New York Times: March 2004

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

Wednesday, March 31, 2004:
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)

* Emily Morison Beck, 88, Who Edited Bartlett's Quotations, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 31, 2004)
John Sack, 74, Correspondent Who Reported From Battlefields, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 31, 2004)
Art James, 74, Game Show Host and Announcer, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 31, 2004)
NATIONAL: Defying Bush, Senate Increases Child Care Funds for the Poor (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 31, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: When Goals Meet Reality: Executive Privilege Reversal (By DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 31, 2004)
Reason to Run? Nader Argues He Has Plenty (By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 31, 2004)
Kerry Shoulder Surgery Goes Well, Doctor Says (By MARIA NEWMAN, Mar. 31, 2004)
* MUDVILLE JOURNAL: In 'Casey' Rhubarb, 2 Cities Cry 'Foul!' (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Mar. 31, 2004)
New Pall Falls on Gay Wedding Hopes (By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 31, 2004)
Defying Bush, Senate Increases Child Care Funds for the Poor (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 31, 2004)
Iraq Arms Inspector Says Search Is a Tangle [Charles A. Duelfer] (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Mar. 31, 2004)
ON EDUCATION: Prep Schools Flocking to Recruit Products of a Newark Education (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Mar. 31, 2004)
WORLD: Enraged Mob in Falluja Kills 4 American Contractors
(By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN & JOHN F. BURNS, Mar. 31, 2004)
Police in Uzbekistan Arrest Dozens, Reports Say (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 31, 2004)
LETTER FROM EUROPE: A New Future for Spain: Call It Social Socialism (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 31, 2004)
3rd Day of Violence Claims 23 Lives in Uzbekistan (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 31, 2004)
About-Face in France: Government's Out, Then It's In (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 31, 2004)
British Police Arrest 8 Suspected of Plotting Terrorist Attack (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Mar. 31, 2004)
NY REGION: New York Cabs to Charge More, but You Can Put It on Plastic
(By MICHAEL LUO, Mar. 31, 2004)
911 Failure Delayed Treatment as Deadly Heart Attack Struck (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 31, 2004)
In Bottom of the 9th, Out Came the Bagels for Stalwart Yankees Fans (By COREY KILGANNON, Mar. 31, 2004)
PUBLIC LIVES: An Inclination to Serve, and the Power to Change (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Mar. 31, 2004)
* ABOUT NEW YORK: A Forest Monk's Lesson in the New York Jungle (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 31, 2004)
SPORTS: FOOTBALL: Demo Dance Deserves Big Penalty (By DAVE ANDERSON, Mar. 31, 2004)
YANKEES 12, DEVIL RAYS 1: Yankees Bounce Back and Rout Tampa Bay (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 31, 2004)
TENNIS: Fast, Slim and in Control, Calleri Overwhelms Agassi (By JUDY BATTISTA, Mar. 31, 2004)
Sales of College Stars' Jerseys Raise Ethics Concerns (By MARCIA CHAMBERS, Mar. 31, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Of Privilege and Politics (NY TIMES, Mar. 31, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: APPRECIATIONS: Alistair Cooke (By DOROTHY SAMUELS, Mar. 31, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Starved for Safety (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 31, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Bond Across the Pond (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 31, 2004)
* OP-ED: International Relations 101 (By ROBERT M. GATES, Mar. 31, 2004)
OP-ED: Land of the Free? (By STEVEN C. CLEMONS, Mar. 31, 2004)
OP-ED: A White Elephant for the West Side (By STEVEN MALANGA, Mar. 31, 2004)
LETTERS: A Newspaper Is Closed in Baghdad (5 Letters) (By GILBERT CRANBERG, et. al., Mar. 31, 2004)
LETTERS: Intelligence Gap, Imagination Gap (3 Letters) (By JUSTIN KINNEY, et. al., Mar. 31, 2004)
LETTERS: That Ball Is Going... Going... Caught! (2 Letters) (By STEVEN LEWIS, et. al., Mar. 31, 2004)
LETTERS: Bob Dole's Economy (By ZOEY CHENITZ, Mar. 31, 2004)
BUSINESS: Major Indexes Rise on Hopes of a Positive Jobs Report
[Dow +52.07, Nasdaq +8.06] (By REUTERS, Mar. 31, 2004)
Internet Chatter on the Tyco Trial: What's With Juror No. 4?
(By JENNIFER BAYOT & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Mar. 31, 2004)
Ukrainian Activists Soil Soros in Protest (By REUTERS, Mar. 31, 2004)
* ART: A Vermeer, Once Suspect, Will Be Offered at Sotheby's (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 31, 2004)
* ART: Celebrating an Artist Who Wanted to 'Murder Painting' [Joan Mir&oactute;]
(By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 31, 2004)
ARTS: Liberal Voices (Some Sharp) Get New Home on Radio Dial (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 31, 2004)
ARTS: Jesse Jackson, on the Air (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 31, 2004)
* FILM: Paramount Sees Its Future in the Stars (Big Ones) (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 31, 2004)
* FILM: 'SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING'
A Buddhist Observes Humanity WithSharp and Stern Eyes (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 31, 2004)
FILM: 'RED PERSIMMONS': Humanity and Nature Share a Timeless Dance on Persimmon Farms
(By DAVE KEHR, Mar. 31, 2004)
MUSIC: ANDY BEY: Crooning Softly to Conceal the Pain (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 31, 2004)
OPERA: METROPOLITAN OPERA: Sieglinde, Lost Child, Turns Godly in the Singing (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 31, 2004)
* THEATER: A Coma Becomes the Real World, With a History of Modern Tibet (By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Mar. 31, 2004)
BOOKS: 'FREETHINKERS': In America's Long Culture War, Under God or Under Citizens?
[Susan Jacoby] (By MICHAEL KAZIN, Mar. 31, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 31, 2004)
Lamb Is Fine With Lilies, but the Kiwis Have a Secret (By MARIAN BURROS, Mar. 31, 2004)
Family Treasures Hold Kosher America's Roots (By JOAN NATHAN, Mar. 31, 2004)
* What He Ate: A Food Diary From New York [Tucker Shaw's photos] (By SAM SIFTON, Mar. 31, 2004)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: A Feast for Two Seasons (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Mar. 31, 2004)
* FOOD STUFF: Hope the Easter Bunny Likes Surprises (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 31, 2004)
THE MINIMALIST: Duck Under Cover (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 31, 2004)
TEMPTATION: Easter Pizza Is What You Make of It (By DANA BOWEN, Mar. 31, 2004)
PAIRINGS: A Spring Dish Hearty Enough for a Red (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 31, 2004)

Tuesday, March 30, 2004:
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)

* Alistair Cooke, British Eye on the American Scene, Dies at 95 (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Mar. 30, 2004)
* Sir Peter Ustinov, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2004)
* Edward J. Piszek, Who Founded Mrs. Paul's Brand, Dies at 87 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 30, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Rice to Testify Under Oath Before Panel Investigating 9/11 Attacks (By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID STOUT, Mar. 30, 2004)
* NATIONAL: 9/11 Panel Wants Rice Under Oath in Any Testimony (By PHILIP SHENON and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 30, 2004)
Kerry, Shoulder Aside, Reports 'Excellent Health' (By JODI WILGOREN & LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Mar. 30, 2004)
Denied the No. 1 Slot, Edwards Positions Himself for No. 2 (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Mar. 30, 2004)
Cheney Jabs on Tax Issues and Kerry Fights Back (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Mar. 30, 2004)
Big Pay Luring Military's Elite to Private Jobs (By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER, Mar. 30, 2004)
Setback Is Dealt to Gay Marriage (By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 30, 2004)
Supreme Court to Consider Role of Intent in Age Bias (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 30, 2004)
WORLD: 8 Terror Suspects Arrested in England (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Mar. 30, 2004)
WORLD: G.I.'s in Afghanistan on Hunt, but Now for Hearts and Minds (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 30, 2004)
China Detains 3 Relatives of Victims at Tiananmen (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 30, 2004)
Compromise Virtually Assures New Term for Taiwan's Leader (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 30, 2004)
URASOE JOURNAL: On U.S. Fast Food, More Okinawans Grow Super-Sized (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Mar. 30, 2004)
NY REGION: Statue of Liberty to Be Reopened This Summer (By KIRK SEMPLE, Mar. 30, 2004)
Brooklyn's Mile-Long Makeover (By JOSEPH BERGER, Mar. 30, 2004)
Reporter's Widow Is Making Her Case for a 9/11 Payment (By DAVID W. CHEN, Mar. 30, 2004)
Brooklyn College Is Third on 'Best Value' List (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2004)
* Counterfeit Printer Cartridges Seized at a Warehouse in New Jersey (By RONALD SMOTHERS, Mar. 30, 2004)
NYC: A Pedestal Too High for Some (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 30, 2004)
* SPORTS: Alex Rodriguez's Biggest Influence Was Piniella (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 30, 2004)
DEVIL RAYS 8, YANKEES 3: Far From Home and Out of Sorts, Yankees Lose Opener
(By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 30, 2004)
BASEBALL ANALYSIS: Amid Great Expectations, Yankees Get Lost in Translation
(By JACK CURRY, Mar. 30, 2004)
* SOCCER: Freddy Adu's Debut Before a 'Downsized' Sellout (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 30, 2004)
SPORTS: BASKETBALL: Connecticut Hasn't Seen Last of Taurasi (By HARVEY ARATON, Mar. 30, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Hearts, Minds and Padlocks [Baghdad's newspapers] (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2004)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Evolution of Women's Roles, Chronicled in the Life of a Doll
(By CAROL E. LEE, Mar. 30, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: This Isn't America (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 30, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Stressed for Success? (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 30, 2004)
OP-ED: A Failure Policy That Succeeds [Chicago schools] (By MARLENE HEATH, Mar. 30, 2004)
OP-ED: American Courts, Global Justice (By DOLLY FILÁRTIGA, Mar. 30, 2004)
* OP-ED: Triple the Excitement (By STUART MILLER, Mar. 30, 2004)
LETTERS: 9/11 Hearings: The Next Round (6 Letters) (By JAMES I. LENGLE, et. al., Mar. 30, 2004)
* LETTERS: A Penny a Note, but Nothing for the Rest? (2 Letters) (By TONY ALTERMAN, IAN ALTERMAN, et. al., Mar. 30, 2004)
BUSINESS: Stocks Rise, but Interest Rates May Dampen Enthusiasm
[Dow +116.66, Nasdaq +32.55] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 30, 2004)
After 13 Years, Judge Dismisses Case on Pooh Bear Royalties (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Mar. 30, 2004)
* NBC Asks Leno to Work Late Through End of the Decade (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 30, 2004)
Time Plans a Magazine to Be Sold at Wal-Marts (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 30, 2004)
ADVERTISING: A Superman Campaign for American Express (By STUART ELLIOTT, Mar. 30, 2004)
MARKET PLACE: Amgen to Pay $1.3 Billion in Stock for Tularik (By ANDREW POLLACK, Mar. 30, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: AT&T Brings Internet Telephone Service to New Jersey (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 30, 2004)
ARTS: NPR Stations Had Pushed for Change (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Mar. 30, 2004)
ARTS: Artist Who Worked With 9/11 Dust Wins the First Artes Mundi Prize (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 30, 2004)
* BOOKS: American Scholar's Editor to Leave in Budget Dispute [Anne Fadiman]
(By EMILY EAKIN, Mar. 30, 2004)
DANCE: JORMA ELO: A Finn Goes to Boston With Some Explosive, High-Tech Ideas
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 30, 2004)
DANCE: DAVID DORFMAN: Nothing Less Than Life or Death (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 30, 2004)
FILM: Film Helps Stung Town Revisit Book ["Friday Night Lights"] (By BARBARA NOVOVITCH, Mar. 30, 2004)
* FILM: NEW DVD'S: Of a Certain Age but Taking a Chance on Love (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Mar. 30, 2004)
FILM: 'SILENT WATERS': A Pakistani Approaches Manhood Angry and Brutish (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 30, 2004)
* MUSIC: Heat and Light Uptown [Apollo Theater] (By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 30, 2004)
MUSIC: THE DECEMBERISTS: A Band Reveling in 'Pantaloons' and Other Lyrical Mischief
(By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 30, 2004)
THEATER: A Young Writer Caught in the Claws of Fascism and War (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Mar. 30, 2004)
THEATER: A Mother Speaks Out, and Hearts Dissolve (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 30, 2004)
* TV: 'CHOOSE OR LOSE': Kerry, Cool on MTV's Hot Seat (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 30, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Safely Rooted on Earth, Scientists Solve an Icy Martian Puzzle (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 30, 2004)
At the Center Of the Storm Over Bush And Science (By JAMES GLANZ, Mar. 30, 2004)
On Madagascar, a Treasury of Fauna and Flora (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Mar. 30, 2004)
A CONVERSATION WITH | FREDY PECCERELLI:
'The Bones Tell the Story': Revealing History's Darker Days (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Mar. 30, 2004)
U.S. Panel About to Weigh In on Rules for Assisted Fertility (By STEPHEN S. HALL, Mar. 30, 2004)
OBSERVATORY: King Tut Red (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 30, 2004)
* Q & A: Underground Biology (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 30, 2004)
* HEALTH: A New Era in Treating Imaginary Ills (By MARY DUENWALD, Mar. 30, 2004)
* When Does Flexible Start to Mean Harmful? 'Hot' Yoga Draws Fire (By LORRAINE KREAHLING, Mar. 30, 2004)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Avoid Chickenpox. (Oatmeal Bath Is No Picnic) (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 30, 2004)
* ESSAY: Learning From Prozac: Will New Caution Shift Old Views? (By TANYA LUHRMANN, Mar. 30, 2004)
Poll Finds Even Babies Don't Get Enough Rest (By DAVID TULLER, Mar. 30, 2004)
Possible Peril Found in Menopause Cream (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 30, 2004)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Children Outside the Box (By JOHN LANGONE, Mar. 30, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Habits: A Smoke Much Sweeter (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 30, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: Before the Morning After (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 30, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: In the E.R. Urgency Overwhelms Big Picture (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 30, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Symptoms: M.S. and Trying Times (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 30, 2004)

Monday, March 29, 2004:
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)

* Peter Ustinov, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2004)
Richard Perez, Advocate for Minority Rights, Dies at 59 (By COREY KILGANNON, Mar. 29, 2004)
Jan Sterling, 82, Actress Who Made Film Noir a Specialty, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 29, 2004)
Jan Berry, 62, Pioneer of Surf Music Sound, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 29, 2004)
NATIONAL: President Asked Aide to Explore Iraq Link to 9/11 (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 29, 2004)
As Border Woes Strain Arizona, U.S. and Mexico Talk (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 29, 2004)
In One Small Town, Radioactive Waste Is a Welcome Sight (By ANDREW JACOBS, Mar. 29, 2004)
Censored Study on Bioterror Doubts U.S. Preparedness (By JUDITH MILLER, Mar. 29, 2004)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Shrinking the Glamour Gap in Texas, One Celebrity at a Time
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 29, 2004)
WORLD: G.I.'s Padlock Baghdad Paper Accused of Lies (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 29, 2004)
Summit's Collapse Leaves Arab Leaders in Disarray (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 29, 2004)
19 Killed and 26 Wounded as Terrorists Strike in Uzbekistan (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 29, 2004)
Call to Indict Sharon Ignites Political Storm (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 29, 2004)
In Setback for Chirac, French Veer Left in Regional Vote (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 29, 2004)
* SEMINYAK JOURNAL: Bali's Richness Offered to the World, by Onetime Hippies (By JANE PERLEZ, Mar. 29, 2004)
Hamas Leader Calls Bush Foe of Muslims (By GREG MYRE, Mar. 29, 2004)
Haiti's Struggle to Restore the Rule of Law (By KIRK SEMPLE, Mar. 29, 2004)
NY REGION: Would-Be Tribes Entice Investors (By IVER PETERSON, Mar. 29, 2004)
At 9/11 Site, Balancing Reverence and Retailing (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Mar. 29, 2004)
* QUEENS JOURNAL: Religious Rites Welcomed; Parking Rights Are Thornier (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 29, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 29, 2004)
SPORTS: For Yanks' Matsui, How Do You Say Sayonara in English? (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 29, 2004)
BASEBALL: Where Root, Root, Root Is Taken Very Seriously (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 29, 2004)
SPORTS: Cosmic Order Restored With Shrill of a Whistle [Xavier vs. Duke] (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 29, 2004)
DUKE 66, XAVIER 63: Duhon Lifts Blue Devils Into a Spot They Expect (By RAY GLIER, Mar. 29, 2004)
GEORGIA TECH 79, KANSAS 71: Georgia Tech Moves Forward With a Push From Jack (By JOE LAPOINTE, Mar. 29, 2004)
* SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: YES Giving Prime-Time Treatment to Yankees' Early-Morning Games in Japan
[Eddie Murray's 587-feet homer against Yomuiuri Giants] (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Keeping Intellectual Borders Open (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Follow-Up to Kofigate [UN $5 billion kickbacks] (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 29, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Wish Fulfillment for Woody (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 29, 2004)
OP-ED: A Bitter Pill [antidepressants] (By ANDREW SOLOMON, Mar. 29, 2004)
OP-ED: Wicket Politics (By RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Mar. 29, 2004)
* LETTERS: Tower of Strength, or a Risky Lure? (5 Letters) (By RAYMOND A. PSONAK, et. al., Mar. 29, 2004)
LETTERS: God and the Pledge: My Brother's Quest (2 Letters) (By JULIE NEWDOW, et. al., Mar. 29, 2004)
LETTERS: Where Untruth Rules (By JOHN S. KOPPEL, Mar. 29, 2004)
* LETTERS: Slow Joys (By ALAN HERMAN, Mar. 29, 2004)
BUSINESS: Stocks Rise, but Interest Rates May Dampen Enthusiasm
[Dow +116.66, Nasdaq +32.55] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 29, 2004)
* MOST WANTED MEDIA: Using G.P.S. to Find Where You Are (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 29, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Criminal Intent Seems the Focus of Juror's Doubt in Tyco Trial
(By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & JONATHAN D. GLATER, Mar. 29, 2004)
Journalists Say Paper Failed to Stop Deceit of Reporter [USA Today's Jack Kelley]
(By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 29, 2004)
* London Papers Go Tabloid, and Circulation Goes Up (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 29, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2004)
* Leisure Pursuits of Today's Young Man (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 29, 2004)
* Wal-Mart Hits Snags in Push to Use Radio Tags to Track Goods (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 29, 2004)
* A Web Refugee Turns to Music and Says, 'The Sky's the Lid' (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 29, 2004)
* Health Concerns in Nanotechnology [Buckyballs] (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 29, 2004)
Tiny Loans Make a Big Difference in Lives of Poor (By SARITHA RAI, Mar. 29, 2004)
Prince Opens Online Music Store (By CHRIS NELSON, Mar. 29, 2004)
PATENTS: Improving Laparoscopic Surgery (By TERESA RIORDAN, Mar. 29, 2004)
* ART: Russia's New Rich Amass Art Collections (By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY, Mar. 29, 2004)
* BOOKS: In 12th Book of Best-Selling Series, Jesus Returns (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 29, 2004)
FILM: Benji the Dog Has His Day, Free From Hollywood's Leash (By SARAH C. CAMPBELL, Mar. 29, 2004)
FILM: 'UNTOLD SCANDAL': The Dangerous Liaisons in Korea's Finest Homes (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 29, 2004)
FILM: 'THREE STEP DANCING': Four Seasons in Bucolic Italy, Ripe for Enjoying Five Senses
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 29, 2004)
MUSIC: EDGAR MEYER: Double Duty for a Double Bassist (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 29, 2004)
MUSIC NEW CD'S: Diggin' Up Branches and Roots (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 29, 2004)
MUSIC: BARBARA COOK: Still Dreaming of Paradise, With Hardheaded Yearning (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 29, 2004)
TV: 'CALL ME': No Inhibitions, or Excuses, for a Hollywood Madam (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 29, 2004)
TV: 'THE NEW AMERICANS': Hamburgers and Lots of Work, for Starters (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 29, 2004)

