, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Pandas Face Competition From Humans in Sanctuary (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Apr. 6, 2001)
* Scientists Find Twinge of Disappointment in Meteorite (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 6, 2001)

Thursday, April 5, 2001:
On This Day: April 5 (Thomas Hobbes 4/5/1588-12/4/1679, Elihu Yale 4/5/1649-7/8/1721, Jean-Honoré Fragonard 4/5/1732-8/22/1806, Vincenzo Gioberti 4/5/1801-11/26/1852, Joseph Lister 4/5/1827-2/10/1912, Algernon Swinburne 4/5/1837-4/10/1909, Lincoln Filene 4/5/1865-8/27/1957, Chester Bowles 4/5/1901-5/25/1986, Bette Davis 4/5/1908-10/6/1989, Herbert von Karajan 4/5/1908-7/16/1989, Chaim Grade 4/5/1910-6/26/1982, Gregory Peck 1916, Arthur Hailey 1920, Gale Storm 1922, Roger Corman 1926, Nigel Hawthorne 1929, Colin Powell 1937, Tommy Cash 1940, Michael Moriarty 1941, Peter Greenaway 1942, Jane Asher 1946)
Rosenbergs, Atom Spy Couple Sentenced to Die; Aide Gets 30 Years (By William R. Conklin, April 5, 1951)
Dr. B. T. Washington, Negro Leader, Dead at 59 [4/5/1856-11/14/1915] (NY TIMES, November 15, 1915)
LIVING: What's Right With This Picture?: Paint-by-Number Paintings Return (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Apr. 5, 2001)
Garden Q&A: Deck Privacy in Bloom (By LESLIE LAND, Apr. 5, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2001)
* In the Storage Race, Will Consumers Win? (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Apr. 9, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: New Rules for Net Searches: Location, Location, Location (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Apr. 9, 2001)
GAME THEORY: A Deity in Touch With His Own Bad Self (By PETER OLAFSON, Apr. 9, 2001)

Wednesday, April 4, 2001:
On This Day: April 4 (Grinling Gibbons 4/4/1648-8/3/1721, Edward Hicks 4/4/1780-8/23/1849, Dorothea Dix 4/4/1802-7/17/1887, Pierre Monteux 4/4/1875-7/1/1964, Arthur Murray 4/4/1895-3/3/1991, Robert Sherwook 4/4/1896-11/14/1955, Antony Tudor 4/4/1908-4/20/1987, Marguerite Duras 4/4/1914-3/3/1996, Anthony Perkins 4/4/1932-9/12/1992, Elmer Bernstein 1922, Elizabeth Wilson 1925, Maya Angelou 1928, Clive Davis 1932, Richard Lugar 1932, Kitty Kelley 1942, Steve Gatlin 1951, Robert Downey Jr. 1965)
Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis; A White Is Suspected (By Earl Caldwell, April 4, 1968)
Muddy Waters, Blues Performer, Dies at 68 [4/4/1915-4/30/1983] (By ROBERT PALMER, May 1, 1983)
The Chef: Gorgeous Simplicity in a Cake (By GABRIELLE HAMILTON & AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 4, 2001)

Tuesday, April 3, 2001:
On This Day: April 3 (Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau 4/3/1778-2/18/1862, Washington Irving 4/3/1783-11/28/1859, Mary Carpenter 4/3/1807-6/14/1877, Edward Everett 4/3/1822-6/10/1909, Alcide De Gasperi 4/3/1881-8/19/1954, Bud Fisher 4/3/1884-9/7/1954, Leslie Howard 4/3/1893-6/1/1943, Stanislawa Walasiewicz 4/3/1911-12/4/1980, Virgil I. Grissom 4/3/1926-1/27/1967, Marlon Brando 1924, Doris Day 1924, Miyoshi Umeki 1929, Helmut Kohl 1930, Don Gibson 1932, William Gaunt 1937, Marsha Mason 1942, Wayne Newton 1942, Tony Orlando 1944, Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948, Alec Baldwin 1958, Eddie Murphy 1961)
Aid Bill is Signed by Truman as Reply to Foes of Liberty (By Harold B. Hinton, April 3, 1948)
* Henry R. Luce, Creator of Time-Life Magazine Empire, Dies in Phoenix at 68
[4/3/1898-2/28/1967] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, March 1, 1967)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2001)
The Week in Science: At the Heart of It All (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 3, 2001)
Findings Deepen Debate on Using Embryonic Cells (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 3, 2001)
SCIENTIST AT WORK / Robert Sternberg: Psychology Professor's Goal: Making Intelligence Tests Smarter
(By ERICA GOODE, Apr. 3, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Photo Gives Weight to Einstein's Thesis of Negative Gravity (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 3, 2001)
