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

Monday, March 31, 2003:
On This Day: March 31 (René Descartes 3/31/1596-2/11/1650, Franz Joseph Haydn 3/31/1732-5/31/1809, Edward Fitzgerald 3/31/1809-6/14/1883, James M. Cox 3/31/1870-7/15/1957, Arthur Griffith 3/31/1872-8/12/1922, Srge Diaghilev 3/31/1872-8/19/1929, Jack Johnson 3/31/1878-6/10/1946, Sir Lawrence Bragg 3/31/1890-7/1/1971, John McCloy 3/31/1895-3/11/1989, Octavio Paz 3/31/1914-4/19/1998, William Daniels 1927, Gordie Howe 1928, Shirley Jones 1934, Herb Alpert 1935, Richard Chamberlain 1935, Patrick Leahy 1940, Gabe Kaplan 1945, Al Gore 1948, Rhea Perlman 1948, Ed Marinaro 1950)
President Johnson Says He Won't Run for Another Term (By Tom Wicker, March 31, 1968)
Cesar Chavez, 66, Organizer of Union For Migrants, Dies
[3/31/1927-4/23/1993] (By ROBERT LINDSEY, April 24, 1993)

Robert Hudec, 68, Expert on Global Trade Law, Dies (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Mar. 31, 2003)
Vernon Hughes, 81, Authority on the Subatomic, Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, Mar. 31, 2003)
Anne Davis Wichern, 78, Specialist in Pulmonary Diseases, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 31, 2003)
Alfred Eisenpreis, 78, Beame Administrator, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Mar. 31, 2003)
SPORTS: Opening Thoughts on Opening Day (By DAVE ANDERSON, Mar. 31, 2003)
SPORTS: AGAINST THE GRAIN: Bonds Is Aging Like Fine Wine (By ALLEN BARRA, Mar. 31, 2003)
BASEBALL: Cone Is Set for Friday Start (By DAVE CALDWELL, Mar. 31, 2003)
FIGURE SKATING: Kwan's Performances Remain the Standard (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 30, 2003)
TENNIS: Agassi Wins Nasdaq-100 Open, and Sets Family Standard (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Mar. 31, 2003)

Sunday, March 30, 2003:
On This Day: March 30 (Moses Maimonides 3/30/1135-12/13/1204, Francisco de Goya 3/30/1746-4/16/1828, Anna Sweell 3/30/1820-4/25/1878, Vincent van Gogh 3/30/1853-7/29/1890, Melanie Klein 3/30/1882-9/22/1960, McGeorge Bundy 3/30/1919-9/16/1996, Richard Helms 1913, Frankie Laine 1913, Richard Dysart 1929, John Astin 1930, Warren Beatty 1937, Eric Clapton 1945, Paul Reiser 1957, MC Hammer 1963, Tracy Chapman 1964, Celine Dion 1968)
Reagan Wounded In Chest By Gunman; Outlook 'Good' After 2-Hour Surgery (By Howell Raines, March 30, 1981)
* Sean O'Casey, Irish Playwright, Is Dead at 84
[3/30/1880-9/18/1964] (NY TIMES, September 19, 1964)

Bernard Rabin, 86, Art Restorer, Is Dead (By PAUL LEWIS, Mar. 30, 2003)
Milton Henschel, Executive Who Led Jehovah's Witnesses, Dies at 72 (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
Alan Howard, Dancer and Teacher, Dies at 72 (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
NATIONAL: President Keeps the Battlefield Close at Hand (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 30, 2003)
Missile Threat Means New Rules at Airports (By PHILIP SHENON, Mar. 30, 2003)
Attack on Colleges' Aid to Minorities Widens (By GREG WINTER, Mar. 30, 2003)
For Some Entrepreneurs, Homicide Creates a Growth Industry (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Mar. 30, 2003)
La Jolla Beach Battle: Not Exactly 'Jaws' but Seals (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Mar. 30, 2003)
Thousands in Boston Demand End of War (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Mar. 30, 2003)
Wind Stirs Up Rough Week in California (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Mar. 30, 2003)
Armed With New Tools, Doctors Head to Battle (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 30, 2003)
WORLD: Rumsfeld's Imperious Style Turns Combative (By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 30, 2003)
As a Quick Victory Grows Less Likely, Doubts Are Quietly Voiced (By DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 30, 2003)
Another Day at Sea, 250-Plus and Counting (By VINCENT LAFORET, Mar. 30, 2003)
Decades Later, 60's Icons Still Live by Their Message (By JAMES BARRON, Mar. 30, 2003)
Military Mirrors Working-Class America (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & STEVEN A. HOLMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
GLOBAL VIEWPOINTS: Commentary From Around the World Shows Division Still Deep (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
THE TV WATCH: As the Conflict in Iraq Deepens, So Does the Debate About Coverage (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 30, 2003)
THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A Diverse Crew Reflects the Nation's Social Changes (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Mar. 30, 2003)
From the Battlefield, Words Before Death (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Mar. 30, 2003)
Investors in Philippine Pyramid Scheme Lose Over $2 Billion (By CARLOS H. CONDE, Mar. 30, 2003)
* SPORTS: PREVIEW '03: Baseball's Gold Standard Loses Its Luster (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 30, 2003)
* FIGURE SKATING: Kwan Wins World Championships (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 30, 2003)
SPORTS: To the Barricades! Yes, Even in Figure Skating (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 30, 2003)
Champion Kwan Keeps Fans Guessing About Future (By REUTERS, Mar. 30, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Weapons We Need Now (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Why Al Jazeera Matters (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Iraq and the Lessons of Lebanon: 'Don't Forget to Leave'
(By ETHAN BRONNER, Mar. 30, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Back Off, Syria and Iran! (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 30, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: NATO's New Front (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 30, 2003)
OP-ED: An American Myth Rides Into the Sunset (By SUSAN FALUDI, Mar. 30, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: New York's Incumbocrat Governor (By GEORGE J. MARLIN, Mar. 30, 2003)
Troubling Questions That Come With a War (By VICKI O'DAY, et. al., Mar. 30, 2003)
BUSINESS: The Complicated Calculus of Stock Options (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Mar. 30, 2003)
Fighting Oil Fires, and Creditors (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Mar. 30, 2003)
At a Food Distributor, Vendors Often Pay to Play (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 30, 2003)
Helping Soldiers Qualify for a Break (By JAN M. ROSEN, Mar. 30, 2003)
On the Trailing Edge of the Arms Industry, by Choice (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 30, 2003)
Pancho Villa to Persian Gulf, Missions Become Motorized (By SUE MEAD, Mar. 30, 2003)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Management Lessons of the Blue and Gray (By MARCI ALBOHER NUSBAUM, Mar. 30, 2003)
* THE BOSS: Mind Your Mentors [helping your community] (By SAMUEL A. DiPIAZZA JR., Mar. 30, 2003)
Today's Lesson, Class, Is This: Ethics Really Matter in Business (Compiled by MARK A. STEIN, Mar. 30, 2003)
To Offset Stocks, a Look to Futures (By DONNA ROSATO, Mar. 30, 2003)
MY JOB: At the Gate, Enjoying the Parade (By CAROLE PREVEN, Written with Ellen Rapp, Mar. 30, 2003)
Sure, Sound off on Iraq, Just Not in an Interview (By MELINDA LIGOS, Mar. 30, 2003)
LIFE'S WORK: Trying to Bridge Needs of Work and Home (By LISA BELKIN, Mar. 30, 2003)
BUSINESS DIARY: Yellow Ribbons Are Flowing Again (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: 'Do Not Call' List to Start This Summer (Compiled by VIVIAN MORINO, Mar. 30, 2003)
INVESTING DIARYL Fed Economist Predicts Faster Return to Stocks (Compiled by Jeff Sommer, Mar. 30, 2003)
Another War, Same General (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 30, 2003)
MARKET WATCH: Tougher to Tell Who's Who in Commodities (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 30, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: In War, Forecasters Find Few Data Points (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Mar. 30, 2003)
PRIVATE SECTOR: Keeping Soldiers on the Line (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Mar. 30, 2003)
* STRATEGIES: March of History Is Seldom in Step With Market Timing (By MARK HULBERT, Mar. 30, 2003)
INVESTING WITH LARRY J. PUGLIA: T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Mar. 30, 2003)
MARKET INSIGHT: Projecting Oil's Course When Calm Is Restored (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Mar. 30, 2003)
* ART: Cutting Through Angkor's Wats Politics and Banyans (By ROBERT TURNBULL, Mar. 30, 2003)
* Art That Survived In a Land Of Tumult (By Holland Cotter , July 27, 1997)
* ART: Has Modern Art Always Been Torture? (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 30, 2003)
ART: Sometimes a Couch Is Not Just a Couch (By GINGER DANTO, Mar. 30, 2003)
DANCE: From Russia, With Love (By ANNETTE GRANT, Mar. 30, 2003)
DANCE: Underwear, Danger and Desire (By WENDY PERRON, Mar. 30, 2003)
DANCE: Balanchine for Hire (By SHERYL FLATOW, Mar. 30, 2003)
FILM: Robert Duvall: Lord of the Dance ["Assassination Tango"] (By DANA KENNEDY, Mar. 30, 2003)
FILM: A Mai-Décembre Romance, Rekindled Onscreen [Jeanne Moreau] (By MARCELLE CLEMENTS, Mar. 30, 2003)
FILM: Please Hold the Line (For 30 Years) (By DAVE KEHR, Mar. 30, 2003)
MUSIC: Lisa Marie Enters the Building (By ANTHONY DeCURTIS, Mar. 30, 2003)
MUSIC: Gathering the Glorious Sounds of Transylvanian Sleep Deprivation (By JOHANNA KELLER, Mar. 30, 2003)
MUSIC: The Calendars Never Lie [Berlioz] (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 30, 2003)
MUSIC SPINS: 'Anthology': Let It Be Even Longer (By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 30, 2003)
MUSIC: Have Cellos, Will Travel (Expensively) [Pieter Wispelwey] (By MARISSA SILVERMAN, Mar. 30, 2003)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: Busting a Monopoly at the Met (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Mar. 30, 2003)
MUSIC RECORDINGS: A Disc Worth Waiting a (Long) Lifetime For (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 30, 2003)
THEATER: A Memo From the Broadway Past (By JEREMY McCARTER, Mar. 30, 2003)
THEATER: The Stars What I Lured (By KENNETH BRANAGH, Mar. 30, 2003)
THEATER: 'Antigone' as a Protest Tactic (By RON JENKINS, Mar. 30, 2003)
THEATER: Can New York's Plays Get the Middle East? (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 30, 2003)
TV: The Return of the Sit-Down Comedian (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Mar. 30, 2003)
TV: Iraq Around the Clock (By FRANK RICH, Mar. 30, 2003)
TV: Murder, for the Sheer Fun of It (By BARRY GIFFORD, Mar. 30, 2003)
FASHION: Toymakers Study Troops, and Vice Versa (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Mar. 30, 2003)
Surprise, Mom: I'm Anti-Abortion (By ELIZABETH HAYT, Mar. 30, 2003)
FRIENDS IN DEED: In the Company of Vice Presidents, A Big Texas Contractor Prospered
(By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Mar. 30, 2003)
McDonald's: When a Brand Becomes a Stand-In for a Nation (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 30, 2003)
The End of Taxes as We Know Them (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Mar. 30, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
* ON LANGUAGE: Shock and Awe (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 30, 2003)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: A Woman's Work? (By MARGARET TALBOT, Mar. 30, 2003)
* QUESTIONS FOR JOHN W. DOWER: Occupation Preoccupation (Interview by DAVID WALLIS, Mar. 30, 2003)
DIAGNOSIS: Glowing Rash, High Fever, Kidney Failure (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Mar. 30, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: Bad Bounce (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 30, 2003)
THE WAR AT HOME: The Unknown Soldier (By ANTHONY SWOFFORD, Mar. 30, 2003)
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING: Aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf, March 14, 2003
(Interview by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Mar. 30, 2003)
COVER ARTICLE: The Trading Desk (By MICHAEL LEWIS, Mar. 30, 2003)
* With God on His Side (By GARRY WILLS, Mar. 30, 2003)
The Sky Was Falling: Baghdad, 2003 (By PATRICK GRAHAM , Mar. 30, 2003)
Their Day in Court [Saddam Husseinıs so-called dirty dozen] (By SUSAN DOMINUS, Mar. 30, 2003)
STYLE: An Eye for the Ladies (By LISA EISNER and ROMÁN ALONSO, Mar. 30, 2003)
FOOD: Redbaiting (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Mar. 30, 2003)
LIVES: Human Shield, Running Home (By GODFREY MEYNELL as told to CRAIG TAYLOR, Mar. 30, 2003)
SPECIAL: STYLE & ENTERTAINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
Be Your Own Centerpiece (By JOHN HYLAND, Mar. 30, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2003)
'W. C. Fields': The Tragic Clown [James Curtis] (By RICHARD SCHICKEL, Mar. 30, 2003)
'River of Shadows': Pictures in Motion [Rebecca Solnit] (By JIM LEWIS, Mar. 30, 2003)
HEALTH: U.S. Warning on Respiratory Disease (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN with KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 30, 2003)
HEALTH: Hong Kong Reports Surge of Cases of Disease (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 30, 2003)

Saturday, March 29, 2003:
On This Day: March 29 (Santorio Santorio 3/29/1561-2/22/1636, John Tyler 3/29/1790-1/18/1862, Elihu Thomson 3/29/1853-3/13/1937, Howard Lindsay 3/29/1889-2/11/1968, Jozsef Mindszenty 3/29/1892-5/6/1975, Lavrenty Beria 3/29/1899-12/23/1953, Sir William Walton 3/29/1902-3/8/1983, E. Power Biggs 3/29/1906-3/10/1977, Pearl Bailey 3/29/1918-8/17/1990, Samuel Moore Walton 3/29/1918-4/5/1992, Eugene McCarthy 1916, Eileen Heckart 1919, John Major 1943, Vangelis 1943, Kurt Thomas 1956, Christopher Lambert 1957, Elle MacPherson 1963, Lucy Lawless 1968, Jennifer Capriati 1976)
U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam; Hanoi Frees the Last P.O.W. (By Joseph B. Treaster, March 29, 1973)
* Cy Young Is Dead at 88; Famed Pitcher, Record of 511 Victories
[3/29/1867-11/4/1955] (NY TIMES, November 5, 1955)

Paul Zindel, Author and Prize-Winning Playwright, Dies at 66 (By JAMES BARRON, Mar. 29, 2003)
Boleslaw Wierzbianski, 89, Journalist, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2003)
Roland De Marco, 92, Ex-College President, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2003)
FIGURE SKATING: Kwan Excels Again, but Russian Is in Pursuit (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 29, 2003)

