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

Thursday, March 31, 2005:
On This Day: March 31 (René Descartes 3/31/1596-2/11/1650, Franz Joseph Haydn 3/31/1732-5/31/1809, Edward Fitzgerald 3/31/1809-6/14/1883, James M. Cox 3/31/1870-7/15/1957, Arthur Griffith 3/31/1872-8/12/1922, Srge Diaghilev 3/31/1872-8/19/1929, Jack Johnson 3/31/1878-6/10/1946, Sir Lawrence Bragg 3/31/1890-7/1/1971, John McCloy 3/31/1895-3/11/1989, Octavio Paz 3/31/1914-4/19/1998, William Daniels 1927, Gordie Howe 1928, Shirley Jones 1934, Herb Alpert 1935, Richard Chamberlain 1935, Patrick Leahy 1940, Gabe Kaplan 1945, Al Gore 1948, Rhea Perlman 1948, Ed Marinaro 1950)
President Johnson Says He Won't Run for Another Term (By Tom Wicker, March 31, 1968)
Cesar Chavez, 66, Organizer of Union For Migrants, Dies
[3/31/1927-4/23/1993] (By ROBERT LINDSEY, April 24, 1993)

* Robert White Creeley, a Prominent Poet, Is Dead at 78 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 31, 2005)
James Lebron, a Wizard at Moving of Art, Dies at 76 (By MARGALIT FOX, Mar. 31, 2005)
David Bushnell, 92, Importer of Affordable Binoculars, Dies (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Mar. 31, 2005)
Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow, 91, a Pioneer in Heart Surgery, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 31, 2005)
NATIONAL: Bush and Congress Rebuked in Schiavo Case (By ABBY GOODNOUGH & WILLIAM YARDLEY, Mar. 31, 2005)
Schiavo Dies Nearly Two Weeks After Removal of Feeding Tube (By WILLIAM YARDLEY & MARIA NEWMAN, Mar. 31, 2005)
As Gambling Grows, States Depend on Their Cut (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Mar. 31, 2005)
Supreme Court Removes Hurdle to Age Bias Suits (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 31, 2005)
Panel Says 'Dead Wrong' Data on Prewar Iraq Demands Overhaul (By DAVID STOUT, Mar. 31, 2005)
At Jackson Trial Psychologist Testifies Briefly About Interview (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Mar. 31, 2005)
WORLD: Pope Is Being Fed With a Tube as Alarm Over His Health Rises (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Mar. 31, 2005)
Clerics Fighting a Gay Festival for Jerusalem (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and GREG MYRE, Mar. 31, 2005)
In Indonesian Quake's Aftermath, Inconsolable Grief (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 31, 2005)
22 Million Chinese Seek to Block Japan's Bid to Join U.N. Council (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 31, 2005)
Taiwan Opposition Welcomed in China (NY TIMES, Mar. 31, 2005)
EDUCATION: Columbia Panel Reports No Proof of Anti-Semitism (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 31, 2005)
NY REGION: INK: Columbia and a Chair Endowed With Rust (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Mar. 31, 2005)
Hoping to Reverse History and Pollution [Onondaga Nation] (By KIRK SEMPLE, Mar. 31, 2005)
* NY REGION: $1 Billion Deal Turns MetLife Into Condos [41-story tower]
(By THOMAS J. LUECK, Mar. 31, 2005)
SPORTS: Michigan State's Women Want Hardware of Their Own (By JERE LONGMAN, Mar. 31, 2005)
* BASKETBALL: Three Times a Charm for Pitino [Louisville Cardinals] (By PETE THAMEL, Mar. 31, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: Bonds's Accuser Speaks, Putting Him in Peril (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 31, 2005)
BASEBALL: Ignored by Dodgers, Crosby Takes to Yankees (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 31, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Theresa Marie Schiavo (NY TIMES, Mar. 31, 2005)
EDITORIAL: A Science-Fiction Army (NY TIMES, Mar. 31, 2005)
EDITORIAL: APPRECIATIONS: Of Memories and Mole (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Mar. 31, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Rice's Poker Hand (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 31, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: I Spy a Screw-Up (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 31, 2005)
* OP-ED: Spring Forward Faster (By DAVID PRERAU, Mar. 31, 2005)
OP-ED: Tyranny's Full Tank (By MARINA OTTAWAY, Mar. 31, 2005)
LETTERS: Who'll Speak Against Extremism? (5 Letters) (By Jeff McLaughlin, et. al., Mar. 31, 2005)
LETTERS: So Long, Mets? Think '69. '86. Think Again. (5 Letters) (By James I. Menapace, et. al., Mar. 31, 2005)
BUSINESS: Major Indexes Post Biggest Gains in Nearly Four Months
[Dow +135.23, Nasdaq +31.79] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 31, 2005)
Qwest Raises MCI Bid in Attempt to Trump Verizon (By KEN BELSON, Mar. 31, 2005)
* QUESTIONS FOR... Kurt Eichenwald [author of "Conspiracy of Fools" on Enron]
(NY TIMES, Mar. 31, 2005)
* Ted Koppel to Leave 'Nightline' and ABC News (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 31, 2005)
* SMALL BUSINESS: Compete With Caution Against Past Employer (By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Mar. 31, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Hewlett Chief Has No Plans but Says All Is on the Table (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Mar. 31, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Indian Software Testing Moves From Boredom to Boom (By REUTERS, Mar. 31, 2005)
* ART: 'SURREALISM USA': Filling In the Many Gaps in American Surrealism (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 31, 2005)
* BOOKS: A Literary Star Who Finds Art in Happiness, Not Pain [Ian McEwan's "Saturday"]
(By CHARLES McGRATH, Mar. 31, 2005)
* BOOKS: Composing the Work an Ill-Fated Poet Never Began [Marina Tsvetayeva]
(By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 31, 2005)
BOOKS: TOWELHEAD': A Lolita, Dropped in Houston, Learns Lessons of Others' Prejudice and Her Own Power
[Alicia Erian] (By JANET MASLIN, Mar. 31, 2005)
DANCE: PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATER: Partial to Balanchine, but Counting on Springsteen
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 31, 2005)
MUSIC ALBUM | MOBY: What's Left After the End of Music (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 31, 2005)
MUSIC: The Lyrics Are Perfectly Clear, in Welsh (By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 31, 2005)
MUSIC: CONTINUUM: With Copland as the Classic, a Sampling of the Contemporary and Quirky of Judaica
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 31, 2005)
THEATER CRITIC: When It Comes to Casting, Love Conquers Color (By CARYN JAMES, Mar. 31, 2005)
TV: His Big Break Canceled, Comic Adapts [Alonzo Bodden] (By PETER KEEPNEWS, Mar. 31, 2005)
TV: 'WONDER SHOWZEN': Yes, It's a Variety Show; No, Ed Sullivan Doesn't Appear
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 31, 2005)
GARDEN: When Preservation Equals Demolition (By BRADFORD McKEE, Mar. 31, 2005)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 31, 2005)
It's Not Just a Phone, It's an Adventure (By MICHEL MARRIOTT & KATIE HAFNER, Mar. 31, 2005)
* In the Competition for DVD Rentals by Mail, Two Empires Strike Back (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 31, 2005)
Some Pay for a TV Service That They Didn't Choose (By KEN BELSON, Mar. 31, 2005)
A Way for Online Sports Fans to Start Animated Arguments (By MARK GLASSMAN, Mar. 31, 2005)
* Q & A: Monitor Web Sites Without Visiting [& security software] (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 31, 2005)
Cable Lets the IPod Photo Link Directly to a Camera, Bypassing a PC Pit Stop (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 31, 2005)
A Desktop Percussion Machine Keeps the Thump at Your Fingertips (By JED STEVENSON, Mar. 31, 2005)
Live Large With a Wide-Screen Wall Entertainment PC System for All of Your Media (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 31, 2005)
With a Privacy Filter on Your Monitor, You Can Work and Others Can't See (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 31, 2005)
* SCIENCE: An Early Wartime Profile Depicts a Tormented Hitler (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 31, 2005)
SCIENCE: Strains on Nature Are Growing, Report Says [Humans damaging planet]
(By REUTERS, Mar. 31, 2005)

Wednesday, March 30, 2005:
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)

Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Trial Lawyer Defined by O.J. Simpson Case, Is Dead at 67
(By ADAM LIPTAK, Mar. 30, 2005)
Harold Cruse, Social Critic and Fervent Black Nationalist, Dies at 89 (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 30, 2005)
NATIONAL: Tribe Is Shaken by Arrest of Leader's Son in Shootings (By MONICA DAVEY & KIRK JOHNSON, Mar. 30, 2005)
Jesse Jackson Takes Up Cause of Schiavo's Parents (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Mar. 30, 2005)
* ON EDUCATION: A Teacher Sees Herself Younger, and on Broadway (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Mar. 30, 2005)
WORLD: Panel Says Annan Didn't Intervene in Iraq Contract (By WARREN HOGE, Mar. 30, 2005)
Pope Receiving Food Through Nasal Tube (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Mar. 30, 2005)
* Quake Damage Limited to Small Area; Hundreds Dead (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 30, 2005)
Rescuers on Indonesian Island Dig Without Heavy Equipment (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 30, 2005)
World Glimpses North Korea Violence After Soccer Loss (By REUTERS, Mar. 30, 2005)
NY REGION: The Right to Distribute Leaflets in Front of Schools Is Upheld (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Mar. 30, 2005)
SPORTS: RED SOX 7, YANKEES 2: This Time, Rodriguez Laughs at the Red Sox (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Mar. 30, 2005)
BASEBALL: Galarraga Decides to Retire to Spare Mets Some Angst (By PAT BORZI, Mar. 30, 2005)
BASEBALL: Martínez and Zambrano Are Sharp and Efficient (By PAT BORZI, Mar. 30, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The Verdict on Kofi Annan (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: A Pastime of Grandma and the 'Golden Girls' Evolves Into a Hip Hobby
(By CAROL E. LEE, Mar. 30, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: When Marriage Kills (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 30, 2005)
* OP-ED: In the Name of Politics (By JOHN C. DANFORTH, Mar. 30, 2005)
* OP-ED: A Party Inverted (By BILL BRADLEY, Mar. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: Governing for a Greener World (7 Letters) (By Megan Connor Murphy, et. al., Mar. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: F.B.I. Papers and 9/11 (By Craig Unger, Mar. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: Business Ethics: Far Beyond the Bottom Line (2 Letters) (By Colin F. Peppard, et. al., Mar. 30, 2005)
BUSINESS: Intrigue Engulfs Morgan Stanley; 2 Executives Out (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Mar. 30, 2005)
Witness Role Seen for Buffett in Inquiry (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Mar. 30, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Break With Style, Not With Strategy [HP CEO Mark V. Hurd]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 30, 2005)
* Lively Debate as Justices Address File Sharing [Grokster case] (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 30, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000 [UC Berkeley] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 30, 2005)
* ARTS CRITIC: Online, Anything and Everything Can Be a Museum Piece (By SARAH BOXER, Mar. 30, 2005)
* ARTS: Fine Palate: Mixing Food and Art (By JAMIE WALLIS, Mar. 30, 2005)
ART | DAYANITA SINGH: Objects of Repose and Remembrance (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 30, 2005)
ART: COMING ATTRACTIONS: Overlooked Art, Including Some Pieces Found in a Barn
(By Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter, Alan Riding, Mar. 30, 2005)
FILM: BEAUTY SHOP': Haircuts That Come With Fried Catfish and Sisterhood (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 30, 2005)
FILM: 'KONTROLL': Lawlessness and Genres in Budapest's Underground (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 30, 2005)
MUSIC: ROCK | U2: Rock Icons Content to Do The Things They Do Best (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 30, 2005)
MUSIC: BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Beyond Polemical Battles in Music
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 30, 2005)
THEATER: Broadway 'Charity' Is Now Back On [Charlotte d'Amboise] (By JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 30, 2005)
TV: SHOWDOG MOMS & DADS: Unconditional Love, No Matter the Species (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 30, 2005)
TV: Bob and Barney, With a Few Words From Sponsors (By JULIE SALAMON, Mar. 30, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2005)
FOOD: Bread and Circus (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Mar. 30, 2005)
FOOD: In Sicily, an Appetite for the New (By MARIAN BURROS, Mar. 30, 2005)
* Vegetables That Stand Up to a Busy Life (By KAY RENTSCHLER, Mar. 30, 2005)
* Recipe: Sautéed Broccoli With Toasted Garlic, Orange and Sesame (By KAY RENTSCHLER, Mar. 30, 2005)
THE MINIMALIST: Leek Sauce in a Trice (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 30, 2005)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: The Stir-Fry Conquered, With Skill and Skillet
(By NIGELLA LAWSON, Mar. 30, 2005)
FOOD STUFF: A Sweet Corner of Hell's Kitchen (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 30, 2005)
RESTAURANTS | STONE PARK CAFE: Where to Take Thoreau and Dr. Atkins (By FRANK BRUNI, Mar. 30, 2005)
* SCIENCE TEACHING TOOL: This Is the Mission: Fill Gap for Schools, Lift Students to Skies
(By LAURA NOVAK, Mar. 30, 2005)

