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Selected Articles from The New York Times
February 2003
(* denotes news of special interest)

Friday, Feb. 28, 2003:
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)

* Fred Rogers, Host of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' Dies at 74 (By DANIEL LEWIS, Feb. 28, 2003)
Albert Hibbs, 78, Scientist and Voice of NASA Missions, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 28, 2003)
John Lanchbery, Who Arranged Music for Ballet, Dies at 79 (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 28, 2003)
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White House Reports a Decline in Colombia's Coca Cultivation (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Feb. 28, 2003)
FASHION: ON THE STREE: The Show of Shows at Bryant Park (By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Feb. 28, 2003)

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2003:
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)

Felice Lippert, a Founder of Weight Watchers, Dies at 73 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 27, 2003)
Christopher Hill, 91, Historian, Is Dead (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 27, 2003)
Vincent Liff, Casting Director for Many Broadway Hits, Dies at 52 (By JESSE McKINLEY, Feb. 27, 2003)
Daniel Taradash, Screenwriter, Dies at 90 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 27, 2003)
Howie Epstein, Bassist for Tom Petty, Dies at 47 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 27, 2003)
Eve Stillman, 97, Owner of Lingerie Company, Dies (NY TIMES, Feb. 27, 2003)
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* ECONOMIC SCENE: Looking Inside the Brains of the Stingy (By VIRGINIA POSTREL, Feb. 27, 2003)

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003:
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)

Tom Glazer, Folk Singer, Is Dead at 88 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 26, 2003)
Arthur Hauspurg, 77, Ex-Chairman of Con Ed, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 26, 2003)
Amy Miller, 90, a Founder of Shaker Village, Is Dead (By ERIC PACE, Feb. 26, 2003)
Alberto Sordi, a Film Star Exuberant in Italian Comedies, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, Feb. 26, 2003)
Fred Russell, 96, Nashville Sports Journalist (NY TIMES, Feb. 26, 2003)
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Death of French Chef Sparks Criticism (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 26, 2003)

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003:
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)

Louis LaRusso II, Playwright, Dies at 67 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 25, 2003)
Thomas Joseph Leonard, Teacher of Business Coaching, Dies at 47 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 25, 2003)
Shlomo Argov, 73, Ex-Israeli Envoy, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Bernard Loiseau, French Restaurateur, 52, Dies (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Feb. 25, 2003)
NATIONAL: Scrutiny Is on Club's Owners (By DAN BARRY & PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Feb. 25, 2003)
THE INVESTIGATION: More Victims Are Identified as Inquiry Into Fire Widens
(By SARAH KERSHAW & LYDIA POLGREEN, Feb. 25, 2003)
U.S. Crackdown Sets Off Unusual Rush to Canada (By SUSAN SACHS, Feb. 25, 2003)
Shuttle Panel Names Experts to Aid Inquiry (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Feb. 25, 2003)
Teacher in Space Is Still in NASA's Plans (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Feb. 25, 2003)
WASHINGTON MEMO: The President's Tax Cut and Its Unspoken Numbers (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Alumni Pressure Harvard to Shed Spendthrift Ways (By GREG WINTER with SARA RIMER, Feb. 25, 2003)
Raids Put Drug-Paraphernalia Traffickers Out of Business (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Feb. 25, 2003)
WORLD: NUCLEAR STANDOFF: North Korea Tests Missile (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 25, 2003)
Powell, in Asia, Is Dealt a Setback on North Korea (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 25, 2003)
* At Least 257 Die in Earthquake in Remote Western China (By JOSEPH KAHN, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Defiant Hussein Grants Interview and a Challenge [Dan Rather] (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 25, 2003)
U.S. and Allies Ask U.N. to Affirm Iraq Won't Disarm (By FELICITY BARRINGER with DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 25, 2003)
* DISPATCHES: A WEB-EXCLUSIVE COLUMN: NATO: The Inside Story (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 25, 2003)
ISTANBUL: Turkey's Cabinet Approves Plan, With Details Lacking, for U.S. Troops
(By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 25, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Gamble for a Friend [Tony Blair] (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 25, 2003)
EUROPEANS: France and Germany Call for Long Inspections (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 25, 2003)
Text: U.S.-British Draft Resolution Stating Position on Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 25, 2003)
KURDS: Regional Squabbling Scuttles an Iraqi Opposition Meeting (By JUDITH MILLER & DAVID ROHDE, Feb. 25, 2003)
Carnival in Rio Is Dancing to More Commercial Beat (By LARRY ROHTER, Feb. 25, 2003)
Graft Aggravates Woes Plaguing Central America (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Feb. 25, 2003)
NY REGION: In Gilded Schools, Scrimping Lessons (By JANE GROSS, Feb. 25, 2003)
DOMESTIC SECURITY: More Than Gas Masks Needed for Police, Mrs. Clinton Says (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Feb. 25, 2003)
CUNY Chief Gives Tenure to Professor in Brooklyn [Robert D. Johnson] (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Feb. 25, 2003)
TUNNEL VISION: Sandhogs, Blind Mules and the Birth of a Subway (By RANDY KENNEDY, Feb. 25, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Don't Shoot! That's Aretha's Hair! [Holyfield, Pete Yorn] (By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 25, 2003)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Never Mind Picasso, It's Matisse and the Curator (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 25, 2003)
NYC: Ex-Inmate Denied Chair (and Clippers) (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 25, 2003)
SPORTS: Jeter's Talent Is Hard to Quantify (By TYLER KEPNER, Feb. 25, 2003)
SPORTS: Gaining Ground and Breaking It [female athletes vs. men] (By JERE LONGMAN, Feb. 25, 2003)
SPORTS: A Teammate Remembers [Pat Strange & Brian Cole of Mets] (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Feb. 25, 2003)
BOXING: Dying Sport Has Diamond in the Dust [Roy Jones Jr.] (By MIKE FREEMAN, Feb. 25, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Facing Down Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 25, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Dangers of an Herbal Supplement (NY TIMES, Feb. 25, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Threats, Promises and Lies [Bush] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 25, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Hitler on the Nile [Nasser] (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 25, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: War for Peace? It Worked in My Country (By JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA, Feb. 25, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Democracy Takes Office in South Korea (By HA-YUN JUNG, Feb. 25, 2003)
LETTERS: War on Iraq? Calls to Act, and Voices of Doubt (By DONALD P. KENNEY, et. al., Feb. 25, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Tumble in Biggest Point Drop in Nearly a Month
[Dow -160, Nasdaq -27] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 25, 2003)
GQ Editor to Step Down [Art Cooper] (By DAVID CARR, Feb. 25, 2003)
2 Bidders Said to Be Interested in Buying AOL's Publishing Unit (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 25, 2003)
Dutch Grocer Overstated Earnings [Royal Ahold] (By GREGORY CROUCH with SUZANNE KAPNER, Feb. 25, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Remedy Raises Questions on What's Being Cured [Royal Ahold]
(By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 25, 2003)
3 Large Retail Chains Report Snow Significantly Hurt Sales (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 25, 2003)
Companies Plan Less Hiring, a Survey Finds (By REUTERS, Feb. 25, 2003)
Shares of AIDS Vaccine Maker Plummet (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 25, 2003)
Fidelity's Parent Posts Drop in Net [$808.2 million from $1.33 billion] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 25, 2003)
ON THE ROAD: Words of Advice for Airlines in a Time of High Anxiety (By JOE SHARKEY, Feb. 25, 2003)
ADVERTISING: Arby's Tries a Talking Mitt (By SEAN MEHEGAN, Feb. 25, 2003)
Lowe's Earnings Climb 46% In Strong Market for Housing (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 25, 2003)
Skipping a Night Out on the Town [traveling executives] (By JANE L. LEVERE, Feb. 25, 2003)
Signs of Economic Life in Argentina (By LARRY ROHTER, Feb. 25, 2003)
Japan Picks Old-School Central Banker (By KEN BELSON, Feb. 25, 2003)
IN ZURICH: Banking Center Tries to Overcome Its Company-Town Image (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Feb. 25, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Radio Chip in Every Consumer Product (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH and BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 25, 2003)
* ARTS: War in Iraq Would Halt All Digs In Region (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 25, 2003)
* ARTS: Oldest Human History Is at Risk (By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 25, 2003)
* ART: Fears of Terror a Complication for Art Exhibits (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 25, 2003)
ARTS BRIEFING: Arts Briefing Lawrence Van Gelder (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 25, 2003)
BOOKS: 'THE PASSIONS OF ANDREW JACKSON': A Hero Who Saw It All His Way (By RICHARD BROOKHISER, Feb. 25, 2003)
DANCE: CITY BALLET: Whiffs of 'Carousel' Perfume a Love Duet (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 25, 2003)
FILM: When It Comes to Comedy, Awards Are No Joke (By JESSE McKINLEY, Feb. 25, 2003)
MUSIC: 2003 Grammy Award Winners (NY TIMES, Feb. 25, 2003)
MUSIC CRITIC: Stirring a Stew of Politics and Music (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 25, 2003)
THEATER: 'OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME':
Eight Men Facing the Horrors of the Battlefield

(By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 25, 2003)
TV: Terror's Dual Threats of Bombs and Biology (By NED MARTEL, Feb. 25, 2003)
* SCIENCE: A REVOLUTION AT 50: DNA, the Keeper of Life's Secrets, Starts to Talk
(By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Watson and Crick, Both Aligned and Apart, Reinvented Biology (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 25, 2003)
* 50 Years Later, Rosalind Franklin's X-Ray Fuels Debate (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Here's an X-Ray. Spot the Double Helix. (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Feb. 25, 2003)
* REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: For the History of Science, the First Draft Is Often Late
(By DENNIS OVERBYE, Feb. 25, 2003)
* SCIENCE: How the Arms of the Helixes Are Poised to Serve (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Genetic Revolution: How Much, How Fast? (By GINA KOLATA, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Twist and Shout! The Double Helix Replicates Itself in Popular Culture (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 25, 2003)
* ESSAY: With Sheet Metal Cutouts, the Tree of Life Emerged (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Not Just Genes: Moving Beyond Nature vs. Nurture [David S. Moore] (By NATALIE ANGIER, Feb. 25, 2003)
* Deciding When Science Has Gone Astray [alien cloning DNA] (By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG, Feb. 25, 2003)
HEALTH: Safe Therapy Is Found for High Blood-Clot Risk (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 25, 2003)
HEALTH: Roche AIDS Drug Priced [$20,000 a year] (By ALISON LANGLEY with MELODY PETERSEN, Feb. 25, 2003)

Monday, Feb. 24, 2003:
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)

* Robert K. Merton, Versatile Sociologist and Father of the Focus Group, Dies at 92 (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, Feb. 24, 2003)
Fred Hudson, 74, Mentor to Black Actors and Playwrights, Is Dead (By JESSE McKINLEY, Feb. 24, 2003)
* Quentin Anderson, 90, Scholar Known for Literary Criticism, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 24, 2003)
Jeanne de Rothschild, 94, Who Came From Stage, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 24, 2003)
Daniel Aaron, a Founder of Comcast Cable Television, Dies at 77 (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 24, 2003)
George de Kay, 76, Independent Publisher, Dies (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 24, 2003)
NATIONAL: Prosecutors See Limits to Doubt in Capital Cases (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 24, 2003)
REBUILDING IRAQ: U.S. Suggests Iraqi-Americans Will Help in Recovery Process
(By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 24, 2003)
Scientists Question the Value of Shuttle Flights (By JAMES GLANZ & RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 24, 2003)
Day of Public Grieving and Private Inquiry in Deadly Nightclub Fire
(By DAN BARRY & PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Feb. 24, 2003)
THE DEAD: Relatives and Friends Gather at Fire Scene to Mourn Those Lost (By SARAH KERSHAW, Feb. 24, 2003)
Burned Victims of Club Fire Face a Long Struggle (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Feb. 24, 2003)
LIABILITY: Challenges and Strategies in Lawsuits Against Clubs (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 24, 2003)
Focus Shifts to Decisions Made at End of Girl's Life (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, Feb. 24, 2003)
At Mardi Gras, a Catch and Fleeting Ecstasy (By RICK BRAGG, Feb. 24, 2003)
JACUMBA JOURNAL: Border Towns Are Close Enough to Touch but Worlds Apart
(By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 24, 2003)
STRATEGIES: U.S. Considers Conventional Warheads on Nuclear Missiles (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 24, 2003)
WORLD: Iraq Seeks Talks to Save Its Stock of Barred Missiles (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 24, 2003)
U.S. Approach on North Korea Strains Alliances in Asia (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 24, 2003)
Firing Leaflets and Electrons, U.S. Wages Information War (By THOM SHANKER & ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 24, 2003)
On Brink of Chaos, Ivory Coast Sides Try to Save a Peace Deal (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Feb. 24, 2003)
* VALCOURT JOURNAL: Earthlings, the Prophet of Clone Is Alive in Quebec (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 24, 2003)
Ch&aacue;vez Says Leaders of Strike Should Be Tried as Saboteurs (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Feb. 24, 2003)
Elite Iranian Troops Mourn 275 Comrades Lost in Air Crash (By NAZILA FATHI, Feb. 24, 2003)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Key to Domestic Agenda Could Be Victory in Iraq (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 24, 2003)
Trial of a Crime Boss Shines a Spotlight on Corruption in Vietnam (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Feb. 24, 2003)
NORTHERN IRAQ: Feud Between Kurdish Clans Creates Its Own War (By C. J. CHIVERS, Feb. 24, 2003)
U.N. Representative Warns That Afghan Peace Is Fragile (By CARLOTTA GALL, Feb. 24, 2003)
Powell Seeks China's Help, and, at U.N., Its Abstention (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 24, 2003)
Gulf Bounty Is Drying Up in Southern India (By AMY WALDMAN, Feb. 24, 2003)
Study Sees Signs of a Rise in Hospital Patients (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Feb. 24, 2003)
4,000 Cadets and a Quest for Flavor (By GLENN COLLINS, Feb. 24, 2003)
Tons of Hot Asphalt Make a Day's Work of 1,600 Potholes (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 24, 2003)
Dense Fog Envelops Region, Closing New Jersey Turnpike (By SUSAN SAULNY, Feb. 24, 2003)
METRO MATTERS: 'Medicaid' as a Verb, Then a Crutch (By JOYCE PURNICK, Feb. 24, 2003)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Feb. 24, 2003)
SPORTS: Translating Tyson Raises More Questions (By DAVE ANDERSON, Feb. 24, 2003)
SPORTS: Tyson Feels Like a Pro After His Fast Finish (By DAMON HACK, Feb. 24, 2003)
* A Pitcher Outside the Curve [Barry Zito's Bible: "Creative Mind" by Ernest Holmes]
(By JACK CURRY, Feb. 24, 2003)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Jim McKay Recalls Thrills and Agony (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Feb. 24, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Future at Ground Zero (NY TIMES, Feb. 24, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Wounded Democrats Check Out an Ever-Growing, Ever-Hungry Crowd
(By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Feb. 24, 2003)
OP-ED: The Other War (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 24, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Looking Back at an Ugly Time (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 24, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Marbury v. Madison v. Ashcroft (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Feb. 24, 2003)
LETTERS: Opponents of War Defy Labels (By SUSAN DEMARK, et. al., Feb. 24, 2003)
LETTERS: Who Should Fight America's Battles? (By ALBERT S. CAIN, et. al., Feb. 24, 2003)
LETTERS: Memory and the Brain (By HOWARD GARDNER, Feb. 24, 2003)
BUSINESS: Networks Plan Flood of Reality Shows for Summer (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 24, 2003)
* At CNN, a Struggle to Be Less 'Tabloid' [Connie Chung] (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 24, 2003)
* The Successor at Random House Rebuilds as Writers Look Afield (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 24, 2003)
Lifetime TV Takes Magazine Form (By DAVID CARR, Feb. 24, 2003)
Radio Plans Shift in Tone as Drumbeat of War Builds (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Feb. 24, 2003)
NEW ECONOMY: Customer Service at a Price (By SUSAN STELLIN, Feb. 24, 2003)
To Cash This Paycheck, Find the Nearest A.T.M. (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Feb. 24, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: Ratings Agency Says It Erred in Measuring Web Site Use (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 24, 2003)
* An Inventor of the Transistor Has His Moment [Herbert F. Mataré] (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 24, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: Deal May Freshen Up Google's Links (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Feb. 24, 2003)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Sales of Cigarettes Online Hit (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 24, 2003)
PATENTS: Some New Incarnations of Snow (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Feb. 24, 2003)
COMPRESSED DATA: Note: Apply Moisturizer Only After Gaining Access (By BARNABY FEDER, Feb. 24, 2003)
COMPRESSED DATA: An Appeal to Honor in Fight Against Internet Piracy (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 24, 2003)
TECHNOLOGY: Broadband Companies Cheer Ruling (By SIMON ROMERO & MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 24, 2003)
BOOKS: 'HITLER AND THE POWER OF AESTHETICS': The Führer as Art Critic (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Feb. 24, 2003)
DANCE: JUILLIARD DANCE ENSEMBLE: Adrenaline Rush of Energetic Imagination
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 24, 2003)
FILM: Reinventing the Miami International Film Festival (By MIRTA OJITO, Feb. 24, 2003)
FILM: Polanski's 'Pianist' Wins British Film Awards (By REUTERS, Feb. 24, 2003)
MUSIC: Realism Outshines Glitter in New Pop (By JON PARELES, Feb. 24, 2003)
GRAMMY AWARDS: Newcomer Has a Big Night (By JON PARELES, Feb. 24, 2003)
THEATER: 'THE TEMPEST': Full Fathom Five Thy Mother Lies (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 24, 2003)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: Let Your Characters Tell You the Story (By JOYCE MAYNARD, Feb. 24, 2003)
* TV: 'THE PILL': A Reproductive Revolution (By LAURA MILLER, Feb. 24, 2003)
SCIENCE: Large Trial Finds AIDS Vaccine Fails to Stop Infection (By ANDREW POLLACK with LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 24, 2003)

Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003:
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)

