New York Times: August 2001

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Selected Articles from The New York Times
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Friday, August 31, 2001:
On This Day: August 31 (John Neville Keynes 8/31/1852-11/15/1949, Maria Montessori 8/31/1870-5/6/1952, George Sarton 8/31/1888-3/22/1956, William Saroyan 8/31/1908-6/14/1986, Alan Jay Lerner 8/31/1918-6/14/1986)
Diana Killed in a Car Accident in Paris (By CRAIG B. WHITNEY, August 31, 1998)
William Shawn, 85, Is Dead; New Yorker's Gentle Despot [8/31/1907] (By ERIC PACE, December 9, 1992)
Alix Williamson, Publicist for Noted Singers and Musicians, Dies at 85 (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 31, 2001)
Govan Mbeki, 91, an Enemy of Apartheid System, Dies (By HENRI E. CAUVIN, Aug. 31, 2001)
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On Tourism, Mexico Now Thinks Green (By TIM WEINER, Aug. 31, 2001)
* NEW DELHI JOURNAL: Modern India Gazes in Wonder at Its Gaudy Past (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Aug. 31, 2001)
* ADVERTISING: Will Real Men Eat Yogurt? (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Aug. 31, 2001)
* ART: 'SECRET WORLD OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY': Imperial China's Expensive Tastes (By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 31, 2001)
* ART CRITIC: The Modern Finds Unexpected Benefits in a Space Crunch (By ROBERTA SMITH, Aug. 31, 2001)
ART: Artists Who Made Bronze a Household Word (By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 31, 2001)
FILM: 'O': The Moor Shoots Hoops (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 31, 2001)
TV: 'BACK TO THE SECRET GARDEN': The Therapeutic Value of Getting Close to the Ground (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 31, 2001)
THE OUTSIDER: Snug in Three Walls Amid Mist and Mystery (By JAMES GORMAN, Aug. 31, 2001)

Thursday, August 30, 2001:
On This Day: August 30 (Jacques-Louis David 8/30/1748-12/29/1825, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 8/30/1797-2/1/1851, Jacobus Hoff 8/30/1852-3/1/1911, Ernest Rutherford 8/30/1871-10/19/1937, E.M. Purcell 8/30/1912-3/7/1997, Sir Richard Stone 8/30/1913-12/6/1991,Ted Williams 1918, Jean-Claude Killy 1943)
Hot Line' Opened by U.S. and Soviet to Cut Attack Risk (By CRAIG B. WHITNEY, August 30, 1963)
Shirley Booth, Star of TV, Radio, Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 94 [8/30/1898] (By PETER B. FLINT, October 21, 1992)
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NY REGION: 12? 14? In Bronx Fans' Hearts, Little League Pitcher Is No. 1 (By JOYCE WADLER, Aug. 30, 2001)
* OP-ED: The Wisdom of Whiskers [Al Gore & Lincoln] (By HAROLD HOLZER, Aug. 30, 2001)
* OP-ED: Maybe We've Just About Hit Bottom (By IAN C. SHEPHERDSON, Aug. 30, 2001)
LETTERS: Why E-Book's Time Hasn't Come (By BEATE BOLEN et. al., Aug. 30, 2001)
BUSINESS: Revision of Growth Data Pushes Shares Sharply Lower
[Dow -131, Nasdaq -22] (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 30, 2001)
Data Suggests Weak Growth, Not a Recession (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 30, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: Computer Associates Directors Survive Challenge (By ALEX BERENSON, Aug. 30, 2001)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Tarnished New Economy Loses More Luster (By JEFF MADRICK, Aug. 30, 2001)
Sun Expects Another Losing Quarter (By CHRIS GAITHER, Aug. 30, 2001)
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Tuesday, August 28, 2001:
On This Day: August 28 ()
19th Amendment to U.S. Constitution: Colby Proclaims Woman Suffrage/A> (ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 26, 1920)
* Albert Sabin, Polio Researcher, 86, Dies [8/26/1906-3/3/1993] (By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr., March 4, 1993)
Diana Golden Brosnihan, Skier, Dies at 38 (By FRANK LITSKY, Aug. 28, 2001)
D. Joseph Corr, a Trouble-Shooter for Airlines, Dies at 60 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 28, 2001)
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BUSINESS: Major Gauges Fall as Shares Again Fail to Extend a Rally
[Dow -41, Nasdaq -4] (By REUTERS, Aug. 28, 2001)
* Forecasts of an E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 28, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: A First Shot Is Fired at Computer Associates (By ALEX BERENSON, Aug. 28, 2001)
* Obscure Biotech Company Becomes Big Player in Stem Cell World (By ANDREW POLLACK, Aug. 28, 2001)
A Young Heir Has New Plans at Old Company [Wrigley Gum] (By DAVID BARBOZA, Aug. 28, 2001)
DANCE: 'HAIRSTORIES': Seeking Universal Truths in Hairstyles (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 28, 2001)
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Monday, August 27, 2001:
On This Day: August 27 ()
19th Amendment to U.S. Constitution: Colby Proclaims Woman Suffrage/A> (ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 26, 1920)
* Albert Sabin, Polio Researcher, 86, Dies [8/26/1906-3/3/1993] (By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr., March 4, 1993)
Vicki Hearne, Who Saw Human Traits in Pets, Dies at 55 (By HELEN VERONGOS, Aug. 27, 2001)
Aaliyah, Singer Who First Hit the Charts at 14, Dies at 22 (By JON PARELES, Aug. 27, 2001)
Hank Sauer, M.V.P. in 1952 and 'Mayor of Wrigley Field,' Dies at 84 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 27, 2001)
John Ralph Apel, Physicist Who Surveyed the Oceans From Space, Dies at 71 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 27, 2001)
Powerball Has Winners in 4 States [$294.8 million lottery] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 27, 2001)
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Bush Ventures Off Ranch to Court Steelworkers (By DAVID E. SANGER, Aug. 27, 2001)
Religions Ponder the Stem Cell Issue (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Aug. 27, 2001)
Group Urges Taiwan President to Expand Links With China (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 27, 2001)
Achilles' Heel in Missile Plan: Crude Weapons (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Aug. 27, 2001)
* LAU JOURNAL: An Outpatient Exorcism (It Was Only a Crab) [psychic healing] (By SETH MYDANS, Aug. 27, 2001)
METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 27, 2001)
Waterbury Residents Seek Spiritual Relief (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Aug. 27, 2001)
Yale Student Returns, but Gives No Details of Her Disappearance (By STEPHANIE FLANDERS, Aug. 27, 2001)
As New Haven Changes, Hope Comes in Peaks and Valleys (By KIRK JOHNSON, Aug. 27, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Reality Check for College Rankings (By, Aug. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Violence That Won't Let Go (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 27, 2001)
* OP-ED: What Only the Embryo Knows [3 stages in new & important ideas] (By STEPHEN JAY GOULD, Aug. 27, 2001)
* OP-ED: My Personal Bolt of Lightning (By MICHAEL UTLEY, Aug. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: A Treaty the World Has Outgrown (By THAD COCHRAN, Aug. 27, 2001)
* SPORTS: A Towering Figure, Even After Decades [Hank Sauer's glove] (By IRA BERKOW, Aug. 27, 2001)
* Growing Audience Is Turning to Established News Media Online (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Aug. 27, 2001)
MEDIA TALK: Journalist Who Bridged Print and TV Chooses TV (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 27, 2001)
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ART: The Heirs of George Grosz Battle His Dealer's Ghost (By JOYCE WADLER, Aug. 27, 2001)
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U.S. Approves Labs With Stem Cells for Federal Use (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 27, 2001)

Sunday, August 26, 2001:
On This Day: August 26 (Robert Walpole 8/26/1676-3/18/1745, Johann Heinrich Lambert 8/26/1728-9/25/1777, Joseph-Michel Mongolfier 8/26/1740-6/26/1810, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 8/26/1743-5/8/1794, Prince Albert 8/26/1819-12/14/1861, Lee De Forest 8/26/1873-6/30/1961, Jules Romains 8/26/1885-8/14/1972, Jerome Hunsaker 8/26/1886-9/10/1984, Peggy Guggenheim 8/26/1898-12/23/1979, Maxwell Taylor 8/26/1901-4/19/1987, Christopher Isherwood 8/26/1904-1/4/1986, Benjamin C. Bradlee 1921, Ben J. Wattenberg 1933, Geraldine Ferraro 1935, Vic Dana 1942, Bob Cowsill 1949, Michael Jeter 1952, Brett Cullen 1956, Branford Marsalis 1960, Chris Burke 1965, Macaulay Culkin 1980)
19th Amendment to U.S. Constitution: Colby Proclaims Woman Suffrage/A> (ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 26, 1920)
* Albert Sabin, Polio Researcher, 86, Dies [8/26/1906-3/3/1993] (By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr., March 4, 1993)
* Varro Tyler, Herbal Medicine Expert, 74, Dies [philatelist] (By CARLA BARANAUCKAS, Aug. 26, 2001)
* CHILMARK JOURNAL: Rare Birds Eclipse Vineyard's Celebrities [razorbills] (By SARA RIMER, Aug. 26, 2001)
* SUNDAY Q & A: Hebrew, Modern and Biblical (By NY TIMESA, Aug. 26, 2001)
In Norway, Here Comes an Uncommon Royal Bride (By WALTER GIBBS, Aug. 26, 2001)
* In Saudi Arabia, Ruling Class to Working Class (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Aug. 26, 2001)
* The Dark Side of the Global Economy (By ALISON SMALE, Aug. 26, 2001)
Putin the Power Broker (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Aug. 26, 2001)
Here's One Treaty the Bush Team Loves, to Death [Anzus] (By JANE PERLEZ, Aug. 26, 2001)
NY REGION: Greenwich Reopens Gates, but Powerball Hordes Fail to Show (By ROBERT WORTH, Aug. 26, 2001)
EDUCATION: Urging Students to College by Speeding the Path to It (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Aug. 26, 2001)
Still Working, Boomers 'Retire' to Resorts (By ANDREW JACOBS, Aug. 26, 2001)
SKANEATELES JOURNAL: Waiting to Hear From the Madonna (NY TIMES, Aug. 26, 2001)
SPORTS: Sosa Hits Two More Homers in Cubs' 6-1 Win Over Cardinals (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 26, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Making Over the Central Intelligence Agency (By PHILIP TAUBMAN, Aug. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: My Condit Interview (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: That Sinking Feeling (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 26, 2001)
* OP-ED: Poetry's Power Against Intolerance (By SEAMUS HEANEY, Aug. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: Gary Condit's Strong, Silent Act (By JEDEDIAH PURDY, Aug. 26, 2001)
BUSINESS: The Promise in Selling Stem Cells (By ANDREW POLLACK, Aug. 26, 2001)
* Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to Mundane (By AMY HARMON, Aug. 26, 2001)
* INVESTING WITH: David R. Carr Jr. and George W. Brumley III of Oak Value Fund [Buffett disciples]
(By CAROLE GOULD, Aug. 26, 2001)
A Knack for Turning on a Dime [AutoNation] (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Aug. 26, 2001)
For Better or Worse, Winemakers Go High Tech (By ALICE FEIRING, Aug. 26, 2001)
* Business Cards Escape the Plain White Rectangle (By TANYA MOHN, Aug. 26, 2001)
* BOOK VALUE: Financial History, as a Tale of Passion ["Business of America"] (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Aug. 26, 2001)
* To Gauge the Internet, Listen to the Steam Engine (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Aug. 26, 2001)
MIDSTREAM: Why the Grass Must Be Greener (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Aug. 26, 2001)
* MARKET INSIGHT: Still Bullish After All These Years (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Aug. 26, 2001)
ON THE JOB: Finding Work in All the Wrong Places (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Aug. 26, 2001)
Tracking the Yo-Yo Economy (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 26, 2001)
PRIVATE SECTOR: Wall Street's Spiritual Lift From the Boys of Summer (Compiled by RICK GLADSTONE, Aug. 26, 2001)
INVESTING DIARY: Janus Takes Its Lumps on WebMD (By JEFF SOMMER, Aug. 26, 2001)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: The Low-Cost Way to Battle M.B.A.'s (By Judith H. Dobrzynski, Aug. 26, 2001)
BUSINESS DIARY: Perhaps the Revenge of Candlestick Park? (By RICK GLADSTRONE, Aug. 26, 2001)
MARKET WATCH: Rate Cuts Won't Spur an Economy Choked by Debt (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 26, 2001)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Fewer Cars on the Lot, but Not Yet a Recovery (By KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 26, 2001)
What's An Aging 'Barbarian' To Do? [Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company] (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Aug. 26, 2001)
PORTFOLIOS: It's Time to Look Beyond Conventional Wisdom on the Dollar (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 26, 2001)
ART: Museums in a Quandary: Where Are the Ideals? (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Aug. 26, 2001)
ART: Museum Building in the Budapest Style (By ANDRAS SZANTO, Aug. 26, 2001)
ART: Women Who Took Up Art When Most Women Didn't (By DEBORAH WEISGALL, Aug. 26, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: Correcting the Nearsightedness of Airport Designers (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Aug. 26, 2001)
* DANCE: From Living Treasures, Coins of Dance Wisdom [Quotes] (By ANN DALY, Aug. 26, 2001)
DANCING: Just Can't Stop Dancing, Even in Spare Time (By ROSLYN SULCAS, Aug. 26, 2001)
FILM: 'O': The Price You Pay for Getting Too Real (By TIM BLAKE NELSON, Aug. 26, 2001)
FILM: 'Vengo': Courting Death With the Roma (By LESLIE CAMHI, Aug. 26, 2001)
MUSIC: Serge Gainsbourg: French Pop's Witty Roué (By JODY ROSEN, Aug. 26, 2001)
MUSIC: The Sound of Uncertain, Uninspired Grad Students (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Aug. 26, 2001)
OPERA: A Long-Timer's Solution to Boredom: Be a Barnum (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Aug. 26, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Icons and Surprises From Cuban Photography (By MIKE HALE, Aug. 26, 2001)
POP: Pop Self-Consciousness Finally Infiltrates Broadway (By BARRY SINGER, Aug. 26, 2001)
When the Epicenter of Pop Had a Broadway Address (By KEN EMERSON, Aug. 26, 2001)
TV: The Sci Fi Channel Seeks New Life Beyond Its Niche (By LEWIS BEALE, Aug. 26, 2001)
STYLE: A Lavender Haze Rises Over Manhattan [Maximus & Brigitte Mansfield European Spa]
(By CATHY HORYN, Aug. 26, 2001)
STYLE: VIEW: I'm Stylish, I'm Single and I'm Not Carrie Bradshaw (By JULIA CHAPLIN, Aug. 26, 2001)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: Ted Zagat: The Hot-Spot Inspector [sells 650,000 NY restaurant guides a year] (By LINDA LEE, Aug. 26, 2001)
NOTICED: In, Sweet Spot! [freckles are in] (By MONICA CORCORAN, Aug. 26, 2001)
MIRROR, MIRROR: Reading Between the Hemlines (By PENELOPE GREEN, Aug. 26, 2001)
Scared Sick: The $900 Antidote [CT Scan] (By NANCY HASS, Aug. 26, 2001)
VOWS: Joan Keating and James Durning (By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER, Aug. 26, 2001)
ON THE STREET: The Oranging of Summer (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Aug. 26, 2001)
Spa Takeout (They Deliver, Right Down to Mats) (By KAREN ROBINOVITZ, Aug. 26, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: A Chief for Every Occasion, Even a Chief Chief (By JACK ROSENTHAL, Aug. 26, 2001)
* BASEBALL: There's Sweetness in the Sorrow of a Losing Streak (By NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF, Aug. 26, 2001)
* Questions for Harry Belafonte (By JOHN LELAND, Aug. 26, 2001)
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HEALTH: Researchers Say Embryos in Labs Are Not Available (By GINA KOLATA, Aug. 26, 2001)
HEALTH: The Job Nobody at the Fertility Clinic Wants [discarding embryos] (By Gina Kolata, Aug. 26, 2001)
HEALTH: Unfilled Jobs in Pharmacies Raise Fears of Drug Errors (NY TIMES, Aug. 26, 2001)