Sunday, March 28, 2004:
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)

Isaac Kleinerman, Producer of 'Victory at Sea,' Dies at 87 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 28, 2004)
Sofia Golovkina, 88, Head of Bolshoi's School, Dies (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 28, 2004)
Dorothy Denny Scardino, 82, Musical Star of the Bank Lobby, Dies (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 28, 2004)
J. Edward Roush, Indiana Congressman, Dies at 83 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 28, 2004)
NATIONAL: 9/11 Panel Provokes a Discussion the White House Hoped to Avoid
(By DAVID JOHNSTON and ADAM NAGOURNEY, Mar. 28, 2004)
Gay? No Marriage License Here. Straight? Ditto. (By KATE ZERNIKE, Mar. 28, 2004)
A Trusted Bush Aide to Return, but Not to Washington [Karen P. Hughes]
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 28, 2004)
* POLITICAL POINTS: Bill, Jimmy... Meet Q-Tip (By JOHN TIERNEY, Mar. 28, 2004)
WORLD: A Long Fuse Links Tangier to Bombings in Madrid (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 28, 2004)
* WORLD: Mood Sours for Japan's Other Asian Students (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Mar. 28, 2004)
China Moves Toward Another West: Central Asia (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Mar. 28, 2004)
Official Is Said to Recommend Sharon Charge (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 28, 2004)
Taiwan's President Seems Secure Despite a Huge Rally (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 28, 2004)
North Korea Rejects U.S. Demand to Scrap Its Nuclear Programs (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 28, 2004)
NY REGION: Children Alone and Scared, Fighting Deportation (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Mar. 28, 2004)
Politics, Cash and Suspicion Intersect on the Farm (By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI & JOHN SULLIVAN, Mar. 28, 2004)
In Connecticut, No Solution in Sight for Jammed Highways (By PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Mar. 28, 2004)
* ELMIRA JOURNAL: Huck Finn's Birthplace, Along the Mighty Chemung (By MICHELLE YORK, Mar. 28, 2004)
FOLLOWING UP: In Nurse's Confession, Agonizing Echoes (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Mar. 28, 2004)
SPORTS: One Bracket Not Enough to Hold Two Dreams [Oklahoma State vs. St. Joseph]
(By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Mar. 28, 2004)
* ON BASEBALL: A Top Rotation Includes Skill, Health and Luck (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 28, 2004)
BASEBALL: Rediscovering Japan: Yanks Know Ruth and Gehrig Slept There, Too (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 28, 2004)
BASKETBALL BACKTALK: Tournament Has Become March Monopoly Madness (By JEFFREY L. KESSLER, Mar. 28, 2004)
BASKETBALL BACKTALK: Why Upsets Are Not Really So Surprising (By BRADLEY P. CARLIN, Mar. 28, 2004)
UCONN 87, ALABAMA 71: UConn Creates Path of Destruction to Final Four (By BILL FINLEY, Mar. 28, 2004)
CYCLING: Armstrong May Be Facing His Farewell Tour de France (By SAMUEL ABT, Mar. 28, 2004)
* FIGURE SKATING: Arakawa Ends Kwan's Reign and Pushes Cohen to 2nd (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 28, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Limits of Opening Arteries (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The American Tribes Prepare Their National Showcase (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Mar. 28, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Awaking to a Dream (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 28, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Who's Your Daddy Party? (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 28, 2004)
OP-ED: Don't Forget About Your Conservative Base (By LYN NOFZIGER, Mar. 28, 2004)
OP-ED: Pay More Attention to the Economy (By BOB DOLE, Mar. 28, 2004)
OP-ED: Reach Out to Moderate Republicans (By TOM CAMPBELL, Mar. 28, 2004)
LETTERS: After the Job Is Over (for Him) (6 Letters) (By RICHARD M. FRAUENGLASS, et. al., Mar. 28, 2004)
LETTERS: How Does Terror Affect an Election? (3 Letters) (By BONNIE MCGRATH, et. al., Mar. 28, 2004)
LETTERS: The F.D.A., Antidepressants and Suicide Risk (3 Letters) (By PETER KUDLER, M.D., et. al., Mar. 28, 2004)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
Now, a Man's World Is at the Spa or Salon (By JIM RENDON, Mar. 28, 2004)
* Casting Reality TV Becomes a Science (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 28, 2004)
MARKET WATCH: Freddie Mac: Sounds of Silence (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 28, 2004)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Outsourcing Joins the M.B.A. Curriculum (By CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART, Mar. 28, 2004)
ECONOMIC VIEW: What Unions Can Gain From Immigration (EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 28, 2004)
MIDSTREAM: The New Math of Long-Term Care Insurance (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Mar. 28, 2004)
MARKET INSIGHT: Ready or Not, Here Comes Earnings Season (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Mar. 28, 2004)
PORTFOLIOS: Some Bumps in the Road for Corporate Bonds (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 28, 2004)
* LIFE'S WORK: Cellphones Ringing at Home and at Work (By LISA BELKIN, Mar. 28, 2004)
PRIVATE SECTOR: King of Clubs, and Many Castles (By HARRY HURT III, Mar. 28, 2004)
* Is Trump Headed for a Fall? (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN & ERIC DASH, Mar. 28, 2004)
* Where to Turn When Inflation Roars Again? (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Mar. 28, 2004)
Those Dents and Demos Can Save You Dollars (By JULIE FLAHERTY, Mar. 28, 2004)
THE BOSS: Serenity on the Slopes [CEO, Horizon Organic] (By CHUCK MARCY, Mar. 28, 2004)
ARTS: Content (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
* ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: Operation Iraqi Infoganda (By FRANK RICH, Mar. 28, 2004)
ARTS: The White Zone Is for Loading and Unloading Art (By ANDREW BLUM, Mar. 28, 2004)
ART: A Painter With Lots of Voices and No Comment (By HILARIE M. SHEETS, Mar. 28, 2004)
DANCE: Truth? Yes. Reconciliation? Maybe. (By CHRISTOPHER REARDON, Mar. 28, 2004)
FILM: Giving Credits the Credit They're Due (By STEVEN HELLER, Mar. 28, 2004)
FILM: The Passions of the Repeat Viewers (By ALEX ABRAMOVICH, Mar. 28, 2004)
MUSIC: Two Lessons at the School for Scandal (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 28, 2004)
* MUSIC: Dylan on the Verge ["Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall"] (By ANTHONY DeCURTIS, Mar. 28, 2004)
THEATER: The Sly Fox of 'The Sly Fox' (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Mar. 28, 2004)
THEATER: From Comic to Curious Daughter [Wendy Spero] (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Mar. 28, 2004)
TV: It's Brash, It's British, It's Not PBS (By CARYN JAMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
West Palm Beach Welcomes You (By GUY TREBAY, Mar. 28, 2004)
New Way for Teenagers to See if They Bounce (By ANNA BAHNEY, Mar. 28, 2004)
* News Reports for Ultra-Short Attentions [Shepard Smith, Fox Report] (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Mar. 28, 2004)
POSSESSED: Souvenirs of a Journey in Art (By DAVID COLMAN, Mar. 28, 2004)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Katy Rose: Beauty and Beastliness (By STRAWBERRY SAROYAN, Mar. 28, 2004)
VOWS: Jill Gaspar and Mark Higgins (By STEPHEN HENDERSON, Mar. 28, 2004)
SPECIAL: STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
Happy Hours (By WILLIAM NORWICH, Mar. 28, 2004)
Chez Depardieu [Gerard Depardieu's restaurant] (By DANA THOMAS, Mar. 28, 2004)
Cake Masters (By MAURA EGAN, Mar. 28, 2004)
SLIDE SHOW: 20's Something [Natalia Vodianova & Justin Portman] (Photographs by Ben Watts, Mar. 28, 2004)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
In South Africa, a Historic Park for the Ages (By TED BOTHA, Mar. 28, 2004)
Cliff Walks, Coves and Curio Shops Near Cape Town (By JOSEPH BERGER, Mar. 28, 2004)
* Let a Billion Flowers Bloom [21 million flowers at Aalsmeer, Amsterdam] (By ELIZABETH POPE, Mar. 28, 2004)
WHAT'S DOING In Rome (By FRANK BRUNI, Mar. 28, 2004)
CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT: An Uneasy Europe Acts to Protect Its Railroads (By MARK LANDLER, Mar. 28, 2004)
* RITUALS: A Place Where Spring Arrives on the Wings of a Sandhill Crane
[Platte River, Nebraska] (By ANNA BAHNEY, Mar. 28, 2004)
* ESSAY: All Over the Maps (By BRYAN MILLER, Mar. 28, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
FAULT LINES: Where Does the Buck Stop? Not Here (By MICHAEL ORESKES, Mar. 28, 2004)
* FRONTIER JUSTICE: On the Web, Vengeance Is Mine (and Mine) (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 28, 2004)
* In a War on Terror, Not All the Rules of War Apply (By CRAIG R. WHITNEY, Mar. 28, 2004)
In Pakistan, the Riddle of a Big Fish That Got Away (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 28, 2004)
* DRESSING UP: The Power of Adult Clothes in a Youth-Obsessed Culture (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Mar. 28, 2004)
* THE PUBLIC EDITOR: The Privileges of Opinion, the Obligations of Fact (By DANIEL OKRENT, Mar. 28, 2004)
'No One Can Dismantle Hamas': The Voice of Its New Leader (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
* OF MICE AND MEN: Why Test Animals to Cure Human Depression? (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 28, 2004)
Pollution and the Slippery Meaning of 'Clean' (By ANTHONY DePALMA, Mar. 28, 2004)
* DO NOT GO GENTLY: Geezers, Gerries and Golden Agers (By GEOFFREY NUNBERG, Mar. 28, 2004)
* Beethoven: Unfair to Labor! (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Mar. 28, 2004)
Oh, No, Not Again: Chronicling Chronic Losing (By JEFF Z. KLEIN, Mar. 28, 2004)
Police to Protesters: Come On Down! (By MICHAEL WILSON, Mar. 28, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: Flip-Flop (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 28, 2004)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Human Factor (By JIM HOLT, Mar. 28, 2004)
QUESTIONS FOR HANS BLIX: What Weapons? (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 28, 2004)
ENCOUNTER: The Birth of the Meta-Protest Rally? (By JACK HITT, Mar. 28, 2004)
* CONSUMED: Sprite ReMix (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 28, 2004)
THE ETHICIST: Clash of Cultures (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 28, 2004)
COVER ARTICLE: Coach Fitz's Management Theory (By MICHAEL LEWIS, Mar. 28, 2004)
Mayor With a Mission [Jason West of New Paltz, NY] (By ROBERT SULLIVAN, Mar. 28, 2004)
The Case of the Cherry Hill Cluster [mad cow disease?] (By D.T. MAX, Mar. 28, 2004)
STYLE: Woman of Steel (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Mar. 28, 2004)
FOOD: Swan Song [La Cote Basque] (By JULIA REED, Mar. 28, 2004)
LIVES: Live and Forget (By FRANCISCO MART�NEZ as told to EDWARD LEWINE, Mar. 28, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2004)
'Freedom Just Around the Corner': Rogue Nation [Walter A. McDougall] (By GORDON S. WOOD, Mar. 28, 2004)
'Opening Skinner's Box': Adventures of the White Coat People [Lauren Slater]
(By PETER SINGER, Mar. 28, 2004)
* 'Bobby Fischer Goes to War': The American Opening [David Edmonds & John Eidinow]
(By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD, Mar. 28, 2004)
'Popular Music From Vittula': Let's Rokunroal! [Mikael Niem] (By RICHARD MCGILL MURPHY, Mar. 28, 2004)
'Pandora's Baby': Life in a Bottle [Robin Marantz Henig] (By HOWARD MARKEL, Mar. 28, 2004)
'John Fowles': The Uses of Enchantment [Eileen Warburton] (By RICHARD EDER, Mar. 28, 2004)
Books in Brief: "HIRSCHFELD'S HARLEM" [Al Hirschfeld] (By SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS, Mar. 28, 2004)

Saturday, March 27, 2004:
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)

Dr. Zhong Wei Chen, Pioneer in Microsurgery, Dies at 74 (By STUART LAVIETES, Mar. 27, 2004)
Rhoda L. Fisher, 79, Therapist and Multifaceted Writer of Books, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 27, 2004)
NATIONAL: Leaders of G.O.P. Try to Discredit a Critic of Bush
(By CARL HULSE & PHILIP SHENON, Mar. 27, 2004)
NATIONAL: Democrats' Ads in Tandem Provoke G.O.P. (By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 27, 2004)
Economy Is the Star of the Campaign Trail (By JODI WILGOREN & ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 27, 2004)
Washington Fires Health Chief Over Handling of Lead in Water (By BRIAN WINGFIELD, Mar. 27, 2004)
* BELIEFS: Some Believers Cringe at 'Under God' Defense (By PETER STEINFELS, Mar. 27, 2004)
WORLD: Spain Says It Holds Half of Group That Bombed Trains (By CRAIG S. SMITH and TIM GOLDEN, Mar. 27, 2004)
THE NEW EUROPE: After May 1, East Europe's 'Haves' May Have More (By ALAN COWELL, Mar. 27, 2004)
China Warns Taiwan It Won't Tolerate Post-Vote Turmoil (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 27, 2004)
Stepping In, China to Rule on Hong Kong Democracy (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 27, 2004)
8 Hostages Executed in Pakistan Siege (By AMY WALDMAN, Mar. 27, 2004)
NY REGION: Bumper to Bumper, Travelers Ride Out an I-95 Nightmare
(By ROBERT D. McFADDEN and ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Mar. 27, 2004)
911 System Is Shut Down in 3 Boroughs (By SABRINA TAVERNISE & WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Mar. 27, 2004)
SPORTS: Resentment for Duke Is the Name of the Game (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 27, 2004)
XAVIER 79, TEXAS 71: Xavier's Guards Do It Again, Knocking Off Texas (By RAY GLIER, Mar. 27, 2004)
KANSAS 100, U.A.B. 74: Result Is Never in Doubt as Kansas Ends It Early (By JOE LAPOINTE, Mar. 27, 2004)
NCAA: Brackets Shrink; Black Markets Boom (By EDWARD WYATT, Mar. 27, 2004)
BASEBALL: Yankees Enter Japan on Matsui's Red Carpet (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 27, 2004)
FIGURE SKATING: Kwan's Short Program Not Short Enough; Cohen Is Leader (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 27, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Will We Say 'Never Again' Yet Again? (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 27, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: See Dick Spin (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 27, 2004)
OP-ED: Why Nobody Saw 9/11 Coming (By PETER R. NEUMAN, Mar. 27, 2004)
OP-ED: How Good Intelligence Falls on Deaf Ears (By DAVID KAHN, Mar. 27, 2004)
LETTERS: A New Prescription for the Heart (5 Letters) (By DEBRA BRAVERMAN, M.D., et. al., Mar. 27, 2004)
* LETTERS: For Insight on the Way We Act, Read the Philosophers (3 Letters) (By BRIAN STIPELMAN, et. al., Mar. 27, 2004)
LETTERS: Not Funny, Mr. Bush (By JEFFREY HUO, Mar. 27, 2004)
LETTERS: Reducing Fractures [osteoporosis & Fosamax] (By HENRY G. BONE M.D., Mar. 27, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Off a Bit on Profit Taking From Thursday Rally
[Dow -5.85, Nasdaq -7.15] (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 27, 2004)
Albertsons Buying Shaw's, New England Grocery Chain (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 27, 2004)
Owing More on an Auto Than It's Worth as a Trade-In (By DANNY HAKIM, Mar. 27, 2004)
* ARTS: The Brain? It's A Jungle in There
[Nobel laureate Gerald M. Edelman & his robot Darwin, that demonstrates
his theory of how the brain develops according to natural selection]
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Mar. 27, 2004)
* ARTS: A Passion for the Classics and, Well, Passion [Anne Carson] (By DINITIA SMITH, Mar. 27, 2004)
BOOKS: Is Terrorists' Hatred of the West the West's Own Bastard Child? (By GARY ROSEN, Mar. 27, 2004)
FILM: 'FUSE': With Serbs and Muslims in the Muddle of Bosnia (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 27, 2004)
FILM: 'CAPTIVE': When You Aren't Who You Think You Are (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 27, 2004)
FILM: 'NO. 17': A Dogged Pursuit of Detail in a Violent Land (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 27, 2004)
FILM: 'EAGER BODIES': An Agonizing Dance of Love Is Choreographed for Three
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 27, 2004)
FILM: 'B-HAPPY': A Jailed Father Leaves a Void In His Teenage Daughter's Life
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 27, 2004)
MUSIC: Looking Homeward, With Mahler and Adams (By JEREMY EICHLER, Mar. 27, 2004)
OPERA: A Relic of an Enlightened Age, Led by a French Harpsichordist
[Charpentier's "David et Jonathas" (1688): David defeats Saul & Jonathan]
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 27, 2004)
POP: Ladies of Hip-Hop, Receiving Their Due [Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Missy Elliott]
(By JON PARELES, Mar. 27, 2004)
THEATER: 'PARDON MY ENGLISH': Springtime for Dresden in a Bubbly Era of Inhibition
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 27, 2004)
SCIENCE: NASA Seeks New Frontier in Jet Engines (By WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 27, 2004)
* HEALTH: Fast Saliva Test for H.I.V. Gains Federal Approval (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 27, 2004)

Friday, March 26, 2004:
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)