Friday, March 28, 2003:
On This Day: March 28 (William Byrd 3/28/1674-8/26/1744, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 3/28/1793-12/10/1864, St. John Neumann 3/28/1811-1/5/1860, Wade Hampton 3/28/1818-4/11/1902, Aristide Briand 3/28/1862-3/7/1932, Paul Whiteman 3/28/1890-12/29/1967, Rudolf Serkin 3/28/1903-5/8/1991, Onoe Shoroku II 3/28/1913-6/25/1989, Freddie Bartholomew 3/28/1924-1/23/1992, Zbigniew Brzezinski 1928, Charlie McCoy 1941, Mike Newell 1942, Ken Howard 1944, Reba McEntire 1955, Julia Stiles 1981)
Radiation Is Released in Accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania (By Donald Janson, March 28, 1979)
August A. Busch Jr. Dies at 90; Built Largest Brewing Company
[3/28/1899-9/29/1989] (By ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr., September 30, 1989)

* Robert Bourque, Who Created Penny Arcade Wizard, Dies at 82 (By PAUL LEWIS, Mar. 28, 2003)
NATIONAL: Missing Pieces of Columbia's Left Wing May Provide Clues (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 28, 2003)
NATIONAL: 911 Calls by Cellphone Swamp California Patrol (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Mar. 28, 2003)
House Resolution Warns Iraq on Treatment of U.S. Captives (By CARL HULSE, Mar. 28, 2003)
Conservatives Tailor Tone to Fit Course of the War (By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 28, 2003)
At Age 11, Girl Says, She Voluntarily Left With Male Neighbor (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 28, 2003)
Smallpox Vaccination Is Linked to 2nd Death (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 28, 2003)
EDUCATION: Top-Performing School Teaches Art of Test-Taking (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Mar. 28, 2003)
WORLD: MILITARY ANALYSIS: New Reality, Hard Choices (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Mar. 28, 2003)
Baghdad Bombed; Desert Skirmishes Stretch 350 Miles (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Mar. 28, 2003)
THE IRAQI CAPITAL: Iraqi Defense Chief Vows Fight, Predicting Baghdad Clash in Days (By JOHN F. BURNS, Mar. 28, 2003)
A FOOTHOLD: A Village Is Bloodied in a Stubborn Battle (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Mar. 28, 2003)
INTELLIGENCE: Army Reports Iraq Is Moving Toxic Arms to Its Troops (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 28, 2003)
KIRKUK: Iraqis Abandon Post and Kurds Advance (By C. J. CHIVERS, Mar. 28, 2003)
V CORPS COMMANDER: A Gulf Commander Sees a Longer Road (By JIM DWYER, Mar. 28, 2003)
LEADERS: Standing Together, Blair Is Expansive and Bush Is Terse (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 28, 2003)
War to Keep Going Until Regime Ends, Bush and Blair Say (By THOM SHANKER & ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 28, 2003)
Bush and Blair at Camp David: 'Acting Together in a Noble Purpose' (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2003)
After Weeks on Standby, an Army Division Will Finally Join the War (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Mar. 28, 2003)
CASUALTIES:
Wounded American Soldiers Recall Ambushes by Iraqi Troops in Civilian Garb (By MARK LANDLER, Mar. 28, 2003)
Two Newsday Journalists Presumed Missing After Days of Silence (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 28, 2003)
INTELLIGENCE: C.I.A. Warned Pentagon of Guerrilla Tactics (By JAMES RISEN, Mar. 28, 2003)
ROAD TO BAGHDAD: Gap 50 Miles From Capital Could Become a Battlefield (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 28, 2003)
THE ARAB WORLD: Commentators See Dangers in Distorted News Coverage (By SUSAN SACHS, Mar. 28, 2003)
FIRST MARINE DIVISION: Constant Iraqi Attacks Are Holding Up the Allied Forces Trying to Reach Baghdad
(By JOHN KIFNER, Mar. 28, 2003)
IRAQI PORT: Seals Clear Mines in Vital Harbor (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 28, 2003)
CENTRAL IRAQ: Endless Supply Convoy Is Frustrated Endlessly (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 28, 2003)
THE TV WATCH: Ally on the Battlefield and Before the Cameras (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 28, 2003)
A New War Brings New Role for Women (By JODI WILGOREN, Mar. 28, 2003)
AN OVERVIEW: MARCH 27, 2003: Supply Lines Under Attack, Action in the North, and an Intelligence Debate
(By ANTHONY DePALMA, Mar. 28, 2003)
173RD BRIGADE: Americans Protect Airstrip on the Northern Front (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 28, 2003)
OVERTURE FROM PARIS: France Holds Out a Tentative Olive Branch, With Thorns, to the U.S.
(By ALAN COWELL, Mar. 28, 2003)
* A Prominent Rabbi Reconsiders His Recent Antiwar Remarks (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Mar. 28, 2003)
2 Suspects in Murder of Serbian Premier Are Killed by Police (By REUTERS, Mar. 28, 2003)
Japan Launching Spy Satellite Despite North Korean Threats (By JAMES BROOKE, Mar. 28, 2003)
SARENDHI JOURNAL: Broken Taboos Doom Lovers in an Indian Village (By AMY WALDMAN, Mar. 28, 2003)
Kenya's New Millionaires Find Wives and Woe (By MARC LACEY, Mar. 28, 2003)
Divided Over Another War, but Still on Speaking Terms (By LESLIE EATON, Mar. 28, 2003)
NY REGION: City Says 1,780 Homeless Are Sleeping on Manhattan Streets (By GREG RETSINAS, Mar. 28, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: How Do I Get Joan Didion to My Book Party? (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 28, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Watchdog Who Welcomes the Spotlight's Glare [Rose Hill Hearn]
(By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Mar. 28, 2003)
(By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 28, 2003)
* SPORTS: Sarah Hughes, Chin Up, Hits a Bump in the Ice (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 28, 2003)
SPORTS: Chinese Pairs Skaters Cut a Real Profile in Grace (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 28, 2003)
BASEBALL: Unlikely Comeback for Cone: From Retirement to No. 4 Starter (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Mar. 28, 2003)
JOURNEYS: On Opening Day, a Stream of Memories {Trout fishing] (By ERNEST SCHWIEBERT, Mar. 28, 2003)
EDITORIAL: A Role for the U.N. in Iraq's Future (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Vulnerable Supply Lines (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Secrecy: The Bush Byword (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2003)
OP-ED: Hearts and Minds (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 28, 2003)
OP-ED: Delusions of Power [Cheney & California Energy Crisis] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 28, 2003)
OP-ED: Loyalty at the Point of a Gun (By AMATZIA BARAM, Mar. 28, 2003)
OP-ED: And Now, the Good News (By MAICHAEL O'HANLON, Mar. 28, 2003)
LETTERS: As Allies and Iraqis Face the Ravages of War (By ALLAN ECKHAUS, et. al., Mar. 28, 2003)
LETTERS: Moynihan's Legacy (By LOUIS RICHTER, Mar. 28, 2003)
BUSINESS: Steep Losses Are Narrowed After Bush and Blair Speak
[Dow -28, Nasdaq -3] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 28, 2003)
A Setback for Sale of AOL Book Unit (By, Mar. 28, 2003)
* Fears of War and Illness Hurt Tourism in Asia (By DAVID BARBOZA, Mar. 28, 2003)
* FLOYD NORRIS: French's Unmentioned British Flavor (By FLOYD NORRIS, Mar. 28, 2003)
ADVERTISING: Reality Shows Face a Very Real War (By STUART ELLIOTT, Mar. 28, 2003)
ART: CHRISTIAN SCHAD: Uneasy Intimations of Disaster (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 28, 2003)
* ART: Art Is Long? So Are the Lines [Metropolitan Museum of Art] (By JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 28, 2003)
ART: ASIA WEEK: Millenniums of Asia, Packed Into a Week (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 28, 2003)
ART: 'GREAT POTS': From Exquisite to Goofy to Run of the Kiln (By GRACE GLUECK, Mar. 28, 2003)
* INSIDE ART: Selling Three To Buy One [Boston Museum of Fine Arts] (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 28, 2003)
ART IN REVIEW: Walter Gay; Gillian Carnegie; Kathe Burkhart (By GRACE GLUECK & ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 28, 2003)
ANTIQUES: Objects of Desire From China (By WENDY MOONAN, Mar. 28, 2003)
BOOKS: 'WHAT I LOVED': Down in SoHo, Friends Are Consumed by Subtext (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Mar. 28, 2003)
DANCE: Sharing That Inner Sparkle (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 28, 2003)
* DANCE: MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: A Poetry Reading With Frisky Meter
[Poems by Edith Sitwell] (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: 'THE CORE': Trying to Jump-Start the Earth's Heart (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: 'HEAD OF STATE': Black Presidential Candidate Is Chosen So He Will Lose (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: 'ASSASSINATION TANGO': Crime Boss Hires a Killer With a Sentimental Side (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: 'BASIC': And Then There Were Two (Plus a Mystery) (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: 'STEVIE': In Rural Illinois, Chronicling One Man's Slow Fall (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: 'THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS': Before Sound, There Was Pornography (By DAVE KEHR, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: 'RESPIRO': One Woman Goes for a Swim, and an Entire Village Takes Note
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 28, 2003)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Oscar Gold for New York (By DAVE KEHR, Mar. 28, 2003)
* MUSIC: PIERRE BOULEZ: A Burst of Boulez (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 28, 2003)
ROCK: THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND: A Tale of Two Guitars (By BEN RATLIFF, Mar. 28, 2003)
THEATER: 'ELEGIES': Departed Friends Vibrantly Recalled in Song (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 28, 2003)
THEATER: 'URBAN COWBOY': Just Guys and Gals Lookin' for Love (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 28, 2003)
TV WEEKEND | 'RUDY': Nobody's Perfect, Mr. Mayor (By ANITA GATES, Mar. 28, 2003)
* HEALTH: Research Shows Sperm Has Egg Locater (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 28, 2003)
HEALTH: Confusion in China Over Mystery Illness (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Mar. 28, 2003)

Thursday, March 27, 2003:
On This Day: March 27 (Andrew Bell 3/27/1753-1/27/1832, Alfred-Victor Vigny 3/27/1797-9/17/1863, Otto Wallach 3/27/1847-2/26/1931, Sir Henry Royce 3/27/1863-4/22/1933, Patty Smith Hill 3/27/1868-5/25/1946, Edward Steichen 3/27/1879-3/25/1973, Sata Eisaku 3/27/1901-6/3/1975, Pee Wee Russell 3/27/1906-2/15/1969, Denton Welch 3/27/1915-12/30/1948, Sarah Vaughan 3/27/1924-4/3/1990, Lord Callaghan 1912, Cyrus R. Vance 1917, Anthony Lewis 1927, Arthur Mitchell 1934, Julian Glover 1935, Michael York 1942, Tony Banks 1950, Maria Schneider 1952, Quentin Tarantino 1963, Mariah Carey 1970)
Khrushchev Takes Full Control, Replacing Bulganin as Premier (By Max Frankel, March 27, 1958)
* Mies van der Rohe Dies at 83; Leader of Modern Architecture
[3/27/1886-8/17/1969] (NY TIMES, August 19, 1969)

* Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Former Senator From New York, Dies at 76 (By ADAM CLYMER, Mar. 27, 2003)
Eddie Jaffe, the Press Agent of Broadway, Dies at 89 (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Mar. 27, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Daniel Patrick Moynihan (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2003)
* TOKYO JOURNAL: Behold, the Invisible Man, if Not Seeing Is Believing (By JAMES BROOKE, Mar. 27, 2003)
HEALTH: Key to Strains of Anthrax Is Discovered (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 27, 2003)

Wednesday, March 26, 2003:
On This Day: March 26 (Herman Haupt 3/26/1817-12/14/1905, Edward Bellamy 3/26/1850-5/22/1898, A. E. Housman 3/26/1859-4/30/1936, Syngman Rhee 3/26/1875-7/19/1965, Othmar Ammann 3/26/1879-9/22/1965, James Conant 3/26/1893-2/11/1978, Joseph Campbell 3/26/1904-10/31/1987, Tennessee Williams 3/26/1911-2/25/1983, William C. Westmoreland 1914, Rufus Thomas 1917, Pierre Boulez 1925, Sandra Day O'Connor 1930, Leonard Nimoy 1931, Alan Arkin 1934, James Cann 1940, Erica Jong 1942, Bob Woodward 1943, Diana Ross 1944, Vicki Lawrence 1949, Ronnie McDowell 1950, Teddy Pendergrass 1950, Martin Short 1950, Elaine Chao 1953, Leeza Gibbons 1957, Jennifer Grey 1960)
Egypt & Israel Sign Formal Treaty, Ending a State of War After 30 Years; Sadat & Begin Praise Carter's Role
(By Bernard Gwertzman, March 26, 1979)
* Robert Frost Dies at 88; Kennedy Leads in Tribute
[3/26/1874-1/29/1963] (NY TIMES, January 30, 1963)

* Adam Osborne, Pioneer of the Portable PC, Dies at 64 (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 26, 2003)
Janet Kelly, Editor of Venezuelan Daily, Dies at 56 (By REUTERS, Mar. 26, 2003)
Sandy Tarlow, 59, Who Worked for Ralph Lauren, Is Dead (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 26, 2003)

Tuesday, March 25, 2003:
On This Day: March 25 (Saint Catherine of Siena 3/25/1347-4/29/1380, Matilda Gage 3/25/1826-3/18/1898, Arturo Toscanini 3/25/1867-1/16/1957, William Knudsen 3/25/1879-4/27/1948, Sir David Lean 3/25/1908-4/16/1991, Simone Signoret 3/25/1921-9/30/1985, Flannery O'Connor 3/25/1925-8/3/1964, Penelope Gilliatt 3/25/1932-5/9/1993, Eileen Ford 1922, Jim Lovell 1928, Gene Shalit 1932, Gloria Steinem 1934, Anita Bryant 1940, Aretha Franklin 1942, Paul Michael Glaser 1943, Elton John 1947, John Stockwell 1961, Sarah Jessica Parker 1965, Debi Thomas 1967)
25,000 Go to Alabama's Capitol; Wallace Rebuffs Petitioners; White Rights Worker is Slain
(By Roy Reed, March 25, 1965)
* Bela Bartok Dies at 64 In Hospital Here
[3/25/1881-9/26/1945] (NY TIMES, September 27, 1945)

Peggy Conklin, Actress on Broadway, Dies (NY TIMES, Mar. 25, 2003)
Dennis Williams, 46, Man Who Was Exonerated of Murder, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 25, 2003)
August Meier, 79, Authority on Black American History, Is Dead (By ERIC PACE, Mar. 25, 2003)
SCIENCE: Bears' Healthy Genes (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 25, 2003)

Monday, March 24, 2003:
On This Day: March 24 (Georgius Agricola 3/24/1494-11/21/1555, Rufus King 3/24/1755-4/29/1827, Thos. Spencer Baynes 3/24/1823-5/31/1887, William Morris 3/24/1834-10/3/1896, Andrew Mellon 3/24/1855-8/26/1937, Emile Fabre 3/24/1869-9/25/1955, Edward Weston 3/24/1886-1/1/1958, Fatty Arbuckle 3/24/1887-6/30/1933, Wilhelm Reich 3/24/1897-11/3/1957, Thomas E. Dewey 3/24/1902-3/16/1971, Bob Mackie 1940, Curtis Hanson 1945, Louie Anderson 1953, Robet Carradine 1954, Alyson Hannigan 1974)
Largest U.S. Tanker Spill Spews 270,000 Barrels Of Oil Off Alaska (By Philip Shabecoff, March 24, 1989)
* Harry Houdini Dies at 52 After Operations
[3/24/1874-10/31/1926] (NY TIMES, November 1, 1926)