Saturday, August 25, 2001:
On This Day: August 25 (Ivan IV 8/25/1530-3/18/1584, Allan Pinkerton 8/25/1819-7/1/1884, Louis II "Mad King Ludwig" 8/25/1845-6/13/1886, Bill Nye 8/25/1850-2/22/1896, Arthur Hinsley 8/25/1865-3/17/1943, Sean O'Kelly 8/25/1882-11/23/1966, Sir Hans Adolf Krebs 8/25/1900-11/22/1981, Walt Kelly 8/25/1913-10/18/1973, George Wallace 8/25/1919-9/13/1998, Eugene V. Rostow 1913, Van Johnson 1916, Mel Ferrer 1917, Monty Hall 1923, Sean Connery 1930, Page Johnson 1930, Regis Philbin 1931, Hugh Hudson 1936, John Badham 1939, Marshall Brickman 1941, Anthony Heald 1944, Anne Archer 1947, John Savage 1949, Tim Burton 1958)
Allied Forces Help French to Rid Capital of Nazis (ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 25, 1944)
* Leonard Bernstein, 72, Music's Monarch, Dies [8/25/1918-10/14/1990] (By DONAL HENAHAN, October 15, 1990)
* Abraham Lincoln: The Coming Man's Presidential Career, à la Blondin (Harper's Weekly, Aug. 25, 1860)
Boyd L. Jefferies Dies at 70; Headed Institutional Broker (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Aug. 25, 2001)
Harry Martin Meyer Jr., 72; Helped Create Rubella Vaccine (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 25, 2001)
Edward Rice, Energetic Biographer Who Saw the World, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, Dies at 86, Aug. 25, 2001)
Bob Williams Television Columnist, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2001)
MAN IN THE NEWS: Bush's Choice to Head the Joint Chiefs [Richard B. Myers] (By JAMES DAO, Aug. 25, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: As Helms Exits, a Conservative Crusader Will Carry On (By KEVIN SACK, Aug. 25, 2001)
Large Audiences for ABC and Cable [Connie Chung interviews Condit] (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 25, 2001)
In Condit's District, Few Seem Swayed by Interview (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Aug. 25, 2001)
On the Plains, Mystery of a 'Phantom' Herd (By DAN BARRY, Aug. 25, 2001)
EDUCATION: Jewish Collegians Prepare to Defend Israel on the Campuses (By JODI WILGOREN, Aug. 25, 2001)
BELIEFS: Many young Catholics stay with the church despite disagreeing on some issues
(By PETER STEINFELS, Aug. 25, 2001)
The Iron Lady's Sequel Haunts Britain's Tories (By SARAH LYALL, Aug. 25, 2001)
* Century Later, Curse Is Lifted on a Greek Isle (By REUTERS, Aug. 25, 2001)
Archbishop Who Married Says He Is Returning to the Church (By REUTERS, Aug. 25, 2001)
NY REGION: New Political Math in City Raises Power of Asian Vote (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Aug. 25, 2001)
Group Deletes Some Data About Voters From Internet (By AMY HARMON, Aug. 25, 2001)
* Going the Extra Mile (or Stop) for Powerball (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Aug. 25, 2001)
* Washington Fought Here; Who Knew? [General Howe defeats Washington in Brooklyn] (By ELLIOTT REBHUN, Aug. 25, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Gary Condit's Bad Night (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2001)
EDITORIAL: THE RURAL LIFE: August Corn (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Aug. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: Trapped in a Body at War With Itself (By DAVID GROSSMAN, Aug. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: Gary Condit, the Novel (By SUSAN SHREVE, Aug. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: Cuban Anger Needs to Guard Its Credibility (By ANA MENENDEZ, Aug. 25, 2001)
* LETTERS: Freshman Year in College: Get Used to It (By MAGGIE MARCUS, Aug. 25, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Surge After Cisco Says Its Business Has Stabilized
[Dow +194, Nasdaq +74] (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 25, 2001)
Back-to-School Consumers Seem to Be in Belt-Tightening Mode (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 25, 2001)
U.S. Refuses to Disclose PC Tracking (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 25, 2001)
* BOOK: Provocative Book Says Class System, Not Racial Pride, Ruled Brittania (By SARAH LYALL, Aug. 25, 2001)
BOOKS: SHELF LIFE: Children and the Demons of Pop Culture (By MICHAEL MASSING, Aug. 25, 2001)
MUSIC: MOSTLY MOZART: Understated Elegance Spiced With Surprises (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 25, 2001)
ROCK: WATCHA TOUR: Latin Bands Cook a Stew of Spicy Alternatives (By JON PARELES, Aug. 25, 2001)
THEATER: 'BREAK THE FLOOR': A Fusion of Rock and Tap With the Requisite Energy (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Aug. 25, 2001)
* TV: New York Yearns for an Institution of Historic Proportions (By BARBARA STEWART, Aug. 25, 2001)
* TV: 'THE HUMAN FACE': Taking a Rare Stroll Through Facial History (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 25, 2001)
SCIENCE: Worried Scientists Are Told Ample Stem Cell Lines Exist (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 25, 2001)
HEALTH: Findings Give Some Support To Advocates of Spanking (By ERICA GOODE, Aug. 25, 2001)

Friday, August 24, 2001:
On This Day: August 24 (George Stubbs 8/24/1724-9/10/1806, William Wilberforce 8/24/1759-7/29/1833, Sir Daniel Gooch 8/24/1816-10/15/1889, Charles Follen McKim 8/24/1847-9/14/1909, Sir Max Beerbohm 8/24/1872-5/20/1956, William Gibbs 8/24/1886-9/6/1967, Malcolm Cowley 8/24/1898-3/27/1989, Graham Stherland 8/24/1903-2/17/1980, Rene Levesque 8/24/1922-11/1/1987, Kenny Baker 1934, Mason Williams 1938, Gerry Cooney 1956, Cal Ripken Jr. 8/24/1960)
Hurricane Andrew Rips Through Florida and Heads Into Gulf (By JAMES BARRON, August 24, 1992)
* Jorge Luis Borges, A Master of Fantasy and Fable, is Dead [8/24/1899-6/14/1986] (By EDWARD A. GARGAN, June 15, 1986)
Peter Maas, Writer Who Chronicled the Mafia, Dies at 72 (By JAMES BARRON, Aug. 24, 2001)
Kathleen Freeman, Actress Playing Comic Character Roles, Dies at 78 (By JESSE McKINLEY, Aug. 24, 2001)
Dr. Amram J. Cohen, 47; Provided Heart Surgery to Poor Children (By JOEL GREENBERG, Aug. 24, 2001)
A. D. Flowers, Special-Effects Coordinator, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2001)
Condit Denies Any Knowledge of Levy's Fate (By TODD S. PURDUM, Aug. 24, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Quizzing Condit (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 24, 2001)
Text: Condit on Chandra Levy's Disappearance (Interview By Connie Chung, Aug. 24, 2001)
Elizabeth Dole Gives Hint of Senate Race (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2001)
Food Shortage in Mountains Sends Hungry Bears to Town (By JIM YARDLEY, Aug. 24, 2001)
China Now Facing an AIDS Epidemic, a Top Aide Admits (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 24, 2001)
TEHRAN JOURNAL: Dog Lovers of Iran, Beware of Growling Ayatollahs (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Aug. 24, 2001)
NY REGION: As Public Records Go Online, Some Say They're Too Public (By, Aug. 24, 2001)
Greenwich Gets Its Wish as State Lottery Officials Stop Sales of Powerball Tickets (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Aug. 24, 2001)
* SPORTS: Bonds Makes This Year's Run for the Books (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 24, 2001)
* EDITORIAL: How Bright the Sky (NY TIMES, Aug. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Pants on Fire (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: A Way Out of the Middle East Impasse (By THOMAS FRIEDMAN, Aug. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: Patents Could Block the Way to a Cure (By HOWARD MARKEL, Aug. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: Selling a New Armed Forces (By JOHN HILLEN, Aug. 24, 2001)
LETTERS: Tap Water, in a Bottle (By PETER H. GLEICK, Aug. 24, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Edge Downward as Uncertain Buyers Stay Away
[Dow -48, Nasdaq -17] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2001)
Lucent Maps Out Route to Profit by the End of Next Year (By SIMON ROMERO, Aug. 24, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Fast Food Chains Are Contest Shy After a Rigging Scandal (By STUART ELLIOTT, Aug. 24, 2001)
* Amid Slump, Cisco Announces a Revamping (By CHRIS GAITHER, Aug. 24, 2001)
2 Big Booksellers' Results Beat Wall St. Expectations (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 24, 2001)
ART: 'MY REALITY': Sinister Aspects of Japanese Animation (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 24, 2001)
ART: 'RED, BLACK AND GREEN': Invoking Marcus Garvey While Looking Ahead (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 24, 2001)
ART: Fun and Games in 3 Shows at Mass MOCA (By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 24, 2001)
ANTIQUES: Deerfield Snags Rare Bird (By WENDY MOONAN, Aug. 24, 2001)
BOOKS: 'ARRESTING GOD IN KATHMANDU': In Nepal, Too, Desire Defies Modern Times (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Aug. 24, 2001)
DANCE: Making Magic With Young Feet (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 24, 2001)
DESIGN: 'GLASS OF THE AVANT-GARDE': Luminous Ideas That Broke the Mold (By ROBERTA SMITH, Aug. 24, 2001)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Flashback to the Future (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 24, 2001)
FILM: 'HAPPY ACCIDENTS': Love in the Fourth Dimension (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 24, 2001)
FILM: 'BUBBLE BOY': Boy With a Decent Spirit That No One Can Burst (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 24, 2001)
FILM: 'JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS OF MARS': Showdown at O.K. Corral, With Zombies (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 24, 2001)
FILM: 'JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK': Hitchhiking to Hollywood in a Hurry (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 24, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID GOLDBLATT: Documenting Ordinary Scenes of South Africa Then and Now
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Aug. 24, 2001)
THEATER: 'NO MOTHER TO GUIDE HER': A Heart of Gold and a Colt .22 (By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Aug. 24, 2001)
THEATER: 'SIC': Ready to Play Dead at the Drop of a Hat (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 24, 2001)
TV: 'CHANGING STAGES': If Theater Doesn't Work on TV, Make the Most of It (NY TIMES, Aug. 24, 2001)
* WEEKEND EXCURSION: Enjoying Upstate Wonders Under the Supervision of a 5-Year-Old [Howe Caverns]
(By JOE GLICKMAN, Aug. 24, 2001)
* HEALTH: Human Genome Now Appears More Complicated After All (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 24, 2001)
HEALTH: U.S. Investigating Johns Hopkins Study of Lead Paint Hazard (By TAMAR LEWIN, Aug. 24, 2001)

Thursday, August 23, 2001:
On This Day: August 23 (Francois Hotman 8/23/1524-2/12/1590, Louis XVI 8/23/1754-1/21/1793, Georges, Baron Cuvier 8/23/1769-5/13/5/13/1832, William E. Henley 8/23/1849-7/11/1903, Arnold Toynbee 8/23/1852-3/9/1883, Edgar Lee Masters 8/23/1869-3/5/1950, Jack Butler Yeats 8/23/1871-3/28/1957, Jonathan Wainwright 8/23/1883-9/2/1953, Constant Lambert 8/23/1905-8/21/1951, Robert Mulligan 1925, Vera Miles 1930, Mark Russell 1932, Pete Wilson 1933, Barbara Eden 1934, Ronny Cox 1938, Richard Sanders 1940, Patricia McBride 1942, Shelley Long 1949, Rick Springfield 1949, Mark Hudson 1951, Queen Noor 1951)
Sacco and Vanzetti Put to Death Early This Morning (NY Times, August 23, 1927)
Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies [8/23/1912-2/2/1996] (By ALBIN KREBS, Feb. 3, 1996)
W. G. Clark, 77, Illinois Jurist and Critic of War in Vietnam (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 23, 2001)
Neil Cooper, Who Founded a Rock and Reggae Record Label, Dies at 71 (By, Aug. 23, 2001)
Kenneth Reese Cole Jr., 63, Aide to Nixon (NY TIMES, Aug. 23, 2001)
Betty Everett, of 'The Shoop Shoop Song,' Dies at 61 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 23, 2001)
George O'Toole, Novelist and Historian, Dies at 64 (NY TIMES, Aug. 23, 2001)
Clinton Library Gets $8.4 Million in 2000 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 23, 2001)
Condit Admits Relationship With Levy (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 23, 2001)
* Librarians Adjust Image in an Effort to Fill Jobs (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Aug. 23, 2001)
NY REGION: Speaking With Eyes and Painting With a Wheelchair (By CARLA BARANAUCKAS, Aug. 23, 2001)
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: What's in a Name? Today, Not Much (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Aug. 23, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: A Campaign of Caution (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 23, 2001)
OP-ED: The Unknowns of the Mechanical Heart (By GEORGE J. ANNAS, Aug. 23, 2001)
* OP-ED: A Simple Glass of Water (By TED C. FISHMAN, Aug. 23, 2001)
LETTERS: Baseball Meditation [Baseball is like church.] (By CORY FRANKLIN, Aug. 23, 2001)
LETTERS: 'Best' Colleges List (By BRIAN DUFFY, Aug. 23, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Rise on Semiconductor Study and Profit Forecasts
[Dow +103, Nasdaq +29] (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 23, 2001)
Relentless Search for Growth Humbles a Mutual Fund Star (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Aug. 23, 2001)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Good Monitors Make for Better Contracts [video rental] (By HAL R. VARIAN, Aug. 23, 2001)
Excite Replaces Auditing Firm That Issued Warning (By MICHAEL BRICK, Aug. 23, 2001)
Inquiry Focuses on 'Spoofing' of Stock Prices [entering false quotes & then canceling them]
(By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 23, 2001)
More Signs of Trouble for Ireland's Technology Boom (By BRIAN LAVERY, Aug. 23, 2001)
BOOKS: 'THE SELECTED STORIES OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH': Danger and Intrigue Lurk in Dark Worlds
(By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 23, 2001)
* 'DANCE, THE SPIRIT OF CAMBODIA': Subtle Mysteries of Celestials and Mortals (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 23, 2001)
FILM CRITIC: Tarantino Keeps Alive Those Killer B's (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 23, 2001)
HIP-HOP: MYSTIC: California's Alternative to Rap's Tough Core (By ANN POWERS, Aug. 23, 2001)
MUSIC: Beethoven's 'Macbeth' Bubbles to the Surface (NY TIMES, Aug. 23, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: An Energizing Fusion From African Rockers (By JON PARELES, Aug. 23, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: The Art of Memory: What Rooms Reveal (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Aug. 23, 2001)
* STYLE: At Home With Joan and Robert B. Parker: A House Divided, Lovingly (By SUSAN DIESENHOUSE, Aug. 23, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 23, 2001)
* BACK TO SCHOOL: Take-Home Test: Adding PC's to Book Bags (By LISA GUERNSEY, Aug. 23, 2001)
Malaysia's Internet Road Show (By WAYNE ARNOLD, Aug. 23, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: When Packing for College, Which Computer? (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 23, 2001)
Game Designer Who Breaks the Mold (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Aug. 23, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: Beaming Data Holds Promise, With Limits, for Networking (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Aug. 23, 2001)
* ROBOTICS: It Does Floors (Lots of Them) All by Itself and Doesn't Complain (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Aug. 23, 2001)
It's Not the Computer; It's How (and Where) You Use It (By SHELLY FREIERMAN, Aug. 23, 2001)
ONLINE DIARY: Dear Thermostat; Profane? It's My Name; In Search of Marijuana (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Aug. 23, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Buying Stuff for the New School Year (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 23, 2001)
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Sony Enters Five-Megapixel Territory (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Aug. 23, 2001)
PERIPHERALS: For Artists and Photographers, Pen Is Mightier Than the Mouse (By IAN AUSTEN, Aug. 23, 2001)
* Cleaning House and Computer [Netflix & RentMyDVD] (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 23, 2001)
Q & A: Thwarting Imposters at America Online (By J. D.�BIERSDORFER, Aug. 23, 2001)
* HEALTH: Study Rates Colonoscopy as Far Superior Test (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 23, 2001)

Wednesday, August 22, 2001:
On This Day: August 22 (Denis Papin 8/22/1647-1712, Samuel Pierpont Langley 8/22/1834-2/27/1906, Mary Elizabeth Wood 8/22/1861-5/1/1931, Claude Debussy 8/22/1862-3/25/1918, Willis Whitney 8/22/1868-1/9/1958, Dorothy Parker 8/22/1893-6/7/1967, Elizabeth Bergner 8/22/1900-5/12/1986, Arthur M. Sackler 8/22/1913-5/26/1987, James Kirkwood 8/22/1924-4/21/1989, Leni Riefenstahl 1902, Ray Bradbury 1920, Dr. Dnton Cooley 1920, H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1934, Morton Dean 1935, Carl Yastrzemski 1939, Valerie Harper 1940, Bill Parcells 1941, Kathy Lennon 1942, Steve Kroft 1945, Cindy Williams 1947, Holly Dunn 1957, Vernon Reid 1958)
New England Welcomes President Theodore Roosevelt (NY TIMES, August 22, 1902)
* Deng Xiaoping: A Political Wizard Who Put China on the Capitalist Road
[8/22/1904-2/19/1997] (By PATRICK E. TYLER, February 20, 1997)
* Fred Hoyle Dies at 86; Opposed 'Big Bang' but Named It (By WALTER SULLIVAN, Aug. 22, 2001)
Morris Golde, Businessman and Friend of Arts and Artists, Dies at 81 (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 22, 2001)
Philip Crosby, Developer of Zero-Defects Concept, Is Dead at 75 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 22, 2001)
* Eight Charged With Rigging McDonald's Prize Contests (By DAVID STOUT, Aug. 22, 2001)
* EDUCATION: Orientation Is Given the Old College Try (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Aug. 22, 2001)
* EDUCATION: Freshmen in Hartford Study a Lesson Plan in Character (By PAUL ZIELBAUER, Aug. 22, 2001)
Bush Defends Size of Surplus and Tax Cuts (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 22, 2001)
Workers' Rights Suffering as China Goes Capitalist (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 22, 2001)
France and Germany Jointly Seek a Ban on Cloning Humans (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 22, 2001)
Explosion Wrecks a 14th-Century Monastery (By IAN FISHER, Aug. 22, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Last Freeway (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Rip Van Rummy Awakes (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: Keeping Secrets at Too High a Price (By THOMAS S. BLANTON, Aug. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: My Hip-Hop Id (By MINA KUMAR, Aug. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: Why Put Out Every Wildfire in the Forests? (By WILLIAM KITTREDGE, Aug. 22, 2001)
LETTERS: Joseph Ellis's Fate (By JOSEPH J. BALITEWICZ, Aug. 22, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Drop Sharply After Message From Fed
[Dow -146, Nasdaq -50] (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 22, 2001)
GNC and Franchisees at Odds Over Competition (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 22, 2001)
As Prices Fall, Utilities Weigh the Economics of New Plants (By NEELA BANERJEE, Aug. 22, 2001)
Retailers Split Over Setting Sights on Tax Rebates (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Aug. 22, 2001)
MANAGEMENT: Managing the International Conference Call Beast (By JOBERT E. ABUEVA, Aug. 22, 2001)
THE BOSS : My Many Citizenship Quests (By CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, Aug. 22, 2001)
WORKPLACE: Countdown to the Great Labor Shortage (By WELD ROYAL, Aug. 22, 2001)
MY JOB: Each Day Death Awaits Me (By ANTHONY ANGOTTI, Aug. 22, 2001)
AT&T Unit Sees No Halt in Net Access (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 22, 2001)
Apple to Get Emmy Award for Device [Fire Wire] (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 22, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Even Antique Glass Flowers Need to Be Rejuvenated (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Aug. 22, 2001)
ARTS: A Presidential Adviser Trades Neckties for Boas (By JANE GROSS, Aug. 22, 2001)
* BOOKS: New York Public Library Buys Kerouac Archive (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: Young Italians Stand at Attention, Which Their Ensemble Attracts
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 22, 2001)
POP: JANET JACKSON: Channel Surfing With a Diva (By JON PARELES, Aug. 22, 2001)
TV NOTES: Show Raises Reality Question (By JIM�RUTENBERG, Aug. 22, 2001)
FOOD: THE MINIMALIST: Roasted Tomatoes Put Your Taste Buds on Full Alert (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2001)
THE CHEF: Tom Colicchio [2 recipes] (By Tom Colicchio with Florence Fabricant, Aug. 22, 2001)
HEALTH: Two Drugs Linked to Increased Heart Risk (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2001)
Whir of Artificial Heart Gives Patient New Reason to Smile (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 22, 2001)

