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Saturday, August 31, 2002:
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)

Edwin L. Cole, Founder of Men's Ministry, Dies at 79 (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 31, 2002)
Charles M. Lichenstein, 75, American Envoy at the U.N., Dies (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 31, 2002)
Janusz Bardach, Gulag Survivor and Leading Plastic Surgeon, Dies at 83 (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 31, 2002)
* NATIONAL: Lesson Plans for Sept. 11 Offer a Study in Discord (By KATE ZERNIKE, Aug. 31, 2002)
Doubt Is Cast on Accuser of 2 Priests, Judge Says (By SAM DILLON, Aug. 31, 2002)
* BELIEFS: Searching for God During a Tragedy (By PETER STEINFELS, Aug. 31, 2002)
WASHINGTON TALK: Prickly Roots of 'Homeland Security' (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Aug. 31, 2002)
Flurry of Legislation Puts California Governor in the Hot Seat (By JOHN M. BRODER, Aug. 31, 2002)
Abducted California Boy Is Found Safe; Mother Is Being Held (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Aug. 31, 2002)
Atheist Sues on 2nd Front [abolish tax for Congressional chaplains] (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 31, 2002)
WORLD: Japanese Premier to Visit North Korea in Sign of Thaw (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 31, 2002)
China Muslim Group Planned Terror, U.S. Says (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 31, 2002)
Iraqi Warns U.S. Against Deposing Hussein (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Aug. 31, 2002)
Iraq Stance Puts Blair at Odds With Party (By SARAH LYALL, Aug. 31, 2002)
A Senior Palestinian Official Urges End to Suicide Attacks (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Aug. 31, 2002)
Trees Fall in Canada's Forests, but U.S. Isn't Buying (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Aug. 31, 2002)
NY REGION: Economy Dips While Welfare Drops in Cities (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Aug. 31, 2002)
* Told to Trim Costs, New York Libraries Reduce Their Hours (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Aug. 31, 2002)
Here's Your Change; Give It Back (By HOPE REEVES, Aug. 31, 2002)
Educator Has Accomplishments and Enemies [Diana Lam] (By TAMAR LEWIN, Aug. 31, 2002)
SPORTS: At Wrigley Field, Sky Is Blue and the Fans Are Not (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Aug. 31, 2002)
SPORTS: Last-Minute Deal in Baseball Talks Prevents a Strike (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 31, 2002)
SPORTS: Failure Is Still in the Air [baseball's image tarnished] (By GEORGE VECSEY, Aug. 31, 2002)
TENNIS: Roddick Rises Above, but Safin Is Crushed by Expectations (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 31, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Baseball Comes to Its Senses (NY TIMES, Aug. 31, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Breast Cancer Mythology on Long Island (NY TIMES, Aug. 31, 2002)
* OP-ED: Slouching Towards 9/11 (By FRANK RICH, Aug. 31, 2002)
OP-ED: New Jobs for Labor Unions (By SAMUEL LEIKEN, Aug. 31, 2002)
OP-ED: NOTES FROM BEVERLY SHORES: Yesterday's Futurism, Today's Environmentalism
(By MARSHA ACKERMANN, Aug. 31, 2002)
* OP-ED: Failing to Beat the Heat (By BETH KEPHART, Aug. 31, 2002)
LETTERS: A City That's Down but Not Out [Hartford, CT] (By PETER C. MOSS, et. al., Aug. 31, 2002)
* LETTERS: Classical Style: Big (By GEORGE L. HERSEY, Aug. 31, 2002)
LETTERS: The Penmanship Wars [cursive writing faster than printed letters]
(By The Penmanship Wars, Aug. 31, 2002)
BUSINESS: Weak Spell for Shares Reaches the Five-Month Mark
[Dow -7, Nasdaq -21] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 31, 2002)
* Investors Withdrew Record Total From Stock Mutual Funds in July [$52.6 billion]
(By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 31, 2002)
* Consumers Praised, or Blamed, for Aiding Recovery (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Aug. 31, 2002)
To Greenspan, 90's Bubble Was Beyond Reach of Fed (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 31, 2002)
Ebbers Made $11 Million on 21 Stock Offerings (Ebbers Made $11 Million on 21 Stock Offerings By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 31, 2002)
Health Insurers Still Struggling With a Service on the Internet (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Aug. 31, 2002)
Six Arrested in Stock Manipulation Case (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 31, 2002)
Vivendi's Chief Is Said to Favor Bidding American Units Adieu (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Aug. 31, 2002)
Ford Abandons Venture in Making Electric Cars (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Aug. 31, 2002)
* ARTS: A Couch for Authors in Need of One (By PHOEBE HOBAN, Aug. 31, 2002)
ARTS: Professors Offer a Reality Check For Politicians (By LYNNLEY BROWNING, Aug. 31, 2002)
* Holocaust Survivor Wins Goethe Prize [Marcel Reich-Ranicki] (By DESMOND OATES BUTLER, Aug. 31, 2002)
* BOOK SHELF LIFE: In Those Days, Too, Blood and Sex Could Make a Best Seller (By EMILY EAKIN, Aug. 31, 2002)
MUSIC: A Soothing Anthem for Everybody (By JULIE LEW, Aug. 31, 2002)
MUSIC: BARGEMUSIC: At a Showcase for Talent, the Regulars Give Way to Youth (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 31, 2002)

Friday, August 30, 2002:
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)

Richard Lippold, Sculptor of Metal Abstractions, Dies at 87 (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 30, 2002)
Bill Wassmuth, 61, Ex-Priest Who Fought White Supremacists, Is Dead (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 30, 2002)
* NATIONAL: Japanese Submarine Sunk at Pearl Harbor Is Found (NY TIMES, Aug. 30, 2002)
As Bush Campaigns, Cheney Talks of Iraq (By DAVID E. SANGER, Aug. 30, 2002)
New Los Angeles Cathedral Evokes Survival in Adversity (By JOHN M. BRODER, Aug. 30, 2002)
THE DETROIT CONNECTION: Informer Is Cited as the Key to Unlocking a Terrorist Cell
(By DANNY HAKIM, Aug. 30, 2002)
AIRLINE SAFETY: White House Rejects Proposal to Restrict Foreign Planes on Sept. 11
(By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Aug. 30, 2002)
AIRPLANE SECURITY: Airlines Allowed to Stop Asking About Luggage (NY TIMES, Aug. 30, 2002)
THE INQUIRY: Senators Give F.B.I. Details in Leak Inquiry (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 30, 2002)
U.S. Backs Increase in Peacekeepers for Afghanistan (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Aug. 30, 2002)
THE MONEY TRAIL: White House Denies Report Qaeda Funds Are Flowing (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 30, 2002)
Administration Seeking to Build Support in Congress on Iraq Issue
(By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. with JULIA PRESTON, Aug. 30, 2002)
* Sept. 11 Attack Planned in '99, Germans Learn (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ with DESMOND BUTLER, Aug. 30, 2002)
RABINAL JOURNAL: A Dig in Guatemala Strips Bare a Time of Terror (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Aug. 30, 2002)
State Dept. Is Holding a Seminar Next Week on Anti-U.S. Trends (By JOHN FILES, Aug. 30, 2002)
Iraqi Opposition Plans Exile Government (By REUTERS, Aug. 30, 2002)
NY REGION: Skakel Given 20 Years to Life for a 1975 Murder (By WINNIE HU, Aug. 30, 2002)
Panel Advises Bloomberg to Sell Stock (By MICHAEL COOPER, Aug. 30, 2002)
EDUCATION: A Vacation? It's Time to Finish Homework (By JANE GROSS, Aug. 30, 2002)
Using Paper as an Outlet for Sept. 11 Emotions (NY TIMES, Aug. 30, 2002)
* NYC: Speechless in the Face of History (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Aug. 30, 2002)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Off With the Cellphone (Even if It Plays Beethoven) (By GLENN COLLINS, Aug. 30, 2002)
SPORTS: Bottom of the Ninth for Baseball (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 30, 2002)
SPORTS: Steroid Plan Is Juiced Up (By HARVEY ARATON, Aug. 30, 2002)
* BASEBALL: Strike Could Affect Records (By TYLER KEPNER, Aug. 30, 2002)
SPORTS: Networks Scramble to Fill Schedules [Fox has playoffs & World Series]
(By BILL CARTER, Aug. 30, 2002)
TENNIS: Blake and Hewitt Renew Rivalry (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Aug. 30, 2002)
OP-ED: Just Trust Us (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 30, 2002)
* OP-ED: Hate, American Style (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Aug. 30, 2002)
OP-ED: How Israel's Peace Movement Fell Apart (By DAVID NEWMAN, Aug. 30, 2002)
* OP-ED: Images That Shock but Don't Inform (By ERIC MINK, Aug. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: Environmentalists vs. the Poor? (By STEPHEN MILLS, et. al., Aug. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: Thinking About War (By BETTY LEE SUNG, et. al., Aug. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: To Teach Reading (By RANDI WEINGARTEN, Aug. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: Make Way for DVD (By ADAM SOLOMON, Aug. 30, 2002)
BUSINESS: Mixed Signals on Economy Give Shares an Uneven Day
[Dow -23, Nasdaq +21] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 30, 2002)
Doubts Grow on 'Covering' of Options (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER & TRACIE ROZHON, Aug. 30, 2002)
Growth Up in Japan in Quarter, but Pace Already Seems to Fade (By KEN BELSON, Aug. 30, 2002)
China Expected to Sell Stakes to Foreign Companies (By KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 30, 2002)
2 New Economic Reports Show Signs of Weakness (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 30, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Eddie Bauer Going Back to Its Outdoors Roots (By JANE L. LEVERE, Aug. 30, 2002)
* ART: France at Sea: Remembrance of Glories Past [110-gun ship] (By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 30, 2002)
ART: In Washington, Every Which Way to Paint (By ROBERTA SMITH, Aug. 30, 2002)
ARTS: MY QUEENS: Where Time Refuses to Budge (By SARAH KERSHAW, Aug. 30, 2002)
* ART: 'FROM POP TO NOW': Collectors With a Weakness for the Ornery
[Jasper John's "Figure 8"] (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 30, 2002)
* ART: 'PERFECT ACTS OF ARCHITECTURE': When Architects Drew Instead of Building
(By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 30, 2002)
ANTIQUES: Centuries of Turkish Delights (By WENDY MOONAN, Aug. 30, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'THE LIVES OF THE MUSES': For the Modern Artist's Muse, Love Is Not Enough
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 30, 2002)
* FILM CRITIC: Quality Films Brush Away the Fluff (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 30, 2002)
* FILM: 'FEAR DOT COM': A Web Site That Puts Horror in Your Head (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 30, 2002)
FILM: Bewitched and Bewildered by Her Passion for a Heel (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 30, 2002)
* FILM: 'AGNI VARSHA': Heaven and Earth at Violent Odds in an Indian Epic (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 30, 2002)
FILM: TAKING THE CHILDREN: Looking to Catch a Wave (and Also Looking Good)
(By PETER M. NICHOLS, Aug. 30, 2002)
AT THE MOVIES: Crazy for Love or Because of It (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 30, 2002)
* FILM: HOME VIDEO: A Wild Time With Cats [Paul Schrader's "Cat People" (1982)]
(By PETER M. NICHOLS, Aug. 30, 2002)
ROCK: DIRTY VEGAS: Music to Drive By (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 30, 2002)
THEATER: From Boy Band to Broadway [Joey Fatone of the band 'N Sync]
(By JESSE McKINLEY, Aug. 30, 2002)
THEATER: 'BAPTIZING ADAM': A Lonely Soul With a Gun (By BRUCE WEBER, Aug. 30, 2002)
TV: 'THE BIOGRAPHER': Summoned by a Princess to Air Dirty Royal Laundry (BY ANITA GATES, Aug. 30, 2002)
SCIENCE: NASA Changes Its Tune on Space Tourists: This One Rocks
[Lance Bass of 'N Sync] (By WARREN E. LEARY, Aug. 30, 2002)

Thursday, August 29, 2002:
On This Day: August 29 ()
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)

Per Anger, Diplomat Who Helped Jews, Dies at 88 (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 29, 2002)
Frederick Selch, 72, Executive and Collector, Is Dead (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 29, 2002)
NATIONAL: 4 Men Charged With Being in Terrorist Cell in Detroit Area (By DANNY HAKIM, Aug. 29, 2002)
WASHINGTON TALK: Assessing Blame After Olympics' No (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 29, 2002)
BANGKOK JOURNAL: Oh Blue-Eyed Thais, Flaunt Your Western Genes! (By SETH MYDANS, Aug. 29, 2002)
Study Rates Bangladesh Most Corrupt Country (By REUTERS, Aug. 29, 2002)
WORLD: Bush May Request Congress's Backing on Iraq, Aides Say (By NEIL A. LEWIS with DAVID E. SANGER, Aug. 29, 2002)
* Worried Saudis Try to Improve Image in the U.S. (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Aug. 29, 2002)
China's Top AIDS Activist Missing; Arrest Is Suspected (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 29, 2002)
France Mutes Its Criticism of U.S. Stance Toward Iraq (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Aug. 29, 2002)
Germans Issue First Indictment in the 9/11 Plot (By DESMOND BUTLER, Aug. 29, 2002)
Women in Bombay Protest Rape of Girl on Train (By REUTERS, Aug. 29, 2002)
NY REGION: BLOCKS: Turning a View Into a Point of View (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Aug. 29, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: On Long Island, Scientists Keep Studying Breast Cancer Rates That Are Not Unusual
(By GINA KOLATA, Aug. 29, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Take That, Tobacco! A Crusader Fights On (By ANDREW JACOBS, Aug. 29, 2002)
* Native New Yorkers (The Original Kind) [Powwow] (By JASON BEGAY, Aug. 29, 2002)
SPORTS: Talks Grow Feverish as Strike Date Looms (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 29, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Both Sides Are Aware of an Economic Abyss (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Aug. 29, 2002)
YANKEES 7, RED SOX 0: Masterpiece By Mussina Comes Amid Uncertainty (By JACK CURRY, Aug. 29, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Sondheim Finds a Home in Washington (By PHILIP TAUBMAN, Aug. 29, 2002)
OP-ED: Bloomberg News Humbled (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Aug. 29, 2002)
OP-ED: The Wrong Shelter (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 29, 2002)
OP-ED: An Uncertain Ally on Iraq (By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, Aug. 29, 2002)
* OP-ED: Fear [a poem] (By C. K. WILLIAMS, Aug. 29, 2002)
LETTERS: A Call for War: Will the Country Respond? (By BRANDT ZEMBSCH, Aug. 29, 2002)
LETTERS: Colleges vs. Parents (By FRANK ROESSNER, Aug. 29, 2002)
BUSINESS: Leading Indexes Decline on Muddled Outlook for Shares
[Dow -130, Nasdaq -33] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 29, 2002)
* Sun Microsystems Reins in Outlook for Quarter
[Sun shares fell in after hours trade from $3.83 to $3.70] (By REUTERS, Aug. 29, 2002)
Plea Deals Are Seen for 3 WorldCom Executives (By KURT EICHENWALD and SIMON ROMERO, Aug. 29, 2002)
WordPerfect Gets New Life in Deal With 2 PC Makers (By BERNARD SIMON, Aug. 29, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Salomon Memo Hints at Favor on New Stock Issues (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 29, 2002)
ECONOMIC SCENE: When Economics Shifts From Science to Engineering (By HAL R. VARIAN, Aug. 29, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Agencies Make Contingency Plans for a Baseball Strike (By STUART ELLIOTT, Aug. 29, 2002)
Simon & Schuster Sues Author Over His Lineage [Michael Gambino, "Honored Society"]
(By FELICITY BARRINGER, Aug. 29, 2002)
* ARTS ABROAD: Barcelona Celebrates Its Own Architectural Visionary (By HATTIE HARMAN, Aug. 29, 2002)
BOOKS: 'STRONG OF HEART': How the Fire Commissioner Saw It (By JIM DWYER, Aug. 29, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'OUT OF THE BLUE': Panorama and Pointillism on 9/11 (By MIKE WALLACE, Aug. 29, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'SEPTEMBER 11': Survivors' Voices Keep Horror Fresh (By JONATHAN MAHLER, Aug. 29, 2002)
BOOKS: 'AMONG THE HEROES': On a Hijacked Airliner, Moments of Moral Clarity
(By VINCE PASSARO, Aug. 29, 2002)
DANCE: Ballet Theater Fills Positions After Tumult (By JESSE McKINLEY, Aug. 29, 2002)
FILM: An Indie Movie Is Outlasting the Blockbusters (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 29, 2002)
JAZZ: HAMIET BLUIETT: Deep-Voiced Saxophones With a Variety of Styles (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 29, 2002)
POP: HOPE SANDOVAL: Immersed in the Echo, Pulse Slowing Noticeably (By JON PARELES, Aug. 29, 2002)
THEATER CRITIC: Boys Will Be Girls in Pure Shakespeare (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 29, 2002)
THEATER: An Arab-American's Act Is Off Jackie Mason Bill (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 29, 2002)
HOME & GARDEN: Fine Terrain for Scorpions and Artists (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Aug. 29, 2002)
GARDEN: SHOPPING WITH DONNA HANOVER: Brass Tacks and Second Acts (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Aug. 29, 2002)
Out Among the Yuccas, the Anti-Los Angeles (By PAULA PANICH, Aug. 29, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 29, 2002)
When the Cellphone Is the Home Phone (By SIMON ROMERO, Aug. 29, 2002)
The Even-More-Compact Disc (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Aug. 29, 2002)
* STATE OF THE ART: The iMac-Like PC (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 29, 2002)
WHAT'S NEXT: A Universal Tool to Rescue Old Files From Obsolescence (By ANNE EISENBERG, Aug. 29, 2002)
* ONLINE SHOPPER: Rx for a Big Move: Refills on the Web (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 29, 2002)
* Saudi Censorship of Web Ranges Far Beyond Tenets of Islam, Study Finds (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Aug. 29, 2002)
* Struggling to Find Expert Help (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 1, 2002)
HEALTH: Effect of Smallpox Vaccine May Be Longer, Study Says (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 29, 2002)

Wednesday, August 28, 2002:
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)

John Wilson, Jazz Critic, Dies at 89 (By JON PARELES, Aug. 28, 2002)
Fred Darrington, 91, Sand Sculptor, Is Dead (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 28, 2002)
Alexander Abraham, Banker and Benefactor to the Homeless, 83, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 28, 2002)
NATIONAL: Military Escorts Plane After Mix-Up (NY TIMES, Aug. 28, 2002)
Harvard Law School Bows to U.S. and Allows Military Recruiters (NY TIMES, Aug. 28, 2002)
* LESSONS: Better at Sums Than at Summarizing: The SAT Gap (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 28, 2002)
* Shop Till Eggs, Diapers, Toothpaste Drop (By JOHN TIERNEY, Aug. 28, 2002)
Senate Report on Pre-9/11 Failures Tells of Bungling at F.B.I. (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 28, 2002)
Disease Control Center Bolsters Terror Response (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 28, 2002)
Budget Office Forecasts Shift From Surplus to Big Deficits (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 28, 2002)
WORLD: U.S. Troops Focus on Border's Caves to Seek bin Laden (By IAN FISHER with JOHN F. BURNS, Aug. 28, 2002)
CARRARA JOURNALCome Back, Michelangelo, the Marble Needs You (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 28, 2002)
World Leaders Urge U.S. Restraint in Iraq (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 28, 2002)
* Plan for Alexander Statue Too Great for Many Greeks (By ANTHEE CARASSAVA, Aug. 28, 2002)
North Korean Said to Find Ways to Have a Hot Time in Siberia (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 28, 2002)
Saving Water, U.S. Farmers Are Worried They'll Parch (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Aug. 28, 2002)
Rumsfeld Says Allies Will Support U.S. on Iraq (By ERIC SCHMITT, Aug. 28, 2002)
Bush Assails Hussein, but Saudis Are Firm in Opposing War (By DAVID E. SANGER, Aug. 28, 2002)
Iraq Speech by Cheney Is Criticized by Schröder (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 28, 2002)
NY REGION: New York City Makes the Cut in Olympic Bid
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR & CHARLES V. BAGLI, Aug. 28, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Dreaming of Stadiums and Souvenirs (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Aug. 28, 2002)
Long After 9/11, a Missing Man Turns Up in a Manhattan Hospital (By RICHARD LEZIN JONES, Aug. 28, 2002)
Windmills on Their Minds (By GLENN COLLINS, Aug. 28, 2002)
West Nile Cut Short the Love of a Lifetime (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Aug. 28, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Loving the Trumpet, but Beating a Union Drum (By JOYCE WADLER, Aug. 28, 2002)
Skakel in Court for Sentencing in 1975 Slaying (By TERENCE NEILAN, Aug. 28, 2002)
SPORTS: At Open, a Study in Stamina [Tennis U.S. Open] (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 28, 2002)
SPORTS: Baseball Commissioner and Consensus Builder (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 28, 2002)
SPORTS: Agreement Is Reached on Steroid Testing (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 28, 2002)
YANKEES 6, RED SOX 0: Wells and the Yanks Keep Marching On, but to Where?
(By JACK CURRY, Aug. 28, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Summons to War (NY TIMES, Aug. 28, 2002)
EDITORIAL: New York's Olympic Bid (NY TIMES, Aug. 28, 2002)
OP-ED: I'm With Dick! Let's Make War! (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 28, 2002)
OP-ED: Cuckoo in Carolina [reading Koran at UNC] (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 28, 2002)
OP-ED: An American Abdication (By NORBERT WALTER, Aug. 28, 2002)
LETTERS: Profiting From Journalism-School (By MARK ROMAN, Aug. 28, 2002)
LETTERS: Junk Food Peddlers (By KATHLEEN MCKENNA, Aug. 28, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall on Report of Drop in Consumer Confidence (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 28, 2002)
Hewlett Meets Expectations in First Post-Merger Results (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 28, 2002)
Enron to Sell Major Units to Raise Cash for Settlements (By NEELA BANERJEE, Aug. 28, 2002)
Ebbers Got Million Shares in Hot Deals (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 28, 2002)
Windows XP Update Is Set as a Part of U.S. Deal (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 28, 2002)
Sony to Offer PlayStation Games Online (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Aug. 28, 2002)
Notably Mixed Signals From 2 Economic Reports (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 28, 2002)
Tim Hortons, Up From Doughnuts (By BERNARD SIMON, Aug. 28, 2002)
* ADVERTISING: Many Marketers Will Forgo Ads During Sept. 11 (By STUART ELLIOTT, Aug. 28, 2002)
ARTS ABROAD: Music Rivalry and Revelry Both Serving Irish Culture (By BRIAN LAVERY, Aug. 28, 2002)
* BOOK CRITIC: The Information Age Processes a Tragedy (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 28, 2002)
* BOOKS: Memoirs Commemorate Lives Lost on 9/11 (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 28, 2002)
BOOKS: 'MILITANT ISLAM REACHES AMERICA': Opening Western Eyes to a View of Islam
(By DAVID SCHOENBAUM, Aug. 28, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE CELL': A Midnight Rendezvous With bin Laden (By JAMES BAMFORD, Aug. 28, 2002)
FILM: '*CORPUS CALLOSUM': Digitally Giving Time and Space the Silly Putty Treatment (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 28, 2002)
LATIN MUSIC: ORLANDO (MARACA) VALLE: There Was Plenty of It, and It Was All Cuban
(By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 28, 2002)
ROCK: PAUL WESTERBERG: Singing About Frustration, Some Strain, No Self-Pity
(By JON PARELES, Aug. 28, 2002)
THEATER: From Playwright to Publishing Company Chief, Then Back Again (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 28, 2002)
FOOD: Hey, Man, What's for Dinner? (By PILAR GUZMAN, Aug. 28, 2002)
DINING: The Flavors of Bordeaux Speak for Themselves (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Aug. 28, 2002)
* Hey, Man, What's for Dinner? (By PILAR GUZMAN, Aug. 28, 2002)
EATING WELL: Local Heroes [2 tomato recipes] (By MARIAN BURROS, Aug. 28, 2002)
THE CHEF: A Kitchen Maverick Rethinks Soup [2 recipes] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 28, 2002)
THE MINIMALIST: Butter Saves the Day [chicken recipe] (By MARK BITTMAN, Aug. 28, 2002)
FOOD STUFF: Cart Collisions? Not When He's Directing Traffic (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 28, 2002)
TEMPTATION: A Well-Chosen Plum Makes a Daisy of a Tart [recipe] (By MELISSA CLARK, Aug. 28, 2002)
SCIENCE: Forecast for Future: Deluge and Drought (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Aug. 28, 2002)
HEALTH: Surgeons Are Warned About Heart Valves (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Aug. 28, 2002)
HEALTH: An Allergy Study Clears Dogs and Cats (By REUTERS, Aug. 28, 2002)

Tuesday, August 27, 2002:
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)
William Warfield, 82, Baritone Known for 'Porgy,' Is Dead (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 27, 2002)
Quail Hawkins, Author of Children's Books, Dies at 97 (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 27, 2002)
NATIONAL: Powder at Gore's Office Seen as 'Anthrax Hoax Case,' F.B.I. Says
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 27, 2002)
Grief and Dread at Girls' Burial Site in Oregon (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Aug. 27, 2002)
F.B.I. to Re-enter Building Long After Anthrax Shut It (By DANA CANEDY, Aug. 27, 2002)
Man Freed After DNA Clears Him of Murder (By JODI WILGOREN, Aug. 27, 2002)
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE: Court Comes to Life Over Ruling on Post-9/11 Police Powers
(By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 27, 2002)
Three Postal Centers Free of Anthrax (NY TIMES, Aug. 27, 2002)
Test on Bioweapon Expert Might Lack Answer [Dr. Steven J. Hatfill] (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 27, 2002)
WORLD: Cheney Says Peril of a Nuclear Iraq Justifies an Attack (By ELISABETH BUMILLER & JAMES DAO, Aug. 27, 2002)
In Cheney's Words: The Administration Case for Removing Saddam Hussein (NY TIMES, Aug. 27, 2002)
RUNNING DRY: Chinese Will Move Waters to Quench Thirst of Cities (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 27, 2002)
American Gives Beijing Good News: Rebels on Terror List (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 27, 2002)
Psychiatric Group to Investigate China, but Resists Penalties (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 27, 2002)
NY REGION: Man Missing Since 9/11 Attacks Is Alive (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 27, 2002)
More Get 9/11 Aid, but Distrust of U.S. Effort Lingers (By DAVID W. CHEN, Aug. 27, 2002)
* NYC: What They Don't Teach at J-School [Columbia] (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Aug. 27, 2002)
* TUNNEL VISION: Down by Third Rail, You Need Nine Lives (By RANDY KENNEDY, Aug. 27, 2002)
Little Leaguers Discover They Are Winners After All (By ANDY NEWMAN, Aug. 27, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: And in This Corner, Representing the Homeless... (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Aug. 27, 2002)
SPORTS: Players' Resolve Is Questioned (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 27, 2002)
SPORTS NEWS ANALYSIS: Role Reversal in Contract Talks (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Aug. 27, 2002)
EDITORIAL: To Rebuild Afghanistan (NY TIMES, Aug. 27, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Cutting the Cord (NY TIMES, Aug. 27, 2002)
OP-ED: Wimps on Iraq (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Aug. 27, 2002)
OP-ED: Bush on Fire (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 27, 2002)
OP-ED: Washington Bends the Rules (By JAMES BAMFORD, Aug. 27, 2002)
LETTERS: Has U.S. Made the Case for War? (By RICHARD C. PEASLEE, Aug. 27, 2002)
LETTERS: West Nile Virus: Fear vs. Reality (By MARC SIEGEL, M.D., Aug. 27, 2002)
LETTERS: Reading the Koran (By ANDREW LINN, Aug. 27, 2002)
LETTERS: AOL in Latin America (By CHARLES HERINGTON, Aug. 27, 2002)
BUSINESS: Early Declines Create Bargains, and Shares Rally Late
[Dow +46, Nasdaq +11] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 27, 2002)
Salomon Gave a Big Helping of New Stocks to WorldCom (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 27, 2002)
WorldCom Messages Suggest a Silencing Effort (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Aug. 27, 2002)
Next Big Health Debate: How to Help Uninsured (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Aug. 27, 2002)
Record Withdrawals From Stock Funds Reported for July (By REUTERS, Aug. 27, 2002)
Chip Maker Takes Issue With a Test for Speed (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 27, 2002)
Computer Associates Trips Up Directors on Disclosure (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 27, 2002)
Fed Official Suggests Rates Won't Be Cut (By REUTERS, Aug. 27, 2002)
Accounting Rule Changes May Strain Small Companies Most (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Aug. 27, 2002)
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Unabashed Wal-Mart Shopper Speaks (By CATHY HORYN, Aug. 27, 2002)
L. L. Bean Tries to Escape the Mail-Order Wilderness (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 27, 2002)
AIRLINE SECURITY: Companies Charge U.S. More to Do Screening, Report Says
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 27, 2002)
* BUSINESS TRAVEL: A Literary Alternative to Reading a Travel Guide (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 27, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: When on the Road Means on the Road (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 27, 2002)
ON THE GROUND: A Gateway to New York Is Enjoying a Renaissance (By PATRICIA R. OLSEN, Aug. 27, 2002)
MEMO PAD: Losing Billions and Charging Less (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 27, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Pepsi Looks to Pop Stars to Reach Minorities and Mainstream
(By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 27, 2002)
Polish Entrepreneurs Struggle at the Next Level (By MARK LANDLER, Aug. 27, 2002)
Impostor's Stock Trade Roils Korea Market (By DON KIRK, Aug. 27, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: One National Park Is Part of the Dance at Another (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 27, 2002)
* ARTS: The New Battle of Chancellorsville (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 27, 2002)
BOOKS: Oliver North Tells a Tall Tale of White House Intrigue (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 27, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE HEAVEN OF MERCURY': An Aging Broadcaster in a Sleepy Southern Town
(By RICHARD EDER, Aug. 27, 2002)
DANCE: 'PICTURE RED HOOK': A Little Night Magic for the Past (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 27, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Old Masters at Edinburgh, but Scarcely a Contemporary (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Aug. 27, 2002)
MUSIC: KEPA JUNKERA: Making Melodies Dance With a Basque Accordion (By JON PARELES, Aug. 27, 2002)
COUNTRY MUSIC: KENNY CHESNEY: Even if the Hips Are Cocked, the Songs Are Family Style
(By JON PARELES, Aug. 27, 2002)
THEATER: 'MARIA VAI COM AS OUTRAS': Love, Friskiness and High-Heeled Shoes
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 27, 2002)
FASHION: FRONT ROW: Retro Chic 101 (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Aug. 27, 2002)
SCIENCE: Cleaning Coal-Fired Plants: The Debate Burns On (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Aug. 27, 2002)
* Weather on Pluto, Too, Is Exercise in Conjecture (By KENNETH CHANG, Aug. 27, 2002)
A DOCTOR'S DIARY: Ancient Ways, Harsh Terrain and Many Bugs (By BEN DAITZ, Aug. 27, 2002)
SCIENCE: Rock Star Is Allowed to Train With NASA (By WARREN E. LEARY, Aug. 27, 2002)
Forest Thinning Challenged as Tactic to Control Fires (By JIM ROBBINS, Aug. 27, 2002)
* OBSERVATORY: It's Not Size, but Color [Lion's long mane] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Aug. 27, 2002)
HEALTH: Who Would Abduct a Child? Previous Cases Offer Clues (By MARY DUENWALD, Aug. 27, 2002)
Patient Gets Role in Test for Doctors (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 27, 2002)
* BEHAVIOR: Like Drugs, Talk Therapy Can Change Brain Chemistry (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Aug. 27, 2002)
* A CONVERSATION WITH J. ALLAN HOBSON: A Rebel Psychiatrist Calls Out to His Profession
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Aug. 27, 2002)
* MEASUREMENTS: In the Ear and Off the Mark [thermometers] (NY TIMES, Aug. 27, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: When the Flu Is Taken Lightly (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 27, 2002)
THERAPIES: Fight Stress and Fight Diabetes (NY TIMES, Aug. 27, 2002)
TREATMENTS: Double Duty for Cholesterol Drug (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 27, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: A Jubilant Barroom Toast to Smoke-Free Air (By JANE E. BRODY, Aug. 27, 2002)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Navigating the Drug Maze (By JOHN LANGONE, Aug. 27, 2002)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: New Order for a Disorder ["All About Fibromyalgia"] (By JOHN LANGONE, Aug. 27, 2002)
CASES: Finding Moments of Comfort and Humor While Facing Cancer Treatment (By BARBARA GAMAREKIAN, Aug. 27, 2002)
Q & A: Bodies in Water (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Aug. 27, 2002)

