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

Friday, May 31, 2002:
On This Day: May 31 (Margaret Beaufort 5/31/1443-6/29/1509, Walt Whitman 5/31/1819-3/26/1892, William Rockefeller 5/31/1841-6/24/1922, William Pirrie 5/31/1847-6/7/1924, Walter Sickert 5/31/1860-1/22/1942, Charles Abbot 5/31/1872-12/17/1973, Fred Allen 5/31/1894-3/17/1956, Patricia Harris 5/31/1924-3/23/1985, Prince Rainier 1923, Wlaine Stewart 1929, Clint Eastwood 1930, Keir Dullea 1936, Peter Yarrow 1938, Sharon Gless 1943, Joe Namath 1943, Tom Berenger 1950, Gregory Harrison 1950)
Johnstown Flood: 2000 Lives Lost (NY TIMES, May 31, 1889)
Pius XI Dies at 82: Pontiff Spent His Life in Religion From His Boyhood Years
[5/31/1857-2/10/1939] (NY TIMES, February 10, 1939)
EDITORIAL: Turning to Renewal (NY TIMES, May 31, 2002)

Thursday, May 30, 2002:
On This Day: May 30 (Alice Stopford Green 5/30/1847-5/28/1929, Giovanni Gentile 5/30/1875-4/15/1944, James Farley 5/30/1888-6/9/1976, Howard Hawks 5/30/1896-12/26/1977, Irving Thalberg 5/30/1899-9/14/1936, Cornelia Otis Skinner 5/30/1901-7/9/1979, Hannes Alfven 5/30/1908-4/2/1995, Mel Blanc 5/30/1908-7/10/1989, Joseph Wm. Kennedy 5/30/1916-5/5/1957, Johnny Gimble 1926, Clint Walker 1927, Ruta Lee 1936, Michaeld J. Pollard 1939, Wyonna Judd 1964)
Unknowns of World War II and Korea Are Enshrined (By JACK RAYMOND, May 30, 1958)
* BENNY GOODMAN, KING OF SWING, IS DEAD [5/30/1909-6/13/1986] (By JOHN S. WILSON, June 14, 1986)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 31, 2002)
* Robots Find a Muse Other Than Mayhem
[Columbia's Douglas Irving Repetto: "ArtBots" at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute]
(By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, May. 30, 2002)

Wednesday, May 29, 2002:
On This Day: May 29 (Sarah Jennings Marlborough 5/29/1660-10/18/1744, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton 5/29/1716-1/1/1800, Patrick Henry 5/29/1736-6/6/1799, Ebenezer Butterick 5/29/1826-3/31/1903, G. K. Chesterton 5/29/1874-6/14/1936, Beatrice Lillie 5/29/1894-1/20/1989, Junzo Sakakura 5/29/1904-9/1/1969, Gregg Toland 5/29/1904-9/28/1948, T. H. White 5/29/1906-1/17/1964, Bob Hope 1903, Fay Vincent 1938, Al Unser Sr. 1939, Kevin Conway 1942, LaToya Jackson 1956, Annette Bening 1958, Adrian Paul 1959, Tracey Bregman 1963, Lisa Whelchel 1963, Melanie Brown 1975)
* 2 of British Team Conquer Everest [Edmond Hillary & Tensing Norkay] (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., May 29, 1953)
* OBITUARY: JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY: PART I OF V [5/29/1917-11/22/1963] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1963)
OP-ED: Bismarck's Lessons for Bush (By JOSEF JOFFE, May 29, 2002)

Tuesday, May 28, 2002:
On This Day: May 28 (William Pitt, the Younger 5/28/1759-1/23/1806, Thomas Moore 5/28/1779-2/25/1852, P.G.T. Beauregard 5/28/1818-2/20/1893, Tony Pastor 5/28/1837-8/26/1908, Edvard Benes 5/28/1884-9/3/1948, Ian Fleming 5/28/1908-8/12/1964, Randolph Churchill 5/28/1911-6/6/1968, Patrick White 5/28/1912-9/30/1990, Walker Percy 5/28/1916-5/10/1990, Carroll Baker 1931, John Karlen 1933, Jerry West 1938, Gladys Knight 1944, Billy Vera 1944, Sondra Locke 1947)
One of 58,012 Vietnam Dead Joins the Unknowns (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., May 28, 1984)
Jim Thorpe Is Dead On West Coast at 64 [5/28/1888-3/28/1953] (NY TIMES, March 29, 1953)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 28, 2002)
SCIENCE: What Makes a Glacier Go? Scientists Look Inside (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., May 28, 2002)

Monday, May 27, 2002:
On This Day: May 27 (Cornelius Vanderbilt 5/27/1794-1/4/1877, Julia Ward Howe 5/27/1819-10/17/1910, Jay Gould 5/27/1836-12/2/1892, Wild Bill Hickok 5/27/1837-8/2/1876, Georges Rouault 5/27/1871-2/13/1858, Dashiell Hammett 5/27/1894-1/10/1961, William Hansen 5/27/1909-5/23/1949, Hubert Humphrey 5/27/1911-1/13/1978, John Cheever 5/27/1912-6/18/1982, Herman Wouk 1915, Christopher Lee 1921, Henry Kissinger 1923, Lee Meriwether 1935, Louis Gossett Jr. 1936, Richard Schiff 1955, Todd Bridges 1965)
* India Mourning Nehru, 74, Dead of a Heart Attack; World Leaders Honor Him (NY TIMES, May 27, 1964)
Rachel Carson Dies of Cancer; 'Silent Spring' Author Was 56 [5/27/1907-4/14/1964] (NY TIMES, April 15, 1964)
Michael Camille, Historian of Medieval Art, Dies at 44 (By KEN JOHNSON, May 27, 2002)
John de Lancie, an Oboist and Curtis Institute Director, Dies at 80 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 27, 2002)
Bob Grossman, 79, Automobile Enthusiast, Dies (NY TIMES, May 27, 2002)
William Diaz, 56, Hispanic Cultures Expert, Dies (NY TIMES, May 27, 2002)
NATIONAL: Flight Schools See Downside to Crackdown (By DAVID FIRESTONE with MATTHEW L. WALD, May 27, 2002)
F.B.I. Inaction Blurred Picture Before Sept. 11 (By NEIL A. LEWIS, May 27, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Not All Play While Boss Is Far Away (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 27, 2002)
WORLD: Bush, in France, Seeks to Finesse the Clouds of Discord (By DAVID E. SANGER, May 27, 2002)
Taiwan Airliner Broke Apart in Midair, Investigators Say (By KEITH BRADSHER, May 27, 2002)
12 Million Could Die at Once in an India-Pakistan Nuclear War (By THOM SHANKER, May 27, 2002)
As Shells Fall on Kashmiri Border Village, Residents Fear Outbreak of War
(By RAYMOND BONNER, May 27, 2002)
ROME JOURNAL: Fit for Treaty Signing, or an Emperor (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, May 27, 2002)
NY REGION: At Ground Zero, Uneasy Agreement on Final Rite (By DAN BARRY, May 27, 2002)
Geese Love This Land of Lush Lawns, but the Residents Are Fed Up (By MARIA NEWMAN, May 27, 2002)
METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By ENID NEMY, May 27, 2002)
SPORTS: Castroneves Takes Indy 500 (By LYNN ZINSER, May 27, 2002)
YANKEES 14, RED SOX 5: Six Homers Help Yankees Leave Boston With a Split (By TYLER KEPNER, May 27, 2002)
OP-ED: The Eternal Desire (By BOB HERBERT, May 27, 2002)
OP-ED: The Rowley Memo (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 27, 2002)
OP-ED: To Build a Country, Build a Schoolhouse (By AMARTYA SEN, May 27, 2002)
OP-ED: Toward a Fair Federal Workplace (By MARSHA COLEMAN-ADEBAYO, May 27, 2002)
LETTERS: Read This Before Your Barbecue (By LIZA KETCHUM, et. al., May 27, 2002)
BUSINESS: As Promised, Microsoft to Offer Concealable Icons (By AMY HARMON, May 27, 2002)
* MARKET PLACE: New Order of Web Researchers May Rise From Jupiter's Ashes (By SAUL HANSELL, May 27, 2002)
ADVERTISING: An Advertising Legend Is Ready for Her Comeback [Mary Wells Lawrence]
(By STUART ELLIOTT, May 27, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Venture Capitalists Still on the Lookout for New Technologies
(By BOB TEDESCHI, May 27, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: A Dating Business's Key Is Volume, Volume (By SUSAN STELLIN, May 27, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Hewlett Using Inkjets to Cool Hotter Chips (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 27, 2002)
* MEDIA TALK: An Insider's View of Fashion Magazines (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 27, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Satire on Patsy Cline Trips Up Columnist (By FELICITY BARRINGER, May 27, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Hip-Hop Publisher Doubles Back Into Radio (By LORNE MANLY, May 27, 2002)
* ARTS ONLINE: From a Few Colored Lines Come the Sounds of Music (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, May 27, 2002)
BALLET: 'THE DREAM': A Donkey in Toe Shoes and Fairies All Aflutter (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 27, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE PHANTOM LIMBS OF THE ROLLOW SISTERS': The Lingering Pain of Abandonment
(By JANET MASLIN, May 27, 2002)
* COMMENCEMENT: Organize, Vassar Students Are Told (NY TIMES, May 27, 2002)
* HEALTH: Benefits of Popular Body Scans Are Uncertain (By GINA KOLATA, May 27, 2002)

Sunday, May 26, 2002:
On This Day: May 26 (Aleksandr Pushkin 5/26/1799-1/29/1837, Washington Roebling 5/26/1837-7/21/1926, Robert Fitzsimmons 5/26/1863-10/22/1917, Olaf Gulbransson 5/26/1873-9/18/1958, Isadora Duncan 5/26/1877-9/14/1927, Al Jolson 5/26/1886-10/23/1950, Salo Wittmayer Baron 5/26/1895-11/25/1989, Dorothea Lange 5/26/1895-10/11/1965, Robert Morley 5/26/1908-6/3/1992, Helen Eugenie Anderson 5/26/1909-3/31/1997, Peggy Lee 1920, James Arness 1923, Brent Musburger 1939, Teresa Stratas 1939, Stevie Nicks 1948, Pam Grier 1949, Hank Williams Jr. 1949, Philip Michael Tho9mas 1949, Sally K. Ride 1951, Genie Francis 1962, Lenny Kravitz 1964, Helena Bonham Carter 1966, Joseph Fiennes 1970)
Impeachment: President Andrew Johnson Acquitted by Senate (NY TIMES, May 26, 1868)
* 'Duke,' an American Hero— John Wayne Dies at 72 [5/26/1907-6/11/1979] (NY TIMES, June 12, 1979)
Zypora Spaisman, Lifelong Champion of Yiddish Theater, Dies at 86 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 26, 2002)
Paul Giel, All-American in Two Sports and Pro Pitcher, Dies at 70 (By FRANK LITSKY, May 26, 2002)
Alexandru Todea, 89, Romanian Cardinal, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 26, 2002)
NATIONAL: New Travails for a Struggling California Museum (By JAMES STERNGOLD, May 26, 2002)
* Arizona Town Divided on Road's Future {Sedona] (By, May 26, 2002)
10 Chinese Who Swam Ashore Nude Are Questioned (By REUTERS, May 26, 2002)
WASHINGTON MEMO: President's Stance on 9/11 Inquiry Bucks Tradition (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, May 26, 2002)
Talking the Talk His Own Way, by Golly [Rumsfeld] (By ERIC SCHMITT, May 26, 2002)
A Backwoods Tanner Follows Indian Ways (By BLAINE HARDEN, May 26, 2002)
FBI Agent's Role in Inquiries Is Questioned (By NEIL A. LEWIS, May 26, 2002)
WORLD: Taiwan Airliner With 225 Aboard Crashes (By KEITH BRADSHER, May 26, 2002)
Bush Joins Putin in Urging Pakistan to Use Restraint (By DAVID E. SANGER & MICHAEL WINES, May 26, 2002)
Contrary St. Petersburg in Limelight (By MICHAEL WINES, May 26, 2002)
Debate on Arafat Stalls U.S. Policy, Aides to Bush Say (By PATRICK E. TYLER, May 26, 2002)
John Paul, Hemmed in at Twilight of His Papacy (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, May 26, 2002)
Seeking Trade, Africans Find Western Barriers (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, May 26, 2002)
Angry Japan Lashes Out After Defeat on Whaling (By JAMES BROOKE, May 26, 2002)
NY REGION: Fuel Rods and Brass Tacks (By KIRK JOHNSON, May 26, 2002)
From Public, a Strong Voice for Rebuilding Twin Towers (By EDWARD WYATT, May 26, 2002)
Student Made Detonator From Disposable Camera, Police Say (By JACOB H. FRIES, May 26, 2002)
Subway Card Meant for Tourists Is Bargain for Locals (By RANDY KENNEDY, May 26, 2002)
* FOLLOWING UP: After Success Story, a Brutal Relapse [schizophrenia] (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, May 26, 2002)
* SPORTS: Best of Times for New York and Boston (By DAVE ANDERSON, May 26, 2002)
YANKEES 3, RED SOX 2: Mendoza Helps Yanks Defeat Lowe (By TYLER KEPNER, May 26, 2002)
Bonds hits 584th homer; past Mark McGwire into 5th place (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 26, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Past as Prelude [Bush & Bin Laden] (NY TIMES, May 26, 2002)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Forget Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza. Ronaldo Is the Star. (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, May 26, 2002)
* OP-ED: Webbed, Wired and Worried (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, May 26, 2002)
OP-ED: W.'s Grand Tour (By MAUREEN DOWD, May 26, 2002)
OP-ED: Fact-Finding and Its Limits (By MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, May 26, 2002)
LETTERS: Brave New World: My ID, Your ID (By JO ANNE C. ADLERSTEIN, et. al., May 26, 2002)
BUSINESS: How Banks Chased a Mirage (By RIVA D. ATLAS, May 26, 2002)
* MARKET WATCH: Investors Want Cops on the Street (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, May 26, 2002)
* No Stampede, Yet, to Technology (By DAN COLARUSSO, May 26, 2002)
Talks Collapse on $750 Million Takeover of Global Crossing (By SIMON ROMERO, May 26, 2002)
A Testy Branson Flirts With the Market Again (By SUZANNE KAPNER, May 26, 2002)
* Romance, in Cosmo's World, Is Translated in Many Ways (By DAVID CARR, May 26, 2002)
Bertelsmann's Quest to Harness the Napster Genie (By ALEC FOEGE, May 26, 2002)
* BOOK VALUE: Why Big Ideas Often Fall Flat (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, May 26, 2002)
* The Test Is When the Going Gets Tough [CEOs] (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, May 26, 2002)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Do 401(k)'s Give Workers an Illusion of Wealth? (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, May 26, 2002)
Battling, Politely, for Health Care's Biggest Prize [Blue Cross, Blue Shield]
(By MILT FREUDENHEIM, May 26, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: 10 A.M.: Arrive Tuscany. 11 A.M.: Call Office. (By VIVIAN MARINO, May 26, 2002)
MARKET INSIGHT: Anyone Want to Run a Retailer? (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, May 26, 2002)
PORTFOLIOS: Weaker Dollar Adds to Potential of Foreign Stocks (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, May 26, 2002)
Balance of Power Shifting as Stock Indexes Change (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, May 26, 2002)
INVESTING WITH James R. Norris and Michael M. Meyer, C & B Mid Cap Value Portfolio (By CAROLE GOULD, May 26, 2002)
INVESTING DIARY: Deal for Majority Stake in Third Avenue Funds (By JEFF SOMMER, May 26, 2002)
* MIDSTREAM: For Teenagers, an Introduction to Self-Reliance (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, May 26, 2002)
* ON THE JOB: A Haven Found on (or Off) the Treadmill [Stress] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, May 26, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS BRIEFING: But the Ceremony Will Be Just as Long (By VIVIAN MARINO, May 26, 2002)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Redesigning the Management Psyche (By COELI CARR, May 26, 2002)
THE BOSS: Gloves Off, in Cosmetics (By DALIA CHAMMAS, May 26, 2002)
LIFE'S WORK: Angels, Amid the Aridity of Office Life (By LISA BELKIN, May 26, 2002)
The Trials of Job Hunting Beyond a Certain Size (By MELINDA LIGOS, May 26, 2002)
* ART: The Wonders of Genetics Breed a New Art (By STEVEN HENRY MADOFF, May 26, 2002)
ART: Weavers of Genius, Long Peru's Secret (By RITA REIF, May 26, 2002)
ARTS: A Social Critic Who Makes the Ordinary a Weapon (By EDWARD M. GOMEZ, May 26, 2002)
ARTS: Where Miles of Murals Preach a People's Gospel (By BARBARA TANNENBAUM, May 26, 2002)
DANCE: Where Is the Heartbeat in the Balanchine Legacy? (By JENNIFER HOMANS, May 26, 2002)
* FILM: A Mogul of the Best and Worst Kind [David O. Selznick] (By DAVID THOMSON, May 26, 2002)
FILM: When There's Too Much of a Not-Very-Good Thing [Nigeria] (By MATT STEINGLASS, May 26, 2002)
FILM: At Cannes, an Exception Proves the Rule (By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 26, 2002)
FILM: For Fun, a Mucho Macho Black Hero (By DAVE KEHR, May 26, 2002)
JAZZ: A Father to the Followers of Free Jazz (By LARRY BLUMENFELD, May 26, 2002)
MUSIC: SPINS: Buffeted by Love, and Breathing Hard (By NEIL STRAUSS, May 26, 2002)
MUSIC: A Composer Thinking Globally, Acting Locally (By MATTHIAS KRIESBERG, May 26, 2002)
MUSIC: A Pianist Who Is Building the Literature for Lefties (By DAVID MERMELSTEIN, May 26, 2002)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: Wagner Still in the Wings (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, May 26, 2002)
OPERA: Good as It Is, the Met Has Gaps to Fill (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 26, 2002)
THEATER: Opposites Make Use of Their Differences (By JONATHAN MANDELL, May 26, 2002)
THEATER: Three Actors Are One Another's Other Audience (By WILBORN HAMPTON, May 26, 2002)
* THEATER: Myth, Magic and Us Mortals (By MARGO JEFFERSON, May 26, 2002)
THEATER: City and Set: A Skyline That's Made for the Stage (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, May 26, 2002)
TV: An Anchor Pulls Back the Curtain on the Nightly News (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, May 26, 2002)
TV: They Want Their Mean TV (By KARAL ANN MARLING, May 26, 2002)
TV: The Dangers of a Date With the Outside World (By BETH PINSKER, May 26, 2002)
STYLE: Young, Carefree and Hooked on Sunlamps (By DEBORAH NETBURN, May 26, 2002)
NOTICED: Gimme a Head With Hair, Again (By JOHN LELAND, May 26, 2002)
At 98, Still Fashion's Miss Ballyhoo [Eleanor Lambert] (By RUTH LA FERLA, May 26, 2002)
Toughest Job in Cannes: Working the Parties (By JULIA CHAPLIN, May 26, 2002)
ON THE STREET: This Old Hat (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, May 26, 2002)
VOWS: Fatima Jones and Jasiri Kafele (By MEL WATKINS, May 26, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 26, 2002)
LETTING GO: Beyond Justice: The Eternal Struggle to Forgive (By DEAN E. MURPHY, May 26, 2002)
NUCLEAR POKER: At the Brink in Kashmir (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 26, 2002)
IDEAS & TRENDS: The Aid Debate: Helping Hand, or Hardly Helping? (By MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN, May 26, 2002)
Getting More Than One Step Ahead of an Attack (By TODD S. PURDUM, May 26, 2002)
UNSAFE HAVENS: Around the World, Hints of Afghanistans to Come (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, May 26, 2002)
After Months of War, Long Fights Still to Wage (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, May 26, 2002)
Seeing Strength, Too, in an Open Society (By JUDITH MILLER, May 26, 2002)
* Digital Lock? Try a Hairpin (By MATT RICHTEL, May 26, 2002)
Fear Not, but Fret Plenty (By TED ALLEN, May 26, 2002)
VARIATIONS ON A THEME: Hold the Bloody Mary [Dracula] * (By TOM ZELLER, May 26, 2002)
To the Manor Acclimated [Edwardian manor] (By SARAH LYALL, May 26, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 26, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Slug It 'Tout' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 26, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The End of the Affair ["Politically Incorrect" is dead.]
(By WALTER KIRN, May 26, 2002)
* QUESTIONS FOR OSCAR DE LA RENTA: The Substance of Style (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, May 26, 2002)
ENCOUNTER | WOODY ALLEN AT CANNES: High Anxiety (By DANA THOMAS, May 26, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: School Vouching (By RANDY COHEN, May 26, 2002)
* Nuclear Nightmares (By BILL KELLER, May 26, 2002)
About a Boy Who Isn't (By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, May 26, 2002)
* The World's Game Is Not Just a Game [Soccer] (By SIMON KUPER, May 26, 2002)
America's Best Shot [Clint Mathis] (By JEFF Z. KLEIN, May 26, 2002)
STYLE: The Boys of Soccer (Photos by Matthias Vriens, May 26, 2002)
FOOD: Bird Song [fried chicken] (By JULIA REED, May 26, 2002)
LIVES: Running Free [Amish teenager] (By CHRISTOPHER ISENBERG, May 26, 2002)
* Fighting to Live as the Towers Died (By Jim Dwyer, et. al., May 26, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 26, 2002)
'Shakey': Neil Young Keeps on Rockin' (By RICK MOODY, May 26, 2002)
'Jihad': Predicting an Islamic Reformation (By ROBIN WRIGHT, May 26, 2002)
'The Paradox of American Power': Sound of One Saber Rattling (By MAX FRANKEL, May 26, 2002)
'Flaubert': Bourgeois Values (By GILLIAN TINDALL, May 26, 2002)
'Ralph Ellison': Unfinished Business (By ERICA DA COSTA, May 26, 2002)
'Accidents in the Home': Literary and Extramarital Bliss (By MARIA RUSSO, May 26, 2002)
'The Serious Game': The Magic Fling (By BRUCE BAWER, May 26, 2002)
POEM: NY Sch (By APRIL BERNARD, May 26, 2002)
SCIENCE: Scientists to Try to Save Orphan Orca Near Seattle (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 26, 2002)