Elliott Shapiro, Educator, Dies at 91 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 23, 2003)
Luke Yuan, 90, Senior Physicist at Brookhaven, Is Dead (By ERIC PACE, Feb. 23, 2003)
Rusty Magee, Theater Composer, Actor and Cabaret Performer, Dies at 47 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 23, 2003)
NATIONAL: Agencies Warn of Lone Terrorists (By DAVID JOHNSTON & JAMES RISEN, Feb. 23, 2003)
In Club Fire, Finger-Pointing and Task of Naming the Dead (By SARAH KERSHAW & LYDIA POLGREEN, Feb. 23, 2003)
Shock Over Calamity Turns to Grief as First Victims Are Identified (By DAN BARRY & PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Feb. 23, 2003)
Fire Inspections Are Increased After Disasters (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 23, 2003)
Nightclubs Are Notorious in Annals of Tragedy (By MICHAEL MOSS, Feb. 23, 2003)
3 See College Suit as a Way to Show They Belonged (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Feb. 23, 2003)
Quake Jolts Residents Awake in Town Near Los Angeles (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 23, 2003)
Dentist Who Ran Over Spouse Is Sent to Prison (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 23, 2003)
Calling Offer From U.S. Insult, Owner Keeps Home of Reagan (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 23, 2003)
Behind Duct Tape and Sheeting, an Unlikely Proponent [Ralph E. Gomory] (By STEPHANIE STROM, Feb. 23, 2003)
Congress and the President: One Party, but Divided (By CARL HULSE, Feb. 23, 2003)
SAN FRANCISCO JOURNAL: French Center Creates a Controversy (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 23, 2003)
SHIFTING LANDSCAPE: On Rules for Environment, Bush Sees a Balance, Critics a Threat
(By DOUGLAS JEHL, Feb. 23, 2003)
Policy Shapers, Well Known and Little Known (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Feb. 23, 2003)
At a Gathering of Democrats, Many Seek to Take on Bush (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 23, 2003)
WORLD: Prohibited Missile Is 'Tip of Iceberg' in Iraq, Bush Says (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 23, 2003)
Chirac's Reluctance on Iraq Is Seen as a Bid for Relevance (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 23, 2003)
PROFILE: Jacques Chirac (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
Inspectors in Iran Examine Machines to Enrich Uranium (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 23, 2003)
Justice in Russia Is No Longer Swift or Sure (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 23, 2003)
Tensions Remind U.S. Troops in South Korea of Their Mission (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 23, 2003)
North Korea's Need for Electricity Fuels Its Nuclear Ambitions (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 23, 2003)
BAGHDAD: Iraq Pins Hopes on Antiwar Mood at U.N. and in Streets Around the World (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 23, 2003)
U.S. Officials Review Plan to Rebuild Iraq After a War (By JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 23, 2003)
Powell Seeks Asian Support for New U.S.-Backed Resolution on Iraq (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 23, 2003)
* From a Chinese Cell, a Lama's Influence Remains Undimmed (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 23, 2003)
Hindu Group in India Demands a Temple (By REUTERS, Feb. 23, 2003)
THE PEACEKEEPERS: Iraqi Kurds Are Wary of a Turkish-Led Force (By C. J. CHIVERS, Feb. 23, 2003)
Colombia Rebels Admit Kidnapping 3 Americans After Crash (By JUAN FORERO, Feb. 23, 2003)
NY REGION: Confronting His Abuser, on Tape (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
New York Club Crowd Dances On, but With Eye on Exits (By ALAN FEUER, Feb. 23, 2003)
Rain and Snowmelt Cause Wide Flooding (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 23, 2003)
Off Lower Manhattan, Island Hopes for Invasion ... by Tourists (By TERRY PRISTIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
Genteel Nostalgia and Handmade Goods Can't Keep a Business Going (By DAISY HERNÁNDEZ, Feb. 23, 2003)
Spanish Harlem on His Mind (By ED MORALES, Feb. 23, 2003)
OUR TOWNS: Don't Worry, Be Ready: Chicken Soup for the Anxious Soul (By MATTHEW PURDY, Feb. 23, 2003)
FOLLOWING UP: He'll Watch the Mets at Home, Thanks ["sign man of Shea"] (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Feb. 23, 2003)
SPORTS: Turning 40 Adds Joy to the Game for Jordan (By LIZ ROBBINS, Feb. 23, 2003)
FOOTBALL: Scrutinizing Quarterbacks for Qualities Fit for N.F.L. (By DAMON HACK, Feb. 23, 2003)
SPORTS: Jeter-Steinbrenner and a Soap Opera (By DAVE ANDERSON, Feb. 23, 2003)
INSIDE BASEBALL: An Audience for 31 Years of Fulminations (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 23, 2003)
SPORTS: Coming on the Digital Sports Dial: A Selection of Singular Sensations
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Feb. 23, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Power and Leadership: The Real Meaning of Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Ready or Not... (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 23, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: My Survival Kit (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: The French Lesson (By RÉGIS DeBRAY, Feb. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: Extreme Baseball (By BOBBY OJEDA, Feb. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: A Hydrogen Car in Your Future? (By ERIC STRONG, et. al., Feb. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: Angry at Americans [anti-Bush] (By GEORGE FINLAY, et. al., Feb. 23, 2003)
* LETTERS: Studying Liberal Arts (By JOHN JEFFRIES MARTIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* BUSINESS: Sun, Again, Bets Against the Odds [Sun Microsystems] (By STEVE LOHR, Feb. 23, 2003)
* No Divorce of Hardware and Software Is Planned at Sun (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 23, 2003)
Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Feb. 23, 2003)
Already a Giant, Novartis Wants to Bulk Up (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Feb. 23, 2003)
Managed Accounts Get a Scorecard (By JOHN KIMELMAN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* 'Free Agents' Find Too Much Free Time (By EILEEN P. GUNN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* Places to Turn in the Interim (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
BOOK VALUE: A Culture Turned Against Itself at Andersen (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* These Days, Gold Earns Its Shine (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Feb. 23, 2003)
INVESTING WITH JANET PRINDLE AND ARTHUR MORETTI: Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund
(By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 23, 2003)
MIDSTREAM: College Savings: The Excuses Are Vanishing (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Feb. 23, 2003)
* ADDED VALUE: A Meteor of a Magazine [The Industry Standard] (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
MARKET INSIGHT: Are Shares of Builders Poised for a Retreat? [homes] (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
A Few Months in Washington and He's a Changed Man (Complied by RICK GLADSTONE, Feb. 23, 2003)
* PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: The Basics Still Apply in Online Résumés (Compiled by VIVIAN MARINO, Feb. 23, 2003)
INVESTING DIARY: A Vote of Confidence in Real Estate Shares (Bloomberg News, Feb. 23, 2003)
BUSINESS DIARY: The Internet Widens the Butcher's Reach (By David Lipschultz, Feb. 23, 2003)
Revolt of the Shareholders (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Feb. 23, 2003)
* MARKET WATCH: A Technology Company Is Solid, Profitable and Risky [QLogic] (By ALEX BERENSON, Feb. 23, 2003)
PORTFOLIOS: There's More to Trading Oil Than Handicapping a War (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* ON THE JOB: Ahem. Did You Notice My Work? (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 23, 2003)
* PRIVATE SECTOR: A Father of Invention Is Retooling (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 23, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: History Isn't Quite Repeating on Rates (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Feb. 23, 2003)
Raising a Glass (and Doing Some Math) (By TED LOOS, Feb. 23, 2003)
An Executive Is Arrested in South Korea (By DON KIRK, Feb. 23, 2003)
Officials From Wealthy Nations Discuss Efforts to Spur Growth (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 23, 2003)
An Interview With Barbara Ley Toffler (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
THE BOSS: Running Double Time (By JAMES F. BROWN, Written with Abbey Ellin, Feb. 23, 2003)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: A Possible War Can Leave Big Shoes to Fill (By MARCI ALBOHER NUSBAUM, Feb. 23, 2003)
ARTS: Using Art to Start a Global Conversation (By LYLE REXER, Feb. 23, 2003)
ARTS: Must Outsiders Be Above Selling? (By TESSA DeCARLO, Feb. 23, 2003)
ARTS: A New Vision for Ground Zero Beyond Mainstream Modernism (By MARVIN TRACHTENBERG, Feb. 23, 2003)
DANCE: Thankfully, Ballet Is Not Quite a Universal Language (By ROSLYN SULCAS, Feb. 23, 2003)
DANCE: Let's Stop Looking for the Next Big Thing (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 23, 2003)
FILM: Awaking to the Nightmares of His Youth (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 23, 2003)
FILM: Animated Parody That Revels in Brainy Lunacy (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 23, 2003)
FILM: RUSHES: Call Them the Un-Oscars (By KAREN DURBIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
FILM: In the African Sun While Dark Came Over Europe (By LAURA WINTERS, Feb. 23, 2003)
In Film, Still a Missionary (By DANA KENNEDY, Feb. 23, 2003)
* MUSIC THEY MADE: Sweet Tunes, Fast Beats and a Hard Edge [Chuck Berry] (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 23, 2003)
MUSIC: THE GRAMMYS: That Blob of Multiplying Genres? It's Music (By JON PARELES, Feb. 23, 2003)
THE GRAMMYS | JAZZ: New Ideas, New Faces (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 23, 2003)
THE GRAMMYS | CLASSICAL MUSIC: Fewer Records, More Attention (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 23, 2003)
MUSIC: What's French About French Music? (By MATTHIAS KRIESBERG, Feb. 23, 2003)
MUSIC: A Stranger in Nashville, Struggling to Be Heard [Willie Nelson] (By KEN TUCKER, Feb. 23, 2003)
MUSIC SPINS: He's Very Sorry (About Something) [R. Kelly] (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 23, 2003)
MUSIC: A Provocative Dane Whose Bold Music Is Also Meticulous (By BARBARA JEPSON, Feb. 23, 2003)
MUSIC THIS WEEK: Hard Swinging, With the Feel of the Midwest (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 23, 2003)
MUSIC HIGH NOTES: Who's Graupner? Here's Who, and How! (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Feb. 23, 2003)
TV: A Barnum of Reality Chases the Relatable Concept (By CRAIG TOMASHOFF, Feb. 23, 2003)
TV: Making 'Survivor' a Real Survival Test (By TOM FONTANA, Feb. 23, 2003)
STREETSCAPES | MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: A Campus With a Century of Architectural Design
(By CHRISTOPHER GRAY, Feb. 23, 2003)
ARTS LETTERS: Slave Narratives; Peter Cincotti; 'The Guardian' (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
FASHION: Are You Hot? Not if You're a Sitcom Writer (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Feb. 23, 2003)
FASHION: Age 12, Needs a Dress Now (By ALEX WITCHEL, Feb. 23, 2003)
Liked the Show, Loved the Afterparty (By CARL SWANSON, Feb. 23, 2003)
A NIGHT OUT WITH PHIL RAMONE: Getting Behind the Music (By LINDA LEE, Feb. 23, 2003)
FASHION REVIEW: London's Rebels, Pausing to Shop (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* CULTURAL STUDIES: Glued to Public Seduction TV (By JOHN LELAND, Feb. 23, 2003)
POSSESSED: Extending the Shelf Life of Off Brands (By DAVID COLMAN, Feb. 23, 2003)
BOITE: A Little Bit of Mambo (By MONICA CORCORAN, Feb. 23, 2003)
FIELD NOTES: Wedding Day Nostalgia for That Same Old Dress (By KATIE HAFNER, Feb. 23, 2003)
PULSE: The Gallery Owner (By JENNIFER TUNG, Feb. 23, 2003)
VOWS: Nancy Park and Daniel Poynor (By SHANNON DONNELLY, Feb. 23, 2003)
WOMEN'S FASHION OF THE TIMES: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
Say, 'Cheesecake' [Slide Show: superstar rapper Eve] (By VERONICA CHAMBERS, Feb. 23, 2003)
* Color Therapy [photo: Enrique Badulescu of balloons] (By NELL SCOVELL, Feb. 23, 2003)
* Good as Goldie [Slide Show: Goldie Hawn in "Cactus Flower"] (By GERRI HIRSHEY, Feb. 23, 2003)
* Beauty and the Beast [Guy Bourdin] (By TIM BLANKS, Feb. 23, 2003)
Alexander the Great [Alexander McQueen's feather prints] (By INGRID SISCHY, Feb. 23, 2003)
SLIDE SHOW: Winging It [Natascha McElhone] (Photos by Matt Jones, Feb. 23, 2003)
SLIDE SHOW: Ready, Jet Set, Go! [Cannes on the Riviera] (Photos by Satoshi Saikusa, Feb. 23, 2003)
Heroine Chic [Joseph Losey's 1966 "Modesy Blaise"] (By HORACIO SILVA, Feb. 23, 2003)
A Breed Apart [Yorkshire terrier] (By RENE CHUN, Feb. 23, 2003)
Knit Picking [Anne Rubin] (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Feb. 23, 2003)
Shop! In the Name of Love [Tracee Ellis Ross, daughter of Diana Ross] (By LISA EISNER and ROMAN ALONSO, Feb. 23, 2003)
Homme Alone [Vogue in the late 1980's] (By WILLIAM NORWICH, Feb. 23, 2003)
An Unfinished Woman [Princess Luciana Pignatelli's "Beauty Book"] (By MARY TANNEN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* Seer Suckers [psychics in the fashion business] (By ISAAC MIZRAHI, Feb. 23, 2003)
* Going Postal [Vogue's October cover of Christy Turlington in yoga pose] (By SARAH RAPER LARENAUDIE, Feb. 23, 2003)
Planet Ghana [movie posters painted on flour sacks] (By ERNIE WOLFE III, Feb. 23, 2003)
TRAVEL: In Utah, Nature's Skyline (By DAISANN McLANE, Feb. 23, 2003)
TRAVEL: In Athens, Ouzo Sweetens Life (By KATHLEEN CROMWELL, Feb. 23, 2003)
TRAVEL: WHAT'S DOING In Phoenix [Pueblo Grande Museum] (By SUZANNE WINCKLER, Feb. 23, 2003)
TRAVEL: America Most Beautiful [55% would not travel overseas] (By JOSEPH SIANO & MARJORIE CONNELLY, Feb. 23, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
* Europe's Response to Iraq Reflects an Old Rift (By NIALL FERGUSON, Feb. 23, 2003)
Blair, the Hawk, Finds Himself With Some Unlikely Friends (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 23, 2003)
No, Chirac Didn't Say 'Shut Up' (By ELEANOR & MICHEL LEVIEUX, Feb. 23, 2003)
DAMAGE CONTROL: U.S. Plan: Spare Iraq's Civilians (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 23, 2003)
A Crucial Nod From Turkey (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 23, 2003)
THE NATION: New York Sees a Silver Lining in the Orange Alert (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 23, 2003)
FOCUS GROUPS?: To Bush, the Crowd Was a Blur (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 23, 2003)
CRITICAL MASS: How the Protesters Mobilized (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 23, 2003)
WELFARE WARS: Are the Poor Suffering From Hunger Anymore? (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Feb. 23, 2003)
INTERACTIVE FEATURE: France Is Always Fussy. Does It Matter to NATO? (TOM ZELLER, Feb. 23, 2003)
Roadshow: I Am Minivan, Hear Me Roar (By JOHN TIERNEY, Feb. 23, 2003)
WORD FOR WORD | AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ARGUMENTS: Doctors, Soldiers and Others Weigh In on Campus Diversity
(By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Feb. 23, 2003)
Redeeming a $2 Billion Pledge for Global AIDS (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 23, 2003)
CRISIS MANIFESTOES: Foreign Policy's Big Moment Looks for a Big Idea (By SAM TANENHAUS, Feb. 23, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
* ON LANGUAGE: Ballooon Going Up? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 23, 2003)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Anti-Anti-American (By WALTER KIRN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* QUESTIONS FOR BILLY COLLINS: Versus Verses (Interview by REGAN GOOD, Feb. 23, 2003)
* CRASH COURSE: Ethnomathematics (By DIRK OLIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: The Doctor Is Infected (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 23, 2003)
Fortress America (By MATTHEW BRZEZINSKI, Feb. 23, 2003)
Repress Yourself [for some, better not discuss & relive your trauma] (By LAUREN SLATER, Feb. 23, 2003)
Webber's World [Chris Webber] (By ALYSON HAGY, Feb. 23, 2003)
* The Critical Gaze [Susan Sontag] (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 23, 2003)
STYLE: Show Me the Monkey [slide show] (By WILLIAM NORWICH, Feb. 23, 2003)
The Monkey House [Rui Paes's paintings] (By MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH, Feb. 23, 2003)
* FOOD: Just Say Dough [Nancy Reagan's monkey bread] (BBy MICHAEL BOODROy, Feb. 23, 2003)
LIVES: International Relations (By DIANA ABU-JABER, Feb. 23, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 23, 2003)
* 'Drop City': How Flower Power Went to Seed [T. C. Boyle] (By DWIGHT GARNER, Feb. 23, 2003)
* 'The Spooky Art': Don't Put Your Wife in a Novel and Other Advice
[Norman Mailer] (By JAMES CAMPBELL, Feb. 23, 2003)
* 'Intelligence Wars': The Secrets of the Secret War [Thomas Powers] (By TIMOTHY NAFTALI, Feb. 23, 2003)
'Property': A Slave's Power [Valerie Martin] (By KATHRYN HARRISON, Feb. 23, 2003)
'The Growing Seasons': Training to Become a Man [Samuel Hynes] (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Feb. 23, 2003)
* 'Looking for Spinoza': The Source of Emotion [Antonio Damasio] (By COLIN McGINN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* 'The Emperor of Scent': The Odor of Scientific Jealousy [Chandler Burr] (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Feb. 23, 2003)
* 'In the Next Galaxy': Finding Poetry Beneath the Surface of the Everyday
[Ruth Stone] (By MELANIE REHAK, Feb. 23, 2003)
POEM: Trópico (By NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER, Feb. 23, 2003)
'Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper': Finding Franco Harris (By FRED WAITZKIN, Feb. 23, 2003)
'Italy and Its Discontents': The Paradoxes of a Troubled Country (By STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE, Feb. 23, 2003)
'Ungrateful Daughters': King James II as Lear [Maureen Waller] (By T. H. BREEN, Feb. 23, 2003)
* THE CLOSE READER: Real Thoughts and Fictional Thinking (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Feb. 23, 2003)
HEALTH: Girl in Transplant Mix-Up Dies After Two Weeks (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, Feb. 23, 2003)
HEALTH: NEWS ANALYSIS: Mistakes Even at Elite Hospitals (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 23, 2003)

Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003:
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)

Julian Bigelow, 89, Computer Pioneer, Is Dead (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 22, 2003)
Orville Freeman, 60's Agriculture Secretary, Dies at 84 (By DAVID STOUT, Feb. 22, 2003)
Harry Jacunski, 87, One of Fordham's Seven Blocks of Granite, Dies (By WILLIAM N. WALLACE, Feb. 22, 2003)
NATIONAL: Los Angeles Council Adopts Resolution Against Iraq War (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Feb. 22, 2003)
96 Dead in Fire Ignited by Band at Rhode Island Club (By PAM BELLUCK & PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Feb. 22, 2003)
Suddenly, Rock Show Turns Stage for Horrors (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Feb. 22, 2003)
An Emptiness Made Crueler by Closeness (By DAN BARRY & SARAH KERSHAW, Feb. 22, 2003)
Fireworks Like Those Used Are a Common Part of Events (By ANDY NEWMAN, Feb. 22, 2003)
Club's Fare Changed Over the Generations (By PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Feb. 22, 2003)
Club Co-owner Is Also Prominent TV Reporter (By DAVID W. CHEN, Feb. 22, 2003)
Group Persevered by Making Circuit of Smaller Clubs (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 22, 2003)
More Than One Piece of Debris Hit Shuttle at Liftoff (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 22, 2003)
At Columbia University, Rewriting a Journalism Curriculum (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 22, 2003)
Officials Say Case Against Florida Professor Had Been Hindered (By ERIC LICHTBLAU & JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 22, 2003)
An Early Taste of 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 22, 2003)
Inquiry on Wellstone Crash Finds Oddities About Pilot (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Feb. 22, 2003)
RELIGION JOURNAL: Churches Try to Protect Hawaii's Native Tongue (By MICHELE KAYAL, Feb. 22, 2003)
Report Finds U.S. Misstated Terror Verdicts (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 22, 2003)
A Blank Page in Schools' Future (By DIANE CARDWELL, Feb. 22, 2003)
6-Year-Term for Woman in Forest Fire (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2003)
WORLD: Use of Dangerous Materials Cited in Korean Subway Fire (By DON KIRK, Feb. 22, 2003)
Inspector Orders Iraq to Dismantle Disputed Missiles (By FELICITY BARRINGER with MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 22, 2003)
ON WASHINGTON'S SIDE: Poles Cherish U.S. as Friend, Fondly Recalling Its Support
(By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 22, 2003)
A WIDER FIELD: U.N. Nuclear Inspection Chief Is Examining Iranian Facilities (By NAZILA FATHI, Feb. 22, 2003)
NUCLEAR STANDOFF: Powell Links Aid to North Korean Concessions (By REUTERS, Feb. 22, 2003)
Chirac Pledges French Support for African Prosperity (By THOMAS FULLER, Feb. 22, 2003)
VATICAN: Threat of Iraq War Draws World Leaders, With Different Views, to the Pope's Door
(By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 22, 2003)
Cases of New Bird Flu in Hong Kong Prompt Worldwide Alerts (By KEITH BRADSHER, Feb. 22, 2003)
A Lifelong Dissident Defies Iran's Rulers on Torture (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 22, 2003)
Iran Pardons Five Jews Jailed as Spies (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2003)
A HERITAGE OF PROTEST: The Germans Who Toppled Communism Resent the U.S. (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 22, 2003)
THE NEW CAPITALISTS: Western Investment Provides a Bonanza for East Europe (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 22, 2003)
* THE INTELLECTUALS: Artists Feel Chirac's Slap, but Hesitate to Take Sides (By SARAH LYALL, Feb. 22, 2003)
Blix's List: Missile Parts Marked for Destruction (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2003)
ROME: Blair Says He Wants to Avoid War and Work With U.N., but That Iraq Must Disarm
(By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 22, 2003)
THE NORTHERN FRONT: U.S. and Turkey Reach Accord to Let G.I.'s Establish a Base (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN & JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 22, 2003)
KENYA: Same Suspects Tied to Mombasa and '98 Embassy Attacks (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 22, 2003)
SATURDAY PROFILE: Exiled American Outlives Stalin's Shadow (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 22, 2003)
NY REGION: Design for Transit Hub Lets Travelers See Sky (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2003)
Heavy Rain and Melting Snow May Cause Floods in Region (By IVER PETERSON, Feb. 22, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Judges and Politics Mix: U.S. Ruling Breaks Down a Wall (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 22, 2003)
Partisan Pit Bull, but Not on the Bench (By AL BAKER, Feb. 22, 2003)
Shattered Windows and Jangled Nerves as Neighbors Think of Worst (By ANDREW JACOBS, Feb. 22, 2003)
No Long-Lasting Effects From Blast, Officials Say (By KIRK JOHNSON, Feb. 22, 2003)
* The Game Is Chess, the Opponents Are Felons [Princeton students] (By MAREK FUCHS, Feb. 22, 2003)
Amber Alert Leads to Fear of a Terrorist Attack (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 22, 2003)
* SPORTS: Koufax Cuts Ties With Dodgers; Newspaper Retracts Gossip Item (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Feb. 22, 2003)
SPORTS: Vaughn and Pulsipher Recount Use of Ephedra (By RAFAEL HERMOSO with CHARLIE NOBLES, Feb. 22, 2003)
BOXING: With Luster Faded, Tyson Places Career on the Line (By RAY GLIER, Feb. 22, 2003)
WIZARDS 89, NETS 86: Vintage Jordan: 43 Points and Decisive Shot (By LIZ ROBBINS, Feb. 22, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Telephone Wars (NY TIMES, Feb. 22, 2003)
* OP-ED: Fear on the Home Front (By BILL KELLER, Feb. 22, 2003)
OP-ED: The Other Baby Experiment (By REBECCA L. SKLOOT, Feb. 22, 2003)
OP-ED: The Middle East Belongs in the World Economy (By CHARLENE BARSHEFSKY, Feb. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: Deter Saddam Hussein, or Fight? (By JAMES H. BERNSTEIN, et. al., Feb. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: Another Front: the Philippines (By FRIDA BERRIGAN, Feb. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: Tips on Traffic: We'll Always Have Paris (By MICHAEL DOWD, Feb. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: S.U.V.'s and Satire (By ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, Feb. 22, 2003)
BUSINESS: Inflation Report Helps Send Shares Higher for the Week
[Dow +103, Nasdaq +18] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 22, 2003)
Papers Indicate That Bayer Knew of Dangers of Its Cholesterol Drug (By MELODY PETERSEN & ALEX BERENSON, Feb. 22, 2003)
Iraq Is a Strategic Issue for Oil Giants, Too (By NEELA BANERJEE, Feb. 22, 2003)
Chinese Computer Maker Plans a Push Overseas (By KEITH BRADSHER, Feb. 22, 2003)
With No Bids, Sotheby's Takes Itself Off the Block (By CAROL VOGEL with ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 22, 2003)
Illinois Joins Suits to Collect Taxes on Internet Sales (By NORM ALSTER, Feb. 22, 2003)
Mortgage Rates Hit Lows [30-year fixed-rate mortgage now 5.84%] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 22, 2003)
* ARTS: An Arab Gadfly With a Memorable Bite [Algeria's Mohammed Harbi] (By ADAM SHATZ, Feb. 22, 2003)
ARTS: A New Literature With Asian Roots [Hmong American writers]
(By FELICIA R. LEE, Feb. 22, 2003)
* CONNECTIONS: Were Trojans Proto-Americans? [Berlioz "Les Troyens"] (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 22, 2003)
OPERA: 'BOHÈME': Puccini Neat (Unmiked) (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 22, 2003)
POP: PIONEER AWARDS CEREMONY: A Happy Night for Old-Timers Still Singing the Blues
(By JON PARELES, Feb. 22, 2003)
* TV WATCH: Blurring Reality With Soap Suds ["The Bachelorette"] (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 22, 2003)
TV REVIEW | '1ST TO DIE': Four Nancy Drews and One Serial Killer (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Feb. 22, 2003)
HEALTH: Doctors Say Girl in Donor Mix-Up Has Brain Damage (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN with LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 22, 2003)
HEALTH: Doctors Discuss Transplant Mistake (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 22, 2003)

Friday, Feb. 21, 2003:
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)

James Hardy, Surgeon Who Paved Way for Transplants, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2003)
Benyoussef Ben Khedda, 82, Algerian Leader, Is Dead (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 21, 2003)
Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Stage Designer, Dies at 88 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2003)
Jack Brodsky, 69, Movie Producer and Publicist, Dies (NY TIMES, Feb. 21, 2003)
George Chaplin, Edited Paper in Hawaii, Dies at 88 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2003)
NATIONAL: Indictment Ties U.S. Professor and 8 Others to Terror Group (By ERIC LICHTBLAU with JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 21, 2003)
NASA Had Planned Changes on Shuttle Foam (By EDWARD WONG with WILLIAM J. BROAD, Feb. 21, 2003)
Disagreement Emerges Over Foam on Shuttle Tank (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 21, 2003)
General Asks Air Force to Build Trust at Academy (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Feb. 21, 2003)
Former Air Force Analyst Convicted in Spying Case (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Feb. 21, 2003)
With Help From Democrat, Bush Pitches Tax Cut Plan (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 21, 2003)
WORLD: DIPLOMACY: Korean Issue Shapes Powell's Asia Agenda (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 21, 2003)
U.S. Seeks 9 Votes From U.N. Council to Confront Iraq (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN with FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 21, 2003)
ASIAN ARENA: U.S. Combat Force of 1,700 Is Headed to the Philippines (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 21, 2003)
From War to Withdrawal, Complex Ties [American-Philippine relations] (NY TIMES, Feb. 21, 2003)
AFGHAN SECURITY: NATO Chief Says Alliance Needs Role in Afghanistan (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 21, 2003)
Storm Hinders Iranian Crews Sent to Search Site of Crash (By NAZILA FATHI, Feb. 21, 2003)
ATTACKS: A British Defense Employee Is Shot Dead in Saudi Capital (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 21, 2003)
BRITAIN: Blair's Stand on Iraq Hurts Him Politically but Seems Unlikely to Topple Him
(By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 21, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Turkey Assesses Question of Kurds (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 21, 2003)
BAGHDAD: Human Shields, No Résumé Needed (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 21, 2003)
The Fierce Kurdish Vision [chronology] (NY TIMES, Feb. 21, 2003)
Armed With Weapons and a Will, Palestinian Factions Plot Revenge (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 21, 2003)
Man's Death of 'Bird Flu' in Hong Kong Raises Fears (By KEITH BRADSHER, Feb. 21, 2003)
Venezuelan Police Seize Businessman Who Led 2-Month Strike (By REUTERS, Feb. 21, 2003)
NY REGION: New Yorkers Seen as Cool to War (By LESLIE EATON, Feb. 21, 2003)
Blanket Over Buffalo Has Cleanup Boss on Toes (By LISA W. FODERARO, Feb. 21, 2003)
Woman Faces New Charges of Falsely Obtaining 9/11 Funds (By SUSAN SAULNY & DAVID W. CHEN, Feb. 21, 2003)
Reality TV Confession Leads to Real-Life Conviction (By ANDREW JACOBS, Feb. 21, 2003)
6 Are Charged With Selling Millions of Counterfeit Marlboros (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Feb. 21, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Why Doesn't Our Gift Bag Have a Private Jet? (By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 21, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Former Wrestler Takes on Issues of the Disabled (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Feb. 21, 2003)
NYC: Bridge Tolls: Old Debates and New Ideas (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 21, 2003)
SPORTS: Even Without Incident, Tyson Still Draws Crowd (By RAY GLIER, Feb. 21, 2003)
BASKETBALL: Discarding One Image for Another [Ron Artest, Pacers] (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Feb. 21, 2003)
ON BASEBALL: Mattingly Says Yanks Must Realize the Boss Is Part of the Deal (By JACK CURRY, Feb. 21, 2003)
SPORTS: Steinbrenner Adds Wood to a Fire Jeter Says Is Out (By TYLER KEPNER, Feb. 21, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Vengeance in Venezuela (NY TIMES, Feb. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: The Martial Plan (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Our New Hydrogen Bomb (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: A Last Chance to Stop Iraq (By KENNETH M. POLLACK, Feb. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Please, Just the Facts, Mr. Ridge (By ANN F. MILLER, et. al., Feb. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Is Hussein Evil? Yes, but... (By GEORGE FISHER< et. al. , Feb. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Our Virginia Woolf (ByB. J. SAVIN, Feb. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Hydrogen and Health (By SUSANNE SALTZMAN, M.D., Feb. 21, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Decline on 4 Disappointing Reports on Economy
[Dow -86, Nasdaq -3] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2003)
Slump Aside, Trade Deficit Hits a Record (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 21, 2003)
F.C.C. Leaves Most Rules on Network Leasing in Place (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 21, 2003)
Critics Say Wireless Competitors Avoid Competing in Los Angeles (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 21, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Land-Line Rules in a Wireless World (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 21, 2003)
* INTERNET ACCESS: High-Speed Service May Cost More (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 21, 2003)
ADVERTISING: ESPN Puts Ads Into Video Clips (By NAT IVES, Feb. 21, 2003)
Starbucks Adds a Credit Card (By SHERRI DAY, Feb. 21, 2003)
ART: MATTHEW BARNEY: Free to Play and Be Gooey (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 21, 2003)
ARTS: MY MANHATTAN: Reclaiming Wintry Parks of Childhood (By LESLIE KANDELL, Feb. 21, 2003)
* ART: MONTIEN BOONMA; 'THAI-TANIC': Immersed in Buddhism and its Meditation on Paradoxes
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 21, 2003)
ART: 'THE POINTED PEN': Targets for Satire (By GRACE GLUECK, Feb. 21, 2003)
INSIDE ART: An Albers Mural May Reappear (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 21, 2003)
ART SHOW AT THE SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY: Market-Driven Survey Through the 20th Century
(By KEN JOHNSON, Feb. 21, 2003)
ART: Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin; Édouard Vuillard; Donald Moffett (By ROBERTA SMITH & JOHN RUSSELL, Feb. 21, 2003)
ANTIQUES: A Modernist Sees Luster in Old Silver (By WENDY MOONAN, Feb. 21, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'VANISHED SPLENDORS': The Life Balthus Lived, or Thought He Should Have
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 21, 2003)
CABARET: PETER CINCOTTI: A Balladeer Old Beyond His Years (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'DARK BLUE': When Corruption Comes in a Law-and-Order Guise (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE': The Death Row Syndrome [Kevin Spacey] (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'OLD SCHOOL': Never Too Late to Have an Adolescence (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'GODS AND GENERALS': Gory, Glory Hallelujah (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'EROTIC TALES': Desperately Seeking Spice, or How Name Directors Pursue the Erotic
(By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'LAWLESS HEART': Three Heartbreaks and a Funeral (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'OPEN HEARTS': The Fist of a Merciless Fate Wallops Four Lives at Once (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: 'TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US': Young Love, Tragedy and a Poem (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 21, 2003)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Is He Himself or His Role? (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 21, 2003)
MUSIC: Inside the Music: A Cellist's Perspective (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 21, 2003)
THEATER: 'DUBLIN CAROL': When Talk Is the Cure for the Morning After (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 21, 2003)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: Dramatic Homecoming [James Van Der Beek] (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Feb. 21, 2003)
TV WEEKEND: The High Art of Mockery (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 21, 2003)
HEALTH: Girl in Donor Mix-Up Undergoes 2nd Transplant (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN with LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 21, 2003)
HEALTH: An Ethical Dilemma With Few Precedents (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG & LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Feb. 21, 2003)
* HEALTH: Depression Study Backs Long Drug Therapy (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 21, 2003)
HEALTH: Risk of Fatal Stroke Is Greatest for Blacks, Government Says (By REUTERS, Feb. 21, 2003)