Mary B. Goodhue, a State Legislator for 18 Years, Dies at 82 (By MICHAEL COOPER, Mar. 26, 2004)
Rev. Thomas R. Fitzgerald, Educator, Dies at 82 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 26, 2004)
Russell Reineman, Thoroughbred Owner, Dies at 86 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 26, 2004)
Leonard Lewin, Sportswriter, Dies at 87 (NY TIMES, Mar. 26, 2004)
NATIONAL: Rice Is Agreeable to Return for More of 9/11 Panel's Queries
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 26, 2004)
Ex-Aide's Book Corners Market in Capital Buzz [Richard A. Clarke] (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Mar. 26, 2004)
* The Alamo of the Big Screen Tries to Skirt the Fate of the Original (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Mar. 26, 2004)
* Democrats Gather Stars and Cash for Kerry (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JODI WILGOREN, Mar. 26, 2004)
* A Bush Dinner Joke Amuses (and Does Not) (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Mar. 26, 2004)
Missile Defense for Airliners Is Possible Soon, Makers Say (By PHILIP SHENON, Mar. 26, 2004)
28 Companies Are Selected to Provide Drug Discounts (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 26, 2004)
WORLD: Chalabi, Nimble Exile, Searches for Role in Iraq (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 26, 2004)
Blair Visits Qaddafi, Ending Libya's Long Estrangement (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Mar. 26, 2004)
THE OCCUPATION: U.S. Officials Fashion Legal Basis to Keep Force in Iraq (By JOHN F. BURNS and THOM SHANKER, Mar. 26, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Sharon's Gaza Strategy: Good for Hamas, or Israel? (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 26, 2004)
Up to 2,000 Marines to Go to Afghanistan From Gulf (By ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 26, 2004)
THE MILITARY: U.S. Army Finds Its Suicide Rate in Iraq Is Higher Than for Other G.I.'s
(By ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 26, 2004)
* MEXICO CITY JOURNAL: On Mexico's Mean Streets, the Sinners Have a Saint (By GINGER THOMPSON, Mar. 26, 2004)
NY REGION: Fiery Truck Crash Closes I-95 in Connecticut (By SABRINA TAVERNISE and AVI SALZMAN, Mar. 26, 2004)
On Brooklyn's Avenue of Babel, Cultures Entwine (By ANDY NEWMAN, Mar. 26, 2004)
* Studying Voltage, Venting Grief [daughter accidentally electrocuted] (By IAN URBINA, Mar. 26, 2004)
Facing Long Road, West Side Makeover Gets a Big Sendoff (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Mar. 26, 2004)
* PUBLIC LIVES: When It's an Honor to Pick Up a Pianist's Jacket (By JAMES BARRON, Mar. 26, 2004)
NYC: So, It's Jets Versus Striped Bass? (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 26, 2004)
SPORTS: In Birthplace of Games, the Olympic Flame Is Lighted (By ANTHEE CARASSAVA, Mar. 26, 2004)
SPORTS: St. John's Should Lower Sights to Raise Program (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Mar. 26, 2004)
UCONN 73, VANDERBILT 53: UConn Trounces Vanderbilt With Swagger and Confidence
(By BILL FINLEY, Mar. 26, 2004)
ALABAMA 80, SYRACUSE 71: Alabama's Run Topples Syracuse's Title Defense (By BILL FINLEY, Mar. 26, 2004)
BASEBALL: Everything Is Going Great in Bobby Valentine's World (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 26, 2004)
FIGURE SKATING: Plushenko Stumbles, Then Soars to Title Again (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 26, 2004)
TENNIS: Nearing 34, Agassi Is Pacing Himself Toward Retirement (By JUDY BATTISTA, Mar. 26, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Entitlements 'Crisis' (NY TIMES, Mar. 26, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Early Bulbs [crocuses] (NY TIMES, Mar. 26, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Medicare Muddle (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 26, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Wrong War (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 26, 2004)
OP-ED: Stop Hamas With a Vote (By KHALIL SHIKAKI, Mar. 26, 2004)
* OP-ED: Jefferson, Madison, Newdow? (By KENNETH C. DAVIS, Mar. 26, 2004)
LETTERS: The 9/11 Hearing: The Blame and the Apology (10 Letters) (By DALE MACDIARMID, et. al., Mar. 26, 2004)
LETTERS: Making Art on Demand (By ARNOLD M. HUBERMAN , Mar. 26, 2004)
* LETTERS: Rise of the Machines (By VIVIAN O'NEILL , Mar. 26, 2004)
BUSINESS: Strong Economic Reports Lead a Rally on Wall Street
[Dow +170.59, Nasdaq +57.69] (Associated Press, Mar. 26, 2004)
* Fastest Growth in 2 Decades in '03 Last Half (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 26, 2004)
Outspoken Chief Is Ousted at German Chip Maker (By MARK LANDLER, Mar. 26, 2004)
Ex-Executive of Dynegy Is Sentenced to 24 Years [Jamie Olis] (By SIMON ROMERO, Mar. 26, 2004)
ADVERTISING: A New Marketing Method for Siemens (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Mar. 26, 2004)
* ART: Decay and Glory: Back to Byzantium (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 26, 2004)
* ART: ASIA WEEK: Fusing the Many Asias Into a Diverse Harmony (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 26, 2004)
ART REVERBERATIONS: What's the Fastest Way to Midtown? Via France and Germany
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 26, 2004)
ART: 'TEMPTATION, JOY AND SCANDAL'; 'FASHIONING THE MODERN WOMAN'
A Whiff of Prewar Paris: Feminine Forces in Fas (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 26, 2004)
* ANTIQUES: In the Art World, a Conquest by Christianity (By WENDY MOONAN, Mar. 26, 2004)
* BOOKS: CROWD PLEASERS: The Plot Is Simple: Sell Books (By JANET MASLIN, Mar. 26, 2004)
DANCE: JUILLIARD DANCES REPERTORY: Student Bodies, Airborne and Earthbound (By JACK ANDERSON, Mar. 26, 2004)
FILM: 'THE LADYKILLERS': A Gang of Impostors vs. One True Lady (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 26, 2004)
FILM: 'NEVER DIE ALONE': Dying Without Remorse, a Bad Guy Who's Lonely (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 26, 2004)
FILM: 'JERSEY GIRL': How to End a Career: Take a Baby to a News Conference (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 26, 2004)
FILM: 'DOGVILLE': True to a Hateful Vision of Unity in Mob Violence (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 26, 2004)
FILM: 'DIG!': Seeking Fame With Amps and Attitude (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 26, 2004)
OPERA: OPERA ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK: One Verdict on Verdi Singing, With Room for an Indulgence
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 26, 2004)
THEATER: Three Egos, Two Stars, One War [Alec Baldwin & Anne Heche] (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 26, 2004)
* TV CRITIC: Winners and Losers at Womanhood [Yoanna House & Tyra Banks] (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 26, 2004)
* HEALTH: Study Finds No Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Mar. 26, 2004)

Thursday, March 25, 2004:
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)

Charles Haden, 66, U.S. Judge on Strip-Mining Case, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 25, 2004)
Arthur Lithgow, 88, Stage Actor Who Led Regional Companies, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 25, 2004)
Robert Kleiman, 85, an Editorial Writer and Correspondent, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 25, 2004)
Samuel Sadin, 86, an Advocate for the Elderly, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 25, 2004)
Leo Hausman, 94, Health Philanthropist, Dies (NY TIMES, Mar. 25, 2004)
NATIONAL: Ex-Bush Aide Says Threat of Qaeda Was Not Priority
(By PHILIP SHENON and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 25, 2004)
* Atheist Presents Case for Taking God From Pledge [Michael A. Newdow] (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 25, 2004)
More California Air Space Set for No-Smoke Zones (By NICK MADIGAN, Mar. 25, 2004)
Democrats Arrange Rare Convergence of Party's Stars for Fund-Raiser (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Mar. 25, 2004)
EDUCATION: Not So Long Out of School, Yet Running the System (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Mar. 25, 2004)
WORLD: Cheney to Visit Japan, China and South Korea (By ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 25, 2004)
World Leaders Converge in Spain to Mourn Bomb Victims (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 25, 2004)
Deserted by Doctors, India's Poor Turn to Quacks (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Mar. 25, 2004)
U.S. Calls for Sunni and Kurdish Rights After Turnover (By JOHN F. BURNS, Mar. 25, 2004)
French Worker Finds a Bomb Partly Buried on Rail Line (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 25, 2004)
* LONDON JOURNAL: Oh, Those Web Entanglements: British Spouses Deceived (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 25, 2004)
NY REGION: Pointing Fingers Back at Trump, for Fun (By SHERRI DAY, Mar. 25, 2004)
Tall Tale, or Should That Be Tail? [mountain lion?] (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Mar. 25, 2004)
BOLDFACE NAMES: 'What, Quit Show Business?' A Play in One Act (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 25, 2004)
SPORTS: A Night to Remember for Chinese Pairs Skaters (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Mar. 25, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: Former Teammates Live to Tell of Serious Illness (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 25, 2004)
YANKEES NOTEBOOK: Rodriguez Hit in Cheek by Deflected Throw (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 25, 2004)
BASKETBALL: The Power of Seniors Is Driving Xavier (By TOM SPOUSTA, Mar. 25, 2004)
BASKETBALL: The Shot Heard Round Birmingham [UAB beats Kentucky] (By RAY GLIER, Mar. 25, 2004)
BASKETBALL: Proving Time for St. Joseph's and Syracuse (By JOE DRAPE, Mar. 25, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Assessing the Blame for 9/11 (NY TIMES, Mar. 25, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Toward a Recount in Taiwan (NY TIMES, Mar. 25, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: No Vote for Al Qaeda (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 25, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Truth as a Weapon (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 25, 2004)
OP-ED: Russia's Future, Putin's Legacy (By SERGEI GURIEV, Mar. 25, 2004)
LETTERS: The Pledge and Religious Freedom (6 Letters) (By CARL COHEN, et. al., Mar. 25, 2004)
LETTERS: Words Are Bitter as the Mideast Roils (4 Letters) (By JERRY RAPP, et. al., Mar. 25, 2004)
LETTERS: Progressive in India [Kerala] (By AMITABH PAL , Mar. 25, 2004)
BUSINESS: Tech Stocks Up as Price Falls Lure Buyers
[Dow -15.41, Nasdaq +7.68] (By REUTERS, Mar. 25, 2004)
MARKET PLACE: Focus Turns to Walt Disney Earnings (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Mar. 25, 2004)
* ECONOMIC SCENE: Getting the Most Out of the Nation's Teachers (By VIRGINIA POSTREL, Mar. 25, 2004)
Human Genome Sciences Faces Shift in Leadership and Focus
[William A. Haseltine] (By ANDREW POLLACK, Mar. 25, 2004)
ENTERTAINMENT: Big Changes Are Planned in Game-Software Strategy (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 25, 2004)
ARTS Briefing [Bonn violinists seek payment by the note] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Mar. 25, 2004)
* BOOKS: 'IT'S ALL TRUE': Hollywood, Where You're Terrific if You're Even Good (By JANET MASLIN, Mar. 25, 2004)
BOOKS: Credentials for Pulp Fiction: Pimp and Drug Addict (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Mar. 25, 2004)
DANCE: STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY: Broken Spirits, Under the Gaze of Broken Dolls
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 25, 2004)
* MUSIC CRITIC: Wagner Writ Small, With a Helping of Sex (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 25, 2004)
MUSIC: Piano Returns to Berlin, Releasing Family Secret (By ALAN COWELL, Mar. 25, 2004)
OPERA: An Operetta Has an 'Alt-Country' Flavor (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 25, 2004)
* THEATER: Now Playing Off Broadway, Virtual-Music War (By JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 25, 2004)
* GARDEN: A Song of the Loom Is Silenced (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Mar. 25, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 25, 2004)
* The Net's Late Bloomers (By KATIE HAFNER, Mar. 25, 2004)
* BASICS: Stand and Fight: An Arsenal for Spam Victims (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 25, 2004)
* ONLINE DIARY: More Genealogical Sites and Tracking Abandonware (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Mar. 25, 2004)
For the Pit Boss, Some Extra Electronic Eyes (By JOSHUA TOMPKINS, Mar. 25, 2004)
Q & A: Web Pages Unplugged, for Reading on the Go (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 25, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Less Jaw, Big Brain: Evolution Milestone Laid to Gene Flaw (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 25, 2004)
SCIENCE: U.S. Will Give Cold Fusion Second Look, After 15 Years (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 25, 2004)
* HEALTH: Therapy and Hypochondriacs Often Make Poor Mix, Study Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 25, 2004)

Wednesday, March 24, 2004:
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)

Claus Josef Riedel, Crystal Maker Who Suited Glass to Wine, Dies at 79 (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Mar. 24, 2004)
* John Gregory Dunne Eulogized at Cathedral (By JANE GROSS, Mar. 24, 2004)
NATIONAL: Medicare Costs Expected to Soar in Coming Years (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 24, 2004)
Bush Critic at Center of 9/11 Debate Testifies at Hearing (By DAVID STOUT, Mar. 24, 2004)
Report Details C.I.A. Steps, and Missteps, Against bin Laden (By DAVID STOUT, Mar. 24, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: For a Day, Terrorism Transcends Politics as Panel Reviews Failures (By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 24, 2004)
EDUCATION: In Classroom, a Respite From His Calling (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 24, 2004)
WORLD: After Sheik Is Slain, Hamas Picks Fiery Figure as Its Leader in Gaza (By GREG MYRE, Mar. 24, 2004)
Spain Royal Family Weeps at State Funeral (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 24, 2004)
Taiwan Leader's Agreement on Recount Seen as Shrewd Politics (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 24, 2004)
Gains by Kin in Iraq Inflame Kurds' Anger at Syria (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 24, 2004)
NY REGION: Plan for Jets' Manhattan Stadium Surges Ahead (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Mar. 24, 2004)
City Sets Goals for the Health of New Yorkers (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Mar. 24, 2004)
Learning to Walk in Size 17 Pumps (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Mar. 24, 2004)
Bowling Ball From 17th Floor Narrowly Misses 3 Officers (By MICHAEL BRICK, Mar. 24, 2004)
ABOUT NEW YORK: Nameless, to His Killers and the Public [Chinese food deliverer]
(By DAN BARRY, Mar. 24, 2004)
SPORTS: Don't Blame Greece Alone for the Olympic Mess (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 24, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Path to a Healthier America (NY TIMES, Mar. 24, 2004)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Taking Broadband Internet Access to the Last 'Last Mile':
To Rural America (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Mar. 24, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Ethnic Cleansing, Again (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 24, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Of God and the Flag (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 24, 2004)
OP-ED: Withdrawal Without Reward (By DENNIS ROSS, Mar. 24, 2004)
OP-ED: The Wrong Ticket to Ride [Justice Scalia & VP Cheney] (By IAN AYRES and BARRY NALEBUFF, Mar. 24, 2004)
LETTERS: A Briefing by the Former Press Secretary (By ARI FLEISCHER, Mar. 24, 2004)
LETTERS: The President, the Insider and 9/11 (5 Letters) (By JAMES D. WALKER, et. al., Mar. 24, 2004)
BUSINESS: Stocks Have Wobbly Session
[Dow -1.11, Nasdaq -8.10] (Associated Press, Mar. 24, 2004)
Europe Issues Strict New Ruling on Microsoft (By PAUL MELLER, Mar. 24, 2004)
Putnam Faces Big Penalties for Improper Fund Trades (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Mar. 24, 2004)
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: Architects Protect a Controversial Modern Building
[22-story building by I. M. Pei, Wilmington, DE] (By MAUREEN MILFORD, Mar. 24, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Newly Released Documents Shed Light on Microsoft Tactics (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 24, 2004)
* Online Swindlers, Called 'Phishers,' Are Luring Unwary (By SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 24, 2004)
ARTS: NPR News Is Replacing Morning Host (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Mar. 24, 2004)
BOOKS: A Chinese Girl's Diary Builds a Bridge Out of Rural Poverty (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 24, 2004)
FILM: 'The Alamo': A Battle Disney May Never Forget (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 24, 2004)
MUSIC: DAVE BRUBECK: A New Look at an Old View of Music's Polytonal Future (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 24, 2004)
TV: 'THE D-LIST': A Small Dose of Celebrity Keeps Her Head Cheerfully Above Water (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 24, 2004)
TV: 'A BOY'S LIFE': Digging Up Surprising Roots Behind a Problem Child (By ANITA GATES, Mar. 24, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 24, 2004)
* FOOD: After Centuries, the Vegetarian Feast of India Finally Arrives (By JULIA MOSKIN, Mar. 24, 2004)
* THE CHEF: Toast, Egg and Onions: Soup's On! (By MATT LEE and TED LEE, Mar. 24, 2004)
THE MINIMALIST: Chicken Soup With a Burn (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 24, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Mutation Cited in Evolution (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 24, 2004)

Tuesday, March 23, 2004:
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)

Brian Maxwell, 51, Marathoner Who Created Energy Bar, Dies (By REUTERS, Mar. 23, 2004)
Ludmilla Tcherina, 79, Ballet Star of Stage and Screen, Is Dead (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 23, 2004)
John C. West, Crusading South Carolina Governor, Dies at 81 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 23, 2004)
Nathan C. Heard, 67, Author of Raw Urban Life Stories, Is Dead (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 23, 2004)
Lynn L. Seidler, 67, Director of Shubert Arts Foundation, Dies (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2004)
Irving Crespi, 77, Poll Expert Long Associated With Gallup, Is Dead (By MICHAEL R. KAGAY, Mar. 23, 2004)
NATIONAL: U.S. Quietly Aiding Pakistan Campaign Against Al Qaeda (By ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 23, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: An Accuser's Insider Status Puts the White House on the Defensive
(By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 23, 2004)
* Shuttle Flew for Decades With Potentially Fatal Flaw (By WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 23, 2004)
Life on Line, Oklahoma Bombing Figure Is Tried Again (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Mar. 23, 2004)
T-Shirt Slight Has West Virginia in Arms (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 23, 2004)
WORLD: Palestinians Swear Vengeance for Killing of Cleric by Israelis (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 23, 2004)
MILITANTS: Death of Sheik Raises Question of Hamas Fate (By GREG MYRE, Mar. 23, 2004)
U.S. Team in Baghdad Fights a Persistent Enemy: Rumors (By THOM SHANKER, Mar. 23, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Debating 9/11 (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Death in Gaza (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2004)
* OP-ED: Lifting the Shroud (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 23, 2004)
* OP-ED: One Nation, Enriched by Biblical Wisdom (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 23, 2004)
* OP-ED: The 1,776-Foot-Tall Target (By DANIEL BENJAMIN, Mar. 23, 2004)
* OP-ED: After Disaster, a Design for Living [London Fire 1666] (By ADRIAN TINNISWOOD, Mar. 23, 2004)
LETTERS: The Killing of the Hamas Leader (6 Letters) (By SHOSHANA BULOW, et. al., Mar. 23, 2004)
LETTERS: Whither Compassion? (2 Letters) (By DAVID ALTMAN, et. al., Mar. 23, 2004)
* LETTERS: Wireless in the Park, Just Me and the Clouds (By DAVID MOORE, Mar. 23, 2004)
LETTERS: We Who Protested (By MARISA CARRASCO, Mar. 23, 2004)
LETTERS: Terrorists and Bombs (By JANE W. PRETTYMAN, Mar. 23, 2004)
LETTERS: A Lesson From Jane Austen (By JAYE SCHOLL, Mar. 23, 2004)
BUSINESS: Stock Indexes Fall to Lows for the Year
[Dow -121.85, Nasdaq -30.57] (By ALEX BERENSON, Mar. 23, 2004)
For Wall Street Chiefs, Big Paydays Continue (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Mar. 23, 2004)
A Chip in the Global Game of Bank Reshuffling (By MARK LANDLER, Mar. 23, 2004)
A Discount Airline Creates Some Wealthy Admirers (By MARCI ALBOHER NUSBAUM, Mar. 23, 2004)
ART: Museums Join to Buy Works of New Artists (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 23, 2004)
BOOKS: 'RAPUNZEL'S DAUGHTERS': Does She or Doesn't She? Only Her Sociologist Knows
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Mar. 23, 2004)
A Little Start-Up Entertains, One Story at a Time (By DINITIA SMITH, Mar. 23, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Slender and Elegant, It Fuels the Bomb (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 23, 2004)
A Mountain Railroad Spells Death for Grizzlies and Cubs (By JIM ROBBINS, Mar. 23, 2004)
Climate Debate Gets Its Icon: Mt. Kilimanjaro (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Mar. 23, 2004)
In the Land of Kiwis, the Winged Variety Is Disappearing (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 23, 2004)
* Denied Nobel for M.R.I., He Wins Another Prize [Raymond V. Damadian] (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 23, 2004)
* Mr. Otis, Call Your Office: A Nano-Elevator Is Built (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 23, 2004)
A Solution to the Mystery of the 300 Paralyzed Elk (By MINDY SINK, Mar. 23, 2004)
OBSERVATORY: Pink Salmon, Blue Vision (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 23, 2004)
HEALTH: Regulators Want Antidepressants to List Warning (By GARDINER HARRIS, Mar. 23, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Sane Weight Loss in a Carb-Obsessed World: High Fiber and Low Fat
(By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 23, 2004)
Anatomy Lessons, a Vanishing Rite for Young Doctors (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, Mar. 23, 2004)
* Of Drunken Elephants, Tipsy Fish and Scotch With a Twist (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Mar. 23, 2004)
FIRST PERSON: Strokes or Sleeplessness? One Woman's Hormone Quandary (By JANE GROSS, Mar. 23, 2004)
* A CONVERSATION WITH | JOANNE KOENIG COSTE: A Wife Learns to See With Alzheimer's Eyes
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Mar. 23, 2004)
* Dreams Ride on Freud's Royal Road, Study Finds (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 23, 2004)
Alcohol's Benefits Extend to Hypertension (By DAVID TULLER, Mar. 23, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Prognosis: Cold and Poor, a Double Peril (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 23, 2004)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Those Embarrassing Ills (By JOHN LANGONE, Mar. 23, 2004)
* Q & A: Broccoli's Benefits (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 23, 2004)

Monday, March 22, 2004:
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)