Saturday, May 25, 2002:
On This Day: May 25 (Claude Buffier 5/25/1661-5/17/1737, Ralph Waldo Emerson 5/25/1803-4/27/1882, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson 5/25/1878-11/25/1949, sir William Beaverbrook 5/25/1879-6/9/1964, Igor Sikorsky 5/25/1889-10/26/1972, Bennett Cerf 5/25/1898-8/12/1971, Gene Tunney 5/25/1898-11/7/1978, Hal David 1921, Jeanne Crain 1925, Beverly Sills 1929, Tom T. Hall 1936, Dixie Carter 1939, Ian McKellen 1939, Leslie Uggams 1943, Frank Oz 1944, Karen Valentine 1947, Connie Sellecca 1955, Anne Heche 1969)
* Scopes Is Indicted in Tennessee for Teaching Evolution (NY TIMES, May 25, 1925)
* Miles Davis, Trumpeter, Dies; Jazz Genius, 65, Defined Cool [5/25/1926-9/28/1991] (By JON PARELES, September 29, 1991)
* Dr. Richard Mudd, Grandfather Treated Booth, Dies at 101 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, May 25, 2002)
Sihung Lung, 72, Film Actor Who Starred for Ang Lee, Dies (NY TIMES, May 25, 2002)
Dave Berg, Created Mad's 'Lighter Side' Strip, Dies at 81 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 25, 2002)
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, 86, Violinist, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 25, 2002)
Joe Cobb, 85, Child Star in 'Our Gang,' Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 25, 2002)
Darwood Smith, 'Our Gang' Actor, Dies at 72 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 25, 2002)
NATIONAL: THE AGENT: Critic Is Described as Scrupulous and Determined (By JIM YARDLEY, May 25, 2002)
THE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS: F.B.I. Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry
(By JAMES RISEN, May 25, 2002)
THE FLIGHT SCHOOLS: Despite F.B.I. Memo, Students in Phoenix Went Unchecked (By JO THOMAS, May 25, 2002)
AIRLINE SECURITY: The Air Marshal Arts: Dress to Kill, and Keep the Eyes in the Back of Your Head Open
(By MATTHEW L. WALD, May 25, 2002)
DOMESTIC SECURITY: State Security Leaders Express Frustration About Lack of Direction
(By JODI WILGOREN, May 25, 2002)
Vatican Accepts Resignation of Milwaukee's Archbishop (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, May 25, 2002)
Revelation About Payment Leaves Catholics Uneasy (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, May 25, 2002)
Police Still Haven't Determined Where Intern Died (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 25, 2002)
RELIGION JOURNAL: A Big Wedding With a Smaller Bill (By FRANCINE PARNES, May 25, 2002)
WORLD: Bush and Putin Sign Pact for Steep Nuclear Arms Cuts (By DAVID E. SANGER & MICHAEL WINES, May 25, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Unlikely Partners: Ex-Governor and Ex-Spy Overcome Their Suspicions
(By DAVID E. SANGER, May 25, 2002)
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: As Summits Go, a Pinnacle of Good Will (By MICHAEL WINES, May 25, 2002)
At Tense Time, Pakistan Starts to Test Missiles (By HOWARD W. FRENCH with RAYMOND BONNER, May 25, 2002)
In Pakistan, U.S. Embraces Friend of a Foe (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 25, 2002)
Review of Afghan Battle Finds Lapses but No Errors in Judgment (By ERIC SCHMITT, May 25, 2002)
Japan Cuts Whaling Rights for Native Peoples of Arctic (By JAMES BROOKE, May 25, 2002)
NY REGION: Cameras to Seek Faces of Terror in Visitors to the Statue of Liberty (By COREY KILGANNON, May 25, 2002)
Coast Guard's Harbor Chief Urges Boaters to Be Alert (By BRUCE LAMBERT, May 25, 2002)
COMPENSATION: Other Victims of Terrorism Receive Aid (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, May 25, 2002)
* Iris, Fashion Plate of Horticulture (By TINA KELLEY, May 25, 2002)
SPORTS: U.S. Olympic Chief Quits Over Lies on College Degrees (By FRANK LITSKY, May 25, 2002)
* RED SOX 9, YANKEES 8, 11 INNINGS: Yanks Come Back, but Fall to Boston (By TYLER KEPNER, May 25, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Heading Off Nuclear Terrorism (NY TIMES, May 25, 2002)
EDITORIAL: A Fight for the History Books [Presidential papers] (NY TIMES, May 25, 2002)
OP-ED: Thanks for the Heads-Up (By FRANK RICH, May 25, 2002)
OP-ED: Pay the Victims, Protect the Church (By DIRK OLIN, May 25, 2002)
* OP-ED: Fortunate Lives and Late-Blooming Fears [Class of 1952] (By MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN, May 25, 2002)
* OP-ED: The Story of Your Family, in Numbers [1910 Census] (By CYNTHIA BECKER, May 25, 2002)
LETTERS: To Muffle the Guns of South Asia (By JEFFREY S. MILSTEIN, et. al., May 25, 2002)
LETTERS: Women's Choices: The More the Better [author's rebuttal] (By SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT, May 25, 2002)
BUSINESS: Terrorism Worries Help Send Shares Lower for the Week
[Dow -112, Nasdaq -36] (By REUTERS, May 25, 2002)
Stock Adviser Knew About 9/11 Attacks, U.S. Suggests (By ALEX BERENSON, May 25, 2002)
Chief of AOL Time Warner Makes First Executive Shifts (By SETH SCHIESEL, May 25, 2002)
* Brokers Caught in Cross-Fire in Client Suits Against Merrill (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, May 25, 2002)
Revised Data Show Slower Pace of Growth (NY TIMES, May 25, 2002)
* ART: SATURDAY PROFILE: A Curator of Lost Artwork and Found Memories (By WARREN HOGE, May 25, 2002)
* ART: A Postmodernist of the 1600's Is Back in Fashion [Athanasius Kircher]
(By SARAH BOXER, May 25, 2002)
* ARTS: Cash Aside, Is That Prize Meaningful? (By WARREN ST. JOHN, May 25, 2002)
* BOOKS: SHELF LIFE: A Subject That May Appear, Stupidly, to Need No Explanation
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, May 25, 2002)
BOOKS: Booker Prize Is Tempest-Tossed: Will It Go to U.S.? (By ALAN COWELL, May 25, 2002)
* DANCE: DANCEBRAZIL: Mixing Martial Arts With Modern Steps (By JACK ANDERSON, May 25, 2002)
DANCE: 'HARLEM RENAISSANCE TRIBUTE': Harlem Pays Tribute to Older Jazz Dancers
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 25, 2002)
FILM CRITIC: Cannes Has Echoes of Polanski and the Man Himself (By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 25, 2002)
JAZZ: DAVE DOUGLAS'S NEW QUINTET: Harking Back to Miles Davis, but With a Drive of His Own
(By BEN RATLIFF, May 25, 2002)
* MUSIC: Charges of Payola Over Radio Music (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, May 25, 2002)
MUSIC: NY PHILHARMONIC: A Showcase for Masur in Schnittke and Bruckner (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 25, 2002)
THEATER: 'IN THE ABSENCE OF SPRING...': Fleeing a Disaster While Waiting for One
(By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, May 25, 2002)
TV: 'DAMAGED CARE': From Insurance Denier to Health Care Crusader (By ANITA GATES, May 25, 2002)

Friday, May 24, 2002:
On This Day: May 24 (Daniel Fahrenheit 5/24/1686-9/16/1736, Emanuel Leutze 5/24/1816-7/18/1868, Jan Smuts 5/24/1870-9/11/1950, Harry Emerson Fosdick 5/24/1878-10/5/1969, Hlen Brooke Taussig 5/24/1898-5/20/1986, Suzanne Lenglen 5/24/1899-7/4/1938, Mikhail Sholokhov 5/24/1905-2/21/1984, Sam Giancana 5/24/1908-6/19/1975, Siobhan McKenna 5/24/1923-11/16/1986, Tommy Chong 1938, Bob Dylan 1941, Gary Burghoff 1943, Patti LaBlle 1944, Priscilla Presley 1945)
Brooklyn Bridge Opened: Two Great Cities United (NY TIMES, May 24, 1883)
* Queen Victoria Dies at 81: Longest Reign In English History [5/24/1819-1/22/1901] (NY TIMES, January 23, 1901)
* Golfer Sam Snead Dies at 89 (By DAVE ANDERSON, May 24, 2002)
Alan P. Bell, 70, Researcher of Influences on Homosexuality, Dies (By CARMEL McCOUBREY, May 24, 2002)
THE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS: Agent Complaints Lead F.B.I. Director to Ask for Inquiry
(By JAMES RISEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, May 24, 2002)
Student Tied to Terror Suspect Gave F.B.I. Disturbing Portrait (By JIM YARDLEY, May 24, 2002)
Sailors Sprayed With Nerve Gas in Cold War Test, Pentagon Says (By THOM SHANKER with WILLIAM J. BROAD, May 24, 2002)
In Intern Case, Police Consider Assault Convict (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, May 24, 2002)
MEDIA REPORT: World Events Bring Restraint in Levy Case (By JIM RUTENBERG, May 24, 2002)
THE SHOE BOMB CASE: Prosecutors See Plot in Attempted Bombing (By PAM BELLUCK, May 24, 2002)
WORLD: Bush Arrives in Moscow, Finding Pomp and Protest (By MICHAEL WINES, May 24, 2002)
Military Would Be Stressed by a New War, Study Finds (By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT, May 24, 2002)
Pakistan Prepares to Shift Troops From Afghan Border to Kashmir (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 24, 2002)
In Reichstag, Bush Condemns Terror as New Despotism (By DAVID E. SANGER, May 24, 2002)
Bush, in Berlin, Talks of Partnership and Aid (By STEVEN ERLANGER, May 24, 2002)
NY REGION: In New York, a Long Way From Here to Here (By JANNY SCOTT, May 24, 2002)
COMPENSATION: Changes to Sept. 11 Fund Would Extend Aid to Victims of Past Terror Bombings
(By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, May 24, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Coping With the Death of a Gargantuan Patient [Elephant] (By JOYCE WADLER, May 24, 2002)
* SPORTS: RED SOX 3, YANKEES 1: Martínez and Red Sox Cool Off Yanks (By TYLER KEPNER, May 24, 2002)
* SPORTS: Red Sox and Yanks Never a Regular Series (By JACK CURRY, May 24, 2002)
* SPORTS: Dodgers' Green Hits Four Homers (By MURRAY CHASS, May 24, 2002)
* EDITORIAL: A French Philosopher Talks Back to Hollywood and 'The Matrix' (By BRENT STAPLES, May 24, 2002)
OP-ED: America the Scofflaw (By PAUL KRUGMAN, May 24, 2002)
OP-ED: Connecting Deadly Dots (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, May 24, 2002)
* OP-ED: NOTES FROM SAN JOSE: Silicon Valley Grows Up (By CLAIRE TRISTRAM, May 24, 2002)
LETTERS: Many Visions for the West Bank (By ANTHONY E. WINSTON, May 24, 2002)
LETTERS: Selling Something? Please Don't Call (By DELIA MCQUADE EMMONS, et. al., May 24, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Stage Late Rally in Reaction to Economic Data
[Dow +58, Nasdaq +24] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 24, 2002)
Economy Grew Less Than Initially Thought in First Quarter (By REUTERS, May 24, 2002)
Technology Stocks Fall on Outlook From Sun (By REUTERS, May 24, 2002)
Fears of War Roil India's Stock Markets (By SARITHA RAI, May 24, 2002)
* Yahoo Drops Auctions in Most of Europe (By SUZANNE KAPNER, May 24, 2002)
Kmart Loses $1 Billion in Five Weeks (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, May 24, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: For Auditing Reform, Pitt Is the Last Hope (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 24, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Hiding a Television Commercial in Plain View (By STUART ELLIOTT, May 24, 2002)
* ART: ED RUSCHA: A Painter Who Reads, a Reader Who Paints (By ROBERTA SMITH, May 24, 2002)
ART: IN THE STUDIO WITH PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Real Flesh, Not Perfect or Prurient
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, May 24, 2002)
ARTS: MY MANHATTAN: In the Green Lap of Spring (By JAN BENZEL, May 24, 2002)
INSIDE ART: Bright Lights, Big City (By CAROL VOGEL, May 24, 2002)
ANTIQUES: Racehorses, on the Run and in Repose (By WENDY MOONAN, May 24, 2002)
BOOKS: 'CITIZEN MCCAIN': McCain's Battle Against Big Money in National Politics (By JILL ABRAMSON, May 24, 2002)
DANCE: NYC BALLET: Encounters on a Stroll by Twilight (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 24, 2002)
FILM: 'INSOMNIA': A Cop Runs but Can't Hide (By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 24, 2002)
'ENOUGH': O.K., Buster, Now It's Your Turn (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 24, 2002)
FILM: 'CQ': How Contradictory Parts Go Together (By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 24, 2002)
FILM: 'THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING': Tangled Up in the Laws of the Universe, if There Are Any
(By A. O. SCOTT, May 24, 2002)
* FILM: 'BARTLEBY': Catching Up With an 1856 Melville Story (By A. O. SCOTT, May 24, 2002)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Earnestness, Still Important (By DAVE KEHR, May 24, 2002)
FILM: TAKING THE CHILDREN: The Senator and the Jedi, Before Darth Was Darth (By PETER M. NICHOLS, May 24, 2002)
Music in Review: Sequitur (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 24, 2002)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'PRICELESS CHILDREN': Little Ones, Are You Haves or Have-Nots? (By GRACE GLUECK, May 24, 2002)
THEATER: 'CAPITOL STEPS: WHEN BUSH COMES TO SHOVE': Laughs to the Left, Laughs to the Right
(By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, May 24, 2002)
TV: 'LAST CALL': Fitzgerald's Final Days (By NEIL GENZLINGER, May 24, 2002)
TV: 'IN MEMORIAM: NEW YORK CITY, 9/11/01': A Chronicle of Horror, and Hope
(By CARYN JAMES, May 24, 2002)
TV: Bobby Valentine's TV Career May Pick Up (NY TIMES, May 24, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Scientists Develop the Universe's Baby Pictures (By DENNIS OVERBYE, May 24, 2002)

Thursday, May 23, 2002:
On This Day: May 23 (Carolus Linnaeus 5/23/1707-1/10/1778, William Hunter 5/23/1718-3/30/1783, Franz Anton Mesmer 5/23/1734-3/5/1815, Thomas Hood 5/23/1799-5/3/1845, James B. Eads 5/23/1820-3/8/1887, Leo Baeck 5/23/1873-11/2/1956, Douglas Fairbanks 5/23/1883-12/12/1939, Par Lagerkvist 5/23/1891-7/11/1974, John Bardeen 5/23/1908-1/30/1991, Margaret Wise Brown 5/23/1910-11/13/1952, Artie Shaw 1910, Betty Garrett 1919, Rosemary Clooney 1928, Nigel Davenport 1928, Joan Collins 1933, Marvin Hagler 1952, Drew Carey 1958, Karen Duffy 1961, Jewel 1974)
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow Are Slain by Police in Louisiana Trap (NY TIMES, May 23, 1934)
* Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Dead at 90; G.M. Leader and Philanthropist [5/23/1875-2/17/1966] (NY TIMES, February 18, 1966)
Niki de Saint Phalle, Sculptor, Dies at 71 (By KEN JOHNSON, May 23, 2002)
Jack Kruschen, 80, Veteran TV and Movie Actor, Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, May 23, 2002)
Charles Roll Jr., Polling Expert, 73, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 23, 2002)
Eleanor Seibold, Art Gallery Founder, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, May 23, 2002)
NATIONAL: Body of Chandra Levy Found in Park in Washington (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, May 23, 2002)
38 Years Later, Last of Suspects Is Convicted in Church Bombing (By RICK BRAGG, May 23, 2002)
THE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS: White House Asked F.B.I. About Unreported Threats
(By JUDITH MILLER with DON VAN NATTA Jr., May 23, 2002)
THE MOOD: Across America, New Warnings Draw a New Set of Responses (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, May 23, 2002)
LAS VEGAS JOURNAL: Dice and Hotel Carts Roll on, for Now (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, May 23, 2002)
WORLD: Suicide Bomber Kills 2 Israelis in Attack Near Tel Aviv (By TIM GOLDEN, May 23, 2002)
Bush Begins Mission to Assure Europeans He Wants Their Advice
(By STEVEN ERLANGER & DAVID E. SANGER, May 23, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Indian Leader's Threat of War Rattles Pakistan and the U.S. (By BARRY BEARAK, May 23, 2002)
Frail Pope Takes His Message of Peace to the Azerbaijanis (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, May 23, 2002)
U.N. Report Says Al Qaeda May Be Diversifying Its Finances (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, May 23, 2002)
* Hoping DNA Will Discover Columbus, Post-Mortem (By EMMA DALY, May 23, 2002)
Treaty of What's Its Name [U.S. & Russia] (By MICHAEL WINES, May 23, 2002)
As Bush Heads for Russia, Hopes for an Investment Plan Fade (By MICHAEL WINES, May 23, 2002)
NY REGION: Qaeda Tip Spurred Alert in New York (By AL BAKER, May 23, 2002)
Design Firm Chosen to Oversee Rebuilding of Lower Manhattan (By EDWARD WYATT, May 23, 2002)
* COMMENCEMENT: Columbia University's President Is Moving On, Along With His Graduates
(By KAREN W. ARENSON, May 23, 2002)
VOICES: New Yorkers Try to Stay in Character (By ANDREW JACOBS, May 23, 2002)
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Marginal Role for Architecture at Ground Zero (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, May 23, 2002)
* SPORTS: Red Sox Hope This Is the Year (By JACK CURRY, May 23, 2002)
SPORTS: Sportswriter Out of a Job Over a Piazza Column (NY TIMES, May 23, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Russia's Compass Points West (NY TIMES, May 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Testing Putin on Iran (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 23, 2002)
OP-ED: All or Nothing? (By BOB HERBERT, May 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Reform That Leads to Chaos (By PETER H. SCHUCK, May 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Next Desk, Please (By DAVID MARTIN, May 23, 2002)
LETTERS: Seeking a Balm for a Jittery Land (By HAIG BOHIGIAN, et. al., May 23, 2002)
* LETTERS: Gould's Serious Fun (By JAN JOHNSEN, May 23, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Fluctuate in Light Trading Before Closing Higher
[Dow +52, Nasdaq +9] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 23, 2002)
White House Acknowledges More Contacts With Enron (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., May 23, 2002)
Random House Executive Struggles With Her Role (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 23, 2002)
* ECONOMIC SCENE: How Can the Marketplace Gauge Fashions? [Popular Names]
(By VIRGINIA POSTREL, May 23, 2002)
* Buffett's Negative-Interest Issues Sell Well (NY TIMES, May 23, 2002)
Five, Including F.B.I. Agents, Are Named in a Conspiracy (By ALEX BERENSON, May 23, 2002)
* ARTS ABROAD: Touch of Opera Buffa for Italian Old Masters Down Under (By JOHN SHAW, May 23, 2002)
* ARTS: Even in a Moonscape of Tragedy, Beauty Is in the Eye (By SARAH BOXER, May 23, 2002)
ARTS: A New Broom Sweeps a Meier Design Clean (By JULIE V. IOVINE, May 23, 2002)
ART: A Warhol Retrospective Comes to Los Angeles (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, May 23, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M.': Sexuality on Display, Repeatedly (By JANET MASLIN, May 23, 2002)
MAKING BOOKS: A New Imprint Is Dedicated to Black Readers (By MARTIN ARNOLD, May 23, 2002)
MUSIC: PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: Little-Known Romantic With a Passion for Uproar
(By BERNARD HOLLAND, May 23, 2002)
MUSIC: WILLIAM BOLCOM: An Opera in Which Instruments Are Singers (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 23, 2002)
TV: 'VIETNAM PASSAGE': The War Is Long Over, but Vietnam Continues (By JULIE SALAMON, May 23, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 23, 2002)
Every Picture Still Tells a Story, but 'Family Album' Is Redefined (By KATIE HAFNER, May 23, 2002)
Raising Shutterbugs in a Megapixel Age (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 23, 2002)
STATE OF THE ART: When Still Meets Video, Can One Camera Do All? (By DAVID POGUE, May 23, 2002)
WHAT'S NEXT: Tapping Into Its Strengths, the Empire of Film Strikes Back (By IAN AUSTEN, May 23, 2002)
* HOW IT WORKS: Shooting 'Star Wars,' Bit by Bit (By ERIC A. TAUB, May 23, 2002)
* BASICS: Point and Shoot, and the Myriad Details Between (By ROB FIXMER, May 23, 2002)
Collection Chronicles a Digital Revolution (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, May 23, 2002)
* Format's Redesign Yields Faster Image Files [JPEG] (By JEFFREY SELINGO, May 23, 2002)
STORAGE: Image Drive and Viewer Lets Photographers Snap Away (By ANDREW ZIPERN, May 23, 2002)
SHARING: Pictures by the Numbers for E-Mailing or Printing (By IAN AUSTEN, May 23, 2002)
* LIGHTING: For Glareless Photos, Bring Your Own Clouds (By IAN AUSTEN, May 23, 2002)
Photofinishers Go the Silicon Route, Too (By IAN AUSTEN, May 23, 2002)
Q & A: My Summer Vacation: Pictures With Soundtrack (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, May 23, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Similar Graphs Raised Suspicions on Bell Labs Research (By KENNETH CHANG, May 23, 2002)
HEALTH: Hormone May Explain Difficulty Dieters Have Keeping Weight Off (By DENISE GRADY, May 23, 2002)

