New York Times: June 2004

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Selected Articles from The New York Times—
June 2004
(* denotes news of special interest)

Wednesday, June 30, 2004:
On This Day: June 30 (John 6/30/1468-8/16/1532, Dominikus Zimmermann 6/30/1685-11/16/1766, Sir Joseph Hooker 6/30/1817-12/10/1911, Lucile Grahn 6/30/1819-4/4/1907,) William Wheeler 6/30/1819-6/4/1887, Walter Ulbricht 6/30/1893-8/1/1973, Harold Laski 6/30/1893-3/24/1950, Willie Sutton 6/30/1901-11/2/1980, Harry Blackstone, Jr. 6/30/1934-5/14/1997, Lena Horne 1917, Nancy Dussault 1936, Tony Musante 1936, Stanley Clarke 1951, David Alan Grier 1955, Vincent D'Onofrio 1959, Rupert Graves 1963, Mike Tyson 1966, Brian Bloom 1970, Brian Vincent 1970, Monica Potter 1971)
* China Resumes Control of Hong Kong, Ending 156 Years of British Rule (By EDWARD A. GARGAN, June 30, 1997)
Y.W.C.A. Leader, Mabel Cratty, Dies at 60 [6/30/1868-2/27/1928] (NY TIMES, February 28, 1928)

WORLD: Legal Custody of Hussein and 11 Aides Is Transferred to Iraqis (By IAN FISHER, June 30, 2004)
INSURGENTS: Abducted Marine Had Reportedly Deserted (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and NICK MADIGAN, June 30, 2004)
Thousands of Refugees Greet Powell in Sudan (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, June 30, 2004)
EDITORIALS: A Seasonable June (NY TIMES, June 30, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Calling Bush a Liar (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, June 30, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Beware of Certitude (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, June 30, 2004)
OP-ED: Vote First, Ask Questions Later (By REUEL MARC GERECHT, June 30, 2004)
OP-ED: Caught in America's War (By HA-YUN JUNG, June 30, 2004)
LETTERS: The Transition in Iraq, and the Road Ahead (9 Letters) (By CY SHAIN, et. al., June 30, 2004)
LETTERS: In Buckley's Words... (By DONALD SPANEL, June 30, 2004)
BUSINESS: Big Rise in Consumer Confidence Gives a Lift to Shares
[Dow +56.34, Nasdaq +15.11] (By Bloomberg News, June 30, 2004)
* Fed Increases a Key Rate by 1/4 Point; First Rise in 4 Years (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, June 30, 2004)
FILM: Friends and Foes of 'Fahrenheit' Lobby Everyone (By BILL WERDE, June 30, 2004)
FILM: 'THE CORPORATION': Giving Corporations the Psychoanalytic Treatment
(By A. O. SCOTT, June 30, 2004)
* SCIENCE: 7-Year, 2-Billion-Mile Flight Brings Craft in Saturn's Grip (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, June 30, 2004)
HEALTH: Vitamins Can Slow Progress of AIDS, Study Says (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., June 30, 2004)

Tuesday, June 29, 2004:
On This Day: June 29 (Giacomo Leopardi 6/29/1798-6/14/1837, Pietro Angelo Secchi 6/29/1818-2/26/1878, George Goethals 6/29/1858-1/21/1928, Ludwig Beck 6/29/1880-7/20/1944, Robert Schuman 6/29/1886-9/4/1963, James Van Der Zee 6/29/1886-5/15/1983, Helen Hokinson 6/29/1893-11/1/1949, Antoine Saint-Exupery 6/29/1908-5/18/1975, Leroy Anderson 6/29/1908-5/18/1975, Frank Loesser 6/29/1910-7/28/1969, Ruth Warrick 1915, Robert Evans 1930, L. Russell Brown 1940, Gary Busey 1944, Richard Lewis 1947, Fred Grandy 1948, Maria Conchita Alonso 1957)
U.S. Craft Docks Flawlessly With Russian Space Station (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, June 29, 1995)
* Dr. George E. Hale, Astronomer, Dead at 69: Founder of Yerkes, Mt. Wilson & Palomar Observatories
[6/29/1868-2/21/1938] (NY TIMES, February 22, 1938)

Naomi Shemer, 74, Poet and Composer, Dies
[Israeli poet & composer whose popular songs include "Jerusalem of Gold"]
(By WOLFGANG SAXON, June 29, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Apple Putting More Focus on Simplifying Searching (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, June 29, 2004)
ARTS: A Rush Job Has Commuters Walking on Art (By RANDY KENNEDY, June 29, 2004)
FILM: 'SPIDER-MAN 2': Putting Action After Feelings of a Superhero (By A. O. SCOTT, June 29, 2004)
FASHION FRONT ROW: Objects of Jewish Devotion Evolve Into a Fashion Fad (By RUTH LA FERLA, June 29, 2004)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, June 29, 2004)
SCIENCE: The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, June 29, 2004)
* Oppenheimer Celebration Examines the Myth and the Man (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, June 29, 2004)
In Laos, a Camera Captures Good News (By JAMES GORMAN, June 29, 2004)
I BEG TO DIFFER: In a Lonely Stand, a Scientist Takes on National Security Dogma
(By WILLIAM J. BROAD, June 29, 2004)
An Act of Derring-Do, and It's Not in a Film (By MELISSA SANFORD, June 29, 2004)
Increasingly in Decline, Frogs Face a Deadly Fungus (By JANE E. BRODY, June 29, 2004)
OBSERVATORY: Running Hot and Cold (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, June 29, 2004)
Sitting Out the Summer (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, June 29, 2004)
HEALTH: Wakefulness Finds a Powerful Ally (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, June 29, 2004)
* ESSAY: The Perils of Putting National Leaders on the Couch (By SALLY SATEL, M.D., June 29, 2004)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Beginning a Pregnancy Already Overweight (By JANE E. BRODY, June 29, 2004)
Novel Remedies for the Aching Knees of Summer (By VICKY LOWRY, June 29, 2004)
It's Tangy, but It May Not Stop Your Knees From Aching (By VICKY LOWRY, June 29, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Responses: Taking Your Mind Off the Pain (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, June 29, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Children: Pacifiers and Breast-Feeding (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, June 29, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Cause and Effect: Dry Weather Is Asthma's Enemy (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, June 29, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Remedies: A Prickly Pear for the Besotted (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, June 29, 2004)
CASES: Their Coats Are White, but Their Hands Are Green (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., June 29, 2004)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Toddler to Teenager (By JOHN LANGONE, June 29, 2004)
Q & A: Spotted Leaves (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, June 29, 2004)

Monday, June 28, 2004:
On This Day: June 28 (Peter Paul Rubens 6/28/1577-5/30/1640, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 6/28/1712-7/2/1778, Calotta Grisi 6/28/1819-5/20/1899, Otis Skinner 6/28/1858-1/4/1942, Luigi Pirandello 6/28/1867-12/10/1936, Pierre Laval 6/28/1883-10/15/945, Floyd Dell 6/28/1887-7/23/1969, Carl Spaatz, E. H. Carr 6/28/1892-11/3/1982, Eric Ambler 6/28/1909-10/22/1998, Mel Brooks 1926, Pat Morita 1932, Carl Levin 1934, Leon Paneta 1938, Bruce Davison 1946, Kathy Bates 1948, Alice Krige 1954, John Elway 1960, Tony Mercedes 1962, Jessica Hecht 1965, John Cusack 1966, Gil Bellows 1967, Danielle Brisebois 1969)
* Treaty of Versailles: Peace Signed, Ends the Great War; Germans Depart Still Protesting (NY TIMES, June 28, 1919)
* Richard Rodgers Is Dead at Age 77; Broadway's Renowned Composer
[6/28/1902-12/30/1979] (By Alden Whitman, December 31, 1979)

ARTICLE (By, June 28, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Sun Moving to Underscore New Strategy (By JOHN MARKOFF, June 28, 2004)
* DRILLING DOWN/ SPAM PROTECTION: A Reason to Switch? (By IAN AUSTEN, June 28, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, June 28, 2004)

Sunday, June 27, 2004:
On This Day: June 27 (Alexis Bouvard 6/27/1767-6/7/1843, Charles Stewart Parnell 6/27/1846-10/6/1891, May Irwin 6/27/1862-10/22/1938, Emma Goldman 6/27/1869-5/14/1940, Eduard Spranger 6/27/1882-9/17/1963, Juan T. Trippe 6/27/1899-4/3/1981, Willie Mosconi 6/27/1913-9/16/1993, I.A.L. Diamond 6/27/1920-4/21/1988, Frank O'Hara 6/27/1926-7/25/1966, Bob Keeshan 1927, Ross Perot 1930, Anna Moffo 1934, John Shalikashvili 1936, Bruce Babbitt 1938, Bruce Johnston 1942, Julia Duffy 1951, Isabelle Adjani 1955, Tobey Maguire 1975)
* Truman Orders U.S. Air, Navy Units To Fight In Aid Of Korea; U.N. Council Supports Him;
Our Fliers In Action; Fleet Guards Formosa (By ANTHONY LEVIERO, June 27, 1950)
* Helen Keller, 87, Dies: Blind & Deaf Since Infancy, She Became Symbol of Courage
[6/27/1880-6/1/1968] (NY TIMES, June 2, 1968)

* BUSINESS: Grab the Brass Ring, or Just Enjoy the Ride? (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, June 27, 2004)
CAREER COUCH: You Deserve a Raise. Now Try Telling the Boss. (By CHERYL DAHLE, June 27, 2004)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, June 27, 2004)
ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: The Best Goebbels of All? (By FRANK RICH, June 27, 2004)
ART: In Art We Trust (Since We Can't Explain It) (By MIA FINEMAN, June 27, 2004)
ARTS: The Nobel Garden Prize Winner (By GINGER DANTO, June 27, 2004)
* ARTS: STREETSCAPES: Just One Block Long, but Spanning a Century
[No. 51 & 53 Cranberry St.] (By CHRISTOPHER GRAY, June 27, 2004)
ARTS: The Carpet That Ate Grand Central (By LINDA YABLONSKY, June 27, 2004)
* DANCE: Always the Super, Never the Star (By GIA KOURLAS, June 27, 2004)
FILM: John Kerry's Big Screen Test (By JODI WILGOREN, June 27, 2004)
MUSIC: The First Spaghetti Western [Enrico Caruso] (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, June 27, 2004)
MUSIC: CLASSICAL RECORDINGS: More Sibelius? Colin Davis Shows Why (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, June 27, 2004)
* TV: When Science Was Simple: Watching Mr. Wizard (By Marc Weingarten & Don Herbert, June 27, 2004)
TV THIS WEEK: 'The Real World' in the Real World (By KATE AURTHUR, June 27, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 27, 2004)
The Secret Power of Lesbian Style (By GUY TREBAY, June 27, 2004)
Surprise Hit in Hollywood: The Action-Figure Governor (By MIREYA NAVARRO, June 27, 2004)
NOTICED: For the Clintons, a True Makeover (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, June 27, 2004)
VOWS: Nina Rowe and Glenn Hendler (By KATIE ZEZIMA, June 27, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, June 27, 2004)
A Correspondent in Iraq: Scenes of Hope and Dread (By DEXTER FILKINS, June 27, 2004)
FEAR FACTOR: In an Age of Terror, Safety Is Relative (By GREGG EASTERBROOK, June 27, 2004)
It Depends What the Meaning of 'Liberal' Is (By JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE, June 27, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 27, 2004)
ON LANGUAGE: Gone Missing (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, June 27, 2004)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Mirage in the Desert (By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, June 27, 2004)
QUESTIONS FOR RONALD P. REAGAN: The Son Also Rises (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, June 27, 2004)
* DOMAINS: Professor's Zenlike 4BR [Elaine Pagels] (Interview by EDWARD LEWINE, June 27, 2004)
* CONSUMED: The Pain Principle (By ROB WALKER, June 27, 2004)