Monday, August 26, 2002:
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)

Ted Ashley, 80, Former Head of Warner Brothers, Dies (By ALAN FEUER, Aug. 26, 2002)
NATIONAL: Confession Had His Signature; DNA Did Not (By JODI WILGOREN, Aug. 26, 2002)
Weapons Expert Attacks F.B.I. and Ashcroft on Anthrax Inquiry (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Aug. 26, 2002)
Tracking Bay Area Traffic Creates Concern for Privacy (By ADAM CLYMER, Aug. 26, 2002)
Muslims Seek Florida's Help (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 26, 2002)
A Huge, Boat-Hurdling Carp Is No Mississippi Fish Story (By PETER T. KILBORN, Aug. 26, 2002)
* FRESHWATER JOURNAL: Sitting in a Redwood Tree, Making a Statement (By EVELYN NIEVES, Aug. 26, 2002)
WORLD: Iraq Said to Plan Tangling the U.S. in Street Fighting (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Aug. 26, 2002)
* Delay in Beijing Congress Fuels Speculation About Succession (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 26, 2002)
German Candidates Unscathed After First Televised Duel (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 26, 2002)
Danube's Grisly Tale, Staring Milosevic in the Face (By MARLISE SIMONS, Aug. 26, 2002)
Central Asian University Aims to Train Region's Next Leaders (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Aug. 26, 2002)
China Issues Rules on Export of Missile Gear (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 26, 2002)
Debate on Iraq Elicits Confidence and Caution From Republicans (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 26, 2002)
NY REGION: Want Back-to-School Bargains? Shop in February (By S. LEE JAMISON, Aug. 26, 2002)
SAVINGS TIME: A Calendar for Marking Off (By S. LEE JAMISON, Aug. 26, 2002)
$500 Million Left in 9/11 Aid, but Small Businesses Don't Ask (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Aug. 26, 2002)
To the Faithful, 'Nonpartisan' Is a 4-Letter Word (By JONATHAN P. HICKS, Aug. 26, 2002)
Spraying Against West Nile Is to Begin in Suffolk on Monday (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Aug. 26, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 26, 2002)
SPORTS: U.S. Wins Little League Title [Louisville beats Japan 1-0] (NY TIMES, Aug. 26, 2002)
SPORTS: Down the Road, Venus in Foreground (By HARVEY ARATON, Aug. 26, 2002)
SPORTS: Valentine Bares Soul, But Why? (By IRA BERKOW, Aug. 26, 2002)
* SPORTS: Wellington Mara Studies Mysteries of Winning (By BUSTER OLNEY, Aug. 26, 2002)
TENNIS: Men's Game in Need of a Boost (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 26, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Dishonesty in the Hunt for Terrorists (NY TIMES, Aug. 26, 2002)
OP-ED: Of Turks and Kurds (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Aug. 26, 2002)
OP-ED: The Environmentalists Are Wrong (By BJORN LOMBORG, Aug. 26, 2002)
* OP-ED: What Catastrophe Can Reveal (By SHAFEEQ GHABRA, Aug. 26, 2002)
LETTERS: Medicare Is the Solution for All (By JEAN-FRANÇOIS BRIÈRE, et. al., Aug. 26, 2002)
LETTERS: Libraries' Swan Song? [library like a cyber-cafe] (By DAVID KING, Aug. 26, 2002)
LETTERS: College Customers (By JACK MARTENS, Aug. 26, 2002)
LETTERS: If You Can Read This, I Didn't Write It (By RICHARD GALLAGHER, Aug. 26, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Now Steve Is Running to Revive Forbes (BY DAVID CARR, Aug. 26, 2002)
* NEW ECONOMY: A New Model for AOL May Influence Cable's Future (By SETH SCHIESEL, Aug. 26, 2002)
* From Unseemly to Lowbrow, the Web's Real Money Is in the Gutter (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 26, 2002)
A Many-Tentacled Agilent Stumbles Toward Simplicity (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 26, 2002)
Jennings Nears Contract With ABC (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 26, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Gays Draw Attention of Retailers (By BOB TEDESCHI, Aug. 26, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Free Weblog Service and a Vampire, Too (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Aug. 26, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Happy Mac Becomes an Icon of the Past (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 26, 2002)
PATENTS: Patent for a Camera on a Gun (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Aug. 26, 2002)
Rhymers Taking Hip-Hop to Children's Bookshelves (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Aug. 26, 2002)
* Revolt in the Den: DVD Sends the VCR Packing to the Attic (By RICK LYMAN, Aug. 26, 2002)
* Plunge in Bison and AOL Weighs on Turner Fortune (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Aug. 26, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'IF NOT, WINTER': The Mystery of Sappho and Her Erotic Legacy (By DINITIA SMITH, Aug. 26, 2002)
FILM: Want to See First-Run Indie Films? Join the Club (By BETH PINSKER, Aug. 26, 2002)
OPERA: L.A. Opera Cancels 'War and Peace' (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 26, 2002)
MUSIC: UNLIMITED SUNSHINE: Killer Robots in Sunshine, Even When It Drizzles
(By JON PARELES, Aug. 26, 2002)
PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIC: An Untamable Outsider Who Speaks in Riddles (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 26, 2002)
TV: 'INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS': The Poor Who Work, Yet Live With Desperation (By RON WERTHEIMER, Aug. 26, 2002)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: Why Not Put Off Till Tomorrow the Novel You Could Begin Today?
(By ANN PATCHETT, Aug. 26, 2002)

Sunday, August 25, 2002:
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)

* Hoyt Wilhelm, First Reliever in the Hall of Fame, Dies (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Aug. 25, 2002)
* King-lui Wu, 84, Architect and Longtime Yale Professor, Dies (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Aug. 25, 2002)
Emily Genauer, Critic and Champion of 20th-Century Art, Dies at 91 (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Aug. 25, 2002)
Peter R. Hunt, Film Editor and Director of a 007 Movie, Dies at 77 (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
NATIONAL: Accused Priests Charge Slander (By SAM DILLON, Aug. 25, 2002)
Hoover's F.B.I. and the Mafia: Case of Bad Bedfellows Grows (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Aug. 25, 2002)
Bush Cautions Against Letup in Terrorism Battle (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Aug. 25, 2002)
Owners of Malibu Mansions Cry, 'This Sand Is My Sand' (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Aug. 25, 2002)
For a Prospective Juror, Time Is Money ‹ $16,800 (By ADAM LIPTAK, Aug. 25, 2002)
Police Say Man Accused in Plot Had Explosives (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 25, 2002)
WORLD: AIDS Scourge in Rural China Leaves Villages of Orphans (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 25, 2002)
Saudi Arabian Sought by F.B.I. Is in Custody (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 25, 2002)
State Dept. to Take Over Security for Afghan Leader (By THOM SHANKER with JOHN F. BURNS, Aug. 25, 2002)
U.S. Envoy Says Pakistan Has Slowed Rebels' Push Into Kashmir (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 25, 2002)
Dike Patrols Expand as Lake in China Springs More Leaks (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 25, 2002)
Ready to Rebuild, Afghans Await Promised Aid (By IAN FISHER, Aug. 25, 2002)
In Race to Tap the Euphrates, the Upper Hand Is Upstream (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Aug. 25, 2002)
* Russian Novelist Scoffs at Post-Soviet Leaders (By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY, Aug. 25, 2002)
Colombia Counters Rebels With Troops and Music (By JUAN FORERO, Aug. 25, 2002)
NY REGION: For Job Seekers, an Edge (a Sharp One) (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
Greatest of Ease? Hardly [Trapeze School] (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
Mt. Sinai on a Path Away From the Past (By JANNY SCOTT with MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Aug. 25, 2002)
A No-Nonsense Working Group That Makes Networking Its Business, and Its Only Business
(By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Aug. 25, 2002)
If People Are Mad, He Must Be Mayor (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Aug. 25, 2002)
* Children of the Night (By SETH KUGEL, Aug. 25, 2002)
* To Be Hamlet (but Still Keep the Day Job) (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 25, 2002)
SPORTS: Worcester Falls in Little League World Series to Louisville 4-0 (By JASON DIAMOS, Aug. 25, 2002)
ON BASEBALL: Bernie Williams Reminded of Special Goal (By JACK CURRY, Aug. 25, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Underwriting Fraud (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
The West Nile Epidemic (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Riding the Light in Wyoming (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Aug. 25, 2002)
OP-ED: Treadmills of His Mind (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 25, 2002)
OP-ED: Drowning Freedom in Oil (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 25, 2002)
OP-ED: The Right Way to Change a Regime (By JAMES A. BAKER III, Aug. 25, 2002)
OP-ED: Banking's Future Lies in its Past (By MARTIN MAYER, Aug. 25, 2002)
* LETTERS: College Life (No Parents Allowed) (By STEPHEN LAWRENCE, Aug. 25, 2002)
LETTERS: Clinton's Good Works (By JIM KENNEDY, Aug. 25, 2002)
BUSINESS: On a Roll, Dell Enters Uncharted Territory (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 25, 2002)
* Can Computers Do a Better Job Rating Stocks? (By JOHN KIMELMAN, Aug. 25, 2002)
* Your Alma Mater Wants to Become Your Bank (By MICHELLE LEDER, Aug. 25, 2002)
A Close-Out Chain Has Been Opening Eyes on Wall St. (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Aug. 25, 2002)
The Pop-Up Ad Says You've Won a Vacation. Then Come the Bills. (By HARRIET EDLESON, Aug. 25, 2002)
BOOK VALUE: The Fringe Is Full of Ideas (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
* Deals Within Telecom Deals (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 25, 2002)
MARKET WATCH: Pick Up the Proxy, Fill It Out and Exert Some Control (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 25, 2002)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: Cost-Cutting Can Start a Ruinous Circle (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 25, 2002)
* Outside the Box? Why a Box? [Interview with Watts Wacker] (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR DEBRA L. DUNN: Why It's Worth Taking the Heat (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Aug. 25, 2002)
INVESTNG WITH Patrick J. English and Ted D. Kellner, FMI Common Stock Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Aug. 25, 2002)
Beauty Makeovers for the Portfolio (INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, Aug. 25, 2002)
ON THE JOB: The Perils of Keeping Up Appearances (By MICKEY MEECE, Aug. 25, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: Today's Business Puzzle: Do Adults Have a Clue? (By HUBERT H. HERRING, Aug. 25, 2002)
INVESTING DIARY: Calpers Adopts Policy on Analyst Conflicts (By JEFF SOMMMER, Aug. 25, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: It's Almost September: Time to Help Parents (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Private Companies Have a New Allure (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Aug. 25, 2002)
* THE BOSS: From Pain to Compassion
(By BARRY S. STERNLICHT, Written with Eve Tahmincioglu, Aug. 25, 2002)
MIDSTREAM: 1% Return? There's a Lesson in That (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Aug. 25, 2002)
PORTFOLIOS: Deficits Are Back. But Maybe They Aren't as Dangerous. (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 25, 2002)
MARKET INSIGHT: When Times Are Hard, Household Names Shine (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
* ART: Larry Rivers Was Dying. He Asked to See Friends. (By JOHN ASHBERY, Aug. 25, 2002)
* ARTS: A Passion for Postcards, the Unpretentious Art (By SARAH BAYLISS, Aug. 25, 2002)
ARTS: Catching the Light (and Heat) of the Stars (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Aug. 25, 2002)
DANCE: Ballet Classic Isn't Always What It Used to Be (By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 25, 2002)
DANCE: A Noncomformist With a Free-Flowing Fantasy (By GIA KOURLAS, Aug. 25, 2002)
* FILM: Mysticism, Miracles and Mush [crop circles] (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 25, 2002)
* FILM: An Initiate in the Night Rhythms of Tunis [belly dancing] (By NANCY RAMSEY, Aug. 25, 2002)
FILM: What if a Father Feels No Love? (By KRISTIN HOHENADEL, Aug. 25, 2002)
FILM: At Play With Weirdly Morphing Images and Sounds (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Aug. 25, 2002)
* MUSIC: A New Revelation From the Nixon White House [Duke Ellington 1969] (By LEONARD GARMENT, Aug. 25, 2002)
* MUSIC: Recipe for Romance: The Night, the Music, and Mona [Mona Golabek]
(By ANDY MEISLER, Aug. 25, 2002)
MUSIC: Classical Music Wriggles Out of Its Tux (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 25, 2002)
MUSIC: The Dixie Chicks Keep the Heat on Nashville (By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN, Aug. 25, 2002)
MUSIC SPINS: An Uninvited Bassist Takes to the Internet (By NEIL STRAUSS, Aug. 25, 2002)
MUSIC: A Superstar's Fill-In Is a Star on His Own Back Home in Italy (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Aug. 25, 2002)
MUSIC: Spiritual Testament, Political Testimony, or Both? [Wilhelm Furtwängler]
(By DAVID SCHIFF, Aug. 25, 2002)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: Going Forward to the Past (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Aug. 25, 2002)
MUSIC RECORDINGS: Songs for a Cool Soprano (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
THEATER: Learning the Moves of Harlem, Circa 1930 (By BARRY SINGER, Aug. 25, 2002)
THEATER: Distant Echoes of the Clash Between Islam and the West (By ROBERT MYERS & MIRIAM AYRES, Aug. 25, 2002)
THEATER: A Know-It-All Tells All in a Theater Fan's Words (By JONATHAN MANDELL, Aug. 25, 2002)
THEATER: Theater's Memory Bank Expands (By JONATHAN MANDELL, Aug. 25, 2002)
* TV: Brazil's Renaissance Showman Can't Be Contained by a Talk Show (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 25, 2002)
ARTS LETTERS: 'Hairspray'; 'The Human Stain'; Black Rockers (By CAROLEE STULMAN GOLDSTEIN, et. al., Aug. 25, 2002)
STYLE: Why Few Big Breakups Make the Grade (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI and LINDA LEE, Aug. 25, 2002)
To Get the Girl, Lose the Knapsack (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Aug. 25, 2002)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Jimmy Fallon (By TIM GEARY, Aug. 25, 2002)
For Better, for Worse and for Fun (By ELIZABETH BREYER, Aug. 25, 2002)
Billy and Chuck, Accidental Crusaders (By JONATHAN MILLER, Aug. 25, 2002)
GOOD COMPANY: The Odd Couple, in the Kitchen (By MELISSA CERIA, Aug. 25, 2002)
I'm Not Answering, I'm Not Available and Don't Bother Me (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Aug. 25, 2002)
FIELD NOTES: More Couples Opt for Candid Camera (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, Aug. 25, 2002)
VOWS: Heather Ying and Jeff Yang (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Aug. 25, 2002)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
TRAVEL: WHAT'S DOING In Moscow (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 25, 2002)
* TRAVEL: How Far Away? Far Enough! [Seychelles] (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 25, 2002)
TRAVEL: Refueling in Style in Bali (By ALIDA BECKER, Aug. 25, 2002)
* TRAVEL ESSAY: When a Trip Turns Serious (By ROSE RAPPOPORT MOSS, Aug. 25, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
Oil Prices Won't Depend on Iraq, but on Its Neighbors (By DANIEL YERGIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
* MIXED MEDICAL MESSAGES: How Much Sun Is Too Much? (By HOWARD MARKEL, Aug. 25, 2002)
A New Villain in Free Trade: The Farmer on the Dole (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Aug. 25, 2002)
* Playing for Screams Instead of Laughs [Robin Williams] (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 25, 2002)
* TRIVIALIZING HITLER: The New Refrain: Adolf, We Hardly Knew Ye (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
THE BIG PICTURE: Rides of Summer: 57-ton Giant Wheel (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES...: Has Anyone Seen My Keys? (By NYTIMES.COM, Aug. 25, 2002)
One More Reason You're Less Likely to Be Murdered (By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, Aug. 25, 2002)
The Selling of America, Bush Style (By VICTORIA DE GRAZIA, Aug. 25, 2002)
WORD FOR WORD: Ally or Enemy? [Argentina] (By JAMES DAO, Aug. 25, 2002)
* INDIA: Seeing and Believing (By AMY WALDMAN, Aug. 25, 2002)
* AUGUST AND AUGURY: Again, a Tough Month in Russia (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 25, 2002)
* THE TALK OF... Indonesia: A Plan Bono Would Envy (By DIAN SAPUTRA, Aug. 25, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Neologizing 101 (By ERIN MCKEAN, Aug. 25, 2002)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Acceptance [Princeton pries Yale's web site] (By WALTER KIRN, Aug. 25, 2002)
QUESTIONS FOR STEVE EARLE: Sympathy for a Rebel (By JASON ZENGERLE, Aug. 25, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: In With the Old, In With the New (By RANDY COHEN, Aug. 25, 2002)
What They Were Thinking [Woman with Goose] (Interview by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Aug. 25, 2002)
Holding On to Luke (By REBECCA JOHNSON, Aug. 25, 2002)
* The Looting of Turquoise Mountain (By RORY STEWART, Aug. 25, 2002)
A Life of Crime (By RUSSELL SHORTO, Aug. 25, 2002)
A Big Game (By C. J. CHIVERS, Aug. 25, 2002)
* STYLE: Grand Allusions (By PILAR VILADAS, Aug. 25, 2002)
FOOD: A Dieter's Dilemma (By JASON EPSTEIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
LIVES: Teaching the Teacher (By MEGAN J. BRESLIN, Aug. 25, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 25, 2002)
* 'Seeing in the Dark': Looking at the Universe With Stargazers (By WILLIAM R. EVERDELL, Aug. 25, 2002)
'Blood of Victory': A Novelist Continues His Exploration of Wartime Europe
(By NEIL GORDON, Aug. 25, 2002)
* A Letter Collection Documents Eleanor Roosevelt's Advice to Harry S. Truman (By GEOFFREY C. WARD, Aug. 25, 2002)
'Defying Hitler': Marching, but Out of Step (By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD, Aug. 25, 2002)
* 'Travels With a Tangerine': On the Path of Tangier's Long-Distance Man (By GEOFFREY MOORHOUSE, Aug. 25, 2002)
'Edison's Eve': A History of Automatons (By MIRANDA SEYMOUR, Aug. 25, 2002)
* 'Cicero': Reconsidering a Defender of the Roman Republic (By T. COREY BRENNAN, Aug. 25, 2002)
'The Road to Verdun': The Most Dubious Battle (By EUGEN WEBER, Aug. 25, 2002)
* 'Redesigning Humans': Taking Charge of Our Own Heredity (By GINA MARANTO, Aug. 25, 2002)
* THE CLOSE READER: In God They Trust, Sort Of (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Aug. 25, 2002)

Saturday, August 24, 2002:
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)

* Hoyt Wilhelm, Hall of Fame Knuckleballer, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2002)
* John Willett, Scholar and Translator of Brecht, Dies at 85 (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 24, 2002)
Allen E. Murray, Chief Who Refocused Mobil on Oil, Dies at 73 (By NEELA BANERJEE, Aug. 24, 2002)
Wayne Simmons, Linebacker for Packers, Dies at 32 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2002)
Charlotte Read, 92, Semanticist and Editor, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 24, 2002)
John M. Lupton, 85, Politician and Educator in Connecticut, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 24, 2002)
NATIONAL: Town President Is Convicted in Scheme to Steal $12 Million (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2002)
Army Instituting Broad Inquiry at Fort Bragg After 4 Killings (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2002)
Bush Gives Limited Support to Candidate in California (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 24, 2002)
Lawsuits Stall Plans for a Campus in a Cow Pasture (By NICK MADIGAN, Aug. 24, 2002)
F.B.I. Is Said to Explore Links of Forgery Suspect to Hijackers (By ROBERT HANLEY, Aug. 24, 2002)
* WORLD: Chinese Hold Their Breath as a Swollen Lake Recedes (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 24, 2002)
* SATURDAY PROFILE: At 100, Hitler's Filmmaker Sticks to Her Script (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 24, 2002)
Germans Lay Out Early Qaeda Ties to 9/11 Hijackers (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ & DESMOND BUTLER, Aug. 24, 2002)
Politics in Moscow More Dagger Than Cloak (By MICHAEL WINES, Aug. 24, 2002)
As U.S. Talks Begin, Pakistan Says India Attacked Kashmir (By AMY WALDMAN with DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 24, 2002)
Putin Greets North Korean Leader on Russia's Pacific Coast (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 24, 2002)
Georgia Moves Against Rebels and Accuses Russia of Airstrikes (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 24, 2002)
* McTaco vs. Fried Crickets: a Duel in the Oaxaca Sun (By TIM WEINER, Aug. 24, 2002)
Handling of Floods Lifts Schröder's Standing in Polls (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 24, 2002)
NY REGION: First of Two Possible Trials Is Set in Trade Center Insurance Case
(By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Aug. 24, 2002)
Grubman Pleads Guilty in Crash That Hurt 16 at Club in Hamptons (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 24, 2002)
SPORTS: Harlem Little Leaguers Find Fun and Games After Loss (By JASON DIAMOS, Aug. 24, 2002)
BASKETBALL: Yao Makes Good First Impression [7-foot-5 center] (By LEONARD KOPPETT, Aug. 24, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Sustaining the Planet (NY TIMES, Aug. 24, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Safeguards for Nuclear Fuel [from Serbia to Russia] (NY TIMES, Aug. 24, 2002)
OP-ED: The Loyal Opposition (By BILL KELLER, Aug. 24, 2002)
OP-ED: The Case for Sanctions (By ROBERT H. FRANK, Aug. 24, 2002)
* OP-ED: Taking Inspiration From Tennis Greats [Arthur Ashe] (By MARK MATHABANE, Aug. 24, 2002)
* OP-ED: Talk-Show Tips for Bill Clinton (By BEN STEIN, Aug. 24, 2002)
LETTERS: 9/11 Mental Care (By BARRY K. HERMAN, M.D., Aug. 24, 2002)
* LETTERS: Words of Remembrance [Poet Laureate?] (By SUSAN ADDELSTON, Aug. 24, 2002)
LETTERS: Economy in Writing [cursive writing & penmanship] (By HENRY R. ODELL, Aug. 24, 2002)
LETTERS: Keeping Bears at Bay (By MICHAEL MARKARIAN, Aug. 24, 2002)
BUSINESS: Wall Street Registers Gain for a Fifth Consecutive Week
[Dow -181, Nasdaq -41] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 24, 2002)
AT&T Is Asked for Information on Dealings With Salomon (By SETH SCHIESEL & GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 24, 2002)
Novell Reports Profit in the Third Quarter (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 24, 2002)
TRW Wins Weather Satellite Contract (By REUTERS, Aug. 24, 2002)
Nintendo Will Sell Web Game Adapter (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 24, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Steel Tariffs Put G.O.P. on the Spot in Campaigns (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 24, 2002)
* Imperfect Pearls? What Would Jackie Say? (By TRACIE ROZHON, Aug. 24, 2002)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 24, 2002)
* ARTS: The Secular Society Gets Religion (By FELICIA R. LEE, Aug. 24, 2002)
* ARTS: Sorrow So Sweet: A Guilty Pleasure in Another's Woe [Martha Stewart] (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Aug. 24, 2002)
* DANCE: Martha Graham Center Wins Rights to the Dances (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 24, 2002)
DANCE: YIN MEI: A Monk and His Love, as the Opposites Connect (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 24, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Two Venerable European Festivals, One Magical and One Not (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 24, 2002)
MUSIC: City Opera Focusing on Ground Zero Site (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 24, 2002)
TV REVIEW | 'R.F.K.': Forging a Kennedy Legacy of His Own (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 24, 2002)
* ARTS Q & A: Women Are Nurturing? How About Cruel, Especially to One Another (Felicia R. Lee Interviews Phyllis Chesler, Aug. 24, 2002)
HEALTH: V.A. Suggests Halt to Kind of Knee Surgery (By GINA KOLATA, Aug. 24, 2002)
HEALTH: Salmonella Fells Up to 141 at Disney World (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 24, 2002)

Friday, August 23, 2002:
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)