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2003:
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)

Johnny Paycheck, Hard-Living Country Singer, Dies at 64 (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 20, 2003)
Lord Wilberforce, 95, Keeper of an Antislavery Tradition, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 20, 2003)
Jim Gordon, Sportscaster in New York, Dies at 76 (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2003)
NATIONAL: As Gasoline Prices Rise, Drivers Have Doubts About Why (By NICK MADIGAN, Feb. 20, 2003)
NATIONAL: Reshaping Message on Terror, Ridge Urges Calm With Caution (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Feb. 20, 2003)
Shuttle Inquiry Again Focuses on Damage From Debris (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & EDWARD WONG, Feb. 20, 2003)
Jesse Jackson, a Club Owner and Lasting Ties (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 20, 2003)
27.5 Inches Mostly a Minor Hurdle in Boston (By PAM BELLUCK, Feb. 20, 2003)
Civil Liberties Lawyers Raise Questions About Web Filters (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 20, 2003)
Gephardt, Taking Aim at White House, Sharply Attacks Bush (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 20, 2003)
WARNINGS: Few Signs of Less Terror Threat as a Lower Alert Is Considered (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 20, 2003)
Being Prepared [Homeland Security] (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Is Pessimistic Turks Will Accept Aid Deal on Iraq (By DAVID E. SANGER with DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 20, 2003)
9/11 Accomplice Guilty in Germany (By DESMOND BUTLER, Feb. 20, 2003)
Final Calls Add to Anguish Over Korean Subway Fire (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 20, 2003)
302 Killed in Crash of Iranian Military Plane (By NAZILA FATHI, Feb. 20, 2003)
U.S. Official Cites Progress in Trade Ties With China (By KEITH BRADSHER, Feb. 20, 2003)
African Town's Pride and Joy Vanished When Ferry Sank (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Feb. 20, 2003)
* PONDICHERRY JOURNAL: The Zoo Is Fiction, but It Just Might Spring to Life (By KEITH BRADSHER, Feb. 20, 2003)
NUCLEAR STANDOFF: United Nations Delays Action on North Korea (By REUTERS, Feb. 20, 2003)
Nerves Frayed in Venezuela After Killings of Chávez Opponents (By REUTERS, Feb. 20, 2003)
THE NETHERLANDS: Dutch Helping as U.S. Sends Troops to Gulf (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2003)
ARAB DISCORD: Arab League Is Struggling for Consensus on Iraq Crisis (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 20, 2003)
THE U.N.: Some on Security Council Want to Avoid Taking Sides on Iraq (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 20, 2003)
Deaths at Sea: Grim Numbers (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2003)
THE MILITARY: If Turkey Finally Says No: A Hindrance, Aides Say, but There Are Other Plans
(By THOM SHANKER & ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 20, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Ankara's Dance of Politics and Cash (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 20, 2003)
NY REGION: Support Builds for One Plan for Trade Center Site (By EDWARD WYATT, Feb. 20, 2003)
Central Park Gardener Wins a Central Park West Income [$128 million lottery]
(By DIANE CARDWELL, Feb. 20, 2003)
After Korean Subway Fire, New York Rechecks Safety (By ANTHONY DePALMA, Feb. 20, 2003)
* MENTAL HEALTH: Long-Term Effects of Post-Trauma Events (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 20, 2003)
Hospitals Spend Millions in Terrorism Preparations (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Feb. 20, 2003)
Rebel Without a Chance [re-enact Battle of Chancellorsville] (By JAMES BARRON, Feb. 20, 2003)
Found: Rottweiler Who Thinks It's a Penguin (By RONALD SMOTHERS, Feb. 20, 2003)
Dancing in the Mush Pit: It's Heel, Toe, Hop, or Wade Right In (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 20, 2003)
METRO MATTERS: The Right to Assemble Hits Detours [Peace march] (By JOYCE PURNICK, Feb. 20, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Oh, the Glamorous Life [Sports Illustrated Swimsuit party]
(By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 20, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: The Dry Beer Is Back, Looking for a Lush Shelf Life (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 20, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Dollar Diplomacy [$36 billion to Turkey?] (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Trouble With Corporate Radio: The Day the Protest Music Died
(By BRENT STAPLES, Feb. 20, 2003)
OP-ED: The Yes-But Parade (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 20, 2003)
OP-ED: A Strange Budget Cut (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 20, 2003)
OP-ED: The Worst Defense (By DANIEL BENJAMIN & STEVEN SIMON, Feb. 20, 2003)
LETTERS: The President and the Protesters (By JIM BRISTOW, et. al., Feb. 20, 2003)
LETTERS: Value of Liberal Arts (By ALBERT S. KIRSCH, Feb. 20, 2003)
BUSINESS: Renewed Fears of Iraq War Cause Share Prices to Falter
[Dow -41, Nasdaq -12] (By REUTERS, Feb. 20, 2003)
* Trial Near in Patent Case on Key Internet Technology [Secure Sockets Layer]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 20, 2003)
Pharmacia Profits Rise Sharply, Aided by a New Arthritis Drug (By REUTERS, Feb. 20, 2003)
Japan's Fiscal Year Winds Down, With Less Anxiety (By KEN BELSON, Feb. 20, 2003)
F.C.C. Ruling Is Expected to Favor Bells (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 20, 2003)
After 27 Years, Pauley Plans to Leave NBC in May (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 20, 2003)
* Turner Plans Role as Gadfly Without Portfolio (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK & JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 20, 2003)
ECONOMIC SCENE: A Theory on Corporate Greed (By JEFF MADRICK, Feb. 20, 2003)
ARTS: Some States Propose End to Arts Spending (By STEPHEN KINZER, Feb. 20, 2003)
BOOKS: 'CLOSE TO HOME': A British Detective Investigates the Murderous Side of the Swinging 60's
(By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 20, 2003)
DANCE: PRIVATE LIVES OF DANCERS 2003: Dancers Talk, but Can You Believe Them?
(By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 20, 2003)
DANCE: 'LES TROYENS': At the Opera, Onstage Presences Who Don't Sing a Note (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 20, 2003)
FILM: 'FROM THE OTHER SIDE': Inching Toward America, So Near but So Far (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 20, 2003)
JAZZ: MARK TURNER: A Trio Tries Something New (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 20, 2003)
MUSIC: SEARCHING FOR A SOUND: Malibu Invents a Sound of Its Own (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 20, 2003)
MUSIC: MITSUKO UCHIDA: Pianist Devotes an Evening to the Concept of Fantasy (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 20, 2003)
WORLD MUSIC: THIONE SECK: Poise Amid Senegalese Thunder (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 20, 2003)
THE POP LIFE: The Osbournes Plan for Summer (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 20, 2003)
THE TV WATCH: Two Tacks on Threat of War, for the Young and the Older (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 20, 2003)
GARDEN: DESIGN NOTEBOOK: Venice's New Logo Is a Wing (and a Prayer) (By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNE, Feb. 20, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2003)
A Thin Line Between Film and Joystick (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 20, 2003)
* Weapons That Disable Circuitry May Get First Use in Iraq (By SETH SCHIESEL, Feb. 20, 2003)
Graphic: Weapons in Focus (NY TIMES, Feb. 20, 2003)
For Some, the Jitters Help the Bottom Line (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Feb. 20, 2003)
Government Tells Vigilantes Their 'Help' Isn't Necessary (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Feb. 20, 2003)
STATE OF THE ART: New Tricks From Do-It-All Palmtops (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 20, 2003)
* BASICS: Should You Shred or Save? Two Ways to Streamline (By PETER MEYERS, Feb. 20, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Instead of Duct Tape, Indulge in Pink (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Feb. 20, 2003)
Photography Lessons Right in the Viewfinder (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 20, 2003)
Mouse With Ear Appeal Can Tune in FM Stations (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Feb. 20, 2003)
Write on Your Pictures (Without Ink Smudges) (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 20, 2003)
Safe Opens With a Touch, but Only if It's the Right One (By JUDY TONG, Feb. 20, 2003)
Where's the Remote? A Tiny New Answer (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 20, 2003)
* Retelling Jewish History, Abraham to Israel (By NOAH SHACHTMAN, Feb. 20, 2003)
Q & A: Regain a Familiar View Within Windows XP (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 20, 2003)
CIRCUITS LETTERS: Klez Virus on Dell Laptop (By RHODA FERBER, Feb. 20, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Photos Bolster Idea of Water, and Possibly Life, on Mars (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 20, 2003)
HEALTH: Despite the Danger Warnings, Ephedra Sells (By GINA KOLATA & WALT BOGDANICH, Feb. 20, 2003)
HEALTH: Test Does Not Bar 2nd Transplant (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 20, 2003)
HEALTH: Study Finds Vaccine Doesn't Lead to Child Bacterial Infections (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 20, 2003)

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2003:
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)

Lee Kreindler, 78, Air-Crash Lawyer, Dies (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 19, 2003)
* Paul Meehl, 83, an Example for Leaders of Psychotherapy, Dies (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 19, 2003)
Isser Harel, 91, Israeli Who Helped Found Mossad, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2003)
NATIONAL: Deadly Stampede Prompts Debate on Club's Defiance (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 19, 2003)
A Challenge in California Over Decisions for the Coast (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 19, 2003)
Where Talk of War Includes 'Mom' or 'Dad' (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 19, 2003)
Panel Says Shuttle Began to Break Up Over California (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Feb. 19, 2003)
Limits on Teenage Drivers Lower Accidents, Data Show (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2003)
Snow Piled Too High for Blowers, but the White House Still Runs (By PETER T. KILBORN, Feb. 19, 2003)
'McCain-Feingold School' Finds Many Bewildered (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 19, 2003)
ON EDUCATION: Defining Success in Narrow Terms (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Feb. 19, 2003)
Packing Meals for the Troops (By PETER T. KILBORN, Feb. 19, 2003)
2 War Foes Take Steps on Seeking Presidency (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Feb. 19, 2003)
New Charter for Shuttle Board, but Critics Are Not Appeased (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 18, 2003)
* Remembering a Spacecraft With Its Own Set of Quirks (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 19, 2003)
WORLD: Chirac Scolding Angers Nations That Back U.S. (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 19, 2003)
* OUT IN THE WORLD: Americans Abroad Find Anger at U.S. Brings Discomfort and Risk
(By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 19, 2003)
THE WHITE HOUSE: Antiwar Protests Fail to Sway Bush on Plans for Iraq (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 19, 2003)
ALLY IN MIDDLE EUROPE: Anti-Hussein Iraqis in Hungary for Training by U.S. Military
(By PETER S. GREEN, Feb. 19, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Nations Seek World Order Centered on U.N., Not U.S. (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 19, 2003)
THE VOLUNTEERS: Exile Talks of His 'Duty' to Free Iraqis of Hussein (By GREGORY CROUCH, Feb. 19, 2003)
LONDON: Blair Defends Alliance With Bush and U.S. (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 19, 2003)
THE U.N.: Muslim Lands Say War Could Bring Havoc (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 19, 2003)
BARGAINING: Turkey Demands $32 Billion U.S. Aid Package if It Is to Take Part in a War on Iraq
(By DEXTER FILKINS with ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 19, 2003)
Death Toll in Korean Subway Arson Climbs to 120 (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 19, 2003)
Rich Armenia vs. Poor Armenia in Presidential Election (By DAVID ROHDE, Feb. 19, 2003)
Girls Find Safety Posing as Boys on Tehran's Mean Streets (By ELAINE SCIOLINO with NAZILA FATHI, Feb. 19, 2003)
Gem Thieves Plunder Vaults in Antwerp (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 19, 2003)
Top Comic Is the Hero of 'Defrauded' Argentines (By LARRY ROHTER, Feb. 19, 2003)
ZUN-MURINO JOURNAL: If Trees Are Family, an Oil Pipeline Is Ungodly (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Feb. 19, 2003)
600 Ugandans Struggle for Recognition by Israel as Jews (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 19, 2003)
Woman Offers Details of Israeli Detention Methods (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 19, 2003)
NY REGION: After a Day of Powdery Play, the City Faces Slushy Reality (By JAMES BARRON, Feb. 19, 2003)
Tons of Snow Add to a Sea of Red Ink (By MICHAEL COOPER, Feb. 19, 2003)
The Driver's Quandary: A Shovel Today, or a Chisel Tomorrow (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 19, 2003)
Protesters Say City Police Used Rough Tactics at Rally (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Feb. 19, 2003)
* ECONOMIC PULSE: Economy Is Tough All Over, but in New York, It's Horrid
(By LESLIE EATON, Feb. 19, 2003)
Volunteerism Among Lawyers Surges, Encouraged by Slumping Economy (By SUSAN SAULNY, Feb. 19, 2003)
Out of the Firehouse, Into a Richer Retirement (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Feb. 19, 2003)
* Justifying a Liberal Arts Education in Hard Times (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 19, 2003)
Trains So Crowded the Conductors Couldn't Collect the Fares (By ANTHONY DePALMA, Feb. 19, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: The Junior Line Will Be 'Little Miss Fetish' (By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 19, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: Seeing More Darkness at the End of the Tunnel (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 19, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Coalition of the Willing (NY TIMES, Feb. 19, 2003)
* OP-ED: Tell the Truth (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 19, 2003)
OP-ED: Flashback for the Kurds (By PETER W. GALBRAITH, Feb. 19, 2003)
* OP-ED: Another March of Folly? [Vice President Bush in Feb. 1983]
(By CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Feb. 19, 2003)
OP-ED: The Protesters: Right for the Wrong Reasons (By AMOS OZ, Feb. 19, 2003)
* LETTERS: The Messages From the Protests (By DONALD MARRITZ, et. al., Feb. 19, 2003)
LETTERS: Call in the 'Cavalry,' or Try Other Ways? (By BROOKE STEVENS, et. al., Feb. 19, 2003)
LETTERS: Potassium Iodide Pills (By MARC SIEGEL, M.D., Feb. 19, 2003)
BUSINESS: War Worries Set Aside, Investors Buy Technology Stocks
[Dow +132, Nasdaq +36] (By REUTERS, Feb. 19, 2003)
Wal-Mart's Net Jumped 15.5% in 4th Quarter (By REUTERS, Feb. 19, 2003)
Ireland, Once a Celtic Tiger, Slackens Its Stride (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 19, 2003)
Reuters to Cut 3,000 Jobs After Big Loss (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 19, 2003)
Storm Adds Insult to an Injured Economy (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 19, 2003)
Some Concerns Thrive on Medicaid Patients (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Feb. 19, 2003)
* Overture Services to Buy AltaVista for $140 Million (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 19, 2003)
Maker of Luxury Goods Burnishes the 57 St. Image [LVMH] (By JOHN HOLUSHA, Feb. 19, 2003)
Investigators Tell Executive Not to Leave South Korea (By DON KIRK, Feb. 19, 2003)
A Rocky Road Led to Big Russian Oil Deal (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Feb. 19, 2003)
Iraq Factor Complicates Euro Issue for Britain (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 19, 2003)
ART: Fearing a Big Flood, Paris Moves Art (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 19, 2003)
* BOOKS: Arab-American Writers, Uneasy in Two Worlds (By DINITIA SMITH, Feb. 19, 2003)
BOOKS: 'JARHEAD': A Warrior Haunted by Ghosts of Battle (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 19, 2003)
DANCE: A Former Dancer Is Picked to Lead City Center (By JESSE McKINLEY, Feb. 19, 2003)
FILM: 'AMANDLA!': The Sounds and Rhythms That Helped Bring Down Apartheid
(By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 19, 2003)
FILM: 'THE BALLAD OF BERING STRAIT': Fame Is Slow for a Russian Band (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 19, 2003)
JAZZ: 'FLAMENCO NIGHTS': Andalusian Rhythms Win American Hearts (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 19, 2003)
MUSIC: NY YOUTH SYMPHONY: A Place on the Musical Food Chain (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 19, 2003)
MUSIC: THOMAS HAMPSON, DANIEL BARENBOIM: Paying Hugo Wolf His Due (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 19, 2003)
* POETRY: Ambiguity Is a Guest at a Readers' Evening [Sharon Olds] (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 19, 2003)
POP: ROSANNE CASH: Seeing Virtue in Life's Tribulations (By JON PARELES, Feb. 19, 2003)
TV: 'Joe Millionaire' Is Fox's Biggest Hit (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 19, 2003)
DINING: HoJo's to Go? Say It Ain't So (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Feb. 19, 2003)
SCIENCE: Dating of Australian Remains Backs Theory of Early Migration of Humans (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 19, 2003)
HEALTH: Donor Mix-Up Leaves Girl, 17, Fighting for Life (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 19, 2003)
Jésica Was One of 80,000 on Organ Waiting List (By LINDA VILLAROSA, Feb. 19, 2003)
HEALTH: An Herb Under Scrutiny [Xenadrine contains ephedra ] (By MARY DUENWALD, Feb. 19, 2003)

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003:
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)

Vera Hruba Ralston, 79, Dies; Skated in Olympics and Films (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 18, 2003)
Ed Martin, Key Figure in Michigan Basketball Scandal, Is Dead at 69 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 18, 2003)
Jack Maher, Jazz Magazine Publisher, Dies at 78 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 18, 2003)
NATIONAL: Snowfall Tally Can Be a Game of Inches (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 18, 2003)
Some at Shuttle Fuel Tank Plant See Quality Control Problems (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 18, 2003)
Groups Support University of Michigan Affirmative Action Case (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Feb. 18, 2003)
21 Die in Stampede of 1,500 at Chicago Nightclub (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 18, 2003)
A Court Expands the Rights of Patients to Sue H.M.O.'s (By ROBERT PEAR, Feb. 18, 2003)
WORLD: European Union Says Iraq Must Disarm Quickly and Fully (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 18, 2003)
War Planners Speak of the Risks (By DAVID E. SANGER & THOM SHANKER, Feb. 18, 2003)
THE MEDIA: Journalists Are Assigned to Accompany U.S. Troops
(By RALPH BLUMENTHAL & JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 18, 2003)
NUCLEAR STANDOFF: North Korea Threatens to Withdraw From '53 Accord (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 18, 2003)
KOREAN PENINSULA: North Koreans Give Voice to Deep Anti-U.S. Feelings (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 18, 2003)
More Than 120 Die in Arson Attack on South Korean Subway (By DON KIRK, Feb. 18, 2003)
The Good Bikers of Sichuan Roar Off (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 18, 2003)
TORONTO JOURNAL: A Veil of Deterrence for a Bridge With a Dark Side (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 18, 2003)
IN UNIFORM: Call to Arms Rang True for Child of Dissenters (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Feb. 18, 2003)
ALLIES: Proposal by Turkey Stalls U.S. Bid to Use Its Bases (By DEXTER FILKINS with JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 18, 2003)
UNITED NATIONS: Britain Joins U.S. to Draft New Measure Aimed at Iraq (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 18, 2003)
Text: In the European Union Leaders' Words, 'War Is Not Inevitable' (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2003)
NY REGION: Blizzard Buries Northeastern U.S., Disrupting Travel (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Feb. 18, 2003)
A City's Jitters, Muffled in the Swirling Drifts (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 18, 2003)
The Snowmobile as a Hot Rod: More Thrills, and More Worries (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Feb. 18, 2003)
A Slow, Deliberate Process of Weighing 9/11 Awards (By DAVID W. CHEN, Feb. 18, 2003)
MOMENTS: From the Top of the Bridge to, Well, the Bottom [Brooklyn Bridge]
(By ANDY NEWMAN, Feb. 18, 2003)
TUNNEL VISION: It's Your Subway's Dowdy Sister (By RANDY KENNEDY, Feb. 18, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: If the Show's a Snooze, There's Always the Mets [Jerry Seinfeld]
(By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 18, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: A School Shake-Up Winner With a Big Challenge (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Feb. 18, 2003)
NYC: Boycott This! (Pardon Our French) (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 18, 2003)
SPORTS: Varied Factors Caused Pitcher's Death (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 18, 2003)
SPORTS: Baseball Has Failed to Confront Drugs (By GEORGE VECSEY, Feb. 18, 2003)
* ON BASEBALL: For Bonds, Life Is Wishing and Praying (By JACK CURRY, Feb. 18, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Blizzard of 2003 (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Reuniting the Security Council (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Tumultuous Republic of California Is Still Different, Only More So
(By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Feb. 18, 2003)
OP-ED: Mr. Bush's Liberal Problem (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 18, 2003)
* OP-ED: Behind the Great Divide (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 18, 2003)
OP-ED: All They Can Be, Except American (By PETER SCHWEIZER, Feb. 18, 2003)
OP-ED: When the Buffalo Roam (By JUDY BLUNT, Feb. 18, 2003)
LETTERS: 'Legacy' Admissions and Fairness (By DAN LUNDQUIST, et. al., Feb. 18, 2003)
LETTERS: A Hard Line on North Korea (By PAUL LIEBESKIND, Feb. 18, 2003)
* LETTERS: For Sale: Light to Beat the Winter Blues (By ERNEST R. SCHLACHTER, Feb. 18, 2003)
LETTERS: The New Francophobia (By PHILLIP CORWIN, Feb. 18, 2003)
BUSINESS: Bank Deals May Be Ahead at Citigroup (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Feb. 18, 2003)
In Pursuit of Perks, Buyers Are Returning to Store Credit Cards (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Feb. 18, 2003)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Offsetting Environmental Damage by Planes (By HARRY RIJNEN, Feb. 18, 2003)
ADVERTISING: Diet Battles Head for Television (By PATRICIA WINTERS LAURO, Feb. 18, 2003)
Global Markets Gain on Optimism That Iraq War Can Be Avoided (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 18, 2003)
Fare Increase Is Rescinded by Big Airlines (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 18, 2003)
MEMO PAD: Blizzard Leads Airlines to Relax Ticket Rules (By JOE SHARKEY, Feb. 18, 2003)
* ON THE ROAD: Internet High-Wire Act With an 8-Pound Laptop (By JOE SHARKEY, Feb. 18, 2003)
Clinging to Beverly Hills Lifestyle, via a Pawnshop (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 18, 2003)
Bush's Stimulus Plan and Its Two Big Ifs (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Feb. 18, 2003)
* ART: An Artist Who Stayed in Hitler's Germany [Otto Dix] (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 18, 2003)
BOOKS: Ugly Tryst in a Hotel; Kidnapping of a Boy, 10 (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 18, 2003)
* BOOKS: The Author as Science Guy (By EMILY EAKIN, Feb. 18, 2003)
DANCE: NY CITY BALLET: Finding New Dimensions in Well-Worn Ballets (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 18, 2003)
DANCE: NYC BALLET: From Flowing Chiffon and Serenity to Nutty Invention (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 18, 2003)
DANCE: GERMAINE ACOGNY: Earthy but Sad Pilgrim on a Quiet Quest for the Past
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 18, 2003)
* FILM: A Boy's Film of a Day With Marilyn Monroe (By JESSE McKINLEY, Feb. 18, 2003)
MUSIC: MET CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: Levine Couples Webern and Berg (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 18, 2003)
MUSIC: ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Putting Hard Parts Back in a Concerto (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 18, 2003)
MUSIC: LAUREN FLANIGAN: From an Overflowing Heart, Loads and Loads of Love (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 18, 2003)
OPERA: YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NYC: Sweet Tale For a Child, But a Dark Side, Too
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 18, 2003)
SCIENCE: Wanted: Traffic Cops for Space (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 18, 2003)
SCIENCE: Using Genetic Tests, Ashkenazi Jews Vanquish a Disease (By GINA KOLATA, Feb. 18, 2003)
SCIENTIST AT WORK: A Scientist's Prey: Dark Energy in the Cosmic Abyss (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Feb. 18, 2003)
With an Evolutionary Milestone, the Race for Survival Began (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE, Feb. 18, 2003)
Data on Epilepsy Point to Dangers of Repeated Seizures (By LINDA CARROLL, Feb. 18, 2003)
Doctors Look Ahead to 'Pacemakers for the Brain' (By LINDA CARROLL, Feb. 18, 2003)
THE DOCTOR'S WORLD: AIDS Expert Helps Doctors Learn From Autopsies (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Feb. 18, 2003)
OBSERVATORY: A 'Type A' Type of Havoc (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 18, 2003)
Terra-Cotta Army From Early Han Dynasty Is Unearthed (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 18, 2003)
Q & A: Topical Antibiotics (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 18, 2003)
SCIENCE LETTERS (NY TIMES, Feb. 18, 2003)
HEALTH: Leprosy, a Synonym for a Stigma, Returns (By SHARON LERNER, Feb. 18, 2003)
Some Urge Type of Pap Test to Find Cancer in Gay Men (By DAVID TULLER, Feb. 18, 2003)
Medicare Study Says 30% Saving Is Possible (By REUTERS, Feb. 18, 2003)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Questions Outnumber Answers on P.S.A. Test (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 18, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Screening: 3 Easy Steps to Diagnose Strokes (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 18, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Regimen: Exercising to Your Own Rules (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 18, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: When Money Doesn't Matter (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 18, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Diagnosis: Food Infections as Stealth Killers (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 18, 2003)

Monday, Feb. 17, 2003:
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)

