Selected Articles from The New York Times
January 2005 (* denotes news of special interest)

Monday, January 31, 2005:
On This Day: January 31 (Robert Morris 1/31/1734-5/8/1806, Sam Loyd 1/31/1841-4/10/1911, Zane Grey 1/31/1872-10/23/1939, Anna Pavlova 1/31/1881-1/23/1931, Eddie Cantor 1/31/1892-10/10/1964, John O'Hara 1/31/1905-4/11/1970, Thomas Merton 1/31/1915-12/10/1968, Norman Mailer 1923, Jean Simmons 1929, Ernie Banks 1931, Philip Glass 1937, Suzanne Pleshette 1937, Jessica Walter 1944, Nolan Ryan 1947, Phil Collins 1951, Minnie Driver 1971)
From Washington Abolition Of Slavery (NY TIMES, February 1, 1865)
* Jackie Robinson, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies at 53 [1/31/1919-10/24/1972] (By DAVE ANDERSON, October 25, 1972)

Sunday, January 30, 2005:
On This Day: January 30 (George Villiers Buckingham 1/30/1628-4/16/1687, Bernardo Bellotto 1/30/1720-10/17/1780, Philip Henry Stanhope 1/30/1805-12/24/1875, Samuel Armstrong 1/30/1839-5/11/1893, Roy Eldridge 1/30/1911-2/26/1989, Barbara Tuchman 1/30/1912-2/6/1989, Dorothy Malone 1925, Harold Prince 1928, Gene Hackman 1930, Tammy Grimes 1934, Jeanne Pruett 1937, Vanessa Redgrave 1937, Dick Cheney 1941)
* Gandhi Is Killed By A Hindu; India Shaken, World Mourns (By Robert Trumbull, January 30, 1948)
Obituary: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Part I of VIII [1/30/1882-4/12/1945] (NY TIMES, April 13, 1945)

WORLD: C.I.A. Said to Rebuff Congress on Nazi Files (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Jan. 30, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The New Social Etiquette: Friends Don't Let Friends Dial Drunk
(By CAROL E. LEE, Jan. 30, 2005)
WEDDINGS FIELD NOTES: A New Nose, Then the 'I Do' (By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER, Jan. 30, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 30, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Vegan (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 30, 2005)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Uncommitted (By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, Jan. 30, 2005)
IDEA LAB: The New Hard-Soft Power (By JAMES TRAUB, Jan. 30, 2005)
* QUESTIONS FOR LAURIE ANDERSON: Post-Lunarism (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Jan. 30, 2005)
CONSUMED: Middle Age? Bring It On (By ROB WALKER, Jan. 30, 2005)
* Dr. Ecstasy [psychopharmacological researcher] (By DRAKE BENNETT, Jan. 30, 2005)
LIVES: Travels With Omar (By JEFFREY TAYLER, Jan. 30, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 30, 2005)
* COVER BOOK REVIEW: 'Collapse': How the World Ends [Jared Diamond] (By GREGG EASTERBROOK, Jan. 30, 2005)
'State of Fear': Not So Hot [Michael Crichton] (By BRUCE BARCOTT, Jan. 30, 2005)
'Lot's Daughters': Sodom and Lewinsky (By KATHRYN HARRISON, Jan. 30, 2005)
'Wrong About Japan': The Road to Anime (By MARCEL THEROUX, Jan. 30, 2005)
CHRONICLE: First Novels: Rookie Sensations (By TAYLOR ANTRIM, Jan. 30, 2005)
ESSAY: The Observant Reader (By WENDY SHALIT, Jan. 30, 2005)
* ESSAY: Tool for Thought (By STEVEN JOHNSON, Jan. 30, 2005)
* 'Extreme Weather': You Do Need a Weatherman [Christopher C. Burt] (By TIM CAHILL, Jan. 30, 2005)

Saturday, January 29, 2005:
On This Day: January 29 (Emanuel Swedenborg 1/29/1843-9/14/1901, Thomas Paine 1/29/1737-6/8/1809, Henry Lee 1/29/1756-3/25/1818, Anton Chekhov 1/29/1860-7/15/1904, Frederick Delius 1/29/1862-6/10/1934, Romain Rolland 1/29/1866-12/30/1944, John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1/29/1874-5/11/1960, W. C. Fields 1/29/1889-12/25/1946, John Forsythe 1918, Germaine Greer 1939, Tom Selleck 1945, Ann Jillian 1951, Oprah Winfrey 1954, Greg Louganis 1960)
* Robert Frost Dies At 88; Poet Won Four Pulitzer Prizes (Associated Press, January 29, 1963)
President McKinley Dies at 58 [1/29/1843-9/14/1901] (NY TIMES, September 7, 1901)

Friday, January 28, 2005:
On This Day: January 28 (Henry VII 1/28/1457-4/21/1509, Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1/28/1841-5/10/1904, Wm. Seward Burroughs 1/28/1855-9/15/1898, Franklin Hooper 1/28/1862-8/14/1940, Colette 1/28/1873-8/3/1954, Auguste Piccard 1/28/1884-3/24/1962, Arnst Lubitsch 1/28/1892-11/30/1947, Jackson Pollack 1/28/1912-8/11/1956, Virgílio Ferreira 1/28/1916-3/1/1996, Susan Sontag 1933, Alan Alda 1936, Marthe Keller 1945, Barbi Benton 1950)
The Challenger Shuttle Explodes: 7 Killed 74 Seconds After Liftoff (By William J. Broad, January 28, 1986)
* Arthur Rubinstein Dies in Geneva at 95; Virtuoso Pianist [1/28/1887-12/20/1982] (NY TIMES, December 21, 1982)

Thursday, January 27, 2005:
On This Day: January 27 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1/27/1756-12/5/1791, Édouard Lalo 1/27/1823-4/22/1982, Lewis Carroll 1/27/1832-1/14/1898, Learned Hand 1/27/1872-8/18/1961, Ch'ing-ling Soong 1/27/1892-5/29/1981, Hyman G. Rickover 1/27/1900-7/8/1986, Troy Donahue 1936, Mikhail Baryshnikov 1948, Mimi Rogers 1956, Bridget Fonda 1964)
3 Apollo Astronauts Die in Fire; Grissom, White, Chaffee Caught in Capsule During Test (Associated Press, January 27, 1967)
* Jerome Kern Dies at 60; Composer of Music for Theatre and Screen [1/27/1885-11/11/1945] (NY TIMES, April 6, 1964)

* Philip Johnson Is Dead at 98; Architecture's Restless Intellect (By PAUL GOLDBERGER, Jan. 27, 2005)
NATIONAL: Rice Is Sworn In as Secretary After Senate Vote of 85 to 13 (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Jan. 27, 2005)
WASHINGTON MEMO: Communicator in Chief Keeps the Focus on Iraq Positive (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Jan. 27, 2005)
WORLD: VIOLENCE: Across Baghdad, Security Is Only an Ideal (By JOHN F. BURNS, Jan. 27, 2005)
CASUALTIES: 31 Americans Die as Marine Copter Goes Down in Iraq (By DEXTER FILKINS, Jan. 27, 2005)
SPORTS: Spurned, Mets Rebound by Getting Mientkiewicz (By TYLER KEPNER, Jan. 27, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Read My Ears (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Jan. 27, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Love for Sale (By MAUREEN DOWD, Jan. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: Always, Darkness Visible [Auschwitz] (By AHARON APPELFELD, Jan. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: Bound by Class, or Moving Up? (7 Letters) (By Thurston Domina, et. al. Jan. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: Harvard Leader's Style (By Steven Shavell, Jan. 27, 2005)
BUSINESS: SBC Said to Be in Talks to Buy AT&T (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & KEN BELSON, Jan. 27, 2005)
* GARDEN: Hot Off the Web: Gossip and Design Guidance (By LOCKHART STEELE, Jan. 27, 2005)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 27, 2005)
* They're Off to See the Wizards [Apple Stores] (By KATIE HAFNER, Jan. 27, 2005)
STATE OF THE ART: Videotape to DVD, Made Easy (By DAVID POGUE, Jan. 27, 2005)
COMING SOON: A Mighty Pen Has a Lot to Say to Young Readers
[LeapPad inside a pen] (By Warren Buckleitner, Jan. 27, 2005)

Wednesday, January 26, 2005:
On This Day: January 26 (Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 1/26/1714-8/21/1785, Claude-Adrien Helvétius 1/26/1715-12/26/1771, Samuel Hopkins Adams 1/26/1871-11/15/1958, Julia Morgan 1/26/1872-2/2/1957, Seán MacBride 1/26/1904-1/15/1988, Paul Newman 1925, Jules Feiffer 1929, Bob Uecker 1935, Angela Davis 1944, Eddie Van Halen 1957, Ellen DeGeneres 1958)
India a Republic, Rajendra Prasad President (By Robert Trumbull, January 26, 1950)
* MacArthur Dies at 84; Commander of Armies That Turned Back Japan [1/26/1880-4/5/1964] (NY TIMES, April 6, 1964)