Tuesday, August 21, 2001:
On This Day: August 21 (Philip II 8/21/1165-7/14/1233, St. Francis De Sales 8/21/1567-12/28/1622, Jean-Baptiste Greuze 8/21/1725-3/21/1805, August Bournonville 8/21/1805-11/30/1879, Frank Andrew Munsey 8/21/1854-12/22/1925, Aubrey Beardsley 8/21/1872-3/16/1898, Roark Bradford 8/21/1896-11/13/1948, Albert Ball 8/21/1896-5/7/1917, Fritz Freleng 8/21/1906-5/26/1995, Princess Margaret 1930, Melvin Van Peebles 1932, Kenny Rogers 1938, Harold Reid 1939, Clarence Williams III 1939, Patty McCormack 1945, Harry Smith 1951, Kim Cattrall 1956, Carrie-Anne Moss 1970)
Hawaii Becomes the 50th State; New Flag Shown (By W. H. LAWRENCE, August 21, 1959)
* Count Basie, 79, Band Leader And Master of Swing, Dead [8/21/1904-4/26/1984] (by JOHN S. WILSON, April 27, 1984)
Kim Stanley, Reluctant but Gripping Broadway and Hollywood Actress, Dies at 76 (By ROBERT BERKVIST, Aug. 21, 2001)
* E. T. Hall, Archaeologist Who Debunked Piltdown Man, Dies at 77 [Turin Shroud] (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 21, 2001)
Patrick Wall Dies at 76; British Authority on Pain (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2001)
* Where Mozart, a Tribe and Parallels Will Meet (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Aug. 21, 2001)
Priest to Circus Workers Relishes Road Mission (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2001)
* Rare Alligator Is Threatened as China Feeds Its People (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Aug. 21, 2001)
PIER 92 JOURNAL: Woman Makes Her Home on the QE2 (By SAMUEL D. KING, Aug. 21, 2001)
* TUNNEL VISION: An Old Rivalry, a Quiet Continuance (By RANDY KENNEDY, Aug. 21, 2001)
EDITORIAL: An Unresponsive Economy (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Lies of Joseph Ellis (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Fabricating a Crisis (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 21, 2001)
* OP-ED: In the Inner Game, You Really Can Win for Losing [Cubs & Red Sox] (By R. D. ROSEN, Aug. 21, 2001)
* LETTERS: Churchill's Story (To Be Continued) (By MICHAEL PIETSCH, Aug. 21, 2001)
BUSINESS: Major Gauges Notch Higher in a Day of Light Trading
[Dow +79, Nasdaq +14] (By REUTERS, Aug. 21, 2001)
* MARKET PLACE: Even in Bearish World, Index Funds Keep Going Strong (By DANNY HAKIM, Aug. 21, 2001)
* U.S.-Trained Telecom Chief Builds a New, Hybrid Model [Edward Tian] (By MARK LANDLER, Aug. 21, 2001)
Amazon.com to Sell Products From Circuit City (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 21, 2001)
* Audit Raises Hard Questions About Health of Excite@Home [stock down: 87 to 47 cents]
(By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 21, 2001)
* ART: Illustrating Familiar Tales for a New Generation [Jerry Pinkney] (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Aug. 21, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: 'Corelli's' Greek Isle Bewildered by Instant Celebrity (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Aug. 21, 2001)
BOOKS: 'LONDON BRIDGES': An Unlikely Team Solves a Foggy London Murder (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 21, 2001)
CABARET: The Voice of Experience Swings With a Buoyant Calm (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 21, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: Unanswered Questions at Debussy Festival Finale (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Aug. 21, 2001)
POP: ALICIA KEYS: Wresting Control of Cupid's Arrows (By JON PARELES, Aug. 21, 2001)
THEATER: 'THE ADDING MACHINE': A Cosmic Theme's Comic Conversion (By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Aug. 21, 2001)
* TV: 'GOLD!': The Madness for Gold Guided History's Path (By RON WERTHEIMER, Aug. 21, 2001)
TV: Paramount Says Reality Show Used Supplementary Scenes (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 21, 2001)
FASHION: For Fall, Some Swash, Some Buckle and a Tougher Look (By CATHY HORYN, Aug. 21, 2001)
* FASHION: FRONT ROW: A Mother Lode of Old Inspiration [Gallagher Paper Collectibles]
(By GUY TREBAY, Aug. 21, 2001)
SCIENCE: Tiny Island Offers View Into Lives of Rare Birds (By E. VERNON LAUX, Aug. 21, 2001)
* 'Spin' Could Be Quantum Boost for Computers (By KENNETH CHANG, Aug. 21, 2001)
* Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Aug. 21, 2001)
Interference From a Noisy Planet [radio astronomy] (By CHRISTINE KENNEALLY, Aug. 21, 2001)
HEALTH: Turning Down the Phantom Noise Inside the Head (By LINDA CARROLL, Aug. 21, 2001)
FACING OFF: Prescription Pitches Are Direct-to-Consumer (By GALE SCOTT, Aug. 21, 2001)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: Literature and Medicine Meet in Story Collection (By JOHN LANGONE, Aug. 21, 2001)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: Addressing Problems That Confront Aging Parents (By JOHN LANGONE, Aug. 21, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: Diversions Work for Some Blood Donors (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 21, 2001)
Side Effects: Iron May Soothe Heart Patients' Coughs (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 21, 2001)
* Outcomes: Reared on Soy and Doing Quite Well (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 21, 2001)
Childbirth: A Male's Advantage From the Start (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 21, 2001)
A Step Forward for Genetic Engineering in New Zealand (By ALLAN COUKELL, Aug. 21, 2001)
CASES: A Long Night in Dark Land of Autism (By ANNIE LUBLINER LEHMANN, Aug. 21, 2001)

Monday, August 20, 2001:
On This Day: August 20 (Jacopo Peri 8/20/1561-8/12/1633, Francis Asbury 8/20/1745-3/31/1816, Eliel Saarinen 8/20/1873-7/1/1950, Edgar Guest 8/20/1881-8/5/1959, Salvatore Quasimodo 8/20/1901-6/14/1968, Jack Teagarden 8/20/1905-1/15/1964, Valentin Glushko 8/20/1908-1/10/1989, Kingsley Davis 8/20/1908-2/27/1997, Eeor Saarinen 8/20/1910-9/1/1961, Roger Wolcott Sperry 8/20/1913-4/17/1994, Walter Bernstein 1919, George Mitchell 1933, Isaac Hayes 1947, Connie Chung 1946, Jimmy Pankow 1947, Robert Plant 1948, Rudy Gatlin 1952, Peter Horton 1953, Joan Allen 1956)
Czechoslovakia Invaded by Russians and Four Other Warsaw Pact Forces (By TAD SZULC, August 20, 1968)
Benjamin Harrison Dead at 67 [8/20/1833-3/13/1901] (NY Times, March 14, 1901)
Peter Bergson, Crusader for European Jews, Dies at 86 (By STEPHANIE FLANDERS, Aug. 20, 2001)
Donald Woods, Editor and Apartheid Foe, Dies at 67 (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Aug. 20, 2001)
Sidney Tillim, Art Critic and Historic Scene Painter, Dies at 76 (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 20, 2001)
Patrick Wall, British Authority on Pain, Is Dead at 76 (NY TIMES, Aug. 20, 2001)
* Towering Buddhist Shrine Is Consecrated in Rockies (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Aug. 20, 2001)
Debate Over a National Monument Emphasizes Old West-New West Divide (By JIM ROBBINS, Aug. 20, 2001)
World's Economy Slows to a Walk in Rare Lockstep (By JOSEPH KAHN with EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 20, 2001)
Doctors' Dirty Needles Spread Hepatitis in China (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 20, 2001)
* BEERSEL JOURNAL: A Pigeon King Watches His Flock, and His Back (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Aug. 20, 2001)
* NY REGION: Ransom for a Stolen Chagall: An Israeli-Palestinian Peace (By C. J. CHIVERS, Aug. 20, 2001)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary [Parrot mimics cell phone] (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 20, 2001)
SPORTS: Mickelson Is Living 'As the World Turns' [Golf PGA] (By DAVE ANDERSON, Aug. 20, 2001)
SPORTS: For Agassi, Life Is More Than Tennis (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: High-Decibel Hate (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: A Look at the Architects of America's Red Scare (By RICK PERLSTEIN, Aug. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: Homeownership That's Too Important to Risk (By CHARLES W. CALOMIRIS and ROBERT E. LITAN, Aug. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: A Lobby, an Elevator Line, a Universe (By CARROLL BOGERT, Aug. 20, 2001)
BUSINESS: Cable Networks Look for Ways to Stand Out (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 20, 2001)
'Best' List for Colleges by U.S. News Is Under Fire (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Aug. 20, 2001)
THE WIRED ARTS: A Sound Hound Forages for Music in the Digital Jungle (By NEIL STRAUSS, Aug. 20, 2001)
* Chroniclers of New Economy Hear Their Own Bad News (By FELICITY BARRINGER & ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Aug. 20, 2001)
* NEW ECONOMY: Wireless Customers Seek Better Quality of Service (By SUSAN STELLIN, Aug. 20, 2001)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: New Deals on Horizon for Surviving Dot-Com's (By BOB TEDESCHI, Aug. 20, 2001)
Licensing Famous Art, Digitally (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Aug. 20, 2001)
PATENTS: New Customer Service Software (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Aug. 20, 2001)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Technology Magazine Hopes to Fill a Niche [Optimmize] (By SUSAN STELLIN, Aug. 20, 2001)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Light at End of Tunnel Is From a Web Site (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Aug. 20, 2001)
COMPRESSED DATA: Having Customers Say No to Tap Water [Coke] (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Aug. 20, 2001)
Bidding War for Globalnet Ends in Deal (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Aug. 20, 2001)
ARTS: Colorful Sculptures Dot City Streets (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 20, 2001)
ARTS ONLINE: Why Just Listen to Pop When You Can Mix Your Own? (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Aug. 20, 2001)
BOOKS: 'HOSTAGE': Not-Half-Bad Punks and a World-Weary Cop (By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 20, 2001)
DANCE: NOCHE FLAMENCA: Heat of Flamenco in a Smoke-Free Room (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 20, 2001)
MUSIC: SUMMERGARDEN: Counterpoint to the City's Symphony (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 20, 2001)
MUSIC: TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC:
Tanglewood Finale Features New Musicians Performing New Music (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Aug. 20, 2001)
THEATER: A Dynamic Actor Mixes Versatility With Aplomb (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 20, 2001)
THEATER: 'HOW HAPPY BARBIES ARE!': Cancel All Appointments, Barbie, You're Not Going Anywhere
(By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Aug. 20, 2001)

Sunday, August 19, 2001:
On This Day: August 19 (John Flamsteed 8/19/1646-12/31/1719, Jeanne Becu du Barry 8/19/1743-12/8/1793, Seth Thomas 8/19/1785-1/29/1859, Bernard Baruch 8/19/1870-6/20/1965, Georges Enesco 8/19/1881-5/4/1955, Ton Duc Thang 8/19/1888-3/30/1980, Alfred Lunt 8/19/1892-8/3/1977, Colleen Moore 8/19/1900-8/25/1988, Ogden Nash 8/19/1902-5/19/1971, James Gould Cozzens 8/19/1903-8/9/1978, Gene Roddenberry 8/19/1921-10/24/1991, L.Q. Jones 1927, Willie Shoemaker 1931, Debra Paget 1933, Diana Muldaur 1938, Johnny Nash 1940, Jill St. John 1940, Fred Thompson 1942, Blly J. Kramer 1943, Bill Clinton 1946, Tipper Gore 1948, John Deacon 1951, Mary Matalin 1953, Kevin Dillon 1965, Kyra Sedgwick 1965, Lee Ann Womack 1966, Tabitha Soren 1967)
Hitler Endorsed by 9 to 1 in Poll on his Dictatorship, but Opposition Is Doubled
(By FREDERICK T. BIRCHALL, August 19, 1934)
* Coco Chanel, the Couturier, Dead in Paris at 87 [8/19/1883-1/10/1971] (NY Times, January 11, 1971)
Oscar Janiger, 83, Psychiatrist and Early Advocate of LSD Use, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 19, 2001)
Rabbi Avrohom Pam, Dean of Orthodox Brooklyn Seminary, Dies at 88 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 19, 2001)
Jeanne Loriod, Who Transformed Electronic Wails Into Heartfelt Music, Dies at 73 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 19, 2001)
Inventors Win Millions in Suit Over Design Theft [fire-escape ladder] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 19, 2001)
Fueled by Internet, Families Vacation to Research Ancestors (By PETER T. KILBORN, Aug. 19, 2001)
* China's New Charm for Hong Kong (By MARK LANDLER, Aug. 19, 2001)
* The Watch for Whales is Outpacing the Hunts (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 19, 2001)
* Trees Lock Angkor Temples in a Life-and-Death Embrace (By SETH MYDANS, Aug. 19, 2001)
Food Titans Setting Sights on Ice Cream Market (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Aug. 19, 2001)
CULTURES OF THE SOVIET WORLD: In Russia, a New Vulgarity and a New Freedom
(By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Aug. 19, 2001)
* SPORTS: Cupid Plays at the Maccabiah Games [Todd Schayes] (By IRA BERKOW, Aug. 19, 2001)
HARLEM JOURNAL: A Garden Grows Where the Jazz Used to Swing (By BARBARA STEWART, Aug. 19, 2001)
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: The Blockbuster Culture of Summer (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Aug. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Flintstone Futurama (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 19, 2001)
Bush's Gift to America's Extremists (By ALAN WOLFE, Aug. 19, 2001)
Let the Surplus Go (By ROBERT M. DUNN Jr., Aug. 19, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Nuggets Mined From the Corporate Past, for a Fee [Corning]
(By LYNNLEY BROWNING, Aug. 19, 2001)
* As Wireless Networks Grow, So Do Security Fears (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 19, 2001)
Regulators Check the New Economy's Books (By KARL SCHOENBERGER, Aug. 19, 2001)
* Some Funds Try to Read Your Mind (By ELIZABETH HARRIS, Aug. 19, 2001)
Restoring the QE2's Glamour (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Aug. 19, 2001)
GRASS ROOTS BUSINESS: A New Car Phone (No Strings Attached) (By MINDY SINK, Aug. 19, 2001)
Software Niche Offers a Rare Tech Bright Spot (By CAROLINE WAXLER, Aug. 19, 2001)
INVESTING WITH: David G. Herro and Michael J. Welsh Oakmark of International Small Cap Fund
(By CAROLE GOULD, Aug. 19, 2001)
* STRATEGIES: A Venerable Market Theory Points to an Extended Slump (By MARK HULBERT, Aug. 19, 2001)
MONEY & MEDICINE: Hidden Barriers to Health Coverage (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Aug. 19, 2001)
PRELUDES: Fighting for the Check, or Not (By ABBY ELLIN, Aug. 19, 2001)
* THE RIGHT THING: When the Truth Takes a Stretching Class (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, Aug. 19, 2001)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Peripherals Shine, Even in a PC Slump (By VIVIAN MARINO, Aug. 19, 2001)
INVESTING DIARY: For Bond Funds, a Very Good Year (By DANNY HAKIM, Aug. 19, 2001)
LETTERS: In the Footsteps of Their Parents? (By SITARAMAN RAJAMANI et. al., Aug. 19, 2001)
* The PC? That Old Thing? [Bill Gates worked @ $10/hr] (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 19, 2001)
MARKET WATCH: Why Investors May Find Arbitrators on Their Side (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 19, 2001)
* MARKET INSIGHT: The Case For Buying Japanese Stocks (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Aug. 19, 2001)
ECONOMIC VIEW: These Days, Layoffs Compete With Loyalty (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 19, 2001)
ART: A Surrealist and the Widow Who Keeps The Flame (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Aug. 19, 2001)
ART: Terry Winters: An Imagist Who Dances With Chance (By JEFFREY KASTNER, Aug. 19, 2001)
ART: PROCESS: Benjamin Edwards Explains His Different Sort of Landscape Painting (As told to LOCH ADAMSON, Aug. 19, 2001)
BALLET: Where the Ballet Is a Rare Flower (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 19, 2001)
DANCE: Director of Chicago Dance Troupe Doesn't Miss a Step (By CHRISTOPHER REARDON, Aug. 19, 2001)
FILM: 'Innocence': A Daring Love Story of Life's Last Chapter (By MOLLY HASKELL, Aug. 19, 2001)
FILM: 'Together': When Love Thought It Could Defeat War (By KAREN DURBIN, Aug. 19, 2001)
MUSIC: A Way to Hear Bach Intimately, if Barely (By BERNARD D. SHERMAN, Aug. 19, 2001)
MUSIC: Laurie Anderson, a High-Culture Aristocrat, Is Tops in Pop, Too (By KAREN SCHOEMER, Aug. 19, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Portraits Picked Out of the Crowd (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Aug. 19, 2001)
THEATER: Reality Theater: A 'Hamlet' Staged in Elsinore (By RON JENKINS, Aug. 19, 2001)
THEATER: Nothing Wilts Genius Like a Surly Theater Audience (By TOM DONAGHY, Aug. 19, 2001)
TV: For Two Decades, Gospel Music's Weekly Showcase (By ALAN JAMES FRUTKIN, Aug. 19, 2001)
* STYLE: When Marrieds Become Singles for the Summer (By ELIZABETH HAYT, Aug. 19, 2001)
* STYLE: NOTICED: Religious, Rebellious or Chic, Crosses Are Forever (By RUTH LA FERLA, Aug. 19, 2001)
FASHION: Ms. Perfect Opts Out (By NELSON MUI, Aug. 19, 2001)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: Stanley Tucci: A Hamlet on the Prowl (By LINDA LEE, Aug. 19, 2001)
VIEW: An Unrepentant Fashion Victim Digs In Her Heels (By MELISSA DE LA CRUZ, Aug. 19, 2001)
VOWS: Carla Harris and Victor Franklin (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Aug. 19, 2001)
ON THE STREET: A Hothouse of Fresh-Cut Tops [slide show] (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Aug. 19, 2001)
* TRAVEL: Seeking White Whales From a Distance [belugas from Quebec] (By WAYNE CURTIS, Aug. 22, 2001)
DEAL OF THE DAY: A Week in London [$389 round-trip from NY + week car] (By JOSEPH SIANO, Aug. 22, 2001)
TRAVEL: Hiking on a Glacier in Patagonia (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Aug. 22, 2001)
* MINDS OVER MATTER: Suddenly, the Cosmos Becomes More Fickle [alpha = 1/137] (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Aug. 19, 2001)
* Seen My Sock Drawer Lately? [Trojan Room Coffee Pot, 1st web cam] (By TOM ZELLER, Aug. 19, 2001)
THE WORLD: Workers of the World, Invest! (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Aug. 19, 2001)
* WORD FOR WORD: Rashomon in Blue [memory test] (By JIM DWYER, Aug. 19, 2001)
The President's Textual Relations (By KENNETH CMIEL, Aug. 19, 2001)
* The Other Route to Home Run History [least home run] (By JOHN D. THOMAS, Aug. 19, 2001)
Heartbreaker [archbishop renounces his marriage] (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Aug. 19, 2001)
* But Would Buddy Sue Peggy? [rock nostalgia] (By COREY KILGANNON, Aug. 19, 2001)
ON LANGUAGE: Being a Crossword Puzzle Editor Is Sometimes Having to Apologize. But Not Too Often
(By WILL SHORTZ, Aug. 19, 2001)
The Limiting of Science Is Cutting Off Hope (By ABRAHAM VERGHESE, Aug. 19, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: Hot Wheels (By RANDY COHEN, Aug. 19, 2001)
LIVES: We Thought Our Summer Home Couldn't Be Worse. Then Came the Pigs (By DIANE MCWHORTER, Aug. 19, 2001)
The Family Mobile (By MELISSA FAY GREENE, Aug. 19, 2001)
The Downtowning of Harlem (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Aug. 19, 2001)
Questions for Genndy Tartakovsky (By THELMA ADAMS, Aug. 19, 2001)
Come Out. Come Down. Come Back. Being Ellen DeGeneres (By JESSE GREEN, Aug. 19, 2001)
STYLE: The White House (By LISA EISNER AND ROMAN ALONSO, Aug. 19, 2001)
FOOD: Crack Its Stubborn Shell, and the Blue Crab Is Pure Paradise (By JULIA REED, Aug. 19, 2001)
WOMEM'S FASHIONS (NY TIMES, Aug. 19, 2001)
Slide Show: Daddy Ho (Photos by Marcus Mam, Aug. 19, 2001)
Though She Was Once a Party Girl, Cornelia Guest Is Most at Home at Templeton (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Aug. 19, 2001)
Desert Flower [Millicent Rogers] (By MITCHELL OWENS, Aug. 19, 2001)
Still Haywire [Brooke Hayward] (By LISA EISNER & ROMÁN ALONSO, Aug. 19, 2001)
* Bath to Enlightenment: An Ode to Vitabath, the First Spa Gelée (By MARY TANNEN, Aug. 19, 2001)
It Girl, Interrupted [Marisa Berenson] (By HORACIO SILVA, Aug. 19, 2001)
Mother Love (By PATRICK MARX, Aug. 19, 2001)
ROOTS: Some of the World's Greatest Designers Remember the Past (By MARJORIE ROSEN, Aug. 19, 2001)
'I'm the Richest Girl in Estonia' [slide show] (By AMY M. SPINDLER, Aug. 19, 2001)
What Compelled the Designer Tom Ford to Buy His Exotic Grandmother's Home? (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 19, 2001)
The American Coup of Versailles (By PAT MCCOLL, Aug. 19, 2001)
* An Homage to Charlotte Curtis [society columnist] (By WILLIAM NORWICH, Aug. 19, 2001)
* Why Designers Love the Architect Tadao Ando (By PILAR VILADAS, Aug. 19, 2001)
HEALTH: New Warning About a Drug in Pregnancy [Accutane] (By REUTERS, Aug. 19, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 19, 2001)
'Boswell's Presumptuous Task': The First Real Biographer (By CHARLES McGRATH, Aug. 19, 2001)
'The Grand Complication': That Obscure Object of Desire (By D. T. MAX, Aug. 19, 2001)
'Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail': Up From Kmart [minimalism] (By WALTER KIRN, Aug. 19, 2001)
* 'Three Roads to Quantum Gravity': Space-Time Is of the Essence (By MICHAEL RIORDAN, Aug. 19, 2001)
Junichiro Tanizaki's 'The Gourmet Club': Sensation (By JANICE P. NIMURA, Aug. 19, 2001)
Anthony Hecht: 'The Darkness and the Light' (By DAVID KIRBY, Aug. 19, 2001)
Stephen Dunn: 'Different Hours' (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Aug. 19, 2001)
Mary Leader: 'The Penultimate Suitor' (By MICHAEL HAINEY, Aug. 19, 2001)
Maurice Manning: 'Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions' (By DWIGHT GARNER, Aug. 19, 2001)