Rem Krassilnikov, Russian Bane of C.I.A., Dies at 76 (By JAMES RISEN, Mar. 24, 2003)
Judge Allen G. Schwartz, 68, Dies; Corporation Counsel to Koch (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Mar. 24, 2003)
* Oscars 2003: The 75th Annual Academy Awards (NY TIMES, Mar. 24, 2003)
The 2003 Oscar Winners (NY TIMES, Mar. 24, 2003)
* FILM CRITIC: A World of Fantasy, Conscious of Reality (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 24, 2003)
* 'Chicago' Is Big Oscar Winner, but 'Pianist' Surprises Hollywood (By RICK LYMAN, Mar. 24, 2003)

Sunday, March 23, 2003:
On This Day: March 23 (Margaret of Anjou 3/23/1430-8/25/1482, Pierre-Simon Laplace 3/23/1749-3/5/1827, Roger Martin du Gard 3/23/1881-8/22/1958, Juan Gris 3/23/1887-5/11/1927, Sidney Hillman 3/23/1887-7/10/1946, Cedric Gibbons 3/23/1893-7/26/1960, Erich Fromm 3/23/1900-3/18/1980, Marty Allen 1922, Mark Rydell 1934, Chaka Khan 1953, Amanda Plummer 1957, Keri Russell 1976)
Grissom Maneuvers the Gemini as He and Young Make 3 Orbits in Test for a Space Rendezvous
(By Evert Clark, March 23, 1965)
Joan Crawford, Screen Star, Dies at 69 in Manhattan Home
[3/23/1908-5/10/1977] (By PETER B. FLINT, May 11, 1977)

Col. Edson Raff, Who Led Paratroopers in 1942, Dies at 95 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Mar. 23, 2003)
T.P. Ryan Jr., 74, Ex-Mayor of Rochester, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2003)
WORLD: Marines Overcome Fierce Firefight to Secure Bridges in Nasiriya (By MICHAEL WILSON, Mar. 23, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Hunting for Iraq's Terror Weapons (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Grounded by War (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: Perle's Plunder Blunder (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 23, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Western Front (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: In Praise of Failed Diplomacy (By NIALL FERGUSON, Mar. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: The Actors Who Reflect the Stars (By JAMES McCOURT, Mar. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: Here on the Home Front: Flags and Protests (By ROCHELLE BRAUNSTEIN, et. al., Mar. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: Is the Future Older, Smaller and Better? (By STIRLING D. SCRUGGS, COLLEEN BAILEY, et. al., Mar. 23, 2003)
FILM: They Both Reached for the Gun (By FRANK RICH, Mar. 23, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2003)
* 'Secret Empire': A Revolution in Snooping [Philip Taubman] (By ALEX ROLAND, Mar. 23, 2003)

Saturday, March 22, 2003:
On This Day: March 22 (Maximilian I 3/22/1459-1/12/1519, Sir Anthony Van Dyck 3/22/1599-12/9/1641, Anton Raphael Mengs 3/22/1728-6/29/1779, Thomas Crawford 3/22/1814-10/10/1857, Robert Millikan 3/22/1868-12/19/1953, Arthur Vandenberg 3/22/1884-4/18/1951, Joseph Schildkraut 3/22/1895-1/21/1964, Ruth Page 3/22/1899-4/7/1991, Johannes Brinkman 3/22/1902-5/6/1949, James Gavin 3/22/1907-2/23/1990, Karl Malden 1912, Marcel Marceau 1923, Allen H. Neuharth 1924, Stephen Sondheim 1930, William Shatner 1931, Orrin Hatch 1934, M. Emmet Walsh 1935, Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948, Fanny Ardant 1949, Bob Costas 1952, Stephanie Mills 1957)
Equal Rights Amendment is Approved by Congress (By Eileen Shanahan, March 22, 1972)
Louis L'Amour, Writer, Is Dead; Famed Chronicler of West Was 80
[3/22/1908-6/10/1988] (By JAMES BARRON, June 13, 1988)

Laura Rothenberg, Author of Cystic Fibrosis Diary, Dies at 22 (By VICKI VILA, Mar. 22, 2003)
Vasilios Choulos, 75, Who Defended 60's Figures, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 22, 2003)
Umar Wirahadikusumah, Former Indonesian Vice President, Dies at 79 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 22, 2003)

Friday, March 21, 2003:
On This Day: March 21 (St. Nicholas of Flue 3/21/1417-3/21/1487, Johann S. Bach 3/21/1685-7/28/1750, Benito Juarez 3/21/1806-7/18/1872, Alice Henry 3/21/1857-2/14/1943, Phyllis McGinley 3/21/1905-2/22/1978, John D. Rockefeller III 3/21/1906-7/10/1978, Nizar Qabbani 3/21/1923-4/30/1998, Al Freeman Jr. 1934, Kathleen Widdoes 1939, Marie-Christine Barrault 1944, Timothy Dalton 1944, Gary Oldman 1958, Matthew Broderick 1962, Rosie O'Donnell 1962
The Big Parade: On the Road to Montgomery [9 photos]
(By Roy Reed, March 21, 1965)
Florenz Ziegfeld Dies at 63 in Hollywood After Long Illness
[3/21/1869-7/22/1932] (Associated Press, July 23, 1932)

Niels Larsen, 89, Dancer With a Knack for Mime, Dies (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 21, 2003)
Zinn Arthur, Celebrity Photographer, Dies at 90 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 21, 2003)
WORLD: G.I.'s and Marines See Little Iraqi Resistance (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Mar. 21, 2003)
EDITORIAL: How to Watch the War (NY TIMES, Mar. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: After War, Let Iraqis Triumph (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Who Lost the U.S. Budget? (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Wars Can't Be Won Only From Above (By ROBERT PAPE, Mar. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: An Empty Pledge to Civilians? (By SARAH SEWALL, Mar. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Note to the Security Council: Get Involved (By DAVID L. PHILLIPS, Mar. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Into Iraq: Dispatches From an America at War (By BOB CONTI, et. al., Mar. 21, 2003)
BUSINESS: Stocks Soar to Best Weekly Gains in Two Decades
[Dow +235, Nasdaq +18.4] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 21, 2003)

Thursday, March 20, 2003:
On This Day: March 20 (Ovid 3/20/43 BC-17 AD, Jean-Antoine Houdon 3/20/1741-7/15/1828, George Caleb Bingham 3/20/1811-7/7/1879, Henrik Ibsen 3/20/1828-5/23/1906, Charles William Eliot 3/20/1834-8/22/1926, B. F. Skinner 3/20/1904-8/18/1990, Sir Michael Redgrave 3/20/1908-3/21/1985, Alfonso Garcia Robles 3/20/1911-9/2/1991, John Ehrlichman 3/20/1925-2/14/1999, Carl Reiner 1922, Fred Rogers 1928, Hal Linden 1931, Don Edwards 1939, Brian Mulroney 1929, Bobby Orr 1948, William Hurt 1950, Spike Lee 1957, Theresa Russell 1957, Holly Hunter 1958, Kathy Ireland 1963)
Terror In Tokyo: Hundreds In Japan Hunt Gas Attackers After 8 Die
(By Nicholas D. Kristof, March 20, 1995)
F. W. Taylor, Expert in Efficiency, Dies at 59
[3/20/1856-3/21/1915] (NY TIMES, March 22, 1915)

Herbert Aptheker, 87, Prolific Marxist Historian, Is Dead (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 20, 2003)
Robert Shelton, Leader of Big Klan Faction, Dies at 73 (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2003)
Robert Leonard, a Creator of Ticketmaster, Dies at 70 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 20, 2003)
George Bayer, 77, Long-Driving Golfer, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 20, 2003)
Bill Carlisle, a Star of Grand Ole Opry, Dies at 94 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 20, 2003)
WORLD: Bush Orders an Assault and Says Americans Will Disarm Foe (By DAVID E. SANGER with JOHN F. BURNS, Mar. 20, 2003)

Wednesday, March 19, 2003:
On This Day: March 19 (Johannes Magnus 3/19/1488-3/22/1544, Alonso Cano 3/19/1601-9/3/1667, Nikolay Gogol 3/19/1809-2/21/1852, David Livingstone 3/19/1813-5/1/1873, Sir Richard Burton 3/19/1821-10/20/1890, Wyatt Earp 3/19/1848-1/13/1929, William Jennings Bryan 3/19/1860-7/26/1925, James Van Fleet 3/19/1892-9/23/1992, Brent Scowcroft 1925, Patrick McGoohan 1928, Hans Kung 1928, Philip Roth 1933, Phyllis Newman 1935, Ursula Andress 1936, Ruth Pointer 1946, Glenn Close 1947)
Senate Defeats Treaty, Vote 49 to 35; Orders it Returned to the President
(NY TIMES, March 19, 1920)
Earl Warren, 83, Who Led High Court In Time of Vast Social Change, Is Dead
[3/19/1891-7/9/1974] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, July 10, 1974)

Henryk de Kwiatkowski, 79, Calumet Farm Owner, Dies (By FRANK LITSKY, Mar. 19, 2003)
Jack Goldstein, Who Helped to Explore Post-Modernist Art, Dies at 57 (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 19, 2003)
Edgar Russell Fiedler, 73, Economist and Treasury Aide, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 19, 2003)
Judy Wilson, Innovator in Children's Book Publishing, Dies at 63 (By EDEN ROSS LIPSON, Mar. 19, 2003)

Tuesday, March 18, 2003:
On This Day: March 18 (Friedrich Nicolai 3/18/1733-1/8/1811, John C. Calhoun 3/18/1782-3/31/1850, Antonio Salviati 3/18/1816-1/25/1890, Rudolf Diesel 3/18/1858-9/29/1913, Neville Chamberlain 3/18/1869-11/9/1940, Chiang Ching-kuo 3/18/1910-1/13/1988, Peter Graves 1926, John Kander 1927, George Plimpton 1927, John Updike 1932, F.W. de Klerk 1936, Charley Pride 1938, Wilson Pickett 1941, Kevin Dobson 1943, Irene Cara 1959, Vanessa Williams 1963, Bonnie Blair 1964, Queen Latifah 1970)
Russian Floats in Space for 10 Minutes; Leaves Orbiting Craft With a Lifeline
(By Henry Tanner, March 18, 1965)
Grover Cleveland Dies at 71; only U.S. president who served two non-concurrent terms
[3/18/1837-6/24/1908] (NY TIMES, June 24, 1908)

Joseph Coors Sr., Beer Maker and Conservative Patron, Dies at 85 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 18, 2003)
Amanda Davis, Novelist, Short-Story Writer and Teacher, Dies at 32 (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2003)
E. A. Rogers, 82, Nixon's 'Checkers' Adviser (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 18, 2003)
* SCIENCE: 'Lost City' Yielding Its Secrets [Machu Picchu] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 18, 2003)
* SCIENCE: This Tiny Bird Knows an Impostor When It Hatches (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Mar. 18, 2003)
Bird Lovers Hope to Keep Cats on a Very Short Leash (By JAMES GORMAN, Mar. 18, 2003)

Monday, March 17, 2003:
On This Day: March 17 (Jean-Baptiste Oudry 3/17/1686-4/30/1755, Roger Brooke Taney 3/17/1777-10/12/1864, Kate Greenaway 3/17/1846-11/6/1901, Walter Rudolf Hess 3/17/1881-8/12/1973, Gloria Swanson 3/17/1899-4/4/1983, Nat King Cole 3/17/1919-2/15/1965, Rudolf Nureyev 3/17/1938-1/6/1993, Mercedes McCambridge 1918, Paul Kantner 1941, Jim Weatherly 1943, John Sebastian 1944, Patrick Duffy 1949, Kurt Russell 1951, Lesley-Anne Down 1954, Rob Lowe 1964)
MacArthur in Australia as Allied Commander; Move Hailed as Foreshadowing Turn of Tide (By Charles Hurd, March 17, 1942)
Bobby Jones, Golf Master, Dies at 69; Only Player to Win Grand Slam
[3/17/1902-12/18/1971] (NY TIMES, December 19, 1971)

* F. William Sunderman, Doctor and Scientist, Dies at 104 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 17, 2003)
* Elliott Jaques, 86, Scientist Who Coined 'Midlife Crisis,' Is Dead (By STUART LAVIETES, Mar. 17, 2003)
William Glenn, Cardiac Surgeon, Dies at 88 (By STUART LAVIETES, Mar. 17, 2003)
John Sanford, 98, Novelist and Memoirist, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Mar. 17, 2003)
* Sylvia Burack, 86, Publisher of Advice Magazine for Writers, Dies (NY TIMES, Mar. 17, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Humanity's Slowing Growth (NY TIMES, Mar. 17, 2003)
* BOOKS: Spinning a Thriller From the Louvre (By JANET MASLIN, March 17, 2003)
HEALTH: China Provides Information on Deadly Health Threat (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Mar. 17, 2003)

Sunday, March 16, 2003:
On This Day: March 16 (Giuseppe Crespi 3/16/1665-7/16/1747, Caroline Herschel 3/16/1750-1/9/1848, James Madison 3/16/1751-6/28/1836, Antoine-Jean Gros 3/16/1771-6/26/1835, Reza Khan Pahlavi 3/16/1878-7/26/1944, Alberto Gainza Paz 3/16/1899-12/26/1977, Josef Mengele 3/16/1911-2/7/1979, Vladimir Komarov 3/16/1911-2/7/1979, Mike Mansfield 1903, Leo McKern 1920, Jerry Lewis 1926, Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1927, Bernardo Bertolucci 1940, Robin Williams 1947, Erik Estrada 1949, Kate Nelligan 1951)
Vietnamese Say G.I.'s Slew 567 in Town (By Henry Kamm, March 16, 1968)
* Maxim Gorky Dies At Moscow Villa at 68
[3/16/1868-6/14/1936] (NY TIMES, June 19, 1936)

* Al Gionfriddo, Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder, Dies at 81 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Mar. 16, 2003)
Jean-Luc Lagardère, 75, Who Founded an Aerospace and Media Empire, Dies (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Mar. 16, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2003)
HEALTH: Rare Health Alert Is Issued for Mystery Illness (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN & KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 16, 2003)

Saturday, March 15, 2003:
On This Day: March 15 (Franciscus Sylvius 3/15/1614-11/15/1672, Andrew Jackson 3/15/1767-6/8/1845, William Lamb Melbourne 3/15/1779-11/24/1848, Jules Chevalier 3/15/1824-10/21/1907, Emil von Behring 3/15/1854-3/31/1917, Christian Michelsen 3/15/1857-6/28/1925, Harold Ickes 3/15/1874-2/3/1952, Henri Saint Cyr 3/15/1902-7/27/1979, Harry James 3/15/1916-7/5/1983, Alan L. Bean 1932, Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933, Cecil Taylor 1933, Judd Hirsch 1935, Phil Lesh 1940, Mike Love 1941, Sly Stone 1944, Fabio 1961)
Johnson Urges Congress at Joint Session to Pass Law Insuring Negro Vote (By Tom Wicker, March 15, 1965)
* Liberty H. Bailey, Cornell Botanist, Is Dead at 96
[3/15/1858-12/25/1954] (NY TIMES, December 27, 1954)

