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

Tuesday, November 30, 2004:
On This Day: November 30 (Andrea Doria 11/30/1466-11/25/1560, Andrea Palladio 11/30/1508-8/19/1580, Jonathan Swift 11/30/1667-10/19/1745, Mark Twain 11/30/1835-4/21/1910, Wiston Churchill 11/30/1874-1/24/1965, I.J. Singer 11/30/1893-2/10/1944, Donald Ogden Stewart 11/30/1894-8/2/1980, Gordon Parks 1912, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 1918, Shirley Chisholm 1924, Richard Crenna 1927, Dick Clark 1929, G. Gordon Liddy 1930, David Mamet 1947, June Pointer 1954, Billy Idol 1955, Bo Jackson 1962)
Clinton became the first U.S. President to visit Northern Ireland (NY Times, November 30, 1995)
* Churchill Dies at 90 At Home in London [11/30/1874-1/24/1965] (By ANTHONY LEWIS, January 24, 1965)

SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 30, 2004)
SCIENCE: Under All That Ice, Maybe Oil (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Nov. 30, 2004)
* Sexier Posterior Evolves Almost Overnight [barn swallows] (By CARL ZIMMER, Nov. 30, 2004)
* ESSAY: Why Good Friends Don't Always Make Good Doctors (By KENT SEPKOWITZ, M.D., Nov. 30, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Cicadas, an Elixir for the Earth (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 30, 2004)
OBSERVATORY: A Snake's Big Bites (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 30, 2004)
SIDE EFFECTS: Good Dogs, Bad People, and Cats (By JAMES GORMAN, Nov. 30, 2004)
* HEALTH: Too Much Stress May Give Genes Gray Hair (By BENEDICT CAREY, Nov. 30, 2004)
REALLY? | The Claim: Pregnant Women Should Avoid Cats (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 30, 2004)

Monday, November 29, 2004:
On This Day: November 29 (Gaetano Donizetti 11/29/1797-4/8/1848, Christian Doppler 11/29/1803-3/17/1853, Busby Berkeley 11/29/1895-3/14/1976, William Tubman 11/29/1895-7/23/1971, C.S. Lewis 11/29/1898-11/22/1963, Vin Scully 1927, Paul Simon 1928, Diane Ladd 1943, Suzy Chaffee 1946, Garry Shandling 1949, Cathy Moriarty 1960)
U.N. General Assembly resolution on partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews (NY Times, November 29, 1947)
* Louisa M. Alcott Dead at 55: Authoress Dies on the Day of Her Father's Funeral [11/29/1832-3/6/1888] (NY Times, March 7, 1888)

BASEBALL ANALYSIS: Call Mets Crazy, but Martínez Is a Serious Option (By LEE JENKINS, Nov. 29, 2004)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Inside the Mind's Eye, a Network of Highways (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Nov. 29, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: 'My Son, My Son' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 29, 2004)

Sunday, November 28, 2004:
On This Day: November 28 (Jean-Baptiste Lully 11/28/1632-3/22/1687, William Blake 11/28/1757-8/12/1827, William Froude 11/28/1810-5/4/1879, Friedrich Engels 11/28/1820-8/5/1895, Helen Magill White 11/28/1853-10/28/1944, Henry Bacon 11/28/1866-2/16/1924, Jose Iturbi 11/28/1895-6/30/1973, Berry Gordy Jr. 1939, Hope Lange 1931, Gary Hart 1936, Randy Newman 1943, Susan Spencer 1946, Paul Shaffer 1949)
* Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill at Teheran Talks; 1500 More Tons of Bombs Dropped on Berlin (By JAMES B. RESTON, November 28, 1943)
* Nancy Mitford, Author, Dead; Satiric Novelist and Essayist [11/28/1904-6/30/1973] (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, July 1, 1973)