Saturday, August 18, 2001:
On This Day: August 18 (Virginia Dare 8/18/1587-1591, Antionio Salieri 8/18/1750-5/7/1825, Meriwether Lewis 8/18/1774-10/11/1809, Francis Joseph 8/18/1830-11/21/1916, Marshall Field 8/18/1834-1/16/1906, Francis John McConnell 8/18/1871-8/18/1953, Leo Slezak 8/18/1873-6/1/1946, Arne Borg 8/18/1901-11/6/1987, Caspar Weinberger 1917, Shelley Winters 1920, Rosalynn Carter 1927, Roman Polanski 1933, Gail Fisher 1935, Robert Redford 1937, Johnny Preston 1939, Christopher Jones 1941, Martin Mull 1943, Patrick Swayze 1952, Madeleine Stowe 1958, Christian Slater 1969)
Mississippi Gives James Meredith Degree (By FRED POWLEDGE, August 18, 1963)
* Roberto Clemente, Pirates' Star, Dies at 38 in Crash Of Plane Carrying Aid to Nicaragua [8/18/1934-12/31/1972] (NY Times, January 2, 1973)
Flip Phillips, Saxophone Star With Bands in the Swing Era, Dies at 86 (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 18, 2001)
Jim Hughes, Relief Pitcher Who Set Dodger Mark for Saves, Dies at 78 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 18, 2001)
Marty Geltman, Who Held His Funeral in Time to Enjoy It, Dies at 65 (By STEVE STRUNSKY, Aug. 18, 2001)
Henrietta Milstein Dead at 72; Helped to Found Burlington Coat Factory (By MARCIN SKOMIAL, Aug. 18, 2001)
P. A. Taylor Jr., 94, First Black to Lead Methodist Bishops' Council, Is Dead (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 18, 2001)
Dr. Henry Barnett, 87, Dies; Pediatric Kidney Authority (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 18, 2001)
College Suspends Professor for Vietnam Fabrications (By JODI WILGOREN, Aug. 18, 2001)
Court of Appeals Says Hitler Art Belongs to U.S. (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Aug. 18, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: To One Judge, Cybermonitors Bring Uneasy Memories (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 18, 2001)
MOSCOW JOURNAL: Red Square Is Suddenly Catching Up With Times (By MICHAEL WINES, Aug. 18, 2001)
U.S. Plane's Rare Trip From China (By THOM SHANKER, Aug. 18, 2001)
4 Are Jailed for Falun Gong's Public Suicides (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 18, 2001)
Balloonist Calls Off His Global Conquest and Lands in Brazil (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 18, 2001)
Fortune in Hand, Russian Tries to Polish Image (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Aug. 18, 2001)
LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES: Bronx All-Stars Remain Carefree Before Opener (By EDWARD WONG, Aug. 18, 2001)
* EDITORIAL: The Industry Standard, Unplugged (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2001)
OP-ED JOURNAL: The Genius of George W. Bush (By FRANK RICH, Aug. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: Sometimes a Beard Changes Everything [Al Gore] (By ERICA JONG, Aug. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: Yale and the Price of Slavery [Robert Hairston] (By HENRY WIENCEK, Aug. 18, 2001)
LETTERS: Two Presidents, Alike but... (By JOSEPH M. LEVIN et. al., Aug. 18, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall Broadly on Poor Profit News From Big Names
[Dow -152, Nasdaq -63] (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 18, 2001)
Dollar's Slow Slide Indicates Foreign Investors May Be Wary of U.S. (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 18, 2001)
Editor in Chief of Variety Is Suspended (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Aug. 18, 2001)
* F.D.A. Issues a Safety Warning on Imported Jelly Cup Candies (By GREG WINTER, Aug. 18, 2001)
ARTS: Archaeologists Unearth the Old World Under New York City (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Aug. 18, 2001)
ART: San Francisco Museum Director Resigns Suddenly (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Aug. 18, 2001)
DANCE: MUNTU DANCE THEATER: African Forms, by Way of Chicago, Enliven New York (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 18, 2001)
* IDEAS: THINK TANK: A Couple of Thinkers Go Deep [Einstein & Tagore] (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 18, 2001)
* IDEAS: Must People Lie? Yes, Absolutely. Or Is That a Lie? (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: Standing Up to Vivaldi With an Italian Bag of Tricks
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 18, 2001)
POP: TEDDY PENDERGRASS: That Same Gruff Suavity Masks a Blues Idol's Pain (By JON PARELES, Aug. 18, 2001)

Friday, August 17, 2001:
On This Day: August 17 (Pierre de Fermat 8/17/1601-1/12/1665, Nicola Porpora 8/17/1686-3/3/1768, Thomas Stothard 8/17/1755-4/27/1834, Davy Crockett 8/17/1786-3/6/1836, Thomas Hodgkin 8/17/1798-4/5/1866, Harry Hopkins 8/17/1890-1/29/1946, Mae West 8/17/1892-11/22/1980, John Hay Whitney 8/17/1904-2/8/1982, Hazel Bishop 8/17/1906-12/5/1998, Jean Poiret 8/17/1926-3/14/1992, Francis Gary Powers 8/17/1929-8/1/1977, Maureen O'Hara 1920, Robert De Niro 1943, Martha Coolidge 1946, Kevin Rowland 1953, Belinda Carlisle 1958)
Woodstock Festival: Tired Rock Fans Begin Exodus (By BARNARD L.COLLIERS, August 17, 1969)
Marcus Garvey, 60, Negro Ex-Leader [8/17/1887-6/10/1940] (NY Times, June 12, 1940)
Floyd Spence, South Carolina Congressman, Dies at 73 (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 17, 2001)
Nicholas Orloff, Teacher and Stylish Ballet Master, Is Dead at 86 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 17, 2001)
Sally Gracie, Actress, 80, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 17, 2001)
Richard Chelimo, Olympian, Dies at 34 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 17, 2001)
White House Sees Economic Growth Doubling in 2002 (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 17, 2001)
* Grave of Genghis Khan May Lie Near His Birthplace (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Aug. 17, 2001)
* Brunei: From Oil Rich to Garage Sales (By SETH MYDANS, Aug. 17, 2001)
Diana's Butler Is Charged in Theft of Family's Personal Items (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 17, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: End Draws Near for Mayor's Artful Adversary [Robert Lederman] (By ROBIN FINN, Aug. 17, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Hello, Darkness [William Manchester's "Churchill"] (NY TIMES, Aug. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Enron Goes Overboard (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: A Month in Macedonia Will Not Be Enough (By WESLEY K. CLARK, Aug. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: When All Roads Lead to Wall Street (By CHARLES R. MORRIS, Aug. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: Snooze Bulletins [August News] (By TOM RUPRECHT, Aug. 17, 2001)
BUSINESS: Late-Day Rally Erases Some Steep Losses
[Dow +47, Nasdaq +11] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 17, 2001)
Industry Standard to Cease Publication (By FELICITY BARRINGER & ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Aug. 17, 2001)
Hewlett Profit Falls but Beats Expectations (By CHRIS GAITHER, Aug. 17, 2001)
U.S. Consumer Prices Decline at Steepest Rate Since 1986 (By MICHAEL BRICK, Aug. 17, 2001)
FLOYD NORRIS: Japan's Budget Deficit Has Soared. It's Time for a Tax Cut. (By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 17, 2001)
Hollywood Moves to Rent Movies Online (By RICK LYMAN, Aug. 17, 2001)
* ART: A Universe of Art, Centered in Boston (By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 17, 2001)
* ART: 'SPIRIT CAPTURE': A Wild West Transformed by Nostalgia and Assimilation (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 17, 2001)
ART: Rockwell Painting Back in Coke's Possession (NY TIMES, Aug. 17, 2001)
FILM: 'CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN': Soaking Up the Scenery During a Laid-Back War (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 17, 2001)
FILM: 'HAMLET': Who Knew That Shakespeare Was a Southern Author? (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 17, 2001)
FILM: 'INNOCENCE': After a Lifetime, a First Love's Reprise (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 17, 2001)
FILM: 'BROOKLYN BABYLON': Hip-Hop Romeo, Hasidic Juliet (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 17, 2001)
FILM: 'BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE': Mystery Girl vs. Creepy Vampires (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 17, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: ESTHER BUBLEY: Documenting America, From Industrial Behemoth to Sweet Innocent (By MARGARETT LOKE, Aug. 17, 2001)
'PHOTOGRAPHY: A DECADE OF COLLECTING': Livening Up Photography (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 17, 2001)
THEATER: No Letup in a Lion Kingdom (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 17, 2001)
THEATER: 'OFTEN I FIND THAT I AM NAKED': Waiting for What's-His-Name, Mr. Right (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 17, 2001)
THEATER: 'PREVIEW OF MURDER': A Mogul and His Double-Crossing Dame (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 17, 2001)
TV: CRITIC: 'SIX FEET UNDER': Amid the Mournful Black, Life Unfolds With Vigor (By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 17, 2001)
TV: 'THINGS BEHIND THE SUN': A Crime's Effects, a Lifetime Later (By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 17, 2001)
THE OUTSIDER: Where the Pools Are Never Crowded, and Water Slides Are Nature's Own (By JAMES GORMAN, Aug. 17, 2001)
HEALTH: Patent Laws May Determine Shape of Stem Cell Research (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Aug. 17, 2001)

Thursday, August 16, 2001:
On This Day: August 16 (Sarah Porter 8/16/1813-2/17/1900, St. Hohn Bosco 8/16/1815-1/31/1888, Jules Laforgue 8/16/1860-8/20/1887, George Meany 8/16/1894-1/10/1980, Wallace Henry Thurman 8/16/1902-12/22/1934, Wendell Stanley 8/16/1904-6/15/1971, Ernst Schumacher 8/16/1911-9/4/1977, Stuart A. Roosa 8/16/1933-12/12/1994, Shimon Peres 1923, Fess Parker 1925, Ann Blyth 1928, Robert Culp 1930, Frank Gifford 1930, Julie Newmar 1933, Anita Gillette 1936, Suzanne Farrell 1945, Lesley Ann Warren 1946, Kathy Lee Gifford 1953, James Cameron 1954, Angela Bassett 1958, Madonna 1958, Laura Innes 1959, Timothy Hutton 1960)
ELVIS PRESLEY DIES; ROCK SINGER WAS 42 (By MOLLY IVINS, August 16, 1977)
Menachem Begin, Guerrilla Leader Who Became Peacemaker, Dies at 78 [8/16/1913-3/9/1992] (NY Times, March 12, 1950)
* Earl Anthony, Bowling's First $1 Million Man, Dies at 63 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 16, 2001)
Jack N. James, Manager of Missions to Venus and Mars, Is Dead at 80 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 16, 2001)
* Richard Honig, Researcher of Vapor Pressure of Elements, Dies at 84 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 16, 2001)
Robert Kraus, Author And Cartoonist, Dies at 76 (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2001)
POLITICAL MEMO: Bush Plays Outsider Theme, Despite White House Home (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 16, 2001)
Chinese Censors Shut Down Marxist Journal Critical of Jiang (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 16, 2001)
Zeppelin Travel Is Back [Lake Constance, Switzerland] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 16, 2001)
IN ART'S FOOTSTEPS: Forget About Fancy; Look at 'Moodna' For Its Accuracy (By KIRK JOHNSON, Aug. 16, 2001)
* EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: As the Mosquito Sees the World (By: VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Aug. 16, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Hiding in Plain Sight (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 16, 2001)
OP-ED: Cuba on the Morning After (By WILLIAM D. ROGERS, Aug. 16, 2001)
* OP-ED: The Father-and-Son Presidencies [Adam & Bush] (By SEAN WILENTZ, Aug. 16, 2001)
LETTERS: The Diabetes Crisis (By GERALD BERNSTEIN, M.D, Aug. 16, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall, With the Nasdaq Closing at a 4-Month Low
[Dow -66, Nasdaq -46] (By REUTERS, Aug. 16, 2001)
* Microsoft, Again, Is the Darling of Fund Managers (By DANNY HAKIM, Aug. 16, 2001)
* ECONOMIC SCENE: Rediscovering 'The Wealth of Nations' [George Washington's copy] (By ALAN B. KRUEGER, Aug. 16, 2001)
CBS Executives Take a Journey to CNN Land (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 16, 2001)
Another Reality TV Show Is Under Fire (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 16, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: A Dublin Diorama Reveals a Very Untidy Francis Bacon (By BRIAN LAVERY, Aug. 16, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: A San Francisco Hotel Opens the Gate to Modernism (By PILAR VILADAS, Aug. 16, 2001)
BOOKS: 'NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN': Leaving Their Troubles on the Road (By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 16, 2001)
MUSIC: Composer Plans to Strike Up the Cell Phones (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Aug. 16, 2001)
OPERA: CRITIC: Seattle Opera Faces a Siegfried Problem (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 16, 2001)
PHOTOS: The F.B.I. Investigates Complaints About Lewis Hine Prints (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Aug. 16, 2001)
POTTERY: Jazzy Pottery From the 30's Comes of Age in California (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Aug. 16, 2001)
THEATER: 'HUSTLE': The Tough Umpire of Friendship (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 16, 2001)
TV: 'MY GENERATION': Woodstock Just Isn't What It Used to Be (By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 16, 2001)
GARDEN Q & A: Creatures of the Night (By DORA GALITZKI, Aug. 16, 2001)
At the Head of a Grassy Valley, All the Comforts of Stone (By DIANE DORRANS SAEKS, Aug. 16, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2001)
* To the Navy's Ranks, Add Webmaster (By NANCY BETH JACKSON, Aug. 16, 2001)
How Much to Tell: A Balancing Act at Military Sites (By THOM SHANKER, Aug. 16, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: Squeezing the Office Into a Palm (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 16, 2001)
Ricochet Network Lived Fast and Died Young (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Aug. 16, 2001)
The Defense Never Rests at the Alger Hiss Web Site (By JAMES BARRON, Aug. 16, 2001)
Robots Tested in Mock Search for Urban Disaster Victims (By KATIE HAFNER, Aug. 16, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: After Decades of Frustration, the Picture Tube Slims Down (By ANNE EISENBERG, Aug. 16, 2001)
* ONLINE SHOPPER: A Family Album That Morphs Online (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 16, 2001)
GAME THEORY: Saving the Universe, Sam Spade Style (By CHARLES HEROLD, Aug. 16, 2001)
Financial Problems Force Chain of Computer Camps to Close (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2001)
DESIGN: Apple's Cubist Epoch Entered the Museum as It Exited Stores (By PHIL PATTON, Aug. 16, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Nikon's New Digital Camera Fits Easily in a Pocket (By STEVEN BRIER, Aug. 16, 2001)
HARDWARE: Spend Saturday Reprogramming Your Lawn Mower, Not Your VCR (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Aug. 16, 2001)
FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE: Why Netflix Is Cool (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 16, 2001)
Netflix.com [DVD movies for $20/month & no late fees] (Recommened By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 16, 2001)
PERIPHERALS: Child-Size Remote Control With No `Sopranos' Button (By SHELLEY FREIERMAN, Aug. 16, 2001)
Q & A: Cracking the Code of Computer Memory (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Aug. 16, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Planet System Is Discovered With Orbits Like Earth's (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Aug. 16, 2001)
* HEALTH: Mystery DNA Is Discovered in Soybeans By Scientists (By ANDREW POLLACK, Aug. 16, 2001)
Scientists Divided on Limit of Federal Stem Cell Money (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 16, 2001)
Hunt On for Cancer Patients Given Suspect Chemotherapy (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2001)

