New York Times: April 2005

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Selected Articles from The New York Times—
April 2005
(* denotes news of special interest)

Saturday, April 30, 2005:
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)

* WORLD: Abduction, Often Violent, a Kyrgyz Wedding Rite (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 30, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: The Lord God Bird [ivory-billed woodpecker] (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Swindler on a Gusher (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 30, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bush as Robin Hood (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 30, 2005)
* OP-ED: The Pope Without a Country [Pope Benedict XVI] (By MARTIN MOSEBACH, Apr. 30, 2005)
OP-ED: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree (By SUSAN FREINKEL, Apr. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: Bush Makes His Pitch to the Nation (6 Letters) (By Rachel Galperin, et. al., Apr. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (2 Letters) (By Alex Rosenzweig, et. al., Apr. 30, 2005)
* Scientists Say Red Speck Is Indeed Huge New Planet (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 30, 2005)

Friday, April 29, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Bush Speech Fuels Capitol Debate Over Social Security's Future (By DAVID STOUT, Apr. 29, 2005)
WORLD: China Warmly Welcomes Taiwan Opposition Leader (By JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 29, 2005)
Rebels Respond to New Iraqi Coalition With Wave of Attacks (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & ROBERT F. WORTH, Apr. 29, 2005)
BASEBALL: The Secret to Self-Confidence: Mets' Floyd Does It by the Book (By LEE JENKINS, Apr. 29, 2005)
FOOTBALL: Flutie Visits Giants, Along With Shockey (By, Apr. 29, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Strange Pleasure of Upgrading Software (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 29, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: 'What, Me Worry?' [American high schools] (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 29, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Private Obsession [Health care] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 29, 2005)
* OP-ED: Thirty Years at 300 Millimeters (By HUBERT VAN ES, Apr. 29, 2005)
LETTERS: Drawing Nude Models (By Christine Matheu, Apr. 29, 2005)
BUSINESS: Hints of Revaluation Emerge as China's Currency Briefly Floats (By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 29, 2005)
* ART: Rock, Paper, Payoff: Child's Play Wins Auction House an Art Sale (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 29, 2005)
* FILM: 'THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY':
The Way the World Ends, With a Shrug and a Smile (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Apr. 29, 2005)
FILM: 'THE HOLY GIRL': At a Hotel Where Desire and Shame Intersect (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 29, 2005)
FILM: '3-IRON': A Man Breaks Into Houses to Fill Them Up With Life (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 29, 2005)
FILM: XXX: STATE OF THE UNION': Ensuring National Security With Guns and Vixens (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Apr. 29, 2005)
SCIENCE: NASA Delays First Launch Since Columbia Until July (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 29, 2005)
* HEALTH: Study Aside, Fat-Fighting Industry Continues Mission (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 29, 2005)

Thursday, April 28, 2005:
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)

WORLD: Pope, Reviving Weekly Audience, Stresses Europe's Christian Roots (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 28, 2005)
BASEBALL: Schilling Injures Ankle, and Piniella's Feelings (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 28, 2005)
ANGELS 5, YANKEES 1: Mussina Is Tattooed by the Angels (By DAVE CALDWELL, Apr. 28, 2005)
EDITORIAL: THE CITY LIFE: Grass Is for Experts. Don't Try It at Home. (By BRENT STAPLE, Apr. 28, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Mourning Mother Russia (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 28, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: On Abu Ghraib, the Big Shots Walk (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 28, 2005)
* OP-ED: China's Selective Memory (By PU ZHIQIANG, Apr. 28, 2005)
OP-ED: Howard Johnson's, Adieu (By Jacques Pépin, Apr. 28, 2005)
LETTERS: What's Good for Chile's Retirees...? (5 Letters) (By Daniel Pilowsky, et. al., Apr. 28, 2005)
LETTERS: Revive 'Pleasantly Plump' (2 Letters) (By Jessica Trenholme Revelas, et. al., Apr. 28, 2005)
BUSINESS: Wireless and Broadband Lift Verizon Profit by 47% (By KEN BELSON, Apr. 28, 2005)
* SMALL BUSINESS: They May Be Mundane, but Low-Tech Businesses Are Booming (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Apr. 28, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Psst! Want Internet Phone Service? (By KEN BELSON, Apr. 28, 2005)
ART: At the Auction Houses, Snapshots of a Market (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 28, 2005)
* BOOKS: Attention, Shoppers: Sale on Fresh Books in Aisle 3 (By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 28, 2005)
BOOKS: CAPTAIN ALATRISTE': Have Sword, Will Travel: A Spanish Hero for Hire
(By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 28, 2005)
DANCE: Leaping a Generation Gap to Revive a Robbins Ballet (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 28, 2005)
MUSIC: Fade-Out: New Rock Is Passé on Radio (By JEFF LEEDS, Apr. 28, 2005)
* STYLE: The Tao of Skinny-Dipping (By DANA VACHON, Apr. 28, 2005)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 28, 2005)
* Combating Gadget Theft (By JOHANNA JAINCHILL, Apr. 28, 2005)
* DAVID POGUE: From Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 28, 2005)
Wireless Net Connections for the Roaming Laptop (IVAN BERGER, Apr. 28, 2005)
Like Your Home Movies? More Power to You (JOHN BIGGS, Apr. 28, 2005)
A Camcorder With a Hat Trick: Three Sensors for Rich Color (JOHN BIGGS, Apr. 28, 2005)
Coming Soon, High Definition for Video Gamers (ERIC A. TAUB, Apr. 28, 2005)
Remember Where You Looked (Even if You Didn't Find It) (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Apr. 28, 2005)
Some Computer Finders, and Their Fees (JOHANNA JAINCHILL, Apr. 28, 2005)
* Q & A: Updating Software When It Asks Nicely [CD-R & CD-RW Recording] (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Apr. 28, 2005)
HEALTH: Studies Cast Doubt on Use of Calcium in Some Cases (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 28, 2005)

Wednesday, April 27, 2005:
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)

Eduardo Paolozzi, a Leading British Pop Artist, Is Dead at 81 (By KEN JOHNSON, Apr. 27, 2005)
NATIONAL: White House Firm on Bolton Despite Inquiry (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Apr. 27, 2005)
WORLD: State-Run Chinese Paper Lashes Anti-Japan Protests as 'Evil Plot' (By JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 27, 2005)
Japanese Rethink Trains After Deadly Crash [95+ killed, 450+ injured] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 27, 2005)
BASEBALL: It's Ouch Before Beauty as Wells Goes on the D.L. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 27, 2005)
* YANKEES 12, ANGELS 4: A Magic Number by Rodriguez: 10 R.B.I. (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 27, 2005)
BRAVES 4, METS 3: First Inning Proves to Be Mart�nez's Undoing (By, Apr. 27, 2005)
A.L. ROUNDUP: Twins' Santana Adds To Victory Streak [17 wins] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 27, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Losing Ground in Iraq (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: U.N.leash Woolly Bully Bolton (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 27, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Best Man for the U.N. (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: Up, Down or Out (By BOB DOLE, Apr. 27, 2005)
* OP-ED: When the Dollar Bill Comes Due (By CATHERINE L. MANN and KATHARINA PL�CK, Apr. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: For Lack of Armor, Marines Died (7 Letters) (By Laure Dunne, et. al., Apr. 27, 2005)
The New Pope: Call Him Complex (4 Letters) (Gene Fairfield, Apr. 27, 2005)
BUSINESS: Amazon's Net Income Falls Despite a 24% Revenue Rise (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 27, 2005)
Largest Passenger Jet Ever Completes Maiden Flight [Airbus 380] (By DON PHILLIPS, Apr. 27, 2005)
* Celera to Quit Selling Genome Information (By ANDREW POLLACK, Apr. 27, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Open Wallets for Open-Source Software (By GARY RIVLIN, Apr. 27, 2005)
ART: A Museum Visionary Envisions More (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 27, 2005)
ART CRITIC: Art That Puts You in the Picture, Like It or Not (By SARAH BOXER, Apr. 27, 2005)
BOOKS: HarperCollins Plans to Publish Reagan's Diary (By NAT IVES, Apr. 27, 2005)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: A Quixotic Man of 1,000 Poses, Each From His Own Script [Picasso]
(By KEN JOHNSON, Apr. 27, 2005)
TV: 'THE TRAITOR': When Justice Runs Amok (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 27, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2005)
* FOOD: By Cheese Possessed (By DANA BOWEN, Apr. 27, 2005)
Tourists at Market to Look Crowd Those Who Cook (By KIM SEVERSON, Apr. 27, 2005)
THE MINIMALIST VS. THE CHEF: Two Cooks, Bringing Order Out of Ducks and Chaos
(By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 27, 2005)
DINING: A Lunchtime Institution Set to Overstuff Its Last Po' Boy (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Apr. 27, 2005)
FOOD STUFF: For a Caterer, an Updated Cafe and a New Client (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Apr. 27, 2005)
* SCIENCE: 5 With Dogs Reach Pole, Beating Peary's Pace (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 27, 2005)
HEALTH: Group of Scientists Drafts Rules on Ethics for Stem Cell Research (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 27, 2005)

Tuesday, April 26, 2005:
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)

SPORTS: Chord Dykstra Struck Was Often Off-Key (By GEORGE VECSEY, Apr. 26, 2005)
* BASEBALL: For Suzuki, Hits Keep On Coming (By BOB SHERWIN, Apr. 26, 2005)
SPORTS: 10 QUESTIONS FOR... Michael Lewis (NY TIMES, Apr. 26, 2005)
EDITORIAL: An End to the Enterprise ["Star Trek"] (NY TIMES, Apr. 26, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: N. Korea, 6, and Bush, 0 (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 26, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Proof's in the Pension (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 26, 2005)
* OP-ED: Terror in the Past And Future Tense (By ROBERT WRIGHT, Apr. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: Two Hues, One Heart (3 Letters) (By William Hindson, et. al., Apr. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: Stage Left, Stage Right (Your Ad Here) (3 Letters) (By M. Henri Day, et. al., Apr. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: Eat! Be Happy! (2 Letters) (By Linda LaScola, Apr. 26, 2005)
ARTS: The Mystery of Hollywood's Dead Republican [Carrie Fisher] (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & DENNIS McDOUGAL, Apr. 26, 2005)
ARTS: Morgan Library Plans a Makeover and an Image Upgrade (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 26, 2005)
ARTS: France's New Look at Brazil's Indians (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 26, 2005)
* BOOKS: 'FOLLIES': Grown-Ups Who Scan Landscapes of Memory (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Apr. 26, 2005)
BOOKS: The Novelist Who Was Also a Spy, or Not (By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH, Apr. 26, 2005)
THEATER: 'PRIVILEGE': Daddy's Rich (Mama's Good Looking) and Trouble's an Insider Trade Away
(By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Apr. 26, 2005)
TV: On TV, Reality Loves a Villain (By KATE AURTHUR, Apr. 26, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 26, 2005)
* SCIENCE:Itty-Bitty and Shrinking, Fusion Device Has Big Ideas (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 26, 2005)
Tiny, Plentiful and Really Hard to Catch (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 26, 2005)
SCIENTIST AT WORK: JEREMY JACKSON: About the Oceans, He Says Firmly, Attention Must Be Paid
(By CORNELIA DEAN, Apr. 26, 2005)
Making the Universe a Little Closer and Brighter (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 26, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Can't See the Pigeon for the Feathers (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 26, 2005)
Pollution Risk Is Found on Diesel School Buses (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 26, 2005)
Prospect of a Mine Near a Salmon Fishery Stirs Worry in Alaska (By LISA W. DREW, Apr. 26, 2005)
* Q & A: That Numbing Feeling (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 26, 2005)
HEALTH: Mysterious Viruses as Bad as They Get (By DENISE GRADY, Apr. 26, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Can Bob Dole Save Your Life? Ask Your Doctor (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 26, 2005)
REALLY?: The Claim: Aluminum in Antiperspirants Causes Alzheimer's Disease
(By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 26, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Testing: Consent Forms in Plain English (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 26, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Artery Cleanup Misses Its Mark (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 26, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Diagnosis: Setting Epilepsy Record Straight (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 26, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Safety: Impaired Driving on the Rise (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 26, 2005)
To Pull or Not to Pull? Wisdom Teeth in Trouble (By IRENE M. WIELAWSKI, Apr. 26, 2005)
* Disconnecting Phones and Tumors (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 26, 2005)
CASES: Far From the Medical Trenches, It's O.K. to Laugh (By LARRY ZAROFF, M.D., Apr. 26, 2005)
BEHAVIOR: Mix Math and Medicine and Create Confusion (By RICHARD FRIEDMAN, M.D., Apr. 26, 2005)
Hibernating Mice May Someday Save Humans (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 26, 2005)
* ESSAY: A Healing Journey, From Harvard to the Homeless Shelters (By CHARLES BARBER, Apr. 26, 2005)