* NY REGION | Connecticut: Writer's Block [F. Scott Fitzgerald]
(By ALAN BISBORT, Nov. 28, 2004)
* BUSINESS: The Making of a Wise Man [Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO, Blackstone Group]
(By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Nov. 28, 2004)
THE GOODS: Kids Cook the Darndest Things (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Nov. 28, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 28, 2004)
* To Know Me, Know My IPod (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Nov. 28, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 28, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: Kiduage (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 28, 2004)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Tweens 'R' Us (By ANN HULBERT, Nov. 28, 2004)
QUESTIONS FOR DAVID ROCKWELL: Toy-Store Story (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Nov. 28, 2004)
* A Robot for the Masses [Mini-Me: Standing 14 inches tall,
Robosapien is a little bit human and a whole lot analog. While it has
its creator's "physique" and sounds like him, millions of transistors
control its seven motors and a chip with 12 kilobytes of programming.
(By FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, Nov. 28, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 28, 2004)

Saturday, November 27, 2004:
On This Day: November 27 (Anders Celsious 11/27/1701-4/25/1744, Robert Livingston 11/27/1746-2/26/1813, Fanny Kemble 11/27/1809-1/15/1893, Charles Beard 1127/1874-9/1/1948, James Agee 11/27/1909-5/16/1955, Alexander Dubcek 11/27/1921-11/7/1992, Jimi Hendrix 11/27/1942-9/18/1970, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg 1957)
Ford Is Approved By Senate, 92-3; House Set To Act (By MARJORIE HUNTER, November 27, 1973)
* Chaim Weizmann Of Israel Is Dead at 77 [11/27/1874-9/9/1952] (NY Times, November 9, 1952)

Friday, November 26, 2004:
On This Day: November 26 (William Cowper 11/26/1731-4/25/1800, Norber Wiener 11/26/1894-3/18/1964, Eugène Ionesco 11/26/1909-3/28/1994, Eric Sevareid 11/26/1912-7/9/1992, Robert Goulet 1933, Rich Little 1938, Tina Turner 1939)
Full 'Gas' Rationing Dec. 1 Ordered by President Roosevelt (NY Times, November 26, 1942)
* Charles M. Schulz, 'Peanuts' Creator, Dies at 77 [11/26/1922-2/12/2000] (By SARAH BOXER, February 14, 2000)

* Langdon Gilkey, 85, Theorist on Nexus of Faith and Science, Dies (By MARGALIT FOX, Nov. 26, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Shoppers Swarm Malls in Holiday Kickoff (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 26, 2004)
MILITARY TECHNOLOGY: 3-D Maps From Commercial Satellites Guide G.I.'s in Iraq's Deadliest Urban Mazes
(By ERIC LIPTON, Nov. 26, 2004)
OP-ED: When Weakness Is a Strength [weakening dollar] (By STEPHEN S. ROACH, Nov. 26, 2004)
BUSINESS: Claims Over Tasers' Safety Are Challenged (By ALEX BERENSON, Nov. 26, 2004)
* ART: 'PONTORMO, BRONZINO AND THE MEDICI': A Party of Renaissance Personalities (By HOLLAND COTTER, Nov. 26, 2004)
* BOOKS: Ancient Conqueror, Modern Devotees [Alexander the Great] (By EMILY EAKIN, Nov. 26, 2004)
BOOKS: A Great Subject [Alexander the Great] (By EMILY EAKIN, Nov. 26, 2004)
FILM: A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT': A Love That Won't Surrender to War, Death and Oblivion
(By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 26, 2004)
FILM CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Making Movies for the Ages, All Ages (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 26, 2004)

Thursday, November 25, 2004:
On This Day: November 25 (Lope de Vega 11/25/1562-8/27/1635, Maria Henrietta 11/25/1609-9/10/1669, John Begelow 11/25/1817-12/19/1911, Joseph Krutch 11/25/1893-5/22/1970, Virgil Thomson 11/25/1896-9/30/1989, Lewis Thomas 11/25/1913-12/3/1993, Jow DiMaggio 11/25/1914-3/8/1999, Ricardo Mantalban 1920, Kathryn Crosby 1933, Amy Grant 1960)
Iran Payment Found Diverted To Contras; Reagan Security Adviser And Aide Are Out (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, November 25, 1986)
* Andrew Carnegie Started as a Bobbin Boy, Dies at 83 [11/25/1835-8/11/1919] (NY Times, August 12, 1919)

CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 25, 2004)
* EBay Sellers Do the Holiday Sprint (By LISA GUERNSEY, Nov. 25, 2004)
Waving Hello, From a Distance (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Nov. 25, 2004)

Wednesday, November 24, 2004:
On This Day: November 24 (Benedict Spinoza 11/24/1632-2/21/1677, Laurence Sterne 11/24/1713-3/18/1768, Junipero Serra 11/24/1713-8/28/1784, Zachary Taylor 11/24/1784-7/9/1850, Cass Gilbert 11/24/1859-5/17/1934, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 11/24/1864-9/9/1901, Scott Joplin 11/24/1868-4/1/1917, Itzhak Ben-Zvi 11/24/1884-4/23/1963, Margaret Anderson 11/24/1886-10/18/1973, William F. Buckley 1925, Pete Best 1941)
President's Assassin Shot To Death In Jail Corridor by a Dallas Citizen (By GLADWIN HILL, November 24, 1963)
* Dale Carnegie, Author, Is Dead at 66 [11/24/1888-11/1/1955] (NY Times, November 2, 1955)

* ARTS: From Internet Arm Wrestling to the Magic of Math (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Nov. 24, 2004)
BOOKS: A Scholar's Book Adds Layers of Complexity to the Schindler Legend
(By DINITIA SMITH, Nov. 24, 2004)
* BOOKS: 'THE STORIES OF ENGLISH': English: Out of Many, One, and Then Many
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Nov. 24, 2004)
* FILM: 'ALEXANDER': With No More Parents to Conquer, He Wept (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 24, 2004)
BUSINESS: Stocks Fall on Weak Dollar and Rising Oil Prices
[Dow +3.18, Nasdaq -0.91] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 24, 2004)
* Rather Quitting as CBS Anchor in Abrupt Move (By JACQUES STEINBERG & BILL CARTER, Nov. 24, 2004)
Russia Weighs Shifting Its Holdings to Euros (By ERIC PFANNER, Nov. 24, 2004)

Tuesday, November 23, 2004:
On This Day: November 23 (Otto I 11/23/912-5/7/973, John Wallis 11/23/1616-10/28/1703, Franklin Pierce 11/23/1804-10/8/1869, Billy the Kid 11/23/1859-7/14/1881, Karl Branting 11/23/1860-2/24/1925, Manuel de Falla 11/23/1876-11/14/1946, Boris Karloff 11/23/1887-2/3/1969, Joe Eszterhas 1944, Susan Anspach 1945)
Ruined Berlin Afire After 2d Bombing; U. S. Planes Smash At Toulon and Sofia; 4 Japanese Destroyers Sunk In Battle (By WILLIAM L. WORDEN, November 23, 1943)
* Erte, a Master of Fashion, Stage and Art Deco Design, Is Dead at 97 [11/23/1892-4/21/1990] (By ALAN RIDING, April 22, 1990)

NATIONAL: Americans Show Clear Concerns on Bush Agenda
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY & JANET ELDER, Nov. 23, 2004)
SPORTS: The Boo Birds Are Circling a Fallen Star [Sammy Sosa] (By LEE JENKINS, Nov. 23, 2004)
* ART: Christo 'Gates' Arriving in Central Park Next Week (By CAROL VOGEL, Nov. 23, 2004)
BOOKS: 'THE LINE OF BEAUTY': In Waugh's Territory, Shadowed by AIDS
[Alan Hollinghurst] (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Nov. 23, 2004)
FILM: Hollywood Shakeout (By SHARON WAXMAN, Nov. 23, 2004)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 23, 2004)
* SCIENCE: The Face of Nature Changes as Art and Science Evolve (By CARL ZIMMER, Nov. 23, 2004)
* New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses
[Cheryl Schiltz recovered her sense of balance
with the aid of a sensory substitution device]
(By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Nov. 23, 2004)