Wednesday, August 15, 2001:
On This Day: August 15 (Napoleon 8/15/1769-5/5/1821, Sir Walter Scott 8/15/1771-9/21/1832, T. E. Lawrence 8/15/1888-5/19/1935)
India and Pakistan Become Nations; Clashes Continue (By ROBERT TRUMBULL, August 15, 1947)
Ethel Barrymore Is Dead at 79; One of Stage's 'Royal Family' [8/15/1879-6/18/1959] (NY Times, June 19, 1959)
Roy A. Rosenberg, 70, Rabbi at Mixed Weddings, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 15, 2001)
S. L. Wolfbein, 85, a Manpower Expert, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2001)
Betty Cavanna, Author for Teenagers, Dies at 92 (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2001)
Howard Bauman, Food Safety Expert, Is Dead at 76 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 15, 2001)
Bush Emphasizes Teaching of Values to Children (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 15, 2001)
LESSONS: One Answer on College Doesn't Fit All Graduates (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 15, 2001)
* Coming of Europe's New Cash Feeds Jitters Large and Small (By SUZANNE DALEY, Aug. 15, 2001)
Miss America as Reality TV, but Nobody Will Be Voted Off the Stage (By ANDREW JACOBS, Aug. 15, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Stem Cells 101 (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: CNN: Foxy or Outfoxed? (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: School Vouchers Along the Color Line (By DAVID A. BOSITIS, Aug. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: Two Uneasy States of Independence [India & Pakistan] (By KAI FRIESE, Aug. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: Young and Old Thrive Side by Side (By HILA COLMAN, Aug. 15, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall a Bit, Despite Home Depot's Strong Earnings
[Dow -4, Nasdaq -18] (By REUTERS, Aug. 15, 2001)
Japan Tries to Grease Economy Again (By MIKI TANIKAWA, Aug. 15, 2001)
PORTFOLIOS: Housing May Rescue Economy From Wilting Wealth Effect (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER MIKI TANIKAWA, Aug. 15, 2001)
WORKPLACE: Deafness Meets Its Match in Alter Egos (By MARCI ALBOHER NUSBAUM, Aug. 15, 2001)
* LIFE'S WORK: A Fate Worse Than Procrastination (By LISA BELKIN, Aug. 15, 2001)
THE BOSS: I've Had a Very Sporting Life (By PHILIPPE STERN, President, Petak Philippe, Aug. 15, 2001)
Applied Materials Reports Earnings Beat Expectations (By CHRIS GAITHER, Aug. 15, 2001)
* Efforts to Ease Worries on New Net Addresses [info & biz] (By SUSAN STELLIN, Aug. 15, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Preserving Two Chapters of America's Songbook (By WARREN HOGE, Aug. 15, 2001)
BOOKS: 'JUNIOR'S LEG': Down Along the Bayou, Fate Elevates a Lowlife (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Aug. 15, 2001)
DANCE: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: Ballets With Fresh Twists and Fresh Faces (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 15, 2001)
MUSIC: HAYDN'S 'THE SEASONS': Hearing Metaphors for Life in a Choral Rarity (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Aug. 15, 2001)
MUSIC: AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN HAYDN ORCHESTRA: One Part of the Mostly Mozart Festival Was Wholly Haydn (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 15, 2001)
POP: SADE: A Peek Behind Sade's Veil of Heartbreak (By JON PARELES, Aug. 15, 2001)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: Enticed by Bright Light: A Show of Hockney's Photocollages (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Aug. 15, 2001)
THEATER: 'THE BALLAD OF LARRY THE FLYER': What Has 4 Legs, 42 Balloons and Flies? (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Aug. 15, 2001)
THEATER: 'ROMEO AND JULIET': Star-Cross'd Lovers Meet, Where the Hudson Valley Plays Verona (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Aug. 15, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Cosmic Laws Like Speed of Light Might Be Changing, a Study Finds (By JAMES GLANZ & DENNIS OVERBYE, Aug. 15, 2001)
Stem Cell Issue Causes Debate Over the Exact Moment Life Begins (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 15, 2001)
Researchers Discount a Caution in Debate Over Cloned Humans (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Aug. 15, 2001)

Tuesday, August 14, 2001:
On This Day: August 14 (John Galsworthy 8/14/1867-1/31/1933, Max Klein 8/14/1915-5/20/1993)
Japan Surrenders, End of War! (By ARTHUR KROCK, August 14, 1945)
Dr. A. J. Dempster, Physicist, 63, Dead [8/14/1886-3/11/1950] (NY Times, March 12, 1950)
Robert S. Jones, HarperCollins Editor, Is Dead at 47 (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 14, 2001)
Louis Rayfield Purnell Sr., Airman and Museum Curator, Dies at 81 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 14, 2001)
Carl Diedrich, Coffee Roaster Maker, Is Dead at 86 (By MARCIN SKOMIAL, Aug. 14, 2001)
Joanne Minnich, the Subject of Rare Surgery for Heart Cancer, Dies at 58 (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 14, 2001)
Lawrence Minard, Editor of Overseas Edition of Forbes, Is Dead at 51 (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 14, 2001)
Pierre Klossowski, Artist and Writer, Dies at 96 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 14, 2001)
Justice Dept. Cites Problems in 2 Inquiries at Los Alamos (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Aug. 14, 2001)
Monitoring of Judiciary Computers Is Backed (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Aug. 14, 2001)
Japan's Premier Pleases Few With Visit to War Shrine (By STEPHANIE STROM, Aug. 14, 2001)
* NY REGION: Wall Street May Be Spoiler for New York's Economy (By LESLIE EATON, Aug. 14, 2001)
Down to the Sea to Pray, and Get Great Antiques (By LAURA MANSNERUS, Aug. 14, 2001)
Foreign Teachers Receive a Short Course on the City (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Aug. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Delusions of Prosperity (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: In an Empty Cup, a Threat to Peace (By PAUL SIMON, Aug. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Be My Spy— or Else (By IRVING R. LEVINE, Aug. 14, 2001)
LETTERS: Catch-22 for Executive Women (By JACQUELINE S. JERUSS et. al., Aug. 14, 2001)
BUSINESS: Technology Shares Rise Modestly on Light Trading Day
[Dow -0.34, Nasdaq +26] (By REUTERS, Aug. 14, 2001)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: What, for $110,000 You Wanted Food, Too? (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 14, 2001)
More Pressure for an Easing by Japanese (By MIKI TANIKAWA, Aug. 14, 2001)
Comcast Said to Be Talking of Side Deals in AT&T Fight (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Aug. 14, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: A Planned Museum Would Lead Charleston to Its Past (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 14, 2001)
* BOOKS: Ailing Churchill Biographer Says He Can't Finish Trilogy [William Manchester]
(By DEXTER FILKINS, Aug. 14, 2001)
DANCE: 'UP! ON THE ROOF': Trapeze Steps and Limbs With Minds of Their Own (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 14, 2001)
MUSIC: Confronting Middle Age With Songs and Pluck [Mary Chapin Carpenter] (By KEVIN SACK, Aug. 14, 2001)
POP: CHOCOLATE GENIUS: The Singer Seems Cheery, Even if His Songs Are Not (By ANN POWERS, Aug. 14, 2001)
TV: 'IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE': If Land Is Called Sacred, Bitter Disputes Can Erupt
(By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 14, 2001)
FASHION: Hunters' Camouflage: Not Just for the City Streets (By GUY TREBAY, Aug. 14, 2001)
FASHION: FRONT ROW: Elle Girl Aims at a Niche Within a Niche (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Aug. 14, 2001)
SCIENCE: Researchers Turn Back the Clock on Origin of Land Plants (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Aug. 14, 2001)
* Wending Through Time, a Cosmic Web Gives the Universe Structure (By JAMES GLANZ, Aug. 14, 2001)
Altered Tomato Thrives in Salty Soil (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 14, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Surprise Beneath the Sea (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Aug. 14, 2001)
Q & A: The Awkward Amphora (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Aug. 14, 2001)
HEALTH: Clearer Guidelines Help Britain to Advance Stem Cell Work (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 14, 2001)
SCIENTIST AT WORK: C. J. PETERS: Following the Viral Trail Around the World (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, Aug. 14, 2001)
CASES: When the Doctor Is Forced to Fire a Patient (By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., Aug. 14, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS: Exchanges: What Parents Want Is Often Unspoken (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 14, 2001)
Childbirth: Prepartum Depression Also an Issue (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 14, 2001)
At Risk: Constipation as a Clue to Parkinson's (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 14, 2001)
Stages: Exploring the Angst of the Terminally Ill (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 14, 2001)
Patterns: A Possible Downside to Antioxidant Pills (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 14, 2001)

Monday, August 13, 2001:
On This Day: August 13 (George Grove 8/13/1820-5/28/1900, Annie Oakley 8/13/1860-11/3/1926, Salvador Luria 8/13/1912-2/6/1991)
East German Troops Seal Border With West Berlin to Block Refugee Escape (By REUTERS, August 13, 1961)
Alfred Hitchcock Dies; A Master of Suspense
[8/13/1889-4/29/1980] (By PETER B. FLINT, April 30, 1980)
Eric Bedford, Who Changed London's Skyline, Dies at 91 (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 13, 2001)
Carlos Hank González, 73, Veteran Mexican Politician, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 13, 2001)
A. G. Dickens, Historian Who Offered a New View of the Reformation, Dies at 91 (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 13, 2001)
* Study Suggests Shaken Faith Can Worsen Poor Health (By ERICA GOODE, Aug. 13, 2001)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Cell Biologist Traded Religious Fervor for Scientific Zeal (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Aug. 13, 2001)
In Multiplex Age, Even Blockbusters Find Fame Fleeting (By RICK LYMAN, Aug. 13, 2001)
A Little Prayer, a Little Laughter for Bush (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 13, 2001)
Black Journalists' Group Faces Financial Shortfalls (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Aug. 13, 2001)
China Spurns Spy Plane Offer as Inadequate (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 13, 2001)
* SHABA NATIONAL RESERVE JOURNAL: TV Adventure Show Ignores the Real Survivors (By MARC LACEY, Aug. 13, 2001)
MEDIA TALK: A Random Act of Survival in Jerusalem (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Aug. 13, 2001)
Latino Radio Gaining Popularity and Scrutiny (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Aug. 13, 2001)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary ["Look at his beautiful muscles"] (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 13, 2001)
EDITORIAL: THE CITY LIFE: Hotels With an Attitude (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Aug. 13, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Looking for Liftoff (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 13, 2001)
Rigid Rules Will Damage School (By THOMAS J. KANE & DOUGLAS O. STAIGER, Aug. 13, 2001)
China's Capitalists Join the Party (By CHARLES WOLF JR., Aug. 13, 2001)
Asthma and the Athlete's Challenge (By JACKI JOYNER-KERSEE, Aug. 13, 2001)
BUSINESS: PC Makers and Microsoft Squabble Over Desktop Icons (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 13, 2001)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Dot-Coms Already Collector's Items (By BOB TEDESCHI, Aug. 13, 2001)
* The Man Who Will Edit Clinton (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 13, 2001)
* 'For Dummies' Parent Company Is Reported Close to Sale
(By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 13, 2001)
NEW ECONOMY: Software Double Bind (By AMY HARMON, Aug. 13, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Style.com Cuts Against Ad Grain (By DAVID HANDELMAN, Aug. 13, 2001)
COMPRESSED DATA: Passionate Pas Seul by Microsoft's C.E.O. Captivates Net Audience (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Aug. 13, 2001)
MEDIA TALK: News Channel's New Look Works, in a Way (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 13, 2001)
PATENTS: More Stem Cell Innovations (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Aug. 13, 2001)
BOOKS: 'ON THE NIGHT PLAIN': Empty Landscape, Empty Lives (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Aug. 13, 2001)
DANCE: CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE: Autobiography Rendered in Sweeping Blocks (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 13, 2001)
OPERA CRITIC: Seattle Opera's 'Ring' Goes Back to Nature (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 13, 2001)
* POETRY: A Poet Becomes the 92nd Street Y's Salonkeeper (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 13, 2001)
POP: THE WORD: Sacred Strings Wail Hallelujah in a Secular Setting (By ANN POWERS, Aug. 13, 2001)
* ROCK CRITIC: Ringo Starr and Bill Wyman: Expert Sidemen Shrug Off Status (By ANN POWERS, Aug. 13, 2001)
THEATER: 'THE SEAGULL': Meets Chekhov, Up in Central Park (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 13, 2001)
TV: Serious Tone Adds to Success of 'Sex and the City' (By BILL CARTER, Aug. 13, 2001)
TV: 'Sex and the City' Star Turns an Interview Into an Infomercial (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 13, 2001)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: A Novelist's Life is Altered by Her Alter Ego (By MARCIA MULLER, Aug. 13, 2001)