Robert Hanna, 67, Architect of Open Spaces in Cities, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 15, 2003)

Friday, March 14, 2003:
On This Day: March 14 (Georg Philipp Telemann 3/14/1681-6/25/1767, Johann elder Strauss 3/14/1804-9/24/1849, Victor Emmanuel II 3/14/1820-1/9/1878, Giovanni Schiaparelli 3/14/1835-7/4/1910, Paul Ehrlich 3/14/1854-8/20/1915, Casey Jones 3/14/1864-4/30/1900, Algernon Blackwood 3/14/1869-12/10/1951, Sylvia Beach 3/14/1887-10/5/1962, Adolph Gottlieb 3/14/1903-3/4/1974, Raymond Aron 3/14/1905-10/17/1983, Diane Arbus 3/14/1923-7/26/1971, Hank Ketcham 1920, Frank Borman 1928, Michael Caine 1933, Quincy Jones 1933, Wolfgang Petersen 1941, Steve Kanaly 1946, Billy Crystal 1948, Prince Albert 1958)
Gold Now the Standard: President McKinley Signs the Financial Bill (NY TIMES, March 14, 1900)
* Dr. Albert Einstein Dies in Sleep at 76; World Mourns Loss of Great Scientist
[3/14/1879-4/18/1955] (NY TIMES, April 19, 1955)

Thursday, March 13, 2003:
On This Day: March 13 (Montdory 3/13/1594-11/10/1653, Charles Bonnet 3/13/1720-5/20/1793, Karl Schinkel 3/13/1781-10/9/1841, William Glackens 3/13/1870-5/22/1938, Albert Stevens 3/13/1886-3/26/1949, Janet Flanner 3/13/1892-11/7/1978, George Seferis 3/13/1900-9/20/1971, William J. Casey 3/13/1913-5/6/1987, Liz Anderson 1930, Jan Howard 1930, Rosalind Elias 1931, Neil Sedaka 1939, William H. Macy 1950, Deborah Raffin 1953, Bobin Duke 1954, Dana Delany 1956, John Hoeven 1957, Adam Clayton 1960, Christopher Collet 1968, Tracy Wells 1971)
Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson (NY TIMES, March 13, 1868)
* Professor Percival Lowell Dies; Martian Theory His
[3/13/1855-11/12/1916] (NY TIMES, November 14, 1916)

* SCIENCE: Scientists Find Extrasolar Planet With Atmosphere Much Like Jupiter (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 13, 2003)

Wednesday, March 12, 2003:
On This Day: March 12 (André Le Notre 3/12/1613-9/15/1700, Beorge Berkeley 3/12/1685-1/14/1753, Clement Studebaker 3/12/1831-11/27/1901, Gabriele D'Annunzio 3/12/1863-3/1/1938, Vaslav Nijinsky 3/12/1890-4/8/1950, Elaine de Kooning 3/12/1920-2/1/1989, Jack Kerouac 3/12/1922-10/21/1969, Wally Schirra 1923, Edward Albee 1928, Andrew Yound 1932, Lloyd Dobyns 1936, Al Jarreau 1940, Liza Minnelli 1946, James Taylor 1948, Jon Provost 1950, Marlon Jackson 1957, Courtney B. Vance 1960, Darryl Strawberry 1962)
Truman Acts to Save Nations From Red Rule (By Felix Belair Jr., March 12, 1947)
* Adolph S. Ochs Dead at 77; Publisher of Times Since 1896
[3/12/1858-4/8/1935] (NY TIMES, March 12, 1947)

Tuesday, March 11, 2003:
On This Day: March 11 (Torquato Tasso 3/11/1544-4/25/1595, Joseph Bertrand 3/11/1822-4/5/1900, Charles Eastlake 3/11/1836-11/20/1906, Vannevar Bush 3/11/1890-6/28/1974, Dorothy Gish 3/11/1898-6/4/1968, Frederick IX 3/11/1899-1/14/1972, Lawrence Welk 3/11/1903-5/17/1992, Harold Wilson 3/11/1916-5/24/1995, Terence Alexander 1923, Rupert Murdoch 1931, Sam Donaldson 1934, Tricia O'Neil 1945, Jerry Zucker 1950, Susan Richardson 1952, Cheryl Lynn 1957)
President Roosevelt Signs, Starts War Aid; To Ask $7,000,000,000 Fund (By Turner Catledge, March 11, 1941)
Ralph David Abernathy, Rights Pioneer, Is Dead at 64
[3/11/1926-4/17/1990] (By RICHARD SEVERO, April 18, 1990)

SPORTS: '02 World Series Champs Were Almost the Team That Wasn't (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Mar. 11, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 11, 2003)
* Barrage of Meteors May Have Doomed the Dinosaurs (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 11, 2003)

Monday, March 10, 2003:
On This Day: March 10 (Friedrich von Schlegel 3/10/1772-1/12/1829, Alexander III 3/10/1845-11/1/1894, Henryt W. Fowler 3/10/1858-12/26/1933, Hector Guimard 3/10/1867-5/20/1942, Lillian Wald 3/10/1867-9/1/1940, Bix Beiderbecke 3/10/1903-8/7/1931, Harry Bertoia 3/10/1915-11/6/1978, Ralph Emery 1933, Chuck Norris 1940, Dave Rabe 1940, Dean Torrence 1940, Bob Greene 1947, Sharon Stone 1958, Prince Edward 1964, Shannon Miller 1977)
Chernenko Is Dead in Moscow at 73; Gorbachev Succeeds Him and Urges Arms Control and Economic Vigor
(By Serge Schmemann, March 10, 1985)
* Clare Boothe Luce Dies at 84: Playwright, Politician, Envoy
[3/10/1903-10/9/1987] (By ALBIN KREBS, October 10, 1987)

SPORTS: Yankees Fine Wells $100,000 (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 10, 2003)
KNICKS 97, WIZARDS 96: Old Foe Is Given Parting Shot [Jordan's 39 points] (By CHRIS BROUSSARD, Mar. 10, 2003)

Sunday, March 9, 2003:
On This Day: March 9 (Modest Mussorgsky 3/9/1839-3/16/1881, Eddie Foy 3/9/1856-2/16/1928, Ernest Bevin 3/9/1881-4/14/1951, Tamara Karsavina 3/9/1885-5/26/1978, Victoria M. Sackville-West Victoia 3/9/1892-6/2/1962, Rex Warner 3/9/1905-6/24/1986, Samuel Barber 3/9/1910-1/23/1981, Mickey Spillane 1918, Lloyd Price 1933, Joyce Van Patten 1934, Marty Ingels 1936, Mickey Gilley 1936, Bobby Fischer 1943, Charles Gibson 1943, Trish Van Devere 1945, Jeffrey Osborne 1948, Michael Kinsley 1951, Linda Fiorentino 1960, Juliette Binoche 1964, Emmanuel Lewis 1971)
* Monitor vs. Merrimac: Desperate Naval Engagements in Hampton Roads (NY TIMES, March 9, 1862)
Yuri Gagarin Killed As Test Plane Falls, Russian 1st Cosmonaut Dies at 34
[3/9/1934-3/27/1968] (NY TIMES, March 28, 1968)

SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 9, 2003)

Saturday, March 8, 2003:
On This Day: March 8 (Giovanni Rosso 3/8/1495-11/14/1540, Carl P.E. Bach 3/8/1714-12/14/1788, William B. Booth 3/8/1856-6/16/1929, Ruggero Leoncavallo 3/8/1857-8/9/1919, Frederic Goudy 3/8/1865-5/11/1947, Otto Hahn 3/8/1879-7/28/1968, Edward Calvin Kendall 3/8/1886-5/4/1972, Louise Beavers 3/8/1902-10/26/1962, Sue Ane Langdon 1936, Jim Bouton 1939, Lynn Redgrave 1943, Andrea Parker 1969)
Hunger Causes Petrograd Riots (NY TIMES, March 8, 1917)
* Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Dies Near 94
[3/8/1841-3/6/1935] (NY TIMES, March 6, 1935)

Friday, March 7, 2003:
On This Day: March 7 (Alessandro Manzoni 3/7/1785-5/22/1873, Sir John Herschel 3/7/1792-5/11/1871, Giuseppe Ferrari 3/7/1811-6/2/1876, Henry Draper 3/7/1837-11/20/1882, Tomas Masaryk 3/7/1850-9/14/1937, Julius Wagner-Jauregg 3/7/1857-9/27/1940, Piet Mondrian 3/7/1872-2/1/1944, Helen Parkhurst 3/7/1887-6/1/1973, Anna Magnani 3/7/1908-9/26/1973, Lord Snowdon 1930, Willard Scott 1934, Daniel J. Travanti 1940, Michael Eisner 1942, John Heard 1946, Franco Harris 1950, Lynn Swann 1952, Ivan Lendl 1960)
Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes (By Roy Reed, March 7, 1965)
* Maurice Ravel, 62, Composer, Is Dead [3/7/1875-12/28/1937] (NY TIMES, December 29, 1937)

* John Edwards, 53, a Confidant of Francis Bacon, Is Dead (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 7, 2003)
Fedora Barbieri, a Mezzo Celebrated for Verdi Roles, Dies at 82 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 7, 2003)
Roger Needham, Computer Security Expert, Dies at 68 (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 7, 2003)
NATIONAL: Democrats Say War Is Premature (By CARL HULSE, Mar. 7, 2003)
G.O.P. Loses Filibuster Vote on Judicial Nominee (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Mar. 7, 2003)
Air Force Academy Investigated 54 Sexual Assaults in 10 Years (By ERIC SCHMITT with MICHAEL MOSS, Mar. 7, 2003)
NASA Records in Disarray, Study Leader Tells Board (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 7, 2003)
Hackers Steal Data on 55,000 at U. of Texas (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 7, 2003)
Schools Seek Balance as Students Join War Debate (By SAM DILLON, Mar. 7, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Careful Tone and Timing (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 7, 2003)
WASHINGTON MEMO: Surreal Time of Waiting (By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 7, 2003)
Taliban Ally Hurt in Attack While in Prison (By NICK MADIGAN, Mar. 7, 2003)
NASA Official Says Agency Faces a Drain on Its Talent Pool (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Mar. 7, 2003)
WORLD: President Readies U.S. for Prospect of Imminent War (By DAVID E. SANGER with FELICITY BARRINGER, Mar. 7, 2003)
* THE MANHUNT: Search for Osama bin Laden Intensifies, Helped by Clues Found After Aide's Capture
(By DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 7, 2003)
Israelis Storm Gaza Camp; 11 Palestinians Are Killed (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 7, 2003)
China Unveils Another Plan to Cut Bureaucratic Red Tape (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 7, 2003)
MOSCOW JOURNAL: Now on Exhibit: Russia's Soul, Exposed at Table (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Mar. 7, 2003)
Senate Approves U.S.-Russian Treaty to Cut Nuclear Arsenals (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 7, 2003)
Bush Seeks Global Pressure on North Korea (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 7, 2003)
THE PACIFIC ARENA: Airport Bombing That Killed 21 Is Laid to Philippine Separatists
(By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 7, 2003)
War Jitters Hurting Some but Helping Others in Gulf Region (By GREG MYRE, Mar. 7, 2003)
Hussein, in Rallying His Military, Also Shows Iraqis a Defiant Face (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 7, 2003)
A Dead End for Afghan Children Adrift in Pakistan (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 7, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Reminder of a Mission (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Mar. 7, 2003)
DIPLOMACY: In Russia, No Time for Gloating (By MICHAEL WINES, Mar. 7, 2003)
MILITARY: Baghdad Targets Picked if Hussein Holes Up There (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Mar. 7, 2003)
INTELLIGENCE: Iraq Plotting to Use Garb of the Allies, U.S. Says (By THOM SHANKER, Mar. 7, 2003)
NORTHERN IRAQ: For Kurds, Big Menace Is an Incursion by Turks (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 7, 2003)
PAKISTAN: Musharraf Faces U.N. Decision (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Mar. 7, 2003)
Outsiders Will Be Given Time to Leave Iraq (NY TIMES, Mar. 7, 2003)
Arafat Wants No. 2 Man in the P.L.O. as the Premier (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 7, 2003)
Engine Afire, Algerian Plane Crashes, Killing All but One of 103 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 7, 2003)
Judge Discards F.B.I. Evidence in Internet Case of Child Smut (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Mar. 7, 2003)
NY REGION: Part of Waldorf Evacuated in Bomb Scare (By TINA KELLEY, Mar. 7, 2003)
Few Convictions in Airport Security Cases (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Mar. 7, 2003)
20,000 More Seats Will Be Found for City Students by September (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Mar. 7, 2003)
Old Ways Bring Tears in a New World (By JOSEPH BERGER, Mar. 7, 2003)
Mall Case Creates Antiwar Celebrity (By WINNIE HU, Mar. 7, 2003)
More Snow, Just the Thing Nobody Wanted (By LISA W. FODERARO, Mar. 7, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: The Fettuccine Kunduz Was a Tad Lackluster (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 7, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: Marching Out of Step, by Some Irish and Gay Norms (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Mar. 7, 2003)
NYC: Rare Sighting: Transit Chief Facing Public (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 7, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The President Looks Toward War (NY TIMES, Mar. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Losses, Before Bullets Fly (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 7, 2003)
* OP-ED: The Arab World Tunes In (By TOM BROKAW, Mar. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: What a Little War in Iraq Could Do (By MICHAEL WALZER, Mar. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Nice Place to Study, but I Wouldn't Want to Work There [Yale] (By COREY ROBIN, Mar. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: War on Iraq: The Clock Is Ticking (By JANE SEMPLE WOOD, et. al., Mar. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: A Religious Divide (By Rabbi DANIEL LAPIN, Mar. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: Behavior and Botox (By TERESA BURKETT BOURGOISE, Mar. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: The American Empire (By PARIN PATEL, Mar. 7, 2003)
BUSINESS: Dow Tumbles After Release of Report on Jobless Claims
[Dow -102, Nasdaq -12] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 7, 2003)
AOL in Talks to Sell CD-DVD Maker (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 7, 2003)
Intel Issues Warning on Sales (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 7, 2003)
Factory Orders and Productivity Rise; Job Situation Is Glum (By REUTERS, Mar. 7, 2003)
FLOYD NORRIS: It's Time for Serious Talk About the Dollar (By FLOYD NORRIS, Mar. 7, 2003)
A Men's Version of Lucky Magazine (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 7, 2003)
Weak February for Retailers; The Weather Gets the Blame (By REUTERS, Mar. 7, 2003)
* ART: 'MANET/VELÁZQUEZ': The Masters of the French Masters Were Spanish
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 7, 2003)
* ART: 'ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER': An Expressionist From a Brutal Time (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 7, 2003)
ART: 'THE ARMORY SHOW 2003': 175 Galleries Converge on 2 Piers With New Art
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 7, 2003)
* ART: 'THE EARLY WORKS OF MAN RAY': Before He Was Man Ray (By GRACE GLUECK, Mar. 7, 2003)
INSIDE ART: A Mind-Reading Installation (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 7, 2003)
ART REVIEW: Jean Fautrier; Simon Periton; Simon Periton (By ROBERTA SMITH & MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 7, 2003)
ANTIQUES: The Return of Gothic Revival, Again (By WENDY MOONAN, Mar. 7, 2003)
BOOKS: 'A SHORTCUT THROUGH TIME': Harnessing Atoms to Create Superfast Computers
(By IAN FOSTER, Mar. 7, 2003)
CABARET: MAUREEN MCGOVERN: A Serenade to Love and Life (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 7, 2003)
* DANCE: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: One Choreographer in Three Guises (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 7, 2003)
* FILM CRITIC: Bodies Imperfect, Images Ideal (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'TEARS OF THE SUN': Americans Atoning for African Slaughters (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'LAUREL CANYON': An Aging Hippie, Making Both Love and War (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS': Interrelated Shards of Suburban Pathology (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE': How Out of It Can You Be? Here's Going All the Way
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'IRRÉVERSIBLE': Rape, Violence... It's O.K. to Look Away (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 7, 2003)
FILM: 'NOWHERE IN AFRICA': A Shallow Snob Transformed by Exile to Africa (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 7, 2003)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: Send In the Clown (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Mar. 7, 2003)
THEATER: 'OUR LADY OF 121ST STREET': Plenty of Rage but No Need for Aspirin
(By Bruce Weber, Mar. 7, 2003)
THEATER: 'VINCENT IN BRIXTON': Before Madness There Was Love (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 7, 2003)
TV WEEKEND: One Man's Antiwar Crusade (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 7, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Mars Has Molten Core, Hinting Vitality (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 7, 2003)
SCIENCE: Study of Antarctic Points to Rising Sea Levels (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Mar. 7, 2003)
HEALTH: Doctors Use Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Repair a Heart (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 7, 2003)
HEALTH: Many Women Gleeful at Old Friend's Encore [Today Sponge] (By KATE ZERNIKE, Mar. 7, 2003)
HEALTH: Panel Finds No Connection Between Cancer and Abortion (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Mar. 7, 2003)