Saturday, June 26, 2004:
On This Day: June 26 (Arthur Middleton 6/26/1742-1/1/1787, Bernard Berenson 6/26/1865-10/6/1959, Albert Siklos 6/26/1878-4/3/1942, Pearl Buck 6/26/1892-3/6/1973, Willy Messerschmitt 6/26/1898-9/17/198, Stuart Symington 6/26/1901-12/14/1988, William Lear 6/26/1902-5/14/1978, Antonia Brico 6/26/1902-8/3/1989, Peter Lorre 6/26/1904-3/23/1964, Eleanor Parker 1922, Dave Grusin 1934, Josef Summer 1934, Clive Frncis 1946, Chris Isaak 1956, Patty Smyth 1957, Sean Hayes 1970)
* President Kennedy Hailed By Over A Million In Visit To Berlin
(By ARTHUR J. OLSEN, June 26, 1963)
Babe Zaharias Dies at 42; Athlete Had Cancer
[6/26/1914-9/27/1956] (By MARILYN BERGER, September 28, 1956)

Friday, June 25, 2004:
On This Day: June 25 (Edward Holyoke 6/25/1689-1/1/1769, Antonio Gaudi 6/25/1852-6/10/1926, Robert Henri 6/25/1865-7/12/1929, Crystal Eastman 6/25/1881-7/8/1928, Benito Lynch 6/25/1885-12/23/1951, Henry Harley Arnold 6/25/1886-1/15/1950, Hermann Oberth 6/25/1894-12/29/1989, Lord Louis Mountbatten 6/25/1900-8/27/1979, George Orwell 6/25/1903-1/21/1950, William Stein 6/25/1911-2/2/1980, Ingeborg Bachmann 6/25/1926-10/17/1973, Aimé Césaire 1913, Sidney Lumet 1924, June Lockhart 1925, Eddie Floyd 1935, Barbara Montgomery 1939, Willis Reed 1942, Carly Simon 1945, Allen Lanier 1946, Ian McDonald 1946, Jimmie Walker 1947, Michael Lembeck 1948, Phyllis George 1949, Tim Finn 1952, David Paich 1954, George Michael 1963, Candyman 1968, Sean Kelly 1971)
* The Little Big Horn Massacre: Custer & 7th Cavalry Wiped Out by Sioux & Cheyenne Indians
(NY TIMES, June 25, 1876)
* George Abbott, Broadway Giant With Hit After Hit, Is Dead at 107
[6/25/1887-1/31/1995] (By MARILYN BERGER, February 2, 1995)

* ART: 'THE BIG NOTHING': Artists Who Just Say No. To Everything. (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, June 25, 2004)
TV: 'EVERYDAY PEOPLE': Looking for Subtle Harmonies With a Film About Race
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, June 25, 2004)

Thursday, June 24, 2004:
On This Day: June 24 (Theodore Beza 6/24/1519-10/13/1605, Robert Dudley Leicester 6/24/1532-9/4/1588, Saint John of the Cross 6/24/1542-12/14/1591, John Hughes 6/24/1797-1/3/1864, Henry Ward Beecher 6/24/1813-3/8/1887, Gustavus Swift 6/24/1839-3/29/1903, Victor Francis Hess 6/24/1883-12/17/1964, Irving Kaufman 6/24/1910-2/1/1992, Norman Cousins 6/24/1912-11/30/1990, John Ciardi 6/24/1916-3/30/1986, Al Molinaro 1919, Jack Carter 1923, Claude Chabrol 1930, Mick Fleetwood 1942, Michele Lee 1942, George Pataki 1945, Georg Stanford Brown 1943, Peter Weller 1947, Nancy Allen 1950, )
* Air Force Details a New Theory in U.F.O. Case: Dead 'Aliens' Were Test Dummies
(By WILLIAM J. BROAD, June 24, 1997)
* Jack Dempsey, 87, is Dead; Boxing Champion of 1920's
[6/24/1895-5/31/1983] (By RED SMITH, June 1, 1983)

WORLD: Latin America Is Growing Impatient With Democracy (By JUAN FORERO, June 24, 2004)
Scores Are Killed as Rebel Attacks Ripple Across Iraq (By EDWARD WONG & JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, June 24, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Doing Our Homework (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, June 24, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Attack of the Wolfman (By MAUREEN DOWD, June 24, 2004)
* OP-ED: Strangling Democracy (By VACLAV HAVEL, June 24, 2004)
OP-ED: Thou-Shalt-See TV (By ROB KUTNER, June 24, 2004)
BUSINESS: Stocks Stage a Late Rally to Close Higher
[Dow +84.50, Nasdaq +26.83] (Associated Press, June 24, 2004)
* The Ever More Graspable, and Risky, American Dream (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, June 24, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: AOL Worker Is Accused of Selling 93 Million E-Mail Names (By SAUL HANSELL, June 24, 2004)
ARTS: A Hoard of Gold That Afghanistan Quietly Saved (By CARLOTTA GALL, June 24, 2004)
BOOKS: 'SHADOW DIVERS': Bones Amid the China in a Sub at the Bottom of the Atlantic
(By JANET MASLIN, June 24, 2004)
FILM: For Mel Gibson, 'The Passion' Seems Mostly a Blessing (By SHARON WAXMAN, June 24, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, June 24, 2004)
High-Maintenance TV (By ERIC A. TAUB, June 24, 2004)
* Looking for the Eureka! Button (By KATIE HAFNER, June 24, 2004)
HOW IT WORKS: O Captain! My Captain! Thy Joystick Is Near (By MARCIA BIEDERMAN, June 24, 2004)
NETWORKING: From a Tiny Plug, a Cable-Free Household (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, June 24, 2004)
PERIPHERALS: 'The Next Slide, Please,' Accomplished Wirelessly (By Tim Gnatek, June 24, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Craft Confirms a Comet Link for Peculiar Moon of Saturn (By WARREN E. LEARY, June 24, 2004)

Wednesday, June 23, 2004:
On This Day: June 23 (John Fell 6/23/1625-7/10/1686, Giambattista Vico 6/23/1668-1/23/1744, Josephine 6/23/1763-5/29/1814, Carl Reinecke 6/23/1824-3/10/1910, Irvin S. Cobb 6/23/1876-3/10/1944, Alfred Charles Kinsey 6/23/1894-8/25/1956, Paul Joseph Martin 6/23/1903-9/14/1992, James Edward Meade 6/23/1907-12/22/1995, Jean Anouilh 6/23/1910-10/3/1987, Bob Fosse 6/23/1927-9/23/1987, Irene Worth 1916, James Levine 1943, Bryan Brown 1947, Clarence Thomas 1948, Frances McDormand 1957, Karin Gustafson 1959)
Taft-Hartley Bill Curbing Labor Becomes Law As Senate Overrides Truman's Veto, 68-25
(By WILLIAM S. WHITE, June 23, 1947)
* The Duke of Windsor Dies at 77: Abdicated in 1936 to Wed Mrs. Simpson, 'Woman I Love'
[6/23/1894-5/28/1972] (By Reuters, May 28, 1972)

WORLD: 75 Die as Chechen Rebels Raid Adjacent Region for Arms (By C. J. CHIVERS and STEVEN LEE MYERS, June 23, 2004)
* BOOKS: 'My Life': His True Love Is Politics (By LARRY McMURTRY, June 23, 2004)
* FILM: 'FAHRENHEIT 9/11': Unruly Scorn Leaves Room for Restraint, but Not a Lot (By A. O. SCOTT, June 23, 2004)

Tuesday, June 22, 2004:
On This Day: June 22 (Giuseppe Mazzini 6//2/1805-3/10/1872, William McDougall 6/22/1871-11/28/1938, Sir Julian Huxley 6/22/1887-2/14/1975, Carl Hubbell 6/22/1903-11/21/1988, Michael Todd 6/22/1909-3/22/1958, John Hunt 6/22/1910-11/8/1998, Gower Champion 6/22/1921-8/25/1980, Joseph Papp 6/22/1921-10/31/1991, Freddie Prinze 6/22/1954-1/29/1977, Billy Wilder 1906, Bill Blass 1922, Ralph Waite 1928, Dianne Feinstein 1933, Kris Kristofferson 1936, Ed Bradley 1941, Michael Lerner 1941, Brit Hume 1943, Meryl Streep 1949, Lindsay Wagner 1949, Graham Greene 1952 )
French Sign Reich Truce, Rome Pact Next; British Bomb Krupp Works and Bremen
(By GUIDO ENDERIS, June 22, 1940)
* Erich Maria Remarque Is Dead at 72; Novels Recorded Agony of War
[6/22/1898-9/25/1970] (NY TIMES, September 26, 1970)

NATIONAL: Neither Rain nor Long Lines Deter Clinton Fans at Bookstore (By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, June 22, 2004)
WORLD: South Korea Confirms Death of Man Held by Terrorists in Iraq (By EDWARD WONG, June 22, 2004)
SPORTS: Navratilova Wins and Aims Volleys at Critics (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, June 22, 2004)
* ON BASEBALL: A Collection of Stories for Fans of the Future [Fay Vincent]
(By MURRAY CHASS, June 22, 2004)
GOLF: Course Management Steals Show at Open (By CLIFTON BROWN, June 22, 2004)
* TENNIS: Ferreira Gets His Own Grand Slam Record: 55 in a Row (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, June 22, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 22, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Grasping for Light of Distant Worlds (By DENNIS OVERBYE, June 22, 2004)
* Cones, Curves, Shells, Towers: He Made Paper Jump to Life (By MARGARET WERTHEIM, June 22, 2004)
A Retrospective Diagnosis Says Lenin Had Syphilis (By C. J. CHIVERS, June 22, 2004)
SIDE EFFECTS: No Skeeters, No Problem? Not So Fast (By JAMES GORMAN, June 22, 2004)
* HEALTH: Fear in the Workplace: The Bullying Boss (By BENEDICT CAREY, June 22, 2004)
HEALTH: A Debate on How to Treat Precancerous Breast Disease (By LAURIE TARKAN, June 22, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Preserving a Delicate Balance of Potassium (By JANE E. BRODY, June 22, 2004)
THE CONSUMER: New Creams Smooth Wrinkles, but They're Not Botox (By MARY DUENWALD, June 22, 2004)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Too Much Sleep Is Bad for You (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, June 22, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Remedies: A Mute for the Roar of the Snorer (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 22, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Outcomes: Acupuncture and Neck Pain (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 22, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: An Epileptic Child's Best Friend (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 22, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Prevention: Weapons in the War on Glaucoma (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 22, 2004)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: Secrets of the Happy Life (By JOHN LANGONE, June 22, 2004)
* Q & A: Persistent Smells (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, June 22, 2004)