Monday, April 25, 2005:
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)

* Sir John Mills, Actor Who Played the English 'Everyman,' Is Dead at 97 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Apr. 25, 2005)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Through 7 Presidents, Thousands of Bulbs and a Few Dogs, the Keeper of the Trowel
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Apr. 25, 2005)
WORLD: A Hundred Cellphones Bloom, and Chinese Take to the Streets (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 25, 2005)
Benedict XVI Is Installed as 265th Pope at Outdoor Mass (By IAN FISHER & LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 25, 2005)
THE STUDENTS: In Seminary Halls, All Eyes Are on the Newest Pontiff (By MONICA DAVEY, Apr. 25, 2005)
THE COMPANY | SIX MONTHS IN RAMADI: Bloodied Marines Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men
(By MICHAEL MOSS, Apr. 25, 2005)
NY REGION: Dreams, Hunches and 600-to-1 Keep the Numbers Game Going (By MICHAEL BRICK, Apr. 25, 2005)
* Half-Empty Hospitals in a Shrinking City [Buffalo] (By LISA W. FODERARO, Apr. 25, 2005)
Transit News Is a Click Away, and About 5 Years Behind Schedule (By SEWELL CHAN, Apr. 25, 2005)
For New York's Bagel Shops, Passover Week Is No Festival (By ERIC DASH, Apr. 25, 2005)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By Joe Rogers, Apr. 25, 2005)
SPORTS: Johnson Can't Afford to Say 'It's Only April' (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Apr. 25, 2005)
YANKEES 11, RANGERS 1: Johnson and Yanks Try New Routine (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 25, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Agony of War (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 25, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Oblivious Right (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 25, 2005)
OP-ED: A Road Runs Through Tara (By COLM TOIBIN, Apr. 25, 2005)
* BUSINESS: The Feng Shui Kingdom [Hong Kong Disneyland] (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Apr. 25, 2005)
Indian Tribes Investing, but Carefully, in Hollywood (By JAMES ULMER, Apr. 25, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: The Matrix Ever-Loaded: Online Game for the Committed (By ROBERT LEVINE, Apr. 25, 2005)
ARTS: CONNECTIONS: Shall I Compare Thee to the King's Library? (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 25, 2005)
DANCE: 'FRESH TRACKS': Battling the Self and Others in Showcase of Struggles (By JACK ANDERSON, Apr. 25, 2005)
* TV: THE TV WATCH: 'Today' Seeks Yesterday's Glory [Katie Couric] (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 25, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Improved Scanning Technique Uses Brain as Portal to Thought (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 25, 2005)
SCIENCE: LETTER FROM CLEAR LAKE: Astronauts at the Mall, and Rocket Scientists at the Bar
(By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Apr. 25, 2005)

Sunday, April 24, 2005:
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)

Ezer Weizman, Former President of Israel, Dies at 80 (By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr. & GREG MYRE, Apr. 24, 2005)
NATIONAL: Storm Dumps Snow in the Midwest (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 24, 2005)
WORLD: At Installation Mass, New Pope Strikes a Tone of Openness
(By IAN FISHER & LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 24, 2005)
Turbulence on Campus in 60's Hardened Views of Future Pope
(By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, DANIEL J. WAKIN & MARK LANDLER, Apr. 24, 2005)
21 Iraqis Killed in Attacks in Tikrit and Baghdad (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Apr. 24, 2005)
China and Japan Leaders Pledge to Improve Relations
(By RAYMOND BONNER & NORIMITSU ONISHI, Apr. 24, 2005)
Sousa? Many Students March to Mariachi Instead (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Apr. 24, 2005)
SPORTS: In This Draft, Is There a Hall of Famer? [49ers' Alex Smith] (By DAVE ANDERSON, Apr. 24, 2005)
SPORTS: Very Different Calls to Arms, and Legs, in Round 1 of N.F.L. Draft (By CLIFTON BROWN, Apr. 24, 2005)
FOOTBALL: Top Pick Will Try to Restore 49ers' Old Identity [49ers' Alex Smith] (By PETE THAMEL, Apr. 24, 2005)
YANKEES 11, RANGERS 1: Yankees Bounce Back With a Blowout of Their Own (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 24, 2005)
* KEEPING SCORE: Baseball's Leading Man of Math Has Some Second Thoughts About the Numbers
(By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 24, 2005)
BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: The Dodgers Have Opened by Leaping and Bounding (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 24, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Rethinking Ground Zero (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: A Brief Interruption to a Longstanding Drought in Southwestern Montana
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 24, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time (By FRANK RICH, Apr. 24, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Blacks, Whites and Love (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 24, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Living Longer Is the Best Revenge (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 24, 2005)
* OP-CHART: Pyramids � la Carte (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
OP-ED: New Pope, Same Crisis (By JASON BERRY, Apr. 24, 2005)
BUSINESS: The Ties That Bind at Morgan Stanley (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Apr. 24, 2005)
MCI Backs Qwest Over Verizon (By KEN BELSON and MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 24, 2005)
Do Families and Big Business Mix? (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Apr. 24, 2005)
* INVESTING: Are Technology Stocks About to Lose the Blues? (By NORM ALSTER, Apr. 24, 2005)
EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS: When Wall Street Frets, It's a Good Time to Buy (By BEN STEIN, Apr. 24, 2005)
* SUNDAY INTERVIEW: C.E.O., If Not the Star [Susan Lyne & Martha Stewart] (By LAURA RICH, Apr. 24, 2005)
THE GOODS: A Classic Game Gets a Jedi Makeover (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Apr. 24, 2005)
* Television Is Changing. Can Any Magazine Keep Up? (By JOHN MOTAVALLI, Apr. 24, 2005)
* THE BOSS: The Value of Humility [Erroll B. Davis Jr., CEO Alliant Energy] (As told to EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Apr. 24, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
ART DIRECTIONS | ARCHITECTURE: Falling Because of Water (By JOSEPH GIOVANNINI, Apr. 24, 2005)
DANCE: O.K., Great, Just Hold That Pose and Smile (By ERIKA KINETZ, Apr. 24, 2005)
* FILM: Hollywood's New Old Girls' Network (By NANCY HASS, Apr. 24, 2005)
* FILM: The Crusades as a Lesson in Harmony? (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 24, 2005)
FILM: The Wild Child of French Cinema [Isild Le Besco] (By LESLIE CAMHI, Apr. 24, 2005)
FILM: The Unreal Road From Toontown to 'Sin City' (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 24, 2005)
MUSIC: Bruce Almighty [Bruce Springsteen] (By JON PARELES, Apr. 24, 2005)
MUSIC CLASSICAL RECORDINGS: For Meditating or Just Listening (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 24, 2005)
TV: CHANNELING: Why Is This Night Different? It Rocks (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Apr. 24, 2005)
FASHION: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
STYLE: When You Contain Multitudes (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Apr. 24, 2005)
The Irish Patient and Dr. Lawsuit (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Apr. 24, 2005)
The Cry of the Sandal Is Heard in Our Land (By RUTH LA FERLA, Apr. 24, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: Elvis and My Husband Have Left the Building (By LIZA MONROY, Apr. 24, 2005)
VOWS: Gwen Parker and Eugene Mazo (By JACQUELINE SAVAIANO, Apr. 24, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
Thailand: After the Tsunami, Rebuilding Paradise (By SETH MYDANS, Apr. 24, 2005)
In Sri Lanka, Suffering and Hope (By AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Apr. 24, 2005)
Cambodia: In Cambodia, Sleepy Kampot Slowly Reawakens (By MATT GROSS, Apr. 24, 2005)
GOING TO Ho Chi Minh City (By MATT GROSS, Apr. 24, 2005)
* FORAGING: Following Fads in Tokyo (By ALICE DuBOIS, Apr. 24, 2005)
* China: The Natural and the Sacred in China (By CONNIE ROGERS, Apr. 24, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
Crossing Cardinal Nein (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 24, 2005)
* You're a Mean One, Mr. Smith [John Adams] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 24, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Dog Whistle (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 24, 2005)
QUESTIONS FOR KEN FERREE: Recasting PBS? (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 24, 2005)
* PHENOMENON: Our Teenage Heroine at 75 (By MELANIE REHAK, Apr. 24, 2005)
* THE SECURITY ADVISER: You've Been Sold (By RICHARD A. CLARKE, Apr. 24, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: Absolutely, Power Corrupts [Oakland's minor-league baseball players]
(By MICHAEL LEWIS, Apr. 24, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2005)
* THE BOOK BUSINESS: How to Be Your Own Publisher (By SARAH GLAZER, Apr. 24, 2005)

Saturday, April 23, 2005:
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)

OP-ED COLUMNIST: Uncle Dick and Papa (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 23, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Fat and Happy (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 23, 2005)
* OP-ART: LOST AND FOUND NEW YORK: Happy Birthday, Chrysler Building (By JAMES STEVENSON, Apr. 23, 2005)
* LETTERS: Vital at 50: Does Lifestyle Matter? (5 Letters) (By Amy Farmer, et. al., Apr. 23, 2005)
ARTS: An Architect Embraces New York [Santiago Calatrava] (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 23, 2005)

Friday, April 22, 2005:
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)

