Selected Articles from The New York Times—
December 2001 (* denotes news of special interest)

Monday, December 31, 2001:
On This Day: December 31 (Jacques Cartier 12/31/1491-9/1/1557, Charles Cornwallis 12/31/1738-10/5/1805, Robert Aitken 12/31/1864-10/29/1951, George C. Marshall 12/31/1880-10/16/1959, Elizabeth Arden 12/31/1884-10/18/1966, Nathan Milstein 12/31/1903-12/21/1992, Jules Stynes 12/31/1905-9/20/1994, Simon Wiesenthal 1908, Odetta 1930, Sir Anthony Hopkins 1937, Sarah Miles 1941, Diane Von Furstenberg 1946, Donna Summer 1948, Val Kilmer 1959)
Truman Declares Hostilities Ended, Terminating Many Wartime Laws (By BERTRAM D. HULEN, December 31, 1946)
* Art World Mourns Henri Matisse, Dead at Home in Nice at Age of 84 [12/31/1869-11/3/1954] (NY Times, November 4, 1954)
Reginald Pollack, Painter Known on Both Coasts, Dies at 77 (NY TIMES, Dec. 31, 2001)
* Walter John Moore, Chemist and Honored Biographer, 83, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 31, 2001)
Theodore J. Labrecque Jr., 70, a Judge in High-Profile Trials, Dies (By LAURA MANSNERUS, Dec. 31, 2001)
John W. Taylor, 95, Ex-Unesco Official (NY TIMES, Dec. 31, 2001)
In a Town Built Almost Entirely on Tourism, Business Booms (NY TIMES, Dec. 31, 2001)
I.R.S. Help by Phone Is Slower and Often Wrong, Study Finds (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 31, 2001)
AIRPORT SECURITY: Travelers Wait as Officials Check Threats (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 31, 2001)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: President's Own Brand of Privacy on the Prairie (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 31, 2001)
New Year Resolutions in a More Serious Vein After Sept. 11 (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 31, 2001)
HILLSIDE JOURNAL: The Bulls? Perhaps the Calves [future basketball stars] (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Dec. 31, 2001)
PORTRAITS OF GRIEF: Closing a Scrapbook Full of Life and Sorrow (By JANNY SCOTT, Dec. 31, 2001)
WORLD: Argentina's Interim Chief Resigns as Support Vanishes (By LARRY ROHTER, Dec. 31, 2001)
WORLD: REPORTER'S DIARY: Two Worlds Paired by War (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 31, 2001)
MILITARY: Airborne Troops Relieving Marines at Kandahar Base (By JAMES DAO, Dec. 31, 2001)
RISE AND FALL: The Legacy of the Taliban Is a Sad and Broken Land (By DEXTER FILKINS, Dec. 31, 2001)
QAEDA DIPLOMACY: Bin Laden Sought Iran as an Ally, U.S. Intelligence Documents Say
(By JAMES RISEN, Dec. 31, 2001)
PROMISES: Kabul Families Are Paying Dearly for Taliban Marriages (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 31, 2001)
LOCAL HOSPITALITY: Tribal Area of Pakistan Gives Refuge to Qaeda Fighters Fleeing Caves
(By BARRY BEARAK, Dec. 31, 2001)
Pakistan Is Reported to Have Arrested Militant Leader (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 31, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Screaming Eagles, War Perspectives (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Dec. 31, 2001)
ISTANBUL JOURNAL: Lambs to the Slaughter, but Out of Sight, Please (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Dec. 31, 2001)
An Inferno Fueled by Fireworks Kills 240 in Lima (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 31, 2001)
* Reluctance in Greece to Let Go of the Coin of History (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Dec. 31, 2001)
Banks in Europe Scramble to Fill Automated Tellers With Euros by Midnight (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Dec. 31, 2001)
2 Christians Ordered to Die as China Acts Against a Sect (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 31, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Bloomberg Chooses Head of Fire Dept. (By MICHAEL COOPER, Dec. 31, 2001)
THE GIULIANI YEARS: A Man Who Became More Than a Mayor (By DAN BARRY, Dec. 31, 2001)
HISTORY: La Guardia's Legacy Is Formidable, but It May Be Surpassed (By SAM ROBERTS, Dec. 31, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Reborn City, Stamped 'Giuliani' (By JIM DWYER, Dec. 31, 2001)
Panel Weighs New Methods for Security in Times Square (By TERRY PRISTIN, Dec. 31, 2001)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary [2002 poems & "plastic surgery"] (By ENID NEMY, Dec. 31, 2001)
* THE SITE: A Viewing Stand Brings Pilgrims to Ground Zero (By MICHAEL COOPER, Dec. 31, 2001)
Borscht, Please, With a Side of Sushi (By SARAH KERSHAW, Dec. 31, 2001)
EDITORIAL: At Year's End [9/11 was the 254th day of the year] (NY TIMES, Dec. 31, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: American Exceptionalism as a Matter of Sport [soccer] (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Dec. 31, 2001)
OP-ED: Oh, You '02 [war on terrorism] (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 31, 2001)
OP-ED: A Family Tale (By BOB HERBERT, Dec. 31, 2001)
* OP-ED: Words Fail, Memory Blurs, Life Wins (By JOYCE CAROL OATES, Dec. 31, 2001)
OP-ED: The Rules of War Can't Protect Al Qaeda (By RUTH WEDGWOOD, Dec. 31, 2001)
* LETTERS: Finding a Way to Say No to Spam (By PERRY CHAPMAN, et. al, Dec. 31, 2001)
Qatar Oil Minister Is Predicting a Price of $20 to $22 a Barrel (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 31, 2001)
TECHNOLOGY: Internet Leash Can Monitor Sex Offenders (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 31, 2001)
In the U.S., Interactive TV Still Awaits an Audience (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Dec. 31, 2001)
New View of the Map at Cable and Wireless (By SIMON ROMERO, Dec. 31, 2001)
PATENTS: New Patent Office Has Old Goal [2 year processing time] (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Dec. 31, 2001)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Expansion Sought for Online Games (By BOB TEDESCHI, Dec. 31, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Exhibit Urges Easier-to-Read Ads (By ALLISON FASS, Dec. 31, 2001)
* A Watch List for 2002 [Technology & Media Trends to Watch] (NY TIMES, Dec. 31, 2001)
* COMPUTING: Uncertain Deal Is Key to Fate of Executive [HP-Compaq] (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 31, 2001)
CYBERSECURITY: Threat of Terrorism on U.S. Infrastructure (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 31, 2001)
E-COMMERCE: Players Left Standing Now Seek Viability (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 31, 2001)
WORLD WIDE WEB: Using the Voice to Tour the Internet (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 31, 2001)
BOOKS: A Hit Factory Loses Its Chief Hit Maker (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 31, 2001)
* CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The Fifth 'Potter' Raises Questions (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 31, 2001)
ART CRITIC: London Revels in Art, Cheeky or Grandiose (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Dec. 31, 2001)
BOOKS: 'WIDE BLUE YONDER': A Life Guided by the Weather Channel (By JANET MASLIN, Dec. 31, 2001)
FILM: Box Office Was Busy, and Potter Was King (By RICK LYMAN, Dec. 31, 2001)
In a Muddled Year, Many Films Have Reason for Oscar Dreams (By RICK LYMAN, Dec. 31, 2001)
FILM: 'LUSH': The Hair of the Dog Is This Man's Best Friend (By, Dec. 31, 2001)
OPERA: 'DON CARLO': When a Son Falls in Love With Dad's Intended (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 31, 2001)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: After 6 Novels in 12 Years, a Character Just Moves On (By JAMES SALLIS, Dec. 31, 2001)

Sunday, December 30, 2001:
On This Day: December 30 (John Milne 12/30/1850-7/30/1913, Asa Griggs Candler 12/30/1851-3/12/1929, Rudyard Kipling 12/30/1865-1/18/1936, Ramana Maharshi 12/30/1879-4/14/1950, Alfred Einstein 12/30/1880-2/13/1952, Sir Carol Reed 12/30/1906-4/25/1976, Bert Parks 12/30/1914-2/2/1992, Bo Diddley 1928, Paul Stookey 1937, Davy Jones 1945, Patti Smith 1946, Matt Lauer 1957, Tracey Ullman 1959, Tiger Woods 1975)
Nixon Orders a Halt In Bombing of North Above 20th Parallel (By BERNARD GWERTZMAN, December 30, 1972)
Alfred E. Smith Dies Here at 70; 4 Times Governor [12/30/1873-10/4/1944] (NY Times, October 4, 1944)
Hank Soar, Former Umpire and Football Back, Dies at 87 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Dec. 30, 2001)
C. K. McSherry, 70, Innovator in Gallstone Removal Method (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Janice Farrar Thaddeus, 68, Scholar and Harvard Lecturer, Is Dead
["When Women Look at Men"] (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Dec. 30, 2001)
Theodore Labrecque Jr., 70, Judge in High-Profile Trials, Dies (By LAURA MANSNERUS, Dec. 30, 2001)
NATIONAL: Officials to Ease Requirements on Hiring of Airline Screeners (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Dec. 30, 2001)
MISSED SIGNALS: Many Say U.S. Planned for Terror but Failed to Take Action (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE PRESIDENT: At First Year's End, Bush Cites Both Victories and Challenges (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE MARSHALS: Training Methods Are Updated for Expanding Sky Marshal Program
(By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Ingenuity's Blueprints, Into History's Dustbin [destroying paper Patents documents]
(By ALISON MITCHELL, Dec. 30, 2001)
* New Year Resolutions in a More Serious Vein (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 30, 2001)
WORLD: India Builds Up Forces as Bush Urges Calm (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 30, 2001)
India's Leader Continues Accusing Pakistan of Terror (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Dec. 30, 2001)
NEW PRIORITIES: Hunt for bin Laden Loses Steam as Winter Grips Afghan Caves
(By ERIC SCHMITT with MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 30, 2001)
TALIBAN: Northern Prison Sealed Off as Americans Pick Inmates for Interrogation in South (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 30, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: the Search, Reading the Tea Leaves, Securing the Skies (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Portugal Is Losing a History Told in Bank Notes (By ALAN COWELL, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE MULLAH: Foes of Taliban Say They Will Soon Mount a Drive to Capture Its Leader
(By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 30, 2001)
For Many Burmese, China Is an Unwanted Ally (By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 30, 2001)
* N.Y. REGION: After Sept. 11, New Year's Rituals Take On a New Poignancy (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Dec. 30, 2001)
GROUND ZERO: First Viewing Platform Opens to the Public (By DIANE CARDWELL, Dec. 30, 2001)
POLITICAL MEMO: Opening Jan. 1: Mayor Bloomberg, Unedited (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Dec. 30, 2001)
BIOTERRORISM: Anthrax Resurfaces at a Manhattan Post Office (By ALAN FEUER, Dec. 30, 2001)
Giuliani Looks Back With Just One Regret (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Dec. 30, 2001)
For Some, Lives in the Shadows Ended in Attack, Indiscernibly (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Dec. 30, 2001)
OUR TOWNS: Forget Peace on Earth. Just Stop the Back-Seat Bickering (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Dec. 30, 2001)
BUFFALO JOURNAL: In Nearly 7 Feet of Snow, Advice: Fuggedaboudit (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
EDITORIAL: NEW YORK CHANGES COMMAND: Mayor Giuliani Bows Out (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mayor Bloomberg Bows In (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
* OP-ED: When Bad Things Happen to Good Children (By MAUREEN DOWD, Dec. 30, 2001)
OP-ED: What New Yorkers Want From Their Next Mayor (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
LETTERS: Social Security: Why Not Fix It? (By HARRIET BROWN, et. al., Dec. 30, 2001)
* LETTERS: Deciding the Future of Sacred Ground (By GINETTE CAHILL, et, al., Dec. 30, 2001)
LETTERS: Giuliani's Moment (By JACK COLE, Dec. 30, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Even the Smartest Money Can Slip Up (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Dec. 30, 2001)
Suddenly, Uncle Sam Wants to Bankroll You (By AMY CORTESE, Dec. 30, 2001)
Recession, Then a Boom? Maybe Not This Time (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Back to the Fold: From Dot-Com to Dad and Mom (By ABBY ELLIN, Dec. 30, 2001)
Deal Makers Are Hoping for a Livelier 2002 (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 30, 2001)
MARKET WATCH: A Roster of Awards Better Off Unawarded (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Dec. 30, 2001)
PRIVATE SECTOR: An All-Out Fighter for Primacy at Sea [cruise ships] (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Dec. 30, 2001)
In Uncertain Times, Where Can Mergers Thrive? (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 30, 2001)
Yes, There Are Still Optimists in Japan (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 30, 2001)
* MARKET INSIGHT: Turnaround Prospects After Two Bad Years (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Dec. 30, 2001)
* STRATEGIES: Why the Best Action Is Often No Action at All (By MARK HULBERT, Dec. 30, 2001)
INVESTING WITH J. Dennis Delafield and Vincent Sellecchia of the Delafield Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Dec. 30, 2001)
The New Year Is Bringing New Breaks for Taxpayers (By JAN M. ROSEN, Dec. 30, 2001)
MY MONEY, MY LIFE: To Be Young, Eager and Unwanted (By ANNA BLUMENTHAL, Dec. 30, 2001)
BUSINESS DIARY: No Claim Is Too Small in a Huge Bankruptcy (By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN, Dec. 30, 2001)
INVESTING DIARY: S.E.C. Inspection Finds Amex Rules Lack Teeth (By ALEX BERENSON, Dec. 30, 2001)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Severance Packages Growing, Survey Finds (By VIVIAN MARINO, Dec. 30, 2001)
ARTS & LEISURE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE YEAR IN ART: Offering Beauty, and Then Proof That Life Goes On (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE YEAR IN ARCHITECTURE: The Deadly Importance of Making Distinctions (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE YEAR IN CLASSICAL MUSIC: Of Necessity, Thoughts Turned to Purpose and Relevance
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE YEAR IN DANCE: Amid the Familiar, Welcome Hints of the Strange (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE YEAR IN MOVIES: An Industry Motivated, More Than Ever, By Fear (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE YEAR IN POP MUSIC: Blasted From Its Self-Absorption, at Least for Now
(By JON PARELES, Dec. 30, 2001)
THE YEAR IN THEATER: Plenty of Signs That the Show Is Still the Thing (By BEN BRANTLEY, Dec. 30, 2001)
* THE YEAR IN TV: Anchors Mattered Again, and 'Survivor' Didn't (By CARYN JAMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
* ARTS: 2001's Lessons: We Must Go On; We Can Go On (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Dec. 30, 2001)
ARTS: Cabinets, Ancient and New, Full of Wonder for the Eyes (By DAVID HOCHMAN, Dec. 30, 2001)
* ARTS: Letters: Isadora Duncan [humor in modern dance] (By PETER KURTH, et. al., Dec. 30, 2001)
DANCE: Bringing to Light the Stresses of War (By SHAYNA SAMUELS, Dec. 30, 2001)
* FILM: THE YEAR IN MOVIES: The Dark Excitements of 1971 (By DAVID THOMSON, Dec. 30, 2001)
FILM: Warily Adapting a Scary Book ["The Shipping News"] (By ERICA ABEEL, Dec. 30, 2001)
FILM: Now in America, the Films of the Soviet Walt Disney (By NANCY RAMSEY, Dec. 30, 2001)
MUSIC: Minimal Forces, Maximal Bach (By ERIC VAN TASSEL, Dec. 30, 2001)
MUSIC: Filling Handel's House, Once Again, With Music (By MICHAEL WHITE, Dec. 30, 2001)
MUSIC: An American Minimalist Who Can Stir the Soul (By ADAM SHATZ, Dec. 30, 2001)
* RADIO: Terry Gross of NPR Proves the Value of a Voice in the Dark (By ORVILLE SCHELL, Dec. 30, 2001)
THEATER: Given Permission to Be Different, and Still Taking It (By RICHARD FOREMAN, Dec. 30, 2001)
THEATER: The Actors Who Make History Live (By NAHMA SANDROW, Dec. 30, 2001)
STYLE: The Fine Art of Being a Homebody (By KATE BETTS, Dec. 30, 2001)
FASHION: Need a Ratings Boost? Bring on the Makeovers (By RUTH LA FERLA, Dec. 30, 2001)
MIRROR, MIRROR: Black Is the New Black (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Scott Cohen: "There's Whatshisname" (By LINDA LEE, Dec. 30, 2001)
STYLE: ON THE STREET: The Christmas Parade (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Dec. 30, 2001)
VOWS: Katie Weinberg and Patrick Schumacher (By JENNY ALLEN, Dec. 30, 2001)
* WEEK IN REVIEW: No End in Sight [seeking closure at WTC & 9/11] (By JIM DWYER, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Comes With Batteries. Not a Shrink [talking Furbys] (By JENNY LYN BADER, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Twenty-Oh-Brother [pronouncing 2002] (By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Minds Over Money (By ROBERT PEAR, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Caution: This Weapon May Backfire [Israel, India, Islam] (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Dec. 30, 2001)
Taking on Republicans, but Not Their Leader (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Dec. 30, 2001)
Guns and Butter (By JULIAN E. ZELIZER, Dec. 30, 2001)
For These Artists, Characters Were Fate (By KARI HASKELL, Dec. 30, 2001)
In Death's Shadow, Valuing Each Life (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Dec. 30, 2001)
The bin Laden Video Club Presents (By BRUCE McCALL, Dec. 30, 2001)
A Business Plan for Islam Inc (By JOSEPH KAHN, Dec. 30, 2001)
* At the End of a Decade [Death of Soviet Union on 12-25-1991] (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Dec. 30, 2001)
* WEEK IN REVIEW: (Mid) East Meets (Far) East (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Dec. 30, 2001)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
* INTRODUCTION: The Lives They Lived (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
DAVID MCTAGGART, B. 1932: The Radical Do-Gooder [Greenpeace] (Interview by NED MARTEL, Dec. 30, 2001)
ARTHUR WORSLEY, B. 1920: Suffering Silently [ventriloquist] (By BEN YAGODA, Dec. 30, 2001)
WILLIAM HANNA, B. 1910: Stone-Age Visionary [Flintstones cartoonist] (By ERIC P. NASH, Dec. 30, 2001)
LOUIS FAURER, B. 1916: Friends Through the Lens (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Dec. 30, 2001)
* 3,225 (AT LAST COUNT), D. SEPT. 11, 2001: Order of Magnitude (By MARGARET TALBOT, Dec. 30, 2001)
ROBERT LUDLUM, B. 1927: Short. Punchy. [his novels have sold 290 million copies] (By COLIN HARRISON, Dec. 30, 2001)
PERRY COMO, B. 1912; TROY DONAHUE, B. 1936: Pretty Boys (By FRANK RICH, Dec. 30, 2001)
NGUYEN VAN THIEU, B. 1924: Exile on Newberry Street [bad horoscope] (By THOMAS A. BASS, Dec. 30, 2001)
ELAINE DANNHEISSER, B. 1923: Nouveau Collector [art collector] (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Dec. 30, 2001)
* ROSE FREEDMAN, B. 1893: Out of The Fire [at 107, she learned Spanish, her 7th language]
(By ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN, Dec. 30, 2001)
* EUDORA WELTY, B. 1909; DALE EARNHARDT, B. 1951: Southern Comforts [writer; racecar driver]
(By ANN PATCHETT, Dec. 30, 2001)
* ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, B. 1906: The Heroine [writer with self doubt] (By ROBERT PLUNKET, Dec. 30, 2001)
FRED HOYLE, B. 1915: Ba-Da Bang [astrophysicist] (By RICHARD POWERS, Dec. 30, 2001)
ADOLPH LEVIS, B. 1911: A Tricky Stick [Slim Jim sausage] (By MANNY HOWARD, Dec. 30, 2001)
PAUL WARNKE, B. 1920: A Separate Peacenick [pacifist] (By BILL KELLER, Dec. 30, 2001)
MORTON DOWNEY JR., B. 1933: Pants on Fire [talk-show host] (By REBECCA JOHNSON, Dec. 30, 2001)
ARNOLD HUTSCHNECKER, B. 1898: A Shrink in Paradise [psychoanalyst] (By TONY KUSHNER, Dec. 30, 2001)
AUDREY WITHERS, B. 1905: Puttin' On the Blitz [British Vogue] (By AMY M. SPINDLER, Dec. 30, 2001)
HELGE INGSTAD, B. 1899: The Latter-Day Viking [explorer] (By JANE SMILEY, Dec. 30, 2001)
JOE SLOWINSKI, B. 1962: Bitten [herpetologist] (By ROBERT SULLIVAN, Dec. 30, 2001)
CLIFFORD KEITH HILLEGASS, B. 1918: The Plot Thins [Cliff Notes] (By FRANCINE PROSE, Dec. 30, 2001)
MELVIN BURKHART, B. 1907: Life as a Blockhead [Anatomical Wonder] (By ELIZABETH GILBERT, Dec. 30, 2001)
ROGER STARR, B. 1918: The Contrarian [NY Times editorial writer] (By JACK ROSENTHAL, Dec. 30, 2001)
* CLAUDE SHANNON, B. 1916: Bit Player [Information theory] (By JAMES GLEICK, Dec. 30, 2001)
TOMMIE AGEE, B. 1942: The Catch (By JEFF MERRON, Dec. 30, 2001)
LIVES: ETAN PATZ, B. 1972: Seeing Etan [lost boy 1979] (By AMANDA STERN, Dec. 30, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 30, 2001)
* 'Isadora': Making Sense of a Genius and an Icon (By ROBERT GOTTLIEB, Dec. 30, 2001)
* 'Wittgenstein's Poker': Reconstructing a Legendary Debate (By JIM HOLT, Dec. 30, 2001)
'Reaching for Glory': The Workings of Lyndon Johnson's Mind (By GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, Dec. 30, 2001)
'Wide Blue Yonder': A Feminist Fairy Tale (By LISA ZEIDNER, Dec. 30, 2001)
* Christopher Wren: The Architect as Manager (By JAMES F. O'GORMAN, Dec. 30, 2001)
Brooks Haxton's Poems Range From High Lyrical to Low Cynical
["Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero"] (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Dec. 30, 2001)
Books in Brief: Michael Korda, 'Making the List' [best-sellers] (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 30, 2001)
John Richardson, 'Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters' [art gossips] (By MINNA PROCTOR, Dec. 30, 2001)
* THE CLOSE READER: The Moviegoer [Robert Warshow, film critic for Commentary & Partisan Review]
(By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Dec. 30, 2001)
HEALTH: With Ignorance as the Fuel, AIDS Speeds Across China (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Dec. 30, 2001)
* HEALTH: Questions Grow Over Usefulness of Some Routine Cancer Tests (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 30, 2001)

Saturday, December 29, 2001:
On This Day: December 29 (Jeanne-Antoinette Pompadour 12/29/1721-4/15/1764, Charles Macintosh 12/29/1766-7/25/1843, Charles Goodyear 12/29/1800-7/1/1860, William Gladstone 12/29/1809-5/19/1898, Pablo Casals 12/29/1876-10/22/1973, Jess Willard 12/29/1881-12/15/1968, William Gaddis 12/29/1922-12/16/1998, Tom Jarriel 1934, Mary Tyler Moore 1937, Jon Voight 1938, Marianne Faithfull 1946, Ted Danson 1947)
Nazis Bombings Set Big London Fires: Flames Leap High (By RAYMOND DANIELL, December 29, 1940)
Andrew Johnson Dead at 66 [12/29/1808-7/31/1875] (NY Times, August 1, 1875)
Edward Jordan, Chief of Conrail, Dies at 72 (By DAVID STOUT, Dec. 29, 2001)
Dr. George H. Humphreys II, 98, a Pioneer in Pediatric Surgery, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 29, 2001)
Lance Loud, 50, Part of Family Documentary, Is Dead (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Dec. 29, 2001)
Msgr. Bryan Oliver Walsh, 71, Dies; Led Effort to Aid Cuban Children (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 29, 2001)
Msgr. Mattia Pei Shangde, 83, Unofficial Bishop of Beijing (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 29, 2001)
NATIONAL: U.S. Arabs, Spurred on by Inquiry, Set Museum (By DANNY HAKIM, Dec. 29, 2001)
EDUCATION: At Odds With Harvard President, Black-Studies Stars Eye Princeton (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Dec. 29, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: Shoes Were a 'Homemade Bomb,' F.B.I. Agent Says
(By PAM BELLUCK with KENNETH CHANG, Dec. 29, 2001)
Salt Lake City Prepares for Protests at Winter Olympics (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Dec. 29, 2001)
Senate Offices Hard to Cleanse of Spores (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 29, 2001)
THE MEDIA: A Handful of the Bereaved Become Advocates for All (By JIM RUTENBERG, Dec. 29, 2001)
* BELIEFS: A Religious Alternative to Billable Hours [lawyer's fees] (By PETER STEINFELS, Dec. 29, 2001)
WORLD: U.S. Forces Facing Long Afghan Stay, President Asserts (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 29, 2001)
MILITARY STRATEGY: 'New' U.S. War: Commandos, Airstrikes and Allies on the Ground
(By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 29, 2001)
Pakistan Moves Against Groups Named by India (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 29, 2001)
JAILED BRITON: The Shadowy Trail and Shift to Islam of a Bomb Suspect (By ALAN COWELL, Dec. 29, 2001)
HUNTING FUGITIVES: Afghans and Pakistanis at Odds on Whereabouts of bin Laden; Bombing Is Waning
(By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 29, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Views From Afghanistan, Shoe Bomb Testimony, the Terrorist List (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Dec. 29, 2001)
* Italy Offers Heartfelt 'Benvenuto' to Euro (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Dec. 29, 2001)
Land of Alluring Beauty, Contradictions and Death [Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan]
(By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 29, 2001)
DIARIES: Reporters in Afghanistan: Fear, Numbness and Being a Spectacle (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 29, 2001)
OKAVANGO DELTA JOURNAL: A Sleepy River's People Fight to Keep Old Ways [Botswana]
(By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Dec. 29, 2001)
In Indonesia, Once Tolerant Islam Grows Rigid (By SETH MYDANS, Dec. 29, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Giuliani Presents Deal on Stadiums (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER & RICHARD SANDOMIR, Dec. 29, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Holiday Rush on Streets Takes Swift, Deadly Turn (By JANE GROSS, Dec. 29, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Under Snow, Buffalo Awaits Help [82.3 inches of snow in 5 days]
(By TINA KELLEY, Dec. 29, 2001)
Police Prepare Tight Security for Revelers in Times Square [half-million crowd]
(By JACOB H. FRIES, Dec. 29, 2001)
F.B.I. Seeks Suspect in A.T.M. Scheme [$5 million stolen] (NY TIMES, Dec. 29, 2001)
* TOURISM: Pilgrimage to New York City: Paying Respects and Spending Little (By SUSAN SAULNY, Dec. 29, 2001)
SPORTS: David Wells Close to Signing With Yanks (By MURRAY CHASS, Dec. 30, 2001)
EDITORIAL: How to Try a Terrorist (NY TIMES, Dec. 29, 2001)
* EDITORIAL: The Chicken Light (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Dec. 29, 2001)
OP-ED: Missile Defense: The Untold Story (By BILL KELLER, Dec. 29, 2001)
OP-ED: It Won't Be Easy to Convict John Walker (By LEON FRIEDMAN, Dec. 29, 2001)
OP-ED: How to Define a Muslim American Agenda (By MOHAMMED AYOOB, Dec. 29, 2001)
LETTERS: Share the Burden of Homelessness (By Rev. PETER R. POWELL, Dec. 29, 2001)
LETTERS: Why Suing Japan Is Not a Good Idea (By DANI SCHWARTZ, et. al., Dec. 29, 2001)
BUSINESS: A Rise in Consumer Confidence Helps to Push Up Shares
[Dow +6, Nasdaq +11] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 29, 2001)
THE ECONOMY: Positive Reports Hint at Swift Recovery (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Dec. 29, 2001)
OPEC to Cut Back Production by 6.5% for at Least 6 Months (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 29, 2001)
U.S. Inquiry Is Raising Speculation in Hollywood (By LAURA M. HOLSON with RICK LYMAN, Dec. 29, 2001)
Top Lucent Officers Won't Get Annual Bonuses (ASSOCITED PRESS, Dec. 29, 2001)
* ART: In Raphael Exhibition, Women Do the Talking (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 29, 2001)
ART: A Tantrum Over Art in Memphis (By ADAM NOSSITER, Dec. 29, 2001)
BOOKS: Publishing's Lords of Lunch, Sharing One (By MEL GUSSOW, Dec. 29, 2001)
* BOOKS: SHELF LIFE: The Story of Islam's Gift of Paper to the West (By HOLLAND COTTER, Dec. 29, 2001)
* BOOKS: Comics Turning Tragedy Into Tribute (By JULIE LEW, Dec. 29, 2001)
FILM: En Garde! The Master Who Puts the Swords in the Hands of the Stars [Tolkien]
(By RICHARD COHEN, Dec. 29, 2001)
ROCK: LLOYD COLE: Songwriter With an Eye for Detail (By JON PARELES, Dec. 29, 2001)
TV: Therapists Go Crazy for Tony Soprano's (By SARAH BOXER, Dec. 29, 2001)