Tuesday, March 29, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Schiavo's Husband Says Autopsy Will End Suspicions (By RICK LYMAN, Mar. 29, 2005)
* WORLD: Data Indicate Quake's Depth Helped Prevent Major Tsunami (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Mar. 29, 2005)
LILONGWE JOURNAL: A Ghost Story Turns Very Scary for Malawi Journalists (By SHARON LaFRANIERE, Mar. 29, 2005)
NY REGION: Historical Groups Dwell on the Past, but Insist They're Not Stuck in It
(By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Mar. 29, 2005)
EDITORIAL: THE CITY LIFE: Street Gardening With Maggie and Bette [Ms. Midler]
(By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Mar. 29, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: What's Going On? [domestic extremists] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 29, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Whose Team Am I On? (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 29, 2005)
OP-ED: Leaders of the Opposition (By NOAM SCHEIBER, Mar. 29, 2005)
OP-ED: Democracy Falls on Barren Ground (By ELINOR BURKETT, Mar. 29, 2005)
LETTERS: Terri Schiavo and the Moral Divide (5 Letters) (By Deborah J. Lee, et. al., Mar. 29, 2005)
* LETTERS: It's My Life, and You Can Read All About It (3 Letters) (By Adina Kay, et. al., Mar. 29, 2005)
LETTERS: A More Relaxed President (By Ann Pryor, Mar. 29, 2005)
BUSINESS: On Wall Street, a Rise in Dismissals Over Ethics (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Mar. 29, 2005)
Maurice Greenberg and A.I.G. Sever Ties after Four Decades (By JENNY ANDERSON, Mar. 29, 2005)
China Moves to Halt Fraud After String of Bank Scandals (By CHRIS BUCKLEY, Mar. 29, 2005)
Drawing the Line on Energy (By JAMES BROOKE, Mar. 29, 2005)
Enquirer's British Invasion (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 29, 2005)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: For Long-Term Guests, Hotels Are a Second Home (By MELINDA LIGOS, Mar. 29, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend (By TODD BENSON, Mar. 29, 2005)
* ARTS: RINGLING BROTHERS AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS
Gone Is the Freakishness, but Elephants Carry On (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Mar. 29, 2005)
* ART CRITIC: On the Internet, 2nd (and 3rd and...) Opinions (By SARAH BOXER, Mar. 29, 2005)
ART: Russia Fines Museum Aides for Art Said to Ridicule Religion (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Mar. 29, 2005)
THEATER: 'HOT 'N' THROBBING': Pornography, to Prop Up Family Values (By JASON ZINOMAN, Mar. 29, 2005)
TV: So You Want to Be a Starlet? Meet the Voice of Experience (By NED MARTEL, Mar. 29, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2005)
SCIENCE: Damage From Powerful Quake Appears to Be Confined (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 29, 2005)
* Life on Mars? Could Be, but How Will They Tell? (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 29, 2005)
How Foxes in the Aleutian Henhouse Doomed Islands' Plant Life (By CHARLES PETIT, Mar. 29, 2005)
* The 10,000-Pound Parrot (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 29, 2005)
* In Lab's High-Speed Collisions, Things Just Vanish [10^-22 sec] (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 29, 2005)
* CONVERSATION WITH PETER LAX: From Budapest to Los Alamos, a Life in Mathematics
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Mar. 29, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Now, Can You Find Its Square Root? [42nd Mersenne prime] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 29, 2005)
* COMMENTARY: When Sentiment and Fear Trump Reason and Reality (By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS, Mar. 29, 2005)
Q & A: Controlling the Urge [urination] (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 29, 2005)
HEALTH: Out of Nowhere, a Devastating Tangle in the Brain (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 29, 2005)
THE CONSUMER: The Best Way to Keep Control Is to Leave Instructions (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 29, 2005)
* ESSAY: Bread and Shelter, Yes. Psychiatrists, No. (By SALLY SATEL, M.D., Mar. 29, 2005)
Medicinal Marijuana on Trial (By DAN HURLEY, Mar. 29, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: 'Diabesity,' a Crisis in an Expanding Country (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 29, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Melatonin Can Help You Conquer Jet Lag (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 29, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: Sleeping Through the Danger (By ERIC NAGOURNEY , Mar. 29, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Signals: For Men, a Belt Test for Diabetes (By ERIC NAGOURNEY , Mar. 29, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Risk and Remendies: A Lens Lesson (By ERIC NAGOURNEY , Mar. 29, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Abilities: The Smart Side of Cholesterol (By ERIC NAGOURNEY , Mar. 29, 2005)
* HEALTH: For Chronic Fatigue, Placebos Fail the Test (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 29, 2005)

Monday, March 28, 2005:
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)

Georgeanna S. Jones, In Vitro Conception Pioneer, Dies at 92 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 28, 2005)
NATIONAL: Congress Ready to Again Debate End-of-Life Issues (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Mar. 28, 2005)
With Bush Re-elected, Rove Turns to Policy (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 28, 2005)
Judge to Allow Testimony on Past Allegations Against Jackson
(By CHARLIE LeDUFF & CHRISTINE HAUSER, Mar. 28, 2005)
Schiavo Protesters Have Hearts on Sleeves and Anger on Signs (By RICK LYMAN, Mar. 28, 2005)
* WORLD: Major Earthquake Hits Off the Coast of Sumatra [8.7] (By MARIA NEWMAN, Mar. 28, 2005)
AMSTERDAM JOURNAL: A Dutch Soccer Riddle: Jewish Regalia Without Jews (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 28, 2005)
On Eve of National Assembly, Iraqi Parties Still Lack Consensus (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 28, 2005)
War and Politics Threaten Congo's Endangered Rhinos (By MARC LACEY, Mar. 28, 2005)
* NY REGION: 60 Years Later, Honoring an Unlikely Hero of the Holocaust (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Mar. 28, 2005)
They Were Famous, Admired and (Finally) Welcome (By JOSEPH BERGER, Mar. 28, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 28, 2005)
SPORTS: Pettitte and the Yankees: Not Quite Together Again (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Mar. 28, 2005)
BASEBALL: Piazza Is Happy, Healthy and Ready for Season (By BILL FINLEY, Mar. 28, 2005)
KANSAS CITY REGIONAL: Stanford Stops Connecticut's Title Streak (By JASON KING, Mar. 28, 2005)
EDITORIAL: When David Steals Goliath's Music (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2005)
EDITORIAL: China Warrants an Arms Embargo (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Censorship in the Science Museums (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: An Unexpected Softness [Tyrannosaurus rex tissues] (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Is No One Accountable? (By BOB HERBERT, Mar. 28, 2005)
OP-ED: Hands Across North America (By RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ de CASTRO & ROSSANA FUENTES BERAIN, Mar. 28, 2005)
OP-ED: Gang of Our Own Making (By LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ, Mar. 28, 2005)
LETTERS: Cities That Are Chic and Childless (7 Letters) (By Caitlin M. May, et. al., Mar. 28, 2005)
LETTERS: Bobby Short's Legacy (David N. Dinkins, Mar. 28, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Investigation of Insurance Puts Buffett in a Spotlight (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Mar. 28, 2005)
* In the Blog Era, Liz Smith Wonders if There's Room for the Pro
(By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Mar. 28, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Amazon.com Knows, Predicts Shopping Habits (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 28, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: An Army Program to Build a High-Tech Force Hits Cost Snags (By TIM WEINER, Mar. 28, 2005)
* ARTS: Coming to a Phone Near You [street art & graffiti] (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 28, 2005)
THEATER: 'THIS IS HOW IT GOES': Interracial Triangle at Odds With Truth (By BEN BRANTLEY, Mar. 28, 2005)
* THEATER: CONNECTIONS: The Quest for Broadway and Las Vegas [King Arthur]
["Monty Python and the Holy Grail"] (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Mar. 28, 2005)
TV: Eco-Lessons Taught in a Surfer-Girl Patois (By NED MARTEL, Mar. 28, 2005)
* HEALTH: Huge Genome Project Is Proposed to Fight Cancer (By ANDREW POLLACK, Mar. 28, 2005)

Sunday, March 27, 2005:
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)