James A. Houston, Writer on Eskimo Life, Dies at 83 (By MARGALIT FOX, Apr. 22, 2005)
WORLD: China to Curb Protests in Conciliatory Nod to Japan (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 22, 2005)
SPORTS: Yankees' Pitching Is Missing the Target (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 22, 2005)
METS 10, MARLINS 1: Traveling Mart�nez Show Is a Big Hit (By LEE JENKINS, Apr. 22, 2005)
EDITORIAL: You Can Be Too Thin, After All (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Passing the Buck (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 22, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Sizzle, Yes, but Beef, Too (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 22, 2005)
* OP-ART: Highlights From the Conclave (By KARL GUDE, Apr. 22, 2005)
OP-ED: When Nature Assaults Itself (By ALAN BURDICK, Apr. 22, 2005)
OP-ED: Private Accounts, Public Accountability (By MARTIN MAYER, Apr. 22, 2005)
* LETTERS: Accessible Identity Files (By Charles T. Pinck, Apr. 22, 2005)
ART: 'GEORGE CATLIN AND HIS INDIAN GALLERY': Witness to a Dying Way of Tribal Life
(By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 22, 2005)
PHOTOGRAPHY: From Every Angle, a Rising Revolution (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 22, 2005)
TV: 'LOCUSTS': It's a Plague of Network Proportions (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 22, 2005)

Thursday, April 21, 2005:
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)

EDITORIAL: Blame China? (NY TIMES, Apr. 21, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Roe's Birth, and Death (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 21, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: For Marla, No Sacrifice Too Great (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 21, 2005)
OP-ED: War Isn't Fought in the Headlines (By THOMAS X. HAMMES, Apr. 21, 2005)
* LETTERS: Where Will Pope Benedict Lead the Church? (11 Letters) (By John D. Pepe, et. al., Apr. 21, 2005)
LETTERS: Teenage Culture (2 Letters) (By Edward Kelleher, et. al., Apr. 21, 2005)

Wednesday, April 20, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Sept. 11 Suspect May Be Set to Admit Guilt (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Apr. 20, 2005)
* WORLD: Benedict XVI, 78, Was John Paul II's Strict Defender of the Faith (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 20, 2005)
* A Theological Visionary With Roots in Wartime Germany (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 20, 2005)
Chinese Official Orders End to Anti-Japanese Demonstrations (By JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 20, 2005)
SPORTS: A Slow-Speed Chase to N.F.L. [Utah's Alex Smith] (By PETE THAMEL, Apr. 20, 2005)
DEVIL RAYS 6, YANKEES 2: Last Place Is Where the Yankees Are (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 20, 2005)
FOOTBALL: Make Pick, Pay Pick, or Else Trade the Pick (By CLIFTON BROWN, Apr. 20, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The New Pope (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Smoke Gets in Our News (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 20, 2005)
OP-ED: Rome's Radical Conservative (By MICHAEL NOVAK, Apr. 20, 2005)
BUSINESS: Intel Profit Up Sharply on Demand for Chips (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 20, 2005)
FILM: How to Make a Movie About 9/11? Carefully (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Apr. 20, 2005)
TV: 'RING OF FIRE': A Death in the Ring, but Writers Wax On (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 20, 2005)
HEALTH: Some Extra Heft May Be Helpful, New Study Says (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 20, 2005)

Tuesday, April 19, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Pharmacies Balk on After-Sex Pill and Widen Fight in Many States
(By MONICA DAVEY & PAM BELLUCK, Apr. 19, 2005)
SPORTS: Red Sox Approve Contract Extension for Wakefield (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2005)
* MARKET PLACE: American Standard Flushes 24 Golf Balls to Test New Kind of Toilet
(By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Apr. 19, 2005)
ARTS: Do You Speak Tho Fan? It's All the Rage in Jade Empire (By STEPHEN TOTILO, Apr. 19, 2005)
* SCIENCE: A Philanthropist of Science Seeks to Be Its Next Nobel (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 19, 2005)
* A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID WONG: A Bloodless Revolution: Spit Will Tell What Ails You
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Apr. 19, 2005)
* Pop Star Secrets Revealed! [popcorn kernels] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 19, 2005)
* What Leonardo Could Have Done With a CAT Scan (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 19, 2005)
OBSERVATORY: Eternal Sunshine of the Lunar Kind (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 19, 2005)
* At One Trillion Degrees, Even Gold Turns Into the Sloshiest Liquid (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 19, 2005)
* Q & A: Fish Oil Capsules (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 19, 2005)
* HEALTH: Married With Problems? Therapy May Not Help (By SUSAN GILBERT, Apr. 19, 2005)
One-Size-Fits-All Food Pyramid Is Replaced (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2005)
* THE CONSUMER: An Appetite Killer for a Killer Appetite? Not Yet (By MARY DUENWALD, Apr. 19, 2005)
* ESSAY: Hope and Reality Lou Gehrig's Way (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Apr. 19, 2005)
* As America Gets Bigger, the World Does, Too (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 19, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Stretch Yourself (Your Joints and Muscles, Too) (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 19, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Adolescence: Forecasting Gains Among Girls (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 19, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Therapy: Lighting Up a Life, Literally (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 19, 2005)
* SIDE EFFECTS: Laugh Your Way to Good Health and a Longer Life (By JAMES GORMAN, Apr. 19, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Grilled Meat Causes Cancer (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 19, 2005)
* Vitamin E Fails to Stop Progress of Alzheimer's (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 19, 2005)
HEALTH: Divorce Rate: It's Not as High as You Think (By DAN HURLEY, Apr. 19, 2005)

Monday, April 18, 2005:
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)

* TECHNOLOGY: It's Moore's Law, but Another Had the Idea First [Douglas Engelbart]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 18, 2005)

Saturday, April 16, 2005:
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)

Ida Libby Dengrove, 86, Portraitist of the Courtroom, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 16, 2005)
Don Blasingame, Veteran Infielder, Dies at 73 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 16, 2005)
NATIONAL: Cracks in Brakes Prompt Amtrak to Halt Acelas (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Apr. 16, 2005)
Slow DNA Trail Leads to Suspect in Cape Cod Case (By PAM BELLUCK, Apr. 16, 2005)
Accuser's Mother Trades Barbs With Jackson Lawyer (By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 16, 2005)
A Champ in the City of Coffees (By ELI SANDERS, Apr. 16, 2005)
Report on Schiavo Finds No Abuse (By BENEDICT CAREY, Apr. 16, 2005)
RELIGION JOURNAL: Feminist Seders Reach the Promised Land (By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN, Apr. 16, 2005)
WORLD: Italians Feel They Need the Next Papacy for Themselves (By JASON HOROWITZ, Apr. 16, 2005)
Security vs. Rebuilding: Kurdish Town Loses Out (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 16, 2005)
COMING OF AGE: For 3 Girls and Their Nation, Sober Parallels [Germany] (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Apr. 16, 2005)
Thousands Rally in Shanghai, Attacking Japanese Consulate (By HOWARD W. FRENCH & JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 16, 2005)
SPORTS: Sheffield to Protest if He's Disciplined (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 16, 2005)
METS 4, MARLINS: Mets Win Sixth Straight (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 16, 2005)
BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Cardinals Defeat $38.5 Million Man (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 16, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Bill Frist's Religious War (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: On a Sunday Afternoon, Life Comes to a Standstill at the Local Carwash
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 16, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: F.D.R.'s 'Gorgeous Hussy' (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 16, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Miracle That Wasn't (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 16, 2005)
OP-ED: Who Was Afraid of Andrea Dworkin? (By CATHARINE A. MacKINNON, Apr. 16, 2005)
* OP-ED: Take This Quiz and Call Me in the Morning (By JOHN KENNEY, Apr. 16, 2005)
* OP-ED: Happy Birthday, Nikita Khrushchev! (By NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA, Apr. 16, 2005)
Pains of the Chest, and the Wallet (3 Letters) (By Jeffrey A. Buckner, M.D., et. al., Apr. 16, 2005)
BUSINESS: Stocks Plunge to Lowest Point Since Election
[Dow -191.24, Nasdaq -38.56] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Apr. 16, 2005)
BUSINESS: China's Problem With 'Anti-Pest' Rice (By DAVID BARBOZA, Apr. 16, 2005)
A Deal for Jet Fighters Opens the Door to India (By LESLIE WAYNE, Apr. 16, 2005)
* MARKET PLACE: Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping Itself Up (By STEVE LOHR, Apr. 16, 2005)
* BOOKS: E. E. Cummings Scholar Is Accused of Plagiarism (By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 16, 2005)
* SCIENCE: In a Record Season, Butterflies Wing It (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Apr. 16, 2005)

Friday, April 15, 2005:
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)

André François Is Dead at 89; Illustrator With Biting Satire (By STEVEN HELLER, Apr. 15, 2005)
Philip Pavia, 94, an Avant-Garde Sculptor, Is Dead (By BEN SISARIO, Apr. 15, 2005)
Kay Gardella, 82, Daily News TV Critic, Dies (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2005)
NATIONAL: A Trail of Pain From a Botched Attack in Iraq in 2003 (By JAMES DAO, Apr. 15, 2005)
NATIONAL: Over 10,000 Are Arrested in Dragnet (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Apr. 15, 2005)
After Three Years, Arrest Is Made in Death of Cape Cod Writer (By PAM BELLUCK, Apr. 15, 2005)
Frist Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial Issue (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 15, 2005)
NATIONAL: New Look at N.F.L. Star's War Death (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 15, 2005)
* EDUCATION: For Women in Sciences, Slow Progress in Academia (By SARA RIMER, Apr. 15, 2005)
WORLD: At Least 20 Die in Paris Hotel Fire (By ARIANE BERNARD, Apr. 15, 2005)
19 Iraqis Killed and 60 Hurt by Cars Bombs and Gunfire (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Apr. 15, 2005)
CARACAS JOURNAL: A Bevy of Teeny Beauties, Minds Set on Being Queens (By JUAN FORERO, Apr. 15, 2005)
WORLD: Beijing Moves to Rein In Anti-Japan Protests (By JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 15, 2005)
NY REGION: Queens Hospitals Learn Many Ways to Say 'Ah' (By COREY KILGANNON, Apr. 15, 2005)
SPORTS: False Report May Have Affected N.F.L. Draft Pick's Status (By CLIFTON BROWN, Apr. 15, 2005)
RED SOX 8, YANKEES 5: Red Sox, and Fans, Batter Yankees (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 15, 2005)
* SPORTS: A Touch of Advice Under Their Hats Could Help Yanks (By SELENA ROBERTS, Apr. 15, 2005)
SPORTS: Baseball Urged to Fight Steroids in Latin America (By DAVID PICKER, Apr. 15, 2005)
SPORTS: Standing Up After Fearing Standing Out (By JULIET MACUR, Apr. 15, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Identity Thieves' Secret Weapon (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Giving and Taking Away (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2005)
EDITORIAL: A State on the Verge of Failure [Nepal] (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Medical Money Pit (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 15, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bush Disarms, Unilaterally (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 15, 2005)
OP-ED: Hurts So Good [income tax software] (By JOSEPH J. THORNDIKE, Apr. 15, 2005)
* OP-ED: Happy Returns [John D. Rockefeller's taxes] (By PETER DOBKIN HALL, Apr. 15, 2005)
* LETTERS: Theories of Terror: The Pause After 9/11 (5 Letters) (By Bruce Blosil, et. al., Apr. 15, 2005)
* LETTERS: My Mother and Her Nursing Home (4 Letters) (By Sam Goodyear, et. al., Apr. 15, 2005)
LETTERS: What Journalists Can Do to Regain Trust (Contd.) (3 Letters) (By Aaron Frucher, et. al., Apr. 15, 2005)
LETTERS: Controversy at Columbia (By William G. Bowen, Apr. 15, 2005)
BUSINESS: Stocks Hit New Lows for Year Amid Fear of Slowdown
[Dow -191.24, Nasdaq -38.56] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Apr. 15, 2005)
I.B.M. Report on Earnings Sends Shares Sharply Down (By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 15, 2005)
* Atlantic Monthly Leaving Boston in Move to Washington (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and DAVID CARR, Apr. 15, 2005)
* ART: Probing Fringes, Finding Stars [ Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham] (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 15, 2005)
* ARCHITECTURE: WALKER ART CENTER: An Expansion Gives New Life to an Old Box
(By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Apr. 15, 2005)
* BOOKS: 'THE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS': The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New? (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Apr. 15, 2005)
* BOOKS: Sendak in All His Wild Glory (By JULIE SALAMON, Apr. 15, 2005)
DANCE: TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY: The Evolution of Intelligent Design
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Apr. 15, 2005)
* MUSIC CRITIC: This Is the Sound of Globalization (By JON PARELES, Apr. 15, 2005)
THEATER CRITIC: A Haunting Play Resounds Far Beyond the Stage (By CARYN JAMES, Apr. 15, 2005)
TV: 'REEFER MADNESS': Zombies Get the Munchies, Too (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 15, 2005)
TV: Make Way for TV's New Miss Marple, One With Some Romance in Her Past
(By MARILYN STASIO, Apr. 15, 2005)
TV: 'FDR: A PRESIDENCY REVEALED': Portrait of a Leader With Much to Hide
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 15, 2005)
SCIENCE: Propellant Is Loaded on Shuttle in Major Test Before Launching (By STEFANO S. COLEDAN, Apr. 15, 2005)