Allen R. Myerson, a Times Business Editor and Writer, Dies at 47 (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 23, 2002)
Alfred Ligon, 96, Owner of Renowned Bookstore, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 23, 2002)
Edith Lutyens, a Designer of Costumes for the Stage, Is Dead at 95 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 23, 2002)
* Jiri Kolar, Czech Collage Artist and Poet, Dies at 88 (By REUTERS, Aug. 23, 2002)
NATIONAL: Secret Court Says F.B.I. Aides Misled Judges in 75 Cases (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 23, 2002)
Sharon Postpones a Trip to Florida Next Month (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Aug. 23, 2002)
FROM ESCAPES | DRIVING: S.U.V. Haters Pitch a Curbside Battle (By AARON DONOVAN, Aug. 23, 2002)
Newcomers' Businesses Restore Old Towns to Life (By PETER T. KILBORN, Aug. 23, 2002)
Clinton Aide Heads to House, With Waves Preceding Him (By CARL HULSE, Aug. 23, 2002)
Bush Defends Logging Initiative as a Better Means of Management Against Forest Fires
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 23, 2002)
Private Money Pads Packages of Public University Leaders (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Aug. 23, 2002)
Georgia School Board Requires Balance of Evolution and Bible (By KATE ZERNIKE, Aug. 23, 2002)
* WORLD: Amazon Forest Still Burning Despite the Good Intentions (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 23, 2002)
North Korea Incurs U.S. Penalty for Missile Parts Sales to Yemen (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Aug. 23, 2002)
North Korea's Leader Whistle-Stops in Siberia (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 23, 2002)
Foreign Prisoners Becoming a Problem for Karzai (By JOHN F. BURNS, Aug. 23, 2002)
Putin Dresses Down Military for Crash That Killed 116 (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 23, 2002)
British Aide Says Toppling Hussein Is Not a Goal for London (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Aug. 23, 2002)
* Nuclear Material Secretly Flown From Serbia to Russia for Safety (By JAMES DAO, Aug. 23, 2002)
* JAKARTA JOURNAL: A TV Preacher to Satisfy the Taste for Islam Lite (By JANE PERLEZ, Aug. 23, 2002)
NY REGION: Shortage Ends as City Lures New Teachers (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Aug. 23, 2002)
2 Sisters, 2 Ways to Deal With Homelessness (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Aug. 23, 2002)
* Chinatown Gentrifies, and Evicts (By YILU ZHAO, Aug. 23, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Delicate Challenge for the 'Voice of Organization' [Anita F. Contini]
(By ROBIN FINN, Aug. 23, 2002)
SPORTS: YANKEES 4, ANGELS 2: Wells Stands the Test of Time (By TYLER KEPNER, Aug. 23, 2002)
SPORTS: Antidote for Strike: We've Gone Fishin' (By GEORGE VECSEY, Aug. 23, 2002)
SPORTS: All You Need Is the Love of Baseball (By MIKE FREEMAN, Aug. 23, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Power Grab in Pakistan (NY TIMES, Aug. 23, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Examining How the Towers Collapsed (By, Aug. 23, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Mayor Bloomberg's Test: Teaching the Teachers How to Teach Reading
(By BRENT STAPLES, Aug. 23, 2002)
* OP-ED: The Outrage Constraint (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Shaming Young Mothers (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Aug. 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Planning Now for a Postwar Iraq (By JAMES P. RUBIN, Aug. 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Notes From Laredo: Following Footprints Across the Border (By DENNIS MICHELINI, Aug. 23, 2002)
LETTERS: Money, Ethics and the M.B.A. (By MIGUEL ROIG, et. al., Aug. 23, 2002)
LETTERS: A Talk Show for Bill Clinton? (By KEVIN M. ALLISON, et. al., Aug. 23, 2002)
LETTERS: Amber Alert Works (By (Rep.) MARTIN FROST, Aug. 23, 2002)
LETTERS: Ways of Mourning (By CHARLES SCALERA, Aug. 23, 2002)
["Why not a quiet and meditative day, with only church bells ringing?"]
LETTERS: Sept. 11 Inquiry (By (Senator) BOB GRAHAM & (Rep.) PORTER GOSS, Aug. 23, 2002)
BUSINESS: Software Makers Give the Recent Rally Another Bounce
[Dow +96, Nasdaq +14] (By REUTERS, Aug. 23, 2002)
AOL's Swap Deals With 2 Others Said to Be a Focus of the S.E.C.
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK & SIMON ROMERO, Aug. 23, 2002)
Volcker Seen as Top Choice to Head Board on Accounting (By STEPHEN LABATON, Aug. 23, 2002)
CNN to Reveal When Guests Promote Drugs for Companies (By MELODY PETERSEN, Aug. 23, 2002)
Researcher to Alter How It Tracks Earnings (By REUTERS, Aug. 23, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Sears Emphasizes Heritage in Campaign (By STUART ELLIOT, Aug. 23, 2002)
Bookseller Falls Short of Estimates (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 23, 2002)
ART REVIEW: In and Around Boston, Tombs, Pop Tarts and Parties [camel]
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 23, 2002)
ARTS: MY MANHATTAN: Deep in the Night, When You Can Walk in Beauty [St. Patrick]
(By SANDEE BRAWARSKY, Aug. 23, 2002)
ART: 'NEO-IMPRESSIONISM: ARTISTS ON THE EDGE': Building Up a Shimmer, Stroke by Careful Stroke
(By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 23, 2002)
ART: 'CONSUMING PLACES': Spaces, Inside and Out, Defining Modern Life
(By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 23, 2002)
ART: 'QUEENS INTERNATIONAL': A Pluralist Exhibition in the Plural Borough
(By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 23, 2002)
* ANTIQUES: A Rare Memoir of a Massacre Returns Home ["The Redeemed Captive"]
(By WENDY MOONAN, Aug. 23, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD UNCLOAKED': When a Girl Meets a Guy and He's a Big Bad Wolf...
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 23, 2002)
* FILM: 'SIMONE': A Star Who's Got It All (Except, Alas, a Life) (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 23, 2002)
FILM: 'SATIN ROUGE': Belly Dancing as Solace for a Demure Arab Widow (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 23, 2002)
FILM: 'SERVING SARA': Rich Man Wants a Divorce; His Wife Has Her Own Plans (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 23, 2002)
FILM: 'THE ISLE': Primal Passions, Gruesomely Rendered (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 23, 2002)
THEATER: 'HAMLET': To Be or Not to Be Serious (By NEIL GENZINGER, Aug. 23, 2002)
TV: 'HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS': Looking for Love, Finding Heartbreak (By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 23, 2002)
TRAVEL: FROM ESCAPES | JOURNEYS: The Sound of Home: An 8,690-Mile Echo
(By SARA RIMER, Aug. 23, 2002)
* Scientists Find Signs Big Meteor Hit Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago (By KENNETH CHANG, Aug. 23, 2002)

Thursday, August 22, 2002:
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)

Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor on a Grand Scale, Dies at 78 (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 22, 2002)
Jan Stenbeck, 59, Businessman in Timber and TV, Is Dead (By REUTERS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Freidann Parker, Colorado Ballet Head, 77, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2002)
Anton Guadagno, Opera Conductor Internationally, Dies at 79 (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 22, 2002)
Bernard Canavan, 66, Executive, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2002)
NATIONAL: Bush, Citing Fires, Will Seek to Ease Laws on Logging (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Aug. 22, 2002)
WASHINGTON TALK: George W.'s Worst Fear: A W-Shaped Recession (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Neighbor Guilty of Murder of Girl, 7, in San Diego (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Aug. 22, 2002)
F.B.I. Alerted to Saudi Man by Photo on Computer Disc (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 22, 2002)
1 in 4 Teachers Is Not Trained in Field (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Scrutiny of Drug in Fort Bragg Killings (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2002)
University Seeks to Fire Scholar for Reputed Link to Terrorism (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2002)
WORLD: Bush Promises Patience on Iraq (By ADAM NAGOURNEY with THOM SHANKER, Aug. 22, 2002)
Floods Clear Chinese Waterfront (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Crash in Chechnya: Russia's Gaping Wound (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Filipino Rebels Kill Two Jehovah's Witnesses (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Rumsfeld Warns That Iraq Ties Will Hurt Russian Pocketbooks (By THOM SHANKER, Aug. 22, 2002)
Israeli Smallpox Move (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2002)
Mexican Leader, Reneging, Bangs Door Shut on a Violent Era (By TIM WEINER, Aug. 22, 2002)
Five Who Attacked Iraqi Embassy Had Sought Asylum in Germany (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 22, 2002)
NY REGION: A New York Vacation, No Tourists in Sight (By ANDY NEWMAN, Aug. 22, 2002)
U.S. Announces New, Tougher Look Into Why the Towers Collapsed (By JAMES GLANZ, Aug. 22, 2002)
Standing Tall Once Again, This Time in Real Bronze [Civil War monument]
(By GLENN COLLINS, Aug. 22, 2002)
In Hoboken, They Knew They'd Lost More on 9/11 (By RICHARD LEZIN JONES, Aug. 22, 2002)
3 Postal Centers Tested for Anthrax in New Jersey (By ROBERT HANLEY, Aug. 22, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: For the Homeless, a Face Behind the Bureaucracy (By ALAN FEUER, Aug. 22, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Heeere's Bill (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2002)
* EDITORIAL: Where They Lived [9/11 Victims by Zip Code] (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2002)
* OP-ED: Saddam and Terror (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Aug. 22, 2002)
OP-ED: A Confused Inquiry (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 22, 2002)
* OP-ED: Keeping Parents Off Campus (By JUDITH R. SHAPIRO, Aug. 22, 2002)
* OP-ED: A Global City Rebuilt (By PAUL SPENCER BYARD, Aug. 22, 2002)
LETTERS: A New Look at 'Save the Whales' (By EREC STEBBINS, et. al., Aug. 22, 2002)
LETTERS: Lesson on a Bookshelf [Bible & Koran] (By UTE KAVANAUGH, Aug. 22, 2002)
LETTERS: Connecting Downtown (By JOHN M. ELLIS, Aug. 22, 2002)
BUSINESS: Buyers Muscle the Market, Sending Nasdaq Above 1,400
[Dow +85, Nasdaq +33] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Ex-Enron Official Admits Payments to Finance Chief (By KURT EICHENWALD, Aug. 22, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Methodical Investigation Yields Crucial Plea in Enron Case
(By KURT EICHENWALD, Aug. 22, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: All Sides Praise Deal Dissolving Time Warner Entertainment
(By SETH SCHIESEL with DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 22, 2002)
* AOL Revives Focus on Creating Original Content (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK & SAUL HANSELL, Aug. 22, 2002)
A Rising Star in a Clouded Firmament [Dina Dublon, CFO, J.P. Morgan Chase]
(By RIVA D. ATLAS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Data Show Growing Trend Toward Permanent Layoffs (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 22, 2002)
Panel Says Stewart Files Were Edited (By REUTERS, Aug. 22, 2002)
3 Fed Bank Chiefs Hint That Another Rate Cut Isn't Needed (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 22, 2002)
Friends Say Enron's Ex-Chief Despairs, Seeking Someone to Believe Him [Jeffrey K. Skilling]
(By DAVID BARBOZA, Aug. 22, 2002)
ECONOMIC SCENE: When the Economy Hits a Turnaround, Conspiracy Theories Abound (By ALAN B. KRUEGER, Aug. 22, 2002)
Increase in Tourism Aids Asia Carriers (By WAYNE ARNOLD, Aug. 22, 2002)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2002)
ARTS: Water and Woe for the Czechs' Cultural Gems (By PETER S. GREEN, Aug. 22, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Weekend for Indian Artists to Get Their Business Done
(By JOSHUA BROCKMAN, Aug. 22, 2002)
BOOKS: 'BLOOD OF VICTORY': Gliding Through Europe, Cloaked in Diffident Charm
(By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 22, 2002)
DANCE: YIN MEI DANCE: When a Monk Falls in Love With His Enemy's Daughter
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 22, 2002)
MUSIC: MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA: Mozart Orchestra Savors Its Abbreviated Moment
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 22, 2002)
MUSIC: Spontaneous Abstraction Inspires Younger Players (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 22, 2002)
OPERA CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Updating 'Turandot,' Berio Style (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 22, 2002)
ROCK: JOHN DOE: Looking at Disintegration From the Viewpoint of Age (By JON PARELES, Aug. 22, 2002)
THEATER: Radio City and the Rockettes Reach a Labor Agreement (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 22, 2002)
* GARDENING: NATURE: From Rubble, Ingenuity Sprouts [Labyrinth] (By ANNE RAVER, Aug. 22, 2002)
GARDENING: In Upstate Hills, Modish Replaces Moo (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Aug. 22, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 22, 2002)
Palmtops in the Operating Room (By IAN AUSTEN, Aug. 22, 2002)
* Tech Support Has Its Price (By ROGIER VAN BAKEL, Aug. 22, 2002)
* STATE OF THE ART: Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 22, 2002)
BASICS: How to Make Yourself Reachable in 5 Places at Once (By LARRY MAGID, Aug. 22, 2002)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Finding a Mover on the Internet (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 22, 2002)
WHAT'S NEXT: Faster Chips That March to Their Own Improvised Beat (By ANNE EISENBERG, Aug. 22, 2002)
* ONLINE DIARY: A Nation of Bloggers and Googling by E-Mail (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Aug. 22, 2002)
SITES: An Online Epic Pursues Geese Tagged for Satellite Tracking (By ANNE EISENBERG, Aug. 22, 2002)
ORGANIZERS: New Tools Let the Palm Device Do Heavy Lifting on Its Own (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Aug. 22, 2002)
CAMERAS: Don't Laugh. The Little Guy Can Shoot. (By AMIR TUSHER, Aug. 22, 2002)
A Parental Black Box for Young Drivers (By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, Aug. 22, 2002)
Q & A: Adapting a Laptop for Travel Abroad (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Aug. 22, 2002)
SCIENCE: Anthrax Study May Yield Remedy (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 22, 2002)
* HEALTH: Study Suggests Carbohydrates Are Attacked in Arthritis (By KENNETH CHANG, Aug. 22, 2002)
Depression Ranks Low in Aided Suicide Study (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 22, 2002)

Wednesday, August 21, 2002:
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)

* Swami Satchidananda, Woodstock's Guru, Dies at 87 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 21, 2002)
* Martin Deutsch, Physicist Who Discovered an Atom, 85, Is Dead (By STUART LAVIETES, Aug. 21, 2002)
Lillian Goldman, 80, Advocate for Women's Education, Dies (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 21, 2002)
Richard Queen, Hostage Freed Early by Iranians in '80, Dies at 51 (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 21, 2002)
Dick O'Connell, 87, Red Sox Executive, Is Dead (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 21, 2002)
Carter Burgess, Ex-Executive and Envoy, 85, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 21, 2002)
Robert Dedman, Dallas Philanthropist, Dies at 76 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 21, 2002)
Herbert Max, 71, Lawyer and Author, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2002)
NATIONAL: Program to Cover Psychiatric Help for 9/11 Families (By ERICA GOODE, Aug. 21, 2002)
F.D.A. Approves Trial for Interferon to Treat West Nile Virus (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
LESSONS: Schools' Chosen Cure for Money Ills: A Sugar Pill (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 21, 2002)
Father Steals Best: Crime in an American Family (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Aug. 21, 2002)
Lawyer Says False Case Led Harvard to Alter Sexual Complaint Rule (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 21, 2002)
White House Denies Texas Session Is About Iraq (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 21, 2002)
Sharon Is to Join Jeb Bush at Rally for Israel in Florida (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 21, 2002)
San Jose Vows to Keep Fire From Halting Huge Project (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 21, 2002)
Judge Wants Copy of Flight 93 Tape (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 21, 2002)
WORLD: Amendments Will Give Musharraf Power to Dismiss Parliament (By REUTERS, Aug. 21, 2002)
Russia Says Toll in Copter's Crash Has Reached 115 (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 21, 2002)
Bush Team Campaigning for Opposition to Mugabe's Rule (By JAMES DAO, Aug. 21, 2002)
Anti-Hussein Iraqis Briefly Seize Embassy in Berlin (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 21, 2002)
Iraqi Official Says Abu Nidal Shot Himself to Avoid Arrest (By SERGE SCHMEMANN with TERENCE NEILAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
U.N. Official, in Beijing, Tells of Worry Over Rights (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 21, 2002)
Little Girl Puts Human Face on Plight of North Koreans (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 21, 2002)
G.I.'s Are Taking Care Not to Offend Afghan Hosts (By IAN FISHER, Aug. 21, 2002)
SOHAM JOURNAL: Girls' Killing Melts British Reserve (By ALAN COWELL, Aug. 21, 2002)
5 in Italian Jail; Muhammad Fresco at Issue (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 21, 2002)
A Recipe for a Run-In: More Bears, and More People in Their Path (By WINNIE HU, Aug. 21, 2002)
Zones of Devastation From 9/11: Mapping the Victims by ZIP Code (By ANDY NEWMAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
American Dream Is a Ghana Home (By JOSEPH BERGER, Aug. 21, 2002)
Fugitive Linked to Hijackers Is Arrested on Return to U.S. (By ROBERT HANLEY, Aug. 21, 2002)
The Latest Essential for College Applicants: A Summer Already Spent on Campus
(By KATHERINE BOAS, Aug. 21, 2002)
SPORTS: Hotdogging Just Part of the Game (By MIKE FREEMAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
Harlem Reaches Little League Quarterfinals (By FRANK LITSKY, Aug. 21, 2002)
TENNIS: It's Game, Set, Intimidation for the Williams Sisters on Tour (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 21, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Sharing the Evidence on Iraq (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Killed by a Bear (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2002)
OP-ED: Coup De Crawford (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 21, 2002)
OP-ED: Bush's Mideast Sand Trap (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
OP-ED: What a Chancellor Needs Most (By HAROLD O. LEVY, Aug. 21, 2002)
OP-ED: Soldiers Should Not Be Spying (By LAWRENCE J. KORB & JONATHAN D. TEPPERMAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
OP-ED: The Lost Art of Penmanship (By HENRY E. NASS, Aug. 21, 2002)
8 LETTERS: Teaching Islam: A Controversy (By THOMAS E. PAJUSI, Aug. 21, 2002)
LETTERS: Sept. 11 Response (By JEREMY MANNING, Aug. 21, 2002)
LETTERS: Murder and the Internet (By SARA JOHNSON, Aug. 21, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall on Profit Taking After Two Strong Weeks
[Dow -119, Nasdaq -18] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 21, 2002)
AOL in Deal to Regain All of Media Unit (By SETH SCHIESEL, Aug. 21, 2002)
Weaker Dollar Has Yet to Spur a Boom in Exports (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
Martha Stewart Gives Panel Records in ImClone Inquiry (By TRACIE ROZHON, Aug. 21, 2002)
Cisco to Buy Data-Storage Networker (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 21, 2002)
* Negotiations Are Under Way for Clinton Talk Show on CBS (By BILL CARTER & DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 21, 2002)
CNN Now Says It Paid $30,000 for Its Videotapes of bin Laden (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 21, 2002)
Home Depot Earnings Increase 28% (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 21, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'SNOBBERY': Condescension by Another Name (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 21, 2002)
DANCE: JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL: Trysts and Battles With Long Sleek Lines
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 21, 2002)
FILM: 'ONE HOUR PHOTO': That Orderly World of His? It's About to Explode (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 21, 2002)
FILM: 'BOX HEAD REVOLUTION': Upstairs They All Wear Masks, Downstairs Wooden Boxes (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 21, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: The Art of Listening, to Lake Waters and to John Cage (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Aug. 21, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: In Salzburg, Striking Sets for Staples (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 21, 2002)
ROCK: EYES ADRIFT: Acoustic Duo With Memories Made of Loss (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 21, 2002)
THEATER: For a Young Actress's Career, a Bouffant Moment in 'Hairspray' (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 21, 2002)
THEATER: NY INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL: If Serial Killers Are All Women, It's the Theater
(By JONATHAN MANDELL, Aug. 21, 2002)
THEATER CRITIC: Great Minds Talk Volumes as Mortality Intervenes (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 21, 2002)
FOOD: The Deep-Fried Truth About Ipswich Clams [3 recipes] (By NANCY HARMON JENKINS, Aug. 21, 2002)
Finding Clams, No Mud Flats (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2002)
In From the Cold: A 3-Star Chef Plans an Intimate Encounter (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 21, 2002)
A Culinary Giant Has Mixed Emotions About Retirement [Frédy Girardet]
(By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 21, 2002)
THE CHEF: A Humble Ticket to a Tuscan Treat [recipe] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 21, 2002)
THE MINIMALIST: Cool, When It Sizzles, and a Breeze to Make [5 recipes] (By MARK BITTMAN, Aug. 21, 2002)
Chilled Soup That Really Tingles [2 recipes] (By KAY RENTSCHLER, Aug. 21, 2002)
GOOD EATING: Teatime High and Low, Hot and Iced (NY TIMES, Aug. 21, 2002)

Tuesday, August 20, 2002:
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)

* John Roseboro, Dodgers Star, Dies at 69 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 20, 2002)
Benjamin Thompson, 84, Architect of Festive Urban Marketplaces, Dies (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Aug. 20, 2002)
Jeff Corey, Character Actor and Acting Instructor, 88, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 20, 2002)
Harvey Kapnick, Former Arthur Andersen Chairman, Dies at 77 (By EDWARD WONG, Aug. 20, 2002)
NATIONAL: Assigned Reading on Koran in Chapel Hill Raises Hackles (By KATE ZERNIKE, Aug. 20, 2002)
Defense Contractor in New Mexico Faces Weapons Charges (NY TIMES, Aug. 20, 2002)
Tax Revolt Takes Aim at a County's Libraries (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Aug. 20, 2002)
WORLD: Combatants in African Nations May Soon Give Peace a Chance (By MARC LACEY, Aug. 20, 2002)
Bidding Emotional Goodbye, Pope Ends Visit to His Past (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 20, 2002)
Huge Russian Helicopter Crashes in a Minefield, Killing Dozens (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 20, 2002)
MOSCOW JOURNAL: Russian Music Pirates Sail on Government Land (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Aug. 20, 2002)
Court Upholds Stoning for Nigerian Mother (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 20, 2002)
Abu Nidal, Palestinian Terrorist Leader, Is Reported Dead (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Aug. 20, 2002)
Israeli Troops Let Palestinian Police Re-enter Bethlehem (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Aug. 20, 2002)
* NY REGION: Teeth Missing? Try Lost and Found (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 20, 2002)
NY REGION: Exodus of 9/11 Is Thing of Past Near Tower Site (By GREG WINTER, Aug. 20, 2002)
City Compiles List of Dead and Missing From Sept. 11 (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Aug. 20, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Guide in the Public School Maze, Mouse in Hand (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Aug. 20, 2002)
SPORTS: Padres' Owner Ready to Sit for a Season (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 20, 2002)
TENNIS: Hingis Eager to Recapture Form (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 20, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Unproductive Medicare Bashing [Gov't failing Medicare] (NY TIMES, Aug. 20, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Right Message to Egypt (NY TIMES, Aug. 20, 2002)
OP-ED: The Real Thing (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 20, 2002)
OP-ED: Harvest the Whales (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Aug. 20, 2002)
* OP-ED: Lessons Learned in Business School (By ROBERT PRENTICE, Aug. 20, 2002)
* OP-ED: Losing Our Best Allies in the War on Terror (By JEFFREY C. GOLDFARB, Aug. 20, 2002)
LETTERS: War-Making and Bumper Stickers (By RICHARD L. RUBENSTEIN, et. al., Aug. 20, 2002)
LETTERS: A New Generation of Journalists (By LIZZIE O'LEARY, et. al., Aug. 20, 2002)
LETTERS: When a Child Is Missing, Sound the Alarm (By RIK DAVIS, et. al., Aug. 20, 2002)
LETTERS: Cisco Isn't Enron (By CLAUDIA CENICEROS, Cisco's Dir. PR, Aug. 20, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Jump, and Dow Nearly Cracks the 9,000 Ceiling
[Dow + 213, Nasdaq +34] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 20, 2002)
Small-Picture Approach to a Big Problem: Poverty (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Aug. 20, 2002)
Oil Prices Near $30 a Barrel, a 15-Month High (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 20, 2002)
Sale by Qwest for $7 Billion Is Called Near (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN with BARNABY J. FEDER, Aug. 20, 2002)
House Panel Raises Pressure on Ex-Chief Of ImClone (By TRACIE ROZHON, Aug. 20, 2002)
Modest Decline in Indicators Suggests Recovery Sputters (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 20, 2002)
A Loss at Agilent Exceeds Forecasts (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 20, 2002)
Loss at Toys 'R' Us Narrows in Quarter (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 20, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: To Many, Vivendi Headquarters Is Still Sending Mixed Signals
(By SUZANNE KAPNER, Aug. 20, 2002)
* Battling to Satisfy India's Taste for Ice Cream (By SARITHA RAI, Aug. 20, 2002)
Corporate Certifications Don't Alone Lift Shares (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Aug. 20, 2002)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Coping With Health Hazards When on the Go (By DAVID KOEPPEL, Aug. 20, 2002)
ON THE GROUND: Learning to Have Fun While Getting Things Done (By WAYNE ARNOLD, Aug. 20, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: Aversion to U.S. Airports Is Rooted in Stress Factor (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 20, 2002)
MEMO PAD: More Companies Use Online Booking (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 20, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Newspaper Ads Are Down Again, Causing Worries (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Aug. 20, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: TV Makes League Little in Name Only (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 20, 2002)
* ART: In Florence, Michelangelo Has His Moment (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 20, 2002)
BOOKS: 'AFTER THE QUAKE': Worlds Where Anything Normal Would Seem Bizarre
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 20, 2002)
DANCE: SUMMER IN THE SQUARE 2002: Stepping Off for a Romp in the Park (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 20, 2002)
JAZZ: CHARLIE HADEN & BRAD MEHLDAU: A Slow Bass Joins a Piano in Quiet Tumult (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 20, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Mahlerian Examination of Mahler (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Aug. 20, 2002)
MOSTLY MOZART REVIEW | 'ESTHER': A Biblical Heroine Who Captivated a King
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 20, 2002)
MUSIC FESTIVAL: LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS: Multiple Bands on Parade, Not Afraid to Collide
(By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Aug. 20, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE BIZARRO BOLOGNA SHOW': Swashbuckling Satirist Takes the Stage With His Pen at the Ready
(By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Aug. 20, 2002)
THEATER: Theater Feels a Boost, Uptown and Down (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 20, 2002)
* TV: Planned Mini-Series on Hitler's Early Life Brings Criticism (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Aug. 20, 2002)
* SCIENCE ESSAY: Adoring Nature, Till It Bites Us in the Back (By NATALIE ANGIER, Aug. 20, 2002)
MANAGING PLANET EARTH: Forget Nature. Even Eden Is Engineered. (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Aug. 20, 2002)
Economic Interests Keep Drive for Renewable Energy Stuck in Neutral (By NEELA BANERJEE, Aug. 20, 2002)
Experts Scale Back Estimates of World Population Growth (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Aug. 20, 2002)
* Bracing for Economic Changes, When the Population Grows No More (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Aug. 20, 2002)
Learning to Live With Logging and (Gasp!) Even Liking It (By MARC LACEY, Aug. 20, 2002)
A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL BOTKIN: Adjusting Attitudes on Energy to Keep Our Favorite Things
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Aug. 20, 2002)
As Alien Invaders Proliferate, Conservationists Change Their Focus (By ANDREW C. REVKIN & CAROL KAESUK YOON, Aug. 20, 2002)
FROM MONTREAL TO RIO TO JOHANNESBURG: 15 Years of Environmental Accords (NY TIMES, Aug. 20, 2002)
HEALTH: Deaths From West Nile Virus May Be Tied to a Gene Variation (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 20, 2002)
* HEALTH: On an Altered Planet, New Diseases Emerge as Old Ones Re-emerge (By DENISE GRADY, Aug. 20, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: In a World of Hazards, Worries Are Often Misplaced (By JANE E. BRODY, Aug. 20, 2002)

Monday, August 19, 2002:
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)