* Sheik Was a Symbolic Figure Revered by Hamas Followers [Ahmed Yassin] (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Mar. 22, 2004)
Claude Nougaro, 74, French Singer, Is Dead (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 22, 2004)
J.J. Jackson, Early MTV Video Jockey, Is Dead at 62 (NY TIMES, Mar. 22, 2004)
Anna Carter Gordon Davis, Alto in Famed Gospel Ensemble, Dies at 87 (By PHIL SWEETLAND, Mar. 22, 2004)
Genia Melikova, Ballerina and Noted Teacher, Dies at 74 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 22, 2004)
NATIONAL: Despite the Sluggish Economy, Welfare Rolls Actually Shrank (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 22, 2004)
Two States Trying to Keep Gambling Money at Home (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 22, 2004)
Former Terrorism Official Criticizes White House on 9/11 [Richard A. Clarke]
(By JUDITH MILLER, Mar. 22, 2004)
* For This Super Sunday, It's All About Mardi Gras Revelry (By JON PARELES, Mar. 22, 2004)
* One Crucial Issue in Pledge Case: What Does 'Under God' Mean? (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 22, 2004)
POLITICAL MEMO: Both Sides Polish Badges to Appear the Best Suited to Fight Corporate Crime
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 22, 2004)
THE ISSUES: Bush Aide Sees $1 Trillion Gap in Kerry's Plans (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 22, 2004)
For Kerry, Victories Fueled Fund-Raising and Spending (By GLEN JUSTICE, Mar. 22, 2004)
* WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Running on a Campaign Trail Paved in Comfy Feathers (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 22, 2004)
Despite the Sluggish Economy, Welfare Rolls Actually Shrank (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 22, 2004)
WORLD: Thousands in Gaza Mourn Slain Hamas Leader and Vow Revenge (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 22, 2004)
Europe and U.S. Respond Differently to Killing of Sheik (By BRIAN KNOWLTON, Mar. 22, 2004)
* SÃO DOMINGOS DO CAPIM JOURNAL: Far From the Ocean, Surfers Ride Brazil's Endless Wave (By LARRY ROHTER, Mar. 22, 2004)
Politicians in Taiwan Quarreling Over Recount (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 22, 2004)
Taiwan Opposition Raises Specter of Vote Rigging (By JOSEPH KAHN and KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 22, 2004)
Tunnels Found in Pakistan Tied to Foreign Militants (By DAVID ROHDE and CARLOTTA GALL, Mar. 22, 2004)
Delivery Delays Hurt U.S. Effort to Equip Iraqis (By THOM SHANKER & ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 22, 2004)
As Europe Hunts for Terrorists, the Hunted Press Advantages
(By TIM GOLDEN, DESMOND BUTLER & DON VAN NATTA Jr., Mar. 22, 2004)
Pakistan Asks Tribes to Seek Surrender by Qaeda Fighters (By CARLOTTA GALL, Mar. 22, 2004)
NY REGION: After Gentler Tactics, a Peaceful Antiwar Protest (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Mar. 22, 2004)
Babies Are Larger After Ban on 2 Pesticides, Study Finds (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Mar. 22, 2004)
* Chasing a Fish-Farming Dream (By COREY KILGANNON, Mar. 22, 2004)
Curiously Tall Dutch Ship Lands in New Amsterdam (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Mar. 22, 2004)
* At a Legendary Cemetery, a Rare Look Behind the Gates (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 22, 2004)
* Metropolitan Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 22, 2004)
SPORTS: Yankees' Proctor Has Numbers on His Side This Spring (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 22, 2004)
BASEBALL: Don Baylor Is Back at Mets' Camp After Cancer Treatment (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 22, 2004)
U.A.B. 76, KENTUCKY 75: U.A.B.'s Finley Sends Top-Seeded Kentucky Home (By PAT BORZI, Mar. 22, 2004)
XAVIER 89, MISSISSIPPI ST. 74: Xavier's Chalmers Leads Upset of Mississippi St.
(By TOM SPOUSTA, Mar. 22, 2004)
SPORTS: Union Misses the Mark on Testing in Baseball (By HARVEY ARATON, Mar. 22, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Pinch at the Pump (NY TIMES, Mar. 22, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Cancer Scare Tactics (NY TIMES, Mar. 22, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Creeping Democracy (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 22, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: 1 Mayor, 1.1 Million Students (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 22, 2004)
OP-ED: Castro's Latest Victim: Himself (By VLADIMIRO ROCA, Mar. 22, 2004)
OP-ED: Songs of Cuba, Silenced in America (By JACKSON BROWNE, Mar. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: Can America Grow and Stay Green? (5 Letters) (By BOB PRAVER, et. al., Mar. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: Public School Battle: A New York Story (4 Letters) (By ROBERT WEBER, et. al., Mar. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: 'Good' Cholesterol (By RICHARD KARAS, M.D., Mar. 22, 2004)
* LETTERS: Eloquent and Concise [Gettysburg Address 272 words] (By �LYNNE MUNSON, Mar. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: Found in Translation? [Queens poet laureate] (By TERRY WINANT, Mar. 22, 2004)
* BUSINESS: In Florida Groves, Cheap Labor Means Machines (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 22, 2004)
Magazine Finds a Rival a Bit Too Familiar [Men's Health & Men's Fitness]
(By DAVID CARR, Mar. 22, 2004)
Wal-Mart Sees Sales at High End of View (By REUTERS, Mar. 22, 2004)
MOST WANTED MEDIA: More Gadgets, Higher Prices (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 22, 2004)
Fox, Taking a Risk, Relies on Amateur Nights (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 22, 2004)
* Newspaper Editors Move to Tighten Safeguards (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 22, 2004)
ADVERTISING: Marketers Pitch to Young Voters (By NAT IVES, Mar. 22, 2004)
As Its Ex-Bosses Await Their Fate, Tyco Continues Comeback (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Mar. 22, 2004)
In the Hall as a Lobbyist After Time in the House [Steve Largent] (By MATT RICHTEL, Mar. 22, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 22, 2004)
* Game Wars 2: Battle for the Living Room (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 22, 2004)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Web Radio Said to Be Ready for Ads (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 22, 2004)
More Troubles Await Microsoft in Europe (By PAUL MELLER, Mar. 22, 2004)
* Electronics That Enhance an Image (Yours) (By ERIC A. TAUB, Mar. 22, 2004)
Nortel Faces Credibility Questions in New Audit (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 22, 2004)
PATENTS: For Speed in Swimsuits, Add Bumps (By TERESA RIORDAN, Mar. 22, 2004)
Starting Small, Israeli Company Enters the Handset Market (By JOSHUA MITNICK, Mar. 22, 2004)
ARTS: An Iraqi-Born Woman Wins Pritzker Architecture Award (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Mar. 22, 2004)
ART: Glittering Trove Built on Trust Across Borders (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 22, 2004)
BOOKS: 'STILL LIFE WITH BOMBERS': Still Hopeful Amid Israel's 'Grisly Lottery'
(By JANET MASLIN, Mar. 22, 2004)
DANCE: 'WALL TO WALL': A Sly Morsel of Fantasy From Early Balanchine
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 22, 2004)
MUSIC:" Bands From the World Over Come to Sing and Schmooze (By JON PARELES, Mar. 22, 2004)
MUSIC NEW CD'S: Listening to Bernstein Through Inventive Ears (By BEN RATLIFF, Mar. 22, 2004)
OPERA: METROPOLITAN OPERA: 'Rheingold' and Its Eternal Relevance (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 22, 2004)
THEATER: The Reason Why I Sing: Divining a Music's Roots (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Mar. 22, 2004)
THEATER: Slicing and Dicing With Razors, and Emotional Housecleaning (By ANITA GATES, Mar. 22, 2004)
THEATER: From a Nasty Love Triangle to Young, Fresh-Faced Love (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Mar. 22, 2004)
TV: Love Fest for Soap Opera Fans, in Two Languages (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 22, 2004)

Saturday, March 20, 2004:
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)

John Rodgers, 89, Geologist Who Mapped Bedrock, Dies (By DAVID TULLER, Mar. 20, 2004)
Ella Johnson, Singer in Jazz Bands, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2004)
J.W. Streilein, 68, a Researcher on Eye Tissue Transplants, Is Dead (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 20, 2004)
Richard Brown, Democratic Party Tactician, Dies at 85 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 20, 2004)
Sherman Lewis, 67, Executive at Lehman, Is Dead (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 20, 2004)
Former Dutch Queen Juliana Dead at 94 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 20, 2004)
Roxie Campanella, Wife of Former Dodger, Dies at 77 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 20, 2004)
Norb Hecker, 76, Former N.F.L. Coach, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 20, 2004)
NATIONAL: 90-Day Media Strategy by Bush's Aides to Define Kerry (By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 20, 2004)
Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda (By PHILIP SHENON, Mar. 20, 2004)
Few Disruptions as Antiwar Protesters March in San Francisco (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 20, 2004)
Logo Shirts for Bush Campaign Eluded Myanmar Embargo (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Mar. 20, 2004)
Pollution Dispute in Northwest Straddles the Border (By MATTHEW PREUSCH, Mar. 20, 2004)
* WORLD: Taiwan's Leader and Deputy Are Shot on Election Eve
(By JOSEPH KAHN and KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 20, 2004)
DIPLOMACY: Bush, on War's Anniversary, Calls on World to Fight Terror (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 20, 2004)
Seeking Top Qaeda Figure, Pakistanis Battle Militants
(By DAVID ROHDE & CARLOTTA GALL, Mar. 20, 2004)
Hussein's Fall Leads Syrians to Test Government Limits (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 20, 2004)
Spanish Judge Holds 3 Moroccans on Murder Charges (By TIM GOLDEN, Mar. 20, 2004)
Support for Chen Muted Among Taiwanese on Mainland (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Mar. 20, 2004)
NEWS MEDIA: A Unexpected Visit by Powell to Baghdad Sets Off an Angry Walkout by Journalists
(By STEVEN R. WEISMAN and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 20, 2004)
SATURDAY PROFILE: 'X' Marks His (Disputed) Spot in Canada's Art Scene (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Mar. 20, 2004)
NY REGION: Winter's Last Snowy Effort, Spring's First Hint of Thaw (By MARIA NEWMAN, Mar. 20, 2004)
Falling (Safely) for Artificial Turf (By JOSEPH BERGER, Mar. 20, 2004)
* Fires in Manholes, Not a Winter Rarity, Are on the Rise
[90,000 miles of underground electrical wires] (By IAN URBINA, Mar. 20, 2004)
SPORTS: Coming Home, Only to Revisit A Hard Journey (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 20, 2004)
MEN'S N.C.A.A. TOURNAMENT: Nevada Upsets Gonzaga; Duke, Wake Forest Also Advance (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 20, 2004)
ST. LOUIS REGIONAL: Favored Providence Is Sent Packing by Pacific (By RAY GLIER, Mar. 20, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Pakistan Changes the Subject (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Europe Takes on Windows [Microsoft] (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Reporting Live, Outside Credibility (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Terror of Childbirth (By NICHOLAS KRISTOF, Mar. 20, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Too Quiet on the Home Front (By, Mar. 20, 2004)
OP-ED: We Don't Want to Be Alone (By ANTONIO MUNOZ MOLINA, Mar. 20, 2004)
OP-ED: Hiding Behind the Constitution (By WILLIAM B. RUBENSTEIN, Mar. 20, 2004)
OP-ART: A Whiff of Spring (By CINDY SHERMAN, Mar. 20, 2004)
BUSINESS: Dow Skids Again as Anxious Investors Cash in Options
[Dow -109.18, Nasdaq -44.26] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 20, 2004)
* With Internet Fraud Up Sharply, eBay Attracts Vigilantes (By KATIE HAFNER, Mar. 20, 2004)
* Writer's Work in USA Today Is Called False (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 20, 2004)
Coke Recalls Bottled Water Newly Introduced to Britain (By ALAN COWELL, Mar. 20, 2004)
Analysts Question Value of Coke's Old Guard (By SHERRI DAY, Mar. 20, 2004)
Global Crossing Settles for $325 Million (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 20, 2004)
China Studies Complaint on Computer Chip Taxes (By CHRIS BUCKLEY, Mar. 20, 2004)
* Influential Technology Writer Sells Her Newsletter Business [Esther Dyson]
(By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Mar. 20, 2004)
ARTS: Memorial for John Gregory Dunne (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2004)
ARTS: Civil War Still Haunts Spanish Politics (By ANTONIO FEROS, Mar. 20, 2004)
ARTS: When a Dissertation Makes a Difference (By BROOKE KROEGER, Mar. 20, 2004)
BOOKS: 'DISARMING IRAQ': Blix Blames Politicians, Not Intelligence, for Iraq
(By MICHAEL O'HANLON, Mar. 20, 2004)
DANCE: CHARLES LINEHAN COMPANY OF LONDON:
Keeping Things Austere, Even if Seeking Intimacy (By JACK ANDERSON, Mar. 20, 2004)
* MUSIC: NY PHILHARMONIC: Itzhak Perlman Plays a Different Instrument, the Orchestra
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 20, 2004)
MUSIC: Once a Singer From Texas, Now a Texan Who Sings (By MEL GUSSOW, Mar. 20, 2004)
MUSIC: 'BROADWAY BY THE YEAR': On One Town Hall Evening, It Was 1935 All Over Again
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 20, 2004)
POP: THE VINES: Tantrums, With Borrowed Bits and Pieces (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 20, 2004)
ROCK: COURTNEY LOVE: Love Lives Through This, Rasping 'Take Care of Me' (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 20, 2004)
TV: 'THE LAST KING': A Playboy King's Life (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 20, 2004)

Friday, March 19, 2004:
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)

Milton Resnick, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 87 (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 19, 2004)
Joan Cullman, 72, Broadway Producer, Dies (By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 19, 2004)
Jane Wood, 96, Tenant Activist, Is Dead (By DAVID W. CHEN, Mar. 19, 2004)
Peter Tauber, Author of Vietnam-Era Memoir, Dies at 56 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 19, 2004)
NATIONAL: Addressing the Unthinkable, U.S. Revives Study of Fallout (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 19, 2004)
Scalia Refusing to Take Himself Off Cheney Case (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Mar. 19, 2004)
POLITICAL MEMO: McCain Joins Campaign Fray, Displaying Independent Streak (By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 19, 2004)
* WORLD: Pakistani Troops May Be Closing On Qaeda's No. 2 (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 19, 2004)
NATO Expanding Kosovo Forces to Combat Violence (By NICHOLAS WOOD, Mar. 19, 2004)
Spanish Government Seeks to Document That It Did Not Lie About Suspects
(By LIZETTE ALVAREZ & ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 19, 2004)
A Year Later, an Iraqi Family Is Free but Wary (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 19, 2004)
BOMBINGS: Hotel Attacks Linked to War Anniversary (By JOHN F. BURNS, Mar. 19, 2004)
RECIFE JOURNAL: In a Slum of Shanties on Stilts, Help Isn't Always Helpful (By LARRY ROHTER, Mar. 19, 2004)
NY REGION: 'Favoritism' Charge Raised in Snapple Deal (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Mar. 19, 2004)
* Online Poker: Hold 'Em and Hide 'Em (By IAN URBINA, Mar. 19, 2004)
NYC: Multiplying the Effects of Failure (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 19, 2004)
SPORTS: Rivals Look to Claim the Event Tiger Woods Owns (By CLIFTON BROWN, Mar. 19, 2004)
MANHATTAN 75, FLORIDA 60: In Opener, Manhattan Makes Upset Look Easy (By VIV BERNSTEIN, Mar. 19, 2004)
ST. JOE'S 82, LIBERTY 63; TEXAS TECH 76, CHARLOTTE 73:
Some First-Round Fun for Martelli and Knight (By JOE DRAPE, Mar. 19, 2004)
UCONN 70, VERMONT 53: Healthier, Faster UConn Just Overwhelms Vermont (By JOE DRAPE, Mar. 19, 2004)
EDITORIALS: One Year After (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Taken for a Ride (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 19, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Teaching Us a Lesson (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 19, 2004)
OP-ED: The Price of Freedom in Iraq (By DONALD H. RUMSFELD, Mar. 19, 2004)
* OP-ED: The Free Lane on the Information Highway (By DALTON CONLEY, Mar. 19, 2004)
* OP-ED: Only Machines Need Apply (By TODD BUCHHOLZ, Mar. 19, 2004)
LETTERS: Spain Makes a Different Choice (7 Letters) (By PEDRO J. PASTOR, et. al., Mar. 19, 2004)
LETTERS: Are National ID's an Invitation to Abuse? (4 Letters) (By JOE UELK, et. al., Mar. 19, 2004)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Post Small Loss; Nasdaq's Drop Is Steeper
[Dow -4.52, Nasdaq -14.32] (By Reuters, Mar. 19, 2004)
FLOYD NORRIS: As Oil Futures Set New Highs, Should Investors Start to Fear Inflation?
(By FLOYD NORRIS , Mar. 19, 2004)
ADVERTISING: Thoroughly Modern Mr. Peanut (By STUART ELLIOTT, Mar. 19, 2004)
Leading Hollywood Talent and Marketing Companies Merge (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 19, 2004)
* ART: 'ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG': Under Rauschenberg's Spell, Mundane Turns Uncanny
(By KEN JOHNSON, Mar. 19, 2004)
ART: 'DIETER ROTH': Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 19, 2004)
* ARTS: The Rumble That's Lasted for 100 Years [NY subway] (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 19, 2004)
BOOKS: 'THE GOOD DOCTOR': A Young Doctor Finds a Potent Remedy for His Idealism
(By RICHARD EDER, Mar. 19, 2004)
DANCE: AMANDA LOULAKI: Worried Souls Twitch Through the Night (By JACK ANDERSON A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 19, 2004)
DANCE: 'BOTH SITTING DUET': A Conversation Composed of Gestures
(By JENNIFER DUNNING JACK ANDERSON A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 19, 2004)
FILM: 'ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND': Washing That Girl Out of His Head
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 19, 2004)
FILM: 'GREENDALE': Neil Young Pits Idealism Against Powerco (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 19, 2004)
* FILM: JUST BROWSING: Living Room Film Club, a Click Away (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Mar. 19, 2004)
MUSIC: JEFF WATTS: Constantly Shifting Rhythms in a Lurching Ode to a Drunk
(By BEN RATLIFF, Mar. 19, 2004)
THEATER: 'FROZEN': Cold Murder of a Girl Thaws Feelings Locked in Ice (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 19, 2004)
TV: 'DEADWOOD': The Code of the West, as Hard as a Gunfighter's Eye (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 19, 2004)
TV: 'THE D.A.': Looking for Felons to Prosecute in Los Angeles (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 19, 2004)
TV: Comedy Central Sews Up Star for Four Years (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 19, 2004)

Thursday, March 18, 2004:
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)