Unraveling Silk's Secrets, One Spider Species at a Time (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 3, 2001)
Eagles Regain a Perch in the Lower 48 (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 3, 2001)
Q&A: Shocking Events [Aftershocks & Earthquakes] (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 3, 2001)

Monday, April 2, 2001:
On This Day: April 2 (Charlemagne 4/2/742-1/28/814, Giovanni Casanova 4/2/1725-6/4/1798, Hoffmann von Fallersleben 4/2/1798-1/19/1874, Erastus B. Bigelow 4/2/1814-12/6/1879, Frederic a. Bartholdi 4/2/1834-10/4/1904, Nicholas Butler 4/2/1862-12/7/1947, Walter Chrysler 4/2/1875-8/18/1940, Kurt Adler 4/2/1905-2/9/1988, Buddy Ebsen 1908, Sharon Acker 1935, Leon Russell 1941, Linda Hunt 1945, Emmylou Harris 1947, Pamela Reed 1949, Debrlee Scott 1953, Ron Palillo 1954)
President Wilson Declares War on Germany, Stronger Navy, New Army of 500,000 Men (NY TIMES, April 2, 1917)
* Max Ernst, Catalytic Figure in 20th Century Art, Dies at 85
[4/2/1891-4/1/1976] (By JOHN RUSSELL, April 2, 1976)
Stanley H. Ruttenberg, Union Organizer, Dies at 84 (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Apr. 2, 2001)
Medical Fees Are Often Higher for Patients Without Insurance (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 2, 2001)
Medical Discount Cards Attract the Uninsured (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 2, 2001)
Public Lives: Wielding Power in One of Senate's Least Glamorous Jobs (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Apr. 2, 2001)
In a Humble World, Defense Deputy Stands Firm (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Apr. 2, 2001)
U.S. Plane in China After It Collides With Chinese Jet (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL with DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 2, 2001)
China's Shadowing Had Annoyed U.S. (By JAMES DAO, Apr. 2, 2001)
News Analysis: A Wider Debate About the Role of Milosevic (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Apr. 2, 2001)
Milosevic Should Face Trial by Hague Tribunal, Bush Says (By JANE PERLEZ, Apr. 2, 2001)
Milosevic Arrest Came With Pledge for a Fair Trial (By STEVEN ERLANGER & CARLOTTA GALL, Apr. 2, 2001)
London Journal: If Iraq Ever Needs a King, Here's a Dapper Hopeful (By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 2, 2001)
First Gay Couples Marry in the Netherlands (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 2, 2001)
* Father's Footsteps Lead Right to Tiger Cage (By JOYCE WADLER, Apr. 2, 2001)
* Metropolitan Diary: Jewish Museum's menorahs (By ENID NEMY, Apr. 2, 2001)
No Days Off at Foie Gras Farm (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Apr. 2, 2001)
EDITORIAL: America's Demographic Quilt (By, Apr. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: NATO Needs to Grow (By ANTONY J. BLINKEN, Apr. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: Finding the Right Mentors (By JEAN RHODES, Apr. 2, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Fox, Bush & Helms (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Leading to Temptation (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 2, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Suddenly, Critics Are Taking Aim at Greenspan (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Apr. 2, 2001)
A Deal Is Reported in the Works Between Brill and Inside.com (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 2, 2001)
In Age of Diminishing Innocence, Magazines for Teenagers Shift Focus (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Apr. 2, 2001)
Reality TV Goes Back to Basic (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 2, 2001)
New Economy: Musicians Press Point in Online Rift (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Apr. 2, 2001)
Rosie O'Donnell's New Magazine Light on Gloss (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Apr. 2, 2001)
Advertising: At Forum, Slowdown Runs Quietly Through Agenda (By STUART ELLIOTT, Apr. 2, 2001)
* E-Commerce: Borders Returning to the Internet (By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 2, 2001)