Wednesday, May 22, 2002:
On This Day: May 22 (Louis de Buade Frontenac 5/22/1622-11/28/1698, Francois-Joachim Bernis 5/22/1717-11/3/1794, Richard Wagner 5/22/1813-2/13/1883, Albrecht von Grafe 5/22/1828-7/20/1870, Catulle Mendes 5/22/1841-2/9/1909, Mary Cassatt 5/22/1844-6/14/1926, Giacomo Matteotti 5/22/1885-6/10/1924, Johannes Becher 5/22/1891-10/11/1958, Laurence Olivier 5/22/1907-7/11/1989, Judith Crist 1922, Charles Aznavour 1924, Michael Constantine 1927, Peter Nero 1934, Richard Benjamin 1938, Frank Converse 1938, Michael Sarrazin 1940, Bernard Shaw 1940, Paul Winfield 1941, Barbara Parkins 1942, Bernie Taupin 1950, Naomi Campbell 1970)
Truman Signs Bill for Near East Aid as 'Step to Peace' (By HAROLD B. HINTON, May 22, 1947)
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dead From Heart Attack at 71 [5/22/1859-7/7/1930] (NY TIMES, July 8, 1930)
David Abrahamsen, Wrote 'Confessions of Son of Sam,' Dies at 98 (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, May 22, 2002)
M. Moran Weston, 91, Priest and Banker of Harlem, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 22, 2002)
John Gorton, Former Australian Premier, 90, Dies (By JOHN SHAW, May 22, 2002)
Harvard Faculty Votes to Put the Excellence Back in the A (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, May 22, 2002)
THE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS: Anti-U.S. Views at Pilot Schools Prompted Agent's Alert
(By DON VAN NATTA Jr. & DAVID JOHNSTON, May 22, 2002)
AIRLINE SAFETY: Transportation Security Chief Says He Opposes Pilots' Carrying Guns Aboard Planes
(By MATTHEW L. WALD, May 22, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Warning du Jour Comes via Rumsfeld, but Worriers Abound
(By DAVID JOHNSTON, May 22, 2002)
THE BIOTERROR THREAT: Anthrax Scare at Bank; Lie Tests at Army Labs (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, May 22, 2002)
LESSONS: Testing Reaches a Fork in the Road (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, May 22, 2002)
WORLD: Leaving for Europe, Bush Draws on Hard Lessons of Diplomacy (By DAVID E. SANGER, May 22, 2002)
WORLD: Bush Arrives in Berlin at Start of European Tour (By DAVID E. SANGER, May 22, 2002)
Protests as Well as Friends Await Bush on Europe Trip (By STEVEN ERLANGER, May 22, 2002)
President and Carter Hold Talks on Cuba (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 22, 2002)
U.S. Planes Foil an Attack on an Airfield in Afghanistan (By ERIC SCHMITT, May 22, 2002)
Seeking Mullah Omar in a Land of Secrets (By CARLOTTA GALL, May 22, 2002)
Tel Aviv Suicide Bomber Thwarted (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 22, 2002)
NY REGION: Security Tighter in New York After Vague Terrorist Threat (By DAN BARRY & AL BAKER, May 22, 2002)
Ammunition in a Battle for Souls [Latino evangelicals] (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, May 22, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Playing the Apollo, and the Apple (By JAMES BARRON, May 22, 2002)
NYC: You've Been Warned. Now, Get On With Your Life. (By CLYDE HABERMAN, May 22, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Brinkmanship in South Asia (NY TIMES, May 22, 2002)
* OP-ED: Cool It! (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, May 22, 2002)
OP-ED: Color Them Fatalistic (By MAUREEN DOWD, May 22, 2002)
OP-ED: Ending Bias in the Human Rights System (By ANNE BAYEFSKY, May 22, 2002)
LETTERS: Women, Children and That Book (By DAWN CARIELLO, May 22, 2002)
* LETTERS: Professor Gould's Gift (By P. JOSEPH KONZELMANN, May 22, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall a 2nd Day; Home Depot Outlook Is a Factor
[Dow -124, Nasdaq -37] (By REUTERS, May 22, 2002)
Merrill Lynch to Pay $100 Million to Settle Analyst Charges (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, May 22, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Settlement Is a Good Deal for Merrill. How About Investors?
(By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, May 22, 2002)
Under Cheney, Halliburton Altered Policy on Accounting (By ALEX BERENSON & LOWELL BERGMAN, May 22, 2002)
Californian Says Power Needs Were Faked (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 22, 2002)
* MARKET PLACE: Is Lending Money to Buffett a Privilege Worth Paying For?
(By FLOYD NORRIS, May 22, 2002)
Big Blimp That Apparently Couldn't (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, May 22, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Connecting Large Advertisers and Ethnic Newspapers (By AARON DONOVAN, May 22, 2002)
ARTS ABROAD: A Town Rich in Stolen Art, but Not Nosy Questions (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., May 22, 2002)
ARTS: That Rumbling Underfoot? It's Not a Subway, It's Art (By JOHN ROCKWELL, May 22, 2002)
BALLET: 'TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR': A 20th-Century Gloss on 19th-Century Ideas
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 22, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'OLD MAN GOYA': Stepping Behind the Eyes of a Deaf Master Painter
(By RICHARD EDER, May 22, 2002)
FILM: 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST': O.K., but Was It at Least a Designer Handbag?
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 22, 2002)
MUSIC: 'CARNIVAL ON BROADWAY': Stirring Up the Beat of Rio, New Orleans and Broadway
(By JON PARELES, May 22, 2002)
THEATER: 'HOUSE' AND 'GARDEN': Indoor-Outdoor Living for the Fleet of Foot (By BRUCE WEBER, May 22, 2002)
THEATER: How Broadway Bounced Back After 9/11 (By ROBIN POGREBIN, May 22, 2002)
TV: 'ALLY MCBEAL': 'Ally McBeal' Ends, Not With a Bang but a Whimper (By JULIE SALAMON, May 22, 2002)
THE CHEF: Who Needs Aluminum Foil? Wrap It in Fronds (By MARK MILITELLO, May 22, 2002)
FOOD: THE MINIMALIST: A Hamburger With a Twist (By MARK BITTMAN, May 22, 2002)
FOOD CHAIN: Storing Fresh Ginger (By DENISE LANDIS, May 22, 2002)
HEALTH: Study Finds Birth Risk After Delivery by Caesarean (By REUTERS, May 22, 2002)

Tuesday, May 21, 2002:
On This Day: May 21 (Alexander Pope 5/21/1688-5/30/1744, Elizabeth Fry 5/21/1780-10/12/1845, Henri Rousseau 5/21/1844-9/2/1910, Gustav Lindenthal 5/21/1850-7/31/1935, Leon Bourgeois 5/21/1851-9/29/1925, Grace Hoadley Dodge 5/21/1856-12/27/1914, Willem Einthoven 5/21/1860-9/29/1927, Glenn Curtiss 5/21/1878-7/23/1930, Marcel Breuer 5/21/1902-7/1/1981, Fats Waller 5/21/1904-12/15/1943, David Groh 1939, Bill Champlin 1947, Leo Sayer 1948, Mr. T 1952, Nick Cassavetes 1959, Christian McBride 1972)
* Lindbergh Does It! To Paris in 33 1/2 Hours; Flies 1,000 Miles Through Snow and Sleet; Cheering French Carry Him Off Field
(By EDWIN L. JAMES, May 21, 1927)
* Andrei Sakharov, 68, Soviet 'Conscience,' Dies
[5/21/1921-12/14/1989] (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, December 15, 1989)
* Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution Theorist, Dies at 60 (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, May 21, 2002)
Walter Lord, 84, Historian and Author, Dies (By ALBIN KREBS, May 21, 2002)
Harry Sears, Politician and Courier, 82, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 21, 2002)
Joseph Limprecht, 55, U.S. Diplomat, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 21, 2002)
Richard Zirinsky Sr., Real Estate Developer, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, May 21, 2002)
Peter Cannell, Publishing Director and Editor, 47, Dies (NY TIMES, May 21, 2002)
NATIONAL: Teamsters at U.P.S. Agree to Plan for a Strike (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, May 21, 2002)
Tough Policies on Priests Stir Some Dissension in the Pews (By ANTHONY DePALMA, May 21, 2002)
* Ashcroft Learned of Agent's Alert Just After 9/11 but Bush Was Not Told
(By DAVID JOHNSTON & DON VAN NATTA Jr., May 21, 2002)
* TEXT: How a Warning Memo Was Dealt With (By Condoleezza Rice & Robert S. Mueller III, May 21, 2002)
Long-Shot Winner Turns Dark Horse in California [Bill Simon Jr.] (By JAMES STERNGOLD, May 21, 2002)
IMMIGRATION: Inquiry Finds 'Widespread Failure' at I.N.S. in Handling of Hijackers' Student Visas
(By DAVID STOUT, May 21, 2002)
Donkeys and Elephants Inject Politics Into Art (By NEIL A. LEWIS, May 21, 2002)
WORLD: Hailing an Old Cry, 'Viva Cuba Libre!' (By DANA CANEDY, May 21, 2002)
Embargo Remains Until Cuba Alters Policy, Bush Says (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 21, 2002)
Afghan Warlord Muddles Interim Government's Plans (By DAVID ROHDE, May 21, 2002)
As Arafat Critics Close In, Deputies Vie in the Wings (By JOHN KIFNER, May 21, 2002)
VILLANY JOURNAL: Harvesting the Fruits of Capitalism: Grapes (By IAN FISHER, May 21, 2002)
A New York Landmark in Rubble (By TINA KELLEY, May 21, 2002)
SECURITY: For Emergency Officials Touched by 9/11's Horrors, Fears of Creeping Complacency
(By AL BAKER, May 21, 2002)
In a 1975 Murder Case, Stretching to Refresh Dim Memories [Martha Moxley] (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, May 21, 2002)
In $40 Million Museum, Big Spending Is on Display (By BRUCE LAMBERT, May 21, 2002)
U.S. to Pay to Clean Trade Center Fire Trucks (By KEVIN FLYNN, May 21, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Distractions and Diversions (NY TIMES, May 21, 2002)
EDITORIAL: No Cuba Libre, No Trade (NY TIMES, May 21, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Death of a Paleontologist (NY TIMES, May 21, 2002)
OP-ED: Enemies of Reform (By PAUL KRUGMAN, May 21, 2002)
OP-ED: Following God Abroad (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, May 21, 2002)
OP-ED: How the Settler Suburbs Grew (By DAVID NEWMAN, May 21, 2002)
OP-ED: The Welfare Washington Doesn't Know (By DOUGLAS MACKINNON, May 21, 2002)
LETTERS: Politics and a National Tragedy (By BOBBI ROSNER, May 21, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Drop Sharply on New Concerns About Terrorism
[Dow -124, Nasdaq -40] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 21, 2002)
* Despite a Year of Upheavals, Economic Optimism Is High (By DAVID LEONHARDT, May 21, 2002)
Shares Surge 22% After Dynegy Tells of Proposals to Raise Cash (NY TIMES, May 21, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Guess Who Doesn't Back Fannie, Freddie and Farmer (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, May 21, 2002)
Flextronics Makes Bid for Parts Maker (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 21, 2002)
* ADVERTISING: Why Choose Yellow? Ask a Phone Book Publisher (By ALLISON FASS, May 21, 2002)
Want to Be a Male Model? Wear a Real Face (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, May 21, 2002)
BALLET: The Paris Opera Ballet School, Where Excellence Is De Rigueur (By ALAN RIDING, May 21, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE CADENCE OF GRASS': A Man of Many Faults Amid Montana's Majesty
(By DINITIA SMITH, May 21, 2002)
FILM: Cannes Notebook: Worldly Violence and Confusion (By A. O. SCOTT, May 21, 2002)
MUSIC: 'SACRED MUSIC IN A SACRED SPACE': A Massenet Oratorio Scaled to Its Site
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, May 21, 2002)
OPERA: 'THE MARY SHELLEY OPERA': When Mary Met Percy (Then the Monster)
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, May 21, 2002)
THEATER: 'A LETTER FROM ETHEL KENNEDY': A Reminder That AIDS Still Causes Remorse
(By ANITA GATES, May 21, 2002)
THEATER: 'PUDD'NHEAD WILSON': Babes Switched at Birth in Twain's World of Bigotry
(By BRUCE WEBER, May 21, 2002)
TV: THE X-FILES': Scully and Mulder Reunited for the Truth, and a Kiss (By JULIE SALAMON, May 21, 2002)
SCIENCE: Man and Craft Were One, as a New Age Began [Spirit of St. Louis]
(By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, May 21, 2002)
* Divers Discover Maya Relics in Caves That Became Rivers (By ANGELA M. H. SCHUSTER, May 21, 2002)
* ESSAY: A Physicist Considers the Cosmos, Through the Prism of 9/11 (By JAMES GLANZ, May 21, 2002)
More Acidic Than Vinegar, River Teems With Tiny Life (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 21, 2002)
Chefs Joining Boycott in Effort to Save Imperiled Sea Bass (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 21, 2002)
New Jellyfish Problem Means Jellyfish Are Not the Only Problem (By OTTO POHL, May 21, 2002)
RECORDINGS ON SCIENCE: Sweet Satisfaction in the Songs of the Wild (By E. VERNON LAUX, May 21, 2002)
Q & A: Microfiber (C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 21, 2002)
* OBSERVATORY: Alligator ESP (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 21, 2002)
SCIENCE Letters: Doctors in the Real World (By DR. LISA HUNTER, et. al., May 21, 2002)
* HEALTH: Runner's High? Endorphins? Fiction, Some Scientists Say (By GINA KOLATA, May 21, 2002)
* In Folding Proteins, Clues to Many Diseases (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, May 21, 2002)
Hoping That for Polio the End Is Indeed Near (NY TIMES, May 21, 2002)
Once-Invisible Sperm Donors Get to Meet the Family (By LINDA VILLAROSA, May 21, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Ancient Tool of Survival is Deadly for the Heart (By JANE E. BRODY, May 21, 2002)
CASES: Mending of Hearts and Minds (By ANNA FELS, M.D., May 21, 2002)
Outcomes: Need Special Shoes? Maybe Not (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 21, 2002)
Outcomes: No Gains From a Clean Home (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 21, 2002)
Nutrition: A Closer Look at Soy and Babies (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 21, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Mental Health: Flushing Out a Hidden Ailment (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 21, 2002)
HEALTH: Report Suggests Prostate Screening Tests Less Frequently for Some Patients
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, May 21, 2002)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Guides to Help Revive the Sexually Inactive (By JOHN LANGONE, May 21, 2002)

Monday, May 20, 2002:
On This Day: May 20 (Dolley Madison 5/20/1768-7/12/1849, Honoré de Balzac 5/20/1799-8/18/1850, John Stuart Mill 5/20/1806-5/8/1873, William George Fargo 5/20/1818-8/3/1881, Madeline Breckinridge 5/20/1872-11/25/1920, John Jacob Astor 5/20/1886-7/19/1971, Adela Rogers Saint Johns 5/20/1894-8/10/1988, R. J. Mitchell 5/20/1895-6/11/1937, John Marshall Harlan 5/20/1899-12/29/1971, Moshe Dayan 5/20/1915-10/16/1981, James McEachin 1930, Anthony Zerbe 1936, Cher 1946, Dean Butler 1956, Ron Reagan 1958, Bonson Pinchot 1959, Mindy Cohn 1966)
400 U.S. Marshals Sent to Alabama as Montgomery Bus Riots Hurt 20
(By ANTHONY LEWIS, May 20, 1961)
* James Stewart, the Hesitant Hero, Dies at 89 [5/20/1908-7/2/1997] (NY TIMES, July 3, 1997)
* Stephen Jay Gould, Biologist and Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 60 (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, May 20, 2002)
Alec Campbell, Last Anzac at Gallipoli, Dies at 103 (By JOHN SHAW, May 20, 2002)
Lord Moyola, 79, Former Prime Minister in Ulster, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 20, 2002)
Noel Da Costa, Composer and Professor, Dies at 82 (NY TIMES, May 20, 2002)
* NATIONAL: Foreigners Obtain Social Security ID With Fake Papers (By ROBERT PEAR, May 20, 2002)
Cheney Expects More Terror for U.S. (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, May 20, 2002)
Cheney Rejects Broader Access to Terror Brief (By ALISON MITCHELL, May 20, 2002)
* Graduate, Age 87, Looks Ahead [Anne Martindell & Smith College] (By TAMAR LEWIN, May 20, 2002)
Berkeley Center Will Explore Peace and Love (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, May 20, 2002)
U.S. Attitudes Altered Little by Sept. 11, Pollsters Say (By ADAM CLYMER, May 20, 2002)
In Bid to Improve Nutrition, Schools Expel Soda and Chips (By TIMOTHY EGAN, May 20, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Measure for Measure, a Fun Job at an Unmeasured Pace (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 20, 2002)
WORLD: Impoverished East Timor Exults Over Independence (By JANE PERLEZ, May 20, 2002)
Bush Faces Pressure From Congress to Alter Cuba Policy (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS & ERIC SCHMITT, May 20, 2002)
Afghans Say 5 Killed in a U.S. Raid Were Farmers (By CARLOTTA GALL, May 20, 2002)
In Czar Peter's Capital, Putin Is Not as Great (By MICHAEL WINES, May 20, 2002)
A 'New' Tape of bin Laden (By REUTERS, May 20, 2002)
U.S. Soldier Killed in a Firefight in Afghanistan (By THOM SHANKER, May 20, 2002)
* NY REGION: Born of Hell, Lost After Inferno (By DAN BARRY & WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, May 20, 2002)
I.N.S. Agents Say Staffing Shortage Is Undercutting Counterterrorism (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, May 20, 2002)
The New Front in the Battle Against TB (By SARAH KERSHAW, May 20, 2002)
METRO MATTERS: Portraits of Trauma, Beyond 9/11 (By JOYCE PURNICK, May 20, 2002)
METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By ENID NEMY, May 20, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Protecting Online Privacy (NY TIMES, May 20, 2002)
OP-ED: The Williams Memo (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 20, 2002)
OP-ED: An Unequal Education (By BOB HERBERT, May 20, 2002)
OP-ED: the Russia Summit a Step Further (By MICHAEL MCFAUL, May 20, 2002)
OP-ED: A Quiet Attack on Women (By ELIZABETH WARREN, May 20, 2002)
LETTERS: The Toll of Working in New York (By GLENN PIERCE, May 20, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Microsoft's $1 Billion Bet on Xbox Network (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 20, 2002)
Enron Has Link to Global Crossing (By DAVID BARBOZA with SIMON ROMERO, May 20, 2002)
MTV Wunderkind Is Drafted to Fix VH1 (By JIM RUTENBERG, May 20, 2002)
Officers May Gain More Than Investor in Move to Bermuda (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, May 20, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Trying to Keep Computers in Line (By BOB TEDESCHI, May 20, 2002)
NEW ECONOMY: Buying Movie Tickets Online (By SARAH MILSTEIN, May 20, 2002)
Developers Threaten to Gobble Up a Famous Hong Kong Market (By KEITH BRADSHER, May 20, 2002)
A New Era Led by 'Millionaire' (By BILL CARTER, May 20, 2002)
* Return to Roots Loses Readers for Los Angeles Times (By FELICITY BARRINGER, May 20, 2002)
Sun Takes On Microsoft's Office Software (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, May 20, 2002)
At I.B.M., a Tinier Transistor Outperforms Its Silicon Cousins (By BARNABY J. FEDER, May 20, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: It's in the Stars: a Bull Market Is Ascending (By AMY CORTESE, May 20, 2002)
* Zagat Survey Goes From Paper to Internet (By SUSAN STELLIN, May 20, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Honest, a Balky PC Is Not a Pop Star's Fault (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, May 20, 2002)
* A News Site Sells Its Links (NY TIMES, May 20, 2002)
* ARTS: Online Gallery Is on the Block: Visitors Came, but Didn't Buy (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, May 20, 2002)
ARTS: Artist Depicts the Bill of Rights in a World Out of Joint (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, May 20, 2002)
BOOKS: The Talk of the Book World Still Can't Sell (By WARREN ST. JOHN, May 20, 2002)
BOOKS: Try This Obscure Book, Not That Best Seller (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 20, 2002)
DANCE: 'ONEGIN': 3 Unplanned Role Debuts (By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 20, 2002)
* FILM: 'Star Wars' Is Short of 'Spider-Man' (By RICK LYMAN, May 20, 2002)
THEATER: 'LYSISTRATA': There Once Was a Lady From Athens (By BRUCE WEBER, May 20, 2002)
THEATER: 'Modern Millie' Leads Drama Desk Awards (By JESSE McKINLEY, May 20, 2002)
TV: MEDIA TALK: PBS Anchor: Network News Is Expendable (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, May 20, 2002)
TV: From Lindbergh's Feat to a Pretty Safe Bet (By NEIL GENZLINGER, May 20, 2002)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: When Inspiration Stared Stoically From an Old Photograph (By KATHRYN HARRISON, May 20, 2002)
HEALTH: Drug That Blocks Blood Flow Slows Tumor Growth in Trial (By ANDREW POLLACK, May 20, 2002)