Thursday, April 14, 2005:
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)

* Chen Yifei, 59, Painter and Entrepreneur, Dies (By DAVID BARBOZA, Apr. 14, 2005)
Johnnie Johnson, 80, Dies; Inspired 'Johnny B. Goode' (By BEN RATLIFF, Apr. 14, 2005)
NATIONAL: Oregon's Supreme Court Rules Gay Marriages Null and Void (By SARAH KERSHAW, Apr. 14, 2005)
WASHINGTON JOURNAL: For Capital's Baseball Fans, Time Is Set to Begin Anew
(By JAMES DAO, Apr. 14, 2005)
WORLD: Rural Chinese Riot as Police Try to Halt Pollution Protest (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 14, 2005)
ISCHGL JOURNAL: Nation That Once Drew Guest Workers Now Sends Them (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Apr. 14, 2005)
* NY REGION: One Millionaire's Strange Cry: Tickets, Please! (By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI, Apr. 14, 2005)
* NY REGION: For Betrayal by Swiss Bank and Nazis, $21 Million (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Apr. 14, 2005)
NY REGION: School Pools, Now Dry Storage (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Apr. 14, 2005)
SPORTS: Shea Fans Have a Word to Greet Clemens: Boo (By DAVE ANDERSON, Apr. 14, 2005)
YANKEES 5, RED SOX 2: Yanks Spoil Fenway Fun and Return of Schilling (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 14, 2005)
SPORTS: No Longer the Prom King, Rodriguez Seeks a Role (By SELENA ROBERTS, Apr. 14, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: Brain-Dead From Sports Drinks (NY TIMES, Apr. 14, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Devil We Know on the Island We Love (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Apr. 14, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Loudly, With a Big Stick (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 14, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Haunting of Emile Griffith (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 14, 2005)
OP-ED: The Lion That Will Roar No More (By DAVID THOMSON, Apr. 14, 2005)
LETTERS: The Press in America: Mirror Images (7 Letters) (By John Ombelets, et. al., Apr. 14, 2005)
LETTERS: Books and Hollywood: Views From Two Coasts (2 Letters) (By Jason Anthony, et. al., Apr. 14, 2005)
ART: ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO: New Museum Opens on a Foundation of Modernism
(By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 14, 2005)
* BOOKS: The Papacy: Art Invents What Few Really Know (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Apr. 14, 2005)
BOOKS: A Vixen Cartooning in the Face of Cancer (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Apr. 14, 2005)
BOOKS: 'COMPANY MAN' AND 'OBLIVION': Regular Joes, Both Named Nick and Both in Trouble
(By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 14, 2005)
CABARET: BARBARA COOK: Welcoming Spring, Recalling Old Friends (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 14, 2005)
DANCE: NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE: Reviving and Reinventing an Ancient Art of India
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Apr. 14, 2005)
MUSIC: La Scala Backer Puts Financing in Jeopardy (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 14, 2005)
MUSIC: NY PHILHARMONIC: After the Storm, Muti Directs Attention Elsewhere
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 14, 2005)
MUSIC: In Pursuit of a Total Art, the Paris Opera Adds Video to 'Tristan und Isolde'
(By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 14, 2005)
TV: And Now, a 'Survivor' First: A Tribe With One Member (By KATE AURTHUR, Apr. 14, 2005)
* FASHION: Style Secrets of the Pope's Tailor (By JASON HOROWITZ, Apr. 14, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Using Advanced Physics to Find Concealed Weapons (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Apr. 14, 2005)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 14, 2005)
* DAVID POGUE: Vaults That Let You Store (and Show) Your Photos, and Keep Shooting (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 14, 2005)
* Q & A: Choosing Memory for an Upgrade (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Apr. 14, 2005)
* HEALTH: Study Cautions Runners to Limit Their Water Intake (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 14, 2005)

Wednesday, April 13, 2005:
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)

Jeanne Petrek, Surgeon Known for Cancer Research, Dies at 57 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 13, 2005)
* NATIONAL: Deadly 1957 Strain of Flu Is Found in Lab-Test Kits (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 13, 2005)
NATIONAL: Vermont Considers Lowering Drinking Age to 18 (By PAM BELLUCK, Apr. 13, 2005)
In Deal to Avoid Death Penalty, Bomber Pleads Guilty (By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, Apr. 13, 2005)
WORLD GOVERNMENT: In Jeans or Veils, Iraqi Women Are Split on New Political Power
(By ROBERT F. WORTH, Apr. 13, 2005)
WORLD: Thousands of Chinese Villagers Protest Factory Pollution (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 13, 2005)
* ABOUT NEW YORK: The Boxer, the Beating and the Widow [Benny (Kid) Paret]
(By DAN BARRY, Apr. 13, 2005)
SPORTS: Boston's Arroyo Finds His Pitch as a Singer (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 13, 2005)
BASEBALL: No Slap-Happy Start for Yanks and Rodriguez (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 13, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: The Angels Show How to Make a City Vanish [Anaheim gone] (By MURRAY CHASS, Apr. 13, 2005)
BASEBALL: Talented High School Teammate to Stars Faded Away [Steve Butler]
(By ROBERT ANDREW POWELL, Apr. 13, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Calm Before the Storm? (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 13, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Recline Yourself, Resign Yourself, You're Through (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 13, 2005)
OP-ED: Billions of Promises to Keep (By KOFI A. ANNAN, Apr. 13, 2005)
OP-ED: Research Worth Fighting For (By John M. Deutch and William J. Perry, Apr. 13, 2005)
LETTERS: Flawed Arrests at the Convention (6 Letters) (By Marilyn M. Jerry, et. al., Apr. 13, 2005)
* LETTERS: I Am My Own Server, Porter, Bellhop... (4 Letters) (By Lan T. Nguyen, et. al., Apr. 13, 2005)
BUSINESS: Apple's Quarterly Profit Rises More Than Sixfold (By REUTERS, Apr. 13, 2005)
* Security Breach at LexisNexis Now Appears Larger (By HEATHER TIMMONS, Apr. 13, 2005)
* ARTS: MoMA to Receive Its Largest Cash Gift [David Rockefeller $100 million]
(By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 13, 2005)
ARTS: An Ancient City Becomes More Receptive to Modern Architecture (By JASON HOROWITZ, Apr. 13, 2005)
* BOOKS: Scholar of Judaism, Professional Provocateur [Jacob Neusner] (By DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 13, 2005)
BOOKS: 'STALIN': Searching for the Truth Deep in Stalin's Dark Lair [Robert Service]
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Apr. 13, 2005)
* DANCE: A Dance and Its Digitized Echoes [Trisha Brown] (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Apr. 13, 2005)
MUSIC: JORDI SAVALL: A Viola da Gamba Star in More Ways Than One (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Apr. 13, 2005)
* TV: 'REVELATIONS': End Is Expected, but There's Still Time to Debate Morality
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 13, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 13, 2005)
* THE MINIMALIST VS. THE CHEF: Showdown in the Kitchen (By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 13, 2005)
Greek Chefs Modernize the Classics (By DIANE KOCHILAS, Apr. 13, 2005)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: Sometimes, Fingers Lick Forks (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Apr. 13, 2005)
RESTAURANTS— AMA: Italy's Heel Steps Into the Light (By FRANK BRUNI, Apr. 13, 2005)
Cheese Shop Seeks Better Precautions (By DANA BOWEN, Apr. 13, 2005)
* FOOD: Strawberries and Dreams (By DAVID KARP, Apr. 13, 2005)
HEALTH: Depressed? New York City Screens for People at Risk (By MARC SANTORA & BENEDICT CAREY, Apr. 13, 2005)

Tuesday, April 12, 2005:
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)