NATIONAL: Bush Aides Say Budget Deficit Will Rise Again (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Jan. 26, 2005)
In Senate, Democrats Assail Rice and U.S. Policy in Iraq (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG & JOEL BRINKLEY, Jan. 26, 2005)
WORLD: POTHOLE POLITICS: New Election Issues: Electricity and Water (By JAMES GLANZ, Jan. 26, 2005)
CAMPAIGN: Insurgents Vowing to Kill Iraqis Who Brave the Polls on Sunday (By DEXTER FILKINS, Jan. 26, 2005)
NY REGION: Subway Disruptions Expected to Last Months, Not Years (By SEWELL CHAN & ANDY NEWMAN, Jan. 26, 2005)
So What's in Name Soaring on Skyline? For City, $10 Million (By SAM ROBERTS, Jan. 26, 2005)
For Families of Fallen Soldiers, the 2nd Knock Brings $12,000 (By JAMES BARRON, Jan. 26, 2005)
SPORTS: Mets' Caravan Decamps Without Delgado (By TYLER KEPNER, Jan. 26, 2005)
TENNIS: Federer Makes Agassi Look Almost Ordinary (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Jan. 26, 2005)
BUSINESS: Kodak Bets Old Strategy Can Go Digital (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Jan. 26, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: High-Tech Alliance on Base for a Digital Health Network (By STEVE LOHR, Jan. 26, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Sun to Open Up Basic Software (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Jan. 26, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Founders of Web Site Accuse Backers of Cheating Them (By GARY RIVLIN, Jan. 26, 2005)
ARTS: Making Art From Bits and Pieces (By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH, Jan. 26, 2005)
ARTS: Queens Museum Is to Redesign a Redesign (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Jan. 26, 2005)
BOOKS: Although She Wrote What She Knew, She Says She Isn't What She Wrote
[Curtis Sittenfeld's novel "Prep"] (By FELICIA R. LEE, Jan. 26, 2005)
FILM CRITIC: Oscar Ennui: A Seasonal Malady (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Jan. 26, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 26, 2005)
THE MINIMALIST: Fresh Pasta at Ferrari Speed (By MARK BITTMAN, Jan. 26, 2005)
FOOD CRITIC: Married to the Mall (By FRANK BRUNI, Jan. 26, 2005)
Documentary Seeks to Burnish the Hamburger's Crown (By MELENA RYZIK, Jan. 26, 2005)
SPIRITS OF THE TIMES: A Humble Old Label Ices Its Rivals [Smirnoff] (By ERIC ASIMOV, Jan. 26, 2005)
RESTAURANTS: So Many Dishes! A Little Help, Please (By FRANK BRUNI, Jan. 26, 2005)

Tuesday, January 25, 2005:
On This Day: January 25 (Robert Boyle 1/25/1627-12/30/1691, Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1/25/1736-4/10/1813, Robert Burns 1/25/1759-7/21/1796, Benjamin Haydon 1/25/1786-6/22/1846, Kokichi Mikimoto 1/25/1858-9/21/1954, Rufus Matthew Jones 1/25/1863-6/16/1948, W. Somerset Maugham 1/25/1874-12/16/1965, Edwin Newman 1919, Corazon Aquino 1933)
* Phone to Pacific From the Atlantic [Bell talks to Watson over a 3,400-mile wire] (NY TIMES, January 25, 1915)
* Virginia Woolf Believed Dead at 59 [1/25/1882-3/28/1941] (NY TIMES, April 3, 1941)

POST-ELECTION: Balking at Vote, Sunnis Seek Role on Constitution (By EDWARD WONG, Jan. 25, 2005)
NY REGION: Robert Kennedy Won't Run for State Attorney General (By JONATHAN P. HICKS, Jan. 25, 2005)
CITYWIDE: Paying a Price for Doughnuts, Burgers and Pizza (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Jan. 25, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: APPRECIATIONS: Carson, Night by Night (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Jan. 25, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Greenspan Succession (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Jan. 25, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Sticky Ladder (By DAVID BROOKS, Jan. 25, 2005)
* OP-ED: The Man in Front of the Curtain [Johnny Carson] (By STEVE MARTIN, Jan. 25, 2005)
* OP-ED: Kindness of a Stranger [Johnny Carson] (By DAVID THOMSON, Jan. 25, 2005)
LETTERS: Iraqis' Chance to Rule Themselves (5 Letters) (By MaryJane Shimsky, et. al., Jan. 25, 2005)
LETTERS: Making Speeches, Making a Difference (5 Letters) (By Ann F. Miller, et. al., Jan. 25, 2005)
* LETTERS: Johnny, Part of Our Lives (2 Letters) (By Joan M. Maiman, et. al., Jan. 25, 2005)
LETTERS: The Retiring Mr. Safire (2 Letters) (By William Graves, et. al., Jan. 25, 2005)
BUSINESS: Dollar's Steep Slide Adding to Tensions U.S. Faces Abroad (By DAVID E. SANGER, Jan. 25, 2005)
* ADVERTISING: Seeking the Key to the Carson Ad Mystique (By STUART ELLIOTT, Jan. 25, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Google and Yahoo Are Extending Search Ability to TV Programs (By SAUL HANSELL, Jan. 25, 2005)
* BOOKS: 'NO PLACE TO HIDE': Nonstop Scrutiny, as Orwell Foresaw (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Jan. 25, 2005)
DANCE-MUSIC: ISOLÉE; MURK: The Listeners Don't Dance. Will the Dancers Listen?
(By KELEFA SANNEH, Jan. 25, 2005)
FILM: 'The Aviator' Receives 11 Oscar Nominations (By SHARON WAXMAN, Jan. 25, 2005)
FILM: At the Sundance Film Festival, a New Power Broker Is Born (By RANDY KENNEDY, Jan. 25, 2005)
FILM: For the Wrongly Convicted, New Trials Once the Cell Opens (By SHARON WAXMAN, Jan. 25, 2005)
FILM CRITIC: No Pretenses From a Provocative Band of Circus Performers (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Jan. 25, 2005)
MUSIC: Paying His Dues, Thinking Big (By ANDREW JACOBS, Jan. 25, 2005)
MUSIC: MET ORCHESTRA: Finding the Romanticism Under a Steely Modernism (By ALLAN KOZINN, Jan. 25, 2005)
* TV: The Magic of Science Elicits His 'Hmmm!' (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Jan. 25, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 25, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Antarctica, Warming, Looks Ever More Vulnerable (By LARRY ROHTER, Jan. 25, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Brace Yourself! Here Comes Einstein's Year (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Jan. 25, 2005)
* COMMENTARY: Space Probe Makes Science Fiction Wonders of Childhood Real (By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS, Jan. 25, 2005)
* It Can Be Done: Scientists Teach Old Dogs New Tricks (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Jan. 25, 2005)
SIDE EFFECTS: A Frog Brings Cacophony to Hawaii's Soundscape (By JAMES GORMAN, Jan. 25, 2005)
Earth's Thermostat Went Awry, and the Air Grew Thin (By KENNETH CHANG, Jan. 25, 2005)
* ESSAY: In Unforgettable Final Act, a King Got Revenge on His Killers
[Yul Brynner's anti-smoking ad] (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Jan. 25, 2005)
Tiny Star's Unexpected Weight Raises Big Astronomical Questions (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Jan. 25, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Argentine Ants at the Global Picnic (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Jan. 25, 2005)
* Human Brain Design Gets a New Timetable (By NICHOLAS WADE, Jan. 25, 2005)
Q & A: Really Hard Floors (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Jan. 25, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Aging and Infirmity Are Twinned No Longer (By JANE E. BRODY, Jan. 25, 2005)
* HEALTH: CASES: A Pill's Surprises, for Patient and Doctor Alike (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Jan. 25, 2005)
A CONVERSATION WITH JANET GOLDEN: Sorting Out Ambivalence Over Alcohol and Pregnancy
(By JAN HOFFMAN, Jan. 25, 2005)
Millions of Lives on the Line in Malaria Battle (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Jan. 25, 2005)
REALLY?: The Claim: Wearing Glasses Can Weaken Your Eyes (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Jan. 25, 2005)
* When Shadows Float Before Your Eyes (By JONATHAN KOLATCH, Jan. 25, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Testing: Obesity May Skew Prostate Test (By JOHN O'NEIL, Jan. 25, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Mortality From the Pharmacy (By JOHN O'NEIL, Jan. 25, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: Relax, Type A's. If You Can. (By JOHN O'NEIL, Jan. 25, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: The Exit Polls for Lyme Disease (By JOHN O'NEIL, Jan. 25, 2005)

Monday, January 24, 2005:
On This Day: January 24 (William Congreve 1/24/1670-1/19/1729, Christian Wolff 1/24/1679-4/9/1754, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais 1/24/1732-5/18/1799, Henry Barnard 1/24/1811-7/5/1900, Cassandre 1/24/1901-6/19/1968, Mark Goodson 1/24/1915-12/18/1992, Robert Motherwell 1/24/1915-7/16/1991, Ernest Borgnine 1917, Oral Roberts 1918, Neil Diamond 1941, Yakov Smirnoff 1951, Nastassja Kinski 1961, Mary Lou Retton 1968)
* Churchill is Dead at 90; The World Mourns Him; State Funeral Saturday (By Anthony Lewis, January 24, 1965)
* Edith Wharton, 75, Is Dead in France [1/24/1862-8/11/1937] (NY TIMES, August 13, 1937)

