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

Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2001:
On This Day: February 28 (Michel de Montaigne 2/28/1533-9/23/1592, Gabriele Rossetti 2/28/1783-4/24/1854, Sir John Tenniel 2/28/1820-2/25/1914, Geraldine Farrar 2/28/1882-3/11/1967, Ben Hecht 2/28/1894-4/18/1964, Bugsy Siegel 2/28/1906-6/20/1947, Milton Caniff 2/28/1907-4/3/1988, Stephen Spender 2/28/1909-7/16/1995, Vincente Minnelli 2/28/1910-7/25/1986, Denis Parsons Burkitt 2/28/1911-3/23/1993, Zero Mostel 2/28/1915-9/8/1977, Billie Bird 1908, Charles Durning 1923, Svetlana Alliluyeva 1926, Gavin MacLeod 1931, Tommy Tune 1939, Mario Andretti 1940, Bubba Smith 1945, Bernadette Peters 1948, John Turturro 1957, Rae Dawn Chong 1961)
4 U.S. Agents Killed in Texas Shootout With Cult
(By Sam Howe Verhovek, February 28, 1993)
* Linus C. Pauling Dies at 93; Chemist and Voice for Peace
[2/28/1901-8/19/1994] (By RICHARD SEVERO, August 21, 1994)
Sidney Weinhouse, Expert on the Metabolism of Cancer, Dies at 91 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 28, 2001)
Guy Wood, Composer, Dies at 89 (NY TIMES, Feb. 28, 2001)
Ann Colbert, Musicians' Manager, Dies at 95 (NY TIMES, Feb. 28, 2001)
* Theodore Lidz, Professor, 90; Studied Causes of Schizophrenia (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 28, 2001)
Sylvia Lawry Is Dead at 85; Led Multiple Sclerosis Fight (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 28, 2001)
Bush, Spelling Out Agenda to Congress, Makes Tax Cut the Centerpiece of Budget
(By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 28, 2001)
Accused Spy Suspected Loss of Access to Secrets, Prosecutors Say
(By JAMES RISEN & PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 28, 2001)
Kentucky Journal: Fighting Appalachia's Top Cash Crop, Marijuana (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Feb. 28, 2001)
Clinton Will Not Block Aides From Testifying on Pardons (By MARC LACEY & DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 28, 2001)
CBS TV Chief Says Clinton Did Not Influence a Deal (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 28, 2001)
In the House Chamber, an Odd Mix of Partisanship and Building of Bridges (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Feb. 28, 2001)
Lessons: 'Scaffolding' Is Raised, and So Are Sights (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 28, 2001)
News Analysis: Bush Makes a Narrow Focus on a Few Signature Issues (By ADAM CLYMER, Feb. 28, 2001)
DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE: Democrats Cite Deficit Fears in Opposing Bush's Tax Plan
(By ALISON MITCHELL, Feb. 28, 2001)
Beijing, Turning Tables, Defends Its Repression of Sect (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 28, 2001)
U.S. Admiral Delivers Apology to the Japanese in Sub Sinking (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 28, 2001)
Against a Trend, U.S. Population Will Bloom, U.N. Says (By BARBARA CROSSETTE, Feb. 28, 2001)
Public Lives: Sauce Wars— The Winning Patsy Savors a Victory (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 28, 2001)
NYC: Board of Education Fiddled; Bronx Science Is Burned (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 28, 2001)
* Duplicating School-Success Formula (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, Feb. 28, 2001)
SPORTS: Where Is the Love? At the Garden [Patrick Ewing] (By STEVE POPPER, Feb. 28, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mr. Bush's Budget Strategy (NY TIMES, Feb. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: Execute Terrorists at Our Own Risk (By JESSICA STERN, Feb. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: Neither Barren Nor Remote (By WILLIAM CRONON, Feb. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: His Dubya and My R (By IRVING R. LEVINE, Feb. 28, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Debt and Taxes (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 28, 2001)
LETTERS: Bill Clinton, for Better or Worse (By ALAN ZIPKIN et. al., Feb. 28, 2001)
BUSINESS: Technology Shares Tumble to Lowest Close Since '98
[Dow -6, Nasdaq -101] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 28, 2001)
Judges Voice Doubt on Order Last Year to Split Microsoft (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 28, 2001)
3 New Reports Show Evidence of Weakness in the Economy (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 28, 2001)
Market Place: 2 Big Investors to Take Over Finova Group [Warren Buffett] (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Feb. 28, 2001)
Disney to Take 50% Stake in US Weekly Magazine (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 28, 2001)
* Advertising: Campaign Gives Wry Personality to Data (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 28, 2001)
* As Antidote to Slowdown, Intel Will Spend, Not Cut (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 28, 2001)
Management: For One Church, Divine Intervention Isn't Enough (By ABBY ELLIN, Feb. 28, 2001)
The Boss: I Have the I.Q. for Retail (By BRIAN K. DEVINE, Feb. 28, 2001)
Workplace: A Handyman Is Shot at Work, or Was He? (By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Feb. 28, 2001)
Life's Work: Putting Young Workers to Shame (By LISA BELKIN, Feb. 28, 2001)
JDS Uniphase to Trim 3,000 Jobs (By REUTERS, Feb. 28, 2001)
Random House Sues Over Rights to Publishing E-Books (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 28, 2001)
AT&T Challenges Verizon (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 28, 2001)
AT&T Raises $3.6 Billion to Cut Its Debt (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Feb. 28, 2001)
ARTS: U.S. Works With Italy on New Rules Regarding Ancient Treasures
(By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Feb. 28, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: Clashing Arias for Berlin's Opera Houses (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 28, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'Napoleon and His Collaborators': How Staunch Republicans Became a Dictator's Pals
(By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 28, 2001)
Culture Notes: Turkish Tradition (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 28, 2001)
DANCE: New York City Ballet: All Femme and Fatale, With a Man at Her Feet
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 28, 2001)
MUSIC: Ensemble 21: Caught in the Swirl of an Electronic Eden (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 28, 2001)
* MUSIC: Tibet House Benefit: Chanting and Rockin' to Appease the Elements (By ANN POWERS, Feb. 28, 2001)
* MUSIC: 'Focus on Franck': A Confused Mankind Converses With Angels (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 28, 2001)
TV: 'Some of My Best Friends': He's Got a Picture of Bette Midler? (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Feb. 28, 2001)
TV: 'The Sopranos': Hollywood Magic Allows Livia One Last Angry Whine
(By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 28, 2001)
TV Notes: The Roots of 'Sopranos' Grew From Cagney Film (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 28, 2001)
LIVING: From the Volcano, the Rarest Brew: Kona Coffee (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Feb. 28, 2001)
* Bayard's: A Simple Equation for the Financial District (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Feb. 28, 2001)
* Dried Shrimp: Flavors' Little Helpers [3 recipes] (By JACK BISHOP, Feb. 28, 2001)
The Chef: A Salad, Simple and Rich [Artichoke & Smoked-Salmon Salad] (By Charlie Trotter, Feb. 28, 2001)
At Long Last, New Yorkers' Appetites Are Ready for Ethiopia (By ERIC ASIMOV, Feb. 28, 2001)
Building an Empire One Party Page at a Time (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 28, 2001)
EATING WELL: Irradiated Beef: In Markets, Quietly (By MARIAN BURROS, Feb. 28, 2001)
The Minimalist: Sometimes Simple Is Butter [Salmon with Beurre Noisette]
(By MARK BITTMAN, Feb. 28, 2001)
Michelin Demotes Ducasse, Again (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Feb. 28, 2001)

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001:
On This Day: February 27 (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2/27/1807-3/24/1882, Ellen Terry 2/27/1847-7/21/1928, Alice Hamilton 2/27/1869-9/22/1970, Lotte Lehmann 2/27/1888-8/26/1976, David Sarnoff 2/27/1891-12/12/1971, Marino Marini 2/27/1901-8/6/1980, John Steinbeck 2/27/1902-12/20/1968, Peter DeVries 2/27/1910-9/28/1993, Lawrence Durrell 2/27/1912-11/7/1990, Irwin Shaw 2/27/1913-5/16/1984, Joanne Woodward 1930, Elizabeth Taylor 1932, Ralph Nader 1934, Barbara Babcock 1937, Howard Hesseman 1940, Debra Monk 1949, Adam Baldwin 1962, Grant Show 1962, Chelsea Clinton 1980)
Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed
(By Andrew Rosenthal, February 27, 1991)
Justice Hugo Black Dies at 85; Served on Court 34 Years
[2/27/1886-9/25/1971] (United Press International, September 25, 1971)
* A. R. Ammons, Poet of Eclectic Tastes, Dies at 75 (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Feb. 27, 2001)
Claude Shannon, Mathematician, Dies at 84 (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Feb. 27, 2001)
Herbert Kupferberg, Music Critic, Dies at 83 (NY TIMES, Feb. 27, 2001)
Sir Donald Bradman, Cricket Legend, Dies at 92 (By JOHN SHAW, Feb. 27, 2001)
* Fellow Actors Honor Jason Robards (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 27, 2001)
Children Adopted Abroad Win Automatic U.S. Citizenship (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 27, 2001)
White House Logs Said to Show Pre-Pardon Visits
(By DAVID JOHNSTON & DON VAN NATTA Jr, Feb. 27, 2001)
Miami Count Suggests Gore Still Falls Short (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 27, 2001)
Powell Proposes Easing Sanctions on Iraqi Civilians (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 27, 2001)
China Hones Old Tool: 'Re-educating' Unruly (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 27, 2001)
Chiang Mai Journal: A Courageous Thai Editor's Lonely Quest (By SETH MYDANS, Feb. 27, 2001)
Varied Portraits of bin Laden Emerge in Embassy Bomb Case (By ALAN FEUER, Feb. 27, 2001)
Over Din of Fellow Inmates, Man Ran Investment (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Feb. 27, 2001)
World Trade Center Makes a Vertical World of Its Own (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Feb. 27, 2001)
Public Lives: Rich, Yes, but Even More Different: Liberal and Fun (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Feb. 27, 2001)
SPORTS: For Ewing, Some New Questions (By DAVE ANDERSON, Feb. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: Turkey's Precarious Success (By ROBERT D. KAPLAN, Feb. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: Russia Can Be Our Ally on Missile Defense (By IVO H. DAALDER & JAMES M. LINDSAY, Feb. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: A Man With a Plan (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 27, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Glasnost in the Gulf (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 27, 2001)
LETTERS: Hidden Conflicts: The Lives We Live (By JACK DRESCHER, M.D., Feb. 27, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Increase in the Hope the Fed Will Soon Cut Rates
[Dow +241, Nasdaq +46] (By REUTERS, Feb. 27, 2001)
Advertising: ESPN Uses a 'Hostile' Web Site (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 27, 2001)
Market Place: Mistake Sends Axcelis Shares Up (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 27, 2001)
Procter & Gamble Cites Turkey in a Warning (By GREG WINTER, Feb. 27, 2001)
3Com Plans to Cut 1,200 Jobs (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 27, 2001)
EToys Files for Bankruptcy (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 27, 2001)
Yahoo to Offer H &R Block Services (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 27, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: 'Crouching Tiger,' Celebrated Everywhere but in China (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 27, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Singing Boy': A Man Is Killed, and His Family Dies a Little With Him
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 27, 2001)
Culture Notes: Play Time (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 27, 2001)
DANCE: In a Black Dance Festival, a Modern Spin on Tradition (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 27, 2001)
MUSIC: In Performance: Harmonies Heavenly and Adventurous (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 27, 2001)
MUSIC: Brooklyn Philharmonic: Sober Works Illustrate Sadness's Infinite Variety
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 27, 2001)
MUSIC: New York Philharmonic Plays a Hans Werner Henze Piece
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 27, 2001)
* POP: Intellectualizing the Music? Or Are These Post-Punk Bands Simply Experiencing It?
["What is the meaning of simplicity?"] (By ANN POWERS, Feb. 27, 2001)
THEATER: The Tricky Business of Cross-Cultural Theater (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Feb. 27, 2001)
THEATER: 'Sitting Pretty': Discoveries as Intricate as the Human Shape (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 27, 2001)
THEATER: 'High Dive': A Passive Everywoman on an Embarrassing Precipice (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 27, 2001)
FASHION REVIEW: McQueen Story Is Backdrop to London Fashion Week (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 27, 2001)
* Front Row: Making Buildings and Dresses (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Feb. 27, 2001)
THE WEEK IN SCIENCE: Detecting Bombardment (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 27, 2001)
* SCIENCE: In Dawn of Society, Dance Was Center Stage (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 27, 2001)
SCIENCE: Evidence Is Cited for Life on Mars, but Some Demur (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 27, 2001)
Drug Makers Listen In While Bacteria Talk (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 27, 2001)
At Last, Scientists Find Bones From a Tenontosaurus That Didn't Lose Its Head
(By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 27, 2001)
Trying to Tame the Roar of Deadly Lakes (By MARGUERITE HOLLOWAY, Feb. 27, 2001)
* New Rules in Sperm and Egg's Cat-and-Mouse Game (By NATALIE ANGIER, Feb. 27, 2001)
* The Slow and Constant Leak of Electricity (By HANNAH FAIRFIELD, Feb. 27, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Strong as a Sleeping Bear (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 27, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Eels' 'Wild Party' (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 27, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Forget Sludge Cocktails (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 27, 2001)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: A Short, Speckled History of a Transplanted Hand
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Feb. 27, 2001)
CASES: Trouble With 'The Bag' Is in the Head (By RICHARD M. COHEN, Feb. 27, 2001)
Drug Trials Reach Out for Patients (and Vice Versa) on the Web (By JUDITH NEWMAN, Feb. 27, 2001)
* Cloaked in Stealth Molecules, Drugs Sneak Past the Body's Defenses (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 27, 2001)
PERSONAL HEALTH: For Older Drivers, a Wealth of Alternatives (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 27, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / CONSEQUENCES: A Viral Hazard Off the Beaten Track/A> (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 27, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / STAGES: When Your Infant Is a Musical Genius (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 27, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / PATTERNS: Leaving Asthma Behind, With the Car (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 27, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / SAFETY: Drunken Riding: An Invitation for Injury (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 27, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / SYMPTOMS: A Role for Eyes in Ringing of the Ears (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 27, 2001)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: A Century of Service, Battlefield to Bedside (By JOHN LANGONE, Feb. 27, 2001)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Unhealthy Obsessions With Healthy Foods (By JOHN LANGONE, Feb. 27, 2001)
* LETTERS: Clues in an Inkblot (By IAN ALTERMAN et. al., Feb. 27, 2001)
* Q&A: How Birds Breathe (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 27, 2001)

Monday, Feb. 26, 2001:
On This Day: February 26 (Wenceslas 2/26/1361-8/16/1419, Victor Hugo 2/26/1802-5/22/1885, William F. Cody 2/26/1846-1/10/1917, Herbert H. Dow 2/26/1866-10/15/1930, Grover Cleveland Alexander 2/26/1887-11/4/1950, Margaret Leighton 2/26/1922-1/13/1976, Mason Adams 1919, Tony Randall 1920, Betty Hutton 1921, Fats Domino 1928, Robert Novak 1931, Johnny Cash 1932, Bill Duke 1943, Mitch Ryder 1945, Michael Bolton 1953, Jennifer Grant 1966, Erykah Badu 1971)
Blast Hits Trade Center, Bomb Suspected; 5 Killed, Thousands Flee Smoke in Towers
(By Robert D. McFadden, February 26, 1993)
* John Harvey Kellogg Dies at 91; Health Expert & Founder of Breakfast Food
[2/26/1852-12/14/1943] (NY TIMES, December 16, 1943)
* Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Aboriginal Painter, Dies at 75 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 26, 2001)
* Arnold Friedhoff, Researcher in Psychiatry, Dies at 77 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 26, 2001)
Anthony J. Giacalone, Man Tied to Hoffa Mystery, Dies at 82 (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 26, 2001)
White House Memo: For Bush, a Chance to Take Back, and Keep, the Limelight (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 26, 2001)
* Moles Often Burrow Deeper Than Spy Hunters Can Dig (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 26, 2001)
No Downturn at Las Vegas Casinos (By EVELYN NIEVES, Feb. 26, 2001)
* Public Lives: Family History Forges Labor Secretary's Convictions (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Feb. 26, 2001)
Investigator Suspects Presidential Library Profited From Some Pardons (By PETER T. KILBORN, Feb. 26, 2001)
U.S. Helps Kuwait Mark Gulf War (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 26, 2001)
10 Years Later, Hussein Is Firmly in Control (By JOHN F. BURNS, Feb. 26, 2001)
Powell, Meeting Both Sides in Mideast Conflict, Makes Little Headway (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 26, 2001)
Powell Takes King of Jordan for a Spin (NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 26, 2001)
Putin in Korea: A Mix of Trade and Politics (By DON KIRK, Feb. 26, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Global Warning to Mr. Bush (By, Feb. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: A Legacy Yet to Be Determined (By MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, Feb. 26, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Retrograde Movement (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 26, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Cut Him Loose (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 26, 2001)
* BUSINESS: From Inside, a Critic Challenges a Paper (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 26, 2001)
Advertising: Agencies Seek Strength Through Media Diversity (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 26, 2001)
New Owner Struggles at a London Tabloid (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 26, 2001)
Microsoft's Appeal Seems to Find Sympathetic Ears Among Judges (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 26, 2001)
Reversing Decades-Long Trend, Americans Retiring Later in Life
(By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Feb. 26, 2001)
Alcoa Says Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill Made $56 Million (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 26, 2001)
Brazilian Company Hacks Its Way Up (By JENNIFER L. RICH, Feb. 26, 2001)
Drug Developed From Gene Study Tested on People (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 26, 2001)
* New Economy: Investors Finally Consider Internet Companies' Shaky Math (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 26, 2001)
* E-Commerce Report: New Alternatives to Banner Ads (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 26, 2001)
I.B.M. Makes Sun Back Down From Claim as Top Server Seller (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 26, 2001)
Compressed Data: Services Try to Link Reporters and Publicists (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Feb. 26, 2001)
* Compressed Data: Job Sites Are Thriving on Dot-Com Troubles (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Feb. 26, 2001)
It's Decision Time at Networks on 'Frasier' and 'Dharma' (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 26, 2001)
Media Talk: Some Familiar Touches for Sunday Mornings (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 26, 2001)
Media Talk: Television Meets Reality in a Drama on Pardons (NY TIMES, Feb. 26, 2001)
Patents: Snow Inspires Inventions to Mold It, Play in It or Melt It (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Feb. 26, 2001)
ARTS: Honor at Last for an Architect Who Made California His Muse (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 26, 2001)
* ARTS: Museum Scientists Size Up Everyman's Precious Finds (By SHERRI DAY, Feb. 26, 2001)
BOOKS: Alan Furst: A Spinner of Spy Novels Whose Heroes Still Fight the Nazis (By DINITIA SMITH, Feb. 26, 2001)
BOOKS: 'The Rising Sun': Seeking a Fortune but Finding Disaster (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 26, 2001)
DANCE: 'The Sea-Dappled Horse': Balancing Heaven and Hell on Earth (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 26, 2001)
THEATER: 'Urban Zulu Mambo': Rich Voices Paint a Path to Paradise (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 26, 2001)
TV: 'The Merchants of Cool': Big Business, Ever Eager to Tap Into Teenage Wallets
(By RON WERTHEIMER, Feb. 26, 2001)
* Writers on Writing: Family Ghosts Hoard Secrets That Bewitch the Living (By AMY TAN, Feb. 26, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Internet Camera-in-a-Tree Targets Bald Eagles (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 26, 2001)
Dairy Barn Houses Prehistoric World (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 26, 2001)
Intense Scrutiny Will Accompany Mars Odyssey to the Red Planet (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 26, 2001)
Model Suggests T-rex Cousin Had Weaker but Probably More Slashing Bite (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 26, 2001)
HEALTH: 2 Doctors Suspended After Surgery on Wrong Side of Man's Brain (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Feb. 26, 2001)
Study Finds Step Aerobics Plus Rubber Bands Stretch Workout Benefits (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 26, 2001)

Sunday, Feb. 25, 2001:
On This Day: February 25 (Johann Philipp Krieger 2/25/1649-2/7/1725, Carlo Goldoni 2/25/1707-2/6/1793, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 2/25/1841-12/3/1919, Benedetto Croce 2/25/1866-11/20/1952, Enrico Caruso 2/25/1873-8/2/1921, Vyacheslav M. Molotov 2/25/1890-11/8/1986, Dame Myra Hess 2/25/1890-11/25/1965, Marcel Paul Pagnol 2/25/1895-4/18/1974, Anthony Burgess 2/25/1917-11/22/1993, Larry Gelbart 1928, Tommy Newsom 1929, Tom Courtenay 1937, Bob Shieffer 1937, Diane Baker 1938, George Harrison 1943, Sally Jessy Raphael 1943, Neil Jordan 1950, Veronica Webb 1965, Tea Leoni 1966)
Hiram R. Revels, First Colored Member Admitted to the Senate (NY TIMES, February 25, 1870)
Dulles Dies at 71; Formulated & Conducted U.S. Foreign Policy for More Than Six Years
[2/25/1888-5/24/1959] (NY TIMES, May 25, 1959)
Miné Okubo, Whose Art Chronicled Internment Camps, Dies at 88 (By ERIC PACE, Feb. 25, 2001)
* Ninian Smart, Author and Scholar of Comparative Religion, Dies at 73 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 25, 2001)
* R. W. White, Psychologist Who Put Focus on Personality, Dies at 96
(By CARMEL McCOUBREY, Feb. 25, 2001)
John Fahey, 61, Guitarist and an Iconoclast, Dies at 61 (By JON PARELES, Feb. 25, 2001)
Robert Enrico, Award-Winning Film Director, Dies at 69 (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 25, 2001)
Johnny W. Tjupurrula, Aboriginal Artist, Dies at 75 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 25, 2001)
Philip Sandblom, Surgeon and Author, Dies at 97 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 25, 2001)
U.S. Charges Pose Paradox of Pious Spy for Godless Foe (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 25, 2001)
Clinics Full of Frozen Embryos Offer a New Route to Adoption (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 25, 2001)
Arrests of Youths in Dartmouth Case Leave a Town Searching for Answers (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 25, 2001)
Access Proved Vital in Last-Minute Race for Clinton Pardons
(By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and MARC LACEY, Feb. 25, 2001)
More Sunshine for Japan's Overworked Students (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 25, 2001)
Following Up: Regards to Broadway, Heart in San Francisco (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Feb. 25, 2001)
Harlem Journal: Dancer Tries to Save Site of First Hesitant Steps (By AMY WALDMAN, Feb. 25, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mr. Bush's First Battle (NY TIMES, Feb. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: What Kind of Party for the Democrats? (By Robert B. Reich et. al., Feb. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Weird, Psychic Lock (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 25, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Will V Go To L? (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 25, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Market Insight: What Brings a Bear Back to The Market (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 25, 2001)
* Market Watch: A Benefit for the Few Weighs on Many (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 25, 2001)
* TALKING MONEY: Monica Seles: Focusing on the Ball and the Nest Egg
(By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Feb. 25, 2001)
Economic View: A 'Miracle,' But Maybe Not Always a Blessing (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Feb. 25, 2001)
Putting 'Hostile' Back Into Takeover (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 25, 2001)
Because Virtual Isn't Always Good Enough (By Laurence Prusak & Don Cohen,, Feb. 25, 2001)
At a French Factory, Culture is a Two-Way Street (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Feb. 25, 2001)
INVESTING: In Gloom, a Beacon: Tax-Saving Funds (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 25, 2001)
* PERSONAL BUSINESS: Quick Lessons in the Fine Old Art of Unwinding
(By ANDREA HIGBIE, Feb. 25, 2001)
Reclaiming a Legacy, in Spirit [Friendly Ice Cream] (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Feb. 25, 2001)
Five Questions for Patrick McGurn: The Shareholders at the Barricades
(Interview by REED ABELSON, Feb. 25, 2001)
Book Value: Learning to Celebrate Water-Cooler Gossip (By FRED ANDREWS, Feb. 25, 2001)
Portfolios: Emerging-Markets Worries Are Not Confined to Turkey
(By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 25, 2001)
Turkey's Turmoil Exacts a Price in the Billions (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Feb. 25, 2001)
Midstream: The Gift of Good Record-Keeping (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Feb. 25, 2001)
On the Job: There's No Cure Like Travel (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 25, 2001)
Investing With Hobart C. Buppert II: Flag Investors Value Builder Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 25, 2001)
Is a Battered Dell Ready to Rebound? (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 25, 2001)
Private Sector: President on Board (But From Farther South) (Compiled By RICK GLADSTONE, Feb. 25, 2001)
Business Diary: Medium Is the Message in Counterfeiting Battle (By Rick Gladstone, Feb. 25, 2001)
Funds Watch: With a Focus on Israel, It's Business as Usual (By Robert D. Hershey Jr., Feb. 25, 2001)
Personal Business Diary: Asking Americans to Build Their Savings (By Vivian Marino, Feb. 25, 2001)
Letters: Risks in Commercial Paper (By BRUCE R. BENT et. al., Feb. 25, 2001)
IDEAS & TRENDS: A Lot of Pluribus, Not Much Unum (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 25, 2001)
LOVE AND BETRAYAL: The Making of a Spy (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 25, 2001)
THE NATION: The High Court's Target: Congress (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Feb. 25, 2001)
Lobbying for Forgiveness (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Feb. 25, 2001)
Reality TV's Ultimate Death Trip [Daytona 500] (By ALLEN ST. JOHN, Feb. 25, 2001)
Learning to Fear Putin's Gaze (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Feb. 25, 2001)
A Difference of Degrees [global warming] (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 25, 2001)
WORD FOR WORD: Variety 'Slanguage' Show-Biz Tubthumping: How to Tell the Socko From the Whammo
(By SCOTT VEALE, Feb. 25, 2001)
It's Up, It's Down: Playing Games With the Economy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 25, 2001)
TAX FIGHT: Where George Bush Leads, Who Will Follow? (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 25, 2001)
Firm Foundations for Disaster (By JUAN FORERO, Feb. 25, 2001)
* On Language: Body Man (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 25, 2001)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Theme Park on a Hill (By ADAM GOODHEART, Feb. 25, 2001)
Questions for Michael De Luca: Cast Away (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Feb. 25, 2001)
Five From Michael Graves: Best Buildings (Interview By LIZ WELCH, Feb. 25, 2001)
The Machine Age: Cellular Metastasis (By DAVID BROOKS, Feb. 25, 2001)
The Ethicist: Taking Leave (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 25, 2001)
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING: Katherine Hopkins-Nicholas & Fayard Nicholas, Derby, Hollywood, CA, Sept. 6, 2000
(Photo by LAUREN GREENFIELD, Interview by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Feb. 25, 2001)
Jonathan Lebed: Stock Manipulator, S.E.C. Nemesis— and 15 (By MICHAEL LEWIS, Feb. 25, 2001)
The Peruvian Revolution Is Being Televised (By ALBERTO FUGUET, Feb. 25, 2001)
The Rise of the Robo-Ref (By BEN YAGODA, Feb. 25, 2001)
Style: California Preenin' (By LISA EISNER & ROMÁN ALONSO, Feb. 25, 2001)
Appearances: The Star Treatment (By JOYCE CHANG, Feb. 25, 2001)
Food: The Subterraneans [5 recipes] (By MOLLY O'NEILL, Feb. 25, 2001)
Lives: Ransom Notes (By ARTHUR JAPIN, Feb. 25, 2001)
TRAVEL: What's Doing in Natchez [Mississippi] (By JENNIFER MOSES, Feb. 25, 2001)
Cumberland's Peaceable Kingdom [Georgia Coast] (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Feb. 25, 2001)
Rice Fields Cultivate Old Ways [South Carolina] (By MATT LEE and TED LEE, Feb. 25, 2001)
A London Walking Tour That's Strictly Legal (By RICHARD RUDA, Feb. 25, 2001)
Opening a Window on the Universe (By JULIE LEW, Feb. 25, 2001)
DEAL OF THE DAY: Egypt and the Nile (NY TIMES, Feb. 25, 2001)
ESSAY: The Spin Cycle Around the Globe (By NANCY COOPER FRANK, Feb. 25, 2001)
* ARTS: Putting Last Things First in a Puzzle About Memory (By LAURA WINTERS, Feb. 25, 2001)
Getting a Fix on the Vastness of the Cosmos at the Museum of Natural History
(By RITA REIF, Feb. 25, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: Rem Koolhaas: Imaginative Leaps Into the Real World (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Feb. 25, 2001)
DANCE: An Acrobatic Work Far From the Circus (By APOLLINAIRE SCHERR, Feb. 25, 2001)
* DANCE: Modern and Chinese: No Oxymoron for This Dance Troupe (By GIA KOURLAS, Feb. 25, 2001)
FILM: John Boorman: A Very English Risk Taker in a Play-It-Safe World (By TERRENCE RAFFERTY, Feb. 25, 2001)
FILM: In a Reality TV Satire, Forget Voting Them Off the Island. They're Just Shot.
(By JAMIE MALANOWSKI, Feb. 25, 2001)
MUSIC: Rewriting Bach, as Bach Rewrote Others (By GEORGE B. STAUFFER, Feb. 25, 2001)
MUSIC: Paolo Conte: An Italian Crooner of Restless Songs Is All Over the Map (By BARRY SINGER, Feb. 25, 2001)
MUSIC: Joe Louis: An American Hero': A New CD Includes Songs Inpspired by an Athlete (By DAVID MARGOLICK, Feb. 25, 2001)
MUSIC: Lorin Maazel: Why to Expect the Best of an Unexpected Maestro (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 25, 2001)
OPERA: Prince Igor': Who Cares Who Wrote It? What Does It Sound Like? (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 25, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: A Photography Pioneer, Semi-Obscure No More (By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 25, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Chester Higgins Jr.'s Photographs: A Closer Look at Age (By LYLE REXER, Feb. 25, 2001)
THEATER: Four Playwrights Talk Shop (Which Takes In the World) (Moderated By Pamela Renner, Feb. 25, 2001)
THEATER: How Karaoke Conquered Broadway (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 25, 2001)
THEATER: Challenge of Reimagining the Holocaust on Stage (By ROBERT JAY LIFTON, Feb. 25, 2001)
THEATER: Two Theater Works That Scream, 'Pay Attention' [Victor Klemperer] (By CINDY ROSENTHAL, Feb. 25, 2001)
THEATER / LIFE AND ART: Two Bright Actresses in Problematic Shows (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 25, 2001)
THEATER: The Timeless Dance of Art and Money Takes Center Stage (By CELIA WREN, Feb. 25, 2001)
TV: In Television Comedies, Signs of a New Women's Movement (By HILARY DE VRIES, Feb. 25, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 25, 2001)
Lexical Overdrive [Rick Moody, "Demonology: Stories"] (By WALTER KIRN, Feb. 25, 2001)
Running With Hillary [Michael Tomasky, 'Hillary's Turn'] (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 25, 2001)
In Cold Blood? [Bruce Henderson, 'Fatal North' & Richard Parry, 'Trial by Ice']
(By SARA WHEELER, Feb. 25, 2001)
Beam Up My Info [Tom Siegfried, 'The Bit and the Pendulum'] (By JAMES ALEXANDE, Feb. 25, 2001)
Professor Marvel at the Atheneum [Eugene R. Gaddis, 'Magician of the Modern'] (By MICHAEL PEPPIATT, Feb. 25, 2001)
Rally Round the Flag [Alice Fahs, 'he Imagined Civil War'] (By CHARLES B. DEW, Feb. 25, 2001)
Talking It Over Some More [Julian Barnes, 'Love, Etc.'] (By SVEN BIRKERTS, Feb. 25, 2001)
Frances Chung: "Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: Poems" (By MICHAEL HAINEY, Feb. 25, 2001)
Carol Shields: "Jane Austen" (By JILLIAN DUNHAM, Feb. 25, 2001)
Andrew Loog Oldham: "Stoned: A Memoir of London in the 1960s" (By MARGARET HUNDLEY PARKER, Feb. 25, 2001)
THE CLOSE READER: The Romance of Real Estate (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Feb. 25, 2001)

Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001:
On This Day: February 24 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 2/24/1463-11/17/1494, Charles Le Brun 2/24/1619-2/12/1690, Johann Clauberg 2/24/1622-1/31/1665, George Curtis 2/24/1824-8/31/1892, Winslow Homer 2/24/1836-9/29/1910, Arrigo Boito 2/24/1842-6/10/1918, Honus Wagner 2/24/1874-12/6/1955, Mary Elloen Chase 2/24/1887-7/28/1973, Henri Frankfort 2/24/1897-7/16/1954, Abe Vigoda 1921, Michel Legrand 1932, Zell Miller 1932, Renata Scotto 1935, James Farentino 1938, Barry Bostwick 1945, Paula Zahn 1956)
President Andrew Johnson Impeached by House (NY TIMES, February 24, 1868)
Admiral Nimitz Dead at 80; Built Pacific Fleet That Fought Japan
[2/24/1885-2/20/1966] (United Press International, February 21, 1966)
Michel Oksenberg, China Expert in Washington, Dies at 62 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 24, 2001)
Warner LeRoy, Restaurant Impresario, Dies at 65 (By ERIC ASIMOV, Feb. 24, 2001)
Leo Connellan, Connecticut's Poet Laureate, Dies at 72 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 24, 2001)
Ronnie Hilton, Pop Singer, Dies at 75 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 24, 2001)
Robert Weiskopf, TV Comedy Writer, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, Feb. 24, 2001)
Spy-Hunt Team Followed Trail to F.B.I. Agent (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 24, 2001)
Most Colleges Are Expected to Continue to Use the SAT (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Feb. 24, 2001)
California Plans to Buy Utility's Wires (By ALEX BERENSON, Feb. 24, 2001)
Hollywood Friend Had Clinton's Ear for 2 Late Pardons (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 24, 2001)
Inquiry Focuses on Commuted Sentences for 4 New Yorkers (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 24, 2001)
A Life Beyond Being a President's Sibling (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 24, 2001)
Bush Seeks Increases for Health Research (By REUTERS, Feb. 24, 2001)
Bush Tells Blair He Doesn't Oppose New Europe Force (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 24, 2001)
Prague Journal: Stalin's Ghost Haunts a Czech Park (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Feb. 24, 2001)
Consensus Is Lacking on Bilingual Education (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Feb. 24, 2001)
Old Cedar Hunting Decoys Are Gold to Collectors (By MICHAEL COOPER, Feb. 24, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Security at the F.B.I. (NY TIMES, Feb. 24, 2001)
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Green Winter in the Sonoran Desert (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Feb. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: Our Iraq Policy Is Not Working (By ROBERT A. PAPE, Feb. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: Bush, Upstaged and Losing a Crucial Moment (By ANDREW KOHUT, Feb. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: One Last Lap Around the Speedway (By PAUL HEMPHILL, Feb. 24, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: Philosophy of the Worst (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Feb. 24, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Tumble, Then Regain Some Ground [Dow -85, Nasdaq +18] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 24, 2001)
Motorola Says It May Post Quarterly Loss, First in 15 Years (By DAVID BARBOZA, Feb. 24, 2001)
Kozmo.com to Lay Off More Workers and Focus on Offline Sales (By JAYSON BLAIR, Feb. 24, 2001)
Mixing Business and Family in Hong Kong (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 24, 2001)
* GARDENING: Cuttings: An Acorn and What It Sprouted (By ANNE RAVER, Feb. 24, 2001)
* IDEAS: Screwdriver Scholars and Pencil Punditry: Society's Material Culture Garners Academic Scrutiny
(By EMILY EAKIN, Feb. 24, 2001)
* IDEAS: Critic's Notebook: A Jewish Canon, Yes, But Not Set in Stone (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 24, 2001)
* Shelf Life: From the Margins of Literature, Blasphemy Beckons (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 24, 2001)
MUSIC: San Francisco Symphony: Boldly Out of the West, Bent on Courting Youth (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 24, 2001)
TV: 'Kate Brasher': Good Guys vs. Bad Guys, With Earnest Orations (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 24, 2001)
Physicists Thrill to Finding of Superconductor (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 24, 2001)

Friday, Feb. 23, 2001:
On This Day: February 23 (Samuel Pepys 2/23/1633-5/26/1703, George Frederick Handel 2/23/1685-4/14/1759, George Watts 2/23/1817-7/1/1904, Cesar Ritz 2/23/1850-10/26/1918, Norman Lindsay 2/23/1879-10/29/1969, Karl Jaspers 2/23/1881-2/26/1969, Victor Fleming 2/23/1883-1/6/1949, William Shirer 2/23/1904-12/28/1993, Allan MacLeod Cormack 2/23/1924-5/7/1998, Peter Fonda 1940, Patricia Richardson 1951, Kristin Davis 1965)
Lasting Prevention of Polio Reported in Salk Vaccine Tests (By William L. Laurence, February 23, 1954)
* W. E. B. DuBois Dies in Ghana; Negro Leader and Author, 95
[2/23/1868-8/27/1963] (NY TIMES, August 28, 1963)
F.T. Liu, U.N. Official in Peace Roles, Dies at 82 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 23, 2001)
Emily Vermeule, a Scholar of Bronze Age Archaeology, Dies at 72 (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Feb. 23, 2001)
Harmon Goldstone, Led New York Landmarks Commission, Dies at 89 (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Feb. 23, 2001)
U.S. Had Evidence of Espionage, but F.B.I. Failed to Inspect Itself
(By DAVID JOHNSTON & JAMES RISEN, Feb. 23, 2001)
One Case May Hold Clues to Another (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 23, 2001)
Bush Holds His First White House News Conference (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 23, 2001)
LOBBYING: Clinton's Brother Pursued Clemency Bids for Friends
(By DAVID JOHNSTON & DON VAN NATTA Jr., Feb. 23, 2001)
The Brothers: Siblings Who Often Emerge in an Unflattering Spotlight (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 23, 2001)
THE DEMOCRATS: This Time, Clintons Find Their Support Buckling From Weight of New Woes
(By RICHARD L. BERKE, Feb. 23, 2001)
Mrs. Clinton Says Her Brother's Role Left Her 'Saddened' (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 23, 2001)
Making the White House a Home (By MARIAN BURROS, Feb. 23, 2001)
Spy Drama Survivor Watches as Story Unfolds (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Feb. 23, 2001)
SPORTS: A Legend With the Guts and the Glory [Dale Earnhardt] (By RICK BRAGG, Feb. 23, 2001)
National Enquirer Is Out Front on Two Major Reports (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 23, 2001)
A CLOSER LOOK: Politics and Families, Mixed: Presidential Relatives and the Headaches They Caused
(By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 23, 2001)
Bush Faults China on Aid to Iraq for Radar System (By DAVID E. SANGER & STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 23, 2001)
Sub Accident Shakes Japan's Security Ties With U.S. (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 23, 2001)
Beijing Tries to Woo Olympics and Keep Dissidents in Check (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Feb. 23, 2001)
New Cardinal in a Clash of Creeds [Ukraine's Eastern Orthodox Church]
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 23, 2001)
* Memories Chiseled in a Cathedral's Stone (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Feb. 23, 2001)
Thrills, Spills and More Cries of Sled Injuries (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Feb. 23, 2001)
* The Big City: Just Forgive, and Forget the Big Bucks [selling indulgences] (By JOHN TIERNEY, Feb. 23, 2001)
Public Lives: Janet Reno Is Ready to Talk (By JAMES BARRON with Alison Leigh Cowan, Feb. 23, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Sorting Out the Pardon Mess (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2001)
OP-ED: The Moles Will Always Be With Us (By ROBERT M. GATES, Feb. 23, 2001)
OP-ED: Art's Cold Welcome on the Web (By PAULINA BORSOOK, Feb. 23, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Everything's Relative (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 23, 2001)
* OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Hype and Anti-Hype (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 23, 2001)
* LETTERS: Pardons, Morals and History (By NATALIE LUKAS et. al., Feb. 23, 2001)
* LETTERS: That Walk to High School Woke Me Up (By MICHAEL WAGNER, Feb. 23, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Nasdaq Falls to Worst Close Since '99 as Dow Ends Even
[Dow +0.23, Nasdaq -24] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 23, 2001)
Floyd Norris: The U.S. Trade Deficit Now Matters (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 23, 2001)
A Plan to Send Prescriptions Electronically (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Feb. 23, 2001)
* Advertising: Oracle Defies Conventional Wisdom (By BERNARD STAMLER, Feb. 23, 2001)
* Sun Revises Its Estimates Downward (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 23, 2001)
* Turkey Floats Currency, and It Falls 25% (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ with DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 23, 2001)
* Indicator Index Foresees a Dip, Not a Recession (By REUTERS, Feb. 23, 2001)
For Daewoo's Founder, Pride Before the Fall (By DON KIRK, International Herald Tribune, Feb. 23, 2001)
Trade Center, Once Sneered at, Lures Rich Suitor and $3.2 Billion (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Feb. 23, 2001)
Letting Out Market Fear Elsewhere [Turkey's devaluation] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 23, 2001)
$4.5 Billion in Credit Lines for Lucent (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 23, 2001)
Amid Telecommunications Gloom, Optimism in France (By NIALL McKAY, Feb. 23, 2001)
ART: Thwack! Paul McCarthy's Work Sticks in the Brain (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 23, 2001)
* ART: Oskar Kokoschka: A Rider of the Storm Who Viewed It All With Curiosity, Passion and Panache
(By JOHN RUSSELL, Feb. 23, 2001)
* ART: Smithsonian May Lose Washington Portrait (NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 23, 2001)
ART: East Side: The Art Show Explores Recent History (By ROBERTA SMITH, Feb. 23, 2001)
ART: West Side: The Armory Show Just Keeps Growing (By KEN JOHNSON, Feb. 23, 2001)
Inside Art: A '71 Serra for the Capital (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 23, 2001)
Antiques: An Essential for Gardens Is the Bench (By WENDY MOONAN, Feb. 23, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Music for the Third Ear': The Anguish of Souls Echoes Across an Era (By RICHARD EDER, Feb. 23, 2001)
DANCE: 'Taagalà': Piercing Dadaist Anomie With the Call of Tradition (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 23, 2001)
FILM: '3,000 Miles to Graceland': Elvis Week Offers Cover for a Holdup (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 23, 2001)
FILM: 'Monkeybone': A Descent Into Unconsciousness, as Freud Might Tell It (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 23, 2001)
FILM: 'Haunted Castle': A Faustian Bargain Explains the Rock Stars' Gigs (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 23, 2001)
FILM: 'Last Resort': Stripped of Hope but Not Her Humanity (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 23, 2001)
Home Video: Mind Games in a Sequel (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Feb. 23, 2001)
MUSIC CRITIC: In a Universe of Music, a World Tour of CD's (By JON PARELES, Feb. 23, 2001)
MUSIC: Paavali Jumppanen: From Blaze to Ashes, as He Overpowers His Piano (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 23, 2001)
THEATER: On Stage and Off: An 'Annie,' Bereft, Is Suing (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Feb. 23, 2001)
THEATER: 'A Skull in Connemara': Leenane III, Bones Flying (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 23, 2001)
TV: 'Boycott': How History Was Made in a Moment of Defiance (By CARYN JAMES, Feb. 23, 2001)
* TV Weekend: Yellow Brick Road as a One-Way Street to Misery (By CARYN JAMES, Feb. 23, 2001)
LIVING: Weekend Excursion: Surrendering to Scenery and Snow (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 23, 2001)
* MY MANHATTAN: Romancing Columbia: Lessons in Nostalgia and New Discoveries
(By PAULA DEITZ, Feb. 23, 2001)
Family Fare: How Merrily We Roll Along [Nanabosho, Prometheus of Anishinabe Indians]
(By LAUREL GRAEBER, Feb. 23, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Great Wall Longer Than Thought [310 miles longer than 4,160 miles]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 23, 2001)
* Scientists Find Signs of Meteor Crash That Led to Extinctions in Era Before Dinosaurs
(By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 23, 2001)
Company Says It Found Deepest Wreck [2300-year old Greek vessel] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 23, 2001)
Russians Urge Putin to Save Mir Space Station (By REUTERS, Feb. 23, 2001)
Japan Expresses Concern Over Russian Space Debris (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 23, 2001)

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001:
On This Day: February 22 (Charles VII 2/22/1403-7/22/1461, George Washington 2/22/1732-12/14/1799, Rembrandt Peale 2/22/1778-10/3/1860, Arthur Schopenhauer 2/22/1788-9/21/1860, James Russell Lowell 2/22/1819-8/12/1891, Bill Klem 2/22/1874-9/16/1951, David Dubinsky 2/22/1892-9/17/1982, Luis Bunuel 2/22/1900-7/29/1983, Sean O'Faolain 2/22/1900-4/20/1991, Peter Hurd 2/22/1904-7/9/1984, John Mills 1908, Marni Nixon 1930, Edward M. Kennedy 1932, Jonathan Demme 1944, Hohn Ashton 1948, Julius Erving 1950, Julie Walters 1950, Michael Chang 1972)
U.S. Defeats Soviet Squad In Olympic Hockey by 4-3 (By Gerald Eskenazi, February 22, 1980)
* Edna St. V. Millay Found Dead At 58, Poet Succumbs of Heart Attack
[2/22/1892-10/19/1950] (NY TIMES, October 20, 1950)
Donella Meadows, 59, Author, and Advocate for Environment (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 22, 2001)
Bob Buhl, Braves Pitcher Who Was Hapless as a Hitter, Dead at 72 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 22, 2001)
Guy Rodgers, an N.B.A. All-Star, Dies at 65 (By LENA WILLIAMS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Rosemary DeCamp, 'Yankee Doodle' Actress, Dies at 90 (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2001)
Sailor Says Sub Tracked Ship but Guests Were Distraction (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 22, 2001)
Justices Give the States Immunity From Suits by Disabled Workers (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Feb. 22, 2001)
THE SPYMASTER: Spy Handler Bedeviled U.S. in Earlier Case (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 22, 2001)
THE SUSPECT: No Polygraph for Spy Suspect (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 22, 2001)
The Prosecution Case: Zigs and Zags of Spy Cases Put a Damper on Predicting (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Spy Chasers Feel Betrayed by One-Time Top Gun (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 22, 2001)
The Chicago Years: Time in Elite Police Unit Included Secretive Work (By PAM BELLUCK, Feb. 22, 2001)
Teenager Arraigned in Killing of 2 Professors at Dartmouth (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 22, 2001)
Boston Globe Prints Apology on Article on Dartmouth Murder Inquiry (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 22, 2001)
Brother-in-Law of Clinton Got $400,000 in Pardon Bids
(By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS with MICHAEL MOSS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Brother-in-Law Used to Using Family Ties (By ANDY NEWMAN, Feb. 22, 2001)
Marc Rich Aided Israeli Official (By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr., Feb. 22, 2001)
Pacific Gas and Electric Finds No Sympathy (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Feb. 22, 2001)
Safety Commission Recalls Three Children's Products (NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 22, 2001)
U.S. Offers Japan a New Apology (By REUTERS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Shaping a Legacy, Pope Installs 44 Cardinals (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 22, 2001)
American Cardinals Handle Reporters and Flying Birettas (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 22, 2001)
A Dowager Queen in India Is Vengeful to the End (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Feb. 22, 2001)
Fearing Disease, Brazil Bans Argentine Beef (By REUTERS, Feb. 22, 2001)
A House of 2,000 Parts Moves From China to America (By TRACIE ROZHON, Feb. 22, 2001)
Public Lives: Just a Rumor (By JAMES BARRON with Linda Lee, Feb. 22, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Another Pardon Disgrace (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2001)
EDITORIAL: New York's New Cardinal (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: Playing Their Way In [College admission of athletes]
(By JAMES L. SHULMAN and WILLIAM G. BOWEN, Feb. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: A Better Intifada (By BASSEM EID, Feb. 22, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Rising Tides [global warming] (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 22, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: The Molehill Mountain (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 22, 2001)
LETTERS: In Defense of Dr. Freud [treatment of "Dora"] (By LEON HOFFMAN, M.D., Feb. 22, 2001)
BUSINESS: Stocks Fall Broadly, With Major Indexes Around Year Lows
[Dow -204, Nasdaq -49] (By ALEX BERENSON, Feb. 22, 2001)
Inflation Index Jumps, Thanks to Energy Costs (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 22, 2001)
Many Banks Tightening Up Business Loans (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Market Place: The Chief Executive as Chief Cheerleader [Gary C. Wendt, Conseco CEO]
(By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 22, 2001)
Advertising: Absolut to Salute GLAAD (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 22, 2001)
Economic Scene: Smaller Classes Don't Necessarily Equal Better Education (By VIRGINIA POSTREL, Feb. 22, 2001)
Lucent Acknowledges Mistake (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Coke and Procter & Gamble in Joint Marketing Venture (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Feb. 22, 2001)
Michigan Considers a Cybercourt (By PAM BELLUCK, Feb. 22, 2001)
Peapod Reports Big Loss (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 22, 2001)
* Standard Media Eliminates 69 Jobs (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 22, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Museums on Black Culture Still Fighting for Money and a Future
(By STEPHEN KINZER, Feb. 22, 2001)
* BOOKS: 'Familiar Spirits': Bound by the Spirit World as They Drifted Apart (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 22, 2001)
Culture Notes: Historic Occasion [Henry Moore Exhibit] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 22, 2001)
DANCE: Twyla Tharp Dance: Blending Ballet Bravura With a Disco Drive (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 22, 2001)
DANCE: 'Verge': Feeling the Pain of a Dissociated World (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 22, 2001)
DANCE: 'Auto.Publik': Shifting Vantage Points and Plenty of New Angles (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: Eminem Grabs Spotlight, but Steely Dan Wins Best Album (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: Cecilia Bartoli: A Lyrical Fire (No 'Seasons' in Sight) (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: Kristjan Jarvi: Classicism Meets Jazz, and Style-Hopping Ensues (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 22, 2001)
MUSIC: New York Chamber Symphony: Composers in Their Flashes of Youth (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 22, 2001)
* POP REVIEW: Low: Subtle Meditations From the Underground (By ANN POWERS, Feb. 22, 2001)
THEATER: 'Vieques': No Man's an Island, All Are Islanders (By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Feb. 22, 2001)
THEATER: 'Three Seconds in the Key': Disease, the Clock and the Will Not to Fail (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 22, 2001)
TV: 'The Remorseful Day': So Many Knots, Inspector, and Time Is Running Out (By RON WERTHEIMER, Feb. 22, 2001)
LIVING: Taking Home a Bit of a Hotel's Ambiance (By BRADFORD McKEE, Feb. 22, 2001)
In a New York City Loft, a Bridge Over Untroubled Waters (By ELAINE LOUIE, Feb. 22, 2001)
Personal Shopper: Polka Dots Grow Up [9 photos] (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, Feb. 22, 2001)
GARDENING: Garden Q&A: Organic Wildflowers? (By LESLIE LAND, Feb. 22, 2001)
Close to Home: Inheriting Memories, With White Elephants (By DEBORAH BALDWIN, Feb. 22, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2001)
The Web, Without Wires, Wherever (By GLENN FLEISHMAN, Feb. 22, 2001)
Dot-Com, Esquire: Legal Guidance, Lawyer Optional (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 22, 2001)
* STATE OF THE ART: A Laptop Design Thinks Outside the Clamshell (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 22, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Get Movie Popcorn, Then Check the Mail (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Feb. 22, 2001)
GAME THEORY: After So Many Fantasies, Back to Reality (By PETER OLAFSON, Feb. 22, 2001)
* Social Studies Class Finds How Far E-Mail Travels (By HEIDI A. SCHUESSLER, Feb. 22, 2001)
HOW IT WORKS: On Energy Farms, Technology Milks the Wind (By MATT LAKE, Feb. 22, 2001)
The Incredible Shrinking Robot, Self-Contained and Untethered (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 22, 2001)
* Google Extends Search Engine's Reach to a Popular File Format (By GLENN FLEISHMAN, Feb. 22, 2001)
Animated Rap Music Video Takes Leap to Interactivity (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 22, 2001)
SCREEN GRAB: Lifting the Curtain on the Showman Buffalo Bill (By MICHAEL POLLAK, Feb. 22, 2001)
Wearing Your Vital Signs on Your Wrist (By DAVID J. WALLACE, Feb. 22, 2001)
Protocol Wars: A Standard Emerges, but Watch Out for Those Microwave Ovens
(By GLENN FLEISHMAN, Feb. 22, 2001)
* Web Site Shares Feats of Engineers' Daring (By SHELLY FREIERMAN, Feb. 22, 2001)
New Cell Phones Put Whole Alphabet in Play (By BRUCE HEADLAM, Feb. 22, 2001)
Blink Offers to Transfer Bookmarks to Cell Phones (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 22, 2001)
New Electronic Book Software Makes Lending Out Impossible (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 22, 2001)
Microsoft Outlook Add-On for Wireless Keeps You Posted (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 22, 2001)
Q & A: Finding Help Online for Message Boards (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 22, 2001)
Letters: Courses Don't Add Up (By DAVID HILDEBRAND et. al., Feb. 22, 2001)
SCIENCE: Technology Gives a Feel of Dinosaur Bite (By REUTERS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Scientists Gear Up for Effort to Record Ocean Life (By REUTERS, Feb. 22, 2001)
Rare Study Finds Brain-Chilling Is No Help in Head Injuries (By GINA KOLATA, Feb. 22, 2001)
Researchers Protest Against New Rules to Protect Lab Animals (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 22, 2001)