Andrea Dworkin, Writer and Crusading Feminist, Dies at 58 (By MARGALIT FOX, Apr. 12, 2005)
NATIONAL: U.S. Indicts 3 Men for Plot Against Financial Targets (By DAVID JOHNSTON & MARIA NEWMAN, Apr. 12, 2005)
U.N. Nominee Is Accused of Bullying Analyst on Intelligence (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Apr. 12, 2005)
EDUCATION: Chalkboards? Try Using Chessboards (By SUSAN SAULNY, Apr. 12, 2005)
WORLD: Cardinals Lobby for Swift Sainthood for John Paul II (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 12, 2005)
* WORLD: India and China Agree to Resolve Decades of Border Disputes (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Apr. 12, 2005)
NY REGION: Yale Ending Its Affiliation With a Church (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Apr. 12, 2005)
* NY REGION: INK: Look. Up in the Air. It's a Bird! No, It's a Space!
[Midtown parking deck: 8th Avenue at 42nd Street] (By GLENN COLLINS, Apr. 12, 2005)
NY REGION: Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest (By JIM DWYER, Apr. 12, 2005)
SPORTS: With Masters Title, Woods Is Holding Grand Possibilities (By DAMON HACK, Apr. 12, 2005)
* RED SOX 8, YANKEES 1: With Rings and Then a Rout, It's a Great Day for the Red Sox
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 12, 2005)
* BASEBALL: Gold Rings, Golden Moments in Golden Sunshine (By BILL FINLEY, Apr. 12, 2005)
BASEBALL: Wakefield Knows Disappointment, and He Likes Victory Better (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 12, 2005)
SPORTS: Overdue Celebration Is Right on Time [Red Sox] (By GEORGE VECSEY, Apr. 12, 2005)
METS 8, ASTROS 4: Billboard Breaks, but for the Mets Signs Look Good (By LEE JENKINS, Apr. 12, 2005)
EDITORIAL: A New Attack on Women's Sports (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The Old Curiosity Mall [Charles Dickens] (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Slap in the Face [jailing journalists] (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 12, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Smart Money [betting on Papal election] (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 12, 2005)
OP-ED More Spies, Worse Intelligence? (By LINDSAY MORAN, Apr. 12, 2005)
LETTERS: Has Nuclear Power's Time Come? (7 Letters) (By Joel Epstein, et. al., Apr. 12, 2005)
* LETTERS: Right and Wrong: It's Not Up to Polls (By Juris Mezinskis, Apr. 12, 2005)
LETTERS: Op-Ed's New Look (2 Letters) (By James R. Haviland & Carol Cardwell, Apr. 12, 2005)
BUSINESS: Trade Deficit Surged to Record $61 Billion in February (By EDUARDO PORTER, Apr. 12, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Ghosts Keep a Marriage Floating [between 95 & 85-year olds] (By JUNE BINGHAM, Apr. 12, 2005)
BUSINESS: Get Ready: Medicare Drug Plan's To-Do List (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 12, 2005)
BUSINESS: Falling Fortunes of Wage Earners (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Apr. 12, 2005)
* ART: '3 X ABSTRACTION': The Modernist vs. the Mystics (By KEN JOHNSON, Apr. 12, 2005)
ARTS, Briefly [Charles and Camilla: The Prequel] (Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 12, 2005)
* BOOKS: Trend-Setting Publisher Plans to Move to and Go Hollywood
[Judith Regan of ReganBooks] (By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 12, 2005)
* BOOKS: Tennessee Williams, Collegiate Poet (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2005)
* BOOKS: 'ONE SOLDIER'S STORY': Dole Tells Hero's Tale in His Own Plain Way
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Apr. 12, 2005)
DANCE: 'BALLET BUILDERS 2005': New Collaborations on Love and Loss on Grandest Scale
(By JACK ANDERSON, Apr. 12, 2005)
MUSIC: A Superstar Returns With Another New Self [Mariah Carey] (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Apr. 12, 2005)
MUSIC: In Restructuring, Sony BMG Introduces Classical Label (By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 12, 2005)
THEATER: 'THE AUDIENCE': Coughers, Kvetchers and Other Stars in the Seats
(By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Apr. 12, 2005)
THEATER: 'PLAY IN A PUB': A Double Bill of Loves and the Inevitable Losses
(By ANDREA STEVENS, Apr. 12, 2005)
TV: 'GRAY MATTER': A Driven Filmmaker and His Grim Subject (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 12, 2005)
TV: For Bob Newhart, Dean of Deadpan, the Laughs Go On (By NED MARTEL, Apr. 12, 2005)
* TV: 'KARL ROVE - THE ARCHITECT': Tracking the Ambitions of a Political Adviser
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 12, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2005)
* SCIENCE: 'Extreme Textiles' Come of Age (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 12, 2005)
Truth in the Wild: A Great Dad That Wanders Wide [wolverine] (By JIM ROBBINS, Apr. 12, 2005)
* For Young Fish, It Seems, the Call of the Reef Is Music (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 12, 2005)
* SCIENTIST AT WORK | EVELYN FOX KELLER: Theorist Drawn Into Debate 'That Will Not Go Away'
(By CORNELIA DEAN, Apr. 12, 2005)
Fossils of Apelike Creature Still Stir Lineage Debate (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 12, 2005)
* An Off-and-On Switch for Controlling Animals? (By CARL ZIMMER, Apr. 12, 2005)
The Timing Was Right, but Is She With Panda? (By COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Apr. 12, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Butterflies on Your Radar Screen (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 12, 2005)
SCIENCE Letters: When Emotion Clouds a Diagnosis (By DR. EVERETT M. LAUTIN, et. al., Apr. 12, 2005)
* Q & A: Grapefruit and Pills (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 12, 2005)
* HEALTH: Popular Drugs for Dementia Tied to Deaths [Risperdal] (By GARDINER HARRIS, Apr. 12, 2005)
F.D.A. Panel on Silicone Breast Implants Hears From Women on Each Side of Debate
(By GARDINER HARRIS, Apr. 12, 2005)
HEALTH: A Daunting Search: Tracking a Deadly Virus in Angola
(By SHARON LAFRANIERE & DENISE GRADY, Apr. 12, 2005)
* The Child Who Would Not Speak a Word [selective mutism] (By HARRIET BROWN, Apr. 12, 2005)
ESSAY: When Polio, Every Parent's Nightmare, Fell to Dr. Salk (By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., Apr. 12, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Women Struggle for Parity of the Heart (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 12, 2005)
THE DOCTOR'S WORLD: Lessons of the Kissing Bug's Deadly Gift (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D, Apr. 12, 2005)
* HEALTH: Tea and Toast and a Danger That Can Be Hard to Spot (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 12, 2005)
REALLY?: The Claim: Crossing Your Legs Causes Varicose Veins (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 12, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Aging: A New Culprit in Nighttime Falls (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 12, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: Vitamins' Limits in Cancer Fight (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 12, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Infant Care: Drinks Before Nursing? No Need (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 12, 2005)
Filling a Need (and a Tooth) in America's Poorest Pockets (By BEN DAITZ, Apr. 12, 2005)
CASES: In a Judgmental World, She Was Ashamed of Getting Sick (By GRETCHEN COOK, Apr. 12, 2005)
Milk and Meat of Clones Seem Safe, Study Says (NY TIMES, Apr. 12, 2005)
HEALTH: Child's Asthma Linked to Grandmother's Habit (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 12, 2005)

Monday, April 11, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: In the West, a Wet Winter Brings Blooms - and Threats (By CHRIS DIXON, Apr. 11, 2005)
WORLD: Catholics in U.S. Keep Faith, but Live With Contradictions
(By DEAN E. MURPHY & NEELA BANERJEE, Apr. 11, 2005)
NY REGION: One Foot in the Old Country, the Other in the New
[Filipino immigrants] (By TINA KELLEY, Apr. 11, 2005)
NY REGION: Hospital Business in New York Braces for a Crisis (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Apr. 11, 2005)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By Joe Rogers, Apr. 11, 2005)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Woods Leaves Exclamation Points Floating in the Air
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 11, 2005)
EDITORIAL: A West Too Wild [gunslinging vigilantes] (NY TIMES, Apr. 11, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Ailing Health Care (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 11, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Acts of Quiet Courage [Felix Rohatyn & Souza Dantas] (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 11, 2005)
* OP-ED: Progressive, Conservative or Rock Star? [Vatican Popes] (By KENNETH L. WOODWARD, Apr. 11, 2005)
* OP-ED: Crouching Tiger, Swimming Dragon (By NAYAN CHANDA, Apr. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: 'Just I.O.U.'s,' the President Says (5 Letters) (By EMILY KERNER, et. al., Apr. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: Judaism and the Pope (By Rabbi Avi Shafran, Apr. 11, 2005)
* LETTERS: The Clash of Ideas at Columbia (7 Letters) (By Eric Foner, et. al., Apr. 11, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Reviving a Magazine With Ballast of a Web Site First (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 11, 2005)
BUSINESS: How Simple? Not Even a Need to Turn Pages [Real Simple show] (By SARA IVRY, Apr. 11, 2005)
* Buy the Oprah Magazine and Get the Book, Too (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 11, 2005)
* ART: New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 11, 2005)
* ARTS: Promises, Promises: The Art of Selling Snake Oil (By PETER EDIDIN, Apr. 11, 2005)
ARCHITECTURE: For Act II, Architect Gets More Hands-On (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 11, 2005)
DANCE: KATHY WESTWATER: Twisting, Flailing, Fading Into Landscape's Oblivion
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 11, 2005)
MUSIC RECITAL | EVGENY KISSIN: A Virtuoso's Chopin: Complex, With Many Moods and a Broken String
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 11, 2005)
OPERA ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK: A Mignon Equipped for Sterner Duty (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 11, 2005)
TV: Dramatizing a Scandal That Rocked the Church (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 11, 2005)