* Johnny Carson, Low-Key King of Late-Night TV, Dies at 79 (By RICHARD SEVERO and BILL CARTER, Jan. 24, 2005)
* NATIONAL: Fierce Storm Shuts Down New England (By PAM BELLUCK, Jan. 24, 2005)
Gov. Bush's Role Is Ended in Feeding Tube Dispute (By MARIA NEWMAN, Jan. 24, 2005)
NY REGION: Across Northeast, Out Come Shovels and Sleds (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Jan. 24, 2005)
A Death at Cornell: Parents Belatedly Learn a Serial Killer's Name (By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Jan. 24, 2005)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Jan. 24, 2005)
* OP-ED QUARTET: A COLUMNIST'S FAREWELL: How to Read a Column (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 24, 2005)
* OP-ED QUARTET: A COLUMNIST'S FAREWELL: 'Never Retire' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 24, 2005)
* OP-ED QUARTET: A COLUMNIST'S FAREWELL: Win Some, Lose Some (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 24, 2005)
* OP-ED QUARTET: A COLUMNIST'S FAREWELL: First Lady Follies (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 24, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Bunch of Krabby Patties (By MAUREEN DOWD, Jan. 24, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Internet News Sites Are Back in Vogue (By ERIC DASH, Jan. 24, 2005)
New Group Will Promote Grid Computing for Business (By STEVE LOHR, Jan. 24, 2005)
* Wireless Deal for California Parks (By MATT RICHTEL, Jan. 24, 2005)
* Friendster, Love and Money (By GARY RIVLIN, Jan. 24, 2005)
A Virus Writer Tests the Limits in Cellphones (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Jan. 24, 2005)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Help for Digital Pack Rats (By BOB TEDESCHI, Jan. 24, 2005)
* ARTS: AN APPRECIATION | JOHNNY CARSON: Self-Mocking Nebraskan Who Charmed the Crowd
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Jan. 24, 2005)
DANCE: 'AFTER THE RAIN': Air and Earth Meet and Fall in Love (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Jan. 24, 2005)
DANCE: From a Familiar Name, That Comfortable Feeling (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Jan. 24, 2005)
* TV: The Joke-Writing Continued After the Curtain Went Down (By BILL CARTER, Jan. 24, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Gray Matter and Sexes: A Gray Area Scientifically
(By NATALIE ANGIER & KENNETH CHANG, Jan. 24, 2005)
SCIENCE: Nations Ranked as Protectors of the Environment (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Jan. 24, 2005)

Sunday, January 23, 2005:
On This Day: January 23 (John Hancock 1/23/1737-10/8/1793, Stendhal 1/23/1783-3/23/1842, Edouard Manet 1/23/1832-4/30/1883, David Hilbert 1/23/1862-2/14/1943, Herbert D. Croly 1/23/1869-5/17/1930, Potter Stewart 1/23/1915-12/7/1985, Joseph Nathan Kane 1899, Jeanne Moreau 1928, Princess Caroline 1957, Anita Pointer 1948)
Vietnam Accord is Reached; Cease-Fire Begins Saturday (By Bernard Gwertzman, January 23, 1973)
* Sergei Eisenstein Is Dead In Moscow at 50 [1/23/1898-2/11/1948] (By REUTERS, February 12, 1948)

ARTS: 60 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman (By EDWARD LEWINE, Jan. 23, 2005)
* DANCE: THE MOVES: An Indonesian Conversation, Before the Tsunami (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Jan. 23, 2005)
* DANCE: Crossover Dance? It's Not a Big Deal (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Jan. 23, 2005)
* TV: The Last Monologue: Nostalgia and a Few Political Digs (By Johnny Carson, Jan. 23, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 23, 2005)
Can Anyone Unseat F.D.R.? (By JOHN TIERNEY, Jan. 23, 2005)
* EATING MY SPINACH: Four Days on the Uncle Sam Diet... (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Jan. 23, 2005)
* Lawrence Summers, Provocateur (By JAMES TRAUB, Jan. 23, 2005)
* A Speech About Nothing, Something, Everything [Inaugural Address] (By DAVID E. SANGER, Jan. 23, 2005)
* The Ghost of Tiananmen Continues to Haunt China's Rulers (By JOSEPH KAHN, Jan. 23, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 23, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Horribilis (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 23, 2005)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Triumph of Gesture Politics (By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Jan. 23, 2005)
* QUESTIONS FOR SIMON WINCHESTER: Dean of Disaster (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Jan. 23, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 23, 2005)
SCIENCE: Money to Fix Space Telescope May Be Cut by White House (By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 23, 2005)

Saturday, January 22, 2005:
On This Day: January 22 (Lord Byron 1/22/1788-4/19/1824, August Strindberg 1/22/1849-5/14/1912, David Griffith 1/22/1875-7/23/1948, Rosa Ponselle 1/22/1897-5/25/1981, George Balanchine 1/22/1904-4/20/1983, U Thant 1/22/1909-11/25/1974, Howard Moss 1/22/1922-9/16/1987, Ann Sothern 1909, Piper Laurie 1932, Joseph Wambaugh 1937, John Hurt 1940, Mike Bossy 1957, Linda Blair 1959, Diane Lane 1965)
Roe vs. Wade: High Court Rules Abortions Legal the First 3 Months [also LBJ Dead at 64]
(By Warren Weaver, Jr., January 22, 1973)
Vinson Excelled In Federal Posts, Dies at 63 [1/22/1890-9/8/1953] (NY TIMES, September 9, 1953)

* ART: Picasso and Warhol... Neck and Neck (By SARAH BOXER, Jan. 22, 2005)

Friday, January 21, 2005:
On This Day: January 21 (Ethan Allen 1/21/1738-2/12/1789, John Fremont 1/21/1813-7/13/1890, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson 1/21/1824-5/10/1863, Paul Scofield 1922, Jack Nicklaus 1940, Placido Domingo 1941, Mac Davis 1942, Jill Eikenberry 1947, Geena Davis 1957)
* Lenin Dies Of Cerebral Hemorrhage at 54; Moscow Throngs Overcome With Grief (By Walter Duranty, January 21, 1924)
* Christian Dior, 52, Creator Of 'New Look,' Dies [1/21/1905-10/24/1957] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, October 24, 1957)

Thursday, January 20, 2005:
On This Day: January 20 (Henry Cromwell 1/20/1628-3/23/1674, Richard Henry Lee 1/20/1732-6/19/1794, Ruth St. Denis 1/20/1877-7/21/1968, Walter Piston 1/20/1894-11/12/1976, Harold Gray 1/20/1894-5/9/1968, Joy Adamson 1/20/1910-1/3/1980, Slim Whitman 1925, Edwin Buzz Aldrin 1931, David Lynch 1947, Bill Maher 1957, Melissa Rivers 1969)
Reagan Takes Oath as 40th President; Promises an 'Era of National Renewal' (By Steven R. Weisman, January 20, 1981)
* Federico Fellini, Film Visionary, Is Dead at 73 [1/20/1920-10/31/1993] (By PETER B. FLINT, November 1, 1993)

Wednesday, January 19, 2005:
On This Day: January 19 (Tai Chen 1/19/1724-7/1/1777, James Watt 1/19/1736-8/25/1819, Auguste Comte 1/19/1790-9/5/1857, Edgar Allen Poe 1/19/1809-10/7/1849, Paul Cezanne 1/19/1839-10/22/1906, Alexander Woollcott 1/19/1887-1/23/1943, John Raitt 1917, Jean Stapleton 1923, Fritz Weaver 1925, Robert MacNeil 1931, Richard Lester 1932, Phil Everly 1939, Dolly Parton 1946, Ann Compton 1947, Desi Arnaz Jr. 1953)
Hughes, Riding Gale, Sets Record Of 7 1/2 Hours in Flight From Coast (NY TIMES, January 19, 1937)
* General Robert E. Lee Dead at 63 [1/19/1807-10/12/1870] (NY TIMES, October 13, 1870)

Tuesday, January 18, 2005:
On This Day: January 18 (Daniel Webster 1/18/1782-10/24/1852, Seth Low 1/18/1850-9/17/1916, Hans Goldschmidt 1/18/1861-5/25/1923, A.A. Milne 1/18/1882-1/31/1956, Sir Thomas Sopwith 1/18/1888-1/27/1989, Cary Grant 1/18/1904-11/29/1986, Danny Kaye 1/18/1913-3/3/1987, John Boorman 1933, Kevin Costner 1955)
Scott 150 Miles From South Pole Jan. 3; Will Stay In Antarctic Another Year (NY TIMES, January 18, 1912)
* T. A. Watson Dead at 80; Made First Phone [1/18/1854-12/13/1934] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 15, 1934)