Lord Callaghan, British Prime Minister for 3 Tumultuous Years, Is Dead at 92 (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 27, 2005)
Henry G. Greene, Architect of Theaters Across the Nation, Dies at 93 (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Mar. 27, 2005)
Katherine Lathrop, Pioneer in Isotopes, Is Dead at 89 (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 27, 2005)
Ernest Childers, Cited for Bravery in Italy, Dies at 87 (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
NATIONAL: In Florida, Latest Appeal in Schiavo Case Is Rejected (By RICK LYMAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
New Details on F.B.I. Aid for Saudis After 9/11 (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 27, 2005)
* WORLD: China's Hard Line Stirs Throng in Taiwan (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 27, 2005)
Boats, Cows, Tasty Lamb: Iraq Battles Smuggling (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 27, 2005)
Cause of Mystery Ills Splits Indonesian Fishing Village (By JANE PERLEZ, Mar. 27, 2005)
Grass-Roots Effort Aims to Upend Mugabe in Zimbabwe (By MICHAEL WINES, Mar. 27, 2005)
NY REGION: That Guy Flipping Burgers Is No Kid Anymore (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Mar. 27, 2005)
Separating the Elite From the Chaff (By ANDREW JACOBS, Mar. 27, 2005)
SPORTS: Yankees' Posada Studies Pitches and Personalities (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 27, 2005)
BASEBALL: As Opening Day Looms, the Yanks Grow Stronger (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Mar. 27, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: If Beltre and Beltran Were Keepers, Perhaps It's Time to Point Fingers
(By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 27, 2005)
SPORTS: For Red Sox-Yankees, Blessed Are Peacemakers (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 27, 2005)
BASEBALL: Martínez Works His Stiff Back (By BILL FINLEY, Mar. 27, 2005)
EDITORIAL: From Lent Into Easter (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
EDITORIAL: A Triple Play for New York Teams (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Vatican Code ["The Da Vinci Code"] (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 27, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Geo-Greening by Example (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: Dying to Be Famous [Minnesota school killings] (By LIONEL SHRIVER, Mar. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: An Inside Job [New CEO search] (By IMAN ANABTAWI and LYNN A. STOUT, Mar. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: Lessons of Red Lake and Columbine (By Michael B. Greene, Mar. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: Anguish in Our Time (By Martha Holstein, Mar. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: The Math Guide: Oops! (By Frances R. Curcio, Mar. 27, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Buckle Up for the Dollar's Ride (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
INVESTING: Now Playing: The Incredible Shrinking Giants (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Mar. 27, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: One Surprise Investors May Love (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 27, 2005)
Land of the Rising Gaijin Chief Executive [Sony] (By KEN BELSON and TODD ZAUN, Mar. 27, 2005)
SUNDAY INTERVIEW: Power Struggle: For Watts, That Is (By LAURA RICH, Mar. 27, 2005)
GRETCHEN MORGENSON: The Deal That Toppled A.I.G.'s Boss (GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 27, 2005)
EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS: Read Your Statements. Dump Your Losers. Take a Swim. (By BEN STEIN, Mar. 27, 2005)
* STRATEGIES: Lo! A White Knight! So Why Isn't the Market Cheering? (By MARK HULBERT, Mar. 27, 2005)
* If I Only Had a Hedge Fund (By JENNY ANDERSON and RIVA D. ATLAS, Mar. 27, 2005)
* THE BOSS: A New Sense of Time [Catherine West, President, U.S. Card] (As told to JULIA LAWLOR, Mar. 27, 2005)
The Future of the 30-Second Spot (By LORNE MANLY, Mar. 27, 2005)
* SPENDING: Stalking the Wildlife in the Living Room (By BARRY REHFELD, Mar. 27, 2005)
* SPENDING: The Fax Machine: Technology That Refuses to Die (By ROBERT JOHNSON, Mar. 27, 2005)
* THE COUNT: Granted: Cellphones Make Life Easier. But Better? Well... (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Mar. 27, 2005)
* SUITS: Why Word Guys Avoid Numbers (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
ARMCHAIR M.B.A.: Job Insecurity, From the Chief Down (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Mar. 27, 2005)
* REFRESH BUTTON: A New Flavor for a Career [Ben & Jerry] (By ROBERT JOHNSON, Mar. 27, 2005)
THE GOODS: For Every Sport, a Super Sock (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Mar. 27, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
* ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay (By FRANK RICH, Mar. 27, 2005)
* ART: Marlene Dumas's Number Comes Up (By CAROL KINO, Mar. 27, 2005)
MUSIC: Schoenberg, Bach and Us (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Mar. 27, 2005)
* MUSIC: With Surgery, Soprano Sheds a Brünnhilde Body [Deborah Voigt]
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 27, 2005)
* THEATER: DIRECTIONS | BEHIND THE SCENES: A Broadway Remodel
[John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt"] (By, Mar. 27, 2005)
TV COMMERCIAL: The King Is Dead, Long Live His Brand [Air Jordan] (By JON CARAMANICA, Mar. 27, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
* The Crow of the Early Bird [Early risers & Night owls] (By WARREN ST. JOHN & ALEX WILLIAMS, Mar. 27, 2005)
America Is Still Working on Its Abs (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Mar. 27, 2005)
* MODERN LOVE: Truly, Madly, Guiltily (By AYELET WALDMAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
Baby, You Can Park My Car (By JANELLE BROWN, Mar. 27, 2005)
POSSESSED: An Aesthetic Idyll (By DAVID COLMAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
THE AGE OF DISSONANCE: Baby Pictures at 10 Paces (By BOB MORRIS, Mar. 27, 2005)
VOWS: Rita Nakouzi and Touré (By JUDY CANTOR NAVAS, Mar. 27, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
TRAVEL: The Rebirth of Bali (By DENNY LEE, Mar. 27, 2005)
GOING TO: Istanbul (By ANNA SUSSMAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
In the California Desert, Made in the Shade [Big Morongo Canyon Preserve]
(By ROB NIXON, Mar. 27, 2005)
TRAVEL ESSAY: In a Desert, Two Reluctant Travelers Find a Common Path (By PAUL SCHNEIDER, Mar. 27, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
* Did Descartes Doom Terri Schiavo? (By JOHN LELAND, Mar. 27, 2005)
BAGHDAD AND BEIRUT: What Set Loose the Voice of the People (By DEXTER FILKINS, Mar. 27, 2005)
Detroit's New Crisis Could Be Its Worst (By DANNY HAKIM, Mar. 27, 2005)
* Choice Is Good. Yes, No or Maybe? (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 27, 2005)
WORD FOR WORD | REPORT CARD: China Gives America a D (By PETER EDIDIN, Mar. 27, 2005)
THE PUBLIC EDITOR: A Few Points Along the Line Between News and Opinion (By DANIEL OKRENT, Mar. 27, 2005)
* NOMEN ET OMEN: Ms. Rose, by Any Other Name, Might Still Be a Florist (By SAM ROBERTS, Mar. 27, 2005)
* In the Realm of Numbers, There's No Room for Error (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 27, 2005)
Want to Be a Mogul? Go Into TV. (By LORNE MANLY, Mar. 27, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Kifaya! (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 27, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Broke (By WALTER KIRN, Mar. 27, 2005)
* QUESTIONS FOR MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Bill Cosby's Not Funny (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 27, 2005)
THE SECURITY ADVISER: Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism Winning? (By RICHARD A. CLARKE, Mar. 27, 2005)
CONSUMED: Smooth Move (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 27, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Working the Latte Beat (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 27, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: The Soul of the New Exurb (By JONATHAN MAHLER, Mar. 27, 2005)
The Wounded [Soldiers in Iraq] (By JOHNNY DWYER, Mar. 27, 2005)
Le Pop Star [Benjamin Biolay] (By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, Mar. 27, 2005)
STYLE: Our Town [MaxMara's Luigi Maramotti] (By MAURA EGAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
The Arsenal [Asparagus Mimosa & Kumquat Syllabub] (By AMANDA HESSER, Mar. 27, 2005)
* LIVES: Eternal Sunshine of an Addicted Mind (By ALICIA ERIAN, Mar. 27, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
* 'Whose Bible Is It?': God Speaks; Man Translates [Jaroslav Pelikan] (By JAMES KUGEL, Mar. 27, 2005)
* The Tempest in the Ivory Tower [Lawrence H. Summers] (By RACHEL DONADIO, Mar. 27, 2005)
* 'Break, Blow, Burn': Well Versed [Camille Paglia on poets] (By CLIVE JAMES, Mar. 27, 2005)
FICTION: 'A Changed Man': The Survivor and the Survivalist [Francine Prose]
(By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Mar. 27, 2005)
SCIENCE: NASA Will Offer Cash Prizes for Technological Innovations (By WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 27, 2005)
HEALTH: Even as Doctors Say Enough, Families Fight to Prolong Life (By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 27, 2005)

Saturday, March 26, 2005:
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)

Sheldon White, Expert on Childhood, Dies at 76 (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 26, 2005)
NATIONAL: Schiavo in Her 'Last Hours,' Father Says Amid Appeals (By RICK LYMAN, Mar. 26, 2005)
* Behind Life-and-Death Fight, a Rift That Began Years Ago (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Mar. 26, 2005)
NY REGION: An Unlikely University Grant at an Unlikely Time (By JOHN SULLIVAN, Mar. 26, 2005)
ABOUT NEW YORK: Getting Ready for Spring to Be Sprung (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 26, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Where Faith Thrives (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 26, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Morality and Reality (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 26, 2005)
OP-ED: An Old Disease Needs New Cures [TB] (By MARTHA BEDELU, Mar. 26, 2005)
OP-ED: All the News That's Fed (By MARION JUST & TOM ROSENSTIEL, Mar. 26, 2005)
* OP-ED: America, Online (By HART SEELY, Mar. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: Schiavo, the Courts and the Rule of Law (4 Letters) (By John S. Koppel, Mar. 26, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Follow the Vanishing Check (By JENNIFER A. KINGSON, Mar. 26, 2005)
* BUSINESS: A Parts Supplier to an Aging Population (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 26, 2005)
* ARTS: From Checking Kings to Influencing Presidents (By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN, Mar. 26, 2005)
* ARTS: Who Pocketed 3 Hunks of Bronze? [Philip Pavia's "The Ides of March"]
(By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 26, 2005)
FILM: A Film's Stars Are Tough Athletes. They Are Also Paraplegics. (By CHARLES McGRATH, Mar. 26, 2005)
* SCIENCE: For Scientists of All Ages, Mixed Thoughts on a T. Rex in the Flesh (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Mar. 26, 2005)

Friday, March 25, 2005:
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)

* NY REGION: Wrong, Wrong and Wrong: Math Guides Are Recalled (By SUSAN SAULNY, Mar. 25, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: The Bulk of Bonds's Potential Woes Goes Well Beyond Issues of Steroids
(By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 25, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Trading Places: Real Estate Instead of Dot-Coms (By MOTOKO RICH and DAVID LEONHARDT, Mar. 25, 2005)
ART: 'THE EYE OF THE STORM': Tall French Visitor Takes Up Residence in the Guggenheim
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 25, 2005)
* BOOK CRITIC: We All Have a Life. Must We All Write About It? (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Mar. 25, 2005)
TV WEEKEND | 'GREY'S ANATOMY': Tales of Sex and Surgery (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 25, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 25, 2005)

Thursday, March 24, 2005:
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)

* Czeslaw Slania, 83, Engraver of Postage Stamps and Money, Dies
[ Slania's 1000th postage stamp] (By BARTH HEALEY, Mar. 24, 2005)
Leona Rostenberg, Who Uncovered Alcott Novels, Dies at 96 (By WENDELL JAMIESON, Mar. 24, 2005)
* NATIONAL: Vibrant Cities Find One Thing Missing: Children (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Mar. 24, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: DeLay, Deny and Demagogue (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 24, 2005)
* FORUM SNAPSHOT: A Collection of Reader Views on Terri Schiavo (NY TIMES, Mar. 24, 2005)
* ARTS: Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 24, 2005)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 24, 2005)
* Internet Phone Service Creating Chatty Network (By ETHAN TODRAS-WHITEHILL, Mar. 24, 2005)
When a Stranger Calls, From Afar or Nearby (By RACHEL DODES, Mar. 24, 2005)
STATE OF THE ART: Sizing Up a New Species: Camera-Binoculars (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 24, 2005)
WHAT'S NEXT: Motion Filter Eases Troubles With Mouse (By ANNE EISENBERG, Mar. 24, 2005)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Open Season for Toes (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Mar. 24, 2005)
* HOW IT WORKS: With Mac Mini, Apple Builds a Smaller Box (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 24, 2005)
Holding a Paper Airline Ticket, Bracing for the Irritation (By KATIE HAFNER , Mar. 24, 2005)
* ONLINE DIARY: Looking Back, Maybe Timing Was Everything (By LISA NAPOLI, Mar. 24, 2005)
GAME THEORY: Fighting on the Screen, Out of Harm's Way (By CHARLES HEROLD, Mar. 24, 2005)
Portable Recorders Leap Forward in Convenience and Sound (By IVER PETERSON, Mar. 24, 2005)
More Parents Are Filtering Content (No Matter What the Children Say) (By Mark Glassman, Mar. 24, 2005)
SITE SPECIFIC: A Fashionable Trip Through Time (By, Mar. 24, 2005)
* ABOUT CIRCUITS: Change in Format of Print Edition (NY TIMES, Mar. 24, 2005)