Sunday, May 19, 2002:
On This Day: May 19 (Jacob Jordaens 5/19/1593-10/18/1678, Johann Gottlieb Fichte 5/19/1762-1/27/1814, Johns Hopkins 5/19/1795-12/24/1873, John Jacob Abel 5/19/1857-5/26/1938, Nancy Witcher Astor 5/19/1879-5/2/1964, Percy Williams 5/19/1908-11/29/1982, Pol Pot 5/19/1925-4/15/1998, Malcolm X 5/19/1925-2/21/1965, Lorraine Hansberry 5/19/1930-1/12/1965, Jim Lehrer 1934, David Hartman 1935, James Fox 1939, Nancy Kwan 1939, Nora Ephron 1941, Peter Townshend 1945, Phil Rudd 1946, David Helfgott 1947, Grace Jones 1952, Steven Ford 1956)
* T. E. Lawrence to Have a Simple Funeral
(By FERDINAND KUHN, Jr., May 19, 1935)
* Ho Chi Minh Was Noted for Success in Blending Nationalism and Communism
[5/19/1890-9/2/1969] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, September 4, 1969)
Laura Johnson, Mysterious About Her Philanthropies and Her Age, Dies (By ENID NEMY, May 19, 2002)
Warren Brandt, 84, a Painter in a Style of Domestic Warmth, Dies (By BEN SISARIO, May 19, 2002)
Michael Maas, 70, a Versatile Architect, Dies (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
* NATIONAL: U.S. Intercepting Messages Hinting at a New Attack (By JAMES RISEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, May 19, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: An Eye on the Ballot Box in Terror's Aftermath (By PATRICK E. TYLER, May 19, 2002)
A Priest's 2 Faces: Protector and Predator (By FOX BUTTERFIELD with JENNY HONTZ, May 19, 2002)
Satire, Lost on Some, Spins into a Libel Suit (By ADAM LIPTAK, May 19, 2002)
WORLD: Chilean Mystery: Clues to Vanished American (By LARRY ROHTER, May 19, 2002)
To the Drums of War, India Expels Pakistan's Ambassador (By CELIA W. DUGGER with HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 19, 2002)
U.S. Says 9 Afghans Killed May Have Been Tribesmen, Not Fighters (By DAVID ROHDE, May 19, 2002)
Pentagon's Worry: Iraqi Chemical Arms (By JAMES DAO, May 19, 2002)
For NATO, Little Is Sure Now but Growth (By STEVEN ERLANGER, May 19, 2002)
For Militant, No Glorified End, but Death in the Dust (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 19, 2002)
Emotional Ups and Downs After 9/11 Traced in Report (By ADAM CLYMER, May 19, 2002)
Presenting That Rarity, the Match That Lasted (By WILLIAM NORWICH, May 19, 2002)
FOLLOWING UP: A Harvard Lecturer, Too Busy for Bitterness (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, May 19, 2002)
Did Somebody Say Recovery? (Shhh.) (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
MORRIS PARK JOURNAL: Are These Ladies Game to Keep Playing? Bingo! (By ALAN FEUER, May 19, 2002)
* ON HORSE RACING: Is He Great or Merely Peaking? (By JOE DRAPE, May 19, 2002)
SPORTS: Crowning Achievement Is Expected by Baffert (By BILL FINLEY, May 19, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Other People's Money [Adelphia Communications] (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
OP-ED: Our Man in Arizona (By MAUREEN DOWD, May 19, 2002)
OP-ED: A Failure to Imagine (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, May 19, 2002)
OP-ED: The Last Sociologist (By ORLANDO PATTERSON, May 19, 2002)
LETTERS: What Makes a Campus Diverse? (By NOAH LEAVITT, May 19, 2002)
LETTERS: Spidey, Not for Kids [rated PG-13] (By KRISTINE ROBERTS, May 19, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Biotechnology Seeks End to Slump (By ANDREW POLLACK, May 19, 2002)
When Insiders' Sales Are a Long-Term Plan (By DANIEL ALTMAN, May 19, 2002)
MARKET WATCH: As Pressure Grows, Option Costs Come Out of Hiding (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, May 19, 2002)
* STRATEGIES: A Realignment of the Stars in the Mutual Fund Sky (By MARK HULBERT, May 19, 2002)
Entrepreneurship Is Fun. Then There's the Day Job. (By MAGGIE JACKSON, May 19, 2002)
From Enron's Rubble, Life on a Luxury Tightrope (By DAVID BARBOZA, May 19, 2002)
ARTS: The Model for 'Rosie,' but What Is a Rivet? (By JAMES BARRON, May 19, 2002)
ARTS: The Sexploitater Was Rather Proper (By DEBORAH BACH, May 19, 2002)
* ART: The War Finally Ends for an Image of Evil (By AMEI WALLACH, May 19, 2002)
ART: The Department of Sanitation's Artist in Residence (By JEFFREY KASTNER, May 19, 2002)
DANCE: A Master Passes on Ashton's Mastery (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
MUSIC: Then, Now: New Rock City (By JON PARELES, May 19, 2002)
THEATER: Raging, Softly, Against the Fame Machine (By NINA DARNTON, May 19, 2002)
THEATER: Plucked From the Chorus: It's Corny but True (By DON SHEWEY, May 19, 2002)
THEATER: As Giants in Suits Descend on Broadway (By PETER MARKS, May 19, 2002)
TV: 'The X-Files' Finds the Truth: Its Time Is Past (By JOYCE MILLMAN, May 19, 2002)
STYLE: In Hollywood, Everyone Wants to Be Ozzy (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, May 19, 2002)
STYLE: We Paid How Much for Dinner? (By STEPHANIE STROM, May 19, 2002)
STYLE: FRONT ROW: Mannequin Makers Unite (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, May 19, 2002)
VIEW: Buy Bread. Drop Off Kids. Meet Lover. . . . No Way! (By JULIE V. IOVINE, May 19, 2002)
STYLE: ON THE STREET: Shimmering Light (Photographs by BILL CUNNINGHAM, May 19, 2002)
VOWS: Lucy Sykes and Euan Rellie (By BOB MORRIS, May 19, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
GOTCHA!: One Cheer for Politics as Usual (By R. W. APPLE Jr., May 19, 2002)
* WESTWARD HO: Becoming a Normal Nation [Russia & The West] (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, May 19, 2002)
Just Try to Imagine a Palestinian Democracy (By JAMES BENNET, May 19, 2002)
The Meaning of East Timor's Nationhood (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, May 19, 2002)
PAST AS PROLOGUE: The Politics of Assassination (By ANSON RABINBACH, May 19, 2002)
Taking a Dip in TV's Wishing Well (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, May 19, 2002)
* When Backyards Were Laboratories (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 19, 2002)
* Bridge for Sale in Brooklyn [Divine Inc.] (By ALEX BERENSON, May 19, 2002)
WORD FOR WORD: Early Warnings (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
PHOTO ESSAY: Cold War Legacy (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, May 19, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Weapons-Grade (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 19, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Sweet Mike [Mike Tyson] (By GORDON MARINO, May 19, 2002)
QUESTIONS FOR JAMES JEFFORDS: A Party of One (By DAVID WALLIS, May 19, 2002)
FAMILY ALBUM: In the Name of the Father (By FRANK BRUNI, May 19, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: A Singing Offense (By RANDY COHEN, May 19, 2002)
What They Were Thinking [Holy Communion] (Interview by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, May 19, 2002)
* The Weight of an Anchor (By FRANK RICH, May 19, 2002)
Life Without Parole? (By JENNIFER GONNERMAN, May 19, 2002)
Oh, Brother (By MATT BAI, May 19, 2002)
* Making a Spectacle of Himself [David Blaine] (By GLEN DAVID GOLD, May 19, 2002)
* STYLE: Propping Up the Monarchy (By WILLIAM NORWICH, May 19, 2002)
A 1953 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, dripping in diamonds, rubies and ermine. (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
FOOD: The Wild Ones (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, May 19, 2002)
LIVES: Playing Through (By DAVID EVANIER, May 19, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
'The Reckoning': Iraq and the Thief of Baghdad (By FOUAD AJAMI, May 19, 2002)
'For Better or for Worse': Half at Ease in Splitsville (By SUSAN JACOBY, May 19, 2002)
'Never': The Participial Drama of Jorie Graham's Poetry (By SVEN BIRKERTS, May 19, 2002)
'The Making of a Philosopher': The Intensely Examined Life (By MARY LEFKOWITZ, May 19, 2002)
'Baroness Elsa': The Mama of Dada [Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven] (By HOLLAND COTTER, May 19, 2002)
'Days of Wonder': Poems of Protean Light (By WYATT PRUNTY, May 19, 2002)
* Books in Brief: 'Nature's Building Blocks' (By CHRISTINE KENNEALLY, May 19, 2002)
* Books in Brief: 'Art Lover' [Peggy Guggenheim & Picasso] (By SHERIE POSESORSKI, May 19, 2002)
* THE CLOSE READER: You Read Your Book and I'll Read Mine (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, May 19, 2002)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 19, 2002)
Into the Woods With a Sweetened Thoreau (By MAUD LAVIN, May 19, 2002)
* HEALTH: Bonuses Were Paid to Cut Doctor Visits [Kaiser Permanente] (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 19, 2002)
HEALTH: Quitting Smoking Can Prolong Life, Even in Cancer Patients (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, May 19, 2002)

Saturday, May 18, 2002:
On This Day: May 18 (Omar Khayyam 5/18/1048-12/4/1131, Johann Froberger 5/18/1616-5/7/1667, Peter Carl Faberge 5/18/1846-9/24/1920, Elisabeth Cary 5/18/1867-7/13/1936, Bertrand Russell 5/18/1872-2/2/1970, Walter Gropius 5/18/1883-7/5/1969, Eurico Dutra 5/18/1885-6/11/1974, Ezio Pinza 5/18/1892-5/9/1957, Vincent du Vigneaud 5/18/1901-12/11/1978, Richard Brooks 5/18/1912-3/11/1992, Pierre Balmain 5/18/1914-6/29/1982, Dame Margot Fonteyn 5/18/1919-2/21/1991, Pope John Paul II 1920, Bill Macy 1922, Jack Whitaker 1924, Pernell Roberts 1930, Robert Morse 1931, Brooks Robinson 1937, Reggie Jackson 1946, Candice Azzara 1949)
* At Least 8 Dead as Mount St. Helens Erupts; Worst Blast Yet
(By Wallace Turner, May 18, 1980)
* Frank Capra, Whose Films Helped America Keep Faith in Itself, Is Dead at 94
[5/18/1897-9/3/1991] (By PETER B. FLINT, September 4, 1991)
* Joe Black, Dodgers Rookie of the Year, Dies at 78 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, May 18, 2002)
Bill Peet, Disney Artist and Children's Book Author, Dies at 87 (By ERIC P. NASH, May 18, 2002)
Kenneth A. Lohf, 77, Librarian for Rare Books at Columbia, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 18, 2002)
Ray Stricklyn, Film Actor and Publicist, Dies at 73 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 18, 2002)
When There Wasn't a Will, He Found a Way (By JIM YARDLEY, May 18, 2002)
Rain Keeps Up in Water-Logged Midwest (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, May 18, 2002)
Survivor of '63 Bomb Recalls Glass Shards and a Sister Lost (By RICK BRAGG, May 18, 2002)
Killers of Dartmouth Professors Dreamed of Adventure but Settled for Murder (NY TIMES, May 18, 2002)
Anthrax Shots for Military to Be Limited to High Risks (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 18, 2002)
Bush and His Aides Accuse Democrats of Second-Guessing (By ELISABETH BUMILLER & ALISON MITCHELL, May 18, 2002)
Democrats Raise Questions Over Remarks on Warnings (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., May 18, 2002)
THE AIRLINES: Flight Crews' Reaction Mixed on a Lack of Pre-9/11 Alerts (By EDWARD WONG, May 18, 2002)
F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training (By PHILIP SHENON, May 18, 2002)
Sheik's Son and bin Laden Spoke of Plots, Officials Say (By JUDITH MILLER, May 18, 2002)
Impassioned Feelings as Workers Go on Strike in a Town Built on Chocolate (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, May 18, 2002)
BELIEFS: A Four-Page Explanation of Faith (By PETER STEINFELS, May 18, 2002)
WORLD: Pakistan Says Body Is Likely to Be Pearl's (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 18, 2002)
Before Scheduling Elections, Arafat Demands Israeli Pullback (By JOHN KIFNER, May 18, 2002)
Europe 'Is Rubbing Its Eyes' at the Ascent of the Right (By ALAN COWELL, May 18, 2002)
1,000 British Marines Join Australians in Firefight (By DAVID ROHDE, May 18, 2002)
Carter Urges Bush to Reject Plan to Aid Cuba Dissidents (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 18, 2002)
Two Deadly Attacks Show Signs of a Qaeda Revival (By RAYMOND BONNER, May 18, 2002)
SATURDAY PROFILE: His Mood Seems Mellow; His Cartoons Are Not (By GINGER THOMPSON, May 18, 2002)
NY REGION: Free Checkups for Ground Zero Workers (By KIRK JOHNSON, May 18, 2002)
Lower Manhattan Retailers Still Suffer Without Foot Traffic (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, May 18, 2002)
NYC: Patting a Back Can Be Painful If It's Yours (By CLYDE HABERMAN, May 18, 2002)
SPORTS: Prince's Passion Finally Pays Off [horse racing] (By JOE DRAPE, May 18, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Smarter Sanctions on Iraq (NY TIMES, May 18, 2002)
OP-ED: A Beautiful Friendship (By BILL KELLER, May 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Early Warning Was Still Too Late (By MICHAEL O'HANLON, May 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Lives Lost and the Renewal of Downtown (By CHRISTY FERER, May 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Curb the Endless Ringing of the Telemarketers (By JOHN J. MILLER, May 18, 2002)
LETTERS: Why America Slept: The Furor Over Sept. 11 (By JOAN SCOTT, et. al., May 18, 2002)
LETTERS: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/opinion/L18KRIS.html (By DAN KURZMAN, et. al., May 18, 2002)
* LETTERS: Faith, Without Formulas [Abraham Joshua Heschel] (By Rabbi GILBERT S. ROSENTHAL, May 18, 2002)
BUSINESS: A 5th Consecutive Gain Puts Nasdaq Up 8.8% for Week
[Dow +64, Nasdaq +11] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 18, 2002)
Drug Maker to Pay $500 Million Fine for Factory Lapses (By MELODY PETERSEN, May 18, 2002)
Tokyo Sees End of Recession, but Others Are Not so Sure (By KEN BELSON, May 18, 2002)
Bertelsmann, in a Reversal, Agrees to Acquire Napster (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, May 18, 2002)
Fed Wants to Raise Interest Rate on Its Direct Loans to Banks (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, May 18, 2002)
* ARTS: Some Language Experts Think Humans Spoke First With Gestures (By EMILY EAKIN, May 18, 2002)
BALLET: NYC BALLET: A First Work With Hot and Cool Spices (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 18, 2002)
* CABARET: 'BROADWAY BY THE YEAR': The Insights of Surveying Musicals From 1951
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 18, 2002)
* CONNECTIONS: Cultural Soul-Searching: In 50 Years It's Emigrated Back to Europe
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, May 18, 2002)
FILM CRITIC: Embracing the Auteurs at Cannes (By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 18, 2002)
MUSIC: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: With a Smile and a Wave to the Past (By BERNARD HOLLAND, May 18, 2002)
POP: KRONOS QUARTET: Kronos Quartet Gathers All the Music of Mexico (By JON PARELES, May 18, 2002)
POP: EL-P: The Chief of a Record Label Joins the Hip-Hop Subgenre He Helped Create (By KELEFA SANNEH, May 18, 2002)
TV: 'THE YOUNG AND THE DEAD': So You Missed the Funeral? Come See the Video Tribute
(By JULIE SALAMON, May 18, 2002)
TV CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: For Fall, TV Looks Back, and Back (By CARYN JAMES, May 18, 2002)

Friday, May 17, 2002:
On This Day: May 17 (Albert 5/17/1490-3/20/1568, Edward Jenner 5/17/1749-1/26/1823, Erik Satie 5/17/1866-7/1/1925, Horace E. Dodge 5/17/1868-12/10/1920, Dorothy Richardson 5/17/1873-6/17/1957, Jean Gabin 5/17/1904-11/15/1976, Karl Schafer 5/17/1909-4/26/1976, Stewart A;sp[ 5/17/1914-5/26/1974, Robin Maugham 5/17/1916-3/13/1981, Robin Howard 5/17/1924-6/12/1989, Archibald Cox 1912, Birgit Nilsson 1918, Dennis Hopper 1936, Taj Mahal 1942, Bill Paxton 1955, Sugar Ray Leonard 1956)
High Court Bans School Segregation; 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time to Comply
(By LUTHER A. HUSTON, May 17, 1954)
Maureen O'Sullivan, Movie Tarzan's 'Jane,' Dies at 87
[5/17/1911-6/22/1998] (NY TIMES, June 23, 1998)
José Lutzenberger, Brazilian Environmentalist, Dies at 75 (By LARRY ROHTER, May 17, 2002)
Charles Rick, 87, Botanist and Tomato Expert, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 17, 2002)
Sharon Monsky, 48, Leader in Fight Against Rare Illness, Dies (By ERIC PACE, May 17, 2002)
Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish Composer and Critic, 90, Dies (By ALLAN KOZINN, May 17, 2002)
Boyce McDaniel, Atom-Bomb Pioneer, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 17, 2002)
Robert Wilder, Leader of Ad Agency, 82, Dies (NY TIMES, May 17, 2002)
Rose Ellis Matzkin, Hadassah Leader, Dies at 88 (NY TIMES, May 17, 2002)
NATIONAL: Democrats Say Bush Must Give Full Disclosure (By ALISON MITCHELL, May 17, 2002)
* No Hint of Sept. 11 in Report in August, White House Says, But Congress Seeks Inquiry
(By DAVID E. SANGER & ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 17, 2002)
SERIES OF WARNINGS; Foreboding Increased, but No Single Agency Had All the Clues
(By DAVID JOHNSTON & JAMES RISEN, May 17, 2002)
Excerpts From National Security Adviser's StatemenT (By Condoleezza Rice, May 17, 2002)
UNITED AND AMERICAN: Airlines Report Hearing Only Vague Caution (By MATTHEW L. WALD, May 17, 2002)
WORLD: Arafat Willing to Face Voters, His Aides Say (By JAMES BENNET, May 17, 2002)
Police Are Led to Body Said to Be Pearl's (By FELICITY BARRINGER, May 17, 2002)
Party Organ in Cuba Prints Speech (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 17, 2002)
* Russia and China Called Top Business Bribers [Bribe Index: www.transparency.org]
(By BARBARA CROSSETTE, May 17, 2002)
With Folk Medicine on Rise, Health Group Is Monitoring (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., May 17, 2002)
NY REGION: Tribute Will Signal the End of the Search (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, May 17, 2002)
Post-9/11, Questions About Security at Electric Plants (By JAYSON BLAIR, May 17, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Not Political Boss. Just Boss [Springsteen for NJ Senator]
(By JAMES BARRON, May 17, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Turning Heads (and Pages) in the Magazine World (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, May 17, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Blame Game (NY TIMES, May 17, 2002)
OP-ED: America's Poor Standards (By PAUL KRUGMAN, May 17, 2002)
Is Arafat Capable of Peace? (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, May 17, 2002)
Pressure on Arafat Now Comes From Within (By FAWAZ A. GERGES, May 17, 2002)
NOTES FROM WEST VIRGINIA: The Fight for the Soul of Coal Country (By MICHAEL LIPTON, May 17, 2002)
LETTERS: On Crossing the Strait to Cuba (By STEVE NESICH, et. al., May 17, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Increase Only Slightly as Investors Buy Selectively
[Dow +46, Nasdaq +5] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 17, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: Will Inflation Bets Continue to Pay Off? (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 17, 2002)
Dell's Results Match Those of a Year Ago (By STEVE LOHR, May 17, 2002)
Trying to Fit a Family Into a Sale (By BRIAN LAVERY, May 17, 2002)
13,000 Credit Reports Stolen by Hackers (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, May 17, 2002)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: At AOL, Parting Without the Sweet Sorrow
(By GERALDINE FABRIKANT with SETH SCHIESEL, May 17, 2002)
ART: Your Stolen Art? I Threw It Away, Dear (By ALAN RIDING, May 17, 2002)
* ART: JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE: Surveying the Career of a Dramatic Draftsman
(By JOHN RUSSELL, May 17, 2002)
* ARTS: New York's Wildest Love Affairs (By MICHAEL CREWDSON and MARGARET MITTELBACH, May 17, 2002)
ART: Julio González (By HOLLAND COTTER, May 17, 2002)
INSIDE ART: Untitled, Yes; Neglected, No (By CAROL VOGEL, May 17, 2002)
ANTIQUES: A New Breed of Aficionado Comes of Age (By WENDY MOONAN, May 17, 2002)
BOOKS: 'A HOUSE UNLOCKED': Finding Memories in an Ancestral Home (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, May 17, 2002)
DANCE: Cerebral Abstraction and Lyrical Waltzes (By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 17, 2002)
DESIGN: 'SKIN: SURFACE, SUBSTANCE AND DESIGN': A Wrap That's Almost Human
(By ROBERTA SMITH, May 17, 2002)
* DESIGN: GILBERT ADRIAN: Elegant Styles That Were Movie Scene-Stealers (By GRACE GLUECK, May 17, 2002)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: For Hugh Grant, Natural Does It (By DAVE KEHR, May 17, 2002)
FILM: 'ABOUT A BOY': Peter Pan Meets Another Lost Boy (By A. O. SCOTT, May 17, 2002)
FILM: 'LATE MARRIAGE': Not Married? Sorry, You're Not a Man (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 17, 2002)
FILM: 'THE BELIEVER': His Actions Are Evil but He Can't Stop (By JULIE SALAMON, May 17, 2002)
MUSIC: Martha Argerich; Fred Hersch (By ALLAN KOZINN, May 17, 2002)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: 'W. EUGENE SMITH': Amid Smoke and Steel, a Symphonic Struggle
(By SARAH BOXER, May 17, 2002)
THEATER: Two Plays Connected by Sprints ["House" & "Garden"] (By ROBIN POGREBIN, May 17, 2002)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: Tug the Ear, Do a Show (By JESSE MCKINLEY, May 17, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE SANDMAN': Mixing Operatic Tradition With Irony and High Jinks
(By BRUCE WEBER, May 17, 2002)
* TV: 'PATH TO WAR': Many Advise, Mr. President, but You Decide [LBJ]
(NY TIMES, May 17, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Meteor May Have Started Dinosaur Era (By KENNETH CHANG, May 17, 2002)
SCIENCE: Debate on Human Cloning Turns to Patents (By ANDREW POLLACK, May 17, 2002)

Thursday, May 16, 2002:
On This Day: May 16 (Sir Dudley North 5/16/1641-12/31/1691, William Henry Seqard 5/16/1801-10/10/1872, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 5/16/1804-1/3/1894, Philip Armour 5/16/1832-1/6/1901, Walter Yust 5/16/1894-2/29-1960, Henry Fonda 5/16/1905-8/12/1982, H. E. Bates 5/16/1905-1/29/1974, Woody Herman 5/16/1913-10/29/1987, Billy Martin 5/16/1928-12/25/1989, Betty Carter 5/16/1930-9/26/1998, Studs Terkel 1911, George Gaynes 1917, Harry Carey Jr. 1921, Lowell Weicker 1931, Pierce Brosnan 1953, Olga Korbut 1955, Debra Winger 1955, Mare Winningham 1959, Janet Jackson 1966, Gabriela Sabatini 1970, Rick Trevino 1971, Tori Spelling 1973)
Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson: One Vote Short of Conviction
(NY TIMES, May 16, 1868)
Anne O'Hare McCormick Is Dead; Member of Times Editorial Board; 1937 Pulitzer Prize
[5/16/1882-5/29/1954] (NY TIMES, May 30, 1954)
Douglas Pike, Vietnam Expert, Dies at 77 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 16, 2002)
Sam Walton, 59, Former Jets Tackle, Dies (By GERALD ESKENAZI, May 16, 2002)
Kimberly Miles, Recipient in a Rare Lung Transplant, 33, Dies (By DENISE GRADY, May 16, 2002)
Maida Abrams, Art Collector, Dies at 63 (NY TIMES, May 16, 2002)
John Sharnik, 78, Television Producer, Dies (NY TIMES, May 16, 2002)
Norman Wechsler, Retail Executive, 89, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 16, 2002)
NATIONAL: Spy's Wife Speaks, After Taking a Lie Test (By JAMES RISEN, May 16, 2002)
* Bush Was Warned bin Laden Wanted to Hijack Planes (By DAVID E. SANGER, May 16, 2002)
Berkeley Course on Mideast Raises Concerns (By CHRIS GAITHER, May 16, 2002)
Town Rallies to Save Its Grocery and Its Vitality (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, May 16, 2002)
WORLD: Admitting Errors, Arafat Promises a Wave of Reform (By JAMES BENNET, May 16, 2002)
Drugs, Terror and Tuna: How Goals Clash (By KEITH BRADSHER, May 16, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Castro's Door: Both Open and Closed (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 16, 2002)
TOGLIATTI JOURNAL: Gathering News in the New Russia Can Be Fatal (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, May 16, 2002)
DIPLOMATIC MEMO: A Wider Atlantic: Europe Sees a Grotesque U.S. (By TODD S. PURDUM, May 16, 2002)
Blair Says Merrie Olde England Indeed Needs Shiny New Euro (By ALAN COWELL, May 16, 2002)
Truck Full of Cyanide is Stolen in Mexico (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 16, 2002)
CBS News Criticized for Showing Part of Video of Slain Reporter (By FELICITY BARRINGER, May 16, 2002)
NY REGION: A Drummer Boy Is Gone, and He Didn't March Off (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, May 16, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Reno, Whose Eventful Life Is a One-Woman Show (By ROBIN FINN, May 16, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: The Man Behind Tony? (By JAMES BARRON with ROBERT F. WORTH, May 16, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Journey to Havana (NY TIMES, May 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Dire Budget Warnings (By BOB HERBERT, May 16, 2002)
OP-ED: The But-What-if Factor (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Aid Meant for the Hungry (By ROBERTA COHEN, May 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Learning From Diversity (By JEFFREY S. LEHMAN, May 16, 2002)
LETTERS: Alas, No Swan Song (By RACHEL FINK, et. al., May 16, 2002)
LETTERS: Muslims and Jews (By JAMES CRITCHLOW, May 16, 2002)
BUSINESS: Drug Shares and Hewlett Drag Down S.& P. and Dow
[Dow -54, Nasdaq +7] (By BLOMMBERG NEWS, May 16, 2002)
Despite Doubters, Enron Waited to Stop Its Trades, Senate Is Told (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., May 16, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: 3 Ex-Chiefs Discover Perils of Borrowing and Believing (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 16, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: WorldCom Taps a $2.65 Billion Credit Line (By SIMON ROMERO, May 16, 2002)
New I.B.M. Chief Says Focus Is on Gains in Productivity (By STEVE LOHR, May 16, 2002)
Electronic Arts in Sony Game Deal (By JOHN MARKOFF & CHRIS GAITHER, May 16, 2002)
From TV Advertisers, Thumbs Up and Down (By JIM RUTENBERG, May 16, 2002)
Kmart Reports $2.42 Billion Annual Loss (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, May 16, 2002)
Wal-Mart Seeks Approval to Buy California Bank (By RIVA D. ATLAS, May 16, 2002)
ECONOMIC SCENE: The Muscle-Bound Dollar May Now Be an Achilles' Heel (By JEFF MADRICK, May 16, 2002)
* ARTS IN AMERICA: Rescue Efforts Lift Poets' Voices From Fraying Tapes (By STEPHEN KINZER, May 16, 2002)
ART: Richter and Warhol Rule at Contemporary-Art Sale (By CAROL VOGEL, May 16, 2002)
BOOKS: 'WALK THROUGH DARKNESS': A Fugitive Slave's Quest for Freedom and Family
(By JANET MASLIN, May 16, 2002)
MAKING BOOKS: Novelists Court the Braces Set (By MARTIN ARNOLD, May 16, 2002)
DANCE: Time to Hop, in a Lindy Kind of Way (By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 16, 2002)
DANCE: COMPAGNIE KÄFIG: Hip-Hop Head-Spinning, but With a French Twist
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 16, 2002)
DANCE: 'ONEGIN': A Brooding Introvert, Awakened by Passion (By JACK ANDERSON, May 16, 2002)
DANCE: H. T. CHEN & DANCERS: Worlds Old and New Meld in a Dream State
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 16, 2002)
FILM: 'NINA HAGEN = PUNK + GLORY': Relentless Exhibitionism Becomes a Life's Work
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 16, 2002)
MUSIC: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: A Scandinavian Sampler, the Century Undecided
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, May 16, 2002)
THEATER: Pore Jud Is . . . Sympathetic? Adding Depth to a Villain (By ROBIN POGREBIN, May 16, 2002)
TV: Trying to Get Beyond the Role of the Maid (By MIREYA NAVARRO, May 16, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 16, 2002)
STATE OF THE ART: Connecting Gadgets, Without Wires (By DAVID POGUE, May 16, 2002)
GETTING THERE: Switching From Tangled Mess to Wireless (By DAVID POGUE, May 16, 2002)
* Religion Finds Technology (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, May 16, 2002)
Being of Sound Mind, and a $55 Consultation (By FRED BERNSTEIN, May 16, 2002)
* ONLINE SHOPPER: Book Bargains to Warm a Mommy's Heart (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, May 16, 2002)
* BASICS: Pamper Your Pixels: Making the Most of the Monitor (By LARRY MAGID, May 16, 2002)
PERIPHERALS: Monitors That Can Kick the Brightness Up a Notch (By IAN AUSTEN, May 16, 2002)
* CD's or LP's, Buyers Get to Listen First (By MARC WEINGARTEN, May 16, 2002)
SOFTWARE: When the Grim Reaper Calls, the Computer Goes Into Action (By BILL WERDE, May 16, 2002)
CULTURE: Art History 2002: Video Games and Their Influence (By S.J. ROSS, May 16, 2002)
NETWORKING: For Your Big Graphics Files, a Wireless Speed Demon (By IAN AUSTEN, May 16, 2002)
INCOMING Letters to the Editor: Defending Dot-Com U. (By JIM HINES, et. al., May 16, 2002)
Q & A: 'Ha-Ha, I'm in Hawaii': Automatic E-Mail Replies (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, May 16, 2002)
SCIENCE: Main Oxygen Maker on Space Station Fails (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 16, 2002)
HEALTH: Outbreak of Hospital Infection Is Tied to Worker's Drug Abuse (By DENISE GRADY, May 16, 2002)
HEALTH: Study Finds an Oversupply of Neonatal Doctors (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 16, 2002)