NATIONAL: Bush Cites Religion as a Pillar for Dr. King (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Jan. 18, 2005)
THE PARTY IN POWER: Cheney Exercising Muscle on Domestic Policies (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ELISABETH BUMILLER, Jan. 18, 2005)
THE ABSENTEE VOTERS: Iraq Expatriates Sign Up to Vote in 5 Cities in U.S. (By MONICA DAVEY, Jan. 18, 2005)
* Harvard Chief Defends His Talk on Women (By SAM DILLON, Jan. 18, 2005)
EDUCATION: Mideast Tensions Are Getting Personal on Campus at Columbia (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Jan. 18, 2005)
WORLD: China Gives Zhao's Death Scant Notice (By JOSEPH KAHN, Jan. 18, 2005)
U.S. Is Punishing 8 Chinese Firms for Aiding Iran (By DAVID E. SANGER, Jan. 18, 2005)
THE DISPLACED: Homeless of Aceh Wary of Program to Resettle (By JANE PERLEZ & EVELYN RUSLI, Jan. 18, 2005)
INSURGENTS: Gunmen Kidnap Catholic Archbishop of Mosul as Pre-Election Violence Flares in Iraq
(By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Jan. 18, 2005)
NY REGION: In Crowded New York Race, Chance of Kennedy vs. Cuomo (By JONATHAN P. HICKS, Jan. 18, 2005)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: Seeking Forgiveness for 'Unforgivable Blackness'
[Jack Johnson] (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Jan. 18, 2005)
BASEBALL: Delgado Has Depth and Skill, and Wants to Join a Winner (By TYLER KEPNER, Jan. 18, 2005)
FOOTBALL: Eagles Have Been There, but Haven't Done It (By JERE LONGMAN, Jan. 18, 2005)
FOOTBALL: The Patriots Come to Praise, Then Beat the Steelers (By DAMON HACK, Jan. 18, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The President's Shoelaces (NY TIMES, Jan. 18, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: That Magic Moment (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Jan. 18, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Gingrich Democrats (By DAVID BROOKS, Jan. 18, 2005)
* OP-ED: This Is Your Brain on Politics (By JOSHUA FREEDMAN, Jan. 18, 2005)
* OP-ED: Where's the Rest of Him? [John Kerry] (By ERROL MORRIS, Jan. 18, 2005)
LETTERS: Diet Guidelines Aren't Enough (5 Letters) (By Amnon Schlegel, M.D., et. al., Jan. 18, 2005)
LETTERS: Celebrity Weddings: Donations Welcome (2 Letters) (By Jeff Strayer, et. al., Jan. 18, 2005)
LETTERS: Privatizing Social Security (By Mark Srednicki, Jan. 18, 2005)
LETTERS: The Morality of Weather (By Margaret F. Boorstein, Jan. 18, 2005)
BUSINESS: WorldCom's Audacious Failure and Its Toll on an Industry (By KEN BELSON, Jan. 18, 2005)
China's Latest Capitalist Beachhead (By DAVID BARBOZA, Jan. 18, 2005)
MARKET PLACE: Is the Steel Industry in a Boom or on a Bubble? (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Jan. 18, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Purloined Domain Name Is an Unsolved Mystery (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Jan. 18, 2005)
Electronic Arts and ESPN Sign 15-Year Deal to Sell Games (By MATT RICHTEL, Jan. 18, 2005)
* On the Cutting Edge [Penelope, a robotic nurse] (By MARC SANTORA, Jan. 18, 2005)
Verizon and Yahoo Team Up to Offer Broadband Service (By KEN BELSON, Jan. 18, 2005)
ARTS: Hesitantly, Holocaust Survivors Revisit Past (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Jan. 18, 2005)
ARTS: Pro-American Iraqi Blog Provokes Intrigue and Vitriol (By SARAH BOXER, Jan. 18, 2005)
FILM: On Screen, Tackling Europe's New Reality (By ALAN RIDING, Jan. 18, 2005)
MUSIC: The New Game in Town Generates West Coast Buzz (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Jan. 18, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 18, 2005)
SCIENCE: A Village Doctor Cares for Those the Sea Spared (By DENISE GRADY, Jan. 18, 2005)
Listening for Atom Blasts, but Hearing Earthquakes (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Jan. 18, 2005)
IMAGE: A 360-degree Look Around Titan [5 miles above Saturn's moon] (NASA, Jan. 18, 2005)
* Add to Your Shopping Cart: A Trip to the Edge of Space [Amazon's Jeff Bezoz]
(By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Jan. 18, 2005)
* Visions of Ancient Night Sky Were Hiding in Plain Sight for Centuries (By KENNETH CHANG, Jan. 18, 2005)
On Windy Beach, Scientists Analyze Where Whale Went Wrong (By CORNELIA DEAN, Jan. 18, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Homing Pigeons, Close to Home (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Jan. 18, 2005)
A Sharp Brain Scan, Even With a Squirming Youngster (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Jan. 18, 2005)
Fighting Epidemics With Clean Water (By DENISE GRADY, Jan. 18, 2005)
BOOKS ON SCIENCE: Life on Cannery Row, With Sardines and Metaphors (By CORNELIA DEAN, Jan. 18, 2005)
* Q & A: Rabbit's Winter Quarters (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Jan. 18, 2005)
* HEALTH: For Sale: 'Muscles' in a Bottle (By DAVID TULLER, Jan. 18, 2005)
* ESSAY: Some Gene Research Just Isn't Worth the Money (By KEITH HUMPHREYS and SALLY SATEL, Jan. 18, 2005)
* THE CONSUMER: Nine Servings of Fruit and Vegetables? (By MARY DUENWALD, Jan. 18, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: The Tics of Tourette's Often Go Undiagnosed (By JANE E. BRODY, Jan. 18, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Frequent Knuckle Cracking Can Lead to Arthritis (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Jan. 18, 2005)
Is Fiber the Answer? Researchers Doubt It (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Jan. 18, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: Sugar, but Not to the Ceiling (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 18, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Trauma: Clues in a Bent Steering Wheel (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 18, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Diagnosis: Testing for Cancer's Warnings (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 18, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Symptoms: Dropped Pounds and Dementia (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 18, 2005)

Monday, January 17, 2005:
On This Day: January 17 (Guarino Guarini 1/17/1624-3/6/1683, Jacques-Francois Blondel 1/17/1705-1/9/1774, Anne Bronte 1/17/1820-5/28/1849, David Lloyd George 1/17/1863-3/26/1945, Mack Sennett 1/17/1880-11/5/1960, Robert M. Hutchins 1/17/1899-5/17/1977, Nora Kaye 1/17/1920-2/28/1987, Thomas Dooley 1/17/1927-1/18/1961, Betty White 1922, Moira Shearer 1926, Eartha Kitt 1927, Sheree North 1933, Maury Povich 1939, Muhammad Ali 1942)
Revolution In Hawaii Overthrows Queen Liliuokalani (NY TIMES, January 17, 1893)
Capone Dead At 48; Dry Era Gang Chief [1/17/1899-1/25/1947] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, January 26, 1947)

Former Chinese Leader Dies at 85 [Zhao Ziyang] (By JIM YARDLEY, Jan. 17, 2005)
Charles Bell, 44, Former Chief Executive of McDonald's, Dies (By MELANIE WARNER, Jan. 17, 2005)
Dennis Flanagan, 85, Longtime Editor of Scientific American, Dies (By MARC SANTORA, Jan. 17, 2005)
Marjorie Williams, Journalist, Dies at 47 (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Jan. 17, 2005)
Suzie Frankfurt, 73, a Decorator and Friend to Warhol, Is Dead (By MITCHELL OWENS, Jan. 17, 2005)
NATIONAL: White House Again Backs Amendment on Marriage (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Jan. 17, 2005)
PARTIES: For Lobbyists, the Hottest Parties Fall Outside the Official Lineup
(By GLEN JUSTICE & ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Jan. 17, 2005)
WORLD: ELECTION: Voter Lists Are Prepared in Another Step Toward Polls (By JAMES GLANZ, Jan. 17, 2005)
THE PENTAGON: U.S. and Indonesia May Restore Military Link (By ERIC SCHMITT, Jan. 17, 2005)
BACK CHANNELS: A CRACKDOWN AVERTED: How Top Spies in Ukraine Changed the Nation's Path
(By C. J. CHIVERS, Jan. 17, 2005)
NY REGION: Double Duty, and Then Some [separated conjoined twins] (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Jan. 17, 2005)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Jan. 17, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The Oil-for-Food Audits (NY TIMES, Jan. 17, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Depressed Press (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 17, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Out of the Darkness (By BOB HERBERT, Jan. 17, 2005)
OP-ED: How the British Inspired Dr. King's Dream (By ADAM HOCHSCHILD, Jan. 17, 2005)
OP-ED: What's $13 Million Among Friends? (By LUCIAN BEBCHUK, Jan. 17, 2005)
LETTERS: Hello, Is Anyone There? [monitors while phone is on hold] (By Christopher S. Allen, Jan. 17, 2005)
BUSINESS MEDIA: Trying to Combine Art and Box Office in Hollywood (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Jan. 17, 2005)
A Hollywood Split Raises Questions About Custody of the Film Deals (ROSS JOHNSON, Jan. 17, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Jan. 17, 2005)
* Craigslist Circles the Globe With Online Classifieds, One City at a Time (By ERIC PFANNER, Jan. 17, 2005)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Online Travel Firms Try Real People (By BOB TEDESCHI, Jan. 17, 2005)
TiVo Struggles to Find Its Niche After Quitting a Deal with Cable (By SAUL HANSELL, Jan. 17, 2005)
* VeriSign Has Challengers to Run .Net, the Domain (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Jan. 17, 2005)
* Is Apple Thinking About Mac TV? (By JOHN MARKOFF, Jan. 17, 2005)
ARCHITECTURE: 600 Feet of Surprises, and No Stodginess in Sight (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Jan. 17, 2005)
DANCE: NYC BALLET: A Small Boy's Dream Changes People to Animals (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Jan. 17, 2005)
FILM: 'Aviator' and 'Sideways' Earn Golden Globes (By SHARON WAXMAN, Jan. 17, 2005)
FILM: From Blasé Bollywood, a Star Helps Relief Effort (By SARITHA RAI, Jan. 17, 2005)
TV: What's to Discuss if We Can't Talk About Dresses? (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Jan. 17, 2005)
* TV: 'UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS': A Champion Who Wasn't Shy About Enjoying His Title
(By NED MARTEL, Jan. 17, 2005)