* Compressed Data: Internet Is Promoting Its Less Bleak Side (By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, Apr. 2, 2001)
Compressed Data: Law Newsletter Has to Sneak Past Filters (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Apr. 2, 2001)
Despite Cuts, Opportunities for Tech Workers (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 2, 2001)
Bidders Plot Comeback for a Satellite Network (By THERESA FOLEY, Apr. 2, 2001)
Ameritrade to Cut 170 Jobs (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 2, 2001)
Patents: Patent Application on Web Sends Inventor to the Drawing Board (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Apr. 2, 2001)
Media Talk: Time Inc. Reconsiders Some Coveted Positions (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: Swiss Architects, Designers of Tate Modern, Win Pritzker Prize (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Apr. 2, 2001)
* Arts Online: Innovative Webmasters Chase Fame at Browserday (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Apr. 2, 2001)
BOOKS: A British Author Finds Refuge With Feisty Woodland Critters (By DOREEN CARVAJA, Apr. 2, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Hollowpoint': Savvy Ties Up a Murder's Loose Ends (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 2, 2001)
Culture Notes: Brighter Days (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2001)
DANCE: Cunningham, an Innovator in the Desert (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 2, 2001)
DANCE: Ballet Tech: Soft Curves, Serenity and Steve Reich (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 2, 2001)
MUSIC: A Stravinsky Program Begins With a Schoenberg Curiosity (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 2, 2001)
POP: Nick Cave: The Preacher and His Converts, Mulling the Morbid (By NEIL STRAUSS, Apr. 2, 2001)
THEATER: 'Stones in His Pockets': Wearing Everyone's Shoes, Yet Being Themselves (By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 2, 2001)
TV & RADIO: Peabody Broadcast Awards Announced (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2001)
TV: 'Midwives': With Good Intentions in a Terrible Predicament (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 2, 2001)

Sunday, April 1, 2001:
On This Day: April 1 (William Harvey 4/1/1578-6/3/1657, Jean-Etienne Portalis 4/1/1746-8/25/1807, Otto von Bismarck 4/1/1815-7/30/1898, Jorge Isaacs 4/1/1837-4/17/1895, Edwin Austin Abbey 4/1/1852-8/1/1911, Edmond Rostand 4/1/1868-12/2/1918, Sergey Rachmaninoff 4/1/1873-3/28/1943, Edgar Wallace 4/1/1875-2/10/1932, Lon Chaney 4/1/1883-8/26/1930, William Manchester 1922, Jane Powell 1929, Grace Lee Whitney 1930, Debbie Reynolds 1932, Jim Ed Brown 1934, Don Hastings 1934, Ali MacGraw 1938, David Eisenhower 1947, Jimmy Cliff 1948, Gil Scott-Heron 1949, Annette O'Toole 1953, Magdalena Maleeva 1975 )
Americans Invade Okinawa in Ryukyus; Seize 2 Airfields (By Bruce Rae, April 1, 1945)
Colonel Florence Blanchfield, 87; Ex-Head of Nurse Corps, Dies
[4/1/1884-5/12/1971] (NY TIMES, May 13, 1971)
* Many Americans Are Mired in Debt and Seeking a Path Out (By PETER T. KILBORN, Apr. 1, 2001)
Army Faces Fierce Fight on Historic Hawaii Valley (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 1, 2001)
Lack of Snow Adds to Worry in California (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 1, 2001)
U.S. Now More Diverse, Ethnically and Racially (By ERIC SCHMITT, Apr. 1, 2001)
Milosevic Defies Two Police Raids on His Official Residence (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Apr. 1, 2001)
Milosevic's Guards Put Up Fierce Fight in Chaotic Night (By CARLOTTA GALL, Apr. 1, 2001)
Secret U.S. Study Concludes Taiwan Needs New Arms (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 1, 2001)
Governor Risks Political Injury in California (By TODD S. PURDUM, Apr. 1, 2001)
* In a Crisis, Vegetables, Not Beef, for British (By WARREN HOGE, Apr. 1, 2001)
Study Abroad for Chinese Is Tainted by a Defection (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 1, 2001)
Bush Angers Europe by Eroding Pact on Warming (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Apr. 1, 2001)