* Sir John A. Pople, 78, Who Won Nobel Chemistry Prize, Dies (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 18, 2004)
Bates Lowry, 80, Head of Building Museum, Dies (By GRACE GLUECK, Mar. 18, 2004)
* Mercedes McCambridge, 87, Actress Known for Strong Roles, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 18, 2004)
NATIONAL: Suspect in Ohio Shootings Is Arrested in Nevada on Tip (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 18, 2004)
In Speech, Cheney Attacks Kerry's Record on the Military (By NICK MADIGAN & KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Mar. 18, 2004)
Mysterious Fax Adds to Intrigue Over the Medicare Bill's Cost
(By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG & ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 18, 2004)
Methodists Put Minister on Trial for Declaring Herself a Lesbian (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Mar. 18, 2004)
* Rise in Hispanics and Asian-Americans Is Predicted (By REUTERS, Mar. 18, 2004)
Drug-Fighters Turn to Rising Tide of Prescription Abuse (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Mar. 18, 2004)
President Requires Broad Powers in Wartime, Brief to Court Says (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 18, 2004)
EDUCATION: More Students Passing Regents, but Achievement Gap Persists (By TAMAR LEWIN, Mar. 18, 2004)
WORLD: Car Bomb at Baghdad Hotel Leaves at Least 27 Dead (By JOHN F. BURNS, Mar. 18, 2004)
DISPATCHES: The New Strategy for Terror (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Mar. 18, 2004)
* Taiwan Voters Weighing How Far to Push China (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 18, 2004)
Kosovo Torn by Widest Violence Since U.N. Took Control in '99 (By NICHOLAS WOOD, Mar. 18, 2004)
CAIRO JOURNAL: Who Messes With Egyptian Minds? Satirist Points at U.S. (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 18, 2004)
U.S. Official Says Spanish Government 'Mishandled' Reports on Bombing
(By DAVID E. SANGER & DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 18, 2004)
THE SCENE: On Streets Lighted by Flames, Angry Crowds Clamor to Help (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 18, 2004)
GOVERNMENT: Iraq Council, Shifting Stance, Invites the U.N. to Aid Transfer (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 18, 2004)
Spain's Losing Party Plans to Sue Movie Director for Slander Over a 'Coup' Accusation (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Mar. 18, 2004)
A Bitter Hugo Chávez Castigates U.S., Saying It Misjudges Him [Venezuelan President]
(By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Mar. 18, 2004)
Georgia's President Risks Showing Warlord Who's Boss (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 18, 2004)
NY REGION: Love Canal Declared Clean, Ending Toxic Horror (By ANTHONY DePALMA, Mar. 18, 2004)
* Federal Hall Is Uplifted, First by Steel, Then by Art
[Federico Barocci "Madonna della Gatta"] (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Mar. 18, 2004)
* BOLDFACE NAMES: Days of Coke and Vodka and Pizza Fights [Walter Yetnikoff] (By COREY KILGANNON, Mar. 18, 2004)
It Snowed, but the Cheer of the Irish Never Bowed (By MICHELLE O'DONNELL, Mar. 18, 2004)
SPORTS: A More Grounded Women's Game Is Gaining (By JOE DRAPE, Mar. 18, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: Selig Caught Between a Hard Place and the Union (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 18, 2004)
BASKETBALL: On Flapping Wings and a Prayer at St. Joseph's (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Mar. 18, 2004)
BASKETBALL: No One Pretends Gonzaga Is the Little Guy Anymore (By VITTORIO TAFUR, Mar. 18, 2004)
BASKETBALL: Gonzalez Deserves Right to Be Ambitious (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 18, 2004)
Teaching Pitching to an Entire Staff [Mets Pitching Coach Rick Peterson] (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 18, 2004)
Alaskan Racer Wins Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race [Mitch Seavey] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 18, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Losing Time on North Korea (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Axis of Appeasement (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 18, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Pride and Prejudice (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 18, 2004)
OP-ED: March Madness: Presidential Edition (By MATTHEW HENSHON, Mar. 18, 2004)
OP-ED: Public Schools, Minus the Public (By DIANE RAVITCH and RANDI WEINGARTEN, Mar. 18, 2004)
LETTERS: Education— A New Rite of Passage: Third Grade (6 Letters) (By DAVID BILLOTTI, et. al., Mar. 18, 2004)
LETTERS: In the Campaign, Sound and Fury (5 Letters) (By FRED JACOBS, et. al., Mar. 18, 2004)
LETTERS: Why India Succeeds (By V. K. BALAKRISHNAN , Mar. 18, 2004)
LETTERS: Finnish Attitude (By RICHARD A. IMPOLA , Mar. 18, 2004)
BUSINESS: Market Is Higher Again, but the Upturn Has Its Doubters
[Dow +115.63, Nasdaq +33.67] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 18, 2004)
Gas Prices Are Seen Rising Even Higher (By SIMON ROMERO, Mar. 18, 2004)
No Longer on the Brink, American Airline Is Still in Peril (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Mar. 18, 2004)
Rules to Strengthen Vehicle Roofs Are Weighed (By DANNY HAKIM, Mar. 18, 2004)
* MARKET PLACE: Hoping the Yen, if Not the Yuan, Will Show Muscle (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 18, 2004)
* ECONOMIC SCENE: Questioning Free Trade Mathematics (By JEFF MADRICK, Mar. 18, 2004)
* SMALL BUSINESS: Learning Entrepreneurship the U.S. Way at M.I.T. (By MARCI ALBOHER NUSBAUM, Mar. 18, 2004)
Pentagon Withholds Halliburton Payment (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2004)
Not Footloose but Fancy-Free, an Italian Comes Calling (By ERIC SYLVERS, Mar. 18, 2004)
* Saudi Economy Defies Terrorism Fears (By SIMON ROMERO, Mar. 18, 2004)
ADVERTISING: Miller Lite's Comeback (By BERNARD SIMON, Mar. 18, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Malicious Computer Worm Detected (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 18, 2004)
Chances of Microsoft Accord in Europe Dim (By PAUL MELLER, Mar. 18, 2004)
* ART CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Illusion and Reality Cozy Up at Tate Modern (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 18, 2004)
ARTS: Gingerly, a Comedian Comes Back [Paula Poundstone] (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 18, 2004)
* BOOKS: In a Screenwriter's Art, Echoes of His Father's Secret (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 18, 2004)
BOOKS: 'THE ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD': How Much for a Legacy? For You, $24
[Russell Shorto] (By JANET MASLIN, Mar. 18, 2004)
* BOOKS: A Samuel Johnson Trove Goes to Harvard's Library (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Mar. 18, 2004)
CABARET: BARBARA CARROLL: Finding Her Inner Raconteur on Top of the Vocals and Piano
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 18, 2004)
DANCE: PETER BOAL & COMPANY: A City Ballet Quartet, Branching Out (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 18, 2004)
MUSIC: A Night to Honor Bands That Jam (By JON PARELES, Mar. 18, 2004)
THEATER: 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM': Bending Genders in Midsummer Dreams
(By MARGO JEFFERSON, Mar. 18, 2004)
THEATER: CAIRO JOURNAL: Who Messes With Egyptian Minds? Satirist Points at U.S.
(By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 18, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2004)
* How Do I Love Thee, TiVo? (By ERIC A. TAUB, Mar. 18, 2004)
* Hey Kid, Your Backpack Is Ringing (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Mar. 18, 2004)
STATE OF THE ART: A TV That Cuts All Cords (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 18, 2004)
* WHAT'S NEXT: No Outlet? Don't Worry, an Ethernet Cable May Do (By NOAH SHACHTMAN, Mar. 18, 2004)
GAME THEORY: The Thrill of Heroics in a War Unquestioned (By CHARLES HEROLD, Mar. 18, 2004)
HOW IT WORKS: Be Your Own Barista, With a Programmable Helper (By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS, Mar. 18, 2004)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Put it on the Tab? Not on This Vacation (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Mar. 18, 2004)
* Junk E-Mail Is Unabated Despite Law, Survey Says (By DAVID BERNSTEIN, Mar. 18, 2004)
Ready for Takeoff, With Emphasis on 'Off' (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 18, 2004)
The Lens as Aquatic Gymnast (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 18, 2004)
It's Caveat Emptor When Mining Tax Advice on the Web (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Mar. 18, 2004)
Sound Check With a Twist: It's Automatic (By ROY FURCHGOTT, Mar. 18, 2004)
With a Sweep of a Baton, Scan Pages on the Go (By ALAN KRAUSS, Mar. 18, 2004)
Turn Your Family Reunion Into a Haunting Film Noir (By ROY FURCHGOTT, Mar. 18, 2004)
A Memory Card for Photos Is One for the Scrapbook (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Mar. 18, 2004)
Snow and Sleet Are No Match for a Hot Spot (By CHRIS LARSON, Mar. 18, 2004)
Q & A: Thrifty Camera Choice Works for Small Prints (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 18, 2004)
SCIENCE: Study Disputes Idea on Global Warming (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 18, 2004)
* HEALTH: Osteoporosis Drug Found Safe to Take for 10 Years [Fosamax] (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 18, 2004)
HEALTH: After Unusual Fatality, Transplant Expert Revives Career (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 18, 2004)
HEALTH: Panel Backs Artificial Heart in Dire Cases (By REUTERS, Mar. 18, 2004)

Wednesday, March 17, 2004:
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)

William H. Pickering, 93, Leader in Space Exploration, Dies (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 17, 2004)
Sidney L. James, 97, Editor of Sports Illustrated and Author, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 17, 2004)
Geneviève, 83, French Singer Who Mutilated English on TV, Dies (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 17, 2004)
Lisa Gubernick, Author and Reporter, Dies at 48 (NY TIMES, Mar. 17, 2004)
NATIONAL: Bush's Campaign Emphasizes Role of Leader in War
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ADAM NAGOURNEY, Mar. 17, 2004)
Sister of Suspect in Ohio Shootings Urges Surrender (By JAMES DAO, Mar. 17, 2004)
Plan for Sharp Rise in Mad Cow Testing Gets Mixed Reaction (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Mar. 17, 2004)
CHICAGO JOURNAL: When Irish Eyes Shine on North or South Side (By MONICA DAVEY, Mar. 17, 2004)
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: Missiles Incoming, and You're President (By JAMES GLANZ, Mar. 17, 2004)
EDUCATION: After Holding Back Third Graders, What to Do? (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Mar. 17, 2004)
WORLD: Powell Reassures India on Technology Jobs (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Mar. 17, 2004)
Suspect in Madrid Bombings Was Under Scrutiny in 3 Countries (By TIM GOLDEN and DON VAN NATTA Jr., Mar. 17, 2004)
ELECTION OUTCOME: Spain Grapples With Notion That Terrorism Trumped Democracy
(By LIZETTE ALVAREZ & ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 17, 2004)
2 Engineers Killed in Iraq in Latest Attack on Foreigners (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 17, 2004)
For Iraqis in Harm's Way, $5,000 and 'I'm Sorry' (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 17, 2004)
Poll Finds Hostility Hardening Toward U.S. Policies (By SUSAN SACHS, Mar. 17, 2004)
Pakistani Troops Battle Militants Near Afghanistan (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 17, 2004)
Guant�namo and Jailers: Mixed Review by Detainees (By AMY WALDMAN, Mar. 17, 2004)
* LETTER FROM ASIA: Japan and China: National Character Writ Large (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Mar. 17, 2004)
ITALY: The Ripples From Spain Could Rock Berlusconi (By FRANK BRUNI, Mar. 17, 2004)
* NY REGION: Thou Shalt Not Call in Sick? (By JOHN LELAND, Mar. 17, 2004)
4 Days Before Spring, Proof That It's, Well, Still Winter (By LISA W. FODERARO, Mar. 17, 2004)
ABOUT NEW YORK: May the Road Rise Up to Smack You [St. Patrick's Day] (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 17, 2004)
SPORTS: Athlete or an Actress? The Ball's in Her Court [Serena Williams] (By SELENA ROBERTS, Mar. 17, 2004)
BASEBALL: Yankees and 'Never' Sound Right to Zimmer (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Mar. 17, 2004)
FOOTBALL: Getting Wish, Terell Owens to Join the Eagles (By THOMAS GEORGE, Mar. 17, 2004)
GOLF: For Woods, Winning at Bay Hills May Become as Easy as 1-2-3-4-5 (By CLIFTON BROWN, Mar. 17, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Cost of Cheap Money (NY TIMES, Mar. 17, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: May I See Your ID? (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 17, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Scandal at the U.N. (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 17, 2004)
OP-ED: Killing Iraq With Kindness (By IAN BURUMA, Mar. 17, 2004)
OP-ED: Here's Something for That Headache (By WILLIAM M. LEE, Mar. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: The Messages Coming From Spain (6 Letters) (By KATHLEEN WHEATON, et. al., Mar. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: This Time, Florida, How Does Your Vote Count? (4 Letters) (By BARBARA ALLEN KENNEY, et. al., Mar. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: A Whole New World [Sedna beyond Pluto] (By BROOKE JAMES , Mar. 17, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Rise on Fed's Sign of Sustained Low Interest Rates
[Dow +81.78, Nasdaq +3.9] (By REUTERS, Mar. 17, 2004)
3 Banks Had Early Concern About WorldCom Finances (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 17, 2004)
* Citing Low Hiring, Fed Leaves Rates Alone (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 17, 2004)
For Bank Chief, Buying Big Rival Is Only the First Part of the Deal (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Mar. 17, 2004)
Talk of Greed and Beyond at Tyco Trial (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Mar. 17, 2004)
Egypt and Israel Discuss Industrial Trade Zone (By ABEER ALLAM, Mar. 17, 2004)
ADVERTISING: New Campaign for Tylenol (By NAT IVES, Mar. 17, 2004)
MARKET PLACE: A Big Board Specialist Firm With a Burden of Debt (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Mar. 17, 2004)
Take Over for Martha Stewart? Her Daughter Says No Thanks (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 17, 2004)
* BOOKS: 'THE COMING OF THE THIRD REICH': How Seeds of Evil Germinated and Bore Deadly Fruit
(By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, Mar. 17, 2004)
BOOKS: Mild-Mannered Literary Guys Transform Into Comics Writers (By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES, Mar. 17, 2004)
* FILM: Diane Keaton Reflects on Keeping 'Em Laughing (By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 17, 2004)
FILM: 'DIVAN': In Need of a Couch to Reconnect With the Fold (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 17, 2004)
MUSIC: METROPOLITAN OPERA: 'Salome' Unveils Emotions (and a Soprano) (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 17, 2004)
MUSIC: MIKHAIL PLETNEV: Frippery and Fantasy That Dazzle (By JEREMY EICHLER, Mar. 17, 2004)
* POETRY: Ah, Poetic Injustice! Seeking a Laureate, Queens Goes Blank
[Hal Sirowitz, Queens poet laureate] (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 17, 2004)
THEATER: Irish Masterpiece Returning to Its Bleak Home (By BRIAN LAVERY, Mar. 17, 2004)
THEATER: Lisa Simpson's Voice Steps Out on Her Own (By ANITA GATES, Mar. 17, 2004)
TV: 'THE STONES': Senior Moments Involving Divorce (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 17, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 17, 2004)
FOOD: In Cheesecake City, a Quest for the Best (By ED LEVINE, Mar. 17, 2004)
Whiskey's Kingdom (Pop. 361) (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Mar. 17, 2004)
Food From a Perfectionist Does Not Come Cheap, or Easy (By ALEX WITCHEL, Mar. 17, 2004)
TEST KITCHEN: For Thin Veggies, at a Slender Price (By DENISE LANDIS, Mar. 17, 2004)
FOOD STUFF: The Return of the (Alaskan) King (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 17, 2004)
* THE MINIMALIST: Tofu Without a Grimace (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 17, 2004)
PAIRINGS: Stalwart but Sensitive, in Search of a Table Companion (By AMANDA HESSER, Mar. 17, 2004)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: Cooking for One Discerning Diner: Yourself (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Mar. 17, 2004)
Recipe: Chicken Noodle Soup (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Mar. 17, 2004)
Recipe: Potato and Onion Hash With a Fried Egg (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Mar. 17, 2004)
HEALTH: Virus Sickens Hotel's Patrons in Las Vegas (By MICHELE KAYAL, Mar. 17, 2004)
HEALTH: Advice for Treating Prostate Cancer Revival (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 17, 2004)

Tuesday, March 16, 2004:
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)

* John W. Seybold, 88, Innovator in Printing, Is Dead (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 16, 2004)
Richard Salyer Is Dead at 59; Fought Homelessness at Roots (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
* Cid Corman, 79, Poet, Editor and Translator Who Lived in Japan, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 16, 2004)
NATIONAL: Bitter Division for Sierra Club on Immigration (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Mar. 16, 2004)
Bush Urges Kerry to Name World Leaders Who Back Him (By JODI WILGOREN, Mar. 16, 2004)
Another Oklahoma City Bomb Trial, and Still Questions Remain (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Mar. 16, 2004)
Investigators in Ohio Identify Sniper Suspect (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Mar. 16, 2004)
All Nine Fresno Victims Died by Gunfire (By CAROLYN MARSHALL, Mar. 16, 2004)
U.S. to Expand Testing of Cattle for Disease (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 16, 2004)
U.S. Takes Steps to Tighten Mexican Border (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 16, 2004)
Absent From Unit in Iraq for Months, Soldier Turns Protester and Surrenders (By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 16, 2004)
Deficit Study Disputes Role of Economy (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 16, 2004)
Injured Popcorn Factory Worker Wins Suit [$20 million award] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 16, 2004)
WORLD: Ex-U.N. Inspector Has Harsh Words for Bush (By WARREN HOGE, Mar. 16, 2004)
Spanish Officials Search for 6 to 8 New Bombing Suspects (By TIM GOLDEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 16, 2004)
POLITICS: Spain Will Loosen Its Alliance With U.S., Premier-Elect Says (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 16, 2004)
THE INVESTIGATION: Officials Tending to Blame Qaeda for Madrid Attack
(By TIM GOLDEN and DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 16, 2004)
EUROPE: Nations With Troops in Iraq Make No Move to Join Spain (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Mar. 16, 2004)
INTELLIGENCE: Many in Europe Suspect Spain Misled Them About Attackers (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 16, 2004)
Powell Wants Pakistani Help in Chasing Taliban Remnants (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
New Talks Ruled Out by Sharon After Attack (By GREG MYRE, Mar. 16, 2004)
Pakistani's Nuclear Earnings: $100 Million (By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 16, 2004)
Ambivalence From Iraqis in Poll on War (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Mar. 16, 2004)
URUMQI JOURNAL: On Old Silk Road, Condos, Mosques and Ethnic Tensions (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Mar. 16, 2004)
AFGHANISTAN: French General Says His Troops Came Close to Taking bin Laden (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 16, 2004)
* NY REGION: Socks? With Holes? I'll Take It (By TINA KELLEY, Mar. 16, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Mr. Bloomberg Plays Hardball (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Mar. 16, 2004)
Prince and Harrison Among Stars Inducted Into the Rock Hall of Fame (By JON PARELES, Mar. 16, 2004)
Boys' Team Put Out of Playoffs for Not Declaring a Girl Player (By PATRICK HEALY, Mar. 16, 2004)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Taking a Chance, a Big Voice Makes It to the Top [Danette Ellen Sheppard]
(By GLENN COLLINS, Mar. 16, 2004)
NYC: How Al Gore Helped to Start Irish Tradition (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
SPORTS: When the Boys of Summer Were Really the Boys of Winter (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Mar. 16, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: Senate Posse Is Passing Steroids Buck to Baseball (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 16, 2004)
BASEBALL: Dykstra Is Still a Character and a Character Guy (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 16, 2004)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Trips Do World of Good for Majors and Japan (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Mar. 16, 2004)
SPORTS: From Bugs to Boxing, a Termite's Impact on Iraq (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Change in Spain (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: Sedna Beyond Pluto (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Weak on Terror (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Al Qaeda's Wish List (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 16, 2004)
OP-ED: Rewarding Terror in Spain (By EDWARD N. LUTTWAK, Mar. 16, 2004)
OP-ED: A Leaner, Meaner Jihad (By SCOTT ATRAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: Terrorism and the Spanish Vote (6 Letters) (By �MERCÈ PUJOL, et. al., Mar. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: Kerry and Bush: The Words They Use (5 Letters) (By �JOHN GIANATTASIO, et. al., Mar. 16, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Hit New Lows for Year on Reports From Spain
[Dow -137.19, Nasdaq -45.53] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 16, 2004)
As Expected, Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged at 1 Percent (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 16, 2004)
Greenspan Shifts View on Deficits (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 16, 2004)
Martha Stewart Quits Her Posts at Company (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 16, 2004)
A.F.L.-C.I.O. to Press Bush for Penalties Against China (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and ELIZABETH BECKER, Mar. 16, 2004)
Mutual Fund Tells Wall Street It Wants à la Carte Commissions (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Mar. 16, 2004)
In Spain, Holding Fast to Economic Optimism (By ERIC PFANNER, Mar. 16, 2004)
China Aims to Cut Pollution From Scrap Metal Industry (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 16, 2004)
MEMO PAD: Amtrak Responds to Terror Attacks (By JOE SHARKEY, Mar. 16, 2004)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: A Road Less Traveled Through Immigration Lines (By SUSAN STELLIN, Mar. 16, 2004)
ARTS: In Suburbs, Reminder of Horror (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Mar. 16, 2004)
BOOKS: Verbal Grenades Ignite Discussion About a New Book [Alice Randall] (By JULIE SALAMON, Mar. 16, 2004)
BOOKS: 'SONS OF CAMELOT': Promise and the Curse, Unto the Generations [Laurence Leamer]
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Mar. 16, 2004)
FILM: British Lottery Funds Help Lowbrow Film Win a Jackpot of Outrage (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 16, 2004)
FILM: NEW DVD'S: An Invitation and Excuse to Jump to Conclusions (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Mar. 16, 2004)
MUSIC CRITIC: Los Angeles Fields a Contender in the Big Leagues of Opera (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 16, 2004)
MUSIC: OPERA BOSTON: Human Frailty Surfaces as World Power Shifts (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Mar. 16, 2004)
MUSIC: DAVE HOLLAND QUINTET: A Big Band, Rooted in the Past, Roars Straight Into the Future
(By BEN RATLIFF, Mar. 16, 2004)
OPERA: NEW YORK CITY OPERA: A Crazy Day, With Slapstick Mozart (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 16, 2004)
ROCK: THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE: Surging Rock and Songs of Romantic Discord (By JON PARELES, Mar. 17, 2004)
THEATER: Mateys, Call It the Great Leviathan (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Mar. 16, 2004)
THEATER: Amorous Liaisons Across Class Lines (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Mar. 16, 2004)
THEATER: Chasing Fame and Fat Pockets in Elizabethan London (By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, Mar. 16, 2004)
* TV: BIOGRAPHY: 'THE HUSSEIN FAMILY': Meet Uday, Qusay and Dad (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
TV: 'CENTURY CITY': Law Firm of Tomorrow: 'The Practice' With Engineered Genes (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 16, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2004)
SCIENCE: Wolves Come Back (On Their Terms) (By JAMES GORMAN, Mar. 16, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Scientists Find an Icy World Beyond Pluto (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 16, 2004)
* A Biological Dig for the Roots of Language (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 16, 2004)
* 'Nanograss' Turns Sticky to Slippery in an Instant
[Bell Lab's Tom N. Krupenkin develops a new chameleonic material]
(By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 16, 2004)
Side by Side, Arabs and Israelis Repair a Wreck of a River (By MARTIN ROSENBERG, Mar. 16, 2004)
* With Escorts to the Afterlife, Pharaohs Proved Their Power (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 16, 2004)
IN THE WILD: How do you release a 400-pound Siberian tiger? (Photo by John Goodrich, Mar. 16, 2004)
CONVERSATION WITH | MARIE FILBIN: Defying Irreversibility In Spinal Cord Injuries
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Mar. 16, 2004)
* OBSERVATORY: When Fish Go to School [Mystery Balls, Martian Moons] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 16, 2004)
* Q & A: Plants and Stones [phytoliths = plant stones] (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 16, 2004)
* HEALTH: New Clues to Women Veiled In Black (By SUSAN GILBERT, Mar. 16, 2004)
* Sex and the Brain: Researchers Say, 'Vive la Différence!' (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 16, 2004)
* At Ease With a Pen, but Also a Stethoscope [Dr. Jerome Groopman: Anatomy of Hope]
(By DINITIA SMITH, Mar. 16, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Sometimes Rosy Cheeks Are Just Rosy Cheeks (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 16, 2004)
Around the Globe, Drug-Resistant TB Is Rampant (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 16, 2004)
* ESSAY: When Big Brother Invades the Examining Room (By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., Mar. 16, 2004)
CASES: A Flyby Diagnosis on the M14 (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D., Mar. 16, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: Dairy Diet Found Good for Gout (By JOHN O'NEIL, Mar. 16, 2004)