Monday, June 21, 2004:
On This Day: June 21 (Increase Mather 6/21/1639-8/23/1723, Moses Hess 6/21/1812-4/6/1875, Sir Richard Wallace 6/21/1818-7/20/1890, Joseph Hayne Rainey 6/21/1832-8/2/1887, Jose Graca Aranha 6/21/1868-1/26/1931, Rockwell Kent 6/21/1882-3/13/1971, Pier Luigi Nervi 6/21/1891-1/9/1979, Reinhold Niebuhr 6/21/1892-6/1/1971, Mary McCarthy 6/21/1912-10/25/1989, Judy Holliday 6/21/1922-6/7/1965, Al Hirschfield 1903, Jane Russell 1921, Maureen Stapleton 1925, Ernie Kopell 1933, Monte Markham 1935, Ron Ely 1938, Mariette Hartley 1940, Meredith Baxter 1947, Michael Gross 1947, Prince William 1982)
Three Men Reported Missing In Mississippi Civil Rights Campaign
(By CLAUDE SITTON, June 21, 1964)
* Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, Dies in Paris
[6/21/1905-4/15/1980] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, April 16, 1980)

SPORTS: Navratilova, 47, Wins at Wimbledon (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, June 21, 2004)
* REDS 6, CARDINALS 0: Griffey Hits 500th Homer, and the Injuries Melt Away (By MURRAY CHASS, June 21, 2004)
BUSINESS: MOST WANTED MEDIA: Click One for the Gipper (By IAN AUSTEN, June 21, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: I.B.M. Decides to Market a Blue Streak of a Computer (By STEVE LOHR, June 21, 2004)
* Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World (By KATIE HAFNER, June 21, 2004)
* ADVERTISING: The Internet Ad You Are About to See Has Already Read Your E-Mail
(By SAUL HANSELL, June 21, 2004)
Day 2: I Learn the Books Are Cooked (By STEVE LOHR, June 21, 2004)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Conflict Over Contact Lenses (By BOD TEDESCHI, June 21, 2004)
SCIENCE: Pilot Guides Private Plane Beyond Atmosphere, a First (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, June 21, 2004)

Sunday, June 20, 2004:
On This Day: June 20 (Salvator Rosa 6/20/1615-3/15/1673, Adam Ferguson 6/20/1723-2/22/1816, Thomas Edward Bowdich 6/20/1791-1/10/1824, Jacques Offenbach 6/20/1819-10/5/1880, Alexander Winton 6/20/1860-6/21/1932, Sir Frederick Hopkins 6/20/1861-5/16/1947, Jean Moulin 6/20/1899-7/8/1943, Errol Flynn 6/20/1909-10/14/1959, Chester Arthur Burnett 6/20/1910-1/10/1976, Chet Atkins 1924, Olympia Dukasis 1931, Martin Landau 1931, James Tolkan 1931, Danny Aiello 1933, Brian Wilson 1942, Anne Murray 1945, Adre Watts 1946, Tina Sinatra 1948, Lionel Richie 1949, John Goodman 1952)
Cassius Clay Guilty in Draft Case; Gets Five Years in Prison
(By MARTIN WALDRON, June 20, 1967)
* Lillian Hellman, Playright, Author, and Rebel Dies at 79
[6/20/1905-6/30/1984] (NY TIMES, July 1, 1984)

After Century in a Log Cabin, Emma Buck Dies at 100 or 101 (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, June 20, 2004)
Bobb Schaeffer, Curator and Expert on Fossil Fish, Dies at 90 (By JEREMY PEARCE, June 20, 2004)
WORLD: 4 Killed After Hostage's Death Are Called Saudi Cell's Leaders (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, June 20, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Love Our Technology, Love Us (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, June 20, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Because They Could (By MAUREEN DOWD, June 20, 2004)
BUSINESS: Wrigley's Second Chance to Smile (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, June 20, 2004)
ECONOMIC VIEW: A Fight Against Fear as Well as Inflation (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, June 20, 2004)
THE BOSS: Ready for the Admiral [Kevin W. Sharer, CEO Amgen] (As told to GLENN RIFKIN, June 20, 2004)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, June 20, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 20, 2004)
STYLE: Why Did They Die in Cosmetic Surgery? (By ALEX KUCZYNSKIand WARREN ST. JOHN, June 20, 2004)
* BETA MALE: Count Me Out of the Hard Labor (By RICK MARIN, June 20, 2004)
Of, by and for the Fancy People (By ALEX WILLIAMS, June 20, 2004)
* Keeping Bill and Hillary on the Same Page (By STRAWBERRY SAROYAN, June 20, 2004)
VOWS: Jen Cohn and Robert Siegel (By ELAINE LOUIE, June 20, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, June 20, 2004)
And Now for the Hard Part (By PHILIP SHENON, June 20, 2004)
FIGHTERS POUR IN: Iraq Is a Hub for Terrorism, However You Define It (By EDWARD WONG, June 20, 2004)
* The Slump Has Ended, but Not the Gloom (By DAVID LEONHARDT, June 20, 2004)
Guess Who's Left Holding the Briefcase? (It's Not Mom.) (By JUDITH WARNER, June 20, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 20, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: War Words (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, June 20, 2004)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Against Happiness (By JIM HOLT, June 20, 2004)
LIVES: Talking Him Out of It (By SUSANNE PARI, June 20, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, June 20, 2004)
* BOOKS: The Pastiche of a Presidency, Imitating a Life, in 957 Pages [Clinton]
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, June 20, 2004)

Saturday, June 19, 2004:
On This Day: June 19 (Blaise Pascal 6/19/1623-8/19/1662, Thomas Sully 6/19/1783-11/5/1872, William Henry Webb 6/19/1816-10/30/1899, Elbert Hubbard 6/19/1856-5/7/1915, James J. Walker 6/19/1881-11/18/1946, Wallis Warfield Windsor 6/19/1896-4/24/1986, Guy Lombardo 6/19/1902-11/5/1977, Paul Flory 6/19/1910-9/9/1985, Abe Fortas 6/19/1910-4/6/1982, Viktor Patsayvev 6/19/1933-6/29/1971, Pauline Kael 1919, Gena Rowlands 1936, Al Wilson 1939, Aung San Suu Kyi 1945, Phylicia Rashad 1948, Ann Wilson 1950, Kathleen Turner 1954, Paula Abdul 1962)
Civil Rights Bill Passed, 73-27; Johnson Urges All To Comply; Dirksen Berates Goldwater
(By E. W. KENWORTHY, June 19, 1964)
* Gehrig, 'Iron Man' of Baseball, Dies at the Age of 37
[6/19/1903-6/2/1941] (NY TIMES, June 3, 1941)

Bernard Vonderschmitt, 80, Semiconductor Designer, Dies (By JOHN MARKOFF, June 19, 2004)
NATIONAL: G.O.P. Offensive Puts Small Dent in Kerry's Image (By ADAM NAGOURNEYand JIM RUTENBERG, June 19, 2004)
WORLD: Acting on Threat, Saudi Militant Group Kills Captive American (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, June 19, 2004)
* SPORTS: Catchers Who Hit Homers Honor One of Their Own [Mike Piazza] (By, June 19, 2004)
* SPORTS: Baseball Stats Say: Let Barry Bonds Hit (By BRUCE WEBER, June 19, 2004)

Friday, June 18, 2004:
On This Day: June 18 (Bartolommeo Ammannati 6/18/1511-4/22/1592, Feofan Prokopovich 6/18/1681-9/19/1736, William Lassell 6/18/1799-10/5/1880, Edward Wyllis Scrips 6/18/1854-3/12/1926, Henry Clay Folger 6/18/1857-6/11/1930, Nicolae Iorga 6/18/1871-11/28/1940, James Montgomery Flagg 6/18/1877-5/27/1960, Philip Barry 6/18/1896-12/3/1949, Laura Hobson 6/18/1900-2/28/1986, Anastasia 6/18/1901-7/16/1918, Ian Carmichael 1920, Tom Wicker 1926, Roger Ebert 1942, Paul McCartney 1942, Carol Kane 1952, Isabella Rossellini 1952)
Charter Of Human Rights Is Adopted In U.N. (By MALLORY BROWNE, June 18, 1948)
Daladier, Signer of Munich Pact, Dies at 86 [6/18/1884-10/10/1970] (NY TIMES, October 12, 1970)

BUSINESS: Shares Dip Despite Growing Recovery in the Job Market * TECHNOLOGY: Intel Is Aiming at Living Rooms in Marketing Its Latest Chip (By JOHN MARKOFF and GARY RIVLIN, June 18, 2004)
* ART: 'CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI': Cool Warmth, Buoyant Stone, Majestic Wood (By ROBERTA SMITH, June 18, 2004)
ARTS: 'RUHLMANN'; 'ART DECO PARIS': For the Classy and the Climbers, the High Priest of Art Deco
(By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, June 18, 2004)
ARTS: JUST BROWSING: That Invisible Hand Guides the Game of Ticket Hunting (By WILLIAM GRIMES, June 18, 2004)
* MUSIC: A Jewish Madonna? Is That a Mystery? (By JOSEPH BERGER, June 18, 2004)
* SCIENCE: To Surprise of Researchers, Comet Has a Personality (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, June 18, 2004)