Friday, December 28, 2001:
On This Day: December 28 (Thomas Henderson 12/28/1798-11/23/1844, Edward Burnham 12/28/1833-1/9/1916, Woodrow Wilson 12/28/1856-2/3/1924, William Draper Harkins 12/28/1873-3/7/1951, Sir Arthur Eddington 12/28/1882-11/22/1944, Lew Ayres 12/28/1908-12/30/1996, Manuel Puig 12/28/1932-7/22/1990, Lou Jacobi 1913, Johnny Otis 1921, Maggie Smith 1934, Denzel Washington 1954)
First 'Test-Tube' Baby Born in U.S., Joining Successes Around World (By WALTER SULLIVAN, December 28, 1981)
Earl Hines, 77, Father of Modern Jazz Piano, Dies [12/28/1905-4/22/1983] (By JON PARELES, April 24, 1983)
Howard M. Squadron, 75, Influential Lawyer, Dies (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 28, 2001)
* Edward Downes, Opera Quizmaster, Dies at 90 (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 28, 2001)
Richie Bry, a Sports Agent for 3 Decades, Dies at 67 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 28, 2001)
NATIONAL: Bush Says bin Laden Will Not Escape (By DAVID STOUT, Dec. 28, 2001)
NATIONAL: Girl Abducted at Bus Station Is Found in West Virginia (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE MILITARY TRIBUNALS: Rules on Tribunal Require Unanimity on Death Penalty
(By NEIL A. LEWIS, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE DETENTION CAMP: U.S. to Hold Taliban Detainees in `the Least Worst Place' (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 28, 2001)
FLIGHT CREWS: As Security Demands Grow, Street Smarts Take to the Air
(By DANA CANEDY with KATHERINE E. FINKELSTEIN, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE DETAINEES: Cleared After Terror Sweep, Trying to Get His Life Back (By TAMAR LEWIN, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT AGENT: Airline Denies Ethnic Profiling Kept Bush Guard Off Flight (NY TIMES, Dec. 28, 2001)
WORLD: India and Pakistan Add to War Footing (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE FUGITIVE: Bin Laden Fled Into Pakistan, Afghans Report (By AMY WALDMAN with ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE NEW TAPE: Terror Tape Was Delivered by Express (By JAMES RISEN, Dec. 28, 2001)
TEXT: Excerpts From bin Laden Videotape (NY TIMES, Dec. 28, 2001)
MISSED SIGNALS: Terror Cells Slip Through Europe's Grasp (By STEVEN ERLANGER and CHRIS HEDGES, Dec. 28, 2001)
DISPUTED ATTACK: Debate Over U.S. Raid on Convoy Exposes Fluid Loyalties in Area Shaken by War
(By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 28, 2001)
In Shift, Chinese Carry Out Executions by Lethal Injection (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 28, 2001)
Afghan Warlords and Bandits Are Back in Business (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE FOREIGN SOLDIER: Body Confirms Suspicions About Frenchmen in Al Qaeda (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 28, 2001)
SHOE-BOMB SUSPECT: Reports Narrow Down Movements of Man With the Plastic Explosives (By ALAN COWELL, Dec. 28, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: The Bombs' Toll, the Sneakers' Trail, Giuliani's Vision (By ANTHONY DePALMA, Dec. 28, 2001)
For 12 Nations at Midnight Monday: 'Happy Euro Year!' (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS ANTHONY DePALMA, Dec. 28, 2001)
NY REGION: In Final Address, Giuliani Envisions Soaring Memorial (By DIANE CARDWELL, Dec. 28, 2001)
NY REGION: 6 Killed in Herald Square by Out-of-Control Van (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Dec. 28, 2001)
How to Celebrate the New Year When the City Is Still Wounded (By SUSAN SAULNY, Dec. 28, 2001)
Playing the 'Jersey Card,' Firms in Manhattan Compare Incentives (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE FEDERAL FUND: Official Vows All Families Will Get Some Assistance (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Dec. 28, 2001)
Miss America: Atlantic City Gets Pageant 1 More Year (NY TIMES, Dec. 28, 2001)
OBJECTS/ THE STROLLER: Another New York Example of the Kindness of Strangers (By JIM DWYER, Dec. 28, 2001)
Happy Ending Blurs Into Tale of Lies [Sanae Zahani] (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Dec. 28, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Young Journalist Grows Up to Develop New Ones [Keith Hefner] (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Dec. 28, 2001)
SPORTS: Mets Make Last Tweak and Land Mo Vaughn (By MURRAY CHASS, Dec. 28, 2001)
* SPORTS: For Tara Lipinski, Skating Isn't All-Consuming [Vaness's dream of explosion 9/10]
(By AMY ROSEWATER, Dec. 28, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Turbulent First Year (NY TIMES, Dec. 28, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Discounting Christmas (NY TIMES, Dec. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: This Is Not a Test (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Dec. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: Could've Been Worse (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: The U.S. Must Strike at Saddam Hussein (By RICHARD PERLE, Dec. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: India Is Ready to Defend Itself (By BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Dec. 28, 2001)
LETTERS: What Fate for Mullah Omar? (By JACK DRESCHER, et. al., Dec. 28, 2001)
BUSINESS: Gains for Chip Makers and Retailers Lift Major Gauges
[Dow +42, Nasdaq +16] (By REUTERS, Dec. 28, 2001)
FLOYD NORRIS: JDS Set the Record, but It May Not Be 2001's Biggest Loser (By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 28, 2001)
Hewlett Heir in New Action Against Merger (By CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 28, 2001)
TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo Wins Race for HotJobs as TMP Declines to Raise Bid (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 28, 2001)
The Yen's Relentless Downhill Slide (By JAMES BROOKE, Dec. 28, 2001)
ADVERTISING: In Marketing, Much Wheat and More Chaff (By STUART ELLIOTT, Dec. 28, 2001)
BUSINESS: U.S. Sues Allstate, Whose Agents Cite Age Discrimination (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Dec. 28, 2001)
* ART: 'ART AND HOME': Keeping Up With the van Hoogstratens in the 17th-Century Netherlands
(By GRACE GLUECK, Dec. 28, 2001)
ART: JUAN MUÑOZ: Theatrical Environments, Punctuated by Surprises (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 28, 2001)
ART: IN THE STUDIO WITH SUE WILLIAMS: In a Cheerful Groove, With a Plan and Serendipity
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Dec. 28, 2001)
ART CRITIC: When a Year Becomes an Old Acquaintance (By JON PARELES, Dec. 28, 2001)
INSIDE ART: Sculptures Indoors and Out (By CAROL VOGEL, Dec. 28, 2001)
ANTIQUES: To the Victor Belongs the Cup (By WENDY MOONAN, Dec. 28, 2001)
BOOKS: 'SCHNITZLER'S CENTURY': The Victorians Did Know About the Birds and the Bees
(By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 28, 2001)
FILM: 'I AM SAM: A Retarded Man Tries to Keep His Child (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 28, 2001)
FILM: 'BLACK HAWK DOWN': Mission of Mercy Goes Bad in Africa (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 28, 2001)
FILM: 'CHARLOTTE GRAY': She Does What She Must for Her Cause (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 28, 2001)
FILM: 'DARK BLUE WORLD': War's Dogfights, and Even a Real Dog (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 28, 2001)
AT THE MOVIES: Down to Earth in 'Gosford Park' (By DAVE KEHR, Dec. 28, 2001)
MUSIC: PETER SCHICKELE: Well-Earned Obscurity Eludes Bach Scion (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 28, 2001)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: ESTHER BOISE VAN DEMAN: Studying Ancient Ruins With the Eye of a Poet
(By MARGARETT LOKE, Dec. 28, 2001)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: Little Things That Count (By JESSE McKINLEY, Dec. 28, 2001)
THEATER: 'ARMS AND THE MAN': Shaw Fixes the Balkans in a Gimlet Eye (By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Dec. 28, 2001)
TV: 'SCOTCH AND MILK': Noir Indeed Is the Night, So Very Dark and Stormy (By ANITA GATES, Dec. 28, 2001)
THE OUTSIDER: A Skier's Quest for Snow (By JAMES GORMAN, Dec. 28, 2001)

Thursday, December 27, 2001:
On This Day: December 27 (Johannes Kepler 12/27/1571-11/15/1630, Sir George Cayley 12/27/1773-12/15/1857, Louis Pasteur 12/27/1822-9/28/1895, Cyrus Eaton 12/27/1883-5/9/1949, Louis Bromfield 12/27/1896-3/18/1956, Inga Swenson 1932, Cokie Roberts 1943, Tracy Nelson 1944, Gerard Depardieu 1948, Arthur Kent 1953)
Afghan President Is Ousted and Executed in Kabul Coup, Reportedly With Soviet Help (By BERNARD GWERTZMAN, December 27, 1979)
* Marlene Dietrich, 90, Symbol of Glamour, Dies [12/27/1901-5/6/1992] (By PETER B. FLINT, May 7, 1992)
Harvey Martin, Defensive Star for Cowboys, Dies at 51 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Dec. 27, 2001)
Catherine Voorsanger, Curator at the Metropolitan, Dead at 51 (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 27, 2001)
Nigel Hawthorne, Schemer of Television's 'Yes, Minister,' Dead at 72 (NY TIMES, Dec. 27, 2001)
THE THWARTED ATTACK: Passenger With Shoe Bombs First Only Raised Eyebrows (By KATE ZERNIKE, Dec. 27, 2001)
AIRPORT SECURITY: Guard for Bush Isn't Allowed Aboard Flight (NY TIMES, Dec. 27, 2001)
Blood Supplies Running Low, Red Cross Warns (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 27, 2001)
WORLD: VIDEO: A Gaunt bin Laden on New Tape (By JAMES RISEN, Dec. 27, 2001)
THE MILITARY: U.S. Putting Off Plan to Use G.I.'s in Afghan Caves (By MICHAEL R. GORDON with ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 27, 2001)
Powell Tries to Ease Tension as Kashmir Pressure Builds (By ROBERT PEAR with CELIA W. DUGGER, Dec. 27, 2001)
THE CONVERT: Shoe-Bomb Suspect Fell in With Extremists in London (By WARREN HOGE, Dec. 27, 2001)
AL QAEDA'S FLEET: A Tramp Freighter's Money Trail to bin Laden (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM & BENJAMIN WEISER, Dec. 27, 2001)
MIXED SIGNALS: Holy War Lured Saudis as Rulers Looked Away (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 27, 2001)
AIRPORT SECURITY: Bomb Attempt Has Officials in France on Defensive (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 27, 2001)
On Last Bus to Pakistan, a Heavy Load of Grief (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Dec. 27, 2001)
THE PRISONERS: Marines Accept 20 More Al Qaeda as Afghans Speed Up Turnover
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS with CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 27, 2001)
THE PEACEKEEPERS: Afghan Leaders Say Agreement Is Near on Shape of Security Force
(By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 27, 2001)
A CRITIC: After Prison, a Saudi Sheik Tempers His Words (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 27, 2001)
NY REGION: Since Sept. 11, Parks Are Up and Culture Is Down (By BARBARA STEWART, Dec. 27, 2001)
$700 Million in Federal Aid Will Go to Affected Businesses (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Dec. 27, 2001)
Quality of Life Is High Priority for Bloomberg (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Dec. 27, 2001)
* Locally, Big Discounts Draw Crowds and Dismay (By TERRY PRISTIN, Dec. 27, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Full-Bodied Career in the Family Business [Zachys Wine] (By JOYCE WADLER, Dec. 27, 2001)
SPORTS: Go With Mo, for Attitude and Presence (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Dec. 21, 2001)
SPORTS: Deferred Money Creates Snag in Deal for Vaughn (By MURRAY CHASS, Dec. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: Office Pool, 2002 (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: A Doctor's Story (By BOB HERBERT, Dec. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: Textiles and Terrorism (By LAEL BRAINARD, Dec. 27, 2001)
LETTERS: If We're Serious About Air Safety (By HILLEL BESDIN, et. al., Dec. 27, 2001)
BUSINESS: Wal-Mart and Yahoo Push Up Shares in Thin Trading
[Dow +53, Nasdaq +16] (By REUTERS, Dec. 27, 2001)
BUSINESS: Late Shopping Gives Retailers a Slight Boost (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Dec. 27, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: Several Issues Combine to Cause Biggest Oil Price Jump of the Year
(By BARNABY J. FEDER, Dec. 27, 2001)
* Harvard Pulls Ahead in Economics Game [eclipsing MIT] (By MICHAEL STEINBERGER, Dec. 27, 2001)
* TECHNOLOGY: In Rewritten Internet Fables, the Late Bird Gets the Worm
[iWon buys Excite portal for $10 million] (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 27, 2001)
ECONOMIC SCENE: How Much Does Anyone Really Know About the Real Rate of Inflation (By JEFF MADRICK, Dec. 27, 2001)
Digital Camera Sales Are Surging (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Dec. 27, 2001)
American Companies Had Nearly a Million Layoffs This Year (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 27, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Ads Encourage Medical Community to Be Prepared for Bioterrorism (By ALLISON FASS, Dec. 27, 2001)
* A Farewell to the Franc: Little Sorrow in France (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 27, 2001)
* ART: Pompeii's Erotic Frescoes Awake (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Dec. 27, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Pavarotti's Debut in Shanghai, With a Little Help (By ANNA ESAKI-SMITH, Dec. 27, 2001)
BOOKS: The Case of the Hard-Boiled Thrillers With Blurbs by Famous Authors (By JANET MASLIN, Dec. 27, 2001)
* DANCE: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER: With Depth and Breath, an Alvin Ailey Sampler
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 27, 2001)
DANCE: DANZTECTONIC: Honoring the Victims, in Mood and Movement (By JACK ANDERSON, Dec. 27, 2001)
FILM: Turning the Camera on a Life Marred by a Deadly Prank (By JOYCE WADLER, Dec. 27, 2001)
MUSIC: What's in a Band's Name? Plenty if It's Anthrax (By PAUL ZIELBAUER, Dec. 27, 2001)
MUSIC: NEW YORK STRING ORCHESTRA SEMINAR: It's a Tradition for Strings and Friends (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 27, 2001)
THEATER: 'A MAMMAL'S NOTEBOOK': We're All Erik Saties on This Bus (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Dec. 27, 2001)
* GARDEN: HUMAN NATURE: A Seeded Carpet for Fly-By Visitors (By ANNE RAVER, Dec. 27, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 27, 2001)
Digital Technology Is Reconfiguring the Taxi (By SAM LUBELL, Dec. 27, 2001)
* And the Password Is... Waterloo (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Dec. 27, 2001)
* Open Sesame: A Picture Worth 1,000 Passwords (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Dec. 27, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: Year of Living Geekily: Even the Dogs Evolved (By DAVID POGUE, Dec. 27, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: A Passenger Whose Chatter Is Always Appreciated (By ANNE EISENBERG, Dec. 27, 2001)
HOW IT WORKS: Knowing When It's Time to Designate Another Driver (By SUSAN STELLIN, Dec. 27, 2001)
When the Sender Courts the Senses (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE, Dec. 27, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Counting Calories, Bells and Whistles (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Dec. 27, 2001)
BASICS: You Promise to Read the Manual Later, Right? (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 27, 2001)
HARDWARE: Flat-Screen Monitors That Come With a Change of View (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Dec. 27, 2001)
AUDIO: A Jukebox That Holds Enough to Get You From Here to 2002 (By IAN AUSTEN, Dec. 27, 2001)
AUDIO: Now a Satellite Radio Signal Follows You From Car to House (By IAN AUSTEN, Dec. 27, 2001)
* Q & A: Protecting the Macintosh, a Lesser-Known Victim [web-based email] (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 27, 2001)
* HEALTH: New Guidelines Permit Some Sweets for Diabetics (By JANE E. BRODY, Dec. 27, 2001)
HEALTH: Finding Bad Heart Arteries (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 27, 2001)

Wednesday, December 26, 2001:
On This Day: December 26 (Thomas Gray 12/26/1716-7/30/1771, Charles Babbage 12/26/1791-10/18/1871, Sir Norman Angell 12/26/1873-10/7/1967, George Dewey 12/26/1837-1/16/1917, Henry Miller 12/26/1891-6/7/1980, Robert Ripley 12/26/1893-5/27/1949, Leopold Mannes 12/26/1899-8/11/1964, Richard Widmark 1914, Alan King 1927, Carlton Fisk 1947, Chris Chambliss 1948, Lars Ulrich 1963, Jared Leto 1971)
Churchill Predicts Huge Allied Drive In 1943: Congress Thrilled (By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, December 26, 1941)
* Mao Tse-Tung: Father of Chinese Revolution Dies at 82 [12/26/1893-9/9/1976] (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, September 10, 1976)
Melvyn Paisley, 77, Figure in Scandal, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Dec. 26, 2001)
Monteria Ivey, 41, Humorist, Author and Radio Personality (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 26, 2001)
William Crawford, 86, Envoy From U.S. to Romania in 60's, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 26, 2001)
Edward Wagner, an Expert in Early Korean Life, Is Dead at 77 (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 26, 2001)
Agha Shahid Ali, 52, a Poet Who Had Roots in Kashmir (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 26, 2001)
* NATIONAL: Tracking Bioterror's Tangled Course (By ERIC LIPTON and KIRK JOHNSON, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE WHITE HOUSE: Trying to Balance Attention on Terrorism, the Economy and Politics
(By RICHARD L. BERKE, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE PASSENGER: Suicide Watch for Man With Shoe Explosives (NY TIMES, Dec. 26, 2001)
* STARTING COLLEGE: A Family Milestone Without Ceremony (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Dec. 26, 2001)
AIR TRAVEL: Terminal Is Evacuated for Suspicious Packages (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 26, 2001)
WORLD: THE PURSUIT: High-Level Murmurings That bin Laden Is Dead (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 26, 2001)
CASUALTIES: Even Precision Bombing Kills Some Civilians, Tour of a City Shows (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 26, 2001)
Al-Jazeera TV Airs bin Laden Tape Condemning United States (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 26, 2001)
Suspect in Bomb Plot Linked to Muslim Extremists (By WARREN HOGE, Dec. 26, 2001)
PUBLIC PENALTIES: Taliban Justice: Stadium Was Scene of Gory Punishment (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE TROOPS: Passing the Holiday on High Alert for bin Laden (By ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 26, 2001)
REFUGEES: As Afghans Return Home, Need for Food Intensifies (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 26, 2001)
Pope Urges World to `Save the Children' Affected by Conflicts (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 26, 2001)
* Hoping a Euro in the Hand Will Be Worth More (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Dec. 26, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Families of Victims Fault Benefits Plan of Insurance Giant (By DAVID BARSTOW and DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Dec. 26, 2001)
GROUND ZERO: Christmas Mass Beneath a Cross of Fallen Steel (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Dec. 26, 2001)
Christmas in Buffalo Turns Out to Be White, and Then Some [25.2 inches snow] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 26, 2001)
BOLDFACE NAMES: A Year to Make Mascara Run ["Face Forward"] (By James Barron, Dec. 26, 2001)
Worshipers Hail the Miraculous at Cathedral (By NICHOLE M. CHRISTIAN, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE CORNER: Thank-Yous, but Fewer of Them, Await Rescuers (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Dec. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: Let Mullah Omar Get Away (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Dec. 26, 2001)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Navigating the New Europe Without Francs, Marks or Lire (By JOE SHARKEY, Dec. 26, 2001)
Small Cable Operators Worry About Life After Big Mergers (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Dec. 26, 2001)
WORKPLACE: Former Colleagues Reconnect, if Briefly (By SUSAN STELLIN, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE BOSS: An Enlightened Moment at 9 [Salvation Army] (By ROBERT A. WATSON, Written with Abby Ellin, Dec. 26, 2001)
MANAGEMENT: Job Fairs Give Ex-Convicts Hope in Down Market (By DAVID KOEPPEL, Dec. 26, 2001)
MY JOB: To Bless, to Listen, to Comfort (By MSGR. DONALD SAKANO, Written with Tanya Mohn, Dec. 26, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Onstage, Hedda Gabler Was Anti-Heroine of the Year (By STEPHEN KINZER, Dec. 26, 2001)
ARTS: Wire Walker In Benefit For Artists Hurt Sept. 11 {Philippe Petit] (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Dec. 26, 2001)
* ART: Joining Hindu and Muslim Icons in Art (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Dec. 26, 2001)
* BOOKS: Celebrating the Colorful Iris Murdoch (By DINITIA SMITH, Dec. 26, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'TRAVELS WITH A MEDIEVAL QUEEN': Following in the Footsteps of a 12th-Century Queen
[Constance of Hauteville] (By RICHARD EDER, Dec. 26, 2001)
FILM: An Action Film Hits Close, but How Close? ["Black Hawk Down'] (By RICK LYMAN, Dec. 26, 2001)
FILM: 'GOSFORD PARK': Full of Baronial Splendor and Hatefulness (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 26, 2001)
MUSIC: AULOS PLAYERS: Early Music in the Metropolitan's Splendor (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE POP LIFE: A New Look at Eminem (By NEIL STRAUSS, Dec. 26, 2001)
TV: 'THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS': Taking Their Medicine for Achievement (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Dec. 26, 2001)
FOOD CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: For New York Diners, a Year to Remember (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Dec. 26, 2001)
FOOD: 1,001 Nights of Babas (au Rhum) [recipe] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE CHEF: Ethereal Layers and a Gentle Crunch [recipe] (By BILL YOSSES, Dec. 26, 2001)
THE MINIMALIST: Nibbles That Make the Party [6 recipes] (By MARK BITTMAN, Dec. 26, 2001)
HEALTH: Epstein-Barr Virus Linked to Risk of Getting Multiple Sclerosis (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 26, 2001)

Tuesday, December 25, 2001:
On This Day: December 25 (Sir Isaac Newton 12/25/1642-3/20/1727, Clara Barton 12/25/1821-4/12/1912, Louis Chevrolet 12/25/1878-6/6/1941, Maurice Utrillo 12/25/1883-11/5/1955, Franz Rosenzweig 12/25/1886-12/10/1929, Conrad Hilton 12/25/1887-1/3/1979, Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899-1/14/1957, Cab Calloway 12/25/1907-11/18/1994, Rod Serling 12/25/1924-6/28/1975, Tony Martin 1923, Dick Miller 1928, Jimmy Buffet 1946, Larry Csonka 1946, Barbara Mandrell 1948, Sissy Spacek 1949, Annie Lennox 1954)
Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader, Resigns; U.S. Recognizes Republics' Independence (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, December 25, 1991)
* Anwar el-Sadat, the Daring Arab Pioneer of Peace with Israel [12/25/1918-10/6/1981] (By ERIC PACE, October 7, 1981)
Franco Dino Rasetti, a Nuclear Pioneer, Is Dead at 100 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 25, 2001)
Ardito Desio, Leader of K2 Ascent, Dies at 104 (By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN, Dec. 25, 2001)
NATIONAL: Blacks Who Voted Against Bush Offer Support to Him in Wartime (By KEVIN SACK, Dec. 25, 2001)
THE SUSPECT: Officials Remain Uncertain on Identity of Suspect on Jet (By PAM BELLUCK with DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 25, 2001)
DOMESTIC SECURITY: Ridge Is Opening a Center to Analyze Data (By ALISON MITCHELL, Dec. 25, 2001)
AIRPORT SECURITY: Officials Move to Ease Delays With Random Visual Checks (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Dec. 25, 2001)
THE REACTION: Air Passengers Keep an Eye on Shoes and Suspects (By ANDREW JACOBS, Dec. 25, 2001)
Christmas 2001: Santa, Snowmen and Old Glory (By PETER T. KILBORN, Dec. 25, 2001)
Fungiphiles Celebrate Harvest in Fertile Bay Area [mushrooms] (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Dec. 25, 2001)
WORLD: For Marines, There's Powder for Eggnog, Tunes on Vinyl (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 25, 2001)
Japan Says a Mystery Boat Fired Rockets at Its Ships (By JAMES BROOKE, Dec. 25, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Consequences for the United States in Argentina's Collapse (By LARRY ROHTER, Dec. 25, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL: Christmas Eve in Bethlehem: Santas, Songs but No Arafat (By, Dec. 25, 2001)
Vladimir Putin Takes Questions From Ordinary Russians (By MICHAEL WINES, Dec. 25, 2001)
ODESSA JOURNAL: By the Black Sea, Humor Graces the Citizen Taxis (By IAN FISHER, Dec. 25, 2001)
American Investors in Argentina Mostly Taking Losses in Stride (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Dec. 25, 2001)
THE INSPECTIONS: Security Steps Are Tightened at Airports in Europe (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 25, 2001)
INTERIM GOVERNMENT: Afghanistan's New Ministers Go to Work and Face Plenty of Old Problems
(By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 25, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: New Jitters in the Air, Critics at Ground Zero and Christmas in Kabul (By JANE GROSS, Dec. 25, 2001)
KABUL: Major Critic of Interim Government Is Appointed to Afghan Defense Post (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 25, 2001)
THE BASE: In Raid on Hospital, a Fighter Is Captured (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 25, 2001)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Says an Ex-Envoy and Spokesman for the Taliban Is Seeking Asylum (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 25, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Bloomberg Vows to Work at Center of Things (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Dec. 25, 2001)
THE TOWERS: Experts Urging Broader Inquiry in Towers' Fall (By JAMES GLANZ & ERIC LIPTON, Dec. 25, 2001)
From the Rubble, Icons of Disaster and Faith (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Dec. 25, 2001)
* A Sad Letter to St. Nick Gets a Reply at Apt. 26A (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Dec. 25, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: St. Patrick's Ceremony All in a Morning's Work (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Dec. 25, 2001)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Cosell on Film Is Not Exactly Like It Was (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Dec. 25, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Third Verse of Christmas (NY TIMES, Dec. 25, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Securing the Skies (NY TIMES, Dec. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: The Scrooge Syndrome (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: Human Rights at Home (By JOHN SHATTUCK, Dec. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: Season's Greetings From Houston, the Bipolar City (By MIMI SWARTZ, Dec. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: A Better Network for Emergency Communications (By REED HUNDT, Dec. 25, 2001)
LETTERS: Looking Downtown, With Feeling (By JEFFREY ABELSON, Dec. 25, 2001)
BUSINESS: Share Prices Hold Steady, Helped by Buying in Oil Issues
[Dow +0, Nasdaq +1] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 25, 2001)
TECHNOLOGY: Trying to Keep Young Internet Users From a Life of Piracy (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 25, 2001)
Lego Tinkered With Success, and Is Now Paying a Price (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Dec. 25, 2001)
HotJobs.com Tells Suitor to Bolster Its Offer or Lose a Deal (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 25, 2001)
BUSINESS: Desperation Sales Fail to Lure Shoppers (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Dec. 25, 2001)
AIR TRAVEL: Explosives Incident Adds to Airline Industry Tension (By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN, Dec. 25, 2001)
Czech Republic Builds a Profitable Fish Farm Industry [carp] (By PETER S. GREEN, Dec. 25, 2001)
* ARTS: The Artist Louise Bourgeois at 90, Weaving Complexities (By AMEI WALLACH, Dec. 25, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Asia's Writers Turning to English to Gain Readers (By DOREEN WEISENHAUS, Dec. 25, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'THE HITCHCOCK MURDERS': Hitchcock and His Killers, Citizens of a Nietzschean World
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Dec. 25, 2001)
DANCE: BALLET TECH: Hawaiian Idyll Under Clouds of Billowing White Silk (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 25, 2001)
FILM: 'ALI': Master of the Boast, King of the Ring, Vision of the Future (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 25, 2001)
FILM: 'KATE AND LEOPOLD': A Knight Astride a White Charger (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 25, 2001)
FILM: 'THE SHIPPING NEWS': An Outsider Finds His Future by Facing His Past (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 25, 2001)
TV: 'THE NUTCRACKER': Children's Work Performed as if Intended for Adults (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 25, 2001)
STYLE: The Year in Fashion, Before and After (By GUY TREBAY, et. al., Dec. 25, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Archaeologists Find Celts in Unlikely Spot: Central Turkey (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Dec. 25, 2001)
* A CONVERSATION WITH Coaxing Rhinos to Do What Comes So Naturally (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Dec. 25, 2001)
* ESSAY: Colors Are Truly Brilliant in Trek Up Mount Metaphor (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Dec. 25, 2001)
* And a Star for Every Christmas Tree [Ghost Head Nebula NGC 2080] (NY TIMES, Dec. 25, 2001)
SCIENCE: So Who Is Buried in Midas's Tomb? (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Dec. 25, 2001)
HEALTH: With Gene Map Nearly Complete, Researchers Must Learn to Use It (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 25, 2001)
HEALTH: Trauma: After a War, Deadly Reminders of It (By JOHN O'NEIL, Dec. 25, 2001)

Monday, December 24, 2001:
On This Day: December 24 (Kit Carson 12/24/1809-5/23/1868, Matthew Arnold 12/24/1822-4/15/1888, Michael Curtiz 12/24/1888-4/10/1962, Howard Hughes 12/24/1905-4/5/1976, Anthony S. Fauci 1940, Sharon Farrel 1946, Ricky Martin 1971)
Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial (By DAVID JOHNSTON, December 24, 1992)
I.F. Stone, Iconoclast of Journalism, Is Dead at 81 [12/24/1907-6/18/1989] (By PETER B. FLINT, June 19, 1989)
C. Carwood Lipton, 81, Figure in `Band of Brothers,' Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Dec. 24, 2001)
John Guedel, Producer Who Shaped Early Television, Dies at 88 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 24, 2001)
Foster Brooks, Comedian Known for His Tipsy Persona, Dies at 89 (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Dec. 24, 2001)
Robert Cronbach, Sculptor and Teacher, Dies at 93 (By, Dec. 24, 2001)
Bill Bissel, 70, Chief of University Band (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 24, 2001)
'You've Got Mail,' More and More, and Mostly, It Is Junk (By AMY HARMON, Dec. 24, 2001)
EMI's New Chief Keeps His Own Counsel About Plans (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Dec. 24, 2001)
NEW ECONOMY: Snail Mail: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Fully Passed (By TIM RACE, Dec. 24, 2001)
COMPRESSED DATA: Many Are Using Internet to Seek Spiritual Aid (By SUSAN STELLIN, Dec. 24, 2001)
Shoplifting Said to Rise More Than Usual This Year (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Dec. 24, 2001)
A Cybernaut Plans Software for Navigating TV (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 24, 2001)