Monday, March 15, 2004:
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)

* Cardinal Franz König, a Bridge to the East, Dies at 98 (By JASON HOROWITZ, Mar. 15, 2004)
Keith Hopkins, 69, Historian With an Unusual Approach, Is Dead (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Mar. 15, 2004)
* Vilayat Khan, 76, Musician Who Redefined Sitar Playing, Is Dead (By JON PARELES, Mar. 15, 2004)
Dana Broccoli, 82, Producer Involved in James Bond Films, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 15, 2004)
NATIONAL: U.S. Videos, for TV News, Come Under Scrutiny (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 15, 2004)
9 Siblings Dead, Son Says He Hopes Father Isn't Guilty (By CAROLYN MARSHALL, Mar. 15, 2004)
Not From a Grisham Novel, but One for the Casebook (By ADAM LIPTAK, Mar. 15, 2004)
* 1794 Silver Dollar May Be First Minted (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 15, 2004)
F.B.I. to Investigate Supposed Hoffa Claim (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 15, 2004)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: It's 10 O'Clock. Do You Know Where Your President Is? In Bed.
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 15, 2004)
WORLD: Following Attacks, Spain's Governing Party Is Beaten (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 15, 2004)
G.I. Toll Is Rising as Insurgents Try Wilier Bombs and Tactics (By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 15, 2004)
As Expected, Putin Easily Wins a Second Term (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 15, 2004)
NY REGION: Mock Terror Attack Response Provides Training for Disaster (By PATRICK HEALY, Mar. 15, 2004)
Use of Midwives, a Childbirth Phenomenon, Fades in City (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Mar. 15, 2004)
POLITICAL MEMO:New York Offers a Lesson on Using 9/11: Tread Lightly (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Mar. 15, 2004)
Electchester Getting Less Electrical (By DAVID W. CHEN, Mar. 15, 2004)
Survey Finds Post-9/11 Times Harder for City's Artists (By JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 15, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 15, 2004)
SPORTS: Keeping With Tradition Atop Tournament Field (By JOE DRAPE, Mar. 15, 2004)
BASEBALL: An Unusual Journey From First to Worst for Ivan Rodriguez (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 15, 2004)
BASKETBALL: Seniors Show Why It's Worth Sticking Around (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Mar. 15, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Beyond the Duck Blind (NY TIMES, Mar. 15, 2004)
EDITORIALS: THE CITY LIFE: Recalling a Complicated Man (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Mar. 15, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: On Phony Toughness (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 15, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: An Insult to Our Soldiers (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 15, 2004)
OP-ED: Emergency Unpreparedness (By JEROME M. HAUER, Mar. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: The Search for a Healthier Heart (5 Letters) (By A. JAMES LAURINO, et. al., Mar. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: The Real Threat of Nuclear Terror (2 Letters) (By ROBERT K. MUSIL, et. al., Mar. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: Giving, Even After Death [cadavers] (By JAMES BRIEF, Mar. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: We Can Praise Martha Stewart, and Yet Criticize Her (3 Letters)
(By JEREMIAH D. BRAUNLIN, et. al., Mar. 15, 2004)
BUSINESS: Study Finds a Waning Appetite for News (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 15, 2004)
Pushed on Obscenity, Networks Turn to Delays, Even on Sports (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 15, 2004)
Aiming to Surpass Stewart and Kmart's Price Tags [Kelly Hoppen] (By TRACIE ROZHON, Mar. 15, 2004)
ADVERTISING: George Foreman Pitches New Products (By TRACIE ROZHON, Mar. 15, 2004)
A Newspaper's Web Site Decides to Tap the Makeover Market (JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 15, 2004)
* Italian Newspapers Turn to Literature to Bolster Profits [poetry] (By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, Mar. 15, 2004)
Battle of 'Stupid White Men' Books (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 15, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 15, 2004)
U.S. Threatens Action Against Online Gambling (By MATT RICHTEL, Mar. 15, 2004)
In an I.B.M. Village, Fears of Air and Water Pollution (By SAMME CHITTUM, Mar. 15, 2004)
Regulators Meet on Proposal to Brand Microsoft a Monopolist (By PAUL MELLER, Mar. 15, 2004)
Microsoft Effort to Share Code Reaches Milestone (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 15, 2004)
* Now, a Robot That Toots Its Own Horn
[Toyota's humanoid robot walks, waves its arms, bows, & plays the trumpet]
(By TODD ZAUN, Mar. 15, 2004)
Privacy Fears Erode Support for a Network to Fight Crime (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 15, 2004)
* Bashful vs. Brash in the New Field of Nanotech
[Nanofilm of Valley View, Ohio & Nanosys of Palo Alto, California]
(By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 15, 2004)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Big Hotels Fight Back Online (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 15, 2004)
* PATENTS: An Effort to Make Arabic Easier (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Mar. 15, 2004)
* BOOKS: Now That Japan Is Cool, Its Fiction Seeks U.S. Fans (By MOTOKO RICH, Mar. 15, 2004)
DANCE: NETHERLANDS DANCE THEATER: In a Mass Ritual of Faith, a Belief in Ties That Bind
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 15, 2004)
* FILM: Hollywood Rethinking Faith Films After 'Passion' (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 15, 2004)
MUSIC: WOMEN'S PHILHARMONIC: Celebrating Women Composers, for the Last Time
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 15, 2004)
THEATER: Prowling for Laughs From Today's Foreign Policy (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 15, 2004)
TV: 'DANGEROUS LIAISONS': Catty, Cruel and French, Tr�s French (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 15, 2004)
* HEALTH: Scientists Begin to Question Benefit of 'Good' Cholesterol (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 15, 2004)

Saturday, March 13, 2004:
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)

Grant Gentry, President of Two Big Grocery Chains, Dies at 79 (By SHERRI DAY, Mar. 13, 2004)
* Elise Asher, 92, Painter-Poet Who Blended Images and Words, Dies
[wife of Stanley Kunitz, a former U.S. poet laureate] (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 13, 2004)
Ewald W. Busse, 86, Psychiatrist Who Reshaped Views on Aging, Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, Mar. 13, 2004)
Dave Schulthise, 47, Dead Milkmen's Bassist, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 13, 2004)
NATIONAL: Senate Approves Budget Intended to Curb Deficit (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Mar. 13, 2004)
Kerry, Focus of Attack Ad, Reacts With One of His Own (By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 13, 2004)
THE AD CAMPAIGN: Clearly the Candidate, Bush Takes on Kerry on Defense, Taxes and Terrorism
(By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 13, 2004)
San Francisco Sees Tide Shift in the Battle Over Marriage (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 13, 2004)
Like Others, Rumsfeld Has 9/11 Memento [piece of airplane that struck Pentagon]
(By ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 13, 2004)
Skybound Los Angeles Traffic Reporter Sees Job as a Dying Art [Chuck Street] (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Mar. 13, 2004)
Book Says U.S. Aides Lied in Nuclear-Arms Plant Case (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 13, 2004)
EDUCATION: Brown U. to Examine Debt to Slave Trade (By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 13, 2004)
EDUCATION: A Student Aid Ban for Past Drug Use Is Creating a Furor (By GREG WINTER, Mar. 13, 2004)
BELIEFS: Making the Case for a Religious Exemption (By PETER STEINFELS, Mar. 13, 2004)
* WORLD: Grieving Crowds in Spain Seethe at Train Attacks (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 13, 2004)
* THE MORGUE: Madrid Convention Center Becomes a City of the Fallen (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Mar. 13, 2004)
THE INVESTIGATION: Spanish Officials Divided on Whom to Blame for Train Attacks—
Basques or Islamists (By TIM GOLDEN, Mar. 13, 2004)
THE AFTERMATH: Europe Tightens Security on Its Well-Traveled Rails
(By PATRICK E. TYLER & DON VAN NATTA Jr., Mar. 13, 2004)
Iraqi Policemen Tied to Killing of 2 Americans (By JOHN F. BURNS, Mar. 13, 2004)
Iran Postpones a Visit by U.N. Nuclear Inspectors Until April (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 13, 2004)
* President's Impeachment Stirs Angry Protests in South Korea (By SAMUEL LEN, Mar. 13, 2004)
Low Labor Standard Leads South Africans to Export Jobs (By SHARON LaFRANIERE, Mar. 13, 2004)
Canada's Liberals May Be Learning How the West Is Lost (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Mar. 13, 2004)
Greeks Ask NATO for Olympic Security Aid (By REUTERS, Mar. 13, 2004)
SPORTS: Remembering Players M.L.B. Has Forgotten [1947-1979 players] (By DAVE ANDERSON, Mar. 13, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: Astronomical Exaggerations [Hubble Space Telescope] (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2004)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Americans in Moscow: How to Spin a Russian Election (By ELEANOR RANDOLPH, Mar. 13, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: 117 Deaths Each Day (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 13, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Boston Fog Machine (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 13, 2004)
OP-ED: Tune In to Democracy (By DAVID HOFFMAN, Mar. 13, 2004)
OP-ED: The Pundit on the Desktop [anagrams] (By MIKE MORTON and SABRA MORTON, Mar. 13, 2004)
OP-ED: Illusions and Elections in Russia (By ANNE NIVAT, Mar. 13, 2004)
LETTERS: The Pain in Madrid, and the Echoes Beyond (7 Letters) (By MIGUEL TORRES, et. al., Mar. 13, 2004)
LETTERS: Economic Forecasts (By STEVEN KYLE, Mar. 13, 2004)
LETTERS: The Candidates' Faces (By SUZANNA DAOU, Mar. 13, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Rally From 4 Days of Losses, but End Week Down
[Dow +111.70, Nasdaq +40.84] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 13, 2004)
China's Need for Metal Keeps U.S. Scrap Dealers Scrounging (By ANDREW POLLACK and KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 13, 2004)
* A New Darling for Some Inflation-Wary Investors (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 13, 2004)
* An M.R.I. Machine for Every Doctor? Someone Has to Pay (By REED ABELSON, Mar. 13, 2004)
G.E. Signals a Growing Interest in Solar (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 13, 2004)
WorldCom Restates Profits by $74.4 Billion for 2 Years (By REUTERS, Mar. 13, 2004)
Novartis Says It's Weighing Making a Bid for Aventis (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & HEATHER TIMMONS, Mar. 13, 2004)
* ARTS: ESSAY: A Red Planet Forever in the Orbit of Science and Dreams (By KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, Mar. 13, 2004)
* ARTS: ESSAY: Across a Great Divide (By PETER SCHNEIDER, Mar. 13, 2004)
ARTS: SHELF LIFE: The Meaning of 'Human' in Embryonic Research (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Mar. 13, 2004)
* BOOKS: Study Finds a Nation of Polarized Readers (By EMILY EAKIN, Mar. 13, 2004)
DANCE: 'BARCELONA IN 48 HOURS': Wandering Hearts, Dancing in the Streets (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 14, 2004)
FILM: Themes of Film and Fatherhood in Chad (By DAVE KEHR, Mar. 13, 2004)
POP: CYNDI LAUPER: 50, She Still Just Wants to Have Fun (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 13, 2004)
POP: High-Wire Act With Hooks and Heartache (By JON PARELES, Mar. 13, 2004)
TV: Searching for War Heroes in Iraq's Electronic Trenches (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 13, 2004)

Friday, March 12, 2004:
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)

Russell F. Weigley, Historian Who Studied Wars, Dies at 73 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 12, 2004)
Robert D. Orr, 86, Governor Who Revamped Indiana Schools, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 12, 2004)
* Ralph Winters, 94, Film Editor Who Did 'Ben Hur,' Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 12, 2004)
Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, 77, Hollywood Journalist, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 12, 2004)
Chaim Berger, 79, a Founder of Village of New Square, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 12, 2004)
Vivian Infantino, Footwear Columnist, Dies at 77 (NY TIMES, Mar. 12, 2004)
NATIONAL: Former U.S. Aide Accused of Working With Iraq
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 12, 2004)
Kerry Refuses to Apologize for Comments (By JODI WILGOREN, Mar. 12, 2004)
U.S. Rail Agencies Tighten Security After Blasts (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Mar. 12, 2004)
* In Science's Name, Lucrative Trade in Body Parts (By JOHN BRODER, Mar. 12, 2004)
WORLD: South Korea Parliament Votes to Strip President of Powers (By SAMUEL LEN, Mar. 12, 2004)
G.I.'s May Be Targets of Kidnappers and Rebels Posing as Policemen (By THOM SHANKER, Mar. 12, 2004)
* NY REGION: Heading Home, After 55 Years in U.S. [Mother of God of Tikhvin]
(By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Mar. 12, 2004)
* ABOUT NEW YORK: The Passion Behind the Light [Mel Gibson's film] (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 12, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Ground Zero, Madrid (NY TIMES, Mar. 12, 2004)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Martha Stewart's Legacy: 'It's a Good Thing' (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Mar. 12, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Our Wounded Warriors (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 12, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: No More Excuses on Jobs (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 12, 2004)
* OP-ED: Another Silent Noon in Madrid (By JAVIER MARÍlAS, Mar. 12, 2004)
OP-ED: You Want Me to Put My Shoes Where? [airport security] (By HARVEY MOLOTCH, Mar. 12, 2004)
* LETTERS: How Do We Judge a Marriage? (6 Letters) (By PETER J. ALLAR, et. al., Mar. 12, 2004)
LETTERS: Kerry vs. Bush, Toe to Toe (4 Letters) (By ROLON W. REED, et. al., Mar. 12, 2004)
LETTERS: Of Gadflies, Thorns and the Nader Factor (4 Letters) (By PETER JOSYPH, et. al., Mar. 12, 2004)
BUSINESS: S.&P. and Dow Fall, Eroding Gains of Year-Old Rally
[Dow -168.51, Nasdaq -20.26] (By Bloomberg News, Mar. 12, 2004)
Focusing on Armchair Athletes, Puma Becomes a Leader (By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN, Mar. 12, 2004)
* ADVERTISING: Imagining Business Without Stewart (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 12, 2004)
Janet Jackson, Almost Live! (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 12, 2004)
* ART: Touching all Bases at the Biennial (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 12, 2004)
ART: ARMORY SHOW 2004: Emerging Talent, and Plenty of It (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 12, 2004)
ART: SOL LEWITT; LYNDA BENGLIS; ALAN SARET
Three Radicals, Two Generations: Revisiting Sculpture From the 60's (By KEN JOHNSON, Mar. 12, 2004)
* INSIDE ART: Modern to Sell Little-Seen Works (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 12, 2004)
* BOOK CRITIC: Online Book Clubs as Lit 101 Fun (By CARYN JAMES, Mar. 12, 2004)
* BOOKS: 'THE REAL THING': How a Cola Empire Lost Its Fizz (By ROSABETH MOSS KANTER, Mar. 12, 2004)
DANCE: DELIRIOUS DANCE COMPANY: Ghosts in Motion (By JACK ANDERSON, Mar. 12, 2004)
* FILM CRITIC: An Epicure's 15-Course French Feast ["29 Palms"] (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 12, 2004)
FILM: 'SECRET WINDOW': Beware of Amish Hitmen and the Anxiety of Influence (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 12, 2004)
FILM: 'SPARTAN': The Thriller According to Mamet (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 12, 2004)
FILM: 'WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF': Eager to Join Mom and Dad in the Land Six Feet Under
(By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 12, 2004)
MUSIC REVERBERATIONS: Artifice Can Be Art's Ally as Well as Its Enemy (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 12, 2004)
MUSIC: Pavarotti Perseveres, But Soprano Can't Finish (By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 12, 2004)
MUSIC CRITIC: If This Is Truly Business, Who Need Talk of Play? (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 12, 2004)
* MUSIC: RITA MORENO: There Are Some Cats So Cool That They Just Keep On Purring (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 12, 2004)
MUSIC: MATTHIAS GOERNE: Two Composers Linked by a Poet, and a Baritone's Interpretation
(By JEREMY EICHLER, Mar. 12, 2004)
THEATER: Waiting for Oedipus, Putting on a Show (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 12, 2004)
TV: 'SPINNING BORIS': Courting Voters in Moscow? It Just Takes Yankee Ingenuity
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 12, 2004)
TV: 'WONDERFALLS': Orders Come From a Talking Lion (Made of Wax) (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 12, 2004)
* SCIENCE: NASA Agrees to New Study on Mission to Telescope (By WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 12, 2004)

Thursday, March 11, 2004:
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)