Thursday, March 6, 2003:
On This Day: March 6 (John II 3/6/1405-7/21/1454, Michelangelo 3/6/1475-2/18/1564, Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien 3/6/1619-7/28/1655, Henry Laurens 3/6/1724-12/8/1792, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3/6/1806-6/29/1861, George duMaurier 3/6/1834-10/6/1896, Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolay 3/6/1844-6/8/1908, Oscar Straus 3/6/1870-1/11/1954, Ed McMahon 1923, Sarah Caldwell 1924, William Webster 1924, Alan Greenspan 1926, Doug Dillard 1937, Valentina Tereshkova 1937, Joanna Miles 1940, Ben Murphy 1942, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 1944, Mary Wilson 1944, Tom Arnold 1959, Moira Kelly 1968)
Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case (NY TIMES, March 6, 1857)
Ring Lardner Dies at 48; Noted as Writer
[3/6/1885-9/25/1933] (By ERIC PACE, September 26, 1933)

Harold Amos, 84, Pacesetter Among Blacks in Academia, Is Dead (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 6, 2003)
Sir Hardy Amies, 93, the 'Snob' Who Long Clothed the Queen, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 6, 2003)
Colin de Land, Art Dealer Who Fostered Experimentation, Dies at 47 (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 6, 2003)
Kenneth Auchincloss, Newsweek Writer and Editor, Dies at 65 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 6, 2003)
NATIONAL: Agent Who Saw 9/11 Lapses Still Faults F.B.I. on Terror (By PHILIP SHENON, Mar. 6, 2003)
Catholics Debating: Back President or Pope on Iraq? (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Mar. 6, 2003)
* Sides Debate Web Access in Libraries (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 6, 2003)
Panel Leader Wants to Add Three to Inquiry Into Columbia (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 6, 2003)
Justices Uphold Long Prison Terms in Repeat Crimes (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 6, 2003)
NASA's Work With Contractors a Focus of Columbia Investigation (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 6, 2003)
Criticism of Bush's Policy on Korea Sharpens (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 6, 2003)
Justices Reject Challenges to Megan's Laws (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 6, 2003)
Diverse Denominations Oppose the Call to Arms (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Mar. 6, 2003)
G.O.P. Sees Budget Tactic by President Backfiring (By CARL HULSE, Mar. 6, 2003)
Overhaul of 2004 Democratic Primaries Complicates Terrain (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Mar. 6, 2003)
2 Companies Pay Penalties for Improving China Rockets (By JEFF GERTH, Mar. 6, 2003)
France and Russia Ready to Use Veto Against Iraq War (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Mar. 6, 2003)
THE QAEDA NETWORK: Pakistanis Say Suspect Described Recent Meeting With bin Laden
(By RAYMOND BONNER with DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 6, 2003)
Suicide Bombing on Bus in Israel Leaves 15 Dead (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 6, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Deepening Fissure (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Mar. 6, 2003)
Online Newspaper Shakes Up Korean Politics (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Mar. 6, 2003)
* HAMBURG JOURNAL: For Cooking Up Music, Mixed Vegetables Do Fine (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 6, 2003)
Retiring Premier Says China Must Pump Money Into Economy (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 6, 2003)
Court in India Orders Archaeological Study of Disputed Holy Site (By SARITHA RAI, Mar. 6, 2003)
2 at Iraq's Mission to the U.N. Ordered to Leave the U.S. (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2003)
MILITARY OPTIONS: Pentagon Ready to Strike Iraq Within Days if Bush Gives the Word, Officials Say
(By ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 6, 2003)
MUSLIM MEETING: Conference in Qatar, Called to Consider Exile for Hussein, Erupts in a Shouting Match
(By JANE PERLEZ, Mar. 6, 2003)
Words of Refusal: Three Nations Say No (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2003)
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Two Faces of War: Armed, Ready, Yet in a Mood to Disarm (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 6, 2003)
BLUNT DIPLOMACY: Powell Attacks Validity of the Work by Weapons Inspectors in Iraq (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN with FELICITY BARRINGER, Mar. 6, 2003)
In Powell's Words: Saddam Hussein Remains Guilty (By Colin L. Powell, Mar. 6, 2003)
NORTHERN FRONT: Turkish Military Backs Role in U.S. Drive on Iraq (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 6, 2003)
* NY REGION: Students Skip Class for Peace (and Frisbee) (By LESLIE EATON, Mar. 6, 2003)
Bloomberg Will Work With Antiwar Protesters on Route for March (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Mar. 6, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Yale Oxymoron: Labor Relations (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Mar. 6, 2003)
EDUCATION: Is Answer J Right or Wrong? None of the Above, State Says (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Mar. 6, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: This Time, Outrage Is Harder to Find [subway token to $1.50] (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 6, 2003)
Web Site Hears From Dick Cheney After Parody Involving Wife (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Mar. 6, 2003)
METRO MATTERS: Hawks, Doves and a Flock on the Line (By JOYCE PURNICK, Mar. 6, 2003)
BLOCKS: Aspirations Bump Into Practicalities at Ground Zero (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Mar. 6, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Next Time, Tell Courvoisier to Spell Out Its Name. (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 6, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: In a Cowboy Film, He'd Definitely Wear a White Hat (By ROBIN FINN, Mar. 6, 2003)
SPORTS: Cone Encouraged by Performance (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Mar. 6, 2003)
SPORTS: Wells's Outing Far From Perfect as Yankees Consider Discipline (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 6, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Worst-Case Scenario Arrives (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Online Shouldn't Be Offshore (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2003)
OP-ED: Give Freedom a Chance (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 6, 2003)
The War on Schools (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 6, 2003)
How Medicaid Was Set Adrift (By JONATHAN COHN, Mar. 6, 2003)
David Wells, Artiste (By JOHN KENNEY, Mar. 6, 2003)
LETTERS: 'Shock' Iraq? Some Are Stunned (By DENNIS NURKSE, et. al., Mar. 6, 2003)
NASA Seeks Truth in Shuttle Inquiry (By SEAN O'KEEFE, Mar. 6, 2003)
When Hoop Dreams Become Nightmares (By PAMELA ZILIUS, et. al., Mar. 6, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Up as a Couple of Earnings Reports Stir Optimism
[Dow +71, Nasdaq +7] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 6, 2003)
Clinton and Dole Agree to Debate on Weekly '60 Minutes' Segment (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 6, 2003)
Policy on Peso Is Overturned in Argentina (By LARRY ROHTER, Mar. 6, 2003)
Former King of Sneakers Is Coming Back [Reebok International] (By TRACIE ROZHON, Mar. 6, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Bank Overstated Its Earnings 18% for 1999-2002 (By ALEX BERENSON, Mar. 6, 2003)
* University's Drug Patent Is Invalidated by a Judge [Rochester] (By ANDREW POLLACK, Mar. 6, 2003)
* The Bold Struggle for China's Belly [supermarkets vs. "wet markets"] (By DAVID BARBOZA, Mar. 6, 2003)
Awash in Oil Dollars, Russia Tries to Steady Economy (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Mar. 6, 2003)
Report by Fed Describes a Subdued Economy (By REUTERS, Mar. 6, 2003)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Big Federal Deficits, Bigger Risks (By ALAN B. KRUEGER, Mar. 6, 2003)
China Steps Up Its Output of Metals (By BERNARD SIMON, Mar. 6, 2003)
* ARTS: Sin Be Damned, French Say; Let's Eat (By MARY BLUME, Mar. 6, 2003)
ARTS: From Irish Art Hero to Cliché and Back to Favor (By BRIAN LAVERY, Mar. 6, 2003)
BOOKS: 'A SHIP MADE OF PAPER': Where Romantic Love Is an Uninvited Guest (By JANET MASLIN, Mar. 6, 2003)
* MAKING BOOKS: Taking a Break in Conversation (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Mar. 6, 2003)
* DANCE: INTERNATIONAL BALLET FESTIVAL: A Global Sampler of Ballet (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 6, 2003)
MUSIC: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Harmonic Yin and Yang of Impulse and Reserve
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 6, 2003)
OPERA: Unafraid to Wear His Opera on His Sleeve (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 6, 2003)
THE POP LIFE: Inside the Head via Headphones (By NEIL STRAUSS, Mar. 6, 2003)
THEATER: 'STRING FEVER': Applying Science to Life's Vagaries (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 6, 2003)
TV: 'OLIVER BEENE': When Doctors Smoked and Hair Was Lacquered (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 6, 2003)
GARDEN: DESIGN NOTEBOOK: Summoning a 60's Ghost, It's Groovy, Baby (By DAVID COLMAN, Mar. 6, 2003)
On Top of Mt. Slag, Homes Sprout (By LYNN ERMANN, Mar. 6, 2003)
TRADE SECRETS: Taking a Hard Look Behind the Display (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Mar. 6, 2003)
CLOSE TO HOME: Country House, Paradise or Perdition? (By RALPH GARDNER Jr., Mar. 6, 2003)
PERSONAL SHOPPER: Good Night, Stars; Good Night, Moon (By MARIANNE ROHRLICH, Mar. 6, 2003)
GARDEN Q & A: Nice Scent, but Hold the Pink (By LESLIE LAND, Mar. 6, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2003)
For PC Buying, a New Picture (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Mar. 6, 2003)
Making Robots More Like Us (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE, Mar. 6, 2003)
* STATE OF THE ART: The Internet as Jukebox, at a Price (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 6, 2003)
* Got a (Legal) Concert Recording? Pass It On (By NANCY GOHRING, Mar. 6, 2003)
MUSIC MEDLEY CHART: Comparing the Services (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2003)
WHAT'S NEXT: On the Slopes, High-Tech Sensors Probe for an Avalanche (By ANNE EISENBERG, Mar. 6, 2003)
* BASICS: Cull, Then Categorize: A Digital Scrapbook (By TOM Di NOME, Mar. 6, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: A Wedding Registry Short on Romance (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Mar. 6, 2003)
Congress Clings to a Pager Made in Canada [BlackBerrys] (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Mar. 6, 2003)
GAME THEORY: It's Just a Fantasy, but Real Life Is Always in Play (By CHARLES HEROLD, Mar. 6, 2003)
* Security Cameras Now Learn to React (By SETH SCHIESEL, Mar. 6, 2003)
Your Broadband E-Mail, Retrieved on the Run (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 6, 2003)
A Snug Transport for Controllers, Cords and Console (By CHARLES HEROLD, Mar. 6, 2003)
Big Improvement in Clarity for Little League Moments (By ERIC A. TAUB, Mar. 6, 2003)
From Stats to Schedules, a Palmtop Sports Arena (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Mar. 6, 2003)
With 6 Megapixels, Point-and-Shoot Demands Respect (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 6, 2003)
A System to Please the Eye (Not to Mention the Ears) (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 6, 2003)
* HEALTH: Studies Find Aspirin Can Lower Risk of Precancerous Colon Polyps (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 6, 2003)

Wednesday, March 5, 2003:
On This Day: March 5 (Gerardus Mercator 3/5/1512-12/2/1594, Jan van der Heyden 3/5/1637-3/28/1712, Giovanni Tiepolo 3/5/1696-3/27/1770, Lady Augusta Gregory 3/5/1852-5/22/1932, Howard Pyle 3/5/1853-11/9/1911, Rosa Luxemburg 3/5/1871-1/15/1919, Arthur Schendel 3/5/1874-9/11/1946, Edouard Belin 3/5/1876-3/4/1963, Heitor Villa-Lobos 3/5/1887-11/17/1959, James Noble 1922, Dean Stockwell 1936, Fred Williamson 1938, Eugene Fodor 1950, Niki Taylor 1975, Jake Lloyd 1989)
Churchill Assails Soviet Policy [Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri]
(By Harold B. Hinton, March 5, 1946)
* Rex Harrison, a Leading Man With Urbane Wit, Dies at 82
[3/5/1908-6/2/1990] (By ERIC PACE, June 3, 1990)