Thursday, June 17, 2004:
On This Day: June 17 (John Wesley 6/17/1703-3/2/1791, Charles Gounod 6/17/1818-10/18/1893, E. G. Squier 6/17/1821-4/17/1888, John Robert Greeg 6/17/1867-2/23/1948, James Weldon Johnson 6/17/1871-6/26/1938, Aleksandr Friedmann 6/17/188-9/16/1925, M.C. Escher 6/17/1898-3/27/1972, Martin Bormann 6/17/1900-5/?/1945, Sammy Fain 6/17/1902-12/6/1989, Ralph Bellamy 6/17/1904-11/29/1991, Charles Eames 6/17/1907-8/21/1978, John Hersey 6/17/1914-3/24/1993, Kingman Brewster, Jr. 6/17/1919-11/8/1988, Peter Lupus 1932, Rod Paige 1933, Barry Manilow 1946, Joe Piscopo 1951, Greg Kinnear 1964, Dan Jansen 1965, Venus Williams 1980)
Amelia Earhart Flies Atlantic, First Woman To Do It; Tells Her Own Story of Perilous 21-Hour Trip to Wales; Radio Quit and They Flew Blind Over Invisible Ocean (By ALLEN RAYMOND, June 17, 1928)
* Igor Stravinsky, the Composer, Dead at 88: Shook Music World in 1913 With 'Sacre du Printemps'
[6/17/1882-4/6/1971] (By DONAL HENAHAN, April 7, 1971)

NATIONAL: Bill Clinton, on '60 Minutes,' Speaks of Affair With Intern (By COURTNEY C. RADSCH, June 17, 2004)
BUSINESS: Attacks on Iraqi Oil Industry Squelch Market Enthusiasm * BOOKS: Dissent Greets Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial (By ALANA NEWHOUSE, June 17, 2004)
DANCE: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: With Two Sets of Swan Queens, Many Reasons to Be Smitten
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, June 17, 2004)
MUSIC: Cruises for Music Lovers Jam Their Way Across the Sea (By CHRIS NELSON, June 17, 2004)
MUSIC: Kicking Her Way Up the Country Charts (By PHIL SWEETLAND, June 17, 2004)
GARDEN: Cooling Your House, Draining Your Wallet (By MATTHEW L. WALD, June 17, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, June 17, 2004)
* Art Unfolds in a Search for Keywords (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, June 17, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Scientists Teleport Not Kirk, but an Atom (By KENNETH CHANG, June 17, 2004)

Wednesday, June 16, 2004:
On This Day: June 16 (Sir John Cheke 6/16/1514-9/13/1557, Julius Plucker 6/16/1801-5/22/1868, Edward Davy 6/16/1806-1/26/1885, Sir George Frampton 6/16/1860-5/21/1928, Bobby Clark 6/16/1888-2/12/1960, Jean Peugeot 6/16/1896-11/18/1966, Stan Laurel 6/16/1890-2/23/1965, Barbara McClintock 6/16/1902-9/2/1992, Ilona Massey 6/16/1910-8/10/1974, Katharine Graham 1917, Erich Segal 1937, Joyce Carol Oates 1938, Joan Van Ark 1943, Roberto Duran 1951, Gino Vannelli 1952, Laurie Metcalf 1955, Kerry Wood 1977)
President Roosevelt Starts Recovery Program, Signs Bank, Rail and Industry Bills
(NY TIMES, June 16, 1933)
* Old Apache Chief Geronimo Is Dead at Near 90 [6/16/1829-2/17/1909] (NY TIMES, February 18, 1909)
NATIONAL: Original Plan for 9/11 Attacks Involved 10 Planes, Panel Says (By DAVID STOUT, June 16, 2004)
Bush Thanks U.S. Troops, but Cites Challenges Ahead (By MARIA NEWMAN, June 16, 2004)
THE DICTATOR: Iraq Seeks Custody of Hussein; Bush Has Security Concerns
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER and EDWARD WONG, June 16, 2004)
* SPORTS: Curt Schilling Has Quickly Endeared Himself to Red Sox Fans (By JACK CURRY, June 16, 2004)
BASKETBALL: PISTONS WIN SERIES, 4-1: Teamwork Thumps Star Power (By CHRIS BROUSSARD, June 16, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: Bloomsday, 1904 (NY TIMES, June 16, 2004)
BUSINESS: Treasury Prices Show Big Gains Consumer Prices Surge at Fastest Rate in 3 Years (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, June 16, 2004)
Mandalay Said to Be Near Approval of Sale to MGM (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, June 16, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: High-End Technology Work Not Immune to Outsourcing (By STEVE LOHR, June 16, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Federal Agency Declines to Create Do-Not-Spam Registry (By SAUL HANSELL, June 16, 2004)
FILM: 'AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS': Jackie Chan Dives In to Rough Up Jules Verne
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, June 16, 2004)

Tuesday, June 15, 2004:
On This Day: June 15 (Franz Danzi 6/15/1763-4/13/1826, Hablot Knight Browne 6/15/1815-7/8/1882, Adah Isaacs Menken 6/15/1835-8/10/1868, Edvard Grieg 6/15/1843-9/4/1907, Nagano Osami 6/15/1880-1/5/1947, Malvina Hoffman 6/15/1887-7/10/1966, Yuri Andropov 6/15/1914-2/9/1984, Saul Steinberg 6/15/1914-5/12/1999, Mario Cuomo 1932, Waylon Jennings 1937, Aron Kincaid 1943, Russell Hitchcock 1949, Jim Belushi 1954, Julie Hagerty 1955, Eileen Davidson 1959, Helen Hunt 1963, Courteney Cox Arquette 1964)
More than 1000 Dead in Fire Aboard Steamboat in New York City's East River
(NY TIMES, June 15, 1904)
* Erik Erikson, Psychoanalyst of Human Development, Dies at 91 [6/15/1902-5/12/1994] (NY TIMES, May 13, 1994)
NATIONAL: As Clinton Is Honored, a Brief Break From Politics. Very Brief. (By DAVID E. SANGER, June 15, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Drop After a Report of Strong May Retail Sales BUSINESS TRAVEL: How Not to Spend Your Next, or First, Honeymoon (By FRANCINE PARNES, June 15, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo Expands E-Mail Storage, in Nod to Google (By SAUL HANSELL, June 15, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 15, 2004)
* SCIENCE: 31 Moons, Now Close Enough to Touch (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, June 15, 2004)
Making Science Fact, Now Chronicling Science Fiction (By KENNETH CHANG, June 15, 2004)
* SIDE EFFECTS: Roll Over. Fetch. Sit. Smart Dog? Hmmm. (By JAMES GORMAN, June 15, 2004)
In Case of the Dead Otters, Evidence Points to Opossums (By CHRIS DIXON, June 15, 2004)
HEALTH: Does He or Doesn't He? It's Harder to Tell (By DAN HURLEY, June 15, 2004)
* Scientists Unlock One More of Sleep's Secrets (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, June 15, 2004)
* THE DOCTOR'S WORLD: A Recollection of Early Questions About Reagan's Health
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., June 15, 2004)
HEALTH: The Subject Is Subjects (By BENEDICT CAREY, June 15, 2004)

Monday, June 14, 2004:
On This Day: June 14 (Charkes-Augustin de Coulomb 6/14/1736-8/23/1806, John Bartlett 6/14/1820-12/3/1905, Vasile Alecsandri 6/14/1821-8/22/1890, Robert La Follette 6/14/1855-6/18/1925, Karl Landsteiner 6/14/1868-6/26/1943, Edward Bowes 6/14/1874-6/14/1946, John McCormack 6/14/1884-9/16/1945, Margaret Bourke-White 6/14/1906-8/27/1971, Che Guevara 6/14/1928-10/9/1967, Jerzy Kosinski 6/14/1933-5/3/1991, Dorothy McGuire 1916, Gene Barry 1923, Pierre Salinger 1925, Marla Gibbs 1931, Jack Bannon 1940, Donald Trump 1946, Will Patton 1954, Eric Heiden 1958, Boy George 1961, Steffi Graf 1969)
Argentine Forces Surrender to British Troops on Disputed Falkland Islands
(NY TIMES, June 14, 1982)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Dies at 85 [6/14/1811-7/1/1896] (NY TIMES, April 10, 1959)
NY REGION: Landfill, Park...Final Resting Place? (By ANTHONY DePALMA, June 14, 2004)
* Metropolitan Diary (By JOE ROGERS, June 14, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Pioneer Who Kept the Web Free Honored With a Technology Prize
(By VICTORIA SHANNON, June 14, 2004)
Selling 'Nemo' Online, Trying to Repel Pirates (By SAUL HANSELL, June 14, 2004)
Phone Giants Are Projected to Dominate Internet Calls (By KEN BELSON, June 14, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Private Space Travel? Dreamers Hope a Catalyst Will Rise From the Mojave Desert
(By JOHN SCHWARTZ, June 14, 2004)

Sunday, June 13, 2004:
On This Day: June 13 (Winfield Scott 6/13/1786-5/29/1866, Jose Antonio Paez 6/13/1790-5/7/1873, James Clerk Maxwell 6/13/1831-11/5/1879, Robert Wood 6/13/1879-11/6/1969, Etienne Gilson 6/13/1884-9/19/1978, Elizabeth Schumann 6/13/1885-4/23/1952, Mark Van Doren 6/13/1894-12/10/1972, Tage Erlander 6/13/1901-6/21/1985, Red Grange 6/13/1903-1/28/1991, Luis Alvarez 6/13/1911-9/1/1988, Ralph Edwards 1923, Bobby Freeman 1940, Malcolm McDowell 1943, Jonathan Hogan 1951, Stellan Skarsgard 1951, Richard Thomas 1951, Tim Allen 1953, Ally Sheedy 1962, Jamie Walters 1969)
Supreme Court's Miranda Decision on Criminal Suspects' Rights (NY TIMES, June 13, 1966)
* William Butler Yeats, Irish Nobel Laureate Poet, Dies at 73
[6/13/1865-1/28/1939] (NY TIMES, January 28, 1939)

NATIONAL: Kerry Behind the Scenes: Restless, Multisyllabic (By JODI WILGOREN, June 13, 2004)
'Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Those Old Protest Tactics Have to Go' (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, June 13, 2004)
WORLD: Transfer of Power to the Iraqis Is Said to Be Well Under Way (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, June 13, 2004)
* By a Back Door to the U.S.: A Migrant's Grim Sea Voyage
(By GINGER THOMPSON & SANDRA OCHOA, June 13, 2004)
SPORTS: Tiger's Human, and Golf World Wonders if That's Good or Bad (By CLIFTON BROWN, June 13, 2004)
* INVESTING: Is the Stock Market Too Focused on Rates? (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, June 13, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 13, 2004)
FRONT ROW: Mizrahi Is Back With Two Collections (By RUTH LA FERLA, June 13, 2004)
STYLE: The Days and Nights of Juleanna Weiss (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, June 13, 2004)
A New Half-Owner for Versace, and She's Almost 18 (By CATHY HORYN, June 13, 2004)
* VOWS: Krista Smith and Michael Quattrone (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, June 13, 2004)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, June 13, 2004)
* TRAVEL: Fine Teas Flower in the Bay Area (By ALLISON HOOVER BARTLETT, June 13, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, June 13, 2004)
A Nation Divided? Who Says? (By JOHN TIERNEY, June 13, 2004)
FAITH IN THE FUTURE: Why America Sees the Silver Lining (By JOHN LELAND, June 13, 2004)
* For Scientists, It's Hard to Love Venus (By KENNETH CHANG, June 13, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 13, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: Happy Warrior (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, June 13, 2004)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Machines Men Still Want? (By DAPHNE MERKIN, June 13, 2004)
QUESTIONS FOR REBECCA WALKER: Reimagining Boyhood (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, June 13, 2004)
* CONSUMED: The Alienation Market (By ROB WALKER, June 13, 2004)
* The Fading World of Leopold Bloom (By JONATHAN WILSON, June 13, 2004)
* FOOD: Chinese Characters (By JASON EPSTEIN, June 13, 2004)
* LIVES: Grace Notes [Grace Kelly] (By SANDRA FISH, June 13, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, June 13, 2004)