Wednesday, March 23, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Full Appeals Court Turns Down Schiavo Case (By ADAM LIPTAK & ABBY GOODNOUGH, Mar. 23, 2005)
Behind the Why of a Rampage, Loner With a Taste for Nazism (By MONICA DAVEY, Mar. 23, 2005)
WORLD: At Least 80 Killed in Raid on Insurgent Camp in Iraq (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 23, 2005)
Pakistan Is Booming Since 9/11, at Least for the Well-Off (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Mar. 23, 2005)
SPORTS: Bonds's Hardened Image Shows Signs of Cracking (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 23, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Morsel of Goat Meat (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 23, 2005)
* OP-ED: A Political Victory That Wasn't (By ANDREW KOHUT, Mar. 23, 2005)
* OP-ED: Keeping Faith With My Father (By ELIZABETH COHEN, Mar. 23, 2005)
OP-ED: Federalism Has a Right to Life, Too (By CHARLES FRIED, Mar. 23, 2005)
LETTERS: Congress, the Courts and the Terri Schiavo Case (8 Letters) (By David Solomon, et. al., Mar. 23, 2005)
BUSINESS: Consumer Prices Increase, Adding to Concerns on Inflation (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Mar. 23, 2005)
Fewer Employers Totally Cover Health Premiums (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Mar. 23, 2005)
* More Help Wanted: Older Workers Please Apply (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Mar. 23, 2005)
* ART: Talk of the Town (Make That Whisper) (By ANN FARMER, Mar. 23, 2005)
ARTS: Museum Gets Grant to Catalog Costumes (By CAROL VOGEL & RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 23, 2005)
TV: CNN Seeks New Ways to Battle Fox News (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 23, 2005)
* TV: 'THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRIDA KAHLO': The Many Fascinations of Frida Kahlo
(By ANITA GATES, Mar. 23, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Alien Planets Show Themselves for First Time (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 23, 2005)
* Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 23, 2005)

Tuesday, March 22, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: After Signing Schiavo Law, Bush Says
'It Is Wisest to Always Err on the Side of Life' (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Mar. 22, 2005)
EDITORIAL: A Blow to the Rule of Law (NY TIMES, Mar. 22, 2005)
* LETTERS: A Nation Gripped by a Drama of Life and Death (11 Letters) (By Stephen T. Mernoff, M.D., et. al., Mar. 22, 2005)
* ART CRITIC: Beyond Cultural Labeling, Beyond Art Versus Craft (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Mar. 22, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 22, 2005)
SCIENCE: Unexpectedly, the Mars Rovers Are Still Going Strong (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 22, 2005)
* Origami May Be an Art, but Nature Got There First (By, Mar. 22, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: What's Good for the Heart Is Good for the Head (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 22, 2005)
* Hypomanic? Absolutely. But Oh So Productive! (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 22, 2005)
* ESSAY: You Think Your Elbow Hurts! Well, Let Me Tell You... (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D., Mar. 22, 2005)
HEALTH: At War With Their Bodies, They Seek to Sever Limbs (By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG, Mar. 22, 2005)

Monday, March 21, 2005:
On This Day: March 21 (St. Nicholas of Flue 3/21/1417-3/21/1487, Johann S. Bach 3/21/1685-7/28/1750, Benito Juarez 3/21/1806-7/18/1872, Alice Henry 3/21/1857-2/14/1943, Phyllis McGinley 3/21/1905-2/22/1978, John D. Rockefeller III 3/21/1906-7/10/1978, Nizar Qabbani 3/21/1923-4/30/1998, Al Freeman Jr. 1934, Kathleen Widdoes 1939, Marie-Christine Barrault 1944, Timothy Dalton 1944, Gary Oldman 1958, Matthew Broderick 1962, Rosie O'Donnell 1962
The Big Parade: On the Road to Montgomery [9 photos]
(By Roy Reed, March 21, 1965)
Florenz Ziegfeld Dies at 63 in Hollywood After Long Illness
[3/21/1869-7/22/1932] (Associated Press, July 23, 1932)

* John Z. DeLorean, Father of Glamour Car, Dies at 80 (By DANNY HAKIM, Mar. 21, 2005)
Bobby Short, Icon of Manhattan Song and Style, Dies at 80 (By ENID NEMY, Mar. 21, 2005)
NATIONAL: As Town for Deaf Takes Shape, Debate on Isolation Re-emerges (By MONICA DAVEY, Mar. 21, 2005)
Judge Hears Schiavo Arguments, but Does Not Rule Yet (By CARL HULSE & MARIA NEWMAN, Mar. 21, 2005)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 21, 2005)
EDITORIAL: AN INSECURE NATION: Our Terrorist-Friendly Borders (NY TIMES, Mar. 21, 2005)
LETTERS: Charging for Online News (2 Letters) (By Kathryn DeAngelo, et. al., Mar. 21, 2005)
BUSINESS: Ask Jeeves Inc. to Be Bought for $2 Billion (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Mar. 21, 2005)
The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip Side Is a DVD (By ROBERT LEVINE, Mar. 21, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: To Cut Online Chatter, Apple Goes to Court (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 21, 2005)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: A Web Site for Gift Seekers (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 21, 2005)
Mobile Phones for Kids Raise Concerns (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 21, 2005)

Sunday, March 20, 2005:
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)

* OP-ED COLUMNIST: X-celling Over Men (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 20, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
* BUSINESS: The Company He Keeps (for Now) [Bloomberg L.P.] (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Mar. 20, 2005)
* Can the Apprentice Undo the Sorcerer's Spells? [Disney's Robert A. Iger]
(By LAURA M. HOLSON, Mar. 20, 2005)
* Washington, We Have a Problem... [Enron's scandal] (By KURT EICHENWALD, Mar. 20, 2005)
GRETCHEN MORGENSON: What? They Never Heard of WorldCom? (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 20, 2005)
SPENDING: Wearing Eco-Politics on Your Sleeve (By AMY CORTESE, Mar. 20, 2005)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Social Security as Dramamine (By DANIEL GROSS, Mar. 20, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: 'Neutral' Isn't So Easy to Define (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
PORTFOLIOS: Don't Worry About the Fed. Oil? That's Another Story (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
* THE GOODS: Mr. Clean and the Future of Mopping (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
SUITS: A Prescription for Getting Rich (By Patrick McGeehan, Mar. 20, 2005)
* INVESTING: Sound Advice, If You Can Get Past All the Shouting (By PAUL B. BROWN, Mar. 20, 2005)
* THE COUNT: Does a Huge Theft Mean Hard Time? Well, It Depends (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Mar. 20, 2005)
* SPENDING: Playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey Just Won't Do (By JENNIFER ALSEVER, Mar. 20, 2005)
CAREER COUCH: The Pregnant Job-Seeker: What to Say, and When? (By CHERYL DAHLE, Mar. 20, 2005)
THE BOSS: Not Always Clear Sailing [Robert I. Toll, CEO Toll Bros] (As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN, Mar. 20, 2005)
REFRESH BUTTON: Real Children's Dramas for Him [Robert A. Daly] (By ROBERT JOHNSON, Mar. 20, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
ARTS: Crowds? No, Thanks. Same for Grants. [Walker Art Center] (By HUGH EAKIN, Mar. 20, 2005)
ART: The Guggenheim Outcast Who Laughed Last (By LINDA YABLONSKY, Mar. 20, 2005)
ART: 'GREATER NEW YORK': Youth and the Market: Love at First Sight (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 20, 2005)
* ART: 'TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND MONTMARTRE': Lautrec's Life, High and Low (By KEN JOHNSON, Mar. 20, 2005)
* DANCE: Nondances That Spur Critics to Brawl and Audiences to Sue (By KRISTIN HOHENADEL, Mar. 20, 2005)
* DANCE: When Discovering the Future Means Revisiting the Past (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 20, 2005)
* FILM: A Reincarnation Story That Won't Stay Dead ["The Fountain"] (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 20, 2005)
* FILM: DIRECTIONS | PARODY: Stop, Wizard! (By JEFF JOHNSON, Mar. 20, 2005)
MUSIC: Home Sweet Studio [Keren Ann] (By JON PARELES, Mar. 20, 2005)
MUSIC: TUNING UP: Handel, Outside the Lines ["Orlando"] (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Mar. 20, 2005)
MUSIC RECORDINGS: Boisterous Beethoven, Brooding Brahms (ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 20, 2005)
* OPERA: Wanted: A New Cheerleader for Opera (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 20, 2005)
* TV: Apocalypse Now, and for the Next Five Weeks [NBC's "Revelations"]
(By MICHELLE COTTLE, Mar. 20, 2005)
TV COMMERCIAL: A Life in Reruns: Watch Out, the Ending Goes Quickly (By JOSH OZERSKY, Mar. 20, 2005)
TV: 'The Office' Transfers to a New Cubicle (By BILL CARTER, Mar. 20, 2005)
TRAVEL: Mexico: In Cancún, Girls Gone Mild (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 20, 2005)
TRAVEL: THE REMIX: Strange Lands (By ALIX BROWNE, Mar. 20, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
* The Difference Between Steroids and Ritalin Is... (By KATE ZERNIKE, Mar. 20, 2005)
* WORD FOR WORD | COLD WARRIOR: The Man Who Took the Measure of the Communist Threat
(By PETER EDIDIN, Mar. 20, 2005)
* ANATOMY OF HOPE: For Parents, the Unthinkability of Letting Go (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 20, 2005)
SELLING SOCIAL SECURITY: How to Get Young People to Care About Old Age
(By DAMIEN CAVE, Mar. 20, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Nuclear Options (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 20, 2005)
DIAGNOSIS: Nocturnal Fever, Swollen Lymph Nodes, Joint Pain (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Mar. 20, 2005)
CONSUMED: For Kicks (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 20, 2005)
Toward a Unified Theory of Black America (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER, Mar. 20, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2005)
* 'Dark Hero of the Information Age': The Original Computer Geek (By CLIVE THOMPSON, Mar. 20, 2005)
* ESSAY: Ghosts in the Machine (By JOE QUEENAN, Mar. 20, 2005)
* 'Disneywar': The Mickey Mouse Club [James B. Stewart] (By JOHN LEONARD, Mar. 20, 2005)

Saturday, March 19, 2005:
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)

EDITORIAL: The Schiavo Case (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2005)
* FILM: A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano (By CORNELIA DEAN, Mar. 19, 2005)

Friday, March 18, 2005:
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)

* Ted Rand, 89, Graphic Artist Who Illustrated Children's Books, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Mar. 18, 2005)
ART: RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA: Work Whose Medium Is Indeed Its Message (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 18, 2005)
ART: 'RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE BRONZES FROM THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM'
Treasures of a New Bronze Age, the Small Bronze Age (By GRACE GLUECK, Mar. 18, 2005)
* BOOKS | 'SATURDAY': A Hero With 9/11 Peripheral Vision [Ian McEwan] (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Mar. 18, 2005)

Thursday, March 17, 2005:
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)

* ART MUSEUM: NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: A Rare Sighting of Audubon Prepares to Take Flight
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Mar. 17, 2005)
DANCE CRITIC: How Step Dancing Became the Lord of Irish Feet (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 17, 2005)
MUSIC CRITIC: As an Idol Deserts, Reality Pop Plays On (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 17, 2005)
TV CRITIC: A Not-Quite-Jackson-Trial, Exercising the Imagination (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 17, 2005)

Wednesday, March 16, 2005:
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)