Sunday, December 23, 2001:
On This Day: December 23 (James Gibbs 12/23/1682-8/5/1754, Jean-Francois Champollion 12/23/1790-3/4/1832, Joseph Smith 12/23/1805-6/27/1844, Emil Brunner 12/23/1889-4/6/1966, Yosuf Karsh 1908, James Gregory 1911, Emperor Akihito 1933)
Experimental Plane Voyager Completes First Non-Stop, Around-the-World Flight Without Refueling (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, December 23, 1986)
* Wealthiest Negress Dead at 51: Mrs. C. J. Walker, Real Estate Operator, Made Fortune in Few Years [12/23/1867-5/25/1919] (NY Times, May 26, 1919)
Dan DeCarlo, Archie Artist and Creator of Josie and the Pussycats, Is Dead at 82 (By ERIC NASH, Dec. 23, 2001)
Martha Mödl, 89, a Soprano Who Gave Her Life to Her Art, Is Dead (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Dec. 23, 2001)
Wang Ruowang, 83, Writer and Dissident Exiled by China (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 23, 2001)
NATIONAL: Plane Diverted to Boston After Explosives Scare (By PAM BELLUCK, Dec. 23, 2001)
THE VICTIMS: Oklahomans Questioning Sept. 11 Aid (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 23, 2001)
California's Lottery Is Called Deceptive (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 23, 2001)
Body Is Identified as Missing Scientist [Don C. Wiley] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 23, 2001)
FOREIGN POLICY TEAM: Wartime Forges a Unified Front for Bush Aides (By DAVID E. SANGER & PATRICK E. TYLER, Dec. 23, 2001)
At Vermont Store, New Life for the Food Industry's Castaways (NY TIMES, Dec. 23, 2001)
NATIONAL: Alaska Helps Its Elderly Residents Tell Their Stories (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Dec. 23, 2001)
Stereotyping Rankles Silent, Secular Majority of American Muslims (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Dec. 23, 2001)
TRANSFER OF POWER: Afghan Leader Is Sworn In, Asking for Help to Rebuild (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 23, 2001)
WORLD: PEACEKEEPERS: In Wild Land, Narrow Role for Security Force (By C. J. CHIVERS with MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 23, 2001)
THE EXILE: King's Supporters Want an Active Role for Him (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Dec. 23, 2001)
WOMEN'S TRADITIONS: n the Old Bathhouse: Free at Last to Laugh (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 23, 2001)
NY REGION: Downtown Is Slower to Embrace Optimism (By ANDREW JACOBS, Dec. 23, 2001)
Giuliani, With Eye Toward 2012 Games, to Carry Olympic Flame (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Dec. 23, 2001)
A Less Visible Mayor? Some Like It That Way (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Dec. 23, 2001)
BUSINESS: The Drug-Price Express Runs Into a Wall (By MILT FREUDENHEIM & MELODY PETERSEN, Dec. 23, 2001)
Windows XP Users Told of Security Risk (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 23, 2001)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 23, 2001)
STYLE: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Dec. 23, 2001)
STYLE: The Man Who Romanced the Stones (By KAREN ROBINOVITZ, Dec. 23, 2001)
* STYLE: Wired, Jobless and Free (for Now) (By JENNIFER TUNG, Dec. 23, 2001)
STYLE: THE AGE OF DISSONANCE: Correcting Manners of a Brat? Easy as 1-2-4 (NY TIMES, Dec. 23, 2001)
* WEEK IN REVIEW: IMAGINE: Headlines From the Cutting Room Floor (By ROBIN TONER, et. al., Dec. 23, 2001)
Hussein and bin Laden: How Opposites Attract (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Dec. 23, 2001)
As the Battlefield Changes, So Does the War Itself (By DAVID E. SANGER, Dec. 23, 2001)
ARGENTINA'S WOES: Money Talks, Sovereignty Walks (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Dec. 23, 2001)
ARMAGEDDON AGAIN: Fear in the 50's and Now (PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Dec. 23, 2001)
* Confronting the Zeitgeist When Life Overtakes Art (By JACK HITT, Dec. 23, 2001)
NBC Paid to Bar Katie From the Door [$16 million a year] (By BILL CARTER, Dec. 23, 2001)
PAGE TWO: Really, I Promise. But Next Year. (By TOM KUNTZ, Dec. 23, 2001)
Meanwhile, in Crazed Pet News... [python eats pit bull] (By JOE SHARKEY, Dec. 23, 2001)
WORD FOR WORD: A Fire Captain's Eulogy [firemen of 9/11] (By Capt. James Gormley, Dec. 23, 2001)
Who Brought Bernadine Healy Down? (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Dec. 23, 2001)
STYLE: Mister & Mistletoe (NY TIMES, Dec. 23, 2001)
SCIENCE: A Mittenless Autumn, for Better and Worse (By PAM BELLUCK & ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 23, 2001)
SCIENCE:Gene Experiment Comes Close to Crossing Ethicists' Line (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 23, 2001)

Saturday, December 22, 2001:
On This Day: December 22 (James Oglethorpe 12/22/1696-1785, Jean Henri Fabre 12/22/1823-10/11/1915, Frank Kellogg 12/22/1856-12/21/1937, Giacomo Puccini 12/22/1858-11/29/1924, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 12/22/1876-12/2/1944, Giacomo Manzu 12/22/1908-1/17/1991, Lady Bird Johnson 1912, Jim Wright 1922, Steve Carlton 1944, Diane Sawyer 1945, Steve Garvey 1948, Jan Stephenson 1951)
SAVANNAH OURS: General Sherman's Christmas Gift to Lincoln (NY Times, December 22, 1864)
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Acclaimed British Actress, Is Dead at 83 [12/22/1907-6/14/1991] (By PETER B. FLINT, June 15, 1991)
Dick Schaap, Ubiquitous Sports Journalist, Dies at 67 (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Dec. 22, 2001)
Joseph McGovern, 92, Lawyer and Head of New York Regents, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 22, 2001)
H. Peter Kriendler, 96, Operator of '21' Club, Is Dead (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Dec. 22, 2001)
NATIONAL: THE SUSPECT: Flight School Warned F.B.I. of Suspicions (By PHILIP SHENON, Dec. 22, 2001)
THE AMERICAN PRISONER: U.S. Expatriate Is Seen Facing Capital Charge (By NEIL A. LEWIS and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 22, 2001)
THE TRAIL: U.S. Inquiry Tried, but Failed, to Link Iraq to Anthrax Attack (By WILLIAM J. BROAD with DAVID JOHNSTON, Dec. 22, 2001)
THE FALSE ALARMS: Postal Service Is Kept Busy Tracking Down Anthrax Scares (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 22, 2001)
RELIGION JOURNAL: Online Sites Help Match Singles Devoted to Faith (By FRANCINE PARNES, Dec. 22, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: And Now, a New York Version of Star Wars (By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., Dec. 22, 2001)
COMPENSATION: Head of Fund Says Families Should State Their Cases (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES and DAVID BARSTOW, Dec. 22, 2001)
A Soft Sell for Troubled Times (By TERRY PRISTIN, Dec. 22, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Clash of Online Titans (NY TIMES, Dec. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: Totally Extreme Taliban (By THOMAS FRANK, Dec. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: A Fairer Sort of Harvard (By RICHARD FREEMAN, Dec. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: Siege Mentality in Buenos Aires (By NOGA TARNOPOLSKY, Dec. 22, 2001)
LETTERS: The American With the Taliban (By ANDREA SHOLLER, et. al., Dec. 22, 2001)
BUSINESS: Rise in Consumer Sentiment Sends Share Prices Higher
[Dow +50, Nasdaq +28] (By REUTERS, Dec. 22, 2001)
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: The Economy May Be Facing More Hurdles (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Dec. 22, 2001)
Ted Turner Signs a 2-Year Agreement With AOL Time Warner (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 22, 2001)
The AT&T Chief's Report Card (By SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 22, 2001)
* ARTS: The Unforeseen Disruption of Moving Ahead [Internet-business bubble] (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Dec. 22, 2001)
ARTS: AN APPRAISAL: With Viewing Platforms, a Dignified Approach to Ground Zero (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Dec. 22, 2001)
FILM: An Actress as at Ease in Lightheartedness as in the Dark Side [Marisa Paredes]
(By MEL GUSSOW, Dec. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: 'MESSIAH': A 'Messiah' at Home and Human (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Dec. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: SARAH ROTHENBERG: Exploring Sounds of Poetry as Background for the Piano (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 22, 2001)
* POETRY: A Poet's Palestine as a Metaphor [Mahmoud Darwish] (By ADAM SHATZ, Dec. 22, 2001)
THINK TANK: The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Dec. 22, 2001)
TV: 'PRECIOUS CARGO': When Those Orphaned by War Return to Vietnam (By JULIE SALAMON, Dec. 22, 2001)

Friday, December 21, 2001:
On This Day: December 21 (Masaccio 12/21/1401-1428, Benjamin Disraeli 12/21/1804-4/19/1881, Dame Rebecca West 12/21/1892-3/15/1983, Josh Gibson 12/21/1911-1/20/1947, Heinrich Boll 12/21/1917-7/16/1985, Kurt Waldheim 1918, Paul Winchell 1922, Ed Nelson 1928, Phil Donahue 1935, Jane Fonda 1937, Carla Thomas 1942, Michael Tilson Thomas 1944, Chris Evert 1954)
Terrorist bomb exploded on Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 (By CRAIG R. WHITNEY, December 21, 1988)
Joseph Stalin, Soviet Dictator, Dead at 72 [12/20/1881-12/9/1965] (NY Times, March 6, 1953)
* POLITICS: Clinton and Aides Lay Plans to Repair a Battered Image (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Dec. 21, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Argentina Unraveling (NY TIMES, Dec. 21, 2001)
Léopold Senghor Dies at 95; Senegal's Poet of Négritude (By ALBIN KREBS, Dec. 21, 2001)
Famed Chinese Dissident Writer, Wang Ruowang, Dies at 83 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 21, 2001)
NATIONAL: Sept. 11 Keeps 8 Million Home for Holidays (NY TIMES, Dec. 21, 2001)
THE AMERICAN PRISONER: U.S. Defines Charges That Californian Might Face (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 21, 2001)
THE DISEASE: Frustration at Health Agency Over Critics of Anthrax Policy (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Dec. 21, 2001)
Body Believed to Be Missing Harvard Biologist Is Found in River (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 21, 2001)
Two Ways to Defy a Recession: Open a Big New Mall, Then Hope. (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 21, 2001)
SPORTS: Red Sox to Be Sold to Owner of Marlins (By MURRAY CHASS, Dec. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: Our Friends the Terrorists (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Dec. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: A No-Win Outcome (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: Now Playing: Florida II, With Janet and Jeb (By BOB SHACOCHIS, Dec. 21, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall on Lower Forecasts for Telecommunications
[Dow -85, Nasdaq -64] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 21, 2001)
FLOYD NORRIS: Protecting Steel Could Lead to an Economic War That All Could Lose
(By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 21, 2001)
THE IMPACT: Expect More Mergers, Experts Say, at Expense of Consumers (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Dec. 21, 2001)
THE NEGOTIATIONS: How the Comcast Deal Came Together (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN with SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 21, 2001)
Juniper Networks Has Reduced Fourth-Quarter Profit Forecast (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 21, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: For AOL Time Warner, Goals Are Deferred (By SAUL HANSELL with STEVE LOHR, Dec. 21, 2001)
THE OUTSIDER: Patient Cameraman in a Marsh (By JAMES GORMAN, Dec. 21, 2001)
SCIENCE: A Mystery Squid Found Lurking at Ocean Bottom (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Dec. 21, 2001)
7 Biologists Put Lynx Fur in Forests; Congressmen Want Inquiry (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 21, 2001)
HEALTH: Researchers Say Pigments Make Red Wine Helpful to Hearts (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 21, 2001)

Thursday, December 20, 2001:
On This Day: December 20 (Harvey Firestone 12/20/1868-2/7/1938, Irene Dunne 12/20/1898-9/4/1990, Robert Van de Graaff 12/20/1901-1/16/1967, Max Lerner 12/20/1902-6/5/1992, Sidney Hook 12/20/1902-7/12/1989, George Roy Hill 1922, Peter Criss 1945)
United States sends troops to Panama to topple General Manuel Noriega (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, December 20, 1989)
Branch Rickey, 83, Dies in Missouri; Leading Figure in Baseball for 50 Years [12/20/1881-12/9/1965] (By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, December 10, 1965)
José Fajardo, Flutist and Bandleader, Is Dead at 82 (By JON PARELES, Dec. 20, 2001)
Samuel Meyers, 83, President of a New York U.A.W. Local, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 20, 2001)
Leonard T. Kurland, 79, Neurologist-Researcher, Is Dead (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 20, 2001)
Harrison Mosher Hayford, Professor and Melville Expert, Dead at 85. (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Dec. 20, 2001)
NATIONAL: Tyson Foods Indicted in Plan to Smuggle Illegal Workers (By DAVID BARBOZA, Dec. 20, 2001)
Appeals Court Overturns Policy on Detaining Immigrants (By TAMAR LEWIN, Dec. 20, 2001)
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION: Bush Gives Secrecy Power to Public Health Secretary (By ALISON MITCHELL, Dec. 20, 2001)
White House Scuttles Plan for G.O.P. Ad Campaign (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Dec. 20, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Stubborn Fight Revived [Health Care] (By ROBIN TONER, Dec. 20, 2001)
POLITICS: Congress Gives Up on Deal This Year to Help Economy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Dec. 20, 2001)
THE VACCINE: As U.S. Offers Anthrax Shots, Safety Debate Begins Again (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Dec. 20, 2001)
THE AMERICAN PRISONER : Bush Nears a Decision on California Taliban Fighter (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 20, 2001)
* AFTERMATH: One Letter's Odyssey Helps Mend a Wound (By PAM BELLUCK, Dec. 20, 2001)
THE HUNT: Troops May Scour Caves for Qaeda, U.S. General Says (By MICHAEL R. GORDON with ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 20, 2001)
THE MOST WANTED: Taliban Chiefs Prove Elusive, Americans Say (By JAMES RISEN, Dec. 20, 2001)
SECRET SITES: An Iraqi Defector Tells of Work on at Least 20 Hidden Weapons Sites (By JUDITH MILLER, Dec. 20, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL: Reeling From Riots, Argentina Declares a State of Siege (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Dec. 20, 2001)
SECURITY: British Officially Offer to Lead Peacekeepers in Kabul; First 200 Are Due by Saturday
(By SERGE SCHMEMANN with WARREN HOGE, Dec. 20, 2001)
KUNDUZ: A Central Terror Suspect Slips From Alliance Custody (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 20, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Vanishing Taliban, a British Force on Deck, Spilled Iraqi Secrets (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 20, 2001)
In Changed World, Qadaffi Is Changing, Too (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Dec. 20, 2001)
PURSUING AL QAEDA: Yemen Adds Troops in Battle to Capture Suspects (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 20, 2001)
NY REGION: As Economy Slumps, Even Manhattan Rents Fall (By TRACIE ROZHON, Dec. 20, 2001)
THE TRADE CENTER: City Had Been Warned of Fuel Tank at 7 World Trade Center (By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON, Dec. 20, 2001)
THE DETAINEES: Diplomats Protest Lack of Information (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Dec. 20, 2001)
Wiring Is Suspected Cause of Cathedral Fire (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Dec. 20, 2001)
* EDUCATION: An Advantage for Seasoned Students [Regents Exams] (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, Dec. 20, 2001)
COMPENSATION: Victims' Families Get Break on Earlier Charity (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Dec. 20, 2001)
METRO MATTERS: Like Avatars of Crime, They're Back (By JOYCE PURNICK, Dec. 20, 2001)
SPORTS: Fan's Tribute to the Mets Out of the World [Mike Massimino, astronaut]
(By TYLER KEPNER, Dec. 20, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Muddled Message on Anthrax Vaccine (NY TIMES, Dec. 20, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Pressure Rises in Pakistan (NY TIMES, Dec. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: Whither the Weather? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: Trumping Charity (By BOB HERBERT, Dec. 20, 2001)
LETTERS: Christmas Lesson in the Cathedral (By E. LEO MCMANNUS, et. al., Dec. 20, 2001)
BUSINESS: Dow Passes 10,000 (Yet Again), but Nasdaq Falls a Bit
[Dow +72, Nasdaq -22] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 20, 2001)
Comcast Wins Bid for AT&T's Cable Unit (By SETH SCHIESEL & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 20, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: In Comcast's Deal to Buy AT&T Cable Unit, Microsoft Also a Winner (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 20, 2001)
THE FAMILY: Philadelphians Move Toward Leading the U.S. Cable Industry (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Dec. 20, 2001)
Wall St. Firm Ends Bad Year by Beating Expectations (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Dec. 20, 2001)
* MEDIA: Katie Couric Signs NBC Contract Said to Be Largest in TV News (By BILL CARTER, Dec. 20, 2001)
Anchor's Pay Package May Change Standards (By JIM RUTENBERG, Dec. 20, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Adcritic.com: A Victim of Its Own Success? (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Dec. 20, 2001)
ECONOMIC SCENE: For Too Many, Social Security Is Main Retirement Plan (By HAL VARIAN, Dec. 20, 2001)
The Bank of Japan Moves to Halt Economic Slide (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 20, 2001)
Who's Who in a Battle for the Bullion (By BERNARD SIMON, Dec. 20, 2001)
BOOKS: 'PURSUIT': Terrifying a Mass Killer With Pure Brain Power (By JANET MASLIN, Dec. 20, 2001)
MAKING BOOKS: Yes, Publishers Read for Fun (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Dec. 20, 2001)
DANCE: Ballet Theater Drops Evening of Stravinsky (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 20, 2001)
DANCE: ABT STUDIO COMPANY: Cloths Large and Small, Signaling Shifts in Tone (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 20, 2001)
FILM: Golden Globe Nominations Announced (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 20, 2001)
JAZZ: THE BAD PLUS: A New Trio Gives an Artful Mauling to Old Pop Radio Hits (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 20, 2001)
* MUSIC CRITIC: Star-Spangled or Reflective, Pop Captures the Mood (By JON PARELES, Dec. 20, 2001)
MUSIC: Lee Greenwood Voices Today's Patriotic Fervor (By NEIL STRAUSS, Dec. 20, 2001)
THEATER: 'HOMEBODY/KABUL': One Woman's Quest, Fraught With Cultural Land Mines (By BEN BRANTLEY, Dec. 20, 2001)
TV: 'CHANGED LIVES': Shrapnel of Disaster, Still Lodged in Human Lives (By CARYN JAMES, Dec. 20, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 20, 2001)
Walking in a Wired Wonderland (By DAVID L. MARGULIUS, Dec. 20, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: Digital Cameras for Less: How Much Will $300 Buy? (By DAVID POGUE, Dec. 20, 2001)
E-Mail Cards Often Come With a Personal Touch (By JAMES BARRON, Dec. 20, 2001)
* ONLINE DIARY: Surfing From an Embarrassing News Group History to Doubts About 'It'
[Google's Usenet Archive] (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Dec. 20, 2001)
Using E-Mail to Count Connections (By SARAH MILSTEIN, Dec. 20, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Only 5 Days Remain in a Game of Chicken (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Dec. 20, 2001)
BASICS: Three R's: Reading, Writing, Rebooting (By ALICE KEIM, Dec. 20, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: Reading the Meter (and the Customer) From Afar (By ERIC A. TAUB, Dec. 20, 2001)
NETWORKING: Family Network Cuts Interference (On the Internet at Least) (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 20, 2001)
GAMES: Pokémon Get Their Own Player: Gotta Market Them All (By IAN AUSTEN, Dec. 20, 2001)
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: A Digital Compass for Those Who Can't Tell Right From Left (By BRUCE HEADLAM, Dec. 20, 2001)
FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE: Technology Tips for the Holidays (By DAVID POGUE, Dec. 20, 2001)
* Q & A: Translating the '&NBSP' That Litters Your E-Mail [OCR programs] (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 20, 2001)
SCIENCE: Efforts to Transform Computers Reach Milestone (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Dec. 20, 2001)
HEALTH: Drug Can Interfere With Aspirin (By REUTERS, Dec. 20, 2001)
HEALTH: Heart Risk of the Pill Declines, Study Finds (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 20, 2001)
HEALTH: THE VOLUNTEERS: Out to Do Good, Some First-Time Blood Donors Get Bad News (By LINDA VILLAROSA, Dec. 20, 2001)

Wednesday, December 19, 2001:
On This Day: December 19 (Edwin Stanton 12/19/1814-12/24/1869, A.A. Michelson 12/19/1852-5/9/1931, Fritz Reiner 12/19/1888-11/15/1963, Sir Ralph Richardson 12/19/1902-10/10/1983, George Davis Snell 12/19/1903-6/6/1996, Jean Genet 12/19/1910-4/15/1986, Edith Piaf 12/19/1915-10/11/1963, Cicely Tyson 1933, Richard E. Leakey 1944, Robert Urich 1946, Jennifer Beals 1963, Alyssa Milano 1972)
Britain and China Sign Agreement on Hong Kong (By JOHN F. BURNS, December 19, 1984)
Brezhnev Dead at 85; Attempted to Advance Soviet Goals Through Detente [12/19/1906-11/10/1982] (NY Times, November 11, 1982)
Rufus Thomas Dies at 84, Patriarch of Memphis Soul (By JON PARELES, Dec. 19, 2001)
Anthony Gigliotti, Philadelphia Clarinetist and Teacher, Dies at 79 (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Dec. 19, 2001)
PREVENTION: U.S. Will Offer Anthrax Shots for Thousands (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Dec. 19, 2001)
AIRPORT SECURITY: Airlines Said to Seek Delay on Inspections (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE AMERICAN PRISONER: Defending, and Recasting, an Unloved Client (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 19, 2001)
LESSONS: The Education Bill: Many Trials Ahead (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Dec. 19, 2001)
Panel Asks Raise for Low-Pay Harvard Workers (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Dec. 19, 2001)
A Saudi Princess Is Charged in Florida (NY TIMES, Dec. 19, 2001)
WORLD: Hundreds of Qaeda Fighters Slip Into Pakistan (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 19, 2001)
* A Tale of the Mullah and Muhammad's Amazing Cloak (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 19, 2001)
* Tora Bora: Deep Ravines Hide Many Enemies (By BARRY BEARAK and MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 19, 2001)
Rumsfeld Asks NATO to Shift to Wide Fight Against Terror (By THOM SHANKER, Dec. 19, 2001)
INVESTIGATION: Seeking Intelligence, F.B.I. to Question Captured Fighters (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE ECONOMY: Recipe for Rebuilding: Afghan Muscle, Marine Planning, Lots of Dollars
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 19, 2001)
PURSUING AL QAEDA: Yemen Troops Shoot It Out With Tribes (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE EX-KING: New Leader Is Assured of Support (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Dec. 19, 2001)
More Tapes Found in Al Qaeda Lairs (By REUTERS, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE MONEY TRAIL: Global Plan to Track Terror Funds (By KURT EICHENWALD, Dec. 19, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: The Terrorism War's Next Phase, Old Feuds in Kabul, Aid on the Way (By PETER MARKS, Dec. 19, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Fire Damages St. John the Divine (By ALAN FEUER with DANIEL J. WAKIN, Dec. 19, 2001)
Cathedral Is Bruised, but Remains Sacred Haven (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Dec. 19, 2001)
2 of Cathedral's Baroque Tapestries Lie in a Soggy, Charred Pile (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE FIREFIGHTERS: Radio Used on Sept. 11 Is Questioned (By KEVIN FLYNN, Dec. 19, 2001)
Preflight Check Showed Problems on Ill-Fated Jet (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Dec. 19, 2001)
Miss America Group Has Offers to Move [leave Atlantic City] (NY TIMES, Dec. 19, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: On the Busy Ferries, It's Steady as He Goes (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Dec. 19, 2001)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Giuliani's Fateful Minute (By JAMES BARRON, Dec. 19, 2001)
SPORTS: 'The Eye Don't Lie' [football riots] (By GEORGE VECSEY, Dec. 19, 2001)
SPORTS: Giants Stadium Bans Bottled Drinks (By EDWARD WONG, Dec. 19, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Cathedral Fire (NY TIMES, Dec. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: All Alone, Again (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Dec. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: The Prettiest of Them All [Muhammad Ali] (By MAUREEN DOWD, Dec. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: Equity for All Victims [$2 million per victim] (By PETER H. SCHUCK, Dec. 19, 2001)
LETTERS: Road to College, Paved With Angst [early-admission] (By DAN O'NEILL, et. al., Dec. 19, 2001)
LETTERS: Stadiums of Shame: What Went Wrong? (By LETITIA BALDRIGE, Dec. 19, 2001)
LETTERS: Living With Lies [George O'Leary & Joseph J. Ellis] (By BURKE GRIGGS, Dec. 19, 2001)
BUSINESS: Upbeat Forecasts and Robust Housing Report Lift Shares
[Dow +106, Nasdaq +17] (By REUTERS, Dec. 19, 2001)
AT&T Board to Meet on Sale or Spinoff of Cable Unit (By SETH SCHIESEL & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 19, 2001)
The Danger in a One-Basket Nest Egg Prompts a Call to Limit Stock (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Dec. 19, 2001)
Verizon Wireless Is Revising Deal for a Regional Carrier (NY TIMES, Dec. 19, 2001)
MANAGEMENT: In the Sensitive Office, Laying Off Is Hard to Do (By MELINDA LIGOS, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE BOSS: From a Factory to a Bank [CEO Fleet Boston Financial]
(By TERRENCE MURRAY, Written with Jonathan D. Glater, Dec. 19, 2001)
* WORKPLACE: In Tight Market, Toned-Down Résumés (By SHARON McDONNELL, Dec. 19, 2001)
LIFE'S WORK: Promises to Keep, in New Times [New Year's resolutions] (By LISA BELKIN, Dec. 19, 2001)
For Some Retailers, a Rescue by Buzz, Click, Point and Whirr [DVD players] (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Dec. 19, 2001)
* A Bright Spot in a Bleak Holiday Retailing Season [Online spending] (By STEPHANIE STROM and SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 19, 2001)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Despite Improvements, Post-Sept. 11 Flying Is Still a Chore (By JOE SHARKEY, Dec. 19, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Creative Ads Urge Shoppers to Return to Lower Manhattan (By AARON DONOVAN, Dec. 19, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Echoes of Contemporary Battle Lines in Old Russia (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 19, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'NATIVITY POEMS': Christmas Verses Begin in Early, Dark Rebellion [Joseph Brodsky]
(By RICHARD EDER, Dec. 19, 2001)
* FILM: 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS': A Heroic Quest Through Middle-Earth (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 19, 2001)
MUSIC: 'OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW WORLD': Six Looks at Jewish Cultural History (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Dec. 19, 2001)
MUSIC: Much Stravinsky, by Many (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Dec. 19, 2001)
THEATER: SUMMER OF '42': The Ravages of Puberty Painted in Pretty Pastels (By BRUCE WEBER, Dec. 19, 2001)
TV: 'AMATO: A LOVE AFFAIR WITH OPERA': An Operatic Duet About Passions Pursued
(By JULIE SALAMON, Dec. 19, 2001)
FOOD: EATING WELL: At Last, a Natural Path to the Deli (By MARIAN BURROS, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE CHEF: Shimmery and a Little Citrusy [Recipe: Hibiscus Gelée] (By BILL YOSSES, Dec. 19, 2001)
THE MINIMALIST: New Glory for the Goose (By MARK BITTMAN, Dec. 19, 2001)
On Christmas, the Last Gift of the Morning [3 recipes] (By AMANDA HESSER, Dec. 19, 2001)
SCIENCE: This Year Was the 2nd Hottest, Confirming a Trend, U.N. Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 19, 2001)