Monday, November 22, 2004:
On This Day: November 22 (René-Robert La Salle 11/22/1643-3/19/1687, Abigail Adams 11/22/1744-10/28/1818, George Eliot 11/22/1819-12/22/1880, André Gide 11/22/1869-2/19/1951, Wiley Post 11/22/1899-8/15/1935, Hoagy Carmichael 11/22/1899-12/27/1981, Rodney Dangerfield 1921, Robert Vaughn 1932, Billie Jean King 1943, Mariel Hemingway 1961)
* KENNEDY IS KILLED BY SNIPER AS HE RIDES IN CAR IN DALLAS; JOHNSON SWORN IN ON PLANE
(By TOM WICKER, November 22, 1963)
* De Gaulle Rallied France in War and Strove to Lead Her to Greatness [11/22/1890-11/9/1970] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, November 11, 1970)
* Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner (Artist: Thomas Nast) (Harper's Weekly, November 22, 1869)

Robert Bacher, Manhattan Project Physicist, Dies at 99 (By JEREMY PEARCE, Nov. 22, 2004)
Terry Melcher, 62, Creator of Hits in Surf-Music World, Is Dead (By JEFF LEEDS, Nov. 22, 2004)
Frederik Prausnitz, 84, Advocate of Modern Classical Composers, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 22, 2004)
Walter Mintz, 75, Investor and Hedge Fund Co-Founder, Is Dead (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Nov. 22, 2004)
Covington Hardee, Banking Executive, Dies at 85 (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Nov. 22, 2004)
Jimmy Lovelace, 64, Veteran Jazzman, Dies (NY TIMES, Nov. 22, 2004)
NATIONAL: Giving the Law a Religious Perspective (By ADAM LIPTAK, Nov. 22, 2004)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: In the New Bush Cabinet, Loyalty Trumps Celebrity (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Nov. 22, 2004)
5 Killed in Deer Hunting Dispute in Wisconsin (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 22, 2004)
WORLD: Iran to Suspend Uranium Enrichment Today (By NAZILA FATHI, Nov. 22, 2004)
Security Dispute Dulls Luster of Bush's Trip to Chile (By DAVID E. SANGER and LARRY ROHTER, Nov. 22, 2004)
HORRORS: Clues on Hostages Emerge From Houses in Falluja (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Nov. 22, 2004)
THE BILLIONS: Major Creditors in Accord to Waive 80% of Iraq Debt (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Nov. 22, 2004)
VOTING: Date Set for Iraqi Elections; Violence Slows Registration (By EDWARD WONG, Nov. 22, 2004)
ZMEINOGORSK JOURNAL: Scare Is Over, and Siberia Won't Glow in the Dark (By C. J. CHIVERS, Nov. 22, 2004)
NY REGION: New York Port Hums Again, With Asian Trade (By ERIC LIPTON, Nov. 22, 2004)
On New York's Streets, Warning of a Crackdown by China [Falun Gong] (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Nov. 22, 2004)
Landmark Theater Held Over! 6th Big Broadway Run! (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Nov. 22, 2004)
The Gang's All Here, and All Under Arrest at Party in New Jersey (By MICHELLE O'DONNELL, Nov. 22, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Nov. 22, 2004)
SPORTS: N.B.A. Hands Tough Penalties to Players Involved in Brawl (By LIZ ROBBINS, Nov. 22, 2004)
SPORTS: Stern Sends a Forceful Message (By HARVEY ARATON, Nov. 22, 2004)
BASEBALL: Yanks Hesitant About Martínez (NY TIMES, Nov. 22, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: When $252 Million Isn't Enough Incentive (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 22, 2004)
EDITORIAL: Costly Troop Deficit in Iraq (NY TIMES, Nov. 22, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The 28th Amendment (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 22, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Shhh, Don't Say 'Poverty' (By BOB HERBERT, Nov. 22, 2004)
OP-ED: Games People Want to Play (By BOB GREENE, Nov. 22, 2004)