Sunday, January 16, 2005:
On This Day: January 16 (Niccolo Piccinni 1/16/1728-5/7/1800, Vittorio Alfieri 1/16/1749-10/8/1803, Robert Service 1/16/1874-9/11/1958, George Kelly 1/16/1887-6/18/1974, Dizzy Dean 1/16/1911-7/17/1974, Norman Podhoretz 1930, Marilyn Horne 1934, Jim Stafford 1944, John Carpenter 1948, Debbie Allen 1950, Kate Moss 1974)
U.S. and Allies Open Air War on Iraq; Bomb Baghdad and Kuwaiti Targets (By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, January 16, 1991)
* Ethel Merman, Queen of Musicals, Dies at 76 [1/16/1908-2/15/1984] (By MURRAY SCHUMACH, February 16, 1984)

Elizabeth Janeway, 91, Critic, Novelist and an Early Feminist, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Jan. 16, 2005)
NATIONAL: Social Security Agency Is Enlisted to Push Its Own Revision (By ROBERT PEAR, Jan. 16, 2005)
* EDUCATION: How We Learn (By ALISON GOPNIK, Jan. 16, 2005)
* EDUCATION: Working With the Enemy [performance pay] (By DOUGLAS MCGRAY, Jan. 16, 2005)
WORLD: Rising Violence and Fear Drive Iraq Campaigners Underground (By DEXTER FILKINS, Jan. 16, 2005)
Putin Reforms Greeted by Street Protests (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Jan. 16, 2005)
ARCHAEOLOGY: U.S.-Led Troops Have Damaged Babylon, British Museum Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 16, 2005)
* China to Taiwan, Nonstop (By REUTERS, Jan. 16, 2005)
NY REGION: ICE TIME: A Fierce Investment, in Skates and Family Time (By BRUCE WEBER, Jan. 16, 2005)
Bond Street: Restoring Elegance Underfoot on a Street Long Past Its Prime (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Jan. 16, 2005)
SPORTS: Kwan Ties Record for National Skating Championships (By LYNN ZINSER, Jan. 16, 2005)
PATRIOTS 20, COLTS 3: Patriots Foil Colts Once Again in Foxboro (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 16, 2005)
EDITORIAL: How to Retire Rich (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Detour Here, Detour There, and Then Comes Lubbock (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Jan. 16, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Pop-Tarts or Freedom? (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Jan. 16, 2005)
* OP-ED: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (By PAUL O'NEILL, Jan. 16, 2005)
OP-CHART: 14 Days in Iraq (By ADRIANA LINS de ALBUQUERQUE and ALICIA CHENG, Jan. 16, 2005)
LETTERS: China's Exports: Don't Forget the Workers (By Charles Kernaghan, Jan. 16, 2005)
LETTERS: The Lonely Elephant (By Penelope Wells, Jan. 16, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Social Security Bashing: A Historical Perspective (By DANIEL GROSS, Jan. 16, 2005)
* Catch Him if You Can [Calvin R. Darden Jr. indicted for fraud] (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Jan. 16, 2005)
* GRETCHEN MORGENSON: Remember When Ken Lay Was a Genius? (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Jan. 16, 2005)
Superlatives (and Contradictions) in a Fraud Trial [Bernard J. Ebbers, former CEO WorldCom]
(By KEN BELSON, Jan. 16, 2005)
Tyco Ex-Chief Is Humbled, but Unbowed [L. Dennis Kozlowski] (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Jan. 16, 2005)
THE GOODS: Zapping That Icky Toothbrush (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Jan. 16, 2005)
PORTFOLIOS: This Year, Investors Are Saying 'Show Us the Money' (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Jan. 16, 2005)
* DIGITAL DOMAIN: After 20 Years, Finally Capitalizing on Cool (By RANDALL STROSS, Jan. 16, 2005)
* Dial-a-Prayer, Upgraded for the Wireless Age (By ROBYN CURNOW, Jan. 16, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
* ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: All the President's Newsmen (By FRANK RICH, Jan. 16, 2005)
ART: Petah Coyne's Waxworks: Petals on a Black Bough (By ANN WILSON LLOYD, Jan. 16, 2005)
* DANCE: Now Performing on Campus: The Dancing Professors (By VALERIE GLADSTONE, Jan. 16, 2005)
FILM: DIRECTIONS | FROM THE WEB: Finally, a Diagnosissss (By MELENA Z. RYZIK, Jan. 16, 2005)
* FILM: EXPERT OPINION: The Sundance Odds Get Even Longer (By ADAM LEIPZIG, Jan. 16, 2005)
MUSIC: Mr. Sincerity Tries a New Trick [Conor Oberst] (By KELEFA SANNEH, Jan. 16, 2005)
MUSIC: TUNING UP: A Foray Into the Unconscious, Before Freud (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Jan. 16, 2005)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: Photography Reveals Itself Between Covers (By PHILIP GEFTER, Jan. 16, 2005)
* TV: 'Friends' and Enemies (By SHARON WAXMAN, Jan. 16, 2005)
CHANNELING: Spreading the Word Via Friar-Cam (By JOSH OZERSKY, Jan. 16, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contentw (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
* Triumph of the Bad Girls [Kirstie Alley, Martha Stewart, Paris Hilton] (By DAMIEN CAVE, Jan. 16, 2005)
* The Joy Bucks Club [Toby Hecht] (By GARY RIVLIN, Jan. 16, 2005)
An In With the In Crowd, for a Fee (By FRANK OWEN, Jan. 16, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: Witness to a Wedding That Wasn't (By JENNIE YABROFF, Jan. 16, 2005)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Virginia Madsen: Days of Wine and Chocolate (By STRAWBERRY SAROYAN, Jan. 16, 2005)
* FASHION DIARY: New Gear for Modern Aristocrats (By GUY TREBAY, Jan. 16, 2005)
AGE OF DISSONANCE: Let's You and Him Date (By BOB MORRIS, Jan. 16, 2005)
VOWS: Karen Bonin and Daniel Helmer (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Jan. 16, 2005)
TRAVEL: Content (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
TRAVEL: After the Tsunami, Hoping for the Balm of Tourism (By LISA KALIS & JAMES BROOKE, Jan. 16, 2005)
Amid the Ruin and Sorrow on Sri Lanka, the Reservoir of Kindness Remains (By LAURA DUNHAM, Jan. 16, 2005)
TRAVEL: CHECK IN: The Murano in Paris (By SETH SHERWOOD, Jan. 16, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
* What the World Wants From America (By ROGER COHEN, Jan. 16, 2005)
* Thinking May Not Be All It's Thought to Be (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Jan. 16, 2005)
Brad, Jen and Hollywood's New Morality Tale (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Jan. 16, 2005)
LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC EDITOR: Other Voices: Some Words About Those Pictures
(By DANIEL OKRENT, Jan. 16, 2005)
IRAQ AT THE BRINK: Is Shiite Good Will a Good Bet? (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Jan. 16, 2005)
THE ARAB WORLD: Can't Live With; Can't Live Without (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Jan. 16, 2005)
* CHINA: It's Just Business, Nothing Geopolitical (By KEITH BRADSHER, Jan. 16, 2005)
EUROPE: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (By MARK LANDLER, Jan. 16, 2005)
* RAVE ON, AND OUT: Going High Into That Good Night (By BENEDICT CAREY, Jan. 16, 2005)
* THE BOYS OF OCTOBER: Baseball's New Performance Bonus [Beltran & Loew] (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Jan. 16, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Tsunami (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 16, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Moral Cataclysm (By SUSAN NEIMAN, Jan. 16, 2005)
QUESTIONS FOR CRAIG FERGUSON: Night Watchman (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Jan. 16, 2005)
RE-EVALUATION: The First Hijackers (By ANDREAS KILLEN, Jan. 16, 2005)
CONSUMED: A Seller's Edge (By ROB WALKER, Jan. 16, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Friendly Counsel (By RANDY COHEN, Jan. 16, 2005)
* COVER ARTCLE: A Question of Numbers [Social Security] (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Jan. 16, 2005)
Breaking the Code (By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, Jan. 16, 2005)
* How Did He Become the Government's Favorite Architect? [Thom Mayne] (By ARTHUR LUBOW, Jan. 16, 2005)
STYLE/WEDDINGS: I Dos Ð and Don'ts [Slide Show] (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
* The First, Middle and Last Dance [Best wedding dance music] (Compiled by MAURA EGAN, Jan. 16, 2005)
The Wedding Planners [Best wedding dance music] (By CHRISTINE MUHLKE, Jan. 16, 2005)
Serial Bride: Teri Hatcher Models [Slide Show] (Photographs by JEFF REIDEL, Jan. 16, 2005)
LIVES: Among the Peculiars (By BERNARD CORNWELL, Jan. 16, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2004)
* 'Blink': Hunch Power [Malcolm Gladwell] (By DAVID BROOKS, Jan. 16, 2005)
'The Artificial White Man': Battling Gangstas and Hussies [Stanley Crouch] (By EMILY EAKIN, Jan. 16, 2005)
'Seven Types of Ambiguity': Rashomon in Melbourne [Elliot Perlman] (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Jan. 16, 2005)
* SYMPOSIUM: The Hum Inside The Skull, Revisited [Fiction writers' favorites] (NY TIMES, Jan. 16, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Titan's Big News: A Mysterious Shoreline (By By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Jan. 16, 2005)
HEALTH: Genes Promoting Fertility Are Found in Europeans (By NICHOLAS WADE, Jan. 16, 2005)