Doris Wishman, 'B' Film Director, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 19, 2002)
Edward Brodney, Who Painted War Scenes, Dies at 92 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 19, 2002)
* Elias Bredsdorff, 90, Expert on Hans Christian Andersen, Dies (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 19, 2002)
Josephine Schiff, Active in Charities, Dies at 89 (NY TIMES, Aug. 19, 2002)
NATIONAL: New England's Fishermen Fret for Industry's Future (By PAM BELLUCK, Aug. 19, 2002)
U.S. Agents Arrest Dozens of Fathers in Support Cases (By ROBERT PEAR, Aug. 19, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: A Vacation That's More Politicking Than Ranching
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 19, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE MEMO: A List of Guests Throws Light on the Bush Style (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 19, 2002)
PEBBLE BEACH JOURNAL: Classic-Car Crazy in California (By NICK MADIGAN, Aug. 19, 2002)
WORLD: Qaeda Videos Seem to Show Chemical Tests (By JUDITH MILLER, Aug. 19, 2002)
Israel Will Start Pullout in Gaza and Bethlehem (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Aug. 19, 2002)
American Arsenal in the Mideast Is Being Built Up to Confront Saddam Hussein
(By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER, Aug. 19, 2002)
Bush Calls Security Meeting at Ranch (NY TIMES, Aug. 19, 2002)
Flood Damage May Force Czechs to Abandon Jet Fighter Purchase (By PETER S. GREEN, Aug. 19, 2002)
* Pope Says Modern Mankind Is Usurping 'God's Place' (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 19, 2002)
LAHORE JOURNAL: Street Dentists, Always Ready to Do Their Worst (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 19, 2002)
NY REGION: They Jump, They Yell, and, Yes, They Spell (By ANDREW JACOBS, Aug. 19, 2002)
Code of Betrayal, Not Silence, Shines Light on Russian Mob (By BILL BERKELEY, Aug. 19, 2002)
* For Muslims, an Uneasy Anniversary (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Aug. 19, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 19, 2002)
SPORTS: Beem Makes Quite a Stand at P.G.A. [278 beats Woods by one stroke]
(By CLIFTON BROWN, Aug. 19, 2002)
SPORTS: Golfer Stands Taller Than Tiger (By DAVE ANDERSON, Aug. 19, 2002)
SPORTS NOTEBOOK: Woods Manages Without a Coach (By CLIFTON BROWN, Aug. 19, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Smaller Field Built to Hold Large Dreams (By BILL PENNINGTON, Aug. 19, 2002)
Harlem's Offense Comes to a Halt [Little League World Series] (By FRANK LITSKY, Aug. 19, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Required Reading [Michael Sells' "Approaching the Qur'an']
(NY TIMES, Aug. 19, 2002)
OP-ED: When Justice Is Mocked (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 19, 2002)
OP-ED: Democracy's Quiet Victory (By JOSHUA MURAVCHIK, Aug. 19, 2002)
* OP-ED: The Right Menu for Foreign Policy (By FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO, Aug. 19, 2002)
* OP-ED: Pop Culture Takes on Terrorism (By ROBERT THOMPSON, Aug. 19, 2002)
* LETTERS: The College Lecture Isn't Dead (By DAVID KLASS, Aug. 19, 2002)
LETTERS: Wall St. 'Loser' (By JAMES ROSE, Aug. 19, 2002)
LETTERS: What's Next in China? (By JUNG-TZUNG YIH, Aug. 19, 2002)
LETTERS: Our Image Abroad (By DAVID E. MOREY, Aug. 19, 2002)
LETTERS: A Muslim Message (By SEHBA KHAN, Aug. 19, 2002)
BUSINESS: Companies Dig Deeper Into Executives' Pasts (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Aug. 19, 2002)
* Apple's Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 19, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Some Magazines Are Publishing Biggest September Issues Ever (By DAVID CARR and ALLISON FASS, Aug. 19, 2002)
A TV Rush, at Times Crass, Over Sept. 11 (By FELICITY BARRINGER with BILL CARTER, Aug. 19, 2002)
Sony Pictures' Sales Already at Yearly Record (By REUTERS, Aug. 19, 2002)
Orbitz Can Now Book Tickets on American Airlines Directly (By SAUL HANSELL, Aug. 19, 2002)
* NEW ECONOMY: Opposition to Nanotechnology (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Aug. 19, 2002)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Web Retailers Try to Get Personal (By BOB TEDESCHI, Aug. 19, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: 'Push' Technology Lives, but Now You Pay for It (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Aug. 19, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: And Now the Sequel: Every-zilla Meets the Lawyers (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Aug. 19, 2002)
26 Wiz Stores Will Be Closed In 2 Months (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 19, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Invited or Not, Get Ready for Video by E-Mail (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 19, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Out-of-It Eyebrow Lift Gives Apple a Superstar (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 19, 2002)
* Wired Students Prefer Campus News on Paper (By MARCIN SKOMIAL, Aug. 19, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Using Cartoons to Make an Editor's Point (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 19, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Where the Talk Is Rarefied, Signs of Life (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Aug. 19, 2002)
* ARTS ONLINE: In Three Dimensions, Words Take Flight. Literally. (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Aug. 19, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'THE AGE OF GOLD': How a Few Sparkling Yellow Flakes Altered History
(By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 19, 2002)
* ART CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Art in Ashes, Drama in Dust (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Aug. 19, 2002)
THEATER: 'FIVE FROZEN EMBRYOS'; 'THE SLEEPERS': Rapid-Fire Conception About, Well, Conception
(By WILBORN HAMPTON, Aug. 19, 2002)
THEATER: Nothing to Prove, George Wolfe Is Liberated (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 19, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE': No Sobs, No Sorrows, No Sighs (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 19, 2002)
TV: Two Roads Taken: Improbable Intersection at Afghan Prison (By LESLIE CAMHI, Aug. 19, 2002)
TV: 'MYSTERY!': Detectives, Separated by Class, Unite on a Case (By RON WERTHEIMER, Aug. 19, 2002)
TV: A Filmmaker Seeks Answers About Killings in Mexico (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Aug. 19, 2002)
SCIENCE: Experts Use Poisons to Combat a Predatory Fish (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 19, 2002)
* HEALTH: Male Hormone Therapy Popular but Untested (By GINA KOLATA, Aug. 19, 2002)

Sunday, August 18, 2002:
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)

* Lucia Pamela, 98, a Musician to the Moon, Dies (By NEIL STRAUSS, Aug. 18, 2002)
Meredith Gardner, 89, Who Broke Code in Rosenberg Case, Dies (By DAVID STOUT, Aug. 18, 2002)
Peter Matz, 73, Arranger and Composer for Streisand and Others, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 18, 2002)
NATIONAL: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
NATIONAL: Bishops Proceed Cautiously in Carrying Out Abuse Policy (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN & SAM DILLON, Aug. 18, 2002)
Edgy About Exams, Schools Cut the Summer Short (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Aug. 18, 2002)
* To the U.S., in a Slim Bid for Separate Cribs [twins joined at head] (By DENISE GRADY, Aug. 18, 2002)
Jobs Scarce, Many Heed Call to Serve in Peace Corps (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
Memorial to Anne Frank and Human Rights Opens (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
Donors and Longtime Friends Dominate Bush Sleepover List (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 18, 2002)
Northeast Anglers Fret for Their Future (By PAM BELLUCK, Aug. 18, 2002)
Vows at Busy Bridge Unite Couples Divided by the Rio Grande (By JIM YARDLEY, Aug. 18, 2002)
WORLD: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
WORLD: Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Aug. 18, 2002)
Afghan Defense Chief Acts to Counter Talk of a Rift (By JOHN F. BURNS, Aug. 18, 2002)
Pope Offers Mass Near Site Where He Toiled Under the Nazis (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 18, 2002)
More German Towns Dig In as Flood Rolls On (By REUTERS, Aug. 18, 2002)
WORLD: Flooding Elbe Batters Towns Along Its Path (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 18, 2002)
Floods May Cost Germany $14 Billion (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 18, 2002)
* As Prague Dries, Flood Wall Stands Tall as a Hero (By PETER S. GREEN, Aug. 18, 2002)
Pakistani Police Say Yemenis Killed Pearl (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 18, 2002)
Quake Hits New Zealand Coast [magnitude 6; 14,000 quakes a year] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 18, 2002)
* Americans Stay Home, and Europe Feels a Pinch (By ALAN COWELL, Aug. 18, 2002)
For Some Indonesians, Echoes of 'Coolie' Nation (By JANE PERLEZ, Aug. 18, 2002)
Soccer Official May Try to Ride Wave of Korean Euphoria to the Presidency (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 18, 2002)
NY REGION: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
* NY REGION: Cameras to Record Ground Zero Rising, a Frame at a Time (By RICK LYMAN, Aug. 18, 2002)
Wider Scope in New Plans for Rebuilding (By EDWARD WYATT, Aug. 18, 2002)
Hard Life Goes From Bad to Worse (By WINNIE HU, Aug. 18, 2002)
THE FRESH AIR FUND: In 9/11 Art, Children Look Back and Ahead (By ARTHUR BOVINO, Aug. 18, 2002)
UPSTATE/AT THE FAIR: Oinks, Hee Haws and Zucchini the Size of Small Dogs (By DAN BARRY, Aug. 18, 2002)
SPORTS: Content (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
SPORTS: Baseball's Stoppage Won't Work (By GEORGE VECSEY, Aug. 18, 2002)
INSIDE BASEBALL: In Last Strike Year, Winning but Losing (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 18, 2002)
GOLF: Leonard Player to Beat in P.G.A. (By CLIFTON BROWN, Aug. 18, 2002)
BACKTALK: Seeing Tiger Woods Up Close Is a Reward (By GERRY MARTIRE, Aug. 18, 2002)
SPORTS: Fans Have Plenty to Cheer About [Little League World Series] (By FRANK LITSKY, Aug. 18, 2002)
EDITORIAL/OP-ED: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 19, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Fighting the Wrong Budget War (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Chinese Labyrinth (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: When the Bard of 'Main Street' Turned the Kingsbloods Black
(By BRENT STAPLES, Aug. 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Junior Gets a Spanking (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Fog of War (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 18, 2002)
* OP-ED: How to Speak to a Nation's Suffering (By GARRY WILLS, Aug. 18, 2002)
OP-ED: When Shelter Feels Like a Prison (By CHARMION BROWNE, Aug. 18, 2002)
* LETTERS: The Young Arabs Who Hate Us (By PHYLLIS S. KAMM, Aug. 18, 2002)
LETTERS: America's Friends Are Worried (By FRITZ STERN, Aug. 18, 2002)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
* BUSINESS: As Disney Loses Steam, Insider Loses Patience (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Aug. 18, 2002)
TERMINAL CRISIS: Troubled Airlines Face Reality: Those Cheap Fares Have a Price
(By DAVID LEONHARDT with MICHELINE MAYNARD, Aug. 18, 2002)
Why Isn't Fast Track... Faster? [free trade] (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 18, 2002)
* TALKING MONEY WITH BILL O'REILLY: For Once He Says, 'Don't Take My Advice'
(By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Aug. 18, 2002)
As the Earth Warms, Will Companies Pay? (By AMY CORTESE, Aug. 18, 2002)
ECONOMIC VIEW: When the Fed Shifts Rates, Is It Telling Its Secrets? (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Aug. 18, 2002)
Risks Are Rising in Bonds, Too (By VIRGINIA MUNGER KAHN, Aug. 18, 2002)
MARKET INSIGHT: Trim Stocks? Sure, but Don't Leave the Game (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 18, 2002)
* STRATEGIES: Did You Buy at the Peak? Hanging On May Still Pay (By MARK HULBERT, Aug. 18, 2002)
In Real Estate Trusts, No Haven From Volatility (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Aug. 18, 2002)
Adam I. Friedman and Daniel J. DeMonica, Armada Small Cap Value Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Aug. 18, 2002)
Ways to Move Up When the Economy Moves Down (By KAREN ALEXANDER, Aug. 18, 2002)
MONEY & MEDICINE: In-Office Surgery: Fewer Rules Apply (By MICHELLE ANDREWS, Aug. 18, 2002)
* PRELUDES: My Identity for Hire? Why Not! (By ABBY ELLIN, Aug. 18, 2002)
* EXECUTIVE LIFE: Plumping a Career by Writing a Book (By AMY ZIPKIN, Aug. 18, 2002)
THE BOSS: Follow the Herd? Not Her (By CHRISTINE KING, Aug. 18, 2002)
* Oh, to Be Taken Seriously When You Look About 16 (By MELINDA LIGOS, Aug. 18, 2002)
LIFE'S WORK: A Shaky Economy Rattles a Marriage (By LISA BELKIN, Aug. 18, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: Selling Scrolls, No, Rolls on Our Economic Times (By VIVIAN MARINO, Aug. 18, 2002)
INVESTING DIARY: Tight Corporate Belts and Even Tighter Wallets (By JEFF SOMMER, Aug. 18, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Gas-Electric Cars Gain Tax Benefits (By VIVIAN MARINO, Aug. 18, 2002)
Where Rockets' Red Glare Reflects Hard Times (By BERNARD SIMON, Aug. 18, 2002)
* MARKET WATCH: A Star Analyst Exits Loudly. Others Hide Backstage. (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 18, 2002)
THE RIGHT THING: Just Saying No to Gifts From Drug Makers (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, Aug. 18, 2002)
ARTS: Content (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
* ART: Lust in the Gallery, Larceny in the Heart (By DEBORAH WEISGALL, Aug. 18, 2002)
ARTS: Reliving the 1200's With Sweat, Muscle and No-Tech Tools (By CHRISTOPHER HALL, Aug. 18, 2002)
DANCE: Way Up High, Soaring, Floating, Diving, Dancing (By WENDY PERRON, Aug. 18, 2002)
DANCE: Co-Architect, With Nature, of a Festival (By VALERIE GLADSTONE, Aug. 18, 2002)
FILM: After 'Friends': Looking for a Second Act (By DANA KENNEDY, Aug. 18, 2002)
* FILM: Can Bookish Be Sexy? Yeah, Says Neil LaBute (By DANIEL ZALEWSKI, Aug. 18, 2002)
* FILM: A Pop Image Maker Ponders the Snapshot [Mark Romanek] (By DAVID HOCHMAN, Aug. 18, 2002)
FILM: Matthew Perry Found Fame, but It Wasn't Enough (By DANA KENNEDY, Aug. 18, 2002)
JAZZ: A Jazz Guerrilla Blows Back In, Spreading Ideas (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 18, 2002)
* MUSIC: The Lost Boys: How a Pop Sensation Came Undone (By NEIL STRAUSS, Aug. 18, 2002)
MUSIC: Sondheim Has His Shrine, and It's Not on Broadway (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Aug. 18, 2002)
MUSIC: Not Just Hanging On, Still Singing Young (By ANTHONY DeCURTIS, Aug. 18, 2002)
MUSIC RECORDINGS: The Passions, Drawn to a Bachian Model (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Aug. 18, 2002)
MUSIC SPINS: Songs That Emanate From a Raw Nerve (By JON PARELES, Aug. 18, 2002)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: Contemplating 1905 With Shostakovich (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Aug. 18, 2002)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: A Vagabond Who Sees the World Starkly [Josef Koudelka] (By VICKI GOLDBERG, Aug. 18, 2002)
THEATER: Those Twins Return in a Not Quite Identical Comedy (By SYLVIANE GOLD, Aug. 18, 2002)
TV: Need a New Show? Just Dip Into Television's Past (By DAVID KIRBY, Aug. 18, 2002)
TV: Surprise! Your Garden Just Got a Makeover (By DEBORAH NEEDLEMAN, Aug. 18, 2002)
LETTERS (ARTS): 'Frankie and Johnny'; 'La Bayadére' (By LAUREL HILL, Aug. 18, 2002)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
STYLE: Where Is Everybody? At Play in St.-Tropez (By JESSE McKINLEY, Aug. 18, 2002)
On Wall Street After Dark, a New Bohemia Beckons (By JULIA CHAPLIN, Aug. 18, 2002)
When Home Is a Castle and the Big House, Too (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Aug. 18, 2002)
VIEW: They Light Up. I Wake Up Hacking. (By TOBY CECCHINI, Aug. 18, 2002)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: The Stars of 'Blue Crush' (By LINDA LEE, Aug. 18, 2002)
POSSESSED: Music to His Lo-Fi Ears (By DAVID COLMAN, Aug. 18, 2002)
VOWS: Rakhi Dhanoa and Ranjeet Purewal (By STEPHEN HENDERSON, Aug. 18, 2002)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
TRAVEL: A Holiday of Woods and Water (By WAYNE CURTIS, Aug. 18, 2002)
In the Backbone of the World [Glacier National Park, Montana] (By BARRY ESTABROOK, Aug. 18, 2002)
Anguished Cries in a Place of Silence (By LYNN SHERR, Aug. 18, 2002)
FRUGAL TRAVELER: Rain or Shine, Nice Is a Masterpiece (By DAISANN McLANE, Aug. 18, 2002)
WHAT'S DOING In Helsinki (By ERIK SANDBERG-DIMENT, Aug. 18, 2002)
TRAVEL ESSAY: Radical Trust on the Road (By ROB NIXON, Aug. 18, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
* REST IN PEACE: The American Way of Dealing With Death (By JACK HITT, Aug. 18, 2002)
Which Party Will Take a Hit on Election Day? (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 18, 2002)
PHOTO ESSAY: A Road That Death Often Travels (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Aug. 18, 2002)
FLIGHTS OF FANCY: Look to Your Feet and TV to Find the Future of Air Travel (By EDWARD WONG, Aug. 18, 2002)
Looking for Cheney? He's Looking to 2004 (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Aug. 18, 2002)
WIT'S END :): Dear Diary: Why Am I So Scary? (By JOHN KENNEY, Aug. 18, 2002)
* WORD FOR WORD: The Clancy Effect (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Aug. 18, 2002)
Fever Dreams: Real Life Feels Like a Sci-Fi Film (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 18, 2002)
* When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Put on Suits [armored knight] (By GUY TREBAY, Aug. 18, 2002)
* Those Old-Time Shares Are Looking Good Again (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Aug. 18, 2002)
African Numbers, Problems and Number Problems (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Aug. 18, 2002)
The Talk of Britain [Missing children] (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES: Frisbee Memories (By NYTIMES.COM, Aug. 18, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Corpus Linguistics (By JOHN ROSENTHAL, Aug. 18, 2002)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Soul Training (By MARK EDMUNDSON, Aug. 18, 2002)
QUESTIONS FOR JESSE VENTURA: Still Wrestling With It (By DAVID WALLIS, Aug. 18, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Ears Open, Mouth Shut (By RANDY COHEN, Aug. 18, 2002)
What They Were Thinking (Interviews by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Aug. 18, 2002)
The Free-Trade Fix (By TINA ROSENBERG, Aug. 18, 2002)
Life Is a Contact Sport (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER, Aug. 18, 2002)
Queer as Folk (By DAVID HAJDU, Aug. 18, 2002)
The Collaborator (By GERSHOM GORENBERG, Aug. 18, 2002)
* STYLE: Welcome to the Dahl House [Roald Dahl] (By WES ANDERSON, Aug. 18, 2002)
* FOOD: Bighearted Shrimp {3 recipes] (By JULIA REED, Aug. 18, 2002)
LIVES: So You Want to Be Like Mike? (By HELENE STAPINSKI, Aug. 18, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 18, 2002)
'Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow': The Doomed Romance of Two Black Victorian Writers (By PAULA J. GIDDINGS, Aug. 18, 2002)
'After the Quake': Tales of Dislocation by Murakami (By JEFF GILES, Aug. 18, 2002)
* 'The Art of Travel' Is Aimed at Armchair Travelers (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 18, 2002)
* Looking to the Ancients, Pierre Hadot Says Philosophy Should Be a Way of Life (By BARRY GEWEN, Aug. 18, 2002)
'Emperor of Japan': A Scholar Pieces Together a Life of the Enigmatic Meiji (By DENNIS WASHBURN, Aug. 18, 2002)
'By the Hand of Mormon': The Gospel According to Joseph Smith (By BENSON BOBRICK, Aug. 18, 2002)
'The Egg Code': A Maximalist Novel Zigzags Across the Technosphere (By SCOTT McLEMEE, Aug. 18, 2002)
Portraits of Passionate Hobbyists (By M. G. LORD, Aug. 18, 2002)
* POEM: Like a Seal (By ABBA KOVNER, Translated from the Hebrew by EDDIE LEVENSTON, Aug. 18, 2002)
BOOX: Fake Harry Potter Books Selling in China (A Comic by Mark Alan Stamaty, Aug. 18, 2002)

Saturday, August 17, 2002:
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)

Steven Yokich, 66, Dies; Headed Auto Workers Union (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Aug. 17, 2002)
Robert F. Borkenstein, Inventor of the Breathalyzer, Dies at 89 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 17, 2002)
Jesse Brown, 58, Ex-Marine Who Headed Veterans Dept., Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 17, 2002)
Willis Hudlin, a Pitcher Who Excelled for the Indians, Dies at 96 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 17, 2002)
David Williams, 30, Singer in Rock Band, Dies (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 17, 2002)
NATIONAL: Missing Spacecraft May Have Broken Apart (By WARREN E. LEARY, Aug. 17, 2002)
Bush Considers New Measures in a Bid to Boost the Economy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 17, 2002)
Amtrak Halts 20% of Its Runs in the Northeast (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS with MARIA NEWMAN, Aug. 17, 2002)
* BELIEFS: A Turf Battle Between Non-Believers (By PETER STEINFELS, Aug. 17, 2002)
* SAN FRANCISCO JOURNAL: Coin-Operated Nostalgia With an Uncertain Future
(By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 17, 2002)
* WORLD: Floods Keep Rising in Dresden and Now Spill Northward (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 17, 2002)
* Slide Show: As Floods Ebb in Prague, Threat Rolls Into Germany [] (NY TIMES, Aug. 17, 2002)
A Washington Must: Embassies With Élan (By ELIZABETH BECKER & JAMES DAO, Aug. 17, 2002)
Production to Start on 2 Indian Missiles (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 17, 2002)
Attacks on Minority Faiths Rise in Post-Soviet Georgia (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 17, 2002)
SATURDAY PROFILE: From Maid to Rio Governor, and Still Fighting (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 17, 2002)
NY REGION: Trade Center Leaseholder Braces for Battle (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Aug. 17, 2002)
2 Columbia Officials Are Indicted in Theft (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 17, 2002)
After Telephone Courtship, a First Date Ends in Death (By ANDREW JACOBS, Aug. 17, 2002)
West Nile Case in Queens Shows Virus Is Enduring (By DAVID W. CHEN, Aug. 17, 2002)
SPORTS: President Urges Sides to Continue Talks (NY TIMES, Aug. 17, 2002)
SPORTS: In Defense of Players, and the Game (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Aug. 17, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Jack Grubman's Last Deal (NY TIMES, Aug. 17, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Skateboarding, a National Pastime? (NY TIMES, Aug. 17, 2002)
OP-ED: The Waco Road to Baghdad (By FRANK RICH, Aug. 17, 2002)
Amber Alert's Dangers (By JAMES ALAN FOX, Aug. 17, 2002)
Rethinking the Lessons of Journalism School (By MICHAEL JANEWAY, Aug. 17, 2002)
Going Nowhere, Bodaciously (By ANDY BOROWITZ, Aug. 17, 2002)
LETTERS: On Iraq, Bush's Forces Are Split (By BARBARA ASH, Aug. 17, 2002)
LETTERS: A New Downtown: More Ideas Wanted (By JOHN H. BEYER & JOHN BELLE, Aug. 17, 2002)
LETTERS: Speaking of Gore... (By MAVIS KELLEY, Aug. 17, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Mixed, but Dow and S.&P. Maintain 4-Week Run
[Dow -40, Nasdaq +16] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 17, 2002)
U.S. Bans a Scheme to Avoid Estate Tax (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Aug. 17, 2002)
Data Indicate U.S. Recovery Is Still Fragile (By REUTERS, Aug. 17, 2002)
Holder Sues Disney Over Another Suit (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 17, 2002)
Coke Classic Is Set to Get a New Look (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 17, 2002)
Record Labels Want 4 Internet Providers to Block Music Site (By AMY HARMON, Aug. 17, 2002)
Reward Miles Are Piling Up; Fliers May Face Future Squeeze (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 17, 2002)
Another Drop in Stock Sharpens Concern for Vivendi's Future (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Aug. 17, 2002)
* ARTS: Holy Cow a Myth? An Indian Finds the Kick Is Real (By EMILY EAKIN, Aug. 17, 2002)
* ARTS: Backward Runs French. Reels the Mind. (By ALEXANDER STILLE, Aug. 17, 2002)
* CONNECTIONS: The Man Who Wrote the Book on Spies (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 17, 2002)
DANCE: MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: Mirth, Melancholy and Moderation, All Set in Motion
(By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 17, 2002)
FILM: 'THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH': A Club, the Mob, a Hit and a Miss, All on the Moon (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 17, 2002)
MUSIC: LOCRIAN CHAMBER PLAYERS: No Reason They Can't Be Medieval, Too (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 17, 2002)
POP: THE STROKES: Coming Home on Crutches and Filling Radio City (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 17, 2002)
ROCK: BECK: Two Faces of a Star (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 17, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE WAY OUT': Exploring the Long Ordeal of Hurricane Carter in Jail
(By ANITA GATES, Aug. 17, 2002)

Friday, August 16, 2002:
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)

* Larry Rivers, Artist With an Edge, Dies at 78 (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Aug. 16, 2002)
Kyle Rote, 73, a Top Receiver for the Giants, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 16, 2002)
Nancy Chaffee Whitaker, Tennis Player, 73, Is Dead (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 16, 2002)
Diane Lipton, Champion of the Disabled, Dies at 57 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 16, 2002)
Eleanor McCollum, 93, Texas Fund-Raiser, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2002)
D.J. Sutherland, Chief of Buyout Firm, 71, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2002)
NATIONAL: Families of Terror Victims File $100 Trillion Lawsuit (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 16, 2002)
Experts Expect Rapid Rise in West Nile Virus Cases (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 16, 2002)
Missing-Child System Faces Risk of Overuse (By PAM BELLUCK, Aug. 16, 2002)
Mississippi Floods Drain Life From River Towns (By PETER T. KILBORN, Aug. 16, 2002)
* WORLD: Thousands Evacuated in Dresden as Elbe Rises to New Highs (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 16, 2002)
* Dresden, Battered by Elbe, Fights to Preserve Its Heritage (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 16, 2002)
* Prague Floodwaters Drain Into Elbe (By PETER S. GREEN, Aug. 16, 2002)
Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy (By TODD S. PURDUM and PATRICK E. TYLER, Aug. 16, 2002)
Rumsfeld Says Lag in Aid Has Stymied Afghans (By ERIC SCHMITT, Aug. 16, 2002)
LONDON JOURNAL: A Fence for the Orthodox Faces a Wall of Hostility (By ALAN COWELL, Aug. 16, 2002)
Struggling Poles Have Little to Cheer Besides Pope (By MARK LANDLER, Aug. 16, 2002)
A Celebration to Remember Liberation Unites Koreans for a Day (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 16, 2002)
NY REGION: Cardinal Egan Defends Record in Abuse Cases (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Aug. 16, 2002)
Maybe It's Time to Call on the Rain Gods (By IVER PETERSON, Aug. 16, 2002)
Officials to Hold Competition for Design of 9/11 Memorial (By EDWARD WYATT, Aug. 16, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Mystery Writer [Prince Andrew at Hyde Park 9/24] (By JAMES BARRON, Aug. 16, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: How to Say Lemur and Quidditch in 11 Languages (By JANE GROSS, Aug. 16, 2002)
SPORTS: After Long Nights, a Look to the Future (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Aug. 16, 2002)
GOLF: Funk and Furyk Shine at P.G.A. (By CLIFTON BROWN, Aug. 16, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Warning Shots on Iraq (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Long Live the King [Elvis 25th Death Anniversary] (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Bush vs. Women (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Aug. 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Mind the Gap (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Measuring Downtown's Future (By DENISE SCOTT BROWN, Aug. 16, 2002)
LETTERS: Internet Bumbling in the Ivy League (By DAVID H. FINNIE, et. al., Aug. 16, 2002)
LETTERS: The Culture of Business (By SUMITRA SHAH, Aug. 16, 2002)
LETTERS: How to Mark Sept. 11 (By MARK STUART ELLISON, Aug. 16, 2002)
BUSINESS: Late Surge Extends Rally Despite Some Negative News
[Dow +75, Nasdaq +11] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 16, 2002)
After Criticism, a Top Analyst Quits Salomon [Jack Grubman] (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 16, 2002)
Dell Profits Are Up 11% for Quarter (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 16, 2002)
Target Earnings Rise 27% (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 16, 2002)
Reports on Manufacturing Suggest Sluggish Growth (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 16, 2002)
Fed Officials Were Confident Economy Was Improving in June (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 16, 2002)
Economic Havoc From European Floods (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Aug. 16, 2002)
Computer Sciences Corp. Seeks Leaves With Pay (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 16, 2002)
* FLOYD NORRIS: After the Bubble: Are Low Rates Enough? (By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 16, 2002)
Chief Expands His Holding in Disney [Eisner buys 725,700 shares for $10 million]
(NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2002)
For W.T.O.'s Next Chief, a Long List of Headaches (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Aug. 16, 2002)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 16, 2002)
ART: JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO: A Fire Born of the Mexican Revolution
(By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 16, 2002)
ART: 'THE CITY OF K': The Metamorphosis of Kafka and His Context (By MICHAEL FRANK, Aug. 16, 2002)
* ARTS: Watching You Watch Them: A Visit to the Bronx Zoo (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 16, 2002)
ART: 'GREAT MASTERS OF MEXICAN FOLK ART': With the Folk Being Globalized, What Is Folk Art?
(By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 16, 2002)
ART: 'MANUAL' AND MICHAL ROVER: Technology as a Muse, a Hazard and an Ally (By ROBERTA SMITH, Aug. 16, 2002)
* ANTIQUES: Seeing Beauty in Rocks (By WENDY MOONAN, Aug. 16, 2002)
BOOKS: 'ASH WEDNESDAY': So He's Famous. Give Him a Break, if Not a Free Ride.
(By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 16, 2002)
DANCE: LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO: An Evening With a Scent From the Past
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 16, 2002)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: An Actress in Transit [Jennifer Ehle in "Possession"] (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 16, 2002)
* FILM: 'POSSESSION': Poetical Flesh and Blood Proves a Strong Tonic (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 16, 2002)
FILM: 'BLUE CRUSH': Riding the Perfect Wave Into a Hawaii Sunset (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 16, 2002)
FILM: 'THE LAST KISS': Love, Italian Style, but, Oh, Such Complications
(By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 16, 2002)
FILM: 'ALL MY LOVED ONES': Recalling a Colorful Europe as It Turned Steel Gray (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 16, 2002)
FILM: 'MOSTLY MARTHA': A Single-Minded Cook Who Wakes Up to Life (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 16, 2002)
* MUSIC CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: 25 Years Later, Elvis Rolls On (By JON PARELES, Aug. 16, 2002)
OPERA: ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL: The Leisure Class in Rarely Heard Rossini (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 16, 2002)
ROCK: TOMAHAWK: It's All About Artifice (and Croons and Growls) (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 16, 2002)
THEATER: 'HAIRSPRAY': Through Hot Pink Glasses, a World That's Nice (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 16, 2002)
TV: 'CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE': 3 Women Do Their Own Heavy Lifting (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 16, 2002)
SCIENCE: Comet-Exploring Spacecraft Has Disappeared, NASA Says (By WARREN E. LEARY, Aug. 16, 2002)
HEALTH: Surgeons Offer Reassurances on Implant Tissues (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Aug. 16, 2002)