Tuesday, December 18, 2001:
On This Day: December 18 (Sir J.J. Thompson 12/18/1856-8/30/1940, Francis Ferdinand 12/18/1863-6/28/1914, Paul Klee 12/18/1879-6/29/1940, Ty Cobb 12/18/1886-7/17/1961, Dame Gladys Cooper 12/18/1888-11/17/1971, George Stevens 12/18/1904-3/8/1975, Willy Brandt 12/18/1913-10/8/1992, Betty Grable 12/18/1916-7/2/1973, Ramsey Clark 1927, Lonnie Brooks 1933, Keith Richards 1943, Leonard Maltin 1950, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 1971, Christina Aguilera 1980)
Big Atomic Plant near Pittsburgh Supplying Power (By JOHN W. FINNEY, December 18, 1957)
Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92 [12/18/1888-7/29/1981] (By PAUL GOLDBERGER, July 30, 1981)
Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., Vietnam War Admiral, 95 (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Dec. 18, 2001)
NATIONAL: New Wave of the Homeless Floods Cities' Shelters (By PAM BELLUCK, Dec. 18, 2001)
Elephant Trainer on Trial in an Abuse Case (By GREG WINTER, Dec. 18, 2001)
IMMIGRATION: U.S. Holds Suspect With Ties to Group Linked to Terror Aid (NY TIMES, Dec. 18, 2001)
President Has Lesions Taken Off His Face (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 18, 2001)
3 Astronauts Return to a Different World (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 18, 2001)
BIOTERRORISM: Disease Agency Starts Training in How to Contain Smallpox (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 18, 2001)
THE AMERICAN PRISONER: Lawyer Demands to Meet Client Held by Military for Two Weeks
(By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 18, 2001)
ELKINS JOURNAL: In Search of the Old Masters of the Mountains (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Dec. 18, 2001)
WORLD: MILITARY ANALYSIS: One War, Differing Aims (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 18, 2001)
Al Qaeda Fleeing Toward Pakistan, U.S. Officials Say (By BARRY BEARAK with JAMES RISEN, Dec. 18, 2001)
U.S. Again Placing Focus on Ousting Hussein (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Dec. 18, 2001)
Putin Sees Continued Alliance Despite the End of ABM Pact (By MICHAEL WINES, Dec. 18, 2001)
400 Experts Try to Harvest Afghanistan's Field of Mines (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 18, 2001)
Unsealing Time Capsule at the American Embassy (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 18, 2001)
THE PRISONERS: One Certainty So Far for Captured Fighters: Conditions Are Awful (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 18, 2001)
THE MISSING MULLAH: Taliban Leader Is Hiding Near Kandahar, Afghan Official Says (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 18, 2001)
A CAPTIVE: Saudi Prisoner Called a Chief for Al Qaeda (By JAMES RISEN, Dec. 18, 2001)
THE WOUNDED: Kandahar Hospital Was Unhappy Host to 18, Not 11, Unholy Warriors (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Dec. 18, 2001)
THE OTHER SHOE: Many Arabs Nervous About Attack on Iraq (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Dec. 18, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Tora Bora Perp Walk, Fugitives on the Fly, Conflicting War Aims (By PETER MARKS, Dec. 18, 2001)
MANCHESTER JOURNAL: The Spice Girl and the Soccer Idol (By WARREN HOGE, Dec. 18, 2001)
POSTWAR AFGHANISTAN: U.S. Questions Its Share of Reconstruction Costs (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Dec. 18, 2001)
NY REGION: COMMUNITY: A School Finds Strength in a Network of Grief (By JANE GROSS, Dec. 18, 2001)
COMPENSATION: Legal Residency Sought for Undocumented Victims' Families (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Dec. 18, 2001)
THE BIG CITY: Myth or Not, This Bud's for America (By JOHN TIERNEY, Dec. 18, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden (NY TIMES, Dec. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: The Hidden Enemies (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Dec. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: Death by Guru (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: Mullah Omar's Martyrdom Operation (By MICHAEL GRIFFIN, Dec. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: For Some Students, Early Decision Is Best (By HILARY BALLON, Dec. 18, 2001)
OP-ED: One Nation, Loosely United (By RICHARD HRAIR DEKMEJIAN, Dec. 18, 2001)
* LETTERS: A Defender of Faith in Reason [Anthony Lewis] (By JANET MALCOLM, et. al., Dec. 18, 2001)
BUSINESS: Share Prices Advance on Prospects of a Year-End Rally
[Dow +81, Nasdaq +34] (By REUTERS, Dec. 18, 2001)
* MARKET PLACE: When Failure Paves the Way for Success [Nasdaq 100-stock index QQQ]
(By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 18, 2001)
THE AIRLINES: With Seats Empty, Airlines Cut Fares to Bargain Levels (By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN, Dec. 18, 2001)
Amgen-Immunex Deal Spurs Forecasts About Others (By ANDREW POLLACK, Dec. 18, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Catch of the Day: Did Vivendi Land a Big One? (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Dec. 18, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: From Virginia to Louisiana, a Building Boom for Museums (By STEPHEN KINZER, Dec. 18, 2001)
ARTS: Enron's Fall Reverberates in Houston's Arts World (By STEPHEN KINZER, Dec. 18, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'ENEMIES WITHIN': Americans Love a Conspiracy, but Why? (By SAM ROBERTS, Dec. 18, 2001)
DANCE: Exploring Terrain as Risky as an Emotional State (By JACK ANDERSON, Dec. 18, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: Finally, a Fuss for Prokofiev, Both Uptown and Down (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY'S MAVERICKS SERIES: A Defining Maverick Shows Up (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Dec. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: 'NUTCRACKER SUITE': Hot-Cha, Tchaikovsky: 'Nutcracker' Swings (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: KIROV ORCHESTRA: Fleet Fingers of Pianist and Conductor (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Dec. 18, 2001)
THEATER: BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER: Always Room for Dissent in an Imperfect World (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Dec. 18, 2001)
THEATER: 'GOOD THING': A Competition in Squalor From Adjoining Kitchens (By BRUCE WEBER, Dec. 18, 2001)
THEATER: 'NEIL'S GARDEN': Converting Stereotypes Into Virtue (By BRUCE WEBER, Dec. 18, 2001)
STYLE: Prada: Luxury Brand With World-Class Anxiety (By GUY TREBAY and GINIA BELLAFANTE, Dec. 18, 2001)
SCIENCE: A Thick Line Between Theory and Therapy, as Shown With Mice (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 18, 2001)
HEALTH: Scientists Say Drug Provides Cold Relief Quicker (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 18, 2001)
* HEALTH: In Tiny Cells, Glimpses of Body's Master Plan (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 18, 2001)
* Defining the Undefinable: The Living Cell (By NATALIE ANGIER, Dec. 18, 2001)
* Apostle of Regenerative Medicine Foresees Longer Health and Life (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 18, 2001)
In Production of Stem Cells, Many Featured Actors but Few Stars (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 18, 2001)
Scientists Seek Ways to Rebuild the Body, Bypassing the Embryos (By ANDREW POLLACK, Dec. 18, 2001)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Weighing the Rights of the Embryo Against Those of the Sick (By JANE E. BRODY, Dec. 18, 2001)
Use of Cloning to Tailor Treatment Has Big Hurdles, Including Cost (By ANDREW POLLACK, Dec. 18, 2001)
Stem Cell Glossary (NY TIMES, Dec. 18, 2001)

Monday, December 17, 2001:
On This Day: December 17 (Ludwig Beethoven 12/17/1770-3/26/1827, Joseph Henry 12/17/1797-5/13/1878, John Greenleaf Whittier 12/17/1807-9/7/1892, Ford Madox Ford 12/17/1873-6/26/1939, Mackenzie King 12/17/1874-7/22/1950, Edwin Cohn 12/17/1892-10/1/1953, Erskine Caldwell 12/17/1903-4/11/1987, William Safire 1929, Bob Guccione 1930, Tommy Steele 1936)
* Orville & Wilbur Wright had first successful man-powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, NC (NY Times, December 17, 1903)
* Arthur Fiedler, 84, Conductor Of Boston Pops 50 Years, Dies [12/17/1894-7/10/1979] (By ALLEN HUGHES, July 11, 1979)
Seymour V. Reit, 83, a Creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost (By ERIC P. NASH, Dec. 17, 2001)
Frances E. Holberton, 84, Early Computer Programmer (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 17, 2001)
Arthur Edwin Bye, Natural Garden Designer, Dies at 82 (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Dec. 17, 2001)
Lord Carver, Critic of Nuclear Weapons, Dies at 86 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 17, 2001)
DOMESTIC SECURITY: Nuclear Sites Ill-Prepared for Attacks, Group Says (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Dec. 17, 2001)
THE FAMILY: For Afghan Leader, American Support of Another Sort (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Dec. 17, 2001)
A New Minority Makes Itself Known: Hispanic Muslims (By EVELYN NIEVES, Dec. 17, 2001)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: A New, Inclusive Era of the Holiday Party (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 17, 2001)
WORLD: Ex-Death Camp Tells Story of Nazi and Soviet Horrors (By DESMOND BUTLER, Dec. 17, 2001)
THE MILITARY: U.S. Officials Say Al Qaeda Is Routed From Afghanistan (By JOHN KIFNER with ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 17, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Terror War Not Over, Even in Afghanistan (By DAVID E. SANGER, Dec. 17, 2001)
THE SECRETARY: Rumsfeld Pays Call on Troops and Afghans (By THOM SHANKER, Dec. 17, 2001)
IDENTITY: Loyalty in Rural Afghanistan Places Tribe Before Country (By DAVID ROHDE with BARBARA CROSSETTE, Dec. 17, 2001)
IN THE GORGE: Road Mender Tries to Make Bomb Rubble Last a While (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 17, 2001)
THE FIGHTERS: Clash With Afghan Group Ends With Talks, Bloodlessly (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 17, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Heard but Not Seen, a Holiday for Afghans, the Baltimore Connection (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 17, 2001)
NUCLEAR SECRETS: Pakistan Frees 2 Scientists Linked to bin Laden Network (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 17, 2001)
HOLIDAY: Fast Ends in Kabul, but a Hunger Grows for a New, Better Life (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 17, 2001)
To Help Land, Australians Rethink Role of Kangaroos (By JOHN SHAW, Dec. 17, 2001)
THE TROOPS: A World Away From New York City, Soldiers Find That Street Smarts Come in Handy (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 17, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: As Welfare Comes to an End, So Do the Jobs (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Dec. 17, 2001)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By ENID NEMY, Dec. 17, 2001)
* New York's Setback Expected to Be Deeper Than Nation's (By AMY CORTESE, Dec. 17, 2001)
METRO MATTERS: The Horror, the Spectacle, Then Lunch (By JOYCE PURNICK, Dec. 17, 2001)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: A Hemings Family Turns From Black, to White, to Black (By BRENT STAPLES, Dec. 16, 2001)
OP-ED: Glimpsing a Twisted Mind (By BOB HERBERT, Dec. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: The Irrelevant Man (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: A Risky Policy on Smallpox Vaccinations (By PAUL W. EWALD, Dec. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: Hiding Arms Is Easy (By KHIDHIR HAMZA, Dec. 17, 2001)
LETTERS: The Strength That Is New York (By AARON S. WEISSBROT, et. al., Dec. 17, 2001)
LETTERS: Can the Internet Be Left to the Market? (By WAYNE CREWS & ADAM THIERER, et. al., Dec. 17, 2001)
BUSINESS: AT&T Weighs Cable Unit Sale (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 17, 2001)
BUSINESS: Vivendi Said to Have Deal for Expansion in U.S. Media (By SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 17, 2001)
Diller Likely to Disturb Some Hollywood Ways (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Dec. 17, 2001)
For Microsoft, a Season of Triumph (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 17, 2001)
A Badly Bruised Economy Leaves Everyone Guessing (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Dec. 17, 2001)
THE BOND FIRM: Book From Cantor Fitzgerald Chief (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 17, 2001)
BUSINESS: Deal Bolsters Satellites as Cable TV Competitors (By AMY HARMON & JENNIFER 8. LEE, Dec. 17, 2001)
NBC to Show Playmates During Super Bowl (By BILL CARTER, Dec. 17, 2001)
LIFE'S WORK: The Nation Needs a Vacation to Reassess and Rejuvenate (By LISA BELKIN, Dec. 17, 2001)
Frugal Shoppers Worry Retailers (By KATHLEEN MURRAY, Dec. 17, 2001)
Not Much Exuberance, Irrational or Otherwise, on Wall St. (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Dec. 17, 2001)
At Last, Europe Gets a Common Currency; Even So, Prices Vary (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Dec. 17, 2001)
* Chip Makers See a Speedy Recovery; Others Have Doubts (By CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 17, 2001)
* For Some Dot-Coms, There Are Real Profits (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 17, 2001)
* Tech Investors Cautiously Return (By MATT RICHTEL, Dec. 17, 2001)
Advertising Industry Ensnarled in the Perfect Storm (By STUART ELLIOTT, Dec. 17, 2001)
Telecommunications Industry Too Devastated for Vultures (By SIMON ROMERO, Dec. 17, 2001)
In Japan, a Lack of Political Will to Act Decisively on Economy (By JAMES BROOKE, Dec. 17, 2001)
Globalization Stirs Asian Dreams, But Rural Poverty Grows (By WAYNE ARNOLD, Dec. 17, 2001)
BOOKS: 'FIERCE PAJAMAS': Like a Fridge Full of Food, Laughs for the Nibbling
(By JANET MASLIN, Dec. 17, 2001)
BOOKS: THE BOND FIRM: Book From Cantor Fitzgerald Chief (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 17, 2001)
BOOKS: Roll Over, Shakespeare, the Future Is Here (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Dec. 17, 2001)
CABARET: BABY JANE DEXTER: From Rock to Broadway, Spinnin' True (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 17, 2001)
DANCE: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER: Homeless but Unvanquished (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 17, 2001)
DANCE: BALLETT FRANKFURT: Brainy With a Contemporary Sense of Fun (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 17, 2001)
MUSIC: 'Messiah' Rings Near Ground Zero (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Dec. 17, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: In Philadelphia, New Hall's Sound Is in the Ear of the Beholder
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 17, 2001)
THEATER: 'PSYCH': Dominatrix, Nice Kid; She's Just Misunderstood (By BRUCE WEBER, Dec. 17, 2001)
TV: Sweet Variations on Favorite Christmas Themes (By JULIE SALAMON, Dec. 17, 2001)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: As Her Son Creates His Story, a Mother Waits for the Ending (By BETH KEPHART, Dec. 17, 2001)
HEALTH: Conflicting Breast Cancer Studies Creating Unsettling Uncertainties (By TAMAR LEWIN, Dec. 17, 2001)

Sunday, December 16, 2001:
On This Day: December 16 (Catherine of Aragon 12/16/1485-1/7/1536, Jane Austen 12/16/1775-7/18/1817, Francois Boieldieu 12/16/1775-10/8/1834, George Santayana 12/16/1863-9/26/1952, Sir Noel Coward 12/16/1899-3/26/1973, V.S. Pritchett 12/16/1900-3/20/1997, Arthur C. Clarke 1917, Liv Ullmann 1939, Lesley Stahl 1941, Sam Robards 1961)
President Truman proclaimed a state of emergency to fight Communist imperialism (By ANTHONY LEVIERO, December 16, 1950)
* Margaret Mead Is Dead of Cancer at 76 [12/16/1901-11/15/1978] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, November 16, 1978)
John Culbertson, Economist and Trade Protectionist, 80, Is Dead (By SIMON ROMERO, Dec. 16, 2001)
Naomi Schor, Literary Critic and Theorist, Is Dead at 58 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 16, 2001)
Stephen X. Carroll, 70, Detictive Who Helped Revive Moxley Case, Dies (By JAYSON BLAIR, Dec. 16, 2001)
NATIONAL: Drug Seizures Have Surged at the Borders (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE HEALTH THREAT: Anthrax Shot Considered for Civilians (By WARREN E. LEARY, Dec. 16, 2001)
* BOOKS: Buyers Reading Cover Price, and Opting Not to Read the Rest (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 16, 2001)
Navy Missile Defense Plan Is Canceled by the Pentagon (By JAMES DAO, Dec. 16, 2001)
CORVALLIS JOURNAL: Rancher Offers a Home Where Llamas Can Roam (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Dec. 16, 2001)
PERSONAL SECURITY: Steep Rise in Gun Sales Reflects Post-Attack Fears (By AL BAKER, Dec. 16, 2001)
WORLD: Tora Bora Attack Advances in Tough Fighting (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 16, 2001)
COMMUNICATIONS: U.S. Believes It Has Recorded Radio Messages From bin Laden (By JAMES RISEN and JAMES DAO, Dec. 16, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL: China, in Harsh Crackdown, Executes Muslim Separatists (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 16, 2001)
U.S. Bombing Continues as Some bin Laden Followers Talk of Surrender (By JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 16, 2001)
Dinner Guest of bin Laden Identified as Saudi Fighter (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 16, 2001)
Afghans Looking Homeward From Exile With Wary Eyes (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 16, 2001)
KANDAHAR: Inmates Left by the Taliban Are Free, but Cannot Leave (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE POLITICS: When the Combat Ends, Another Struggle Looms (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 16, 2001)
CLIMATE: Afghan Drought Inflicts Its Own Misery (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE WAR FOR OPINION: Despite Video, Arabs Remain Suspicious of U.S. War Effort
(By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE ALLIES: Rumsfeld Predicts an End to Sanctions on 2 Nations (By THOM SHANKER, Dec. 16, 2001)
DISSENSION: A Would-Be Warlord Is Given Short Shrift by New Rulers (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE VICTIMS: In Village Where Innocents Died, Anger Cannot Be Buried (By BARRY BEARAK, Dec. 16, 2001)
IN THE SOUTH: Marines Building a Prison Camp at Kandahar Airport (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 16, 2001)
* CULTURE: Afghan Poets Revive a Literary Tradition (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 16, 2001)
O Brave New Bavaria! So Much More Than Beer (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Dec. 16, 2001)
NY REGION: COPING: Victims' Families Find No Salve in Holidays (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE TOWERS: Toppling of 'Shroud' Stirs Emotions (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Dec. 16, 2001)
City to Offer Free Tickets to Brighten Broadway (By DIANE CARDWELL, Dec. 16, 2001)
ARTLOWER MANHATTAN JOURNAL: Memories at a Bar Shaken, and Stirred (By SUSAN SAULNYICLE, Dec. 16, 2001)
* BUSINESS: At 63, Ted Turner May Yet Roar Again (By JIM RUTENBERG and ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Dec. 16, 2001)
* Equal Opportunity Recession: Almost Everyone Is Feeling It (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Dec. 16, 2001)
Visions of a Brand-Name Office Empire [Sam Zell] (By DAVID BARBOZA, Dec. 16, 2001)
A Venture in Ships Is a Rare Zell Flop (By LESLIE WAYNE, Dec. 16, 2001)
A New Options Market That Hums (By DAN COLARUSSO, Dec. 16, 2001)
Child Care: An Industry for All Economic Seasons (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Dec. 16, 2001)
* Luxury's Old Guard, Battered by New Realities (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Dec. 16, 2001)
MARKET WATCH: Post-Enron, All Eyes on Rating Agencies (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Dec. 16, 2001)
* PRIVATE SECTOR: He Knows This Bumpy Hill Well [EMC CEO Joseph M. Tucci] (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Dec. 16, 2001)
ECONOMIC VIEW: TV's, DVD's: All Yours, but First Do the Math (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE RIGHT THING: Managing Danger Responsibly: How Much Do You Tell? (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, Dec. 16, 2001)
* MARKET INSIGHT: Problems and Promise for Personal Computers (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Dec. 16, 2001)
* STRATEGIES: Everyone Wants to Be a Contrarian (and to Argue) (By MARK HULBERT, Dec. 16, 2001)
INVESTING WITH Michael T. Kennedy, Stein Roe Intermediate Bond Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Dec. 16, 2001)
Nest Eggs Have Shrunk. But Tuition Bills Haven't. (By SANA SIWOLOP, Dec. 16, 2001)
* How Loud Does Money Talk? For Some, It Shouts (By VIVIAN MARINO, Dec. 16, 2001)
MONEY & MEDICINE: The Sound and the Fury of Health Care (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Dec. 16, 2001)
For Travelers Who Want It All (By JANE L. LEVERE, Dec. 16, 2001)
PRELUDES: It's Creepy, Yes, but Also Important [draw up wills] (By ABBY ELLIN, Dec. 16, 2001)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 16, 2001)
ARTS: Making Art From the Splintered Memories of War (By AMEI WALLACH, Dec. 16, 2001)
* DANCE: Art in Earnest: The (Self) Importance of Being Isadora (By TERRY TEACHOUT, Dec. 16, 2001)
* DANCE: Teaching Actors to Move With the Gracefulness of Dancers (By VALERIE GLADSTONE, Dec. 16, 2001)
MUSIC: The Atlanta Symphony Gets a Jolt of Energy (By SUSAN ELLIOTT, Dec. 16, 2001)
MUSIC: When Yesterday's Maestros Can Duel With Today's (By JOSEPH HOROWITZ, Dec. 16, 2001)
OPERA: A Fat, Bearded Man in a Red Suit? No, Not That One [Verdi's "Falstaff"] (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Dec. 16, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Testimony of a Keen Witness to Sicily's Enduring Sorrow [Letizia Battaglia]
(By VICKI GOLDBERG, Dec. 16, 2001)
THEATER: The New Indies of Los Angeles Are Live Onstage (By JOSEPH HANANIA, Dec. 16, 2001)
TV: For Reality Stars, the Reality of a One-Time Payment (By LEE WILSON BAILEY, Dec. 16, 2001)
TV: A Hispanic Drama, Rejected Once, Finds a Home (By ANDY MEISLER, Dec. 16, 2001)
STYLE: CRITIC'S CHOICE: Forget the Shoes, Prada's New Store Stocks Ideas
(By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Dec. 16, 2001)
STYLE: Cheer and Conformity Make a Comeback (By WILLIAM NORWICH, Dec. 16, 2001)
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE: New Kit Bags, to Send Troubles Packing (By ALEX WITCHEL, Dec. 16, 2001)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Singer Jane Monheit Catches a Jazzy Set (By LINDA LEE, Dec. 16, 2001)
FASHION: T-Shirt Philosophizing ["I Love NY" & "I am NY"] (NY TIMES, Dec. 16, 2001)
A Harvard Shopping Guide? Charge It (By ELLEN TIEN, Dec. 16, 2001)
* Looking for Solace From a Psychic Connection (By BOB MORRIS, Dec. 16, 2001)
OFF OFF FIFTH: The Return of the Peasants (By RUTH LA FERLA, Dec. 16, 2001)
ON THE STREET: A Smooth Shift Into Neutral [slide show] (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Dec. 16, 2001)
VIEW: Lighting Up With the Joneses (By MICHAEL KORDA, Dec. 16, 2001)
VOWS: Lesia Bates and Sean Moss (By MARSHA FOTTLER, Dec. 16, 2001)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 16, 2001)
* ACCORDING TO THE TIMES... The Short Haul (By NYTIMES.COM, Dec. 16, 2001)
* Dreams of Holy War Over a Quiet Evening [bin Laden tape] (By SARAH BOXER, Dec. 16, 2001)
* An Islamic Society With a Secular State (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Dec. 16, 2001)
* Fantasy's Power and Peril [Harry Potter & Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"]
(By MARINA WARNER, Dec. 16, 2001)
Government Fiddles and the Economy Burns (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Dec. 16, 2001)
The Morning After Dawns on Moscow [ABM Missile Treaty of 1972] (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Dec. 16, 2001)
Lebanon Revisited (By JAMES BENNET, Dec. 16, 2001)
NO BURNING BUSH: This Time, Dissent Stops at the White House Door (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Dec. 16, 2001)
* WORD FOR WORD: After 50 Years of Covering War, Looking for Peace and Honoring Law (Ethan Bronner INTERVIEWS Anthony Lewis, Dec. 16, 2001)
* LOST IN CYBERSPACE: If You Can't Touch It, Can You Steal It? (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Dec. 16, 2001)
In One Muslim Land, an Effort to Enforce Lessons of Tolerance (By SUSAN SACHS, Dec. 16, 2001)
Front Lines (By ANDREA KANNAPELL, Dec. 16, 2001)
Even Snail Mail Would Be Faster (By AMY HARMON, Dec. 16, 2001)
No Bad Sex, Just Bad Writing (By JENNY LYN BADER, Dec. 16, 2001)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 16, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: Gifts of Gab (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Closet-Case Studies [Mohamed Atta] (By COREY ROBIN, Dec. 16, 2001)
QUESTIONS FOR ROBERT ALTMAN: Arrogance Is Bliss (By AMY BARRETT, Dec. 16, 2001)
ENCOUNTER: The One Who Stayed (By JOHN SIFTON, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: After the Crash (By RANDY COHEN, Dec. 16, 2001)
POINT OF PURCHASE: Meter Made [450 words Magnetic Poetry kit] (By DENNIS CASS, Dec. 16, 2001)
SALIENT FACTS: Chilling Effect (By JOHN COOK, Dec. 16, 2001)
CONSUMER AFFAIRS: Duty-Free Shopping (By AMY GOLDWASSER, Dec. 16, 2001)
Clinton and Schumer: Show Us the Money (By FRANK BRUNI, Dec. 16, 2001)
Pain, the Disease (By MELANIE THERNSTROM, Dec. 16, 2001)
In Uzbekistan, Whatever It Takes (By MATTHEW BRZEZINSKI, Dec. 16, 2001)
Naji's Taliban Phase (By MICHAEL FINKEL, Dec. 16, 2001)
STYLE: It's a Man's World (By PILAR VILADAS, Dec. 16, 2001)
FOOD: Eat the Rich Stuff (By JULIA REED, Dec. 16, 2001)
LIVES: Unusual Suspect [rejected to fly El Al] (By ROSEMARY MAHONEY, Dec. 16, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 16, 2001)
* 'Poems Seven': Alan Dugan's Poetry for Grown-Ups (By ROBERT PINSKY, Dec. 16, 2001)
Nadine Gordimer's 'The Pickup': How the Other Half Loves (By ANDREW SULLIVAN, Dec. 16, 2001)
'The Hidden Hitler': All the Führer's Men (By WALTER REICH, Dec. 16, 2001)
'Bad Elements': Gang of One Billion (By JUDITH SHAPIRO, Dec. 16, 2001)
'A Cook's Tour': Extreme Cuisine With Anthony Bourdain (By SAM SIFTON, Dec. 16, 2001)
'Heidegger's Children': Sins of the Father (By JAMES RYERSON, Dec. 16, 2001)
'What Evolution Is': A Friendly Textbook (By PAUL RAEBURN, Dec. 16, 2001)
'Limbo': A Life Transformed by Illness [pianist to novelist] (By DEBORAH MASON, Dec. 16, 2001)
'Say Little, Do Much': Serving God Through Nursing (By BERNADETTE McCAULEY, Dec. 16, 2001)
THE CLOSE READER: Expecting the Worst (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Dec. 16, 2001)
* SCIENCE: A Tempest Over a Teaspoon of a Bird [calliope hummingbirds]
(By BARBARA STEWART, Dec. 16, 2001)

Saturday, December 15, 2001:
On This Day: December 15 (Nero 12/15/37 AD-6/9/68 AD, George Romney 12/15/1734-11/15/1802, Joseph Moses Levy 12/15/1812-10/12/1888, Gustave Eiffel 12/15/1832-12/28/1923, Niels Ryberg Finsen 12/15/1860-9/24/1904, Maxwell Anderson 12/15/1888-2/28/1959, Tim Conway 1933, Cindy Birdsong 1939, Dave Clark 1942, Don Johnson 1949)
* French Capture 7,500 in Big Verdun Drive; Smash Six-Mile Front (NY Times, December 15, 1916)
* J. Paul Getty Dead at 83; Amassed Billions From Oil [12/15/1892-6/6/1976] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, June 6, 1976)
Erica Van Acker, 62, Subject of TV Documentary on Rape (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Dec. 15, 2001)
* W. G. Sebald, Elegiac German Novelist, Is Dead at 57 (By MEL GUSSOW, Dec. 15, 2001)
A. Keith Smiley, 91, Executive Of Resort and Preservationist (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 15, 2001)
Pauline Moore, 87; Acted With Roy Rogers (NY TIMES, Dec. 15, 2001)
NATIONAL: Babies Used in Drug Ring, Officials Say (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 15, 2001)
MUSLIM-AMERICANS: Some Muslims Say Tape Removes Previous Doubt (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Dec. 15, 2001)
* THE INVESTIGATION: Tapes Suggest U.S. Spying Missed Signals (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Dec. 15, 2001)
Anthrax Cleanup Goes On (NY TIMES, Dec. 15, 2001)
FOREIGN STUDENTS: College Officials Are Wary on Visa Enforcement (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Dec. 15, 2001)
THE TELEPHONE NUMBER: Man Whose Number Was Found in Hijackers' Car Is Kept in Jail
(NY TIMES, Dec. 15, 2001)
THE EVIDENCE: Defense Lawyers See Ways to Attack Tape, if Not Win (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 15, 2001)
THE RESPONSE: Preparation for Anthrax Is Called For (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 15, 2001)
FINANCIAL TRAIL: F.B.I. Raids 2 of the Biggest Muslim Charities; Assets of One Are Seized
(By PHILIP SHENON, Dec. 15, 2001)
EDUCATION: Students Gear Up, Again, for SAT After Anthrax Scare (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Dec. 15, 2001)
* Differences Portray Microcosm of Islamic World (By JIM YARDLEY, Dec. 15, 2001)
* BELIEFS: Tithing in a Time of Extra Need (By PETER STEINFELS, Dec. 15, 2001)
WORLD: U.S. Spreads Word of Bin Laden Tape (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Dec. 15, 2001)
American General Asserts 300 to 1,000 Enemy Fighters Have Been 'Contained'
(By JOHN KIFNER with JAMES DAO, Dec. 15, 2001)
KANDAHAR: G.I.'s Had Crucial Role in Battle for Kandahar (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 15, 2001)
Al Qaeda Resistance Falters Under Heavy Attack (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 15, 2001)
* INTELLIGENCE: Looking for bin Laden: Reading the Signs (By ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 15, 2001)
AN UNLUCKY PLACE: An Afghan Village Where Errant Bombs Fell and Killed, and Still Lurk in Wait
(By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 15, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Containing Al Qaeda, Reviewing Bin Laden, Seeking Aid at Home (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Dec. 15, 2001)
THE LOOT: Alliance Resists Returning Aid Agencies' Cars (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 15, 2001)
EXPECTED CAPTIVES: Marines Set Up Pens for Wave of Prisoners (By STEVEN LEE MYERS with JAMES DAO, Dec. 15, 2001)
Clerics Named By bin Laden Seen as Posing Little Threat (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Dec. 15, 2001)
TRAVEL: Refugees Reclaim a Blocked Tunnel as Their Road Home (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 15, 2001)
PEREDELKINO JOURNAL: Novelist Chronices the Intrigues of the New Moguls (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Dec. 15, 2001)
NY REGION: Overtime Pay for Police and Fire Chiefs Stirs Fears (By KEVIN FLYNN, Dec. 15, 2001)
* THE TOWERS: Demand Rises for Widening Investigation Into Collapse (By JAMES GLANZ, Dec. 15, 2001)
* GROUND ZERO: Bar That Gave Up Its Store to Weary Is Now Stripped Bare (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Dec. 15, 2001)
Delivering Hope By Another Route [Aid for AIDS] (By JENNY HOLLAND, Dec. 15, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Misusing Executive Privilege (NY TIMES, Dec. 15, 2001)
* OP-ED: Hail and Farewell [last column] (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Dec. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: Trials and Tribulations (By BILL KELLER, Dec. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: Iran Could Be a Valuable Friend (By CAMERON KHOSROWSHAHI, Dec. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: Electricity Deregulation Is Still Sound Policy (By VIJAY VAITHEESWARAN, Dec. 15, 2001)
LETTERS: Bin Laden's Glee, Our Disgust (By HOWARD I. RHINE, et. al., Dec. 15, 2001)
* LETTERS: Before the Euro, Money Talked of Culture (By LLOYD KANNENBERG & PETER PALFFY-MUHORAY, Dec. 15, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Advance to End Week of Uneasiness for Investors
[Dow +45, Nasdaq +7] (By REUTERS, Dec. 15, 2001)
BUSINESS: As the War Shifts Alliances, Oil Deals Follow (By NEELA BANERJEE with SABRINA TAVERNISE, Dec. 15, 2001)
THE STRATEGY: Joining Content and Distribution [Vivendi Universal] (By AMY HARMON, Dec. 15, 2001)
MEDIA: Vivendi Moves to Gain Access to TV Markets (By SETH SCHIESEL and RICK LYMAN, Dec. 15, 2001)
* THE PLAYER: If Diller Did Comment on This, He Might Say, 'Rosebud' (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Dec. 15, 2001)
THE BET: 4 Years Later, Asking Who Got the Best of Whom (By BILL CARTER, Dec. 15, 2001)
* The Familiar and the Cozy Are Much in Favor This Year (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Dec. 15, 2001)
Retro Toys Can Get Nostalgic Parents to Spend (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Dec. 15, 2001)
Joblessness Is Fraying Istanbul's Social Fabric (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Dec. 15, 2001)
* ART CONNECTIONS: Gandalf and the Sorcerer's Stone of Evil: On Fighting the Good Fight
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Dec. 15, 2001)
* ARTS: Grounded by an Income Gap (By ALEXANDER STILLE, Dec. 15, 2001)
ARTS: In Chechnya, Truth Is a Dangerous Goal [Anna Politkovskaya] (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 15, 2001)
DANCE: 'AS NATURAL AS BREATHING': Wallflower Blooms in a Loving Crowd (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 15, 2001)
* OPERA: Domingo's Voice Fails, but He Is Hailed at La Scala (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Dec. 15, 2001)
OPERA: 'FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN': An Oddball Work Marks a Director's Debut (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 15, 2001)
MUSIC: SPECULUM MUSICAE: 93rd Birthday Gift for Elliott Carter (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 15, 2001)
THEATER: 'IPHIGENIA AT AULIS': Euripides' Philosophy Survives, but a Princess Doesn't
(By ANITA GATES, Dec. 15, 2001)
TV: 'MERCE CUNNINGHAM: A LIFETIME IN DANCE': A Choreographer Who at 82 Does Warm-Ups to Hip-Hop
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 15, 2001)
TV: 'REDISCOVERING DAVE BRUBECK': Dave Brubeck, Cowboy's Son, Found Rhythm on the Range
(By NEIL GENZLINGER, Dec. 15, 2001)
HEALTH: After Two-Decade Halt, Marijuana Research Is Set (By PHILIP J. HILTS, Dec. 15, 2001)