Wednesday, May 15, 2002:
On This Day: May 15 (Klemens Metternich 5/15/1773-6/11/1859, Michael Balfe 5/15/1808-10/20/1870, Debendranath Tagore 5/15/1817-1/19/1905, Elie Metchnikoff 5/15/1845-7/16/1916, Frank L. Baum 5/15/1856-5/6/1919, Pierre Curie 5/15/1859-4/19/1906, Arthur Schnitzler 5/15/1862-10/21/1931, Edwin Muir 5/15/1887-1/3/1959, William Hume-Rothery 5/15/1899-9/27/1968, Clifton Fadiman 5/15/1904-6/20/1999, James Mason 5/15/1909-7/27/1984, Tenzing Norgay 5/15/1914-5/9/1986, Catherine East 5/15/1916-8/17/1996, Constance Cummings 1910, Eddy Arnold 1918, Paul Zindel 1936, Anna Maria Alberghetti 1936, Madeleine Albright 1937, Trini Lopez 1937, Paul Rudd 1940, George Brett 1953, Lee Horsley 1955, Brad Rowe 1970, Amy Chow 1978)
Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months; Only Unreasonable Restraint of Trade Forbidden
(NY TIMES, May 15, 1911)
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago Dies at 74
[5/15/1902-12/20/1976] (By PAUL DELANEY, December 21, 1976)
Hugh Hicks, Prodigious Collector of Light Bulbs, Dies at 79 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 15, 2002)
W.A. Rosenblith, 88, Catalyst in Combining Scientific Fields, Dies (By KENNETH CHANG, May 15, 2002)
James McFarland, Former General Mills Executive, 90, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 15, 2002)
Joseph Steiner, Founder of Well-Known Toy Maker, Dies at 95 (By MARCIN SKOMIAL, May 15, 2002)
NATIONAL: Pre-Attack Memo Cited Bin Laden (By DAVID JOHNSTON, May 15, 2002)
On Day of Big Fund-Raiser, White House Is Attacked as 9/11 Marketer
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER & DON VAN NATTA Jr., May 15, 2002)
WORLD: NATO Strikes Deal to Accept Russia in a Partnership (By TODD S. PURDUM, May 15, 2002)
* For China's Wealthy, All but Fruited Plain (By CRAIG S. SMITH, May 15, 2002)
In Address to the Cuban Nation, Carter Urges Reform (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 15, 2002)
U.S. Expects Russian Help to Stem Nuclear Weapons (By MICHAEL WINES, May 15, 2002)
A New Afghan Army Takes Shape, With G.I.'s as Trainers (By ERIC SCHMITT, May 15, 2002)
Who, and What, Can Get Into Cuba (NY TIMES, May 15, 2002)
NY REGION: Half of New Teachers Lack Certificates, Data Say (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, May 15, 2002)
3 High Schools for Students Who Excel (By KAREN W. ARENSON, May 15, 2002)
Air Testing After Sept. 11 Is Both Perplexing and Reassuring (By KIRK JOHNSON, May 15, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Being Rich Is Grand; Getting Old Is Getting Old (By JOYCE WADLER, May 15, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Rewriting History in Reykjavik (NY TIMES, May 15, 2002)
OP-ED: Photo Op-Portunism (By MAUREEN DOWD, May 15, 2002)
OP-ED: Nine Wars Too Many (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, May 15, 2002)
OP-ED: Faster Charity (By BILL BRADLEY & PAUL JANSEN, May 15, 2002)
* OP-ED: A Very American Movie [Star Wars] (By BRUCE STERLING, May 15, 2002)
LETTERS: Dear I.R.S.: Forward to Bermuda (By JIM GEORGE, et. al., May 15, 2002)
LETTERS: You Never Forget Your First Computer (By ANDREA RATHBONE, May 15, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Rally After Unexpectedly Healthy Retail Sales
[Dow +188, Nasdaq +67] (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, May 15, 2002)
Hewlett-Packard's Profit Rises Despite Weak Sales (By STEVE LOHR, May 15, 2002)
Computer Associates Says U.S. Is Seeking Data on Accounting (By ALEX BERENSON, May 15, 2002)
ADVERTISING: ABC Plans a Return to Its Roots to Reverse a Ratings Decline
(By BILL CARTER & JIM RUTENBERG, May 15, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Did Standard & Poor's Make a Mistake by Removing WorldCom From the 500?
(By FLOYD NORRIS, May 15, 2002)
News Corp. Reports a Loss, but Its Shares Soar (By SETH SCHIESEL, May 15, 2002)
DANCE: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: Ballet Theater Gives an Overture to Its Season
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 15, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION': Finding New Lives in a Writer's Death
(By RICHARD EDER, May 15, 2002)
FILM: 'CREMASTER 3': Racing Dead Horses. Dental Torture. The Usual. (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 15, 2002)
FILM: 'STANDING BY YOURSELF': Teenager With Too Much of Nothing to Do (By DAVE KEHR, May 15, 2002)
OPERA CRITIC: Reviewing New Opera? Not Quite (By JOHN ROCKWELL, May 15, 2002)
Unmemorable Theater Moments, Gone but Not Forgotten (By MEL GUSSOW, May 15, 2002)
THEATER: 'SWEENEY TODD': Adding Love to the Pies' Time-Tested Recipe (By BEN BRANTLEY, May 15, 2002)
THEATER: Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines to Be Tony Hosts (By JESSE McKINLEY, May 15, 2002)

Tuesday, May 14, 2002:
On This Day: May 14 (Margaret of Valois 5/14/1553-3/27/1615, Francois de Callieres 5/14/1645-3/5/1717, Rober Owen 5/14/1771-11/17/1858, Sir Frederick Borden 5/14/1847-1/6/1917, Alton Parker 5/14/1852-5/10/1926, Kurt Eisner 5/14/1867-2/21/1919, Julian Eltinge 5/14/1883-3/7/1941, Al White 5/14/1895-7/8/1982, Mohammad Ayub 5/14/1907-4/19/1974, Patrice Munsel 1925, George Lucas 1944, Meg Foster 1948, Robert Zemeckis 1951, Tim Roth 1961, Cate Blanchett 1969)
Zionists Proclaim New State of Israel; Truman Recognizes it and Hopes for Peace
(By GENE CURRIVAN, May 14, 1948)
* Otto Klemperer; Conductor Dead at 88
[5/14/1885-7/6/1973] (By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY, July 8, 1973)
Peter Bauer, British Economist, Dies at 86 (By PAUL LEWIS, May 14, 2002)
Stanford Calderwood, 81, Fostered PBS Theater Series, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 14, 2002)
Jacques Mapes, Film Art Director and Producer, 88, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 14, 2002)
Edward Carey, Oil Executive, Dies at 85 (By PAUL LEWIS, May 14, 2002)
NATIONAL: Once a Model, Panel on Priests Now Is Faulted (By SAM DILLON, May 14, 2002)
Lion at Busch Gardens Severs Keeper's Arm After a Feeding (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 14, 2002)
WORLD: Bush and Putin to Sign Treaty to Cut Nuclear Warheads (By DAVID E. SANGER, May 14, 2002)
Arafat Finally Leaves Ramallah, but Avoids Testy Crowd at Camp (By JAMES BENNET, May 14, 2002)
Carter and Powell Cast Doubt on Bioarms in Cuba (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 14, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Pulling Russia Closer (By PATRICK E. TYLER, May 14, 2002)
MOSCOW: Russia Finds Virtue in a U.S. Victory (By MICHAEL WINES, May 14, 2002)
KABUL JOURNAL: In Afghanistan's Capital, Rents Go Through Roof (By BARRY BEARAK, May 14, 2002)
NY REGION: Sifting the Last Tons of Sept. 11 Debris (By DAN BARRY, May 14, 2002)
* In Nightmares and Anger, Children Pay Hidden Cost of 9/11 (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, May 14, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Not Even a Whimper [Luciano Pavarotti's farewell] (NY TIMES, May 14, 2002)
OP-ED: The Great Evasion (By PAUL KRUGMAN, May 14, 2002)
OP-ED: Smarter Spying (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, May 14, 2002)
OP-ED: A Dutch Radical's Message to Europe (By FOLKERT JENSMA, May 14, 2002)
OP-ED: American Views of the Mideast Conflict (By ANDREW KOHUT, May 14, 2002)
LETTERS: The Boos: A Mideast Moment (By EDGAR M. BRONFMAN, May 14, 2002)
BUSINESS: Technology Shares and Bargain Buying Lift All Indexes
[Dow +170, Nasdaq +52] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 14, 2002)
Sears Deal for Lands' End Unites Pants and Power Drills (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, May 14, 2002)
Proposed Deal Could Help Both Retailers' Web Sites (By BOB TEDESCHI, May 14, 2002)
Shift by Martha Stewart [to Sears Canada] (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, May 14, 2002)
ON THE GROUND: In Hong Kong (By MARK LANDLER, May 14, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: Life Can Be Pretty Good 5 Miles Up (By JOE SHARKEY, May 14, 2002)
FILM CRITIC: How to Create a Film Festival in Just 4 Months (By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 14, 2002)
MUSIC: 'THREE TALES': An Atomic Bomb, a Zeppelin, a Warning About Genetic Manipulation
(By PAUL GRIFFITHS, May 14, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Carnegie Hall vs. the Kimmel Center, an Acoustics Battle (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 14, 2002)
OPERA: PLÁCIDO DOMINGO: Domingo Remaining a Triple Threat (By BERNARD HOLLAND, May 14, 2002)
TV: ABC to End 'Politically Incorrect' (By BILL CARTER, May 14, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Moon's Dust Hides a Throbbing Heart (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, May 14, 2002)
* In DNA, New Clues to Jewish Roots (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 14, 2002)
* In Spiders, Itsy Bitsy Gets the Girl (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, May 14, 2002)
A Head Start on Potential Hazards for Mars Explorers (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, May 14, 2002)
Scientists Get Atoms Ready for a Close-Up (By KENNETH CHANG, May 14, 2002)
Yet Another Plague for Cursed, Glorious Ship [Swede's Vasa] (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., May 14, 2002)
OBSERVATORY: Playing It by Ear (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 14, 2002)
SCIENCE Letters: Spying on Einstein (By RICHARD H. LEVENSON, et. al., May 14, 2002)
* HEALTH: What's in Those Nuggets? Meat Substitute Stirs Debate [Quorn]
(By DENISE GRADY, May 14, 2002)
Have It Your Way (but Hold the Garlic Powder) [Quorn] (By ERIC ASIMOV, May 14, 2002)
More Are Finding Permanent Cures for Hepatitis C (By JULIE BAIN, May 14, 2002)
A CONVERSATION WITH | MICHAEL J. FOX: A 'Lucky Man' Puts His Celebrity to Work
(By MARY DUENWALD, May 14, 2002)
Case Studies: Nerves' Mysteries Are Explored (By JOHN O'NEIL, May 14, 2002)
Treatments: Aspirin's Added Benefits to Heart (By JOHN O'NEIL, May 14, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: The Color of Nutrition: Fruits and Vegetables (By JANE E. BRODY, May 14, 2002)
* CASES: Of Saints, Servants and Cynics (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D., May 14, 2002)
Perceptions: Preoperative Fasts Still Overdone (By JOHN O'NEIL, May 14, 2002)
Q & A: Seeing Double (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 14, 2002)

Monday, May 13, 2002:
On This Day: May 13 (Henry William Stiegel 5/13/1729-1/10/1785, Piux IX 5/13/1792-2/7/1878, Sir Arthur Sullivan 5/13/1842-11/22/1900, Sir Ronald Ross 5/13/1857-9/16/1932, George Braque 5/13/1882-8/31/1963, Charles Pajud de Mortanges 5/13/1896-4/7/1971, Dame Daphne du Maurier 5/13/1907-4/19/1989, Gil Evans 5/13/1912-3/20/1988, Jim Jones 5/13/1931-11/18/1978, Bea Arthur 1926, Clive Barnes 1927, Herbert Ross 1927, Harvey Keitel 1939, Stevie Wonder 1950)
Pope Is Shot in Car in Vatican Square; Surgeons Term Condition 'Guarded'; Turk, an Escaped Murderer, Is Seized
(By HENRY TANNER, May 13, 1981)
* Joe Louis, 66, Heavyweight King Who Reigned 12 Years, Is Dead
[5/13/1914-4/12/1981] (By DEANE McGOWEN, April 13, 1981)
Florence G. Roswell, 97, Expert on Teaching Children to Read, Die (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 13, 2002)
Albert F. Sabo, 81, Judge in Murder Trials, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 13, 2002)
Earl Shaffer, First to Conquer Appalachian Trail, Dies at 83 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 13, 2002)
J. Royden Stork, 85, Crewman in Raid Over Japan, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, May 13, 2002)
NATIONAL: Utility Buys Town It Choked, Lock, Stock and Blue Plume (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, May 13, 2002)
* Cinematography and Chilling Out? That's Scouting (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, May 13, 2002)
MORGANTOWN JOURNAL: Yuppie Moonshine With the Old Kick, and It's Legal, Too
(By FRANCIS X. CLINES, May 13, 2002)
* WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Faith, Politics and One Eye on Heaven (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 13, 2002)
Rebuffing Sharon, Likud Party Repudiates Palestinian State (By STEVEN ERLANGER, May 13, 2002)
Hindu Nationalists Are Enrolling, and Enlisting, India's Poor (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, May 13, 2002)
Powell and Russian Official Say Arms Accord Is Likely (By MICHAEL WINES, May 13, 2002)
Castro Says Carter Can Inspect Biotechnology Centers (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 13, 2002)
BEIJING JOURNAL: Where Toilets Are the Pits, a Push for Porcelain (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, May 13, 2002)
THE CHURCH: Hymns, Not Gunfire, Fill Bethlehem (By JOEL GREENBERG, May 13, 2002)
Shock of Sept. 11 Is Making Americans More Supportive for Israel (By PATRICK E. TYLER, May 13, 2002)
SECURITY FORCES: Palestinians Sow Confusion and Doubt on Bombing (By C. J. CHIVERS, May 13, 2002)
NY REGION: Just to the North of Ground Zero, a Tribute in Light Sabers
(By ELISSA GOOTMAN & ELVIS MITCHELL, May 13, 2002)
Tackling Fear Is Key to Success, Giuliani Tells Syracuse Graduates (NY TIMES, May 13, 2002)
METRO MATTERS: In Schools, a Hidden Toll of Sept. 11 (By JOYCE PURNICK, May 13, 2002)
METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By ENID NEMY, May 13, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Bermuda Tax Triangle (NY TIMES, May 13, 2002)
OP-ED: Who Gets the Death Penalty? (By BOB HERBERT, May 13, 2002)
OP-ED: Calling Arabs' Bluff (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 13, 2002)
OP-ED: Guarding the Gatekeepers (By JOHN C. COFFEE Jr., May 13, 2002)
LETTERS: Fighting Crime, Risking Privacy [DNA database] (By BARRY STEINHARDT, et. al., May 13, 2002)
BUSINESS: Enron Inquiry Now Focusing on Valuations (By DAVID BARBOZA, May 13, 2002)
Sears to Buy Lands' End for $1.9 Billion (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, May 13, 2002)
* Credit Card Theft Thrives Online as Global Market Losses Grow (By MATT RICHTEL, May 13, 2002)
* BALLET: 'VIENNA WALTZES': The Clashes of Dissonance in Three-Quarter Time (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 13, 2002)
BOOKS: 'GONE FOR GOOD': Brother Bolts; Girlfriend Takes a Powder (By JANET MASLIN, May 13, 2002)
MUSIC: 'THREE TALES': An Atomic Bomb, a Zeppelin, a Warning About Genetic Manipulation
(By PAUL GRIFFITHS, May 13, 2002)
OPERA: PLÁCIDO DOMINGO: Domingo Remaining a Triple Threat (By BERNARD HOLLAND, May 13, 2002)
POP: CORNERSHOP: A Sikh in Pinstripes Works With Irony of Unknown Depth (By KELEFA SANNEH, May 13, 2002)
ROCK: KID ROCK: Self-Styled Middle American 'Straight Out the Trailer' (By JON PARELES, May 13, 2002)
THEATER: '21 DOG YEARS': Lampooning @disorganization.com (By BRUCE WEBER, May 13, 2002)
TV: 'AL JAZEERA: THE CNN OF ARABIA': Al Jazeera, Looking Like CNN on the Surface Only
(By JULIE SALAMON, May 13, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Bees Learning Smell of Bombs With Backing From Pentagon (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 13, 2002)