* George Pake, Computer Pioneer, Dies at 79 [Xerox PARC] (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 11, 2004)
Marshall Frady, 64, Journalist Who Wrote Wallace Biography, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 11, 2004)
Ruth Ellington Boatwright, 88, the Sister of Duke Ellington, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 11, 2004)
Noah Sylvester Purifoy, 86, Artist Who Used Debris of Watts Riots, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 11, 2004)
EDUCATION: Want to Volunteer in Schools? Be Ready for a Security Check (By TAMAR LEWIN, Mar. 11, 2004)
* HELSINKI JOURNAL: A Word to Finns: 'For Your Own Good, Blow Your Top' (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Mar. 11, 2004)
EDITORIALS: When Media Giants Bicker (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Great Indian Dream (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 11, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Whence the Wince? (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 11, 2004)
OP-ED: East Meets West, at Least on Paper (By CHIBLI MALLAT, Mar. 11, 2004)
* OP-ED: Death Wish (By MARY ROACH, Mar. 11, 2004)
LETTERS: Faith and Narcissism in America (6 Letters) (By PEGGY LISS, et. al., Mar. 11, 2004)
LETTERS: Eating Too Much? Time to Pay the Price (3 Letters) (By LISA R. YOUNG, et. al., Mar. 11, 2004)
* LETTERS: Innovation and Riches (2 Letters) (By IAN LOVETT, et. al., Mar. 11, 2004)
BUSINESS: Recent Slide in Stock Steepens, With Dow Falling 160
[Dow -160,07, Nasdaq -31.01] (By ALEX BERENSON, Mar. 11, 2004)
SMALL BUSINESS: Urban Golfwear Faces a Tough Course (By SHERRI DAY, Mar. 11, 2004)
* Among Cancer Doctors, a Medicare Revolt (By GARDINER HARRIS, Mar. 11, 2004)
ARTS: Giving Neo-Classical a Little More Neo (By DEBORAH BALDWIN, Mar. 11, 2004)
* BOOKS: Publishers, Note: Novelist Available [Martin Amis] (By HUGO LINDGREN, Mar. 11, 2004)
DANCE: NETHERLANDS DANCE THEATER: A Victorian Party for a Slow Slide to an Earthquake
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 11, 2004)
DANCE: BODYVOX: BodyVox, Grown From Pilobolus but Also a Distinctive Departure (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 11, 2004)
DANCE: Houston Ballet Sets the Classics Aside to Two-Step Into the Heart of Texas (By CHRISTIE TAYLOR, Mar. 11, 2004)
* GARDEN: Where the Boldface Bunk [740 Park Avenue] (By MICHAEL GROSS, Mar. 11, 2004)
GARDEN CRITIC: Let the Design Sprint Begin (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Mar. 11, 2004)
* GARDEN NOTEBOOK: Can Plants Survive a Martha Drought? [Gardening 101] (By KEN DRUSE, Mar. 11, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2004)
* The Camera Never Lies, but the Software Can (By KATIE HAFNER, Mar. 11, 2004)
Digital System Speeds Toronto's Commute, but Oh, Those Billing Surprises (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 11, 2004)
STATE OF THE ART: Hand-Helds That Offer Video to Go (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 11, 2004)
* BASICS: Empowering the Wi-Fi User to Foil the Snoop (By SE�N CAPTAIN, Mar. 11, 2004)
* ONLINE SHOPPER: The Nervous Bidder Takes On Carpet Quest II (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Mar. 11, 2004)
To Hear Him Talk, Nothing's Like Tape (By SETH SCHIESEL, Mar. 11, 2004)
* Remote Piano Lessons, in Real Time (By COLIN CAMPBELL, Mar. 11, 2004)
* We Interrupt This Search to Show a Full-Motion Ad (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 11, 2004)
WHAT'S NEXT: Diamonds Find a Friend in the Semiconductor Sector (By ANNE EISENBERG, Mar. 11, 2004)
* ONLINE DIARY: Signing Petitions and a Lost and Found (By Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell, Mar. 11, 2004)
* An Oops Button, or a Tool for Retrieving That E-Mail Note You Sent (By MARK GLASSMAN, Mar. 11, 2004)
A Traditional Radio Adds Signals From the Sky (By IVAN BERGER, Mar. 11, 2004)
Making a Pitch to a Client on a Digital Whiteboard (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Mar. 11, 2004)
Revive Your Faded Beauty, or Tone Down Your Lipstick (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 11, 2004)
Choose Your Weapon (and Soundtrack, Too) (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 11, 2004)
If Fido Strays, Fear Not: His Collar Stays In Touch (By ADAM BAER, Mar. 11, 2004)
* Q & A: To Banish Pop-Up Ads, Block Stealthy Software (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 11, 2004)

Wednesday, March 10, 2004:
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)

Mary Lindsay, a Force as the Mayor's Wife, Dies at 77 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 10, 2004)
Robert Pastorelli, 49, Actor on 'Murphy Brown' TV Series, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 10, 2004)
* John H. Williams, 35, Son of Hall of Famer, Dies (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Mar. 10, 2004)
NATIONAL: Political Groups Spend Millions to Take on Bush in Ad Campaign
(By GLEN JUSTICE and JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 10, 2004)
C.I.A. Chief Says He's Corrected Cheney Privately (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Mar. 10, 2004)
POLITICAL POINTS: A Daily Dance for Access to the Candidate (By JODI WILGOREN, Mar. 10, 2004)
Tuition Hits $26,000 for New York City's Private Schools (By JANE GROSS, Mar. 10, 2004)
* WORLD: Dam Project Threatens Chinese 'Grand Canyon' (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 10, 2004)
ARTICLE (By, Mar. 10, 2004)
* NY REGION: A Ritual Gone Fatally Wrong Puts Light on Masonic Secrecy (By PATRICK HEALY, Mar. 10, 2004)
* ABOUT NEW YORK: Michelangelo Did Ceilings. He Does Walls. (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 10, 2004)
Suicide of N.Y.U. Student, 19, Brings Sadness and Questions (By KAREN ARENSON, Mar. 10, 2004)
3 Rutgers Students Are Raped in Apartment Near Main Campus (By RONALD SMOTHERS, Mar. 10, 2004)
* SPORTS: SOCCER: Adu Is 'Just Freddy' Only a Few More Days (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 10, 2004)
BASEBALL: Sheffield to Avoid Thumb Surgery, at Least for Now (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 10, 2004)
FOOTBALL: Browns Acquire Garcia and Name Him Starter (By THOMAS GEORGE, Mar. 10, 2004)
LETTERS: The Government and 'Edgy' Artists (2 Letters) (By IRVING SANDLER, et. al., Mar. 10, 2004)
BUSINESS: Nasdaq Posts a Loss for 2004
[Dow -72.52, Nasdaq -13.62] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 10, 2004)
* Now, the Search for the Next Diva of Domesticity (By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Mar. 10, 2004)
Brazil's Shrimp Caught Up in a Trade War (By LARRY ROHTER, Mar. 10, 2004)
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: A Sports Arena Gets Religion (By TERRY PRISTIN, Mar. 10, 2004)
* ART: Rubens, the 'Prince of Painters,' Finally Gets His Due in France (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 10, 2004)
* DANCE: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: A Portent of Death Cast Shadows
on a Sunny Flirtation in the Park (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 10, 2004)
TV: 'Sopranos' Premiere Sets a Record (Sort Of) (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 10, 2004)
TV: 'GAME OVER': Video Game Heroes: Just Folks (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 10, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 10, 2004)
DINING: The Clash of the Barbecue Titans (By STEVEN RAICHLEN, Mar. 10, 2004)
* BREAD: Taking the Artisan Out of Artisanal (By JULIA MOSKIN, Mar. 10, 2004)
DINING: In Tokyo, Lots to Eat for Very Little (By ELAINE LOUIE, Mar. 10, 2004)
THE CHEF: Once Upon a Time in the Italian Wild West (By MATT LEE and TED LEE, Mar. 10, 2004)
THE MINIMALIST: North China in a Stir-Fry (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 10, 2004)
EATING WELL: Hold the Fries. Hey, Not All of Them! (By MARIAN BURROS, Mar. 10, 2004)

Tuesday, March 9, 2004:
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)

Spalding Gray, 62, Actor and Monologuist, Is Confirmed Dead (By SHAILA K. DEWAN and JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 9, 2004)
Paul Winfield Is Dead at 62; Known for Film and TV Roles (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 9, 2004)
Frances Dee, 96, Film Star of the 30's and 40's, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Mar. 9, 2004)
Margaret Westheimer Tishman, 84, a Leader in Jewish Charities, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 9, 2004)
NATIONAL: Nuclear Plant, Closed After Corrosion, Will Reopen (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 9, 2004)
Gay and Republican, but Not Necessarily Disloyal to President (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 9, 2004)
Gay Legislator at the Center of a Storm in Georgia (By ANDREW JACOBS, Mar. 9, 2004)
Inquiry Widens After 2 Arrests in Cadaver Case at U.C.L.A. (By NICK MADIGAN, Mar. 9, 2004)
WORLD: Iraq Council, With Reluctant Shiites, Signs Charter (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 9, 2004)
U.S. Asks Allies to Condemn Iran on Nuclear Issue (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 9, 2004)
Zimbabwe Reports Seizing Plane With 64 Suspected Mercenaries (By SHARON LaFRANIERE, Mar. 9, 2004)
* REIGATE JOURNAL: Parrot May Have Been Churchill's, but She's Not Saying (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 9, 2004)
* Putin's Dubious Allure: 'He's Not Making Things Worse' (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 9, 2004)
Beijing's Criticism of Democracy Advocates Divides Hong Kong (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 9, 2004)
Where Brave Constitutions Are Often Window Dressing (By SUSAN SACHS, Mar. 9, 2004)
NY REGION: A Cultural History Faces Stringent Smoking Laws (By COREY KILGANNON, Mar. 9, 2004)
SPORTS: Venturi Plays 2nd Ball in Palmer Dispute Over Masters Scorecard (By DAVE ANDERSON, Mar. 9, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: Ticket Sales Show Fans Will Forgive and Forget (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 9, 2004)
BASEBALL: Alex Rodriguez's Sweet Swing Is Nothing New (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 9, 2004)
BASEBALL: Sheffield May Need Surgery on Thumb (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 9, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Privatization of Stem Cells (NY TIMES, Mar. 9, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: THE RURAL LIFE: Skunk Thaw (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Mar. 9, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Promises, Promises (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 9, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Hooked on Heaven Lite (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 9, 2004)
OP-ED: The Next Nader Effect (By CHARLIE COOK, Mar. 9, 2004)
* OP-ED: A Marriage Made in History? (By DON BROWNING and ELIZABETH MARQUARDT, Mar. 9, 2004)
LETTERS: Lessons From the Stewart Verdict (6 Letters) (By KELLY BROWN, et. al., Mar. 9, 2004)
* LETTERS: Our Presidents: Not All Blue Bloods (3 Letters) (By HOWARD G. MAURER, et. al., Mar. 9, 2004)
* LETTERS: A Robot to Care for Mom? No, I'll Take a Human (By DENNIS L. KODNER, Mar. 9, 2004)
* LETTERS: Nancy Drew, Our Heroine (MELANIE REHAK, Mar. 9, 2004)
LETTERS: Educating World Leaders (By VLADIMIR KLEYMAN, Mar. 9, 2004)
BUSINESS: Technology Shares and Other Recent Big Gainers Retreat
[Dow -66.07, Nasdaq -38.85] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 9, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Lingering Job Insecurity of Silicon Valley (By STEVE LOHR and MATT RICHTEL, Mar. 9, 2004)
* ARTS: A Poet's Spirit Springs to Life on Death Row (By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 9, 2004)
DANCE: Young Dancers Compete to Learn and to Earn (By DEBRA WEST, Mar. 9, 2004)
* FILM: For Spielberg, an Anniversary Full of Urgency (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 9, 2004)
FILM: NEW DVD'S: Schindler and the Shoah in the Words of Survivors (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Mar. 9, 2004)
OPERA: Soprano Says Her Weight Cost Her Role in London (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Mar. 9, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 9, 2004)
* SCIENCE: When the Games Began: Olympic Archaeology (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 9, 2004)
* SCIENCE: New Hubble Images Show Deepest View of Universe (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 9, 2004)
* V838 Monocerotis flared like a flashbulb to become Milky Way's brightest star
(Two years ago, a distant star flared before fading into obscurity)
(Hubble Space Telescope/NASA, Mar. 9, 2004)
* SCIENTIST AT WORK: Niles Eldredge: Bursts of Cornets and Evolution (By MARGARET WERTHEIM, Mar. 9, 2004)
* On Mars, Signs of Water Don't Necessarily Mean Signs of Life (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 9, 2004)
For Wildlife, Migration Is Endangered Too (By JIM ROBBINS, Mar. 9, 2004)
* OBSERVATORY: Ants to the Right, Please (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 9, 2004)
* HEALTH: Defying Psychiatric Wisdom, These Skeptics Say 'Prove It' (By ERICA GOODE, Mar. 9, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: In an Obese World, Sweet Nothings Add Up (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 9, 2004)
* New Conclusions on Cholesterol (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 9, 2004)
* Long Before Oprah, a Celebrity Bared Her Soul [Lillian Roth's "I'll Cry Tomorrow"]
(By BARRON H. LERNER, Mar. 9, 2004)
Up in the Air on Hormones: Women Under 50 (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 9, 2004)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: New Microbes Could Become the 'New Norm' (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Mar. 9, 2004)
CASES: Waiting for News in a Room of Death and Miracles (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 9, 2004)
Thawed Ovary Tissue Yields Healthy Embryo (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 9, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: Young Broccoli Haters Get a Break (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 9, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Money and Medicine: When Bad Bites Sink Into Wallets (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 9, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Hazards: Run or Hide, Smoke Still Lingers (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 9, 2004)
* Q & A: Virtual Green Tea (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 9, 2004)

Monday, March 8, 2004:
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)

Dr. Fred Brown, 79, Pioneer in Fighting Foot-and-Mouth, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 8, 2004)
C. Arosemena, 84, Ex-Ecuador Leader, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 8, 2004)
J. Beverley Oke, Analyzer of Starlight, Is Dead at 75 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 8, 2004)
William Stewart, 71, Labor Board Lawyer, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2004)
Mike O'Callaghan, 74, Nevada Governor, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 8, 2004)
NATIONAL: U.C.L.A. Official Is Held in Cadaver-Selling Inquiry (By JOHN M. BRODER, Mar. 8, 2004)
FIGHTING FOR FLORIDA: The Battle for Florida Heats Up, Stirring Memories of the Recount
(By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Mar. 8, 2004)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Bush Ready and Bursting to Bring It On (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 8, 2004)
Kerry Is Grilled on Gay Marriage and Attacks Bush on Sept. 11 Commission (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Mar. 8, 2004)
Mine's Pollution Fund Is Focus of Federal Agencies' Duel (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Mar. 8, 2004)
Relatives of Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay Tell of Anger and Sadness at Detentions (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Mar. 8, 2004)
EDUCATION: College for the Home-Schooled Is Shaping Leaders for the Right (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 8, 2004)
WORLD: Top Shiites Drop Their Resistance to Iraqi Charter (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 8, 2004)
Gunfire Kills 5 as They March in Haiti Capital (By TIM WEINER & LYDIA POLGREEN, Mar. 8, 2004)
In Rebel City, Guns Are Power and No One Wants to Let Go (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Mar. 8, 2004)
* Chinese SARS Hero Urges Party to Admit Error for '89 Massacre (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 8, 2004)
Chinese Appeal to Beijing to Resolve Local Complaints (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 8, 2004)
Cracks in Thailand's Peace (By JANE PERLEZ, Mar. 8, 2004)
For More Afghan Women, Immolation Is Escape (By CARLOTTA GALL, Mar. 8, 2004)
CARACAS JOURNAL: Pirate Radio as Public Radio, in the President's Corner (By JUAN FORERO, Mar. 8, 2004)
NY REGION: New York Begins to Cash in With Video Lottery Terminals (By AL BAKER, Mar. 8, 2004)
YOUNG LOVE, NEW CAUTION: For a Promising but Poor Girl, a Struggle Over Sex and Goals
(By NINA BERNSTEIN, Mar. 8, 2004)
Female Bonding, Punctuated by Gunfire (By ALAN FEUER, Mar. 8, 2004)
Sharpton's Next Role: Talk Radio? Reality TV? (By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 8, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 8, 2004)
SPORTS: Work Ethic Still Isn't Optional With Clemens an Astro (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 8, 2004)
SPORTS: Newest Mind Games in So-Called Game 8 (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 8, 2004)
YANKEES 11, RED SOX 7: Let the Jeering Begin (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 8, 2004)
BASEBALL: For Howe, More Depth Means Fewer Problems (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Mar. 8, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Axis of Reconstruction (NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Downsize That Order! (NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Gioia to Behold (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 8, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Unrecognizable Recovery (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 8, 2004)
* OP-ED: How to Help Ukraine Vote (By MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT, Mar. 8, 2004)
* OP-ED: The Wrong Way to Sell Democracy to the Arab World (By ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Mar. 8, 2004)
LETTERS: Gay Marriage: A Variety of Lenses (4 Letters) (By Rabbi SHARON KLEINBAUM, et. al., Mar. 8, 2004)
* LETTERS: Examining Deaths to Learn About Life (4 Letters) (By BRUCE T. CHODOSH, M.D., et. al., Mar. 8, 2004)
LETTERS: No Cars at Ground Zero (By GEORGE HAIKALIS, Mar. 8, 2004)
BUSINESS: ABC Under Disney: Kingdom, Yes. Magic, No. (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 8, 2004)
Foreign Concerns Make Deals With Saudis to Search for Gas (By SIMON ROMERO, Mar. 8, 2004)
* Final Novel in Evangelical Christian Series Is a Best Seller Before Going on Sale
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 8, 2004)
The Unorthodox System: First Build a Fan Base, Then Record an Album
[Particle, a Los Angeles band] (By CHRIS NELSON, Mar. 8, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2004)
* Getting to Know Me, Getting to Know All About Me: Web Personality Tests (By SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 8, 2004)
No Riders: Desert Crossing Is for the Robots Only (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 8, 2004)
A Software Aimed at Taming File-Sharing (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 8, 2004)
* When Necessity Meets Ingenuity: Art of Restoring What's Missing (By TERESA RIORDAN, Mar. 8, 2004)
E-COMMERCE: Looking to Canadian Web Pharmacies for Savings (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 8, 2004)
* ART: A Dependable Bazaar for Top-Notch Baubles
[Zurbarán's 17th-century painting "Flight Into Egypt"] (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 8, 2004)
MUSIC: SPIRIT OF FEZ FESTIVAL: Songs of Peace, From Many Perspectives
(By JON PARELES, Mar. 8, 2004)
MUSIC NEW CD'S: How to Find Dance Beats but Avoid the Crowds (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 8, 2004)
OPERA: METROPOLITAN OPERA: Pavarotti Showed Up! (He Sang Some, Too) (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 8, 2004)
POP: ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL: Miami Park Throbs With One Big Party (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 8, 2004)
THEATER: 'COOKIN': Taking the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Mar. 8, 2004)
THEATER NOTEBOOK: Orwellian Parables for a World in Disarray (By WILBORN HAMPTON, Mar. 8, 2004)
* TV: 'JUDAS': Jesus' Final Days, Take 2: Pilate Is the Bad Guy (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 8, 2004)
TV: THE UNAUTHORIZED STORY OF 'CHARLIE'S ANGELS'
Back to the 70's of Sultry Crime Fighters and Network Titans (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 8, 2004)

Saturday, March 6, 2004:
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)