George E. Freestone, Oldest Known Scout, Is Dead at 104 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 17, 2003)
Eleanor Daley, Wife of Ex-Chicago Mayor, Dies at 95 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2003)
Noriko Flynn, Advocate For Unions and Civil Rights, Is Dead at 79 (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, Feb. 17, 2003)
David E. Feller, Dead at 86; Lawyer Who Argued Key Labor Cases (By ERIC PACE, Feb. 17, 2003)
Joe Connelly, 85, a Creator of `Leave It to Beaver', Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2003)
Stacy Keach Sr., 88, Actor and Director, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2003)
Mel Bourne, 79, Film Production Designer, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2003)
NATIONAL: After Liftoff, Uncertainty and Guesswork (By DAVID BARSTOW, Feb. 17, 2003)
THE OVERVIEW: Shuttle Tried to Right Itself Near the End, Tapes Reveal (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 17, 2003)
Snow Piles Up as Storm Rolls Across the East (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 17, 2003)
THE PROTESTS: A Day Late, but Not a Marcher Short, in San Francisco (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 17, 2003)
FOREIGN STUDENTS: Electronic Tracking System Monitors Foreign Students
(By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Feb. 17, 2003)
WASHINGTON TALK: Medicare Plan's Trouble Could Offer a Lesson (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 17, 2003)
INTELLIGENCE: Ridge Says Warning Levels Might Be Lowered in Days (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 17, 2003)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: In Case of Emergency, Cupboards May Be Bare (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 17, 2003)
New Californian Identity Predicted by Researchers (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 17, 2003)
THE ECONOMY: Contractors' Windfall Is Not Doing Much Trickling Down in Military Towns
(By PETER T. KILBORN, Feb. 17, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Planning Sanctions Against North Korea (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 17, 2003)
North Koreans Celebrate Birthday of 'Dear Leader' (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 17, 2003)
* NEWS ANAYSIS: Europe's Groundswell: Public Opinion (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 17, 2003)
NATO Settles Rift Over Aid to Turks in Case of a War (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN with STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 17, 2003)
Qaeda Informant Helps Trace Group's Trail (By DESMOND BUTLER & DON VAN NATTA Jr., Feb. 17, 2003)
Iran Reports Sweep Against Qaeda Smugglers (By ELAINE SCIOLINO with ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 17, 2003)
U.S. Praises Indonesia for Its Fight on Terrorism (By RAYMOND BONNER, Feb. 17, 2003)
Germans Near Air Base Don't Hate U.S., Just the Noise (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 17, 2003)
Europe Must Avow Christianity, Pope Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2003)
THE 1991 WAR: Bombing Site Fuels Politics of Bitterness (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 17, 2003)
Blair, Increasingly Alone, Clings to Stance (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 17, 2003)
NORTHERN IRAQ: Kurds Hope U.S. Bombs Hit Militants, Not Home (By C. J. CHIVERS, Feb. 17, 2003)
CARACAS JOURNAL: Love! Power! Squalor! TV Dramas Tune in Politics (By JUAN FORERO, Feb. 17, 2003)
Driving in London Is Pound Foolish [$8 to drive in city] (By SARAH LYALL, Feb. 17, 2003)
NY REGION: Snowstorm Sweeps North, Gaining Power (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Feb. 17, 2003)
War Protesters Say They Were Bound for Rally, but Ended Up in Human Traffic Jam
(By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Feb. 17, 2003)
A Chill Most Bitter: Learning to Accept Hat Hair (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Feb. 17, 2003)
* In a Dark Lair, a Phantom of the Opera Trills [Michael Barimo] (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 17, 2003)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Feb. 17, 2003)
SPORTS: Woods Returns to Dominate the Field (By CLIFTON BROWN, Feb. 17, 2003)
BASEBALL: Same Team and Same Approach [Anaheim Angels] (By JACK CURRY, Feb. 17, 2003)
BASEBALL: As an Elder Statesman, Cone Shares Knowledge (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Feb. 17, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Lincoln Returns to the Old South (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2003)
OP-ED: The Right Resolution (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 17, 2003)
OP-ED: Strategic Advice From the Public (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 17, 2003)
* OP-ED: The Man in Our Memory (By DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, Feb. 17, 2003)
LETTERS: Iraq and Oil, Still Inseparable (By ANTHONY F. GRECO, et. al., Feb. 17, 2003)
LETTERS: Use Your Cellphone? Not in This Theater (By URIEL HEILMAN, et. al., Feb. 17, 2003)
* LETTERS: War and the Artist (By DAVID HAYDEN, Feb. 17, 2003)
BUSINESS: Wage Gap Between Men and Women Shrinks (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 17, 2003)
Liberal Radio Is Planned by Rich Group of Democrats (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 17, 2003)
* MEDIA TALK: A Birthday Gives G.E. a Chance to Promote Itself (By BARNABY FEDER, Feb. 17, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Loosens Apple's Hold on Schools (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Feb. 17, 2003)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: The Battle Over Online Sales Tax Turns Acrimonious (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 17, 2003)
COMPRESSED DATA: Dell's on the Cutting Edge, but It's Only a Movie (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Feb. 17, 2003)
* Google Deal Ties Company to Weblogs (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 17, 2003)
Microsoft in Second Deal to Sell Phone Software (By VICTORIA SHANNON, Feb. 17, 2003)
* Group Program Manager Bids Flippant Farewell to Microsoft [David Stutz]
(By STEVE LOHR, Feb. 17, 2003)
PATENTS: BlackBerry Battle Could Reverberate (By TERESA RIORDAN, Feb. 17, 2003)
* NEW ECONOMY: Looking Beyond a War in Iraq (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 17, 2003)
* Anna Wintour Steps Toward Fashion's New Democracy [Vogue] (By DAVID CARR, Feb. 17, 2003)
Rapper 50 Cent Has Top-Selling First Album (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Feb. 17, 2003)
* MEDIA TALK: U.S. Reaches Out to Younger Readers, in Arabic (By AMY CORTESE, Feb. 17, 2003)
Smithsonian Folkways Dusts Off Titles With New Technology (By CHRIS NELSON, Feb. 17, 2003)
MEDIA TALK: Just a Note to Clarify That Your Editor Is a Fool (By DAVID CARR, Feb. 17, 2003)
MEDIA TALK: A Fox News Ad Roils Some Readers of The Nation (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2003)
South Korea, in Deal With Chile, Signs Its First Free-Trade Pact (By DON KIRK, Feb. 17, 2003)
ARTS ONLINE: Cross-Cultural Ventures With Digital Artworks (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Feb. 17, 2003)
* ART: Dresden Treasures Await Refuge (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 17, 2003)
ARTS: Artist Basks in Belated Turn in the Spotlight [Sigourney Weaver]
(By MEL GUSSOW, Feb. 17, 2003)
BALLET: NEW YORK CITY BALLET: Wild Steps, Cool Moves (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 17, 2003)
BOOKS: 'DROP CITY': Taking on Wildness in Nature or People (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 17, 2003)
DANCE: TWYLA THARP: Some Old Lessons for a New Company (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 17, 2003)
DANCE: 'FORWARD MOTION': Introspection Plus Letters Spelling Love (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 17, 2003)
MUSIC: 'LES TROYENS': Evoking Ancient Days Through Somber Melody (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 17, 2003)
MUSIC: MIRÓ QUARTET: Born of the Same Wood, Individually Burnished
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 17, 2003)
MUSIC: EOS ORCHESTRA: In Winter, Enjoying a Whiff of an Appalachian Spring
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 17, 2003)
THEATER: '110 IN THE SHADE': Con Man, Lonely Woman and Love Swirling on the Prairie
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 17, 2003)
TV: 'THE WHITE HOUSE': From Classy to Brassy: Music at the White House (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 17, 2003)
THE TV WATCH: With Michael Jackson, the Gloves Are Now Off (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 17, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Brain Scans Reflect Problem-Solving Skill (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 17, 2003)

Sunday, Feb. 16, 2003:
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)

* James Thomas Flexner, Washington Biographer, 95, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
Rudy Sablo, Weight Lifter And U.S. Olympic Team Official, Dies at 84 (By FRANK LITSKY, Feb. 16, 2003)
W. L. Pforzheimer, 88, Dies; Helped to Shape the C.I.A. (By TIM WEINER, Feb. 16, 2003)
Dr. L. B. Shettles, 93, Pioneer in Human Fertility, Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, Feb. 16, 2003)
Joe Connelly, 86, Dies; Created 'Leave It to Beaver' (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 16, 2003)
* NATIONAL: In Word, Song and Sign, an Emphatic No to Invasion of Iraq (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 16, 2003)
In Terror Alerts, an Art and a Balancing Act (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 16, 2003)
Florida Ponders Fate of Historic 2000 Ballots (By DANA CANEDY, Feb. 16, 2003)
Families of Astronauts Lost More Than Heroes (By SARAH KERSHAW, Feb. 16, 2003)
Wal-Mart Faces Lawsuit Over Sex Discrimination (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Feb. 16, 2003)
Thousands of Schools May Run Afoul of New Law (By SAM DILLON, Feb. 16, 2003)
In Hawaii, Ship Line Gets Exclusive Rights [Norwegian Cruise Line] (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
Investigators Look at Possible Causes for Loss of Foam Insulation (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 16, 2003)
Bush Loyalist's New Role Is 'Facilitator' in House (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Feb. 16, 2003)
* Pilgrims Find Changes on Both Ends of Journey [Islamic shrines] (By SUSAN SACHS, Feb. 16, 2003)
ALTA JOURNAL: Mayor's Passion Is Protecting a Utah Ski Haven (By KATE ZERNIKE, Feb. 16, 2003)
* WORLD: From New York to Melbourne, Protest Against War on Iraq (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
Ralliers Seek Release of a Militant Kurd (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
Logging Jobs Benefit Pygmies, but Imperil Their Forest Home [Congo] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 16, 2003)
Seeking the Missing, Chinese Find Hope Online (By CHRIS BUCKLEY, Feb. 16, 2003)
An Iraqi Outpost Quietly Waits for War (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 16, 2003)
Filipino Forces Seize Islamic Rebel Stronghold (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Feb. 16, 2003)
Act III: A Son Begins to Rise in North Korea (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 16, 2003)
Iraq Said to Plan Strategy of Delay and Urban Battle (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 16, 2003)
Russian Group Is Offering Values to Fill a Void (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 16, 2003)
Italy's Leader Balances Ambitions and Trials (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 16, 2003)
THE SCENE: Wide Range of Ages, Races and Parties Unite on Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
At Assisi, Iraqi Envoy Publicly Prays for Peace (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 16, 2003)
Antiwar Rallies Raise a Chorus Across Europe (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 16, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Rattle of Sabers Grows a Bit Fainter in a Fiery U.N. Debate
(By JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 16, 2003)
NY REGION: Cruelest Choice Faces Parents of Mentally Ill (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
How's the Mayor Doing? He'll Tell You by Grading Himself (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 16, 2003)
Mayor's Advice: Eat, Drink and Don't Worry (By NICHOLE M. CHRISTIAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
Cheap Buses From Chinatown Get Riders, and Concerns (By MICHAEL WILSON & AL BAKER, Feb. 16, 2003)
THE PROTESTERS: Reminiscent of the 60's; Mainstream to the Core (By ANDREW JACOBS, Feb. 16, 2003)
OUR TOWNS: Even in G.O.P. Territory, the Road to War Is a Two-Way Street
(By MATTHEW PURDY, Feb. 16, 2003)
A 24-Hour Diner, Fighting to Live Another Day (By MARIA NEWMAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
Trade Center Developer Objects to City's Insurance Talks (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Feb. 16, 2003)
SPORTS: With Woods in Front, All Is Right in the PGA's World (By CLIFTON BROWN, Feb. 16, 2003)
SPORTS: Mets Put Character at the Top of Their New Lineup (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Feb. 16, 2003)
SOCCER: Australia Shocks England as 88 Nations Watch on TV (By ROB HUGHES, Feb. 16, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Voodoo vs. 'Rubinomics' (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
EDITORIAL: APPRECIATIONS: An All-American Family (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Feb. 16, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Venus Trap (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 16, 2003)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Peking Duct Tape (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Did My Car Join Al Qaeda? (By WOODY HOCHSWENDER, Feb. 16, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: A Bad Element (By ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr., Feb. 16, 2003)
LETTERS: And Now, a Rift Over Food, Too? (By FAIRFID M. CAUDLE, et. al., Feb. 16, 2003)
LETTERS: Our Civil Rights in the Age of Terror (By JAMES L. COOPER, Feb. 16, 2003)
LETTERS: Bush's Christian Faith (By DONALD W. SHRIVER, Feb. 16, 2003)
LETTERS: What the Saudis Teach (By DAVID A. HARRIS, Feb. 16, 2003)
BUSINESS: Foreigners Exact Trade-Offs From U.S. Contractors (By LESLIE WAYNE, Feb. 16, 2003)
Option Math: Why So Many to So Few? (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 16, 2003)
Who's Blocking the Xbox? Sony and Its Games (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 16, 2003)
Seed From Which Hedges May Grow (By LYNNLEY BROWNING, Feb. 16, 2003)
Today, Good Advice Is the First Stop for Travelers (By JANE L. LEVERE, Feb. 16, 2003)
Big Accounting Firm Picks a Global Chief (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 16, 2003)
THE RIGHT THING: Forewarned Is Forearmed? Not Always (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
Economists Duel (in Print) on Taxes (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
MARKET INSIGHT: Four Choices for Airlines (Only One Is Probable) (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
* STRATEGIES: There's a Futures Contract for Everything (Even Iraq's Fate) (By MARK HULBERT, Feb. 16, 2003)
INVESTING WITH ANTON V. SCHUTZ: Burnham Financial Services Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 16, 2003)
Dreary Winter for British Shares (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Feb. 16, 2003)
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR ARNOLD H. PEDOWITZ: So Long. Now Don't Compete. (By VIVIAN MARINO, Feb. 16, 2003)
* EXECUTIVE LIFE: A Business Travel Perk: Art on the Go (By STEPHEN GREGORY, Feb. 16, 2003)
BUSINESS DIARY: A Kimono Shop Folds for Lack of Fabric (By KAREN ALEXANDER, Feb. 16, 2003)
A Wall Street Tribute to a Mayor (And Criticism of a Governor) (Compiled by MARK A. STEIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
Even in a Harsh Job Market, Veterans Find a Welcome (By DAVID KOEPPEL, Feb. 16, 2003)
* PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Around the World, Gains in Internet Use (Compiled by VIVIAN MARINO, Feb. 16, 2003)
* LIFE'S WORK: The Efficient Way to Not See Each Other [17*31707*1] (By LISA BELKIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
INVESTING DIARY: Wall St. Security Plans Need Work, Study Says (Compiled by JEFF SOMMER, Feb. 16, 2003)
THE BOSS: Finding a Flow in Speech (By SANDER FLAUM, Written with Ellen Rapp, Feb. 16, 2003)
AUTOS: Recycling Fashions at 3,000 R.P.M. (By DAN LIENERT, Feb. 16, 2003)
* REAL ESTATE: Lights! Camera! Action! Location Fees! (By LISA PREVOST, Feb. 16, 2003)
* Penny-Stock Fraud, From Both Sides Now [Hartley T. Bernstein] (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Feb. 16, 2003)
* MARKET WATCH: At Lehman, the Case of the Buried Stock Ratings [Holly B. Becker]
(By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 16, 2003)
PRIVATE SECTOR: Aiming at Hearts, Not Wallets (By PATRICIA WINTERS LAURO, Feb. 16, 2003)
GRASS-ROOTS BUSINESS: From Beehive to Kitchen Table to Mass Production (By JANE TANNER, Feb. 16, 2003)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: Stocks Are Best Option for Beating Inflation (By TOM REDBURN, Feb. 16, 2003)
MONEY & MEDICINE: A Doctor's Bonus Could Also Help the Patients (By MICHELLE ANDREWS, Feb. 16, 2003)
* PRELUDES: Mix and Match, for Many Reasons [networking parties] (By ABBY ELLIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
If the Rules Are Changed, Will Options Disappear? (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 16, 2003)
$30 Million Bet by J. P. Morgan Chase (By LYNNLEY BROWNING, Feb. 16, 2003)
Too Many Pennies From Heaven? (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: Software or the Web? (And New Free Filing) (By JAN M. ROSEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAX TIPS: Benefit Cuts May Bring Deductions (By JAN M. ROSEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: Business Sidelines Raise Special Issues (By DONNA ROSATO, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: Breaks for Those in Retirement, or Gaining on It (By DAN CUFF, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: Courts Speak Out, Sometimes for Filers (By CHARLES DELAFUENTE, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: Shelters Can Turn Perilous (By CHARLES DELAFUENTE, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: That 'Marriage Penalty' Defies an Easy Solution (By JAN M. ROSEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: College Savings Plans: You'll Need a Scorecard (By HILARY APPELMAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
TAXES: Pound for Pound, a Tax-Law Guide Can Save Money (By JAN M. ROSEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
ARTS: Matthew Barney: Bewildering, Bewitching, Above All Strange (By STEVEN HENRY MADOFF, Feb. 16, 2003)
ARTS: Nascar's Voice, Born in Brooklyn (By JOHN D. THOMAS, Feb. 16, 2003)
* ART: Tantalizing Images, Lost and Found [Morton Janklows in a Ray Johnson]
(By PHOEBE HOBAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
* ART: For French Artists, Spain Was an Epiphany (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 16, 2003)
DANCE: Her Curves and Angles Can Mesh in Elegance [Valda Setterfield] (By GIA KOURLAS, Feb. 16, 2003)
* DANCE: Given the Right Cast, She Still Has a Kick [Martha Graham] (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Feb. 16, 2003)
FILM: In Hollywood, the Best Young Hunks Are Imported [Colin Farrell] (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
FILM: A Light Touch Turns to Darker Notes (By LAURA WINTERS, Feb. 16, 2003)
FILM: RUSHES: Widely Loved, Lately Dead, Incidentally Gay (By KAREN DURBIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
FILM: With Fury Silenced, Song Raised Its Voice (By LEWIS BEALE, Feb. 16, 2003)
* MUSIC: Singing to the Grown-Ups, and Selling (By JODY ROSEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
* THE MUSIC THEY MADE: Pioneer of a Beat Is Still Riffing for His Due [Bo Diddley] (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: Country Radio: Nowhere in New York (By FRED GOODMAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: Broadway Tunes Make a Joyful Noise (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: To the Beat of a Song, Kenya Sends Spirits Off the Charts (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: Searching the Wings for the Fourth Tenor (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: Making Music in the Shadow of Stalin (By VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: SPINS: Burning Down the Garage (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: THIS WEEK: Art Garfunkel, Songwriter (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: Time to Rid Orchestras of the Shakes (By ROGER NORRINGTON, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: A Staid Form, the Lullaby, Gets a New Jolt (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Feb. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: RECORDINGS: A Case for Gliere. But Will It Please the Court? (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
THEATER: The Subject Is Fear and the Excesses It Breeds (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 16, 2003)
THEATER: Frielizing Chekhov to Widen His Appeal (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Feb. 16, 2003)
THEATER: Who's That? Well, Now He's the Star [Brent Barrett] (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Feb. 16, 2003)
THEATER: 'Radiant Baby': Dancing All Night, Writing All Day (By BARRY SINGER, Feb. 16, 2003)
TV: The Music Men, Bringing Broadway to the Screen (By MICHELE WILLENS, Feb. 16, 2003)
TV: I'm Still Living in Al Bundy's America (By WALTER MOSLEY, Feb. 16, 2003)
* ARTS LETTERS: August Wilson; Hitler; Murray Perahia (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
FASHION: Psst: Want to Buy Some Wrinkle Remover? (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 16, 2003)
FASHION VIEW: They Make Me a Designer Again (By JOSH PATNER, Feb. 16, 2003)
STYLE: Unraveling Duct Tape, Warts and All (By JOHN LELAND, Feb. 16, 2003)
GOOD COMPANY: It's a Reunion, but Without Auld Lang Syne (By DAVID COLMAN, Feb. 16, 2003)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: Laura Linney, on the Seamy Side of Nice (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Feb. 16, 2003)
POSSESSED: Rediscovered on Top Shelf, a Muse [composer Virgil Thomson]
(By ELAINE LOUIE, Feb. 16, 2003)
PULSE: Hibernation Helpers (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, et. al., Feb. 16, 2003)
ON THE STREET: Mink's Moment (By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Feb. 16, 2003)
VOWS: Brooke Williams and Joshua Liberson (By JENNY ALLEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
* TRAVEL: Paris, Always New (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Feb. 16, 2003)
TRAVEL: A Few Days of Plenty in Paris (By EDWARD SCHNEIDER, Feb. 16, 2003)
* TRAVEL: Treasures of a Passionate Collector [Huntington Library] (By HATSY SHIELDS, Feb. 16, 2003)
WHAT'S DOING In Tokyo [Cherry blossom near the Imperial Palace] (By KEN BELSON, Feb. 16, 2003)
ESSAY: Close Encounters of the Improbable Kind (By MARTHA WEINMAN LEAR, Feb. 16, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
HOME SECURITY: The Smart Way to Be Scared (By GREGG EASTERBROOK, Feb. 16, 2003)
Terrorists' Talk: Why All That Chatter Doesn't Tell Us Much (By BRUCE BERKOWITZ, Feb. 16, 2003)
ON THE HOME FRONT: What Is Patriotism Without Sacrifice? (By DAVID M. KENNEDY, Feb. 16, 2003)
ARABS AND AMERICA: When the Enemy Is a Liberator (By JOHN F. BURNS, Feb. 16, 2003)
HEARING OSAMA: Al Qaeda's Audience in Iraq (By C.J. CHIVERS, Feb. 16, 2003)
A NATION UNBUILT: Where Did All That Money in Bosnia Go? (By DANIEL SIMPSON, Feb. 16, 2003)
States' Rights Take a Back Seat in Ashcroft's Justice Department (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 16, 2003)
Putin's Daunting Choice: Which West to Join (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 16, 2003)
Nixon's Nondenial Denier Dies [Ronald L. Ziegler] (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 16, 2003)
* A Body Scan for the Cosmos (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Feb. 16, 2003)
THE BIG PICTURE: Anyone Break a $20? [$20 million in fake bills from Colombia]
(NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
* WORD FOR WORD: Think of It as an Opportunity to Meet New Friends (By TOM ZELLER, Feb. 16, 2003)
* Beware of the Westminster Kennel's Best in Show (By SEAN KELLY, Feb. 16, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
* ON LANGUAGE: Hide-and-Seek (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 16, 2003)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Turned On, Tuned Out [car TV] (By MARGARET TALBOT, Feb. 16, 2003)
* QUESTIONS FOR ROBERT KAGAN: Europeans Are Sissies (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Feb. 16, 2003)
NUMBER IN THE NEWS: 5,000 Al Qaeda Operatives in the U.S. (By NOAM SCHEIBER, Feb. 16, 2003)
DIAGNOSIS: Swollen Joints, 'Wandering' Pain, Sore Throat and Fever (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Feb. 16, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: Shared Costs (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
Unspeakable Conversations [Should I have been killed at birth?] (By HARRIET McBRYDE JOHNSON, Feb. 16, 2003)
Architects, in Theory [Elizabeth Diller & Ricardo Scofidio] (By ARTHUR LUBOW, Feb. 16, 2003)
The Unsettlers (By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO, Feb. 16, 2003)
STYLE: The Granny Dress [slide show] (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 16, 2003)
FOOD: Prep School [Carrot Loaf Recipe] (By JULIA REED, Feb. 16, 2003)
LIVES: Mrs. Myles Went to Washington (By TONJA MYLES as told to SARA IVRY, Feb. 16, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2003)
'Any Human Heart': A Journal of Futility [William Boyd] (By RICHARD EDER, Feb. 16, 2003)
* 'Clara': The Stressed-Out Schumanns (By STACY SCHIFF, Feb. 16, 2003)
'To Begin the World Anew': The Founding Yokels (By RICHARD BROOKHISER, Feb. 16, 2003)
Nick Hornby's 'Songbook': A Mix Tape in Prose (By GERALD MARZORATI, Feb. 16, 2003)
'Jennifer Government': Guerrilla Marketing (By ROB WALKER, Feb. 16, 2003)
'A Memory of War': The Combat Continues (By BRUCE BAWER, Feb. 16, 2003)
'Great God A'Mighty!' Move On Up a Little Higher [Soul Gospel Music] (By GENE SANTORO, Feb. 16, 2003)
'The Usual Rules': Lost Girl [Joyce Maynard] (By KAREN KARBO, Feb. 16, 2003)
'Musorgsky': Wine, Vodka and Song (By STEPHEN PRESS, Feb. 16, 2003)
'In the Empire of Genghis Khan': In Pursuit of a Historical Ghost (By ADAM GOODHEART, Feb. 16, 2003)
'Love and Other Games of Chance': Ice Ax Envy (By ERIC WEINBERGER, Feb. 16, 2003)
'Ridiculous!' Anything Goes [Charles Ludlam] (By BEVYA ROSTEN, Feb. 16, 2003)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: The Color Brown (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Feb. 16, 2003)
SCIENCE: Journal Editors to Consider U.S. Security in Publishing (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 16, 2003)

Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003:
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)