Saturday, January 15, 2005:
On This Day: January 15 (Jean Moliere 1/15/1622-2/17/1673, Jean Coralli 1/15/1779-5/1/1854, Josef Breuer 1/15/1842-6/20/1925, Pierre Samuel du Pont 1/15/1870-4/5/1954, Arturi Virtanen 1/15/1895-11/11/1973, Gene Krupa 1/15/1909-10/16/1973, Gamal Nasser 1/15/1918-9/28/1970, Edward Teller 1908, Charo 1951)
Green Bay Wins First Superbowl Football Title (By WILLIAM N. WALLACE, January 15, 1967)
* Martin Luther King Jr. Killed at 39: Leader of Millions in Nonviolent Drive for Racial Justice
[1/15/1929-4/4/1968] (By MURRAY SCHUMACH, April 5, 1968)

* ARTS: A Da Vinci Complex? Call It a Hypothesis (By JASON HOROWITZ, Jan. 15, 2005)
* BOOKS: Actors You've Never Heard of Are Becoming the Ones Heard Most (By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN , Jan. 15, 2005)
OPERA REVIEW | 'PARSIFAL': Wagner Demystified, With a Human Face (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Jan. 15, 2005)
High Drama at New Danish Opera House (By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Jan. 15, 2005)

Friday, January 14, 2005:
On This Day: January 14 (Benedict Arnold 1/14/1741-6/14/1801, Berthe Morisot 1/14/1841-3/2/1895, Art Young 1/14/1866-12/29/1943, Hugh Lofting 1/14/1886-9/26/1947, Hal Roach 1/14/1892-11/2/1992, John Dos Passos 1/14/1896-9/28/1970, Carlos Romulo 1/14/1899-12/15/1985, Sir Cecil Beaton 1/14/1904-1/18/1980, Andy Rooney 1919, Julian Bond 1940, Faye Dunaway 1941, Steven Soderbergh 1963)
Roosevelt and Churchill Map 1943 War Strategy in Casablanca (By DREW MIDDLETON, Jr., January 14, 1943)
* Albert Schweitzer, 90, Dies at His Hospital [1/14/1875-9/4/1965] (By Reuters, September 6, 1965)

* ART: PETER PAUL RUBENS: From the Assembly Line of a Genius (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Jan. 14, 2005)

Thursday, January 13, 2005:
On This Day: January 13 (Jan van Goyen 1/13/1596-4/27/1656, Salmon Chase 1/13/1808-5/7/1873, Horatio Alger 1/13/1832-7/18/1899, Sophie Tucker 1/13/1884-2/9/1966, Elmer Davis 1/13/1890-5/18/1958, A. B. Jr. Guthrie 1/13/1901-4/26/1991, Rober Stack 1919, Charles Nelson Reilly 1931, Penelope Ann Miller 1964)
Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor (By DRUMMOND AYRES, Jr., January 13, 1990)
Ross G. Harrison, Yale Zoologist, Dies at 89 [1/13/1870-9/30/1959] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1916)

* PUBLIC LIVES: Poet Marshals His Moral Passion Against the War [C. K. Williams]
(By CHRIS HEDGES, Jan. 13, 2005)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 13, 2005)
* SCIENCE: When Dinosaurs Ruled, a Mammal Ate (a Little) One (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Jan. 13, 2005)

Wednesday, January 12, 2005:
On This Day: January 12 (John Winthrop 1/12/1588-3/26/1649, Charles Perrault 1/12/1628-5/15/1703, John Hancock 1/12/1737-10/8/1793, Jakob Michael Lenz 1/12/1751-5/24/1792, John Singer Sargent 1/12/1856-4/15/1925, Max Eastman 1/12/1883-3/25/1969, Louis Horst 1/12/1884-1/23/1964, Luise Rainer 1910, Ray Price 1926, Glenn Yarborough 1930, The "Amazing Kreskin" 1935, Rush Limbaugh 1951, Howard Stern 1954, Kirstie Alley 1955, Oliver Platt 1960)
Suffragists Lose Fight In The House (NY TIMES, January 12, 1915)
* Jack London Dies Suddenly On Ranch at Age 40 [1/12/1876-11/22/1916] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1916)

Tuesday, January 11, 2005:
On This Day: January 11 (Alexander Hamilton 1/11/1755-7/12/1804, Ezra Cornell 1/11/1807-12/9/1874, Sir James Paget 1//11/1814-12/30/1899, Alice H. Rice 1/11/1870-2/10/1942, Laurens Hammond 1/11/1895-7/1/1973, Eva LeGallienne 1/11/1899-6/3/1991, Alan Paton 1/11/1903-4/12/1988, Grant Tinker 1926, David L. Wolper 1928, Rod Taylor 1930, Jean Chretien 1934, Naomi Judd 1946, Ben Crenshaw 1952, Amanda Peet 1972)
Amelia Earhart Becomes First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Pacific Ocean (NY TIMES, January 11, 1935)
* William James Dies at 68; Great Psychologist [1/11/1842-8/26/1910] (NY TIMES, August 27, 1910)

* BUSINESS: Your Call (and Rants on Hold) Will Be Monitored (By KEN BELSON, Jan. 11, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: I.B.M. to Give Free Access to 500 Patents (By STEVE LOHR, Jan. 11, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 11, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Deadly and Yet Necessary, Quakes Renew the Planet (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Jan. 11, 2005)
A Modern Peril: Living Near the Jaws of the Sea (By CORNELIA DEAN, Jan. 11, 2005)
* Blasting Into the Core of a Comet to Learn Its Secrets (By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 11, 2005)
* Plague Ants, Plantains and Scorched Plantations (By CARL ZIMMER, Jan. 11, 2005)

Monday, January 10, 2005:
On This Day: January 10 (John Emerich, Lord Acton 1/10/1834-6/19/1902, John Wellborn Root 1/10/1850-1/15/1891, Frederick Gardner Cottrell 1/10/1877-11/16/1948, Dumas Malone 1/10/1892-12/27/1986, Uri Zvi Greenberg 1/10/1894-5/8/1981, Dame Barbara Hepworth 1/10/1903-5/20/1975, Ray Bolger 1/10/1904-1/15/1987, Paul Henreid 1/10/1908-3/29/1992, Gisele MacKenzie 1927, Willie McCovey 1938, Frank Sinatra Jr. 1944, Rod Stewart 1945, George Foreman 1949, Pat Benatar 1953, Shawn Colvin 1958)
* First General Assembly of the United Nations Convened in London (By James B. Reston, January 10, 1946)
* Galina Ulanova Is Dead at 88; A Revered Bolshoi Ballerina [1/10/1910-3/21/1998] (By MICHAEL SPECTOR, March 22, 1998)