Sunday, April 10, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: U.S. Seeks Access to Bank Records to Deter Terror (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Apr. 10, 2005)
* When a Food Marketer Devises Nutrition Advice [M&M's color] (By KIM SEVERSON, Apr. 10, 2005)
* WORLD: Cardinals Hint at Profile of New Pope: Presence Preferred
(By LAURIE GOODSTEIN & DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 10, 2005)
As Pilgrims Depart, Romans Resume Routine, as the Romans Do (By JASON HOROWITZ & ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, Apr. 10, 2005)
Demonstrators in Iraq Demand That U.S. Leave (By DEXTER FILKINS, Apr. 10, 2005)
Riot Police Called In to Calm Anti-Japanese Protests in China (By JOSEPH KAHN, Apr. 10, 2005)
Japan Lodges Protest in Response to Demonstrations in China (By By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Apr. 10, 2005)
* Charles and Camilla, Married at Last, and With Hardly a Hitch (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 10, 2005)
* TV WATCH: For American Royal Watchers, Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 10, 2005)
SPORTS: Woods Wins the Masters (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 10, 2005)
SPORTS: The Often Sad Reality of the Sweet Science [women boxing death]
(By SELENA ROBERTS, Apr. 10, 2005)
SPORTS: Two Women Bound by Sports, War and Injuries (By JULIET MACUR, Apr. 10, 2005)
* SPORTS BACKTALK: Home Run King Borrows From 'The Prince' [Barry Bonds] (By TOM STANTON, Apr. 10, 2005)
EDITORIAL: A Letter From the Editor (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 10, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Culture of Death, Not Life (By FRANK RICH, Apr. 10, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bellow's Democratic Nobility of the Intellect (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 10, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Let Fathers Be Fathers (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 10, 2005)
* OP-ED: Goodbye Mars, Hello Earth (By PAUL DAVIES, Apr. 10, 2005)
* THE PUBLIC EDITOR: EXTRA! EXTRA! Read Not Quite Everything About It! (By DANIEL OKRENT, Apr. 10, 2005)
LETTERS: On Schools: Does One Size Fit All? (6 Letters) (By Howard Miller, Apr. 10, 2005)
LETTERS: Liberals, Spread Too Thin (By Christopher Beem, Apr. 10, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2005)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: A Tax Increase That Bush Didn't Mention (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Apr. 10, 2005)
* The Oracle of Omaha's Latest Riddle [Warren E. Buffett] (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Apr. 10, 2005)
BUSINESS: Verizon to Buy Stake to Bolster MCI Bid (By KEN BELSON, Apr. 10, 2005)
* INVESTING: Making Money When the Market Is Mistaken (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Apr. 10, 2005)
* DIGITAL DOMAIN: Will the Next Version of Windows Be Worth the Wait? (By RANDALL STROSS, Apr. 10, 2005)
MUTUAL FUND REPORT: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2005)
The Next Investing Frontier: Lower Fees (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., Apr. 10, 2005)
* The Quarter When Nothing Worked (By PAUL J. LIM, Apr. 10, 2005)
* STRATEGIES: Ready to Buy? Look Beyond the Label (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 10, 2005)
* 3 Men, 3 Strategies, but All Lead to Profit (By CARLA FRIED, Apr. 10, 2005)
* Active Management, in a Land of Indexing (By TIM GRAY, Apr. 10, 2005)
Adding Balance to Retirement (By PAUL B. BROWN, Apr. 10, 2005)
Funds That Age With Their Investors (By ELIZABETH HARRIS, Apr. 10, 2005)
INVESTING: In Mutual Funds, Risk Is One Thing and Security Quite Another
(By DANIEL AKST, Apr. 10, 2005)
Those Hot Real Estate Funds Cool Off (By VIVIAN MARINO, Apr. 10, 2005)
* ESSAY: Never Mind Justice. How About Just Deserts? [Kenneth Lay] (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 10, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2005)
ARTS: Rem Koolhaas Learns Not to Overthink It (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Apr. 10, 2005)
* DANCE: Belly Dancing (By ERIKA KINETZ, Apr. 10, 2005)
* MUSIC: Richard Wagner, Musical Mensch (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 10, 2005)
MUSIC REVIEW | YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
An East-West Trade Route Where the Currency Is Music (By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 10, 2005)
OPERA: NEW YORK CITY OPERA: That Old Ceylon Razzle Dazzle (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 10, 2005)
* TV: Why Johnny Can't Read (By ALEXANDRA JACOBS, Apr. 10, 2005)
TV: THE CHARACTER: The Flavor of the Hour (By KATE AURTHUR, Apr. 10, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2005)
STYLE: The Man Date (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Apr. 10, 2005)
* MODERN LOVE: Looking for Love at the Sperm Bank (By LINDA DACKMAN, Apr. 10, 2005)
* POSSESSED: Working Out to Einstein (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 10, 2005)
VOWS: Jo Frances Kaplan and John Meyer (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Apr. 10, 2005)
* FOOD & DINING: Stores Say Wild Salmon, but Tests Say Farm Bred (By MARIAN BURROS, Apr. 10, 2005)
TRAVEL: Savoring the Bounty of Vietnam (By TAYLOR HOLLIDAY, Apr. 10, 2005)
TRAVEL: Exotic but Cozy, a Moroccan Port Is a Second Home (By GISELA WILLIAMS, Apr. 10, 2005)
* FRUGAL TRAVELER: Seeing Paris on $250 a Day (By ANN M. MORRISON, Apr. 10, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2005)
* Maybe We're Not Robbing the Cradle (By EDUARDO PORTER, Apr. 10, 2005)
As Catholic as the Pope (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Apr. 10, 2005)
* Saul Bellow, America's Poet of Urbanity (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 10, 2005)
* CBS News Makeover, by Four Kibitzers (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 10, 2005)
* THE BASICS: Why Is Monaco a Country? [also Papal Names] (By CRAIG R. WHITNEY, Apr. 10, 2005)
* CORRESPONDENCE: The High Cost of Clutching Your Chest (By SAM ROBERTS, Apr. 10, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Brand (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 10, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: A Gesture Life [Pope John Paul II] (By COLM TOIBIN, Apr. 10, 2005)
* QUESTIONS FOR HA JIN: A Novel Perspective (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 10, 2005)
FOOD: The Industry: Sweetening the Pot (By MATT LEE and TED LEE, Apr. 10, 2005)
LIVES: My Enemy, My Friend (By MIRTA OJITO, Apr. 10, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2005)
* Goodbye to Privacy (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 10, 2005)
* 'Garlic and Sapphires': Food Critic in Funny Hat [Ruth Reichl] (By DAVID KAMP, Apr. 10, 2005)

Saturday, April 9, 2005:
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)

* WORLD: SLIDE SHOW: The Wait Is Over [Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
were married Saturday at the 17th century Guildhall. (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2005)
* NY REGION: A Challenge for Miss America in Reality TV Era (By IVER PETERSON, Apr. 9, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Terrorist Attacks on Reactor Pools (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Nukes Are Green (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 9, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Reining In the G.O.P.'s Parade (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 9, 2005)
* OP-ED: Our Near-Death Experience (By THOMAS LYNCH, Apr. 9, 2005)
* OP-ED: Volunteer Workers of the World, Unite (By NICOLS FOX, Apr. 9, 2005)
LETTERS: A Farewell to a Pope for the Ages (8 Letters) (By Joe R. Moore, Apr. 9, 2005)
LETTERS: Getting Proscriptions at the Pharmacy (5 Letters) (By Frances Kissling, Apr. 9, 2005)
LETTERS: China's Labor Force (By Zai Liang, Apr. 9, 2005)
LETTERS: Marketing Isn't Just Sales (By Steve Wagg, Apr. 9, 2005)
LETTERS: Radio Is From Mars... (By Jackie Jablonski, Apr. 9, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Made in China. Bought Everywhere. (By KEITH BRADSHER & DAVID BARBOZA, Apr. 9, 2005)
* MADE ELSEWHERE: Trade Quotas? Ah, the Good Old Days (By JAMES BROOKE, Apr. 9, 2005)
Union Seeks Wal-Mart Files About Payments (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Apr. 9, 2005)
* The Better the Audit Panel, the Higher the Stock Price (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Apr. 9, 2005)
* ARTS: Arts, Briefly [Poet Laureate Ted Kooser reappointed] (Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 9, 2005)
* ART CRITIC: Saul Bellow, Saul Bellow, Let Down Your Hair (By EDWARD ROTHSTEINE, Apr. 9, 2005)
ART NEWS ANALYSIS: Towers Site Campaign to Bypass Theaters (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 9, 2005)
DANCE: MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: Martha Graham's Masterworks, Updated for Modern Times
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 9, 2005)
DANCE: RICHMOND BALLET: Variety Pack: From Tango to Concentration Camps (By JACK ANDERSON, Apr. 9, 2005)
FILM: Translating 'British Obsessive Male' Into American (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 9, 2005)
* MUSIC: Exploring the Right to Share, Mix and Burn (By DAVID CARR, Apr. 9, 2005)
MUSIC CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: The Song of the Hyperliterary (By KELEFA SANNEH, Apr. 9, 2005)
* THE TV WATCH: When Mourning Becomes Television: Even Anchors Stay Behind the Cameras at Vatican
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 9, 2005)
TV: 'TERROR AT HOME': Domestic Disturbances: Portraits of Abused Women (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 9, 2005)

Friday, April 8, 2005:
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)

* Dale Messick, 98, Creator of 'Brenda Starr' Strip, Dies (By RICHARD SEVERO, Apr. 8, 2005)
WORLD: Cardinal Law, Ousted in U.S. Scandal, Is Given a Role in Rites
(By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 8, 2005)
* ART: 'MAX ERNST': The Zelig Among the Modernists (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 8, 2005)
* ART: 'LITTLE BOY': From a Mushroom Cloud, a Burst of Art Reflecting Japan's Psyche
(By ROBERTA SMITH, Apr. 8, 2005)
* ART: 'CHERISHED POSSESSIONS': Where Teapots and Teddy Bears Rank as Treasures, Too
(By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 8, 2005)
ARTS: Women Who Chafed at Society's Corset (By MICHAEL FRANK, Apr. 8, 2005)
DANCE: MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: Schooled in Graham and Inspired by Goya
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Apr. 8, 2005)
TV: 'LIVING WITH FRAN': Twang, Whine: Accentuating the Familiar (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 8, 2005)
* TRAVEL: 36 HOURS: Princeton, N.J. (By LOUISE TUTELIAN, Apr. 8, 2005)
TRAVEL JOURNEYS: From the Depths, a Cathedral Emerges [Utah's Lake Powell]
(By TOM PRICE, Apr. 8, 2005)

Thursday, April 7, 2005:
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)

* Prince Rainier, Who Brought Stardom to Monaco, Dies at 81 (By RICHARD SEVERO, Apr. 7, 2005)
* 'Brenda Starr' Creator Dies at 98 [Dale Messick] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 7, 2005)
* Frank Conroy Dies at 69; Led Noted Writers' Workshop (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 7, 2005)
WORLD: One Million Wait to View the Pope as Line Is Cut Off (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 7, 2005)
* Pope's Will Reveals Anguish Over Length of Papacy (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 7, 2005)
China's Divided Catholics Unite, if Just to Mourn (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 7, 2005)
Arson Attack Tries to Foil Start of India-Pakistan Bus Service (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Apr. 7, 2005)
SPORTS: Tiger Needs to Win to Keep Jackals Away (By DAVE ANDERSON, Apr. 7, 2005)
BASEBALL: Rivera Stumbles Into Unfamiliar and Unfriendly Terrain (By GEORGE VECSEY, Apr. 7, 2005)
RED SOX 7, YANKEES 3: Runs, Hits, Errors as Red Sox Rally (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 7, 2005)
BASEBALL: Francona Spends Game 3 Listening in a Hospital (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 7, 2005)
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: To Find Source of Parity, Follow the Money (By JERE LONGMAN, Apr. 7, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Intimidation at Columbia (NY TIMES, Apr. 7, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: APPRECIATIONS: Mr. Bellow's Planet (By BRENT STAPLES, Apr. 7, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Arabs Lift Their Voices (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 7, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Passion of the Tom (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 7, 2005)
LETTERS: Left and Right in the Ivory Tower (6 Letters) (By Brandon Bittner, Apr. 7, 2005)
* LETTERS: What Sounds Better: Pay or Play? (7 Letters) (By Reed Black, Apr. 7, 2005)
* LETTERS: Saul Bellow's Gift (By John Lynn, Apr. 7, 2005)
LETTERS: The Patriot Act and the Libraries (By Kate Martin, Apr. 7, 2005)
BUSINESS: S.E.C. Expands Best-Price Rule on Stock Trading (By FLOYD NORRIS, Apr. 7, 2005)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Morgan Stanley Already Feeling Wounds of War (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Apr. 7, 2005)
Profit Surges at Monsanto; Seed Sales Up (By REUTERS, Apr. 7, 2005)
* SMALL BUSINESS: If You Ask Small-Business Owners, the Economy Is Improving
(By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Apr. 7, 2005)
* ECONOMIC SCENE: File-Sharing Is the Latest Battleground in the Clash of Technology and Copyright
(By HAL R. VARIAN, Apr. 7, 2005)
* BOOKS: The Scientist Is Gone, but Not His Book Tour [Richard P. Feynman]
(By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 7, 2005)
* BOOKS: Saul Bellow: A Writer Captivated by the Chaos of New York (By JOSEPH BERGER, Apr. 7, 2005)
* BOOKS: A Poet Laureate's Royal Call: Dreamy Ode to Ridiculed Love [Andrew Motion]
(By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 7, 2005)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 7, 2005)
DAVID POGUE: Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your Life? Parts of It, Maybe (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 7, 2005)
BASICS: Printing on the Road: Portable Solutions (By LARRY MAGID, Apr. 7, 2005)