William Lester, Innovator in the Plastics Industry, Dies at 97 (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Mar. 16, 2005)
Redmond A. Simonsen, 62, Maker of Strategic Board Games, Dies (By MARGALIT FOX, Mar. 16, 2005)
Lyn Collins, 56, Singer With James Brown, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 16, 2005)
NATIONAL: Senate Votes to Allow Drilling in Arctic Reserve (By DAVID STOUT, Mar. 16, 2005)
Democratic Race for California Governor in '06 Starts Early (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 16, 2005)
Scott Peterson Sentenced to Death for Killing Pregnant Wife (By MARIA NEWMAN, Mar. 16, 2005)
Blake Acquitted in the Shooting Death of His Wife (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 16, 2005)
WORLD: Climate Change Is Called Economic Threat at Talks (By HEATHER TIMMONS, Mar. 16, 2005)
Iraqi Assembly Convenes Against Backdrop of Explosions (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 16, 2005)
Israel Transfers Control of Jericho to Palestinians (By GREG MYRE, Mar. 16, 2005)
New Museum, Putting a Human Face on the Holocaust, Opens in Israel (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Mar. 16, 2005)
China Propaganda Office May Be Censoring the Premier (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 16, 2005)
NY REGION: Roosevelts and the Quirks of Destiny (By JOSEPH BERGER, Mar. 16, 2005)
* New Yorker Takes Top Prize in Intel Science Contest [David L. V. Bauer, Hunter}
(By LIA MILLER, Mar. 16, 2005)
* ABOUT NEW YORK: May the Floor Rise Up to Meet You [Irish set dancing] (By DAN BARRY, Mar. 16, 2005)
SPORTS: Take Us Out of the Ballgame, Dollar-Gazing Floridians Are Saying (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Mar. 16, 2005)
BASEBALL: Giambi Given Pass to Avoid Testifying (By DUFF WILSON, Mar. 16, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: Struggling Pitcher Tries a Changeup [Rick Ankiel] (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 16, 2005)
BASEBALL: Tino Martinez Brings His Glove, With Bat on Way (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 16, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: And Now, the Counterfeit News [Bush's PR $254 million] (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Calling Captain Quint, for Another Summer of the Shark
(By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Mar. 16, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Who Gets It? Hillary (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 16, 2005)
* OP-ED: Is the Empire Striking Back? (By YONG XUE, Mar. 16, 2005)
OP-ED: Harvard Needs More Hackers (By LAUREN WEINSTEIN, Mar. 16, 2005)
OP-ED: Follow the Leaders [same-sex marriage] (By WILLIAM B. RUBENSTEIN, Mar. 16, 2005)
* LETTERS: Hidden News and Government Spin (7 Letters) (By David E. Cohen, et. al., Mar. 16, 2005)
LETTERS: Where's the Peace? (By Michael Curry, Mar. 16, 2005)
BUSINESS: Current Account Deficit Hit Record $665.9 Billion in 2004
(By EDMUND L. ANDREWS & ELIZABETH BECKER, Mar. 16, 2005)
G.M. Stock Plunges on Greatly Reduced Forecasts [-$4.40 to $29.32 (-13%)]
(By JEREMY W. PETERS, Mar. 16, 2005)
J.P. Morgan Chase Settles WorldCom Suit for $2 Billion (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 16, 2005)
* COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: Philadelphians Take In Rare Sight: A Tower Rising
[View from 28th floor of Cira Centre] (By MAUREEN MILFORD, Mar. 16, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Preparing Challenge to Google and Yahoo for Ads (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 16, 2005)
ARTS: Landmarks Panel Questions Whitney Plan (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Mar. 16, 2005)
* BOOKS: IDEAS: To Honor Sartre, France Buffs a Pedestal the Writer Rejected (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 16, 2005)
* BOOKS: 'PONZI'S SCHEME': A Man Who Gave His Name to a Way to Cheat Investors (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Mar. 16, 2005)
* BOOKS: ON THE RUN WITH DEAN KARNAZES: A Runner's Quest for the Ache of Life (By KIRK JOHNSON, Mar. 16, 2005)
DANCE: 'RIVERDANCE': On Your Toes: Fast and Jaunty With an Irish Lilt (By GIA KOURLAS, Mar. 16, 2005)
MUSIC CRITIC: Some Like It Cool (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 16, 2005)
MUSIC: An Arbiter of Hip-Hop Finds Itself as the Target (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE & JEFF LEEDS, Mar. 16, 2005)
TV: One Show's Unexpected Lessons in Reality (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 16, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: A Lowcountry Oyster Roast, Way Up North (By MATT LEE and TED LEE, Mar. 16, 2005)
RESTAURANTS: Only the Four Stars Remain Constant (By FRANK BRUNI, Mar. 16, 2005)
FOOD STUFF: Fresh Ideas by the Plate (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 16, 2005)
THE MINIMALIST: Tough Made Tender (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 16, 2005)
* Wary Greenmarket Greets New Neighbor [Whole Foods on 14th St.] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 16, 2005)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: Lamb, a Simple Gift to Spring (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Mar. 16, 2005)
K.P. With the Culinary Arts (By JULIA MOSKIN, Mar. 16, 2005)
SCIENCE: Scientists Expect More Quakes and Tsunamis in Sumatra Region (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Mar. 16, 2005)

Tuesday, March 15, 2005:
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)

Sy Wexler, Maker of Ubiquitous Classroom Films, Dies at 88 (By MARGALIT FOX, Mar. 15, 2005)
NATIONAL: Halliburton Overcharged $108 Million, Report Says (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Mar. 15, 2005)
* Don't Let Your Head Flop, and Flip the Other Guy [Wrestling Academy] (By BRUCE WEBER, Mar. 15, 2005)
Police Focus on Religion in Milwaukee Shootings (By JODI WILGOREN, Mar. 15, 2005)
Jackson Accuser Says Schoolmates' Taunts Made Him Alter Account (By JOHN M. BRODER, Mar. 15, 2005)
EDUCATION: Study Finds Poor Performance by Nation's Education Schools (By GREG WINTER, Mar. 15, 2005)
* WORLD: Huge Demonstration in Lebanon Demands End to Syrian Control (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Mar. 15, 2005)
Italy to Start Withdrawing Troops From Iraq in September (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 15, 2005)
Rice Urges Europeans Not to Resume Arms Sales to China (By JOEL BRINKLEY, Mar. 15, 2005)
New Holocaus Holocaust Museum Opens in Jerusalem (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Mar. 15, 2005)
How Electronics Are Penetrating North Korea's Isolation (By JAMES BROOKE, Mar. 15, 2005)
* NY REGION: No Need to Stew: A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances (By IAN URBINA, Mar. 15, 2005)
State Regents Adopting New Approach to High School Math (By SUSAN SAULNY, Mar. 15, 2005)
SPORTS: Baseball Testing Shows Drop in Use of a Popular Steroid (By DUFF WILSON, Mar. 15, 2005)
* BASEBALL: Perfect Season to Perfect Storm: Steroids Taint McGwire Legacy (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 15, 2005)
BASEBALL: With a Top-Notch Fielder, Who's on First Is No Longer a Comedy Routine
[Doug Mientkiewicz] (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 15, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The $600 Billion Man (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 15, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Requiem for Reform (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 15, 2005)
* OP-ED: Failing the Wrong Grades (By DIANE RAVITCH, Mar. 15, 2005)
LETTERS: Proud to Be an Environmentalist (6 Letters) (By David Sloan, et. al., Mar. 15, 2005)
LETTERS: Voices of Women: Too Few, Not Equal (5 Letters) (By Joan Larsen, et. al., Mar. 15, 2005)
* LETTERS: The Bad Old Days (By Daniel Seewald, Mar. 15, 2005)
BUSINESS: Ex-Chief of WorldCom Convicted of Fraud Charges (By KEN BELSON, Mar. 15, 2005)
OPEC Considers Plan to Raise Output Ceiling to Curb Prices (By JAD MOUAWAD, Mar. 15, 2005)
Under Criticism, Greenspan Defends Backing Bush Tax Cuts (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 15, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: I.B.M. Will Buy Ascential to Bolster Software Unit (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Mar. 15, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Theater Chain Buying Sony's Digital Projectors (By SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 15, 2005)
* BOOKS: Ex-Spies Tell It All (By SCOTT SHANE, Mar. 15, 2005)
DANCE: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: A Ballet of Pomp and Sarcasm (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 15, 2005)
THEATER CRITIC: The Mother of Us All (All of Us Modernists) (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Mar. 15, 2005)
THE TV WATCH: Older Woman Role: Tough or Ladylike (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 15, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 15, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Mother Culture, or Only a Sister? [Olmecs 1500-900 BC] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 15, 2005)
Power Producers Seek Latest Models of Nuclear Reactors (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 15, 2005)
* Listening to the Beat of the Bomb [Dr. Charles K. Wolfe & country music] (By CORNELIA DEAN, Mar. 15, 2005)
* Yes, It's a Lobster, and Yes, It's Blue
[astaxanthin-protein compound crustacyanin is blue] (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 15, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Hey, You, Get Off of My Sponge [sociable shrimps] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 15, 2005)
* Tiny Bubbles Implode With the Heat of a Star (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 15, 2005)
Coal Mine 'Under the Radar' Stirs Cross-Border Feud (By JIM ROBBINS, Mar. 15, 2005)
* Yours for 37 Cents: Lifetimes of Discovery [May 5 stamps]
[Richard Feynman, Barbara McClintock, Josiah Willard Gibbs, John von Neumann]
(NY TIMES, Mar. 15, 2005)
* Q & A: Value of Antioxidants (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 15, 2005)
HEALTH: For Troops, Home Can Be Too Close (By IRENE M. WIELAWSKI, Mar. 15, 2005)
A Promising Recovery After a New Aortic Valve Procedure (By BARNABY J. FEDER , Mar. 15, 2005)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: True Toll of Avian Flu Remains a Mystery (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Mar. 15, 2005)
CASES: A Doctor Brings His Family to the Delivery Room (By SANDEEP JAUHAR, M.D., Mar. 15, 2005)
THE CONSUMER: Exploring Choices for M.S. (By MARY DUENWALD, Mar. 15, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: When Trouble Hits Those Holes in Your Head (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 15, 2005)
Doctors Hope to Push CPR to New Level (By KATERINA A. CHRISTOPOULOS, Mar. 15, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: A Cold Is Contagious Only Before Symptoms Emerge (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 15, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Hazards: Men, Children and Lost Fingers (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 15, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Symptoms: What Blood Counts Can Tell (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 15, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Adolescence: Long and Short of Teenage Leash (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 15, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Transplants: For Kidneys, Age Matters Little (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 15, 2005)
Tiny Pet Turtles Return; Salmonella Does, Too (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 15, 2005)

Monday, March 14, 2005:
On This Day: March 14 (Georg Philipp Telemann 3/14/1681-6/25/1767, Johann elder Strauss 3/14/1804-9/24/1849, Victor Emmanuel II 3/14/1820-1/9/1878, Giovanni Schiaparelli 3/14/1835-7/4/1910, Paul Ehrlich 3/14/1854-8/20/1915, Casey Jones 3/14/1864-4/30/1900, Algernon Blackwood 3/14/1869-12/10/1951, Sylvia Beach 3/14/1887-10/5/1962, Adolph Gottlieb 3/14/1903-3/4/1974, Raymond Aron 3/14/1905-10/17/1983, Diane Arbus 3/14/1923-7/26/1971, Hank Ketcham 1920, Frank Borman 1928, Michael Caine 1933, Quincy Jones 1933, Wolfgang Petersen 1941, Steve Kanaly 1946, Billy Crystal 1948, Prince Albert 1958)
Gold Now the Standard: President McKinley Signs the Financial Bill (NY TIMES, March 14, 1900)
* Dr. Albert Einstein Dies in Sleep at 76; World Mourns Loss of Great Scientist
[3/14/1879-4/18/1955] (NY TIMES, April 19, 1955)

* EDUCATION: Ante Up at Dear Old Princeton: Online Poker Is a Campus Draw
(By JONATHAN CHENG, Mar. 14, 2005)
* WORLD: CONTEPEC JOURNAL: Chain Saw Thins Flocks of Migrants on Gold Wings
[monarch butterflies] (By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., Mar. 14, 2005)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 14, 2005)
BUSINESS: Women's Wear Daily Setting Its Sights on the Luxury Market (By LIA MILLER, Mar. 14, 2005)
Mining the 3rd Dimension for Bigger Profits ["Polar Express"] (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 14, 2005)
* Can Papers End the Free Ride Online? (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Mar. 14, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Not Yet in Business School, and Already Flunking Ethics (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Mar. 14, 2005)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Web Sites Try Offering TV Shows (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 14, 2005)
* ART: Taste for the Macabre but No Pickled Sharks [Damien Hirst] (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 14, 2005)
TV: Anxious to See How It Ends? So Are the Writers. (By NED MARTEL, Mar. 14, 2005)
HEALTH: Tracking the Uncertain Science of Growing Heart Cells (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 14, 2005)