Saturday, June 12, 2004:
On This Day: June 12 (Cosimo I 6/12/1519-4/21/1574, Harriet Martineau 6/12/1802-6/27/1876, Charles Kingsley 6/12/1819-1/23/1875, Sir Oliver Lodge 6/12/1851-8/22/1940, Thomas Walsh 6/12/1859-3/2/1933, Fritz Lipmann 6/12/1899-7/24/1986, Bill Naughton 6/12/1899-1/9/1992, Milovan Djilas 6/12/1911-4/20/1995, Anne Frank 6/12/1929-3/?/1945, David Rockefeller 1915, Samuel Z. Arkoff 1918, Uta hagen 1919, George Bush 1924, Vic Damone 1928, Jim Nabors 1930, Marv Albert 1941, Spencer Abraham 1952, )
Raze Berlin Wall, Reagan Urges Soviet (By GERALD M. BOYD, June 12, 1987)
* Anthony Eden Dead at 79; Career Built on Style and Dash Ended with Invasion of Egypt
[6/12/1897-1/14/1977] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, January 15, 1977)
* NATIONAL: At Rites for Reagan, Soaring Farewells (By TODD S. PURDUM, June 12, 2004)
* McCain Is Said to Tell Kerry He Won't Join (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, June 12, 2004)

Friday, June 11, 2004:
On This Day: June 11 (George Wither 6/11/1588-5/2/1667, John Constable 6/11/1776-3/31/1837, Julia Cameron 6/11/1815-1/26/1879, Dame Millicent Fawcett 6/11/1847-8/5/1929, Richard Strauss 6/11/1864-9/8/1949, Yasunari Kawabata 6/11/1899-4/16/1972, Ernie Nevers 6/11/1903-5/3/1976, Jacques-Yves Cousteau 6/11/1910-6/25/1997, Vince Lombardi 6/11/1913-9/3/1970, Irving Howe 6/11/1920-5/5/1993, Rise Stevens 1913, Richard Todd 1919, William Styron 1925, Gene Wilder 1935, Johnny Brown 1937, Chad Everett 1937, Jackie Stewart 1939, Joey Dee 1940, Adrienne Barbeau 1945, Peter Bergman 1953, Joe Montana 1956)
Soviet And Britain Sign War And Peace Pact; Molotoff And Roosevelt Plan For 2D Front;
Army Fliers Blasted Two Fleets Off Midway (By W.H. LAWRENCE, June 11, 1942)
Ex-Rep. Jeanette Rankin Dies at 92; First Woman in Congress
[6/11/1880-5/18/1973] (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, May 20, 1973)
* WASHINGTON LETTER: Reagan a Great President? Time Will Tell (By R. W. APPLE Jr., June 11, 2004)

Thursday, June 10, 2004:
On This Day: June 10 (James Short 6/10/1710-6/14/1768, Gustave Courbet 6/10/1819-12/31/1877, Louis Marie Anne Couperus 6/10/1863-7/16/1923, André Derain 6/10/1880-9/8/1954, Hattie McDaniel 6/10/1895-10/26/1952, Clyde Beatty 6/10/1903-7/19/1965, Frederick Loewe 6/10/1904-2/14/1988, Sir Terence Rattigan 6/10/1911-11/30/1977, Ralph Kirkpatrick 6/10/1911-4/13/1984, Robert Maxwell 6/10/1923-11/5/1991, Barry Morse 1918, Prince Philip 1921, Nat Hentoff 1925, June Have 1926, Lionel Jeffries 1926, Maurice Sendak 1928, Gardner McKay 1932, F. Lee Bailey 1933, Alexandra Stewart 1939, Shirley Alston 1941, Jurgen Prochnow 1941, Jeff Greenfield 1943, Elisabeth Shue 1963, Elizabeth Hurley 1965, Linda Evangelista 1965, Tara Lipinski 1982)
Cease-Fire in Syria Accepted; Israelis Hold Border Heights; Soviet Breaks Ties to Israel
(By SYDNEY GRUSON, June 10, 1967)
* Judy Garland, 47, Star of Stage and Screen, Is Found Dead in Her London Home
[6/8/1867-4/9/1959] (NY TIMES, June 23, 1969 )

* Ray Charles, Who Reshaped American Music, Dies at 73 (By JON PARELES, June 10, 2004)
NATIONAL: The Capital Pays Homage to 'a Graceful and a Gallant Man' (By TODD S. PURDUM, June 10, 2004)
THE SCENE: World Leaders Get a Glimpse of America's High Life (By DAVID E. SANGER and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, June 10, 2004)
WORLD: Bush Doesn't Expect NATO to Send More Troops to Iraq (By BRIAN KNOWLTON, June 10, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Honors for President Reagan (NY TIMES, June 10, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Epitaph and Epigone (By MAUREEN DOWD, June 10, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: D-Day in Iraq (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, June 10, 2004)
LETTERS: Reagan's Biggest Role (2 Letters) (By ARTHUR C. BENEDICT, et. al., June 10, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall as Investors Reconsider Interest Rate Outlook
[Dow -64.08, Nasdaq -32.92] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 9, 2004)
BUSINESS: New Report Says Outsourcing Causes 9% of U.S. Layoffs (By REUTERS, June 10, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, June 10, 2004)
* For Budding Authors, a Rapid-Fire Publishers (By ERIC A. TAUB, June 10, 2004)
* SCIENCE: A New Ice Age? None Soon, Snow 2 Miles Deep Implies (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, June 10, 2004)

Wednesday, June 9, 2004:
On This Day: June 9 (Peter I the Great 6/9/1672-2/8/1725, Samuel Slater 6/9/1768-4/21/1835, Otto Nicolai 6/9/1810-5/11/1849, Bertha Suttner 6/9/1843-6/21/1914, James Stillman 6/9/1850-3/15/1918, Carl Nielsen 6/9/1865-10/3/1931, S. N. Behrman 6/9/1893-9/9/1973, Patrick Steptoe 6/9/1913-3/21/1988, Les Paul 1915, Robert S. McNamara 1916, George Axelrod 1922, Marvin Kalb 1930, Jackie Mason 1934, Joe Santos 1936, Michael J. Fox 1961, Johnny Depp 1963)
Welch Assails McCarthy's 'Cruelty' & 'Recklessness' In Attack On Aide; Senator, On Stand, Tells Of Red Hunt
(By W.H. LAWRENCE, June 9, 1954)
* Cole Porter Is Dead; Songwriter Was 72 [6/9/1891-10/15/1964] (NY TIMES, October 16, 1964 )

NATIONAL: In California, 100,000, One by One, Pay Tribute to a President (By JOHN M. BRODER and CHARLIE LeDUFF, June 9, 2004)
NY REGION: State, but Not City, to Close on Friday to Honor Reagan (By MICHAEL COOPER, June 9, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Roots of Abu Ghraib (NY TIMES, June 9, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Poems of Blood and Anger (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, June 9, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Resolution's Weakness (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, June 9, 2004)
OP-ED: Will the Kurds Go Home? (By BARTLE BREESE BULL, June 9, 2004)
* OP-ED: Stepford Is Us (By CATHERINE ORENSTEIN, June 9, 2004)
LETTERS: Reagan's Optimism, and His Flaws (4 Letters) (By BRUCE SHAMES, et. al., June 9, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Up as Lower Oil Prices Offset Greenspan Remarks
[Dow +41.44, Nasdaq +2.91] (By Reuters, June 9, 2004)
ARTS: More Than Child's Play: Making Over the Modern (By CAROL VOGEL, June 9, 2004)
BOOKS: Dylan, Master Poet? Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Christopher Ricks]
(By CHARLES McGRATH, June 9, 2004)
BOOKS: THE MEANING OF SPORTS': And You Thought It Was Just a Ballgame
[Michael Mandelbaum] (By PETE HAMILL, June 9, 2004)
FILM: 'IMELDA': For a Regal Pariah, Despite It All, the Shoe Is Never on the Other Foot
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, June 9, 2004)
FILM: A Filmmaker Was Charmed by Her Notorious Subject [Ramona S. Diaz's "Imelda']
(By NANCY RAMSEY, June 9, 2004)
TV: Will 'Sex and the City' Without the Sex Have Much Appeal? (By JULIE SALAMON, June 9, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY Times, June 9, 2004)
FOOD: Hives for Hire Stop Only to Pollinate (By NORMAN VANAMEE, June 9, 2004)
SCIENCE: Rover Unearths More Evidence of Water on Mars, Scientists Say (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, June 9, 2004)
* As Venus Dances Across the Sun, Earth Dwellers See History Unfold (By WARREN E. LEARY, June 9, 2004)

Tuesday, June 8, 2004:
On This Day: June 8 (Gian Domenico Cassini 6/8/1625-9/14/1712, Robert Schumann 6/8/1810-7/29/1856, Samuel Hirsch 6/8/1815-5/14/1889, Sir John Millais 6/8/1829-8/13/1896, Robert Wagner 6/8/1877-5/1953, Marguerite Yourcenar 6/8/1903-12/17/1987, John Campbell 6/8/1910-7/11/1971, Robert Preston 6/8/1918-3/21/1987, Byron White 1917, Barbara Bush 1925, Jerry Stiller 1927, Dana Wynter 1930, Joan Rivers 1933, Millicent Martin 1934, James Darren 1936, Bernie Casey 1939, Nancy Sinatra 1940, Bonnie Tyler 1953)
Suspect in Assassination of Dr. King Is Seized in London
(By Fred P. GRAHAM, June 8, 1968)
* Frank Lloyd Wright Dies; Famed Architect Was 89 [6/8/1867-4/9/1959] (NY TIMES, April 10, 1959)