Goffredo Petrassi, Italian Modernist Composer, Dies at 98 (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 5, 2003)
Luis Marden, 90, Adventurer and Journalist, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 5, 2003)
John Fryer, 65, Psychiatrist Who Said He Was Gay in 1972, Dies (By DUDLEY CLENDINEN, Mar. 5, 2003)
Malcolm Kilduff, Who Announced Kennedy's Death, Dies at 75 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 5, 2003)
George Kelly, Longtime Notre Dame Assistant, Dies at 75 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 5, 2003)
NATIONAL: U.S. Deficit Seen as Rising Fast [$30 billion] (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 5, 2003)
Bush Medicare Proposal Urges Switch to Private Insurers (By ROBERT PEAR and ROBIN TONER, Mar. 5, 2003)
Arrest of Terrorist Leaders Blunts Democratic Attacks (By CARL HULSE, Mar. 5, 2003)
Police Dept. Indictments Rattle San Francisco (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 5, 2003)
Panel Scours Wreckage, Shuttle Data and Management for Clues (By MATTHEW L. WALD with WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 5, 2003)
Barriers for California Reactor on Road to Nuclear Graveyard (By NICK MADIGAN, Mar. 5, 2003)
ON EDUCATION: When It Goes Wrong at a Charter School (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Mar. 5, 2003)
Study Raises Estimate of the Nation's Uninsured (By ROBIN TONER, Mar. 5, 2003)
WORLD: Powell Says U.S. Can Wage War on Iraq Without Turks (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Mar. 5, 2003)
Top General Sees Plan to Shock Iraq Into Surrendering (By ERIC SCHMITT & ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 5, 2003)
TURKEY: In Defeat of U.S. Plan, Turks See a Victory for Democracy (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 5, 2003)
ALLIES: Persian Gulf Nations Send Troops to Protect Kuwait (By MARC SANTORA with MICHAEL R. GORDON, Mar. 5, 2003)
NORTHERN IRAQ: 5 Killed in Error at a Kurdish Checkpoint (By C. J. CHIVERS, Mar. 5, 2003)
U.S. Sending 2 Dozen Bombers in Easy Range of North Koreans (By DAVID E. SANGER & THOM SHANKER, Mar. 5, 2003)
* Millions Raised for Qaeda in Brooklyn, U.S. Says (By ERIC LICHTBLAU with WILLIAM GLABERSON, Mar. 5, 2003)
Chinese Legislature Meets to Appoint Leaders (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Mar. 5, 2003)
QALQILIYA JOURNAL: In the Man-Ravaged West Bank, a Petrified Zoo (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 5, 2003)
* New Study Supports Idea Stalin Was Poisoned (By MICHAEL WINES, Mar. 5, 2003)
Europe Hacker Laws Could Make Protest a Crime (By PAUL MELLER, Mar. 5, 2003)
MILITARY ANALYSIS: Hussein's Likely Plan: Make a Stand in Baghdad (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Mar. 5, 2003)
ISLAMIC PARTY: Qaeda Operative Is 'Hero' to Some in Pakistan (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Mar. 5, 2003)
THE TALIBAN QUARRY: U.S.-Led Afghan Sweep Yields Unclear Results (By CARLOTTA GALL, Mar. 5, 2003)
Bombing Kills an American and 20 Others in Philippines (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 5, 2003)
NY REGION: Brooklyn Muslims, Disputing Any Ties to Terror (By ANDY NEWMAN, Mar. 5, 2003)
There Go the Neighborhoods: Rich and Poor, Side by Side (By JANNY SCOTT, Mar. 5, 2003)
For Elderly, Fear of Falling Is a Risk in Itself (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Mar. 5, 2003)
Catholics Adopt More Liberal Attitudes During College (By TAMAR LEWIN, Mar. 5, 2003)
* Laptops Win Over the Skeptics, Even in Maine (By SARAH MAHONEY, Mar. 5, 2003)
Antiwar Ralliers Seek a Permit, This Time Marching, March 22 (By LESLIE EATON, Mar. 5, 2003)
OUR TOWNS: A Fine Kettle of Fish, Trout or Not (By MATTHEW PURDY, Mar. 5, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: No, You Tell Ann Richards That She Can't Sing (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 5, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: Memories Painful and Fond Bind Mayor to His Town (By CHRIS HEDGES, Mar. 5, 2003)
SPORTS: Baker Finds a Comfort Zone (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 5, 2003)
SPORTS: Piazza Is in No Big Hurry to Switch Positions (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Mar. 5, 2003)
SPORTS: Wells Would Veto Trade if He Were Asked to Leave (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 5, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Fighting Terror in the Philippines (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Staying Organic (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Chicken à la Iraq (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: What Would Genghis Do? (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Hugo Chávez and the Limits of Democracy (By MOISÉS NAÍM, Mar. 5, 2003)
* LETTERS: Evangelicals and Their Critics (By MICHAEL O'REILLY, et. al., Mar. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: An Adoptee's Yearning (By CECILY CATHERINE MARANGOS, Mar. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: Let 9/11 Families Decide (By AILEEN RYAN BURDEN, Mar. 5, 2003)
BUSINESS: Fears of Reduced Consumer Spending Send Shares Lower
[Dow -133, Nasdaq -13] (By REUTERS, Mar. 5, 2003)
Exxon Chief Says Oil Industry Is Already Jarred by Fears of War (By NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 5, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Biotech Mergers: Cash Talks Louder Than Technology (By ANDREW POLLACK, Mar. 5, 2003)
Martha Stewart Company Posts First Loss and Blames Inquiry (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 5, 2003)
Dollar Hits Its Lowest Point in 4 Years (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 5, 2003)
Advancing Technology Tightens Building Security (By EDWIN McDOWELL, Mar. 5, 2003)
F.T.C. Moves to Stop $2.8 Billion Ice Cream Deal [$25 billion global ice cream market]
(By SHERRI DAY, Mar. 5, 2003)
Gas Station to Pump Hydrogen (By JOHN TIERNEY, Mar. 5, 2003)
Sales Slow as Germans Pile Up Empty Soda Cans (By OTTO POHL, Mar. 5, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'OF PARADISE AND POWER': American and European Differences (By IVO H. DAALDER, Mar. 5, 2003)
DANCE: NORTH CAROLINA DANCE THEATER: Unusual and Imaginative 'Chants' (By JACK ANDERSON, Mar. 5, 2003)
* FILM: 'TEN': Weighty Discussions in Tedium of Traffic (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 5, 2003)
JAZZ: 'ELLIS MARSALIS AND SONS': Working Together, Taking Different Roads (By BEN RATLIFF, Mar. 5, 2003)
MUSIC: In Garcia's Shadow, the Dead's New Guitarist Has His Own Sound (By BEN RATLIFF, Mar. 5, 2003)
MUSIC: GIDON KREMER: Giving Modern Flair to a Violin Classic (By JEREMY EICHLER, Mar. 5, 2003)
MUSIC: John Mellencamp Records Antiwar Song (By JON PARELES, Mar. 5, 2003)
* OPERA: 'FAUST': Fairy Tale Figures for 'Faust' (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 5, 2003)
THEATER: 'SCATTERGOOD': A Dedicated Pupil for a Professor of Seduction (By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 5, 2003)
THEATER: 'DIRTY STORY': Bedfellows Tangled on a Field of Battle (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 5, 2003)
THE TV WATCH: Some Reality Shows Have Survival Value (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 5, 2003)
DINING: For a Change, a City Talks Food, Not Just Politics (By MARIAN BURROS, Mar. 5, 2003)
DINING: The Torch Is Passed, Handle First [bone-handle forks] (By AMANDA HESSER, Mar. 5, 2003)
AT LUNCH WITH SUSIE ESSMAN: Eating Hollywood Style, With Thin Air on the Side
(By ALEX WITCHEL, Mar. 5, 2003)
Making Pasta Without Strain (but You Need a Strainer) [recipe] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 5, 2003)
THE MINIMALIST: Too Much Garlic? Impossible (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 5, 2003)
FOOD STUFF: Chickpeas at Dawn, Etc. (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 5, 2003)
PAIRINGS: Meats and Aged Cheeses, Worthy Matches for South American Reds (By AMANDA HESSER, Mar. 5, 2003)
FOOD CHAIN: Storing a Citric Treat [Meyer lemons] (By DENISE LANDIS, Mar. 5, 2003)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: Why Make Yeast a Forbidden Pleasure?
[3 recipes] (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Mar. 5, 2003)
SCIENCE: Experts Conclude Oil Drilling Has Hurt Alaska's North Slope (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Mar. 5, 2003)

Tuesday, March 4, 2003:
On This Day: March 4 (Henry the Navigator 3/4/1394-11/13/1460, Antonio Vivaldi 3/4/1678-7/28/1741, Sir Henry Raeburn 3/4/1756-7/8/1823, Aleksandr Popov 3/4/1859-12/31/1905, Enrique Larreta 3/4/1875-7/7/1961, Richard Tolman 3/4/1881-9/5/1948, Pearl Fay White 3/4/1889-8/4/1938, Charles Goren 3/4/1901-4/3/1991, George Gamow 3/4/1904-8/19/1968, Paula Prentiss 1939, Adrian Lyne 1941, Bobby Womack 1944, Scott Hicks 1953, Kay Lenz 1953, Catherine O'Hara 1954, Patricia Heaton 1959, Jason Newsted 1963, Patsy Kensit 1968, Chastity Bono 1969)
Roosevelt Names Last of Cabinet [1st woman in the Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins]
(By James A. Hagerty, March 4, 1933)
Knute Rocke Dies with Seven Others in Mail Plane Dive
[3/4/1888-3/31/1931] (By ROBERT F. KELLEY, April 1, 1931)

Hank Ballard, Singer and Songwriter, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 4, 2003)
Horst Buchholz, German Actor, Dies at 69 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 4, 2003)
* Elaine Barrie, 87, Fourth Wife of John Barrymore, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 4, 2003)
NATIONAL: Antismoking Measures Gain in Tobacco Country (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Mar. 4, 2003)
DOMESTIC SECURITY: Ridge Warns Iraq War Could Raise Terror Threat (By PHILIP SHENON, Mar. 4, 2003)
White House Unveils Medicare Plan (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 4, 2003)
Nightclub Inspections Found Many Problems, but No Foam (By KATE ZERNIKE, Mar. 4, 2003)
Justices Seem to Lean to Charity Telemarketer (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 4, 2003)
Judge in Sniper Case Bars Cameras From Trial (By JAYSON BLAIR, Mar. 4, 2003)
California Says Files Reveal Effort to Limit Energy Output (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Mar. 4, 2003)
San Francisco Police Suspended; Chief's Future Unclear (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 4, 2003)
Supervisor at Shuttle Plant Cites Pressure Over Repairs (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 4, 2003)
Forcing Mentally Ill on Trial to Take Drugs Is Pondered (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 4, 2003)
The Times Appoints an Op-Ed Columnist [Nicholas D. Kristof] (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2003)
MODESTO JOURNAL: Hope, and a Frenzy, Fade for a Missing-Person Case (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 4, 2003)
Dental Group Is Under Fire for Coke Deal (By MARIAN BURROS, Mar. 4, 2003)
Agency Says Children's Risk Is Higher for Some Cancers (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Mar. 4, 2003)
WORLD: Feb. 13 Raid Led to Qaeda Arrest (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 4, 2003)
U.S. Aides Dismiss Moves by Baghdad but Feel Pressure (By DAVID E. SANGER & THOM SHANKER, Mar. 4, 2003)
North Korea MIG's Intercept U.S. Spy Jet (By ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 4, 2003)
TROOP MOVEMENTS: The Screaming Eagles Fly to the Gulf (By JIM DWYER, Mar. 4, 2003)
General Tells of Plan to Thin Out G.I. Presence in Germany (By MARK LANDLER, Mar. 4, 2003)
MOSCOW JOURNAL: A Bubblegum Duo Sets Off Squeals and Squirms (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Mar. 4, 2003)
Students Get a Seminar With the Iraqi Envoy (UN ambassador) (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 4, 2003)
Chirac Sees New Day for France and Algeria (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 4, 2003)
ANKARA: Turkey Needs Week or More to Reconsider U.S. Request (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 4, 2003)
PROTECTIVE GEAR: U.S. Troops' Chemical Suits Do Not Leak, Army Insists (By THOM SHANKER, Mar. 4, 2003)
THE ARABS: Gulf Leaders Split on Urging Saddam Hussein to Step Down (By GREG MYRE, Mar. 4, 2003)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: Can Bush Alter His Course, or Is War Against Iraq Inevitable? (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Mar. 4, 2003)
DIPLOMACY: Peace Envoy From Vatican in U.S. for Talks With Bush (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 4, 2003)
THE SUSPECT: Questioning of Accused Expected to Be Humane, Legal and Aggressive
(By ERIC LICHTBLAU with ADAM LIPTAK, Mar. 4, 2003)
PRISONERS: U.S. Military Investigating Death of Afghan in Custody (By CARLOTTA GALL, Mar. 4, 2003)
MUTED ALLIANCE: F.B.I. Active in Pakistan, but Profile Is Low (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Mar. 4, 2003)
SECURITY: New York Officials Get Advice From an Expert on Al Qaeda (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Mar. 4, 2003)
* ACTORS: From Ancient Greece, a Weapon for Peace
[Aristophanes' "Lysistrata"] (By TINA KELLEY, Mar. 4, 2003)
Yale's Labor Troubles Deepen as Thousands Go on Strike (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Mar. 4, 2003)
Sikh to Sue Police Over Turban and Beard (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2003)
TUNNEL VISION: Stand Clear of the Doors, or Drop and Give Me 20 (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 4, 2003)
In Din of Bronx, Voices for Peace (By LESLIE EATON, Mar. 4, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Please, Don't Buy Me Some Cracker Jacks (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 4, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: Ready for Smallpox, but Don't Grab the Needle Yet (By ROBIN FINN, Mar. 4, 2003)
* NYC: Deep Junior Can Play, but Violin? (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 4, 2003)
SPORTS: From Closer to Convert [Byung Hyun Kim, Diamondbacks' closer] (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 4, 2003)
SPORTS: Burnitz and Vaughn Seek a Refreshed Outlook [Mets] (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Mar. 4, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Shuttle Myopia (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Korean Paralysis (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2003)
* OP-ED: God, Satan and the Media (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 4, 2003)
OP-ED: A New War Opens an Old Wound (By JASON GOODWIN, Mar. 4, 2003)
OP-ED: A Free Ride for Bad Doctors (By SIDNEY M. WOLFE, Mar. 4, 2003)
* OP-ED: The Real Scientific Hero of 1953 [Enrico Fermi] (By STEVEN STROGATZ, Mar. 4, 2003)
LETTERS: Clouds of War, Hopes for Peace (By JACK SLADE, et. al., Mar. 4, 2003)
LETTERS: Teenage Drinking: America's Problem (By DAVID FASSLER, M.D., et. al., Mar. 4, 2003)
LETTERS: The Pledge of Religion? (By GEORGE HANNAUER, Mar. 4, 2003)
* LETTERS: Uses of the Liberal Arts (By DAN SOLOMON, Mar. 4, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Decline on Sluggish Factory Data and War Worries
[Dow -53, Nasdaq -17] (By REUTERS, Mar. 4, 2003)
ImClone Founder Admits Evading Taxes on Art (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS & CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 4, 2003)
Liberty's Malone and Comcast Set to Weigh Future of QVC (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Mar. 4, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: For Exxon Mobil, Size Is a Strength and a Weakness (By NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 4, 2003)
MEMO PAD: Some Grim Numbers for the Airlines (By JOE SHARKEY, Mar. 4, 2003)
ON THE ROAD: New Ways to Untether Travelers (By JOE SHARKEY, Mar. 4, 2003)
* Down on Stocks, Buffett Turns to Junk Bonds (By FLOYD NORRIS, Mar. 4, 2003)
* George Foreman Adds Meat to Grills (By SHERRI DAY, Mar. 4, 2003)
Companies Try to Strike a Balance During a Period of Jitters (By DAVID JONES, Mar. 4, 2003)
Harvard Professor Proposes Alternative Economics Class (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Mar. 4, 2003)
Sale by Softbank Will End Its Control of Yahoo Japan (By KEN BELSON, Mar. 4, 2003)
* ARTS: A Cartoonist's Chance to Soar [Jules Feiffer] (By MEL GUSSOW, Mar. 4, 2003)
BALLET: BOSTON BALLET: An English Look at the French Countryside (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 4, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'MISMATCH': Men and Women Aren't Alike. Really. [Andrew Hacker]
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Mar. 4, 2003)
MUSIC: AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: Three World Premieres, Measured Against Zappa
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 4, 2003)
MUSIC: Singers Embarking on a Voyage (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 4, 2003)
MUSIC: RICHARD GOODE: A Piano Heard and Seen Through a Veneer of Haze (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 4, 2003)
WORLD MUSIC: KAZEM AL-SAHIR: Pledging Love to Endangered Home (By JON PARELES, Mar. 4, 2003)
OPERA: Opera War in Berlin: Melodrama in 3 Acts (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 4, 2003)
THEATER: 'HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA': Life in a 50's Apartment, Rendered in Noir and White
(By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 4, 2003)
SCIENCE: At South Pole, New Home for a New Era (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Mar. 4, 2003)
* A Flash From the Past: New Evidence Supports Moon Blast (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 4, 2003)
SCIENCE: Agonizing, Inhospitable Homecoming of Lynx to Colorado (By MINDY SINK, Mar. 4, 2003)
Restoring a Forest Goes Slowly, and Advocates Seethe (By JIM ROBBINS, Mar. 4, 2003)
OBSERVATORY: All the Queen's Relatives (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 4, 2003)
* Q & A: DNA Junk or Not? (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 4, 2003)
SCIENCE LETTERS: A Double-Helix Spinoff (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2003)
HEALTH: Diseases Common in Ashkenazim May Be Random (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 4, 2003)
* 'You'll Catch Your Death!' An Old Wives' Tale? Well... (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, Mar. 4, 2003)
Seeking to Shed Fat, She Lost Her Liver (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 4, 2003)
Malarial Treatment for Chinese AIDS Patients Prompts Inquiry in U.S. (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 4, 2003)
* BEHAVIOR: Revising the Script on Mental Illness and Violence (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Mar. 4, 2003)
Pushing to Build a Better Bandage (By BRIAN LIBBY, Mar. 4, 2003)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: For Unrefined Healthfulness: Whole Grains (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Prevention: When Coffee Puts Fetus at Risk (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Protection: Safer Travels, After the Car Seat (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Regimen: The Pill Drill: Does it Work? (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 4, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Diagnosis: Plumbing the Hearts of Siblings (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 4, 2003)
CASES: The Right to Make a Bad Decision (By SANDEEP JAUHAR, M.D., Mar. 4, 2003)