OP-ED: The Heckler's Code (By ROBIN FECKER, Nov. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: When Faith and Modernity Collide (4 Letters) (By Sheila Shirazi, et. al., Nov. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: Republicans Hiding in the Ivory Tower (4 Letters) (By Markus Meister, et. al., Nov. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: Nuance Lost the Election (Thomas A. Pitta, Nov. 22, 2004)
LETTERS: Sears's Cultural Icon (By Hope H. Swenson, Nov. 22, 2004)
Music Industry Is Trying Out New Releases as Digital Only (By JEFF LEEDS, Nov. 22, 2004)
BUSINESS: Many Who Voted for 'Values' Still Like Their Television Sin (By BILL CARTER, Nov. 22, 2004)
* DRILLING DOWN/SEARCH ENGINES: Are Bigger Search Engines Better? (By MARK GLASSMAN, Nov. 22, 2004)
* Comic Books of the West Head East [Deepak Chopra] (By SARITHA RAI, Nov. 22, 2004)
Trump's Casino Operation Files for Bankruptcy (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Nov. 22, 2004)
Pulitzer Is Said to Be Considering a Sale (By REUTERS, Nov. 22, 2004)
Struggling Airlines Compete Fiercely for China Routes (By JEREMY W. PETERS, Nov. 22, 2004)
In Canada, Acting Out Contempt for Bush and His Policies Wasn't Viewed as Funny (By IAN AUSTEN, Nov. 22, 2004)
ADVERTISING: Advertisements You Didn1t Demand (By NAT IVES, Nov. 22, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Cable's Rivals Lure Customers With Packages (By KEN BELSON, Nov. 22, 2004)
* Free or Paid? AOL Will Let Its Two Halves Duke It Out (By SAUL HANSELL, Nov. 22, 2004)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Internet Retailers Reaching Out to Mailbox Surfers (By BOB TEDESCHI, Nov. 22, 2004)
* NEW ECONOMY: Building a Medical Data Network (By STEVE LOHR, Nov. 22, 2004)
Playing Games in Your 20's? Nintendo Is Onto You (By ROBERT LEVINE, Nov. 22, 2004)
ART: At a Gallery in Lhasa, Tibet Joins Art World (By CRAIG SIMONS, Nov. 22, 2004)
ARTS: Big Hamilton Show Fails to Draw Crowds (By GLENN COLLINS, Nov. 22, 2004)
ARTS: Arts, Briefly (By BEN SISARIO, Nov. 22, 2004)
* BOOKS: AN ESSAY: Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite!
[Computer program Brutus.1 & Narrative prose generator StoryBook]
(By DANIEL AKST, Nov. 22, 2004)
BOOKS: Holocaust Victim's Novel Finds a Readership at Last
[Irène Némirovsky's "Suite Française"] (By ALAN RIDING, Nov. 22, 2004)
BOOKS: 'THE FACTS BEHIND THE HELSINKI ROCCAMATIOS'
Dark-Hued Early Works of a Booker Prize Winner [Yann Martel]
(By JANET MASLIN, Nov. 22, 2004)
DANCE: 'DANCE TO MONK': Commemorating the Musical Half of Meredith Monk
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Nov. 22, 2004)
FILM: 'National Treasure' Opens As the Box-Office Leader (By CATHERINE BILLEY, Nov. 22, 2004)
FILM: 'BOB, VERUSHKA AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS':
Her Body, His Brain, Prisoners of a Rat Race (By NED MARTEL, Nov. 22, 2004)
MUSIC: A Singer Confronts Colombia's Pain (By JUAN FORERO, Nov. 22, 2004)
THEATER: 'DAME EDNA: BACK WITH A VENGEANCE!': Insult Alert: Duck if You Can, Possums
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Nov. 22, 2004)

Sunday, November 21, 2004:
On This Day: November 21 (Jean Francois Voltaire 11/21/1694-5/30/1778, Sir Samuel Cunard 11/21/1787-4/28/1865, Sir Harold Nicolson 11/21/1886-5/1/1968, René Magritte 11/21/1898-8/15/1967, Eleanor Powell 11/21/1912-2/11/1982, Sid Luckman 11/21/1916-7/5/1998, Stan Musial 1920, Marlo Thomas 1937, Natalia Makarova 1940, Goldie Hawn 1945, Ken Griffey Jr. 1969)
* Verrazano Bridge Opened to Traffic (By GAY TALESE, November 21, 1964)
Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophonist, Is Dead at 64 [11/20/1925-6/6/1968] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, May 20, 1969)