Sunday, August 12, 2001:
On This Day: August 12 (Robert Mills 8/12/1781-3/3/1855, Lillie Devereux Blake 8/12/1833-12/30/1833, James Brady 8/12/1856-4/13/1917, Katherine Lee Bates 8/12/1859-3/28/1929, Genavente y Martinez Jacinto 8/12/1866-7/14/1954, Mary Roberts Rinehart 8/12/1876-9/22/1958, Christy Mathewson 8/12/1880-10/7/1925, Vincent Bendix 8/12/1882-3/27/1945, George Bellows 8/12/1882-1/8/1925, Oscar Hoomolka 8/12/1898-1/27/1978, Alexis 8/12/1904-7/16/1918, Cantinflas 8/12/1911-4/20/1993, Michael Kidd 1919, Dale Bumpers 1925, Porter Wagoner 1927, Buck Owens 1929, George Hamilton 1939, Jennifer Warren 1941, Kid Creole 1950, Sam J. Jones 1954, Pete Sampas 1971)
Spanish-American War Suspended, Peace Assured (By SIDNEY SHALETT, August 13, 1898)
Cecil De Mille, 77, Pioneer of Movies, Dead in Hollywood
[8/12/1881-1/21/1959] (NY TIMES, January 22, 1959)
Alan Rafkin, 73, a Top Director of Popular Television Comedies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 12, 2001)
James A. Corbett, 67, Is Dead; A Champion of Movement to Safeguard Illegal Refugees (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 12, 2001)
* Near Vast Bodies of Water, Land Lies Parched (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Aug. 12, 2001)
Gore Eases Back Into Politics at a Nonpartisan Workshop (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 12, 2001)
SUNDAY Q & A: Circulating, and Spending, $1 Coins (By, Aug. 12, 2001)
Watching for the Sunset of a Senate Legend [Jesse Helms] (By KEVIN SACK, Aug. 12, 2001)
CHARLESTON JOURNAL: Good Times Mean Double-Wides Flying Off Lots (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Aug. 12, 2001)
Shrine Visit and a Textbook Weigh on Koizumi's Future (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Aug. 12, 2001)
Opulent Auction Is a Big Draw in Brunei (By REUTERS, Aug. 12, 2001)
TV Anchor's Killing Touches a Nerve in Georgia (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Aug. 12, 2001)
* NY REGION: Gloomy Economic News Takes a Toll on Optimism (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Aug. 12, 2001)
EDITORIAL: William Jefferson Bush (NY TIMES, Aug. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Dr. Banzai and Mr. Bush (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: Stem Cell Science and the Preservation of Life (By GEORGE W. BUSH, Aug. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: A Retreat to the Familiar Ground of Zionism (By TOM SEGEV, Aug. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: A Social Security Solution (By THOMAS R. SAVING, Aug. 12, 2001)
LETTERS: China's Leader Misses a Chance (By ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON & ADAM SEGAL, Aug. 12, 2001)
LETTERS: Margaret Mead's Critic (LOUISE LAMPHERE, Aug. 12, 2001)
* BUSINESS: How to Re-energize Baseball and Win New Fans (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Aug. 12, 2001)
* Executive Searchers Fall With Dot-Coms (By REED ABELSON, Aug. 12, 2001)
* INVESTING WITH: Matthew P. Ziehl of Salomon Brothers Small Cap Growth Fund (NY TIMES, Aug. 12, 2001)
* BACKSLASH: Ignore What We Said Earlier (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 12, 2001)
New Economy, Same Harassment Problems (By SUSAN E. REED, Aug. 12, 2001)
OFF THE SHELF: Rambling (Engagingly) on Life After the Web (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Aug. 12, 2001)
* MY MONEY, MY LIFE: A Complaint Department of One's Own (By MARCIA MAGILL, Aug. 12, 2001)
MARKET WATCH: Warning Signs Fail to Shake True Believers' Faith (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 12, 2001)
The Perils of Planning One's Own Prepaid Funeral (By SANA SIWOLOP, Aug. 12, 2001)
* ART: Wassily Kandinsky: A Saboteur Wielding Explosive Colors and Images (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 12, 2001)
ART: Painting the Joy of Life in Death's Shadow (By JOSHUA BROCKMAN, Aug. 12, 2001)
ART: Folk Arts Horsy Set (By FLETCHER ROBERTS, Aug. 12, 2001)
ARTS: Postcards From Vienna, Old World Gone Global (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Aug. 12, 2001)
DANCE: Rescuing Cambodia's lost World of Dance (By SUZANNE CHARLÉ, Aug. 12, 2001)
DANCE: Choreographic Explorers of Unusual Landscapes (By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 12, 2001)
FILM: 'The Others': The House Is Dark, and the Children Are Afraid (By ANTHONY MINGHELLA, Aug. 12, 2001)
FILM: With a Girl, a Gun and a Dreamy Dance, a Gift From Godard (By PHILLIP LOPATE, Aug. 12, 2001)
MUSIC: Gian Carlo Menotti: A Weary Musical Warrior Skirmishes On (By MICHAEL WHITE, Aug. 12, 2001)
MUSIC: A Bravura Violinist Who Loves... Schubert? (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Aug. 12, 2001)
RADIO: On Radio, a Journey Through the Mind [The Infinite Mind] (By ANDY MEISLER, Aug. 12, 2001)
ROCK: The White Stripes: Hurling Your Basic Rock at the Arty Crowd (By JOE HAGAN, Aug. 12, 2001)
THEATER: Leading Man Who Sings? Ya Got Trouble (By PETER MARKS, Aug. 12, 2001)
THEATER: Haunted by Ghosts of Pinter Past (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Aug. 12, 2001)
STYLE: Travel to Exotic Places and Buy, Buy, Buy [Las Vegas] (By RUTH LA FERLA, Aug. 12, 2001)
FASHION: TESTING, TESTING: Forlorn Fashion, Redeemed Through Art (By MIRANDA PURVES, Aug. 12, 2001)
FASHION: Turning a Corner: A Model at Size 12 [Carre Otis] (By JOYCE WADLER, Aug. 12, 2001)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: Bebe Buell: Her Backstage Passes (By LINDA LEE, Aug. 12, 2001)
ON THE STREET: 103 Degrees of Sophistication [slide show] (Photographs By BILL CUNNIGHAM, Aug. 12, 2001)
* COUNTERINTELLIGENCE: New Owners Let Kiehl's Be Kiehl's [skin care] (By ALEX WITCHEL, Aug. 12, 2001)
VOWS: Popi Pustilnik and William Karlin (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Aug. 12, 2001)
MORALITY PLAY: Ought We Do What We Can Do? (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Aug. 12, 2001)
TOP BANANA: He's Not Hairy, He's My Brother [man & ape] (By SETH MYDANS, Aug. 12, 2001)
* WORD FOR WORD: A 19th-Century American With a Keen Eye and a Good View (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Aug. 12, 2001)
MODERN PRESERVATION: It's Still All About Form and Function (By ANTHONY VIDLER, Aug. 12, 2001)
* Tape Tales From the Oval Office ["Rose Mary Stretch"] (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Aug. 12, 2001)
Just How Hot? (By TOM KUNTZ, Aug. 12, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: Reading to Salvage Your Vacation (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Aug. 12, 2001)
* A Black Mud From Africa Helps Power the New Economy (By BLAINE HARDEN, Aug. 12, 2001)
This Summer, Tan Is the New Black (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Aug. 12, 2001)
Questions for Wallace Shawn (By JOHN GLASSIE, Aug. 12, 2001)
SALIENT FACTS: Facial-Recognition Technology (By ROB TURNER, Aug. 12, 2001)
PHENOMENON: Sitcom Spirituals (By SAM SMITH, Aug. 12, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: Return to Sender? (By RANDY COHEN, Aug. 12, 2001)
What They Were Thinking [bat mitzvah] (Photo by LISA EISNER, Interview By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Aug. 12, 2001)
LIVES: My Brother's Fearlessness Is Something I Can't Live Without (By SUSAN STRAIGHT, Aug. 12, 2001)
Haunted by Mold (By LISA BELKIN, Aug. 12, 2001)
Scenes From the Marriage of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler (By PETER SCHNEIDER, Aug. 12, 2001)
The Brooklyn Cyclones, a Group of Big-City Minor Leaguers (By NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF, Aug. 12, 2001)
STYLE: Going for Baroque (By MITCHELL OWENS, Aug. 12, 2001)
SLIDE SHOW: Dorothy's Oz: Fashion photographs by Brigitte Lacombe (Styled by Barbara Turk, Aug. 12, 2001)
FOOD DIARY: Amateur Night (By AMANDA HESSER, Aug. 12, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 12, 2001)
Jonathan Croall, 'Gielgud': The Master's Voice (By JOHN SIMON, Aug. 12, 2001)
* Houdini, the 'Magus of Manliness' (By KENNETH SILVERMAN, Aug. 12, 2001)
'The Red of His Shadow': Passion, Pride and Voodoo Ritual (By JANA GILES, Aug. 12, 2001)
Beryl Bainbridge, 'According to Queeney': Dr. Johnson's Maecenas (By THOMAS MALLON, Aug. 12, 2001)
Re-Reassessing Nixon and Kissinger (By JACK F. MATLOCK JR., Aug. 12, 2001)

Saturday, August 11, 2001:
On This Day: August 11 (Hugh MacDiarmid 8/11/1892-9/9/1978, Louise Bogan 8/11/1897-2/4/1970, Alex Haley 8/11/1921-2/10/1992)
New Negro Riots Erupt on Coast in Los Angeles (By PETER BART, August 13, 1965)
Alex Haley, 70, Author of 'Roots,' Dies
[8/11/1921-2/10/1992] (By ERIC PACE, February 11, 1992)
* Lou Boudreau, Longtime Player-Manager and Hall of Fame Shortstop, Dies at 84 (By IRA BERKOW, Aug. 11, 2001)
Joanne Minnich, 58, a Subject of Extraordinary Heart Surgery, Dies (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 11, 2001)
THE BIOETHICIST: Seeking to Balance Values of Science and Humanity (By PAM BELLUCK, Aug. 11, 2001)
Lawyers Are Asking, How Secret Is a Secret? (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 11, 2001)
* Feeling Squeezed, Harvard Looks to Boston (By JODI WILGOREN, Aug. 11, 2001)
When a Writer Is Punished for Not Being an Author (By ROSS E. MILLOY, Aug. 11, 2001)
Rumsfeld in Russia: Less ABM, More Warm Ties (By THOM SHANKER, Aug. 11, 2001)
IPANEMA JOURNAL: Still Tall and Tan, a Brazilian Muse Fights for a Title (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 11, 2001)
Clinton, as John Q. Public, Campaigns for Array of Causes (By AMY WALDMAN, Aug. 11, 2001)
* Enriching a High School Résumé Leaves Students Tuckered Out (By KATE ZERNIKE, Aug. 11, 2001)
SPORTS: Subject of Homers Follows McGwire (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Aug. 11, 2001)
EDITORIAL: China With Food, and Freedom Too (NY TIMES, Aug. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Introducing the China Ruling Party (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: How My Electric Car Saves the World (By TREVOR CORSON, Aug. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: President Bush Finds His Voice (By RICHARD BROOKHISER, Aug. 11, 2001)
LETTERS: The Stem Cell Decision: No End to the Debate (By ERIC KAPLAN et. al., Aug. 11, 2001)
Dow Ricochets Higher, Though Mood Is Still Ambivalent
[Dow +118, Nasdaq -7] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 11, 2001)
Biotech Stocks Are Pummeled After Decision on Research (By MICHAEL BRICK, Aug. 11, 2001)
A Setback for Billionaire's Bid to Run Computer Associates (By ALEX BERENSON, Aug. 11, 2001)
Drop in 2 Gauges Raises Some Expectations on Rate Cuts (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 11, 2001)
ARTS: Globalization Now, a Sequel of Sorts (By ALEXANDER STILLE, Aug. 11, 2001)
BOOKS: Zimbabwe Book Fair Struggles On (By HENRI E. CAUVIN, Aug. 11, 2001)
CONNECTIONS: For Two Performers, Vaudeville Haunts Not So Strange Bedfellows [Mae West] (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 11, 2001)
POP: ELY GUERRA: Serenity and Turbulence With Room for Silence (By JON PARELES, Aug. 11, 2001)
POP: LAGBAJA: Mining a Musical Diaspora, From a Yoruban Beat to Jazz (By JON PARELES, Aug. 11, 2001)

Friday, August 10, 2001:
On This Day: August 10 (Herbert Hoover 8/10/1874-10/20/1964, Jacques Lipchitz 8/10/1891-5/26/1973)
Atom Bomb Loosed on Nagasaki (By W. H. LAWRENCE, August 9, 1945)
Herbert Hoover Is Dead; Ex-President, 90
[8/10/1874-10/20/1964] (By McCANDLISH PHILLIPS, October 21, 1964)
Nora Sayre, an Essayist on the Cold War, Is Dead at 68 (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Aug. 10, 2001)
Arthur Segall, Tax Lawyer and Prosecutor, Dies at 95 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 10, 2001)
Dr. Josef H. Weissberg Psychoanalyst, 72, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2001)
Hans Rathsack, Wüsthof Knives Chief, Dies at 59 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 10, 2001)
The Wronged Man: C.I.A. Officer Mistaken for Spy Down the Street (By JAMES RISEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, Aug. 10, 2001)
Bush Backs Federal Funding for Some Stem Cell Research (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Aug. 10, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Decision Helps Define the President's Image (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 10, 2001)
THE REACTION: Each Side Finds Something to Like, and Not (By ROBIN TONER, Aug. 10, 2001)
THE BIOETHICIST: A Philosopher Fully at Ease in Uncertainty (By SUSAN SAULNY, Aug. 10, 2001)
* JIANG'S VIEWS: Chinese President Expresses Optimism on Relations With U.S. (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 10, 2001)
* In Jiang's Words: 'I Hope the Western World Can Understand China Better' (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2001)
THE MEETING SITE: At One Resort in China, Two Worlds (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 10, 2001)
Moscow Is Getting a Taste of the Mall (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Aug. 10, 2001)
Scramble to Avoid Blackouts as Record Heat Wilts Region (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Aug. 10, 2001)
* THE BIG CITY: Abandoning All Thoughts of Heat Waves [Dante's Inferno] (By JOHN TIERNEY, Aug. 10, 2001)
* MY MANHATTAN: Into a Den of Musical Alchemy (By ANDRÉ ACIMAN, Aug. 10, 2001)
BOLDFACE NAMES: The Moving Hand [Book Publishing] (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2001)
EDITORIAL: President Bush Waffles (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Body Heat (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Strategic Warmth (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: Microbe Warfare Hides the Enemy (By CHRISTOPHER F. CHYBA, Aug. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: Even Paradise Needs Basic Maintenance (By FRED MOODY, Aug. 10, 2001)
BUSINESS: Key Gauges Make Little or No Headway in Uneven Session
[Dow +5, Nasdaq -3] (By REUTERS, Aug. 10, 2001)
FLOYD NORRIS: This Stock Pays 21% in Dividends, but Few Are Interested [MCICP] (By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 10, 2001)
* Toughness Has Risks for Women Executives (By NEELA BANERJEE, Aug. 10, 2001)
Internet Cash Company Suspends Its Operations [Flooz.com] (By JAYSON BLAIR, Aug. 10, 2001)
Hollywood Giant Comes on Hard Times [Michael S. Ovitz] (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Aug. 10, 2001)
A Money Manager Faces New Fraud Charges (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Aug. 10, 2001)
* ARTS: Crouching Rowers, Spectacular Dragons, in Queens Boat Races [Qu Yuan] (By SANDEE BRAWARSKY, Aug. 10, 2001)
* ART: 'WORSHIPING THE ANCESTORS': Currying Favor From Beyond [Chinese paintings]
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 10, 2001)
ART: 'CELEBRITY CARICATURE IN AMERICA': The Mighty Pen Can Be Playful Too (By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 10, 2001)
THE ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE': Ready for Marketing... and, Oh Yes, Creating (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 10, 2001)
Art in Review: 'Origamic Architecture' (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 10, 2001)
ANTIQUES: Knockdown Relics of Empire (By WENDY MOONAN, Aug. 10, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'HOUDINI, TARZAN AND THE PERFECT MAN': Hunks of a Bygone Era Bolstered Beleaguered Masculinity
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 10, 2001)
FILM: 'THE OTHERS': Which of You People Are the Dead Ones? (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 10, 2001)
FILM: 'AMERICAN PIE 2': College Guys in Heat Leap at a Cool Summer (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 10, 2001)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: A Young Face, an Old Film [Anna Karina] (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 10, 2001)
FILM: 'AN AMERICAN RHAPSODY': The Funny Foreignness of Hamburgers and Coke (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 10, 2001)
* MUSIC: Debussy, a Composer Unlike Any Before or After Him (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI et. al., Aug. 10, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Capturing Subjects Who Sit Extremely Still (By MARGARETT LOKE, Aug. 10, 2001)
TV: 'DINNER WITH FRIENDS: Feeling the Ripple Effect of a Marriage Gone Bad (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 10, 2001)
HEALTH: BASIC RESEARCH: A Science in Its Infancy, but With Great Expectations for Its Adolescence
(By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Aug. 10, 2001)

Thursday, August 9, 2001:
On This Day: August 9 (John Dryden 8/9/1631-5/1/1700, P. L. Travers 8/9/1899-4/23/1996)
Atom Bomb Loosed on Nagasaki (By W. H. LAWRENCE, August 9, 1945)
Jean Piaget Dies in Geneva at 84
[8/9/1896-9/16/1980] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, September 17, 1980)
* Maureen Reagan, 60, Activist and President's Daughter, Dies (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 9, 2001)
Caro Crawford Brown, Reporter, Dies at 93 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 9, 2001)
Dame Dorothy Tutin, Acclaimed British Actress, Dies at 71 (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 9, 2001)
Martin Huston, Stage and TV Actor, Dies at 60 (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2001)
U.S. Says It Broke Pornography Ring Featuring Youths (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Aug. 9, 2001)
* Chinese President Expresses Optimism on Relations With U.S. (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 9, 2001)
Iranian President Vows to Press Forward on Reform (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Aug. 9, 2001)
Zoo Intruder Barges in, but Gorillas Go to Lunch (By RICHARD LEZIN JONES, Aug. 9, 2001)
Joining the Children in Summer Class (By YILU ZHAO, Aug. 9, 2001)
SPORTS: Another Remarkable Streak Is Ended [track & field] (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Aug. 9, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Stampede to Cloning (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Let's Clear the Air (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 9, 2001)
OP-ED: Irish Peace at a Crossroads (By ANNE CADWALLADER, Aug. 9, 2001)
OP-ED: A Man, a Plan, a Manuscript (By CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Aug. 9, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall After Worrisome Report From Fed
[Dow -165, Nasdaq -61] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Aug. 9, 2001)
* Data's Validity Faulted in Net Registration System (By SUSAN STELLIN, Aug. 9, 2001)
Chip Sales Are Expected to Fall 26% (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 9, 2001)
Not Long Ago, Married Women Had No Property Rights (By VIRGINIA POSTREL, Aug. 9, 2001)
CNN Studios Will Get Down to Rivals' Level: The Street (By JAYSON BLAIR, Aug. 9, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Going for the All-American Comfort and Fit of Denim Slacks (By ALLISON FASS, Aug. 9, 2001)
BOOKS: 'EDGEWATER ANGELS': Landscape Long on Gangs but Short on Fathers (By RICHARD EDER, Aug. 9, 2001)
* BOOKS: Online and in the Flesh, Black Writers Commune With Kindred Spirits (By ERIC O'KEEFE, Aug. 9, 2001)
FILM CRITIC: A Festival of Latin Films That Go Many Different Places (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 9, 2001)
JAZZ: ROSCOE MITCHELL: If the Notes Can Fly, No Sheet Music Is Needed (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 9, 2001)
POP: 'LIVING COLOUR': A Time Capsule (Sort of) From the Pre-Hip-Hop Era (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 9, 2001)
THEATER: At the Fringe, the Naughty Cheerleader and 180 Other Stories (By PETER MARKS, Aug. 9, 2001)
THEATER: 'STREET SCENE': The Dance of Life Turns Messy and Sweaty (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 9, 2001)
TV: 'GOING TO CALIFORNIA': Meandering to California, With a World to Learn (By RON WERTHEIMER, Aug. 9, 2001)
GARDEN Q & A: Anemone Anomalies (By LESLIE LAND, Aug. 9, 2001)
STYLE: Romanov Style at Peasant Prices (By JOHN VAROLI, Aug. 9, 2001)
STYLE: Room to Improve: Dressing Up the Closet (By MARCO PASANELLA, Aug. 9, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2001)
The Art World Starts to Pay Attention to Video Games (By MARK GLASER, Aug. 9, 2001)
BASICS: More Is More (Mostly): From Cable to Satellite TV (By ALFRED BALK, Aug. 9, 2001)
Behind the Technology That Can Reproduce a Voice (By LISA GUERNSEY, Aug. 9, 2001)
* WHAT'S NEXT: A Chip That Mimics a Retina but Strains for Light (By ANNE EISENBERG, Aug. 9, 2001)
A Site Whose Riches Bob on the Surface (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Aug. 9, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: The Personal DVD Player as a Carry-On Item (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 9, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: A Bed Fit for a Queen (and Her Hairy Dog) (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 9, 2001)
Peripherals: A Mouse With No Tail and an Urge to Fly (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Aug. 9, 2001)
* Online Diary: Mining Ellis Island; Clicking for Dollars; A Fetching Idea (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Aug. 9, 2001)
Software: Recreating a Japanese Art With a Few Deft Clicks (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE, Aug. 9, 2001)
Q & A: Shortcuts Cut Down on Point-and-Click (By J.D.�BIERSDORFER, Aug. 9, 2001)
* HEALTH: Diet and Exercise Are Found to Cut Diabetes by Over Half (By KENNETH CHANG, Aug. 9, 2001)
Anticholesterol Drug Pulled After Link to 31 Deaths [Baycol] (By GINA KOLATA & EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 9, 2001)