Sunday, March 13, 2005:
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)

Danny Gardella, 85, Dies; Challenged Reserve Clause (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Mar. 13, 2005)
* NATIONAL: Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News (By DAVID BARSTOW & ROBIN STEIN, Mar. 13, 2005)
Police Search for Answers in Wisconsin Shooting (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Mar. 13, 2005)
Suspect in Court Killings Is Captured Near Atlanta (By SHAILA DEWAN, Mar. 13, 2005)
WORLD: Jihadists Take Stand on Web, and Some Say It's Defensive (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 13, 2005)
Looting at Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Iraqi Says (By JAMES GLANZ & WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 13, 2005)
China Plans to Cut School Fees for Its Poorest Rural Students (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 13, 2005)
* EDUCATION: Amid the Usual Nail-Biting, Warming Up to a New SAT (By COREY KILGANNON, Mar. 13, 2005)
* EDUCATION: With Mayhem at Home, They Call a Parent Coach (By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 13, 2005)
NY REGION: On the Whole, They'd Rather Fly From Philadelphia (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Mar. 13, 2005)
OUR TOWNS: Disputed 9/11 Monument, at Sea for a Bit, Gets a Home Nearby
(By PETER APPLEBOME, Mar. 13, 2005)
HARLEM JOURNAL: Where Lady Day Sleeps, a Jazz Tradition Awakes (By ALAN FEUER, Mar. 13, 2005)
SPORTS: Now Batting: Hearings in Congress on Steroids (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Mar. 13, 2005)
SPORTS: Dog-and-Pony Shows Have Their Purpose [steroids in baseball] (By GEORGE VECSEY, Mar. 13, 2005)
BASEBALL: A Connecticut Yankee Shows His Pinstripes [Carl Pavano] (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 13, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: Bubbly Piniella Hopes to Have Another Chance to Toast Youthful Tampa Bay
(By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 13, 2005)
BASKETBALL: Illinois Earns Tournament's Top Seed (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 13, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: An SAT Without Analogies is Like: (A) A Confused Citizenry...
(By ADAM COHEN, Mar. 13, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Dish It Out, Ladies (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 13, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: New Signs on the Arab Street (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 13, 2005)
OP-ED: Manning the Barricades (By NATHANIEL FICK, Mar. 13, 2005)
OP-ED: What Did They Take and When Did They Take It? (By TOM RUPRECHT, Mar. 13, 2005)
LETTERS: How to Put the Family Back in Farm (6 Letters) (By Nina Planck, et. al., Mar. 13, 2005)
LETTERS: The Art of Speaking (By Susan Danow, Mar. 13, 2005)
BUSINESS: Disney's Board Chooses Robert A. Iger as New Chief (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Mar. 13, 2005)
Fliers Find That Mileage Points Go Only So Far (By MICHELINE MAYNARD & ERIC DASH, Mar. 13, 2005)
See You, Carly. Goodbye, Harry. Hello, Investors. (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Mar. 13, 2005)
The Last Days of Enron (By KURT EICHENWALD, Mar. 13, 2005)
GRETCHEN MORGENSON: WorldCom Teaches a Pricey Lesson (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 13, 2005)
SPENDING: They Know It When They See It, and Often They Buy It (By JIM RENDON, Mar. 13, 2005)
Savings: Lots of Talk, but Few Dollars (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 13, 2005)
* DIGITAL DOMAIN: How the iPod Ran Circles Around the Walkman (By RANDALL STROSS, Mar. 13, 2005)
* EARNING: Yes, There Is a Job That Pays You to Shop ["mystery shopper"] (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Mar. 13, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: Softer Words for Harder Times? (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 13, 2005)
FUNDAMENTALLY: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Invest? (By PAUL J. LIM, Mar. 13, 2005)
THE AGENDA: The Fine Print Keeps Small Investors Silent (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Mar. 13, 2005)
THE BOSS: Motivation on Two Wheels [David A. Jones, CEO Rayovac] (As told to AMY ZIPKIN, Mar. 13, 2005)
THE GOODS: The Spaldeen Is Back (Even if the Dodgers Aren't) (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Mar. 13, 2005)
ARMCHAIR M.B.A.: A Wave of Mergers, Not Yet at Its Crest (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Mar. 13, 2005)
RECREATION: Like Chess on Ice, but With Brooms and Big Stones (By HARRY HURT III, Mar. 13, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2005)
ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told (By FRANK RICH, Mar. 13, 2005)
ARTS: The New Bridge and Tunnel Crowd (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 13, 2005)
* DANCE: The Instant Choreographer [Edwaard Liang] (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 13, 2005)
* DANCE: THE BODY: Learning to Walk, Hoping for Calluses (By GIA KOURLAS, Mar. 13, 2005)
* FILM: The Second Time as Comedy ["Herbie: Fully Loaded" 53] (By MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS, Mar. 13, 2005)
PHOTOGRAPHY: A Thousand Words? How About $450,000? (By PHILIP GEFTER, Mar. 13, 2005)
THEATER: Matthew Bourne Does the Horizontal Ballet (By JESSE GREEN, Mar. 13, 2005)
TV: Destroying Television, Toon by Toon (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Mar. 13, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2005)
FASHION: Paris Is Entitled to Sniff (By GUY TREBAY, Mar. 13, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: Sleeping With the Guitar Player (By JEAN HANFF KORELITZ, Mar. 13, 2005)
...But Can Sex Talk Be the Bride of Chastity? (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Mar. 13, 2005)
VOWS: Vanessa Filley and Zachary Zises (By CATE DOTY, Mar. 13, 2005)
MEN'S FASHION: SPRING 2005: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2005)
TRAVEL: Does the Affordable Paris Bistro Still Exist? Oui. (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 13, 2005)
TRAVEL: For Young Artists, All Roads Now Lead to a Happening Berlin (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Mar. 13, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2005)
* The Two Faces of Rising China (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 13, 2005)
DEBT'S HONOR: Bankruptcy, the American Morality Tale (By LESLIE EATON, Mar. 13, 2005)
A World of Ways to Say 'Islamic Law' (By DAVID ROHDE, Mar. 13, 2005)
The Revolution Will Be Colorized (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Mar. 13, 2005)
Battle Splits Conservative Magazine (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 13, 2005)
* Catching the Online Cartoon Virus (By NAT IVES, Mar. 13, 2005)
Everything's Coming Up Kansas (By JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 13, 2005)
LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC EDITOR: Other Voices: No Cease-Fire in the War of the Words
(By WARREN SELTZER, et. al., Mar. 13, 2005)
SUNDY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Money Quote (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 13, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Our Currency, Your Problem (By NIALL FERGUSON, Mar. 13, 2005)
QUESTIONS FOR CHARLIE JARVIS: AARP's Antagonist (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 13, 2005)
* DOMAINS: A Gourmet's Minimalist Flat [Mireille Guiliano] (Interview by EDWARD LEWINE, Mar. 13, 2005)
CONSUMED: Sticky Success [Splenda] (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 13, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Flight Reward (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 13, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: The Interregnum [Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas] (By JAMES BENNET, Mar. 13, 2005)
Shades of Black Humor [Lewis Black] (By ALEX WITCHEL, Mar. 13, 2005)
The Quality Cure? (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Mar. 13, 2005)
* STYLE: Mr. Yamamoto's Blue Period (By GUY TREBAY, Mar. 13, 2005)
* APPEARANCES: Let Them Wear Perfume [Marie Antoinette] (By MARY TANNEN, Mar. 13, 2005)
* FOOD: Eat, Memory: The Absolutely No-Anything Diet (By GEORGE SAUNDERS, Mar. 13, 2005)
LIVES: The One Who Got Away (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Mar. 13, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2005)
* LETTER FROM BEIJING: The World's Biggest Book Market (By MIKE MEYER, Mar. 13, 2005)
'Every Man a Speculator': Follow the Money [Steve Fraser] (By HAROLD EVANS, Mar. 13, 2005)
'Snobs': The Nonworking Class [Julian Fellowes] (By JONATHAN AMES, Mar. 13, 2005)
* ESSAY: The Calvinist Manifesto (By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, Mar. 13, 2005)

Saturday, March 12, 2005:
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)

* Alice Thomas Ellis Dies at 72; Writer About Spiritual and Mundane (By MARGALIT FOX, Mar. 12, 2004)
NATIONAL: Huge Billing Fraud Is Cited by Health Plans at California Clinics (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 12, 2005)
WORLD: Devastated by Tsunami, Villagers Fight Builder for Land (By SETH MYDANS, Mar. 12, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: 'I Have a Nightmare' (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 12, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Saturday Night Lite (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 12, 2005)

Friday, March 11, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Frank Rich to Resume Column in Op-Ed Section (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2005)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: 'DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS': The Profound Vision of Diane Arbus:
Flaws in Beauty, Beauty in Flaws (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 11, 2005)
HEALTH: 3 Studies Link Variant Gene to Risk of Severe Vision Loss (By ANDREW POLLACK, Mar. 11, 2005)

Thursday, March 10, 2005:
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)

* Glenn Davis, Mr. Outside of Army Backfield, Dies at 80 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Mar. 10, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Samsung Is Now What Sony Once Was (By JAMES BROOKE & SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 10, 2005)

Wednesday, March 9, 2005:
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)

* ON EDUCATION: Want to Be an Intel Finalist? You Need the Right Mentor (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Mar. 9, 2005)
EDUCATION: Still Fewer Foreigners Applying to American Graduate Schools (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 9, 2005)
EDUCATION: Conquering the Shame and the Fear, Then the Syllables [stuttering]
(By MELANIE D. G. KAPLAN, Mar. 9, 2005)

Tuesday, March 8, 2005:
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)