Sunday, May 12, 2002:
On This Day: May 12 (Edward Lear 5/12/1812-1/29/1888, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 5/12/1828-4/9/1882, Jules Massenet 5/12/1842-8/13/1912, Gabriel Faure 5/12/1845-11/4/1924, Henry Cabot Lodge 5/12/1850-11/9/1924, Baron Clemens von Pirquet 5/12/1874-2/28/1929, Lincoln Ellsworth 5/12/1880-5/26/1951, Leslie Charteris 5/12/1907-4/15/1993, Dorothy Hodgkin 5/12/1910-7/29/1994, Julius Rosenberg 5/12/1918-6/19/1953, Katharine Hepburn 1907, Howard K. Smith 1914, Yogi Berra 1925, John Simon 1925, Burt Bacharach 1929, Tom Snyder 1936, George Carlin 1937, Millie Perkins 1938, Billy Swan 1942, Bruce Boxleitner 1950, Gabriel Byrne 1950, Billy Squier 1950, Stephen Baldwin 1966)
Tunisian Resistance Ends in Rout of Germans; Gen. Von Arnim and 150,000 Men Captured
(By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, May 12, 1943)
* Florence Nightingale Dies, Aged Ninety
[5/12/1820-8/13/1910] (NY TIMES, August 15, 1910)
Joe Bonanno, Mafia Leader Who Built an Empire, Dies at 97 (By SELWYN RAAB, May 12, 2002)
U.S. Agencies Seen as Slow to Move on Terrorism Risk (By PHILIP SHENON, May 12, 2002)
Analysts Predict Sharp Increases in Spending by U.S. (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, May 12, 2002)
Nordic Culture Thrives as Young Seek Out Roots (By TIMOTHY EGAN, May 12, 2002)
Atomic Plant Casts a Pall on Paradise (NY TIMES, May 12, 2002)
WORLD: U.S. Says Russia Is Preparing Nuclear Tests (By THOM SHANKER, May 12, 2002)
Carter's Trip to Cuba Raises Many Hopes From All Sides (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 12, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: With Troops Poised Near Gaza, Sharon Judges Cost of Reprisal (By STEVEN ERLANGER, May 12, 2002)
THE OVERVIEW: Israeli Troops Standing By on the Outskirts of Gaza (By ALAN COWELL, May 12, 2002)
DIPLOMACY: Leaders of Three Arab Nations Affirm Support of Peace Plan (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, May 12, 2002)
British Judge Says U.S. Court Should Try Qaeda Suspect (By WARREN HOGE, May 12, 2002)
NY REGION: This Week, New York Plans to Join Multistate Lottery (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, May 12, 2002)
BUSINESS: Enron Inquiry Now Focusing on Valuations (By DAVID BARBOZA, May 12, 2002)
Some See a Young Ovitz in Emerging Power Broker (By LAURA M. HOLSON with BERNARD WEINRAUB, May 12, 2002)
* Vulnerability Is Discovered in Security for Smart Cards (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 12, 2002)
Newsweek Scores Gains on Rival in War of the News Magazines (By DAVID CARR, May 12, 2002)
Cramer Book Dispute Continues (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 12, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: TV Networks Stand by Online Sales (By BOB TEDESCHI, May 12, 2002)
NEW ECONOMY: Cable Forgoes Grand Visions (By SETH SCHIESEL, May 12, 2002)
PATENTS: 5-Year-Old Boy Awarded a Patent (By TERESA RIORDAN, May 12, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Talk Is Nowhere, and It's Everywhere (By DAVID CARR, May 12, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: The Yahoo Privacy Storm That Wasn't (By SAUL HANSELL, May 12, 2002)
A New Direction for Intellectual Property (By AMY HARMON, May 12, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: 'Star Wars' Charts Course in Digital Video (By ANDREW ZIPERN, May 12, 2002)
Judge Blocks Anthology That He Says Poses as a Novel (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 12, 2002)
Industry Expertise Has Itself Become a Product (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, May 12, 2002)
As Salary Grows, So Does a Gender Gap (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, May 12, 2002)
* ART: Among the World's Homeless Is ArT (By THEODORE K. RABB, May 12, 2002)
ART: Ambition and Rapture Add Up to Joy (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, May 12, 2002)
ART: A Professor's 800 Pieces of Islam (By RITA REIF, May 12, 2002)
ART: When the News in Pictures Was News (By VICKI GOLDBERG, May 12, 2002)
DANCE: The 20th-Century Titan Whose Work Is M.I.A. [Antony Tudor] (By JOSEPH CARMAN, May 12, 2002)
DANCE: Unearthing the Treasures of Spanish Dance (By JACK ANDERSON, May 12, 2002)
* FILM: Summer Movies [Special Section] (NY TIMES, May 12, 2002)
JAZZ: Bill Charlap: A Slow Climb, but the Stars Come Out for Him (By TERRY TEACHOUT, May 12, 2002)
* MUSIC: Creating the Sound of Cold: Wind Plus Struggle (By MICHAEL BECKERMAN, May 12, 2002)
MUSIC: Ashanti: Talking Tough, Singing Sweetly (By KELEFA SANNEH, May 12, 2002)
MUSIC: Kurt Masur's Bittersweet Goodbye With Might Have Beens (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, May 12, 2002)
MUSIC: A Conductor of Authority and Warmth [Kurt Masur] (By JOHN ROCKWELL, May 12, 2002)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: After 65 CD's, Yet Another [Jascha Heifetz] (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, May 12, 2002)
MUSIC: Deciphered: A Demonic Prelude by an Ailing Chopin (By RIP RENSE, May 12, 2002)
MUSIC SPINS: Earnest Pop, Just Messier (By JON PARELES, May 12, 2002)
OPERA: In Final Twist, Ill Pavarotti Falls Silent for Met Finale (By JAMES BARRON, May 12, 2002)
THEATER: Writing in Circles to Arrive at the Truth (By DON SHEWEY, May 12, 2002)
THEATER: Alan Ayckbourn: Punching Holes in Space and Time (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, May 12, 2002)
THEATER: Memories of a Mentor and a Troupe (NY TIMES, May 12, 2002)
THEATER: A Racial Event That Became a Hit {"I am God"] (By ALAN RIDING, May 12, 2002)
TV: Reliving 9/11: Too Much? Too Soon? (By JULIE SALAMON, May 12, 2002)
TV: A Mayor's Recollections of an Unforgettable Day (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, May 12, 2002)
TRAVEL: Manhattan Mecca for Art Lovers (By ROBERTA SMITH, May 12, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 12, 2002)
KILLING TIME: Everyone Has a Peace Plan. And They All Can Wait. (By TODD S. PURDUM, May 12, 2002)
WINNERS, LOSERS AND LIARS: The Long Boom Shows Its Ugly Side (By DAVID LEONHARDT, May 12, 2002)
The Whole Truth and Nothing But (By ADAM LIPTAK, May 12, 2002)
* UNBREAKABLE: He's Still Ready for His Close-Up (By DENNIS OVERBYE, May 12, 2002)
Disparate Mediums, Familiar Messages (By RICHARD L. BERKE, May 12, 2002)
AMERICAN DREAMS: Inside Every Superhero Lurks a Nerd (By NEAL GABLER, May 12, 2002)
Does Energy Deregulation Still Make Sense? (By ALEX BERENSON, May 12, 2002)
CUBA: The Trip Not Taken (By MIRTA OJITO, May 12, 2002)
INDONESIA'S MILITARY: Will It Help to Help This Army? (By JANE PERLEZ, May 12, 2002)
Hungary's Odd Affair With the Right (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, May 12, 2002)
To the Manor Acclimated By SARAH LYALL (By, May 12, 2002)
WORD FOR WORD: Searching for the Perfect Pitch (By HARRY SHEARER, May 12, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 12, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Moral Clarity (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 12, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Baby Talk (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, May 12, 2002)
* QUESTIONS FOR DEREK WALCOTT: Poet of the Ages (By MELANIE REHAK, May 12, 2002)
* PROCESS: Paint It Forward (By ROBERT MACKEY, May 12, 2002)
PHENOMENON: You Call This a Vacation? (By STEPHANIE MENCIMER, May 12, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Street Kids (By RANDY COHEN, May 12, 2002)
An Impossible Occupation (By SCOTT ANDERSON, May 12, 2002)
Bernie Mac Smacks a Nerve (By CHRIS NORRIS, May 12, 2002)
Am I My Brother's Keeper? (By FRANK BRUNI, May 12, 2002)
Dig It [underground lower Manhattan] (By ROBERT SULLIVAN, May 12, 2002)
STYLE: Irony Maiden [Alanis Morissette] (By S. S. FAIR, May 12, 2002)
APPEARANCES: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (By MARY TANNEN, May 12, 2002)
FOOD DIARY: Personal Best (By AMANDA HESSER, May 12, 2002)
LIVES: Skyline Views (By GARY PANTER, May 12, 2002)
BOOK VIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 12, 2002)
'Interesting Women': Innocents Abroad (By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, May 12, 2002)
'Tonight at Noon': Epitaph for Jazz's Angry Man (By JOYCE JOHNSON, May 12, 2002)
* POEM: Gaza (By PETER SACKS, May 12, 2002)
'Wealth and Democracy': Decline and Fall of the American Empire (By JOHN B. JUDIS, May 12, 2002)
'The Next Christendom': The Coming Religious Havoc (By R. SCOTT APPLEBY, May 12, 2002)
'The Life Before Her Eyes': My So-Called Death (By ERIKA KROUSE, May 12, 2002)
* 'Making Sense of Life': Studying Biology Through Mathematics (By LEWIS WOLPERT, May 12, 2002)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: An Instructor in How to See (By MARGO JEFFERSON, May 12, 2002)

Saturday, May 11, 2002:
On This Day: May 11 (Baron Munchhausen 5/11/1720-2/22/1797, Fanny Cerrito 5/11/1817-5/6/1909, Frank Schlesinger 5/11/1871-7/10/1943, Irving Berlin 5/11/1888-9/22/1989, Henry Morgenthau Jr. 5/11/1891-2/6/1967, Dame Margaret Rutherford 5/11/1892-5/22/1972, William Grant Still 5/11/1895-12/3/1978, Salvador Dali 5/11/1904-1/23/1989, Foster Brooks 1912, Mort SAhl 1927, Eric Burdon 1941, Frances Fisher 1952, Natasha Richardson 1963)
Pentagon Papers Charges Are Dismissed; Judge Byrne Frees Ellsberg and Russo, Assails 'Improper Government Conduct'
(By Martin Arnold, May 11, 1973)
* Martha Graham Dies at 96; A Revolutionary in Dance
[5/11/1894-4/1/1991] (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, April 2, 1991)
David Riesman, Sociologist Whose 'Lonely Crowd' Became a Best Seller, Dies at 92 (NY TIMES, May 11, 2002)
Shirley Hayes, 89, Won Victory Over a Road, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 11, 2002)
Yves Robert, French Director of the 'Tall Blond Man' Films, Dies at 81 (By ALAN RIDING, May 11, 2002)
Former F.B.I. Agent Gets Life in Prison for Years as a Spy (By JAMES RISEN, May 11, 2002)
Prosecutors Say Terror Suspect Lied to Save Plot (By PHILIP SHENON, May 11, 2002)
Officials to Speed Start of New Student Visa Tracking System (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, May 11, 2002)
Clinton Dismisses Notion of Doing a TV Show Now (By JIM RUTENBERG, May 11, 2002)
F.B.I. Agent Suing Bureau for Barring Book on Terror (By JUDITH MILLER, May 11, 2002)
Afghanistan Maps for Pilots Were Delayed by Foul-Ups (y JAMES RISEN, May 11, 2002)
No Big Deal, but Some Dorm Rooms Have Gone Coed (By TAMAR LEWIN, May 11, 2002)
When Origin Becomes a Competitive Issue [minority-runned motels] (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, May 11, 2002)
Religion Journal: A Chastened Singer Returns to Christian Basics [Amy Grant]
(By STEVE RABEY, May 11, 2002)
WORLD: In Church of Nativity, the Refuse of a Siege (By ALAN COWELL & JOEL GREENBERG, May 11, 2002)
Israel's Military Rethinking Action in the Gaza Strip (By STEVEN ERLANGER, May 11, 2002)
Not Only in America: Gun Killings Shake the Europeans (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., May 11, 2002)
In Time for Carter's Visit, Cubans Petition Government (By DAVID GONZALEZ, May 11, 2002)
A Top Saudi Urges the U.S. to Restrain the Israelis (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, May 11, 2002)
IN GAZA: 26 Palestinians Arrive From Bethlehem, Ready to Fight Israel Again
(By C. J. CHIVERS, May 11, 2002)
NY REGION: Graduation Speakers With 9/11 Ties Are in Vogue (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, May 11, 2002)
* To Raise Its Image, CUNY Pays for Top Students and Throws in a Laptop (By KAREN W. ARENSON, May 11, 2002)
Royal Pilgrimage to Ground Zero and Ellis Island (By GLENN COLLINS, May 11, 2002)
* SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Mothers Are Wind Beneath Their Wings (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, May 11, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Deepening Anthrax Mystery (NY TIMES, May 11, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Old Personal Computers Never Die; They Just Fade Into Deep Storage (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, May 11, 2002)
OP-ED: The Booing of Wolfowitz (By FRANK RICH, May 11, 2002)
OP-ED: Leading a Russia in Transition (By STROBE TALBOTT, May 11, 2002)
OP-ED: Enron's Lessons for the Energy Market (By GRAY DAVIS, May 11, 2002)
OP-ED: Math Teachers Who Almost Took Math (By ALFRED S. POSAMENTIER, May 11, 2002)
LETTERS: Illegal Immigrants: There's a Law (By RHONDA ROSETO, et. al., May 11, 2002)
LETTERS: Be Patient, Harry Potter Will Fly Again (By EMILY MURPHY, May 11, 2002)
BUSINESS: Forget That Rally on Wednesday: Gauges Beat a Retreat
[Dow -98, Nasdaq -50] (By REUTERS, May 11, 2002)
Producer Prices Tumbled Unexpectedly in April (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 11, 2002)
Energy Trader Cancels Deal; Shares Tumble (By ALEX BERENSON & NEELA BANERJEE, May 11, 2002)
Fed Chairman Doesn't See Bubble in Housing Market (By REUTERS, May 11, 2002)
Witness for Microsoft Says Windows Could Be Altered (By REUTERS, May 11, 2002)
* So God's Really in the Details? (By EMILY EAKIN, May 11, 2002)
Goodbye, National Guard; Hello, Local Police Officers (By EDWARD WONG, May 11, 2002)
Tips to Make Flying Easier (NY TIMES, May 11, 2002)
* ARTS: A Man Who Would Shake Up Science [Stephen Wolfram] (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, May 11, 2002)
DANCE: MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: Graham Company Evokes the Power of Myth
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 11, 2002)
MUSIC: 'SIGNS, GAMES AND MESSAGES': A Father and a Son Harmonize (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, May 11, 2002)
MUSIC: GIDON KREMER: Bach's Test of Violin Limits (By ALLAN KOZINN, May 11, 2002)
OPERA: Met Is Ready if Pavarotti Isn't (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, May 11, 2002)
THEATER: 'VIENNA: LUSTHAUS (REVISITED)': Doom Chases Lust, but With Loveliness
(By BRUCE WEBER, May 11, 2002)
Q & A: Gay Priests and Sex Abuses: How the Past Shaped the Present (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, May 11, 2002)

Friday, May 10, 2002:
On This Day: May 10 (William Grace 5/10/1832-3/21/1904, John Wilkes Booth 5/10/1838-4/26/1865, Sir Thomas Lipton 5/10/1850-10/2/1931, Karl Barth 5/10/1886-12/9/1968, Einar Gerhardsen 5/10/1897-9/19/1987, Ariel Durant 5/10/1898-10/25/1981, Fred Astaire 5/10/1899-6/22/1987, Maybelle Carter 5/10/1909-10/23/1978, Nancy Walker 5/10/1922-3/25/1992, Pat Summerall 1930, Gary Owens 1936, Jim Abrahams 1944, Dave Mason 1946, Andrew Card 1947, Bono 1960, Krist Novoselic 1965)
East and West: Completion of Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory, Utah
(NY TIMES, May 10, 1869)
* David O. Selznick, 63, Producer Of 'Gone With the Wind', Dies
[5/10/1902-6/22/1965] (NY TIMES, June 23, 1965)
Dan Devine, Football Coach, Dies at 77 (By FRANK LITSKY, May 10, 2002)
William Tutte, 84, Mathematician and Code-breaker, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 10, 2002)
Joel Leff, Founder of Investment Management Firm, 67, Dies (By LESLIE WAYNE, May 10, 2002)
Howard Merrill, Writer and Producer, Dies at 85 (NY TIMES, May 10, 2002)
NATIONAL: Analysis May Yield Clues to Origins of Anthrax Mail (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 10, 2002)
Officials Say Search Finds Hijacking-Related Material (By DAVID JOHNSTON, May 10, 2002)
* Students, Especially 12th Graders, Do Poorly on History Tests (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, May 10, 2002)
WORLD: Israel Advancing on Gaza Strip Despite 16 Arrests (By ALAN COWELL with JOEL GREENBERG, May 10, 2002)
Bill Gates to Bankroll Nutrition Project (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, May 10, 2002)
OCCUPIER: Israeli Soldier Just Wants to Go Home (By STEVEN ERLANGER, May 10, 2002)
NY REGION: NEWS ANALYSIS: Reimagining a Downtown (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, May 10, 2002)
One City Reading One Book? Not if the City Is New York (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 10, 2002)
OP-ED: Smoking Fat Boy (By PAUL KRUGMAN, May 10, 2002)
OP-ED: The War on Terror Flounders (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, May 10, 2002)
OP-ED: How Arafat Fits Into the Arab World (By LISA ANDERSON, May 10, 2002)
OP-ED: When Will New York Correct Its Mistake? (By JOHN R. DUNNE, May 10, 2002)
* LETTERS: Getting to College, Without Stress (By BOB SWEENEY, et. al., May 10, 2002)
LETTERS: The Power of Education (By DIANA QUICK, May 10, 2002)
BUSINESS: Share Prices Slump as Investors Book Profits After Rally
[Dow -104, Nasdaq -46] (By REUTERS, May 10, 2002)
Credit Rating of WorldCom Is Cut to Junk (By SIMON ROMERO & JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, May 10, 2002)
E*Trade Chief Accepts a Cut in Compensation (By DAVID LEONHARDT, May 10, 2002)
With Warning on Enron, a Celebrity Is Born (By JIM YARDLEY, May 10, 2002)
I.B.M. Likely to Eliminate 9,000 Jobs (By STEVE LOHR, May 10, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: To Fix the Audit Mess, Rotate the Auditors (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 10, 2002)
With Warning on Enron, a Celebrity Is Born (By JIM YARDLEY, May 10, 2002)
Editor Named at The New York Times on the Web (NY TIMES, May 10, 2002)
ADVERTISING: 'Telling' Mom That You Love Her (By PATRICIA WINTERS LAURO, May 10, 2002)
* ART: A Profusion of Painting, Very Much Alive (By ROBERTA SMITH, May 10, 2002)
* ART: From Old Masters to Modern Masters (By HOLLAND COTTER, May 10, 2002)
ART: 'Left vs. Right' (NY TIMES, May 10, 2002)
ART: MY MANHATTAN: This Side of Heaven, Please, in the Village (By MICHAEL FRANK, May 10, 2002)
INSIDE ART: Auction Victims Still Waiting (By CAROL VOGEL, May 10, 2002)
Antiques: Decorators Find Treasure in Their Bins (By WENDY MOONAN, May 10, 2002)
BALLET: THE DIAMOND PROJECT: Spaghetti Suppleness, Neo-Dada and a Toast in a Showcase of New Works
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 10, 2002)
BOOKS: Life of a Man Who Helped Define Cool (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, May 10, 2002)
* FILM: 'Star Wars: Episode II— Attack of the Clones': Kicking Up Cosmic Dust (By A. O. SCOTT, May 10, 2002)
FILM: 'BLACKWOODS': A Big, Bad Subconscious Lurks in a Dark Forest (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 10, 2002)
FILM: 'THE LADY AND THE DUKE': Two Views of Honor, One of Love (By A. O. SCOTT, May 10, 2002)
FILM: 'JANICE BEARD': Making It All Up as She Goes Along (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 10, 2002)
JAZZ: HOUSTON PERSON: Interrupted by Alarm, He Plays On With Grace (By BEN RATLIFF, May 10, 2002)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'The Tumultuous 50's': A Decade of Exciting Hard News (By GRACE GLUECK, May 10, 2002)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: Race Heats Up for Best Musical (By JESSE MCKINLEY, May 10, 2002)
TV: 'DINOTOPIA': Barney's Ancestors Star in Their Own Soap Opera (By RON WERTHEIMER, May 10, 2002)
HEALTH: Smallpox Vaccine Knowledge Found Lacking (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, May 10, 2002)

Thursday, May 9, 2002:
On This Day: May 9 (John Brown 5/9/1800-12/2/1859, Belle Boyd 5/9/1844-6/11/1900, Carl Gustaf Laval 5/9/1845-2/2/1913, Sir James Barrie 5/9/1860-6/19/1937, Henry J. Kaiser 5/9/1882-8/24/1967, Jose Ortega y Gasset 5/9/1883-10/18/1955, William du Bois 5/9/1916-2/5/1993, Pancho Gonzales 7/3/1995, Mike Wallace 1918, Alan Bennett 1934, Albert Finney 1936, Glenda Jackson 1936, James L. Brooks 1940, John Aschroft 1942, Tommy Roe 1942, Candice Bergen 1946, Anthony Higgins 1947, Billy Joel 1949)
Mandela is Named President, Closing the Era of Apartheid (By BILL KELLER, May 9, 1994)
* Howard Carter, 66, Egyptologist, Dies
[5/8/1884-12/26/1972] (NY TIMES, March 3, 1939)
* Otis Blackwell, Songwriter for Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, Dies at 70 (NY TIMES, May 9, 2002)
Louis Wyman, 85, Served 5 Terms in House, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 9, 2002)
Buster Brown, Tap Master and Charmer, 88, Dies (By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 9, 2002)
Franklyn Branley, Author and Science Advocate, Dies at 86 (NY TIMES, May 9, 2002)
Paul W. Klipsch, 98, Audio System Pioneer, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 9, 2002)
NAIONAL: Pipe Bomb Suspect Gave Few Hints of Violent Plan (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY with JODI WILGOREN, May 9, 2002)
Cardinal Law Says Pedophile Matter Was Left to Aides (By PAM BELLUCK, May 9, 2002)
Democrats Sense Gov. Bush of Florida Could Be Beaten (By DANA CANEDY, May 9, 2002)
Rumsfeld Sets Up Showdown Over Weapon (By JAMES DAO, May 9, 2002)
F.B.I. Says Pre-Sept. 11 Note Got Little Notice (By DAVID JOHNSTON, May 9, 2002)
Postal Theory: Mail Sorter Acted as Mill for Anthrax (By ANDREW C. REVKIN & WILLIAM J. BROAD, May 9, 2002)
Pentagon Tests Reflexes for Chemical Attack (NY TIMES, May 9, 2002)
100-Year Flood, for the Second Straight Year (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, May 9, 2002)
House Backs Plan to Store Atomic Waste in Nevada (By ADAM CLYMER, May 9, 2002)
WORLD: At Least 14 Die in Attack on French Group in Pakistan (By RAYMOND BONNER, May 9, 2002)
U.S. Attack on Warlord Aims to Help Interim Leader (By THOM SHANKER with CARLOTTA GALL, May 9, 2002)
Death Does Them Part (Wives Make Sure of That) (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 9, 2002)
Arafat's Words: No 'Terror Attacks' (NY TIMES, May 9, 2002)
After Shootings, Germany Seeks to Ban Violent Computer Games (By DESMOND BUTLER, May 9, 2002)
Deadly Violence Erupts Again in India's Hindu-Muslim Conflict (By REUTERS, May 9, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush's Path: From Viewer to Player (By PATRICK E. TYLER, May 9, 2002)
PALESTINIAN: Suicide Planner Expresses Joy Over His Missions (By JOEL GREENBERG, May 9, 2002)
BETHLEHEM: Palestinians Ready to Exit as Deal Is Reached on Siege (By JOEL GREENBERG, May 9, 2002)
NY REGION: 9/11, a Man Went to Work. His Fate Is a Mystery (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, May 9, 2002)
BLOCKS: Filling the Hole in the Sky and the Ache in Hearts (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, May 9, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: For City's Schoolchildren, the Healing Starts Here (By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, May 9, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Osbournes,' an American Second Act (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, May 9, 2002)
OP-ED: More Guns for Everyone! (By BOB HERBERT, May 9, 2002)
OP-ED: Mr. Atta Goes to Prague (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 9, 2002)
OP-ED: The Modern Use of Ancient Lies (By DAVID I. KERTZER, May 9, 2002)
* OP-ED: Remembering the Johnson Treatment (By TOM WICKER, May 9, 2002)
LETTERS: Lessons From the Mideast Agony (By DABUEK C. MAGUIRE, et. al., May 9, 2002)
BUSINESS: A Little Good News Goes a Long Way on Wall Street
[Dow +305, Nasdaq +122] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, May 9, 2002)
S.E.C. Adopts New Rules for Analysts (By STEPHEN LABATON, May 9, 2002)
Knowing About Diluted Earnings Is a Powerful Tool (By HAL R. VARIAN, May 9, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Shareholders Demand a Voice in Issuing of Stock Options (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 9, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Tea Leaves Set as Networks Haggle With Madison Ave (By STUART ELLIOTT, May 9, 2002)
Mariah Carey and Universal Agree to Terms of Record Deal (By LAURA M. HOLSON, May 9, 2002)
DANCE: Ever-Youthful With Leaps, Kicks and Attitude (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 9, 2002)
MUSIC: The Silk Road Project: At a Cultural Crossroads, Yo-Yo Ma Becomes a Spice Trader
(By ALLAN KOZINN, May 9, 2002)
OPERA: 'ENTF¨HRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL': Mozart's Light Tale of Harem Hanky-Panky
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, May 9, 2002)
THEATER: 'ROMEO & JULIET': A Party-Crashing Teenager Always Gets Into Trouble (By NEIL GENZLINGER, May 9, 2002)
THEATER: So Long, Folks. Glad We Had This Time Together, but Stardom Beckons (By BRUCE WEBER, May 9, 2002)
TV: 'MUSLIMS': Seeking a Global Faith in the Details (By JULIE SALAMON, May 9, 2002)
TV: 'GULAG': Stalin's Dreams, Prisoners' Nightmares (By NEIL GENZLINGER, May 9, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Content (NY TIMES, May 9, 2002)
The Entertainment Server (By WILSON ROTHMAN, May 9, 2002)
On Internet of the Future, Surfers May Almost Feel the Spray (By ERIC A. TAUB, May 9, 2002)
In Satellite Piracy War, Battles on Many Fronts (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, May 9, 2002)
STATE OF THE ART: The New Blackberry (By DAVID POGUE, May 9, 2002)
ONLINE SHOPPER: A Frothing Paradise of Pumps and Steam (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, May 9, 2002)
Radio Patter From the Past: Vintage D.J.'s Rock On (By MARC WEINGARTEN, May 9, 2002)