Wednesday, August 8, 2001:
On This Day: August 8 (Ernst Lawrence 8/8/1901-8/27/1958, Arthur Goldberg 8/8/1908-1/19/1990)
Nixon Resigns: The 37th President Is First to Quit Post (By JOHN HERBERS, August 8, 1974)
Mrs. Rawlings, 57, Novelist, Is Dead
[8/8/1896-12/15/1953] (NY Times, December 16, 1953)
Duong Van Minh, 85, Saigon Plotter, Dies (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Aug. 8, 2001)
(By RICHARD SEVERO, Aug. 8, 2001)
Stuart C. Davidson, 78, Owner of Legendary Washington Bar, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 8, 2001)
Howard Elting, Dies at 93; Relayed News of Holocaust (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 8, 2001)
Lorenzo Music, Actor, Dies at 64 (NY TIMES, Aug. 8, 2001)
Rebels in Black Robes Recoil at Surveillance of Computers (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Aug. 8, 2001)
Data Permanently Erased From Florida Computers (By DAVID BARSTOW, Aug. 8, 2001)
Students See Smaller Classes as Best Way to Improve Schools (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 8, 2001)
Bush's Loss on Links Can't Dampen His Day (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Aug. 8, 2001)
MOSCOW JOURNAL: Battle Cry: Onward, Christian Soup Kitchens! [Salvation Army]
(By MICHAEL WINE, Aug. 8, 2001)
* EDUCATION: How 'Us' Dropped Out in U.S. Public Schools (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, Aug. 8, 2001)
* NY REGION: 99-Degree Heat Was the New York State of Mind (By SUSAN SAULNY, Aug. 8, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: 'Seagull's' Wings Help Span a 30-Year Career (By ROBIN FINN, Aug. 8, 2001)
Investing for College, Before Taxes (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Aug. 8, 2001)
SPORTS: Shoeless Joe's Black Betsy Bat Nets $577,610 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 8, 2001)
* EDITORIAL: The Presidential Pen (NY TIMES, Aug. 8, 2001)
* OP-ED: LIBERTIES: A Very Personal History (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 8, 2001)
* OP-ED: Standing Up for Umpires (By FAY VINCENT, Aug. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Nothing for Something (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: Arafat and the Power of Persuasion (By MARTIN INDYK, Aug. 8, 2001)
BUSINESS: Data Helps Blue Chips, but Technology Shares Stumble (By REUTERS, Aug. 8, 2001)
* Cisco Earnings Drop Sharply but Match Expectations (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 8, 2001)
* Microsoft's Research Unit Is Opening Up in California (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 8, 2001)
* THE BOSS: An Insult Was My Motivation (By BARBARA CORCORAN, Aug. 8, 2001)
* WORKPLACE: Young Job Seekers Need New Clues (By MELINDA LIGOS, Aug. 8, 2001)
Sluggish Germany Begins to Drag Down Rest of Europe (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 8, 2001)
Greenspan Holdings Are Said to Increase (By REUTERS, Aug. 8, 2001)
I'm a Concierge for Travelers (By MARILYN WEXLER, Aug. 8, 2001)
* ARTS: Donald Richie Offers a Collection of His Writings on Japan (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Aug. 8, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: A Music Festival and Academy That's Big but Cozy (By ROBERT HILFERTY, Aug. 8, 2001)
BOOKS: 'ACCORDING TO QUEENEY': Putting Words in Dr. Johnson's Mouth, Words He'd Like
(By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Aug. 8, 2001)
DANCE: Federal Judge Allows Martha Graham Center to Use Her Name and Methods (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 8, 2001)
MUSIC: TALLIS SCHOLARS: Music That Was Old When Mozart Was Young (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 8, 2001)
TV NOTES: An Unexpected Opinion (By BILL CARTER, Aug. 8, 2001)
FILM: THE DEEP END': The Palpable Resolve of a Mother's Love (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 8, 2001)
SCIENCE: Despite Warnings, 3 Vow to Go Ahead on Human Cloning (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Aug. 8, 2001)
Shuttle Will Ferry New Crew to Space Station (By WARREN E. LEARY, Aug. 8, 2001)

Tuesday, August 7, 2001:
On This Day: August 7 (Mata Hari 8/6/1876-10/15/1917, Louis S.B. Leakey 8/7/1903-10/1/1972, Nicholas Ray 8/7/1911-6/16/1979)
Dr. Bunche of U.N., Nobel Winner, Dies [born 8-7-1904] (By ROBERT D. MCFADDEN, December 10, 1971)
Sir Alec Guinness, Elegant Actor of Film and Stage, Is Dead at 86
[8/7/1916-8/6/2000] (By ALBIN KREBS, August 7, 2000)
Roy D. Chapin Jr., Former American Motors Chief, Dies at 85 (By KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 7, 2001)
* Jorge Amado Dies at 88; Brazil's Leading Novelist (By EDWIN McDOWELL, Aug. 7, 2001)
Christopher Hewett, Television's 'Mr. Belvedere,' Dies at 80 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 7, 2001)
POLITICAL MEMO: President Is on Vacation, Mostly Not Taking It Easy (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Aug. 7, 2001)
A Chapel That Welcomes Dogs, but Not Dogmas (By CAREY GOLDBERG, Aug. 7, 2001)
Golf Obsesses a Boom Town's Elite (By MARK LANDLER, Aug. 7, 2001)
Web Site About Local Government Is Target of a Libel Suit (By RONALD SMOTHERS, Aug. 7, 2001)
BOLDFACE NAMES: All Eyes on the Divorce (By JAMES BARRON, Aug. 7, 2001)
TUNNEL VISION: Waiting for a Train, Waiting for Stardom (By RANDY KENNEDY, Aug. 7, 2001)
Watching the Detectives, Reel to Reel (By GLENN COLLINS, Aug. 7, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Translating New York's History Into English (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Aug. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Civil Peace Requires Civil War (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: The Myth of a Perfect Defense (By CALEB CARR, Aug. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: A Foolish Dam and a Writer's Freedom (By SALMAN RUSHDIE, Aug. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: The Downside of Hearing Whoopi at the Mall (By ROBERT H. FRANK, Aug. 7, 2001)
LETTERS: 56 Years of Lessons From Hiroshima (By WALTER MEYER, Aug. 7, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Trade Lower as Numbers for Intel Are Reduced
[Dow -111, Nasdaq -32] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 7, 2001)
Clinton to Publish Memoir and Earn Record Advance Payment (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 7, 2001)
Icelandic Spring Water Discovers an Old Adage: Sex Sells. (By COURTNEY KANE, Aug. 7, 2001)
Chinese B Shares Plunge as Quickly as They Soared (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Aug. 7, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: A Little Puppet Gets the Job Done, No Strings Attached (By CHIEKO TSUNEOKA, Aug. 7, 2001)
BALLET: Eliot Feld Sets Sights on Hawaiian Digression (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 7, 2001)
BOOKS: 'LIGHTNING FIELD': Snapshots of Postmodern Los Angeles (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 7, 2001)
FILM: Assault as Autobiography: A Filmmaker Draws on Her Memories (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Aug. 7, 2001)
MUSIC: Ozawa Leads 'Salome' in Tanglewood Farewell (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 7, 2001)
THEATER: 'IF YOU EVER LEAVE ME...': That Heavenly Match Made on 'The Merv Griffin Show'
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 7, 2001)
What New Urban Wear Trend Will Step Off the G Train? (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Aug. 7, 2001)
FRONT ROW: Dipping Beyond the Fountain of Youth (By GUY TREBAY, Aug. 7, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Time of Growing Pains for Information Age (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Aug. 7, 2001)
* Astronomers See Evidence of First Light in Universe (By JAMES GLANZ, Aug. 7, 2001)
* OBSERVATORY: In-Flight Meals, for Bats (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Aug. 7, 2001)
* Hypothesis: A Scientific Gap. Conclusion: Japanese Custom. (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Aug. 7, 2001)
* More Than Just a Nuisance, a Virtuoso of Disease [mosquito] (By JANE E. BRODY, Aug. 7, 2001)
SCIENTIST AT WORK: Bjorn Lomborg: A Chipper Environmentalist (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 7, 2001)
ANTIQUITIES: In Egypt, Tales From a Crypt [3 slides] (NY TIMES, Aug. 7, 2001)
Splish-Splash, Gorillas Are Taking a Bath and Sending a Message (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Aug. 7, 2001)
After 5,300 Years, Mystery of Iceman's Death Is Solved (By BRENDA FOWLER, Aug. 7, 2001)
Celebrating Vanished Birds, Comical or Exquisite (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Aug. 7, 2001)
* Letters: A Psychiatrist's Care (By ANITA SEYLER et. al., Aug. 7, 2001)
* Q & A: High Flies (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Aug. 7, 2001)
CASES: Sometimes, Good News Can Make the Patient Feel So Bad (By JANICE PAGE, Aug. 7, 2001)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Keeping Those Pesky Biting Pests at Bay (By JANE E. BRODY, Aug. 7, 2001)
When Implants Fail, Patients Suffer Twice (By KENNETH CHANG, Aug. 7, 2001)
* VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: Personality May Play a Role in Strokes (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 7, 2001)
Patterns: Breast-Feeding Found to Vary by Race (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 7, 2001)
Prevention: A Closer Look at Needle Exchanges (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 7, 2001)
Behavior: In Some Games, 'E' Isn't for Enlightened (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 7, 2001)

Monday, August 6, 2001:
On This Day: August 6 (Alfred Tennyson 8/6/1809-10/6/1892, Alexander Fleming 8/6/1881-3/11/1955, Andy Warhol 8/6/1928-2/22/1987)
First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan (By SIDNEY SHALETT, August 6, 1945)
Lucille Ball, Spirited Doyenne Of TV Comedies, Dies at 77
[8/6/1911-4/26/1989] (By PETER B. FLINT, April 27, 1989)
Lord Longford, Champion of Eccentric Causes, Dies at 95 (By WARREN HOGE, Aug. 6, 2001)
Jack Maple, a Designer of New York City's Crime Control Strategies, Dies at 48 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 6, 2001)
Bert Grant, a Brew Master Who Developed Microbreweries, Dies at 73 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 6, 2001)
Steven L. Ross, ALSA Chairman, Is Dead at 58 (NY TIMES, Aug. 6, 2001)
An Unrepentant Nader Unveils a New Grass-Roots Project (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Aug. 6, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: An Old Hand on a Collision Course With the White House
[Senator Robert C. Byrd] (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 6, 2001)
Putting Her Money Where Maine's Woods Are (NY TIMES, Aug. 6, 2001)
Pull in Congress Tied to Grants for Research (By KATE ZERNIKE, Aug. 6, 2001)
Census Data Show a Sharp Increase in Living Standard (By ERIC SCHMITT, Aug. 6, 2001)
Once-Thriving Tamil Town Now a War Ruin (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Aug. 6, 2001)
How Rush to Manhood Scars Young Africans (By HENRI E. CAUVIN, Aug. 6, 2001)
Undaunted by Past Defeats, Balloonist Tries to Circle Globe (By REUTERS, Aug. 6, 2001)
For Barak, It's Time to Isolate Arafat the 'Thug' (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Aug. 6, 2001)
METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Tainted Justice (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: The Nuclear August of 1945 (By NIKOLAY PALCHIKOFF, Aug. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: Virtue Is Not Easy to Foster (By WILLIAM A. GALSTON, Aug. 6, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Bell Companies Blamed for D.S.L.'s Woes (By KATIE HAFNER, Aug. 6, 2001)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Web Merchants Turn to Offline Mail (By BOB TEDESCHI, Aug. 6, 2001)
Password Protection With Prison Stripes (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 6, 2001)
Hand-Held Monitor Compiles Heart Data (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Aug. 6, 2001)
Clinton Is Said to Be Close to Book Deal (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 6, 2001)
ON TELEVISION: Ratings Plunge for Network Reruns (By BILL CARTER, Aug. 6, 2001)
MEDIA TALK: New Angle on Chandra Levy: Who Will Interview Condit? (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 6, 2001)
Publisher Auditions an Online Farm Team (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 6, 2001)
A Caustic Look in the Mirror From Boomers (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Aug. 6, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: Brazil Embraces Elizabeth Bishop's Legacy (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 6, 2001)
* ARTS ONLINE: Impressionists in Cyberspace, Digital but Diverse (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Aug. 6, 2001)
Smithsonian Must Exhibit Ingenuity to Deal With Gifts (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Aug. 6, 2001)
BOOKS: 'THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD': A Map's Tale (By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 6, 2001)
MUSIC: MOSTLY MOZART: Where the 2 Schumanns Found Common Ground (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Aug. 6, 2001)
OPERA CRITIC: A New Hand Guides Opera in Santa Fe (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 6, 2001)
THEATER: 'MR. PRESIDENT': Names Change; White House Doesn't (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 6, 2001)
TV: 'BEYOND TARA': She Rose Above Mammyness (By JULIE SALAMON, Aug. 6, 2001)
TV: 'NEXT: THE FUTURE JUST HAPPENED': In Pursuit of Reality in the Internet Age
(By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 6, 2001)

Sunday, August 5, 2001:
On This Day: August 5 (Guy Maupassant 8/5/1850, Conrad Aiken 8/5/1889-8/17/1973)
Test Ban Treaty Signed in Moscow (By HENRY TANNER, August 5, 1963)
John Huston, Film Director, Writer and Actor, Dies at 81
[8/5/1966-8/28/1987] (By PETER B. FLINT, August 29, 1987)
Derek Freeman, Who Challenged Margaret Mead on Samoa, Dies at 84 [July 6] (By JOHN SHAW, Aug. 5, 2001)
Einar Schleef, 57; Author and Director, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 5, 2001)
After First 6 Months, Bush Is to Change Focus (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 5, 2001)
Los Alamos Scientist's Book Creates a New Controversy (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Aug. 5, 2001)
Death Valley Summers Attract Heat Seekers (By EVELYN NIEVES, Aug. 5, 2001)
Plans to Revive Romance With a Streetcar (By RICK BRAGG, Aug. 5, 2001)
Mexico's Open Southern Border Lures Migrants Headed to U.S. (By GINGER THOMPSON, Aug. 5, 2001)
LONG ISLAND CITY JOURNAL: Dancing in the Sand, With No Ocean in Sight (By COREY KILGANNON, Aug. 5, 2001)
* Baby Gap? No, Call Him Zane (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 5, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Al, Again (By, Aug. 5, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: De Minimis Maximus (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 5, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Feeling OPEC's Pain (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 5, 2001)
OP-ED: Allies in America's National Interest (By JEFFREY GEDMIN and GARY SCHMITT, Aug. 5, 2001)
OP-ED: Reform and an Evolving Electorate (By ALEX KEYSSAR, Aug. 5, 2001)
LETTERS: Hurrying the Internet (By ROBERT SACH, Aug. 5, 2001)
* BUSINESS: As Job Cuts Spread, Tears Replace Anger (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 5, 2001)
* TALKING MONEY: No Plot Twists in a Novelist's Portfolio (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Aug. 5, 2001)
CNN Aims at Young Viewers in Updating a Channel (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 5, 2001)
Dallas Bleeds as Job Cuts Hit Its Tech Sector (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Aug. 5, 2001)
Matthew B. Fahey of Marshall Mid-Cap Value Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Aug. 5, 2001)
Test Service Still Trying to Impress the Market [Princeton Review] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Aug. 5, 2001)
* MARKET WATCH: Price Targets Are Hazardous to Investors' Wealth (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 5, 2001)
* LOVE & MONEY: When the Inner Boy Takes Over (By ELLYN SPRAGINS, Aug. 5, 2001)
* At Least One Kind of Shock Is Good for Some Stocks (By MARK HULBERT, Aug. 5, 2001)
PRIVATE SECTOR: When Love and Work Clash in the Valley (Compiled By RICK GLADSTONE, Aug. 5, 2001)
Walking the Trade Tightrope, Confidently (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 5, 2001)
Why Traders Keep Playing With Trucks and Trains (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
* SPORTS: Maz Cries at Hall of Fame Induction (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 5, 2001)
SPORTS: The Tales of a Basketball Ambassador in Iran (By HARVEY ARATON, Aug. 5, 2001)
TRAVEL ESSAY: Pulled Over � and Over Again (By ROBERT PACKARD, Aug. 5, 2001)
* SPACE BUGS: Searching for Alien Heartbeats (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Aug. 5, 2001)
WORD FOR WORD: Bill-and-Monica Studies (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 5, 2001)
Play the Japan Card? Facing Down China Without Riling It Up (By JANE PERLEZ, Aug. 5, 2001)
REIGNING, AND REINING IN: A Not-Quite-So-Deep Pocketbook (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Aug. 5, 2001)
The Top-Drawer in the Cabinet [Donald H. Rumsfeld] (By ROBERT MANN, Aug. 5, 2001)
Spinning à la Mode (By THOM SHANKER, Aug. 5, 2001)
We Couldn't Resist: Follow the Monkey (By TOM KUNTZ, Aug. 5, 2001)
Chewing the Fat (By STEPHANIE STROM, Aug. 5, 2001)
Righting Wrong (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Aug. 5, 2001)
TRAVEL: Slovenia: Unheralded Gem on the Adriatic (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 5, 2001)
TRAVEL: A Distant Corner of Europe [Ljubljana] (By ALAN KRAUSS, Aug. 5, 2001)
FRUGAL TRAVELER: Encounters in the Kingdom of Tonga (By DAISANN McLANE, Aug. 5, 2001)
* ART: The Art of Big and Small Things (By VICKI GOLDBERG, Aug. 5, 2001)
* ART: Zero Mostel: A Clown Harboring an Inner Artist (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 5, 2001)
ARTS: A Family and Tribe From British Columbia Regain a Piece of History (By RITA REIF, Aug. 5, 2001)
ART: Offhand Gallery for the Avant-Garde (By ANN WILSON LLOYD, Aug. 5, 2001)
BALLET: Drilling Summer Students in the A B C's of the A.B.T. (By LAURA LEIVICK, Aug. 5, 2001)
* DANCE: Guru in an Outpost of Ballet Wisdom (By JOSEPH CARMAN, Aug. 5, 2001)
* FILM: How to Tell a Bad Movie From a Truly Bad Movie (By FRANZ LIDZ & STEVE RUSHIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
FILM: Tilda Swinton Decides It's Time for Acting (By PETER KOBEL, Aug. 5, 2001)
FILM: Eva Gardos: Reliving a Childhood Unhinged (By MARGY ROCHLIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
FILM: Brad Anderson: Loosing the Horrors of Old, Dark Halls (By DANA KENNEDY, Aug. 5, 2001)
MUSIC: Levine at Home Abroad, for Now (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Aug. 5, 2001)
MUSIC: A Cultural Disconnect on Wagner (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 5, 2001)
MUSIC: Has Ike Turner Moved Beyond His Past? Yes and No (By FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
THEATER: The Stars Favor Chekhov (By PETER MARKS, Aug. 5, 2001)
THEATER: Renée Taylor and Joe Bologna: Inspired by One Another (By RENÉE TAYLOR and JOE BOLOGNA, Aug. 5, 2001)
STYLE: Turning Heads Back to Detroit [J. Mays of Ford Motors] (By RICK MARIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
SCENE: Muscle-Boat Madness: Revving Up and Peeling Out (By JULIA CHAPLIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
A NIGHT OUT WITH PETER SHAPIRO: Death of a Deadhead Dive (By ALEX BERENSON, Aug. 5, 2001)
The Urge to Go Directly to Jail and Beyond [Cranium & Antiques Roadshow] (By ALLEN SALKIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
ON THE STREET: Why the Sun Smiled [slideshow] (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Aug. 5, 2001)
VOWS: Ulcca Joshi and Christopher Hansen (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Aug. 5, 2001)
VIEW: The Fresh Princess Diaries (By CECELIE S. BERRY, Aug. 5, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: Forget About 'Leaning Over Backward.' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Aug. 5, 2001)
Nothing Like a Drop in 401(k) Values to Make You Rethink Work (By NELSON W. ALDRICH JR., Aug. 5, 2001)
* GESTURES: Everyone's Pointing— Even the President— But Not the Way They Used To
(By BEN YAGODA, Aug. 5, 2001)
Questions for David Wain and Michael Showalter (By MIM UDOVITCH, Aug. 5, 2001)
How to Get a Deal on a Car (By MICHELLE KREBS, Aug. 5, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: No Need for Speed (By RANDY COHEN, Aug. 5, 2001)
The Next Battlefield May Be in Outer Space (By JACK HITT, Aug. 5, 2001)
* Electronic Game Maker Lets Kids Do Their Marketing for Them (By JOHN TIERNEY, Aug. 5, 2001)
The Dancers of Bandaloop Use the Sky as Their Stage
(Photographs by COREY RICH, Text by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Aug. 5, 2001)
STYLE: A Ruggedly Modern House Cuts a Lean Swath Through the California Landscape
(By PILAR VILADAS, Aug. 5, 2001)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK: Julia Norton, 15, Takes On Jessie Della Femina, 15 (By JULIA NORTON, Aug. 5, 2001)
FOOD: Our Food Writer Is Hot and Bothered by Summer Cooking (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Aug. 5, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 5, 2001)
* Fernande Olivier's 'Loving Picasso': Artist and Model (By DIANE JOHNSON, Aug. 5, 2001)
* 'Simone Weil': The Political Was Far Too Personal (By LAURA MILLER, Aug. 5, 2001)
'In the Floyd Archives': What Does a Wolfman Want? (By M. G. LORD, Aug. 5, 2001)
'The Map That Changed the World': Sedimental Journeys (By MALCOLM C. McKENNA, Aug. 5, 2001)
'Everything You Need': The Pupil Becomes the Master (By RICHARD EDER, Aug. 5, 2001)
'The Scarlet Professor': Search and Destroy (By CALEB CRAIN, Aug. 5, 2001)
* 'Skirts and Slacks': Poems Around the House (By ALBERT MOBILIO, Aug. 5, 2001)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: Fin of Another Siècle (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Aug. 5, 2001)