Friday, December 14, 2001:
On This Day: December 14 (Nostradamus 12/14/1503-7/2/1566, Tycho Brahe 12/14/1546-10/24/1601, Roger Fry 12/14/1866-9/9/1934, James Doolittle 12/14/1896-9/27/1993, Lee Remick 12/14/1935-7/2/1991, Clark Terry 1920, Don Hewiit 1922, Patty Duke 1946)
Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967 (By JOHN DARNTON, December 14, 1981)
* Shirley Jackson, Author of Horror Classic, Dies [12/14/1919-8/8/1965] (NY Times, August 10, 1965)
Larry Costello, Player and Coach in N.B.A., Dies at 70 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Dec. 14, 2001)
Pauline Campanelli, Artist Who Evoked Rustic Simplicity, Dies at 58 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 14, 2001)
Memorial for Herbert Ross (NY TIMES, Dec. 14, 2001)
* Remembering George Harrison (By JOE BRESCIA, Dec. 14, 2001)
* THE NATIONAL REACTION: Bin Laden Tape Renews Outrage; a Few Deny It Is Authentic (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 14, 2001)
F.B.I. Says bin Laden Tape Provided Plenty of Evidence (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Dec. 14, 2001)
BIOTERRORISM: F.B.I. Queries Expert Who Sees Federal Lab Tie in Anthrax Cases (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Dec. 14, 2001)
WASHINGTON LETTER: Reticence on a Failure of Intelligence May End (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Dec. 14, 2001)
THE DISEASE: Experts Assess Officials on Anthrax Outbreak (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 14, 2001)
WORLD: China Voices Muted Distress at U.S. Blow to ABM Pact (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Dec. 14, 2001)
Facing Pact's End, Putin Decides to Grimace and Bear It (By MICHAEL WINES, Dec. 14, 2001)
Banks Brace for High Demand as Euro Coins Are Put on Sale (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Dec. 14, 2001)
THE FUNERALS: Mourners Speak of Piety, Not Revenge [Jews talk about God's mysterious ways]
(By JOEL GREENBERG, Dec. 14, 2001)
THE OVERVIEW: Arafat Halts Crackdown; Israel Breaks Links to Him (By JAMES BENNET, Dec. 14, 2001)
MIDEAST REACTION: Videotape Is Unlikely to Change the Minds of Arabs Hostile to America
(By SUSAN SACHS, Dec. 14, 2001)
MANEUVERING: Marines Move to Kandahar and Secure an Airport (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 14, 2001)
* A Glimpse, Guard Down, of bin Laden (By JUDITH MILLER, Dec. 14, 2001)
* THE VIDEO: Bin Laden, on Tape, Boasts of Trade Center Attacks (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 14, 2001)
* THE MEDIA: Big Networks Clear the Decks for Videotape of bin Laden (By BILL CARTER, Dec. 14, 2001)
* Excerpted Text From Osama bin Laden Tape (NY TIMES, Dec. 14, 2001)
ROUNDUP: A Chilling Video, a Siege of bin Laden, an Airport Occupied (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 14, 2001)
ALONG THE BORDER: Where Smugglers Once Roamed, Toothpaste Hardly Squeezes Through (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 14, 2001)
Fierce Al Qaeda Defense Seen as a Sign of bin Laden's Proximity (By JOHN KIFNER with ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 14, 2001)
NY REGION: THE TOWERS: Trade Center's Fireproofing Had a Questionable History
(By JAMES GLANZ & MICHAEL MOSS, Dec. 14, 2001)
* VOICES: With Anger and Disgust, Region Views Tape of bin Laden's Boasts (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Dec. 14, 2001)
* THE FIREFIGHTERS: Emotional First-Aid in a Firehouse Culture (By DAN BARRY, Dec. 14, 2001)
THE DETAINEES: Man Named in Terror Conspiracy Ordered to Virginia for Trial (By JANE FRITSCH, Dec. 14, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Calm Presence in a Tense, Tight-Deadline World [Adrienne Brodeur, Zoetrope]
(By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Dec. 14, 2001)
COMPENSATION: Victims' Families Excluded From Effort to Unify Relief (By DAVID BARSTOW, Dec. 14, 2001)
SPORTS: Michelle Kwan Grows Up, Awkwardly, in the Public Eye (By SELENA ROBERTS, Dec. 14, 2001)
SPORTS: Giambi Beams on First Day as Yankee [7-year, $120 million] (By JACK CURRY, Dec. 14, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Boost for the Economy (NY TIMES, Dec. 14, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Portrait of a Terrorist (NY TIMES, Dec. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Give the Afghans a Hand (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Dec. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Eleven and Counting [Greenspan's 11 rate cuts] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Who's Looking Out for the Shareholders? (By NELL MINOW, Dec. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Breast Cancer Is a Complicated Enemy (By BARRON H. LERNER, Dec. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: Nuclear Realism for a Changed World (By JAN LODAL, Dec. 14, 2001)
LETTERS: Is ABM Treaty Our Best Defense? (By RICHARD MULLEN, et. al., Dec. 14, 2001)
* LETTERS: Symptoms of Sept. 11 (By DEBORAH C. PEEL, M.D., Dec. 14, 2001)
BUSINESS: 2 Weak Forecasts in Technology Push Equities Lower
[Dow -128, Nasdaq -65] (By SHERRI DAY, Dec. 14, 2001)
Oracle Hits Profit Goal, but Sales Are Far Off Estimates (By CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 14, 2001)
Lucent Lowers Sales Forecast; Stocks Hit Hard (By SIMON ROMERO, Dec. 14, 2001)
Excite@Home slashes 400 jobs (By Rachel Konrad, CNET News.com, Dec. 14, 2001)
Hewlett Heir Issues Letter Denouncing Planned Deal [HP-Compaq] (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 14, 2001)
TECHNOLOGY: U.S. Defers Digital Copyright Case Against Russian Programmer (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Dec. 14, 2001)
Japan Bursts Merrill's Balloon [Merrill Lynch lost $600 million in 3 years]
(By JAMES BROOKE, Dec. 14, 2001)
* CYBER LAW JOURNAL: Experts Say Decision Could Undermine Online Journalists [web hyperlinks]
(By CARL S. KAPLAN, Dec. 14, 2001)
* ART: AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: Hailing a Past and a Future (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 14, 2001)
* ART: 'SPLENDID ISOLATION: ART OF EASTER ISLAND': Unraveling Mysteries Cast in Stone
(By GRACE GLUECK, Dec. 14, 2001)
* ART: Abstract on the Surface, With Layers of Meaning (By HOLLAND COTTER, Dec. 14, 2001)
ART: 'THE THREAD UNRAVELED: Contemporary Brazil in Fabric and Thread (By KEN JOHNSON, Dec. 14, 2001)
INSIDE ART: A Prize for Lights (By CAROL VOGEL, Dec. 14, 2001)
* ANTIQUES: A Teddy Bear Celebrating a Real Teddy (By WENDY MOONAN, Dec. 14, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: Fireside Intimacy for American Folk Art Museum (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Dec. 14, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'PAUL GAUGUIN': The Artist as Bully and Self-Described Sex Machine (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 14, 2001)
CABARET: 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE': Coloring a Playful Portrait of a Theatrical Grande Dame
[Andrea Marcovicci celebrates Gertrude Lawrence] (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 14, 2001)
FILM: WATCHING MOVIES WITH BRIAN GRAZER: Inducing Hilarity by Doses of Shock ["Blazing Saddles"]
(By RICK LYMAN, Dec. 14, 2001)
FILM: 'VANILLA SKY': Plastic Surgery Takes a Science Fiction Twist (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 14, 2001)
FILM: Critics Group Names David Lynch's 'Mulholland' Best Film (NY TIMES, Dec. 14, 2001)
FILM: 'SECOND SKIN': A Wife, a Boyfriend and a Very Busy Life (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 14, 2001)
* FILM: With 'Ring,' Studio May Try Prequel Teasers to Sequels (By RICK LYMAN, Dec. 14, 2001)
*FILM: 'IRIS': Iris Murdoch Conquering All but the Alzheimer's (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 14, 2001)
FILM: 'KANDAHAR': Veils of Tears Frame Lives in Kandahar (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 14, 2001)
FILM: 'NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE': A Spoof of a Lampoon of a Satire of... (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 14, 2001)
THEATER: FAMILY FARE: 3 Little Ghosts for Scrooge (By LAUREL GRAEBER, Dec. 14, 2001)
TV: 'RUSSELL SIMMONS PRESENTS DEF POETRY': Poetry as Urgent as Rhythms of Life (By CARYN JAMES, Dec. 14, 2001)
THE OUTSIDER: Small Wonders in the Winter Woods (By JAMES GORMAN, Dec. 14, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Comet May Be the Darkest Object Yet Seen (NY TIMES, Dec. 14, 2001)
HEALTH: U.S. Warning of Death Toll From Obesity (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 14, 2001)

Thursday, December 13, 2001:
On This Day: December 13 (Carlos Gozzi 12/13/1720-4/4/1806, Sir William Hamilton 12/13/1730-4/6/1803, Lawrence Lowell 12/13/1856-1/6/1943, Emily Carr 12/13/1871-3/2/1945, Archie Moore 12/13/1913-12/9/1998, George P. Shultz 1920, Dick Van Dyke 1925, Christopher Plummer 1929, Richard Zanuck 1934, John Davidson 1941)
Poland Restricts Civil and Union Rights; Solidarity Activists Urge General Strike (By JOHN DARNTON, December 13, 1981)
* Carlos Montoya, 89, Flamenco Guitarist, Is Dead [12/13/1903-3/3/1993] (By ALLAN KOZINN, March 5, 1993)
Aubrey Lewis, Athlete Who Was an F.B.I. Pioneer, Dies at 66 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Dec. 13, 2001)
* Don Tennant, Creator of Characters for Ads, Is Dead at 79 (By STUART ELLIOTT, Dec. 13, 2001)
Maude Chasen, Restaurant Owner, Dies at 97 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: U.S. Recently Produced Anthrax in a Highly Lethal Powder Form (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & JUDITH MILLER, Dec. 13, 2001)
FOREIGN STUDENTS: 10 Arrested in Visa Cases in San Diego (By JAMES STERNGOLD with DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Dec. 13, 2001)
Census Cost: $56 per Home (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 13, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S. Seems Intent on Focusing on Al Qaeda in First Sept. 11 Trial
(By DAVID JOHNSTON & BENJAMIN WEISER, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE PENTAGON ATTACK: Pilot of Hijacked Plane Buried With Honors in Arlington
(NY TIMES, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE INTERVIEWS: Questioning With a Powder-Puff Edge (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 13, 2001)
F.B.I. Faulted in Nuclear Secrets Investigation (By REUTERS, Dec. 13, 2001)
WORLD: ABM Treaty's End Would Ruffle Russia's Politics (By MICHAEL WINES, Dec. 13, 2001)
Bush's Move on ABM Pact Gives Pause to Europeans (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Dec. 13, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Fed-Up Israel Turns Its Back on Arafat (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Dec. 13, 2001)
DISSENSION: Anti-Taliban Factions Clash in North (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE TERROR NETWORK: Bombs Have Killed 3 Qaeda Leaders, U.S. Now Believes (By JAMES RISEN, Dec. 13, 2001)
BATTLEGROUND: New Deadline Set for Qaeda After Deal on Surrender Fails (By JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 13, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: An Elusive bin Laden, Loss of a Bomber, Twin Tower Science (By PETER MARKS, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE AIR WAR: U.S. Bomber Crashes at Sea; Crew Members Are Rescued (By DAVID STOUT, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE INTERIM LEADER: The Man Who Will Be Chief Is Greeted Warmly in Kabul (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 13, 2001)
FOREIGN PRISONER: Alliance Captures Australian Man Fighting for the Taliban (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE SAUDIS: Silence, on a Day to Remember the Attacks, Says Much (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE HUNT AT SEA: Al Qaeda's Leaders May Use Ships to Escape Capture, Intelligence Agencies Warn
(By PHILIP SHENON, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE CONSPIRACY: Indictment Calls a Drifter a Key Helper (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Dec. 13, 2001)
Flashback to Deadly Clash of '68 Shakes Mexico (By GINGER THOMPSON, Dec. 13, 2001)
NY REGION: Giuliani Plans Own Business With Top Aides in Consulting (By MICHAEL COOPER, Dec. 13, 2001)
METRO MATTERS: Suing the City for Sept. 11? Oh, Why Not? (By JOYCE PURNICK, Dec. 13, 2001)
ESTATE PLANNING: Jolted by Sept. 11, Many Rush to Make Wills (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE UNCONSOLED: Widow of Sept. 11 Victim Kills Herself in Their Just-Finished Dream House
(By GLENN COLLINS, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE TOWERS: Faulty Fireproofing Is Reviewed as Factor in Trade Center Collapse
(By JAMES GLANZ with MICHAEL MOSS, Dec. 13, 2001)
EDUCATION: Yale Proposes That Elite Colleges Abandon Early-Decision Admissions
(By KAREN W. ARENSON, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE DETAINEES: 2 Suspects Found on Train Probably Are Not Linked to Attack, Officials Say
(By CHRISTOPHER DREW & WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Dec. 13, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: Red, White and Blue, Before It Was Fashionable [Tommy Hilfiger]
(By ROBIN FINN, Dec. 13, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Tearing Up the ABM Treaty (NY TIMES, Dec. 13, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Terrorism and Justice (NY TIMES, Dec. 13, 2001)
Op-ED: Making the City Whole (By BOB HERBERTy, Dec. 13, 2001)
Op-ED: The Center Can Hold (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 13, 2001)
Op-ED: Back to School (By JIM JEFFORDS, Dec. 13, 2001)
Op-ED: Is Government the Good Guy? (By JOHN D. DONAHUE, Dec. 13, 2001)
LETTERS: To Douse the Fire in the Mind [mental health] (By MARK D. SMALLER, et. al., Dec. 13, 2001)
LETTERS: That New Yorker Cover (By IVAN ORANSKY, Dec. 13, 2001)
BUSINESS: Bargain Hunters to the Rescue After a Day of Price Dips
[Dow +6, Nasdaq +9] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE MARKETS: Stocks Edge Up Despite Grim Forecasts (By REUTERS, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE RIPPLES: Fallout From Enron Continues to Take Toll on Power Sector (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & ALEX BERENSON, Dec. 13, 2001)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Debunking Conventional Wisdom About the Roots of Hate Crime
(By ALAN B. KRUEGER, Dec. 13, 2001)
Yahoo Bids for Career Site in Threat to Previous Deal (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 13, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Restaurants Trying to 'Help America Turn the Tables' (By ALLISON FASS, Dec. 13, 2001)
High-Tech States Now Lead Nation in Joblessness (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Dec. 13, 2001)
American Express Will Cut Up to 6,500 From Payroll (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Dec. 13, 2001)
Sentiment on Japan's Economy Worsens (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 13, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: The Real Carmen Miranda Under the Crown of Fruit (By LARRY ROHTER, Dec. 13, 2001)
ART: 'Lost' Meissen Collection Brings Millions to Heirs (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 13, 2001)
BOOKS: 'BIAS': A Network Veteran Bites the Hands That Fed Him (By JANET MASLIN, Dec. 13, 2001)
MAKING BOOKS: Black Americans Are Still Buying (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Dec. 13, 2001)
DANCE: DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS: Assaulting the Senses and Doing the Opposite
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 13, 2001)
FILM: 'PIÑERO': Playing Piñero as Just Enough of a Mess (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 13, 2001)
MUSIC: PAUL GROVES: When Last Deserves to Be First (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Dec. 13, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Alvarez Bravo's 'Lens of Revelations' (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Dec. 13, 2001)
THE POP LIFE: Smells Like Mean Spirits (By NEIL STRAUSS, Dec. 13, 2001)
TV: 'PROMISES': In a Land Where Old Youths Meet as Distant Neighbors (By JULIE SALAMON, Dec. 13, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 13, 2001)
* Naturalists Share Their Findings Online (By JAMES GORMAN, Dec. 13, 2001)
LOGGING ON: Where Watchers Share Sightings (By JAMES GORMAN, Dec. 13, 2001)
* Digital Mementos of Terror's Victims (By LISA GUERNSEY, Dec. 13, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: Online Duel: You've Got Mail, Music and More (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 13, 2001)
* WHAT'S NEXT: Pooh-Poohing the Purists, a Scholar Revels in Netspeak (By ANNE EISENBERG, Dec. 13, 2001)
GAME THEORY: The Owls You Know, the Devil You Don't (By CHARLES HEROLD, Dec. 13, 2001)
California Stops Selling Personal Data (By KATIE HAFNER, Dec. 13, 2001)
E-Mail Gets the Cold Shoulder in Congress (By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, Dec. 13, 2001)
Black Ice, Wise Bridge: Repelling the Foe Before It Forms (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Dec. 13, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: For Aficionados, Tamales for Every Taste (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Dec. 13, 2001)
FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE: Sharp's Tiny New Laptop (By DAVID POGUE, Dec. 13, 2001)
Q & A: A Program That Clamors to Keep Friends Updated [Mac Screen] (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 13, 2001)
* HEALTH: Study Rebuts Belief That Support Groups Can Extend Life (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 13, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Fickle Atmosphere Shaping Mars Mission (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 13, 2001)

Wednesday, December 12, 2001:
On This Day: December 12 (Alvaro de Bazan Santa Cruz 12/12/1526-2/9/1588, John Jay 12/12/1745-5/17/1829, William Lloyd Garrison 12/12/1805-5/24/1879, Gustave Flaubert 12/12/1821-5/8/1889, Edvard Munch 12/12/1863-1/23/1944, Alvin Kraenzlein 12/12/1876-1/6/1928, Edward G. Robinson 12/12/1893-1/26/1973, Bob Barke 1923, Ed Koch 1924, Connie Francis 1938, Dionne Warwick 1940, Cathy Rigby 1952)
Joyful Kenya Gets Independence From Britain (By Robert Conley, December 12, 1963)
* Frank Sinatra Dies at 82; Matchless Stylist of Pop [12/12/1915-5/14/1998] (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 16, 1998)
David Astor, 89, Liberal Voice as Editor of Britain's Observer (By PAUL LEWIS, Dec. 12, 2001)
* Dave Graue, Cartoonist of Stone Age Tales of Alley Oop, Dies at 75 (By ERIC P. NASH, Dec. 12, 2001)
Wendell Gauthier, 58, Dies; Lawyer in Big Damage Suits (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 12, 2001)
Helen Schneider, 79, Hospitals Benefactor, Dies (NY TIMES, Dec. 12, 2001)
NATIONAL: F.B.I. Arrests Chairman of Militant Anti-Arab Group (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 12, 2001)
Sept. 11 Pilot Buried at Arlington Cemetary (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 12, 2001)
GOVERNMENT'S CASE: Man Held Since August Is Charged With a Role in Sept. 11 Terror Plot
(By DAVID JOHNSTON & PHILIP SHENON, Dec. 12, 2001)
Indictment Chronicles 'Overt Acts' That It Says Led to Sept. 11 Attacks (NY TIMES, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE SUSPECT: A Traveler With Strong Views on the Right Kind of Islam and No Fear of Sharing Them
(By MICHAEL MOSS, Dec. 12, 2001)
An Improbable Incubator for a Militant Muslim {Mill Valley & John Walker] (By EVELYN NIEVESLE, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: Tracing a 16-Month Infusion of Men and Money, Culminating in the Horror of Sept. 11
(By KATE ZERNIKE and JAMES RISEN, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE INTERVIEWS: 200 Muslims Are Sought in Michigan (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE DEFENSE: Lawyers Say That Convicting bin Laden Would Be Harder in a Public Trial (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 12, 2001)
AIRPORT SECURITY: Groups Seek to Lift Ban on Foreign Screeners (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE DAMAGE: F.B.I. Studies Terrorists' Engineering Expertise (By JAMES GLANZ, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE DISEASE: C.D.C. Issues Challenge to Nation's Scientists to Find the Answers to Anthrax Mysteries
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 12, 2001)
LESSONS: An Economic Recovery Will Tell in the Classroom (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Dec. 12, 2001)
WORLD: British Life Is Fractured Along Racial Lines, a Study Finds (By WARREN HOGE, Dec. 12, 2001)
Taliban Gone, but Fear Lingers in Kandahar (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 12, 2001)
Across Afghanistan, Taliban Soldiers Keep Up the Fight (By DEXTER FILKINS, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE NEIGHBOR: Pakistan Sends Troops to Border to Bar bin Laden's Escape From Tora Bora
(By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 12, 2001)
PROPAGANDA: Interview With bin Laden Makes the Rounds (By JAMES RISEN & PATRICK E. TYLER, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE PRISONERS: From a Taliban Jail Into the Arms of a Drought (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 12, 2001)
AT A HOSPITAL: War Wounded, Too: 'Grandchildren and Ladies' (By, Dec. 12, 2001)
KANDAHAR: Supplicants and Friends Flock to See New Leader (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE CAPTIVES: Beijing Asks for the Return of Any Chinese Among Taliban (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Dec. 12, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Closing In on the Caves, Indictment in the U.S., Debate Over Trials
(By PETER MARKS, Dec. 12, 2001)
ASPROLI JOURNAL: Umbrian Olive War: Tradition vs. New Technology (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Dec. 12, 2001)
For Lunch, Italians Eat In (By REUTERS, Dec. 12, 2001)
NY REGION: Four Are Charged in Scheme That Preyed on Anthrax Fears (By NICHOLE M. CHRISTIAN, Dec. 12, 2001)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Nobel Nobility (By JAMES BARRON, Dec. 12, 2001)
Long, Long Legal Battle for Tall, Tall Building (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE DETAINED: Man Held Since Sept. 12 Faces Fraud Charge (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Dec. 12, 2001)
BULLETIN BOARD: Search for a Web Site Creator [Accenture & KPMG] (By Abby Goodnough, Dec. 12, 2001)
* Changing a Bulb Atop a Changed World [Empire State Bldg] (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE INJURED: First, She Managed to Live; Now Comes the Harder Part (By LESLIE EATON, Dec. 12, 2001)
TESTIMONY: Kerik Asks That the F.B.I. Share Terror Information (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Dec. 12, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Another Rate Cut From the Fed (NY TIMES, Dec. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: Bye, Rudy, Yurts and All (By MAUREEN DOWD, Dec. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: Dear Saudi Arabia (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Dec. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: With Iran, Against Americans (By BARRY ROSEN, Dec. 12, 2001)
* OP-ED: A Fond Adieu to the French Franc ["The Little Prince" on 50 Franc note]
(By SPARKLE HAYTER, Dec. 12, 2001)
Should I Get a Mammogram? (By JEANETTE KUVIN OREN, Dec. 12, 2001)
BUSINESS: Modest Rally Fizzles After Merck's Warning on Earnings
[Dow -33, Nasdaq +10] (By SHERRI DAY, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE ECONOMY: With the Economy Still Fragile, the Fed Again Cuts Rates (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Dec. 12, 2001)
TECHNOLOGY: Internet Piracy Is Suspected as U.S. Agents Raid Campuses (By PHILIP SHENON, Dec. 12, 2001)
* The Man Behind the Curtain in the Hewlett-Compaq Merger (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 12, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: Investors Reeling From Those Giddy Initial Public Offerings (By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 12, 2001)
Compaq Chief Says He Is Committed to Merger (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 12, 2001)
MANAGEMENT: Victims and Champions of a Darwinian Enron (By DAVID BARBOZA, Dec. 12, 2001)
* THE BOSS: 'That Girl' Goes Tailgating (By ELAINE L. CHAO, Dec. 12, 2001)
WORKPLACE: Overtime Becomes Class-Action Fodder (By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Dec. 12, 2001)
MY JOB: My Creativity Comes in Packages (By MARITZA DOTEL, Written with Patricia R. Olsen, Dec. 12, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Glass, Wet Fingers and a Mysterious Disappearance (By MICHAEL POLLAK, Dec. 12, 2001)
* BOOKS: The Computer World, Inside and Out (By DAVID GELERNTER, Dec. 12, 2001)
DANCE: RADICAL LOW: Blurs and Blots Joined in Sound and Motion (By JACK ANDERSON, Dec. 12, 2001)
* FILM: New Line Gambles on 'The Lord of the Rings' Trilogy (By RICK LYMAN, Dec. 12, 2001)
Footlights: Masters' Touch [Film Forum] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Dec. 12, 2001)
MUSIC: CHICK COREA: Chick Corea, Celebrating With Friends (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE POP LIFE : A New Industry Threat: CD's Made From Webcasts (By NEIL STRAUSS, Dec. 12, 2001)
TV: '48 HOURS: ADDICTED': A Painkiller's Double Life as an Illegal Street Drug
(By CARYN JAMES, Dec. 12, 2001)
DINING: Restaurant Prices: How Low Will They Go? (By AMANDA HESSER, Dec. 12, 2001)
* FOOD: A Temple Where Wine and Food Are the Deities (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Dec. 12, 2001)
FOOD: Look Out, Martha Stewart: A Rival From Down Under [Donna Hay] (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Dec. 12, 2001)
THE CHEF: In the Land of Truffles (By BILL YOSSES, Dec. 12, 2001)
THE MINIMALIST: Coconuts to the Rescue (By MARK BITTMAN, Dec. 12, 2001)
SCIENCE: Drastic Shifts in Climate Are Likely, Experts Warn (By KENNETH CHANG, Dec. 12, 2001)