Wednesday, May 8, 2002:
On This Day: May 8 (Edward Gibbon 5/8/1737-1/16/1794, Thomas Hancock 5/8/1786-3/26/1865, Henri Dunant 5/8/1828-10/30/1910, James Rowland Angell 5/8/1869-3/4/1949, Thomas Costain 5/8/1885-10/8/1965, Joselito 5/8/1895-5/16/1920, Edmund Wilson 5/8/1895-6/12/1972, Friedrich von Hayek 5/8/1899-3/23/1992, Fernandel 5/8/1903-2/26/1971, Roberto Rosselloini 5/8/1906-6/3/1977, Romain Gary 5/8/1914-12/2/1980, Sonny Liston 5/8/1917-12/31/1970, Don Rickles 1926, David Attenborough 1926, Peter Benchley 1940, Angel Cordero Jr. 1942, Toni Tennille 1943, Keith Jarrett 1945, Philip Bailey 1951, David Keith 1954, Alex Van Halen 1955, Melissa Gilbert 1964, Enrique Iglesias 1975, Julia Whelan 1985)
Occupation of Wounded Knee Is Ended (By Andrew H. Malcolm, May 8, 1973)
* Harry S. Truman: Decisive President Dies at 88
[5/8/1884-12/26/1972] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, December 26, 1972)
* Lou Thesz, Skilled Pro Wrestler, Dies at 86 (By FRANK LITSKY, May 8, 2002)
Michael Bryant, 74, British Stage Actor, Dies (By MEL GUSSOW, May 8, 2002)
Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Author, 40, Dies (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, May 8, 2002)
Michael Todd Jr., Creator of Smell-o-Vision Movie, Dies at 72 (By PAUL LEWIS, May 8, 2002)
Morris Shamos, 84, Physicist and Educator, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 8, 2002)
BUSINESS: Investors' Fears Drag S.&P. to Lowest Level in 7 Months
[Dow +29, Nasdaq -5] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 8, 2002)
Hewlett-Packard Announces New Leadership and Strategy (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 8, 2002)
Californians Call Enron Documents the Smoking Gun (By JOSEPH KAHN, May 8, 2002)
How Enron Got California to Buy Power It Didn't Need (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., May 8, 2002)
Fed Is Content Not to Raise Interest Rates (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, May 8, 2002)
Cisco Buoyed by Earnings, but It Sees No Turnaround (By CHRIS GAITHER, May 8, 2002)
WorldCom Seeks Big Loan (By RIVA D. ATLAS & BARNABY J. FEDER, May 8, 2002)
ARTS: The Sincerest Form of Flattery: The Networks' Self-Commemoratio (By CARYN JAMES, May 8, 2002)
BOOKS: The Trials of Juggling a Baby and a Briefcase (By MAUREEN CORRIGAN, May 8, 2002)
* BOOKS: Tilting at Victory, 'Quixote' Tops Authors' Poll (By REUTERS, May 8, 2002)
FILM: 'UNFAITHFUL': Day in Town Takes an Unexpected Tryst (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 8, 2002)
FILM: 'LAGAAN': The Cricketing of an Indian Village (By DAVE KEHR, May 8, 2002)
MUSIC: Rolling Stones Gather for a Tour, Floating on a Blimp in the Bronx (By KELEFA SANNEH, May 8, 2002)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Chicago's Photographers and Their Abstract World (By SARAH BOXER, May 8, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE MURALS OF ROCKEFELLER CENTER' A 'Who Was Who' Weighs In on Art
(By BRUCE WEBER, May 8, 2002)

Tuesday, May 7, 2002:
On This Day: May 7 (Germain Boffrand 5/7/1667-3/18/1754, David Hume 5/7/1711-8/25/1776, Robert Browning 5/7/1812-12/12/1889, Johannes Brahms 5/7/1833-4/3/1897, Oskar von Miller 5/7/1855-4/9/1934, Marcus Loew 5/7/1870-9/5/1927, Archibald MacLeish 5/7/1892-4/20/1982, Kitty Godfree 5/7/1896-6/19/1992, Gary Cooper 5/7/1901-5/13/1961, Edwin Herbert Land 5/7/1909-3/1/1991, Darren McGavin 1922, Teresa Brewer 1931, Pete Domenici 1932, Johnny Unitas 1933, Johnny Maestro 1939, Jimmy Ruffin 1939, Tim Russert 1950, Amy Heckerling 1954)
* War in Europe is Ended! Surrender Is Unconditional; V-E Will Be Proclaimed Today; Our Troops on Okinawa Gain
(By Edward Kennedy, May 7, 1945)
* Saga Of Eva Peron: 12 Years To Power, Dies at 33
[5/7/1919-7/26/1952] (NY TIMES, July 27, 1952)
George Sidney, Director of Many Movie Musicals, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2002)
Antoine Riboud, 83, Builder of French Food Giant, Dies (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, May 7, 2002)
Edna Mae Robinson, Dancer and Boxer's Wife, 86, Dies (NY TIMES, May 7, 2002)
Paul Szasz, Legal Expert of International Law, Dies at 72 (By PAUL LEWIS, May 7, 2002)
A. Searle Pinney, 81, Connecticut Legislator and G.O.P. Leader, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 7, 2002)
NATIONAL: F.B.I. in Texas Search for Man in Connection with Pipe Bombs (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2002)
F.B.I. Suspects Single Source in Pipe Bombs (By JODI WILGOREN, May 7, 2002)
Anthrax Sent Through Mail Gained Potency by the Letter (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & DAVID JOHNSTON, May 7, 2002)
Geffen Donates $200 Million to UCLA Medical School (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2002)
More Small Colleges Dropping Out (By YILU ZHAO, May 7, 2002)
MIRANDO CITY JOURNAL: A Forbidding Landscape That's Eden for Peyote (By ROSS E. MILLOY, May 7, 2002)
WORLD: Freed Burmese Democracy Leader Proclaims 'New Dawn' (By SETH MYDANS, May 7, 2002)
CHRONOLOGY: Turbulent Years for Burmese (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2002)
Sharon Proposes Bypassing Arafat in Future Talks (By TODD S. PURDUM with STEVEN ERLANGER, May 7, 2002)
Rightist in Netherlands Is Slain, and the Nation Is Stunned (By MARLISE SIMONS, May 7, 2002)
Washington Accuses Cuba of Germ-Warfare Research (By JUDITH MILLER, May 7, 2002)
BANNU JOURNAL: Where Al Qaeda's the Quarry, G.I.'s Are Elusive (By RAYMOND BONNER, May 7, 2002)
BETHLEHEM: Deal to End Church Siege Is Snagged on Angry Details (By C. J. CHIVERS, May 7, 2002)
Clinton Sees a Role for G.I.'s in the Middle East (By TINA KELLEY, May 7, 2002)
MAN IN THE NEWS: A Leader for Chirac to Lean On (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, May 7, 2002)
Europeans Cheer Defeat of Le Pen, but Worries Cling (By ALAN COWELL, May 7, 2002)
Canadian-Led Troops Revisit Caves in Eastern Afghanistan (By ERIC SCHMITT, May 7, 2002)
Afghan Grave Site Yields Bodies Believed Linked to Bin Laden (By CARLOTTA GALL, May 8, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: Hard-Traveling Dan Quayle Misses a Perk (By JOE SHARKEY, May 7, 2002)
NY REGION: Hearing on Technology Reveals Other Heroes of 9/11 (By KIRK JOHNSON, May 7, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Imagine Her Surprise [Bill & Hillary at the movies] (By JAMES BARRON, May 7, 2002)
* GETTING IN: At Last, College Answers, and a Few New Questions (By JANE GROSS, May 7, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: NBC Left at the Gate in Its Derby Coverage (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, May 7, 2002)
SPORTS: New Parks Lose Magic Quickly (By MURRAY CHASS, May 7, 2002)
EDITORIAL: How the Towers Collapsed (NY TIMES, May 7, 2002)
OP-ED: True Blue Americans (By PAUL KRUGMAN, May 7, 2002)
OP-ED: Behind the Terrorists (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, May 7, 2002)
OP-ED: Rebuilding a Damaged Palestine (By ROBERT MALLEY, May 7, 2002)
OP-ED: A Search for Justice in Our Genes (By AKHIL REED AMAR, May 7, 2002)
LETTERS: Catholics, Faithful and Former (By Rev. C. J. MCCLOSKEY III, et. al., May 7, 2002)
BUSINESS: With No Compelling Reasons to Buy, Investors Sell Off
[Dow -199, Nasdaq -35] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2002)
Enron Forced Up California Energy Prices, Documents Show (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & JEFF GERTH, May 7, 2002)
Wall St. Firms Said to Break E-Mail Rule (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, May 7, 2002)
Talent Agents and Managers Look for Profit as Turf Shifts (By BERNARD WEINRAUB & ANITA M. BUSCH, May 7, 2002)
In a Weekend, 'Spider-Man' Jump-Starts the Summer (By RICK LYMAN, May 7, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Risky Bets on 'Spider-Man' Tie-Ins Look Promising (By STUART ELLIOTT, May 7, 2002)
Some Big Papers Buck Trend of Circulation Drops (By FELICITY BARRINGER, May 7, 2002)
Chief-to-Be Says AOL Has One Problem Area (By SETH SCHIESEL, May 7, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Trump Tries to Sell Happiness, in Junk Bonds (By RIVA D. ATLAS, May 7, 2002)
Court Is Told Microsoft Kept Strategy Even After Ruling (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 7, 2002)
* ARTS ABROAD: An Impressionist Gets Her Due, Belatedly, in France (By ALAN RIDING, May 7, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'FLAUBERT': The Creative Influences in One Sedentary Life (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, May 7, 2002)
MUSIC: 'CREATION': Letting Optimism Ring Out of Chaos at a Time of Need (By BERNARD HOLLAND, May 7, 2002)
THEATER: 'Millie' Leads the Tony Nominations With 11 (By ROBIN POGREBIN, May 7, 2002)
THEATER: 'RENO': Finding Tragic Humor Eight Months Later (By ANITA GATES, May 7, 2002)
THEATER: '...AND THEN YOU GO ON': Bits of Beckett, Puzzling as Ever (By BRUCE WEBER, May 7, 2002)
THEATER: Beyond Reviews: Contenders for the Tonys (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2002)
TV: Church Woes Are Invading TV Pilots (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, May 7, 2002)
SCIENCE: Camera Is Left Behind to Zoom In on North Pole's Weather (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 7, 2002)
* SCIENCE: New Details Emerge From the Einstein Files (By DENNIS OVERBYE, May 7, 2002)
Biologists Sought a Treaty; Now They Fault It (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 7, 2002)
Mouse Genome Is New Battleground for Project Rivals (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 7, 2002)
* Honeybee Shows a Little Gene Activity Goes Miles and Miles (By NATALIE ANGIER, May 7, 2002)
* Finding the What, When, Where, and Why of the Supertwister (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 7, 2002)
OBSERVATORY: 'I Can Sing Anything...' (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 7, 2002)
HEALTH: For Anthrax Survivors, a Halting, Painful Recovery (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, May 7, 2002)
HEALTH: Medical Students Sue Over Residency System (By ADAM LIPTAK, May 7, 2002)
* HEALTH: Religion and Health: New Research Revives an Old Debate (By MARY DUENWALD, May 7, 2002)
When Giving Birth, Opting to Go It Alone (By RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, May 7, 2002)
Beyond Birth Control: The Pill Tackles New Duties (By ANNETTE FUENTES, May 7, 2002)
New Resistant Gonorrhea Migrating to Mainland U.S. (By DAVID KIRBY, May 7, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Dodging Peanuts: To Some, a Lifelong Challenge (By JANE E. BRODY, May 7, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Immunization: Danger of Missing Booster Shots (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 7, 2002)
Techniques: Babies Who Cry Before Sleeping (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 7, 2002)
Resistance: Avoiding Ear-Infection Drugs (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 7, 2002)
* Prevention: A New Reason to Eat Your Beans (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 7, 2002)
* Q & A: Ancestral DNA (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 7, 2002)

Monday, May 6, 2002:
On This Day: May 6 (Maximilien Robespierre 5/6/1758-7/28/1794, Abraham Jacobi 5/6/1830-7/10/1919, Sigmund Freud 5/6/1856-9/23/1939, Robert Peary 5/6/1856-2/20/1920, William Leahy 5/6/1875-7/20/1959, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 5/6/1880-6/15/1938, Stanley Morison 5/6/1889-10/11/1967, Rudolph Valentino 5/6/1895-8/23/1926, Lew Christensen 5/6/1909-10/9/1984, Theodore White 5/6/1915-5/15/1986, Willie Mays 1931, Bob Seger 1945, Ben Masters 1947, Tony Blair 1953, George Clooney 1961, Roma Downey 1963)
* Hindenburg Burns in Lakehurst Crash; 21 Known Dead, 12 Missing; 64 Escape
(By Russell B. Porter, May 6, 1937)
* Orson Welles is Dead at 70; Innovator of Film and Stage
[5/6/1915-10/10/1985] (NY TIMES, October 11, 1985)
Sir Peter Shepheard, Architect and Landscape Designer, Dies at 88 (By ERIC PACE, May 6, 2002)
Yevgeny Svetlanov, Conductor, Dies at 73 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, May 6, 2002)
Hugo Banzer, Who Guided Bolivia to Democracy, Dies at 75 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 6, 2002)
George Sidney, Influential Director, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 6, 2002)
Eric L. McKitrick, 82, Historian and Writer, Dies (NY TIMES, May 6, 2002)
Dr. William F. Gibson, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 69 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 6, 2002)
Mail Bombs Nearly Identical, F.B.I. Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 6, 2002)
Boston Cardinal Defends Decision to Back Out of Abuse Settlement (By PAM BELLUCK, May 6, 2002)
The Peril and Profit in Bagging Big Antlers Behind High Fences (By JIM YARDLEY, May 6, 2002)
Welcome to Our Law School, Young Man. We'll See You in Court. (By ADAM LIPTAK, May 6, 2002)
Some See Review of Seminaries as Reassuring; Others Call It Unnecessary (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, May 6, 2002)
Joint Chiefs Chairman Is a General but Also a Diplomat (By THOM SHANKER & ERIC SCHMITT, May 6, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: President Was Comedian in Chief at Press Dinner (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 6, 2002)
POLITICAL MEMO: Bush's Coattails May Not Be as Long as Candidates Hope (By RICHARD L. BERKE, May 6, 2002)
Jefferson Group Bars Slave's Descendants (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 6, 2002)
* For a Dying Literature, a Digital Savior (By ERIC GOLDSCHEIDER, May 6, 2002)
THE SIEGE: Deal Seen Near to End Impasse in Church Siege (By C. J. CHIVERS with STEVEN ERLANGER, May 6, 2002)
THE OUTCOME: Chirac Re-elected as France Rejects His Rightist Rival (By SUZANNE DALEY, May 6, 2002)
U.S. Raids Along Afghan Border Seen as Lasting Past Summer (By ERIC SCHMITT & THOM SHANKER, May 6, 2002)
* PHNOM PENH JOURNAL: Cambodia's Mystery, the Horns That Never Were (By SETH MYDANS, May 6, 2002)
From Hilltop Perch, British Troops Watch for Holdouts (By CARLOTTA GALL, May 6, 2002)
NY REGION: A Job for Spider-Man, but He's in a Thief's Clutches (By RICHARD LEZIN JONES, May 6, 2002)
In Manhattan, a Raucous but Peaceful Salute to the Founding of Israel (By SARAH KERSHAW, May 6, 2002)
GETTING IN: Preparing Applications, Fine-Tuning Applicants (By JANE GROSS, May 6, 2002)
For Illegal Workers' Kin, No Paper Trail and Less 9/11 Aid (By MIREYA NAVARRO, May 6, 2002)
SPORTS: The Team Under the Volcano [Montserrat 1995] (By PAUL GAINS, May 6, 2002)
ON HORSE RACING: Trainers and Owners Differ on a Horse's Potential (By JOE DRAPE, May 6, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Center Holds in France (NY TIMES, May 6, 2002)
OP-ED: Man of Peace (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 6, 2002)
OP-ED: Let Nike Stay in the Game (By BOB HERBERT, May 6, 2002)
OP-ED: Remaking Urban Welfare (By ANDREW WHITE, May 6, 2002)
OP-ED: I'm the Other Guy (By RUSS BAKER, May 6, 2002)
LETTERS: For the Young, Scars of Sept. 11 (By MARK D. SMALLER, May 6, 2002)
* BUSINESS: China Makes Progress on Chips (By CRAIG S. SMITH, May 6, 2002)
Old Hewlett Prepares to Show Off Its New Look (By STEVE LOHR, May 6, 2002)
A Faded Hollywood Power Broker Relinquishes His Talent Business
(By BERNARD WEINRAUB & ANITA M. BUSCH, May 6, 2002)
With 'Spider-Man,' Sony Seeks to Revive Fortunes (By LAURA M. HOLSON, May 6, 2002)
'Spider-Man' Breaks Opening Weekend Records (By LAURA M. HOLSON & RICK LYMAN, May 6, 2002)
A Conversation With the Next Mogul of Cable TV (By SETH SCHIESEL, May 6, 2002)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Grocers Learn to Sell Online (By BOB TEDESCHI, May 6, 2002)
* Access to Free Online Music Is Seen as a Boost to Sales (By MATT RICHTEL, May 6, 2002)
NEW ECONOMY: A Lack of Shareholder Democracy (NY TIMES, May 6, 2002)
Berkshire Signals Return to Profit (By REUTERS, May 6, 2002)
* PATENTS: Innovation by the Numbers (By SABRA CHARTRAND, May 6, 2002)
Hit Video Games Overshadow Company's Woes (By MATT RICHTEL, May 6, 2002)
Dismissal of CNN Reporter Shakes Bureau (By JIM RUTENBERG, May 6, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Clicking on Splitsville With Divorce Web Site (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, May 6, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Paper Complains to Web Site About the Way It Links (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, May 6, 2002)
Barnes & Noble in Independents' Lion's Den (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 6, 2002)
* ARTS: Is Deceptive Portrait Tied to Shakespeare? (By ALAN RIDING, May 6, 2002)
BALLET: THE DIAMOND PROJECT: Revisiting Showcase Productions (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 6, 2002)
BOOKS: 'SHAKEY': Look at My Life: An Enigmatic Rocker (By JANET MASLIN, May 6, 2002)
MUSIC: MTV Deal for 'The Osbournes' (By BILL CARTER, May 6, 2002)
MUSIC: Instruments and Ears Newly Tuned (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, May 6, 2002)
TV: Uncovering the Coverup of a Medical Scandal in Britain (By ANITA GATES, May 6, 2002)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism (By VIVIAN GORNICK, May 6, 2002)
SCIENCE: Renegade Fish Is Outlasting Even Bombings (By EVELYN NIEVES, May 6, 2002)
HEALTH: With Nurses in Short Supply, Patient Load Becomes a Big Issue (By REED ABELSON, May 6, 2002)

Sunday, May 5, 2002:
On This Day: May 5 (Leopold II 5/5/1747-3/1/1792, Frederick Barnard 5/5/1809-4/27/1889, Søren Kierkegaard 5/5/1813-11/11/1855, Karl Marx 5/5/1818-3/14/1883, Hubert Howe Bancroft 5/5/1832-3/2/1918, Peter Cooper Hewitt 5/5/1861-8/25/1921, Christopher Morley 5/5/1890-3/28/1957, Dorothy Garrod 5/5/1892-12/18/1968, Sir Gordon Richards 5/5/1904-11/10/1986, Tyrone Power 5/5/1914-11/15/1958, Arthur L. Schawlow 5/5/1921-4/28/1999, Ann B. Davis 1926, Pat Carroll 1927, John Sweeney 1934, Michael Murphy 1938, Lance Henriksen 1940, Jean-Pierre Leaud 1944)
U.S. Hurls Alan Shepard 115 Miles Into Space; Reports by Radio in 15-Minute Flight
(By Richard Witkin, May 5, 1961)
Nellie Bly, Journalist, Dies of Pneumonia at 56
[5/5/1867-1/27/1922] (NY TIMES, January 28, 1922)
* Sir Peter Shepheard, Architect, Dies at 88 (By ERIC PACE, May 5, 2002)
Siegbert Freiberg Dies at 75; Told Radio Audience of Boyhood Escape From Holocaust
(By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 5, 2002)
Davida S. Herwitz, 71, Collected Art of India, Dies (NY TIMES, May 5, 2002)
Donald Wilson, Adapted 'Forsyte,' Dies at 91 (NY TIMES, May 5, 2002)
Pauline Tish, 89, Dancer and Teacher, Dies (NY TIMES, May 5, 2002)
NATIONAL: Suspected Pipe Bombs Found in 2 Mailboxes in Nebraska (By SAM DILLON, May 5, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Public Colleges, Broken Promises (NY TIMES, May 5, 2002)
OP-ED: Boxers, Briefs, Mochas (By MAUREEN DOWD, May 5, 2002)
OP-ED: Listening to the Future? (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, May 5, 2002)
OP-ED: Russian Oil and U.S. Security (By LEON ARON, May 5, 2002)
OP-ED: When Europeans and Americans Disagree (By PETER SCHNEIDER, May 5, 2002)
LETTERS: The Choices That Moms (By JUDY PALERMO, et. al., May 5, 2002)
LETTERS: Friends of Barbie (By JUDITH EISENBERG POLLAK, May 5, 2002)
BUSINESS: Two Latin Americas, Two Diverging Outlooks (By SIMON ROMERO, May 5, 2002)
Requiem for an Honorable Profession on Wall Street (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, May 5, 2002)
* Meg Whitman and eBay, Net Survivors (By SAUL HANSELL, May 5, 2002)
* Despite Appearances, Economy Is Still Shaky (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, May 5, 2002)
AT LUNCH WITH LAWRENCE B. MACGREGOR SERVEN" How to Disarm Those Back-Stabbers in Every Office
(By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, May 5, 2002)
* POETRY: Tom Waits: A Poet of Outcasts Who's Come Inside (By JON PARELES, May 5, 2002)
The Never-Promised Rose Garden and the Snake Pit (By MICHAEL WINERIP, May 5, 2002)
BOOK VIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 5, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, May 5, 2002)