* Hans Bethe, Prober of Sunlight and Atomic Energy, Dies at 98 (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 8, 2005)
NATIONAL: Bill Clinton to Have Surgery to Remove Scar Tissue in Chest (By MARIA NEWMAN, Mar. 8, 2005)
NATIONAL: Terror Suspects Buying Firearms, U.S. Report Finds (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Mar. 8, 2005)
University President Resigns At Colorado Amid Turmoil [Elizabeth Hoffman] (By KIRK JOHNSON, Mar. 8, 2005)
WORLD: Protests in Beirut Grow as Assad Gives No Date for Pullout (By JAD MOUAWAD, Mar. 8, 2005)
Huge Pro-Syrian Protest Fills Square and Streets in Beirut (By HASSAN M. FATTAH , Mar. 8, 2005)
More Than a Dozen Killed by Rebels in Central Iraq (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 8, 2005)
133 Killed in Dominican Republic Prison Fire (By JEAN-MICHEL CAROIT, Mar. 8, 2005)
Russian Forces Kill Leader of Chechnya Separatists (By, Mar. 8, 2005)
SPORTS: In Horse Racing, an Odd Couple Seeks the Reins (By JOE DRAPE, Mar. 8, 2005)
BASEBALL: It Happens Every Spring, Summer, Fall: Yanks-Red Sox (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 8, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Standing Up to the Credit Card Industry (NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Debt-Peonage Society (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Mar. 8, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Giving Wolfowitz His Due (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 8, 2005)
OP-ED: I Shopped Them All (By LETITIA BALDRIDGE, Mar. 8, 2005)
OP-ED: Crashing the Gates (By PETER MEHLMAN, Mar. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: Obtaining Armor for War (2 Letters) (By Betty Hamilton, et. al., Mar. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: Profundity in 25 Minutes (By Anne Bernays, Mar. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: Women in Academia (By Sunny Hwang, Mar. 8, 2005)
BUSINESS: HOW IT HAPPENED: At Sony, Diplomacy Trumps Technology
(BY LORNE MANLY & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Mar. 8, 2005)
As Businesses Step Up Spending, Some See a Just-Right Economy (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS & EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 8, 2005)
* Post-Prison Martha Stewart Vows 'to Make Life Better' (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 8, 2005)
Boeing Chief Is Ousted After Admitting Affair (By LESLIE WAYNE, Mar. 8, 2005)
Cancer Drug Called Success; Another Is Short of Objective [Revlimid] (By ANDREW POLLACK, Mar. 8, 2005)
* FILM CRITIC: Where's Jane Fonda? On Yet Another Journey (By CARYN JAMES, Mar. 8, 2005)
FILM CRITIC: NEW DVD'S DAVE KEHR: New DVD's (By DAVE KEHR, Mar. 8, 2005)
MUSIC: Young Pianist at the Ready to Believe in His Success (By JEREMY EICHLER, Mar. 8, 2005)
* TV: As an Anchor Leaves, a Reporter Re-emerges [Dan Rather] (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 8, 2005)
TV: Savage Crafters, Start Your Glue Guns! (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 8, 2005)
SCIENCE: For Iraq's Great Marshes, a Hesitant Comeback (By JAMES GLANZ, Mar. 8, 2005)
* May Cause Laughter [Progenitorivox is a fake pill] (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 8, 2005)
SCIENTIST AT WORK | ERIN PETTIT: Young Women Get Serious in a Laboratory of Ice
(By MARGARET WERTHEIM, Mar. 8, 2005)
In a Vast Hungry Wave, Owls Are Moving South (By E. VERNON LAUX, Mar. 8, 2005)
SIDE EFFECTS: A World Without Males? Not Just Science Fiction for Insects (By JAMES GORMAN, Mar. 8, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: The Heart of a Snake (and That's Good) (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 8, 2005)
Q & A: Long Life, Short Spine (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 8, 2005)
HEALTH: Colicky Baby? Read This Before Calling an Exorcist (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Mar. 8, 2005)
Aspirin Is Found to Protect Women From Strokes, Not Heart Attacks (By MARY DUENWALD, Mar. 8, 2005)
CASES: An Insurrection on the Mighty Ship of Health Care (By KENT SEPKOWITZ, M.D., Mar. 8, 2005)
* Slithery Medical Symbolism: Worm or Snake? One or Two? (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 8, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: A Fight for Full Disclosure of the Possible Pain (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 8, 2005)
REALLY?: The Claim: Hormones in Milk Cause Early Puberty (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 8, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: What Else His Ring Finger Says (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 8, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Reactions: Go On, Laugh Your Heart Out (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 8, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: Checking Mirrors in Ivied Halls (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 8, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Testing: Gel for Safer Sex Shows Promise (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 8, 2005)
* Sweet and Sour Tones for the Record Books [Synesthesia] (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 8, 2005)
* A Darwinian Look at a Wailing Baby (By CARL ZIMMER, Mar. 8, 2005)

Monday, March 7, 2005:
On This Day: March 7 (Alessandro Manzoni 3/7/1785-5/22/1873, Sir John Herschel 3/7/1792-5/11/1871, Giuseppe Ferrari 3/7/1811-6/2/1876, Henry Draper 3/7/1837-11/20/1882, Tomas Masaryk 3/7/1850-9/14/1937, Julius Wagner-Jauregg 3/7/1857-9/27/1940, Piet Mondrian 3/7/1872-2/1/1944, Helen Parkhurst 3/7/1887-6/1/1973, Anna Magnani 3/7/1908-9/26/1973, Lord Snowdon 1930, Willard Scott 1934, Daniel J. Travanti 1940, Michael Eisner 1942, John Heard 1946, Franco Harris 1950, Lynn Swann 1952, Ivan Lendl 1960)
Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes (By Roy Reed, March 7, 1965)
* Maurice Ravel, 62, Composer, Is Dead [3/7/1875-12/28/1937] (NY TIMES, December 29, 1937)

NATIONAL: Donors' Influence on Schwarzenegger Is an Issue (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Mar. 7, 2005)
On Social Security, Lieberman the Centrist Ruffles Democratic Feathers
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK & CARL HULSE, Mar. 7, 2005)
In Haggling Over Social Security, Even the Middle Is Perilous (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Mar. 7, 2005)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Even Bush, No Movie Buff, Enjoys Getting Big Picture (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 7, 2005)
WORLD: MISSING IN ACTION: THE SUPPLY GAP IN IRAQ:
Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq (By MICHAEL MOSS, Mar. 7, 2005)
Hezbollah Backs Syria, Challenging Lebanese Opposition (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Mar. 7, 2005)
A Killing in Belfast Is Turning Backers Against a Defiant I.R.A. (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Mar. 7, 2005)
China Doubts U.S. Data on North Korean Nuclear Work (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 7, 2005)
NY REGION: Lots of Neon, Yes, but Try to Buy a Table Lamp (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Mar. 7, 2005)
* After Mapping the Human Genome, Analyzing the City's Air [J. Craig Venter]
(By ANTHONY DePALMA, Mar. 7, 2005)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Mar. 7, 2005)
* SPORTS: Close Doesn't Always Count in Winning Games (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 7, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Hope in the Land of Dashed Hopes (NY TIMES, Mar. 7, 2005)
OP-ED: The Little Guys Are O.K. (By BRUCE GARDNER, Mar. 7, 2005)
OP-ED: The Unkindest Cut (By NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN, Mar. 7, 2005)
* OP-ED: But Seriously, My Fellow Americans... [Dick Cheney] (By HART SEELY, Mar. 7, 2005)
* LETTERS: Women in the Sciences: The Paths They Took (3 Letters) (By Bernice R. Sandler, et. al., Mar. 7, 2005)
* LETTERS: The Digital Doctor Is In (the In-Box) (4 Letters) (By Edwin A. Salsitz, M.D., et. al., Mar. 7, 2005)
LETTERS: So, Where's My Cruise? (William P. Alford, M.D., Mar. 7, 2005)
LETTERS: Birds and Glass Buildings (By E. J. McAdams, Mar. 7, 2005)
BUSINESS: Disney Selling Science Magazine to Concentrate on Family Titles (By TANIA RALLI, Mar. 7, 2005)
Pfizer Stirs Concern With Plans To Sell Heart Drugs Only as Pair (By ALEX BERENSON, Mar. 7, 2005)
Shakeup at Sony Puts Westerner in Leader's Role
(By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 7, 2005)
The Movie Midas [Jon Feltheimer, head of Lions Gate] (By ROSS JOHNSON, Mar. 7, 2005)
* Cult of Stewart Bounces Back in the Magazine (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Mar. 7, 2005)
* A Flood of Magazines for Those Awash in Cash (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Mar. 7, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Radio Tags Can Find Stray Bags, but Can Airlines Afford Them? (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Mar. 7, 2005)
At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers Reporters, Too? (By JONATHAN GLATER, Mar. 7, 2005)
* On EBay, E-Mail Phishers Find a Well-Stocked Pond (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 7, 2005)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: A.T.M.'s Pick Up Web Site Tricks (By BOB TEDESCHI, Mar. 7, 2005)
* ART: At the Fair Despite Snow and Weak Dollar (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 7, 2005)
* DANCE: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: All Dressed Up and Stuck in a Dispiriting Underworld
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 7, 2005)
MUSIC: 'LYSISTRATA, OR THE NUDE GODDESS': With Chastity as a Sword, Women Take Up Arms
(By BERNARD HOLLAND, Mar. 7, 2005)
MUSIC: Home of Punk-Rock Battles for Its Home [CBGB 315 Bowery] (By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 7, 2005)
TV: 'FAT ACTRESS': A Hefty Star Tips the Scales in Favor of Comedy (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 7, 2005)
TV: 'THE CONTENDER': In This Ring, Every Contender Is a Champion (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 7, 2005)

Sunday, March 6, 2005:
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)