Monday, March 3, 2003:
On This Day: March 3 (Thomas Otway 3/3/1652-4/14/1685, George Pullman 3/3/1831-10/19/1897, Sir John Murray 3/3/1841-3/16/1914, Matthew Ridgway 3/3/1895-7/26/1993, Jean Harlow 3/3/1911-6/7/1937, James Merrill 3/3/1926-2/6/1995, James Doohan 1920, Miranda Richardson 1958, Mary Page Keller 1961, Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1962, Julie Bowen 1970)
Police Brutality Under Wide Review by Justice Dept. (By Neil A. Lewis, March 3, 1991)
* Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies at 85
[3/3/1847-8/2/1922] (NY TIMES, August 3, 1922)

E.J. Carroll, 79, Antinuclear Admiral, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 3, 2003)
Frankie Hewitt, 71, Catalyst for Revival of Ford's Theater, Dies (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Mar. 3, 2003)
Anne Burr McDermott, Early TV Actress, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 3, 2003)
Thomas W. Phipps, 89, Television Writer, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 3, 2003)
NATIONAL: A New Frontier in Water Wars Emerges in East (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Mar. 3, 2003)
DOMESTIC SECURITY: Ridge Discovers Size of Home Security Task (By PHILIP SHENON, Mar. 3, 2003)
ECONOMIC PULSE: New Economy Recedes in Pacific Northwest (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Mar. 3, 2003)
Post-9/11 Drills Aid Club Fire Rescue (By IRENE WIELAWSKI, Mar. 3, 2003)
Making Sniper Suspect Talk Puts Detective in Spotlight (By JAYSON BLAIR, Mar. 3, 2003)
Premature Babies Face High Sleep Risk (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 3, 2003)
* Poets Slam Housing Plight in Berkeley Competition (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Mar. 3, 2003)
Study Doubts Competence of Younger Juveniles Charged as Adults (By ADAM LIPTAK, Mar. 3, 2003)
* WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Two Presidential Pals, Until 9/11 Intervened (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 3, 2003)
Carrying Torch and Dancing for Dimes at Carnival (By RICK BRAGG, Mar. 3, 2003)
Waikiki Beach's Unloved Backwater Spawns a Record-Setting Crustacean (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Mar. 3, 2003)
WORLD: Turkey Will Seek a Second Decision on a G.I. Presence (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 3, 2003)
Qaeda Suspect Sound Asleep at Trail's End (By ERIK ECKHOLM with DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 3, 2003)
Greece to Begin Trial Involving Long-Elusive Terror Group (By FRANK BRUNI & ANTHEE CARASSAVA, Mar. 3, 2003)
TERROR NETWORK: Al Qaeda Hobbled by Latest Arrest, U.S. Officials Say (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., Mar. 3, 2003)
* VOTKINSK JOURNAL: So It Wheezes. It Was Still Tchaikovsky's Piano. (By MICHAEL WINES, Mar. 3, 2003)
Polish Premier, Struggling After Loss, Drops Coalition Partner (By PETER S. GREEN, Mar. 3, 2003)
An Iranian-Backed Brigade Sets Up Camp in Northern Iraq (By C. J. CHIVERS, Mar. 3, 2003)
Venezuela's Inflation Reached 7.1% Last Month, a 7-Year High (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 3, 2003)
Hard-Liners Victorious in Tehran, Dealing Reformers a Blow (By NAZILA FATHI, Mar. 3, 2003)
INSPECTIONS: Iraqi Says Arms Destruction Will Cease if U.S. Attacks (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 3, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush Is Undeterred by Opposition to Using Force Against Iraq (By DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 3, 2003)
THE OPPOSITION: Ending Conference, Iraqi Dissidents Insist on Self-Government (By JUDITH MILLER, Mar. 3, 2003)
Tens of Thousands Stage Pakistan's Biggest Protest (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Mar. 3, 2003)
A Boyhood on the Mean Streets of a Wealthy Emirate (By MARC SANTORA, Mar. 3, 2003)
Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios (By JAMES BROOKE, Mar. 3, 2003)
North Korea Says a U.S. Attack Could Lead to a Nuclear War (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 3, 2003)
NY REGION: In This Record Store, Time Itself Is Warped (By ALAN FEUER, Mar. 3, 2003)
From Political Calculation, a Sweeping Vision of Ground Zero (By EDWARD WYATT, Mar. 3, 2003)
THE FAMILIES: Qaeda Leader's Capture Fails to Ease the Grief of 9/11 (By JAN HOFFMAN, Mar. 3, 2003)
* Did Money Motivate an Art Thief? Dali Would've Understood [Rikers Island] (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Mar. 3, 2003)
* Twins Reunite After 20 Years [Tamara Rabi & Adriana Scott] (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Mar. 3, 2003)
METRO MATTERS: An Architect With the Drive to Get It Done (By JOYCE PURNICK, Mar. 3, 2003)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 3, 2003)
SPORTS: After His Big Lead Slips, Woods Finishes Off Toms (By CLIFTON BROWN, Mar. 3, 2003)
BASEBALL: Seaver on When to Walk Away [David Cone] (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Mar. 3, 2003)
BASEBALL: Cashman Mulls Action on Wells's Confessions (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 3, 2003)
BASEBALL: Get Me Rewrite, a Beleaguered Wells Says (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 3, 2003)
SPORTS: Colorful Pitcher, but Not a Stand-Up Guy (By IRA BERKOW, Mar. 3, 2003)
BOXING: For Jones, Victory Only Adds to Legacy (By MIKE FREEMAN, Mar. 3, 2003)
EDITORIAL: The Rush to War (NY TIMES, Mar. 3, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Why Mexico's Small Corn Farmers Go Hungry (By TINA ROSENBERG, Mar. 3, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Kurdish Ghost (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 3, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Question of Priorities (By, Mar. 3, 2003)
OP-ED: Insanity Goes Back on Trial (By SALLY SATEL, Mar. 3, 2003)
* OP-ED: Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality (By CATHERINE ORENSTEIN, Mar. 3, 2003)
LETTERS: Nuremberg, Nasser, Timor, Iraq (By BENJAMIN B. FERENCZ, et. al., Mar. 3, 2003)
If War Comes, a Culture Is at Risk, Too (By MARY E. WOODS, Mar. 3, 2003)
9/11 Victim's Award (By HERBERT E. NASS, Mar. 3, 2003)
* BUSINESS: McDonald's Strives to Regain Ground (By SHERRI DAY, Mar. 3, 2003)
Fox Erodes NBC's Hold on Younger Viewership (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 3, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Corporate Gain, Treasury's Loss in Bush Plan (By FLOYD NORRIS, Mar. 3, 2003)
Struggling EMI Pins U.S. Hopes on Over-the-Top British Singer (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Mar. 3, 2003)
Carlyle Group Joins Backers of Bid to Buy Vivendi Units (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Mar. 3, 2003)
Singer's Sales Unhurt by Pornography Charges [R. Kelly's "Chocolate Factory"]
(By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Mar. 3, 2003)
TECHNOLOGY: Cisco Seeks Bigger Role in Phone Networks (By MATT RICHTEL, Mar. 3, 2003)
E-Music Sites Settle on Prices. It's a Start. (By SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 3, 2003)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Fantasy Sports Games Find Buyers (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 3, 2003)
* PATENTS: Chinese Patent for Text Messaging (By TERESA RIORDAN, Mar. 3, 2003)
* Pondering Value of Copyright vs. Innovation (By AMY HARMON, Mar. 3, 2003)
* Readers Are Looking for Mixed Fare [magazines] (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 3, 2003)
* ART: Mixing Tragedy With Art in Dallas (By STEPHEN KINZER, Mar. 3, 2003)
ART: Panel on Nazi Art Theft Fell Short (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Mar. 3, 2003)
ARTS ONLINE: Take That, Monica! Kapow, Chandler! (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Mar. 3, 2003)
* BALLET: NY CITY BALLET: A Search for Sunshine When Clouds Gather (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 3, 2003)
BALLET: NY CITY BALLET: Discovering Glittering Rays That Beam Through (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 3, 2003)
BOOKS: Title Says 'Chief,' Mandate Says 'Team' [Daniel Menaker] (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 3, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'HARVARD AND THE UNABOMBER': The Unabomber and the 'Culture of Despair' (By JANET MASLIN, Mar. 3, 2003)
MUSIC FESTIVAL: 'SOUNDS FRENCH': Paying Close Attention to the Spectrum of Sound (By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 3, 2003)
MUSIC: ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S: Mid-Mendelssohn, No Vibrato (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Mar. 3, 2003)
THEATER: 'RADIANT BABY': An Artist's Energy, Subdued Only by Death (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 3, 2003)

Sunday, March 2, 2003:
On This Day: March 2 (Adrian VI 3/2/1459-9/14/1523, DeWitt Clinton 3/2/1769-2/11/1828, Sam Huston 3/2/1793-7/26/1863, Bedrich Smetana 3/12/1824-5/12/1884, John Jay Chapman 3/2/1862-11/4/1933, Pius XII 3/2/1876-10/9/1958, Kurt Weill 3/2/1900-4/3/1950, Edward Condon 3/2/1902-3/26/1974, Geoffrey Grigson 3/2/1905-11/25/1985, Ernst Haas 3/2/1921-9/12/1986, Jennifer Jones 1919, Doc Watson 1913, Mikhail Gorbachev 1931, Tom Wolfe 1931, John Irving 1942, Jay Osmond 1955)
President-Elect Hayes Arrives in Washington (NY TIMES, March 2, 1877)
* Dr. Seuss, Modern Mother Goose, Dies at 87
[3/2/1904-9/24/1991] (By ERIC PACE, September 26, 1991)