In a Kenyan Preacher's Prayer, an Instant AIDS 'Cure' (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 1, 2001)
* In Downturn, Some Expensive Belts Are Tightened a Notch (By BLAINE HARDEN, Apr. 1, 2001)
'Don't Call Us' Becomes Law for a List of Telemarketing Foes (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Apr. 1, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Evolving Presidency: A Bow to Political Realities (NY TIMES, Apr. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: A Climate Policy That Works (By WILLIAM K. REILLY, Apr. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: In Defense of Soft Money (By MITCH McCONNELL, Apr. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: The Asbestos President (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: The Levitating Dollar (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 1, 2001)
LETTERS: Model Students, Business Models (By ROBERT A. DUKE et. al., Apr. 1, 2001)
BUSINESS: For the Boss, Happy Days Are Still Here (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Leaving Shareholders in the Dust (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Technology Sector on Edge for More Warnings (By REUTERS, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Harry Potter and the Court Battle Over Creativity (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Market Watch: Micron's Bulls, Defying the Bubble (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Apr. 1, 2001)
A Trickle-Down Theory for a Shorter Workday (By JOHN D. SOLOMON, Apr. 1, 2001)
It's a Good Living, But Not Like Industry (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Apr. 1, 2001)
* INVESTING: Asking Directions at Wall and Broad (By ROBERT STRAUSS, Apr. 1, 2001)
PERSONAL BUSINESS: Profits Are Down. So, Boss, Can I Have That Raise? (By JOBERT E. ABUEVA, Apr. 1, 2001)
A Power Behind the Pay Surge [executive pay lawyer] (By ELIZABETH STANTON, Apr. 1, 2001)
Economic View: To Evaluate the Economy, Take Detroit's Temperature (By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 1, 2001)
* On the Contrary: Money Can Motivate. So Can Love of the Job. (By DANIEL AKST, Apr. 1, 2001)
As the Market Goes, So Go the Rewards of Company Directors (By REED ABELSON, Apr. 1, 2001)
Overseas, Salaries Are Kept Hush-Hush (By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 1, 2001)
How the Pay Figures Were Calculated (NY TIMES, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Market Insight: Telecoms' Tunnel Is Still Dark at the End (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Strategies: Yes, the Chief Can Own Too Much Stock in the Company (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 1, 2001)
Seniority: Same Egg, Cheaper Nest (By FRED BROCK, Apr. 1, 2001)
Money & Medicine: Big Pay at Not-So-Big Hospitals (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Investing With Richard A. Mayo: The Pelican Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Apr. 1, 2001)
New Turn on an Old Favorite (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 1, 2001)
Little to Risk, Much to Gain (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 1, 2001)
The Letter, if Not the Spirit, on Options Pricing (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 1, 2001)
Private Sector: Queen Elizabeth II Turning Off Lights at the Palace (Compiled By RICK GLADSTONE, Apr. 1, 2001)
Business Diary: Keyless in Seattle: Alarm Mystery Unsolved (By Aaron Donovan, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Investing Diary: The Fund Industry vs. Folios, Round 2 & Bear Markets
(By Danny Hakim & Robert D. Hershey Jr., Apr. 1, 2001)
Personal Business Diary: An 11th-Hour Checklist for Saving on Taxes (By JAN M. ROSEN, Apr. 1, 2001)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Not So Fast: Suddenly, Bush's Smooth Ride Turns Bumpy (By ADAM CLYMER, Apr. 1, 2001)
IDEAS & TRENDS: Trolling for Brains in International Waters (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 1, 2001)
IDEAS & TRENDS: Two Crises: Cows and Current (By JOHN MICKLETHWAIT, Apr. 1, 2001)
Weird Economics: To Save or Spend? (By ALEX BERENSON, Apr. 1, 2001)