Saturday, August 4, 2001:
On This Day: August 4 (Percy B. Shelley 8/4/1792-7/8/1822, Walter Pater 8/4/1839-7/30/1894)
England Declares War on Germany (NY Times, August 4, 1914)
Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies
[8/4/1901-7/6/1971] (By ALBIN KREBS, July 7, 1971)
Robert Miles Runyan, 76, Adroit Graphic Designer, Dies (By STEVEN HELLER, Aug. 4, 2001)
Donald Rivkin, International Lawyer, 77, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2001)
Ron Townson, 68, Singer in Fifth Dimension, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 4, 2001)
Charles Henderson, Organist and Editor of Music Magazine, Dies at 84 (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 4, 2001)
WHITE HOUSE MEMO: At 6 Months, Bush Says, He's Doing Pretty Well (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 4, 2001)
Swath of U.S. Sweats Out Another Heat Wave (By JO THOMAS, Aug. 4, 2001)
Russian Tries to Pierce Missile Shield With Charm (By ADAM CLYMER, Aug. 4, 2001)
Fulbright Scholar Freed After 6 Months in Russian Jail (By MICHAEL WINES, Aug. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: Is There No Choice? [Israel & Palestinians] (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Aug. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: A Slow Train Across Siberia [a week traveling 5,778 miles] (By RUSSELL WORKING, Aug. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: What the Seas Can Offer (By ROBERT GAGOSIAN, Aug. 4, 2001)
* LETTERS: My Midsummer Night's Dreamboat... (By EMILY CARTER SHORT, Aug. 4, 2001)
BUSINESS: Jobs Data for July Hint That the Economy May Be Stabilizing
[Dow -38] (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Aug. 4, 2001)
* Lack of Advertising Forces Theglobe.com to Shut Web Sites (By JAYSON BLAIR, Aug. 4, 2001)
Metricom to Sell Its Assets and End Wireless Service (By CHRIS GAITHER, Aug. 4, 2001)
Madonna Loses Voice; Some Fans Lose Hope (By JAMES BARRON, Aug. 4, 2001)
* BOOKS: Embracing the Wisdom of a Castaway [C.L.R. James] (By EMILY EAKIN, Aug. 4, 2001)
BOOKS Q&A: Balancing Bibical Faith and Archaeological Facts (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2001)
DANCE: 'SHIM CHUNG': The Blind Man's Daughter Finds a Happy Ending (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 4, 2001)
OPERA: 'FALSTAFF': For a Verdian Marathon Man, a Triumphant Finish (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 4, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Exploring Cosmic Darkness, Scientists See Signs of Dawn (By JAMES GLANZ, Aug. 4, 2001)

Friday, August 3, 2001:
On This Day: August 3 (Rupert Brooke 8/3/1887-4/23/1915, Maggie Kuhn 8/3/1905-4/22/1995)
Nautilus Sails Under the Pole and 1,830 Miles of Arctic Icecap in Pacific-to-Atlantic Passage (By FELIX BELAIR, JR., August 3, 1958)
Ernie Pyle Is Killed on Ie Island; Foe Fired When All Seemed Safe
[8/3/1900-4/17/1945] (NY Times, April 18, 1945)
* Italo Scanga, 69, an Artist Inspired by Found Objects (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 3, 2001)
Jon Eisenson, 93, of Stanford, an Expert on Speech Problems, Dies (By JONATHAN ABRAHAM, Aug. 3, 2001)
Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 3, 2001)
Dan Towler, All-Pro Back Who Studied for the Ministry, Dead at 73 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 3, 2001)
Lillian Kiesler, 91, Artist and Art Patron, Is Dead (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 3, 2001)
Deborah Ann Cohen Writer, 39, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush Has a Winning Streak, at Least in House (By ALISON MITCHELL, Aug. 3, 2001)
Test Shows Students' Gains in Math Falter by Grade 12 (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Aug. 3, 2001)
Tribunal in The Hague Finds Bosnian Serb Guilty of Genocide (By MARLISE SIMONS, Aug. 3, 2001)
LONDON JOURNAL: TV Hoist by Own Spoof: Pedophilia Is Explosive (By SARAH LYALL, Aug. 3, 2001)
* OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Lexus and the Shamrock [Thomas Moore] (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: The Dangers of Voting Outside the Booth (By NORMAN J. ORNSTEIN, Aug. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: Rapping at the Senate's Door (By RUSSELL SIMMONS, Aug. 3, 2001)
* ART CRITIC: With His Head Scenically in the Clouds, Church Became a Star (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 3, 2001)
* IN ART'S FOOTSTEPS: A Hike to History, With Nature as a Guide (By KIRK JOHNSON, Aug. 3, 2001)
* ART: The Impressionists at Work, With All Deliberate Speed (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 3, 2001)
ART: 'BUZZ CLUB': Becoming Immersed in Japan's Wired Pop Culture (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 3, 2001)
IN THE STUDIO WITH RINEKE DIJKSTRA: An Artist Exploring an Enlisted Man's Look (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Aug. 3, 2001)
BALLET: Shades of the Kirov but Not Cecil B. DeMille (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Aug. 3, 2001)
THEATER: 'AN EVENING WITH DONNA MCKECHNIE': The Eternal Ing�nue Conducts a Tour of Her Life (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 3, 2001)
* TV WEEKEND: 'JAMES DEAN': The 46-Year Pursuit of a Restless Soul (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Dinosaurs as They Lived and Breathed (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Aug. 3, 2001)

Thursday, August 2, 2001:
On This Day: August 2 (John Manners Granby 8/2/1721-10/18/1770, Pierre-Charles L'Enfant 8/2/1754-6/14/1825, Elisha Gray 8/2/1835-1/21/1901, Charles Francis Adams 8/2/1866-6/11/1954, Ernest Dowson 8/2/1867-2/23/1900, John French Sloan 8/2/1871-9/7/1951, Romulo Gallegos 8/2/1884-4/4/1969, Myrna Loy 8/2/1905-12/14/1993, John Dexter 8/2/1925-3/23/1990, Beatrice Straight 1918, Paul Laxalt 1922, Carroll O'Connor 1924, Peter O'Toole 1932, Hank Cochran 1935, Wes Craven 1939, Joanna Cassidy 1945, Victoria Jackson 1959, Mary-Louise Parker 1964)
President Harding Dies Suddenly; Stroke of Apoplexy at 7:30 P.M.; Calvin Coolidge Is President
(NY TIMES, August 2, 1923)
James Baldwin Dies at 63, Eloquent Writer In Behalf of Civil Rights
[8/2/1924-12/1/1987] (By LEE A. DANIELS, December 2, 1987)
Martin Stern Jr., Architect Who Redefined Vegas Skyline, Dies at 84 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 2, 2001)
Elizabeth Yates, Author of Noted Children's Books, Dies at 95 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Aug. 2, 2001)
Wesley Posvar, 75, U. of Pittsburgh Chancellor, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 2, 2001)
Miklos Vasarhelyi Dies at 83; Hungarian Rebel (NY TIMES, Aug. 2, 2001)
Blacks Hit by Housing Costs Leave San Francisco Behind (By EVELYN NIEVES, Aug. 2, 2001)
F.B.I. Investigates Internet Tip of Missing Intern (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 2, 2001)
Ethiopia's Rock of Ages, Balm of the Faithful (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Aug. 2, 2001)
In Which We Learn How to Hide a Head of State [Kim Jong Il] (By MICHAEL WINES, Aug. 2, 2001)
Heat Kills Pro Football Player Korey Stringer [108 degrees] (By THOMAS GEORGE, Aug. 2, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Rise and Violent Fall of Patrice Lumumba (By BILL BERKELEY, Aug. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Texas Travesty (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: Painting Pyongyang Into a Corner (By SELIG S. HARRISON, Aug. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: Harlem's Visible Man [Bill Clinton] (By DAVID LEVERING LEWIS, Aug. 2, 2001)
BUSINESS: Technology Rallies as Semiconductor Shares Get a Lift
[Dow -13, Nasdaq +41] (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 2, 2001)
Lucent Raises $1.75 Billion in Stock Offering (By SIMON ROMERO, Aug. 2, 2001)
A Bold Gambler Ups the Ante Despite Long Odds (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Aug. 2, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: Drug Maker Is Set to Ship Generic Prozac (By MELODY PETERSEN, Aug. 2, 2001)
I.B.M. Making a Commitment to Next Phase of the Internet (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 2, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Argentina Fights to Save Mural by Mexican Painter (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Aug. 2, 2001)
BOOKS: 'BOSWELL'S PRESUMPTUOUS TASK': Turning the Tables on a Groundbreaking Biographer
(By RICHARD EDER, Aug. 2, 2001)
FILM: A Black Film Festival Aims for a More Universal Image (By DINITIA SMITH, Aug. 2, 2001)
JAZZ: GREG OSBY: Telepathy in Motion for Sax and Piano (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 2, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: Mozart Festival Opens With Trusty Favorites (Mostly) (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 2, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 2, 2001)
* A Scientist's Art: Computer Fiction (By KATIE HAFNER, Aug. 2, 2001)
Robot Competitors Meet on a Soccer Field of Dreams (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Aug. 2, 2001)
Hot on the Trail of the Disposable Mobile Phone (By SARAH MILSTEIN, Aug. 2, 2001)
Online Maps That Offer Journeys to the Past (By MICHAEL POLLAK, Aug. 2, 2001)
* My Favorite Word Shortcuts (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 2, 2001)
HOW IT WORKS: Tweaking Technology to Stay Ahead of the Film Pirates (By MATT LAKE, Aug. 2, 2001)
Feeling Restless at Macy's Parade (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 2, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: In the Airport Fast Lane, With Your Eyes as a Passport (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Aug. 2, 2001)
Q&A: Ridding the Computer of a Malicious Worm (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Aug. 2, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Dinosaur Fossils Discovered in Madagascar (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 2, 2001)

Wednesday, August 1, 2001:
On This Day: August 1 (Claudius 8/1/10 BC-10/13/54 AD, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 8/1/1744-12/18/1829, William Clark 8/1/1770-9/1/1838, Francis Scott Key 8/1/1779-1/11/1843, Richard Henry Dana 8/1/1815-1/6/1882, Herman Melville 8/1/1819-9/28/1891, Robert Todd Lincoln 8/1/1843-7/26/1926, Meir Kahane 8/1/1932-11/5/1990, Ron Brown 8/1/1941-4/3/1996, Jerry Garcia 8/1/1942-8/9/1995, Arthur Hill 1922, Geoffrey Holder 1930, Tom Wilson 1931, Dom DeLuise 1933, Yves Saint Laurent 1936, Alfonse D'Amato 1937, Giancarlo Giannini 1942, Sam Mendes 1965)
100,000 Hail Hitler; U.S. Athletes Avoid Nazi Salute to Him (By FREDERICK T. BIRCHALL, August 1, 1936)
Charles C. Spaulding: Ex-Slave's Son, 78, Financier, Is Dead [8/1/1874-8/1/1952] (NY Times, August 1, 1952)
* Rex T. Barber, Pilot Who Downed Yamamoto, Dies at 84 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 1, 2001)
Francisco da Costa Gomes, General Who Led Portugal, Is Dead at 87 (By SIMON ROMERO, Aug. 1, 2001)
Percy Goring, Survivor of Gallipoli Campaign, Dies at 106 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 1, 2001)
Louis de Rochemont III, Filmmaker, Dies at 70 (NY TIMES, Aug. 1, 2001)
* LESSONS: When There's Simply Not Enough Food for Thought (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 1, 2001)
* Mount Etna's Lava Causes Italian Officials to Close a Tourist Refuge (By REUTERS, Aug. 1, 2001)
Again, China Indicts Scholar Tied to U.S. (By REUTERS, Aug. 1, 2001)
NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATES: Bloomberg Portrays Himself As a Leader for Hard Times
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 1, 2001)
* Air Force One Has Flown, but Clinton's Still Celebrity in Chief (By AMY WALDMAN, Aug. 1, 2001)
* Learning to Teach: Two Students, Two Different Styles (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, Aug. 1, 2001)
* OUR TOWNS: A Boy Named Soup? [Corporate sponsor for baby] (By MATTHEW PURDY, Aug. 1, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: Sexy and Zany? Nah, He Just Prints the Stuff (By ROBIN FINN, Aug. 1, 2001)
Bookmaker Loses Federal Appeal in Internet Sports Betting Case (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Aug. 1, 2001)
SPORTS: Flutie Happy to Be the Chargers' Little Big Man (By MIKE FREEMAN, Aug. 1, 2001)
SPORTS: A-Rod, Mets Are Going Nowhere (By JACK CURRY, Aug. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: One More for the Road (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Blessed Are the Weak (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: A Mideast Partnership Can Still Work (By YOSSI BEILIN & YASIR ABED RABBO, Aug. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: Find Your Inner Wastrel (By BEN STEIN, Aug. 1, 2001)
BUSINESS: Mixed Data on Economy Give Dow an Early Rally
[Dow +121, Nasdaq +9] (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 1, 2001)
* PORTFOLIOS: Will the Economy Ever Party Like It's 1999? Don't Count on It. (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 3, 2001)
Priceline.com Posts a Profit on Sharp Increase in Sales (By SAUL HANSELL, Aug. 1, 2001)
Group Says Web Sites on Insurance Have Pitfalls (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Aug. 1, 2001)
Consumers Splurge While Confidence Wanes (By MICHAEL BRICK, Aug. 1, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: S.E.C. Leader Cites Conflicts of Analysts at Large Firms (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 1, 2001)
Martha Stewart to Run Spot on Space Organizers (By, Aug. 1, 2001)
MANAGEMENT: Employers Maintaining Vigilance in the Face of Layoff Rage (By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Aug. 1, 2001)
THE BOSS: I Frown on Distractions (By BRIAN BILLICK, Coach, Superbowl Champ Baltimore Ravens, Aug. 1, 2001)
Lucent Seeks $1 Billion Through Securities Sale (By SIMON ROMERO, Aug. 1, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Updated Shakespeare, at the Opera and in the Outback (By JOHN SHAW, Aug. 1, 2001)
ARTS: Barracuda Lounge: A Club Where Flamboyance Is Queen (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Aug. 1, 2001)
BOOKS: 'ALGERIA HOTEL': How France Recalls the Vichy Years, or Doesn't (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Aug. 1, 2001)
BOOKS: John Irving Takes Command of an Unlikely Ink: That of the Tattoo Parlor
(By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 1, 2001)
DANCE: DANCEGALAXY: A Son's Score for His Father's Choreography (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 1, 2001)
THEATER: Playing General and Nursemaid in 'Pirates of Penzance' (By DAVID JAY LASKY, Aug. 1, 2001)
TV: The Real Reality in Reality TV (By BILL CARTER, Aug. 1, 2001)
* DINING: Keeping a Treasure Close to Home [tuna] (By RICK MARIN, Aug. 1, 2001)
A Creamy Confection's Inner 'Ooh La La' [3 recipes] (By DORIE GREENSPAN, Aug. 1, 2001)
A Master Chef With a New Role [Roger Vergé] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 1, 2001)
Fresh Flavors at a Flick of the Wrist [grinding spices] (By DENISE LANDIS, Aug. 1, 2001)
TEMPTATION: A Mallomar Rival, Inspired by Sweden (By FLORENCE�FABRICANT, Aug. 1, 2001)
THE MINIMALIST: From the Ocean to Your Salad Bowl [seaweed salad] (By MARK BITTMAN, Aug. 1, 2001)
THE CHEF: Tom Colicchio [summer minestrone] (By Tom Colicchio with Florence Fabricant, Aug. 1, 2001)
FOOD STUFF: At the Whitney, Cake Imitates Art [Wayne Thiebaud] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 1, 2001)
Q&A: FOOD CHAIN: Avoiding Freezer Burn (By DENISE LANDIS, Aug. 1, 2001)
* HEALTH: Stem Cells Are Used to Produce Insulin (By REUTERS, Aug. 1, 2001)

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