James M. Roche Dies at 97; Led G.M. in the Late 1960's (By WOLFGANG SAXON, June 8, 2004)
Robert Quine, 61, Punk Rock Guitarist, Dies (By BEN SISARIO, June 8, 2004)
NATIONAL: Cannons Echo as Washington Drills for Reagan's State Funeral (By DAVID STOUT, June 8, 2004)
THE PREPARATIONS: Threat of Terror Colors Plans for Security at Reagan Funeral (By GLEN JUSTICE, June 8, 2004)
Tenet's Departure May Ease an Overhaul of Intelligence (By DOUGLAS JEHL and PHILIP SHENON, June 8, 2004)
WORLD: Security Council Unanimously Backs Revised Iraq Resolution (By WARREN HOGE, June 8, 2004)
U.S. May Cut Third of Troops In South Korea (By JAMES BROOKE and THOM SHANKER, June 8, 2004)
A 100-Year-Old Horror, Through 9/11 Eyes (By GLENN COLLINS, June 8, 2004)
NYC: Reality Check During Time of Mourning [Reagan] (By CLYDE HABERMAN, June 8, 2004)
SPORTS: In Baseball Draft, Teams Seek Degree of Certainty (By LEE JENKINS, June 8, 2004)
LIGHTNING WINS SERIES, 4-3: Tampa Bay Takes Its First Drink From Stanley Cup (By JOE LAPOINTE, June 8, 2004)
* ON BASEBALL: Two Sports, Two Elusive Crowns [Triple Crowns] (By MURRAY CHASS, June 8, 2004)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: ESPN Looks Back, but Not at Itself (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, June 8, 2004)
EDITORIALS: A Fitting Tribute to Mr. Reagan (NY TIMES, June 8, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: A Stroll Across the Sun [Venus transit] (NY TIMES, June 8, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Great Taxer [Reagan] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, June 8, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Reagan's Promised Land (By DAVID BROOKS, June 8, 2004)
OP-ED: Racing to Ruin the C.I.A. (By ROBERT M. GATES, June 8, 2004)
LETTERS: Mourning Reagan, and Weighing His Legacy (9 Letters) (By PAUL MARASCIULLO, et. al., June 8, 2004)
* LETTERS: So Close: Smarty Jones and the American Dream (4 Letters) (By MARISA A. GRAZIANO, et. al., June 8, 2004)
LETTERS: Las Vegas, Boom Town (By SHELLEY BERKLEY, June 8, 2004)
BUSINESS: Dow Jumps 148 in Broad Rally Spurred by Jobs Data
[Dow +148.26, Nasdaq +42] (By Bloomberg News, June 8, 2004)
Greenspan Says Inflation May Force Fed to Raise Rates Sharply (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, June 8, 2004)
Microsoft Appeals Brussels Ruling (By DANIEL DOMBEY, FT.COM, June 8, 2004)
* 2 Weeklies' Covers Separated by a Common Reagan Picture (By DAVID CARR, June 8, 2004)
* Lost Luggage Is Rare, but the Trauma Can Be Acute (By SHARON McDONNELL, June 8, 2004)
ARTS: The Renovated Noguchi Museum Is Friendlier but Still Discreet (By CAROL VOGEL, June 8, 2004)
* BOOKS: Author Finds That With Fame Comes Image Management [Azar Nafisi] (By JULIE SALAMON, June 8, 2004)
* DANCE: PENNSYLVANIA BALLET: 'Swan Lake' Moves Inside, Décor by Degas
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, June 8, 2004)
DANCE: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: Storybook Debuts for Two Young Dancers (By JACK ANDERSON, June 8, 2004)
MUSIC: The Family That Plays Together... Has an Improbably Good Time (By FRANK J. PRIAL, June 8, 2004)
TV: 'THE JURY': They Meet Secretly, Bicker and Try to Return a Verdict (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, June 8, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 8, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Thousands Watch Venus Pass Across Sun (ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 8, 2004)
* Slide Show: The Transit of Venus (NY TIMES, June 8, 2004)
* Venus Transits the Sun (StarDate Online, June 8, 2004)
* EXPLORATORIUM: Webcast of Venus Transits from Athens, Greece (San Francisco Exploratorium, June 8, 2004)
SCIENCE: An Icy Riddle as Big as Greenland (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, June 8, 2004)
The Thrill of Finding the World's Edge (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, June 8, 2004)
* The Baby Universe's First Cry: A Million Years in 5 Seconds (By KENNETH CHANG, June 8, 2004)
* A CONVERSATION WITH BRYAN SYKES: Is Genghis Khan an Ancestor? Mr. DNA Knows (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, June 8, 2004)
Free From Gravity, These Students Taste Outer Space (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, June 8, 2004)
Mild-Mannered Reporter Gets a Superman Moment (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, June 8, 2004)
* Tasty, and a Great Source of DNA (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, June 8, 2004)
* OBSERVATORY: A Big Melt (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, June 8, 2004)
HEALTH: Pills or Talk Therapy? If You're Confused, No Wonder (By BENEDICT CAREY, June 8, 2004)
Two Drugs Found to Help in Prostate and Brain Cancers (By ANDREW POLLACK, June 8, 2004)
* I BEG TO DIFFER: The Fat Epidemic: He Says It's an Illusion (By GINA KOLATA, June 8, 2004)
SIDE EFFECTS: Summertime, When People and Parasites Head for the Water (By JAMES GORMAN, June 8, 2004)
THE CONSUMER: Need Reading Glasses? Welcome to Middle Age (By MARY DUENWALD, June 8, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Advice for Perplexed Parents of Late Talkers (By JANE E. BRODY, June 8, 2004)
* VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: The Sunny Side of the Street [Vitamin D] (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 8, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: The Dangers of Yo-Yo Dieting (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 8, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Outcome: Cervical Stitches and Early Births (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 8, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatment: Tricked Into Seeing, Virtually (By JOHN O'NEIL, June 8, 2004)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Helping Troubled Youth (By JOHN LANGONE, June 8, 2004)
Q & A: Saliva and H.I.V. (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, June 8, 2004)

Monday, June 7, 2004:
On This Day: June 7 (Gregory XIII 6/7/1502-4/10/1585, Celia Fiennes 6/7/1662-4/10/1741, Paul Gaugain 6/7/1848-5/8/1903, Max Kretzer 6/7/1854-7/15/1941, George Szell 6/7/1897-7/30/1970, Elizabeth Bowen 6/7/1899-2/22/1973, James Ivory 1928, Virginia McKenna 1931, Tom Jones 1940, Nikki Giovanni 1943, Ken Osmond 1943, Jenny Jones 1946, Liam Neeson 1952, William Forsythe 1955, Prince 1958, Anna Kournikova 1981)
Pope Becomes Ruler Of A State Again (By ARNALDO CORTESI, June 7, 1929)
Jessica Tandy, a Patrician Star Of Theater and Film, Dies at 85 [6/7/1909-9/11/1994] (By MARILYN BERGER, September 12, 1994)

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Naturalist, Dies at 97 (By JEREMY PEARCE, June 7, 2004)
Loyd Sigmon, 95, Creator of California Traffic Alerts, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 7, 2004)
Alexander Skutch, 99, Expert on Central American Birds, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, June 7, 2004)
M. Searle Wright, Composer, Teacher and Organ Expert, 86, Dies (By CRAIG R. WHITNEY, June 7, 2004)
NATIONAL: Reagan Legacy Looming Large Over Campaign (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, June 7, 2004)
Deferring to Reagan, Kerry Quiets Campaign for Week (By JODI WILGOREN, June 7, 2004)
Her Home Silent, Nancy Reagan Found a Voice (By BERNARD WEINRAUB and ELISABETH BUMILLER, June 7, 2004)
* Hot on the Trail of Tornadoes, Where Too Close Is Just Right (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, June 7, 2004)
* Lawyer's Side Practice: Political Stars' Book Deals [Robert B. Barnett] (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, June 7, 2004)
WORLD: In First, Allies and Axis Unite to Remember D-Day (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, June 7, 2004)
In D-Day Rite, Bush Praises Veterans of Normandy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, June 7, 2004)
* GUANGZHOU JOURNAL: Surrounded by Factories, a Cobbler Takes His Time (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, June 7, 2004)
NY REGION: Milk Still Fortifies the Bones, but What About the Wallet? (By LYDIA POLGREEN, June 7, 2004)
Spreading the Pope's Message of Sexuality and a Willing Spirit (By MIREYA NAVARRO, June 7, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, June 7, 2004)
* SPORTS: Peers' Pressure From the Start Made Smarty Pay at the End (By JOE DRAPE, June 7, 2004)
* SPORTS: Belmont Was Racing's Finest Hour (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, June 7, 2004)
SPORTS: Belmont Ratings Increase Sharply (NY TIMES, June 7, 2004)
HORSE RACING: Birdstone, Smarty: Until They Meet Again (By BILL FINLEY, June 7, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: All Mets Know Is They're in the Hunt (By MURRAY CHASS, June 7, 2004)
BASKETBALL: PISTONS LEAD SERIES, 1-0: Pistons Start on the Road to a Potential Upset
(By CHRIS BROUSSARD, June 7, 2004)
OLYMPICS: Greek Isle Welcomes Afghan Athletes on Way to Athens (By LIZ ROBBINS, June 7, 2004)
TENNIS: Gaudio Wins French Open Roller Coaster (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, June 7, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: Ronald Reagan (NY TIMES, June 7, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Leaving It in Las Vegas (NY TIMES, June 7, 2004)
* OP-ED: A President Who Listened (By MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, June 7, 2004)
* OP-ED: Forever the Optimist (By BOB DOLE, June 7, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Reagan's Next Victory (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, June 7, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Level With Americans (By BOB HERBERT, June 7, 2004)
LETTERS: The Nation Pauses to Remember a President (9 Letters) (By OREN M. SPIEGLER, et. al., June 7, 2004)
LETTERS: Religion and Politics (2 Letters) (By JANICE GEWIRTZ, et. al., June 7, 2004)
BUSINESS: The Split Between Disney and Miramax Gets a Little Wider
(By SHARON WAXMAN and LAURA M. HOLSON, June 7, 2004)
MARKET PLACE: In Las Vegas, Showing Cards to Keep Ante From Rising (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, June 7, 2004)
NBC Claims the First Interview With O. J. Simpson, but Fox Does an End Run (By BILL CARTER, June 7, 2004)
To Watch These Programs on Cable, You Have to Find Them First (By KEN BELSON, June 7, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Where Entrepreneurs Go and the Internet Is Free (By MATT RICHTEL, June 7, 2004)
* Once, He Might Have Capitalized This Venture. Now, He Works for It. (By BILL WERDE, June 7, 2004)
* Nanotech Memory Chips Might Soon Be a Reality (By BARNABY J. FEDER, June 7, 2004)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Transforming Clicks Into Rings (By BOB TEDESCHI, June 7, 2004)
Nike Tries a New Medium for Advertising: The Blog (By NAT IVES, June 7, 2004)
Oracle�s Bid for PeopleSoft to Be Tested in Court (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, June 7, 2004)
PATENTS: Contest Over BlackBerry Patent (By TERSA RIORDAN, June 7, 2004)
* ART: Patriotic Chinese Collectors Bid for Their Treasures (By JANE PERLEZ, June 7, 2004)
BOOKS: Tolstoy's Translators Experience Oprah's Effect (By EDWARD WYATT, June 7, 2004)
DANCE: TIFFANY MILLS: Topsy-Turvy Bodies in a Gothic Universe (By JENNIFER DUNNING, June 7, 2004)
FILM: At $92.7 Million, New `Potter' Film Outdoes 1 and 2 (By REUTERS, June 7, 2004)
FILM: Hijacking Harry Potter, Quidditch Broom and All (By BILL WERDE, June 7, 2004)
MUSIC: AFRICAN RENAISSANCE OPERA: Varied Cultures Entwine Around a Zulu Princess
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, June 7, 2004)
THEATER: Tony Awards Finish Up With a Fuzzy Surprise (By JESSE McKINLEY, June 7, 2004)
THEATER: Puppet Musical Is Among Night's Multiple Winners (By JESSE McKINLEY, June 7, 2004)
TV: A Family Just Like Yours, but With More Sly Jokes and Rub Outs (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, June 7, 2004)
TV: 'FIVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT': News About Death in a File Sent From the Future
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, June 7, 2004)