* Gene Scott, Broadcaster of Quirky Religious Programs, Dies at 75 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 6, 2005)
Aubelin Jolicoeur, Haitian Muse, Dies at 80 (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, Mar. 6, 2005)
NATIONAL: Suspect in 10 Kansas Murders Lived an Intensely Ordinary Life (By MONICA DAVEY, Mar. 6, 2005)
Black Churches Struggle Over Their Role in Politics (By NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 6, 2005)
As Demands on Workers Grow, Groups Push for Paid Family and Sick Leave (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Mar. 6, 2005)
Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails (By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON, Mar. 6, 2005)
Pain Pills Withdrawn, Many Renew Search for Relief (By JOHN LELAND, Mar. 6, 2005)
WORLD: Hezbollah Declares Full Support for Syria (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Mar. 6, 2005)
Italian Journalist Shot in Iraq Rejects U.S. Account (By JASON HOROWITZ, Mar. 6, 2005)
TRAGEDY'S WAKE: FACING THE FUTURE ALONE: Torn From Moorings, Villagers From Sri Lanka Grasp for Past
(By AMY WALDMAN, Mar. 6, 2005)
Iraqi Police Hunt Insurgents in Hilla (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 6, 2005)
NY REGION: As Clinton Wins G.O.P. Friends, Her Rivals' Task Toughens (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Mar. 6, 2005)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Taking Your Money, Giving Some Back, and Making You Love It (By SAM ROBERTS, Mar. 6, 2005)
* If the Tourists Come to Manhattan, Where Will They Sleep? (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Mar. 6, 2005)
Will the Real Thug Please Stand Up (By MICHAEL WILSON, Mar. 6, 2005)
SPORTS: The Newest Mets Celebrities Are Using Contrasting Styles (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 6, 2005)
SPORTS: And So Begins Selig's Long Trip to the Woodshed (By SELENA ROBERTS, Mar. 6, 2005)
BASEBALL: Nemesis No More, Womack Makes a Soft Landing (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 6, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: Phillies' Positive Charge Needs Healthy Spark (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 6, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: APPRECIATIONS: The (Old) Buffalo Nickel (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Mar. 6, 2005)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Taming of the Shrews [Martha & Hilary] (By MAUREEN DOWD, Mar. 6, 2005)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Arms Sales Begin at Home (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Mar. 6, 2005)
* OP-ED: Martha Stewart Living Free (By CHUCK COLSON, Mar. 6, 2005)
OP-ED: Topic: SAT Essays Are Useful. Discuss. (By CURTIS SITTENFELD, Mar. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: A Consumption Tax? The Price Isn't Right (2 Letters) (By Bernice B. Rosenberg, et. al., Mar. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: The Poorest Countries (By Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Mar. 6, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
* BUSINESS: A Texan Stumbles in King Arthur's Court [Marjorie Scardino] (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT , Mar. 6, 2005)
* Sony to Name Non-Japanese Executive to Top Position [Howard Stringer] (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & KEN BELSON, Mar. 6, 2005)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: Who Wins in a New Social Security? (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 6, 2005)
* EBay's Joy Ride: Going Once... (By GARY RIVLIN, Mar. 6, 2005)
Fox vs. CNBC? Now That Would Be a Grudge Match (By JOHN MOTAVALLI, Mar. 6, 2005)
GRETCHEN MORGENSON: Companies Behaving Badly (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 6, 2005)
THE GOODS: Leaping a Cubicle in a Single Bound (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Mar. 6, 2005)
INVESTING: Wall Street Loves Tobacco. Well, for Now. (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Mar. 6, 2005)
Buffett Says Berkshire Is on the Prowl (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 6, 2005)
PORTFOLIOS: Interest Rate Turbulence: What's a Bond Investor to Do? (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 6, 2005)
* ON THE CONTRARY: Welcome to Sherwood Forest, Er, Wal-Mart (By DANIEL AKST, Mar. 6, 2005)
OFF THE SHELF: Changes of Heart, With Explanations (By PAUL B. BROWN, Mar. 6, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: Commodities Are Pointing Thumbs Up (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Mar. 6, 2005)
SPENDING: So Many Summer Camps, so Much Parental Angst (By ALINA TUGEND, Mar. 6, 2005)
REFRESH BUTTON: From Sara Lee to Charities [John H. Bryan] (By ROBERTH JOHNSON, Mar. 6, 2005)
THE COUNT: Here Comes The Class of 2005. Can It Pay the Rent? (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Mar. 6, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: Gonzo Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here (By FRANK RICH, Mar. 6, 2005)
ARTS: CLOSE READING: Art With Lousy Mileage but Shiny Celebrity Gloss (By ANNETTE GRANT, Mar. 6, 2005)
DANCE: NOMAD: THE RIVER Yin Mei: Dancing a Dream, From a Child of Mao's Revolution
(By GIA KOURLAS, Mar. 6, 2005)
DANCE: Amazing Feats: Step Right Up and See the Dancers (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 6, 2005)
* FILM: Is a Cinema Studies Degree the New M.B.A.? (By ELIZABETH VAN NESS, Mar. 6, 2005)
FILM: Now Back on Screen: The Big Bang Bangs (By TERRENCE RAFFERTY , Mar. 6, 2005)
FILM: How the Tumultuous Marriage of Miramax and Disney Failed (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Mar. 6, 2005)
FILM: The Paths Couples Travel When They Stray (or at Least Consider It) (By KAREN DURBIN, Mar. 6, 2005)
MUSIC: The Most Expensive Album Never Made (By JEFF LEEDS, Mar. 6, 2005)
MUSIC: In Search of the Thrift Store Sonata [Arbiter's Allan Evans] (By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 6, 2005)
MUSIC: The Globe-Straddling Pop Acts Next Door [Brazilian Girls] (By JODY ROSEN, Mar. 6, 2005)
MUSIC NOMENCLATURE: Next, the Shrills? [Stills, Thrills and Kills] (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: The Man Who Made California Dreams Look the Way They Do [Julius Shulman]
(By SUSAN FREUDENHEIM, Mar. 6, 2005)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'THOMAS DEMAND': Painterly Photographs of a Slyly Handmade Reality
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 6, 2005)
PHOTOGRAPHY PROCESS: Too, Too Perfect (By TED LOOS, Mar. 6, 2005)
THEATER: And Now for Something Completely Different... (By JESSE GREEN, Mar. 6, 2005)
* THEATER: VENUE: Upstaged [Cirque du Soleil's "KA"] (By STEVE FRIESS, Mar. 6, 2005)
THEATER: 'Mister Roberts' Goes to Washington (By TODD S. PURDUM, Mar. 6, 2005)
THEATER MARKETING: Poster Gal (By ERIC GRODE, Mar. 6, 2005)
TV: The Rich Are Different, and So Is Their TV Network (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 6, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
FASHION: Mary-Kate, Fashion Star (By RUTH LA FERLA, Mar. 6, 2005)
* In the ID Wars, the Fakes Gain (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Mar. 6, 2005)
Why Hollywood Says Cheese [photo booth] (By STRAWBERRY SAROYAN, Mar. 6, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: I Gave Him Up at 16. Could We Try Again? (By MEREDITH HALL, Mar. 6, 2005)
At Saint Laurent: Next! (By CATHY HORYN, Mar. 6, 2005)
POSSESSED: In Bed With Another Era (By DAVID COLMAN, Mar. 6, 2005)
VOWS: Deborah Fisher and Joel Murphy (By ELAINE LOUIE, Mar. 6, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
TRAVEL: The Land Where Hope Springs Eternal [Spring training, Tampa] (By ROBERT ANDREW POWELL, Mar. 6, 2005)
WEEKEND WITH THE KIDS: Mixing Palaces and Art With Playgrounds and Puppets in Madrid
(By DALE FUCHS, Mar. 6, 2005)
Chic Hideaway in the Indian Ocean (By DEBRA A. KLEIN, Mar. 6, 2005)
A Bridge to Japan, Built on Casks of Sake (By RACHEL DODES, Mar. 6, 2005)
* ESSAY: Where Bright Lights and Night Life Are Nature's Doing (By JOE ROMAN, Mar. 6, 2005)
* GOING TO: Guangzhou (By BONNIE TSUI, Mar. 6, 2005)
TRAVEL JOURNEYS: In Death Valley, a Technicolor Season (By FINN-OLAF JONES, Mar. 6, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
* What's in It for America? (By ROGER COHEN, Mar. 6, 2005)
* RETIREMENT IDEAL: The Late, Great 'Golden Years' (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 6, 2005)
* Crime and Punishment, the Celebrity Version [Martha Stewart] (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Mar. 6, 2005)
A Tax Net That Catches Only Minnows (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Mar. 6, 2005)
WORD FOR WORD | CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE: How to Shake Hands or Share a Meal With an Iraqi
(By PETER EDIDIN, Mar. 6, 2005)
Go Ahead. Test a Lawyer's Ingenuity. Try to Limit Damages. (By ADAM LIPTAK, Mar. 6, 2005)
The Reading File [Success in Female Action Film] (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
PUBLIC EDITOR: War of the Words: A Dispatch From the Front Lines (By DANIEL OKRENT, Mar. 6, 2005)
Q & A/WHITE SUPREMACIST: From the Ground Up (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Pop-Up (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 6, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups [Charles & Camilla] (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Mar. 6, 2005)
QUESTIONS FOR MARTHA BURK: Women's Work (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 6, 2005)
PAGE TURNER: The Accidental Princess (By JESSE GREEN, Mar. 6, 2005)
THE SECURITY ADVISER: Real ID's, Real Dangers (By RICHARD A. CLARKE, Mar. 6, 2005)
* CONSUMED: Cross Selling [culture of the spirit & culture of money] (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 6, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Affirming Inaction (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 6, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: Breaking Away (By JOSEPH LELYVELD, Mar. 6, 2005)
Beck at a Certain Age [Beck Hansen] (By ARTHUR LUBOW, Mar. 6, 2005)
A Rebel in the Emperor's Court (By DAISANN McLANE, Mar. 6, 2005)
STYLE: A Gentleman Comes to Call (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Mar. 6, 2005)
MATTER: All White Now (By PILAR VILADAS, Mar. 6, 2005)
FOOD: The Industry: Cellar's Market (By MATT LEE and TED LEE, Mar. 6, 2005)
LIVES: Goodbye Too Soon (By JONATHAN TROPPER, Mar. 6, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2005)
* BOOKS: Mapping the Unconscious [John Ashbery] (By CHARLES McGRATH, Mar. 6, 2005)
* Marilyn as Metaphor [Sarah Churchwell] (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 6, 2005)
* 'Al-Jazeera': And Now, the Other News [Hugh Miles] (By ISABEL HILTON, Mar. 6, 2005)
'Dr. King's Refrigerator': Thinking Outside the Icebox (By ZZ PACKER, Mar. 6, 2005)
ESSAY: The Joy of Federalism (By FRANKLIN FOER, Mar. 6, 2005)
* ESSAY: Prize Fight [Man Booker International Prize] (By BENJAMIN MARKOVITS, Mar. 6, 2005)

Saturday, March 5, 2005:
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)

Martin Denny, 93, Dies; Maestro of Tiki Sound (By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 5, 2005)
Elsa Zion, 70, Dies; Helped Cut Doctor Workloads (By MARGALIT FOX, Mar. 5, 2005)
RELIGION JOURNAL: Faithful Track Questions, Answers and Minutiae on Blogs (By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN, Mar. 5, 2005)
WORLD: China Leader Mixes Rhetoric on Taiwan (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 5, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Whose Patent Is It, Anyway? (By HOWARD FRENCH, Mar. 5, 2005)
BUSINESS: Baseball Star Costs Tribune 3 Cents a Share [Sammy Sosa] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 5, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Apple Asks Judge to Order Web Sites to Name Sources (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Mar. 5, 2005)
* ART: Enough About 'Gates' as Art; Let's Talk About That Price Tag (By MIKE McINTIRE, Mar. 5, 2005)
* DANCE: The Peacock Princess of China [Yang Liping] (By DAVID BARBOZA, Mar. 5, 2005)
* DANCE: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY: When Lightness Turns to Darkness Without Warning
(By JACK ANDERSON, Mar. 5, 2005)
* TV: 'MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM': When a Lioness Wants a Pet, a Baby Antelope Will Do
(By NED MARTEL, Mar. 5, 2005)
TV: Taking a Big, Fat Chance (for the Time Being) [Kirstie Alley] (By NICK MADIGAN, Mar. 5, 2005)

Friday, March 4, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Drug Makers Are Still Giving Gifts to Doctors, F.D.A. Official Says (By GARDINER HARRIS, Mar. 4, 2005)
* ART: 'EDGE OF DESIRE': Taking a Magical Flight Through Modern India (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 4, 2005)
TV: 'IN THE WOMB': Tracking the Messy Miracle, With Computerized Help (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 4, 2005)
TV WEEKEND: 'STARLET': A Peek at the System in School for Starlets (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 4, 2005)
TV: 'THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD': A Woman on a Quest, via Hurston and Oprah
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 4, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Extinct and With Tiny Brain, but a Clever Little Relative? (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 4, 2005)

Thursday, March 3, 2005:
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)

NATIONAL: Greenspan Says Federal Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable' (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Mar. 3, 2005)
New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans (By ADAM NAGOURNEY & JANET ELDER, Mar. 3, 2005)
* ART: A New Prince of Wall Street Uses His Riches to Buy Up Art (By LANDON THOMAS Jr. and CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 3, 2005)
* BOOK CRITIC: The Public Library Opens a Web Gallery of Images (By SARAH BOXER, Mar. 3, 2005)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 3, 2005)
For Drivers, a Traffic Jam of Distractions (By KATIE HAFNER & JASON GEORGE, Mar. 3, 2005)
Sharpening Plasma's Image (By ERIC A. TAUB, Mar. 3, 2005)
STATE OF THE ART: Computer Tutorials on a Disc (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 3, 2005)
* WHAT'S NEXT: With Terror in Mind, a Formulaic Way to Parse Sentences (By NOAH SHACHTMAN, Mar. 3, 2005)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Trouble Lurks Amid the Roses (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Mar. 3, 2005)

Wednesday, March 2, 2005:
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)

* NY REGION: A Cube in the Land of the Wheel [GM building, NYC] (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Mar. 2, 2005)
SPORTS: Red Sox Visit the White House (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 2, 2005)
SPORTS: Yankees' Johnson, at 41, Is Showing His Age (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 2, 2005)
BUSINESS: Times Appoints Op-Ed Columnist [John Tierney] (NY TIMES, Mar. 2, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Digital Rx: Take Two Aspirins and E-Mail Me in the Morning (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Mar. 2, 2005)

Tuesday, March 1, 2005:
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)

* EDUCATION: Little Advance Is Seen in Ivies' Hiring of Minorities and Women (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 1, 2005)
* SCIENCE: The Next Einstein? Applicants Welcome (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 1, 2005)
* Looking for Personality in Animals, of All People (By CARL ZIMMER, Mar. 1, 2005)
With His Bells and Curves, Human Growth Science Grew Up (By STEPHEN S. HALL, Mar. 1, 2005)
* BOOKS ON SCIENCE: A Brilliant Mind and an Anguished Life (By CORNELIA DEAN, Mar. 1, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Plastic Wrap in a Microwave Can Expose Food to Dioxins (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 1, 2005)
A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD GARTNER: Beyond Betrayal: Men Cope With Being the Victims
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Mar. 1, 2005)