Thursday, August 15, 2002:
On This Day: August 15 (Napoleon 8/15/1769-5/5/1821, Sir Walter Scott 8/15/1771-9/21/1832, Ethyl Barrymore 8/15/1879-6/18/1959, Edna Ferber 8/15/1887-4/46/1968, T. E. Lawrence 8/15/1888-5/19/1935, Louis-Victor Broglie 8/15/1892-3/19/1987, Bil Baird 8/15/1904-3/18/1987, Jack Lynch 8/15/1917-10/20/1999, Robert Bolt 8/15/1924-2/20/1995, John Cranko 8/15/1927-6/26/1973, Julia Child 1912, Rose-Marie 1923, Phyllis Schlafly 1924, Mike Connors 1925, Oscar Peterson 1925, Janice Rule 1931, Lori Nelson 1933, Vernon Jordan 1935, Stephen Breyer 1938, Linda Ellerbee 1944, Princess Anne 1950, Tess Harper 1950, Larry Mathews 1955, Ben Affleck 1972, Natasha Henstridge 1974)
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)

Mordecai Waxman, Rabbi Who Chided Pope, Dies at 85 (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 15, 2002)
Patrick Chavis, 50, Affirmative Action Figure, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 15, 2002)
Neal Travis, 62, Columnist, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2002)
James Thomson Jr., Asian Policy Analyst for U.S., 70, Dies (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 15, 2002)
Marjorie G. Wyler, Producer, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2002)
NATIONAL: Deadly Tactic By Smugglers: Wrong-Lane Driving (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Aug. 15, 2002)
Evangelist Says Muslims Haven't Adequately Apologized for Sept. 11 Attacks (By MICHAEL WILSON, Aug. 15, 2002)
Industry Group Warns of Air Bag Fraud With Some Used Cars (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2002)
WASHINGTON TALK: Looking at the Books, the Government Way (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 15, 2002)
Bush Takes His Optimism on Economy to Iowa State Fair (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 15, 2002)
WORLD: As Floods Ebb in Prague, Threat Rolls Into Germany (By PETER S. GREEN with OTTO POHL, Aug. 15, 2002)
WORLD: Pope, Again, Heads Home and, Again, Rumors Fly (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 15, 2002)
Georgia Hearing Footsteps From Russia's War in Chechnya (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 15, 2002)
Bitter Circus Erupts as Israel Indicts a Top Fatah Figure (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Aug. 15, 2002)
Anti-Baghdad Talks Shunned by Top Kurd (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Aug. 15, 2002)
Algerian Pilot Threatens to Sue in 9/11 Case (By REUTERS, Aug. 15, 2002)
HONG KONG JOURNAL: Love and Money Bring Woe to a Rising Politician (By KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 15, 2002)
Sept. 11 Families to Sue Saudi-Linked 'Interests' (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 15, 2002)
Iran Will Force Many Afghan Refugees to Leave by Month's End (By NAZILA FATHI, Aug. 15, 2002)
NY REGION: Further Designs Are Sought in Rebuilding of Downtown (By EDWARD WYATT, Aug. 15, 2002)
A Midtown Skyscraper Quietly Adds Armor (By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON, Aug. 15, 2002)
Bum a Smoke? At This Price? (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 15, 2002)
Political Ad and 9/11 Speech May Be an Unwelcome Mix (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, Aug. 15, 2002)
SPORTS: Let's Rethink Tournaments for Children (By GEORGE VECSEY, Aug. 15, 2002)
SPORTS: In and Around Harlem, Satisfaction Turns to Anger (By LYDIA POLGREEN & DAVID W. CHEN, Aug. 15, 2002)
SPORTS: Little League in Spotlight Over Home Addresses (By BILL PENNINGTON, Aug. 15, 2002)
SPORTS: More History Awaits Woods (By DAVE ANDERSON, Aug. 15, 2002)
EDITORIAL: When Princeton Snoops on Yale (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2002)
OP-ED: An Imaginary Homicide (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 15, 2002)
OP-ED: Putting Garbage to Good Use (By STEVEN COHEN, Aug. 15, 2002)
OP-ED: The Democrats and the War (By TED WIDMER, Aug. 15, 2002)
LETTERS: The Rising Cost of Health Care (By PHILIP POLLNER, M.D, Aug. 15, 2002)
LETTERS: The Economy, Rah, Rah! (Right?) (By CY SHAIN, Aug. 15, 2002)
* LETTERS: Words for Sept. 11 (By ANICE JOSEPHSON, Aug. 15, 2002)
* LETTERS: Babies Who Sign (By ELIZABETH LURIE, Aug. 15, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Rally, but Wall St. Shows No Sign of Direction
[Dow +261, Nasdaq +65] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 15, 2002)
United Hints at Chapter 11 Without Labor Cutbacks (By EDWARD WONG, Aug. 15, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Accounting Board Proposes a New Rule on a Hot Topic: Options.
(By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 15, 2002)
ImClone Sues Former Chief to Recover $7 Million (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Aug. 15, 2002)
Report Acknowledges Problem in AOL's Accounting (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 15, 2002)
Paying the Prics Overseas for Replicating U.S. Online Service [AOL] (By SAUL HANSELL, Aug. 15, 2002)
Most Companies Meet Deadline for Certifying Results (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Aug. 15, 2002)
ECONOMIC SCENE: The Rich Get Rich and Poor Get Poorer. Or Do They? (By VIRGINIA POSTREL, Aug. 15, 2002)
Inventories in June Show a Modest Rise, but Caution Persists (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 15, 2002)
* ADVERTISING: Chanel Aims Pitch at Its Toughest Market: Young Women (By COURTNEY KANE, Aug. 15, 2002)
* These Magazines Have Got Your Numbers (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Aug. 15, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Following Custer's Photographer Into the Black Hills (By LOUIS JACOBSON, Aug. 15, 2002)
BOOKS: 'RED RABBIT': Clancy's Three-Star Spy Still Fighting the Cold War (By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 15, 2002)
BOOKS: Party for Zora Neale Hurston, Obscure No More (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Aug. 15, 2002)
FILM: 'THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS': Well, the Hills Are Alive but the Tourists Aren't
(By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 15, 2002)
MUSIC: For Barbara Cook, It's Not Just Singing, but Soul-Baring, Too (By TODD S. PURDUM, Aug. 15, 2002)
THEATER: 'PERFECT': Musing on How to Define What Seems Undefinable (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 15, 2002)
THEATER: 'DEATH OF FRANK': An Incestuous Attraction and a Mysterious Corpse (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Aug. 15, 2002)
* THEATER CRITIC: It's Gloves-Off Time for an Angry Arthur Miller (By BRUCE WEBER, Aug. 15, 2002)
* GARDEN: AT HOME WITH JOHN WATERS: Bad Taste Is Its Own Reward (By JOHN LELAND, Aug. 15, 2002)
* John Waters: A Few of His Favorite Things (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 15, 2002)
As Gadgets Go to Class, Schools Try to Cope (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Aug. 15, 2002)
* Sharing Space? Share E-Mail First [college dorm roommates] (By JOYCE COHEN, Aug. 15, 2002)
STATE OF THE ART: Packing a Digital Bag on a Student Budget (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 15, 2002)
ONLINE SHOPPER: The Seductive Call of School Supplies (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 15, 2002)
WHAT'S NEXT: A Campus for Collaboration, at a Billion Bits Per Second (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Aug. 15, 2002)
* BASICS: A Reference Library on Disk or Online [OED CD-ROM $295] (By LARRY MAGID, Aug. 15, 2002)
* SITE-SEEING: Online Reference Tools (By LARRY MAGID, Aug. 15, 2002)
STUDY AIDS: Device Helps Make Arithmetic Appealing to the Game-Inclined (By SUSAN STELLIN, Aug. 15, 2002)
If School Is Home: Web Help for Age 5 (By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS, Aug. 15, 2002)
* Ghosts of Classrooms Past: A Web Teaching Tool Languishes (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Aug. 15, 2002)
* WHAT STUDENTS SAY: Study Finds That Teachers Fail to Grasp the Web's Potential (By KATIE HAFNER, Aug. 15, 2002)
Playing Hooky? Can't Fool a Database (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Aug. 15, 2002)
MP3 Player Does Double Duty as a Spare 20-Gigabyte Drive (By MARK GLASSMAN, Aug. 15, 2002)
Q & A: In Windows 2000 and XP, a Successor to ScanDisk (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Aug. 15, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Language Gene Is Traced to Emergence of Humans (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 15, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Genome Pioneer Will Start Center of His Own [J. Craig Venter] (By ANDREW POLLACK, Aug. 15, 2002)
* HEALTH: Doubts Prompt Reviews of Hormone Therapy (By GINA KOLATA, Aug. 15, 2002)
HEALTH: Recall Is Ordered at Large Supplier of Implant Tissue (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Aug. 15, 2002)

Wednesday, August 14, 2002:
On This Day: August 14 (Paolo Sarpi 8/14/1552-1/14/1623, Cosimo III 8/14/1642-10/31/1723, Letitia Landon 8/14/1802-10/10/15/1838, Ernest Thompson Seton 8/14/1860-10/23/1946, Ernest Thayer 8/14/1863-8/12/1940, John Galsworthy 8/14/1867-1/31/1933, Daniel Jackling 8/14/1869-3/13/1956, Ediardp 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)

Russell Aitken, Artist and Big-Game Hunter, Dies at 92 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 14, 2002)
* Kristen Nygaard, Who Built Framework for Computer Languages, Dies at 75 (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 14, 2002)
* Galen Rowell, 61, Mountaineer and Nature Photographer, Is Dead (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 14, 2002)
* Eugene Odum, 88, Who Founded Modern Ecology, Dies (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 14, 2002)
Ed Headrick, Designer of the Modern Frisbee, Dies at 78 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 14, 2002)
Gary Klott, Syndicated Tax Columnist, 52, Is Dead (By, Aug. 14, 2002)
NATIONAL: Cardinal Told How His Policy Shielded Priests (By PAM BELLUCK, Aug. 14, 2002)
Girl, 4, Believed Kidnapped, Is Found Safe in Los Angeles (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Aug. 14, 2002)
* The College Lecture, Long Derided, May Be Fading [Hamilton Holt] (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Aug. 14, 2002)
* For Chicago's 'Town Crier,' the Stories Linger (By JODI WILGOREN, Aug. 14, 2002)
SPENDING CUTBACKS: Citing Economy, Bush Won't Spend $5.1 Billion Approved for Security and Other Uses
(By CARL HULSE, Aug. 14, 2002)
WORLD: Iranian President Says U.S. Leaders 'Misused' Sept. 11 (By JOHN F. BURNS, Aug. 14, 2002)
Tens of Thousands Flee Prague as Floods Invade Historic Center (By PETER S. GREEN, Aug. 14, 2002)
In Diplomacy With North Korea, Some Progress, and a Setback (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 14, 2002)
U.N. Report Paints Gloomy Picture of Planet (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 14, 2002)
Rumsfeld Denounces Iraq for Rejecting Further Arms Inspections (By THOM SHANKER, Aug. 14, 2002)
Canadians Duel Over the Fate of a Fragile Beauty [Lake Louise] (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Aug. 14, 2002)
SANTA ANA DE GUADELUPE JOURNAL: A Saint Who Guides Migrants to a Promised Land
(By GINGER THOMPSON, Aug. 14, 2002)
Russia Declines to Renew Visas for 30 U.S. Peace Corps Workers (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Aug. 14, 2002)
NY REGION: Democrats Also Plan to Read Gettysburg Address for 9/11 (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, Aug. 14, 2002)
Talking the Talk, Even With Strangers (By TINA KELLEY, Aug. 14, 2002)
Rockette Regulars Lose Job Guarantees (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 14, 2002)
Princeton Disciplining Staff for Yale Web Site Break-Ins (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Aug. 14, 2002)
Anthrax Finding Prompts Questions in Princeton About Scientist (By IVER PETERSON, Aug. 14, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: In the Family Business, and That Business Is Blues (By CHRIS HEDGES, Aug. 14, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Mixed Economic Messages (NY TIMES, Aug. 14, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Anthrax Investigation (NY TIMES, Aug. 14, 2002)
OP-ED: Surfing the Economy (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 14, 2002)
OP-ED: Where Freedom Reigns (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 14, 2002)
OP-ED: A Second Chance for Brazil and the I.M.F. (By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, Aug. 14, 2002)
LETTERS: Students as Guinea Pigs (By ELIZABETH CARSON, Aug. 14, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Are Off Significantly in Absence of Move by the Fed
[Dow -207, Nasdaq -38] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 14, 2002)
No Cut in Rates as Fed Lowers Its Assessment of the Economy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 14, 2002)
* MARKET PLACE: Eisner Critics May Demand a Revived Disney by November (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Aug. 14, 2002)
American Airlines to Cut Jobs, Planes and Flights (By EDWARD WONG, Aug. 14, 2002)
Economic Outlook Is Positive, Bush Tells Texas Forum (By ELISABETH BUMILLER with EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 14, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Options Limited, Bush Turns to Imagery (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Aug. 14, 2002)
THE ECONOMISTS: Far From Waco, Uninvited Scholars Ponder the Way to Recovery
(By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 14, 2002)
Companies Certify Data Today; Some Seem Quite Confused (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Aug. 14, 2002)
Brazil's Markets Fall on Economic Fear (By TONY SMITH, Aug. 14, 2002)
I.B.M. Reveals It Has Cut 5% of Work Force (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 14, 2002)
New Intel Chip Promises to Do More With Less (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 14, 2002)
Retail Sales Increase for a Second Month (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 14, 2002)
Wal-Mart Earnings Rise (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 14, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Young Musicians Granted a Respite From War's Curses (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Aug. 14, 2002)
* ARTS: Printmaker Turns Moths Into Objects of Beauty (By DINITIA SMITH, Aug. 14, 2002)
BALLET: LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO: Guys in Tutus, Frocks and Toeshoes, as Klutzy as They Want to Be
(By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 14, 2002)
BOOK: 'REPUBLIC OF DREAMS': Before It Was Hip to Be Hip, There Was Greenwich Village
(By DINITIA SMITH, Aug. 14, 2002)
FILM: 'I'M GOING HOME': An Actor Confronts the Ultimate Curtain Call (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Aug. 14, 2002)
POP: COLDPLAY: Vertigo From the Falsetto and 'Parachutes' (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 14, 2002)
THEATER: 'RESA FANTASTISKT MYSTISK': Strindberg Stole His Thunder, Don't You Know?
(By ANITA GATES, Aug. 14, 2002)
THEATER: 'ALMOST OBSCENE': O.K., You've Rejected Just About Everything. Now What? (By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Aug. 14, 2002)
* THEATER: 'BEAT': The Beats, at Work, at Play and in Court [Allen Ginsberg] (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Aug. 14, 2002)
FOOD: Sushi Cooks Are Rolling Their Own [3 recipes] (By MATT LEE and TED LEE, Aug. 14, 2002)
In Oaxaca, a Cook Creates a Stir [2 recipes] (By KENT BLACK, Aug. 14, 2002)
DINING: The Secret Behind a Burger Cult (By TOM McNICHOL, Aug. 14, 2002)
THE CHEF: Every Blessed Crumb [warm bread salad recipe] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 14, 2002)
THE MINIMALIST: Ceviche Without Fear [recipe] (By MARK BITTMAN, Aug. 14, 2002)
* EATING WELL The Diet Pendulum Swings Again (By MARIAN BURROS, Aug. 14, 2002)

Tuesday, August 13, 2002:
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)

* Enos Slaughter, Whose Sprint Won '46 Series, Dies at 86 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 13, 2002)
Alpha Robertson, 83, Bomb Victim's Mother, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 13, 2002)
NATIONAL: U.S. Received Tip on Qaeda Threats Against Landmarks (By JUDITH MILLER, Aug. 13, 2002)
Prosecutors in Sept. 11 Trial Ask Judge to Reject Delay Bid (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 13, 2002)
Technology on Docks: Fears Despite Promises (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Aug. 13, 2002)
POLITICAL MEMO: Dos and Don'ts of Sept. 11: Parties Walk Delicate Line
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 13, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Confluence of Events (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 13, 2002)
Bush's Forum on Economy: More Than the Usual Crowd (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 13, 2002)
Child-Smuggling Ring Broken Up by the U.S. Immigration Agency (By ERIC SCHMITT, Aug. 13, 2002)
Plane Crash Kills Two Nature Photographers [Galen & Barbara Rowell] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 13, 2002)
* WORLD: Dozens Are Dead as Floods Sweep Through Europe (By PETER S. GREEN, Aug. 13, 2002)
C.I.A. Chief Skeptical About a New Palestinian Security Force (By TODD S. PURDUM, Aug. 13, 2002)
Handful of Corporate Raiders Transform Russia's Economy (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Aug. 13, 2002)
Factions Meet, but Fail to Achieve Arafat's Goal (By JOHN KIFNER, Aug. 13, 2002)
Sweet but Deadly Addiction Is Seizing the Young in India (By AMY WALDMAN, Aug. 13, 2002)
NY REGION: Palms Return to an Island (Manhattan) (By GLENN COLLINS, Aug. 13, 2002)
TUNNEL VISION: The Light at the End of the Subway Stairs (By RANDY KENNEDY, Aug. 13, 2002)
NYC: Talking Strike to Everyone but the Public (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Aug. 13, 2002)
SPORTS: Baseball Union Puts Off Strike Date (By MURRAY CHASS, Aug. 13, 2002)
SPORTS: Sampras Searching for Perfect Sunset (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 13, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Cheney Factor (NY TIMES, Aug. 13, 2002)
EDITORIAL: US Airways' Flight to Bankruptcy (NY TIMES, Aug. 13, 2002)
* OP-ED: Clueless in Crawford (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 13, 2002)
* OP-ED: The Anthrax Files (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Aug. 13, 2002)
OP-ED: At the Apollo, Harlem's New Look (By LEONARD GARMENT, Aug. 13, 2002)
OP-ED: What a Good Marriage Can't Do (By FRANK FURSTENBERG, Aug. 13, 2002)
OP-ED: The Only Game in Town (By CAMERON MORFIT, Aug. 13, 2002)
LETTERS: War With Iraq: Who Has Say? (By JOHN VAN DOREN, Aug. 13, 2002)
LETTERS: Pools of Reflection [9/11 memorial] (By KATHY FORER, Aug. 13, 2002)
LETTERS: Ideas, Every Time [Al Gore] (By BRUCE K. ADLER, Aug. 13, 2002)
BUSINESS: Last Week's Rally Stalls as Investors Take Profits or Wait
[Dow -57, Nasdaq +1] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 13, 2002)
Bankruptcy Move Jolts Confidence in Large Airlines (By EDWARD WONG, Aug. 13, 2002)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Uncertainty Among US Airways Customers (By DONNA ROSATO, Aug. 13, 2002)
Others Failed, but This Bankruptcy Is Given a Chance (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Aug. 13, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: US Airways to Be Test of Bankruptcy Role (By STEPHEN LABATON, Aug. 13, 2002)
Preparing a Corps of Women for Corporate Responsibility (By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Aug. 13, 2002)
Seeing Long Trading Slump, Schwab Sets More Cutbacks (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Aug. 13, 2002)
ON THE GROUND: Hot Economy and Mild Temperatures (By MELINDA LIGOS, Aug. 13, 2002)
MEMO PAD: A Bright Side to US Airways Tale (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 13, 2002)
Younger Generation Will Seek Ways to Buy Newspaper Chain (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Aug. 13, 2002)
Dockside, the War on Terrorism May Hone Rivalry (By WAYNE ARNOLD, Aug. 13, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Hard Covers, Hard Work: Building Careers by the Book (NY TIMES, Aug. 13, 2002)
ARTS: A Comic Book Gets Serious on Gay Issues (By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES, Aug. 13, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE WRITER AND THE WORLD': An Opinionated Traveler Drawn to the Developing World
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 13, 2002)
DANCE: AILEY SCHOOL: Ailey's Young International Graduates Show How to Sizzle (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 13, 2002)
JAZZ: LUCIANA SOUZA: Not Easy to Classify, But a Lot Is Going On (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 13, 2002)
MUSIC FESTIVAL: 'ACIS AND GALATEA'Historic Authenticity? Don't Ask Mozart
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 13, 2002)
POP: CORNELIUS: Playfully Corporate, With Visuals and Skinny Ties (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 13, 2002)
POP: RED HOT ROCKABILLY PARTY: Rockabilly? It's Alive And Kicking, Daddy-O
(By JON PARELES, Aug. 13, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE MISTRESS OF THE INN': Lofty Suitors, and a Determined Bellhop
(By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Aug. 13, 2002)
THEATER: 'HIM & HER': Two Sides of Marriage and Parenthood (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 13, 2002)
TV: 'BEWARE OF DOG': A Dog's Life, Still Faithful to Customs of Sitcoms (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 13, 2002)
FASHION: Clothes That Whisper, I Belong to the Club (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Aug. 13, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Voyagers Reap a Bounty of Discovery and Beauty (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Aug. 13, 2002)
* New Orchid Species Leaves Admirers Amazed (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Aug. 13, 2002)
Raccoons Taking the Bait in a Push to End Rabies (By SAM SMITH, Aug. 13, 2002)
Sept. 11 Strikes at Labs' Doors (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Aug. 13, 2002)
Most Deadly of the Natural Disasters: The Heat Wave (By TARA BAHRAMPOUR, Aug. 13, 2002)
OBSERVATORY: Frogman on Family Patrol (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Aug. 13, 2002)
Letters: In Praise of a Colleague (By DR. SANDRA SHUMWAY, et. al., Aug. 13, 2002)
Q & A: Around the World (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Aug. 13, 2002)
* HEALTH: Seasonal Depression Can Accompany Summer Sun (By SARA IVRY, Aug. 13, 2002)
* From Eakins's Canvas, 1800's Version of Medical Docudrama (By HOWARD MARKEL, Aug. 13, 2002)
* THE DOCTOR'S WORLD: West Nile and Its Lessons for Doctors (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Aug. 13, 2002)
New Tactic to Prevent AIDS Spread (By DAVID TULLER, Aug. 13, 2002)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: New Promise for Treating a Crippler (By JOHN LANGONE, Aug. 13, 2002)
At Risk: More Bananas, Fewer Strokes? (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 13, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: Of Babies, Salt and Hypertension (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 13, 2002)
Disparities: Colon Cancer: Care, Not Biology (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 13, 2002)
Treatments: Not Keeping Them in Stitches (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Aug. 13, 2002)

Monday, August 12, 2002:
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)

Duke Dejan, a Jazz Player True to New Orleans, Dies at 93 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 12, 2002)
Lyle Borst, 89, Nuclear Physicist Who Worked on A-Bomb Project, Dies (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 12, 2002)
Justin Meyer, 63, Winemaker Renowned for His Cabernet, Dies (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Aug. 12, 2002)
* NATIONAL: Scientist Denies Being Involved in Anthrax Plot (By ERIC SCHMITT, Aug. 12, 2002)
Fearing Theft, U.S. Plans to Relocate Nuclear Fuel (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Aug. 12, 2002)
* Livestock Tests Chasing Cheats From State Fairs (By BLAINE HARDEN, Aug. 12, 2002)
* WHITE HOUSE LETTER: The Ranch Getaways; Different Yet Similar (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 12, 2002)
WORLD: Rumsfeld Weighs New Covert Acts by Military Units (By THOM SHANKER & JAMES RISEN, Aug. 12, 2002)
Arafat Calls U.S. Meetings 'Very Positive'; Sharon Sees 'Trick' (By JOHN KIFNER, Aug. 12, 2002)
Fearing More Attacks on Christians, Pakistan Seeks Militants (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 12, 2002)
Bush Team Is Divided Over Getting Tougher With Saudis (By TODD S. PURDUM, Aug. 12, 2002)
SHANGHAI JOURNAL: A Chinese Crematory's Work Is a Matter of Life (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Aug. 12, 2002)
* A Lonely Battle in Mongolia to Save Buddhist Relics (By MICHAEL KOHN, Aug. 12, 2002)
NY REGION: In the Big City, Smaller Banks Find a Sizable Niche (By JAYSON BLAIR, Aug. 12, 2002)
Batten Down the Hatches! Commuters Ahoy! [Ferry service] (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Aug. 12, 2002)
* Goo Goo in Sign Language? (By TINA KELLEY, Aug. 12, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 12, 2002)
ON BASEBALL: Soriano One Swing Away From History [1st 2nd baseman: 30-30 HR-SB]
(By JACK CURRY, Aug. 12, 2002)
GOLF: Muirfield Behind Him, Woods Is Man to Beat (By CLIFTON BROWN, Aug. 12, 2002)
GOLF: Woods Has Victory Heading Into P.G.A. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 12, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Beyond the Waco Echo Chamber [economic conference] (NY TIMES, Aug. 12, 2002)
POSTCARD FROM THE CAMPAIGNS: A Kinder, Gentler Kennedy Runs for Governor (By STEPHEN R. WEISMAN, Aug. 12, 2002)
OP-ED: Justice Goes Into Hiding (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 12, 2002)
* OP-ED: A Tale of Two Chinas (By BEI LING, Aug. 12, 2002)
OP-ED: Market Volatility and Budget Uncertainty (By RONNIE LOWENSTEIN, Aug. 12, 2002)
OP-ED: A Difficult but Hopeful Journey (By AZZAM AL-ARAJ, Aug. 12, 2002)
LETTERS: Gore in '04? Voters Should Decide (By LARRY DUDLEY, et. al., Aug. 12, 2002)
LETTERS: Steps to Reduce Nursing Shortage (By ROBERT ROSS, et. al., Aug. 12, 2002)
LETTERS: The Cancer Mystery (By LINDA JASPER, Aug. 12, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Slow Recovery May Still Feel Like a Slump (By DAVID LEONHARDT with SHERRI DAY, Aug. 12, 2002)
* AOL's Inventive Barter Deals Draw Scrutiny of Investigators (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 12, 2002)
* MEDIA TALK: Race to Tell AOL Time Warner Story (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 12, 2002)
* Linux Is Gaining a Place at Sun, in Both Strategy and New Server (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 12, 2002)
Men's Journal to Broaden Audience (By DAVID CARR, Aug. 12, 2002)
A Bertelsmann Heir Jockeys to Be Heir Apparent (By MARK LANDLER, Aug. 12, 2002)
PATENTS: Keyboard for Those on the Move (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Aug. 12, 2002)
Financial Institutions May Facilitate Identity Theft (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 12, 2002)
US Airways Announces Bankruptcy (By EDWARD WONG, Aug. 12, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Barney Gets Makeover for New Crop of Toddlers (By PATRICIA WINTERS LAURO, Aug. 12, 2002)
Tax Breaks Pump Up College Savings Plans (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Aug. 12, 2002)
Committee Is Frustrated by Stewart (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 12, 2002)
As Tokyo Loses Luster, Foreign Media Move On (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 12, 2002)
Korea Fears Spillover From U.S. Economy (By DON KIRK, Aug. 12, 2002)
* NEW ECONOMY: Scholarly Reviews Through the Web (By SARAH MILSTEIN, Aug. 12, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Blockbuster Fallout at Netflix (By BOB TEDESCHI, Aug. 12, 2002)
Joint Venture Clones Cattle With Human Antibodies (By ANDREW POLLACK, Aug. 12, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Hacker Obtains Shuttle Design Files, Baffling NASA (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 12, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Owner to Make Changes at Natural History (By DAVID CARR, Aug. 12, 2002)
ARTS: 352 Artists and 135 Arts Groups Sharing $4.6 Million From Sept. 11 Fund
(By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 12, 2002)
ARTS: THIS WEEK: Artist's Journey [Piet Mondrian] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Aug. 12, 2002)
BOOKS: Stalkers, Peepers and a Creep With a Twist (By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 12, 2002)
DANCE: RAIFORD ROGERS: Choreography Leaves Puzzling Questions (By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 12, 2002)
DANCE: A-QUO DANZA CONTEMPORÁNEA: Swirling Motion, Avant-Garde Precision
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 12, 2002)
* MUSIC: In Death, a Shy Singer Finally Grabs the Spotlight [Eva Cassidy] (By ALEX WARD, Aug. 12, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Latin Alternative: Bouncing Around but Passionate About Rock
(By JON PARELES, Aug. 12, 2002)
OPERA: 'KING KANDAULES': Welcoming an Opera That Went Hiding From the Nazis
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 12, 2002)
ROCK: VANS WARPED TOUR: Foodstuffs, T-Shirts and, Oh, Yes, Music (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 12, 2002)
TV: 'TRUE WEST': True Brotherhood, the Bruce Willis Way (By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 12, 2002)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: A Famous Author Says: 'Swell Book! Loved It!' (By ELINOR LIPMAN, Aug. 12, 2002)
SCIENCE: Study Links Temperature Range to Air Traffic [contrails] (By AYANA E. MORALES, Aug. 12, 2002)