Sunday, January 9, 2005:
On This Day: January 9 (Carrie Chapman Catt 1/9/1870-5/16/1938, Joseph B. Strauss 1/9/1870-5/16/1938, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 1/9/1875-4/18/1942, Giovanni Papini 1/9/1881-7/8/1956, Simone de Beauvoir 1/9/1908-4/14/1986, Gypsy Rose Lee 1/9/1914-4/26/1970, Judith Krantz 1928, Bart Starr 1934, Dick Enberg 1935, Joan Baez 1941, Susannah York 1941, Crystal Gayle 1951, Dave Matthews 1967)
Surveyor 7 Spacecraft Lands Gently On Moon (By Gladwin Hill, January 9, 1968)
The 37th President Dead at 81; Nixon Tasted Crisis and Defeat, Victory, Ruin and Revival
[1/9/1913-4/22/1994] (By JOHN HERBERS, April 24, 1994)

* ANCHORAGE JOURNAL: A 9,000-Pound Fish Out of Water, Alone in Alaska (By SARAH KERSHAW, Jan. 9, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 9, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY Times, Jan. 9, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 9, 2005)
THE PUBLIC EDITOR: No Picture Tells the Truth. The Best Do Better Than That (By DANIEL OKRENT, Jan. 9, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 9, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 9, 2004)

Saturday, January 8, 2005:
On This Day: January 8 (Nicholas Biddle 1/8/1786-2/27/1844, Hans von Bülow 1/8/1830-2/12/1894, Frank Nelson Doubleday 1/8/1862-1/30/1934, William T. Piper 1/8/1881-1/15/1934, Walther Bothe 1/8/1891-2/8/1957, Carl R. Rogers 1/8/1902-2/4/1987, Peter Arno 1/8/1904-2/22/1968, Evelyn Wood 1/8/1909-8/26/1995, José Ferrer 1/8/1912-1/26/1992, Elvis Presley 1/8/1935-8/16/1977, Soupy Sales 1926, Sander Vanocur 1928, Charles Osgood 1933, Shirley Bassey 1937, Stephen Hawking 1942)
President Wilson Specifies Terms Basis For World Peace; Asks Justice For Alsace-Lorraine (By NY TIMES, January 8, 1918)
* Emily Balch Dies at 94; Won Nobel Peace Prize [1/8/1867-1/9/1961] (NY TIMES, January 11, 1961)

* NATIONAL: Heavy Rains in West Begin Chasing Its Drought (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Jan. 8, 2005)
THE WAITING: Frantic Families of the Missing Taking Action on Their Own
(By JODI WILGOREN, Jan. 8, 2005)
Cloud Rising From Train Wreck, Then Death and a Ghost Town (By ARIEL HART and MATTHEW L. WALD, Jan. 8, 2005)
WORLD: CAPTURED INSURGENTS: U.S. Said to Hold More Foreigners in Iraq Fighting
(By DOUGLAS JEHL & NEIL A. LEWIS, Jan. 8, 2005)
SECURITY FORCES: Iraq Guardsmen Face Big Test as Vote Nears and Attacks Increase (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Jan. 8, 2005)
SPORTS: Astros Favored to Sign Beltran in the Nick of Time (By JACK CURRY, Jan. 8, 2005)
* BASEBALL: Red Sox Dispute Victory Ball (Funny, Buckner Let His Go) (By TYLER KEPNER, Jan. 8, 2005)

Friday, January 7, 2005:
On This Day: January 7 (Johann Christian Fabricius 1/7/1745-3/3/1808, Millard Fillmore 1/7/1800-3/8/1874, Saint Bernadette of Lourdes 1/7/1844-4/16/1879, Émile Borel 1/7/1871-2/3/1956, Francis Poulenc 1/7/1899-1/30/1963, Aristotle Onassis 1/7/1906-3/15/1975, Henry Allen 1/7/1908-4/17/1967, Charles Addams 1/7/1912-9/29/1988, William Peter Blatty 1928, Erin Gray 1950, Katie Couric 1957)
Hanoi Reports Cambodian Capital Conquered By 'Insurgent' Forces (By Henry Kamm, January 7, 1979)
* Adolph Zukor Is Dead at 103; Built Paramount Movie Empire [1/7/1873-6/10/1976] (By ALBIN KREBS, June 11, 1976)

* PARIS JOURNAL: Buyers and Bakers Try to Take the Cake for an Epiphany (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Jan. 7, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Worse Than Fiction (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Jan. 7, 2005)
TRAVEL: 36 HOURS: In Telluride, Colorado (By HELEN OLSSON, Jan. 7, 2005)

Thursday, January 6, 2005:
On This Day: January 6 (Martin Agricola 1/6/1486-6/10/1556, Jakob Bernoulli 1/6/1655-8/16/1705, Charles Sumner 1/6/1811-3/11/1874, Heinrich Schliemann 1/6/1822-12/26/1890, Carl Sandburg 1/6/1878-7/22/1967, Tom Mix 1/6/1880-10/12/1940, Kahlil Gibran 1/6/1883-4/10/1931, Morris Wright 1/6/1910-4/25/1998, Lou Harris 1921, John Z. DeLorean 1925, E. L. Doctorow 1931, Bonnie Franklin 1944, Nancy Lopez 1957)
* Former President Theodore Roosevelt Dies Suddenly at Oyster Bay Home; Nation Shocked (By NY TIMES, January 6, 1919)
Rayburn Is Dead at 79; Served 17 Years as House Speaker [1/6/1882-11/16/1961] (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, Nov. 17, 1961)

CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 6, 2004)
ARTICLE (By, Jan. 6, 2005)
* HEALTH: Protein Is Factor in Heart Disease, Researchers Say (By GINA KOLATA, Jan. 6, 2005)

Wednesday, January 5, 2005:
On This Day: January 5 (Jahan Shah 1/5/1592-1/22/1666, Zebulon Pike 1/5/1779-4/27/1813, Stephen Decatur 1/5/1779-3/22/1820, King Camp Gillette 1/5/1855-7/9/1932, Konrad Adenauer 1/5/1876-4/19/1967, Yves Tanguy 1/5/1900-1/15/1955, Stella Gibbons 1/5/1902-12/19/1989, Hubert Beuve-Méry 1/5/1902-8/6/1989, Dame Kathleen Kenyon 1/5/1906-8/24/1978, Alvin Ailey Jr. 1/5/1931-12/1/1989, Sam Phillips 1923, Walter F. Mondale 1928, Chuck Noll 1932, King Juan Carlos 1938, Charlie Rose 1942, Diane Keaton 1946, Pamela Sue Martin 1952, Marilyn Manson 1968)
Henry Ford Gives $10,000,000 To 26,000 Employees (NY TIMES, January 5, 1914)
* Stanislavsky Dies in Moscow At 75; One of the Greatest Masters of Russian Drama
[1/5/1863-8/7/1938] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 8, 1938)

WORLD: Powell, in Indonesia, Describes Scenes of Devastation (By SCOTT SHANE, Jan. 5, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Land of Penny Pinchers (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Jan. 5, 2005)
OP-ED: Choose and Lose (By BARRY SCHWARTZ, Jan. 5, 2005)
SPORTS: U.S.C. 55, OKLAHOMA 19: Trojans in No Mood to Share (By PETE THAMEL, Jan. 5, 2005)
* BASEBALL: Boggs Counts Blessings; Sandberg Also in Hall (By JACK CURRY, Jan. 5, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: For the Digerati, the Only Place to Be (By SAUL HANSELL, Jan. 5, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 5, 2005)
* DINING: Artisanal, Creamy... Tofu? (By JULIA MOSKIN, Jan. 5, 2005)
* EATING WELL: Oatmeal to Please the Palate and the Label-Obsessed (By MARIAN BURROS, Jan. 5, 2005)

Tuesday, January 4, 2005:
On This Day: January 4 (James Ussher 1/4/1581-3/21/1656, Benjamin Rush 1/4/1746-4/19/1813, Jacob Grimm 1/4/1785-9/20/1863, Wilhelm Beer 1/4/1797-3/27/1850, Louis Braille 1/4/1809-1/6/1852, Sir Isaac Pitman 1/4/1813-1/12/1897, Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1/4/1881-3/25/1919, Leroy Randle Grumman 1/4/1895-10/4/1982, Jane Wyman 1914, Barbara Rush 1927, Don Shula 1930, Floyd Patterson 1935, Dyan Cannon 1937, Maureen Reagan 1941, Julia Ormond 1965)
President Johnson Bids Soviet Leaders Visit U.S., Outlines 'Great Society' Plan (By Tom Wicker, January 4, 1965)
Dirksen Dead in Capital at 73; A Political Phenomenon [1/4/1896-9/7/1969] (By E. W. KENWORTHY, September 8, 1969)

OP-ED COLUMNIST: Stopping the Bum's Rush (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Jan. 4, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 4, 2005)
* SCIENCE: God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap
(Questions By John Brockman, Jan. 4, 2005)
* In Past Tsunamis, Tantalizing Clues to Future Ones (By KENNETH CHANG, Jan. 4, 2005)
* HEALTH: Diet and Lose Weight? Scientists Say 'Prove It!' (By GINA KOLATA, Jan. 4, 2005)