* The Wired Age: China Arrives at a Moment of Truth (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Bushspeak: The President's Sense of Humor Has Also Been Misunderestimated
(By FRANK BRUNI, Apr. 1, 2001)
Martyrdom: The Promise of Paradise That Slays Peace (By JOHN F. BURNS, Apr. 1, 2001)
Women Lawyers: Justice Is Blind. Also, a Lady. (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, Apr. 1, 2001)
All-Purpose Official Visits (By BRUCE McCALL, Apr. 1, 2001)
Milosevic Is Accused, but All of Serbia Is on Trial (By BLAINE HARDEN, Apr. 1, 2001)
* Second-Story Jobs ["The Wind Done Gone"] (By JAY JENNINGS, Apr. 1, 2001)
A Killer Economy [mad cow disease] (By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 1, 2001)
One Political Constant [campaign finance] (By MICHAEL KAZIN, Apr. 1, 2001)
Most-Wanted Fugitive Is Arrested [James Charles Kopp] (By COREY KILGANNON, Apr. 1, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 1, 2001)
The Making of the President, 2000 (By GARRY WILLS, Apr. 1, 2001)
Worth More Than It Costs [Madam C. J. Walker] (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Apr. 1, 2001)
BOOX: A Comic [Hillary Clinton] (By MARK ALAN STAMATY, Apr. 1, 2001)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 1, 2001)
ART: Steve Martin's Lifelong Education in Art (By STEVE MARTIN, Apr. 1, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: Swiss Architects, Designers of Tate Modern, Win Pritzker Prize (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Apr. 1, 2001)
MUSIC: Composers Emerging From China's Grim Revolution (By SHEILA MELVIN & JINDONG CAI, Apr. 1, 2001)
MUSIC: The Sound of New Music Is Often Chinese (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Apr. 1, 2001)
LIVING: Split the Check: New York's Free Lunch Is Gone (By RACHEL LEHMANN-HAUPT, Apr. 1, 2001)
The Uncrimped Lifestyles of the Rich and Feckless (By RICK MARIN, Apr. 1, 2001)
FASHION: On the Street: Paris, ŕ la Mode (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Apr. 1, 2001)
FASHION: A Shopping Spree in a War Chest of Military Wear (By RUTH LA FERLA, Apr. 1, 2001)
VOWS: Karen Palmer and Stephen McCain (By STEPHAN TALTY, Apr. 1, 2001)
Last Call for Silicon Alley's Famous Wingdings (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Apr. 1, 2001)
VIEW: This Just In: Celebrities Are a Breed Apart (By NANCY HASS, Apr. 1, 2001)
* The Hyphen Is Dead; Viva the Asterisk (NY TIMES, Apr. 1, 2001)
Playing Chess With Larry Johnson: Competition in a Seated Position (By JOHN LELAND, Apr. 1, 2001)
A Night Out With Ilona Rich: Lovely Frou and Frou (By LINDA LEEBy, Apr. 1, 2001)
* On Language: No 'Way' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 1, 2001)
Paperback Music: One Solution to the MP3 Debate (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 1, 2001)
Questions for Anne Robinson, Host of 'The Weakest Link' (By DAVID RAKOFF, Apr. 1, 2001)
The Ethicist: Design Flaw (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 1, 2001)
Process: Making a Movie Trailer (By TED DEMME, Apr. 1, 2001)
* PHENOMENON: Tai Chi Time (By DANYA REICH, Apr. 1, 2001)
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING: Trina Clark a k a Thunda, West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 5, 2000
(Photograph by EDWARD KEATING Interview by CATHERINE ST. LOUIS, Apr. 1, 2001)
What Did the C.I.A. Do to Eric Olson's Father? (By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, Apr. 1, 2001)
The Long Road From Sudan to America (By SARA CORBETT, Apr. 1, 2001)
Faith-Based Discrimination: The Case of Alicia Pedreira (By EYAL PRESS, Apr. 1, 2001)
15-Year-Old Charlotte Church: The Major Minor (By JONATHAN VAN METER, Apr. 1, 2001)
LIVES: Long Shot (JULIA FOURNIER, as told to ALIX SPIEGEL, Apr. 1, 2001)
STYLE: Baby Grand Hotel (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Styled by PILAR VILADAS, Apr. 1, 2001)
SCIENCE: Astronauts Say Millionaire Tourist Is Welcome (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 1, 2001)
HEALTH: So, the Tumor Is on the Left, Right? (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Apr. 1, 2001)