Tuesday, December 11, 2001:
On This Day: December 11 (Leo X 12/11/1475-12/1/1521, Hector Berlioz 12/11/1803-3/8/1869, Alfred de Musset 12/11/1810-5/2/1857, Robert Koch 12/11/1843-5/27/1910, Max Born 12/11/1882-1/5/1970, Sir Kenneth MacMillan 12/11/1929-10/29/1992, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918, Jean-Louis Trintignant 1930, Rita Moreno 1931, Donna Mills 1943, Brenda Lee 1944, Lynda Day George 1946, Teri Garr 1948, Jermaine Jackson 1954)
U.S. NOW AT WAR WITH GERMANY AND ITALY (By Frank L. Kluckhohn, December 11, 1941)
La Guardia Is Dead at 64; City Pays Homage To 3-Time Mayor [12/11/1882-9/20/1947] (NY Times, September 21, 1947)
* Megan Boyd, the Doyenne of Fishing Flies, Dies at 86 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 11, 2001)
Pierre de Benouville, 87, Hero of Resistance in World War II (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 11, 2001)
ANTHRAX TESTING: New Tests Confirm Potency of Anthrax in Senate Office (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 11, 2001)
WORLD: Taliban Defeated, Pentagon Asserts, but War Goes On (By THOM SHANKER & ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 11, 2001)
Anti-Taliban Troops Advance Up Slopes of Hide-Out Area (By JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 11, 2001)
PRISONERS: Witnesses Recount Taliban Dying While Held Captive (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 11, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL: In Nobel Talk, Annan Sees Each Human Life as the Prize (By SARAH LYALL, Dec. 11, 2001)
* FULL TEXT: Annan's Nobel Speech in Oslo (By Kofi Annan, Dec. 11, 2001)
Some Receive Food, but Others Can Only Watch (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 11, 2001)
THE EVIDENCE: Reaction Tape of bin Laden May Be Public This Week (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 11, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Food for Refugees, Raids on Caves and the Fate of Taliban Prisoners
(By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 11, 2001)
SOFIA JOURNAL: Posters of Hitler Rouse Talk, and Fears, in Bulgaria (By IAN FISHER, Dec. 11, 2001)
China Wants to Prosecute Chinese Taliban Fighters as Terrorists (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Dec. 11, 2001)
NY REGION: NOTEBOOKS: Program to Help With Paperwork Maze (By DAVID BARSTOW, Dec. 11, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: Holmes Had His Pipe. This Sleuth Has Thousands. (By JOYCE WADLER, Dec. 11, 2001)
TUNNEL VISION: Unexpected Denizens of a Subway Station (By RANDY KENNEDY, Dec. 11, 2001)
SPORTS: BASEBALL: Mets Acquire Alomar From Cleveland (By JACK CURRY, Dec. 11, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The bin Laden Tapes (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Tom Daschle Isn't the Problem (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2001)
* OP-ED: Out of Many, New York (By MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, Dec. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: Mind and Body [mental disease] (By MIKE WALLACE, Dec. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: Laissez Not Fair (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: The Veiled Resource (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Dec. 11, 2001)
LETTERS: The Anthrax Crisis: Lessons Learned (By MARC SIEGEL, M.D., et. al., Dec. 11, 2001)
LETTERS: A Walk Around Ground Zero, to Pray (By Rev. SUSAN DE SIMONE, Dec. 11, 2001)
LETTERS: Ready to Sacrifice for Country (By JAMES VERAS, et. al., Dec. 11, 2001)
THE MARKETS: Stocks End Session Lower Despite Rate Cut
[Dow -33, Nasdaq +10] (By SHERRI DAY, Dec. 11, 2001)
BUSINESS: Federal Reserve Cuts Rates by a Quarter Percentage Point (By DAVID STOUT with MICHAEL BRICK, Dec. 11, 2001)
TECHNOLOGY: In 27 Cities, U.S. Carries Out Raids in Software Piracy Case (By DAVID STOUT, Dec. 11, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: Worry Over Enron Sends Calpine Shares Tumbling (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Dec. 11, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Madison Ave. Grapples With Post-Sept. 11 Era (By STUART ELLIOTT, Dec. 11, 2001)
Chief-Designate at AOL Asks Turner to Stay (By SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 11, 2001)
For Many Generation X'ers, Job Loyalty Is Getting Stronger (By MAGGIE JACKSON, Dec. 11, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: W. G. Sebald Combines Memoir, Novel and Essay and Adds Photos (By ARTHUR LUBOW, Dec. 11, 2001)
BALLET: 'THE NUTCRACKER': The Traditional Approach for Afternoon and Evening (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 11, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'THE WAR AGAINST CLICHÉ': Writers Martin Amis Admires, and He Should Know
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Dec. 11, 2001)
DANCE: MATTESON JOURNAL: Admiring the Art of Steppers (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Dec. 11, 2001)
OPERA: 'PARSIFAL: Flesh-and-Blood Intimacy From Wagnerian Granite (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Dec. 11, 2001)
THEATER: MARC SALEM: A Mind Reader Returns, Telling Secrets and Serial Numbers
(By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Dec. 11, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Engineers Ask Nature for Design Advice (By JIM ROBBINS, Dec. 11, 2001)
* ESSAY: Cracking the Cosmic Code With a Little Help From Dr. Hawking (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Dec. 11, 2001)
SCIENCE: In Cloning, Failure Far Exceeds Success (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 11, 2001)
Observatory Calls Budget Plan a Threat to Survival (By JAMES GLANZ, Dec. 11, 2001)
Melting Glaciers in Antarctica Are Raising Oceans, Experts Say (By KENNETH CHANG, Dec. 11, 2001)
* HEALTH: U.S. Reports Disease Link to Gulf War (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Dec. 11, 2001)
PERSONAL HEALTH: An Old Enemy, Smoking, Hangs Tough (By JANE E. BRODY, Dec. 11, 2001)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: The Wrong Foot, and Other Tales of Surgical Error (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Dec. 11, 2001)
Germ Warfare of Sorts Shows Promise Against Cancer (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 11, 2001)
* Letting Bygones Be Bygones Is Often a Challenge (By ERICA GOODE, Dec. 11, 2001)
* CASES: Digging Up a Disorder From a Mess (By ANNA FELS, M.D., Dec. 11, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: On the Tongue, Fat Passes Taste Test (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 11, 2001)
Testing: When Coffee Stains the Brain Scan (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 11, 2001)
Side Effects: Herbal Aid Saps Strength of H.I.V. Drug [garlic] (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 11, 2001)
Outcomes: Drug Proves Useless in Treating Strokes (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 11, 2001)
Risks and Remedies: Soccer Found Safer With Smaller Balls (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 11, 2001)
Q & A: Wheat and Hunger (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Dec. 11, 2001)

Monday, December 10, 2001:
On This Day: December 10 (Battista Guarini 12/10/1538-10/7/1612, Adriaen von Ostade 12/10/1610-?/2/1685, César Franck 12/10/1822-11/8/1890, George Macdnald 12/10/1824-9/18/1905, Emily Dickinson 12/10/1830-5/15/1886, Nelly Sachs 12/10/1891-5/12/1970, Mary Norton 12/10/1903-8/29/1992, Morton Gould 12/10/1913-2/21/1996, Mako 1933, Gloria Loring 1946, Susan Dey 1952, Kenneth Branagh 1960, Sarah Chang 1980)
U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights (By JOHN KENTON, December 10, 1948)
* Dr. Melvil Dewey, Library Expert and Educator, Dead at 80 In Florida [12/10/1851-12/26/1931] (NY Times, December 27, 1931)
George Young, 71, Former Giants General Manager, Dies (By FRANK LITSKY, Dec. 10, 2001)
Faith Hubley, Oscar Winner in Animation, Is Dead at 77 (By ALJEAN HARMETZ, Dec. 10, 2001)
Charlie McClendon, Hall of Fame Football Coach, Dies at 78 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Dec. 10, 2001)
Juan José Arreola, Mexican Writer, Dies at 83 (By, Dec. 10, 2001)
Laurie Johnston, 87, Former Times Reporter (By SUSAN SAULNY, Dec. 10, 2001)
NATIONAL: Tourists Staying Away From Capital (NY TIMES, Dec. 10, 2001)
DOMESTIC DEFENSE: Cities and States Say Confusion and Cost Hamper Security Drive
(By PAM BELLUCK and TIMOTHY EGAN, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE DETAINEES: Deported Immigrants With Nowhere to Go Wait in Jail (By TAMAR LEWIN, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: Customer Acts Odd? U.S. Wants to Know (By ROBERT PEAR, Dec. 10, 2001)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Bush the Commander Is Political Leader, Too (By ELISABETH BUMILLERLE, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE NEWS MEDIA: Pentagon Says It Will Remove Some Obstacles to Covering War (By JIM RUTENBERG, Dec. 10, 2001)
After a Long Climb to Respectability, a Muslim Charity Experiences a Rapid Fall
(By DAVID FIRESTONE, Dec. 10, 2001)
WORLD: In Louder Voices, Iranians Talk of Dialogue With U.S. (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE GROUND WAR: Taliban Give Way in Final Province Where They Ruled (By DAVID ROHDE with ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE MONEY: Terror Money Hard to Block, Officials Find (By KURT EICHENWALD, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE EVIDENCE: Tape Surfaces With Remarks by bin Laden (By DAVID E. SANGER, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE NETWORK: Saudi Minister Asserts That bin Laden Is a 'Tool' of Al Qaeda, Not Its Mastermind
(By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE AMERICAN: U.S. Detainee Is Questioned, but His Fate Is Still Unclear (By JEFF GERTH, Dec. 10, 2001)
* THE MOUNTAINS: 'Very Safe' Qaeda Caves Hard to Hit, Fighters Say (By JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 10, 2001)
Jihad's Lost Battalions Mourned by Pakistani Kin (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 10, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Bin Laden on Camera, Signs of Cooperation and Costs of Alerts (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 10, 2001)
* NY REGION: Ripples of Sept. 11 Widen in Retailing (By EDWARD WYATT, Dec. 10, 2001)
* GROUND ZERO: At the Pit, a Night Shift to Numb the Body and Soul (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Dec. 10, 2001)
THE RESERVES: Mentally, They're Fine. Dentally, Not Always. (By DAVID W. CHEN, Dec. 10, 2001)
METRO MATTERS: Unpaid Pipers in a City Of Resilience (By JOYCE PURNICK, Dec. 10, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Latest Mammography Debate (NY TIMES, Dec. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Mistakes Will Be Made (By BOB HERBERT, Dec. 10, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Reading Putin's Mind (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: The Broadband Economy (By KAREN KORNBLUH, Dec. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: A Night of Songs (By JUDITH MANDEL NOVACK, Dec. 10, 2001)
LETTERS: Women, Monarchs and the Japanese (By BEATE SIROTA GORDON & LAWRENCE W. BEER, et. al., Dec. 10, 2001)
LETTERS: A Lesson for All of Us: Crying Is O.K. (By BARBARA FUSSINER, Dec. 10, 2001)
LETTERS: A Test for Harvard (By DANIEL MENCHIK, Dec. 10, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Hewlett Chief Battles for Her Deal and Her Career (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 10, 2001)
* Hewlett and Compaq Woo Big Investors for Merger (By CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 10, 2001)
* AT&T Finds Cable TV Bids Unacceptable (By SETH SCHIESEL & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 10, 2001)
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Recovery and the Reluctant Consumer (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Dec. 10, 2001)
At Painkiller Trouble Spot, Signs Seen as Alarming Didn't Alarm Drug's Maker
(By BARRY MEIER, Dec. 10, 2001)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Tight Bandwidth Snarls Web Traffic in Middle East (By SIMON ROMERO, Dec. 10, 2001)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Striving to Top the Search Lists (By BOB TEDESCHI, Dec. 10, 2001)
* NEW ECONOMY: New Chip Ideas Not So Far-Fetched (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Dec. 10, 2001)
Slow Start for Digital Photo Printing (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Dec. 10, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: Investor Jitters for Phone Start-Ups (By SIMON ROMERO, Dec. 10, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Online Archive for Coke Advertising (By ALLISON FASS, Dec. 10, 2001)
Warner's Sound Check [Roger Ames] (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Dec. 10, 2001)
COMPRESSED DATA: The Net Is 30-Something, But the Web Is a Child (By KATIE HAFNER, Dec. 10, 2001)
* Hyperion Signs a Best-Selling, if Young, PoetK (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRIC, Dec. 10, 2001)
PATENTS: Inventions for Gift-Giving (By TERESA RIORDAN, Dec. 10, 2001)
ARTS ONLINE: Making an Opera From Cyberspace's Tower of Babel (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Dec. 10, 2001)
ARTS: A Scientific Mystery Stalks Stockholm's Ailing Modern Museum (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 10, 2001)
ART: South African Museum Recreates Apartheid (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Dec. 10, 2001)
BOOKS: 'BEGINNINGS': The Creativity Born of a Town in Texas (By MEL GUSSOW, Dec. 10, 2001)
DANCE: 'HERE... NOW': Pain and Glory Meet on Track and Onstage (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 10, 2001)
DANCE: A History Lesson in Swiveling Hips (By JACK ANDERSON, Dec. 10, 2001)
* FILM CRITIC: George Harrison and the Truly Independent Film (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 10, 2001)
MUSIC: ALECK KARIS: A Recital Filled With Lively Connections (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Dec. 10, 2001)
THEATER: 'OTHELLO': A Revolt Against God With No Apology (By BEN BRANTLEY, Dec. 10, 2001)
* THEATER: 'STAR MESSENGERS': Tripping the Light Fantastic to the Music of the Spheres
(By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Dec. 10, 2001)
STYLE: You Get Just One Night Out, You Want Your Own Look [Santa Claus] (By GUY TREBAY, Dec. 10, 2001)
FASHION: FRONT ROW: The Rat Pack Set the Style Moment (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Dec. 10, 2001)

Sunday, December 9, 2001:
On This Day: December 9 (John Milton 12/9/1608-1/5/1674, Carl Wilhelm Scheele 12/9/1742-5/21/1786, Comete Claude-Louis Berthollet 12/9/1748-11/6/1822, Clarence Birdseye 12/9/1886-10/7/1956, Emmett Kelly 12/9/1898-3/28/1979, Grace Murray Hopper 12/9/1906-1/1/1992, John Cassavetes 12/9/1929-2/3/1989, Kirk Douglas 1916, Dina Merrill 1925, Dick Van Patten 1928, Morton Downey Jr. 1933, Beau Bridges 1941, Dick Butkus 1942, John Malkovich 1953, Donny Osmond 1957)
Charles and Diana Are Separating 'Amicably' (By WILLIAM E. SCHMIDT, December 9, 1992)
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., a Democratic Power in the House for Decades, Dies at 81 [12/9/1912-1/5/1994] (By MARTIN TOLCHIN, January 7, 1994)
George Young, General Manager for Giants, Dies at 71 (By FRANK LITSKY, Dec. 9, 2001)
Dr. Sidney Silverstone, Pioneer in Radiotherapy, Dies at 93 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 9, 2001)
Juan José Arreola, 83, Journalist and Patriotic Mexican Author, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 7, 2001)
Johnny Stearns, Half of Star Sitcom Duo, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 9, 2001)
* Megan Boyd, Who Made Tying Flies an Art, Dies at 86 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 9, 2001)
THE PRESIDENT: Jokes Remain, but Bush Shows Signs of War's Burden (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Dec. 9, 2001)
THE SUSPECT: Muslims in San Diego Waver on Bail Pledge (By JAMES STERNGOLD, Dec. 9, 2001)
ASPEN JOURNAL: Snowy Playground for Rich Resists U.S. Woes (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Dec. 9, 2001)
NATIONAL: Troops Need Boots, So Closed Mill Will Reopen (By PAM BELLUCK, Dec. 9, 2001)
Attacks Aren't Keeping Students Close to Home (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Dec. 9, 2001)
THE LAW: U.S. Seeks New Use for Secret Evidence (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 9, 2001)
AMERICAN JOURNAL: Commander's Mission Moving From Shore to Ship (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Dec. 9, 2001)
WORLD: War on Terror Casts Chechen Conflict in a New Light (By MICHAEL WINES, Dec. 9, 2001)
* AFTERMATH: Where Buddhas Fell, Lives Too Lie in Ruins (By BARRY BEARAK, Dec. 9, 2001)
THE TASKS AHEAD: Shifting Fronts, Rising Danger: The Afghanistan War Evolves
(By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 9, 2001)
RELIEF: Uzbeks to Allow Opening of Bridge on Afghan Border (By PATRICK E. TYLER with JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 9, 2001)
INTELLIGENCE: Nuclear Experts in Pakistan May Have Links to Al Qaeda (By DAVID E. SANGER, Dec. 9, 2001)
Opening a Gateway, Closing In on bin Laden and Setting the Priorities (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Dec. 9, 2001)
THE NEW GOVERNMENT: For Afghan Clan, a Full Circle Back to Power (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 9, 2001)
ROYAL PATH: Late Births Lose Stigma in Japan (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Dec. 9, 2001)
Thai King Uses Influence to Undercut Prime Minister (By SETH MYDANS, Dec. 9, 2001)
Uzbek Poet And Dissident Is Now a Voice in Prague Jail (By PETER S. GREEN, Dec. 9, 2001)
THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE: New Leaders Send a Signal by Hanging Bandit's Body (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 9, 2001)
* Nobel Laureates Seek Release of Opposition Leader in Myanmar (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Dec. 9, 2001)
GRAVES: Under Autumn Snow, Footnotes to Village's Sorrowful Decade (By DEXTER FILKINS, Dec. 9, 2001)
NY REGION: Changed World Puts Rare Talent in Rolodex of Mayoral Transition (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Dec. 9, 2001)
BUSINESS: The Dangers Behind a Leap of Faith (By ALEX BERENSON, Dec. 9, 2001)
A New Boss at Time Warner Is an Old Hand at New York [Richard Parsons]
(By JIM DWYER & SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 9, 2001)
MARKET WATCH: AOL Time Warner and the Sorcerer's Stock (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Dec. 9, 2001)
A Brighter Holiday (If the Goods Hold Out) (By STEPHANIE STROM, Dec. 9, 2001)
In Search of Forever, Shoppers Return to 47th St [diamonds] (By LAUREN WEBER, Dec. 9, 2001)
Looking for a Quality Diamond? Homework Can Help (NY TIMES, Dec. 9, 2001)
After Enron's Failure, Should Calpine Investors Worry? (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Dec. 9, 2001)
MARKET INSIGHT: Vacancies, Yes, but Guarded Optimism (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Dec. 9, 2001)
Prudential Is Set to Take the Plunge [110 million shares IPO] (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Dec. 9, 2001)
MY MONEY, MY LIFE: O.K., O.K., I'm Going Cellular (By JERRY MIKORENDA, Dec. 9, 2001)
Ex-Expatriates' Bumpy Returns (By HOLLY HUBBARD PRESTON, Dec. 9, 2001)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: Forget Plastics. Go Find Subscribers. (By TOM REDBURN, Dec. 9, 2001)
* OFF THE SHELF: The Industrial Genius Who Hated Difference [Henry Ford] (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Dec. 9, 2001)
In Uncertain Times, Child Care Businesses Grow (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Dec. 9, 2001)
BACKSLASH: 24/7 Service, but Who's Counting? (By MATT RICHTEL, Dec. 9, 2001)
GRASS-ROOTS BUSINESS: On the Home Front, a Welcome Economic Kick [combat boots]
(By JANE TANNER, Dec. 9, 2001)
PORTFOLIOS, ETC.: When, Oh When, Will Rates Rise Again? (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Dec. 9, 2001)
INVESTING WITH: Graham E. French of Vanguard Precious Metals (By CAROLE GOULD, Dec. 9, 2001)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: High-End Makeovers at Marked-Down Prices (By Abby Ellin, Dec. 9, 2001)
INVESTING DIARY: The G.E. Racehorses, One Year Afterward [GE, 3M, Home Depot]
(By, Dec. 9, 2001)
ART: A Rescuer of Sinking Treasures From China's Past [Robert H. Ellsworth]
(By RITA REIF, Dec. 9, 2001)
ART: Making Microart That Can Suggest Macrotruths (By LINDA YABLONSKY, Dec. 9, 2001)
ART: Mapping a New, and Urgent, History of the World (By FRANKLIN SIRMANS, Dec. 9, 2001)
DANCE: Using Forms Ingrained in Ballet to Help the Body Move Beyond It (By ROSLYN SULCAS, Dec. 9, 2001)
DANCE: Works With a New Ring in the Wake of Sept. 11 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 9, 2001)
DANCE: A World Tour With Pina Bausch as Guide (By JACK ANDERSON, Dec. 9, 2001)
* FILM: An Avant-Garde Master Finds Art in the Everyday [Jonas Mekas] (By AMY TAUBIN, Dec. 9, 2001)
FILM: Art, Life and Love: Seeing Iris in 'Iris' [Iris Murdoch] (By JOHN BAYLEYICLE, Dec. 9, 2001)
FILM: Screenwriters Adjust to Being Bit Players Again (By DANA KENNEDY, Dec. 9, 2001)
* FILM: When the Camera Goes Behind the Looking Glass {Alice in Wonderland] (By LEWIS BEALE, Dec. 9, 2001)
* MUSIC: Remembering George Harrison (By RAVI SHANKAR, Dec. 9, 2001)
* MUSIC: Remembering George Harrison: Open to the Influence of Unfamiliar Cultures
(By PHILIP GLASS, Dec. 9, 2001)
Music's Dangers and the Case for Control (By RICHARD TARUSKIN, Dec. 9, 2001)
OPERA: Mirrors, Steel and Smoke for Operatic Tale of Shadows (By MICHAEL P. STEINBERG, Dec. 9, 2001)
THEATER: In the Greatest Evil, Finding What Is Most Human (By LIEV SCHREIBER, Dec. 9, 2001)
THEATER: Refighting Old Religious Wars With Puppets (By RON JENKINS, Dec. 9, 2001)
STYLE: Perfect Gentle Knights Return (By RUTH LA FERLA, Dec. 9, 2001)
VIEW: To Serve and Flirt Near Ground Zero (By VICTORIA BALFOUR, Dec. 9, 2001)
ON THE STREET: To Horse, or Not (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Dec. 9, 2001)
VOWS: Eunice Choi and Wonki Kim (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Dec. 9, 2001)
WEEK IN REVIEW: War's Hidden Cost (By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr., Dec. 9, 2001)
Cornered Minds, False Confessions (By JIM DWYER, Dec. 9, 2001)
WORD FOR WORD: Jihad Lit (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Dec. 9, 2001)
Through a Prism of a Latin Past [9-11-1973 Chile] (By MIRTA OJITO, Dec. 9, 2001)
AGAINST THE WALL: A Moment of Truth For a Man and a War [Yasir Arafat] (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Dec. 9, 2001)
* RADICALISM: Is the Devil in the Demographics? (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Dec. 9, 2001)
Silver Bullet-ism: Technology Runs to the Rescue (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 9, 2001)
That Scientific Breakthrough Thing [first cloned human embryos] (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Dec. 9, 2001)
* Was That the Future We Just Passed By? (By JOHN LELAND, Dec. 9, 2001)
* BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES: In the Movies, Women Age Faster (By NATALIE ANGIER, Dec. 9, 2001)
Money Might Not Be Able to Buy Political Ties, Either (By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 9, 2001)
PAGE TWO: How Do You Lose A Vice President? (By BRUCE McCALL, Dec. 9, 2001)
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES... The Great Optics Debate (By NYTIMES.COM, Dec. 9, 2001)
* SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents [The Year in Ideas] (NY TIMES, Dec. 9, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: Invest (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 9, 2001)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: High Impact (By ANDREW SULLIVAN, Dec. 9, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: Body Work (By RANDY COHEN, Dec. 9, 2001)
FOOD DIARY: The Foodie Network (By AMANDA HESSER, Dec. 9, 2001)
FORUM: Is Sept. 11 less of a historical turning point than is generally believed? (NY TIMES, Dec. 9, 2001)
* INTRODUCTION: The Year in Ideas (NY TIMES, Dec. 9, 2001)
* THE YEAR IN IDEAS: Transcending Equations [Stephen Wolfram] (By JIM HOLT, Dec. 9, 2001)
Acquired Situational Narcissism (By STEPHEN SHERRILL, Dec. 9, 2001)
Beauty Is Back (By A.O. SCOTT, Dec. 9, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 9, 2001)
Edmund Morris's 'Theodore Rex': Carrying Sticks and Hugging Trees (By RICHARD BROOKHISER, Dec. 9, 2001)
'Reading Chekhov': Janet Malcolm Decodes the Good Doctor (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 9, 2001)
* Looking Twice at Bellow's Short Stories (By PAUL GRAY, Dec. 9, 2001)
Two Books Seek Lessons From the Great Depression (By ROBERT J. SAMUELSON, Dec. 9, 2001)
'The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan': The Melancholy Years (By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, Dec. 9, 2001)
'This Is the Beat Generation': The Beats Go On (By DANIEL SWIFT, Dec. 9, 2001)
Books in Brief: 'The Long Marriage' [Maxine Kumin's 12th poetry book] (By MEGAN HARLAN, Dec. 9, 2001)
Researchers Differ Over Generating Neurons in Brain (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 9, 2001)
HEALTH: Study Sets Off Debate Over Mammograms' Value (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 9, 2001)

Saturday, December 8, 2001:
On This Day: December 8 (Queen of Scots Mary 12/8/1542-2/8/1587, Queen Christina 12/8/1626-4/19/1689, Eli Whitney 12/8/1765-1/8/1825, Aristide Maillol 12/8/1861-9/27/1944, Camille Claudel 12/8/1864-10/19/1943, Jean Sibelius 12/8/1865-9/20/1957, Diego Rivera 12/8/1886-11/2/1961, James Thurber 12/8/1894-11/2/1961, Elzie Segar 12/8/1894-10/13/1938, Josephine Bell 12/8/1897-4/24/1987, Maximilian Schell 1930, David Carradine 1936, James MacArthur 1937, James Galway 1939, Gregg Allman 1947, Kim Basinger 1953, Teri Hatcher 1964)
U.S. DECLARES WAR, PACIFIC BATTLE WIDENS (By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, December 8, 1941)
* Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at 64; Top Showman Broke Barriers [12/8/1925-5/16/1990] (By PETER B. FLINT, May 17, 1990)
Seydou Keïta Dies; Photographed Common Man of Mali (By MARGARETT LOKE, Dec. 8, 2001)
* George Hansen, 92, Designer of Popular Swing-Arm Lamp,Is Dead (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 8, 2001)
Bill Reid, Dies at 79, Heroic Bomber Pilot for British in World War II (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Dec. 8, 2001)
Sidney Kelley Part of Used-Car Empire Dies at 92 (By, Dec. 8, 2001)
Fei-Ping Hsu, New York Concert Pianist, Dies at 51 (NY TIMES, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: Fed Building Is Untainted by Anthrax (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE PENTAGON ATTACK: In a Reversal, Army Permits Pilot's Burial (NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE MILITARY TRIBUNALS: In Letter, 300 Law Professors Oppose Tribunals Plan (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 8, 2001)
TV: Networks Shared $80,000 Cost of Tape of C.I.A. Men Quizzing Captured Californian (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE PRESIDENT: Remembering Pearl Harbor, Bush Ties It to the Current Campaign (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 8, 2001)
RELIGION JOURNAL: Christianity and Islam Seek Way to Go Forward (NY TIMES, Dec. 8, 2001)
WORLD: Pakistan Ended Aid to Taliban Only Hesitantly (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 8, 2001)
Streets of Kandahar Are Chaotic as Victorious Factions Clash (By DAVID ROHDE with NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 8, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL: In Spat Over Russia in NATO, Rumsfeld Loses Out to Powell (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Dec. 8, 2001)
IN THE MOUNTAINS: Uphill Battle to Take Caves and Maybe bin Laden, Too (By JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 8, 2001)
Taliban Leader at Large, American Combat and 2 Dates Joined in Infamy (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE TANGLED WEB: European Cell of Al Qaeda Cited in Killing Of Massoud (By JOHN TAGLIABUE with SUSAN SACHS, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT: U.S. Is Voicing Confidence in a Kabul Administration
(By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE AFRICAN FRONT: U.S. Hopes to Block Al Qaeda From Taking Hold in Somalia (By MARC LACEY, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE FUTURE: Professional Women From Afghanistan Meet to Press for Full Rights in Their Country
(By MARLISE SIMONS, Dec. 8, 2001)
Shanghai Stunned: Mayor Quits for Academia (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 8, 2001)
After Taiwan Election, Chill Persists (By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 8, 2001)
BAODING JOURNAL: In the Failed Mill's Shadow, the Workers Despair (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Dec. 8, 2001)
* Europe's Muslims Seek a Path Amid Competing Cultures (By IAN FISHER, Dec. 8, 2001)
* NY REGION: TOURISM: Sept. 11 Attack Could Cost Industry $4 Billion (By JAYSON BLAIR, Dec. 8, 2001)
* Seeing the Green Amid the Red, White and Blue (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Dec. 8, 2001)
SPORTS: ON PRO BASKETBALL: Miller Harder to Hate Away From the Court (By MIKE WISE, Dec. 8, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Taliban Exits (NY TIMES, Dec. 8, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Turnabout at AOL Time Warner (NY TIMES, Dec. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: Confessions of a Traitor (By FRANK RICH, Dec. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: Hope Against Hope (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Dec. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: The Afghans Need America, and They Know It (By LAILI ZIKRIA HELMS, Dec. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: Cave Warfare Demands Patience (By ALI A. JALALI, Dec. 8, 2001)
LETTERS: Liberty, Security and John Ashcroft's Message (By RON DYLEWSKI, et. al., Dec. 8, 2001)
LETTERS: Covering a War, Rooting for the Yanks (By ALBERT C. SMITH, et. al., Dec. 8, 2001)
LETTERS: Fashion at the Top (By RICHARD M. ZUCKERMAN, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE MARKETS: Share Prices Drop as Investors Lock in Profits From Rally
[Dow -50, Nasdaq -33] (By REUTERS, Dec. 8, 2001)
THE ECONOMY: Unemployment Rate Jumped Last Month on Surge of Layoffs (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Dec. 8, 2001)
The Test for AOL's New Leader (By JIM RUTENBERG with RICK LYMAN, Dec. 8, 2001)
Foundation Deals Setback to Hewlett-Packard's Plans (By STEVE LOHR and CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 8, 2001)
Charles Schwab Will Close Its Online Venture in Japan (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 8, 2001)
Interior Department Bars Access to Internet Site (NY TIMES, Dec. 8, 2001)
* ART CRITIC: A Funny New Yorker Map Is Again the Best Defense (By SARAH BOXER, Dec. 8, 2001)
ARTS: Is a New Boom Somewhere Over the Rainbow? (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Dec. 8, 2001)
BOOKS: Historian's Prizewinning Book on Guns Is Embroiled in a Scandal (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Dec. 8, 2001)
DANCE: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER: Isolated Figures and Frolicking Duos
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 8, 2001)
FILM: 'I WILL SURVIVE': Bridget Jones Is Suddenly Spanish (By DAVE KEHR, Dec. 8, 2001)
IDEAS: THINK TANK: The Psychological Punch of the B-52 Bomber (By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN, Dec. 8, 2001)
JAZZ: 'MADE IN AMERICA': Experiments in Charity, in Groupings and in Music (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 8, 2001)
OPERA: 'THE RAKE'S PROGRESS': 1950's Work, 1700's Style, 21st-Century Flourishes
(By BERNARD HOLLAND, Dec. 8, 2001)
TV: 'WALKING WITH PREHISTORIC BEASTS': Creatures Great, Small and Extinct (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Dec. 8, 2001)
SCIENCE: Yes, It's Been Warm. And Why? (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 8, 2001)