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2001:
On This Day: February 21 (Antonio Lopez Santa Anna 2/21/1794-6/21/1876, John Henry Newman 2/21/1801-8/11/1890, Pierre Laffitte 2/21/1823-1/4/1903, Leo Delibes 2/21/1836-1/16/1891, Constantin Brancusi 2/21/1876-3/16/1957, Harry Stack Sullivan 2/21/1892-1/14/1949, Anais Nin 2/21/1903-1/14/1977, Tom Yawkey 2/21/1903-7/9/1976, W. H. Auden 2/21/1907-9/29/1973, Kelsey Grammer 1955, Mary Chapin Carpenter 1958, Christopher Atkins 1961, William Baldwin 1963, Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979)
Malcolm X Shot to Death at Rally Here (By Theodore Jones, February 21, 1965)
* Andres Segovie Is Dead at 94; His Crusade Elevated Guitar
[2/21/1893-6/2/1987] (By DONAL HENAHAN, June 4, 1987)
* Stanley Kramer, Filmmaker With Social Bent, Dies at 87 (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 21, 2001)
* Folke Karl Skoog, 92, Who Helped Transform Understanding of Plants, Dies
(By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 21, 2001)
Bill Rigney, Infielder on 1951 Giants, Dies at 83 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 21, 2001)
Joe Norris, Bowler, Dies at 93 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2001)
Priscilla Davis, Socialite in Tawdry Texas Murder Case, Is Dead at 59 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2001)
F.B.I. Agent Charged as Spy Who Aided Russia for 15 Years (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 21, 2001)
From Dour 'Mortician' of F.B.I. to Suspected Russian Superspy (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 21, 2001)
Gaps in Ames Case May Be Filled by F.B.I.'s Own Spy Case (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 21, 2001)
Justices Look at Heat-Seeker's Ability to Pierce the Home (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Feb. 21, 2001)
Colorado Children's Deaths Rekindle Debate on Religion (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Feb. 21, 2001)
Extradition for Teenager in Killing of Professors (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Feb. 21, 2001)
Study Finds Teenage Drug Use Higher in U.S. Than in Europe (By KATE ZERNIKE, Feb. 21, 2001)
* Chicago Journal: Broad-Shoulder Brotherhood, Forged in Steam (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Feb. 21, 2001)
Bush Goes to Midwest to Push Education and Tax Cut Plans (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 21, 2001)
Racer's Death Leaves Hole in Heart of His Hometown (By RICK BRAGG, Feb. 21, 2001)
Lessons: A Worthwhile Substitute for the Regents Exams [portfolios] (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 21, 2001)
Hunting bin Laden's Allies, U.S. Extends Net to Europe (By JUDITH MILLER & SARAH LYALL, Feb. 21, 2001)
Barak, Angry With His Party and Sharon, Quits Israeli Politics Again (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 21, 2001)
Beijing Is Given an Olympian Burnish (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 21, 2001)
Ramallah Journal: Bitter Souvenirs of Palestinian Uprising (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 21, 2001)
Putin Invites West to Work on a Defense for Missiles (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 21, 2001)
Ex-Aide Proposed Plot to Kill bin Laden (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 21, 2001)
Rich Is Selling Trading Firm to Alfa Unit (By ELIZABETH OLSON with SABRINA TAVERNISE, Feb. 21, 2001)
Chinese Fiber-Optic Work Linked to Raided Iraqi Sites
(By DAVID E. SANGER & STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 21, 2001)
Chinese Investors May Get Access to Wider Market (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 21, 2001)
On a Harlem Block, Lines That Divide and Ties That Bind (By AMY WALDMAN, Feb. 21, 2001)
* At Nail Salons Anxiety Tempers Good Times for Koreans in Business (By SUSAN SACHS, Feb. 21, 2001)
* NYC: Standing, a Last Time, for a Dancer [Gwen Verdon] (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 21, 2001)
Public Lives: Hazardous Duty Covering President (By JAMES BARRON, Feb. 21, 2001)
Public Profile: Longing for the Past in a Changing Church (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 21, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Disturbing New Spy Case (NY TIMES, Feb. 21, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Cheney Factor (NY TIMES, Feb. 21, 2001)
* OP-ED: My Debt to Cousin Louis's Cornet (By STANLEY KARNOW, Feb. 21, 2001)
* OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Your Fault. No, Yours. No, Yours. (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: We Can Afford a Much Bigger Tax Cut (By JACK KEMP, Feb. 21, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONING: Fowl Play (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 21, 2001)
BUSINESS: Technology Shares Lead Market Lower [Dow -69, Nasdaq -107] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 21, 2001)
* Management: Discarded Dreams of Dot-Com Rejects (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 21, 2001)
Market Place: Mixed Signals on Direction of the Market (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 21, 2001)
Lucent Investigates Record of Former High-Ranking Executive (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 21, 2001)
Advertising: Headhunters Seek the 30-45 Age Group (By BERNARD STAMLER, Feb. 21, 2001)
Workplace: A Tempest Over Photo of Shackled Boy (By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Feb. 21, 2001)
My Job: Have Camera, Will Travel (By ANDREW J. McKELVEY, Feb. 21, 2001)
The Boss: Persuasion and Persistence (By ANDREW J. McKELVEY, Feb. 21, 2001)
* Intel Takes Steps to Cut Costs (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 21, 2001)
Napster Planning Fees Starting in Summer (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 21, 2001)
EBay Seen in Deal for French Rival (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Feb. 21, 2001)
Net Profits Rise 4.5% at Wal-Mart, but Crumble at Home Depot (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 21, 2001)
Countersuit Filed Against TV Contestant (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 21, 2001)
ART: 'Yo Mama' Artist Debates With Catholic Critic (By MONTE WILLIAMS, Feb. 21, 2001)
* BOOKS: Letter by Letter, Milosz's Alphabet Turns Into an Endgame (By RICHARD EDER, Feb. 21, 2001)
Culture Notes: Old and New Zmiros (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 21, 2001)
DANCE: 'Tales From Hans Christian Andersen': Dreamland Creatures, Pastel and Jewel-Like
(By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 21, 2001)
DANCE: 'International Ballet Gala': A Firmament of All-Stars From All Over, All Glittering
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 21, 2001)
FILM: REVISIONS: The Film of Taste: Just Add Soft Lighting and Close-Ups
(By MARGO JEFFERSON, Feb. 21, 2001)
MUSIC: New York Philharmonic: Russian Dash, an Evening of Firebirds & Nightingales
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 21, 2001)
POP LIFE: Native Genre Takes Pride of Place at the Grammys (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 21, 2001)
THEATER: 'Boy Gets Girl': From Blind Date to Stalker (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 21, 2001)
TV: MTV's 'Real World' Rolls On With Voyeurs on Its Coattails (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 21, 2001)
TV CRITIC: Even on 'Survivor,' Hard to Survive as a Chef These Days (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Feb. 21, 2001)
TV Notes: Reality Producer Sought by CBS (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 21, 2001)
LIVING: New York Fall Fashion Week in Review (By, Feb. 21, 2001)
Opening the Book of Wine at Some Serious Wine Classes (By AMANDA HESSER, Feb. 21, 2001)
* On New York Plates, Goliath Shrimp (Gigantic Flavor, Too) (By ERIC ASIMOV, Feb. 21, 2001)
* Temptation: A Cheesecake, Part Cloud, That Borders on the Perfect (By AMANDA HESSER, Feb. 21, 2001)
* Tofu, That Excellent, Underrated Entree [2 recipes] (By JACK BISHOP, Feb. 21, 2001)
The Minimalist: The Steak Awakened (By MARK BITTMAN, Feb. 21, 2001)
The Chef: Contrasts in a Pudding (By Charlie Trotter with Regina Schrambling, Feb. 21, 2001)
Powder Keg: Truffle Flavor in Flour Form (By MATT LEE & TED LEE, Feb. 21, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Astronomers Find Life Ingredients (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2001)
* New Museum Film Explores the Sun (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2001)
Surprise in the Heavens as Energy Is Detected in a Brown Dwarf (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 21, 2001)
Plan Would Benefit Star-Watchers (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2001)
* CYBERTIMES EDUCATION: 'Facing History' Online (By MARGARET W. GOLDSBOROUGH, Feb. 21, 2001)
Study Suggests New Option for Women With Abnormal Pap Tests (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 21, 2001)

Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2001:
On This Day: February 20 (Honore Daumier 2/20/1808-2/11/1879, Georges Bernanos 2/20/1888-7/5/1948, Bill Tilden 2/20/1893-6/5/1953, Jimmy Yancey 2/20/1898-9/17/1951, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney 2/20/1899-12/13/1992, Rene Dubos 2/20/1901-2/20/1982, Louis Kahn 2/20/1901-3/17/1974, Aleksey Kosygin 2/20/1904-12/18/1980, Konstantin Sergeyev 2/20/1910-4/1992, Gloria Vanderbilt 1924, Robert Altman 1925, Sidney Poitier 1927, Nancy Wilson 1937, Buffy Sainte-Marie 1941, Phil Esposito 1942, Mike Leigh 1943, Sandy Duncan 1946, Peter Strauss 1947, Edward Albert 1951, Patricia Hearst 1954, Charles Barkley 1963, Cindy Crawford 1966, Andrew Shue 1967)
Glenn Orbits Earth 3 Times Safely (By Richard Witkin, February 20, 1962)
* Ansel Adams, Photographer, Is Dead at 82
[2/20/1902-2/11/1984] (By JOHN RUSSELL, April 24, 1984)
* Stanley Kramer, Director and Producer, Dies at 87 (NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 20, 2001)
T. Geoffrey Bibby, Discoverer of Gilgamesh's Island, Dies at 83 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 20, 2001)
Frank Gilbreth Jr., Author Of 'Cheaper by the Dozen,' Dies at 89 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 20, 2001)
Howard Koch, Producer and Director, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 20, 2001)
Roger Caras, Animal Welfare Advocate, Dies at 72 (By SHERRI DAY, Feb. 20, 2001)
Charles Trenet, French Pop Singer, Dies at 87 (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 20, 2001)
Gail Fisher, TV Actress Who Won Emmy for 'Mannix,' Dies at 65 (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 20, 2001)
* Robert White, Psychologist Who Specialized in Personality, Dies at 92 (By CARMEL McCOUBREY, Feb. 20, 2001)
Bush Dedicates Museum at Site of Oklahoma City Bombing (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 20, 2001)
Arrests Made in Dartmouth Killings, but Mystery Thickens (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Feb. 20, 2001)
Financier's Partner Remained Loyal Lieutenant Throughout (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Feb. 20, 2001)
Election Case a Test and a Trauma for Justices (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Feb. 20, 2001)
Bush's Call to Church Groups to Get Untraditional Replies (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Feb. 20, 2001)
A Woman Emerges to Offer Peru an Alternative (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 20, 2001)
Change Stirs Hope for Legal Status Among Immigrants (By JANE GROSS, Feb. 20, 2001)
In Russian-Language TV, a Slice of Moscow-Style Turmoil (By SUSAN SACHS, Feb. 20, 2001)
Considering a Later School Bell for Connecticut's Sleepy Children (By PAUL ZIELBAUER, Feb. 20, 2001)
For Cardinal-to-Be, a Busy Day in Rome (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 20, 2001)
* Demise of Typewriter Shop Saddens Authors Who Nurse Their Machines (By GLENN COLLINS, Feb. 20, 2001)
Chelsea Journal: Sale at Barneys! Oh, the Prices! Oh, the Humanity! (By MONTE WILLIAMS, Feb. 20, 2001)
* Carrying This Student's Books Is Not a Nicety (By JANE GROSS, Feb. 20, 2001)
Public Lives: His Beat Goes On, as a Hip-Hop Empire (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 20, 2001)
Tunnel Vision: Less Stubbornness Would Speed Ride (By RANDY KENNEDY, Feb. 20, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Tax-Cut News for Mr. Bush (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: We Should Witness the Death of McVeigh (By THOMAS LYNCH, Feb. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: Testing the Limits of the Western Dream (By PATRICIA N. LIMERICK & CHARLES SCOGGIN, Feb. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Powell's First Memo (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 20, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: The Art of Rudy (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 20, 2001)
LETTERS: Clinton and the Pardons: The Raging Storm (By WALTER GRAY et. al., Feb. 20, 2001)
BUSINESS: Overseas Markets Quiet (By REUTERS, Feb. 20, 2001)
* Intel Limits Hiring, Defers Some Raises (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 20, 2001)
Advertising: Sprite Campaign Revamped (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 20, 2001)
Knopf to Pay $4 Million Advance (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 20, 2001)
Times to Announce Deals With NewsStand, an Online Publisher (By LESLIE WAYNE, Feb. 20, 2001)
Tempers Flare and Losses Mount After Canada Bans Brazil Beef (By JENNIFER L. RICH, Feb. 20, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Confident and Racy, Mysterious Celebrity 'Sisters' Hypnotize Japan
(By STEPHANIE STROM, Feb. 20, 2001)
ART CRITIC: Considering Balthus in Light of Brooklyn Museum Stir (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 20, 2001)
BOOKS: Muriel Spark's 'Aiding and Abetting': A Loathsome Threesome in an Aristocrats' Minuet
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 20, 2001)
Culture: Raising the Roof (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 20, 2001)
DANCE: Ballet Preljocaj: With Wit and Some Surprises, a Beast Emerges From Within
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 20, 2001)
JAZZ: Dianne Reeves's Concert as Chocolate Box, Loaded With Sugar (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 20, 2001)
OPERA: In 'Tristan und Isolde,' Clarity Comes From the Pit (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 20, 2001)
THEATER: 'Race': A Playwright's Warning, Sounded From Berlin, 1933 (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 20, 2001)
TV: A Young Actress Finds the Spirit of Anne Frank in a New Mini-Series (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 20, 2001)
TV: 'The Target Shoots First': Why a Job at a Record Club Isn't So Cool (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Feb. 20, 2001)
FASHION REVIEW: Calvin Klein Shows His Stuff, and It Struts [7 photos] (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 20, 2001)
FASHION REVIEW: A Few Old Fashion Pros Are Sticking to Their Guns (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Feb. 20, 2001)
* The Week in Science: The Genome (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 20, 2001)
* The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code (By GINA KOLATA, Feb. 20, 2001)
* 'Splashy Discovery' Is Made on the Inner Edge of a Black Hole (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 20, 2001)
DNA Shows Malaria Helped Topple Rome (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 20, 2001)
* Under Icy Arctic Waters, A Fiery, Unexpected Find (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Feb. 20, 2001)
Moose Must Relearn Lessons in Survival (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 20, 2001)
* A Passion for Physical Realms, Minute and Massive (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Feb. 20, 2001)
* OBSERVATORY: Composite, Fix Thyself (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 20, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Bacteria, Evolution's Tool (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 20, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Eyes on an Iceberg (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 20, 2001)
Letters: The Genome's Riddle (By ROBERT SOLOMON et. al., Feb. 20, 2001)
HEALTH: Doubters Fault Theory Finding Earlier Puberty (By GINA KOLATA, Feb. 20, 2001)
Some Biotech Upstarts Fizzle Against Native Plants (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Feb. 20, 2001)
* What's in an Inkblot? Some Say, Not Much (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 20, 2001)
* Samson Diagnosis: Antisocial Personality Disorder, With Muscles (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 20, 2001)
* Attacking Juvenile Diabetes With Education About Eating (By RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, Feb. 20, 2001)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Some Caution Signals for Older Drivers (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 20, 2001)
Court Papers Depict Scheme in Drug Billing (By MELODY PETERSEN, Feb. 20, 2001)
Findings Boost Hope for Better Lyme Vaccine (By HOLCOMB B. NOBLE, Feb. 20, 2001)
* New Hints of Amino Acid's Link to Strokes (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 20, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / OUTCOMES: Vaccine Discounted as a Link to Autism (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 20, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / SAFETY: Sleepy Boys and Double Trouble (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 20, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / PROGNOSIS: At Risk for a Stroke? Check the Map (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 20, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / TESTING: Low-Tech Wins in Gauging Infant Health (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 20, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS / UPDATE: When Peanuts Are Palatable After All (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 20, 2001)
Q&A: Tuna Tempest (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 20, 2001)

Monday, Feb. 19, 2001:
On This Day: February 19 (Nicolaus Copernicus 2/19/1473-5/24/1543, David Garrick 2/19/1717-1/20/1779, Luigi Boccherini 1/19/1743-5/28/1805, Elie Ducommun 2/19/1833-12/7/1906, Svante Arrhenius 2/19/1859-10/2/1927, Merle Oberon 2/19/1911-11/23/1979, Eddie Arcaro 2/19/1916-11/14/1997, Carson McCullers 2/19/1917-9/29/1967, John Frankenheimer 1930, Smokey Robinson 1940, Bobby Rogers 1940, Prince Andrew 1960)
U. S. Marines Storm Ashore on Iwo Island (ASSOCIATED PRESS, February 19, 1945)
Stan Kenton, Band Leader, Dies AT 67; Was Center of Jazz Controversies
[2/19/1912-8/25/1979] (By JOHN S. WILSON, August 27, 1979)
Dale Earnhardt Sr., a Nascar Great, Dies at 49 (By DAVE CALDWELL, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Eddie Mathews, Who Hit 512 Home Runs, Dies at 69 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
* William H. Masters, a Pioneer in Studying and Demystifying Sex, Dies at 85 (By RICHARD SEVERO, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Balthus, Painter Who Caused a Stir, Dies at 92 (By JOHN RUSSELL, Feb. 19, 2001)
Edward Fitzgerald, Book-of-Month Executive, Dies at 81 (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 19, 2001)
Roger Caras, Author and Broadcast Journalist, Dies at 72 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2001)
Charles Trenet, Legendary French Singer, Dies at 87 (By REUTERS, Feb. 19, 2001)
Bush Speaks at Oklahoma City Museum Dedication (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
2 Suspects in Dartmouth Deaths Arrested (By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN, Feb. 19, 2001)
In an Uncertain Climate, Philanthropy Is Slowing (By TAMAR LEWIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Adapting 'Mormon' to Emphasize Christianity (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Feb. 19, 2001)
* City in a Mouse's Pocket Tries to Move Beyond Its Small World (By DANA CANEDY, Feb. 19, 2001)
Look at Sunken Ship Halted to Repair Robot (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2001)
Clinton's Defense of Pardons Brings Even More Questions (By JOSEPH KAHN, Feb. 19, 2001)
Federal Panel Warns Bush of Social Security Problems (By ROBERT PEAR, Feb. 19, 2001)
Political Notebook: Back Home in Crawford and Having a Texas Ball (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 19, 2001)
Public Lives: Old Ties Give Bush Aide Cachet; Job Gives Him Power [Clay Johnson] (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 19, 2001)
Pakistani Journalists May Face Death for Publishing Letter (By BARRY BEARAK, Feb. 19, 2001)
Signs of Uneasiness in Seoul Over Change at White House (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 19, 2001)
Archie Comics and 'Josie' Artist Bare Legal Claws (By LESLIE EATON, Feb. 19, 2001)
* End of an Era as Typewriter Store Prepares to Close (By GLENN COLLINS, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Metropolitan Diary: Observations From Around New York City (By ENID NEMY, Feb. 19, 2001)
SPORTS: Pitching With the Enemy Is Fueling Cone's Fire (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Feb. 19, 2001)
DAYTONA 500: Victory Is an Impostor at Daytona (By DAVE CALDWELL, Feb. 19, 2001)
Career Highlights for Dale Earnhardt Sr. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mr. Clinton's Explanation (NY TIMES, Feb. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: Humbled by the Genome's Mysteries (By STEPHEN JAY GOULD, Feb. 19, 2001)
OP-ED: A Daily Disaster for Children (By JODY ADAMS, Feb. 19, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Lay Off Our Bill (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 19, 2001)
LETTERS: Hoop Dreams, and a Few Nightmares (By JEFF SCHNEIDER et. al., Feb. 19, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Some Hard Lessons for Online Grocer (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Satellite vs. Cable: A Rivalry Beyond TV (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT & SETH SCHIESEL, Feb. 19, 2001)
* SATELLITE & CABLE: Pros and Cons of 2 Sources (NY TIMES, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Media Marriage of Convenience Yields Best Seller (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 19, 2001)
Behind Layoffs, Reality Is Often Less Severe in U.S. (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 19, 2001)
Writers Strike May Not Be Inevitable (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 19, 2001)
CBS and NBC Going Into Overtime in Thursday Night Race (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 19, 2001)
* New Economy: Online Companies' Customer Service Is Hardly a Priority (By SUSAN STELLIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Gates Stays the Course on Software Integration (By PAUL ANDREWS, Feb. 19, 2001)
E-Commerce Report: Retailers Rethink Internet Kiosks (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Market Place: Nortel Networks' Decline Jolts Shares of Its Suppliers (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Compressed Data: Number of New Internet Users Is Growing (By SUSAN STELLIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
Compressed Data: Napster Is Stirring Debate on Art and Ethics (By CLEA SIMON, Feb. 19, 2001)
Compressed Data: Finding a Meaning for 'B2Q' is Quixotic (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Media Talk: The New Yorker Hopes to Be a Lasting Site (By SUSAN STELLIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
Media Talk: Daily News Columnist Squeals 'Sopranos' Plots (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 19, 2001)
Media Talk: Morgan Stanley Wants Apology from Wall Street Journal (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 19, 2001)
XFL's Audience Tumbles 25% From Earlier Ratings on NBC (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 19, 2001)
* ARTS ONLINE: Staging of Multisite Arts Performances Online (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Feb. 19, 2001)
BOOKS: Joni Rodgers: Facing Chemo or Pinkos, and Still Smilin' (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
Culture Notes: International Array (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 19, 2001)
DANCE: New York City Ballet: Again, Balanchine Provocatively Stirs the Pot (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 19, 2001)
DANCE: From Rec Rooms to Malls, Break Dancing Is a Hit in Suburbia (By NINA SIEGAL, Feb. 19, 2001)
FILM CRITIC: 'Hannibal,' the Cannibal Who Evolved Into a Stereotype (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 19, 2001)
MUSIC: King's Singers: Singing the Praises of Love, Romantic and Otherwise (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 19, 2001)
MUSIC: A Tchaikovsky Surprise From Russian Capitalists (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 19, 2001)
OPERA: 'Cosi Fan Tutte': A Mozart Work Stressing Togetherness (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 19, 2001)
THEATER: 'Isn't It Romantic': Wasserstein's Women Try Holding On to Love & Independence (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 19, 2001)
* TV: Lincoln's Marriage Mirrored the Pain of His Torn Nation (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 19, 2001)
SCIENCE: Global Warming's Likely Victims (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
Glacier Loss Seen as Clear Sign of Human Role in Global Warming (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 19, 2001)
Science Journal Declares Plant Found at Camp Lejeune a New Species [coastal goldenrod]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2001)
Scientists Look for Clues to Steller Sea Lion Decline (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2001)
* New Telescope to Search Skies for Intelligent Life (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2001)
* Enormous and Ancient, Giant Salamanders Lurk in the Shallows of Japanese Rivers
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2001)

Sunday, Feb. 18, 2001:
On This Day: February 18 (Mary Tudor 2/18/1516-11/17/1558, Alessandro Volta 2/18/1745-3/5/1827, Ramakrishna 2/18/1836-8/16/1886, Max Klinger 2/18/1857-7/5/1920, Charles M. Schwab 2/18/1862-9/18/1939, Wendell Willkie 2/18/1892-10/8/1944, George Gipp 2/18/1895-12/14/1920, Enzo Ferrari 2/18/1898-8/14/1988, Sir Arthur Bryant 2/18/1899-1/2/1985, Wallace Stegner 2/18/1909-4/13/1993, Jack Palance 1921, Helen Gurley Brown 1922, George Kennedy 1925, John Warner 1927, Toni Morrison 1931, Milos Forman 1932, Yoko Ono 1933, John Hughes 1950, Cybill Shepherd 1950, Juice Newton 1952, John Travolta 1954, Vanna White 1957, Matt Dillon 1968, Molly Ringwald 1968)
The Inauguration of the President of the Southern Confederacy
(NY TIMES, February 18, 1861)
Louis C. Tiffany, Noted Artist, Dies at 84 [2/18/1848-1/17/1933] (NY TIMES, January 18, 1933)
K.A. Muhammad, Ex-Official of Nation of Islam, Dies at 53 (By JAYSON BLAIR, Feb. 18, 2001)
Morison S. Cousins, Revamped Tupperware's Look With Flair, Dies at 66 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
Boris Goldovsky, Musician and Opera's Avid Evangelist, Dies at 92 (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 18, 2001)
William H. Masters, Leading Researcher of Human Sexuality, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 18, 2001)
Gail Fisher, Emmy Winner for Her Role in `Mannix' Series, Dies at 65 (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 18, 2001)
Navy to Open Court of Inquiry on U.S. Sub (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 18, 2001)
Deaths Spur Laws Against Drivers on Cell Phones (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Feb. 18, 2001)
Police Seeking 2 Teenagers Charged in Dartmouth Killings (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2001)
A Clinton Fund-Raiser Is Said to Be Behind Gifts in Rich Case (By JILL ABRAMSON, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Architect of Bush's Presidency Is Still Building Bridges of Power (By RICHARD L. BERKE and FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Pardon Is Trouble for Clinton Library (By KEVIN SACK, Feb. 18, 2001)
Bush Action on Research of Stem Cells Gets Scrutiny (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 18, 2001)
Praised by Bush, a Church Center From the Streets (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
Slab City Journal: For Thousands, a Town of Concrete Slabs Is a Winter Retreat (By EVELYN NIEVES, Feb. 18, 2001)
Military Analysis: New Bush, Old Team, Ponder Saddam Hussein (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 18, 2001)
Psychiatric Abuse Reportedly Used to Repress Sect (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 18, 2001)
Burmese Junta in Talks With Democracy Leader (By SETH MYDANS, Feb. 18, 2001)
New Strong 5.3 Quake in San Salvador Kills 1 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 18, 2001)
Sub Incident Erodes Trust in Japan Chief and the U.S. (By STEPHANIE STROM, Feb. 18, 2001)
Veteran Diplomat Is Bush's Pick for U.N. Post [John D. Negroponte] (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Feb. 18, 2001)
Student Who Unleashed Virus May be Offered Job (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Feb. 18, 2001)
Astoria Journal: Of Famine and Feast, Kindness and Strangers (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 18, 2001)
Embodied by One Block, Harlem's Ravaged Heart Sees a Revival (By AMY WALDMAN, Feb. 18, 2001)
SPORTS: Piazza Likes Beanball Memo (By TYLER KEPNER, Feb. 18, 2001)
O. J. Simpson Finds Fame and Infamy Blur Together in Florida Haze (By RICK BRAGG, Feb. 18, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Bush Defense Agenda (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Bush Defense Agenda (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2001)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Where Lethargy Is a Way of Life (By ELEANOR RANDOLPH, Feb. 18, 2001)
* OP-ED: My Reasons for the Pardons (By WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, Feb. 18, 2001)
LIBERTIES: Déjà Dubya (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 18, 2001)
RECKONINGS: The Unreal Thing (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 18, 2001)
THE NATION: High-Stakes Politics: The Race to Rule the Nation (By ALISON MITCHELL, Feb. 18, 2001)
THE NATION: Getting More Bang for the Armed Forces Buck (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 18, 2001)
* SHADOW PRESIDENT: This Episode of 'The Clintons' Makes Bush the Star (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Feb. 18, 2001)
THE WORLD: America's Dream: A Mexico Like Itself (By TIM WEINER, Feb. 18, 2001)
ENTANGLEMENTS: A New View of Where America Fits in the World (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 18, 2001)
* THE STORY OF US: The Other Secrets of the Genome (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 18, 2001)
* MOTHER'S MILK: Breast-Feeding: How Old Is Too Old? (By TAMAR LEWIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
* AH, WILDERNESS: The Void Without the 'Great Beyond' (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Feb. 18, 2001)
'Los Simpsons': Don't Have a Vaca, Man (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 18, 2001)
Yo, Sparky. Yeah, You Know Who You Are. (By BRUCE MCCALL, Feb. 18, 2001)
IDEAS & TRENDS: In Oscar Race, Family Prevails (By NEAL GABLER, Feb. 18, 2001)
CONVERSATION: A Party Crasher's Lone Regret: That He Didn't Get More Votes (By EVELYN NIEVES, Feb. 18, 2001)
A Gift for a President Who Has Everything [Planned Parenthood] (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Feb. 18, 2001)
BUSINESS: When Stock Options Go Bad (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Market Watch: A Questionable Crutch for a Limping Economy (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Hedge Funds That Excel (And Avoid The Exotic) (By DANNY HAKIM with GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Strategies: Buying on Margin Is Not for the Faint of Heart (By MARK HULBERT, Feb. 18, 2001)
Investing With: Michael A. Prober of the CRM Mid Cap Value Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 18, 2001)
Grass-Roots Business: The City by the Bay? To Them, It's Oakland (By JOEL KOTKIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
Dr Pepper Hospital? Perhaps, for a Price (By JULIE EDELSON HALPERT, Feb. 18, 2001)
Not in My Backyard? That Depends on the Payroll (By BEN SPIESS, Feb. 18, 2001)
* The Right Thing: When to Go Along, and When to Walk Away (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
Car Dealers' Lament: Take My Incentive, Please (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Preludes: The Dot-Com Jobless, at Play (By ABBY ELLIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
Playing Both Sides With Convertibles (By JOANNE LEGOMSKY, Feb. 18, 2001)
Economic View: By Listening, 3 Economists Show Slums Hurt the Poor (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Feb. 18, 2001)
Appliances And Music: Best Buy's Prospects (By MICHELLE LEDER, Feb. 18, 2001)
Market Insight: A Wary Eye On the Future For Military Contractors (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
Helping Nurses Move from Hospitals to Law Offices (By KATE MURPHY, Feb. 18, 2001)
Private Sector: Creating Contracts With Corporate America [Plastics] (COMPILED BY RICK GLADSTONE, Feb. 18, 2001)
TRAVEL: At Least There's No Wind Chill [ice hotel near Quebec City] (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 18, 2001)
To Stay Warm in Quebec, Play Outside (By SUSAN CATTO, Feb. 18, 2001)
What's Doing in Auckland (By SUSAN GOUGH HENLY, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Traveling Alone, Women Often Feel... Alone (By SUSAN JACOBY, Feb. 18, 2001)
* KNOWLEDGE SHARING: Travel Tips From Readers [India, Boston, Paris, London] (By, Feb. 18, 2001)
Wading in at Aquariums (By JANET PIORKO, Feb. 18, 2001)
LIVING: Cable Stations Turn Fashion Week Into Fashion Telethon (By PETER MARKS, Feb. 18, 2001)
* A NIGHT OUT WITH: Sir Anthony Hopkins: The Man Who Still Isn't Hannibal Lecter
(By CAREY GOLDBERG, Feb. 18, 2001)
Vows: Gina Calleo and Matt Franklin (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Feb. 18, 2001)
On the Street: More Runaway Than Runway [14 photos] (By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Feb. 18, 2001)
In Mother's Closet: Sequins and Secrets (By ELAINE LOUIE, Feb. 18, 2001)
NOTICED: Yesterday's Junk Food Is Today's Party Food (By JANCEE DUNN, Feb. 18, 2001)
A New Pitch to Swallow (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2001)
* The Day My Free Computer Music Died (By KELLY ALEXANDER, Feb. 18, 2001)
VIEW: Some Lights, Some Action, and Suddenly, Who's Acting? (By BILL POWERS, Feb. 18, 2001)
On the Runway, Colors and Styles to Fit Any Size (By ELLEN TIEN, Feb. 18, 2001)
ART: Paul McCarthy: An Artist With a Cattle-Prod Style (By MICHAEL RUSH, Feb. 18, 2001)
* ART: Edvard Munch: A Searcher for Wonder in a World Overturned (By DEBORAH WEISGALL, Feb. 18, 2001)
ART: Museums: If You Wow Them, They Will Come (By ELIZABETH HAYT, Feb. 18, 2001)
Clown College: Where Fools Suffered Gladly (By RON JENKINS, Feb. 18, 2001)
DANCE: In Dance, Preserving a Precarious Legacy Begins Onstage (By ANN DALY, Feb. 18, 2001)
Dance: The Madness of Queen Pumpkin et al. (By GIA KOURLAS, Feb. 18, 2001)
FILM: Juliette Binoche: `Chocolat' Is Only Icing on Her Cake (By JENNET CONANT, Feb. 18, 2001)
* FILM: The New Male Sterotype in Movies (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 18, 2001)
* FILM: Glimpses of China on Film Never Seen in China (By STUART KLAWANS, Feb. 18, 2001)
Film or Digital? Don't Fight. Coexist. (By JOHN BAILEY, Feb. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: The Music Is Worshipful, the Creators Aren't (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: Bumping and Grinding, but Who's Singing About Love? (By ANN POWERS, Feb. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: While Eminem Is Attacked, Steely Dan Gets a Free Pass (By JON PARELES, Feb. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: Matthew Shipp: A Pianist Returns From an Exile (of Sorts) (By ADAM SHATZ, Feb. 18, 2001)
* MUSIC: A Case for the Melodious and Poignant Stravinsky (By DAVID SCHIFF, Feb. 18, 2001)
MUSIC: Hans Werner Henze: A Composer Faces Challenges of Greatness and Mortality (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 18, 2001)
THEATER: Edward Bond: An English Playwright With Very Mixed Notices (By BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Feb. 18, 2001)
THEATER: Leenane Inmates Return to Complete McDonagh's Theater Trilogy (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Feb. 18, 2001)
* THEATER: A Tradition Seen in Musical Theater, Then Across a Divide (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Feb. 18, 2001)
* TV: Without Mulder (Most of the Time), `The X-Files' Thrives (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 18, 2001)
TV: Jeffrey Wright as Rev. Dr. King: Finding the Private Heart of a Public Hero (By STEVE VINEBERG, Feb. 18, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: proteomics [the word that just whizzed past genomics] (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 18, 2001)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Visible Man [Eminem offends people] (By MIM UDOVITCH, Feb. 18, 2001)
QUESTIONS FOR JOY WILLIAMS: Up a Tree [The novelist & essayist] (By DAVID RAKOFF, Feb. 18, 2001)
MAP: A Trail of Refuse (By HOPE REEVES, Feb. 18, 2001)
SALIENT FACTS: Mercury Rising: Could spiritual practices be a source of mercury contamination?
(By ERIK BAARD, Feb. 18, 2001)
DESIGN: Being a Pill (By ETHAN HAUSER, Feb. 18, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: Dogging It (BY RANDY COHEN, Feb. 18, 2001)
Dr. Matthew's Passion [Ebola virus in Uganda] (By BLAINE HARDEN , Feb. 18, 2001)
A Thorny Irish Rose [Nuala O'Faolain's memoir] (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Feb. 18, 2001)
The Road to a Roadster [8 photos] (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 18, 2001)
Terrence Howard Is a Player [A promising young actor] (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Feb. 18, 2001)
STYLE: The Great Gianni [Versace's Miami house] (By AMY M. SPINDLER, Feb. 18, 2001)
FOOD: Ostrich: The Movie [Ostrich Loin in Shrimp-And-Garlic Sauce] (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Feb. 18, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2001)
Out With the Tide [Alistair MacLeod, 'Island'] (By JOHN SUTHERLAND, Feb. 18, 2001)
Rendezvous With Destiny [FDR during WW II] (By MICHAEL LIND, Feb. 18, 2001)
The Road to Oprah [Donald Bogle, 'Primetime Blues'] (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 18, 2001)
* The Past Is Inaccurate [Czeslaw Milosz, 'Milosz's A B C's'] (By EDWARD HIRSCH, Feb. 21, 2001)
* The Bosses [Jeffrey E. Garten, 'The Mind of the CEO'] (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 18, 2001)
* King of the Ghosts [Dick Schaap, 'Flashing Before My Eyes'] (By ALAN SCHWARZ, Feb. 18, 2001)
The Richest Indians [Kim Isaac Eisler, 'Revenge of the Pequots'] (By CAREY GOLDBERG, Feb. 18, 2001)
The End of Orthodoxy [Edward W. Said, 'Reflections on Exile'] (By MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM, Feb. 18, 2001)
Moonshine Lullaby [William Gay, 'Provinces of Night'] (By ART WINSLOW, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Talking to Ghosts [Amy Tan, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'] (By NANCY WILLARD, Feb. 18, 2001)
* Ross King, 'Brunelleschi's Dome' (By ALIDA BECKER, Feb. 18, 2001)
Tina Sinatra, 'My Father's Daughter' (By ERIC P. NASH, Feb. 18, 2001)
ON WRITERS AND WRITING: Authentic American [Nella Larsen] (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Feb. 18, 2001)