Sunday, August 11, 2002:
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)

Vu Ngoc Nha, 74, a Top Communist Spy in Vietnam, Dies (By DAVID STOUT, Aug. 11, 2002)
John G. Zimmerman, Action Sports Photographer, Dies at 74 (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
Anthony P. Savarese Jr., Former Assemblyman and Judge, Dies at 85 (By PAUL LEWIS, Aug. 11, 2002)
NATIONAL: Failing to Shed Air of Aloofness, Church Frustrates Its Faithful (By PAM BELLUCK, Aug. 11, 2002)
Chairman of Democrats Faults Bush as a Leader (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 11, 2002)
WORLD: Homes Lost and Found on Hill Where an Israeli Project Rises (By JAMES BENNET, Aug. 11, 2002)
Brazilians Find a Political Cost for I.M.F. Help (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 11, 2002)
Indonesian Preacher Is Behind Radical Network, Report Says (By JANE PERLEZ, Aug. 11, 2002)
Indonesia Changes System (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 11, 2002)
Kuwait Tries to Rein in Drug Addiction (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Aug. 11, 2002)
Kurds Must Endure Iraq's 'Nationality Correction' (By JOHN F. BURNS, Aug. 11, 2002)
Burning Issues, Scalding Times for Italy's Premier (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 11, 2002)
Turkmen Leader, Wishing to Be August, Settles for January (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 11, 2002)
Iraqi Opposition Gets U.S. Pledge to Oust Hussein for a Democracy (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Aug. 11, 2002)
NY REGION: Proposals Could Expand Memorial Site (By EDWARD WYATT, Aug. 11, 2002)
Schumer Wants Part of 9/11 Aid for Police and Firefighter Raises (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Aug. 11, 2002)
How to Find a Job? Try Hiring a Sleuth (NY TIMES, Aug. 11, 2002)
* Immigrants See Path to Riches in Phone Cards (By SUSAN SACHS, Aug. 11, 2002)
* The Silence of the Historic Present [words for 9/11] (By JANNY SCOTT, Aug. 11, 2002)
SPORTS: Steinbrenner Sticks Up for Big Markets (By TYLER KEPNER, Aug. 11, 2002)
SPORTS: After Big Hit by Bonds, Giants Fans Have a Blast (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 11, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Steps Before War (NY TIMES, Aug. 11, 2002)
EDITORIAL: When Rape Victims Speak Out (NY TIMES, Aug. 11, 2002)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: If the Big One Hits, New Orleans Could Disappear
(By ADAM COHEN, Aug. 11, 2002)
OP-ED: Cheney Stays in the Picture (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 11, 2002)
* OP-ED: India, Pakistan and G.E. (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* OP-ED: Music of the Moment (By MICHAEL AZERRAD, Aug. 11, 2002)
* OP-ED: Every Market Collapse Is Different (By NICHOLAS F. BRADY, Aug. 11, 2002)
OP-ED: A White House in Search of a Policy (By MARTIN INDYK, Aug. 11, 2002)
LETTERS: Gifts From the Dead to the Living (By ELAINE R. BERG, et. al., Aug. 11, 2002)
LETTERS: Reality TV That Works [jobless Argentines] (By JIM REYNOLDS, Aug. 11, 2002)
LETTERS: Greed, Large and Small [ATM users stole millions] (By PETER SCHILD, Aug. 11, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Stagnant Wages Pose Added Risks to Weak Economy (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 11, 2002)
Brazilians Find a Political Cost for I.M.F. Help (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 11, 2002)
* Pressuring Analysts: Hard Habit to Break (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 11, 2002)
White-Collar Criminal? Pack Lightly for Prison (By RUSS MITCHELL, Aug. 11, 2002)
* Japan May Be Worth a Second Look (By KEN BELSON, Aug. 11, 2002)
* PORTFOLIOS: Are Profits Surging or Flat? It Depends (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 11, 2002)
MARKET WATCH: With Dividends, High Payouts Can Mean High Risks (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 11, 2002)
This Oil's Domestic, but It's Deep and It's Risky (By NEELA BANERJEE, Aug. 11, 2002)
THE BOSS: A Castle and a Vineyard (By ALAIN DOMINIQUE PERRIN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* MY JOB: Mr. Fix It for Injured Yoga Enthusiasts
(By LESLIE KAMINOFF, Written with Coeli Carr, Aug. 11, 2002)
* Are Accounts Still Safe If Banks or Funds Fail? (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Aug. 11, 2002)
A New Way to Cut Payments on Your Old Car (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Aug. 11, 2002)
Pass the Collection Plate and Charge It [church donations] (By SARAH KERSHAW, Aug. 11, 2002)
Heartfelt Advice, Hefty Fees (By MELODY PETERSEN, Aug. 11, 2002)
Funds: What's Next for Fund Investors? (By REUTERS, Aug. 11, 2002)
Will Fed Deliver Interest Rate Cut? (By REUTERS, Aug. 11, 2002)
* EXECUTIVE LIFE: Corporations Turn to Older Executives [Marion O. Sandler]
(By WELD ROYAL, Aug. 11, 2002)
PRIVATE SECTOR: The Rich Man's Clarence Darrow (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* MARKET INSIGHT: In Utilities, Regulated Beats Unregulated (By KEN GILPIN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* INVESTING WITH Patrick Cunningham and Jeffrey Herrmann, Maximum Horizon Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Aug. 11, 2002)
Bond Funds for Wary and Bold Investors (By SHEILA MULLAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* ARTS: Lewis Carroll's Artistry and Our Obsessions (By TESSA DeCARLO, Aug. 11, 2002)
* DANCE: Teaching Hairy Guys in Tutus How to Take Flight [Pamela Pribisco]
(By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Aug. 11, 2002)
* DANCE: A Delayed Surrender to Merce Cunningham's Irresistible Art (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Aug. 11, 2002)
* FILM: A Rare Screen Test for Philip Roth (By BARBARA KANTROWITZ, Aug. 11, 2002)
* FILM: At 93, Manoel de Oliveira Makes Each Word Count (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 11, 2002)
FILM: It's a Joy Ride, and the Kids Are Driving (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 11, 2002)
FILM: Add a Dash of Comedy and a Pinch of Tragedy. Stir Well. (By LAURA WINTERS, Aug. 11, 2002)
* FILM: Elvis Recalled, From Big Love to Dying Breath (By FRANZ LIDZ, Aug. 11, 2002)
* MUSIC: Celebrating the Elvis Anniversary (By BEN SISARIO, Aug. 11, 2002)
* MUSIC: For the Young Elvis, a Brand New Accompaniment (BY MATT DELLINGER, Aug. 11, 2002)
* MUSIC: An Online Revolution That Isn't Happening (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 11, 2002)
MUSIC: The Hip-Hop Generation Grabs a Guitar (By TOURÉ, Aug. 11, 2002)
MUSIC: A Composer With More To Him Than Rhapsodies [George Enescu]
(By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Aug. 11, 2002)
MUSIC: Marrying a Moroccan Sound to the World's Music (By BEN SISARIO, Aug. 11, 2002)
MUSIC RECORDINGS: Romantic Ghosts in a Rueful Present (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Aug. 11, 2002)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: An Understanding of How to Picture Fame [Yousuf Karsh]
(By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 11, 2002)
THEATER: In Vietnam, Telling Stories About 'All of Us' (By RON JENKINS, Aug. 11, 2002)
THEATER: Finally, Footlights on the Fat Girls (By JOHN WATERS, Aug. 11, 2002)
THEATER: Thumbs Up or Down: In the Audition Arena (By STUART OSTROW, Aug. 11, 2002)
TV: Birth of a Genre: The Black Hero Who Talks Back (By HAL HINSON, Aug. 11, 2002)
TV: So You've Got Your HDTV. Now What's There to See? (By DAVID EVERITT, Aug. 11, 2002)
* STYLE: Dot-Commers on a Mom and Pop Track (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* STYLE: O Brother (and Sister), Where Art Thy Pins? (By KATHERINE ROSMAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
A Band Reinvents That Heartthrob Look (By ANNA SUSSMAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
VIEW: A Latina Eyes the Fad for Flounces (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Aug. 11, 2002)
GOOD COMPANY: Improvisation, Down on the (Organic) Farm (By RUTH LA FERLA, Aug. 11, 2002)
AN EVENING OUT: Ann Coulter (By KATE ZERNIKE, Aug. 11, 2002)
THE AGE OF DISSONANCE: Tabletopping Exuberance (By BOB MORRIS, Aug. 11, 2002)
POSSESSED: Coral Holds the Heart of One Who Wants Not (By DAVID COLMAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
VOWS: Heidi Snow and Arthur Cinader Jr. (By LAURA ZIGMAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
TRAVEL: Dresden, Still and Again (By MICHAEL RATCLIFFE, Aug. 11, 2002)
TRAVEL: Of Sun, Sand and Money [German island of Sylt] (By MICHAEL MEWSHAW, Aug. 11, 2002)
TRAVEL: Paddling to Superior Scenery [Kayaking on Lake Superior] (By KEITH SCHNEIDER, Aug. 11, 2002)
TRAVEL ESSAY: A Growth Spurt in Vietnam (By LUCINDA FRANKS, Aug. 11, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 11, 2002)
WAR GAMES: For Each Audience, Another Secret Plan to Attack Iraq (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Aug. 11, 2002)
PROOF: Looking for the Link (By GINA KOLATA, Aug. 11, 2002)
Setting Sun? Japan Anxiously Looks Ahead (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Aug. 11, 2002)
In the Secret-Detentions Club (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Aug. 11, 2002)
The Subway Is a Sanctuary. (By RANDY KENNEDY, Aug. 11, 2002)
* WORD FOR WORD: September Songs (By TOM ZELLER, Aug. 11, 2002)
* WIT'S END :): The One Percent Solution: Who's Laughing Now? (By TOM McNICHOL, Aug. 11, 2002)
It's Always Been Washington vs. the Field (By EDWARD P. LAZARUS, Aug. 11, 2002)
Roll Call Standouts, or Bumps on the Congressional Log (By JOHN D. THOMAS, Aug. 11, 2002)
Behind the Legal and Private Worlds of the Veil (By TERRY PRISTIN, Aug. 11, 2002)
The Fleeting Romance of the American Road (By DANNY HAKIM, Aug. 11, 2002)
Giving Argentina the Cinderella Treatment (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 11, 2002)
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES: The Anonymous Star [Amanda Latona] (By NYTIMES.COM, Aug. 11, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 11, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Virtual (By PATRICIA T. O'CONNER & STEWART KELLERMAN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Rustic Romance (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 11, 2002)
QUESTIONS FOR MARION C. BLAKEY: Ready for Takeoff (By AMY BARRETT, Aug. 11, 2002)
GALLERY: Equal-Opportunity Pastime [girl's softball] (Photographs by ERIC PAYSON, Aug. 11, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Adopt a Church (By RANDY COHEN, Aug. 11, 2002)
What They Were Thinking: [Dr. Joe Upton's casts of hands] (Interview by AMY BARRETT, Aug. 11, 2002)
* The Odds of That: Coincidence in an Age of Conspiracy (By LISA BELKIN, Aug. 11, 2002)
Brit Wit (By MARSHALL SELLA, Aug. 11, 2002)
* The Season That Wasn't [Mike Piazza & the Mets] (By WILLIAM BERLIND, Aug. 11, 2002)
Obstruction of Judges (By JEFFREY ROSEN, Aug. 11, 2002)
STYLE: Drawn From Memory (By PILAR VILADAS, Aug. 11, 2002)
STYLE: Home, Swede Home (By JANE WITHERS, Aug. 11, 2002)
FOOD: Lend Me an Ear [3 corn recipes] (By JASON EPSTEIN, Aug. 11, 2002)
LIVES: Choosing Her Battle (By COURTNEY ELDRIDGE, Aug. 11, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 11, 2002)
'Near a Thousand Tables': Eight Food Revolutions (By BETTY FUSSELL, Aug. 11, 2002)
* 'A Thread Across the Ocean': The (Telegraph) Cable Guy (By MICHAEL PARFIT, Aug. 11, 2002)
'Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf': Where's the Beef? (By SAM SIFTON, Aug. 11, 2002)
'The Gatekeeper': A Hymn to Intellectual Thought (By JENNY TURNER, Aug. 11, 2002)
* 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People': Eviscerating the Media Elite (By LORNE MANLY, Aug. 11, 2002)
'The Man Who Rode Ampersand': Modern Twilight [Ferdinand Mount] (By BROOKE ALLEN, Aug. 11, 2002)
'Fireweed': A Historian Recalls an Eventful Personal History (By INGA CLENDINNEN, Aug. 11, 2002)
* CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The Elemental Appeal of Light Verse (By NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, Aug. 11, 2002)
* THE CLOSE READER: At Work on a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (By DWIGHT GARNER, Aug. 11, 2002)
HEALTH: THE NEXT HURDLE: Decade After Health Care Crisis, Soaring Costs Bring New Strains
(By ROBIN TONER & SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Aug. 11, 2002)

Saturday, August 10, 2002:
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)

Charles Poletti, Who Aided War-Ravaged Italy, Dies at 99 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 10, 2002)
* Edsger Dijkstra, 72, Physicist Who Shaped Computer Era, Dies (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 10, 2002)
Tran Do, 78, Vietnam's Leading Dissident, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 10, 2002)
* Fumio Yoshimura, Sculptor of Everyday Objects, Dies at 76 (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2002)
Jean Sauvagnargues, 87, French Diplomat, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 10, 2002)
William R. Crawford, U.S. Envoy and Mideast Specialist, Dies at 74 (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2002)
Mike Payne, Baseball Player, Dies at 40 [encephalitis] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 9, 2002)
NATIONAL: Anthrax Inquiry Draws Protest From Scientist's Lawyers (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Aug. 10, 2002)
Fired Los Alamos Scientist Says He Can't Get a Job (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 10, 2002)
Airlines Told to Watch for Uniformed Intruders (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2002)
* Charlton Heston Reveals Disorder That May Be Alzheimer's Disease (By NICK MADIGAN, Aug. 10, 2002)
* RELIGION JOURNAL: Buddhist Festivals Attract Many, but Fail to Help Maintain Membership Rolls
(By MICHELE KAYAL, Aug. 10, 2002)
WORLD: Pakistan Killings Raise Fear of Rise in New Militancy (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 10, 2002)
Big Blast Kills 21 Afghans; Link to Terror Is Suspected (By IAN FISHER, Aug. 10, 2002)
Iraqi Opposition Groups Meet Bush Aides (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Aug. 10, 2002)
British Court Frees a Muslim Arrested After 9/11 (By ALAN COWELL, Aug. 10, 2002)
Women Block Chevron and Shell Offices in Nigeria (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 10, 2002)
* More Look for La Dolce Vita in the Trevi Fountain (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 10, 2002)
Inspired by Vampires, but in a Good Way (By REUTERS, Aug. 10, 2002)
SATURDAY PROFILE: A Different Kind of Brezhnev in the Making (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 10, 2002)
* South African Village, Fearing AIDS, Trusts God More Than Drugs (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Aug. 10, 2002)
* Depression Simmers in Japan's Culture of Stoicism (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Aug. 10, 2002)
NY REGION: Circus Truck Flips, but Elephants Just Walk Away (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2002)
U.S. Agrees to Give $4.5 Billion to Link Subway and Path Hub at Trade Center (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Aug. 10, 2002)
Reflective Mood Stills Breezy Summer Days (By JANE GROSS, Aug. 10, 2002)
* SPORTS: Barry Bonds Hits 600th Homer (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 10, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Investigating the Investigators (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2002)
Turbulent Times for Airlines (NY TIMES, Aug. 10, 2002)
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: The Globalization of the Family Cow (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Aug. 10, 2002)
OP-ED: We Love You, You're Perfect, Goodbye [Al Gore] (By BILL KELLER, Aug. 10, 2002)
OP-ED: Problems at the Pound (By CAROL VINZANT, Aug. 10, 2002)
OP-ED: Is Colombia Doomed to Repeat Its Past? (By MARÍA CRISTINA CABALLERO, Aug. 10, 2002)
OP-ED: Misplaced Fear of a Viral Epidemic (By JOHN M. BARRY, Aug. 10, 2002)
* LETTERS: Smoker No More, a Writer Repents (By DENISE BAIRD, et. al., Aug. 10, 2002)
* LETTERS: Don't Bug Me: When E-Mail Is Junk Mail (By DOUG GARR, et. al., Aug. 10, 2002)
LETTERS: Islam and Moderation (By KHALID SAEED, Aug. 10, 2002)
* LETTERS: The Love of Reading (By VALERIA BILBY KENDALL, Aug. 10, 2002)
LETTERS: Art, Inside and Out (By CLIVE WEARLEN, Aug. 10, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Close Out Very Vigorous Week in Quiet Fashion
[Dow +33, Nasdaq -10] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 10, 2002)
* Berkshire Hathaway Profit Increases 35% (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 10, 2002)
S.E.C. Voices Concern on Merrill-Enron Tie (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 10, 2002)
Productivity Rise Is Tied to Employers' Response to Layoffs (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 10, 2002)
Big Recall Behind It, Tire Maker Regains Its Footing [Bridgestone] (By KEN BELSON with MICHELINE MAYNARD, Aug. 10, 2002)
WorldCom Chief Tries to Reassure Customers (By BARNABY J. FEDER & RIVA D. ATLAS, Aug. 10, 2002)
Grubman Attended 10 Board Meetings (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Aug. 10, 2002)
Microsoft and Free Software at the Same Show? It's True [Linux] (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 10, 2002)
Disney Employed Relatives of 4 Directors (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 10, 2002)
* ARTS: Are Politics Built Into Architecture? (By ALAN RIDING, Aug. 10, 2002)
* ARTS: Go Ahead. Gossip May Be Virtuous. (By PATRICIA COHEN, Aug. 10, 2002)
* DANCE: LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY: The Power of Simplicity (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 10, 2002)
JAZZ: DIANNE REEVES: A Big Voice, With Nothing Held Back (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 10, 2002)
MUSIC: DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY: Hey, That's Not an Aria, It's 'O Sole Mio' (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 10, 2002)
* THINK TANK: The Ancient Art of Haranguing Has Moved to the Internet (By EMILY EAKIN, Aug. 10, 2002)
THEATER: 'GOD OF VENGEANCE': Is God Listening? Ask the Man Who Thinks So
(By WILBORN HAMPTON, Aug. 10, 2002)

Friday, August 9, 2002:
On This Day: August 9 (Izaak Walton 8/9/1593-12/15/1683, John Dryden 8/9/1631-5/1/1700, William Morton 8/9/1819-7/15/1868, Gaston Paris 8/9/1839-3/6/1903, Janie Porter Barrett 8/9/1865-8/27/1948, Leonide Massine 8/9/1896-3/15/1979, P. L. Travers 8/9/1899-4/23/1996, William Fowler 8/9/1911-3/14/1995, Robert Aldrich 8/9/1918-12/5/1983, Robert Shaw 8/9/1927-8/28/1978, Ralph Houk 1919, Rod Laver 1938, David Steinberg 1942, Ken Norton 1943, Sam Elliot 1944, Whitney Houston 1963, Gillian Anderson 1968, Jessica Capshaw 1976)
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)

Woodrow Mann, Who Sought Troops in Little Rock, Dies at 85 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 9, 2002)
Count D. Gibson, 81, Leader in Bringing Medicine to Poor, Dies (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 9, 2002)
John M. Allen, Magazine Executive, Dies at 75 (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
Charles P. Stetson Sr., Stockbroker and Philanthropist, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
Jean Sauvagnargues, 87, Paris Diplomat, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
Fumio Yoshimura, Painstaking Sculptor, Dies at 76 (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
* NATIONAL: Wounded Party Ponders, Should It Be Gore in 2004? (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 9, 2002)
Lawyers for 9/11 Defendant Seek 2-Month Delay in Trial (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 9, 2002)
Officials Question Credibility of New Threats (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
For the Summer, at Least, an M.I.T. Education (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
Bush's Forum on Economy Is to Feature G.O.P. Donors (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 9, 2002)
WORLD: North Korea Adding a Pinch of Capitalism to Its Economy (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Aug. 9, 2002)
G.I. Is Hit on Afghan Patrol in a Third Day of Attacks (By IAN FISHER, Aug. 9, 2002)
Sharon Calls Palestinians 'Corrupt Terrorists' (By JOHN KIFNER, Aug. 9, 2002)
Iraq Is Defiant as G.O.P. Leader Opposes Attack (By ERIC SCHMITT, Aug. 9, 2002)
Palestinians, Meeting Powell, Urge Pullout (By TODD S. PURDUM, Aug. 9, 2002)
Taliban Threatens F.B.I. 'Spy' List (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
NY REGION: SQUAD 1/A LONELY SON: A Hard Year Without Dad (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Aug. 9, 2002)
Bloomberg Seeks to Ban Smoking in Every Restaurant and Bar (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Aug. 9, 2002)
NYC: Pride in a Flag and Outrage Over Its Theft (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Aug. 9, 2002)
* MY MANHATTAN: A Villager Bicycles Back in Time, Alla Romana (By MICHAEL FRANK, Aug. 9, 2002)
SPORTS: Patriots Hoping to Keep the Magic [Bill Russell's visit] (By JOE LAPOINTE, Aug. 9, 2002)
ON BASEBALL: Justice and Giambi Find Different Perspectives (By JACK CURRY, Aug. 9, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Downsizing the Imperial C.E.O. (NY TIMES, Aug. 9, 2002)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Feminists: More to Talk About Than Shoes and Lipstick
(By DAISY HERNÁNDEZ, Aug. 9, 2002)
OP-ED: The Lost Continent [Brazil loans] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 9, 2002)
OP-ED: What Do Iraqis Think About Life After Hussein? (By MICHAEL RUBIN, Aug. 9, 2002)
* OP-ED: Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths (By JOE ESZTERHAS, Aug. 9, 2002)
OP-ED: Deciding Who Is Protected Against Smallpox (By BILL FRIST, Aug. 9, 2002)
* LETTERS: Can Workers Rescue the Market? (By WILLIAM F. SCHREIBER, Aug. 9, 2002)
* LETTERS: From Jerusalem, a Dream of Peace (By MENACHEM MAGIDOR, Aug. 9, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Get Lift from Brazil Bailout and Rise for 3rd Day
[Dow +256 Nasdaq +36] (By REUTERS, Aug. 9, 2002)
MEDICINE'S MIDDLEMEN: Buying Group for Hospitals Vows Change
(By BARRY MEIER with MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Aug. 9, 2002)
WorldCom Finds $3.3 Billion More in Irregularities (By BARNABY J. FEDER and SETH SCHIESEL, Aug. 9, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: I.M.F. Loan to Brazil Also Shields U.S. Interests (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Aug. 9, 2002)
Martha Stewart May Receive a Subpoena From Congress (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 9, 2002)
ADVERTISING: The Brand Is Called Rosie, but Its Future Looks Troubled (By DAVID CARR, Aug. 9, 2002)
Gap Sales Plummet, While Wal-Mart's Rise (By REUTERS, Aug. 9, 2002)
* Many Are Wondering if Eisner Can Reverse Course at Disney (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Aug. 9, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: Pension Woes Bring Business Wealth Effect (By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 9, 2002)
Paul Allen May Buy All Charter Shares (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Aug. 9, 2002)
Brazil's Markets Rally on News of Fresh Cash (By TONY SMITH, Aug. 9, 2002)
ART: Rain or Shine, Residing Outdoors (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 9, 2002)
ART: Youth and Experience Transforming a Town (By GRACE GLUECK, Aug. 9, 2002)
* ART: Al Hirschfeld; Karl Mann; Simon Frost (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 9, 2002)
ANTIQUES: Intrepid Sisters Whose Lenses Traced Memories (By WENDY MOONAN, Aug. 9, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'THE ART OF TRAVEL': Examining Why People Go From Here to There (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 9, 2002)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Go Ahead, Make Me Laugh (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 9, 2002)
FILM: 'XXX': This Skateboard Uses High Octane (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 9, 2002)
FILM: 'BLOOD WORK': Forget About Retirement, There's a Killer to Catch (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 9, 2002)
FILM: 'THE CHATEAU': Is the Staff Really Rude or Just Being, Well, French? (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 9, 2002)
FILM: 'SCARLET DIVA': Bottom Feeding From Her Place at the Top (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 9, 2002)
FILM: 'LEWIS & CLARK: GREAT JOURNEY WEST': With Lewis and Clark on a Trip to the Moon
(By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Aug. 9, 2002)
FILM: 'STRIPPED': Lives of Struggle Illuminate a Job Where Less Is More (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 9, 2002)
* MUSIC: Mahler and the Lesser Known Stars in His Universe (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Aug. 9, 2002)
MUSIC: If There's a 'Leipzig Sound,' This Is It (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 9, 2002)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: What if a Medium Loses Its Message? (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 9, 2002)
POP: SCREAM TOUR II: No Growls, and the Audience Still Purrs (By JON PARELES, Aug. 9, 2002)
* ROCK: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: A Call to 'Rise Up' After 9/11 (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 9, 2002)
THEATER: 'FRANKIE AND JOHNNY': Going From Sex to Intimacy (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 9, 2002)
TV: 'FIRST SHOT': For a Secret Service Agent, Work Outranks Marriage (By RON WERTHEIMER, Aug. 9, 2002)
SCIENCE: More Human Remains Found in the Monitor's Gun Turret (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Aug. 9, 2002)
HEALTH: Surgeon Who Left an Operation to Run an Errand Is Suspended (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 9, 2002)
HEALTH: Hot Weather Cited in Spread of a Virus (By REUTERS, Aug. 9, 2002)

Thursday, August 8, 2002:
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)