Friday, December 7, 2001:
On This Day: December 7 (Gian Lorenzo Bernini 12/7/1598-11/28/1680, Allan Cunningham 12/7/1784-10/30/1842, Pietro Mascagni 12/7/1863-8/2/1945, R.W. Sears 12/7/1863-9/28/1914, Joyce Cary 12/7/1888-12/18/1939, Eli Walach 1915, Ellen Burstyn 1932, Carole Simpson 1940, Johnny Bench 1947, Larry Bird 1956)
* Japan Wars on U.S. and Britain; Makes Sudden Attack On Hawaii (By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, December 7, 1941)
* Willa Cather Dies at 73; Author of 'Lost Lady' Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 [12/7/1873-4/24/1947] (NY Times, April 25, 1947)
Mercedes Matter, 87, Artist and Studio School Founder, Is Dead (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 7, 2001)
Joe Hin Tjio, Research Biologist, Dies at 82 [46 human chromosomes] (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 7, 2001)
George Scharffenberger, Former Chief of City Investing, Is Dead at 82 (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 7, 2001)
NATIONAL: Pearl Harbor's Old Men Find New Limelight Since Sept. 11 (By BLAINE HARDEN, Dec. 7, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: Mail at Federal Reserve Tests Positive for Anthrax
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & DAVID JOHNSTON, Dec. 7, 2001)
THE AMERICAN FIGHTER: For Many, Verdict's In for Taliban Volunteer (and Skip the Trial) (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Dec. 7, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Using Battle of Terrorism for Victory on Trade (By DAVID E. SANGER, Dec. 7, 2001)
WORLD: Afghan Leader Says Mullah Omar Will Be Arrested if Found (By MICHAEL R. GORDON with NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 7, 2001)
KANDAHAR: Surrender Deal May Hinge on Amnesty for Mullah Omar (By MICHAEL R. GORDON with NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 7, 2001)
Fall of Kandahar, Debating a Surrender and Firefighters' Suspicions (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 7, 2001)
* MAN IN THE NEWS: Seizing the Prophet's Mantle: Muhammad Omar (By TIM WEINER, Dec. 7, 2001)
* Swiss Police Raid Pierre Boulez, but Not for His Music, Exactly (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 7, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Cornered Enemy (By THOM SHANKER, Dec. 7, 2001)
KUNDUZ: Vanquished Yield Arms to Victors (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 7, 2001)
In Iran, an Angry Generation Longs for Jobs, More Freedom and Power (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 7, 2001)
THE SUICIDE BOMBER: A Family Is Left 'Sad and Happy' by a Violent Death (By JOEL GREENBERG, Dec. 7, 2001)
NY REGION: POLITICAL MEMO: Clouds Loom for New York, but Bloomberg Stays Sunny (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Dec. 7, 2001)
THE REMAINS: In the Ongoing Search for Bodies, Hope Is Derived From the Horror (By ERIC LIPTON, Dec. 7, 2001)
ORAL HISTORY: Firefighters Oppose a Plan to Record Their Memories of Sept. 11 (By AL BAKER, Dec. 7, 2001)
THE SITE: Few Answers on Possibility of Private Overseer at Cleanup (By DIANE CARDWELL, Dec. 7, 2001)
Man Stole Rare Items at Yale, Police Say (By YILU ZHAO, Dec. 7, 2001)
EDITORIAL: John Ashcroft Misses the Point (NY TIMES, Dec. 7, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: In Sizing Up Anthrax, Don't Trust Your Gut (By PHILIP M. BOFFEY, Dec. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Hitting the Trifecta (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 7, 2001)
* OP-ED: Welcome to Kabul (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Dec. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: The Peacemaker of the Pashtun Past (By KARL E. MEYER, Dec. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: Competing for Better Government (By STEPHEN GOLDSMITH, Dec. 7, 2001)
* LETTERS: The Meaning of an 'A' at Harvard (By JULIA SAVACOOL, et. al., Dec. 7, 2001)
BUSINESS: Dow Slows After 2-Day Run-Up but Stays Above 10,000
[Dow -15, Nasdaq +7] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 7, 2001)
FLOYD NORRIS: The Fiction of Pension Accounting (By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 7, 2001)
Japanese Consumers Revel in Deflation's Silver Lining (By JAMES BROOKE, Dec. 7, 2001)
BIOTERRORISM: Pentagon Presses for a Radiation Drug (By ANDREW POLLACK, Dec. 7, 2001)
AOL's Problems Go Beyond Even Harry Potter's Magic (By SAUL HANSELL with GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Dec. 7, 2001)
* Wall St. Journal to Redesign Its Front Page [1st alteration in 60 years]
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 7, 2001)
* 2 Big Chip Makers Raise Forecasts [Intel & AMD] (By CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 7, 2001)
Newest Data Bolster Hopes for a Rebound (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 7, 2001)
* ART: CHARLES BURCHFIELD: Swept Up by Nature in His Own Backyard (By GRACE GLUECK, Dec. 7, 2001)
* ARTS: Hunting for a Treasured Tree [Christmas tree] (By MARGARET MITTELBACH & MICHAEL CREWDSON, Dec. 7, 2001)
INSIDE ART: Gothic Treasure From Prague (By CAROL VOGEL, Dec. 7, 2001)
ANTIQUES: For an Appreciation of Ancients' Skills (By WENDY MOONAN, Dec. 7, 2001)
BOOKS: 'IN OUR STRANGE GARDEN': A Clown Whose Message Is No Laughing Matter (By RICHARD EDER, Dec. 7, 2001)
CABARET: A Steamy Christmas to All (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 7, 2001)
* DESIGN: For a Body That Nobody Ever Had (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 7, 2001)
* DESIGN: RUSSEL WRIGHT: The Man Who Was Martha Stewart Back Before She Was (By GRACE GLUECK, Dec. 7, 2001)
FILM: 'OCEAN'S ELEVEN: For the New Rat Pack, It's a Ring-a-Ding Thing (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 7, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: The Miracle of John Coltrane: Dead at 40, Still Vital at 75 (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 7, 2001)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: Mrs. Robinsons, Past and Present (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Dec. 7, 2001)
OPERA: 'THE SCRIMSHAW VIOLIN': An Old Violin Whose Music Is Peculiarly Haunting (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 7, 2001)
TV: 'THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT': When a Wounded President Was Closer to Death Than People Knew
(By CARYN JAMES, Dec. 7, 2001)
TV: 'BULLETPROOF: REAGAN AFTER HINCKLEY': Was There a Historic Presidential Epiphany That Day? (By LESLIE CAMHI, Dec. 7, 2001)
'BARAN': Iranian Boy, Afghan Girl and Love's Strange Magic (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 7, 2001)
THE OUTSIDER: For Horse Whispering, Find That Inner Pony (By JAMES GORMAN, Dec. 7, 2001)
SCIENCE: Doubts Are Raised in Case of Boston Strangler (By PHILIP J. HILTS, Dec. 7, 2001)
HEALTH: Donor Tissue Blamed in a Knee Surgery Death (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Dec. 7, 2001)

Thursday, December 6, 2001:
On This Day: December 6 (Baldassare Castiglione 12/6/1478-2/2/1529, Niccolo Zucchi 12/6/1586-5/21/1670, Sophie von LaRoche 12/6/1731-2/18/1807, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin 12/6/1805-6/13/1861, Max Müller 12/6/1823-10/28/1900, Evelyn Underhill 12/6/1875-6/15/1941, Joyce Kilmer 12/6/7/30/1918, Sir Osbert Sitwell 12/6/1892-5/4/1969, Ira Gershwin 12/6/1896-8/17/1983, Dave Brubeck 1920, Wil Shriner 1953, JoBeth Williams 1953, Steven Wright 1955)
A Million Persons Will Hear Coolidge's Voice When He Addresses Congress [more than any man in history] (NY Times, December 6, 1923)
* Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer of the Defining Moment, Is Dead at 96 [12/6/1898-8/23/1995] (By CHARLES HAGEN, August 25, 1995)
Lois Addy Dies at 109, Oldest Senator's Baby Sitter (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 6, 2001)
Greg MacArthur, Philanthropist and Green Party Supporter, 53, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 6, 2001)
Gerhard Stoltenberg, 73; Reunified Germany's Armies (NY TIMES, Dec. 6, 2001)
* William Jovanovich, 81, Longtime Publishing Chief, Dies (By EMILY EAKIN, Dec. 6, 2001)
Survivors Mark Pearl Harbor Attack (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 6, 2001)
BACKGROUND CHECKS: Justice Dept. Bars Use of Gun Checks in Terror Inquiry (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE DISEASE: Anthrax Letters Sent to Leahy and Daschle Called Identical (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 6, 2001)
HOAX ARREST: Man Is Arrested in Threats Mailed to Abortion Clinics (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Dec. 6, 2001)
Robertson Resigns From Christian Coalition (By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr., Dec. 6, 2001)
Three Cleared by DNA Tests Enjoy Liberty After 15 Years (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 6, 2001)
War on Terrorism Brings Plan to Cut Smithsonian Financing (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON with JAMES GLANZ, Dec. 6, 2001)
POLITICAL MEMO: Mr. Heat Shield Keeps Boss Happy [John Ashcroft] (By TODD S. PURDUM, Dec. 6, 2001)
BIOTERRORISM: Anthrax Investigators Open Letter Sent to Senator Leahy (By JUDITH MILLER & DAVID JOHNSTON, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE PENTAGON ATTACK: White House Says It Backs Arlington Burial Decision (NY TIMES, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE NEWS MEDIA: Access Limits Were an Error, Pentagon Says (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Dec. 6, 2001)
SECURITY ISSUES: Surveillance: From 'Big Brother' to Safety Tool (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE VICTIMS' FAMILIES: Grieving New Yorkers Are Guests of Hawaii (NY TIMES, Dec. 6, 2001)
WORLD: Bin Laden Hunted in Caves; Errant U.S. Bomb Kills 3 G.I.'s (By JAMES DAO & ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 6, 2001)
TORA BORA BATTLE: An Anti-Taliban Commander Says bin Laden's Top Aide Is Dead
(By JOHN KIFNER & TIM WEINER, Dec. 6, 2001)
KABUL: In a Desolate House, Vestiges of a Violent 1999 Hijacking (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 6, 2001)
KUNDUZ: The Defector's Tale: Tall, or Truly Daring? (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 6, 2001)
Afghan Factions Pick Interim Government and Leader (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Dec. 6, 2001)
MAN IN THE NEWS: Clan Leader Turned Statesman: Hamid Karzai (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE REACTION : Two Once Powerful Figures Remain Silent About the Accord (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE AMERICAN: With Military Present, Red Cross Talks to Captured U.S. Citizen
(By DEXTER FILKINS, Dec. 6, 2001)
PARIS: Europe Agrees to Share Data on Terrorism With the U.S. (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 6, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A New Mideast Battle: Arafat vs. Hamas (By JAMES BENNET, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE MONEY TRAIL: F.B.I. Traces Hamas's Plan to Finance Attacks to '93 (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE NEIGHBOR REACTS: Pakistan Is Trying to Put the Best Face on the Deal (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 6, 2001)
* TAKLIMAKAN JOURNAL: Eons of Tension Crowd a Remote Chinese Tomb [Chinese Muslims]
(By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 6, 2001)
To Strengthen Military Ties, U.S. Beats Path to India (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Dec. 6, 2001)
NY REGION: Sale of Building on 42nd Street Brings 30-Year Feud to an End (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Dec. 6, 2001)
METRO MATTERS: Bloomberg: A Private Man in a Public Job (By JOYCE PURNICK, Dec. 6, 2001)
* PUBLIC LIVES: How Sept. 11 Turned a Professor Into a Playwright (By MIRTA OJITO, Dec. 6, 2001)
BOLDFACE NAMES: E for Evil-Mail (By JAMES BARRON, Dec. 6, 2001)
SPORTS: Baseball Teams Lost Half a Billion, Selig Says [LA Dodgers -$69 million]
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Dec. 6, 2001)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Marking Walt Disney's Centennial (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Dec. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: 'Voices of Negativism' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: Yesterday (By BOB HERBERT, Dec. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: Rooting Out Terrorists Just Became Harder (By JAMES ORENSTEIN, Dec. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: Learn From Haiti (By HOWARD HIATT, Dec. 6, 2001)
LETTERS: Who Is to Blame in the Mideast? (By JERRY RAPP et. al., Dec. 6, 2001)
LETTERS: Civil Liberties, Terror and War (By RICHARD E. NUSBAUM et. al., Dec. 6, 2001)
LETTERS: A Newfangled Vehicular Contraption! (By JOHN MONTAGUE MASSENGALE et. al., Dec. 6, 2001)
* MARKET PLACE: Surge in Stocks Arouses Visions of a New Bull Market (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE OVERVIEW: AOL Time Warner Gets a New Chief as Levin Departs (By SETH SCHIESEL & GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Dec. 6, 2001)
* THE C.E.O.: Once Again, on His Terms [Gerald M. Levin] (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT and JOHN SCHWARTZLE, Dec. 6, 2001)
* THE SUCCESSOR: AOL Time Warner Turns to a Diplomat as Levin Retires (By SAUL HANSELL with SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 6, 2001)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: Fusing Old and New in a Media Strategy [Time Warner-AOL] (By AMY HARMON, Dec. 6, 2001)
THE REACTION: Managers Weigh In on Changes at AOL (By RICK LYMAN, Dec. 6, 2001)
Slump in the Service Sector Was Reversed in November (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 6, 2001)
* Domain Group Tries to End Name Fraud [.info] (By SUSAN STELLIN, Dec. 6, 2001)
ARTS: Ex-Chief of Sotheby's Is Convicted of Price Fixing (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL & CAROL VOGEL, Dec. 6, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: How van Gogh Would've Painted, if He'd Been on TV (By SARAH LYALL, Dec. 6, 2001)
BOOKS: Holiday Gifts to Open More Than Once (By JANET MASLIN, Dec. 6, 2001)
MAKING BOOKS: The Market for Tragedy (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Dec. 6, 2001)
FILM CRITIC: A Showcase for Spain's Moviemakers (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 6, 2001)
MUSIC: 'L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST': Atypical Berlioz, Atypically Performed (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Dec. 6, 2001)
* MUSIC CRITIC: Looking for the Light in Cabaret Songs (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 6, 2001)
OPERA: 'RISURREZIONE': In the Style Of Puccini, Up to a Point (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Dec. 6, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 6, 2001)
* The 30-Year Path of E-Mail (By KATIE HAFNER, Dec. 6, 2001)
* Field Trips to the Louvre, Minus the Bus (By KERRY SHAW, Dec. 6, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Memories Swaddled in Packing Peanuts (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Dec. 6, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: Sizing Up Camcorders Made Small (By DAVID POGUE, Dec. 6, 2001)
* ONLINE DIARY: Online Secret Santa; Web of Prayer; Mobile Games (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Dec. 6, 2001)
* LOOKING AHEAD: The Fax Machine May Fall Victim to the Advances of E-Mail (By KATIE HAFNER, Dec. 6, 2001)
* BASICS: Building Web Pages Without the Drudgery of HTML (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 6, 2001)
* Excite@Home Users Suffer Switch to Other Providers (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 6, 2001)
* LOOKING BACK: In the Beginning, a Note to Himself [Ray Tomlinson, email inventor] (By Katie Hafner, Dec. 6, 2001)
WEB TOOL: For Nervous Online Shoppers, a Virtual Credit Card (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 6, 2001)
FITNESS: Big, Blue and Out of Breath: I.B.M. Kiosks Check for Fat (By BRUCE HEADLAM, Dec. 6, 2001)
Web May Reduce Price Discrimination [buying cars] (By KATIE HAFNER, Dec. 6, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: A Digital Camera Designed for Traditional Lenses (By IAN AUSTEN, Dec. 6, 2001)
FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE: Interface Design Is Trickier Than It Seems (By DAVID POGUE, Dec. 6, 2001)
AUDIO: Vinyl to CD: There's No Need to Buy the White Album Again (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 6, 2001)
The Web Turns Conversation Into a Trivia Contest (By GARY ANDREW POOLE, Dec. 6, 2001)
Q & A: Fast Cable Connections for All Those Gadgets (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Dec. 6, 2001)

Wednesday, December 5, 2001:
On This Day: December 5 (Pope Julius II 12/5/1443-2/21/1513, Martin Van Buren 12/5/1782-7/24/1862, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz 12/5/1822-6/27/1907, Christina Rossetti 12/5/1830-12/29/1894, George Armstrong Custer 12/5/1839-6/25/1876, Marcus Daly 12/5/1841-11/12/1900, Clyde V. Cessna 12/5/1879-11/20/1954, Fritz Lang 12/5/1890-8/2/1976, Werner Heisenberg 12/5/1901-2/1/1976, Kate Simon 12/5/1912-2/4/1990, Strom Thurmond 1902, Little Richard 1932, Joan Didion 1934, Calvin Trillin 1935, Morgan Brittany 1951)
Prohibition Repeal Is Ratified at 5:32 PM; Roosevelt Asks Nation to Bar the Saloon (NY Times, December 5, 1933)
* Walt Disney, 65, Dies on Coast; Founded an Empire on a Mouse [12/5/1901-12/15/1966] (NY Times, December 16, 1966)
Gerhart Riegner, 90, Dies; Disclosed Holocaust Plans (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 5, 2001)
* Spencer Holst, 75, Writer and Teller of Fables, Dies ["Mona Lisa Meets Buddha"]
(By HARVEY SHAPIRO, Dec. 5, 2001)
Louise Steinhart Loeb, Philanthropist, Dead at 86 (NY TIMES, Dec. 5, 2001)
Danilo Donati, Film Designer, 75, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 5, 2001)
Kal Mann Lyricist, 84, Is Dead ["Let's Twist Again"] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 5, 2001)
Gino A. Circiello, Restaurateur, Is Dead at 89 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE DISEASE: Anthrax Pervades Florida Site, and Experts See Likeness to That Sent to Senators
(By ANDREW C. REVKIN & DANA CANEDY, Dec. 5, 2001)
O. J. Simpson's House Searched in Drug Case (By DANA CANEDY, Dec. 5, 2001)
* LESSONS: Doubling of A's at Harvard: Grade Inflation or Brains? (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Dec. 5, 2001)
* Woe Is Harvard, Where All Are Above Average (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Dec. 5, 2001)
U.S. Students Prove Middling on a 32-Nation Test (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Dec. 5, 2001)
NUCLEAR SECURITY: Safety of Nuclear Plants Again Raises Concerns (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Dec. 5, 2001)
GOVERNMENT'S CASE: Support for Bush's Antiterror Plan (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE DETAINEES: Federal Sweep Shifts Attitude of Immigrants About the U.S. (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE PRESIDENT: President Tries to Give Florida, and Its Governor, a Boost (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE PENTAGON ATTACK: Arlington's Burial Regulations Anger Family of Hijacked Pilot (By, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE TRIBUNALS: Bush Defends Wartime Call for Tribunals
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER with KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 5, 2001)
WORLD: Marines Advance Toward Kandahar to Prepare Siege (By THOM SHANKER & ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 5, 2001)
NEGOTIATIONS: Talks End With Deal on Leadership for Afghans (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Dec. 5, 2001)
China Resists Efforts to Make Donation of Organs Feasible (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 5, 2001)
DISSENT: For Saudi Cleric, Battle Shapes Up as Infidel vs. Islam (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 5, 2001)
KANDAHAR: Marines Widen Patrols in No Man's Land Near Taliban (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE CONVERT: U.S. Hopes American Taliban Will Tell All (By JAMES DAO, Dec. 5, 2001)
AL QAEDA: At a Terrorist Training Camp, Arms, Manuals and a Noose (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 5, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Scouring Afghanistan, Debating the Trial System, Finding Anthrax
(By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Dec. 5, 2001)
* ISFAHAN JOURNAL: Drought Dries Up a City's River, and Sears Its Soul (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 5, 2001)
POLICY SHIFT: U.S. Questions If Arafat Can Lead the Palestinians (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE GRIP TIGHTENS: Bush Freezes Assets of Biggest U.S. Muslim Charity, Calling It a Deadly Terror Group
(By DAVID E. SANGER & JUDITH MILLER, Dec. 5, 2001)
MUSLIMS: Groups Protest Bush's Freezing of Foundation's Assets (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE FALLOUT: China Wary on Mideast, Criticizing Both Palestinians and Israelis (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Dec. 5, 2001)
Suddenly, AIDS Makes the News in China (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Dec. 5, 2001)
NY REGION: THE POLICE: Day of Honor and of Pain for 40,000 (By RICHARD LEZIN JONES, Dec. 5, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: Self-Help Wisdom in a Television Night-Owl Spot (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Dec. 5, 2001)
BOLDFACE NAMES: I Can't Get No... Limousine [Keith Richards] (By JAMES BARRON, Dec. 5, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Rich Are Different; They Get Elected (By MICHAEL COOPER, Dec. 5, 2001)
School's Alumni and Staff Feel Its Art Emphasis Is Neglected (By MIRA TWETI, Dec. 5, 2001)
NEW YORK: Interviews Set for 86 Visitors in Terror Sweep (By CHRISTOPHER DREW, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE FAMILIES: Waiting for Babies Who Will Never Know Their Fathers (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Dec. 5, 2001)
SPORTS: Giambi to Join Yanks Barring Bid by the A's (By BUSTER OLNEY, Dec. 5, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The $69 Million Mayor (NY TIMES, Dec. 5, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Political Plan for Afghanistan (NY TIMES, Dec. 5, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Microsoft's Latest Settlement (NY TIMES, Dec. 5, 2001)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Intifada Is Over (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Dec. 5, 2001)
LIBERTIES: Who's Joey Bishop? (By MAUREEN DOWD, Dec. 5, 2001)
Sharon's War Cannot Be Won (By ALI ABUNIMAH, Dec. 5, 2001)
When the Hero Wept (By FRANK H. BOEHM, Dec. 5, 2001)
LETTERS: When Charity Gets Complicated (By RUSSELL POMERANZ et. al., Dec. 5, 2001)
Yasir Arafat, Center Stage (By BRINDA ADHIKARI et. al., Dec. 5, 2001)
BUSINESS: Technology Issues Give Equities Enough Legs to Climb
[Dow +130, Nasdaq +58] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 5, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Watching the Firms That Watch the Books (By ALEX BERENSON, Dec. 5, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: The Big Five Accounting Firms Weigh In on Enron (By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE LOSERS: With Enron Stock in Meltdown, Rich Wallet Is Suddenly Lighter
(By LESLIE EATON & GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE OVERVIEW: Congress Is Zeroing In on the Complex Deals at Enron
(By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & JONATHAN D. GLATER, Dec. 5, 2001)
* AOL Retreats From Big Push for E-Books (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 5, 2001)
Merrill to Use Fewer People for Same Amount of Research (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Dec. 5, 2001)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Female Flight Attendants Say They Were Sexually Mistreated
(By JOE SHARKEY, Dec. 5, 2001)
They Looked, They Clicked, a New E-Mail Virus Conquered (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 5, 2001)
WORKPLACE: Some Skimp on Tinsel as Others Splurge (By MELINDA LIGOS, Dec. 5, 2001)
* LIFE'S WORK: Anxious? Your Mom, Again, Tells You Why (By LISA BELKIN, Dec. 5, 2001)
MANAGEMENT: Seeking a Business Degree, Across the Pond (By VIVIENNE WALT, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE BOSS: Inspired by Chance Meetings (By MELLODY HOBSON, Written with Amy Zipkin, Dec. 5, 2001)
HEALTH CARE: A New Health Plan May Raise Expenses for Sickest Workers (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Dec. 5, 2001)
British Fashion's Changing of Guard (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Dec. 5, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: A Stodgy Museum Spruces Up [Victoria & Albert Museum] (By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 5, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'THE TRISTAN CHORD': A Philosopher Explains Wagner's Third Element
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Dec. 5, 2001)
FILM: 'B-52': The 50-Year History of a Killing Machine (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Dec. 5, 2001)
MUSIC: PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD: A Pianist Gathers the Radicals (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 5, 2001)
MUSIC: Minnesota Orchestra Takes a Lively Taste of the Future (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Dec. 5, 2001)
MUSIC: ORQUESTA ARAGÓN: A Beat That Demands Dancing in the Aisles (By JON PARELES, Dec. 5, 2001)
THEATER: 'DRUMMER WANTED': A Family Makes Unbeautiful Music Together (By BEN BRANTLEY, Dec. 5, 2001)
THEATER: 'TINTYPES': A Wholesome Serving of Red, White and Blue (By BRUCE WEBER, Dec. 5, 2001)
THEATER: 'THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE': Should She or Shouldn't She? A Woman's Choices (By Bruce Weber, Dec. 5, 2001)
* DINING: A Roman Muse for America's Great Chefs [Paola di Mauro] (By AMANDA HESSER, Dec. 5, 2001)
* FOOD: A Few Lessons From Paola's Kitchen (By AMANDA HESSER, Dec. 5, 2001)
* THE CHEF: Layering Sunshine in a Bowl [Fruit Trifle recipe] (By BILL YOSSES, Dec. 5, 2001)
EATING WELL: Sweet, but a Bit Less Sinful (By MARIAN BURROS, Dec. 5, 2001)
THE MINIMALIST: Mixing Fish of Many Flavors [bouillabaisse] (By MARK BITTMAN, Dec. 5, 2001)
HEALTH: Mass Inoculations Opposed by Nation's Largest Doctors' Group (By REUTERS, Dec. 5, 2001)

Tuesday, December 4, 2001:
On This Day: December 4 (Thomas Carlyle 12/4/1795-2/5/1881, Crazy Horse 12/4/1849-9/5/1877, Lillian Russell 12/4/1861-6/6/1922, Wassily Kandinsky 12/4/1866-12/13/1944, Rainer Maria Rilke 12/4/1875-12/29/1926, Fung Yu-lan 12/4/1875-11/26/1990, Alfred Hershey 12/4/1908-5/22/1997, Jeff Bridges 1949, Tyra Banks 1973)
UNO Bill Approved By Senate, 65 to 7, With One Change (By C. P. TRUSSELL, December 4, 1945)
Out of the Crucible of Civil War, Franco's Iron Hand Forged a Modern Spain [12/4/1892-11/20/1975] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, November 20, 1975)
* John W. Collins, 89, Dies; Was Fischer's Chess Tutor (By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN, Dec. 4, 2001)
Joel Carlson, a Lawyer Who Fought Apartheid in 50's, Dies (By JIM DWYER, Dec. 4, 2001)
* THE DISEASE: U.S. Says Thousands of Letters Might Be Tinged With Anthrax (By ERIC LIPTON, Dec. 4, 2001)
* White House Holiday Scene With Everything but a Public [Hot Chocolate recipe]
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 4, 2001)
H.M.O.'s Flee Medicare Despite Rise in Payments (By ROBERT PEAR, Dec. 4, 2001)
U.S. Is Said to Criticize Music Industry on Marketing (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Dec. 4, 2001)
Teenager to Plead Guilty as Accomplice in Dartmouth Killings (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE WARNING: White House Issues Alert of New Terrorism Threat (By ALISON MITCHELL, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE INTERVIEWS: Deadline Is Extended in Questioning of Foreigners (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 4, 2001)
LEGAL ISSUES: Could Seized American Face Treason Count? (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE AMERICAN FIGHTER: A U.S. Convert's Path From Suburbia to a Gory Jail for Taliban (By EVELYN NIEVES, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE VICTIMS' FAMILIES: Hawaii Provides a Balm for Emotional Wounds (By JACOB H. FRIES, Dec. 4, 2001)
VOICES: Views on Curbs on Freedoms Range From Qualified Support to Outrage
(By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Dec. 4, 2001)
WORLD: Italian Police Raids Seek Links to Al Qaeda (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE BATTLE: Taliban Resists in Some Pockets North of Kabul (By ERIC SCHMITT & THOM SHANKER, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE COALITION: C.I.A. Leader Asks Pakistan for Help in bin Laden Hunt (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Dec. 4, 2001)
* THE HUNT: Afghan Says Fighters Are Ready to Attack Cave Complex (By TIM WEINER, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE CHILDREN: Millions of Afghan Youths, and No Ideas About Their Future (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 4, 2001)
SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN: Marine Force Turns Desolate Airstrip Into a High-Tech Base (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 4, 2001)
GENERATIONAL STRUGGLE: Technocrats in Kabul Try to Rebuild (By JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE HOLDOUTS: Alliance Presses for Surrender of Taliban Commander and Troops
(By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 4, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Taliban Resistance, New Terror Worries, the Missing Who Weren't
(By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 4, 2001)
DRAGNET IN EUROPE: Spain Pursues Terrorists Among Its Muslim Immigrants (By SAM DILLON with EMMA DALY, Dec. 4, 2001)
* RIYADH JOURNAL: An Ambassador's Journey From Rome to Mecca (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 4, 2001)
Antimissile Weapon Hits Target in Latest Test, Pentagon Says (By JAMES DAO, Dec. 4, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: At $92.60 a Vote, Bloomberg Shatters an Election Record (By MICHAEL COOPER, Dec. 4, 2001)
PUBLIC LIVES: The Lady in Red, From City Hall to Town Painter (By ROBIN FINN, Dec. 4, 2001)
TUNNEL VISION: Taking the A Train, and Picking It Up With One Hand (By RANDY KENNEDY, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE LISTS: Alive and Well, No Matter What the Lists Say (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Dec. 4, 2001)
Doing Good Deeds, and Windows (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Dec. 4, 2001)
SPORTS: Free-Agent Shoppers Dwindling [Bonds & Giambi] (By HARVEY ARATON, Dec. 4, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Yasir Arafat's Last Chance (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2001)
* EDITORIAL: Time for a Japanese Empress (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: A Defining Issue (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Dec. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: AT HOME ABROAD/ABROAD AT HOME: Dust in Our Eyes (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Dec. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: Can Arafat Stop the Violence? (By DENNIS ROSS, Dec. 4, 2001)
* OP-ED: The Weaknesses of Science for Profit (By HAROLD VARMUS, Dec. 4, 2001)
LETTERS: Our Civil Liberties at a Time of Peril (By ALAN KATZ et. al., Dec. 4, 2001)
LETTERS: George Harrison's Gift (By NATASHA ZARETSKY, Dec. 4, 2001)
BUSINESS: As Investors Worry About Mideast and Enron, Shares Fall
[Dow -88, Nasdaq -26] (By REUTERS, Dec. 4, 2001)
Collapse of Enron May Reshape the Battlefield of Deregulation (By JOSEPH KAHN & JEFF GERTH, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE HOLDINGS: Enron Causes 5 Major Japanese Money Market Funds to Plunge (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 4, 2001)
China Will Accept Soybeans From U.S. [gene-altered] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 4, 2001)
Fed Now Says '02 Recovery to Be Gradual (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON with LOUIS UCHITELLE, Dec. 4, 2001)
MARKET PLACE: Three Giants Square Off in the Bidding for AT&T Broadband (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 4, 2001)
Hobbled Enron Tries to Stay on Its Feet (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & RIVA D. ATLAS, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE EMPLOYEES: All Sent Home to Sit and Wait by the Phone (By KATE MURPHY, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE INVESTORS: Plenty of Pain to Go Around (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE LAWYERS: And the Winners in the Case Are... (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Dec. 4, 2001)
ADVERTISING: Forcasting Ad Spending for the Coming Year (By STUART ELLIOTT, Dec. 4, 2001)
* Cable Companies Sign On for Excite@Home Service (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 4, 2001)
Economic Reports May Be Signs That Recovery Is on the Horizon (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 4, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: Brazilian Author Takes a Second Shot at Immortality (By LARRY ROHTER, Dec. 4, 2001)
* ART: Paintings Too Perfect? The Great Optics Debate (By SARAH BOXER, Dec. 4, 2001)
ART CRITIC: Beyond Renovation: Lincoln Center Partners Can Seek Artistic Vision
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 4, 2001)
BOOKS: 'READING CHEKHOV': Visiting Russia, Escorted by Characters From Chekhov
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Dec. 4, 2001)
THEATER CRITIC: New Twist on a Timeless Preoccupation (By BRUCE WEBER, Dec. 4, 2001)
MUSIC: JENNIFER AYLMER: A Soprano Among Friends in an Adventurous Program (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Dec. 4, 2001)
OPERA: 'MEISTERSINGER': A Lyrical Power From Master Singers (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 4, 2001)
OPERA: 'SIEGFRIED': A Siegfried Who Takes the Dragon in Stride (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Dec. 4, 2001)
THEATER: 'MRS. FEUERSTEIN': When the Seeker of Revenge Becomes Its Victim (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Dec. 4, 2001)
TV: 'HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WAR': Spy Wanted. Must Know Hollywood. (By JULIE SALAMON, Dec. 4, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Wounded Buildings Offer Survival Lessons (By JAMES GLANZ, Dec. 4, 2001)
Eyes Focus on Trade Center's 'Bathtub' as Debris Is Cleared (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Dec. 4, 2001)
* Challenging Particle Physics as Path to Truth (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Dec. 4, 2001)
* A CONVERSATION WITH / OLIVER SACKS: Periodic Tables and Family Tree Help Forge a Scientist's Lineage
(By ERICA GOODE, Dec. 4, 2001)
SLIDE SHOW: Spain's Vanishing Bears Have a Christopher Robin (NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 4, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: A Fly's Breathing Engine (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Dec. 4, 2001)
Q & A: The Zoo Diet [pandas eat 20-40 lbs bamboo a day] (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Dec. 4, 2001)
HEALTH: So Lucky to Give Birth in England (By RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, Dec. 4, 2001)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Needless Silence for Hearing Impaired (By JANE E. BRODY, Dec. 4, 2001)
THE DOCTOR'S WORLD: First Challenge in Anthrax Case: Not Missing It (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Dec. 4, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS: In the Lab: Zeroing In on a Lie's Home Base (By JOHN O'NEIL, Dec. 4, 2001)
Prevention: New Advice to Avoid More Back Pain (By JOHN O'NEIL, Dec. 4, 2001)
* Behavior: Brain Gets Rest When Hands Do Talking (By JOHN O'NEIL, Dec. 4, 2001)
Remedies: Fight an Allergy Before the First Sneeze (By JOHN O'NEIL, Dec. 4, 2001)
Timing: Asthma Risk Often Begins Before Birth (By JOHN O'NEIL, Dec. 4, 2001)