Steve Carlin, '$64,000 Question' Producer, Is Dead at 84 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
Mario Perillo, 76, 'Mr. Italy' To Vacation Planners, Dies (By ALAN FEUER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Harvey Probber, a Designer of Furniture, Is Dead at 80 (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Mar. 2, 2003)
Alfred Bernstein, 92, Lawyer Guided by New Deal, Dies (By ALAN FEUER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Dr. Kurt W. Deuschle, 79, Leader in Community Medicine, Is Dead (By STUART LAVIETES, Mar. 2, 2003)
Amy Rosen, 47, Choreographer of Narrative Modern Dances, Dies (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 2, 2003)
Maurice Blanchot, 95, Novelist and Essayist, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 2, 2003)
NATIONAL: Pentagon Faces New Questions on Old Problem (By MICHAEL MOSS, Mar. 2, 2003)
* Wrinkles Gone? New Uses Studied for Botox (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 2, 2003)
Gay Couple Challenges Florida Ban on Homosexual Adoptions (By ADAM LIPTAK, Mar. 2, 2003)
Night Out for 3 Friends Leaves an Eternal Scar [R.I. fire] (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
Pausing From Grief, Rhode Islanders Decide Show Must Go On (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 2, 2003)
Houston Seeks Retest of DNA After Audit (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 2, 2003)
Indicted California Police Chief Keeps Job (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 2, 2003)
NASA Moving Some Officials From Inquiry of Columbia (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 2, 2003)
A Call for Softer, Greener Language [Republicans on environment] (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Mar. 2, 2003)
In Deadly Area, Signs Urge End to Killings [Chicago violence] (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
* WORLD: Pakistanis Arrest Qaeda Figure Seen as Planner of 9/11 (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Mar. 2, 2003)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: Major Catch, Critical Time (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 2, 2003)
THE SUSPECT: An Elusive Figure Who Came to U.S. Attention Late (By JAMES RISEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
THE MILITANTS: Bomb in Lebanon Kills Suspected Qaeda Figure (By REUTERS, Mar. 2, 2003)
Turkish Deputies Refuse to Accept American Troops (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 2, 2003)
Iraq Begins Destroying Missiles (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 2, 2003)
FACTIONS: Iraqi Opposition Groups Show Fissures at a Unity Meeting (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Mar. 2, 2003)
THE MILITARY: U.S. Is Striking Iraqi Missiles Near Kuwait (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Mar. 2, 2003)
Hussein Is Urged by Arab Emirates to Give Up Power (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Mar. 2, 2003)
KOREAN PENINSULA: Rallies in Seoul Differ on U.S., Highlighting a Generation Gap
(By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Once Secure, Argentines Now Lack Food and Hope (By LARRY ROHTER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Democratic Hopes Test China's Political Limits (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 2, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Pivot Point for the Middle East (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 2, 2003)
Unarmed American Intruder Roils Britain (By WARREN HOGE, Mar. 2, 2003)
NY REGION: The Very Image of Loss at Ground Zero (By KIRK JOHNSON, Mar. 2, 2003)
What Looks Like Slots, Pays Taxes and Eats No Hay? [video slot machines]
(By IVER PETERSON, Mar. 2, 2003)
OUR TOWNS: New York's Kosher Laws, Answering to a Higher Court (By MATTHEW PURDY, Mar. 2, 2003)
FOLLOWING UP: Hoping She Thinks of the 'Damage She Caused' (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Mar. 2, 2003)
SPORTS: Woods Is Pushed to the Brink, but Not to Defeat (By CLIFTON BROWN, Mar. 2, 2003)
BOXING: Jones Makes History With Decision Over Ruiz (By MIKE FREEMAN, Mar. 2, 2003)
FIGURE SKATING: Cohen Jumps and Glides to a Title [Grand Prix final] (By SAL ZANCA, Mar. 2, 2003)
EDITORIAL: Dangers in Northern Iraq (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Americans Have a Cool Debate About a Hot-Button Topic
[affirmative action] (By BRENT STAPLES, Mar. 2, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bush Ex Machina (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 2, 2003)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Long Bomb (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 2, 2003)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: The Lessons of Anaconda (By SEAN NAYLOR, Mar. 2, 2003)
LETTERS: Is It Time to Talk to North Korea? (By THOMAS J. LEES, et. al., Mar. 2, 2003)
LETTERS: What Europe Learned (By FRANK MANGIONE JR., Mar. 2, 2003)
BUSINESS: Oil Price Jump Adds to Jitters Over Economy (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Mar. 2, 2003)
No Worry, Even Now, at Morgan Stanley (By PATRICK McGEEHAN and LANDON THOMAS Jr., Mar. 2, 2003)
* Gold Is on the Rise, So What's Bugging Barrick? (By KURT EICHENWALD, Mar. 2, 2003)
A New Health Plan Works, at Least for the Healthy (By BETH KOBLINER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Questions to Ask Before You Sign On [Health Plans] (By BETH KOBLINER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Home Depot Seeks Elbow Room Outside Cities (By ALEX MARKELS, Mar. 2, 2003)
Online Advice Finds Few Takers (By VIRGINIA MUNGER KAHN, Mar. 2, 2003)
Turn Off That Cellphone. It's Meeting Time. (By MAGGIE JACKSON, Mar. 2, 2003)
* THE BOSS: Nepotism? No Way [Krispy Kreme's CEO] (By SCOTT A. LIVENGOOD, Written with Abby Ellin, Mar. 2, 2003)
* LIFE'S WORK: Twice the Effort in a Cold, Blue Winter (By LISA BELKIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
Rebuilding the Paths to Work When a Nest Egg Is Lost (By JULIA LAWLOR, Mar. 2, 2003)
An Auditor (and Target) in Chief (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Mar. 2, 2003)
A Hidden Expense Lurks in Some Card Statements (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Mar. 2, 2003)
* ON THE CONTRARY: Belt-Loosening in the Work Force (By DANIEL AKST, Mar. 2, 2003)
Which European Stocks Would Hold Up in a War? (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Mar. 2, 2003)
INVESTING WITH: Joseph C. Williams III of the Commerce Growth Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Mar. 2, 2003)
DIARY: A Time to Look Ahead for Tax Advantages (By Jan M. Rosen, Mar. 2, 2003)
DIARY: A Higher Minimum Wage (and Beyond City Hall) (By VIVIAN MARINO, Mar. 2, 2003)
DIARY: At Least Those 401(k)'s Beat the Stock Market (Compiled by Jeff Sommer, Mar. 2, 2003)
* LOVE & MONEY: A Makeover Can Be More Than Skin Deep (By ELLYN SPRAGINS, Mar. 2, 2003)
Brokers to Bankers: 'No Trespassing' (By CARL HULSE, Mar. 2, 2003)
MARKET WATCH: Don't Count on Corporate Bonds for Safety (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 2, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: The Wisdom and Folly of Tax Cuts and Deficits (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 2, 2003)
MARKET INSIGHT: Ad Business Outlook May Be Brightening (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
* STRATEGIES: The Bad News on Certification Was Old News to the Market (By MARK HULBERT, Mar. 2, 2003)
Disaster Centers: It's Location, Location (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Mar. 2, 2003)
WORLD BUSINESS: China: Partner, Rival or Both? (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Mar. 2, 2003)
* ART: Playing Tag With Time and Art's Transience [Robert Whitman] (By MICHAEL RUSH, Mar. 2, 2003)
ARTS: A Foe of Galleries Takes One on Using 15 Tons of Steel (By MIA FINEMAN, Mar. 2, 2003)
ARTS: Adorning the Streets With Ropes of Bronze (By RITA REIF, Mar. 2, 2003)
DANCE: Not Everyone Is Seeing the Same Dance (By GIA KOURLAS, Mar. 2, 2003)
DANCE: THIS WEEK: At 51, He Still Likes to 'Dip In' (By RITA FELCIANO, Mar. 2, 2003)
DANCE: THIS WEEK: Familiar Faces in a New Frame (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 2, 2003)
FILM: The Prime of Frances McDormand (By KAREN DURBIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
FILM: You Are What You Queue (By CRAIG TOMASHOFF, Mar. 2, 2003)
FILM: The Great Film Score: Catch It if You Can [Philip Glass's 'The Hours']
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 2, 2003)
FILM: An Unabashed Extremist of Sex and Violence (By EMILY EAKIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
FILM: Don't Trust That Kindly, Aging Mentor (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 2, 2003)
FILM: RUSHES: Modern Time in a Hurry vs. Medieval Time in Repose (By KAREN DURBIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
FILM: She Makes a Lot Out of a Little [Patricia Clarkson] (By MARGY ROCHLIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: The Plotter Who Set Off the Berlioz Bandwagon (By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 2, 2003)
THE MUSIC THEY MADE: Spinning Blues Into Gold, the Rough Way (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: And They Said He Couldn't Run a Major Record Label (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC RECORDINGS: Songs to Evoke Sighs, and Singing to Match (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: A Country Fiddler Who Swings (By TERRY TEACHOUT, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: A Critic Reading His Critics (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: The Sly, Gentle Rhythms of Nigerian Party Music (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: Only the Best Follow His Beat (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Mar. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: A Heartbeat of Rumbling Thunder (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Mar. 2, 2003)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: Eyes Wide Open to the Wide Open Spaces [Ned Scott] (By ALANNA NASH, Mar. 2, 2003)
RADIO: Britons Get Their 15 Minutes of Farm (By ELLEN HIMELFARB, Mar. 2, 2003)
THEATER: Inspired by Dench, Now She's Inspiring van Gogh (By MATT WOLF, Mar. 2, 2003)
THEATER: A Starship Captain Gets to Play a Star (By RON JENKINS, Mar. 2, 2003)
TV: Reaching Out to the Multitasking Modern Teenager (By J. D. CONSIDINE, Mar. 2, 2003)
STYLE: Are You Swell Enough for Soho House? (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Mar. 2, 2003)
* STYLE: Ah, for a Cool Sip of Liquid Yoga (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Mar. 2, 2003)
FASHION: 47 Years Later, Will a 'Roman Candle' Burn? [Roberto Capucci] (By CATHY HORYN, Mar. 2, 2003)
GOOD COMPANY: For Dessert, Jeremy Irons Sang for His Supper (By RUTH LA FERLA, Mar. 2, 2003)
POSSESSED: Gentlemen, Start Your Fantasies (By BILL POWERS, Mar. 2, 2003)
FASHION: A Vox Populi on Local Retailers (By RUTH LA FERLA, Mar. 2, 2003)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: Tiffani Thiessen (By JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 2, 2003)
In London, Knock Twice for Admittance (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 2, 2003)
PULSE: Makeup From the Backroom (By ELLEN TIEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
VOWS: Hillary Mann and Flynt Leverett (By JOHN TIERNEY, Mar. 2, 2003)
TRAVEL: Riding the Wild Brahmaputra [slide show] (By RANJAN PAL, Mar. 2, 2003)
* Where Tigers Roam Free [India] (By AMY WALDMAN, Mar. 2, 2003)
TRAVEL: Are You Experienced? A Rock Museum Helps (By GARY KRIST, Mar. 2, 2003)
TRAVEL CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT: A Wind Power Plan Stirs Debate in Massachusetts
(By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 2, 2003)
CYBER SCOUT: Renting a House With a Click of a Mouse (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 2, 2003)
TRAVEL ESSAY: A Team of One's Own [dog sledding] (By BARBARA SJOHOLM, Mar. 2, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2003)
GOING FOR BROKE: War Means High Risk for Bush (By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 2, 2003)
FINDING THE CASH: How Do You Pay for Everything Else? (By ROBIN TONER, Mar. 2, 2003)
* Rich and Famous Man Their Soap Boxes (By RICK LYMAN, Mar. 2, 2003)
So Many Underdogs, So Much Time [Democratic Presidential candidates] (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Mar. 2, 2003)
BLOCK THAT GRILL: In the Debate on S.U.V.'s, There's a New Casualty Count (By DANNY HAKIM, Mar. 2, 2003)
THE BIG PICTURE: Hungry in Afghanistan (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2003)
LATTES, LIMOUSINES AND LEFTIES: How Conservatives Pigeonholed Those Poor Liberals
(By GEOFFREY NUNBERG, Mar. 2, 2003)
* FAREWELL: A Lifetime of Beautiful Days [Fred Rogers] (By TAMAR LEWIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
* How Americans Link Iraq and Sept. 11 (By TOM ZELLER, Mar. 2, 2003)
WAR GAMES: There's a Battlefield In Each Bedroom and Backyard (By JONATHAN MILLER, Mar. 2, 2003)
WHAT SCARES TURKEY: Forget Hussein. Iraq's Kurds Are Free Already. (By STEPHEN KINZER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Can Oil Pay for Iraq's Rebuilding? The U.S. Hopes So. (By NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 2, 2003)
You Can Bet on It: Playing the Odds on War (By, Mar. 2, 2003)
The Lessons Of Fires Past Go Unheeded (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2003)
* ON LANGUAGE: Why a Duck? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 2, 2003)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: All Go Down Together (By JAMES TRAUB, Mar. 2, 2003)
QUESTIONS FOR MOHAMED ELBARADEI: To Charm and Disarm (Interview by DAVID WALLIS, Mar. 2, 2003)
PAGE TURNER: The Magnificent Mezzo (By ANN PATCHETT, Mar. 2, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: Homework for Sale (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
PROCESS: My Week at Embed Boot Camp (By ANDREW JACOBS, Mar. 2, 2003)
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING: Near the Finsbury Park Mosque in London, Feb. 7, 2003
(Interviews by CRAIG TAYLOR, Mar. 2, 2003)
COVER ARTICLE: Dreaming of Democracy (By GEORGE PACKER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Too Old to Work? (By ADAM COHEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
The Sound of Fury (By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 2, 2003)
Bring Back the Sabbath (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Mar. 2, 2003)
* STYLE: The Old Neighborhood (By AMY M. SPINDLER, Mar. 2, 2003)
APPEARANCES: Hitting the Bottle (By MARY TANNEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
FOOD: Pig Heaven (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Mar. 2, 2003)
LIVES: Cold Comfort (By JASON T. SHAPLEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2003)
'Jarhead': A Marine's Desert Song [Anthony Swofford] (By MARK BOWDEN, Mar. 2, 2003)
'Irving Howe': World of Our Fathers [Gerald Sorin] (By JOSEPH DORMAN, Mar. 2, 2003)
* 'Freedom Evolves': Evolution Explains It All for You [Daniel C. Dennett] (By GALEN STRAWSON, Mar. 2, 2003)
* 'By the Sword': The Microhistory of a Weapon [Richard Cohen] (By ROBERT S. BOYNTON, Mar. 2, 2003)
* 'The Dante Club': An Infernal Killer [Matthew Pearl's fiction] (By JAMES R. KINCAID, Mar. 2, 2003)
'A Consumers' Republic': The New Patriotism (By DAVID M. OSHINSKY, Mar. 2, 2003)
'The Journey of Man': Following the Genes of a Common Ancestor [Spencer Wells] (By CARL ZIMMER, Mar. 2, 2003)
'The Unknown Night': A Neglected Artist, Wandering in the American Landscape
[Ralph Albert Blakelock] (By GAIL LEVIN, Mar. 2, 2003)
SCIENCE FICTION: A Multimillion-Year Story (By GERALD JONAS, Mar. 2, 2003)

Saturday, March 1, 2003:
On This Day: March 1 (Antoninus 3/1/1389-5/2/1459, Simon Foucher 3/1/1644-4/27/1696, William Maxwell Cushing 3/1/1732-9/13/1810, Frederic Chopin 3/1/1810-10/17/1849, Augustus Saint-Gaudens 3/1/1848-8/3/1907, Lytton Strachey 3/1/1880-1/21/1932, Glenn Miller 3/1/1904-12/16/1944, David Niven 3/1/1909-7/29/1983, Robert Lowell 3/1/1917-9/12/1977, William Maxwell Gaines 3/1/1922-6/3/1992, Donal "Deke" Slayton 3/1/1924-6/13/1993, Pete Rozelle 3/1/1926-12/6/1996, Harry Belafonte 1927, Robert Conrad 1935, Judith Rossner 1935, Alan Thicke 1947, Catherine Bach 1954, Ron Howard 1954)
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped From Home of Parents on Farm Near Princeton
(NY TIMES, March 1, 1932)
Assassination in Israel; Yitzhak Rabin, 73, an Israeli Soldier Turned Prime Minister and Peacemaker
[3/1/1922-11/4/1995] (By MARILYN BERGER, November 5, 1995)

Roy Grace, Art Director in the Creative Heyday of Ads, Dies at 66 (By STUART ELLIOTT, Mar. 1, 2003)
Othar Turner, Mississippi Master of the Fife, Is Dead at 94 (By JON PARELES, Mar. 1, 2003)
Mathew A. Kleiner, 31, Health Advocate, Dies (NY TIMES, Mar. 1, 2003)
Chris Brasher, 74, Pacer for Bannister Mile (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 1, 2003)
Walter Scharf, Film Score Composer, Dies at 92 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 1, 2003)
5,000 Yale Workers Plan to Go on Strike (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Mar. 1, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Says Hussein Must Cede Power to Head Off War (By FELICITY BARRINGER with DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 1, 2003)
* SATURDAY PROFILE: An Outspoken Arab in Europe: Demon or Hero? (By MARLISE SIMONS, Mar. 1, 2003)
* ARTS: Does Democracy Avert Famine? (By MICHAEL MASSING, Mar. 1, 2003)
* ARTS: Online Library Wants It All, Every Book (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 1, 2003)
BOOKS: SHELF LIFE: Another Round in the Skirmish Over Eliot and Anti-Semitism
(By EMILY EAKIN, Mar. 1, 2003)
DANCE: BUGLISI/FOREMAN DANCE: Extravagance, With a Chinese Touch (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 1, 2003)
MUSIC: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: Brahms With Fire as Well as I.Q. (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 1, 2003)
OPERA: 'NORMA': Comparing Two Debuts as Norma (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 1, 2003)
POP: ROCK THE VOTE: Rally Round the Awards, Boys (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 1, 2003)
TV: 'SALEM WITCH TRIALS': Fanning Mass Puritan Hysteria, in the Salem Style
(By ANITA GATES, Mar. 1, 2003)