Saturday, May 4, 2002:
On This Day: May 4 (Bartolomeo Cristofori 5/4/1655-1/27/1731, Horace Mann 5/4/1796-8/2/1859, Sir William Cooke 5/4/1806-6/25/1879, Julia Tyler 5/4/1820-7/10/1889, T. H. Huxley 5/4/1825-6/29/1895, Fritz von Opel 5/4/1899-4/8/1971, Lincoln Kirstein 5/4/1907-1/5/1996, Emmanuel Robles 5/4/1914-2/22/1995, Audrey Hepburn 5/4/1929-1/20/1993, Hosni Mubarak 1928, Maynard Ferguson 1928, Roberta Peters 1930, Tyrone Davis 1938, Paul Gleason 1944, Randy Travis 1959, Mary McDonough 1961)
4 Kent State Students Killed by Troops (By John Kifner, May 4, 1970)
Dr. Frank Conrad, Radio Pioneer, Dies at 67
[5/4/1874-12/11/1941] (By ERIC PACE, December 12, 1941)
Barbara Castle, British Radical, Dies at 91 (By PAUL LEWIS, May 4, 2002)
Mohan Singh Oberoi, a Pioneer in Luxury Hotels, Dies at 103 (By PAUL LEWIS, May 4, 2002)
Livingston Biddle Jr., 83, Ex-Chairman of Arts Endowment, Dies (By DAVID STOUT, May 4, 2002)
Sharon Anne Hogan, 57, a Leading Librarian of the Electronic Age, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 4, 2002)
Roger V. Gould, an Influential Researcher of Social Upheavals, Dies at 39 (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 4, 2002)
NATIONAL: Pipe Bombs at Mailboxes Injure Five in the Midwest (By JODI WILGOREN, May 4, 2002)
Clinton Forgoing Media Job (for the Present) (By BILL CARTER, May 4, 2002)
Inquiry May Shift Momentum in California Contest (By JAMES STERNGOLD, May 4, 2002)
F.B.I. Told of Worry Over Flight Lessons Before Sept. 11 (By JAMES RISEN, May 4, 2002)
Father's Library Can Hold Bush Papers, if Door Is Ajar (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, May 4, 2002)
Pride in President May Have an Expiration Date (By RICHARD L. BERKE, May 4, 2002)
BELIEFS: Extent of Abuse in Church Not Understood (By PETER STEINFELS, May 4, 2002)
WORLD: Nuclear Deal Called Closer After Powell Meets Russian (By JAMES DAO, May 4, 2002)
French Polls See Chirac Landslide in Vote on Sunday (By SUZANNE DALEY, May 4, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Administration's Plans for Mideast Talks Face Obstacles
(By TODD S. PURDUM, May 4, 2002)
THE SATURDAY PROFILE: Schooled in America, Seething in the West Bank
(By DAVID ROHDE, May 4, 2002)
Mocked in Europe of Old, African Is Embraced at Home at Last (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, May 4, 2002)
Burmese Dissident's Expected Release May Have Hit a Snag (By SETH MYDANS, May 4, 2002)
NY REGION: Blueprint for Ground Zero Begins to Take Shape (By EDWARD WYATT, May 4, 2002)
* Ordering Groceries in Aisle 'www' (By TERRY PRISTIN, May 4, 2002)
NYC: The Puritans Run Amok Over Smoking (By CLYDE HABERMAN, May 4, 2002)
OP-ED: Is the Pope Catholic? (By BILL KELLER, May 4, 2002)
OP-ED: Enrolling Economic Diversity (By ROBERT M. SHIREMAN, May 4, 2002)
OP-ED: Israel Has Nothing to Hide (By YUVAL STEINITZ, May 4, 2002)
OP-ED: France Rises Above Its Politics (By SPARKLE HAYTER, May 4, 2002)
BUSINESS: Jump in Jobless Rate to 6% Causes Stock Indexes to Fall
[Dow -85, Nasdaq -32] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 4, 2002)
Korea Thrives by Shunning Japanese Ways (By JAMES BROOKE, May 4, 2002)
Greenspan Urges New Rules on Stock Options (By REUTERS, May 4, 2002)
* ARTS: A New Kama Sutra Without Victorian Veils (By DINITIA SMITH, May 4, 2002)
* ARTS: Some Chinese See the Future, and It's Capitalist (By JOSEPH KAHN, May 4, 2002)
* ARTS: Hide This Until You Die. Very Truly Yours, Ernest [Hemingway's letters]
(By CELESTINE BOHLEN, May 4, 2002)
* DANCE: 'RAYMONDA VARIATIONS': Even With Pink Tutus Daring Action Wins Out
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 4, 2002)
MUSIC: STEPHEN SALTERS: Storytelling in the Quiet Light of Song (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, May 4, 2002)
OPERA: 'DENNIS CLEVELAND': Putting the Totalism Movement in the Spotlight (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 4, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE PAJAMA GAME': A Test of Love for Labor and Management (By BEN BRANTLEY, May 4, 2002)
* THINK TANK: Surprise Best Seller Blames U.S. [Noam Chomsky] (By MICHAEL MASSING, May 4, 2002)
TV: 'WOODY ALLEN: A LIFE IN FILM': A Slip, a Sniff, a Sneeze: Woody Allen in Snippets
(By NEIL GENZLINGER, May 4, 2002)
* HEALTH: Citing RNA, Studies Suggest a Much Deeper Gene Pool (By ANDREW POLLACK, May 4, 2002)

Friday, May 3, 2002:
On This Day: May 3 (Niccolo Machiavelli 5/3/1469-6/21/1527, E. W. Howe 5/3/1853-10/3/1937, Vito Volterra 5/3/1860-10/11/1940, Marcel Dupre 5/3/1886-5/30/1971, Sir George Paget Thomson 5/3/1892-9/10/1975, Bing Crosby 5/3/1903-10/14/1977, May Sarton 5/3/1912-7/16/1995, William Inge 5/3/1913-6/10/1973, Sugar Ray Robinson 5/3/1921-4/12/1989, Pete Seeger 1919, James Brown 1933, Engelbert Humperdinck 1936, Greg Gumbel 1946)
7,000 Arrested in Capital War Protest; 150 Are Hurt as Clashes Disrupt Traffic
(By Richard Halloran, May 3, 1971)
Golda Meir: Peace and Arab Acceptance Were Goals of Her 5 Years as Premier
[5/3/1898-12/8/1978] (By ISRAEL SHENKER, December 9, 1978)
Ida Milgrom, Helped Free a Son Held by Soviets, Dies at 94 (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, May 3, 2002)
Bob Akin, 66, Auto Racer Who Won at Sebring Twice, Dies (By FRANK LITSKY, May 3, 2002)
David Wood, Dance Soloist With Martha Graham's Troupe, Dies at 77 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 3, 2002)
Ismith Khan, Author and Teacher, Dies at 77 (NY TIMES, May 3, 2002)
Catholics Back Strong Steps on Abuse, Poll Finds (By ROBIN TONER and JANET ELDER, May 3, 2002)
NATIONAL: Strangers' Kindness Buoys Town After Tornado (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, May 3, 2002)
Arrests Made in a Sweep Against Thefts of Identities (By ADAM CLYMER, May 3, 2002)
THE SHANLEY CASE: Boston Priest Is Arrested on Charges of Child Rape (By PAM BELLUCK, May 3, 2002)
WORLD: Sharon Says Prisoners Implicate Arafat in Financing of Terrorism (By JAMES BENNET, May 3, 2002)
U.S., in Surprise, Announces Global Talks for Mideast (By TODD S. PURDUM and DAVID E. SANGER, May 3, 2002)
British Troops Scour Untamed Areas in Afghanistan (By CARLOTTA GALL, May 3, 2002)
Le Pen Offers Himself as Outsider Against Corrupt French Elite (By SUZANNE DALEY, May 3, 2002)
Chirac Rallies the Faithful, and Perhaps Other Voters, Too (By ALAN COWELL, May 3, 2002)
* NY REGION: Mournful Task Ending, Forever Unfinished (By DAN BARRY, May 3, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: An Actor Prepares, Without Mask and Mirror [Billy Crudup] (By ROBIN FINN, May 3, 2002)
EDITORIAL: A Skittish Recovery (NY TIMES, May 3, 2002)
OP-ED: Is the Pope Catholic? (By BILL KELLER, May 3, 2002)
Enrolling Economic Diversity (By ROBERT M. SHIREMAN, May 3, 2002)
Israel Has Nothing to Hide (By YUVAL STEINITZ, May 3, 2002)
France Rises Above Its Politics (By SPARKLE HAYTER, May 3, 2002)
LETTERS: The Study of Shopping (By STEVE BARNETT, May 3, 2002)
Rally Loses Much of Its Steam as Technology Shares Fall
[Dow +32, Nasdaq -33] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 3, 2002)
They're Betting the Bank on a Comeback at J.P. Morgan (By RIVA D. ATLAS, May 3, 2002)
* Unfazed by Defectors, Sun's Chief Charts Next Era (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 3, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: Dell's Share-Price Bet Cost It $1.25 Billion (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 3, 2002)
No Easy Fixes Are Seen to Curb Sex-Site Access (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, May 3, 2002)
Mixed Signals on the Economy (By REUTERS, May 3, 2002)
Merrill Research Chief Will Leave in 6 Months (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, May 3, 2002)
States Question Microsoft Motive in Move to Add Media Players (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 3, 2002)
* ART: Decades of Doodles Help Illuminate the Creative Process (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, May 3, 2002)
* ART: They Were Two Wild Ones, Make No Mistake (By GRACE GLUECK, May 3, 2002)
Art in Review: Tom Otterness (By KEN JOHNSON, May 3, 2002)
ARTS: Downtown: Shaken but Bouncing Back (By JESSE McKINLEY, May 3, 2002)
* ARTS: Reliving the Old Days at Reunions With the Old Selves (By LESLIE KANDELL, May 3, 2002)
INSIDE ART: Marble Head of a Queen (By CAROL VOGEL, May 3, 2002)
ANTIQUES: Location, Location and Shape (By WENDY MOON, May 3, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE EMPEROR'S BABE': From Slum Sister to Emperor's Lover, All in A.D. 211
(By RICHARD EDER, May 3, 2002)
* FILM: 'SPIDER-MAN': Muscles Ripple, Webs Unfurl, Hormones Race (By A. O. SCOTT, May 3, 2002)
FILM: 'FLEEING BY NIGHT': Onstage and Backstage, a Chinese Tale of Operatic Passions
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 3, 2002)
MUSIC: An Afternoon of Stravinsky, Devil, Animals and All (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 3, 2002)
PHOTOGRAPHY: On the Sidewalks of New York (By HOLLAND COTTER, May 3, 2002)
THEATER: 'RICKY JAY: ON THE STEM': Ghosts Up His Sleeve and a Million Tricks (By BEN BRANTLEY, May 3, 2002)
TV: That Man in Grant's Tomb Is More Than He Seemed (By RON WERTHEIMER, May 3, 2002)
SCIENCE: Ozone Hole Is Now Seen as a Cause for Antarctic Cooling (By KENNETH CHANG, May 3, 2002)

Thursday, May 2, 2002:
On This Day: May 2 (Alessandro Scarlatti 5/2/1660-10/24/1725, Catherine II 5/2/1729-11/17/1796, Henry Martyn robert 5/2/1837-5/11/1923, Theodor Herzl 5/2/1860-7/3/1904, James F. Byrnes 5/2/1879-4/9/1972, Vernon Castle 5/2/1887-2/15/1918, Manfred Richthofen 5/2/1892-4/21/1918, Lorenz Hart 5/1895-11/22/1943, Alex Springer 5/2/1912-9/22/1985, Satyajit Ray 5/2/1921-4/23/1992, Theodore Bikel 1924, Bianca Jagger 1945, Lesley Gore 1946, Larry Gatlin 1948, Scott McCallum 1950)
Berlin Falls to Russians, 70,000 Give Up; 1,000,000 Surrender in Italy and Austria
(Associated Press, May 2, 1945)
* Benjamin Spock, World's Pediatrician, Dies at 94
[5/2/1903-3/15/1998] (By ERIC PACE, March 17, 1998)
Msgr. George Higgins, Adviser to U.S. Bishops, Dies at 86 (By PETER STEINFELS, May 2, 2002)
John P. Morris, 76, Teamsters Vice President, Dies (By MARK BULIK, May 2, 2002)
George Effinger, Science Fiction Writer, 55, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 2, 2002)
Luis Barrera, Trainer in Racing Family, Dies at 80 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 2, 2002)
Guila Bustabo, 86, Violinist, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 2, 2002)
NATIONAL: More Family Income Committed to College (By JACQUES STEINBERG, May 2, 2002)
No Quick Fix to Fighting Pornography on the Internet, Report Says (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, May 2, 2002)
Bin Laden Relative Linked to '93 Trade Center Bombers, Affidavit Says (By JUDITH MILLER, May 2, 2002)
Candidate Pulls Out of Running to Head Livermore Laboratory (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 2, 2002)
Lieberman Keeping Eye on Gore and '04 (By RICHARD L. BERKE, May 2, 2002)
WORLD: Israel Lifts Siege as Arafat Yields Six Wanted Men (By JAMES BENNET, May 2, 2002)
U.S.-Led Raids in Afghanistan Press Search for Qaeda Fighters (By BARRY BEARAK, May 2, 2002)
China's Heir Apparent Wins Cordial Reception From Bush (By ERIK ECKHOLM, May 2, 2002)
Britons Say They Work Longer Hours, but They Produce Less (By SUZANNE KAPNER, May 2, 2002)
French Display Their Shock in Big Anti-Le Pen Protests (By SUZANNE DALEY, May 2, 2002)
In Afghan War, Top Exiles Printed Themselves a Fortune (By DEXTER FILKINS, May 2, 2002)
RAMALLAH: Aides' Joy Cannot Blunt Arafat's Anger at Israelis (By JAMES BENNET and DAVID ROHDE, May 2, 2002)
THE FIGHTING: Fires Start in Gunbattle in Bethlehem Compound (By C. J. CHIVERS, May 2, 2002)
U.S. Drops Last Link of Iraq to 9/11 (NY TIMES, May 2, 2002)
NY REGION: U.S. to Reconsider Applicants Rejected for Aid After Attack (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, May 2, 2002)
Wider Inquiry Into Towers Is Proposed (By JAMES GLANZ, May 2, 2002)
Grandson Takes Off in Tribute to 1927 Flight of Charles Lindbergh (By BRUCE LAMBERT, May 2, 2002)
Cut! She's Chewing the Scenery (By SHERRI DAY, May 2, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Tending to the Great Lawn, and Its Human Element (By JOYCE WADLER, May 2, 2002)
OP-ED: The Stress Defense (By BOB HERBER, May 2, 2002)
The Intrusion Explosion (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 2, 2002)
The War on Terror Enters Phase 2 (By VINCENT M. CANNISTRARO, May 2, 2002)
LETTERS: Down a New Road in the Mideast (By BENJAMIN SOMMER, May 2, 2002)
* LETTERS: A Speck in the Universe (By DIMPLE SHAH, May 2, 2002)
Blue-Chip Shares Rally as Investors Hunt for Bargains
[Dow +113, Nasdaq -11] (By REUTERS, May 2, 2002)
* AOL Replaces Overture With Google (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, May 2, 2002)
* Top Ranks Are Thinned at Sun as No. 2 Executive Joins Exodus (By CHRIS GAITHER, May 2, 2002)
Threat Is Seen to Microsoft Windows (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 2, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Yes, Bananas They Handle, but Steel... Is It Too Hot? (By DANIEL ALTMAN, May 2, 2002)
The New China Can Look Like the Old (By CHRIS BUCKLEY, May 2, 2002)
WorldCom's MCI Phone Unit Underwhelms Wall St. (By BARNABY J. FEDER, May 2, 2002)
It's Official: Hewlett-Compaq Merger Won (NY TIMES, May 2, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Magazine Award Winners, if Not Profit Champions (By DAVID CARR, May 2, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Merrill Lynch Contemplates 3 Little Words for Its Ratings (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, May 2, 2002)
ARTS ABROAD: A Culture Invested in Indigo, From Plant to Kimono (By ELIZABETH HEILMAN BROOKE, May 2, 2002)
BALLET: Balanchine in a Variety of Lights (By JACK ANDERSON, May 2, 2002)
BOOKS: 'LAKE EFFECT': So Cool, So Confident, or So They All Thought (By JANET MASLIN, May 2, 2002)
MAKING BOOKS: Pitchers at the Fair (By MARTIN ARNOLD, May 2, 2002)
DANCE: Ambiguity as Text, a Blackboard as Backdrop (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 2, 2002)
* POETRY: ONLINEL: The Beat Movement as Lived by Ginsberg (By MARC WEINGARTEN, May 2, 2002)
THE POP LIFE: From Prison, Music of Hope (By NEIL STRAUSS, May 2, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK': Hints of the Future in an Early Arthur Miller Play
(By BRUCE WEBER, May 2, 2002)
GARDEN: TURF: To Borrow, Must One Beg? (By TRACIE ROZHON, May 2, 2002)
GARDEN: CLOSE TO HOME: You Say House Arrest, I Say Paradise (By GERRY SHANAHAN, May 2, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 2, 2002)
* Lessons Learned at Dot-Com U. (By KATIE HAFNER, May 2, 2002)
Silicon Pets, but the Pride Is Real (By, May 2, 2002)
* Virtually Rebuilt, a Ruin Yields Secrets (By SAM LUBELL, May 2, 2002)
SCIENCE: Using Robotics, Researchers Give Upgrade to Lowly Rats (By KENNETH CHANG, May 2, 2002)
* HEALTH: Post-9/11 Pain Found to Linger in Young Minds (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, May 2, 2002)

Wednesday, May 1, 2002:
On This Day: May 1 (Joseph Addison 5/1/1672-6/17/1719, Benjamin Latrobe 5/1/1764-9/3/1820, Arthur Wellesley 5/1/1769-9/14/1852, Jose Alencar 5/1/1829-12/12/1877, Mary Harris Jones 5/1/1830-11/30/1930, Cecilia Beaux 5/1/1855-9/17/1942, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 5/1/1881-4/10/1955, Eugene Black 5/1/1898-2/20/1992, Winthrop Rockefeller 5/1/1912-2/22/1974, Terry Southern 5/1/1924-10/29/1995, Glenn Ford 1916, Jack Paar 1918, Scott Carpenter 1925, Shirley Horn 1934, Judy Collins 1939, Rita Coolidge 1945)
Soviet Downs American U-2 Plane; U.S. Says It Was Weather Craft; Khrushchev Sees Summit Blow
(By Osgood Caruthers, May 1, 1960)
Kate Smith, All-American Singer, Dies At 79
[5/1/1909-6/17/1986] (By FRANK G. PRIAL, June 18, 1986)
* Gordon R. Willey, Archaeologist of Pre-Columbian America, Dies at 89 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 1, 2002)
A.J. Levinson, 73; Advocate for Living Wills, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, May 1, 2002)
Del Sharbutt, Broadcast Announcer, 90, Dies (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 1, 2002)
Torunn Garin, Noted Food Engineer, Dies at 54 (NY TIMES, May 1, 2002)
Patricia Kroh, 97, Flower Arranging Expert and Author, Dies (NY TIMES, May 1, 2002)
NATIONAL: U.S. Begins Taking Over Screening at Airports (By MATTHEW L. WALD, May 1, 2002)
Jeb Bush Weeps as Drug Remarks Turn Personal (NY TIMES, May 1, 2002)
Leader of Islamic Charity Is Accused of Lying to Court (By NEIL A. LEWIS, May 1, 2002)
Bush Uses Familiar Themes on Stump in Silicon Valley (By EVELYN NIEVES, May 1, 2002)
Parents Outraged at Official Who Checked Girls' Underwear (By BARBARA WHITAKER, May 1, 2002)
NY REGION: Report on Towers' Collapse Ends Mostly in Questions (By JAMES GLANZ, May 1, 2002)
The Real Winners Stand Up, Holding a Ticket Out of Debt (By ROBERT HANLEY, May 1, 2002)
NYC: What's Green and Proud and Marches? (By CLYDE HABERMAN, May 1, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Recoup Some Losses, With Dow Gaining 1.3%
[Dow +126, Nasdaq +31] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 1, 2002)
WorldCom Leader Departs Company in Turbulent Time (By SETH SCHIESEL, May 1, 2002)
Suit Against Hewlett Deal Is Dismissed (By STEVE LOHR, May 1, 2002)
Top Executive at ABC Television Leaves After One Year in the Job (By BILL CARTER, May 1, 2002)
I.B.M. Chairman Lines Up a Book Deal for Himself (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 1, 2002)
States' Attack on Microsoft May Be Hurt (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 1, 2002)
ARTS ABROAD: Staging 'Edward III,' by (They Think) Shakespeare (By ALAN RIDING, May 1, 2002)
FILM: 'HOLLYWOOD ENDING': There's Deceit, and Then There's Deceit (By ELVIS MITCHELL, May 1, 2002)
MUSIC: THOMAS QUASTHOFF: Soulful Songs of Sorrow in America and Abroad (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, May 1, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Departure Turns Youthful Rhapsody Bittersweet (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 1, 2002)
* OPERA: 'HELOISE AND ABELARD': They Sure Learned Their Lesson, Didn't They? (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, May 1, 2002)
OPERA: 'THE GREAT GATSBY': Second Acts: Jay Gatsby's Self-Invention, Reinvented
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 1, 2002)
THEATER: A Theatrical Candle in a Shrine to Sept. 11 (By PETER MARKS, May 1, 2002)
THEATER: 'INTO THE WOODS': Sondheim Reprise Puts Music Ahead of the Journey (By BEN BRANTLEY, May 1, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO': Figaro Outwits the Count, but Without a Single Aria
(By D. J. R. BRUCKNER, May 1, 2002)
THEATER: 'XTRAVAGANZA': Saluting Spectacles of the Past (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, May 1, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Telescope Opens Window on Dawn of the Universe (By WARREN E. LEARY, May 1, 2002)
SCIENCE: Method May Transform Cells Without Cloning (By ANDREW POLLACK, May 1, 2002)
HEALTH: Study Finds New Drugs May Carry Extra Hazards (By DENISE GRADY, May 1, 2002)