* Walt Rostow, Adviser to Kennedy and Johnson, Dies at 86 [photo of LBJ & Ike] (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 15, 2003)
* Johnny Longden, 96, Jockey Who Won the Triple Crown, Is Dead (By JOSEPH DURSO, Feb. 15, 2003)
Kid Gavilan, Welterweight Champion in the 50's, Dies at 77 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 15, 2003)
NATIONAL: Washington Advises Against Sealing Doors and Windows (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 15, 2003)
NASA Official Says He Held on to Hope in Shuttle's Final Moments (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 15, 2003)
Agonizing Decision Awaits if Root Cause of Disaster Remains Elusive (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 15, 2003)
Jury Gives 20-Year Term in Murder of Husband (By NICK MADIGAN, Feb. 15, 2003)
F.B.I. and C.I.A. Set for a Major Consolidation in Counterterror (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Feb. 15, 2003)
* Americans Turn Eagerly to Gibes at the French (By FELICIA R. LEE, Feb. 15, 2003)
4 in Radical Group of 70's Are Sentenced in Murder (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2003)
Democrats Try to Turn Debate Back to Home (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 15, 2003)
Seven Killed as a Church Bus Overturns in Texas (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 15, 2003)
WORLD: NEWS ANALYSIS: If, and When: War's Timing (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 15, 2003)
Powell Calls for U.N. to Act on Iraq and Meets Deep Resistance (By JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 15, 2003)
Moving Past Scripts, Envoys Bring Emotion to Iraq Debate (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Feb. 15, 2003)
BAGHDAD: Hussein Issues Decree to Ban Weapons of Mass Destruction (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 15, 2003)
BRITAIN: Antiwar Marchers Are Hoping They Can Change Blair's Mind (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 15, 2003)
20,000 More Troops Sent to Persian Gulf; Jets Hit Iraqi SAM's (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 15, 2003)
BAGHDAD'S DIPLOMACY: Iraqi Minister, Visiting Pope, Warns Europe That a War Would Be Seen as Anti-Muslim
(By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 15, 2003)
* SATURDAY PROFILE: Michelin's Briton Keeps France's Cuisine Haute (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Feb. 15, 2003)
* NY REGION: Waiting Online, Not in Line (By TERRY PRISTIN, Feb. 15, 2003)
9/11's Hard Lessons Lead Agency to Urge Tougher Building Code (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Feb. 15, 2003)
Security Costs Add Burden to a City Short on Cash (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN & WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Feb. 15, 2003)
Police Warn Wrong Town of 911 Threat to a School (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2003)
SPORTS: Woods's Left Knee, and His Game, Hold Up Just Fine (By CLIFTON BROWN, Feb. 15, 2003)
SPORTS: Wells Is Siding With Jeter (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Feb. 15, 2003)
SPORTS: Cone Says Comeback With Mets Is a Long Shot (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Feb. 15, 2003)
* TRACK AND FIELD: Not Yet Ready for His Last Mile (By IRA BERKOW, Feb. 15, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Disarming Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2003)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Matisse and Picasso Bring Their Old Rivalry to Queens Boulevard
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Feb. 15, 2003)
OP-ED: The Price We Pay [war in Iraq] (By GORDON ADAMS and STEVE KOSIAK, Feb. 15, 2003)
OP-ED: Putting Some Pizazz Back in the Skyline (By SARAH WILLIAMS GOLDHAGEN, Feb. 15, 2003)
OP-ED: The Cost of Slavery (By DALTON CONLEY, Feb. 15, 2003)
LETTERS: The Fundamental Right to March (By NORMAN SIEGEL & STEVEN HYMAN, et. al., Feb. 15, 2003)
LETTERS: The Iraq Crisis: In Search of an Exit (By LEON J. WENDER, et. al., Feb. 15, 2003)
* LETTERS: Poets as Leaders (By BILL WADSWORTH, Feb. 15, 2003)
LETTERS: Being Mark Twain [Hal Holbrook] (By DAVID HAWKINS, Feb. 15, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Rally, Sending S.&P. to Biggest Gain in 6 Weeks
[Dow +159, Nasdaq +33] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 15, 2003)
Settlement Cuts Biogen Net Income (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2003)
* Here's the Beef. So, Where's the Butcher? (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Feb. 15, 2003)
* Web Magazine Facing Failure [Salon] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2003)
* INTERNET SECURITY: White House Scales Back Cyberspace Plan (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 15, 2003)
Glimmers of an Investor-Friendly Russia (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Feb. 15, 2003)
* BOOKS: The Virginia Woolf of 'The Hours' Angers the Real One's Fans
(By PATRICIA COHEN, Feb. 15, 2003)
* DANCE: ELISA MONTE DANCE: Away From Darkness Into Radiant Light (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 15, 2003)
MUSIC: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Exuberant and Somber, Both at Byron's Invitation
(By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 15, 2003)
THEATER: 'HOUSE OF FLOWERS': Those Sunny Brothels Where Sin Has No Sting
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 15, 2003)
THEATER: The Death Penalty: Views of a Witness for the Prosecution (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 15, 2003)
* ARTS Q & A: Into the Quicksand of Endless War (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 15, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Feb. 15, 2003)

Friday, Feb. 14, 2003:
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)

Kemmons Wilson, 90, Founder of Holiday Inn, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 14, 2003)
Haywood Sullivan, Player and Later a Red Sox Owner, Dies at 72 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 14, 2003)
Clark MacGregor, 80, Leader of Nixon Campaign in 1972, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 14, 2003)
NATIONAL: Weakening of Organic Standard Is Considered (By MARIAN BURROS, Feb. 14, 2003)
U.S. Increased Alert on Evidence Qaeda Was Planning 2 Attacks (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 14, 2003)
Volunteers Say Goodbye as Their Role in Shuttle Debris Search Ends (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
IMPATIENCE IN WASHINGTON: Defenders of Close Ties With Europe Are Now on the Defensive in the U.S.
(By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
Terror Cases Rise, but Most Are Small-Scale, Study Says (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Feb. 14, 2003)
Military Says Severe Reactions to Smallpox Vaccine Are Few (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14, 2003)
City Leaders Carry Message Against War to President (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Feb. 14, 2003)
Courting Disaster, in Search of Snowy Thrills (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
Selecting the Schools: Success Defined Within 3 Categories (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2003)
Woman Who Killed Spouse With Car Is Guilty of Murder (By NICK MADIGAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Will Ask U.N. to State Hussein Has Not Disarmed (By DAVID E. SANGER with ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 14, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: For Old Friends, Iraq Bares a Deep Rift (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 14, 2003)
* ROME JOURNAL: Every Stone Has a Story, and a Graffitisti to Tell It (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 14, 2003)
* A Mystical Part of Israel to Visit (for Keeps) (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 14, 2003)
* Russia's Falling in Love, Nuzzling Valentine's Day (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 14, 2003)
* Monarch Butterflies Alive and Well in Mexico (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Feb. 14, 2003)
THE ALLIANCE: Germany Says NATO Rift Over Turkey Is Near an End (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 14, 2003)
NORTHERN IRAQ: Iraqi Opposition Is Uneasy Over Delays and War Plans (By C. J. CHIVERS, Feb. 14, 2003)
AID: U.N. Planning to Feed Iraqis in a War, Annan Says (By JULIA PRESTON with JAMES DAO, Feb. 14, 2003)
* TWO WORLDVIEWS: Joking Aside, a Serious Antipathy to Things American Rises in Europe
(By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 14, 2003)
A DANGER TO COMMERCE: Old Trading Partners Are Concerned About Effects of the Split Over War
(By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 14, 2003)
* THE INTELLECTUALS: A Sense of Fine Qualities Trampled and of Something 'Terribly Wrong'
(By SARAH LYALL, Feb. 14, 2003)
New Hong Kong Security Bill Still of Concern to Rights Advocates (By KEITH BRADSHER, Feb. 14, 2003)
South Korea Chief Says North Received Cash in Bid for Peace (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 14, 2003)
China Has Held U.S.-Based Dissident Incommunicado Since April (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 14, 2003)
* Looking at a Bottle of Juice That Looks Back [eyeball in juice bottle] (By ANDY NEWMAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Elusive Qaeda Connections (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Antiwar Non-March (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2003)
* EDITORIAL: Flowery Thoughts [Ecuadorean roses] (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2003)
OP-ED: Flirting With Disaster (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 14, 2003)
OP-ED: On the Second Day, Atlas Waffled (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
* OP-ED: Looking for Love, Online or on Paper (By LAURA J. SCHAEFER, Feb. 14, 2003)
OP-ED: A Warning on Iraq, From a Friend (By JEAN-DAVID LEVITTE, Feb. 14, 2003)
* LETTERS: Duct Tape, Plastic Sheeting and Other Advice (By MICHAEL BROWN, et. al., Feb. 14, 2003)
LETTERS: Sanity and Execution: A Tale Worthy of Kafka (By DEBORAH YOUNG, M.D., et. al., Feb. 14, 2003)
LETTERS: Experience Won't Help [desperate for jobs] (By SAAD GUL, Feb. 14, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Down Again, but Deep Early Losses Are Trimmed (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14, 2003)
Talks on Merging CNN With ABC News Collapse (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 14, 2003)
Mortgage Rates Mostly Fall (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14, 2003)
South Korea Has Big Plans for the Area Around Seoul (By DON KIRK, Feb. 14, 2003)
Networks Scramble for Anything Jackson (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 14, 2003)
ADVERTISING: Advertisers Decide It's Time for 'Reality' (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 14, 2003)
* ART: 'MATISSE PICASSO': Old Rivals (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
* ART: 'DEGAS AND THE DANCE': Master's Abiding Invitation to the Dance (By ROBERTA SMITH, Feb. 14, 2003)
ARTS: MY BROOKLYN: Racing Upscale at Full Throttle (By DAVID KIRBY, Feb. 14, 2003)
INSIDE ART: An Upheaval Over the Getty (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 14, 2003)
ART IN REVIEW: Ryan McGinley; 'Body and the Archive'; Lansing-Dreiden (By HOLLAND COTTER, et. al., Feb. 14, 2003)
ANTIQUES: Dog Portraits (Sit! Stay!) (By WENDY MOONAN, Feb. 14, 2003)
BOOKS: 'ANY HUMAN HEART': A Witness to a Century, Just Looking Out for Himself
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 14, 2003)
CABARET: KENNY RANKIN: On a Cloud of Folk-Pop (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 14, 2003)
FILM: 'DAREDEVIL': Blind Lawyer as Hero in Red Leather (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 14, 2003)
FILM: 'ALL THE REAL GIRLS': Poetic Young Love, Unvarnished (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 14, 2003)
FILM: 'GERRY': Playing Desert Solitaire With a Friend (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 14, 2003)
FILM: 'HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT': When a Too-Rosy Affair Takes an Unlikely Turn
(BY STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 14, 2003)
FILM CRITIC: DANCE ON SCREEN: Three Ballerinas With the French Flair (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 14, 2003)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Roll the Credits, Start the Music (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 14, 2003)
MUSIC: Where the Glory Years of Jazz Live On (By DAVID GEARY, Feb. 14, 2003)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'IMAGES FROM CENTRAL AFRICA': Scenes of Colonial Africa With Racist Overtones
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 14, 2003)
THEATER: 'LITTLE FISH': Transforming the Passive Into Something Less So (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 14, 2003)
THEATER CRITIC: Recasting a Star Role Is Hit (or Miss) (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 14, 2003)
TV: Teenage Screenplays Get Personal on Sex (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 14, 2003)
TV: Bad Timing! Right Here in River City! (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 14, 2003)

Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003:
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)

Neville Colman, Pathologist and DNA Expert, Dies at 57 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 13, 2003)
* NATIONAL: Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting Provide Solace, if Not Security (By KENNETH CHANG & JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 13, 2003)
Greenspan's Doubts Prod Bush Defense of Tax Cuts (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Feb. 13, 2003)
Lack of Attack Readiness Laid to Financing Delay by U.S. (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 13, 2003)
Terror Warning Responses Range From Fear to Fatalism (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER with TIMOTHY EGAN, Feb. 13, 2003)
NY REGION: Worrying About, Well, Stranger Behavior Than Usual (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Feb. 13, 2003)
* Hark, Hark, That Tweet Is No Lark. It's Illegal. (By JESSE McKINLEY and NICHOLE M. CHRISTIAN, Feb. 13, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall to 4-Month Low on Continued War Anxieties
[Dow -85, Nasdaq -16.49] (By REUTERS, Feb. 13, 2003)
New Chip for Cellphones to Be Introduced by Intel (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 13, 2003)
* Yahoo Outlines Plans for Adding Premium Services (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 13, 2003)
MAKING BOOKS: Nods to Love, Nasty and Nice (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Feb. 13, 2003)
* THEATER: Holbrook's Half Century as Twain (By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 13, 2003)

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2003:
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)

Daniel Toscan du Plantier, 61, Noted French Film Producer, Is Dead (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 12, 2003)
Ron Ziegler, Nixon Press Secretary, Dies at 63 (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 12, 2003)
Engineer Warned of Dire Effects of Liftoff Damage (By JOHN SCHWARTZ & JOHN M. BRODER, Feb. 12, 2003)
Greenspan's Doubts Prod Bush Defense of Tax Cuts (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Feb. 12, 2003)
Outside Do-It-Yourself Store, Men Yearn to Do It for Them (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 12, 2003)
M.I.T. to Open Two Programs for Minorities to All Races (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2003)
Conferees in Congress Bar Using a Pentagon Project on Americans (By ADAM CLYMER, Feb. 12, 2003)
Tapes of Shuttle's Descent Show Dawning of Disaster (By MATTHEW L. WALD & JOHN M. BRODER, Feb. 12, 2003)
Diving Through Everything and Coming Up With Nothing [shuttle debris] (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Painstaking Work Ahead for Investigative Panel (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 12, 2003)
Official Raised Concerns About Quality of Contractor's Images (By MICHAEL MOSS & STEFANO S. COLEDAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
Hearings Open at Capitol With Vast Range of Queries for NASA (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 12, 2003)
Law Limits Aid to Russia to Maintain Space Station (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 12, 2003)
Cheney Keeps His Distance From the President (Yet Again) (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 12, 2003)
Cheney's Help Is Sought in Budget Snag Over Aid to Farmers (By CARL HULSE, Feb. 12, 2003)
Kerry to Undergo Surgery for Prostate Cancer (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 12, 2003)
Senator [Kerry] Gets Good Prognosis for Surgery (By GINA KOLATA, Feb. 12, 2003)
* TEACHER'S JOURNAL: Teaching in Your Pajamas: Lessons of Online Classes
(By PEGGY MINNIS, Feb. 12, 2003)
WORLD: France Offering Plan to Expand Iraq Arms Hunt (By JULIA PRESTON with STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
WASHINGTON: Senior U.S. Officials Tell Lawmakers of Iraq-Qaeda Ties (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 12, 2003)
AMMAN: Jordan Pressing U.S. to Offer Exile to Hussein (By JOHN F. BURNS, Feb. 12, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Europe Seems to Lose Value for Bush (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 12, 2003)
ROBBEN ISLAND JOURNAL: Mandela Paints His Jailhouse Years (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Feb. 12, 2003)
* Chinese Freer to Speak and Read, but Not Act (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Feb. 12, 2003)
POSTWAR GOALS: American Officials Disclose 2-Year Plan to Rebuild Iraq (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 12, 2003)
Talks at NATO Fail to Mend Rift Over Iraq (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 12, 2003)
THE TERRORISTS: Tape Ascribed to bin Laden Urges Muslims to Stand With Iraq (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 12, 2003)
Words of C.I.A. and F.B.I. Chiefs: Dangers America Faces From Al Qaeda (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2003)
ASIAN ARENA: U.S. to Ask Atom Agency to Chastise North Korea (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 12, 2003)
COMBAT: Ambushed in Afghanistan, G.I.'s Call in Airstrikes (By CARLOTTA GALL, Feb. 12, 2003)
INDONESIA: Suspect in Bali Bomb Attack Says Americans Were Target (By RAYMOND BONNER, Feb. 12, 2003)
14 Killed in Ritual at Annual Muslim Pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia (By REUTERS, Feb. 12, 2003)
NY REGION: Worrying About, Well, Stranger Behavior Than Usual (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Feb. 12, 2003)
Designs Leave Blanks for 9/11 Memorial Contest to Fill (By EDWARD WYATT, Feb. 12, 2003)
A Boy With Brain Damage, Happy in a Regular School (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Feb. 12, 2003)
Giving Her Readers 'Universal' Women's Issues (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Feb. 12, 2003)
Dude's Future? On Web, He Could Look Up Mitchum [Benjamin Curtis]
(By MARC SANTORA, Feb. 12, 2003)
OUR TOWNS: So Little Cash For Prisons, So Much Time (By MATTHEW PURDY, Feb. 12, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Would You Like Water With Your Water? (By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 12, 2003)
NYC: Normal, but Not Too Normal (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
SPORTS: 49ers Dip Into College Ranks for Erickson [Dennis Erickson]
(By JUDY BATTISTA, Feb. 12, 2003)
SPORTS: One Man, One Team, 29 Bosses [Omar Minaya, Montreal Expos]
(By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 12, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Duck and Cover [fear of terroism] (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Other Korea (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Elmo's Last Ride (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2003)
OP-ED: Pass the Duct Tape (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 12, 2003)
OP-ED: Present at... What? (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
OP-ED: Escaping North Korea's Nuclear Trap (By NANCY E. SODERBERG, Feb. 12, 2003)
OP-ED: Talk Therapy [North Korea] (By ROBERT J. EINHORN, Feb. 12, 2003)
LETTERS: A Test for America and Europe (By STEFAN G. KERTESZ, et. al., Feb. 12, 2003)
LETTERS: S.U.V.'s in America: A Love-Hate Story (By FRANCES R. RUBIN, et. al., Feb. 12, 2003)
* LETTERS: Words of the Poets (By SARAH CAHILL, et. al., Feb. 12, 2003)
Forget Iraq. I'm Scared! (By JANICE GEWIRTZ, Feb. 12, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall on New War Jitters and Greenspan Remarks
[Dow -77, Nasdaq -1.22] (By REUTERS, Feb. 12, 2003)
Toy Fair Splits After 100th Show, Not to Be Put Together Again (By GLENN COLLINS, Feb. 12, 2003)
Greenspan Throws Cold Water on Bush Arguments for Tax Cut (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Feb. 12, 2003)
Japan's Used Cars Find New Lives on Russian Roads (By JAMES BROOKE, Feb. 12, 2003)
Huge Stock Option Grants Raise Questions (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
Rivals of Microsoft File Antitrust Complaint in Europe (By PAUL MELLER, Feb. 12, 2003)
Arms Makers See Great Potential in India Market (By SARITHA RAI, Feb. 12, 2003)
Brit Hume Renews Deal With Fox News (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2003)
TECHNOLOGY: A Building for Dot-Coms Switches to General Users (By JOHN HOLUSHA, Feb. 12, 2003)
TECHNOLOGY: Report Suggests Use of Facial and Fingerprint Scanning on Foreigners
(By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 12, 2003)
ART: A Washington Art Museum Expands (By IRVIN MOLOTSKY, Feb. 12, 2003)
BOOKS: 'A CONSUMERS' REPUBLIC': Consumption, Conspicuous or Not (By ALLAN SLOAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
DANCE: NEW YORK CITY BALLET: Crazy for Romance and Manhattan (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 12, 2003)
FILM: 'Chicago' Tops Oscar Nominees (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
FILM: It's Harvey Weinstein's Turn to Gloat (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
FILM: Grim Reality Dominates Berlinale Film Festival (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 12, 2003)
'STONE READER': Recounting Obsession With a 1972 Author (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 12, 2003)
OPERA: 'LES TROYENS': Love Burns in Carthage, Destiny Calls in Rome (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 12, 2003)
THEATER: 'IT JUST CATCHES': Mixing Up Papa's Tales and Porter's Melodies
(By BRUCE WEBER, Feb. 12, 2003)
TV: 'THE PERILIOUS FIGHT': Adding an Extra Dimension, Color, to World War II
(By DWIGHT GARNER, Feb. 12, 2003)
FOOD: A Culinary Holiday Mere Hours Away (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Feb. 12, 2003)
DINING: An Enchanted Evening, if You Have the Right Attitude (By AMANDA HESSER, Feb. 12, 2003)
DINING: Hey, Stupid Cupid, It's Just Dinner (By JULIA MOSKIN, Feb. 12, 2003)
THE MINIMALIST: A Dual Role for Chicken [recipe] (By MARK BITTMAN, Feb. 12, 2003)
THE CHEF: A Pretty Penny's Worth of Prime Beef [recipe] (By MATT LEE & TED LEE, Feb. 12, 2003)
EATING WELL: For Your Health or Their Business? (By MARIAN BURROS, Feb. 12, 2003)
TEMPTATION: Ketchup With a Pedigree, a Far Cry From Goo (By MELISSA CLARK, Feb. 12, 2003)
TEST KITCHEN: Roasting Pans to Have and to Heft (By DENISE LANDIS, Feb. 12, 2003)
* SCIENCE: For Astronomers, Big Bang Confirmation (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Feb. 12, 2003)

Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003:
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)

Ron Ziegler, Nixon Press Secretary, Dies at 63 (By TINA KELLEY, Feb. 11, 2003)
Ruby Braff, 75, an Old-Style Jazz Trumpeter, Is Dead (By PETER KEEPNEWS, Feb. 11, 2003)
Ted Perry, 71, the Founder of the Hyperion Record Label, Dies (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 11, 2003)
M. F. do Nascimento Brito, Brazilian Newspaper Director, Dies at 80 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 11, 2003)
NATIONAL: NASA Says It Has Electronic Parts and Piece of Wing (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 11, 2003)
Murder Defendant's In-Laws Remain Her Strongest Supporters (By NICK MADIGAN, Feb. 11, 2003)
DISSENT: Vendors Rally Round the War Protesters (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2003)
SPACE DEBRIS: Long-Forgotten Debris May Pose a Fatal Threat (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 11, 2003)
THE ISRAELI CREWMAN: A Nation Remembers a Pioneer on a Mission of Peace (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 11, 2003)
THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS: Though Vulnerable, Wings' Leading Edges Lack Sensors (By JAMES GLANZ & WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 11, 2003)
THE BUILDER: Boeing Official Defends Reports Discounting Peril After Liftoff (By DAVID BARSTOW, Feb. 11, 2003)
RECOVERY EFFORTS: Heavy Rains Threaten to Entomb Debris in Muck (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 11, 2003)
WORLD: KABUL: Terrorists Still a Threat, U.S. Official Tells Afghans (By CARLOTTA GALL, Feb. 11, 2003)
* Consumers in Europe Resist Gene-Altered Foods (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Feb. 11, 2003)
DISPATCHES: A WEB-EXCLUSIVE COLUMN: Allies and Other Strangers (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 11, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Fallout From Iraq Rift: NATO May Feel a Strain (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 11, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Reversals in U.S.-South Korea Links, and Some Jagged Fault Lines (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 11, 2003)
LONDON JOURNAL: The Wedding Pictures: 2 Stars in Court Drama [Michael Douglas] (By SARAH LYALL, Feb. 11, 2003)
PREPARATIONS: War-Jittery Kuwait Takes Bloom Off Desert (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Feb. 11, 2003)
NY REGION: City Hall, Refurbished and Transparent (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Feb. 11, 2003)
TUNNEL VISION: For Transit Officials, an Earful of Revenge (By RANDY KENNEDY, Feb. 11, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: Speaking for Terror Suspect, and for the Constitution (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 11, 2003)
NYC: Normal, but Not Too Normal (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 11, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Divisive Diplomacy With Europe (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2003)
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Code Orange at Disneyland (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Feb. 11, 2003)
OP-ED: The Wimps of War (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 11, 2003)
OP-ED: Staying Alive, Staying Human (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 11, 2003)
OP-ED: Walking the Beat in Gaza (By DAVID KIMCHE, Feb. 11, 2003)
OP-ED: A Long Wait for Winter (By KATHERINE LANPHER, Feb. 11, 2003)
LETTERS: When Allies Don't See Eye to Eye (By VERONIQUE LAURIAULT, et. al., Feb. 11, 2003)
Hawks and Doves Line Up on Iraq (By NORA ENGEL, et. al., Feb. 11, 2003)
* ADVERTISING: Marketers Shift Tactics on Web Ads (By NAT IVES, Feb. 11, 2003)
IN GREENWICH: Wall Street by the Sea, Exclusively (By TANYA MOHN, Feb. 11, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Glimpse of a Future in a New Kind of Light (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 11, 2003)
ARTS: City's Arts Budget Cut in Money Pinch (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 11, 2003)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2003)
SCIENCE: Thinking Beyond the Shuttle (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 11, 2003)
* New Map of Universe Confirms Big Bang, Scientists Say (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Feb. 11, 2003)
* Unexpected Evolution of a Fish Out of Water (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Feb. 11, 2003)
* A Prolific Genghis Khan, It Seems, Helped People the World (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 11, 2003)
'I'm Home!' For Astronauts, Words Defy Translation (By NORMAN E. THAGARD, M.D., Feb. 11, 2003)
* Stonehenge, the Pride of Switzerland? (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 11, 2003)
OBSERVATORY: Long-Distance Swimmer (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 11, 2003)
SCIENCE Q & A: The Icy Hudson (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 11, 2003)
HEALTH: Content (NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2003)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Parents' Rite of Passage: Shopping for a Camp (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 11, 2003)
* Computer images show progressive damage of Alzheimer's disease in the human brain
[M.R.I. scans of 12 patients over two years, using computers to synthesize data]
(NY TIMES, Feb. 11, 2003)
HEALTH: Wanted in Space: Gregarious Loners Who Take Risks, Cautiously (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 11, 2003)
HEALTH: Forgeries Lead Major Journal to Retract Heart Article (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 11, 2003)
Hospital Prescribes Food to Aid Children's Growth (By KATHERINE ZEZIMA, Feb. 11, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: Blow a Gasket, for Your Heart (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 11, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Aging: Scuba Forever. Almost. (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 11, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Safety: Cellphone Peril, Hands-On or Off (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 11, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Cause and Effect: When Weight Wears Out the Hips (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 11, 2003)

Monday, Feb. 10, 2003:
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)