Marc L. Miringoff, 58, Measurer of Social Health, Dies (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 6, 2004)
George D. Reycraft, 79, Corporate Litigator and Trustbuster, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 6, 2004)
* Jorge Guinle, 88, a Playboy Who Outlived His Millions, Dies (By LARRY ROHTER, Mar. 6, 2004)
* Pedro Pietri, 59, Poet Who Chronicled Nuyorican Life, Dies (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Mar. 6, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Kerry's Shifts: Nuanced Ideas or Flip-Flops? (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Mar. 6, 2004)
Administration Sets Forth a Limited View on Privacy (By ROBERT PEAR & ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 6, 2004)
Governor of California Moonlighting as an Editor (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Mar. 6, 2004)
INTELLIGENCE: Kennedy Gives Bush Stinging Rebuke on War (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Mar. 6, 2004)
Air Force One Phone Records Are Among Data Sought by Subpoena in C.I.A. Leak Inquiry
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 6, 2004)
WORLD: Iraqi Shiites, in a Blow to U.S., Fail to Sign Temporary Charter
(By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 6, 2004)
Libya Discloses Production of 23 Tons of Mustard Gas (By JUDITH MILLER, Mar. 6, 2004)
U.S. Special Forces in Haiti Seeking Out Rebel Leaders (By TIM WEINER, Mar. 6, 2004)
* SATURDAY PROFILE: 50 Years of Burrowing Gently Into Czech Culture (By IAN FISHER, Mar. 6, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Courtroom Tales of Martha's Lies... (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2004)
EDITORIALS: ...and of Epic Frauds (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Millions for Moochers (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 6, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Clash of Titans (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 6, 2004)
OP-ED: There's More Welfare to Reform (By DOUGLAS J. BESHAROV, Mar. 6, 2004)
* OP-ED: Girl, Revised [Nancy Drew mysteries] (By AMY BENFER, Mar. 6, 2004)
OP-ED: Iraq's Real Holy War (By VALI NASR, Mar. 6, 2004)
* LETTERS: Using 9/11 in a Political Campaign (7 Letters) (By JOHN NORRIS, et. al., Mar. 6, 2004)
BUSINESS: Markets Hold as Low-Interest Hopes Counter Jobs Report
[Dow +7.55, Nasdaq -7.48] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 6, 2004)
* Sun Microsystems Debt Cut to 'Junk' (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Mar. 6, 2004)
* ARTS: He Harms/She Harms: A Distinction With Real Difference (By DINITIA SMITH, Mar. 6, 2004)
ARTS: Turks Breach Wall of Silence on Armenians (By BELINDA COOPER, Mar. 6, 2004)
BOOKS: 'Known World' Wins Book Critics' Award (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 6, 2004)
HIP-HOP: Bling-Bling, Party Party: Some Rappers Just Want to Have Fun (By JON PARELES, Mar. 6, 2004)
ICE SHOW: 'STARS ON ICE': With Star Turns and Triple Turns, a Sail Through Time
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 6, 2004)
MUSIC: Sills Is Asking the Public to Help Save Met Broadcasts (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Mar. 6, 2004)
TV: So Just for Laughs, Is the Sitcom Dying? (By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 6, 2004)
TV: Will Love Find Lonely Ann-Margaret? What Do You Think? (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 6, 2004)

Friday, March 5, 2004:
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)

Stephen Sprouse, Design Pioneer, Dies at 50 (By WILLIAM NORWICH, Mar. 5, 2004)
Fred Benninger, 86, Ex-Chairman of MGM Grand, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 5, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Where There's No Room for All Three of Them [pigs, foxes, eagles]
(By FELICITY BARRINGER, Mar. 5, 2004)
* WORLD: Japan Seeks Robotic Help in Caring for the Aged
[Seniors enjoy the wash & soak cycle of a nursing home's human washing machine]
(By JAMES BROOKE, Mar. 5, 2004)
* A Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss to an Angry Arab TV Audience (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 5, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Sept. 11 and Nov. 2 (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2004)
EDITORIALS: An Astronaut Changes His Tune (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Social Security Scares (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 5, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Hide and Seek in Florida (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 5, 2004)
OP-ED: If You Don't Like the Ride, Get Off (By NINA MUNK, Mar. 5, 2004)
OP-ED: Returning From Iraq, Still Fighting Vietnam (By SALLY SATEL, Mar. 5, 2004)
OP-ED: Ministers Without Portfolio (Yet) (By CHRIS SPRIGMAN, Mar. 5, 2004)
* LETTERS: Closing America's Education Gap (5 Letters) (By REG WEAVER, et. al., Mar. 5, 2004)
* LETTERS: Lindbergh and Jews (By PHILIP ROTH , Mar. 5, 2004)
LETTERS: Beyond Marriage (By ANN PELLEGRINI, Mar. 5, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Mixed as Investors Await Report on Employment
[Dow -5.11, Nasdaq +21.75] (By Associated Press, Mar. 5, 2004)
Intel Narrows Its Estimate of Revenue (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Mar. 5, 2004)
* ART: 'GAUGUIN TAHITI': Gauguin's Paradise: Only Part Tahitian and All a Fantasy
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 5, 2004)
ART: 'PARADISE NOW?': The Beauty of the Pacific, Enshrined and Exploited (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 5, 2004)
ART: 'CHRISTOPHER DRESSER': An Eminent Victorian Who's a Modernist, Too (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 5, 2004)
* DANCE: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: When Adams Meet Eves in Teletubbyland (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 5, 2004)
DANCE: ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE: Under Copper Stars, Ghosts in Leotards (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 5, 2004)
THEATER: 'KING LEAR': A Fiery Fall Into the Abyss, Unknowing and Unknown (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 5, 2004)
TV: 'THE SOPRANOS': Bullies, Bears and Bullets: It's Round 5 (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 5, 2004)

Thursday, March 4, 2004:
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)

Meyer Blinder, Penny Stock King, Dies at 82 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 4, 2004)
L. J. Alexanderson, 93, Liner's Last Captain, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 4, 2004)
Julius Dixon, Songwriter Known for the 1958 Hit 'Lollipop,' Dies at 90 (By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 4, 2004)
NATIONAL: Kerry Faces a New Climb: Bush's Mountain of Cash (By GLEN JUSTICE, Mar. 4, 2004)
With Super Tuesday Behind Him, Kerry Shifts to High General-Election Gear (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Mar. 4, 2004)
As Edwards's Race Ends, Talk of No. 2 Spot on Ticket (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, Mar. 4, 2004)
THE AD CAMPAIGN: A Focus on the President's Leadership (By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 4, 2004)
California Approves Bond Issue, but Fiscal Problems Remain (By JOHN M. BRODER, Mar. 4, 2004)
* WORLD: How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web
(By DON VAN NATTA Jr. & DESMOND BUTLER, Mar. 4, 2004)
REACTION: Curfew Posted in Pakistan After Attack on Shiites (By REUTERS, Mar. 4, 2004)
Other Attacks Averted in Iraq, a General Says (By DEXTER FILKINS & ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 4, 2004)
Cleansing Iraqi Bomb Victims Takes Its Own Toll (By NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 4, 2004)
U.S. Patrols Start in Haiti, but Residents Remain Wary (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Mar. 4, 2004)
* Terrorist Bomb Threats Endanger French Railways (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 4, 2004)
* SPORTS: A Squad of Overachievers Majoring in Chemistry (By JOE DRAPE, Mar. 4, 2004)
* SPORTS: Addictive Effects of Steroids Raise Questions About Users' Awareness (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 4, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Hard Realities in Haiti (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2004)
EDITORIALS: What the Body Knows (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: See Dick Run (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 4, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Small and Smaller [Bangalore tax accountants] (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 4, 2004)
OP-ED: Nukes `R' Us (By GARY MILHOLLIN and KELLY MOTZ, Mar. 4, 2004)
LETTERS: Kerry's Moment, and the Battle in November (6 Letters) (By ATUL M. KARNIK, et. al., Mar. 4, 2004)
LETTERS: American Jobs, Indian Jobs and the Global Economy (3 Letters) (By ROBYN WHITE, et. al., Mar. 4, 2004)
LETTERS: Letting Go of the Hubble (By JOHN GRUNSFELD, Mar. 4, 2004)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Are Up Slightly as Technology Shares Dip
[Dow +1.2, Nasdaq -6.3] (By Reuters, Mar. 4, 2004)
Eisner Out as Disney Chairman but Remains as Chief Executive (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Mar. 4, 2004)
* Dell Founder Steps Down as Chief Executive but Remains Chairman (By SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 4, 2004)
Chief Executives' Survey Fuels Hopes on Hiring (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Mar. 4, 2004)
U.S. Pressing China to Yield on Wireless Encryption (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 4, 2004)
* Ask Jeeves Buys Interactive Search Holdings [Excite.com & iWon.com] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 4, 2004)
* BOOKS: 'RISE OF THE VULCANS': How Bush's Advisers Confront the World (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Mar. 4, 2004)
CABARET: ANNA BERGMAN: A Line Between Rodgers and Gounod, You Know (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 4, 2004)
CABARET: JEANNE MACDONALD: A Teacher's Warm Lesson in Possessing a Classic Song
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 4, 2004)
DANCE: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: Making 'Petrouchka' Fit the Times & Politicians
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Mar. 4, 2004)
FILM CRITIC: A Neighbor and a Stranger: Canada Portrayed in Film (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Mar. 4, 2004)
* MUSIC: Sex, Drugs and Ego: A Music Mogul's Swath of Destruction [Walter Yetnikoff]
(By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Mar. 4, 2004)
OPERA: 'IL RITORNO D'ULISSE': A Wanderer's Dreams of Home, Through Puppet Artistry
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 4, 2004)
POP: BRITNEY SPEARS: Suds, Sex and Even a Little Song From Spears (By NEIL STRAUSS, Mar. 4, 2004)
TV: UPN Show Is Called Insensitive to Amish (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Mar. 4, 2004)
TV: 'MAD MAD HOUSE'; 'TRIPPING THE RIFT'
Reality and a Cartoon (or Vice Versa), Both on Sci Fi (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 4, 2004)
GARDEN: DESIGN DISPATCH: Beirut Gets Its Groove Back (By MITCHELL OWENS, Mar. 4, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2004)
* For New Buildings, Digital Models Offer an Advance Walk-Through (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Mar. 4, 2004)
* At a Mountain Monastery, Old Texts Gain Digital Life (By SARAH GAUCH, Mar. 4, 2004)
50 First Deaths: A Chance to Play (and Pay) Again (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Mar. 4, 2004)
STATE OF THE ART: Slide Shows That Dazzle on HDTV (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 4, 2004)
GAME THEORY: Tackling the Mystery of the Missing Game (By CHARLES HEROLD, Mar. 4, 2004)
ONLINE SHOPPER: In Search of the One True Lipstick (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Mar. 4, 2004)
HOW IT WORKS: Toward a Clean Sweep, Without the Human Touch (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Mar. 4, 2004)
Carry a Concert Home in Your Pocket (By MARK WALSH, Mar. 4, 2004)
WHAT'S NEXT: To Avert Blackouts a Sag-Free Cable (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 4, 2004)
For Audio Players, a Chance to Cut the Cord (By ALAN KRAUSS, Mar. 4, 2004)
For TiVo, More Hours and Lower Prices (J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 4, 2004)
Logical Layout Speeds Up The Hunting and Pecking (By CHRIS LARSON, Mar. 4, 2004)
Sounds That Surround You Make It Onto Your Playlist (By IVAN BERGER, Mar. 4, 2004)
* Furtive Surfers Find a Way to Keep Their Travels Secret (By HOWARD MILLMAN, Mar. 4, 2004)
Down-to-Earth Directions for the Well-Shod Tourist (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 4, 2004)
For CD's and Memory Cards, a Space-Saving Double Agent (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 4, 2004)
Q & A: Thaw a Frozen Screen With a Software Update (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 4, 2004)
* HEALTH: Doctors and Patients Start to Curb Use of Antibiotics (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Mar. 4, 2004)

Wednesday, March 3, 2004:
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)

Jane Engelhard, 86, Fixture in Society and Philanthropy, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 3, 2004)
NATIONAL: First Bush Campaign Ads Focus on Leadership (By JIM RUTENBERG, Mar. 3, 2004)
WORLD: EXILE: The Host of Aristide Is Uneasy (By MICHAEL WINES, Mar. 3, 2004)
* LETTER FROM ASIA: China's Offshore Headaches: Is the Leash Short Enough? (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 3, 2004)
Today Carinthia, Tomorrow Vienna? (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Mar. 3, 2004)
ON EDUCATION: A Vital Touchstone for High Schools (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Mar. 3, 2004)
* NY REGION: Thinking Outside Box, Architect Comes Up With Cubes (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Mar. 3, 2004)
Politics Rush a Gay Couple's Marriage Plans (By THOMAS CRAMPTON, Mar. 3, 2004)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Your Academy Award Questions Answered (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 3, 2004)
ABOUT NEW YORK: Carrying Tunes All the Way From Sri Lanka (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 3, 2004)
SPORTS: As Baseball Begins, Talk of Steroids Dominates (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Mar. 3, 2004)
BASEBALL: Fox to Broadcast Yanks' First Game With Boston (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Mar. 3, 2004)
FOOTBALL: Colts Give Manning the Keys to the Vault (By DAMON HACK, Mar. 3, 2004)
EDITORIALS: The Eight-Month Election (NY TIMES, Mar. 3, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Estrogen Therapy Woes (NY TIMES, Mar. 3, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Marriage: Mix and Match (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 3, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Kerry's Unreal Deal (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 3, 2004)
OP-ED: For Priests, Celibacy Is Not the Problem (By ANDREW GREELEY, Mar. 3, 2004)
OP-ED: The Next Best Thing to Being President (By STEPHEN GILLERS, Mar. 3, 2004)
LETTERS: Rejuvenate the Hubble, or Just Let It Drift? (3 Letters) (By ROBERT P. KIRSHNER, et. al., Mar. 3, 2004)
* LETTERS: 'The Passion of the Christ' (3 Letters) (By DANIEL S. SMITH, et. al., Mar. 3, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall on Fear Prices Already Reflect Profit Outlook
[Dow -87, Nasdaq -18] (By Bloomberg News, Mar. 3, 2004)
Disney Dissidents Rebuke Eisner, Denying Him 43% of Vote (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Mar. 3, 2004)
Martha Stewart Jury Begins Deliberations in ImClone Case (By IAN URBINA and CARLA BARANAUCKAS, Mar. 3, 2004)
Greenspan Plays Down 2 Threats to U.S. Economy (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 3, 2004)
ADVERTISING: Selling a Home Coffee Maker (By STUART ELLIOTT, Mar. 3, 2004)
* DANCE CRITIC: Passion for Tango, West Coast and East (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Mar. 3, 2004)
DANCE: JENNIFER ALLEN: An Enigmatic and Lively Gathering of Women (By JACK ANDERSON, Mar. 3, 2004)
* FILM: Worlds Away From Hollywood, a Young Star Under the Veil (By CARLOTTA GALL, Mar. 3, 2004)
FILM: 'COLLATERAL DAMAGES': Anguished Emotions, Smoldering Since 9/11 (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 3, 2004)
TV: 'STEPHEN KING'S KINGDOM HOSPITAL': Scalpel! Sutures! Sponge! Hemostat! Psychic!
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 3, 2004)
TV: 'FOREVER EDEN': What Makes for Good Reality? Clear Rules and a Few Twists (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 3, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 3, 2004)
FOOD: Going Fast: The Fresh Fish of Venice (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Mar. 3, 2004)
Bagels, Lox, Lollipops and Smelling Salts (By ALEX WITCHEL, Mar. 3, 2004)
THE MINIMALIST: Paella, Translated Into Japanese (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 3, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Experts Say New Desktop Fusion Claims Seem More Credible (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 3, 2004)
* HEAL:TH: Estrogen Study Stopped Early Because of Slight Stroke Risk (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 3, 2004)

Tuesday, March 2, 2004:
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)

Marge Schott, Owner of Cincinnati Reds, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Mar. 2, 2004)
Paul Sweezy, 93, Marxist Publisher and Economist, Dies (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Mar. 2, 2004)
Jerome Lawrence, 88, Author of Stage Hit 'Inherit the Wind,' Dies (By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 2, 2004)
Josephine Schwarz, 95, Leader in Regional Ballet Movement, Is Dead (By JACK ANDERSON, Mar. 2, 2004)
Sandra Burton, 62, Time Correspondent, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 2, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Dole Finding Winning Role as TV Pundit (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Mar. 2, 2004)
Chinese and American Cultures Clash in Custody Battle for Girl (By ANDREW JACOBS, Mar. 2, 2004)
EDUCATION: Schools, Facing Tight Budgets, Leave Gifted Programs Behind (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Mar. 2, 2004)
WORLD: Haitian Rebels Enter Capital; Aristide Bitter (By TIM WEINER and LYDIA POLGREEN, Mar. 2, 2004)
OUSTED LEADER: Aristide, Now in Central African Republic,
Has Harsh Words for the Haitian Rebels (By MICHAEL WINES, Mar. 2, 2004)
This Baghdad Gunfire Celebrates Love, Not War (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 2, 2004)
NY REGION: Quiet Street Reaps Price of Progress (By ALAN FEUER, Mar. 2, 2004)
BUSINESS: Report on Industrial Jobs Sends Dow and Nasdaq Higher
[Dow +94, Nasdaq +28] (By Associated Press, Mar. 2, 2004)
* Yahoo to Charge for Guaranteeing a Spot on Its Index (By SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 2, 2004)
* Like Japan in the 1980's, China Poses Big Economic Challenge (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 2, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2004)
* An Extra Eye in Combat, and Maybe Aboard Airplanes (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Mar. 2, 2004)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Domain Names Are Big Again (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 2, 2004)
* Online Advertising Bounces Back as Animations Increase (By SUSAN STELLIN, Mar. 2, 2004)
* New Worm Spreading Through E-Mail ["Netsky-D"] (By REUTERS, Mar. 2, 2004)
* BOOKS: Laughter's Perennial at the Doctor's Seussentennial (By DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, Mar. 4, 2004)
DANCE: SHANNON HUMMEL: Evoking Emotion Through Gestures (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 2, 2004)
* FILM CRITIC: Post-Oscar Reflections, Before We Forget (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 2, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2004)
* SCIENCE: NASA Reports Evidence Mars Was Once Soaked (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 2, 2004)
* SCIENTIST AT WORK: Constantly In Motion, Like DNA Itself [Caltech's Jacqueline K. Barton]
(By NATALIE ANGIER, Mar. 2, 2004)
Second Thoughts on a Chemical: In Water, How Much Is Too Much? (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Mar. 2, 2004)
* HEALTH: Bacteria Run Wild, Defying Antibiotics (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, Mar. 2, 2004)
* Researchers Rewrite First Chapter for the History of Medicine (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Mar. 2, 2004)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Even With Vaccination, the 'Whoop' Is Back (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 2, 2004)
* HEALTH ESSAY: On High-Tech Reproduction, Italy Will Practice Abstinence (By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG, Mar. 2, 2004)
HEALTH: Flu Season Seems Over, Officials Say (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Mar. 2, 2004)

Monday, March 1, 2004:
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)

* Daniel Boorstin, 89, Former Librarian of Congress, Dies (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Mar. 1, 2004)
Gant Gaither, 86, Producer With Second Career as Artist, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 1, 2004)
Labe Scheinberg, 78, Physician and Multiple Sclerosis Specialist, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 1, 2004)
WORLD: DISPATCHES: Heading Back to Iraq for Round 2 (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Mar. 1, 2004)
NY REGION: Getting Out the Muslim Vote (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Mar. 1, 2004)
Same-Sex Weddings Bring Division to an Upstate Village (By THOMAS CRAMPTON, Mar. 1, 2004)
METRO MATTERS: Mr. Nice Guys Go by Wayside in New York (By JOYCE PURNICK, Mar. 1, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 1, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Shattered Democracy in Haiti (NY TIMES, Mar. 1, 2004)
* EDITORIALS: Press Here to Control the Universe (NY TIMES, Mar. 1, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Not Peace, but a Sword (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 1, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Stolen Kisses (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 1, 2004)
* OP-ED: A Trust Worth Winning (By JOHN EDWARDS, Mar. 1, 2004)
* OP-ED: This Soldier's Story (By JOHN KERRY, Mar. 1, 2004)
LETTERS: If the Oil Dries Up, What Then? (4 Letters) (By MAI PHAM, et. al., Mar. 1, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Got a Book in You? More Companies Than Ever Are Willing to Get It Out
(By GAYLE FELDMAN, Mar. 1, 2004)
* EBay Seller of Fake Artwork Again Upsets the Auction Site (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 1, 2004)
That's the Weather, and Now, Let's Go to the Cellphone for the Traffic (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 1, 2004)
ART: 'Airlift for Art': Modern Painting Returns to One of Its Cradles (By WILLIAM BOSTON, Mar. 1, 2004)
FILM: 'Lord of the Rings' Dominates the Oscars (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 1, 2004)
TV WATCH: Few Waves Are Made as Most Behave Well [Oscars] (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 1, 2004)
TV: 'THE MYSTERY OF NATALIE WOOD': Another View of the Falling of a Star
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 1, 2004)

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