Saturday, June 5, 2004:
On This Day: June 5 (Adam Smith 6/5/1723-7/17/1790, John Couch Adams 6/5/1819-1/21/1892, Pat Garrett 6/5/1850-2/29/1908, Jan Thorn-Prikker 6/5/1868-3/5/1932, Pancho Villa 6/5/1878-6/20/1923, Ruth Benedict 6/5/1887-9/17/1948, Federico Garcia Lorca 6/5/1898-8/19/1936, William Boyd 6/5/1898-9/12/1972, Tony Richardson 6/5/1928-11/14/1991, Bill Moyers 1934, Floyd Butler 1941, Spalding Gray 1941, Fred Stone 1946, Laurie Anderson 1947)
Robert Kennedy is Dead at 42, Victim of Assassin (By GLADWIN HILL, June 5, 1968)
Lord Keynes Dies of Heart Attack at 63 [6/5/1883-4/21/1946] (NY TIMES, April 22, 1946)

Victor Reuther, Influential Labor Leader, Dies at 92 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, June 5, 2004)
Dr. Charles Kelman, Who Made Cataract Removal Easier, Dies at 74 (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, June 5, 2004)
Steve Lacy, 69, Who Popularized the Soprano Saxophone, Dies (By BEN RATLIFF, June 5, 2004)
NATIONAL: Cheney Reportedly Interviewed in Leak of C.I.A. Officer's Name (By DAVID JOHNSTON, June 5, 2004)
Some Fear Power Vacuum as C.I.A. Loses Its 2 Top Leaders (By DOUGLAS JEHL, June 5, 2004)
As Campaign Picks Up, Kerry Turns to Old Circle (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, June 5, 2004)
Spain and U.S. at Odds on Mistaken Terror Arrest (By SARAH KERSHAW, June 5, 2004)
One Way to Reach Anthem High Note: Just Make It Lower (By NEAL MATTHEWS, June 5, 2004)
* HORSE RACING: At Smarty Jones's Coronation, Birdstone Makes Off With the Crown
(By JOE DRAPE, June 5, 2004)
* HORSE RACING GRAPHICS: Key Points in the Race
(NY TIMES, June 5, 2004)
* 136th BELMONT STAKES SLIDES: Smarty Jones Loses by a Length
(NY TIMES, June 5, 2004)
HORSE RACING: Smarty Jones Faces the Test of the Champion (By JOE DRAPE, June 5, 2004)
TENNIS: Argentine Men's Final in French Open (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, June 5, 2004)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Today, Philadelphia's Brotherly Love Belongs to Smarty Jones
(By CAROL E. LEE, June 5, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Beating Specialist Baker (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, June 5, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Circling the Wagons (By DAVID BROOKS, June 5, 2004)
OP-ED: Don't Know, Should Care (By JEFFREY D. SACHS, June 5, 2004)
OP-ED: Remaking Iraq Without Guns (By IRSHAD MANJI, June 5, 2004)
LETTERS: Tenet's Exit: Questions for Bush (7 Letters) (JAMES M. DOYLE, June 5, 2004)
LETTERS: Treat Depression With All the Tools (3 Letters) (RANDY S. MILDEN, June 5, 2004)
BUSINESS: Jobs Report and Strong Sales at Intel Lift Share Prices
[Dow +46.91, Nasdaq +18.36] (Associated Press, June 5, 2004)
Healthy Expansion of 248,000 Jobs Is Reported for May (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, June 5, 2004)
* Sun Shifts Tactics and Will Share Code of Its Server Software (By, June 5, 2004)
China Pledges to Use More Alternatives to Oil and Coal (By MARK LANDLER, June 5, 2004)
Citing U.S. Inquiry, Ex-Chairman Quits Computer Associates [Sanjay Kumar] (By ALEX BERENSON, June 5, 2004)
ARTS: Playing Wars Whose Wounds Are Fresh (By JENNY THOMPSON, June 5, 2004)
* ARTS: $50 Billion Question: World, Where to Begin? (By GARY ANDREW POOLE, June 5, 2004)
ARTS: Kissinger Accused of Blocking Scholar (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, June 5, 2004)
* ARTS CONNECTIONS: To Homer, Iraq Would Be More of Same (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, June 5, 2004)
BALLET: Giving a Classic a Jolt of Youthful Vigor (By JENNIFER DUNNING, June 6, 2004)
MUSIC: Russian Works Offer Thrills (and Chills) (By ALLAN KOZINN, June 5, 2004)
THEATER: Right Wing Meets Left Wing and Feathers Are Ruffled (By RANDY KENNEDY, June 5, 2004)

Friday, June 4, 2004:
On This Day: June 4 (George III 6/4/1738-1/29/1820, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim 6/4/1867-1/27/1951, Alla Nazimova 6/4/1879-7/13/1945, Natalya Goncharova 6/4/1881-10/17/1962, Harry Crosby 6/4/1898-12/10/1929, Richard Whorf 6/4/1906-12/14/1966, Charles Collingwood 6/4/1917-10/3/1985, Howard Metzenbaum 1917, Robert Merrill 1919, Dennis Weaver 1924, John Drew Barrymore 1932, Bruce Dern 1936, Anthony Braxton 1945, Keith David 1956, Angelina Jolie 1975)
* Beijing Death Toll at Least 300; Army Tightens Control of City But Angry Resistance Goes On
(By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, June 4, 1989)
* Beno Gutenberg, Seismologist, 70: Expert on Size of Earth's Core [6/4/1889-1/25/1960] (NY TIMES, January 28, 1960)

Frank Newman, Who Shaped Education, Dies at 77 (By KAREN W. ARENSON, June 4, 2004)
Frances Shand Kydd, 68, Mother of Diana, the Princess of Wales, Dies (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 4, 2004)
NATIONAL: Report Blames Agencies Over Prewar Intelligence (By DOUGLAS JEHL, June 4, 2004)
A Pentagon Plan Would Cut Back G.I.'s in Germany (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, June 4, 2004)
MISTREATMENT: Abu Ghraib Inquiry Is Said to Focus on Head of Its Interrogation Center
(By ERIC SCHMITT and ANDREA ELLIOTT, June 4, 2004)
* AMERICAN DREAMERS | THE ADMAN: The Pied Piper of Las Vegas Seems to Have Perfect Pitch
(By JOHN M. BRODER, June 4, 2004)
* EDUCATION: Some Alumni Balk Over Harvard's Pay to Money Managers (By STEPHANIE STROM, June 4, 2004)
WORLD: DIPLOMACY: Bush in Europe to Rally Support for Iraq Policy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, June 4, 2004)
PARIS JOURNAL: Tennis Everyone? In France in Spring, All Come Running (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, June 4, 2004)
NY REGION: 3rd-Grade Reading Scores Indicate Number Held Back Will Double (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, June 4, 2004)
* Belmont's Little Man With the Great Stone Face [Braulio Baeza] (By COREY KILGANNON, June 4, 2004)
* Long Live the Elephants, Long Dead (By GLENN COLLINS, June 4, 2004)
On One Side, Cheerleading; the Other, 'Block That Stadium!' (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, June 4, 2004)
* SPORTS: Many Ways to Stumble on Path to Triple Crown (By JOE DRAPE, June 4, 2004)
* HORSE RACING: Triple Crown Winners [slide show] (NY TIMES, June 4, 2004)
FOOTBALL: Giants Hoping Warner Can Be Who He Was (By DAVE ANDERSON, June 4, 2004)
EDITORIALS: George Tenet Resigns (NY TIMES, June 4, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Truth About Tiananmen (NY TIMES, June 4, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Leap of Faith (By BOB HERBERT, June 4, 2004)
OP-ED: A Scapegoat Is Not a Solution (By PAUL R. PILLAR, June 4, 2004)
OP-ED: The French Connection (By FELIX G. ROHATYN, June 4, 2004)
LETTERS: The Economy According to Bush (5 Letters) (By DAVID BERMAN, et. al., June 4, 2004)
LETTERS: China Has Changed. Or Has It? (5 Letters) (By MICHAEL J. HARRISON, et. al., June 4, 2004)
LETTERS: A Penny Saved Is a Penny... Spurned? (5 Letters) (By HUGH STEVENS, et. al., June 4, 2004)
LETTERS: World War II and Now (2 Letters) (THOMAS KIBASI, June 4, 2004)
BUSINESS: Positive News on Oil Fails to Rally Major Markets
[Dow -67.06, Nasdaq -28.72] (Associated Press, June 4, 2004)
OPEC Raises Quota; Not Much More Oil May Flow (By NEELA BANERJEE, June 4, 2004)
FLOYD NORRIS: 1970's Redux: Could a Mideast War Bring a New Oil Price Shock?
(By FLOYD NORRIS, June 4, 2004)
A Giant So Big It's a Proxy for India's Economy (By SARITHA RAI, June 4, 2004)
J. Crew Designing a Glamorous Turnaround (By TRACIE ROZHON, June 4, 2004)
* Intel Says Quarterly Revenue Is Buoyed by Phone-Chip Sales (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, June 4, 2004)
ART: 'FASTER, CHEAPER, NEWER, MORE': Big Shadows of 1848: Intimations of Modernity
(By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, June 4, 2004)
ART: 'MASTERWORKS OF SIX CENTURIES': Treasures Out of the Past, No Museum Pass Needed
(By GRACE GLUECK, June 4, 2004)
BOOKS: 'OLIVIA JOULES AND THE OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION' (By By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, June 4, 2004)
FILM: 'BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS': A Poet Weaned on Pain and Reared by Adversity (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, June 4, 2004)
FILM CRITIC: An Intense Italian Actor Driven by Unruly Passions (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, June 4, 2004)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'AUGUST SANDER': Preserving an Era Image by Image (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, June 4, 2004)
THEATER: The Tony Race: It Just Might Make History (By JESSE McKINLEY, June 4, 2004)
* TV WATCH: Revisiting the Drama of the Longest Day (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, June 4, 2004)