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2001:
On This Day: February 17 (Arcangelo Corelli 2/17/1653-1/8/1713, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 2/17/1836-12/22/1870, A. Montgomery Ward 2/17/1844-12/7/1913, Andrew B. Paterson 2/17/1864-2/5/1941, Andre Maginot 2/17/1877-1/7/1932, H. L. Hunt 2/17/1904-7/19/1980, Hans Morgenthau 2/17/1904-7/19/1980, Red Barber 2/17/1914-1/5/1990, Huey Newton 2/17/1942-8/22/1989, Kathleen Freeman 1919, Margaret Truman Daniel 1924, Hal Holbrook 1925, Alan Bates 1934, Jim Brown 1936, Mary Ann Mobley 1939, Rene Russo 1954, Michael Jordan 1963, Michael Bay 1964, Michelle Forbes 1967, Jerry O'Connell 1974)
* President Nixon Leaves on Trip to China (By Tad Szulc, February 17, 1972)
* Thomas J. Watson Sr. Is Dead; I.B.M. Board Chairman Was 82 [2/17/1874-6/19/1956] (NY TIMES, June 20, 1956)
Rose Freedman, Last Survivor of Triangle Fire, Dies at 107 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 17, 2001)
Donald C. Peirce, Curator, Dies at 52 (NY Times, Feb. 17, 2001)
Burt Kennedy, Screenwriter and Director, Dies at 78 (NY Times, Feb. 17, 2001)
Head of U. of California Seeks to End SAT Use in Admissions (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Feb. 17, 2001)
Plan to Stabilize Utilities Is Outlined in California (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 17, 2001)
Pardon Puts New Spotlight on a Clinton Fund-Raiser (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Feb. 17, 2001)
U.S. Diplomats Turned Aside Israeli Push on Rich's Behalf (By JAMES RISEN with ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Feb. 17, 2001)
Clinton Did Not Consult C.I.A. Chief on Pardon, Official Says (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 17, 2001)
Religion Journal: Seeking to Save Place Where the Pilgrims Prayed (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Feb. 17, 2001)
Terrorism in Ecuador Takes Its Toll on Families in Oregon (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Feb. 17, 2001)
Civilian Says Submarine Took Precautions (By CHRISTOPHER DREW, Feb. 17, 2001)
News Analysis: The World Stage, Act I (By FRANK BRUNI with DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 17, 2001)
Bush Gives Mexico Backing on Drive Against Narcotics (By TIM WEINER with GINGER THOMPSON, Feb. 17, 2001)
News Analysis: Lost Bearings in Israel (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 17, 2001)
U.S. and British Jets Strike Air-Defense Centers in Iraq (By JAMES DAO with STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 17, 2001)
Another Falun Gong Member Reportedly Burns Himself in China (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Feb. 17, 2001)
China Says Severe Cold Is Killing Babies (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Feb. 17, 2001)
In Spy Hunt, Peru Wants U.S. to Make a Better Effort (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 17, 2001)
U.S. Is Set to Assail China on Rights at U.N. (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 17, 2001)
Deal Allows Clinton to Lease Space He Wants in Harlem (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 17, 2001)
Harlem Hopes Ex-President Spurs Boom (By TERRY PRISTIN, Feb. 17, 2001)
For an Ex-President in New York, No Hair Shirt Required (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 17, 2001)
Internet Company Pleads Guilty to Enabling Others to Distribute Child Pornography (By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., Feb. 18, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Air Strikes in Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mysteries of the Genes (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Senator Clinton's Book Deal (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: No Choice but to Strike (By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN, Feb. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: In Japan, Waiting for the Captain to Appear (By SHIN'YA FUJIWARA, Feb. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: Motive Is Everything in the Marc Rich Pardon (By STEPHEN GILLERS, Feb. 17, 2001)
OP-ED: JOURNAL: Smash-mouth 1, Civility 0 (By FRANK RICH, Feb. 17, 2001)
LETTERS: To Keep the Estate Tax, or Kill It? (By RAOUL LIONEL FELDER et. al., Feb. 17, 2001)
BUSINESS: Nasdaq Falls 128; Dow Ends Off 91 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2001)
BUSINESS: Dreary Reports on Layoffs and Earnings Afflict Markets
[Dow -91, Nasdaq -128] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 17, 2001)
Consumer Confidence Is Wild Card in the Nation's Economy (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Feb. 17, 2001)
By the Book: Individuality vs. Franchising (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Feb. 17, 2001)
Big Board Will Study Effects of Decimal Trading (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 17, 2001)
Banks Get Plea for Loans From Lucent (By SIMON ROMERO & RIVA D. ATLAS, Feb. 17, 2001)
Officer Who Chose Clinton to Give Speech Quits Firm (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 17, 2001)
Inflation at Wholesale Level Up a Steep 1.1% in January (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 17, 2001)
ART: Hartford Museum Chooses a Novel Architect (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Feb. 17, 2001)
ART: Critics Notebook: 'Yo Mama' Artist's Past as Superhero (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 17, 2001)
* ART: Amid Strong Debate, Mild Curiosity at the Exhibition (By NICHOLE M. CHRISTIAN, Feb. 17, 2001)
* IDEAS: Reward for Faithful Service [Avery Dulles] (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Feb. 17, 2001)
* IDEAS: Poof! You're a Skeptic: The Amazing Randi's Vanishing Humbug (By PATRICIA COHEN, Feb. 17, 2001)
* THINK TANK: Freud, Influential Yet Unloved (By THE NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 17, 2001)
ART: In Self-Storage Units, Art Market Thrives for African Dealers, a Place to Trade (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 17, 2001)
DANCE: Evolving Passion, of All Kinds (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 17, 2001)
DANCE: Black Dance: Honoring the Vital Rhythms and the Masters of the Past (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 17, 2001)
DANCE: Mo-Trans Dancing: A Calmer Way of Moving Around This Universe (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 17, 2001)
JAZZ: Dave Douglas's New Quintet Buzzing Through Idioms With a Growl and a Click (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 17, 2001)
CLASSICAL MUSIC: A French Troupe Tests Baroque's Boundaries (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 17, 2001)
MUSIC: A Composer for Movies, Finally Heard on His Own (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 17, 2001)
SCIENCE: Atlantis and Crew Bid Space Station Farewell (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2001)
* Sky Watch: Advance Notice (By JOE RAO, Feb. 17, 2001)

Friday, Feb. 16, 2001:
On This Day: February 16 (Giambattista Bodoni 2/16/1740-11/29/1813, Nikolay Leskov 2/16/1831-3/5/1895, Henry Adams 2/16/1838-3/27/1918, Robert Flaherty 2/16/1884-7/23/1951, Edgar Bergen 2/16/1903, Patty Andrews 1920, John Schlesinger 1926, LeVar Burton 1957, John McEnroe 1959)
* Tut-ankh-Amen's Inner Tomb is Opened Revealing Undreamed of Splendors, Still Untouched After 3,400 Years
(NY TIMES, February 16, 1923)
Katharine Cornell Is Dead at 81 [2/16/1893-6/9/1974] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, June 10, 1974)
* Richard Southern, Historian of the Middle Ages, Dies at 88 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 16, 2001)
* Rosalie Gwathmey, a Photographer of Southern Black Life, Dies at 92 (By MARGARETT LOKE, Feb. 16, 2001)
George Simon, a Jazz Critic Who Reviewed the Big Bands, Dies at 88 (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 16, 2001)
Gordon R. Dickson, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 77 (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2001)
Pentagon Bars Civilians From Submarine Controls (By JAMES DAO with CHRISTOPHER DREW, Feb. 16, 2001)
Waco Pins Its Hopes for Image on Bush Ranch (By JIM YARDLEY, Feb. 16, 2001)
Bush Team Under Attack on Emissions Talks (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 16, 2001)
* Democrats See a Party Adrift as Presidential Loss Sinks In (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Feb. 16, 2001)
U.S. Seeks Bank Records in Pardon Inquiry (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 16, 2001)
Directive Says Rice, Bush Aide, Won't Be Upstaged by Cheney [Condoleezza Rice] (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 16, 2001)
Barak May Join Sharon's Cabinet as Israeli Defense Chief (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 16, 2001)
U.S. & Mexico to Open Talks on Freer Migration for Workers (By GINGER THOMPSON, Feb. 16, 2001)
A Shrine to Power: Is Berlin Ready? (By ROGER COHEN, Feb. 16, 2001)
A New Aide Prompts Talk of Beijing's Strength in Hong Kong (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 16, 2001)
Beijing Newspaper Concedes It Made Error (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 16, 2001)
France to Kill 10,000 Head of Cattle a Week to Help Beef Prices (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 16, 2001)
Bugs in Silicon Alley, and Some Can Crawl (By JAYSON BLAIR, Feb. 16, 2001)
Affronted by Nude 'Last Supper,' Giuliani Calls for Decency Panel (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 16, 2001)
Critic's Notebook: Making and Taking Offense, Elevated to Art Form (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 16, 2001)
Roosevelt Items Bring $2.7 Million at Sale (By WINNIE HU, Feb. 16, 2001)
Public Profile: Good-Guy Doctor to Bad-Boy XFL Hitmen (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 16, 2001)
Pubilc Lives: Bill Clinton Lends a Hand (By SHAILA K. DEWAN with Eric Lipton, Feb. 16, 2001)
The Big City: Distress From a Zipper Out of Season (By JOHN TIERNEY, Feb. 16, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Defending the Estate Tax (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2001)
OP-ED: Redeploy the Dollars (By CINDY WILLIAMS, Feb. 16, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Massachusetts Delivers (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 16, 2001)
* OP-ED: No More Pluto, No More Taupe (By ERIC METAXES, Feb. 16, 2001)
* OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Best of Enemies (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 16, 2001)
LETTERS: Why Napster Is Music to My Ears (By STEVEN GABRIEL et. al., Feb. 16, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Show Broad Increase as Nasdaq Leads the Way
[Dow +96, Nasdaq +62] (By REUTERS, Feb. 16, 2001)
* Analyst Recommends Selling Amazon Stock (By REUTERS, Feb. 16, 2001)
* Floyd Norris: How Telecom Became a Black Hole (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 16, 2001)
Rate of All I.R.S. Audits Falls; Poor Face Intense Scrutiny (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 16, 2001)
Nortel Plans to Cut 10,000 Jobs as It Lowers Earnings Outlook (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 16, 2001)
Questions About Rush in Nortel Trading (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 16, 2001)
Dell Computer to Cut Work Force by 4 Percent (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 16, 2001)
Advertising: America's Asking Whassup? (By PATRICIA WINTERS LAURO, Feb. 16, 2001)
Xerox Debt Is Worrisome to Traders (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Feb. 16, 2001)
Priceline Reports Losses and Slow Sales (BBy ALEX BERENSONy, Feb. 16, 2001)
CNBC Plans to Eliminate 40 More Jobs (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 16, 2001)
Builders' Optimism Is Up, Survey Says (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 16, 2001)
Loral Posts $1 Billion Net Loss (By REUTERS, Feb. 16, 2001)
* ARTS: MY CITY: New York as Textbook for Art History 101 (By MINDY ALOFF, Feb. 16, 2001)
* ART: 'Intimate Friends': Three 19th-Century Minds, One Vision of Nature (By GRACE GLUECK, Feb. 16, 2001)
Inside Art: Whitney Again Looks for Space (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 16, 2001)
Antiques: Collectors See a Flurry of Folk Art (By WENDY MOONAN, Feb. 16, 2001)
BALLET: New York City Ballet: After Swoons and Snappy Lifts, a Swap (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 16, 2001)
BOOKS: 'An Unexpected Light': A Summer Vacation of the Most Dangerous Kind (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 16, 2001)
* DANCE: Family Fare: From Books to Ballet (By LAUREL GRAEBER, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: 'Sweet November': Love Means Not Ever Having to Make a Bit of Sense (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: Watching Movies With Steven Soderbergh (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: The Fine Art of Recreating Pollock (By HELEN A. HARRISON, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: 'Down to Earth': He May Be in Heaven, but He's Dying at the Apollo (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: 'Yom Yom': Breathless in Haifa (and Hungry, Too) (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: 'Rhythm 'n' Bayous': A Ramble Through Louisiana's Roots Music (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: 'Recess: School's Out': Making the World Safe for Vacations (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 16, 2001)
FILM: At the Movies: The Oscar Circus (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 16, 2001)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: 'Committed to the Image': A Swath of Black Life, 'Family of Man' Style (By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 16, 2001)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: 'Perfecting Mankind': Beauty? Brains? Place Your Orders (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 16, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'Sightlines': Exploring Alienation Through Windows, Bare Trees and Murky Enigmas
(By MARGARETT LOKE, Feb. 16, 2001)
THEATER: On Stage and Off: A British Butler Without a Home (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Feb. 16, 2001)
TV Weekend: Girl's-Eye View of Life in the Harsh West (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 16, 2001)
VIDEO: Taking the Children: Men Will Be Boys, Especially Around Women (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Feb. 16, 2001)
Home Video: Award Buzz at Home (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Feb. 16, 2001)
FASHION DIARY: Where the Old Songs Go, on the Runways and Off (By GUY TREBAY, Feb. 16, 2001)
FASHION REVIEW: When the Message Swamps the Medium (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Feb. 16, 2001)
THE OUTSIDER: Amateur Physicists, Gliding Across Snow (By JAMES GORMAN, Feb. 16, 2001)
* Ancient Artifacts May Shed Light on Moche (By REUTERS, Feb. 16, 2001)
Fossils Unearthed in Argentina's Patagonia (By REUTERS, Feb. 16, 2001)
Satellite Mapping Finds Soil Damage (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 16, 2001)

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001:
On This Day: February 15 (Pedro Menendez de Aviles 2/15/1519-9/17/1574, Galileo Galilei 2/15/1564-1/8/1642, Jeremy Bentham 2/15/1748-6/6/1832, Henry Steinway 2/15/1797-2/7/1871, Alfred North Whitehead 2/15/1861-12/30/1947, John Barrymore 2/15/1882-5/29/1942, Earl Henry Blaik 2/15/1897-5/6/1989, Harold Arlen 2/15/1905-4/23/1986, Graham Hill 2/15/1929-11/29/1975, Roger Chaffee 2/15/1935-1/27/1967, Kevin McCarthy 1914, John Anderson 1922, Claire Bloom 1931, Susan Brownmiller 1935, Melissa Manchester 1951, Jane Seymour 1951, Matt Groening 1954, Renee O'Connor 1971)
U.S. Battleship Maine Blown Up in Havana Harbor Killing 260 (NY TIMES, February 15, 1898)
Miss Susan B. Anthony Died This Morning at 86 [2/15/1820-3/13/1906] (NY TIMES, March 13, 1906)
* Ugo Fano Is Dead at 88; Physicist Linked to Fermi (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Herbert Robbins, Statistician Who Fueled Public Interest in Math, Dies at 86 (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 15, 2001)
Sonia Arova, Ballerina Who Danced With Nureyev, Dies at 74 (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 15, 2001)
William Epstein, U.N. Disarmament Official, Dies at 88 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Fadhili Williams Mdawida, Kenyan Singer and Songwriter, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2001)
Bush Warns Against 'Overdeployment' (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 15, 2001)
U.S. Is Beginning Criminal Inquiry Into Pardon of Rich (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 15, 2001)
Kansas Puts Evolution Back Into Public Schools (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Feb. 15, 2001)
San Antonio Journal: 300 Brides, 300 Grooms and One Energetic Cupid (By JIM YARDLEY, Feb. 15, 2001)
Connoisseur of African-American Art Finds New Home for Collection (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Network Chiefs Get Flogging on TV for Vote-Tally Fiasco (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Feb. 15, 2001)
2 New Jobs for Massachusetts Official: Acting Governor & Mother of Twins (By CAREY GOLDBERG, Feb. 15, 2001)
Man in the News: Prize Job for a Bush Rescuer— Theodore Bevry Olson (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Voters to Rule on Lottery Ban in Tennessee (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Europe Approves New Genetically Modified Food Control (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 15, 2001)
Longtime Enemies, Armenia and Turkey Softly Broach Détente (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Feb. 15, 2001)
Journal in Exile: Man Who Would Be Shah Seeks Job Ruling Iran (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 15, 2001)
Arab Drives Bus Into Crowd, Killing 8 Israelis (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 15, 2001)
President Bush Wants Horse Breeder as Envoy in London (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 15, 2001)
To Break Impasse, Taiwan Leader Confirms Reactor Go-Ahead (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 15, 2001)
Witness Links Defendent to bin-Laden's Military Operation (By ALAN FEUER, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Hey, New York. Nice Map. Care to Give It a Try? (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Feb. 15, 2001)
Fake Heir to a Fake Family Trust Pleads Guilty in a Real Swindle (By WINNIE HU, Feb. 15, 2001)
City Proceeds With Moving Fulton Fish Market to Bronx (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Feb. 15, 2001)
City Rejects the First Two Offers for Clinton's Harlem Office Site (By ERIC LIPTON, Feb. 15, 2001)
Senate Ethics Panel Approves Mrs. Clinton's Book Agreement (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 15, 2001)
Bids Top $1 Million at Roosevelt Auction (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Public Profile: Mrs. Clinton's Chief Worrywart Moves On (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Public Lives: Eustace Tilley Makes a Return (By SHAILA K. DEWAN,, Feb. 15, 2001)
Metro Matters: Of Kisses— Chocolate and Goodbye (By JOYCE PURNICK, Feb. 15, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Vicente and Jorge W. Will Get Along Just Fine (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Feb. 15, 2001)
OP-ED: China's War Against Itself (By DAVID OWNBY, Feb. 15, 2001)
Easing Up at the Border (By PAMELA S. FALK, Feb. 15, 2001)
ESSAY: Question Time (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 15, 2001)
LETTERS: Nurture the Symphony, That It May Live (By ROBERT A. MOSS & BENJAMIN MALKEVITCH, Feb. 15, 2001)
LETTERS: Toys Unto Themselves (By JEANNE MARIE BOSWELL, Feb. 15, 2001)
BUSINESS: Applied Materials Earnings Lift Shares in Technology [Dow -108, Nasdaq +64] (By REUTERS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Charges From Calling Cards Often More Than Expected (By SETH SCHIESEL, Feb. 15, 2001)
Market Place: U.S. May Still Need to Be in Debt (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 15, 2001)
Arrest Is Made in EmailVirus Case (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 15, 2001)
President Choice Hints at Microsoft's Internet Strategy (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 15, 2001)
Advertising: Giants From Unilever to DoubleClick to Pfizer Make Decisions on Big Accounts
(By STUART ELLIOT & ALLISON FASS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Goodyear Announces Loss and Plan to Cut 7,200 Jobs (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Ignore the Label, It's Flextronics Inside (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Berkshire Buys 3 Stakes [Mueller Industries, H&R Block, & Sealed Air] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Barnesandnoble Injunction Lifted (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 15, 2001)
Economic Scene: Tax Cut Plans Are Clever Politics but Unwise Fiscal Policy (By JEFF MADRICK, Feb. 15, 2001)
Tips for Keeping the Cost of a Phone Calling Card Down (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
4th Quarter for Viacom Was About as Expected (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Feb. 15, 2001)
Paul Allen May Sell 1 Million Microsoft Shares [valued at $64.25 million] (By REUTERS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Ellison Sells $895 Million of Oracle Stock (By REUTERS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Eisner Unloading Disney Internet Shares [value of $918,000] (By REUTERS, Feb. 15, 2001)
ARTS: From Vilar's Deep Well, a Wish for the Kennedy Center (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 15, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Filming the Beckett Canon, Stage Directions Included (By BRIAN LAVERY, Feb. 15, 2001)
BOOKS: Championing a Fabled Bandit, Peter Carey Sums Up His Underdog Culture (By MEL GUSSOW, Feb. 15, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Demonology': Warlocks, Sport Utility Vehicles and the Eagles? O.K. (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 15, 2001)
MAKING BOOKS: A Secret, Not Too Secret (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Feb. 15, 2001)
Culture Notes: Philanthropy in Pennsylvania (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 15, 2001)
MUSIC: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra: From the Radio to the Stage (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 15, 2001)
MUSIC: Manolo Sanlucar: Anguish That Pours From Spain's Very Soul (By JON PARELES, Feb. 15, 2001)
OPERA: 'Macbeth': Look Like the Innocent Flower, but Be the Serpent (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 15, 2001)
THEATER CRITIC: In Chicago, the City of Big Shoulders, Big Ideas and Modest Egos (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 15, 2001)
* LIVING: Paradise Recharged: Palm Beach Lightens Up (By MARTHA BAKER, Feb. 15, 2001)
FASHION DIARY: They Line Up to Be Flashed, Splashed and 'Extorted' (By GUY TREBAY, Feb. 15, 2001)
FASHION REVIEW: For Kors and Lauren, a Fondness for the Paddock (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 15, 2001)
A Mansion Bobs Up and Moves Right In (By MITCHELL OWENS, Feb. 15, 2001)
From a Designer: Paris's Future in a Box (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Feb. 15, 2001)
A Home's Trompe l'Oeil Supported by Grand Allusions (By MARC KRISTAL, Feb. 15, 2001)
PERSONAL SHOPPER: Forget Folding Chairs: Pull Up a Stool (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, Feb. 15, 2001)
GARDENING: Garden Q&A: White Rosemary? (By DORA GALITZKI, Feb. 15, 2001)
In a House, a Romanian Past, Interrupted (By DAVID BINDER, Feb. 15, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Teenagers Try Online Learning (By LISA GUERNSEY, Feb. 15, 2001)
* ONLINE SHOPPER: Thanking Web Sites, With Cash (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Feb. 15, 2001)
* STATE OF THE ART: Technology's Ultimate Road Show (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Google Search Engine Reaches Into Usenet (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Feb. 15, 2001)
ESSAY: High-Definition TV: All or Nothing at All (By ERIC A. TAUB, Feb. 15, 2001)
GAME THEORY: Mindless? Far From It. Violence? Just a Tad. (By CHARLES HEROLD, Feb. 15, 2001)
BASICS: Rather Talk Than Type? Digital Dictation (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 15, 2001)
* WHAT'S NEXT: Fans the Size of a Grain of Sand May One Day Cool Computers (By ANNE EISENBERG, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Grove Music Reference Available on the Web (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 15, 2001)
* SCREEN GRAB: Thus Spake, With Prescience, Arthur C. Clarke (By MICHAEL POLLAK, Feb. 15, 2001)
Adding Options to Traditional Classrooms (By LISA GUERNSEY, Feb. 15, 2001)
Documentary Subjects Find Their Own Voices [www.soundportraits.org] (By SHELLY FREIERMAN, Feb. 15, 2001)
New Player Makes Room for More Digital Music (By ROY FURCHGOTT, Feb. 15, 2001)
Nintendo Moves Up Release (By PETER OLAFSON, Feb. 15, 2001)
New Palms Will Use Bluetooth to Cast a Much Wider Net (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 15, 2001)
Check In for Your Flight Before You Get to the Airport (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Feb. 15, 2001)
New Site Promises Access to Drivers You Meet on Street (By KAREN J. BANNAN, Feb. 15, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Aurora Borealis Seen on Internet (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
* Self-Repairing Material Developed (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
More Birds Flying to Hong Kong (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Dying Geese Puzzle Biologists (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Astronauts Play Dead Men Spacewalking (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Mission Extended for Surprisingly Sturdy Little Spacecraft (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 15, 2001)
NASA Tests Satellite on Argentine Landscapes (By REUTERS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Advocates Want Humans Sent to Mars (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2001)
Windmills to Power Australian Antarctic Bases (By REUTERS, Feb. 15, 2001)

Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2001:
On This Day: February 14 (Francesco Cavalli 2/14/1602-1/14/1676, Thomas Robert Malthus 2/14/1766-12/1766-12/23/1834, Christopher Sholes 2/14/1819-2/17/1890, Frank Harris 2/14/1856-8/26/1931, C.T.R. Wilson 2/14/1869-11/15/1959, George Jean Nathan 2/14/1882-4/8/1958, Jack Benny 2/14/1894-12/27/1974, Woody Hayes 2/14/1913-3/12/1987, Hugh Downs 1921, Florence Henderson 1934, Carl Berstein 1944, Gregory Hines 1946, Pat O'Brien 1948, Ken Wahl 1957, Meg Tilly 1960)
7 Chicago Gangsters Slain by Firing Squad of Rivals (NY TIMES, February 14, 1929)
Dr. Anna H. Shaw, Suffragist, Dies at 72 [2/14/1847-7/2/1919] (NY TIMES, July 3, 1919)
A'Lelia Nelson, President ff a Black Cosmetics Company, Dies at 82 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 14, 2001)
Freddy Wittop, Costume Designer, Dies at 89 (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2001)
Lewis Arquette, Actor in Family of Performers, Dies at 65 (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2001)
Shepard Kurnit, Advertising Executive, Dies at 76 (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2001)
Arabian Archaeology Pioneer Geoffrey Bibby Dies at 83 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14, 2001)
Civilians in Sub Sat at 2 Controls When Ships Hit (By JAMES STERNGOLD with STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 14, 2001)
Migrants Plant Pine Trees but Often Pocket Peanuts (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Feb. 14, 2001)
Census Makes Gains in Reducing Number of People Not Counted (By STEVEN A. HOLMES, Feb. 14, 2001)
Bush Details Plan to Focus Military on New Weaponry (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Dozens of Rich Americans Join in Fight to Retain the Estate Tax (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 14, 2001)
Prospect of Pardon Inquiry Sets Off Sparks, but Little Zeal (By DAVID JOHNSTON & DON VAN NATTA Jr., Feb. 14, 2001)
O'Neill Presses Case for Swift Action on Taxes (By ALISON MITCHELL, Feb. 14, 2001)
Justice Thomas Raises Issue of Cultural Intimidation (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Feb. 14, 2001)
Political and Traditions Propel the Search Effort (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Lessons: A School District Refuses to Worship Scores Alone (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 14, 2001)
A Company Backtracks on a Speech by Clinton (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 14, 2001)
Quake Kills More Than 100 in El Salvador (By REUTERS, Feb. 14, 2001)
Palestinian's Hit-and-Run Bus Kills 8 Israelis and Injures 20 (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 14, 2001)
For Libyans Under Qaddafi, Disarray Is the Norm (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 14, 2001)
Fighting Free Music, Europeans Take Aim at Personal Computers (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Ussuriysk Journal: A Tipple That a Tiger, It Seems, Finds Toothsome (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 14, 2001)
Kingmaker in Brazil Has Built a Castle of His Own (By LARRY ROHTER, Feb. 14, 2001)
Mayors Make Overtures as China Holds Baton (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 14, 2001)
Defense Grills Terror Witness on bin Laden (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 14, 2001)
Snag in Clinton's Office Plan: Giuliani Stakes Claim to Space (By ELISABETH BUMILLER & DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 14, 2001)
Newsday Gathers Itself for Another Try at the City (By FELICITY BARRINGER & JAYSON BLAIR, Feb. 14, 2001)
Health Care Is Mrs. Clinton's First Item on Senate Floor (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 14, 2001)
A City Remembers Abraham Beame (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 14, 2001)
Political Memo: No Longer the Master of Spin, Clinton Gets a Wobbly Start (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Helping New Teachers Survive the Hardest Years (By KATE ZERNIKE, Feb. 14, 2001)
* NYC: Hail Chiefs With a Day for Each One (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 14, 2001)
Public Lives: Touches of Poetry, Stages of Dying (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Feb. 14, 2001)
Public Profile: Prize-Winning Filmmaker on the First Try (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Feb. 14, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mr. Clinton's Next Move (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: After People Power (By MARK C. MEDISH, Feb. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Doing the Wrong Thing (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 14, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Black and White (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 14, 2001)
* LETTERS: Fewer Genes, but No Less Dignity (By RICHARD J. BOOKMAN, Feb. 14, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall After Greenspan Hedges Odds of a Rate Cut
[Dow -43, Nasdaq -62] (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 14, 2001)
Greenspan Says Slowdown Could Be Brief but Acknowledges Risks (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 14, 2001)
Fed Changes Procedures on Securities (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Market Place: 2 Fund Giants to Introduce Self-Directed Portfolios
(By PATRICK McGEEHAN & DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 14, 2001)
Management: Business Students Do an About-Face (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Crichton Signs With HarperCollins After 3 Decades With Knopf (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 14, 2001)
Napster's Clouded Future (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 14, 2001)
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Envisaging the Industry as the Loser on Napster (By JON PARELES, Feb. 14, 2001)
F.D.A. Warns Ocean Spray on Site (By GREG WINTER, Feb. 14, 2001)
Retail Sales Rose in January After Weak Christmas Results (By REUTERS, Feb. 14, 2001)
The Boss: No 2nd Chances on Live TV (By MICHAEL GELMAN, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Workplace: Go Ahead, Laugh. It Works at Work. (By JOBERT E. ABUEVA, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Life's Work: A Special Kind of Officemate (By LISA BELKIN, Feb. 14, 2001)
* New Version of Windows Introduced (By PAUL ANDREWS, Feb. 14, 2001)
Orange Stock Slides on First Day (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Feb. 14, 2001)
In Quick Recovery, Brazil Sells Three Wireless Licenses (By JENNIFER L. RICH, Feb. 14, 2001)
* New York Times News Heads to Yahoo! (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14, 2001)
* ARTS IN AMERICA: 'Avant-Garde' Artists Come in From the Cold (War) (By STEPHEN KINZER, Feb. 14, 2001)
* BOOKS: Dave Eggers Turns His Memoir Upside Down (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 14, 2001)
* BOOKS: Beauty Is Truth, and Sometimes Betrayal (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 14, 2001)
BALLET & OPERA: $50 Million Given to Pay for Kirov Performances (By IRVIN MOLOTSKY, Feb. 14, 2001)
Culture Notes: Artists' Circle (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 14, 2001)
FILM: 'Gladiator,' 'Crouching Tiger' and Soderbergh Are Oscar Nominees [25 photos] (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 14, 2001)
FILM: 'The Price of Milk': Testing His Love, She Jumps Into $1,500 Worth of Milk (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 14, 2001)
MUSIC: Gyorgy Ligeti Writes Piano Pieces From a Fantastical World (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 14, 2001)
MUSIC: The Pop Life: Grammy Votes Are Cast; How Many for Eminem? (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 14, 2001)
THEATER: 'Cellini': When Rage and Pride Illuminate the Genius (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 14, 2001)
TV Notes: Just One Year for 'Sopranos'? (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 14, 2001)
LIVING: Fashion Week: Creating a Fantasy Life Beyond the Seams (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 14, 2001)
FASHION REVIEW: At Marc Jacobs, Dressing for Life as a Perpetual Child (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Feb. 14, 2001)
FOOD: Critic's Notebook: Cupid, Get Out of the Kitchen (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Feb. 14, 2001)
At Restaurants and Clubs: Plump Up a Pillow [Eat at Bed] (By RICK MARIN, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Eggs and Pasta: A Marriage of Convenience [3 recipes] (By AMANDA HESSER, Feb. 14, 2001)
Puntarelle: The Hot New Green on New York's Plate [2 recipes] (By PAULA DISBROWE, Feb. 14, 2001)
Eating Well: Buffalo Steak Frites with Bearnaise? Well, Yes (By MARIAN BURROS, Feb. 14, 2001)
The Chef: The Definitive Red Wine Vegetable Dish (By Charlie Trotter with Regina Schrambling, Feb. 14, 2001)
The Minimalist: Little Hen, Big Flavor (By MARK BITTMAN, Feb. 14, 2001)
New Market Concentrates on Organic Food (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Feb. 14, 2001)
Temptation: A Drink That Looks Like Winter and Tastes Like Summer (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Feb. 14, 2001)
Tastings: From Alsace, a Lively White That Goes with Everything (By ERIC ASIMOV, Feb. 14, 2001)
To Go: A Sandwich Salute to India (By ERIC ASIMOV, Feb. 14, 2001)
SCIENCE: Space Station Guided by Americans for First Time (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14, 2001)
Australian Scientists Find 'Extinct' Stick Insect (By REUTERS, Feb. 14, 2001)
* Scientists Hope to Catalog South African Coelacanths (By REUTERS, Feb. 14, 2001)

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2001:
On This Day: February 13 (Giovanni Battista Piazzetta 2/13/1682-4/28/1754, John Hunter 2/13/1728-10/16/1793, Lord Randolph Churchill 2/13/1849-1/24/1895, Georgios Papandreou 2/13/1888-11/1/1968, Grant Wood 2/13/1892-2/12/1942, Georges Simenon 2/13/1903-9/4/1989, Pauline Frederick 2/13/1906-5/9/1990, Eileen Farrell 1920, Chuck Yeager 1923, Kim Novak 1933, George Segal 1934, Bo Svenson 1941, Carol Lynley 1942, Jerry Springer 1944, Mena Suvari 1979)
Hauptmann Guilty, Sentenced to Death for the Murder of the Lindbergh Baby (By Russell B. Porter, February 13, 1935)
* William B. Shockley, 79, Creator of Transistor and Theory on Race
[2/13/1910-8/12/1989] (By WOLFGANG SAXON, August 14, 1989)
Dr. Leonard Mandel, Revealer of Light's Weirdness, Dies at 73 (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 13, 2001)
Buddy Tate, Saxophonist for Basie's Band, Dies at 87 (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 13, 2001)
Nathan Cohen, Psychologist and Social Work Reformer, Dies at 91 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 13, 2001)
David Twersky, Grand Rabbi of a Borough Park Hasidic Sect, Dies at 79 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 13, 2001)
Eugene J. Casey, Designer, Dies at 83 (NY TIMES, Feb. 13, 2001)
Judge Refuses to Allow a California Utility to Raise Rates (By LAURA M. HOLSON with RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 13, 2001)
Bush Seeks $5.7 Billion Increase for Military Salaries and Benefits (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 13, 2001)
A Longtime Friend of Powell Is Tapped to Be His Deputy (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 13, 2001)
Bush Is Due to Visit Mexico in Search of Oil and Power (By TIM WEINER, Feb. 13, 2001)
* On Campus, Facing Mecca: Muslims Make Gains (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 13, 2001)
Scams Point the Desperate to Nonexistent Assistance (By TAMAR LEWIN, Feb. 13, 2001)
Barak and Sharon Agree on Unity Guidelines (By JOEL GREENBERG, Feb. 13, 2001)
China Begins to Turn Light on Wide Use of Torture (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Osaka Journal: Japanese Date Clubs Take the Muss Out of Mating (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Hindu Party Has No Love for Valentine's Day (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 13, 2001)
* In Sahara Salt Mine, Life's Not Too Grim (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Feb. 13, 2001)
Human Intrusion Bodes Ill for Galápagos Creatures (By REUTERS, Feb. 13, 2001)
Terror Exports Are the Business of Jihad Inc. (By ALAN FEUER, Feb. 13, 2001)
Criticized on Office Rent, Clinton Looks to Harlem (By CHARLES V. BAGLI with MARC LACEY, Feb. 13, 2001)
For Bob Kerrey, a Blind Date in Academia (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Feb. 13, 2001)
Mixed Grades for First Year of New Summer Classes (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, Feb. 13, 2001)
Public Lives: Elsa Klensch, Still in Style, but Out of a Job (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 13, 2001)
EDITORIAL: A Flawed Wireless Auction (NY TIMES, Feb. 13, 2001)
OP-ED: An Irrational Case of Dread [U.S. economy] (By NORBERT WALTER, Feb. 13, 2001)
OP-ED: Pardoning in Secret (By JOSH GERSTEIN, Feb. 13, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Space Rangers (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 13, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Fly the Lonely Skies (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 13, 2001)
LETTERS: Named for Both Parents (By LACY NICHOLE BARBEAU OGAN, Feb. 13, 2001)
LETTERS: Vegetarian Wardrobe (By DAVID E. MANDELBAUM, Feb. 13, 2001)
LETTERS: Clinton's Pardons, Bush's Giveaways (By ROBERT W. GORDON et. al., Feb. 13, 2001)
Stocks Rise, Led by Blue Chips [Dow +165, Nasdaq +19] (NY TIMES, Feb. 13, 2001)
Napster Suffers Setback in Appeals Court Ruling (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Napster Users Make Plans for the Day the Free Music Dies (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Double Helix With a Twist (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 13, 2001)
Market Place: Lucent Credit Rating Falls (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 13, 2001)
XFL Uproar at NBC (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 13, 2001)
Farmers Favor Altered Seeds (By DAVID BARBOZA, Feb. 13, 2001)
Advertising: Cindy Crawford Hired for Ellen Tracy (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 13, 2001)
Pricey Drug May Face Competition (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 13, 2001)
Market and Government Are Sapping Murmansk (By JOHN VAROLI, Feb. 13, 2001)
Mixed Results at Lastminute.com (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Feb. 13, 2001)
Emulex Says Slowdown Possible (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 13, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: Berlin's Film Festival, in Transition (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 13, 2001)
BALLET: Devil Is in the Details: A Stageful of Ballerinas (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 13, 2001)
* BOOKS: I'm O.K., You're O.K., O.K.?: Blasting the Self-Helpers (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 13, 2001)
Culture Notes: In the Mood (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 13, 2001)
DANCE: City Ballet Kicks Up Heels to the Tune of Chopin (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 13, 2001)
DANCE: Urban Tap: Dancing, So Elusive and Loose (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 13, 2001)
DANCE: Pennsylvania Ballet: Bouncing Along With a Zany Classicism (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 13, 2001)
FILM: 'Gladiator' Captures 12 Oscar Nominations (By CLARE BUNDY HAYGOOD, Feb. 13, 2001)
MUSIC: Emerson String Quartet: Jagged Figures Then a Warm Collective Tone (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 13, 2001)
MUSIC: John Cage and Morton Feldman: A Carnegie Connection, Then and Now (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 13, 2001)
MUSIC: Erykah Badu Gets On With Creating Herself (By JON PARELES, Feb. 13, 2001)
MUSIC: Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Presenting the Funky and the Lush (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 13, 2001)
OPERA: Glyndebourne Presents Janacek's 'Makropulos Case' at BAM (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 13, 2001)
ROCK: Three Young Rockers Still Play After Flirtation With Fame (By ANN POWERS, Feb. 13, 2001)
THEATER: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking!': Searching for an Inner Self From a Bronx Perspective
(By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 13, 2001)
LIVING: Fashion Week: When the Spotlight's Smile Turns to a Glare (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 13, 2001)
Fashion Diary: The Unglamorous Mad Dash of It All (By GUY TREBAY, Feb. 13, 2001)
The Week in Science: Fewer Than We Thought (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 13, 2001)
* SCIENCE: For the Microscopic Genome, It's a Big Moment in Biology (By NATALIE ANGIER, Feb. 13, 2001)
* READING THE BOOK OF LIFE: Genome's Riddle: Few Genes, Much Complexity
(By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Grad Student Becomes Gene Effort's Unlikely Hero (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 13, 2001)
A NASA Spacecraft Springs Onto an Asteroid (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 13, 2001)
Running Ahead of Schedule, Crew Hangs Shutter on Destiny Lab (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Particle Physics Gets Modern-Day `Eureka!' (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Icy Pluto's Fall From the Planetary Ranks: A Conversation (NY TIMES, Feb. 13, 2001)
It May Be Now or Never for a Mission to Pluto (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 13, 2001)
Music and Science Meet on a Piano Bench (By BRUCE SCHECHTER, Feb. 13, 2001)
* OBSERVATORY: Don't Touch That Plant! (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 13, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Bark-Stripping Monkeys (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 13, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Protecting the Grizzly (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Letters: For Silence, Just Add Noise (By WILLIAM ANDRIETTE et. al., Feb. 13, 2001)
* HEALTH: Human Genome Online Tour (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 13, 2001)
* A CONVERSATION WITH / The Genome: The Silence Is Broken and the Genome Speaks (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 13, 2001)
Genetic Sequence of Mouse Is Also Decoded (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 13, 2001)
Absence of Urgency: A Deadly Problem When Strokes Occur (By LAURIE TARKAN, Feb. 13, 2001)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: To Combat the Wily H.I.V., Newer and Safer Drugs Are Necessary (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Feb. 13, 2001)
* Music as Medicine and Minstrel as Therapist (By NORMAN T. BERLINGER, Feb. 13, 2001)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Saving Your Skin When Winter Attacks (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 13, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS: Choices: Sounds of Silence on Matters of Hospice (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Prevention: For Diabetics' Hearts, Aspirin Therapy (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Patterns: When a Steady Buzz Spells Steady Stress (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Aging: Work Out at 80? Experts See the Gains (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 13, 2001)
* Cause and Effect: Headache May Lurk Inside a Sandwich (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 13, 2001)
Q&A: Clearing the Air (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 13, 2001)

Monday, Feb. 12, 2001:
On This Day: February 12 (Thomas Campion 2/12/1567-3/1/1620, Cotton Mather 2/12/1663-2/13/1728, Peter Cooper 2/12/1791-4/4/1883, Abraham Lincoln 2/12/1809-4/15/1865, John L. Lewis 2/12/1880-6/11/1969, Alice Roosevelt Longworth 2/12/1884-2/20/1980, Max Beckmann 2/12/1884-12/27/1950, Omar Bradley 2/12/1893-4/8/1981, Roy Harris 2/12/1898-10/1/1979, Franco Zeffirelli 1923, Joe Garagiola 1926, Arlen Specter 1930, Bill Russell 1934, Joe Don Baker 1936, Judy Blume 1938, Ray Manzarek 1939, Maud Adams 1945, Arsenio Hall 1955)
First Prisoner Release Completed from Vietnam (By James P. Sterba, February 12, 1973)
* Death Of Charles Darwin at 73; Published Theory of Evolution
[2/12/1809-4/19/1882] (NY TIMES, April 21, 1882)
Leslie Edwards, Dancer With a Mime's Touch, Dies at 84 (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 12, 2001)
Eleanor Lawrence, Flutist Seen Frequently on New York Stages, Dies at 64 (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 12, 2001)
Clues Sought in Sub Accident; Some Japanese Fault Rescue (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Feb. 12, 2001)
Some Fault Bush Tax Cuts for Lean Days in Texas (By JIM YARDLEY, Feb. 12, 2001)
Wireless Giants Won F.C.C. Auction Unfairly, Critics Say (By STEPHEN LABATON & SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 12, 2001)
* Gore and Bush Strategists Analyze Their Campaigns (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Feb. 12, 2001)
Elie Wiesel Says He Did Not Contribute to Effort to Secure Rich's Pardon (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Feb. 12, 2001)
In Russia's Far East, a Region Freezes in the Dark (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 12, 2001)
Maradi Journal: On the Scale of Beauty in Niger, Weight Weighs Heavily (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Feb. 12, 2001)
Adventure Gone Awry Divides Close Cousins in Japan (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 12, 2001)
* China Youth Take Names From West: Hi Medusa! (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 12, 2001)
Compressed Data: Brazilians Think Basic to Bridge the Digital Divide (By JENNIFER L. RICH, Feb. 12, 2001)
Flare-Up of Mideast Violence Continues; Sharon Pushes for Coalition (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 12, 2001)
* Metropolitan Diary: SCHOOLED IN LOVE (By ENID NEMY, Feb. 12, 2001)
Mrs. Clinton Takes On Racial Profiling and Gift Issues (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 12, 2001)
Metro Matters: Abe Beame, Mugged by History (By JOYCE PURNICK, Feb. 12, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The Mayoralty of Abraham Beame (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2001)
OP-ED: In the Cage, in Search of Grace (By MUSHAHID HUSSAIN, Feb. 12, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Sharon the Unifier (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 12, 2001)
* OP-ED: Presidential Gifts, Circa 1860 (By HAROLD HOLZER, Feb. 12, 2001)
LETTERS: The Wonder of Light (By ALBERT ROOS & DAVID DODSON, Feb. 12, 2001)
SPORTS: The Finest Football February Can Offer (By JERE LONGMAN, Feb. 12, 2001)
BASKETBALL: East Beats West in All-Star Game Thriller 111-110 (By MIKE WISE, Feb. 12, 2001)
ART: A Quiet Art Collector Plans Another Noisy Auction (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 12, 2001)
BOOKS: The Microsoft Drama Told as Gusher or Dripper (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Feb. 12, 2001)
Culture Notes: Image Makers (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 12, 2001)
DOG SHOW: Action! When Arf Imitates Life (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Feb. 12, 2001)
FILM: 'Hannibal' Makes Killing, With 3rd-Best 3-Day Opening (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 12, 2001)
Foreign-Language Films in Search of an Oscar Meet Obstacles (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Feb. 12, 2001)
MUSIC: 'The Trojans': Sprawling Berlioz Opera Tamed in Concert Format (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 12, 2001)
OPERA: Manon': Letting the Music Sing for Itself (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 12, 2001)
THEATER: Ayckbourn Plays Raise the Curtain on New Chicago (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 12, 2001)
TV: Media Talk: NBC Holds Off Challenge From CBS's 'Survivor II' (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 12, 2001)
TV: 'These Old Broads': When the Luster Dims and the Hollywood Stars Fade (By CARYN JAMES, Feb. 12, 2001)
TV: Reality Shows Set Off Fight Over Awards (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 12, 2001)
TV REVIEW: Marcus Garvey's Pride Helped Inspire His People (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 12, 2001)
* Writers on Writing: New Insights Into the Novel? Try Reading 300 (By CHITRA DIVAKARUNI, Feb. 12, 2001)
LIVING: Men's Wear: Talking Revolution and Showing Suits (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Feb. 12, 2001)
Fashion Diary: A Designer Stages a Diversion (By GUY TREBAY, Feb. 12, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Market Place: Nasdaq Stocks Pricey Despite Drop (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 12, 2001)
* Love of Game Led to Story of Intrigue (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 12, 2001)
Media Talk: Freelance Photo Issue at Los Angeles Times (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 12, 2001)
Talk Is Still Waiting to Catch Fire (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 12, 2001)
Advertising: As Clients Clip Their Budgets, Madison Avenue Retrenches (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 12, 2001)
Bank Expects Backlash on Clinton Talk (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 12, 2001)
* New Economy: Simmering in the Broth of Business Jargon (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 12, 2001)
Charities Find a Gray Area on the Net (By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, Feb. 12, 2001)
Compressed Data: A Benefactor's Link Takes a Hospital by Surprise (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Feb. 12, 2001)
Compressed Data: Brazilians Think Basic to Bridge the Digital Divide (By JENNIFER L. RICH, Feb. 12, 2001)
Compressed Data: Divided Opinions About the Risks From Cell Phones (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Feb. 12, 2001)
E-Commerce Report: Internet Retailers Re-Discover Bartering (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 12, 2001)
Software Start-Up Is Using Phone Message Technology (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 12, 2001)
Patents: Two Efforts to Prevent Disease (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Feb. 12, 2001)
* HEALTH: Analysis of Human Genome Discovers Far Fewer Genes (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 12, 2001)
SCIENCE: Crew Tears the Wrapping Off Space Lab (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 12, 2001)