Martin Kaplan, 89, Health Official Who Fought the Spread of Disease, Dies (By MARGALIT FOX, Nov. 21, 2004)
* Nancy Larrick, Author of a Guide to Children's Reading, Dies at 93 (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Nov. 21, 2004)
Joseph Koepfli, 100, Museum Benefactor, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 21, 2004)
Michel Colombier, French Composer, Dies at 65 (By REUTERS, Nov. 21, 2004)
NATIONAL: House Leadership Blocks Vote on Intelligence Bill (By PHILIP SHENON & CARL HULSE, Nov. 21, 2004)
Some Like It Hot, but a New Pepper Is Bred for the Rest (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Nov. 21, 2004)
WASHINGTON MEMO: Rumsfeld Isn't Showing Signs That He Is Leaving
(By THOM SHANKER & RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Nov. 21, 2004)
EDUCATION: School District Challenges Darwin's Theory (By REUTERS, Nov. 21, 2004)
EDUCATION: Turmoil Grips Elite School Over Money and Leaders (By STEPHANIE STROM, Nov. 21, 2004)
WORLD: Bush Says Iran Speeds Output of A-Bomb Fuel (By DAVID E. SANGER, Nov. 21, 2004)
In Falluja, Young Marines Saw the Savagery of an Urban War (By DEXTER FILKINS, Nov. 21, 2004)
DIPLOMACY: Meeting Adds to Support of Democracy for the Iraqis (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
Mongolia Under Pressure to Serve as Haven for Refugees (By JAMES BROOKE, Nov. 21, 2004)
At Holocaust Museum, Turning a Number Into a Name (By JOSEPH BERGER, Nov. 21, 2004)
Some Hard-Liners in Turkey See Diversity as Divisive (By SUSAN SACHS, Nov. 21, 2004)
France Is Cast as the Villain in Ivory Coast (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Nov. 21, 2004)
NY REGION: Where Execution Feels Like Relic, Death Looms (By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Nov. 21, 2004)
OUR TOWNS: Palestinians, Jews and the Art of Getting Bent Out of Shape (By PETER APPLEBOME, Nov. 21, 2004)
Sweating Over Gold (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Nov. 21, 2004)
A Day to Savor Art as the Modern Reopens (By DAMIEN CAVE, Nov. 21, 2004)
TOMS RIVER JOURNAL: After Attacks on Homeless, Students Turn to Charity (By JANON FISHER, Nov. 21, 2004)
FOLLOWING UP: Sex Museum Visits Up: Must Be for the Culture (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Nov. 21, 2004)
* SPORTS: KEEPING SCORE: Earned Run Average? Some Haven't Earned It and Are Only Average
(By ALAN SCHWARZ, Nov. 21, 2004)
SPORTS: No Innocents in N.B.A. Brawl in Suburban Detroit (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Nov. 21, 2004)
BASKETBALL: N.B.A. Bars 4 After a Brawl Involving Fans (By LIZ ROBBINS, Nov. 21, 2004)
EDITORIAL: The Promise and Peril of Heart Scans (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Absolute Power Erupts (By MAUREEN DOWD, Nov. 21, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Postcards From Iraq (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* OP-ED: A Doctrine Left Behind (By MARK DANNER, Nov. 21, 2004)
* LETTERS: Democrats Have Faith, in the Issues (6 Letters) (By Linda Susswein, et. al., Nov. 21, 2004)
LETTERS: The President, Bold and Audacious (2 Letters) (By Angelo Presicci, et. al., Nov. 21, 2004)
LETTERS: The Outcome in Iraq (By Jean Gelder, Nov. 21, 2004)
LETTERS: Vitamins vs. Drugs (By Sorah Dubitsky, Nov. 21, 2004)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
* THE PLASTIC TRAP: Soaring Interest Compounds Credit Card Pain for Millions (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* Google Founders Plan Sales of Their Shares (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 21, 2004)