Monday, December 3, 2001:
On This Day: December 3 (Gilbert Stuart 12/3/1755-7/9/1828, George B. McClellan 12/3/1826-10/29/1885, Cleveland Abbe 12/3/1838-10/28/1916, Charles A. Pillsbury 12/3/1842-9/17/1899, Ellen Swallow Richards 12/3/1842-3/30/1911, Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857-8/1924, Anton von Werbern 12/3/1883-9/15/1945, Richard Kuhn 12/3/1900-8/1/1967, John von Neumann 12/3/1903-2/8/1957, Andy Williams 1927, Jean-Luc Godard 1930)
Gas Leak in Bhopal India Kills More Than 4000 (By ANJOY HAZARIKA, December 3, 1984)
* Anna Freud, Psychoanalyst, Dies in London at 86 [12/3/1895-10/9/1982] (By REUTERS, October 10, 1982)
Viktor Astafyev, Who Wrote of Rural Russia, Dies at 77 (By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY, Dec. 3, 2001)
Michael Iovenko, 71, Lawyer; Led Aid Society During Strike (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Dec. 3, 2001)
Mohammed I. Kamel Dies at 74 (By PAUL LEWIS, Dec. 3, 2001)
Mary Whitehouse, a Foe of Sexuality, Dies at 91 (By PAUL LEWIS, Dec. 3, 2001)
Arthur F. Kelly, 88, Ex-Airline Executive (NY TIMES, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE SPORES: Terror Anthrax Linked to Type Made by U.S. (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Dec. 3, 2001)
NATIONAL: Bush and Cheney Attend Kennedy Center Gala (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Dec. 3, 2001)
Shah's Son Enlists Exiles in U.S. in Push to Change Iran (By JAMES STERNGOLD, Dec. 3, 2001)
Spy, Citing Fears, Fights Return to China (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE CLEANUP: Fumigation Is Finished in Senate Leader's Suite (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE VETERAN: F.B.I. Career That Ran From Abscam to Al Qaeda (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., Dec. 3, 2001)
THE INQUIRY: Clues, Overlooked, to a Coming Threat (By ANDREW C. REVKIN & LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE INTERESTS: Since Sept. 11, Lobbyists Use New Pitches for Old Pleas (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE FIELD: At Rural Crash Site, a Museum in the Making [Flight 93] (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE SURVIVOR: Demanding a Diagnosis, and Outwitting Anthrax (By KIRK JOHNSON, Dec. 3, 2001)
WORLD: State of Emergency in Gaza and the West Bank (By JAMES BENNET, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE FIGHTING: U.S. Planes Keep Up Bombing of Kandahar as Allies Close In
(By THOM SHANKER with NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 3, 2001)
Calls for New Push Into Iraq Gain Power in Washington (By ELAINE SCIOLINO & ALISON MITCHELL, Dec. 3, 2001)
NEGOTIATIONS: Afghan Factions Work on a Draft Agreement (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Dec. 3, 2001)
ADVANCED ARMAMENTS: U.S. Making Weapons to Blast Underground Hide-Outs
(By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE DEATH TOLL: Afghans Say Civilians Are Imperiled by U.S. (By TIM WEINER, Dec. 3, 2001)
AN OVERVIEW: Squeezing the Taliban, Seeking Compromise and a Fading Aid Lobby
(By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 3, 2001)
MEMOIRS: Fighters Uplifted Muslims, bin Laden Aide Says in Book (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Dec. 3, 2001)
BAGRAM: Securing Base, U.S. Makes Its Brawn Blend In (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 3, 2001)
SMALL TOWN LIFE: Villagers Yearn for the Old, Eternal Afghanistan (By TIM WEINER, Dec. 3, 2001)
Captive Fighter in Taliban Says He Is American (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 3, 2001)
AT U.S. BASE: Marines Build Firepower in the South, Bolstering Their Patrols and Readiness
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 3, 2001)
NEWS MEDIA: Radio Free Europe Hopes to Expand in Afghanistan (By PETER S. GREEN, Dec. 3, 2001)
YONGHE JOURNAL: Religion Museum in Taiwan Promotes Tolerance (By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE PRESIDENT: Bush, Mirroring Call on Taliban, Demands Arafat Stop Extremists
(By DAVID E. SANGER, Dec. 3, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Promise of Crackdown Is a Crucial Test for Arafat (By JAMES BENNET, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE SCENE: Death at a Gathering Spot (By JOEL GREENBERG, Dec. 3, 2001)
N.Y. REGION: Green Lacks Plan B, but Politics (and Beard) May Be Out
(By DEAN E. MURPHY & MICHAEL COOPER, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: Postal Center in Connecticut Shows Traces of Anthrax (By MICHAEL COOPER, Dec. 3, 2001)
THE WIDOWS AND CHILDREN: Grief Mingles With Joy at a Bittersweet Party (By SARAH KERSHAW, Dec. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: The Witch Hunt (By BOB HERBERT, Dec. 3, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: 'Israel or Arafat' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: Keep the Focus on Al Qaeda (By VINCENT M. CANNISTRARO, Dec. 3, 2001)
LETTERS: The Heroic Women of Sept. 11 (ByLESLIE J. CALMAN et. al., Dec. 3, 2001)
LETTERS: A Zillion Channels to Tune Out the World (By JOE MARTIN et. al., Dec. 3, 2001)
BUSINES: Enron Files Largest U.S. Claim for Bankruptcy
(By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 3, 2001)
* TECHNOLOGY: An Inventor Unveils His Mysterious Personal Transportation Device (By AMY HARMON, Dec. 3, 2001)
Fox Portrays a War of Good and Evil, and Many Applaud (By JIM RUTENBERG, Dec. 3, 2001)
Discounts Aid Sales of New PC's (By CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 3, 2001)
Steve Jobs Rejects Microsoft Plan [$1 billion of software to schools] (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Dec. 3, 2001)
Race for AT&T's Cable Unit (By SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 3, 2001)
Asian English-Language Journals Are Reeling as Advertising Slumps
(By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 3, 2001)
Dan Rather Reports Another War, This Time in a Windbreaker (By JIM RUTENBERG, Dec. 3, 2001)
The Talk About Talk [Tina Brown] (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT & ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Dec. 3, 2001)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Looking for Judgment on a Shattered Deal (By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 3, 2001)
COMPRESSED DATA: A Web Hoax Pokes Fun at M.I.T.'s Media Lab (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Dec. 3, 2001)
Most Technology Executives Make Guarded Forecasts (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 3, 2001)
Index Casts Doubt on Quick Recovery (By REUTERS, Dec. 3, 2001)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Shopping and Travel Sites Team Up (By BOB TEDESCHI, Dec. 3, 2001)
Visa Starts Password Service to Fight Online Fraud (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 3, 2001)
ADDENDA: Forecasters Predict Drop in Ad Spending (By, Dec. 3, 2001)
ART: Trade Center Studios Were Lost, but the Artists Get Their Day (By HOLLAND COTTER, Dec. 3, 2001)
BOOKS: 'NEGRO FOLK-TALES FROM THE GULF STATES': Tales of the Devil, Heaven and Ole Massa
(By JANET MASLIN, Dec. 3, 2001)
CABARET: Vaudeville Antics of That Funny Girl (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 3, 2001)
DANCE: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER: A Communal Search for Something Greater Than the Self
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 3, 2001)
RADIO: Remembering Fred Allen: Radio Was Down His Alley (By JAMES BARRON, Dec. 3, 2001)
THEATER: 'SEXAHOLIX': Jokes Aside, It's the Hips That Do the Job (By BEN BRANTLEY, Dec. 3, 2001)
* TV: 'A WALK THROUGH CENTRAL PARK': A Backyard That Belongs to No One and Everyone
(By RON WERTHEIMER, Dec. 3, 2001)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: They Leap From Your Brain Then Take Over Your Heart (By ANDREW GREELEY, Dec. 3, 2001)

Sunday, December 2, 2001:
On This Day: December 2 (Georges Seurat 12/2/1859-3/29/1891, Charles Ringling 12/2/1863-12/3/1926, George Richards Minot 12/2/1885-2/25/1950, Sir John Barbirolli 12/2/1899-7/29/1970, Gianni Versace 12/2/1946-7/15/1997, Adolp Green 1915, Alexander Haig 1924, Julie Harris 1925, Stone Phillips 1954, Tracy Austin 1962, Britney Spears 1981)
Final Vote Condemns M'Carthy, 67-22, For Abusing Senate and Committee (By ANTHONY LEVIERO, December 2, 1954)
Maria Callas, 53, Is Dead of Heart Attack in Paris [12/2/1923-9/16/1977] (By RAYMOND ERICSON, September 17, 1977)
Robert Treuhaft, Lawyer Who Inspired Funeral Exposé, Dies at 89 (By PAUL LEWIS, Dec. 2, 2001)
Rosemary Brown, a Friend of Dead Composers, Dies at 85 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Dec. 2, 2001)
Robert Helps, Concert Pianist, Is Dead at 73 (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE ECONOMY: As Guns Still Blaze, Bush Aides Debate Shifting Focus to Butter
(By RICHARD L. BERKE & THOM SHANKER, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE INVESTIGATION: Anthrax Inquiry Looks at U.S. Labs (By WILLIAM J. BROAD and JUDITH MILLER, Dec. 2, 2001)
Man Held in Serial Killing Was Long a Prime Suspect (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Dec. 2, 2001)
* William & Mary? Not if She's His Student (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Dec. 2, 2001)
NATIONAL: Boom Over, Las Vegas Goes Back to the Basics (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Dec. 2, 2001)
WORLD: Blasts Kill at Least Ten and Wound Over 130 in Jerusalem (By JAMES BENNET and JOEL GREENBERG, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE FIGHTING: U.S. Planes Pound Taliban Positions Around Kandahar
(By ELIZABETH BECKER with STEVEN ERLANGER, Dec. 2, 2001)
AIR WAR: U.S. Bombs Strike 3 Villages And Reportedly Kill Scores (By TIM WEINER, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE PRISONERS: Taliban Arab, Like Many, Longs for Home but Faces a Doubtful Fate
(By DEXTER FILKINS, Dec. 2, 2001)
* Berlin Museum's Revival Bolsters German Identity (By DESMOND BUTLER, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE DAMAGE: Bomb Experts Defuse Pieces Of Ordnance That Can Kill (By JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 2, 2001)
Afghan Woman Is Back on Campus at Last (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE SURRENDER: Taliban Holdouts Give Up at Fort, Looking Desperate (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE CAPITAL: Kabul Retraces Steps to Life Before Taliban (By BARRY BEARAK, Dec. 2, 2001)
AT U.S. BASE: The Marines Dig Foxholes and Spoil for a Fight (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 2, 2001)
Report of Raid Gone Awry, Music in Kabul and the Looming Economy (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE ALLIES: United States and Britain Have Different Visions of How to Use Peacekeeping Forces
(By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 2, 2001)
TERROR ASSETS: U.S. Wants Saudis' Help For a Freeze Of Accounts (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 2, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL: Japan Royal Birth Stirs Talk of Return to Empress (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Dec. 2, 2001)
Swiss Were Part of Nazi Economic Lifeline, Historians Find (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Dec. 2, 2001)
Nationalists Are Routed in Taiwan Legislative Election (By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE GREAT GAME: Foreign Diplomats Jockey for Position in Kabul (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Dec. 2, 2001)
NY REGION: A New Count of the Dead, but Little Sense of Relief [3300] (By ERIC LIPTON, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE FAMILIES: Gifts for Rescuers Divide Terror Victims' Families
(By DAVID BARSTOW & DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Dec. 2, 2001)
MAN IN THE NEWS: Success in a Terror Case: James Brien Comey (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Dec. 2, 2001)
Fines Begin for Drivers Holding Cellphones [$100] (NY TIMES, Dec. 2, 2001)
Millionaire Fugitive Has Been Caught, but Mysteries Remain (By CHARLES V. BAGLI & SUSAN SAULNY, Dec. 2, 2001)
OUR TOWNS: Losing Dad, and Talking Through the Pain and Anger (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Dec. 2, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Justice Deformed: War and the Constitution (NY TIMES, Dec. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Oedipal Loop de Loop (By MAUREEN DOWD, Dec. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Rights in The Real World (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Dec. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: How Islam and Politics Mixed (By SAAD MEHIO, Dec. 2, 2001)
LETTERS: Dr. King's Legacy, Exploited by Heirs (By ALI DOLAN et. al., Dec. 2, 2001)
LETTERS: Hewlett-Packard's Way (By SAM GINN, Dec. 2, 2001)
BUSINESS: Now, Is Even the Boss Taking a Hit? (By STEPHANIE STROM, Dec. 2, 2001)
* A Family Struggle, a Company's Fate [Hewlett-Packard] (By STEVE LOHR with CHRIS GAITHER, Dec. 2, 2001)
ECONOMIC VIEW: A Sashay to the Right, Some Smiles From the Left (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Dec. 2, 2001)
Shaken Consumers Are Looking to Life Insurance (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Dec. 2, 2001)
With Enron's Fall, Many Dominoes Tremble (NY TIMES, Dec. 2, 2001)
MARKET WATCH: Beware Those One-Note 401(k)'s (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Dec. 2, 2001)
MY FIRST JOB: Ask No Favors, Make No Excuses (By ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR., Dec. 2, 2001)
INVESTMENTS: A Diversification Path Leads Abroad (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Dec. 2, 2001)
ON THE CONTRARY: Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? [handouts to corporations]
(By DANIEL AKST, Dec. 2, 2001)
BUSINESS WORLD: A Hong Kong Point Man Redefines Allegiance [Mike Rowse] (By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 2, 2001)
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR Lynn Turner: Lessons for Auditors in Enron's Collapse (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Dec. 2, 2001)
MARKET INSIGHT: Ringing Everywhere but the Cash Register [cell phones] (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Dec. 2, 2001)
* TECHNOLOGY: Internet Provider Cuts Off 850,000 AT&T Customers (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 2, 2001)
* STRATEGIES: The Stock Market Must Rise in 2002? Think Again (By MARK HULBERT, Dec. 2, 2001)
INVESTING WITH: John J. McCabe and Mark F. Trautman of the M.S.B. Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Dec. 2, 2001)
* A Siren Song Sounds Again From Wall St. (INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, Dec. 2, 2001)
LOVE & MONEY: When Giving Leaves You Wanting (By ELLYN SPRAGINS, Dec. 2, 2001)
SENIORITY: Slow to Learn the Lessons of Ageism (By FRED BROCK, Dec. 2, 2001)
ARTS: The Public's Stake in a Cultural Crossroads (By EVAN and FREDA EISENBERG, Dec. 2, 2001)
* Art, a Healer, Draws Out the Artist in the Afflicted (By KAY LARSON, Dec. 2, 2001)
* ART: They Came Late to Nudity, but They Learned Fast ["Exposed: The Victorian Nude']
(By ALAN RIDING, Dec. 2, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: What Design for a Synagogue Spells Jewish? (By PHILIP NOBEL, Dec. 2, 2001)
DANCE: The Ecstasy, and Agony, Linking Dance and Sport (By JUDITH JAMISON, Dec. 2, 2001)
DANCE: Keeping Her Charges On Their (Tiny) Toes (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Dec. 2, 2001)
FILM: The Prey of Demons, Miguel Piñero Wrote Like an Angel (By DON SHEWEY, Dec. 2, 2001)
* FILM: Wonderful It May Be, but Not to Everyone ["It's a Wonderful Life"]
(By DAVID L. GOODRICH, Dec. 2, 2001)
JAZZ: Building a Jazz Career by Working Outside Jazz (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 2, 2001)
MUSIC: Gravest Bach Is Suddenly a Best Seller (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Dec. 2, 2001)
MUSIC: A Violinist Who Can Do Many Things (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Dec. 2, 2001)
MUSIC: Bringing Out the Family Ties of New and Old Music (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Dec. 2, 2001)
MUSIC: Quincy Jones's Impressive Entrepreneurial Flair (By MILO MILES, Dec. 2, 2001)
THEATER: 'Uncertainty Is the Most Lethal Weapon of Terror' (NY TIMES, Dec. 2, 2001)
THEATER: Striking New Spaces for Russian Innovators (By LAWRENCE SACHAROW, Dec. 2, 2001)
* THEATER: Theater's Quicksilver Truth: All Is Change (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Dec. 2, 2001)
THEATER: For Russians, Theater Is a Process of Constant Rediscovery (By LAWRENCE SACHAROW, Dec. 2, 2001)
TV: In Cable's Niches, Drama Is Gaining on Real Life (By CRAIG TOMASHOFF, Dec. 2, 2001)
TV: 'Brian's Song': Here Come the Tears Again (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Dec. 2, 2001)
FASHION: Precious, Yes; but Are They Worth the Wait? (By KATE BETTS, Dec. 2, 2001)
STYLE: Patching Up a Boulevard of Broken Dreams (By MONICA CORCORAN, Dec. 2, 2001)
SHOPPING WITH Nikki S. Lee: Dressing the Part Is Her Art (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Dec. 2, 2001)
Sober Yet Sleek, to Match the Times (By RUTH LA FERLA, Dec. 2, 2001)
* VIEW: Psychiatric Miracle Puts Patient in Denial (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Dec. 2, 2001)
ON THE STREET: That Old Fall Magic (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, Dec. 2, 2001)
VOWS: Susan Orlean and John Gillespie Jr. (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Dec. 2, 2001)
AFTERLIFE: What Will Rise if bin Laden Falls? (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 2, 2001)
AFGHANISTAN'S WOMEN: Hope for the Future, Blunted (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Dec. 2, 2001)
WORD FOR WORD: More No-Nos Than You Can Shake a Stick At. (Hey, No Stick-Shaking.)
(By AMY HARMON, Dec. 2, 2001)
In Washington, a Struggle to Define the Next Fight (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Dec. 2, 2001)
* Two Cheers for Human Cloning (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Dec. 2, 2001)
When Smallpox Failed (By LEONARD A. COLE, Dec. 2, 2001)
LEDGER ALLEGIANCE: My Bottom Line, Right or Wrong... (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Dec. 2, 2001)
On Russian TV, More of the Same (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 2, 2001)
The Quiet End of the Quietest Beatle [George Harrison] (By ERIC ASIMOV, Dec. 2, 2001)
GUARDIANS OF THE FAITH: Speaking in the Name of Islam (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 2, 2001)
Fate's Ups and Downs (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., Dec. 2, 2001)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 2, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: Clintonyms (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 2, 2001)
Adventures in Baby-Sitting (By KURT ANDERSEN, Dec. 2, 2001)
GAZE: Women's Crusade (By JANE SMILEY, Dec. 2, 2001)
Questions for Gene Simmons (By JOHN GLASSIE, Dec. 2, 2001)
PHENOMENON: Tiny Dancers (By EMILY EAKIN, Dec. 2, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: No Creeps (By RANDY COHEN, Dec. 2, 2001)
Tom Ford, Ensuring a Place for Gucci in Hard Times (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Dec. 2, 2001)
For One Distant Island, a Plunge into the Present [Babuyan Claro, Pacific Island]
(By RON SUSKIND, Dec. 2, 2001)
* 2011 [Terrorism will be a part of everyday life] (By NIALL FERGUSON, Dec. 2, 2001)
Wes Anderson, Boyish Wonder (By MARSHALL SELLA, Dec. 2, 2001)
* STYLE: The Last Word (By Carrie Donovan & Donna Karan, Dec. 2, 2001)
FOOD: Food, Not 'Tude (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Dec. 2, 2001)
LIVES: Arctic Refuse (By DAVID MASIEL, Dec. 2, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 2, 2001)
* The Durable Czeslaw Milosz (By HARVEY SHAPIRO, Dec. 2, 2001)
* A Rigorous New Translation of 'The Tale of Genji' (By JANICE P. NIMURA, Dec. 2, 2001)
* 'London': Peter Ackroyd's Life of a City (By PATRICK McGRATH, Dec. 2, 2001)
'Broadway, The Golden Years': The Rise of the Choreographer-Director (By TERRY TEACHOUT, Dec. 2, 2001)
Two Authors Follow Travelers From Antique Lands (By GEOFFREY MOORHOUSE, Dec. 2, 2001)
'Prince of Princes': Potemkin, Imperial Boy Toy [Catherine the Great] (By HARLOW ROBINSON, Dec. 2, 2001)
* 'The Tristan Chord': Wagner as a Man of Ideas (By LAWSON TAITTE, Dec. 2, 2001)
* 'Black Series': Poems of the Darkness of the Heart [Laurie Sheck] (By ADAM KIRSCH, Dec. 2, 2001)
* 'Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford': Edifice Complex (By TOM VANDERBILT, Dec. 2, 2001)
The Invention Behind the Artifice of Courtesans (By ANGELINE GOREAU, Dec. 2, 2001)
* SCIENCE: African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Modern Human (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Dec. 2, 2001)
HEALTH: Juvenile Vaccine Problems Worry Officials and Doctors (By ROBERT PEAR, Dec. 2, 2001)

Saturday, December 1, 2001:
On This Day: December 1 (Étienne-Maurice Falconet 12/1/1716-1/24/1791, Martin Klaproth 12/1/1743-1/1/1817, Marie Tussaud 12/1/1761-4/16/1850, Red Stout 12/1/1886-10/27/1975, Walter Alston 12/1/1911-10/1/1984, Minoru Yamasaki 12/1/1912-2/6/1986, Mary Martin 12/1/1913-11/3/1990, Stansfield Turner 1923, Lou Rawls 1935, Lee Trevino 1939, Dianne Lennon 1939, Richard Pryor 1940, Bette Midler 1945, Charlene Tilton 1958, Carol Alt 1960)
12-Nation Pact Makes Antarctic Science Reserve (By WALTER SULLIVAN, December 1, 1959)
Gerard Swope, 84, Ex-General Electric Head, Dies [12/1/1872-11/20/1957] (NY Times, November 21, 1957)
* George Harrison, 'Quiet Beatle' and Lead Guitarist, Dies at 58 (By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 1, 2001)
Margaret Byrd Rawson, Educator and Dyslexia Authority, Dead at 102 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 1, 2001)
Budd Boetticher, Director Whose No-Frills 50's Westerns Became Classics, Dies at 85 (By DAVID BINDER, Dec. 1, 2001)
John Mitchum, Character Actor, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, Dec. 1, 2001)
J. Herbert Fill, 77, Ex-Commissioner of Mental Health (By ERIC PACE, Dec. 1, 2001)
John Knowles, Novelist Who Wrote 'A Separate Peace,' Dies at 75 (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Dec. 1, 2001)
LIBERTY AND SECURITY: Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups (By DAVID JOHNSTON & DON VAN NATTA Jr., Dec. 1, 2001)
A Times Editor Will Write Column on the Op-Ed Page [Nicholas D. Kristof] (NY TIMES, Dec. 1, 2001)
THE POSTAL SYSTEM: U.S. Officials See Small Risk of Anthrax in Mail Delivery (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 1, 2001)
* BELIEFS: Auden's Poem Is Drawing New Attention ["September 1, 1939'] (By PETER STEINFELS, Dec. 1, 2001)
THE INTERVIEWS: University Won't Cooperate in U.S. Canvass (By JODI WILGOREN, Dec. 1, 2001)
THE SUPER BOWL: Security Will Be Extraordinary (By MIKE FREEMAN, Dec. 1, 2001)
2 Sides Turn More Heated in Exchanges Over Economy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Dec. 1, 2001)
WORLD: U.S. to Press Iraq to Let U.N. Inspect for Banned Arms (By PATRICK E. TYLER & DAVID E. SANGER, Dec. 1, 2001)
REINFORCEMENTS: Marines Dig In, but They Find Little to Battle (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Dec. 1, 2001)
THE POLITICS: Afghan Talks Stall in Bonn on Comments From Kabul (By STEVEN ERLANGER with JOHN KIFNER, Dec. 1, 2001)
THE EVIDENCE: Germ Weapon Plans Found at a Scientist's House in Kabul (By DAVID ROHDE, Dec. 1, 2001)
ETHNIC RIVALRIES: As 'Southern Alliance' Gels, Many Wonder if It Can Last (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Dec. 1, 2001)
* China Wins the Wallets Of Tibetans, but Hearts Are Still Slow to Follow (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Dec. 1, 2001)
KUNDUZ: In Home Called Base of Jihad Teacher, the Lessons of Terror (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 1, 2001)
FAMILY LEGACY: U.S. Lawyers Ready to Help Son of Sheik Linked to Plot (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Dec. 1, 2001)
NY REGION: THE TRAIL: Connecticut Detects Anthrax on a Letter Near Victim's Home
(By PAUL ZIELBAUER, Dec. 1, 2001)
EDITORIAL: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (NY TIMES, Dec. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: CORRESPONDENT: Join the Club (By BILL KELLER, Dec. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: AT HOME ABROAD/ABROAD AT HOME: It Can Happen Here (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Dec. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: Getting at the Roots of Arab Poverty (By ALAN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: From the Frat House to the White House (By DIANE ROBERTS, Dec. 1, 2001)
LETTERS: Terror on Trial: An American Test (By TAD BLAIR et. al., Dec. 1, 2001)
LETTERS: After Sept. 11, the Best Office Is in the Den (By NICOLE BELSON GOLUBOFF, Dec. 1, 2001)
BUSINESS: Last Month Looks Like One of Year's Best
[Dow +22, Nasdaq -3] (By REUTERS, Dec. 1, 2001)
BUSINESS: Report Offers Conflicting Signals on Recovery of the Economy (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Dec. 1, 2001)
Enron Scrambles for Funds to Ease Way Into Bankruptcy (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and RIVA D. ATLAS, Dec. 1, 2001)
Creditors' Move Puts Excite@Home's Service at Risk (By MATT RICHTEL, Dec. 1, 2001)
Stock Strategist at Merrill Said to be on the Way Out [Christine Callies] (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Dec. 1, 2001)
Apple Offers More Than an Update to Its System (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec. 1, 2001)
Cable and Wireless Bidding for Assets of Web Operator [Exodus Communications]
By ALAN COWELL(By, Dec. 1, 2001)
Joblessness In Japan Rises To a Record Rate [5.4%] (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 1, 2001)
ARTS: Break Up Afghanistan? Why Not? (By STEPHEN KINZER, Dec. 1, 2001)
ART: Whitney Museum Cuts Its Staff and Budget (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Dec. 1, 2001)
BOOKS: A Black Author Hurls That Word as a Challenge [Randall Kennedy's "Nigger"]
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 1, 2001)
* BOOKS: SHELF LIFE: Why Western Soldiers Have Always Been Such Fierce Fighters (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Dec. 1, 2001)
* DANCE: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER: Charged Up and Roaring, From Head to Footwork
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Dec. 1, 2001)
FILM: 'TEXAS RANGERS': Plugging the Baddies Virtuously (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 1, 2001)
JAZZ: 'JAMMIN' ON THE HAMMOND': Working-Class Music Straight From the Organ (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 1, 2001)
* MUSIC: With a Beatle's Death, Mourning for Every Family (By JON PARELES, Dec. 1, 2001)
* MUSIC: ABBEY ROAD JOURNAL: A Place Evoking Reprises of Pivotal Memories (By SARAH LYALL, Dec. 1, 2001)
TV: 'JIM HENSON'S JACK AND THE BEANSTALK': That Cow! Those Beans! The Money! (By ANITA GATES, Dec. 1, 2001)
HEALTH: U.S. Mad Cow Risk Is Low, a Study by Harvard Finds (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Dec. 1, 2001)
HEALTH: Man With Artificial Heart Dies 5 Months After Implant (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 1, 2001)