Sunday, Feb. 11, 2001:
On This Day: February 11 (Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle 2/11/1657-1/9/1757, William Talbot 2/11/1800-9/17/1877, Otto Ludwig 2/11/1813-2/25/1865, Max Baer 2//1/1909-11/21/1959, Joseph Alioto 2/11/1916-1/29/1998, Farouk I 2//11/1920-3/18/1965, Eva Gabor 2/11/1921-7/4/1995, Sidney Sheldon 1917, Lloyd Bentsen 1921, Kim Stanley 1925, Leslie Nielsen 1926, Tina Louise 1934, Burt Reynolds 1936, Shery Crow 1962, Jennifer Aniston 1969)
YALTA PARLEY ENDS: Big 3 Doom Nazism and Reich Militarism (By Lansing Warren, February 11, 1945)
* Edison Dies at 82, prolific inventor with 1,093 patents
[2/11/1847-10/18/1931] (By BRUCE RAE, October 18, 1931)
Abraham Beame, Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis, Dies at 94 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Eugene J. Casey, Marketing Designer, Dies at 83 (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2001)
William D. Krimer, Interpreter, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2001)
Kitty Buck, New York City's Cakemaker to the Stars, Dies at 93 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Dr. Marshall Raymond Urist, Found Substance to Mend Bones, Dies at 85 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 11, 2001)
Joseph Ransohoff, Pioneer in Neurosurgery, Dies at 85 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 11, 2001)
Elizabeth Golding, Judge and Activist for Children's Rights, Dies at 100 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Fuki Kushida, Campaigner in Japan for Peace and Women's Rights, Dies at 101 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 11, 2001)
California's Panic Was Moneymaker for Energy Sellers (By TIMOTHY EGAN & SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Cyberspace Treasure Lists in Illinois Lure Millions Who Hope to Inherit (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Morgan Stanley Says It 'Clearly Made a Mistake' by Inviting Clinton to Speak (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 11, 2001)
Race Is Underway for Campaign Cash Before New Limits (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Feb. 11, 2001)
Former Leader of Peru Seeks Second Chance After Exile (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 11, 2001)
Europe's Shifting Role Poses Challenge to U.S. (By ROGER COHEN, Feb. 11, 2001)
PAST HOPE: Israel, in a Flashback, Turns to an Icon of Might (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 11, 2001)
Chasing Mexico's Dream Into Squalor (By GINGER THOMPSON, Feb. 11, 2001)
Spike in Shark Attacks in Australia (By JOHN SHAW, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Fears of Mad Cow Disease Reach Bullfighting Rings (By EMMA DALY, Feb. 11, 2001)
Underworld Tales From India's Tarnished Screen (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Feb. 11, 2001)
Russia Entrepreneurs Try the Business of Governing (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Feb. 11, 2001)
Lawsuit Says I.B.M. Aided the Nazis in Technology (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 11, 2001)
Docs in Toyland Stay Busy at Fair (By GLENN COLLINS, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Our Towns: To the Locals, He's Just Bill, the First Suburbanite (By MATTHEW PURDY, Feb. 11, 2001)
* VIEW: The Scoop on Professor Gore, an Insider's Story (By JOSH NOEL, Feb. 11, 2001)
Paramus Journal: Almost Like a Death in the Family (By ANDREW JACOBS, Feb. 11, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Between Two Eras (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: A Prosperity Easy to Destroy (By ROBERT E. RUBIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: A New Flag for a New Mississippi (By JAY WINIK, Feb. 11, 2001)
* OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Get Rich Quick (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 11, 2001)
OP-ED: Slicing the Salami (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 11, 2001)
LETTERS: Judging Khrushchev, in History's Eyes (By JOHN O. PASTORE, M.D., Feb. 11, 2001)
THE NATION: Let the Markets Rule, Sometimes (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 11, 2001)
THE WORLD: French Twist: Parity, Thy Name Is Woman (By SUZANNE DALEY, Feb. 11, 2001)
THE WORLD: Kosovo's Young Get By With a Little Help From the West (By IVOR HANSON, Feb. 11, 2001)
MEXICAN-AMERICANS: Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot (By GREGORY RODRIGUEZ, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Gowns? What Gowns? (By JOHN LELAND, Feb. 11, 2001)
IDEAS AND TRENDS: Will the Gipper Ever Get a Piece of the Rock? (By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, Feb. 11, 2001)
Who's Asking?: Everything Researchers Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (By JEFF STRYKER , Feb. 11, 2001)
A Killer Theory (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 11, 2001)
* How Much Is That Picture...? (By EVELYN NIEVES, Feb. 11, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Some Economists Call Behavior a Key (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Feb. 11, 2001)
* One Dot-Com's Story: No Boom, but No Bust (By AILEEN CHO, Feb. 11, 2001)
Market Watch: Striking a Blow for the Little Guy (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 11, 2001)
INVESTING: All Aboard for the Recovery (Maybe) (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 11, 2001)
On Wall St., More Investors Push Social Goals (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 11, 2001)
A Wildcatter in the Electricity Jungle (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 11, 2001)
PERSONAL BUSINESS: How Long Is the Reach of Your Former Employer? (By BERNARD STAMLER, Feb. 11, 2001)
* From Black Monday to Black Gold (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Economic View: Balancing Long-Term Wants and Needs (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 11, 2001)
Five Questions for Charles P. Schroeder: Of Mad Cows and Anxious Ranchers (By GREG WINTER, Feb. 11, 2001)
Off the Shelf: A Marriage of Business and Businesswoman (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Market Insight: Technology Wreckage: Yes, More to Come (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Portfolios: Even as Volatility Subsides, Uncertainty Persists (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 11, 2001)
Backslash: Emergency Exits in a Wired World (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 11, 2001)
* My Money, My Life: The Author as Impresario (By NANCY LLOYD, Feb. 11, 2001)
Investing: Douglas S. Foreman: TCW Galileo Aggressive Growth Equities Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 11, 2001)
Defaults Sound Alarm About Money Funds (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 11, 2001)
Private Sector: Financing an Endurance Film Does Not a Survivor Make (Compiled By RICK GLADSTONE, Feb. 11, 2001)
Business Diary: Recession Committee Is Still in Recess (By Robert D. Hershey Jr., Feb. 11, 2001)
Investing Diary: Soul-Searching as a Power Pursuit (By Allen R. Myerson, Feb. 11, 2001)
* OUT THERE: San Francisco: The Joy of Joblessness in the Web Wipeout (By TODD KRIEGER, Feb. 11, 2001)
Personal Business: Can't Buy Me Love? Maybe Just a Wedding? (By Julie Dunn, Feb. 11, 2001)
* LIVING: Men Are Crazy for Women Who Are, Too (By RICK MARIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
* GURU: She Makes the Flowers Go Hip-Hop (By DOUGLAS CENTURY, Feb. 11, 2001)
Vows: Avery McConnell and Andrew Leider (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Feb. 11, 2001)
On the Street: The Color of Money (In the Bank) [16 photos] (By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Feb. 11, 2001)
Anna Nicole Smith: Coming to the Rescue of a Bored Nation (By RUTH LA FERLA, Feb. 11, 2001)
THE AGE OF DISSONANCE: Fashion Isn't for the Meek (By BOB MORRIS, Feb. 11, 2001)
NOTICED: In the Future, Gnus Won't Rip Owls (By JOHN LELAND, Feb. 11, 2001)
Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2001)
Power Couples With Staying Power (By JENNIFER TUNG, Feb. 11, 2001)
Letters: Kindred Spirits of Gen X and Y (By BILL LEWIS et. al., Feb. 11, 2001)
BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: Succeeding a Superstar Isn't Easy (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 11, 2001)
* TRAVEL: Where the Earth Meets the Sky (By MARCIA R. LIEBERMAN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Reaching a Goal in Nepal (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 11, 2001)
A Park Adults Can Love (By JAMES STERNGOLD, Feb. 11, 2001)
CYBERSCOUT: Visit Your Vacation Home Before You Go (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 11, 2001)
* ART: Knowledge at Their Fingertips: Art and Writing on the Hand (By RITA REIF, Feb. 11, 2001)
ART: Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographing Fakes (By ANN WILSON LLOYD, Feb. 11, 2001)
DANCE: Twyla Tharp Looks to Brooklyn and Beyond (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2001)
DANCE: Against the Odds, Six Choreographers Keep on Making Dance (By GUS SOLOMONS JR., Feb. 11, 2001)
* FILM: Eric Rohmer: A Book of Love, a Chapter at a Time (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 11, 2001)
FILM: 'Hannibal': Hello Again, Clarice, but You've Changed (By MARGY ROCHLIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
FILM: 'Down to Earth': Chris Rock Remakes a Warren Beatty Film (By JAMIE MALANOWSKI, Feb. 11, 2001)
MUSIC: Nearing Endgame in the Violin Trade? (By DAVID SCHOENBAUM, Feb. 11, 2001)
MUSIC: Strike the Band: Pop Music Without Musicians (By TONY SCHERMAN, Feb. 10, 2001)
MUSIC: Baile Funk: Brazilian Dance Music Steps Out of the Favelas (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 11, 2001)
MUSIC: José Júnior: A Brazilian Musician Fighting for ChangeThrough Song (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 11, 2001)
MUSIC: Slick Routine Makes Way For Vitality (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 11, 2001)
* MUSIC: Bernard Herrmann: More to This Composer Than Meets the Eye (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
* MUSIC: Recording Studio: Going the Way of the Victrola (By GREGG WAGER, Feb. 11, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Russia in Winter: Bleak, Desperate, Beautiful (By AMY SERAFIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
THEATER: The Brothers Viertel, a Theatrical Tag Team (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
THEATER: When the Author Insists on Directing the Play, Too (By DAVID KAUFMAN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Television Composers Provide the Musical Backbone (Very Quickly) (By CRAIG TOMASHOFF, Feb. 11, 2001)
TV: Before "Traffic," an Earlier Drug Saga, With No Easy Answers (By STEVE VINEBERG, Feb. 11, 2001)
Letters: BING CROSBY: Right on Target (By PRESTON NEAL JONES et. al., Feb. 11, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: mushy [New lovers embrace old term of endearment.] (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 11, 2001)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Love Bloat (By ANDREW SULLIVAN, Feb. 11, 2001)
QUESTIONS FOR AVERY DULLES: Divine Promotion (By LORENZO ALBACETE, Feb. 11, 2001)
PHENOMENON: Yell Fever (By DANYA REICH, Feb. 11, 2001)
PROCESS: Ars Brevis (By Vik Muniz, As told to DEBORAH SOLOMON, Feb. 11, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: Goodfella's Good Works (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Exuberance Is Rational [Richard Thaler on behavioral economics] (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Feb. 11, 2001)
A Mound Of Troubles [Rick Ankiel's life & pitching problems] (By PAT JORDAN, Feb. 11, 2001)
STYLE: Touchy-Feely: A week in the life of the manicure-impaired. (By MARY TANNEN, Feb. 11, 2001)
FOOD: My Blue Heaven: It's moldy, malignant and decayed. Yum. (By MOLLY O'NEILL, Feb. 11, 2001)
LIVES: Night Swimming (By KIEN NGUYEN, Feb. 11, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2001)
A Long Way From Tacoma [Gary Giddins, 'Bing Crosby'] (By ROBERT GOTTLIEB, Feb. 11, 2001)
The Last Days of Fuling [Peter Hessler, 'River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze'] (By ADAM GOODHEART, Feb. 11, 2001)
Women's Work [Ann Crittenden, 'The Price of Motherhood'] (By PAUL STARR, Feb. 11, 2001)
Miss Lillian's Boy [Jimmy Carter, 'An Hour Before Daylight'] (By ROY REED, Feb. 11, 2001)
What Were They Thinking? [Anthony Gottlieb, 'The Dream of Reason'] (By RICHARD JENKYNS, Feb. 11, 2001)
Brush Up Your Shakespeare [W. H. Auden, 'Lectures on Shakespeare'] (By WILLIAM LOGAN, Feb. 11, 2001)
Darkness Visible [Louis P. Masur, '1831: Year of Eclipse'] (By DAVID TRAXEL, Feb. 11, 2001)
From Mozart to Metallica ['The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'] (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 11, 2001)
Buff and Ready [Lynne Luciano, 'Looking Good: MaleBody Image in Modern America'] (By HOLLY BRUBACH, Feb. 11, 2001)
Finger Painting, Even [Eric Shanes, 'Turner: The Great Watercolours'] (By HILARIE M. SHEETS, Feb. 11, 2001)
Anne Roiphe, 'For Rabbit, With Love and Squalor' (By DIANE COLE, Feb. 11, 2001)
THE CLOSE READER: Academic Warfare (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Feb. 11, 2001)
HEALTH: Children Test New Medicines Despite Doubts (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 11, 2001)
Major Battle Looms Over Medicare (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 11, 2001)
SCIENCE: Astronauts Bolt Laboratory to Space Station (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 11, 2001)
* Genome Analysis Shows Humans Survive on Low Number of Genes (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 11, 2001)
* THE BIG PICTURE: Fisheye: A Pike's Peek (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2001)

Saturday, Feb. 10, 2001:
On This Day: February 10 (Charles Lamb 2/10/1775-12/27/1834, William Allen White 2/10/1868-1/29/1944, Jimmy Durante 2/10/1893-1/29/1980, Harold Macmillan 2/10/1894-12/29/1986, Dame Judith Anderson 2/10/1898-1/3/1992, Bertolt Brecht 2/10/1898-8/14/1956, Stella Adler 2/10/1901-12/21/1992, Leontyne Price 1927, Robert Wagner 1930, Roberta Flack 1939, Mark Spitz 1950, George Stephanopoulos 1961)
U-2 Pilot Powers is Freed by Soviet in an Exchange for Abel (By Tom Wicker, February 10, 1962)
* Pasternak Is Dead at 70; Wrote 'Dr. Zhivago'
[2/10/1890-5/30/1960] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 31, 1960)
* Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Winner for Economics, Dies at 84 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 10, 2001)
* Arthur Hummel, Ambassador to China '81-85, Dies at 80 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 10, 2001)
Robert E. Garis, Dance Writer, 75 (NY TIMES, Feb. 10, 2001)
Arlene Eisenberg, Author of 'What to Expect' Guides, Dies at 66 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 10, 2001)
White House Memo: Presidency Takes Shape With No Fuss, No Sweat (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 10, 2001)
Bush's Plan to Push Reading in 'Head Start' Stirs Debate (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Feb. 10, 2001)
News Analysis: Economists Split Over Public Spending Versus Private Savings (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Feb. 10, 2001)
Documents Show a Complex Campaign to Win a Pardon (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Feb. 10, 2001)
9 Are Missing Off Pearl Harbor After U.S. Submarine Collides With Japanese Vessel
(By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Feb. 10, 2001)
Students, Mindful of Columbine, Break Silence to Report Threats (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Feb. 10, 2001)
A Proud and Unwavering Believer in the Death Penalty (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 10, 2001)
Powell Will Visit Mideast, Setting a Wide Itinerary (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 10, 2001)
In Indian Quake, Unity Overcame Diversity (By JOHN F. BURNS, Feb. 10, 2001)
Sharon Asks Barak and Peres to Join a Unity Government (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 10, 2001)
Ferry Loop Plan Harkens to New York's Salty Past (By ANDREW JACOBS, Feb. 10, 2001)
Son Fulfills Promise to Be Brothers' Keeper (By AARON DONOVAN, Feb. 10, 2001)
* Some Roosevelt Relatives Join Effort to Save Heirlooms From Auction (By WINNIE HU, Feb. 10, 2001)
Voters Weigh In on Senator Clinton's Missteps (By JANE GROSS, Feb. 10, 2001)
SPORTS: For Jeter, Being Part of Yanks' History Is Priceless (By BUSTER OLNEY, Feb. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: The Best Possible Investment in Africa (By JEFFREY SACHS, Feb. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: In Government and, Incidentally, Gay (By FRED P. HOCHBERG, Feb. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: A Foolish Drug War (By ANA CARRIGAN, Feb. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: Can't We at Least Lose the Face Masks? (By JEFF MACGREGOR, Feb. 10, 2001)
OP-ED: ABROAD AT HOME: Rays of Hope (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Feb. 10, 2001)
LETTERS: China vs. the West (By HUEY HUANG, Feb. 10, 2001)
LETTERS: The Storm Over Clinton's Pardons (By EZRA PERLMAN, Feb. 10, 2001)
BUSINESS: Stocks Drop Broadly, Wiping Out Gains of 2001 Rally
[Dow -99, Nasdaq -91] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 10, 2001)
* Where Did You Go, Raggedy Ann? Toys in the Age of Electronics (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Feb. 10, 2001)
Lucent's Books Said to Draw the Attention of the S.E.C. (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 10, 2001)
Motorola Cuts 3% of Its Jobs, Lays Off 4000 as Chip Demand Cools (By DAVID BARBOZA, Feb. 10, 2001)
Tokyo Makes a Mostly Symbolic Rate Cut Discount (By MIKI TANIKAWA, Feb. 10, 2001)
Deutsche Telekom Will Delay Deal to Buy VoiceStream (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 10, 2001)
ARTS: IDEAS: Tilling History With Biology's Tools (By EMILY EAKIN, Feb. 10, 2001)
ARTS: IDEAS: The Last Superpower Ponders Its Next Move (By KURT M. CAMPBELL, Feb. 10, 2001)
DANCE: 'Talking Dance': Art of Moving the Mouth Along With Those Feet (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 10, 2001)
DANCE: An Unlikely Trio of Ballet With Music at the Core (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 10, 2001)
MUSIC: Previn's Stab at Simplicity, With Beethoven Alongside (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 10, 2001)
MUSIC: Evening With Thibaudet Steeped in the Essence of Everything French (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 10, 2001)
* MUSIC: Orchestras Still Preserve the Myths, but Who Cares Now? (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 10, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Of Prints and Process: The Science Behind Art (By SARAH BOXER, Feb. 10, 2001)
THEATER: 'A Connecticut Yankee': Hartford's Sassy Time Traveler, Still Wandering (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 10, 2001)
LIVING: Cuttings: The Indoor Takeover Artists (By TOVAH MARTIN, Feb. 10, 2001)
SCIENCE: New Report Backs Planting More Trees to Fight Warming (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 10, 2001)
Atlantis Docks With Space Station to Deliver Laboratory Module (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 10, 2001)
* Sky Watch: Rich With Tiny Stars (By JOE RAO, Feb. 10, 2001)

Friday, Feb. 9, 2001:
On This Day: February 9 (Gasparo Angiolini 2/9/1731-2/6/1803, William Henry Harrison 2/9/1773-4/4/1841, Samuel Tilden 2/9/1814-8/4/1886, Amy Lowell 2/9/1874-5/12/1925, Ronald Colman 2/9/1891-5/19/1958, Dean Rusk 2/9/1909-12/20/1994, Bill Veeck 2/9/1914-1/2/1986, Kathryn Grayson 1922, Roger Mudd 1928, Carol King 1942, Joe Pesci 1943, Alice Walker 1944, Mia Farrow 1945)
Guadalcanal Is Ours; Japan Abandons Island (By Charles Hurd, February 9, 1943)
* Jacques Monod, Nobel Biologist, Dies; Thought Existence Is Based on Chance
[2/9/1910-5/31/1976] (By FRANK J. PRIAL, June 1, 1976)
Clay Lancaster, Historic Preservation Pioneer, Dies at 83 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 9, 2001)
Bernard Asbell, Professor, Prolific Writer and Folk Singer, Dies at 77 (By IRVIN MOLOTSKY, Feb. 9, 2001)
H. Otto Hirschler, Electronics Expert, Dies at 87 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 9, 2001)
William A. Beardslee, Biblical Scholar, Dies at 84 (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2001)
Pauline Koner, Dancer and Choreographer, Dies at 88 (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 9, 2001)
George J. Ames, Financier Who Spent 60 Years at Lazard, Dies at 83 (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Feb. 9, 2001)
Bush Tax Plan Sent to Congress, Starting the Jostling for Position (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 9, 2001)
As Debate Rages About Tax Cuts, Bush Plan Takes on Mainstream Air (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 9, 2001)
Authorities Plan Charges Against Man Shot by Agent (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2001)
Church's Window Preserves History and Memory (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Feb. 9, 2001)
Ex-Wife of Pardoned Financier Pledged Money to Clinton Library (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Feb. 9, 2001)
2 in G.O.P. Ask Bush to Keep Clinton's Chief of Humanities (By IRVIN MOLOTSKY, Feb. 9, 2001)
Congress Plans Study of Voting Processes and TV Coverage (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYEBy, Feb. 9, 2001)
* As Ex-Theorist on Young 'Superpredators,' Bush Aide Has Regrets (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Feb. 9, 2001)
Bush Takes First Step to Shrink Arsenal of Nuclear Warheads (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 9, 2001)
Russia Vows to Start Destroying Chemical Arms (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 9, 2001)
* Paris Journal: Gastronomes Have a Beef With a Renouncing Chef (By MARLISE SIMONS, Feb. 9, 2001)
Bush Officials Pronounce Clinton Mideast Plan Dead (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 9, 2001)
Babies May Gain Maternal Name in France (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 9, 2001)
China Said to Punish Unionist (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 9, 2001)
Foreign Media Role Cited in Beijing Immolation (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 9, 2001)
Hong Kong Will Check on Falun Gong (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2001)
Columbia University Removes Gag Order on Gore Classes (By SUSAN SAULNY, Feb. 9, 2001)
Layoffs Galore in Silicon Alley, but Many Find a Traditional Net (By JAYSON BLAIR, Feb. 9, 2001)
* Public Profile: A Telescopic Lens on a Baseball Legend (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 9, 2001)
EDITORIALS: The Pardons Look More Sordid (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2001)
OP-ED: Peace, One Very Small Step at a Time (By DENNIS ROSS, Feb. 9, 2001)
Hearing the Voices of Hip-Hop (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 9, 2001)
PUBLIC INTERESTS: Elba on the Hudson (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 9, 2001)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall as Investors React to Mediocre Retail Sales
[Dow -66, Nasdaq -46](ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 9, 2001)
Floyd Norris: The Junk Market Is Lending, but Banks Aren't (By Floyd Norris, Feb. 9, 2001)
VoiceStream Acquisition Delayed (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 9, 2001)
Selection of Net Suffixes Defended (By, Feb. 9, 2001)
MicroStrategy Chief Faces Huge Losses (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 9, 2001)
Long-Distance Competition Drags WorldCom Profit Down (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 9, 2001)
* Berkshire Cuts 80% of Its Disney Stake [sells also Nucor & Costco] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 9, 2001)
Metricom, in Financial Trouble, Warns of Shutdown (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 9, 2001)
Bluelight to Drop Free ISP Business (By GREG SANDOVAL, CNET NEWS.COM, Feb. 9, 2001)
Motley Fool Cuts Staff, Folds Soapbox (By STEFANIE OLSEN, CNET NEWS.COM, Feb. 9, 2001)
"Survivor" Pumps Traffic Into CBS Site (By GWENDOLYN MARIANO, CNET NEWS.COM, Feb. 9, 2001)
WEEKEND EXCURSION: Washington D.C. Offers Many Vacation Options for Families (By DIANE COLE, Feb. 9, 2001)
WEEKEND WARRIOR: Woman Against Mountain: Reaching Her Peak in New Hampshire (By BETH UMLAND, Feb. 9, 2001)
Family Fare: Dash of Salt for Theater (By LAUREL GRAEBER, Feb. 9, 2001)
ART: 'The Global Guggenheim': A Shimmering Beauty From Modern Masters (By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 9, 2001)
ART: Correggio and Parmigianino, With a Hard Act to Follow (By ROBERTA SMITH, Feb. 9, 2001)
Inside Art: Whitney's '02 Biennial (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 9, 2001)
ART: In Galleries (By JAN DIBBETS, Feb. 9, 2001)
Antiques: Dog Treats for Admiring Humans (By WENDY MOONAN, Feb. 9, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Love, Etc.': An Old Love Triangle Reassembled in a New Decade (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 9, 2001)
CLASSICAL MUSIC: A Missa Solemnis That Mines the Past and Future (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 9, 2001)
DANCE: 'Dances at a Gathering': Resurrecting a Treasured Classic, Step by Step (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 9, 2001)
DANCE: 'Talking Dance': Thinking Aloud About Movement (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 9, 2001)
DANCE: 'When the World Smells Like Bacon': A Tasty B.L.T for a Meditator Writ Large (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 9, 2001)
DESIGN: 'Workspaces': Products of a Modern Dreamscape (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Feb. 9, 2001)
FILM: 'Hannibal': Whetting That Large Appetite for Second Helpings (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 9, 2001)
FILM: 'Saving Silverman': Escaping an Evil Woman, Who (Gasp!) Reads (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 9, 2001)
FILM: 'New York in the 50's': When All Were Young and So Very Earnest (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 9, 2001)
FILM: 'Love, Honour and Obey': The Gangster Movie Reinvented as Farce (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 9, 2001)
FILM: 'Signs and Wonders': Adultery, and the Heartaches It Causes (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 9, 2001)
FILM: 'The Taste of Others': When Even Semi-Opposites Attract (By Stephen Holden, Feb. 9, 2001)
FILM: 'Journey to the Sun': Turmoil in Istanbul, Above and Underground (By Elvis Mitchell', Feb. 9, 2001)
At the Movies: A Journey Into Directing (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 9, 2001)
Home Video: Seeing DVD, Seeing the Light (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Feb. 9, 2001)
OPERA: 'Makropulos Case': Tough Life Lessons From Anja Silja (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 9, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs by Hiroji Kubota: Scavenging to Fill Empty Bellies (By GRACE GLUECK, Feb. 9, 2001)
THEATER: Annie's Got Her Gun Again, and Hits the Clay Pigeons (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 9, 2001)
THEATER: Social Detectives for Life's Confusions (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 9, 2001)
THEATER: On Stage and Off: Stepping In for the Stars (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Feb. 9, 2001)
TV WEEKEND: Haven': The Story of the Interned Jewish Refugees (By CARYN JAMES, Feb. 9, 2001)
HEALTH: Cancer Painkillers Are Being Abused on Streets (By FRANCIS X. CLINES with BARRY MEIER, Feb. 9, 2001)
* Profits on Cosmetic Save a Cure for Sleeping Sickness (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 9, 2001)
Newly Discovered Molecule Is a Clue to the Spread of AIDS (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 9, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Tiniest of Particles Pokes Big Hole in Physics Theory (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 9, 2001)
* A Tiny Force of Nature Is Stronger Than Thought (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 9, 2001)
79 Shark Attacks Reported Last Year (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 9, 2001)
Yellowstone Moose Learn to Avoid Predators (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 9, 2001)

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001:
On This Day: February 8 (Il Guercino 2/8/1591-12/22/1666, Jacques Cassini 2/8/1677-4/18/1756, Daniel Bernoulli 2/8/1700-3/17/1782, John Ruskin 2/8/1819-1/20/1900, William T. Sherman 2/8/1820-2/14/1891, Jules Verne 2/8/1828-3/24/1905, Dame Edith Evans 2/8/1888-10/14/1976, King Vidor 2/8/1894-11/1/1982, Chester Carlson 2/8/1906-9/19/1968, Elizabeth Bishop 2/8/1911-10/6/1979, Lana Turner 6/29/1995, Jack Lemmon 1925, John Williams 1932, Ted Koppel 1940, Nick Nolte 1941, Robert Klein 1942, Brooke Adams 1949, Mary Steenburgen 1953, John Grisham 1955, Gary Coleman 1968)
Communications Bill Signed, and the Battles Begin Anew (By Edmund L. Andrews, February 8, 1996)
* Martin Buber, 87, Dies in Israel; Renowned Jewish Philosopher
[2/8/1878-6/13/1965] (NY TIMES, June 14, 1965)
* Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Author and Aviator, Dies at 94 (By ERIC PACE, Feb. 8, 2001)
* Dale Evans, Queen of the West in 40's and 50's, Dies at 88 (By JAMES BARRON, Feb. 8, 2001)
Bernard Asbell, Author Who Began as Folk Singer, Dies at 77 (By IRVIN MOLOTSKY, Feb. 8, 2001)
William A. Beardslee, Biblical Scholar, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 8, 2001)
H. Otto Hirschler, 87, Who Aided Space Program, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 8, 2001)
To Blunt Criticism, Bush Reunites Working Families Backing His Tax Cut
(By MARC LACEY with RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 8, 2001)
Officer Shoots Armed Man Near White House Fence (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 8, 2001)
Want a Tax Cut? You Bet. Well, Maybe Not. (By KEVIN SACK, Feb. 8, 2001)
Bush Outlines His Principles for Protecting Patient Rights (By ROBERT PEAR, Feb. 8, 2001)
Independent Counsel Set to Withdraw Into History (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Feb. 8, 2001)
Clintons Return Disputed Household Gifts (By MARIAN BURROS & JOHN LELAND, Feb. 8, 2001)
Officials Say Investigation Will Go On Despite Presidential Pardon (By MICHAEL MOSS, Feb. 8, 2001)
Witness Describes Break With Group Led by bin Laden (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 8, 2001)
News Analysis: Many Challenges, Little Time for Sharon (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 8, 2001)
Sharon Starts Out by Trying to Assemble a Coalition (By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr., Feb. 8, 2001)
THE ARABS: Arabs Have Mixed Feelings for Sharon (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 8, 2001)
Senate Ends Bitter Dispute With the U.N. on U.S. Dues (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Feb. 8, 2001)
British City Defines Diversity and Tolerance [Leicester: nonwhite majority] (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 8, 2001)
* Johannesburg Journal: A Tour That Finds Poetry in a City's Grimy Walls (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Feb. 8, 2001)
C.I.A. Chief Sees Russia Trying to Revive Its Challenge to U.S. (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 8, 2001)
Book Calling Holocaust a Shakedown Starts a German Storm (By ROGER COHEN, Feb. 8, 2001)
Big Toymakers Cut Back at Fair (By GLENN COLLINS, Feb. 8, 2001)
Public Lives: An Actor Tries Hand at Editing
[Tim Blake Nelson; Karenna Gore Schiff; Hugh Martin] (By SHAILA K. DEWAN with LINDA LEE, Feb. 8, 2001)
Public Profile: 'V' for Victorious, Among Other Things (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Feb. 8, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Al Gore, Off the Record (NY TIMES, Feb. 8, 2001)
EDITORIAL: The White House Shooting (NY TIMES, Feb. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: Stop Them Before They Overspend Again (By ROBERT D. REISCHAUER, Feb. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: The Serpent in the Camera (By CAROLYN CURIEL, Feb. 8, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: The 'New' Sharon? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 8, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Sharon, Arafat and Mao (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 8, 2001)
LETTERS: When a Veil Is Lifted, Is the Magic Gone? (By MAURICE J. BAUMGARTEN, Feb. 8, 2001)
LETTERS: Philosophers' Habitats (By LINDSAY WATERS, Harvard University Press Editor, Feb. 8, 2001)
* ART: Phillips Buys Cézanne and van Gogh Collection and Plans an Auction (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 8, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: Cartier-Bresson Chafes Over Photographs of His Well-Guarded Face (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 8, 2001)
BOOKS: 'A Painted House': Watching Grass Grow and Men Fight (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 8, 2001)
MAKING BOOKS: Little Squares and Big Sales (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Feb. 8, 2001)
Culture Notes: Sumer Is Icumen (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 8, 2001)
DANCE: Castanets and a Mazurka in Paris's 'Paquita' (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 8, 2001)
DANCE: 'Opus Cactus': Leaping Lizards and Odd Denizens of the Desert (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 8, 2001)
Jazz Composers Collective: Innovative or Traditional? Why Not Both? (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 8, 2001)
MUSIC: Alisa Weilerstein: A Young Cellist With Energy to Spare (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 8, 2001)
THEATER: 'Stage Door': The Glow of the Footlights Beckons the Young and Free (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 8, 2001)
TV: 'Goin' to Chicago': Sharecroppers' Promised Land (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 8, 2001)
LIVING: What $50 Million Buys in the Hamptons (By TRACIE ROZHON, Feb. 8, 2001)
Gender Wars on the Home Front: It's a Man's World (By RICK MARIN, Feb. 8, 2001)
Yes-Dearing Your Way to a Happy Marriage? (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Feb. 8, 2001)
The MaxiMog: A Swiss Army Knife on Wheels (By CHEE PEARLMAN, Feb. 8, 2001)
GARDENING: Garden Q&A: Urn Planting (By LESLIE LAND, Feb. 8, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 8, 2001)
In Tapping Net, F.B.I. Insists Privacy Is Not a Victim (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 8, 2001)
* Internet Age Becomes the Dark Age (By KATIE HAFNER, Feb. 8, 2001)
* STATE OF THE ART: Photos Go Beyond the Inkjet (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 8, 2001)
HOW IT WORKS: Machines Let Resorts Please Skiers When Nature Won't (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Feb. 8, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: Controls Rely on the Twitch of a Muscle, Not the Twitch of a Mouse (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Feb. 8, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: A Quest of Modest Aims: Garbage In, Garbage Out (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Feb. 8, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Taking Video Games Seriously, as Art and Product (By JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Feb. 8, 2001)
GAME THEORY: Inside a Bomber, a Window Seat for the War (By PETER OLAFSON, Feb. 8, 2001)
Gawking at Skylines Without Blocking Traffic (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 8, 2001)
* Looking at RefDesk.com, Colin Powell's Favorite Web Site (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, Feb. 8, 2001)
* Gadget Tries to Lengthen Young Attention Spans (By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS, Feb. 8, 2001)
Wiretap Laws: Defining Limits of Privacy Rights (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 8, 2001)
Damage Control: How to Protect Your Computer Against Blackouts (By KATIE HAFNER, Feb. 8, 2001)
The Quiet Beatle Makes Playful Noise Online (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Feb. 8, 2001)
A New Music Player Marries MP3's With CD's (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 8, 2001)
More Storage in Your Pocket For the Computer on Your Lap (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Feb. 8, 2001)
* Search Engine Hunts for Gold Beneath the Surface of the Web (By LISA GUERNSEY, Feb. 8, 2001)
Compaq Cuts Frills and Price on iPAQ Personal Organizer (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 8, 2001)
Q & A: Another Ingredient in Alphabet Soup: VCD (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 8, 2001)
* SCIENCE: New Calculation of Universe's Age (By REUTERS, Feb. 8, 2001)
Shuttle Atlantis Heads for Space Station Carrying Laboratory (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 8, 2001)
HEALTH: Mental Decline Is Linked to Heart Bypass Surgery (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 8, 2001)
Drug-Resistant Strains Have Increased to 14% Among New H.I.V. Cases (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 8, 2001)