Monday, January 3, 2005:
On This Day: January 3 (Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg 1/3/1737-11/1/1823, Father Damien 1/3/1840-4/15/1889, Sir Henry Alfred Lytton 1/3/1865-8/15/1936, Clement Attlee 1/3/1883-10/8/1967, J.R.R. Tolkien 1/3/1892-9/2/1973, T. Claude Ryan 1/3/1898-9/11/1982, Dinh Diem Ngo 1/3/1901-11/2/1963, Morten Nielsen 1/3/1922-8/29/1944, Vernon Walters 1917, Hank Stram 1923, Dabney Coleman 1932, Betty Rollin 1936, Bobby Hull 1939, Victoria Principal 1950, Mel Gibson 1956)
Alaska Becomes the 49th State (By Richard E. Mooney, January 3, 1959)
Lucretia Mott Dies at 88; Early Initiator of the Women's Rights [1/3/1793-11/11/1880] (NY Times, November 12, 1880)

Sunday, January 2, 2005:
On This Day: January 2 (James Wolfe 1/2/1727-9/13/1759, Johann Daniel Titius 1/2/1729-12/11/1796, Rudolf Clausius 1/2/1822-8/24/1888, Justin Winsor 1/2/1831-10/22/1897, Albert C. Barnes 1/2/1872-7/24/1951, Saint Therea of Lisieux 1/2/1873-9/30/1897, Sally Rand 1/2/1904-8/31/1979, Christy Turlington 1969)
Russian General Stoessel Surrenders, Ending the Russo-Japanese War (By R. HART PHILLIPS, January 2, 1905)
* Isaac Asimov, Whose Thoughts and Books Traveled the Universe, Is Dead at 72
[1/2/1920-4/6/1992] (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, April 7, 1992)

  William A. Silverman, 87, Dies; Leading Neonatologist of 1950's (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Jan. 2, 2005)
NATIONAL: G.I. Families United in Grief, but Split by the War (By MONICA DAVEY, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Bigger Republican Majority Plans to Push Bush Agenda (By CARL HULSE, Jan. 2, 2005)
  WORLD: THE RELIEF: From Heart of Indonesia's Disaster, a Cry for Help (By JANE PERLEZ, Jan. 2, 2005)
  NEWS ANALYSIS: Aid Summit Talks in Jakarta: U.S. Is Facing a Choice and an Opportunity (By DAVID E. SANGER, Jan. 2, 2005)
  AID: U.S. Helicopters Speed Pace of Aid for Indonesia Refugees (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  In Land Built for Tourists, Only Thais Are Left Behind (By SETH MYDANS, Jan. 2, 2005)
  THE OBSTACLES: Aid Workers Tackle Panic and Rumors (By IAN FISHER & DAVID ROHDE, Jan. 2, 2005)
  NY REGION: Yellow Pills, When Liquor Leaves You Feeling Green (By SETH KUGEL, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * Not So Merrily, They Roll Along: Pedicabs Vie for Midtown Riders
(By SEWELL CHAN & NICHOLAS CONFESSO, Jan. 2, 2005)
  ON BASEBALL: A Pitcher Hopes to Hop Off the Injury Treadmill (By MURRAY CHASS, Jan. 2, 2005)
  BASEBALL: Now It's Beltran's Turn: Let the Bidding Games Begin (By LEE JENKINS, Jan. 2, 2005)
  EDITORIAL: Sleaze in the Capitol (NY TIMES, Jan. 2, 2005)
  EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Considering the Plainness of Marilynne Robinson's Novel 'Gilead'
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Jan. 2, 2005)
OP-ED PUZZLES: Beat the Clock (By MIKE SHENK, AMY GOLDSTEIN & ROBERT LEIGHTON, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * OP-ED: Even Einstein Had His Off Days (By SIMON SINGH, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * OP-ED: Bright Lives, Big City [Susan Sontag & Jerry Orbach] (By PETE HAMILL, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Hard Choices on Immigration (6 Letters) (By Roger Toronto, et. al., Jan. 2, 2005)
  BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 2, 2005)
  GRETCHEN MORGENSON: The Envelopes, Please (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Wall Street's Designs on '05? A Merger Boom (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * SUNDAY INTERVIEW: New Scraps for Sun's Feisty Chief [Scott McNealy] (By LAURA RICH, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Rebels With a Cause, and a Business Plan (By WILLIAM C. TAYLOR, Jan. 2, 2005)
  SPENDING: Remember When You Wanted Your Own Ms. Pac-Man? (By ROBERT JOHNSON, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * A Businesslike Approach to Life (By PAUL S. BROWN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  THE BOSS: A Big Bite of the World [Cathleen Black] (As told to JANET L. LEVERE, Jan. 2, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * ART: The Dark Side of Success (By GREG ALLEN, Jan. 2, 2005)
ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: Washington's New Year War Cry: Party On! (By FRANK RICH, Jan. 2, 2005)
  TV: In Dick Clark's Absence, Regis Fills the Vacuum (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * Resolved: To Do More. Or Less. Or Something. (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  EBay's Little Helpers (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Jan. 2, 2005)
  MODERN LOVE: How My Son Got His Name  (By RICH COHEN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  POSSESSED: Redecorating on a Whim and No Budget (By DAVID COLMAN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  THE AGE OF DISSONANCE: Truth, Varnished (By BOB MORRIS, Jan. 2, 2005)
  WHAT I'M WEARING NOW: The Soprano (By JENNIFER TUNG, Jan. 2, 2005)
  A NIGHT OUT WITH Dr. Henry S. Lodge and Chris Crowley: Ski, Hug, Eat, and Sleep
(By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Jan. 2, 2005)
  VOWS: Alissa Ferguson and Fernley Phillips (By DEBRA GALANT, Jan. 2, 2005)
  WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * How Nature Changes History (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Jan. 2, 2005)
  * POSTINGS FROM THE EDGE: A Catastrophe Strikes, and the Cyberworld Responds (By PETER EDIDIN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * The Future of Calamity (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  DEMOCRATS ENTANGLED: So What Happened in That Election, Anyhow? (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Jan. 2, 2005)
  The Penny-Wise Aren''t Foolish Anymore (By DANIEL GROSS, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * WORD FOR WORD | SUSAN SONTAG: No Hard Books, or Easy Deaths (By CHARLES McGRATH, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * The Year Ahead: A Guessing Game (By DAVID CARR, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Heated, Healthful but Not Home Cooking (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Hama's Radical New Strategy: Taking Part in Elections (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Welcome to 'TEH-jas,' Land of the Alamo and the Cowboy (By SIMON ROMERO, Jan. 2, 2005)
  MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 2, 2005)
  * ON LANGUAGE: Personal or Private? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 2, 2005)
  THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: What Color is Montana? (By WALTER KIRN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  QUESTIONS FOR JEANNE L. PHILIPPS: It's the President's Party (Interview By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Jan. 2, 2005)
  IDEA LAB: Sentencing by the Numbers (By EMILY BAZELON, Jan. 2, 2005)
  CONSUMED: The Good, the Plaid and the Ugly (By ROB WALKER, Jan. 2, 2005)
  THE ETHICIST: Porn at the Library (By RANDY COHEN, Jan. 2, 2005)
  COVER ARTICLE: The War Inside the Arab Newsroom (By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO, Jan. 2, 2005)
  Heavy Questions (By ELIZABETH WEIL, Jan. 2, 2005)
  An Alt-Cabaret Diva [Nellie McKay] (By DANIEL MENAKER, Jan. 2, 2005)
  STYLE: Swiss Family Modernism (By FEDERICO CHIARA, Jan. 2, 2005)
  FOOD: Eat, Memory: Michelin Man (By JAMES SALTER, Jan. 2, 2005)
  LIVES: Charity Display? (By CHARMIE GHOLSON, Jan. 2, 2005)
  BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 2, 2005)
  'The World of Christopher Marlowe': A Brawler and a Spy (By JOHN SIMON, Jan. 2, 2005)

Saturday, January 1, 2005:
On This Day: January 1 (Lorenzo de Medici 1/1/1449-3/9/1492, Betsy Ross 1/1/1752-1/30/1836, Sir James George Frazer 1/1/1854-5/7/1941, Alfred Stieglitz 1/1/1864-7/13/1946, Ernest Jones 1/1/1879-2/11/1958, William Fox 1/1/1879-5/8/1952, Catherine Bowen 1/1/1897-11/1/1973, Xavier Cugat 1/1/1900-10/27/1990, Dana Andrews 1/1/1909-12/17/1992, Barry M. Goldwater 1/1/1909-5/29/1998, J.D. Salinger 1919, Frank Langella 1940)
Batista and Regime Flee Cuba; Castro Moving to Take Power; Mobs Riot and Loot in Havana (By BERTRAM D. HULEN, January 1, 1959)
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the F.B.I. from 1924-1972, Dies at 77 [1/1/1895-5/2/1972] (By CHRISTOPHER LYDON, May 3, 1972)

  NATIONAL: Evangelical Leader Threatens to Use His Political Muscle Against Some Democrats
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Jan. 1, 2005)
  * OP-ED: The Ends of the World as We Know Them (By JARED DIAMOND, Jan. 1, 2005)
  MUSIC: A Year When Classical Labels Came Through (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Jan. 1, 2005)