Wednesday, April 6, 2005:
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)

* Prince Rainier of Monaco Dies at 81 (By RICHARD SEVERO, Apr. 6, 2005)
* Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life Into American Novel, Dies at 89
(By MEL GUSSOW & CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 6, 2005)
Edward Bronfman, 77, Dies; Low-Profile Business Titan (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Apr. 6, 2005)
Moura Lympany, 88, Veteran Concert Pianist, Is Dead (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 6, 2005)
NATIONAL: Bush Nominee for U.N. Post Faces Hurdles at Senate Panel
(By DOUGLAS JEHL & STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Apr. 6, 2005)
WORLD: Influx of Pilgrims to See Pope Puts Strains on the Italians (By DANIEL J. WAKIN & IAN FISHER, Apr. 6, 2005)
WORLD: In Tsunami Area, Relief Is Very Slow in Coming (By SETH MYDANS, Apr. 6, 2005)
SPORTS: BAYLOR 84, MICHIGAN STATE 62: Baylor Completes Remarkable Climb to Top
(By JERE LONGMAN, Apr. 6, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Pope and Hypocrisy (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 6, 2005)
OP-ED: A Side Order of Human Rights (By ERIC SCHLOSSER, Apr. 6, 2005)
OP-ED: Feed the Beast [VAT, Value Added Tax] (By BRUCE BARTLETT, Apr. 6, 2005)
* LETTERS: What Is the Legacy of John Paul II? (7 Letters) (By John C. Hirsh, Apr. 6, 2005)
* LETTERS: The Test of a Maestro: Is the Music Great? [Riccardo Muti] (By Les Dreyer, Apr. 6, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Sugar and Spice, and Biochemistry (By MELANIE WARNER, Apr. 6, 2005)
* BOOKS: The Atlantic Monthly Cuts Back on Fiction (By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 6, 2005)
* BOOKS: A GREAT IMPROVISATION': Ben Franklin Took On France With Insouciant Diplomacy
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Apr. 6, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2005)
* Online Shopping Makes New York a Cardboard Jungle (By JULIA MOSKIN, Apr. 6, 2005)
AT LUNCH WITH DELTA BURKE: She Waited to Exhale; Now She Can (By FRANK BRUNI, Apr. 6, 2005)
THE CHEF: Honey, There's a Fish in the Bathtub (By MELISSA CLARK, Apr. 6, 2005)
THE MINIMALIST: Rest Your Fins on a Nice Bed of Greens (By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 6, 2005)
FOOD: The Raw Truth: Don't Blame the Mongols (or Their Horses) (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 6, 2005)

Tuesday, April 5, 2005:
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)

* Author Saul Bellow Dies at 89 (By MEL GUSSOW and CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 5, 2005)
* FEATURED AUTHOR: Saul Bellow (NY TIMES, Apr. 5, 2005)
A Parade of Humanity: The Complete List of Saul Bellow's Books (NY TIMES, Apr. 5, 2005)
NATIONAL: Satellite Radio Takes Off, Altering the Airwaves (By LORNE MANLY, Apr. 5, 2005)
U.S. Declares Boston's Big Dig Safe for Motorists (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Apr. 5, 2005)
Son of Former Maid Testifies That Jackson Molested Him (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Apr. 5, 2005)
* WORLD: Pope's Funeral Is Set for Friday (By ELAINE SCIOLINO & DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 5, 2005)
* Huge Crowds of Pilgrims Converge on the Vatican (By DANIEL J. WAKIN & IAN FISHER, Apr. 5, 2005)
* CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Pope John Paul Appraised as Pope, Not Rock Star (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 5, 2005)
Third World Represents a New Factor in Pope's Succession (By LYDIA POLGREEN & LARRY ROHTER, Apr. 5, 2005)
Accommodations Improve for Arriving Cardinals (By JASON HOROWITZ, Apr. 5, 2005)
* U.S. Drones Crowding the Skies to Help Fight Insurgents in Iraq (By ERIC SCHMITT, Apr. 5, 2005)
* Royal Wedding Put Off One Day for Funeral (By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 5, 2005)
NY REGION: Report on Trade Center Collapses Emphasizes Damage to Fireproofing (By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, Apr. 5, 2005)
Homemakers Are the Fat Cats. Who Knew? Their Husbands. (By MIKE McINTIRE, Apr. 5, 2005)
SPORTS: NORTH CAROLINA 75, ILLINOIS 70: Tar Heels Rise to the Challenge
(By PETE THAMEL, Apr. 5, 2005)
WOMEN's BASKETBALL: Standout at Baylor Has Come Long Way [Sophia Young] (By JERE LONGMAN, Apr. 5, 2005)
SPORTS: Baseball Finds Business Is Brisk Despite Scandal (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 5, 2005)
BASEBALL: Yankees and Red Sox Unveil Their New Arms [Carl Pavano & Matt Clement]
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 5, 2005)
YANKEES 4, RED SOX 3: Jeter Hits a Walk-Off Homer to Sink the Red Sox (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 5, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: An Academic Question (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 5, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A House Divided, and Strong (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 5, 2005)
* OP-ED: Poland's Holy Father (By STREFAN CHWIN, Apr. 5, 2005)
* OP-ED: The Price of Infallibility (By THOMAS CAHILL, Apr. 5, 2005)
* LETTERS: A Time to Bid Farewell, a Time to Look Ahead (10 Letters) (By Irach B. Taraporewala, et. al., Apr. 5, 2005)
* LETTERS: Science, Faith and Fossils (By Robert Stern, Apr. 5, 2005)
BUSINESS: Making Room on Coke's Shelf Space (By MELANIE WARNER, Apr. 5, 2005)
* Peter Jennings of ABC Says He Has Lung Cancer (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 5, 2005)
* Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions (By EDUARDO PORTER, Apr. 5, 2005)
* BOOKS: Papal Best Sellers (By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 5, 2005)
* BOOKS: And Now for Her Third Act: Jane Fonda Looks Over the First Two
(By TODD S. PURDUM, Apr. 5, 2005)
DANCE CRITIC: A Dancer Comes Into His Own [Benjamin Millepied] (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Apr. 5, 2005)
* FILM: Canned Goods as Silent Caviar: Rescuing a Film on Nitrate Stock (By GREGORY CROUCH, Apr. 5, 2005)
TV: TV's Latest Obsession Seems to Be Television (By DAVID CARR, Apr. 5, 2005)
* FASHION: FRONT ROW: Pow! Why Designers Are Mad About the Comics (By ERIC WILSON, Apr. 5, 2005)
STYLE: The Clubgoer's Guide to Looking the Look (By JOSH PATNER, Apr. 5, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 5, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Open Wide: Decoding the Secrets of Venom (By CARL ZIMMER, Apr. 5, 2005)
* It Orbits a Star, but Does It Qualify for Planethood? (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 5, 2005)
Report Tallies Hidden Costs of Human Assault on Nature (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Apr. 5, 2005)
* When There Is Splish, but No Splash (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 5, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Hey, Your Kite's Got Dandruff (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 5, 2005)
* Q & A: Litters and Evolution (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 5, 2005)
HEALTH: Inside the Injured Brain, Many Kinds of Awareness (By BENEDICT CAREY, Apr. 5, 2005)
* Graphics: The Unconscious Brain [Coma & Vegetative State] (NY TIMES, Apr. 5, 2005)
CASES: In a Pile of Papers, the Ghost of a Once-Healthy Child (By PERRI KLASS, M.D., Apr. 5, 2005)
Apartment House Lifts Barriers for the Disabled (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 5, 2005)
A Therapy for Cat Allergies, Thanks to Mice (By LAURA TANGLEY, Apr. 5, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Sparing the Calories Won't Spoil the Child (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 5, 2005)
THE CONSUMER: Should We All Be Stocking Tamiflu? (By DEBORAH FRANKLIN, Apr. 5, 2005)
* Older Knees Now Have New Option [Jason Kidd #5] (By VICKY LOWRY, Apr. 5, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Tryptophan in Turkey Makes You Drowsy (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 5, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Techniques: Argon to the Prostate's Rescue (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 5, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Child Development: Could I Have a Definition, Please? (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 5, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: Cold Shoulder for Fat Customers (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 5, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: Smart Money on Table's No. 30 [Zinc] (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 5, 2005)
Drink Up for Energy, but Watch Your Mouth (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 5, 2005)

Monday, April 4, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Some at NASA Say Its Culture Is Changing, but Others Say Problems Still Run Deep
(By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 4, 2005)
* RELIGIONS: People of All Faiths Recall Pope With Fondness (By NEELA BANERJEE, Apr. 4, 2005)
* In Steinbeck's Birthplace, a Fight to Keep the Libraries Open (By CAROLYN MARSHALL, Apr. 4, 2005)
* EDUCATION: A Lucrative Brand of Tutoring Grows Unchecked (By SUSAN SAULNY, Apr. 4, 2005)
NY REGION: Sand, Surf, and Permission to Brave It (By COREY KILGANNON, Apr. 4, 2005)
METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Apr. 4, 2005)
YANKEES 9, RED SOX 2: Yankees Reach Height of Redemption (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 4, 2005)
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: One Man's Liver... (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Apr. 4, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Billionaires' Club (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 4, 2005)
* OP-ED: The Great Unifier (By JAROSLAV PELIKAN, Apr. 4, 2005)
* OP-ED: Above All Else, Life (By HELEN PREJEAN, Apr. 4, 2005)
* LETTERS: John Paul II: Mourning and Remembrance (12 Letters) (By James D. Cook, et. al., Apr. 4, 2005)
BUSINESS: Giving by Foundations Hits Record $32.4 Billion in '04 (By STEPHANIE STROM, Apr. 4, 2005)
* ARTS: Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music (NY TIMES, Apr. 4, 2005)

Sunday, April 3, 2005:
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)