John Westergaard, 72, Dies; Founder of Mutual Fund (By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Feb. 10, 2003)
Peter McLennan Copy Editor, Dies at 55 (NY TIMES, Feb. 10, 2003)
* A Catholic College, a Billionaire's Idea, Will Rise in Florida (By TAMAR LEWIN, Feb. 10, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Demands Iraq Show Cooperation by This Weekend (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 10, 2003)
Kurdish Leader Is Assassinated in Militant Raid (By C. J. CHIVERS, Feb. 10, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Spending Spree at the Pentagon (NY TIMES, Feb. 10, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Iran's Failed Revolution (NY TIMES, Feb. 10, 2003)
OP-ED: Surprising Germany (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 10, 2003)
* OP-ED: A Crush of Applicants [jobs in Chicago] (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 10, 2003)
OP-ED: Round 1 Goes to Mr. Big (By JOSEF JOFFE, Feb. 10, 2003)
OP-ED: Shut-Eye Diplomacy (By ANDY BOROWITZ, Feb. 10, 2003)
* LETTERS: What the Poets Say About War (By MAERWYDD MCFARLAND, et. al., Feb. 10, 2003)
LETTERS: At Ground Zero: Memory, Loss, Life (By WALTER REICH, Feb. 10, 2003)
Medical Marijuana Case (By MERYL RAYMAR, et. al., Feb. 10, 2003)
LETTERS: California, in China (By SAM ZHANG, Feb. 10, 2003)
BUSINESS: News Industry Plans for War and Worries About Lost Ads (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 10, 2003)
* Sun Rolls Out Its New Effort to Gain Edge Over 2 Rivals (By STEVE LOHR, Feb. 10, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Bid by SBC for DirecTV Would Confirm Cable's Reach (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 10, 2003)
As Big Airlines Struggle, Computer Booking System Prospers (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 10, 2003)
A Corporate Cliffhanger Starring Disney and Pixar (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Feb. 10, 2003)
As Animation Goes Digital, Disney Fights for Its Crown (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Feb. 10, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: Scientists of Very Small Draw Disciplines Together
[Mihail C. Roco, head of National Nanotechnology Initiative]
(By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 10, 2003)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Merchants Outbid for Top Billing (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 10, 2003)
COMPRESSED DATA: Looking After Life Without Leaving Office (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Feb. 10, 2003)
COMPRESSED DATA: E-mail Spam Scam Is Sent in Bush's Name (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Feb. 10, 2003)
COMPRESSED DATA: Electronic Surveillance Spies a Perfect Gift (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Feb. 10, 2003)
* ADVERTISING: Amazon Tries Word of Mouth (By SAUL HANSELL, Feb. 10, 2003)
Publishers Give Classics a Makeover (By BILL GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 10, 2003)
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ARTICLE (By, Feb. 10, 2003)

Sunday, Feb. 9, 2003:
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)

Vincent Chin, 65, Founder of Major Reggae Record Label, Is Dead (By BEN SISARIO, Feb. 9, 2003)
Ernst Kitzinger, Professor and Writer on Byzantine Art, Dies at 90 (By KEN JOHNSON, Feb. 9, 2003)
Louis Schwartz, Legal Scholar, Dies at 89 (By PAUL LEWIS, Feb. 9, 2003)
* Marcello Truzzi, 67, Sociologist Who Studied the Supernatural, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
Harold Ginsberg, Microbiologist, Dies at 85 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Feb. 9, 2003)
Cora Ginsburg, 92, a Dealer and a Consultant in Antique Textiles, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2003)
NATIONAL: A Scramble to Toughen Security Steps, if Possible (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Feb. 9, 2003)
Amid Quest for a Safer Shuttle, Budget Fights and Policy Shifts (By DAVID BARSTOW & MICHAEL MOSS, Feb. 9, 2003)
Suit Claims Discrimination Against Hispanics on Job (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Feb. 9, 2003)
Houston's Troubled DNA Crime Lab Faces Scrutiny (By NICK MADIGAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
For Students at a Fantasy Space Camp, the Mission Continues (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Feb. 9, 2003)
WHITE HOUSE MEMO: War P.R. Machine Is on Full Throttle (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 9, 2003)
Disney Town Teems With Segways (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2003)
A New Tactic Against War: Renew Talk About Draft (By CARL HULSE, Feb. 9, 2003)
Outside Experts to Aid Review of NASA Work (By JOHN M. BRODER & MATTHEW L. WALD, Feb. 9, 2003)
* After Moon, No Giant Leaps in Space Allure (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 9, 2003)
THE EXPERIMENTS: Searchers Seek Lab's Remains (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 9, 2003)
As Search for Debris Continues, It's Clear Much Work Is Ahead (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
February in Alaska? Must Be Golf Weather (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 9, 2003)
WORLD: Rumsfeld Rebukes U.N. and NATO on Approach to Baghdad (By THOM SHANKER, Feb. 9, 2003)
* Saudis Plan to End U.S. Presence (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 9, 2003)
Sharon Resumes Direct Talks With Palestinians (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 9, 2003)
Islamists in Iraq Offer a Tour of 'Poison Factory' Cited by Powell (By C. J. CHIVERS, Feb. 9, 2003)
South Korea Has Too Much Rice and a Sticky Political Problem (By DON KIRK, Feb. 9, 2003)
PERSIAN GULF: Over Tea and on Velvet Sofas, Kuwaitis Discuss and Debate (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 9, 2003)
PROTESTS: German Demonstrators Oppose War, Not U.S. (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
Satellite TV Tries to Bridge a Culture Gap (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 9, 2003)
Inspectors Will Press Iraq for Hard Data That Could Avert War (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 9, 2003)
UNITED NATIONS: Annan Appeals to U.S. for More Talks Before War (By JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 9, 2003)
Coming Soon to a Crowded Courtroom, Steven Seagal (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Feb. 9, 2003)
OUR TOWNS: The Kennedys, the Skakels, and a Case That Won't Go Away (By MATTHEW PURDY, Feb. 9, 2003)
SPORTS: Who Will Replace Jordan's Star Power? (By LIZ ROBBINS, Feb. 9, 2003)
ALL-STAR NOTEBOOK: After All That, Jordan Starts Game (By LIZ ROBBINS, Feb. 9, 2003)
BASKETBALL: Old Look Receives Fresh Start From Fans (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 9, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Call of Distant Worlds (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2003)
EDITORIAL: S.U.V.'s Under Fire (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Disintegration of the Golden Era in the Golden State (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Feb. 9, 2003)
OP-ED: Desert Spring, Sprung (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 9, 2003)
OP-ED: Vote France Off the Island (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
OP-ED: Deep Myths of Texas (By MIMI SWARTZ, Feb. 9, 2003)
OP-ED: Waiting for Dad (By KRISTEN C. STOEVER, Feb. 9, 2003)
LETTERS: Young Americans, Dashed Hopes (By ELAINE KENZER-KOLLEGGER, et. al., Feb. 9, 2003)
LETTERS: America's Plan for Iraq (By DANIEL B. DECKMAN, et. al., Feb. 9, 2003)
LETTERS: Jobs and Immigration (By JANELLE F. WILLIAMS, Feb. 9, 2003)
BUSINESS: Know a Fund's' Cost? Look Deeper (By RICHARD TEITELBAUM, Feb. 9, 2003)
Calculating the Funds' Commissions (By RICHARD TEITELBAUM, Feb. 9, 2003)
New Savings Plans Wouldn't Be for Everybody (By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Feb. 9, 2003)
An Iceberg of Irate Investors (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 9, 2003)
Company Man to the End, After All (By KURT EICHENWALD, Feb. 9, 2003)
R.V.'s and Tourism Help Areas Buck the Economic Tide (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 9, 2003)
* The Race to Think Like a Teenager (By TRACIE ROZHON, Feb. 9, 2003)
MARKET WATCH: Yet Another Persecuted Architect of the Tech Bubble (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 9, 2003)
PRIVATE SECTOR: A Cool Head for 4th and Long (By DONNA ROSATO, Feb. 9, 2003)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Executives Ante Up, and Win Some Skills (By MARCI ALBOHER NUSBAUM, Feb. 9, 2003)
HOLLYWOOD JOURNAL: Reality Is Harsh on TV's Creative Teams (By JENNY HONTZ, Feb. 9, 2003)
PORTFOLIOS: A War Rally for the Dollar Could Be Short-Lived (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 9, 2003)
Can Energy Ventures Pick Up Where Tech Left Off? (By AMY CORTESE, Feb. 9, 2003)
Pixar's Box-Office Glow Makes Stock Look Rosy (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Feb. 9, 2003)
OFF THE SHELF: N-I-S-S-A-N: Rah! Rah! Rah! (By ALAN COWELL, Feb. 9, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Embracing Deficits to Deter Spending (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Feb. 9, 2003)
MARKET INSIGHT: The Stars Are Aligned for Makers of Sports Shoes (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
INVESTING WITH CHARLES T. AKRE JR.: FBR Small Cap Value Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 9, 2003)
SENIORITY: The Senior Discount, as Applied by a Writer (By FRED BROCK, Feb. 9, 2003)
MY JOB: Uphill to the Downhill (By DANIEL LOW, Written with Patricia R. Olsen, Feb. 9, 2003)
HOME FRONT: At Tax Time, a Hidden Silver Lining (By TERRY PRISTIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
Magazine Editor's Bête Noire: News Trumps Story in the Works (Compiled by MARK A. STEIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
INVESTING DIARY: Once Burned, Twice Shy, Many Report in a Survey (Compiled by JEFF SOMMER, Feb. 9, 2003)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Tending to a Garden of Work References (Compiled by VIVIAN MARINO, Feb. 9, 2003)
TECHNOLOGY: Fighting Child Pornography (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Feb. 9, 2003)
* ART: 'Matisse Picasso': Artists Dueling, Curators Dealing (By SARAH BOXER, Feb. 9, 2003)
* ART: Picabia: Precursor of Most Things Postmodern (By VICKI GOLDBERG, Feb. 9, 2003)
ARTS: In Raves, an Israeli Finds His Woodstock (By DEBORAH BACH, Feb. 9, 2003)
* DANCE: An Artist Obsessed With Ballerinas [Degas] (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Feb. 9, 2003)
DANCE: Art Out of the Closet in the South Bronx (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 9, 2003)
Even Divas, It Seems, Can Dance (a Little, at Least) (By VALERIE GLADSTONE, Feb. 9, 2003)
FILM: A Greaser Who Happens to Be Great [Fassbinder] (By STUART KLAWANS, Feb. 9, 2003)
FILM: As Requested, My Thoughts on the Oscars (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 9, 2003)
FILM: RUSHES: Those Soulful Eyes Show They Can Also Be Alarming (By KAREN DURBIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
FILM: From the Pride of an Art School, a Sophomore Effort (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 9, 2003)
MUSIC: Today Disney, Tomorrow the Met (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Feb. 9, 2003)
MUSIC: Just Plain Folks Write Songs, Too (By JON PARELES, Feb. 9, 2003)
MUSIC: Peter Cincotti: A Specialist in Grandpa's Favorites (By BARRY SINGER, Feb. 9, 2003)
MUSIC: SPINS: 50 Cent, Hip-Hop's Necessary Nuisance (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 9, 2003)
Jazz Musicians Play a Little of This, a Little of That (By FRED KAPLAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
MUSIC: A Life Tuned to the Sound of California [Lou Harrison] (By JOHN ROCKWELLA, Feb. 9, 2003)
HIGH NOTES: Singing Angel With a Human Pulse (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 9, 2003)
RADIO: The Friendly Bogeyman of Los Angeles Radio (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Feb. 9, 2003)
THEATER: A Woman of Power Was a Vowel Away (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Feb. 9, 2003)
TV: Not Gone With the Wind: Voices of Slavery (By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr., Feb. 9, 2003)
TV: She Sings the Body Desperate for a Smoke (By DON SHEWEY, Feb. 9, 2003)
TV: 'The Guardian': Fathers and Sons, Shadows and Scars (By JOYCE MILLMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
ARTS LETTERS: Al Hirschfeld; Dolly Parton; Roman Polanski (By M'LOU JOHNSON PINKHAM, et. al., Feb. 9, 2003)
STYLE: For Power Lunchers, an Entree of Malaise (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Feb. 9, 2003)
NOTICED: Let Me Guess, You Must Be an Architect (By RUTH LA FERLA, Feb. 9, 2003)
This Is Your Life, Phil Spector. Phil? (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
FASHION: In the City of Love, Seduction Lessons (By KERRY SHAW, Feb. 9, 2003)
PULSE: The Interior Designer (By JENNIFER TUNG, Feb. 9, 2003)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Lisa Ronis (By LINDA LEE, Feb. 9, 2003)
POSSESSED: 1970's New York, On an Album Cover (By DAVID COLMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
* Opening the Tent to Woo More Fans [Style.com] (By RUTH LA FERLA, Feb. 9, 2003)
THE AGE OF DISSONANCE: The Look of Leather (By BOB MORRIS, Feb. 9, 2003)
GOOD COMPANY: Happy New Year! (Practice Makes Perfect) (By LINDA LEE, Feb. 9, 2003)
FASHION DIARY: As the Curtain Goes Up, Collections Are Fine-Tuned (By GUY TREBAY, Feb. 9, 2003)
VOWS: Dotty Lynch and Morgan Downey (By AMY DICKINSON, Feb. 9, 2003)
TRAVEL: Watching the Tour Over Handlebars [Tour de France] (By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
FRUGAL TRAVELER: Belgium's Fashion Mecca (By DAISANN McLANE, Feb. 9, 2003)
TRAVEL CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT: Rebels in Nepal Drive Down Tourism (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 9, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2003)
EARTHBOUND: Our Future in Space Is History (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 9, 2003)
WORD FOR WORD | FREEREPUBLIC.COM: From Excitement to Horror: Columbia's Last Flight Online
(By TOM KUNTZ, Feb. 9, 2003)
Sexy It's Not, but Big Science Thrives on Earth (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Feb. 9, 2003)
JUGGLER IN CHIEF: Crises, Crises Everywhere. What Is a President to Do? (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 9, 2003)
* A President Puts His Faith in Providence (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
In Europe, One Continent Under God. Or Not. (By THOMAS FULLER, Feb. 9, 2003)
Iraq's Ties to Terror Aren't Easy to Read (By YOSSI MELMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
Secretary Powell Made a Point (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 9, 2003)
For Republicans, Deficits Are Nothing to Be Ashamed Of (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 9, 2003)
SECOND ACTS: Dukakis Rides Again (By MARK KATZ, Feb. 9, 2003)
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION: A Lexicon of Francophobia, From Emerson to Fox TV (By GEOFFREY NUNBERG, Feb. 9, 2003)
How Do You Say 'Shut Up' in Russian? (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 9, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2003)
* ON LANGUAGE: Four Score and Seven (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 9, 2003)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Destined for Failure [NYC public schools] (By A.O. SCOTT, Feb. 9, 2003)
QUESTIONS FOR RANDALL KENNEDY: Color Dynamics (Interview by REGAN GOOD, Feb. 9, 2003)
PROCESS: A Flop Reblooms (By JESSE GREEN, Feb. 9, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: The Faithless Faith Worker (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 9, 2003)
DOMAINS: 3BR w/Vu, Small Kitchen (By AMY BARRETT, Feb. 9, 2003)
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING: Near the Village of Qushtapa, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jan. 28, 2003
(Interview by AGNES ROTIVEL, Feb. 9, 2003)
Everybody Has a Mother (By SUSAN DOMINUS, Feb. 9, 2003)
* Tangled Up in Spam (By JAMES GLEICK, Feb. 9, 2003)
How a Pathologically Blunt Producer Makes It in Suck-Up City (By JESSE KATZ, Feb. 9, 2003)
* Lunar-tics [conspiracy mega-theorists] (By JACK HITT, Feb. 9, 2003)
STYLE: As the Pearls Twirl (By WILLIAM NORWICH, Feb. 9, 2003)
FOOD: Breakfast With Oscar (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Feb. 9, 2003)
LIVES: All Spent [Slide Show] (Photographs by ED KASHI, text by JULIE WINOKUR, Feb. 9, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 9, 2003)
'Random Family': A Decade in the Life of a Bronx Family (By MARGARET TALBOT, Feb. 9, 2003)
'Abandon': Magical Mystery Tour [Pico Iyer] (By PANKAJ MISHRA, Feb. 9, 2003)
'Lost in America': The Rise of Shep Nudelman [Sherwin Nuland] (By MORRIS DICKSTEIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
'The Hipster Handbook': The Good, the Bad and the Frado [Robert Lanham] (By RICK MARIN, Feb. 9, 2003)
'The Master Butchers Singing Club': Her Own Private North Dakota [Louise Erdrich]
(By BROOKE ALLEN, Feb. 9, 2003)
* 'Faster Than the Speed of Light': E = mc2, Except When It Doesn't (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Feb. 9, 2003)
'Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha': Meandering Through the 'Real' China (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 9, 2003)
'Balthasar's Odyssey': Seeking the End of the World (By DANIEL SWIFT, Feb. 9, 2003)
'Genuine Authentic': Dressing the Part of Ralph Lauren (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 9, 2003)
HEALTH: Methadone Grows as Killer Drug (By PAM BELLUCK, Feb. 9, 2003)
HEALTH: For Drug Abusers, Methadone Has Become a Double-Edged Sword (By PAM BELLUCK, Feb. 9, 2003)

Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003:
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)

* Robert St. John, 100, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Author, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 8, 2003)
Lord Aberconway, 89, British Shipbuilder, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 8, 2003)
Manfred von Brauchitsch, Auto Racer, Dies at 97 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 8, 2003)
Shigeo Sasaki, Hiroshima Activist, 87, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 8, 2003)
NATIONAL: Bush Orders Increased Alert for Terrorist Attacks in U.S. (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Feb. 8, 2003)
Excerpts From Ashcroft and Ridge's News Conference on Threat Condition (NY TIMES, Feb. 8, 2003)
Some Agencies' Increased Efforts (NY TIMES, Feb. 8, 2003)
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Liechtenstein Is Up for Rent, but Ask If Heating's Included (By REUTERS, Feb. 8, 2003)
* For Salt Mine, Snowy Weather Leads to a Financial Bonanza (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 8, 2003)
In New York, a New Array of Safeguards Take Effect (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM & KEVIN FLYNN, Feb. 8, 2003)
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* OP-ED: A Song of Themselves [White House poetry reading] (By LEONARD GARMENT, Feb. 8, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall as War Fears Continue to Dominate Wall St.
[Dow -65, Nasdaq -19] (By REUTERS, Feb. 8, 2003)
German Bank Is Showing Mixed Results (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 8, 2003)
Publishers Settle With Gator in Fight on Web Pop-Up Ads (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 8, 2003)
In California, S.U.V. Owners Have Guilt, but Will Travel (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Feb. 8, 2003)
* ARTS & IDEAS: A Lesson on Iraq From a Classicist (By DINITIA SMITH, Feb. 8, 2003)
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TV: ABC Tops the Ratings With Michael Jackson (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 8, 2003)

Friday, Feb. 7, 2003:
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)

Larry LeSueur, Pioneering War Correspondent, Dies at 93 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 7, 2003)
Richard Nelson, 77, Crewman on Hiroshima Mission in '45, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 7, 2003)
A.L. Hotchkin Jr., 59, a Fixture of the New York Wine Scene, Dies (By HOWARD G. GOLDBERG, Feb. 7, 2003)
NATIONAL: NASA Cedes Authority in Columbia Shuttle Inquiry (By JOHN M. BRODER with RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 7, 2003)
Confederate Flag Boycott Tests Presidential Candidates' Resolve (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 7, 2003)
After Sweeping Clemency Order, Ex-Gov. Ryan Is a Celebrity (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 7, 2003)
Moussaoui Case May Have to Shift From U.S. Court to Tribunal (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 7, 2003)
U.S. Issues Warning on Terrorist Threats (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
A Shuttle Leader Is Ready 'to Go Fly Again' (By JIM YARDLEY, Feb. 7, 2003)
Final Flight Was Not Columbia's First to Face Re-entry Problems (By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr., Feb. 7, 2003)
Search for Debris Is Slowed in East Texas by Rain and Cold (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 7, 2003)
Studies of Airplane Crashes Could Provide Guidance (By MATTHEW L. WALD & JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 7, 2003)
Computers Driving Shuttle Are to Be Included in Inquiry (By STEVE LOHR, Feb. 7, 2003)
NASA Seeks Answers From Simulators, Amid Some Doubting (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 7, 2003)
Workers Fear the Loss of a Shuttle Will Also Mean the Loss of Jobs (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 7, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Learning the Lessons of Challenger Inquiry (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 7, 2003)
Harvard Black Guide Will Delete Offending Pages (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
U.S. Agents Seize Horses of 2 Defiant Indian Sisters (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 7, 2003)
WORLD: How Venezuelan Outlasted His Foes (By JUAN FORERO, Feb. 7, 2003)
* F.B.I. Recruits Chinese Students in U.S. (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 7, 2003)
NUCLEAR STANDOFF: Bush Administration Defends Its Approach on North Korea (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 7, 2003)
WASHINGTON: U.S. Ready to Back New U.N. Measure on Iraq, Bush Says (By ERIC SCHMITT with JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 7, 2003)
U.S. in Talks on Allowing Turkey to Occupy a Kurdish Area in Iraq (By DEXTER FILKINS with C. J. CHIVERS, Feb. 7, 2003)
TERROR SUSPECTS: Arrests Reported in Britain and Germany (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 7, 2003)
BAGHDAD: Scientist Gives Inspectors First Private Talk (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 7, 2003)
EUROPEAN PRESS: Powell's Performance Earns Mixed Reviews (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
AHWAZ JOURNAL: In Iran's Hair Salons, the Rebels Wield Scissors (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 7, 2003)
DIPLOMACY: U.N. Envoys Said to Differ Sharply in Reaction to Powell Speech
(By JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 7, 2003)
THE ALLIANCE: NATO Is Torn Over Weapons for the Turks (By THOMAS FULLER, Feb. 7, 2003)
IRAN FRONTIER: Across Iraq's Border, a Land Haunted by War (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 7, 2003)
THE PRESENTATION: How Powell's Evidence Compares to Findings From Prior Intelligence
(NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
Mobile Factories for Biological Weapons (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
Extending the Range of Ballistic Missiles (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
The Link Between Al Qaeda and Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
Disguising Chemical Arms Production (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
Aluminum Tubes With Multiple Uses (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
Mexico Digs at Last for Truth About 1968 Massacre (By TIM WEINER, Feb. 7, 2003)
Muscovites' Love for a Classic Ends at the Park (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Feb. 7, 2003)
NY REGION: White House in Tentative Deal on New York Rescue Package (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 7, 2003)
Agencies Jockey for Control Over Future of Ground Zero Design (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Feb. 7, 2003)
Beyond Stilettos, Bringing a Harsher Reality to Life [Kristin Davis] (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 7, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Benny, Peel Me a Grape (By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 7, 2003)
NYC: Protecting a Gun Law, or a Family (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 7, 2003)
BOXING: The World According to Tyson (By MICHAEL KATZ, Feb. 7, 2003)
SPORTS: An Admission by Rose Would Surprise a Friend (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 7, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Endgame [Iraq crisis] (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The New York Process: How Not to Get Heard at a Legislative Hearing
(By ELEANOR RANDOLPH, Feb. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Is the Maestro a Hack? [Alan Greenspan] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: War and Wisdom (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 7, 2003)
* OP-ED: Different Man, Different Moment (By ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Feb. 7, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: What Really Worried Me About the Shuttle (By RICHARD D. BLOMBERG, Feb. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: America, Iraq and the Court of Public Opinion (By CHARLES PLUCKHAHN, et. al., Feb. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: Investors Strike Out [sports metaphors] (By MIKE JABLONS, Feb. 7, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall, With 2 Indexes at Their Lowest Since October
[Dow -56, Nasdaq +0.23] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 7, 2003)
Wealthy Suing Accountants Over Rejected Tax Shelters (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 7, 2003)
FLOYD NORRIS: He Made $169 Million, but May Lose It All [Sprint] (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 7, 2003)
Bush Proposal for Savings Could Hurt Financial Firms (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Feb. 7, 2003)
Sales at Retailers Last Month Were at Low End of Forecasts (By REUTERS, Feb. 7, 2003)
Steel Supplier Is Threatening to Drop G.M. (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 7, 2003)
Jesse Ventura Has Deal for MSNBC Talk Show (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 7, 2003)
ART: 'CHALLENGE OF THE MODERN'; 'AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS': What Modernism Meant in Black Artists' World
(By GRACE GLUECK, Feb. 7, 2003)
ART: 'THE GIFT: GENEROUS OFFERINGS, THREATENING HOSPITALITY': Presents for the Viewer, Not All of Them Kindly
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 7, 2003)
* ART: THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH: Works That Helped Invent the Image of an English Elite
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 7, 2003)
ART: Getting Rich Off Human Cargo: The Grim Details (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Feb. 7, 2003)
ARTS: MY MANHATTAN: Treasures Buried in Plain Sight (By JUDITH DUNFORD, Feb. 7, 2003)
INSIDE ART: Taking Care of All the Goo (By CAROL VOGEL, Feb. 7, 2003)
ART IN REVIEW: Jo Baer; `Weegee's Trick Photography'; Tacita Dean (By ROBERTA SMITH & KEN JOHNSON, Feb. 7, 2003)
ANTIQUES: Genteel Fairs Turn Aggressive (By WENDY MOONAN, Feb. 7, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'THE DANTE CLUB': All Literary Allusions Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here
(By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 7, 2003)
DANCE: NYC BALLET: A Survey of Balanchine Enhanced by Passion (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS': Ever-So-Clever Games of Love That End as Expected
(By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 7, 2003)
FILM: KEDMA': War-Weary Immigrants Facing Another War (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'DELIVER US FROM EVA': Dreaming Up a Riddle for a Know-It-All (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Feb. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'ZUS AND ZO': Keeping Brother a Bachelor Becomes a Family Project (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'SHANGHAI KNIGHTS': Galahad in Shining Cowboy Duds (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 7, 2003)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Equal Treatment for Each Film? (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 7, 2003)
FILM: HOME VIDEO: From 'Greatest' to Outrageous (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Feb. 7, 2003)
* MUSIC: Berlioz: A Fiery Romantic, Burning Alone (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Feb. 7, 2003)
* MUSIC: A Man, Like His Music, of Quicksilver [Berlioz] (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Feb. 7, 2003)
MUSIC: A Time to Enjoy Berliozian Riches (NY TIMES, Feb. 7, 2003)
PHOTOGRAPHY: THOMAS STRUTH: Where Truth Dares to Meet Your Gaze (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 7, 2003)
THEATER: RECENT PLAYS: 'Ten Little Indians'; 'Uncle Vanya' (By ANITA GATES & D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Feb. 7, 2003)
THEATER: 'MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM': Old Blues, New Riffs (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 7, 2003)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: An Opening Is Set (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Feb. 7, 2003)
TV: The Outlook for Suicide Bombing in the U.S. (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Feb. 7, 2003)
HEALTH: Hormone Cuts Risk of Premature Birth (By DENISE GRADY, Feb. 7, 2003)
HEALTH: Transplanted Organ Is Linked to Cancer in Two Recipients (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 7, 2003)
HEALTH: Many Balking at Vaccination for Smallpox (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 7, 2003)

Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003:
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)

Arthur Olsen, 82, Reporter and Envoy, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 6, 2003)
Peter Shaw, TV Producer and Agent, Dies at 84 (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2003)
Jerry Mayer, Actor in One-Man Shows, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2003)
Alexander Ross, 80, Advertising Executive, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2003)
André Noyelle, Cyclist, 71, Is Dead (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 6, 2003)
NATIONAL: NASA Now Doubts Tank Foam Debris Doomed Columbia (By JOHN M. BRODER, Feb. 6, 2003)
Houston Woman on Trial in Killing of Husband Testifies (By NICK MADIGAN, Feb. 6, 2003)
Confidential Advisory Warns of Rise in Possible Terror Threats (By ERIC LICHTBLAU & DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 6, 2003)
Warning on Hitting Debt Ceiling of $6.4 Trillion Around Feb. 20 (By CARL HULSE, Feb. 6, 2003)
Rumsfeld Warns He Will Ask Congress for More Billions (By LESLIE WAYNE, Feb. 6, 2003)
No Legal Precedent Is Seen Should Columbia Families Choose to Sue (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 6, 2003)
Church Two Columbia Astronauts Attended Remembers Their Faith (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 6, 2003)
Ex-National Guard Officer and Former Wife Held in Spy Case (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 6, 2003)
Maine Suits Swirl on Hebrew National Umbrella Ads (By ADAM LIPTAK, Feb. 6, 2003)
WORLD: Intelligence Break Led U.S. to Tie Envoy Killing to Iraqi Qaeda Cell (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Feb. 6, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Powell's Case Against Iraq: Piling Up the Evidence (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Feb. 6, 2003)
NUCLEAR TENSION: North Korea Restarts Plant With Ability to Fuel Arms (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Feb. 6, 2003)
U.S.-Russia Atomic Arms Pact Wins Senate Panel's Backing (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 6, 2003)
Putin Meets Pakistani, Ending Long Breach (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 6, 2003)
African Women Gather to Denounce Genital Cutting (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 6, 2003)
BEIJING JOURNAL: A Factory Is Transformed by the Art of Real Estate (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Feb. 6, 2003)
NY REGION: More Chess Players Use Computers for Edge (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 6, 2003)
BLOCKS: Map Becomes Clearer in Trade Center Choices (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Feb. 6, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: Seeing the Pen Not as Mightier, but as More Honest (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 6, 2003)
SPORTS: Colts Finding Motivation in New Way (By BILL PENNINGTON, Feb. 6, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Case Against Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Overpriced Cancer Drugs (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2003)
OP-ED: 'Irrefutable and Undeniable' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 6, 2003)
* OP-ED: Young, Jobless, Hopeless (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 6, 2003)
OP-ED: Vive l'Histoire (By STACY SCHIFF, Feb. 6, 2003)
LETTERS: Whose Vision for Ground Zero? (By OZI MARK FRIEDRICH, et. al., Feb. 6, 2003)
LETTERS: Another Crisis: North Korea (By DANIEL T. GROSSMAN, Feb. 6, 2003)
LETTERS: Next Stop, Mars (By LORRAINE SMITH-PHELAN, Feb. 6, 2003)
BUSINESS: Stocks Rise During Speech at U.N., Only to Fall Back
[Dow -28, Nasdaq -5] (By REUTERS, Feb. 6, 2003)
S.E.C. Choice Says He's No Harvey Pitt [William H. Donaldson] (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 6, 2003)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Trying to Predict a Military Victory (By ALAN B. KRUEGER, Feb. 6, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush's Plan Would Scrap Many Investor Taxes (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Feb. 6, 2003)
* U.S. Economy in Worst Hiring Slump in 20 Years (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 6, 2003)
Investment Adviser Is Arrested on Charges of Defrauding Clients (By REUTERS, Feb. 6, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Can Enron Change the Energy Business? (By NEELA BANERJEE, Feb. 6, 2003)
After Successfully Reducing Debt, Primedia Explores Sale of Seventeen (By DAVID CARR, Feb. 6, 2003)
Toyota to Build Assembly Plant in Texas (By KEN BELSON with MICHELINE MAYNARD, Feb. 6, 2003)
ARTS: AN APPRAISAL: Balancing Reason and Emotion in Twin Towers Void (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Feb. 6, 2003)
ARTS: Mobilizing a Theater of Protest. Again. (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 6, 2003)
BOOKS: 'THE EMPEROR OF SCENT': Sniffing Scientist, Pursuing a Theory (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 6, 2003)
* MAKING BOOKS: Poets Pit Pens Against Swords (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Feb. 6, 2003)
MUSIC: Amid Much Anticipation, a Rapper Makes a Debut (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Feb. 6, 2003)
THE POP LIFE: Up-and-Comers Down Under (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 6, 2003)
THEATER: Kevin Spacey Puts Down New Roots at the Old Vic (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 6, 2003)
TV: '20/20': A Neverland World of Michael Jackson (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 6, 2003)
GARDEN: TRADE SECRETS: The $100 Posy Race (By JOHN LELAND, Feb. 6, 2003)
AT HOME WITH ROBERT INDIANA: Mr. Love Finds an Island, If Not Entirely to Himself
(By DAVID COLMAN, Feb. 6, 2003)
HOUSE PROUD: In Tiny Spaces, Expansive Living (By NANCY HASS, Feb. 6, 2003)
HOME: Cutting to the Chase: Kitchen-Only Tours (By DEBRA GALANT, Feb. 6, 2003)
PERSONAL SHOPPER: From Paris, for a Home That's Ready to Wear It (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, Feb. 6, 2003)
GARDEN Q & A: Beautiful and Edible [runner beans & snowstorms] (By LESLIE LAND, Feb. 6, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 6, 2003)
Assessing the Odds of Catastrophe (By SETH SCHIESEL, Feb. 6, 2003)
Getting Game Boy to Play Their Tune (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 6, 2003)
STATE OF THE ART: Pocket PC's for Smaller Pocketbooks (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 6, 2003)
BASICS: A Projector to Match Your Magnetism (By LARRY MAGID, Feb. 6, 2003)
WHAT'S NEXT: For the Smart Dresser, Electric Threads That Cosset You (By ANNE EISENBERG, Feb. 6, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Valentine¹s Day, Well Done (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Feb. 6, 2003)
GAME THEORY: Win Friends, Influence People, or Just Aim and Fire (By CHARLES HEROLD, Feb. 6, 2003)
FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE: Struggling With Memory Cards (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 6, 2003)
Wi-Fi as Savior? France's Farm Dwellers Hope So (By KRISTEN HINMAN, Feb. 6, 2003)
* Personal 555 Number Is Still Mostly Fiction (By MARCIA BIEDERMAN, Feb. 6, 2003)
Who's Sneakier? Spy Toys Differ for Girls and Boys (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 6, 2003)
Watching a Cold Front Advance Across Your Palmtop Screen (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 6, 2003)
A 60-Gigabyte Guardian Averts Hard-Drive Disasters (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 6, 2003)
Can I Borrow Your Lipstick? Sure, Check Out the First Song (By ERIC A. TAUB, Feb. 6, 2003)
Psst: A Spot Where Gamers Get Their Own Inside Skinny (By NOAH SHACTMAN, Feb. 6, 2003)
* Q & A: Guarding the Back Door to Your XP Computer (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 6, 2003)
* HEALTH: New Method Aids Evaluation of Alzheimer's Drugs
[first study to chart the dynamic spread of Alzheimer's in the brain]
(By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 6, 2003)

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003:
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)

Jerome Hines Is Dead at 81; Sang at the Met for 41 Years (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 5, 2003)
Frank Weise, 84, Architect, Dies; Fought Philadelphia Road Idea (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 5, 2003)
Wick Temple, Dies at 65; Spent 43 Years at The Associated Press (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 5, 2003)
Anthony Eisley, of TV's `Hawaiian Eye,' Dies at 78 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 5, 2003)
Gregg Rice, Biology Professor, Dies at 59 (NY TIMES, Feb. 5, 2003)
NATIONAL: President Pledges U.S. Will Continue to Explore Space (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 5, 2003)
Jurors Who Convicted Marijuana Grower Seek New Trial (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 5, 2003)
Killing Puzzles the Police and Spector's Friends Too (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 5, 2003)
NASA Was Told in 1990 About Vulnerable Protective Tiles (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 5, 2003)
Bush Budget Increases Push to Find Tax Cheats (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 5, 2003)
ENERGY RESEARCH: Hydrogen Cars Remain Decades in the Future Under New Budget (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 5, 2003)
Talk in Schools of Risk and Rewards in Space (By SAM DILLON, Feb. 5, 2003)
ON EDUCATION: Promoting Tolerance, Not Paying Heed (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Feb. 5, 2003)
No Assertion of Irish Roots, Kerry Says (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 5, 2003)
Colleagues, by the Thousands, Get Their Chance to Mourn (By KATE ZERNIKE & NICK MADIGAN, Feb. 5, 2003)
Final Minutes for Columbia Crew Held Hint of Catastrophe (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 5, 2003)
THE OVERVIEW: Debris Search Is Expanded to California and Arizona (By DAVID E. SANGER with DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 5, 2003)
Experts Suspect a Wider Debris Field (By MATTHEW L. WALD with ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 5, 2003)
Hometown Service for Astronaut (NY TIES, Feb. 5, 2003)
Fragile Ceramic Tiles Long a Source of Concern (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 5, 2003)
Urgent Yet Methodical, Search Traverses a Vast Terrain (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 5, 2003)
Viewers Flocked to Coverage by NBC and CNN (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 5, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Delays Suing Europe Over Ban on Modified Food (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Feb. 5, 2003)
Yugoslavia Is Again Reinvented, in Name and Structure [Serbia & Montenegro]
(By DANIEL SIMPSON, Feb. 5, 2003)
CHRONOLOGY: A Glance at the History of Yugoslavia (By REUTERS, Feb. 5, 2003)
NUCLEAR STANDOFF: U.S. Official Says North Korea Could Sell Bomb Material
(By JAMES DAO, Feb. 5, 2003)
DIPLOMACY: Powell to Charge Iraq Is Shifting Its Illegal Arms to Foil Inspectors (By JULIA PRESTON with STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 5, 2003)
Blair, Out to Change Lords, Trips in House of Commons (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 5, 2003)
Europe Debates Whether to Admit God to Union (By THOMAS FULLER, Feb. 5, 2003)
THE U.S. COMMANDER: Rumsfeld Defends General Investigated by Pentagon (By THOM SHANKER, Feb. 5, 2003)
New Name, Similar Struggles for Group of African Nations (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 5, 2003)
Afghans No. 1 in Opium (NY TIM Off With Her Crown! Miss Brazil Hid a Vital Statistic (Marriage) (By TONY SMITH, Feb. 5, 2003)
AN ALLY'S BASES: Top Politician Indicates Turkey May Join U.S. Effort Against Iraq (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 5, 2003)
BAGHDAD: Iraq Has No Banned Arms, Hussein Says in Interview (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., Feb. 5, 2003)
NORTHERN IRAQ: A Diverse Band of Volunteers Sends a Warning to America (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 5, 2003)
EUROPE: Blair Tries to Sell a Military Solution for Iraq, but Chirac Won't Buy It (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Feb. 5, 2003)
Saddam Hussein's Words (By REUTERS, Feb. 5, 2003)
Gypsies' Suit Against I.B.M. Is Given Green Light by Swiss Court (By PETER S. GREEN, Feb. 5, 2003)
For French Art Thief, It Was Love at First Sight (NY TIM MOSCOW JOURNAL: Capitalism Spawns a New Leisure Class: Mall Rats (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Feb. 5, 2003)
SOYUZ: Russia Halts Tourist Trips Into Space in Emergency (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 5, 2003)
NY REGION: Two Finalists Are Selected for the Void at Ground Zero (By EDWARD WYATT, Feb. 5, 2003)
Ex-Manager of Helmsley Hotel Wins $11.2 Million in Bias Case (By SUSAN SAULNY, Feb. 5, 2003)
Gunman Robs Guards Filling Cash Machine at L.I.U. (By MARC SANTORA, Feb. 5, 2003)
SECRET EVIDENCE: Seller of Fake ID's to Hijackers Accepts Plea Deal in New Jersey
(NY TIMES, Feb. 5, 2003)
A Piece of Coney Island's Past Wins Landmark Status (By DIANE CARDWELL, Feb. 5, 2003)
OUR TOWNS: A Whisper of Terrorism, and Its Echo (By MATTHEW PURDY, Feb. 5, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Charming Richard [Richard Gere] (By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 5, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: An Environmentalist With No Time for Houseplants (By ROBIN FINN, Feb. 5, 2003)
SPORTS: Lions Sign Mariucci for 5 Years, $25 Million (By BUSTER OLNEY, Feb. 5, 2003)
BOXING: Moseley Itching for Another Shot at de la Hoya (By MICHAEL KATZ, Feb. 5, 2003)
EDITORIAL: A Ticking Clock on North Korea (NY TIMES, Feb. 5, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Remembering the Columbia Crew (NY TIMES, Feb. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Powell Without Picasso (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Will the Neighbors Approve? (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Onward and Outward (By THOMAS MALLON, Feb. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Give Us a Chance to Build a Democratic Iraq (By BARHAM A. SALIH, Feb. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: The Iraqis' Use of Poison Gas (By PETER GALBRAITH, et. al., Feb. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: Shuttle Program: Fly or Shut Down? (By ARTHUR GURAY, et. al., Feb. 5, 2003)
* LETTERS: Poetic Dissent (By ROBIN JACOBSON, Feb. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: Where the Tuition Goes (By FLYNN CRATTY, Feb. 5, 2003)
BUSINESS: Stocks Retreat as Investors Await U.N. Speech by Powell BR>[Dow -97,m Nasdaq -18] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 5, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Dividend Plan Drops Penalty for Borrowers Who Buy Stock (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 5, 2003)
Nothing Like Big Deficits to Hearten Bond Traders (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 5, 2003)
Cisco Sees No Upturn Soon for Technology Spending (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 5, 2003)
Rebuilding Effort Could Help Space Industry in Long Run (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 5, 2003)
Layoffs Create Glut of Space in Boston Area (By SUSAN DIESENHOUSE, Feb. 5, 2003)
Turner Opposed ABC Deal (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 5, 2003)
Where Banks Pay Borrowers to Borrow Money (By KEN BELSON, Feb. 5, 2003)
Sailors, Runaways and Now, Bicoastal Hoteliers (By NADINE BROZAN, Feb. 5, 2003)
ARTS: Arts Briefing (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 5, 2003)
BOOKS: 'ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION': Giving Voice to an Awkward Silence in Germany
(By RICHARD EDER, Feb. 5, 2003)
BOOKS: On a Mission to Shine a Spotlight on Genocide (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Feb. 5, 2003)
* DANCE: MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: Revealing Graham's Vocabulary (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 5, 2003)
FILM: Filmmakers Seek Protection From U.S. Dominance (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 5, 2003)
FILM: 'GOD HAS A RAP SHEET': Yet Another Celebrity Behind Bars (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 5, 2003)
MUSIC: A Tribute to Lou Harrison Just Before His Death (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 5, 2003)
THEATER: Bitter Showdown Over Orchestra Size Looms on Broadway (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 5, 2003)
THEATER: 'KIMBERLY AKIMBO': This Girl's Sweet 16 Is Bitter Old Age (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 5, 2003)
THE TV WATCH: Prime-Time Shows Are Getting Sexier (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 5, 2003)
FOOD: In Piedmont, a New Landscape for Barolo (By, Feb. 5, 2003)
DINING: Rolling the Dice on a Family Dream (By MATT LEE & TED LEE, Feb. 5, 2003)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: Turning a Kitchen Into Child's Play (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Feb. 5, 2003)
Bagels in Paradise, Kona Nova With a Schmear [recipe] (By ALEX WITCHEL, Feb. 5, 2003)
THE MINIMALIST: Corn Kernels, Savory Stew [recipe] (By MARK BITTMAN, Feb. 5, 2003)
PAIRINGS: A Lion Tamed by Veal, Lamb or Chicken (By AMANDA HESSER, Feb. 5, 2003)
HEALTH: BIODEFENSES: Smallpox Researchers Seek Help From Millions of Computer Users (By STEVE LOHR, Feb. 5, 2003)

Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003:
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)

Richard Lyng, 84, Agriculture Secretary for Reagan, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 4, 2003)
Lou Harrison, 85, Dies; Music Tied Cultures (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Feb. 4, 2003)
(Richard C. Lee, 86, Mayor Who Revitalized New Haven By PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Feb. 4, 2003)
NATIONAL: Debris Is Now Leading Suspect in Shuttle Catastrophe Inquiry (By JOHN M. BRODER, Feb. 4, 2003)
PAYING FOR NASA: Even Before Disaster, the Plan Was to Increase NASA Spending
(By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 4, 2003)
RECOVERY EFFORTS: Tears and Dangerous Debris as Searchers Track Pieces of the Shuttle
(By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN & RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 4, 2003)
Shuttle's Chief Puts Pained, Steely Face on Shared Trauma (By DAVID BARSTOW, Feb. 4, 2003)
OVERSEEING NASA: Lawmakers Vow a Rapid Push to Improve the Shuttle's Safety
(By CARL HULSE & SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 4, 2003)
THE NEWS MEDIA: NASA Offers Access and Instant Answers (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 4, 2003)
RESCUE: Columbia Was Beyond Any Help, Officials Say (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 4, 2003)
Engineer's '97 Report Warned of Damage to Tiles by Foam (By JAMES GLANZ & EDWARD WONG, Feb. 4, 2003)
STUDENTS REACT: Sixth-Grade Class Gets a Multifaceted Lesson (By RONALD SMOTHERS, Feb. 4, 2003)
THE FAMILIES: Gratitude and a Sigh From Father of Israeli (By KATE ZERNIKE, Feb. 4, 2003)
THE OUTLAYS: From Fuel Cell Cars to Slaughterhouse Inspection: Where the Money Goes
(By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Feb. 4, 2003)
Lead Anchor Was Caught in a Golf Tournament [CNN's Aaron Brown] (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 4, 2003)
THE SPACE STATION: Future of the Shuttle Program Is Linked to the Space Station's
(By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 4, 2003)
Harvard Is Returning Donation From Jane Fonda for New Center (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 4, 2003)
Renting a Limo? Better Use Cash (By JOHN TIERNEY, Feb. 4, 2003)
With Substance Unexplained, Red Cross Shelves a Blood Bag (By MICHAEL WILSON, Feb. 4, 2003)
California Monks Wage Fight on Developers (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2003)
Record Producer Phil Spector Charged With Murder (By RICK LYMAN, Feb. 4, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Bombers on Alert to Deploy as Warning to North Koreans (By DAVID E. SANGER & THOM SHANKER, Feb. 4, 2003)
DIPLOMACY: U.S. and Britain Press for Resolution on Iraq (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN & RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 4, 2003)
* Vatican Book Is Offering Reflections on 'New Age' (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2003)
U.N. TEAM: With No Assurances of Progress, Chief Inspectors Will Visit Iraq (By JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 4, 2003)
U.N. FOOTNOTE: Will Echoes of Stevenson Fill the Chamber? (By ADAM CLYMER, Feb. 4, 2003)
'Suicide Tourists' Go to the Swiss for Help in Dying (By ALISON LANGLEY, Feb. 4, 2003)
BRITAIN: Blair, Despite a Dubious Public, Sticks to Firm Stance on Iraq (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 4, 2003)
GERMANY: Schröder's Team Not Telling Full Story on Iraq, Foes Say (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 4, 2003)
ALLIES: Spain's Chief, on Bush's Side, Comes Under Attack at Home (By EMMA DALY, Feb. 4, 2003)
The War Against the Fur Trade Backfires, Endangering a Way of Life (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 4, 2003)
NY REGION: Adjusting to Added Telephone Digits (By JAMES BARRON, Feb. 4, 2003)
Plot Twist for a Gay Bookstore: The Last Chapter Actually Isn't (By MARC SANTORA, Feb. 4, 2003)
Robbing a Bank the Hard Way: Through Wall, Not Teller Window (By KEVIN FLYNN, Feb. 4, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: But Where Do You Keep Your Wallet? (By JOYCE WADLER, Feb. 4, 2003)
DOCUMENT FRAUD: Guilty Plea Expected by Seller of Fake ID's to 9/11 Hijackers (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2003)
NYC: Smiling All the Way to a Deficit (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 4, 2003)
SPORTS: Rose's Bid for Return to Baseball Hits Snag (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 4, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Imbalanced Budget (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Misguided Marijuana War (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVE: The Exotic but Fallible Spy Machines Behind America's Case for War
(By PHILIP TAUBMAN, Feb. 4, 2003)
OP-ED: A Failed Mission (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 4, 2003)
OP-ED: 'A Sea of Fire,' or Worse? (By NICHOLAS KRISTOF, Feb. 4, 2003)
OP-ED: Gravity's Embrace (By JIM PAWELCZYK, Feb. 4, 2003)
OP-ED: Feeling Mach 25 (By JAY C. BUCKEY Jr., Feb. 4, 2003)
OP-ED: George Bush, Multilateralist? (By ROBERT WRIGHT, Feb. 4, 2003)
LETTERS: The Shuttle: Grief and Questions (By RICHARD NEIL SNYDER, et. al., Feb. 4, 2003)
LETTERS: Contain Iraq, or Go to War? (By POLLY HINCKS, et. al., Feb. 4, 2003)
LETTERS: Not 11 Digits. Just One. [speed-dial feature on phones] (By SIDNEY KRAVITZ, Feb. 4, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Are Higher on Earnings News and Economic Data
[Dow +56, Nasdaq +3] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 4, 2003)
Mattel's Profit Is Up by 35%, Led by Barbie Sales (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 4, 2003)
ADVERTISING: McDonald's Moves to Reassess Itself (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 4, 2003)
Marketers Cancel Ads With Themes of Spaceflight (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 4, 2003)
ON THE ROAD: The Rules on Baggage Inspection Are Unclear When Things Go Missing
(By JOE SHARKEY, Feb. 4, 2003)
TV Guide Names Editor in Chief [Michael Lafavore] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 4, 2003)
* ARTS: Lifting the Lid on a Treasure Chest [Ransom Research Center, UTexas]
(By STEPHEN KINZER, Feb. 4, 2003)
ARTS: Bits of Bugs Glow, to Delight a Queen (By MARLISE SIMONS, Feb. 4, 2003)
BOOKS: 'THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB': Setting Out With a Dream and a Lot of Sausages
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Feb. 4, 2003)
* DANCE: FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK: Flamenco as a Narrative, and Simply as Itself
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 4, 2003)
MUSIC: MET ORCHESTRA: Met Orchestra's Principals, Out of the Pit (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 4, 2003)
MUSIC CRITIC: A Team Player, Despite Little Acts of Sabotage (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Feb. 4, 2003)
ROCK REVIEW: SIMPLE PLAN AND AFI: Punk Is Back, Adapted to More Congenial Ways (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 4, 2003)
THEATER: 'FIFTH OF JULY': 60's Radicals Reunited, This Time as Ensemble (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 4, 2003)
TV: 'BATTLE OF THE X-PLANES': Workhorse Warplanes and a $200 Billion Bill (By THOM SHANKER, Feb. 4, 2003)
TV: 'A.U.S.A.': A New Show Blessed for What It Isn't (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 4, 2003)
SCIENCE: Now, the Space Station: Grieving, Imperiled (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 4, 2003)
Debris Is Now Leading Suspect in Shuttle Catastrophe Inquiry (By JOHN M. BRODER, Feb. 4, 2003)
* ESSAY: We May Conquer Space; It Will Never Be Easy (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Feb. 4, 2003)
'Some of It Will Be Their Legacy': The Data That Survived Disaster (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 4, 2003)
Reviving Romance With Space, Even as 'Space Age' Fades (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 4, 2003)
OBSERVATORY: Sharks' Thermostats (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 4, 2003)
SOYUZ: New Burden for a Poor Russian Space Program (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 4, 2003)
SCIENCE LETTERS [psychotheraphy, lab coat chic, medical journals] (NY TIMES, Feb. 4, 2003)
* HEALTH: Some Deaths Resonate, Others Pass Unnoticed (By ERICA GOODE, Feb. 4, 2003)
* BEHAVIOR: Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left (By DANIEL GOLEMAN, Feb. 4, 2003)
Menstrual Cups, at Age 66, Begin to Make Up for Lost Time (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 4, 2003)
Mystery Surrounds a Virulent Skin Infection (By DAVID TULLER, Feb. 4, 2003)
Doctors Say Ephedra Use Is Unsafe (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 4, 2003)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: A Dose of Practical Advice to Help Control Diabetes
(By JOHN LANGONE, Feb. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Seizure Drug Cools Hot Flashes (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Side Effects: Jog Your Memory? At the Gym? (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: Medical Errors, for Outpatients (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: The Added Toll of Bereavement (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 4, 2003)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Herbal Remedies: Natural Does Not Mean Safe (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 4, 2003)
CASES: Trial by Fire, and by Fear, in the I.C.U. (By SANDEEP JAUHAR, M.D., Feb. 4, 2003)
Q & A: Perils of Cold Air (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 4, 2003)