Thursday, June 3, 2004:
On This Day: June 3 (James Hutton 6/3/1726-3/26/1797, William Hone 6/3/1780-11/6/1842, Jefferson Davis 6/3/1808-12/6/1889, Henry James 6/3/1811-12/18/1882, Charles Lecocq 6/3/1832-10/24/1918, Ransom Eli Olds 6/3/1864-8/26/1950, Raoul Dufy 6/3/1877-3/23/1953, Josephine Baker 6/3/1906-4/12/1975, William Douglas-Home 6/3/1912-9/28/1992, Colleen Dewhourst 6/3/1924-8/22/1991, Tony Curtis 1925, Ian Hunter 1939)
American Floats In Space For 20 Minutes As He And Partner Start 4 Days In Orbit (By WALTER SULLIVAN, June 3, 1965)
* Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70 [6/3/1926-4/5/1997] (By WILBORN HAMPTON, April 6, 1997)

Nicolai Ghiaurov, Operatic Bass, Dies at 74 (By ANNE MIDGETTE, June 3, 2004)
Toshikazu Kase, 101, Japanese Diplomat, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 3, 2004)
* AMERICAN DREAMERS | THE WAITRESS: Crossing the Border Into the Middle Class
(By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, June 3, 2004)
EDITORIALS: APPRECIATIONS: A Special Prosecutor [Archibald Cox] (By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr., June 3, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The ABC's of Hatred (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, June 3, 2004)
OP-ED: Al Qaeda's Small Victories Add Up (By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN, June 3, 2004)
OP-ED: North Korea's Drug Habit (By VICTOR CHA and CHRIS HOFFMEISTER, June 3, 2004)
OP-ED: The Campaign Comes to Rome (By JOHN L. ALLEN Jr., June 3, 2004)
LETTERS: Living With Cancer, and the Labels (6 Letters) (By EDWARD F. MCCARTAN, et. al., June 3, 2004)
* LETTERS: Coming of Age: Is the Internet Friend or Foe? (2 Letters) (By DAN UZNANSKI, et. al., June 3, 2004)
LETTERS: Too Pretty for Bach? (By CHRISTOPHER NELSON, June 3, 2004)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Rise on Possibility of More Oil From OPEC
[Dow +60.32, Nasdaq -1.79] (Associated Press, June 3, 2004)
Oil Prices Fall Below $40, Reversing Rise (By NEELA BANERJEE, June 3, 2004)
Oracle Croons a New Tune About an Old Rival (By STEVE LOHR, June 3, 2004)
Two Studies, Two Results, and a Debate Over a Drug [Paxil] (By BARRY MEIER, June 3, 2004)
* ART CRITIC: The Hepburn Estate Auction, From Self-Portraits to Luggage (By CARYN JAMES, June 3, 2004)
BOOKS: 'BETWEEN DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY' Democracy in Russia Is Not a Pretty Picture
(By RICHARD PIPES, June 3, 2004)
* FILM: 'HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN':
An Adolescent Wizard Meets a Grown-Up Moviemaker (By A. O. SCOTT, June 3, 2004)
THEATER: With the Mob as Competition, the Tonys Go for the Glamour (By JESSE McKINLEY, June 3, 2004)
TV WATCH: When Creators of 'Quality Television' Try the Opposite Approach (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, June 3, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, June 3, 2004)
* Facing the World With Egos Exposed (By GARY RIVLIN, June 3, 2004)
* Whose Data Is It, Anyway? (By JEFFREY SELINGO, June 3, 2004)
STATE OF THE ART: For High-Definition Sets, Channels to Match (By DAVID POGUE, June 3, 2004)
* ONLINE SHOPPER: Detective Story: Information for Hire (By JAMES GORMAN, June 3, 2004)
WHAT'S NEXT: Just Like High-Definition TV, but With Higher Definition (By DOUGLAS HEINGARTNER, June 3, 2004)
* BASICS: Fine-Tuning Your Filter for Online Information (By JOHN R. QUAIN, June 3, 2004)
Revenge of Pac-Man: Vintage Games Are Back (By STEPHEN TOTILO, June 3, 2004)
* Who Got the Message? There's a Way to Know (By MARK GLASSMAN, June 3, 2004)
* In the Virtual Stacks, Pirated Books Find Eager Thumbs (By SANDEEP JUNNARKAR, June 3, 2004)
* ONLINE DIARY: Uncanny Connections and DVD's to Trade (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, June 3, 2004)
Where in the World Are You? Check a Hand-Held Navigator (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, June 3, 2004)
Q&A: Finding Linux Muscle for Your PC at Home (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, June 3, 2004)

Wednesday, June 2, 2004:
On This Day: June 2 (Martha Washington 6/2/1731-5/22/1802, Marquis de Sade 6/2/1740-12/2/1814, Thomas Hardy 6/2/1840-1/11/1928, Sir Edward Elgar 6/2/1857-2/23/1934, Felix Weingartner 6/2/1863-5/7/1942, Charles Stewart Mott 6/2/1875-2/18/1973, John Lehman 6/2/1907-4/7/1987, Barbara Pym 6/2/1913-1/11/1980, Charles Conrad, Jr. 6/2/1930-7/8/1999, Sally Kellerman 1937, William Guest 1941, Stacy Keach 1941, Charlie Watts 1941, Marvin Hamlisch 1944, Lasse Hallstrom 1946, Jerry Mathers 1948, Dana Carvey 1955)
* Elizabeth II Crowned In Abbey; Millions Cheer Parade In Rain (NY TIMES, May 31, 1889)
Johnny Weissmuller Dies at 79; Movie Tarzan and Olympic Gold Medalist
[6/2/1904-1/20/1984] (By ROBERT HANLEY, January 22, 1984)

* William Manchester, 82, Renowned Biographer, Dies (By RICHARD SEVERO, June 2, 2004)
* AMERICAN DREAMERS | TRIXIE: A Life as a Live! Nude! Girl! Has a Few Strings Attached
(By SARAH KERSHAW, June 2, 2004)
* WOMEN'S WORK: They Take It Off, but They Also Put on Suits, Uniforms and Blue Collars
(By SARAH KERSHAW, June 2, 2004)

EDITORIAL: Iraq's Interim Government (NY TIMES, June 2, 2004)
EDITORIAL: THE CITY LIFE: Unbearable Memories of Marketing (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, June 2, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Tiananmen Victory (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, June 2, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Abolish the Penny (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, June 2, 2004)
OP-ED: For Some Soldiers the War Never Ends (By ANDREW EXUM, June 2, 2004)
LETTERS: A National ID: Are You Ready? (7 Letters) (By BRUCE KNOBE, et. al., June 2, 2004)
LETTERS: Another War, in Another Time (4 Letters) (By JAMES YOUNG, et. al., June 2, 2004)
BUSINESS: Turnaround Late in Day Leaves Shares Slightly Higher
[Dow +14.20, Nasdaq +4.03] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 2, 2004)

THEATER: 'BOY': Trying to Make Their Lives Into Stories Worth Telling (By MARGO JEFFERSON, June 2, 2004)
SCIENCE: NASA Weighs Robot Mission to Telescope (By KENNETH CHANG, June 2, 2004)
* Where Butterflies Rest, Damage Runs Rampant (By GINGER THOMPSON, June 2, 2004)
* HEALTH: Antidepressant Seen as Effective in Treatment of Adolescents (By GARDINER HARRIS, June 2, 2004)
Large Study on Mental Illness Finds Global Prevalence (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., June 2, 2004)

Tuesday, June 1, 2004:
On This Day: June 1 (Robert Cecil Salisbury 6/1/1563-5/24/1612, Jacques Marquette 6/1/1637-5/18/1675, Francesco Maffei 6/1/1675-2/11/1755, Brigham Young 6/1/1801-8/29/1877, Mikhail Glinka 6/1/1804-2/15/1857, John Marshall Harlan 6/1/1833-10/14/1911, John Masefield 6/1/1878-5/12/1967, C. K. Ogden 6/1/1889-3/20/1957, Molly Picon 6/1/1898-4/6/1992, Richard Erdman 1925, Andy Griffith 1926, Pat Corley 1930, Pat Boon 1934, Peter Masterson 1934, Morgan Freeman 1937, Rene Auberjonois 1940, Jonathan Pryce 1947, Ron Wood 1947, Graham Russell 1950, Lisa Harman Black 1956, Alanis Morrissette 1974)
* Helen Keller, 87, Dies (NY TIMES, June 1, 1968)
* Brilliant Stardom and Personal Tragedy Punctuated the Life of Marilyn Monroe at 36
[6/1/1926-8/5/1962] (NY TIMES, August 6, 1962)

Alberta Martin, 97, Confederate Widow, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 1, 2004)
Reginald Zelnik, 68, Historian of Labor Movements in Russia, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, June 1, 2004)
AMERICAN DREAMERS | JUDGE HARDCASTLE: A Las Vegas Juvenile Judge Finds His Test Case at Home
(By CHARLIE LeDUFF, June 1, 2004)
* Adolescents in Adult City: Often From Elsewhere, and Often Going Nowhere (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, June 1, 2004)
WORLD: PRISON ROSTERS: Searing Uncertainty for Iraqis Missing Loved Ones (By IAN FISHER, June 1, 2004)
THE TRANSITION: After a Flurry of Negotiations, a Leading Candidate Emerges for the Presidency of Iraq
(By DEXTER FILKINS and STEVEN R. WEISMAN, June 1, 2004)
THEATER: 'ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING': Ladies, Ladies! When You're Not Cheeky, You're Sneaky
(By MARGO JEFFERSON, June 1, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, June 1, 2004)
* SCIENCE: A Great Spanish Explorer, Blown Off Course From Fame (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, June 1, 2004)
Saving a Reef for the Fish, and the People (By JAMES GORMAN, June 1, 2004)
* POSTCARD: A Drink? The Ice Is Vintage (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, June 1, 2004)
* Constant as the North Star? More Like Fickle (By KENNETH CHANG, June 1, 2004)
* Q & A: Big Belly, Big Shoes [feet larger during pregnacy] (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, June 1, 2004)
HEALTH: In Oregon, Choosing Death Over Suffering (By JOHN SCHWARTZ and JAMES ESTRIN, June 1, 2004)
* Tell the Doctor All Your Problems, but Keep It to Less Than a Minute (By MEREDITH LEVINE, June 1, 2004)
* How Household Junk Can Grow Into Mountains (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, June 1, 2004)
* VITAL SIGNS: Treatment: Unexpected Benefit for Diabetics [ACE inhibitors]
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, June 1, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Screening: False Positives in Mammograms (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, June 1, 2004)

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