* Pope John Paul II: All-Embracing Man of Action for a New Era of Papacy
(By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Apr. 3, 2005)
* POPE JOHN PAUL II: Complete Coverage (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
* CHRONOLOGY: Key Dates in Papacy [1978-2005] (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
WORLD: Help Wanted: China Finds Itself With a Labor Shortage (By JIM YARDLEY & DAVID BARBOZA, Apr. 3, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Moralists at the Pharmacy (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Curveball the Goofball (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 3, 2005)
OP-ED: Going for the Gold [2012 Summer Olympics] (By JOSEPH D. SIMON, Apr. 3, 2005)
OP-ART: Every Game Is an Away Game (By CHOI HOON and B.R. MYERS, Apr. 3, 2005)
OP-ED: The Risk Not Taken [Eliot Spitzer] (By RICHARD DOOLING, Apr. 3, 2005)
LETTERS: Wanted: A New Path for Democrats (5 Letters) (By Michael P. Marshal, et. al., Apr. 3, 2005)
LETTERS: The G.O.P. Takes a Hard-Right Turn (2 Letters) (By Philip Birnbaum, et. al., Apr. 3, 2005)
LETTERS: What's in a Name? (By Steven H. Miller, Apr. 3, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
BUSINESS: EXECUTIVE PAY: My Big Fat C.E.O. Paycheck (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Apr. 3, 2005)
* Drug Makers Race to Cash In on Nation's Fight Against Fat (By STEPHANIE SAUL, Apr. 3, 2005)
PORTFOLIOS: A Few Tools for Do-It-Yourself Bond Trading (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
* OFF THE SHELF: Easier Said Than Done: Getting People to Like You (By PAUL B. BROWN, Apr. 3, 2005)
* CAREER COUCH: Turning a Follower Into the Next Leader (By CHERYL DAHLE, Apr. 3, 2005)
* THE BOSS: A Vision in Print [Richard Robinson, CEO Scholastic Corp.] (As told to MELANIE S. BEST, Apr. 3, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
* ART: The Marriage à Trois That Cradled Surrealism [Max Ernst] (By ANNETTE GRANT, Apr. 3, 2005)
* ART: This Is Your Brain on Pause [Damien Hirst] (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Apr. 3, 2005)
* DANCE: A Martha Graham Enigma for a New Generation (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 3, 2005)
* FILM: Excuse Me While I Kiss the Buddha in the Sky (By DAVE KEHR, Apr. 3, 2005)
* MUSIC: Mutiny at La Scala [Riccardo Muti] (By DANIEL J. WAKIN & JAMES R. OESTREICH, Apr. 3, 2005)
THEATER: Suffer the Little Children [Martin McDonagh] (By JESSE McKINLEY, Apr. 3, 2005)
TV: Bringing Back the Dead for Some Detective Work (By JOE RHODES, Apr. 3, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
* The Once and Future Camilla (By HEATHER TIMMONS, Apr. 3, 2005)
* Casual Relationships, Yes. Casual Sex, Not Really. (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Apr. 3, 2005)
* MODERN LOVE: How Could I Tell Him What I Knew? How Could I Not? (By SARA PEPITONE, Apr. 3, 2005)
POSSESSED: So Modern, So Outdated, So Treasured [furniture] (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 3, 2005)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Ellen Barkin and Todd Solondz: Brains and Beauty (By JAMIE DIAMOND, Apr. 3, 2005)
VOWS: Geeta Chopra and Sudhanva Sharma (By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER, Apr. 3, 2005)
REAL ESTATE: In Any Language, Manhattan's Hot [59th Street] (By TERI KARUSH ROGERS, Apr. 3, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
TRAVEL: Belize: Eco-Tourism: The Director's Cut [Coppola's properties] (By MICHELLE GREEN, Apr. 3, 2005)
GOING TO Amsterdam (By GISELA WILLIAMS, Apr. 3, 2005)
* Europe: Is Newly Liberated Kiev the Next Prague? (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 3, 2005)
Argentina: Taking Tea and Tortes With the Welsh in Distant Patagonia (By LUKE JEROD KUMMER, Apr. 3, 2005)
* HEADS UP: Makeover for a Chinese Harbor's Landmark (By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 3, 2005)
ESSAY: Going Home to Lahore, and a World Left Behind (By PARAG KHANNA, Apr. 3, 2005)
CHECK IN, CHECK OUT: 70 Park Avenue Hotel in New York (By STUART EMMRICH, Apr. 3, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
* Catholics in America: A Restive People (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 3, 2005)
* Toasting the Happy Couple With Hemlock (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 3, 2005)
SCHIAVO TO SOCIAL SECURITY: Squabbles Under the Big Tent (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 3, 2005)
* Well, at Least He Liked Our Cars [mind of Adolf Hitler] (By MARC D. CHARNEY, Apr. 3, 2005)
What Would Happen if Russia Exploded in Protest? (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 3, 2005)
* WORD FOR WORD: He Said (1912), She Said (2005) ["Stover at Yale"] (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Apr. 3, 2005)
Here's Why the Centrist Democrat Is Feeling Unloved (By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, Apr. 3, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Putin/Poutine (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 3, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Boy Problems (By ANN HULBERT, Apr. 3, 2005)
* QUESTIONS FOR RICHARD CIZIK: Earthy Evangelist (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 3, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: The Murakami Method (By ARTHUR LUBOW, Apr. 3, 2005)
Portfolio: Tokyo Girls (Photographs by HELLEN VAN MEEN, Apr. 3, 2005)
* It's a Flat World, After All (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 3, 2005)
Daughter of the Enlightenment [Ayaan Hirsi Ali] (By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Apr. 3, 2005)
LIVES: Running for My Life (By RONNI GORDON, Apr. 3, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 3, 2005)
* 'Omaha Blues': In Research of Lost Time [Joseph Lelyveld] (By CYNTHIA OZICK, Apr. 3, 2005)
* 'A Great Improvisation': Our Man in Paris [Stacy Schif's "Franklin"]
(By WALTER ISAACSON, Apr. 3, 2005)
FICTION: 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close': Everything Is Included
[Jonathan Safran Foer] (By WALTER KIRN, Apr. 3, 2005)
* 'Campo Santo': Hanging Out With Kafka [W. G. Sebald] (By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, Apr. 3, 2005)
* CHRONICLE: Dating: What's Love Got to Do With It? "The Hookup Handbook"
[Andrea Lavinthal & Jessica Rozler] (By DANIEL SWIFT, Apr. 3, 2005)

Saturday, April 2, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: To Some, Jackson Trial Is Another Shot at TV (By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 2, 2005)
* SPORTS: The Yankees and the Red Sox Are Old Rivals. Maybe Too Old. (By SELENA ROBERTS, Apr. 2, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: Before the Fall [U.S. dollar] (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Another Kind of Racism (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 2, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Art of Intelligence (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 2, 2005)
OP-ED: After the Flood [Thailand] (By ERICH KRAUSS, Apr. 2, 2005)
OP-ED: Refinancing the Future (By PETER J. WALLISON, Apr. 2, 2005)
LETTERS: Lethal Lapses in Intelligence (5 Letters) [spying] (By Dan Carsen, et. al., Apr. 2, 2005)
LETTERS: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo (4 Letters) (By Patricia Jellen, et. al., Apr. 2, 2005)
LETTERS: Knit One for Love, Purl Two to Help Others (5 Letters) (By Elaine Silverstein, et. al., Apr. 2, 2005)
BUSINESS: 3.4% Surge Pushes Oil Above $57 (By JAD MOUAWAD, Apr. 2, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Blow to Computer Science Research [Darpa spending cuts] (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 2, 2005)
* BOOKS: A Dreamer and Her Parrot-Shtick Method [Arne Svenson] (By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH, Apr. 2, 2005)
FILM: PRIMO AMORE': Love, Domination and the Toxic Pursuit of Perfection (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Apr. 2, 2005)
MUSIC: Conductor of Italy's La Scala Opera Resigns [Riccardo Muti]
(By JASON HOROWITZ & ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, Apr. 2, 2005)
MUSIC: THE EAGLES: Extending a Welcome to the Hotel Farewell (By JON PARELES, Apr. 2, 2005)
* MUSIC: 'LA DAMNATION DE FAUST': The Road to Hell Is Paved With Bright Inventions
(By JEREMY EICHLER, Apr. 2, 2005)
MUSIC: KURT ELLING: On the Wings of Song and Poetry, as City Lights Flicker
(By BEN RATLIFF, Apr. 2, 2005)

Friday, April 1, 2005:
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 4/1/1922-6/1/2004, 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)

Frank Perdue, Chicken Magnate, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 1, 2005)
NATIONAL: Disparate Forces Collide in Schiavo's Case (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Apr. 1, 2005)
THE HOSPICE: For Those Keeping Vigil, Prayers, Tears and Talk of Transformation
(By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Apr. 1, 2005)
POLITICAL STRATEGY: Even Death Does Not Quiet Harsh Political Fight (By CARL HULSE & DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Apr. 1, 2005)
Ex-Clinton Adviser to Admit Taking Classified Papers [Samuel R. Berger] (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Apr. 1, 2005)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Final Verdict on Prewar Intelligence Is Still Elusive (By TODD S. PURDUM, Apr. 1, 2005)
Christians Around the World Pray for Ailing Pope (By TERENCE NEILAN, Apr. 1, 2005)
Medicare Says '06 Premiums Will Rise $11 (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 1, 2005)
WORLD: Pope Declines Sharply as Church Prepares for His Demise (By, Apr. 1, 2005)
Pope Develops Complications With Infection (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 1, 2005)
* SPORTS: An Old Baseball April Fools' Hoax [Sidd Finch's 168 mph pitch] (By ALAN SCHWARZ, Apr. 1, 2005)
* BASEBALL: The Sport That Never Sleeps (By LEE JENKINS, Apr. 1, 2005)
BASEBALL: David Wells's First Start a Study in Contrasts (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 1, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Theresa Marie Schiavo (NY TIMES, Apr. 1, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: We Can't Remain Silent (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 1, 2005)
OP-ART: New York City's Auto Show (By LAUREN REDNISS, Apr. 1, 2005)
OP-ED: Our Brackets, Ourselves [N.C.A.A. basketball] (By GARY KLEIN, Apr. 1, 2005)
* LETTERS: A Life Ends, and a Nation Pauses to Reflect (7 Letters) (By Oren M. Spiegler, et. al., Apr. 1, 2005)
* LETTERS: Bending Our Beliefs [science vs. theocracy] (By Michael Hadjiargyrou, Apr. 1, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Koppel Leaving ABC News in December (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 1, 2005)
* ART: Asia Week Is Here, There, Everywhere [11-headed Khmer goddess] (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 1, 2005)
ART: 'BOTTLE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND VERNACULAR TRADITION'
An Object of Practicality, From the Inside and Out (By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 1, 2005)
ART: A Sculptor's Weighty Work Is Whole Again [Philip Pavia] (By BEN SISARIO, Apr. 1, 2005)
DANCE: Dance's Vanguard Stakes Out Brooklyn (By ERIKA KINETZ, Apr. 1, 2005)
FILM: 'SIN CITY': A Savage and Sexy City of Pulp Fiction Regulars (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Apr. 1, 2005)
FILM: 'LOOK AT ME': Lovely Bonbons With a Bitter Taste (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 1, 2005)
* FILM CRITIC: Preston Sturges's Travels, a Screwball Tale (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Apr. 1, 2005)
TV WEEKEND | 'MYSTERY!': It's No Mystery: Class Tells, Again (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 1, 2005)
* TV: '14:HOURS': Doctors Battle an Unusual Enemy: Water (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 1, 2005)
REAL ESTATE: Going to Greater Lengths (By LISA KALIS, Apr. 1, 2005)
TRAVEL: 36 HOURS: Eugene, Oregon (By CHRIS DIXON, Apr. 1, 2005)
JOURNEYS: The Tortugas, Last Stop U.S.A. (By JOE ROMAN, Apr. 1, 2005)
TRAVEL RITUALS: Thwack! Whir!... Whir? Segway Polo Is Born (By JOSH SENS, Apr. 1, 2005)

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