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001:
On This Day: February 7 (Thomas More 2/7/1477-7/6/1535, John Deere 2/7/1804-5/17/1886, Charles Dickens 2/7/1812-6/9/1870, Sir James Murray 2/7/1837-7/26/1915, Laura Ingalls Wilder 2/7/1867-2/10/1957, Alfred Adler 2/7/1870-5/28/1937, Eubie Blake 2/7/1883-2/12/1983, Sinclair Lewis 2/7/1885-1/10/1951, Buster Crabbe 2/7/1910-4/23/1983, Gay Talese 1932, Garth Brooks 1962, Chris Rock 1966)
2 Astronauts Float Free in Space, 170 Miles Up (By John Noble, February 7, 1984)
Death Of Fred Douglass at 78 [2/7/1817-2/20/1895] (NY TIMES, February 21, 1895)
Howard L. Clark, American Express Executive, Dies at 84 (By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN, Feb. 7, 2001)
Larry Fisher, Developer and Philanthropist, Dies at 93 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 7, 2001)
Norbert V. Osterland, Former Green Stamps Executive, Dies at 81 (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2001)
Frances Bible, Star of City Opera, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2001)
California Narrowly Averts Power Cutoff (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 7, 2001)
News Analysis: Democrats Question Bush's Promises of Flexibility (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 7, 2001)
Congressional Republicans See Bush's Big Tax Cut, and Think Bigger (By ALISON MITCHELL, Feb. 7, 2001)
Washington Talk: Celebrating the Birthday and Legacy of Reagan (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 7, 2001)
After Election, Clinton and Gore Had Tense Discussion on Blame (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Feb. 7, 2001)
In a Crisis, Bay Area Is Calm but Cranky (By EVELYN NIEVES, Feb. 7, 2001)
OVERVIEW: Sharon Easily Ousts Barak to Become Israel's Premier (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 7, 2001)
Man in the News: Ariel Sharon Is a Warrior Who Confounds (By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr., Feb. 7, 2001)
FESTIVITIES: For Likud Party, Sharon Is the 'King of Israel' (By JOEL GREENBERG, Feb. 7, 2001)
'Disaster' to Some Palestinians but Others See Little Change (By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr., Feb. 7, 2001)
A Trek to See if Only Memories Survived Quake (By BARRY BEARAK, Feb. 7, 2001)
Ex-Aide to bin Laden Describes Terror Campaign Aimed at U.S. (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 7, 2001)
China Steps Up War on Sect, but Some Denounce Attacks (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 7, 2001)
* Chengdu Journal: Chinese Man of a Thousand Faces Planning to Share a Few
(By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 7, 2001)
* From Gore, an Off-the-Record (Kind of) Lecture (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 7, 2001)
* Joe Franklin, the King of Nostalgia, Enters a New Realm (By JANNY SCOTT, Feb. 7, 2001)
In a Society of Their Own, Children Are Learning (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 7, 2001)
EDITORIAL: President Reagan at 90 (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: Israel's Vote for a Safe Peace (By BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Feb. 7, 2001)
* OP-ED: Capturing the Light (By ALAN LIGHTMAN, Feb. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Taxing My Patience (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 7, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Bums and Rushes (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 7, 2001)
BUSINESS: Technology Gains, but Dow Slips After Topping 11,000
[Dow -8, Nasdaq +21] (By REUTERS, Feb. 7, 2001)
* Cisco Results Miss the Mark (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 7, 2001)
* Market Place: A No-Nonsense Portrait of Amazon (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 7, 2001)
* CYBERTIMES EDUCATION: On Campus, Free Fast Internet Access Is No Longer a Given
(By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Feb. 7, 2001)
Hughes Nears Deal to Create Giant Satellite TV Network
(By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Feb. 7, 2001)
Disney Posts First-Quarter Drop in Net (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Feb. 7, 2001)
Advertising: Many Gatorade Spots on Disney (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 7, 2001)
Management: An Executive Who Relishes Taking the Riskier Route (By DAVID BARBOZA, Feb. 7, 2001)
Workplace: Miss Manners Would Be Appalled (By AMIE PARNES, Feb. 7, 2001)
My Job: I See Your Pets as Your Children (By SHELDON Z. YESSENOW, Feb. 7, 2001)
* The Boss: Many Think of Me as Lucky (By DONALD J. TRUMP, Feb. 7, 2001)
Lucent Closes Silicon Valley Laboratory (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 7, 2001)
Survey Shows Job Cuts at an 8-Year High (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 7, 2001)
Ecuador Becomes New Market for Counterfeit Money (By LARRY ROHTER, Feb. 7, 2001)
Trade Feud on Bananas Not as Clear as It Looks (By BRIAN LAVERY, Feb. 7, 2001)
ARTS ABROAD: How an Anti-Mafia Film Struck an Italian Chord
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 7, 2001)
BALLET: NYC Ballet: Tharp Meets Beethoven, and Ballerinas Bustle (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 7, 2001)
BOOKS: 'The Adversary': One Lie, Then Another, Then Only One Way Out
(By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 7, 2001)
Culture Notes: Slovak Talents (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 7, 2001)
DANCE: NYC Ballet: Music & the Macabre With Spellbinding Power (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 7, 2001)
FILM: 'Bad Company': A Youthful Fantasy of Love Turned Inside Out (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 7, 2001)
MIXED MEDIA: Lands Without Plenty: Images of Asia (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 7, 2001)
MUSIC: 'King Arthur': A Magnificent Farewell to the King (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 7, 2001)
PHOTOGRAPHY: News Photographer's Quick Eye Revealed an Artist at Heart
(By STEPHEN KINZER, Feb. 7, 2001)
POP REVIEW: Barbara Cook: Yearning That Leads to Wisdom (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 7, 2001)
THEATER: 'Dido, Queen of Carthage': One Way to Respond if a Man Decides to Leave
(By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Feb. 7, 2001)
TV: 'Haven': Bucking U.S. Officialdom to Shelter Wartime Jews (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 7, 2001)
TV: 'Jewel': A Mother Struggles With Down Syndrome (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 7, 2001)
TV Notes: The XFL Files as Extreme Hit (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 7, 2001)
* Ginger, in Full Flower [5 recipes] (By AMANDA HESSER, Feb. 7, 2001)
Hawaii: Where Spam Ruled, a Cuisine Thrives [3 recipes] (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Feb. 7, 2001)
The Chef, Charlie Trotter: Ultrasucculent Vegetables [2 recipes] (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2001)
The Minimalist: Break Out the Walnuts [Pasta with Walnuts & Olive Oil] (By MARK BITTMAN, Feb. 7, 2001)
That Old Caramel Magic Is All in the Color [2 recipes] (By DORIE GREENSPAN, Feb. 7, 2001)
Test Kitchen: Japanese Slim vs. the German Heavyweights (By DENISE LANDIS, Feb. 7, 2001)
* SCIENCE: Japanese Scientists to Closely Monitor Mount Fuji (By REUTERS, Feb. 7, 2001)
Cosmonaut Bids Fond Farewell to Mir [after 15 years in space] (By REUTERS, Feb. 7, 2001)
Rare Salt-Water Camel May Be Separate Species (By REUTERS, Feb. 7, 2001)
HEALTH: Women's Health Is No Longer a Man's World (By TAMAR LEWIN, Feb. 7, 2001)
* Study Finds No Correlation Between Cell Phones and Cancer (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 7, 2001)

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2001:
On This Day: February 6 (Aaron Burr 2/6/1756-9/14/1836, Sir Charles Wheatstone 2/6/1802-10/19/1875, F.W.H. Myers 2/6/1843-1/17/1901, George Tyrrell 2/6/1861-7/15/1909, Melvin Tolson 2/6/1898-8/29/1966, Eva Braun 2/6/1913-12/9/1996, Mary D. Leakey 2/6/1913-12/9/1996, Francois Truffaut 2/6/1932-10/21/1984, Ronald Reagan 1911, Zsa Zsa Gabor 1917, Rip Torn 1931, Tom Brokaw 1940, Fabian Forte 1943, Natalie Cole 1950)
* King George VI Dies in Sleep at 56; Succeeded by Daughter Elizabeth II
(By Raymond Daniell, February 6, 1952)
* Babe Ruth Dies at 53, Baseball's Great Star and Idol of Children
[2/6/1895-8/16/1948] (By MURRAY SCHUMACH, August 17, 1948)
J. J. Johnson, Jazz Trombonist, Dies at 77 (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 6, 2001)
Rodolfo Morales, Painter of Peasant Life in Mexico, Dies at 75 (By GINGER THOMPSON, Feb. 6, 2001)
Mirra Ginsberg, Translator, Dies at 91 (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2001)
Herman Liveright, Activist, Dies at 89 (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2001)
Gilbert Trigano, a Developer of Club Med, Dies at 80 (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Feb. 6, 2001)
Bush to Propose Making a Tax Cut Effective in 2001 (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 6, 2001)
Reagan Will Celebrate His 90th in a Quiet World (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 6, 2001)
Research Firm Begins Florida Ballot Review (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 6, 2001)
Pardon for Subject of Inquiry Worries Prosecutors (By KURT EICHENWALD & MICHAEL MOSS, Feb. 6, 2001)
Clintons Will Return Any Gifts Found to Belong to White House (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Feb. 6, 2001)
American Communists Come Home, on Microfilm (By IRVIN MOLOTSKY, Feb. 6, 2001)
This Second Lady Is Keeping Her Day Job [Lynne Cheney] (By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Feb. 6, 2001)
Church to Be Seized for Unpaid Taxes (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Feb. 6, 2001)
Ex-Worker Opens Fire at Illinois Plant; 5 Are Killed (By PAM BELLUCK, Feb. 6, 2001)
* In Stagnant Japan, Economic and Social Ills Match (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 6, 2001)
As Israelis Vote, Dreams of Peace Fade (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 6, 2001)
The Stock Market Has Made Inmate 90T1282 a Rich Man (By TINA KELLEY, Feb. 6, 2001)
Public Lives: The Woman Behind Lifetime TV's Surge (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 6, 2001)
Poe House and Super Bowl {Poe's "Raven" & Baltimore Ravens] (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Feb. 6, 2001)
Tunnel Vision: A Die-Hard Few Cling to Those Tokens (By RANDY KENNEDY, Feb. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: Europe Is One ‹ Until Disaster Strikes (By TONY JUDT, Feb. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: Hypocrisy Has Its Virtues (By ALAN EHRENHALT, Feb. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The War Saddam Won (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 6, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: All in the Family (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 6, 2001)
LETTERS: The Clintons and the Gift Givers (By GERALD STERN et. al., Feb. 6, 2001)
SPORTS BUSINESS: Will the XFL Fans Stay or Leave? (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Feb. 6, 2001)
BUSINESS: Worries About Technology Send Investors Into Blue Chips
[Dow +102, Nasdaq -17] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 6, 2001)
What Happens When Anchor Stores Weigh Anchor? (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Feb. 6, 2001)
* IVillage to Buy Women.com (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 6, 2001)
Razorfish to Lay Off 400 Workers (By JAYSON BLAIR, Feb. 6, 2001)
EToys to Shut Down in April (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 6, 2001)
Advertising: The Postal Service Puts Ads Everywhere (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 6, 2001)
Business Index Reflects Slowing of Economy (By Reuters, Feb. 6, 2001)
Datek Online Sees Growth (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 6, 2001)
* ART: The Many Faces of Van Gogh's Postman (By KEN JOHNSON, Feb. 6, 2001)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Car Advertisements: Creating a National Passion (By STEPHEN KINSER, Feb. 6, 2001)
BOOKS: Bits and Pieces From Writers With Buzz (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 6, 2001)
Culture Notes: Neighborly Spirit (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 6, 2001)
DANCE: In Ceaseless Motion [New York City Ballet] (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 6, 2001)
MUSIC: Christopher Taylor: Summa Cum Laude in Math, With a Taste for Messiaen
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 6, 2001)
MUSIC: Previn Drops In on Mozart, Then Visits Ravel's Sensuality (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 6, 2001)
* Musician & 15 Partners Join Forces to Acquire Multimillion-Dollar Violin (By SUSAN ELLIOTT, Feb. 6, 2001)
Musicians Are Gaining Bigger Voice in Orchestras (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Feb. 6, 2001)
THEATER: Psychedelic Light Show That's Still 21st Century (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 6, 2001)
Military-Inspired Clothes Steal a March on the Runway (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Feb. 6, 2001)
Front Row: Managing Athletes and Fashion Shows (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 6, 2001)
The Week in Science: One Dread or Another (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 6, 2001)
* Scientists See Clues to the Cosmos in the Echoes of the Big Bang (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 6, 2001)
* Asteroid Orbiter Plans a Final Close-Up (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 6, 2001)
* In the Mysterious Microscopic World, Noise Begets Silence (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 6, 2001)
What, Geeks at M.I.T.? Not With This Class (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 6, 2001)
It Takes Training and Genes to Make a Mean Dog Mean (By MARK DERR, Feb. 6, 2001)
A New Cast of Creatures at Steinbeck's Monterey Bay (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2001)
NASA Set to Deliver Station's Scientific Core (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 6, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Solar System Castaways (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 6, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: Charting Deadly Mudflows (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 6, 2001)
OBSERVATORY: The Slandered Penguin (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 6, 2001)
Experts to Study Cannibalism Site (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 6, 2001)
Experts Try to Save Asian Elephants (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 6, 2001)
HEALTH: A New Look at Estrogen and Stroke (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 6, 2001)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: The Culprits, When Good Food Goes Bad (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 6, 2001)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: Parade of Witnesses on Wonders of Walking (By JOHN LANGONEy, Feb. 6, 2001)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: First-Aid Kit for the Sleep-Deprived Woman (By JOHN LANGONE, Feb. 6, 2001)
Climbing High, but Feeling Low (By DIANNE PARTIE LANGE, Feb. 6, 2001)
VITAL SIGNS: Safety: What Drug Researchers Do Not Report (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 6, 2001)
Patterns: A Sex Difference for Asthma Patients (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 6, 2001)
Remedies: Herbal Relief for Premenstrual Syndrome (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 6, 2001)
Remedies: Herbal Relief for Premenstrual Syndrome (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 6, 2001)
Treatments: Avoiding the Needle in Croup Attacks (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 6, 2001)
At Risk: In Matters of the Heart, Family Counts (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 6, 2001)
* Q&A: Sense of Smell (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 6, 2001)

Monday, Feb. 5, 2001:
On This Day: February 5 (Marie Sevigne 2/5/1626-4/17/1696, John Carradine 2/5/1906-11/27/1988, William Burroughs 2/5/1914-8/2/1997, Robert Hofstadter 2/5/1915-11/17/1990, Red Buttons 1919, Hank Aaron 1934, Jane Bryant 1939, Stephen J. Cannell 1941, Roger Staubach 1942, Barbara Hershey 1948, Jennifer Jason Leigh 1962)
Roosevelt Asks Power to Reform Courts, Increasing the Supreme Bench to 15 Judges
(By Arthur Krock, February 5, 1937)
* Adlai Ewing Stevenson: An Urbane, Witty, Articulate Politician and Diplomat
[2/5/1900-7/14/1965] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, July 15, 1965)
Samuel H. Day Jr., Champion of Free Speech, Dies at 74 (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 5, 2001)
Dr. M. Powell Lawton, Expert on the Elderly, Dies at 77 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 5, 2001)
Abigail McCarthy, Senator's Wife, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 5, 2001)
* Iannis Xenakis, Composer Who Built Music on Mathematics, Dies at 78 (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 5, 2001)
Eddie Parker, Billiards Player, Dies at 69 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 5, 2001)
The Prosecution Unravels: The Case of Wen Ho Lee (By MATTHEW PURDY with JAMES STERNGOLD, Feb. 5, 2001)
News Analysis: California's Energy Plan Promises Market Stability, and Big Risks (By JAMES STERNGOLD, Feb. 5, 2001)
Bush Warning on Military Spending Challenges Pentagon (By JAMES DAO & STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 5, 2001)
Panel Suggests Election Changes That Let States Keep Control (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Feb. 5, 2001)
Public Lives: Katherine Harris Redux: No Longer Larger Than Life (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Feb. 5, 2001)
Bush Confronts Group of Harsh Critics: House Democrats (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 5, 2001)
Practical Questions Greet Bush Plan to Aid Religious Groups (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Feb. 5, 2001)
Bush Wants Tax Cut Sooner to Aid Economy This Year (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 5, 2001)
California Retailers Must Cut Outdoor Lighting (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 5, 2001)
With the Israeli Election at Hand, the Day After Seems in View (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 5, 2001)
Secret Witness Set to Testify in Terror Trial (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 5, 2001)
News Analysis: Allies' Mood on 'Star Wars' Shifts (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 5, 2001)
Canada Determined to Be First Neighbor to Bush (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 5, 2001)
Amid Death and Loss, Quake Survivors Strive for 'Normality' in India (By BARRY BEARAK, Feb. 5, 2001)
* Chinese Professor's Attack on a Sect Led to a Face-Off (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 5, 2001)
India Grants Refugee Status to Boy Lama (By REUTERS, Feb. 5, 2001)
Behind 4 Pardons, a Sect Eager for Political Friends (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD with ELISSA GOOTMAN, Feb. 5, 2001)
Metropolitan Diary [Irene's 6th birthday & "I'm a New Yorker"] (By ENID NEMY, Feb. 5, 2001)
Italian Festival Asks Clinton to Appear [$250,000 to play the saxophone] (NY TIMES, Feb. 5, 2001)
OP-ED: The Perils of High-Tech Voting (By EDWARD TENNER, Feb. 5, 2001)
* OP-ED: Here's to Bad Times (By DAVID CALLAHAN, Feb. 5, 2001)
* OP-ED ESSAY: The Recession Speaks (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 5, 2001)
OP-ED: Sports Are a Way of Belonging (By JIM ABBOTT, Feb. 5, 2001)
* BUSINESS: Sun to Outline Computing Strategy (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 5, 2001)
* E-Commerce Report: Comparison Sites Struggling as Well (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 5, 2001)
Can ABC Kick the Regis Habit? (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 5, 2001)
A Trick to Snoop on E-Mail (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 5, 2001)
Witty Guide to 'Survival' Is Best Seller (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 5, 2001)
* Advertising: For Those Who Don't Care Quite Enough to Send the Very Best
(By PATRICIA WINTERS LAURO, Feb. 5, 2001)
* The Search Engine as Crystal Ball (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Feb. 5, 2001)
* New Economy: A Cyberlab for Internet Behavior (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 5, 2001)
Patents: Companies Forgo Patents to Safeguard Trade Secrets (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Feb. 5, 2001)
Media Talk: NBC Election Star Accepts Offer From ABC [Claire Shipman] (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 5, 2001)
Media Talk: Report From a New York Most Never See (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 5, 2001)
Media Talk: Heartbreak, Angst, Soul-Searching. Really. (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 5, 2001)
Compressed Data: Florida Votes Cost Investors Money (By TIM RACE, Feb. 5, 2001)
Compressed Data: The Reports Just Kept Coming, and Coming (By SUSAN STELLIN, Feb. 5, 2001)
* ARTS ONLINE: The New Canvas: Artists Use Online Auctions for Art Projects (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Feb. 5, 2001)
BOOKS: Dispute Over Authorship of a Prizewinning Memoir by an Ethiopian-Born Man (By DINITIA SMITH, Feb. 5, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Dirty Havana Trilogy': It's Hard Work Being a Hedonist in Cuba (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 5, 2001)
Culture Notes: Feasting the Eyes [Prints by Wayne Thiebau] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 5, 2001)
DANCE: Momix: A Dance Troupe Brings Zany Antics That Defy the Impossible (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 5, 2001)
FILM: The Screenwriter for 'Traffic' Says He Drew on His Past of Drug Use (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 5, 2001)
JAZZ: Burton/McPherson Quartert: A Band That Has Learned to Take It a Little Easier (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 5, 2001)
MUSIC: Zoltan Kocsis: What if Beethoven Had Been Dozing Quietly at the Y? (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 5, 2001)
Musicians Sing Out & the N. Y. Philharmonic Listens (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL & DOREEN CARVAJAL, Feb. 5, 2001)
OPERA: 'L'Italiana in Algeri': Nonsense Bows to Sweetness and Pain (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 5, 2001)
THEATER: 'Hymn to the Rising Sun': A Lesson in Degradation and Inhumanity (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 5, 2001)
TV CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: XFL: Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? (By CARYN JAMES, Feb. 5, 2001)

Sunday, Feb. 4, 2001:
On This Day: February 4 (Clement Ader 2/4/1841-3/5/1926, Ludwig Prandtl 2/4/1875-8/15/1953, Fernand Leger 2/4/1881-8/17/1955, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2/4/1906-4/9/1945, Clyde W. Tombaugh 2/4/1906-1/17/1997, Rosa Parks 1913, Betty Friedan 1921, Conrad Bain 1923, David Brenner 1945, Dan Quayle 1947, Alice Cooper 1948, Pamela Franklin 1950)
Patricia Hearst, Granddaughter of Hearst Abducted by 3 (By Wallace Turner, February 4, 1974)
* Daring Lindbergh Dies at 72; Attained the Unattainable With Historic Flight Across Atlantic
[2/4/1902-8/26/1974] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, August 27, 1974)
Cesare Maltoni, Italian Oncologist, Dies at 70 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 4, 2001)
Robert Lee, Only Chief of Chiefs of Mardi Gras Indians, Dies at 85 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
Abigail McCarthy, Senator's Wife, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 4, 2001)
Tom Lea, Artist and Author, Dies at 93 (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
Clay Lancaster, Helped Save Historic Districts, Dies at 83 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
Kitty Buck, Baked Cakes For the Famous and the Powerful, Dies at 93 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
Eddie Parker, Inspired "The Hustler," Dies at 69 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 4, 2001)
Gilbert Trigano, Co-Founder of Club Med, Dies at 80 (By REUTERS, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Making of a Suspect: The Case of Wen Ho Lee (By MATTHEW PURDY, Feb. 4, 2001)
As Their Numbers Soar, Birders Seek Political Influence to Match (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Feb. 4, 2001)
Democrats Choose Terry McAuliffe to Lead Party (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Feb. 4, 2001)
Gas-Rich Desert Will Test Bush's Environmental Resolve (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Feb. 4, 2001)
Bush Aides Debate Ways to Press China Over Rights (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 4, 2001)
The U.N. Offers 87 Remedies to Help Poor Nations Develop (By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN, Feb. 4, 2001)
India's Bureaucracy Hinders Quake Response (By JOHN F. BURNS, Feb. 4, 2001)
Hong Kong to Monitor Falun Gong More Closely, Official Says (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 4, 2001)
Pardon in U.S. for Marc Rich Creates Storm in Switzerland (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Feb. 4, 2001)
World's First Transplanted Hand Amputated (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Feb. 4, 2001)
In Embassy Bombing Trial, Charges of a Global Conspiracy (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 4, 2001)
What Gift-Givers Can Do With a Presidential Check (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 4, 2001)
Bargain Meals at High-End Spots Mean Low-End Tips for Waiters (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mr. Bush's Smooth Start (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
Super Bowl Snooping [surveillance cameras photographed spectators] (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: The Mystery of Economic Recessions (By ROBERT J. SHILLER, Feb. 4, 2001)
* OP-ED: The Thwarted Promise of the 13 Days (By SERGEI KHRUSHCHEV, Feb. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: LIBERTIES: Fork It Over (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 4, 2001)
OP-ED: RECKONINGS: Guns and Bitterness (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 4, 2001)
LETTERS: Children, See a Land of Gentler TV (By BARB MAGER et. al., Feb. 4, 2001)
* The Story of Redemption Resonates in America (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 4, 2001)
SHORT CIRCUIT: Deregulation: A Movement Groping in the Dark (By ALEX BERENSON, Feb. 4, 2001)
THE NATION: In God We Trust. In Government We Hope for the Best. (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
THE WORLD: The Missile Shield's Tough Sell (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 4, 2001)
THE WORLD: Looking Like War to Keep the Peace (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 4, 2001)
LOSING BY WINNING: China Scores a Propaganda Coup Against Falun Gong (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 4, 2001)
IDEAS & TRENDS: Critics of Biotechnology Are Called Imperialists (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 4, 2001)
Remarkable Forensic Work Behind Lockerbie Verdict (By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR., Feb. 4, 2001)
AIDS and Mad Cow Disease: Two Epidemics That Are Alike (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 4, 2001)
Will the Democrats Decide to Get Mad or Get Even? (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Automated Pen Causes Awkward Political Moments (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 4, 2001)
* OF LITTLE BRAIN: Ritalin to the Rescue: A Children's Story for Our Time (By KATE ZERNIKE, Feb. 4, 2001)
Keeping an Ear on Bush (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 4, 2001)
BUSINESS: Hedging Your Bets? Look Homeward, Investor (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 4, 2001)
* Market Watch: In Technology, Caution Is Still the Better Part of Wisdom (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 4, 2001)
* Creating the Soul of a Robotic Dog (By JULIAN E. BARNES, Feb. 4, 2001)
* A Buyer's Market: The Dot-Com Liquidation Sale (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Feb. 4, 2001)
* Strategies: Is the Super Bowl Theory a Champion or an Impostor? (By MARK HULBERT, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Dividend Check Isn't in the Mail (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
Pay and Security Are Worries in Silicon Alley, Survey Finds (By JAYSON BLAIR, Feb. 4, 2001)
Lori Appelbaum Finds Skeletons in Bank Closets (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Feb. 4, 2001)
Economic View: Steve H. Hanke Would Rather Take Criticism Then Obscurity (By ANTHONY DePALMA, Feb. 4, 2001)
On the Contrary: How to Fix the Economy Without Even Touching It (By DANIEL AKST, Feb. 4, 2001)
Market Insight: Reassessing the Brokers as Rates Come Down (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 4, 2001)
Seniority: Talking Back to Doctors Is Good Medicine (By FRED BROCK, Feb. 4, 2001)
Money & Medicine: Will Doctors Make Your Credit Sick? (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Feb. 4, 2001)
Investing with Peter I. Higgins: Dreyfus MidCap Value Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 4, 2001)
Defending English From Assault on the Job (By JOHN HENDREN, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Option as Shield in a Shaky Market (By JOANNE LEGOMSKY, Feb. 4, 2001)
Private Sector: Toasting Cheney's Victory With Coke? This Is Loyalty? (Compiled By RICK GLADSTONE, Feb. 4, 2001)
Business Diary: Is That Al Gore on My $300 Bill? (By, Feb. 4, 2001)
Business Diary: Is That Al Gore on My $300 Bill? (By Dylan Loeb McClain, Feb. 4, 2001)
Investing Diary: Suit Challenges Buyout That Won Fed Approval (By Robert D. Hershey Jr., Feb. 4, 2001)
Personal Business Diary: The Unexpected Cost of Paying Bills Late (By Vivian Marino, Feb. 4, 2001)
Letters: Of Offers and Counteroffers (By JONATHAN SACK & REG BROWN, Feb. 4, 2001)
LIVING: Here Come the Kids: Gen Y Invades the Workplace (By NELSON MUI, Feb. 4, 2001)
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE: The Duchess of York Reinvents Herself (By ALEX WITCHEL, Feb. 4, 2001)
OUT THERE: The Irish, These Days, Stay Home and Go Out (By GORDON F. SANDER, Feb. 4, 2001)
VOWS: Johanna Azoulay and Marshall Kiev (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Feb. 4, 2001)
ON THE STREET: Out for a Swirl [8 photos slideshow] (By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Feb. 4, 2001)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: An Ice-Breaking Expedition With George Butler (By LINDA LEE, Feb. 4, 2001)
NOTICED: Learning to Accessorize Those Chinny-Chin-Chins (By RUTH LA FERLA, Feb. 4, 2001)
Letters: A True Depression Doll (By NANCY FINLEY, Feb. 4, 2001)
TRAVEL: Seven Days on a Floating Colossus (By SARAH FERRELL, Feb. 4, 2001)
PRACTICAL TRAVELER: First Cruise? A Primer (By BETSY WADE, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Complete Spring/Summer Cruise Directory (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
Running Away to Tahiti (By ANN COSTELLO, Feb. 4, 2001)
Sun, Ice and Explorers' Graves (By JOHN FREEMAN GILL, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Alternative Routes: River and Canal Cruises (By VERNON KIDD, Feb. 4, 2001)
What's Doing in Rio (By LARRY ROHTER, Feb. 4, 2001)
* Peeling the Layers of History in Berlin (By DAISANN McLANE, Feb. 4, 2001)
CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT: The Future Is Foggy on Fisherman's Wharf (By EDWIN McDOWELL, Feb. 4, 2001)
ART: Dan Flavin: The Last Great Art of the 20th Century (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 4, 2001)
ART: 'Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico': Gathered Vestiges of a Covered-Wagon Diaspora (By JOSHUA BROCKMAN, Feb. 4, 2001)
ARCHITECTURE: Defining Architectural Beauty in Swanky American Terms (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Feb. 4, 2001)
* DANCE: A Brand of Tap Dance Springing From Europe's Streets (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 4, 2001)
DANCE: What Is `Black Dance'? A Cultural Melting Pot (By CHRISTOPHER REARDON, Feb. 4, 2001)
FILM: 'The Taste of Others': A French Film About Love and Class (By LAURA WINTERS, Feb. 4, 2001)
FILM: Dear Diary: I've Made It to Sundance. Yes, Sundance! (By BRUCE WAGNER, Feb. 4, 2001)
FILM: Ed Pressman: The Rare Film Producer Honored for His Art (By DAVID THOMSON, Feb. 4, 2001)
* MUSIC: John Cage Was Not Only All Ears, He Was All Eyes, Too (By KAY LARSON, Feb. 4, 2001)
* MUSIC: The 'St. Louis Blues' Saved His Life at Auschwitz (By KEN SHULDMAN, Feb. 4, 2001)
MUSIC: Jean-Yves Thibaudet: The Show Stealer Is Now the Show (By ALBERT INNAURATO, Feb. 4, 2001)
MUSIC: Recordings: Fantasies and a 'Phantasy' [Schubert's "Wanderer" (D. 760)] (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
OPERA: Maria Guleghina: A Soprano Who Stands Time's Test (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Feb. 4, 2001)
RADIO: Indian Country Radio Sends a Stronger Signal (By CATHERINE C. ROBBINS, Feb. 4, 2001)
THEATER: Medea, Witch and Woman, Takes Paris and London (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 4, 2001)
THEATER: Kia Corthron: A Playwright Who's Unafraid to Admit She's Political (By DON SHEWEY, Feb. 4, 2001)
* ON LANGUAGE: my... what? [How to hail and how to bid farewell] (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 4, 2001)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Here Comes The Sun (By ALAN BURDICK, Feb. 4, 2001)
QUESTIONS FOR ALAN WEBB: Life in the Fast Lane (By AMY BARRETT, Feb. 4, 2001)
THE ETHICIST: Cult Objects (BY RANDY COHEN, Feb. 4, 2001)
SALIENT FACTS: ANTISMOKING CAMPAIGN: Rotten Teeth and Dead Babies (By ANDY NEWMAN, Feb. 4, 2001)
DOCUMENTS: Movie Madness (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
* A Desire to Duplicate [human cloning] (By MARGARET TALBOT, Feb. 4, 2001)
* The 9-Year-Old Poet With the Big Advance (By DWIGHT GARNER, Feb. 4, 2001)
In Lieu of Manners (By JEFFREY ROSEN, Feb. 4, 2001)
Tiananmen's Shadow (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 4, 2001)
STYLE: Season of The Witch (By NELL SCOVELL, Feb. 4, 2001)
FOOD: Fish Out of Water [2 recipes] (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Feb. 4, 2001)
LIVES: A Soggy Protest (Photos: LAURA KLEINHENZ, Text: COURTNEY ELDRIDGE, Feb. 4, 2001)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
Millions for Defense [2 Books on the Microsoft Antitrust Trial] (By ADAM LIPT, Feb. 4, 2001)
Supply-Side Oncology [Robert Cooke, 'Dr. Folkman's War'] (By HOWARD MARKEL, Feb. 4, 2001)
Up From the Slush Pile [Jason Epstein, 'Book Business'] (By LAURENCE J. KIRSHBAUM, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Doctor Who Came In From the Cold [Jerri Nielsen, 'Ice Bound'] (By KATHERINE BOUTON, Feb. 4, 2001)
The A List [Lewis MacAdams, 'Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and American Avant-Garde'] (By DAVID KELLY, Feb. 4, 2001)
God's Ghostwriters [Israel Finkelstein & Neil A. Silberman'The Bible Unearthed'] (By PHYLLIS TRIBLE, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Fountain of Age [Chester Higgins Jr., 'Elder Grace'] (By BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON, Feb. 4, 2001)
1066 and All That [Simon Schama, 'History of Britain'] (By PATRICK WORMALD, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Silence [The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy] (By CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN, Feb. 4, 2001)
Sequels of War [Jeff Wheelwright, 'The Irritable Heart'] (By BERYL LIEFF BENDERLY, Feb. 4, 2001)
Ghostbuster [Don DeLillo, 'The Body Artist'] (By ADAM BEGLEY, Feb. 4, 2001)
A Holy River Runs Through It [Peggy Payne, 'Sister India'] (By DEBORAH MASON, Feb. 4, 2001)
The Road Home [Poetry: Franz Wright, 'The Beforelife'] (By ELIZABETH MACKLIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
No Pain, No Gain [John Biguenet, 'The Torturer's Apprentice'] (By KATHERINE WOLFF, Feb. 4, 2001)
Terry McMillan, "A Day Late and a Dollar Short' (By RUTH COUGHLIN, Feb. 4, 2001)
A Leni Riefenstahl Anthology (By TED LOOS, Feb. 4, 2001)
Whitney Balliett, "Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954-2000" (By JEFF WAGGONER, Feb. 4, 2001)
John Noble Wilford, "Cosmic Dispatches: The New York Times Reports on Astronomy & Cosmology" (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2001)
* ESSAY: Remember When Books Mattered? (By WALTER KIRN, Feb. 4, 2001)

Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001:
On This Day: February 3 (Felix Mendelssohn 2/3/1809-11/4/1847, Horace Greeley 2/3/1811-11/29/1872, Norman Rockwell 2/3/1894-11/8/1978, Alvar Aalto 2/3/1898-5/11/1976, James Michener 2/3/1907-10/16/1997, Simone Weil 2/3/1909-8/24/1943, Joey Bishop 1918, Shelley Berman 1925, Paul Sarbanes 1933, Fran Tarkenton 1940, Bob Griese 1945, Morgan Fairchild 1950)
Relations With Germany Are Broken Off (ASSOCIATED PRESS, February 3, 1917)
* Gertrude Stein Dies In France, 72 [2/3/1874-7/27/1946] (NY TIMES, July 28, 1946)
Murray Edelman, 81, Professor and Pioneer in Political Science (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 3, 2001)
Nicholas C. Forstmann, Buyout Firm Partner, Dies at 54 (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 3, 2001)
Chester Rapkin,Urban Planning Theorist, Dies at 82 (By DENNIS HEVESI, Feb. 3, 2001)
Constance M. Anderson Volunteer Worker, 102 (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2001)
Carol Anne Letheren, Member Of International Olympic Panel, Dies at 58 (By JERE LONGMAN, Feb. 3, 2001)
Edmund Fuller, Novelist and Historian, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2001)
Dare Wright, Children's Author, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2001)
Energy Secretary Declines to Cap Costs of Power (By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, Feb. 3, 2001)
A Biblical Theme Park in Florida Begets Ill Will (By DANA CANEDY, Feb. 3, 2001)
Clintons to Repay $86,000 to Gift Givers of Last Year (By CARL HULSE with JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 3, 2001)
Cheney Draws on Seasoned Veterans to Support His New Role (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 3, 2001)
Bush, the Conciliator, Meets With Democrats (By DAVID E. SANGER & ALISON MITCHELL, Feb. 3, 2001)
Report Calls Networks' Election Night Coverage a Disaster (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Feb. 3, 2001)
* Religion Journal: A Church Sells Its Silver, and Finds a Silver Lining (By GUSTAV NIEBUHR, Feb. 3, 2001)
Flames Consume the Dead, but Not the Anguish of India (By BARRY BEARAK, Feb. 3, 2001)
Clinton Appears on Israeli TV to Endorse Barak (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 3, 2001)
Tapes From Fujimori Era Scandalize Peru (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 3, 2001)
Stanford Researcher Convicted and Sentenced Again in China (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 3, 2001)
* Baku Journal: How the Nobels Made a Prize of Azerbaijan's Oil (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Feb. 3, 2001)
* NYC: A Debunker? Just Call Me a Schlemiel (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 3, 2001)
At Long Last, Marriage for Diller and Von Furstenberg (By RUTH LA FERLA, Feb. 3, 2001)
SPORTS: Jeter Deal to Be 2nd Biggest in Sports [$189 million/10 years] (By BUSTER OLNEY, Feb. 3, 2001)
ON BASEBALL: Money Can't Measure Jeter's Value to Yanks (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: The Power to Pardon, the Power to Gain (By ASHA RANGAPPA, Feb. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: Will Aid Make Churches Docile? (By JIM WALLIS, Feb. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: JOURNAL: Charm School Graduate in Chief (By FRANK RICH, Feb. 3, 2001)
OP-ED: AT HOME ABROAD: Bush and AIDS (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Feb. 3, 2001)
BUSINESS: Technology Slows Market as Jobs Report Is Mixed [Dow -120, Nasdaq -122]
(By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 3, 2001)
U.S. Jobless Rate for January Rose to 4.2% From 4% (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Feb. 3, 2001)
Successes of Reality TV Put Networks in 'Survivor' Mode (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 3, 2001)
$2 Million for a Seat on the New York Stock Exchange (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 3, 2001)
Xerox Weighs Possible Sale of Some Units (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 3, 2001)
U.S. and Microsoft Agree on Procedure for Appeal (By JOEL BRINKLEY, Feb. 3, 2001)
Microsoft Network Drops $400 Rebate (By REUTERS, Feb. 3, 2001)
* ARTS: IDEAS: New York Is Home to Bright Lights and Big Thinkers (By DINITIA SMITH, Feb. 3, 2001)
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Mahler & the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Levine's Knowing Hands
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 3, 2001)
FILM: 'Valentine': How Do I Kill Thee? Let Me Count the Ways (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 3, 2001)
MUSIC: Boston Is Said to Broach Conductor's Job to Levine (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Feb. 3, 2001)
THEATER: The Empress of the Blues Comes Back to Life in 'The Devil's Music' (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 3, 2001)
CUTTINGS: A Winter Garden Changes Bleak to Bright (By PATRICIA A. TAYLOR, Feb. 3, 2001)
SCIENCE: Dry Weather Means More Woes for California (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 3, 2001)
* Sky Watch: How Many Stars Are There? (By JOE RAO, Feb. 3, 2001)
* THINK TANK: No Longer Alone: The Scientist Who Dared to Say Animals Think (By EMILY EAKIN, Feb. 3, 2001)
Mathematicians Solve XFL's Scheduling Problem (By PATRICIA COHEN, Feb. 3, 2001)

Friday, Feb. 2, 2001:
On This Day: February 2 (Lodovico Ferrari 2/2/1522-10/5/1565, Talleyrand 2/2/1754-5/17/1838, Havelock Ellis 2/2/1859-7/8/1939, Fritz Kreisler 2/2/1875-1/29/1962, George Halas 2/2/1895-10/31/1983, Jascha Heifetz 2/2/1901-12/10/1987, Ayn Rand 2/2/1905-3/6/1982, James Dickey 2/2/1923-1/19/1997, Tom Smothers 1937, Barry Diller 1942, Graham Nash 1942, Bo Hopkins 1942, Farrah Fawcett 1947, Christie Brinkley 1954)
Russians Liquidate Last Stalingrad Pocket; Nazi Army Beaten (ASSOCIATED PRESS, February 2, 1943)
* James Joyce Dies at 58; Wrote 'Ulysses' [2/2/1882-1/3/1941] (NY TIMES, January 13, 1941)
David Heneker, Lyricist for Catchy Musical Comedies, Dies at 94 (By MEL GUSSOW, Feb. 2, 2001)
O. Winston Link, Photographer, Dies at 86 (By MARGARETT LOKE, Feb. 2, 2001)
Davidson Sommers, Insurance Executive, Dies at 95 (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2001)
California Lawmakers Pass Energy Plan (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 2, 2001)
Some Black Pastors See New Aid Under Bush (By JOHN LELAND, Feb. 2, 2001)
Houston Journal: Anna Nicole Smith Gets Her Day in Probate Court (By JIM YARDLEY, Feb. 2, 2001)
Senate Confirms Ashcroft as Attorney General, 58-42, Closing a 5-Week Battle (By ALISON MITCHELL, Feb. 2, 2001)
Bush Gains Points and Loses Some During Battle Over Ashcroft (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 2, 2001)
Ashcroft Already Close to Filling Top Posts (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 2, 2001)
U.S. Clears Ex-C.I.A. Chief Over Secrets (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 2, 2001)
An Innocent Man Goes Free 33 Years After Conviction (By CAREY GOLDBERG, Feb. 2, 2001)
Notes Show Justice Official Knew of Pardon Application
(By RAYMOND BONNER & ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Feb. 2, 2001)
Invigorated Lieberman Claiming New Role (By PAUL ZIELBAUER, Feb. 2, 2001)
With Conciliatory Gestures, Bush Reaches Out in Reprise of Successful Clinton Tactic
(By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 2, 2001)
Qaddafi Rants Against the U.S. in a Welcoming After Bomb Trial (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 2, 2001)
India Quake Victimizes Rich and Poor (By CELIA W. DUGGER & HARI KUMAR, Feb. 2, 2001)
Bearing Gift of Skill, Doctor Takes a Team to India (By SHERRI DAY, Feb. 2, 2001)
After Quake, Dearth of Order but Not of Supplies (By BARRY BEARAK, Feb. 2, 2001)
Barak Goes for Broke in Israeli Election (By DEBORAH SONTAG, Feb. 2, 2001)
Japan Struggles in Dealing With Its Homeless (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 2, 2001)
Friends See Naïveté, Critics a Payoff in a Clinton Fund-Raiser's Acts (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 2, 2001)
* PUBLIC PROFILE: Magazine Editor's Passion for Food Now Served Monthly (By JOHN KIFNER, Feb. 2, 2001)
* THE BIG CITY: A Groundhog Takes a Bite of the Apple (By JOHN TIERNEY, Feb. 2, 2001)
Workshop Prepares Potential Job Applicants for Interviews (By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI, Feb. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: My Germ Is Yours (By JENNIFER MOSES, Feb. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: Caught in the Electrical Fallout (By GARY LOCKE, Feb. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Fast Eat the Slow (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 2, 2001)
OP-ED: PUBLIC INTERESTS: Power Politics (By GAIL COLLINS, Feb. 2, 2001)
LETTERS: Wary, Once Again, Over the Clintons (By DAVID PARDUE et. al., Feb. 2, 2001)
LETTERS: Cell-Phone Rage: I Can't Take It Anymore! (By LELDE GILMAN & J. DENNIS DELANEY, Feb. 2, 2001)
BUSINESS: Dow Closes at 4-Month High on Hope for More Rate Cuts
[Dow +96, Nasdaq +10] (By REUTERS, Feb. 2, 2001)
* Floyd Norris: Amazon's Losses Grow as They Seem to Shrink (By Floyd Norris, Feb. 2, 2001)
* Chief Resigns at Terra Lycos After Dispute With Owners (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 2, 2001)
As U.S. Economy Slows Down, Europe Is on the Upswing (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Feb. 2, 2001)
Private Supplier Shifts Big Electricity Clients to Utility (By JAMES STERNGOLD, Feb. 2, 2001)
Advertising: Shock Advertisers Make Use of Death and Dying (By BERNARD STAMLER, Feb. 2, 2001)
Factory Index Shows Output at Its Lowest in a Decade (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 2, 2001)
Internet Media Company Buys 2 Rivals for $128 Million (By CHRIS GAITHER, Feb. 2, 2001)
Schwab Revises Days-Off Plan (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 2, 2001)
CYBER LAW: Kafkaesque? Big Brother? Finding the Right Literary Metaphor for Net Privacy
(By CARL S. KAPLAN, Feb. 2, 2001)
OUTDOORS: Sites to Browse for E-Anglers (By RAY OTTULICH, Feb. 2, 2001)
WEEKEND WARRIOR: A Different Way to Teach Children How to Ski (By JERRY BEILINSON, Feb. 2, 2001)
* ART REVIEW: Alfred Stieglitz: Proselytizing for Modernism (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 2, 2001)
* ART: An Exhibition Honors the Human Hand (By MICHAEL FRANK, Feb. 2, 2001)
* Antiques: Musical Mysteries [Catherine the Great's harpsichord] (By WENDY MOONAN, Feb. 2, 2001)
* ART: The World Invades, and Chinese Art Surrenders? Look Again. (By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 2, 2001)
ART: 'African Forms': Chattering Objects That Need No Word for Art (By ROBERTA SMITH, Feb. 2, 2001)
ART: Leonardo Drew: Walls That Talk to You About Talking to Walls (By GRACE GLUECK, Feb. 2, 2001)
Inside Art: Unsold at Auction (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 2, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Smashmouth': On the Campaign Trail, but Not After Election Day (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 2, 2001)
DANCE: Buglisi / Foreman Dance: Honoring Graham, Not Imitating Her (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 2, 2001)
FILM: 'The Million Dollar Hotel': A Mel Gibson Adventure (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 2, 2001)
FILM: 'In the Mood for Love': A Desire Soaked in Pain, Confusion & Great Need (By Elvis Mitchell, Feb. 2, 2001)
FILM: 'Fever'; First, a Murder, and Then Everything Goes Downhill (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 2, 2001)
FILM: 'Head Over Heels': Well, That's What You Get for Spying on the Neighbors (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 2, 2001)
FILM: 'Nico and Dani': His Friend Is Sweet 17, but Alas, Unavailable (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 2, 2001)
FILM: 'Left Behind: The Movie': A Biblically Inspired Tale About Dying & Surviving
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 2, 2001)
FILM: Taking the Children: En Route to the Bridal Path; Stumbles & Tumbles (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Feb. 2, 2001)
At the Movies: Bjork Goes Back to Her Music & Edward Yang's "Yi Yi" (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 2, 2001)
Home Video: Choice Films for All Seasons (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Feb. 2, 2001)
THEATER: 'Play About the Baby': Albee Laughing Dourly Ever After (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 2, 2001)
THEATER: 'The Cherry Orchard': Recalling Old Russia, Wistfully (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Feb. 2, 2001)
THEATER: On Stage and Off: 'Sea Gull' Among the Birds (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Feb. 2, 2001)
TV CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: It's Always Saturday on TV (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 2, 2001)
TV Weekend: Separate Quarters on Good Ship Lollipop (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 2, 2001)
SCIENCE: Antarctic Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 2, 2001)
China Denies Problems With Space Mission (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Feb. 2, 2001)
Scientists Search for Hidden Uses of Great Barrier Reef (By REUTERS, Feb. 2, 2001)
First Winners Announced for Engineering Prize (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 2, 2001)
* Report Finds Penguins Do Not Fall Over While Watching Aircraft (By REUTERS, Feb. 2, 2001)

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001:
On This Day: February 1 (John Philip Kemble 2/1/1757-2/26/1823, Thomas Cole 2/1/1801-2/11/1848, Stanley Granville Hall 2/1/1844-4/24/1924, Victor Herbert 2/1/1859-3/26/1924, John Ford 2/1/1895-8/31/1973, Clark Gable 2/1/1901-11/16/1960, S.J. Perelman 2/1/1904-10/17/1979, Emilio Segrè 2/1/1905-4/22/1989, Stuart Whitman 1928, Boris Yeltsin 1931, Don Everly 1937, Princess Stephanie 1965, Lisa Marie Presley 1968)
Negro Sitdowns Stir Fear Of Wider Unrest in South (By Claude Sitton, February 1, 1960)
* Langston Hughes, Writer, 65, Dead [2/1/1902-3/22/1967] (By DAVE ANDERSON, May 23, 1967)
Michel Navratil, Titanic Survivor, Dies at 92 (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2001)
Judy Davis, the Stars' Vocal Coach, Dies at 81 (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2001)
Johnnie Johnson, World War II Ace Pilot, Dies at 85 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 1, 2001)
Betty Kenward, Snobbish Chronicler, Dies at 94 (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 1, 2001)
Bush, in Outreach Bid, Meets Black Caucus (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 1, 2001)
Slowdown Doesn't Discourage Rosy Forecast for Economy (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Feb. 1, 2001)
Power Source Ends Direct Flow to California Businesses (By JAMES STERNGOLD with MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 1, 2001)
Little Left to Chance by Would-Be Party Leader [Terry McAuliffe] (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Feb. 1, 2001)
Bush Plans Modest Increase for the Pentagon (By STEVEN LEE MYERS & JAMES DAO, Feb. 1, 2001)
Bush Chad Joke Reaches Unintended Audience (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 1, 2001)
A Bizarre Dog Attack Shakes San Francisco (By EVELYN NIEVES, Feb. 1, 2001)
News Analysis: Courts Are a Limited Anti-Terror Weapon (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 1, 2001)
THE OVERVIEW: Libyan Convicted by Scottish Court in '88 Pan Am Bombing (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 1, 2001)
THE LIBYANS: Homeland Sees Political Motive in Guilty Verdict (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 1, 2001)
Snatched From the Grave: Student's 5 Days in India Rubble (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Feb. 1, 2001)
Survivor's Roommates Joyful at News (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2001)
Bush Calls Putin, Who Brings Up Kremlin Figure Held in U.S. (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 1, 2001)
* Tokyo Journal: The Japanese, It Seems, Are Outgrowing Japan (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 1, 2001)
Taiwan Legislature Reverses Leader on Contested Nuclear Plant (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 1, 2001)
Study Links Malnutrition to Stunted Growth of Tibet's Children (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 1, 2001)
U.S. Urging 2 African Visitors to Stop Fighting (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 1, 2001)
New York State Students Earn 13 of 40 Finalist Spots in Science Contest (By SUSAN SAULNY, Feb. 1, 2001)
The Return of Plain Mr. Lazio, Local Hero (By MICHAEL COOPER, Feb. 1, 2001)
Private Colleges Can Join Plan to Turn Fellows Into Teachers (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Feb. 1, 2001)
METRO MATTERS: The Senator Doth Protest Too Little (By JOYCE PURNICK, Feb. 1, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Mrs. Clinton's Unsteady Start (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: Instead of a Tax Cut, Send Out Dividends (By RICHARD FREEMAN & EILEEN APPELBAUM, Feb. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: Democracy Needs Many Voices (By DAVID HOFFMAN, Feb. 1, 2001)
OP-ED: IN AMERICA: Dead Wrong (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 1, 2001)
OP-ED ESSAY: Isn't It Rich? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 1, 2001)
LETTERS: Is It Offensive, and Is It Art? (By MARK STUART ELLISON et. al., Feb. 1, 2001)
* SPORTS: Branca Knew '51 Giants Stole Signs (By DAVE ANDERSON, Feb. 1, 2001)
SPORTS: XFL Is Reality Series That Promotes Bad Taste (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Feb. 1, 2001)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Manage Modest Gains After Fed Cuts Rates [Dow +6, Nasdaq -66] (By MICHAEL BRICK, Feb. 1, 2001)
Fed Cuts Key Rate by Half a Point, Citing Slowdown (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 1, 2001)
* Market Place: Can Greenspan's Quick Rate Cut Prevent a Recession? (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 1, 2001)
Economy Grew at Slowest Rate in 5 Years in 4th Quarter (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 1, 2001)
Europeans Again Eat Some Beef, but Farmers and Butchers Suffer (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Feb. 1, 2001)
AOL Time Warner Quarterly Loss Is Related to Merger (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Feb. 1, 2001)
AOL Time Warner to Revamp CNNfn (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 1, 2001)
Advertising: A Male Sex Symbol Enjoys the Company of Larger Women (By COURTNEY KANE, Feb. 1, 2001)
Economic Scene: Seven Lessons From Super Bowl Tickets. (By ALAN B. KRUEGER, Feb. 1, 2001)
New York Times Company's Profit Rose 3.5% in 4th Quarter (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 1, 2001)
* Amazon Offer Links Profit to Share Price (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 1, 2001)
EBay to Hide Member E-Mail Addresses (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2001)
Tech Firms Crowd Linux Conference (By REUTERS, Feb. 1, 2001)
National Semi Warns of Lower Profits (By REUTERS, Feb. 1, 2001)
ARTS: Mr. Douglas the Younger, Comfortable in His Prime (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 1, 2001)
* ARTS ABROAD: Blake's Tygers (and Much More) Burning Bright at the Tate (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 1, 2001)
* MAKING BOOKS: Why the Classics Are Retranslated (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Feb. 1, 2001)
BOOKS: 'Bing Crosby': That Easygoing Crooner, Hard to Find Amid the Details (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 1, 2001)
Culture Notes: Her Voice, His Songs (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 1, 2001)
FILM: 'Fallen Angels Paradise': He's Dead but the Party's Not (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 1, 2001)
MUSIC: New Jersey Symphony: Allowing Tchaikovsky to Mean What He Wanted (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 1, 2001)
POP REVIEW: Richard Ashcroft: A Rock God Meets Some of His Mortal Fans (By ANN POWERS, Feb. 1, 2001)
The Pop Life: The Secrets of Karnak (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 1, 2001)
THEATER: 'Barking Sharks': A Storm Brewing, in the Middle-Aged Soul and at Sea (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Feb. 1, 2001)
THEATER: 'Medal of Honor Rag': The Dark Didn't End in Vietnam (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 1, 2001)
LIVING: African Pageantry on a Pedestal (By DARYL ROYSTER ALEXANDER, Feb. 1, 2001)
DESIGN NOTEBOOK: Coyote Neighbors, Lightning Views (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Feb. 1, 2001)
PERSONAL SHOPPER: So Brilliant, Those French (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, Feb. 1, 2001)
HUMAN NATURE: An Intrepid Voyager Broadens America's Garden Repertory (By ANNE RAVER, Feb. 1, 2001)
Garden Q&A: Know Your Guests (By DORA GALITZKI, Feb. 1, 2001)
'Corporate' Achieves a Luster (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Feb. 1, 2001)
The Medicine Chest Pumps Up (By TRACIE ROZHON, Feb. 1, 2001)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2001)
STATE OF THE ART: Cordless Phones With Handset After Handset (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 1, 2001)
In China, Computer Use Erodes Traditional Handwriting, Stirring a Cultural Debate (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 1, 2001)
ONLINE SHOPPER: TV Infomercials Go Online (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Feb. 1, 2001)
* A New Way of Verifying Old and Familiar Sayings (By KATIE HAFNER, Feb. 1, 2001)
Labelers That Whir Rather Than Click (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 1, 2001)
WHAT'S NEXT: Spherical Motors May Give Robots More Grace (By ANNE EISENBERG, Feb. 1, 2001)
GAME THEORY: Evil and Repetition in Video Game (By CHARLES HEROLD, Feb. 1, 2001)
Census Software Called Highly Accurate (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 1, 2001)
Online Music Surveys Look for Future Hits (By SUE CUMMINGS, Feb. 1, 2001)
A Music-Sharing Service That Gets Along With Record Companies (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 1, 2001)
Screen Grab: Remembering Rough Rider Who Was a President (By MICHAEL POLLAK, Feb. 1, 2001)
Net Exhibition Reflects Life in the Death Camps (By SHELLY FREIERMAN, Feb. 1, 2001)
A Device Gives Visor a Sense of Direction (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 1, 2001)
New Cell Phone Batteries Harness the Power of the Sun (By ROY FURCHGOTT, Feb. 1, 2001)
When the Answer to 'Call Me' Is 'On Which Phone?' (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 1, 2001)
A Tax Program Can at Least Save Space on Your Hard Drive (By  J. D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 1, 2001)
Boarders Will Leave the Slopes for a Battle of the Thumbs (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 1, 2001)
Letters: Smelling the Coffee (By DON CHRISTENSEN et. al., Feb. 1, 2001)
Q & A: Color Depth Affects Image Quality (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 1, 2001)
SCIENCE: NASA Wrapping Up Mapping Mission of Mars (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2001)
NEAR Craft to Attempt Landing on Asteroid Eros (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2001)
Scientists Take Pulse of Sunlike Star (By REUTERS, Feb. 1, 2001)
Common Fern Found to Soak Up Arsenic Like a Sponge (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2001)
* Research Suggests Great Conductors Can Tune In (By REUTERS, Feb. 1, 2001)