Daphne Hellman, Harpist With Eclectic Taste, Dies at 86 (By RANDY KENNEDY, Aug. 8, 2002)
Matt Robinson, 65, TV Writer And a 'Sesame Street' Actor, Dies (NY TIMES, Aug. 8, 2002)
Norman J. Rosen, 73, Deputy to Two District Attorneys, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 8, 2002)
* NATIONAL: Officials Link Foreign Web Sites to Cheating on Exams (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Aug. 8, 2002)
A Study Finds Children's Aid Goes to Adults (By ROBERT PEAR, Aug. 8, 2002)
In Twin Speeches, Bush and Cheney Vow to Fight Fraud
(By EVELYN NIEVES with ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 8, 2002)
WORLD: China Issues New Warning to Taiwan, Just in English (By CRAIG S. SMITH with KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 8, 2002)
* Hitler, It Seems, Loved Money and Died Rich (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Aug. 8, 2002)
Explosions Rattle Colombian Capital Before Inaugural (By JUAN FORERO, Aug. 8, 2002)
Cheney Doubts Weapons Inspectors Can End Baghdad's Threat (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Aug. 8, 2002)
In Scenic Norway, Fearful Death Scene of Addicts (By WARREN HOGE, Aug. 8, 2002)
* KANGEMI JOURNAL: For Spellbinding Soccer, the Juju Man's on the Ball (By MARC LACEY, Aug. 8, 2002)
Reporter's Body on Way Home From Pakistan (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 8, 2002)
Libya Appears Ready to Pay Compensation for Lockerbie Crash (By REUTERS, Aug. 8, 2002)
* NY REGION: Remembering Sept. 11 in a Personal Way, or Maybe Ignoring It (By ANDY NEWMAN, Aug. 8, 2002)
Family of 9/11 Victim Accepts $1.04 Million in U.S. Compensation (By DAVID W. CHEN, Aug. 8, 2002)
Long Island Starts Bragging About Its Tourist Attractions (By BRUCE LAMBERT, Aug. 8, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Bad Hair Day? She Can Blame the Hard Hat (By GLENN COLLINS, Aug. 8, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Going Ivy, Coyly [Lauren Bush] (By JAMES BARRON, Aug. 8, 2002)
Doubts Arise in Trade Center Land Swap (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Aug. 8, 2002)
* SPORTS: Forensic Analysis Validates Williams's Signature (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 8, 2002)
ON BASEBALL: Adding Up the Stats Makes Pettitte No. 1 (By JACK CURRY, Aug. 8, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Decoding North Korea (NY TIMES, Aug. 8, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Burst Bubble Memorial Stadium (NY TIMES, Aug. 8, 2002)
OP-ED: Railroaded in Texas (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 8, 2002)
OP-ED: Bringing Diversity to the Suburbs (By PETER H. SCHUCK, Aug. 8, 2002)
OP-ED: Privatize Public Diplomacy (By MICHAEL HOLTZMAN, Aug. 8, 2002)
OP-ED: Why the West Is Burning (By ROGER KENNEDY, Aug. 8, 2002)
* LETTERS: Ways to Remember a Tragic Da (By KEVIN J. FARRELLY, Aug. 8, 2002)
* LETTERS: Tribal Values: Faulkner's Vision (By LOUIS T. MAYEUX, Aug. 8, 2002)
LETTERS: Join the Fight, Mr. Gore [public financing of primaries & elections]
(By JOHN C. BONIFAZ, Aug. 8, 2002)
LETTERS: My Daughter in Israel (By CLAIRE HIRSCHHORN, Aug. 8, 2002)
BUSINESS: Late Rally Gives the Dow 2nd Triple-Digit Gain in 2 Days
[Dow +182, Nasdaq +21] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 8, 2002)
Ex-Drug Executive Faces U.S. Charges of Insider Trading [Samuel D. Waksal]
(By ANDREW POLLACK, Aug. 8, 2002)
Ex-Executives Say Sham Deal Helped Enron (By DAVID BARBOZA, Aug. 8, 2002)
For WorldCom, Acquisitions Were Behind Its Rise and Fall (By KURT EICHENWALD, Aug. 8, 2002)
New Electron Microscope Is Developed at I.B.M. Lab (By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 8, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: When Mercurial Is the Word, Traders Speak of Love, or Not (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 8, 2002)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Does the Government Have a Role in Stabilizing the Economy? (By JEFF MADRICK, Aug. 8, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE HEART OF REDNESS': Clashing Visions in a South African Seaside Town (By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 8, 2002)
FILM: 'THE CITY OF LOST SOULS': Don't Let This One Buy You a Drink (By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 8, 2002)
MUSIC: A Modern Master of the Early Piano, Sharing Secrets (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Aug. 8, 2002)
MUSIC: NOTES FROM MUSIC CAMP: What Itzhak Perlman Learned at Camp
(By LOIS B. MORRIS & ROBERT LIPSYTE, Aug. 8, 2002)
ROCK: NICK LOWE: Nick Lowe With Guitar, His Smirk Long Gone (By JON PARELES, Aug. 8, 2002)
THEATER CRITIC: Emotions Beneath the Sondheim Chill (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 8, 2002)
TV: REVISIONS: Now on TV, Drug Dealers With Gravity of Mafia Dons (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Aug. 8, 2002)
GARDEN: AT HOME WITH THE CARTER FAMILY: High on a Hilltop With Music All Around (By JOHN LELAND, Aug. 8, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 8, 2002)
* What's a Parent to Do? Fix the PC, for Starters (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 8, 2002)
Charmed by Six Feet of Circuitry (By CURTIS GILLESPIE, Aug. 8, 2002)
* STATE OF THE ART: A Screen That Cuts the Cord (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 8, 2002)
Where Warriors and Ogres Lock Arms Instead of Swords (By DAVID KUSHNER, Aug. 8, 2002)
Turning Mysteries of E-Mail and Technology Into Theater (By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES, Aug. 8, 2002)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Travel, the Old-Fashioned Way (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 8, 2002)
A LECTURE FOR MOM AND DAD: Parental Vigilance: A List of Chores (NY TIMES, Aug. 8, 2002)
GAME THEORY: Forsaking Sanity for the Joys of Candy-Colored Madness (By CHARLES HEROLD, Aug. 8, 2002)
Air Safety on the Ground (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Aug. 8, 2002)
* Q & A: The Pentium-Class Chip and Its Low-Cost Cousin (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Aug. 8, 2002)
* SCIENCE: New Method Said to Solve Key Problem in Math [Prime numbers]
(By SARA ROBINSON, Aug. 8, 2002)
* HEALTH: Hormone That Causes Full Feeling Is Found (By DENISE GRADY, Aug. 8, 2002)
HEALTH: Leukemia Drug Side Effect: Color Returned to Gray Hair (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 8, 2002)
HEALTH: Doctor Pleased With Recovery of Twins Separated by Surgery (By NICK MADIGAN, Aug. 8, 2002)

Wednesday, August 7, 2002:
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)

* John T. Edsall, 99, Biochemist Who Helped Explain Proteins, Dies (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Aug. 7, 2002)
Junius Scales, Communist Sent to U.S. Prison, Dies at 82 (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 7, 2002)
Helen Robinson, 91, Island Matriarch, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 7, 2002)
Darrell Porter, Catcher Who Was Series M.V.P. in '82, Dies at 50 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 7, 2002)
Duncan Noble, Dance Teacher and Member of Ballet Theater, Dies at 80 (By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 7, 2002)
Joshua Ryan Evans, Television Actor, Dies at 20 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 7, 2002)
NATIONAL: Wanted in Los Angeles: Any Qualified Police Chief (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Aug. 7, 2002)
Doctors Who Examine Bush Say He Is Exceptionally Fit (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 7, 2002)
LESSONS: Schools Can Use Help Teaching Parents to Get Involved (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 7, 2002)
WORLD: U.S. Seeking Pacts in a Bid to Shield Its Peacekeepers (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Aug. 7, 2002)
After Pakistan Raid, 3 Mysterious Suicides (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 7, 2002)
Bush Hears Options Including Baghdad Strike (By THOM SHANKER, Aug. 7, 2002)
* Taiwan Chief Eases Stand; Beijing Rattles Sabre (By KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 7, 2002)
9 Hindus Die in Attack on Pilgrims in Kashmir (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 7, 2002)
* ROME JOURNAL: He Made a Gold Mine of the Trevi Fountain (By FRANK BRUNI, Aug. 7, 2002)
On Camera, Jobless Argentines Vie for a Livelihood (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 7, 2002)
* NY REGION: Sept. 11 to Be Marked With Music and Tributes (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Aug. 7, 2002)
Mirroring Official 9/11 Observances (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 7, 2002)
* NY REGION: Long Hike and Yetis, Too? (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Aug. 7, 2002)
A Homeless Problem Is Back: Overnight in a City Office (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Aug. 7, 2002)
New York City Facing Exodus of Firefighters (By AL BAKER, Aug. 7, 2002)
Telemarketers Bilked Investors of $29 Million, Officials Say (By BRUCE LAMBERT, Aug. 7, 2002)
No Charge to Fly Sept. 11 (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Aug. 7, 2002)
* For Once, Children Don't Want Balloons [to save wildlife] (By BRUCE LAMBERT, Aug. 7, 2002)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Making Stones Speak, So That People Remember [Elyn Zimmerman]
(By ROBIN FINN, Aug. 7, 2002)
SPORTS OF THE TIMES: Plenty to Say on Baseball [Fay Vincent] (By MIKE FREEMAN, Aug. 7, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: N.F.L. Seminar Gives Fashion Tips, Too (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 7, 2002)
SPORTS: Nets Get Mutombo From 76ers (By MIKE WISE, Aug. 7, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Learning to Make Popular Music From the World Trade Center Attack
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Aug. 7, 2002)
OP-ED: St. Alban's Guide to Populism (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 7, 2002)
OP-ED: Lessons From Sri Lanka (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 7, 2002)
OP-ED: Zimbabwe's Man-Made Famine (By DAVID COLTART, Aug. 7, 2002)
OP-ED: When Generosity Is Medically Necessary (By JAMES RESTON JR., Aug. 7, 2002)
LETTERS: Is It Criticism, or Is It Really Hate? (By ELLEN P. GOLDSTEIN, Aug. 7, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Investors Capitalize on Bargains and Give Sagging Markets a Lift
[Dow +230, Nasdaq +54] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 7, 2002)
* Sam Walton's Town Gets Sleeker (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 7, 2002)
* U.S. Reports Electronic Attacks Against Internet Service Providers (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 7, 2002)
* An Old-Line Executive for AOL's Online Unit [Jonathan F. Miller]
(By AMY HARMON & SAUL HANSELL, Aug. 7, 2002)
More Records Are Demanded in Inquiry on Martha Stewart (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 7, 2002)
Morgan Stanley Giving a Pep Talk to Stock Investors (NY TIMES, Aug. 7, 2002)
* MARKET PLACE: Cisco Beats Earnings Estimate, Raising Hope for Technology
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Aug. 7, 2002)
A Development in Security Software (NY TIMES, Aug. 7, 2002)
* ARTS IN AMERICA: Copies of a Vatican Masterpiece, Made in the U.S.A. (By DENNIS M. BLANK, Aug. 7, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'MIND CATCHER': A Boy's Essence Uploaded and Adrift in Cyberspace
(By JIM HOLT, Aug. 7, 2002)
* BOOKS: Moral Choices in a Thriller Spanning 1,500 Years (By DINITIA SMITH, Aug. 7, 2002)
FILM: 'THE GOOD GIRL': The Catcher in the Texas Chain Store (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 7, 2002)
FILM: 'SPY KIDS 2': Saving a Secret Agency From a Madman's Monsters (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 7, 2002)
MUSIC: MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL: Guest Ensembles Enjoy Center Stage at Mostly Mozart
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 7, 2002)
THEATER: 'ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD': Don't Do Anything, Just Stand There
(By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 7, 2002)
THEATER: 'HARLEM SONG': An A Train Through History (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 7, 2002)
TV: 'I.C.U.': Those Who Fight to Save Young Cardiac Patients (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 7, 2002)
THE CHEF: A Beef Gem in the Rough (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 7, 2002)
THE MINIMALIST: Like a Cool Wind Blowing From Fuji [cold noodles] (By MARK BITTMAN, Aug. 7, 2002)
DINING: Haute Food for the Pampered Set (By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV, Aug. 7, 2002)
* DINING: A Prime Kettle of Fish [2 bouillabaisse recipes] (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Aug. 7, 2002)
* DINING: You Hear About the Chef Who Doesn't Use a Stove? (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 7, 2002)
FOOD STUFF: How Do You Drink Tea That Costs $33 an Ounce? Ceremoniously
(By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Aug. 7, 2002)
SCIENCE: Experts Consider How to Stop a Variant of Mad Cow Disease (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Aug. 7, 2002)
* HEALTH: After Surgical Separation, Twins' Prognosis Is Good (By NICK MADIGAN with DENISE GRADY, Aug. 7, 2002)
* HEALTH: What the Tooth Fairy Forgot: Dentists for Rural America (By JODI WILGOREN, Aug. 7, 2002)
HEALTH: Lawyers Say Drug Makers Knew of Diluted Products (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 7, 2002)
HEALTH: Body Parts Are Recalled [might carry AIDS virus] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 7, 2002)

Tuesday, August 6, 2002:
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)

* Archer Martin, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Dies at 92 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 6, 2002)
Chick Hearn, Voice of Los Angeles Lakers, Dies at 85 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Aug. 6, 2002)
Leslie Slote, 78, Spokesman for Wagner and Rockefeller, Dies (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 6, 2002)
Meredith Baylis, Dancer Who Taught at Joffrey School, 72, Is Dead (By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 6, 2002)
Abraham Zelmanowitz, Sept. 11 Hero, Buried in Israel (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 6, 2002)
Bernhard Lyon Kohn Sr., Retired Executive, Dies at 81 (NY TIMES, Aug. 6, 2002)
NATIONAL: Ex-Boyfriend Loses Bid to Halt an Abortion (By ADAM LIPTAK, Aug. 6, 2002)
Pastor Tells Why Abducted Girls Went on TV (By BILL CARTER, Aug. 6, 2002)
Economy Stirs G.O.P. Worry in House Races (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Aug. 6, 2002)
Bush Meets Rescued Miners (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 6, 2002)
QUECREEK JOURNAL: Caught in the Spotlight, Miners Quickly Adjust (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Aug. 6, 2002)
Justice Dept. Details Its Loss of Weapons and Computers (By PHILIP SHENON, Aug. 6, 2002)
WORLD: New Israeli Rules Adopted in Wake of More Attacks (By JAMES BENNET, Aug. 6, 2002)
Gunmen Kill 6 at Christian School in Pakistan (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 6, 2002)
Warlord Pushes for Control of a Corner of Afghanistan (By IAN FISHER, Aug. 6, 2002)
A Distracted China Issues Censure of Taiwan Chief's Remarks
(By CRAIG S. SMITH with KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 6, 2002)
Japan in an Uproar as 'Big Brother' Computer File Kicks In (By JAMES BROOKE, Aug. 6, 2002)
PORT-AU-PRINCE JOURNAL: In Katherine Dunham's Eden, Invaders From Hell
(By DAVID GONZALEZ, Aug. 6, 2002)
U.N. and Congress Rebuff Iraq's Inspection Invitation
(By BARBARA CROSSETTE & ALISON MITCHELL, Aug. 6, 2002)
NY REGION: Census Finds Immigrants Lower City's Income Data (By JANNY SCOTT, Aug. 6, 2002)
* Credit Union Says A.T.M. Users Stole Millions After 9/11 (By SUSAN SAULNY, Aug. 6, 2002)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: For All Sides, a Land Swap Offers Much to Consider (By EDWARD WYATT, Aug. 6, 2002)
F.B.I. Faces Inquiry on a False Confession From an Egyptian Student
(By BENJAMIN WEISER, Aug. 6, 2002)
Cigarette Tax, Highest in Nation, Cuts Sales in City (By MICHAEL COOPER, Aug. 6, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Lie Back, New York, and Tell Him Why It Hurts (By CHRIS HEDGES, Aug. 6, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: Madden's Debut a 'Boom' and a Boon (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 6, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: Skating Scandal Could Boost Ratings (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 6, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Ending Secret Detentions (NY TIMES, Aug. 6, 2002)
* EDITORIAL: Did You Get the Check I Sent? [email spam] (NY TIMES, Aug. 6, 2002)
OP-ED: The Memory Hole (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 6, 2002)
OP-ED: Brutality Cloaked as Tradition (By BEENA SARWAR, Aug. 6, 2002)
OP-ED: The Port Authority's Role in the World Trade Center (By RICHARD C. LEONE, Aug. 6, 2002)
OP-ED: To Encourage Recovery, Encourage Investors (By MURIEL SIEBERT, Aug. 6, 2002)
LETTERS: Al Gore's Prescription for America (By PHILIP WALKER, et. al., Aug. 6, 2002)
LETTERS: The U.S. and Iraq: Which Path Is Best? (By JENNIFER R. RIDHA, Aug. 6, 2002)
LETTERS: Cuddle Up and Read With Your Child (By CAMILLE EHRENBERG, et. al., Aug. 6, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Stocks Plummet on Renewed Fears of Recession
[Dow -270, Nasdaq -42] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 6, 2002)
* Executive of Net and TV Is Named Chief of AOL Unit
(By SAUL HANSELL with DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 6, 2002)
P.&G. Shows Strong Gain in Profit for Quarter (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 6, 2002)
Ex-Fugitive Admits Thefts of Millions [Martin R. Frankel] (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 6, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Shares Plunge as Ad Agency Delays Report on Earnings
(By JONATHAN D. GLATER with ALLISON FASS, Aug. 6, 2002)
Taiwan's Market Falls as Ties With Beijing Worsen (By KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 6, 2002)
Buyback by Check Printer (By REUTERS, Aug. 6, 2002)
Aide Was Reportedly Ordered to Warn Stewart on Stock Sales (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 6, 2002)
MEDICINE'S MIDDLEMEN: Buying Group for Hospitals Changes Ways
(By BARRY MEIER & MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Aug. 6, 2002)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Corporate Apartments: A Real Home on the Road (By STEPHEN GREGORY, Aug. 6, 2002)
ON THE GROUND: Wide Streets and Conservative Culture (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 6, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: Hotel Lore From Female Travelers (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 6, 2002)
MEMO PAD: Travel Rebound Is Still to Arrive (By JOE SHARKEY, Aug. 6, 2002)
Service Sector Growth Slow, Report Shows (By REUTERS, Aug. 6, 2002)
ADVERTISING: High Hopes for `Lord of the Rings' Video Sales (By BERNARD STAMLER, Aug. 6, 2002)
ART: For Cooper-Hewitt, a Defining Moment (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 6, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE WHITE': Adoptive Daughter of the Hills and Valleys (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Aug. 6, 2002)
DANCE: 'FRAGILE': Tone Precedes Content, and Heart Equals Brain (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 6, 2002)
MUSIC: ELECTRONICA REVIEW | X-PRESS 2: A Synthetic Day at the Beach, Synthesized Sound Included
(By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 6, 2002)
PHOTO CRITIC: A Camera-Toting Odysseus Confronts Painful Sights (By MARGARETT LOKE, Aug. 6, 2002)
THEATER: Whatever the Space, a Sense of Theater (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 6, 2002)
THEATER: 'MIDWESTERN CHUM': A Big-City School Board's Close Calls (By ANITA GATES, Aug. 6, 2002)
TV: 'WIDOWS': 3 Widows Take Over Husbands' Art Theft (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Aug. 6, 2002)
TV CRITIC: Reality Shows Lost in a Loop (By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 6, 2002)
STYLE: If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Suit (By GUY TREBAY, Aug. 6, 2002)
SCIENCE: Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human Origins
(By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Aug. 6, 2002)
Deadly or Dull? Uproar Over a Microbe (By NICHOLAS WADE, Aug. 6, 2002)
Plants Hang On in Concrete Jungle (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Aug. 6, 2002)
Ancient 'Birth Bricks' Found in Egypt (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Aug. 6, 2002)
Forecast for Brown Dwarf 'Stars': Iron Rain, Heavy at Times (By AYANA E. MORALES, Aug. 6, 2002)
SCIENTIST AT WORK | FRANCES ALLEN: Would-Be Math Teacher Ended Up Educating a Computer Revolution
(By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 6, 2002)
* OBSERVATORY: Target Earth (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Aug. 6, 2002)
Q & A: Teeth and Millstones (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Aug. 6, 2002)
* HEALTH: Sunlight, a Cancer Protector in the Guise of a Villain? (By INGFEI CHEN, Aug. 6, 2002)
A CONVERSATION WITH | CHARLES LOCKWOOD: Too Many Interventions, and Too Many Preemies
(By LAURIE TARKAN, Aug. 6, 2002)
Women's Sleep Disorders May Be Tied to Hormones (By LYDIA DENWORTH, Aug. 6, 2002)
Learning More About How Cancer Spreads (By REUTERS, Aug. 6, 2002)
CASES: A Peril of the Veil of Botox (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Aug. 6, 2002)
Diagnosis: When It's Better to Do It Yourself (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 6, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Prevention: Saving Lives, With a Dog Collar (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 6, 2002)
At Risk: Weighing Odds and Babies (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 6, 2002)
Patterns: Smoking: Hazardous to Your Cat (By JOHN O'NEIL, Aug. 6, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: First Step in Treating Arthritis: Keep Moving (By JANE E. BRODY, Aug. 6, 2002)
* HEALTH: Museum of the Medical Macabre Edges Into the Mainstream (By ALICIA AULT, Aug. 6, 2002)
HEALTH: West Nile Outbreak Is a Warning, Not a Crisis, Officials Say (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 6, 2002)
HEALTH: Surgeons Begin Delicate Work of Parting Joined Twins
(By NICK MADIGAN with DENISE GRADY, Aug. 6, 2002)

Monday, August 5, 2002:
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)

Roy Kral, Half of a Duo That Jazzed Up Pop, Dies at 80 (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Aug. 5, 2002)
Bernard Haldane, 91, an Author and Innovator in Job Counseling, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Aug. 5, 2002)
Joel Oliansky, Emmy-Winning Writer, Dies at 66 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 5, 2002)
Donald Pease, 70, Ex-Ohio Congressman, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 5, 2002)
NATIONAL: Wave of Pupils Lacking English Strains Schools (By YILU ZHAO, Aug. 5, 2002)
Psychiatrist Says His Views on Abuse by Priests Are Similar to His Critics' (By ERICA GOODE, Aug. 5, 2002)
Anthrax Vaccine Maker Calls Finances Shaky (By JUDITH MILLER, Aug. 5, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Bush Makes Quick Work of Relaxing (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 5, 2002)
No One Shot the Sheriff, but Someone Cut the Mayor, a Goat. Got It? (By JIM YARDLEY, Aug. 5, 2002)
WORLD: 2 Koreas Agree On an Agenda for Discussions (By DON KIRK, Aug. 5, 2002)
North Koreans Widening Escape Route to China (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Aug. 5, 2002)
Bus Bombed in Galilee; Ambushes Add to New Burst of Violence (By JOHN KIFNER, Aug. 5, 2002)
Argentina's New Role Model: Its Old Rival, Brazil (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 5, 2002)
TORONTO JOURNAL: Do Doughnuts Make Canada Too Well Rounded? (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Aug. 5, 2002)
Braving Nature and Militants, Hindus Trek for a Peek at a God's Icy Symbol (By DAVID ROHDE, Aug. 5, 2002)
NY REGION: 90,000 Endure Second Hot Day Without Power (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Aug. 5, 2002)
Can't Stand the Heat? Wait a Day. Honest. (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 5, 2002)
A Time of Flux for City's Core of Greek Life (By JOSEPH BERGER, Aug. 5, 2002)
Masters of Mambo Mix It Up in the Bronx (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 5, 2002)
Amid Bioterrorism Concerns, Smallpox Scare Tests Hospital (By AL BAKER, Aug. 5, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By ENID NEMY, Aug. 5, 2002)
SPORTS: Ice Dancers See Good Even as Scandal Abounds (By LYNN ZINSER, Aug. 5, 2002)
CYCLING: For Armstrong, Just Another Sunday Ride (By FRANK LITSKY, Aug. 5, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Policing Wall Street (NY TIMES, Aug. 5, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Brazil's Eye on the Amazon (NY TIMES, Aug. 5, 2002)
OP-ED: Tulia's Shattered Lives (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 5, 2002)
OP-ED: The Americas Prepare for Trade on a Fast Track (By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD, Aug. 5, 2002)
OP-ED: What Voters Want (By STANLEY B. GREENBERG, Aug. 5, 2002)
OP-ED: My Inflated Figures (By JOHN KENNEY, Aug. 5, 2002)
LETTERS: Lawyers, Volunteers and 9/11 (By SEAN DELANY, Aug. 5, 2002)
* LETTERS: Novels From the Sofa [Barbara Cartland] (By FRANCIS MURRAY, Aug. 5, 2002)
* BUSINESS: New Software (and Bosses) at AOL (By SAUL HANSELL, Aug. 5, 2002)
Getting From Here to There... [AOL Online] (NY TIMES, Aug. 5, 2002)
Microsoft Set to Carry Out Part of Suit (By JOEL BRINKLEY, Aug. 5, 2002)
Ex-Executive Says Dynegy Asked His Help to Cheat (By DAVID BARBOZA, Aug. 5, 2002)
Ailing ABC Turns to HBO in Search of TV Hits (By BILL CARTER, Aug. 5, 2002)
* MARKET PLACE: Report on Martha Stewart Helps Push Up Share Price (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Aug. 5, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: A Decision on Digital Television (By AMY HARMON, Aug. 5, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Hey, Getcha Cellphone! At Stadiums, Dial a Hot Dog (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 5, 2002)
Identity Crisis for Journalist Group [National Association of Black Journalists]
(By FELICITY BARRINGER, Aug. 5, 2002)
PATENTS: A Digital Architecture of Defense (By TERESA RIORDAN, Aug. 5, 2002)
PATENTS: A Device to Track Missing People (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Aug. 5, 2002)
* MEDIA TALK: Words and Mascara in a Marketing Deal (By DAVID CARR, Aug. 5, 2002)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Downloading Magazine Replicas (By BOB TEDESCHI, Aug. 5, 2002)
Global Crossing to Recommend Buyer Soon (NY TIMES, Aug. 5, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Tentative Media Recovery Seen (By JANE L. LEVERE, Aug. 5, 2002)
A Chronicle of New England Adds Some Gloss to Its Pages [Yankee Magazine]
(By JULIE FLAHERTY, Aug. 5, 2002)
At History Channel, Younger Historians With Better Hair (By JIM RUTENBERG, Aug. 5, 2002)
* ARTS ONLINE: New Public Art Uses the Internet for a Personal Touch (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Aug. 5, 2002)
ARTS: Audio Diary Records a Young Woman's Battle With Failing Health (By DINITIA SMITH, Aug. 5, 2002)
* BOOKS: A Pair of Stars, One Fastidious, One Just Fast (By JANET MASLIN, Aug. 5, 2002)
DANCE: TAYLOR 2: To Leap and Soar, Flying Past the Bustle (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 5, 2002)
DANCE: Students Rooted in Technique but Free and Airborne (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 5, 2002)
FILM: Oscars Are Moving to February (By RICK LYMAN, Aug. 5, 2002)
FILM: Affleck and Damon Find Real-Life Obstacles to Media Venture (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Aug. 5, 2002)
* MUSIC CRITIC: Dylan, Once a Newport Heretic, Returns to Folk Festival Cheers
(By JON PARELES, Aug. 5, 2002)
POP: ROBIN HOLCOMB: Hearing Voices of History and the Heart (By JON PARELES, Aug. 5, 2002)
THEATER: 'IN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON FIELDS': Over at Grand Central, Questions, Questions
(By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Aug. 5, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Swarms of Dying Mayflies Bring Good News (By PETER T. KILBORN, Aug. 5, 2002)

Sunday, August 4, 2002:
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)