Monday, Feb. 3, 2003:
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)

Mongo Santamaria, 85, Influential Jazz Percussionist, Dies (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 3, 2003)
Maury Maverick Jr., Champion of the Unpopular, Is Dead at 82 (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, Feb. 3, 2003)
John L. Dales, 95, Executive for Actors Guild, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2003)
Sylvia Ellstein, 94, Author of Hit Play, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2003)
Edith Hirsch, Commodities Economist, Dies at 103 (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2003)
Lillian Gerard, 88, Promoter of Foreign Films, Dies (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2003)
Eddie Johnson, 43, Linebacker for Cleveland Browns (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 3, 2003)
NATIONAL: NASA Finds Clues in Disaster; Temperature Rise in Last Minutes (By JOHN M. BRODER, Feb. 3, 2003)
* North of Beijing, California Dreams Come True (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Feb. 3, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Feb. 3, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Feb. 3, 2003)
NY REGION: Now Dialing 11 Digits, Give or Take a Few (By JAMES BARRON, Feb. 3, 2003)
When a Mantra Against Taxes Starts to Seem Unspeakable (By LAURA MANSNERUS, Feb. 3, 2003)
Behind Walkout by Doctors, Chronic War With Lawyers (By ANDREW JACOBS, Feb. 3, 2003)
Rescuing the Diorama From the Fate of the Dodo (By GLENN COLLINS, Feb. 3, 2003)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Feb. 3, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Feb. 3, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Investigation of a Tragedy (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Vaclav Havel Takes His Leave (NY TIMES, Feb. 3, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The McNugget of Truth in the Fast-Food Lawsuits (By ADAM COHEN, Feb. 3, 2003)
OP-ED: And Now: Op-Ed Diplomacy (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 3, 2003)
OP-ED: The Best of America (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 3, 2003)
* OP-ED: At Dawn, the Columbia (By TIMOTHY FERRIS, Feb. 3, 2003)
* OP-ED: Fear and Flying (By BUZZ ALDRIN, Feb. 3, 2003)
* READERS RESPOND TO SHUTTLE TRAGEDY: A Time of Mourning for Shattered Dreams (By RICHARD KHANLIAN, et. al., Feb. 3, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Feb. 3, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Feb. 3, 2003)
* Shuttle's Effect on Economy May be Small, Analysts Say (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 3, 2003)
* Competitors Shape Strategy to Gain Edge in Web Services (By STEVE LOHR, Feb. 3, 2003)
Daughter of Welles Seeks 'Citizen Kane' Profits (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 3, 2003)
Sirius Tries to Sell Pay Radio (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 3, 2003)
* NEWS MEDIA: Disaster Prompts a Quick Shift of Coverage (By JIM RUTENBERG and DAVID CARR, Feb. 3, 2003)
Turning a Digital Database Into Local Radio (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Feb. 3, 2003)
Los Angeles Magazine Banks on a New Voice (By DAVID CARR, Feb. 3, 2003)
Producer of Comdex Shows Is About to Seek Bankruptcy (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 3, 2003)
* From Nanotechnology's Sidelines, One More Warning (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 3, 2003)
FILM: The Guy in That Canadian Film Sounds Like a Noo Yawka, Eh? (By JOANNE LATIMER, Feb. 3, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Feb. 3, 2003)
TV: Ali G Takes His Talk Show to HBO (By NEIL STRAUSS, Feb. 3, 2003)

Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003:
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)

Evelyn Trout, Record-Setting Flier, Dies at 97 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
* Annemarie Schimmel, 80, Influential Scholar of Islam, Is Dead (By STEPHEN KINZER, Feb. 2, 2003)
* Allan Fromme, Psychologist and Writer, 87, Dies (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
Michael de Lisio, Sculptor, Dies at 91 (By ROBERTA SMITH, Feb. 2, 2003)
Burton Feldman, Historian of Nobel Prize, Dies at 76 (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
* NATIONAL SPECIAL: Loss of the Shuttle (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
'Roger,' and Then Silence (By DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 2, 2003)
Early Focus on Heat Tiles (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 2, 2003)
The Air Shook With Sound, Then Debris Rained Down (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Feb. 2, 2003)
A Diverse Crew, Four on Their First Space Mission (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
Once Again, Spaceflight's Hometown Loses Its Heroes (By RICK BRAGG & JIM YARDLEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
Once Again, Sorrow and a Will to Move Ahead (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 2, 2003)
I.N.S. Extends Start Date for System Tracking Foreign Students (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Feb. 2, 2003)
Departing Security Official Highlights Cyber Threat (By JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 2, 2003)
BOUNTIFUL JOURNAL: Defining Pornography Proves Tricky, Even in a Utah Town
(By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Feb. 2, 2003)
With Riches at Stake, Two Tribes Square Off (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 2, 2003)
POLITICAL MEMO: Bush, Like Clinton, Learns Perils of Health Policy (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 2, 2003)
Pilot Embraced Role as a Symbol for Jews [Ilan Ramon] (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 2, 2003)
At Mission Control, Workers Try to Stay Focused (By JIM YARDLEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
Tracking Shuttle, Many Saw Long Trail of Flames Instead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 2, 2003)
Hero's Return Becomes a New Nightmare for Israelis (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 2, 2003)
Disaster Stirs Already Unsettled Feelings Across the Country (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 2, 2003)
Space Program's Cycles of Triumph and Tragedy (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Feb. 2, 2003)
Bush Leads Nation's Grieving (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 2, 2003)
Bush Remarks on Shuttle: `Destruction and Tragedy' (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
Last Shuttle Contact (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 2, 2003)
Space Flight Experiences Still Amaze Ex-Astronauts (By MARC SANTORA, Feb. 2, 2003)
Ethnic Pride Over Crew Of Shuttle (By JIM DWYER, Feb. 2, 2003)
Hopes for Experiments Disappear as Disaster Unfolds (By DAN BARRY, Feb. 2, 2003)
CAPE CANAVERAL: Keenly Felt Grief in a State Entwined With the Space Program (By DANA CANEDY, Feb. 2, 2003)
2nd Shuttle Disaster Creates Uncertain Future for Program (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 2, 2003)
Budget Specialist Heading NASA Now Faces Test of Leadership (By WARREN E. LEARY, Feb. 2, 2003)
Delays Expected in Expanding Orbiting Laboratory (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
* TV REVIEW: At a Loss for Words, but Trying (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
* FORUM SNAPSHOT: Readers React to the Loss of Columbia (By NYTIMES.COM, Feb. 2, 2003)
* A Wealth of Information Online (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 2, 2003)
Space Agency and Congress Start Separate Investigations (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 2, 2003)
California Looks to Casinos for Revenue (By JOHN M. BRODER & CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 2, 2003)
Bush Unveils Ambitious New Budget (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS & DAVID FIRESTONE, Feb. 2, 2003)
WORLD: Europe Loses Advocate With Powell's Iraq Shift (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
War Plan Calls for Precision Bombing Wave to Break Iraqi Army (By ERIC SCHMITT & THOM SHANKER, Feb. 2, 2003)
Iran's Revolutionary Fervor Is Now All but Spent (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 2, 2003)
Military Mentality Develops in Venezuela (By GINGER THOMPSON, Feb. 2, 2003)
Chávez Foes Scale Back Strike for Businesses (By JUAN FORERO, Feb. 2, 2003)
Split at C.I.A. and F.B.I. on Iraqi Ties to Al Qaeda (By JAMES RISEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, Feb. 2, 2003)
Iraqi Aide Threatens Suicide Attacks Across Region if U.S. Invades (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 2, 2003)
South Korean Envoy Plans to Discuss Crisis With U.S. (By DON KIRK, Feb. 2, 2003)
New Subject Open to Women at Korean School: Marriage (By DON KIRK, Feb. 2, 2003)
Foreign Subscribers Rely on a Digest of U.S. News (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 2, 2003)
NY REGION: Firecrackers Make a Subdued Return to Streets of Chinatown (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 2, 2003)
Police and Prosecutors May Never Agree on Who Began Jogger Attack (By JIM DWYER, Feb. 2, 2003)
With Hospital Bed, You Get Eggroll, and It's Kosher (By ANDY NEWMAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
GREENWICH JOURNAL: A Film Parable of Race Relations in Rich Town, U.S.A. (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
Is a Bird Hunt Pest Control or a Murder of Crows? (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
SPORTS: Rose Deserves a Shot at Hall (By IRA BERKOW, Feb. 2, 2003)
ON COLLEGE SPORTS: What Women's Sports Can Be (By JERE LONGMAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
EDITORIAL: America Mourns, Again (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
EDITORIAL: An Improvised March to War (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Double-Timing the King [Duchess of Windsor] (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
OP-ED: Who Has the Hot Rods? (BBy MAUREEN DOWDy, Feb. 2, 2003)
OP-ED: Ah, Those Principled Europeans (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
OP-ED: Keeping Saddam Hussein in a Box (By JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER & STEPHEN M. WALT, Feb. 2, 2003)
OP-ED: In the Shadow of Extinction (By TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS, Feb. 2, 2003)
LETTERS: Home Alone, in a Campus Dorm (By RACHEL MORRIS, et. al., Feb. 2, 2003)
LETTERS: European Discord on War With Iraq (By STÉPHANE SPOIDEN, et. al., Feb. 2, 2003)
LETTERS: Suing the 9/11 Fund (By TINA CHRISTMAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
BUSINESS: New 401(k) Tool, but Who Needs It? (By DONNA ROSATO, Feb. 2, 2003)
Solving the Cellphone Maze One Twist at a Time (By KAREN ALEXANDER, Feb. 2, 2003)
Cell Shock: Those Never-Ending Taxes and Surcharges (By KAREN ALEXANDER, Feb. 2, 2003)
Dream Nears Reality: Ease Up at the F.C.C. (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 2, 2003)
* AOL's Need: A New Vision (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT & DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 2, 2003)
* After a Tense Exit, Levin Tells His Side (LESLIE CAULEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
* Business Meeting Led to Love and a New Mission [Gerald M. Levin] (By LESLIE CAULEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
Sony Again Turns to Design to Lift Electronics (By KEN BELSON, Feb. 2, 2003)
* Dealing With Aging Executives Who Just Won't Quit (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
* MARKET WATCH: How Big Could the Next Wave Be? Check the Risk Level (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 2, 2003)
An Old School Brewer for Miller (By BERNARD SIMON, Feb. 2, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Democrats' Tax Stance Is Hurting Their Cause (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 2, 2003)
ON THE CONTRARY: Dreaming Out Loud: One Tiny Little Tax (By DANIEL AKST, Feb. 2, 2003)
* LOVE & MONEY: A Relationship Tested in the Name of Bliss (By ELLYN SPRAGINS, Feb. 2, 2003)
MARKET INSIGHT: Openings for Growth in European Equities (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
STRATEGIES: Value Stocks Are Cheap and Not Especially Risky (By MARK HULBERT, Feb. 2, 2003)
* 'Don't Call Us' Is Becoming the Headhunters' Mantra (By MELINDA LIGOS, Feb. 2, 2003)
* In Job Search, Warm and Fuzzy Beats Online and All-Business (By MELINDA LIGOS, Feb. 2, 2003)
Scholastic Teaches Companies a Thing or Two About Women (Compiled by MARK A. STEIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
Betting on the Gulf War? Try Securities in Israel (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Feb. 2, 2003)
INVESTING WITH THEODORE T. SOUTHWORTH: Northern Income Equity Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Feb. 2, 2003)
LIFE'S WORK: Reservists Watch News and Wait for the Call (By LISA BELKIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
THE BOSS: What Was Space Like? (By MAE C. JEMISON, Written with Patricia R. Olsen, Feb. 2, 2003)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: The Younger Face of the Boardroom (By THOM WEIDLICH, Feb. 2, 2003)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: A Guide to Navigate Managed Care Fights (Compiled by VIVIAN MAEINO, Feb. 2, 2003)
BUSINESS DIARY: Politics Is in Vogue on the Corporate Circuit (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Feb. 2, 2003)
INVESTING DIARY: Higher Costs for Funds Sold in a Schwab Network (By JEFF SOMMER, Feb. 2, 2003)
* ART: Pictures Worth 10,000 Words, at Least (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Feb. 2, 2003)
* ART: A Star Intellectual Who Theorized About the Ordinary/A> (By MICHAEL F. GIBSON<, Feb. 2, 2003)
ARTS: Starting With Fabric, Branching Into Everything (By MICHAEL RUSH, Feb. 2, 2003)
DANCE: For Four Young Dancers, the Dream Came True\ (By FLETCHER ROBERTS, Feb. 2, 2003)
DANCE: Remembering the Days of Heroes and Giants (By GIA KOURLAS, Feb. 2, 2003)
FILM: Hollywood Rallies Round the Homeland (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 2, 2003)
FILM: Is a Demon Humanized No Longer a Demon? (By JULIE SALAMON, Feb. 2, 2003)
FILM: At Sundance, Documentaries as Scrapbooks (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 2, 2003)
FILM: RUSHES: A Hero of the Indies Gets Minimal Again (By KAREN DURBIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
FILM: When Pilots Were Stars and Airlines Glamorous (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Feb. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: Paul Weller: No Longer Competing With His Younger Self (By MAC RANDALL, Feb. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: SPINS: A 'Pumpkin' Is Made Whole Again (By JON PARELES, Feb. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: Cheap Can Be Good, and a Market Force (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Feb. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: A Band Just Now Recovering From Success (By ETHAN SMITH, Feb. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: Songs Unsung, Words Unsaid (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Feb. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: Under 'Tempo,' Click on 'Presto' (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Feb. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: RECORDINGS: A Composer's Modest Champion (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
THEATER: An Outsider Plays an Outsider, Blown on the Wind (By DON SHEWEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
THEATER: A Playwright Who Casts His Muse (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
THEATER: The Mother of an Era: August Wilson's (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
TV: Aiming for Shakespeare (if Not 'The Sopranos') (By HAL HINSON, Feb. 2, 2003)
TV: The Name Is Friday, the Stories Are New (By CRAIG TOMASHOFF, Feb. 2, 2003)
* FASHION: The Man Who Makes the Pictures Perfect (By KATE BETTS, Feb. 2, 2003)
A Sexy Gift, Dear Valentine, to Remember Me (By JOYCE CHANG, Feb. 2, 2003)
How a D (for Dyslexia) Pupil Rose to Realty's A-List (By ALEX WITCHEL, Feb. 2, 2003)
* 'Ann Landers' May Write Again (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 2, 2003)
POSSESSED: Saints Be Praised (or Not), a Medal Works its Magic (By DAVID COLMAN, Feb. 2, 2003)
AT LUNCH WITH Cindy Adams (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Feb. 2, 2003)
SHAKEN AND STIRRED: A Smoky Room, a Kiss (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Feb. 2, 2003)
VOWS: Madeline Schwartzman and Jeffrey Miles (By ERIC V. COPAGE, Feb. 2, 2003)
TRAVEL: 'Soft' Adventure in Alaska (By DAVID LASKIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
TRAVEL: Repositioning a Ship and a Psyche (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 2, 2003)
From City Center to Pastoral Vistas [Hong Kong] (By DYAN ZASLOWSKY, Feb. 2, 2003)
WHAT'S DOING: In Rio (By LARRY ROHTER, Feb. 2, 2003)
TRAVEL ESSAY: Where Surf and Turf Collide (By LISA BELKIN, Feb. 2, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
Where AIDS Stalks, Everyone Lives in Fear (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 2, 2003)
The White House Gets Religion on AIDS in Africa (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 2, 2003)
To China, North Korea Looks Radioactive (By JOSEPH KAHN, Feb. 2, 2003)
Meet the New Davos Man (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 2, 2003)
ALL ABOARD: America's War Train Is Leaving the Station (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Feb. 2, 2003)
THE PASHTUNISTAN FRONT: In Wild Mountains, the Threat to G.I.'s Rises (By DAVID ROHDE, Feb. 2, 2003)
* The New Calculus of Diversity on Campus (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Feb. 2, 2003)
* Asian Students: Not All of Them Are Pre-Med Violinists (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Feb. 2, 2003)
HEEEERE'S GEORGE!: The Speech That Turns Mere Presidents Into Talk Show Hosts (By GEOFFREY NUNBERG, Feb. 2, 2003)
Putin, Dobby and the Axis of Weirdness (By MICHAEL WINES, Feb. 2, 2003)
THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY: A Green Car That the Energy Industry Loves (By RYAN LIZZA, Feb. 2, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
* ON LANGUAGE: Dear Leader (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 2, 2003)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Forget Diversity (By JAMES TRAUB, Feb. 2, 2003)
* QUESTIONS FOR ORIANA FALLACI: Unquiet on the Western Front (Interview by ASLA AYDINTASBAS, Feb. 2, 2003)
TESTIMONY: Surgical Strike (By LOCH ADAMSON, Feb. 2, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: Dodge the Bullet (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 2, 2003)
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING: Georgia Mitilineos and Abdelhak Hamdaoui, St. Regis Hotel, NY, Jan. 14, 2003
(Interview by LIZ WELCH, Feb. 2, 2003)
* The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Deer (By CHIP BROWN, Feb. 2, 2003)
The Other Face of Fanaticism (By PANKAJ MISHRA, Feb. 2, 2003)
The Outsider [Gary Hart] (By MATT BAI, Feb. 2, 2003)
When Al Qaeda Calls (By PETER MAASS, Feb. 2, 2003)
STYLE: The Great Indoors (By PILAR VILADAS, Feb. 2, 2003)
FOOD: Pump It Up (By JULIA REED, Feb. 2, 2003)
LIVES: The Guardian (By REGGIE JONES as told to LIZ WELCH, Feb. 2, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 2, 2003)
'A Box of Matches': A Miniaturist's Novel of Details (By WALTER KIRN, Feb. 2, 2003)
'Great Neck': To Know Which Way the Wind Blows (By ADAM BEGLEY, Feb. 2, 2003)
'On a Grander Scale': The Polymath Architect (By WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI, Feb. 2, 2003)
'Making Things Better': Lonelyhearts' Club (By BRIAN MORTON, Feb. 2, 2003)
* '20:21 Vision': 2 1/2 Cheers for Capitalism (By MICHAEL LIND, Feb. 2, 2003)
* 'The Child That Books Built': Confessions of a Literary Mind (By JAMES SHAPIRO, Feb. 2, 2003)
* '1421': Pacific Overtures (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Feb. 2, 2003)
'On Top of the World': The Morning After [9/11 Cantor Fitzgerald] (By ROB WALKER, Feb. 2, 2003)
'The Monsters of St. Helena': Voted Onto the Island (By MICHAEL PYE, Feb. 2, 2003)
'The Commissariat of Enlightenment': The Power to Reconstitute History (By BARRY UNSWORTH, Feb. 2, 2003)
* 'Love at Goon Park': The Science of Love (By BARBARA SMUTS, Feb. 2, 2003)
'Scanty Particulars': Dr. Barry's Secret (By BROOKE ALLEN, Feb. 2, 2003)
'In the Land of Pain': Another Country [Alphonse Daudet] (By RICHARD EDER, Feb. 2, 2003)
SALVADOR DALÍ'S DREAM OF VENUS [By Irene Schaffner] (By CHRISTINA CHO, Feb. 2, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Speed Makes Space Flight Very Risky, Experts Say (By JAMES GLANZ, Feb. 2, 2003)

Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003:
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)

Mary Ellis, London Star of Stage and Screen, Dies at 105 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 1, 2003)
Natalya Dudinskaya, 90, a Leading Kirov Ballerina, Is Dead (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 1, 2003)
Joy Hodges, Who Helped Reagan Start Acting, 88, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2003)
Cliff Norton, Television Actor, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2003)
Ned Stiles, 70, Leader of Wall St. Law Firm, Dies (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2003)
Ruth Swanson Venn, Entrepreneur, Dies at 93 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2003)
NATIONAL: Citizen Soldiers Leave Big Gaps on Home Front (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 1, 2003)
* A Wanderer for Peace Has Run Out of Road (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 1, 2003)
Grower of Medical Marijuana Is Convicted on Federal Charges (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 1, 2003)
Bush to Seek $16 Billion for Epidemic of AIDS in U.S. (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 1, 2003)
Qaeda Member Pleads Guilty to 1990's Conspiracy Charge (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Feb. 1, 2003)
Black Guide to Harvard Covers History and Tips (By SARA RIMER, Feb. 1, 2003)
In Census Data, a Room-by-Room Picture of the American Home (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2003)
BELIEFS: 'Pacem in Terris,' and the Debate Over It, Resonate Again. (By PETER STEINFELS, Feb. 1, 2003)
Antiwar Sentiment in County Seats and City Halls (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Feb. 1, 2003)
JONESVILLE JOURNAL: Pitching in as Town Hits Hard Times (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 1, 2003)
WORLD: Admiral Seeks Deterrent Force in Korea Crisis (By ERIC SCHMITT & DAVID E. SANGER, Feb. 1, 2003)
WASHINGTON: Bush Meets Blair Amid Signs of Split on U.N. War Role
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON with JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 1, 2003)
Freed Ayatollah Again Makes Voice Heard (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 1, 2003)
CIVILIAN CASUALTIES: Afghan Women and Children Among 16 Dead in Bus Blast (By CARLOTTA GALL, Feb. 1, 2003)
In China, Quick Rise and Death of a Tycoon (By JOSEPH KAHN, Feb. 1, 2003)
SOUTH AFRICA: Mandela Rebukes Bush Over Crisis With Iraq (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Feb. 1, 2003)
ALLIES: A Sign That U.S. Military May Use Turkey as a Base (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 1, 2003)
Iraqi Slum Vows to Fight U.S. but It Couldn't Be Friendlier (By IAN FISHER, Feb. 1, 2003)
A Friendship Sundered by Muslim Code of Honor (By SETH MYDANS, Feb. 1, 2003)
AT THE U.N.: Inspectors Set Terms for Talks With Baghdad (By JULIA PRESTON, Feb. 1, 2003)
Facing 'Common Enemy,' Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2003)
Face That Stirred Cambodian Chaos (By SETH MYDANS, Feb. 1, 2003)
NY REGION: Trade Center Leaseholder Says He Has Right to Rebuild as He Wants (By EDWARD WYATT, Feb. 1, 2003)
Sotheby's Sues Michael Jackson Over a Bill (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2003)
SPORTS: Duke Crazies Ready for Women's No. 1 vs. 2 (By VIV BERNSTEIN, Feb. 1, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Meat Safety at Risk (NY TIMES, Feb. 1, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Pondering Condoleezza Rice's Affirmative Action Problem ‹ and Mine
(By BRENT STAPLES, Feb. 1, 2003)
OP-ED: An International School Lunch Tour (By ELLEN RUPPEL SHELL, Feb. 1, 2003)
OP-ED: The Qaeda Vipers in Europe's Bosom (By JONATHAN STEVENSON, Feb. 1, 2003)
OP-ED: Ending the 212 Clique (By ROSS B. INTELISANO, Feb. 1, 2003)
LETTERS: AIDS, Africa and Our Security (By MICHAEL SMALLEY, et. al., Feb. 1, 2003)
LETTERS: Poison Gas in Iraq (By DEREK W. SPENCER, Feb. 1, 2003)
BUSINESS: Dow Is Up for Day but Is Down for 3rd Consecutive Week
[Dow +109, Nasdaq -1.44] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 1, 2003)
Details Given on New Plans to Aid Saving (By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Feb. 1, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Accounts Chock-Full, or a Plan Half Empty? (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Feb. 1, 2003)
Charles Schwab to Give Up Title at Brokerage (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Feb. 1, 2003)
Japan Posts Gloomy Numbers, and Fears of Recession Return (By KEN BELSON, Feb. 1, 2003)
If June Cleaver Joined 'Sex and the City' (By LISA W. FODERARO, Feb. 1, 2003)
F.D.A. Approves Biotechnology Drug for Psoriasis (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 1, 2003)
ARTS: New Topic in Black Studies Debate: Latinos (By FELICIA R. LEE, Feb. 1, 2003)
ARTS: The Brains Behind Bush's War (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 1, 2003)
* CONNECTIONS: The Granddaddy of Blabbermouths [Samuel Pepys] (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 1, 2003)
* DANCE: FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK: The Evolution of Flamenco and a 20-Year-Old Star
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 1, 2003)
* DANCE: MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: Martha Graham's Eerie Visions of War (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 1, 2003)
MUSIC: NY PHILHARMONIC: In Maazel's Philharmonic, a Study in Hard and Soft (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 1, 2003)
MUSIC: VLADIMIR FELTSMAN: Celebrating Composers From Soviet Underground (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 1, 2003)
MUSIC CRITIC: Bravos at Opera Are Expected, but Booing? (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 1, 2003)
THEATER: 'THINGS THAT LOVERS DO': A Musical Love Fest for Two (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 1, 2003)
WRITING: From a Women's Jail, Anthology of Lives (By CAROLYN BATTISTA, Feb. 1, 2003)

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