Frank Inn, Who Trained Lassie and Benji, Dies at 86 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 4, 2002)
Phillip Oesterman, 64, Producer and Director of Broadway Shows, Dies (By BEN SISARIO, Aug. 4, 2002)
Kohei Matsuda, Former President of Mazda, Dies at 80 (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Aug. 4, 2002)
Mike Clark, Football Player, Dies at 61 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 4, 2002)
NATIONAL: Rescued Coal Miners Sell TV and Book Rights to Disney (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Aug. 4, 2002)
After Sept. 11, a Legal Battle Over Limits of Civil Liberty (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
Anxiety Felt in Louisiana After 4 West Nile Deaths (By JIM YARDLEY, Aug. 4, 2002)
Missing Chinese Girl Found With Relatives (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
Attacks on Peace Corps Volunteers Found Rising (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
Civil War Relics Draw Visitors, and Con Artists (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Aug. 4, 2002)
President Praises Maine Senator: Yes, She Really Did Vote With Him (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 4, 2002)
Security Agency, Yes, but Whose Version? (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Aug. 4, 2002)
In Capitol, Last Names Link Some Leaders and Lobbyists (By CARL HULSE, Aug. 4, 2002)
* WORLD: Defying China, Taiwan's Leader Backs a Vote on Sovereignty (By KEITH BRADSHER, Aug. 4, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S.-Mideast Connection: The News Becomes Less Foreign (By JAMES BENNET, Aug. 4, 2002)
Iraqi Cleric, a Hussein Foe, Finds Support Within Iran (By NAZILA FATHI, Aug. 4, 2002)
NY REGION: Lost Voices of Firefighters, Some on the 78th Floor (By JIM DWYER & FORD FESSENDEN, Aug. 4, 2002)
* FOLLOWING UP: Sometimes It Passes, Sometimes It Stands Still [55-foot clock] (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Aug. 4, 2002)
Restaurant Workers Seen as Bellwether Of the Economy (By JAYSON BLAIR, Aug. 4, 2002)
A New Schools Chancellor Draws Advice, Optimism, and Crossed Fingers (By TAMAR LEWIN, Aug. 4, 2002)
Lightning Victim Atop Building Is Identified (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 4, 2002)
SPORTS: Living in Limelight, Working in Shadows (By JOHN TAGLIABUE and STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 4, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Mideast Terror Brought Home (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: What the Bard of Oxford Can Teach Critics of the New World Order
(By ADAM COHEN, Aug. 4, 2002)
OP-ED COLUMNISTS: Sex, Lies and Bad Lighting (By MAUREEN DOWD, Aug. 4, 2002)
OP-ED: Bush's Shame (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Aug. 4, 2002)
OP-ED: Broken Promises and Political Deception (By AL GORE, Aug. 4, 2002)
OP-ED: Who Declares a War? (By JACK RAKOVE, Aug. 4, 2002)
LETTERS: Drug Prices: Shame of a Nation (By SHARON FORD, et. al., Aug. 4, 2002)
LETTERS: Citizen, Neighbor, Tipster, Spy (By NORMAN SIEGEL, et. al., Aug. 4, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Foreign Investors Turning Cautious on Spending in U.S. (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 4, 2002)
* As the Brash Stumble, Viacom Finds Itself Leading the Pack
(By MARK LANDLER & GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Aug. 4, 2002)
Out of the Merger Rush, Merck's on a Limb (By REED ABELSON, Aug. 4, 2002)
To Start a Men's Line, a Pitch to Women (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Aug. 4, 2002)
ON THE CONTRARY: Was Gordon Gekko Right About Greed? (By DANIEL AKST, Aug. 4, 2002)
Brazil Teeters. Will It Be Contagious? (By TONY SMITH, Aug. 4, 2002)
* MARKET INSIGHT: High-Yield Opportunity, High-Risk Possibilities (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Aug. 4, 2002)
* STRATEGIES: Believe It or Not, 2 1/2 Years Is Not the Long Term (By MARK HULBERT, Aug. 4, 2002)
* If the Formula Says Buy, the Big Institutions Buy (By JOHN KIMELMAN, Aug. 4, 2002)
INVESTING WITH David H. Ellison, FBR Small Cap Financial Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Aug. 4, 2002)
Investment Clubs Are Zeroing In on Real Estate (By LEAH BETH WARD, Aug. 4, 2002)
SENIORITY: Open a Book, Then Dare to Open That 401(k) Envelope (By FRED BROCK, Aug. 4, 2002)
LOVE & MONEY: Sharing a Vacation, Straining a Friendship (By ELLYN SPRAGINS, Aug. 4, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: Once More With Feeling: Buy American. Please! (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Aug. 4, 2002)
INVESTING DIARY: A Manager's Streak Is in Danger, or Is It? (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Aug. 4, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Trying to Measure an Entrepreneurial Itch (By VIVIAN MARINO, Aug. 4, 2002)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Is the Chief Ready for His Close-Up? (By MELINDA LIGOS, Aug. 4, 2002)
THE BOSS: Making Your Own Luck (By STEPHEN M. CARTER, Aug. 4, 2002)
As the Economy Crawls, a Firm Looks for the Jobs (By JAAN van VALKENBURGH, Aug. 4, 2002)
LIFE'S WORK: A Résumé From Beyond the Job Market (By LISA BELKIN, Aug. 4, 2002)
Round Up the Usual Suspects. Lawyers, Too? (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Aug. 4, 2002)
MARKET WATCH: I.P.O. Plums for Titans of Telecom (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Aug. 4, 2002)
PRIVATE SECTOR: Keeper of the Blue Suede Shoes (By COELI CARR, Aug. 4, 2002)
ECONOMIC VIEW: The Fed's Evolving Comfort Zone (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 4, 2002)
C.E.O. to Retire Over Dating Worker (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
* ARTS: Cloth That's Wrapped in Spiritual Power (By RITA REIF, Aug. 4, 2002)
ARTS: Getting Asian-Americans Into the Picture (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 4, 2002)
DANCE: 'La Bayadère': The Classiest of the Classics, True to Itself (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Aug. 4, 2002)
* FILM: Job Openings in Hollywood: Heroes Wanted (By RICK LYMAN, Aug. 4, 2002)
FILM: Bill Cosby: So Cool He Sometimes Stings (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
FILM: Bringing Cartoon Shorts Back to the Head of the Bill (By TESSA DeCARLO, Aug. 4, 2002)
FILM: Capturing the Fervor for Democracy in a Muslim Land (By LESLIE CAMHI, Aug. 4, 2002)
FILM: A Prison Story That Carries a Personal Meaning (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 4, 2002)
MUSIC: Even the Sheep Get Into the Act, but Not the Audience (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Aug. 4, 2002)
MUSIC: Unexpected Musical Pairings Via Britain and Mali (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 4, 2002)
MUSIC: In a Finicky Age, He Just Sings [Dmitri Hvorostovsky] (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 4, 2002)
MUSIC: She's Brazilian, Tempered by a Bit of Everything Else (By TERRY TEACHOUT, Aug. 4, 2002)
MUSIC SPINS: In the Twilight, Unaffected and Indirect (By BEN RATLIFF, Aug. 4, 2002)
THEATER: Hope Is High, Far, Far Out There, on the Fringe (By JASON ZINOMAN, Aug. 4, 2002)
THEATER: A Stoppard Panorama of Russian Idealism (By BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Aug. 4, 2002)
THEATER: In 'Frankie and Johnnie,' Haltingly, Clothing Falls Away (By JOHN LELAND, Aug. 4, 2002)
THEATER: The Soprano of 'The Sopranos' (By JONATHAN MANDELL, Aug. 4, 2002)
TV: Can TV Find a Spot for Sarah Silverman? (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Aug. 4, 2002)
TV: 'The Real World' Gets a Script and Gets Unreal (By MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS, Aug. 4, 2002)
LETTERS: 'Sex and the City'; Glass Museuems; Josh Groban (By GENE ROMAN, et. al., Aug. 4, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
REAL POLITICS: When Energy Comes From Russia, It's Also Power (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Aug. 4, 2002)
* WEEK IN REVIEW: Taboo Surfing: Click Here for Iran... (By NAZILA FATHI, Aug. 4, 2002)
* TABOO SURFING: ...And Click Here For China (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Aug. 4, 2002)
It's Like a Movie, but It's Not (By NEAL GABLER, Aug. 4, 2002)
* The Million-to-One Shot (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Aug. 4, 2002)
WIT'S END :): Baseball Fans, Strike! Owners, There Will Be No Negotiating! (By BRUCE McCALL, Aug. 4, 2002)
WORD FOR WORD: Slaying Terrorism (By LISA TOZZI, Aug. 4, 2002)
DEATH THROES: Remembering How Africa's First World War Began (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Aug. 4, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: An Ugly Rumor or an Ugly Truth? (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Aug. 4, 2002)
THE TALK OF... China: A Fading Star's Tax Scandal (By CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Aug. 4, 2002)
* Albert Einstein, Political Pawn (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Aug. 4, 2002)
SURVEILLANCE 101: Privacy vs. Security on Campus (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 4, 2002)
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES... Girl Power (By NYTIMES.COM, Aug. 4, 2002)
DEBATES: Iraq ‹ Let's Roll? (By NYTIMES.COM, Aug. 4, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Bad Writing (By BARBARA WALLRAFF, Aug. 4, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Rise, Shine and Root (By CHARLES MCGRATH, Aug. 4, 2002)
IN THE MAGAZINE | QUESTIONS FOR AUKAI COLLINS: Holy Warrior (By AMY BARRETT, Aug. 4, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: A Child's Duty (By RANDY COHEN, Aug. 4, 2002)
GALLERY: Get Your Souvenirs Here (Photographs by ROBERT HUBER, Aug. 4, 2002)
What They Were Thinking (Interview by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Aug. 4, 2002)
Who's That Girl? [Amanda Latona] (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Aug. 4, 2002)
The Eco-Mercenaries (By JACK HITT, Aug. 4, 2002)
* Afterward [crash of Air Florida Flight 90 on Jan. 13, 1982] (By EMILY YOFFE, Aug. 4, 2002)
* Plane Hits Bridge Over Potomac, 12 Dead, 50 Missing (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Jan. 14, 1982)

STYLE: To the Point (By INGRID SISCHY, Aug. 4, 2002)
* FOOD: Pour It On [Jelled Gazpacho] (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Aug. 4, 2002)
* LIVES: On Edge [figure skating] (By AARON VAYS as told to DANA SHAPIRO, Aug. 4, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 4, 2002)
* 'Stravinsky and Balanchine': Petersburg on the Hudson (By ELIZABETH KENDALL, Aug. 4, 2002)
'You Cannot Be Serious': Advantage, McEnroe (By HUGO LINDGREN, Aug. 4, 2002)
'The White': Looking Back on an 18th-Century Abduction With a Poet's Eye (By LAVINIA GREENLAW, Aug. 4, 2002)
* 'A Matter of Degrees': A Thermodynamic History of the Universe (By MARCIA BARTUSIAK, Aug. 4, 2002)
'Racism': History of Hatred (By KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH, Aug. 4, 2002)
* ANSEL ADAMS: Divine Performance, By Anne Hammond (By FREDERICK KAUFMAN, Aug. 4, 2002)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: Who's a Robot Now? (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Aug. 4, 2002)

Saturday, August 3, 2002:
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)

Gerhard Wessel, 88, German Espionage Chief, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Aug. 3, 2002)
Stephen G. Cary, 86, Long a Leading Quaker, Dies (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 3, 2002)
Bishop James M. Ryan, Missionary to the Amazon, Is Dead at 89 (By LARRY ROHTER, Aug. 3, 2002)
Phil Smith, 50, Guard on Warriors' Title Team, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 3, 2002)
Harry Gerstad, Film Editor Who Won Oscar for 'High Noon,' Dies at 93 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 3, 2002)
Philip Simmons, Teacher and Essayist, Dies at 45 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 3, 2002)
Louis Owens, American Indian Novelist and Literary Critic, Dies at 54 (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2002)
NATIONAL: Judge Orders U.S. to Release Names of 9/11 Detainees (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Aug. 3, 2002)
7 Held in Chicago in 2 Beating Deaths After Vehicle Crash (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2002)
Rumsfeld Moves to Strengthen His Grip on Military Intelligence (By JAMES RISEN & THOM SHANKER, Aug. 3, 2002)
Backing Bush All the Way, Up to but Not Into Iraq (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Aug. 3, 2002)
Smithsonian Is Planning 9/11 Exhibit (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2002)
Bush Will Travel to the 3 Sites to Commemorate Sept. 11 (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 3, 2002)
Kidnapper Planned to Kill, Sheriff Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 3, 2002)
Los Angeles Radio's Noisy Newsmakers (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2002)
Reviewing Ideas for Fighting Terrorists (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2002)
* BELIEFS: Swapping 'Religion' for 'Postsecularism' (By PETER STEINFELS, Aug. 3, 2002)
WORLD: Israelis Clamp Down on Nablus, Hunting Suspects (By JAMES BENNET, Aug. 3, 2002)
North and South Korea Ease Into Discussions on Reconciliation (By DON KIRK, Aug. 3, 2002)
Airlines Cancel Sept. 11 Flights From Europe (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 3, 2002)
Russia Says It May Reconsider Its Nuclear Plant Deal With Iran (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Aug. 3, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Senators Want to Know the Unknowable on Iraq, and Time Is Running Out
(By JAMES DAO, Aug. 3, 2002)
UNITED NATIONS: Annan Weighs Reply to Iraq on Invitation to Inspectors (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Aug. 3, 2002)
THE OPPOSITION: A Microcosm of Terror in a Torn Kurdish City (By JOHN F. BURNS, Aug. 3, 2002)
* SATURDAY PROFILE: The Immigrant Culture, Written in Harsh Light (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Aug. 3, 2002)
NY REGION: Fire Dept. Lapses on 9/11 Are Cited (By KEVIN FLYNN and JIM DWYER, Aug. 3, 2002)
Even a Billionaire Mayor Can't Buy a Cool Subway Ride (By RANDY KENNEDY, Aug. 3, 2002)
Diplomats' Cars Will Be Towed if Illegally Parked, Mayor Says (By DIANE CARDWELL, Aug. 3, 2002)
SPORTS: Rogge Won't Rule Out Revising Skating Results
(By SELENA ROBERTS & JOHN TAGLIABUE, Aug. 3, 2002)
EDITORIAL: A Time for Candor on Iraq (NY TIMES, Aug. 3, 2002)
EDITORIAL: THE CITY LIFE: The Laments of Commuting (By DAISY HERNÁNDEZ, Aug. 3, 2002)
OP-ED: NOTES FROM WASHINGTON: A Mayor Who's Good at Government but Bad at Politics
(By ERIK WEMPLE, Aug. 3, 2002)
* OP-ED: Stranded on the Cape [55 pilot whales beached & died] (By PETER TYACK, Aug. 3, 2002)
* OP-ED: A Folk Festival's Idol Returns (By GEORGE WEIN, Aug. 3, 2002)
* LETTERS: 'Soft Star That Shines at Night' (By JOSEPH DIAMOND, Aug. 3, 2002)
LETTERS: The Best Medicine? [laughter] (By FELICIA ACKERMAN, Aug. 3, 2002)
BUSINESS: Major Stock Gauges Decline 2% or More on Jobs Report
[Dow -193, Nasdaq -32] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 3, 2002)
* AOL Chief Faces Two Choices; Each Is Worse Than the Other (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 3, 2002)
Semiconductor Sales Point to Slow Recovery (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Aug. 3, 2002)
Employment Data Raise Questions About Economic Recovery (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Aug. 3, 2002)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: Most Bets Lie on a Decline in Fed Rates (By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 3, 2002)
Bottled Water Is Still Pure, but It's Not Simple Anymore (By SHERRI DAY, Aug. 3, 2002)
Musical Chairs on Tax Havens: Now It's Ireland (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Aug. 3, 2002)
* ART: With Huge Gift, the Whitney Is No Longer a Poor Cousin [$200 million]
(By CAROL VOGEL, Aug. 3, 2002)
ARTS: War Resisters: 'We Won't Go' to 'We Won't Pay' (By FELICIA R. LEE, Aug. 3, 2002)
ARTS: In Cincinnati, Art Bows to the Privacy of Death (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 3, 2002)
* BOOKS: Laurens van der Post: Master Storyteller or Master Deceiver? (By DINITIA SMITH, Aug. 3, 2002)
BOOKS: SHELF LIFE: The Mysterious Meme, a Seductive Metaphor (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Aug. 3, 2002)
MUSIC: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: A Breezy Midsummer Night's Music (By ALLAN KOZINN, Aug. 3, 2002)
MUSIC: Mostly Mozart Settles, but Concerts Are Lost (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Aug. 3, 2002)
* HEALTH: Four Are Killed in Big Outbreak of West Nile Virus on Gulf Coast
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Aug. 3, 2002)
HEALTH: Drug Agency Is Studying Ear Implants' Links to Meningitis (By PHILIP J. HILTS, Aug. 3, 2002)

Friday, August 2, 2002:
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)

* Dolores Olmedo, a Model for Diego Rivera, Dies at 88 (By JONATHAN KANDELL, Aug. 2, 2002)
Harry Walker, 85, Founder of Guest Speakers' Agency, Is Dead (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 2, 2002)
NATIONAL: Two Girls Are Found Alive 12 Hours After Kidnapping (By NICK MADIGAN, Aug. 2, 2002)
Apartment Searched Anew in F.B.I.'s Anthrax Inquiry (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Aug. 2, 2002)
F.B.I. Inquiry on 9/11 Leak Upsets Lawmakers on Committees (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Aug. 2, 2002)
* Eggs of Endangered Turtles Fall Prey to Florida Dealers (By DANA CANEDY, Aug. 2, 2002)
WORLD: Big Israeli Force Heads Into Nablus in Reprisal Raid
(By JAMES BENNET & JOEL GREENBERG, Aug. 2, 2002)
JENIN: U.N. Report Rejects Claims of a Massacre of Refugees (By JAMES BENNET, Aug. 2, 2002)
THE VICTIMS: Maelstrom Swallows 5 Americans on a Quest (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Aug. 2, 2002)
THE BOMBERS: Hamas Says It Regrets American Toll in Attack, but Hails Bombing as Success
(By JOHN KIFNER, Aug. 2, 2002)
THE UNIVERSITY: A Blow to Security, and to Tolerance (By JOEL GREENBERG, Aug. 2, 2002)
Study in Israel: American Jews Feel the Tremors (By JOSEPH BERGER with JENNIFER MEDINA, Aug. 2, 2002)
Bush Is 'Furious' at American Toll in Latest Bombing (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Aug. 2, 2002)
* SHANGHAI JOURNAL: Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor, for That Matter, Mao (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Aug. 2, 2002)
Experts Put Large Price Tag on Rebuilding of Iraq (By JAMES DAO, Aug. 2, 2002)
Iraqis, Reversing Course, Ask to Meet U.N. Arms Inspectors (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Aug. 2, 2002)
The 'Pilgrim Pope' Fondly Bids the Mexicans Farewell (By GINGER THOMPSON, Aug. 2, 2002)
10 Asian Nations Join With U.S. in Pledge to Fight Terrorism (By TODD S. PURDUM, Aug. 2, 2002)
NY REGION: Four Face Arraignment in Identity-Theft Ring (By MICHAEL WILSON, Aug. 2, 2002)
Most Jurors Thought Schwarz Aided Attack, Foreman Says (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Aug. 2, 2002)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Still Tilting at Windmills, and Fighting for Rights [Michael Ratner]
(By CHRIS HEDGES, Aug. 2, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Michaels Expects Easy Adjustment With Madden (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 2, 2002)
SPORTS: Possible Mob Link Stuns Skating (By SELENA ROBERTS, Aug. 2, 2002)
SPORTS: A World of Sports, and Trouble (By HARVEY ARATON, Aug. 2, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton's 'Real World' (NY TIMES, Aug. 2, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Judging on Thin Ice (NY TIMES, Aug. 2, 2002)
* OP-ED: Dubya's Double Dip? [recession] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Aug. 2, 2002)
OP-ED: Solidarity Helps Ensure Security (By JACQUELINE JONES, Aug. 2, 2002)
OP-ED: Will the Congo Accord Survive? (By MAKAU MUTUA, Aug. 2, 2002)
OP-ED: What Was Moussaoui's Crime? (By DAHLIA LITHWICK, Aug. 2, 2002)
LETTERS: The Days of Terror in Jerusalem (By RUTH KAPLAN, Aug. 2, 2002)
LETTERS: Is the Roof Leaking? She's the One to Call (By JERI DONNELLY, Aug. 2, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Economic Reports Are Disappointing, and Shares Plunge
[Dow -230, Nasdaq -48] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 2, 2002)
2 Ex-Officials at WorldCom Are Charged in Huge Fraud (By KURT EICHENWALD, Aug. 2, 2002)
At America Online, Old-Media Veteran in Familiar Task (By DAVID CARR with DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Aug. 2, 2002)
Wall St. Banks May Be Fined for Discarding E-Mail Traffic (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Aug. 2, 2002)
A Strategist and Cost-Cutter Seeks to Steer Citigroup Through Scandals (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Aug. 2, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Handcuffs Make Strange Politics? Not in Washington. (By STEPHEN LABATON, Aug. 2, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: Corning's Desperate Deal Destroys Value (By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 2, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Disney's Growth Lags as Offerings Fail to Draw Crowds (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Aug. 2, 2002)
As Other Markets Founder, South Korea's Remains Solid (By DON KIRK, Aug. 2, 2002)
Earlier Safety Reviews Proposed for Gene-Altered Crops (By ANDREW POLLACK, Aug. 2, 2002)
Car Sales in Surprise Jump, and G.M. Leads the Pack (By MICHELLE KREBS, Aug. 2, 2002)
ART: HÉLIO OITICICA: A Brazilian's Work in the 70's Now Looks New
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Aug. 2, 2002)
* ART: A Summer Trove of Klimt and Schiele (By By ROBERTA SMITH, Aug. 2, 2002)
ART: 'Ironic/Iconic'; 'Architecture'; Keith Haring (By HOLLAND COTTER, Aug. 2, 2002)
ARTS: The Urban and the Untamed Still Coexist in the Bronx
(By MARGARET MITTELBACH & MICHAEL CREWDSON, Aug. 2, 2002)
* INSIDE ART: Van Gogh Buys Manet (By CAROL VOGEL, Aug. 2, 2002)
* ANTIQUES: The Return of Hercules [Nemean lion] (By WENDY MOONAN, Aug. 2, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'STRAVINSKY AND BALANCHINE': One Was the Obsessive Genius, and, Oh, So Was the Other One
(By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Aug. 2, 2002)
DANCE: PILAR RIOJA: Introspective and Stormy, Spanish Style (By JACK ANDERSON, Aug. 2, 2002)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: An Actress Bears the Law's Burden [Cherry Jones]
(By DAVE KEHR, Aug. 2, 2002)
* FILM: 'SIGNS': Finding Faith, or Something, in a Field [crop circles] (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 2, 2002)
'FULL FRONTAL': Make a Movie About a Movie. Repeat. (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 2, 2002)
'THE MASTER OF DISGUISE': A Mild-Mannered Man Who Is Born to Spoof (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 2, 2002)
'MARTIN LAWRENCE LIVE: RUNTELDAT': A Comedian Offers Flashbacks and Words of Advice
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, Aug. 2, 2002)
OPERA: 'TOSCA': Imperious, Her Eyes Ablaze (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Aug. 2, 2002)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'GEORGE TICE': Creating Visual Poetry From Industrial Grit (By KEN JOHNSON, Aug. 2, 2002)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: ALFRED STIEGLITZ: The Evolution of a Perfectionist (By SARAH BOXER, Aug. 2, 2002)
POP: AREA2: Moby and Friends, Just Touring (By KELEFA SANNEH, Aug. 2, 2002)
ROCK: The Song Isn't Over for the Who, Aging but Defiant (By JON PARELES, Aug. 2, 2002)
THEATER: 'NOISES OFF': Into the Inspired Chaos Another Group Ventures (By BEN BRANTLEY, Aug. 2, 2002)
TV: 'MANCHILD': Pity the Middle-Aged Male. Just Watch Him Squirm! (By RON WERTHEIMER, Aug. 2, 2002)
TV: 'ARMADILLO': A Romantic Inside a Sharkskin Suit (By JULIE SALAMON, Aug. 2, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Ice Block Takes the Cake at a Zoo's Panda Party (NY TIMES, Aug. 2, 2002)

Thursday, August 1, 2002:
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)

Gerald Gunther, Legal Scholar and Author, Dies at 75 (By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Aug. 1, 2002)
Harold Samuels, 85, Scholar of Art Depicting the Old West, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Aug. 1, 2002)
David Maurice, Eye Specialist and Professor, 80, Dies (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 1, 2002)
* Dolores Olmedo, a Model for Diego Rivera, Dies at 93 (By REUTERS, Aug. 1, 2002)
NATIONAL: Mob Kills 2 After Truck Hits Women on a Stoop (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Aug. 1, 2002)
Train Sticks to Schedule as Commuter, Stricken, Dies (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Aug. 1, 2002)
THE BOMB SUSPECT: Movement in Suit on Custody (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Aug. 1, 2002)
* Maxfield Parrish Murals Stolen From Gallery (By RICK LYMAN, Aug. 1, 2002)
INTELLIGENCE GATHERING: Bid to Ease Spying Curbs in Terrorism (By JAMES RISEN, Aug. 1, 2002)
THE FUGITIVE: Search Starts for Man Who Said He Sold ID's to Hijackers (By ROBERT HANLEY, Aug. 1, 2002)
Because of 9/11, a Uniting River Now Divides (By JIM YARDLEY, Aug. 1, 2002)
WORLD: At Least 7 Killed as Militants Bomb Jerusalem Campus (By JAMES BENNET & JOHN KIFNER, Aug. 1, 2002)
Experts Warn of High Risk for American Invasion of Iraq (By JAMES DAO, Aug. 1, 2002)
* Bolstering Faith of Indians, Pope Gives Mexico a Saint [Juan Diego]
(By FRANK BRUNI & GINGER THOMPSON, Aug. 1, 2002)
Russian, in Recent Cafe Article, Is Slain (NY TIMES, Aug. 1, 2002)
Rare Place for Jews and Arabs to Meet (By JAMES BENNET, Aug. 1, 2002)
* LAHORE JOURNAL: Cybercafe Crackdown May Trip Up Leering Boys (By IAN FISHER, Aug. 1, 2002)
As Israel Eases Its Grip, Palestinians in Nablus Say: 'Curfew? What Curfew?' (By JOEL GREENBERG, Aug. 1, 2002)
In Powell's Tour, Brevity as the Soul of Diplomacy (By TODD S. PURDUM, Aug. 1, 2002)
Russian Man Arrested in a Plot to Fix Olympics Skating (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Aug. 1, 2002)
NY REGION: A Plan to Ship Garbage, but No Destination (By MICHAEL COOPER, Aug. 1, 2002)
In Article, Foreman in Louima Trial Says Single Juror, Appearing Biased, Blocked Conviction
(By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Aug. 1, 2002)
Last of 42nd Street's Peep Shows Closes (By MARC SANTORA, Aug. 1, 2002)
Great Idea For Trash, If It Works, Most Say (By ERIC LIPTON, Aug. 1, 2002)
Who Wins $165 Million and Yawns? Mr. Well-Off (By MARIA NEWMAN, Aug. 1, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Fragile Recovery (NY TIMES, Aug. 1, 2002)
OP-ED: 'Lawman of the Year' (By BOB HERBERT, Aug. 1, 2002)
OP-ED: One Man Can't Fix New York's Schools (By ARTHUR GREENBERG, Aug. 1, 2002)
OP-ED: In Hebron, Death and Life (By JUNE LEAVITT, Aug. 1, 2002)
* OP-ED: Solace in the Stars [a bench to meditate for those who died] (By GABRIELLA DE FERRARI, Aug. 1, 2002)
LETTERS: The Baghdad Option: A Debate Gathers Steam (TOM MUNK, Aug. 1, 2002)
LETTERS: More Than a Restaurant [Russian Tea Room] (By STUART L. LITVIN, Aug. 1, 2002)
LETTERS: The Gentle Founder [George Washington] (By MARC MAPPEN, Aug. 1, 2002)
LETTERS: Ancient Rock Huggers [geotourists] (By MARK W. GARRETT, Aug. 1, 2002)
BUSINESS: Stocks Fall Amid Renewed Fears About the Economy
[Dow -240, Nasdaq -48] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Aug. 1, 2002)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Rise Despite Disappointing Economic Report
[Dow +57, Nasdaq -16] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 1, 2002)
Questions on Halliburton Deal Under Cheney (By JEFF GERTH and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Aug. 1, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: G.E. Is Latest to Reconfigure Stock Options (By FLOYD NORRIS, Aug. 1, 2002)
MEDICINE'S MIDDLEMEN: Accusation of Conflicts at a Supplier to Hospitals (By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Aug. 1, 2002)
* U.S. Initiates Investigation of Accounting at AOL Unit (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK with SAUL HANSELL, Aug. 1, 2002)
* Buffett Is Seen Set to Invest in Williams (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Aug. 1, 2002)
* A Shift Registers in Willingness to Pay for Internet Content (By MATT RICHTEL, Aug. 1, 2002)
* ECONOMIC SCENE: Tales of Manipulation and Design (By HAL R. VARIAN, Aug. 1, 2002)
I.B.M. Opening a $2.5 Billion Specialized Chip Plant (By STEVE LOHR, Aug. 1, 2002)
Charges Are Expected in WorldCom Case (NY TIMES, Aug. 1, 2002)
New Report Shows U.S. Economy Slowed Significantly for Quarter (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Aug. 1, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Mexico's Cultural Diplomacy Aims to Win Hearts in U.S. (By STEPHEN KINZER, Aug. 1, 2002)
DANCE: FLAMENCO LATINO: A Rhythmic Flamenco Hybrid (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Aug. 1, 2002)
FILM: 'GAZA STRIP': Hard Life in Gaza, Through 13-Year-Old Eyes (By A. O. SCOTT, Aug. 1, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Mozart Players Inching Farther Out on a Limb (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Aug. 1, 2002)
A Small Theater Nurturing Big Ideas (and a Big Broadway Hit) (By MEL GUSSOW, Aug. 1, 2002)
THEATER: Drama as a DMZ in Israel (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Aug. 1, 2002)
TV: 'THE RERUN SHOW': Hindsight Makes Actors the Butt of the Jokes (By CARYN JAMES, Aug. 1, 2002)
GARDEN: FIRST LOOK: A Little Brush, Reborn (By CHEE PEARLMAN, Aug. 1, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Aug. 1, 2002)
Tablet PC Makers Embrace a Dying Art: Handwriting (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Aug. 1, 2002)
STATE OF THE ART: TV Magic, Made More Magical Still (By DAVID POGUE, Aug. 1, 2002)
For Collectors, a Race for a Space-Age Heirloom (By ROY FURCHGOTT, Aug. 1, 2002)
A Chatty Doll of a Different Kind (By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, Aug. 1, 2002)
* Clip 'n' Paste Celebrity: No-Name Web Stars (By MARCIA BIEDERMAN, Aug. 1, 2002)
BASICS: The Desktop Computer as Live-TV Recorder (By NEIL McMANUS, Aug. 1, 2002)
WHAT'S NEXT: Teaching Machines to Hear Your Prose and Your Pain (By ANNE EISENBERG, Aug. 1, 2002)
ONLINE SHOPPER: A Fee-Friendly Bank? First, Map the A.T.M.'s (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Aug. 1, 2002)
SITES: Zoom Out, Then Nosedive: A Bird's-Eye View of Your Burg (By AMIR TUSHER, Aug. 1, 2002)
PERIPHERALS: Can't Sleep on the Red-Eye? Burn a Bunch of CD's Instead (By SUSAN STELLIN, Aug. 1, 2002)
SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word Formats Brought Into Full View (By IAN AUSTEN, Aug. 1, 2002)
* Q & A: Shielding a Computer From Summer's Sizzle (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Aug. 1, 2002)
* INCOMING LETTERS: Ensnared by Google (By JORAM BORENSTEIN, et. al., Aug. 1, 2002)
HEALTH: Snakebite Advice Is Close to Snake Oil (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Aug. 1, 2002)

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