The Castro Collection (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Nov. 21, 2004)
INVESTING: The Four-More-Years Portfolio: How to Narrow the Field (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Nov. 21, 2004)
Oracle Moves One Step Closer in Its Bid to Take Over a Rival (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: Does a Free Download Equal a Lost Sale? (By DANIEL GROSS, Nov. 21, 2004)
Next Up for Spitzer: Funny Numbers (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Nov. 21, 2004)
* GRETCHEN MORGENSON: A Stock Party, Then a Retail Hangover (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Nov. 21, 2004)
* DIGITAL DOMAIN: When a Video Game Stops Being Fun (By RANDALL STROSS, Nov. 21, 2004)
THE GOODS: Sleeping Dogs, Lying Luxuriously (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Nov. 21, 2004)
Who's Afraid of Kmart and Sears? Not Target (By DAN MITCHELL, Nov. 21, 2004)
MARKET WEEK: Big Winners, Big Losers In Earnings (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Nov. 21, 2004)
FUNDAMENTALLY: Seven Ways to Save on Taxes (Just Don't Wait Until 2005)
(By PAUL J. LIM, Nov. 21, 2004)
SUITS: Some Executives Can't Take a Hint (By MARK A. STEIN, Nov. 21, 2004)
ARMCHAIR M.B.A.: The Snowball Effect of Volunteer Work (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Nov. 21, 2004)
THE COUNT: In the War Zone, It Won't Be the Day to Diet (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Nov. 21, 2004)
REFRESH BUTTON: Rarely at a Tee, but Still a Player (By ROBERT JOHNSON, Nov. 21, 2004)
THE BOSS: To the Front of the Line [Valencia Adams, BellSouth, Atlanta]
(As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN, Nov. 21, 2004)
SPENDING: Skip the Toasters. Help Us Pay for a Trip to Italy. (By JANE L. LEVERE, Nov. 21, 2004)
REFRAINING: No Gifts, No Guilt: A Survival Guide for Scrooges (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Nov. 21, 2004)
THE AGENDA: Get the Wrong Answer, Ask Another Lawyer (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: Bono's New Casualty: 'Private Ryan' (By FRANK RICH, Nov. 21, 2004)
ARTS: The Guide (By CHOIRE SICHA, Nov. 21, 2004)
ART: The Alfred Leslie School of Everything (By PHOEBE HOBAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
ART: DIRECTIONS | SHOPPING LIST: The Price of Oil (By KEN JOHNSON, Nov. 21, 2004)
* DANCE: Keeping the Sleigh From Crashing ["Nutcracker"] (By SYLVIANE GOLD, Nov. 21, 2004)
DANCE: DIRECTIONS: If the Dancers Are Half Notes, What Does That Make Dj Spooky?
(By MIKE HALE, Nov. 21, 2004)
* FILM: Kevin Spacey's Battle for Bobby Darin (By DENNIS McDOUGAL, Nov. 21, 2004)
* FILM: Godard's Metaphysics of the Movies (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 21, 2004)
FILM: The Girl He Left Behind Gets a Movie of Her Own
["A Very Long Engagement"] (By TERRENCE RAFFERTY, Nov. 21, 2004)
* MUSIC: The Vivaldi Hunters (By MICHAEL WHITE, Nov. 21, 2004)
MUSIC: Robert Downey Jr.: The Album (By HILARY DE VRIES, Nov. 21, 2004)
MUSIC: DIRECTIONS | AUDIENCE REPORT: The New Guy [James Levine] (By JOE MADER, Nov. 21, 2004)
MUSIC PLAYLIST: The Answer, My Friend, Is... Mono? (By WILLIAM HOGELAND, Nov. 21, 2004)
MUSIC RECORDINGS: Best of the Very Worst, or Music's Greatest Misses (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Nov. 21, 2004)
PHOTOGRAPHY: The Picnic That Never Was (By PHILIP GEFTER, Nov. 21, 2004)
THEATER: The Michael and Michael Shows (By PHOEBE HOBAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
TV: The Blood-Spattered Triplets of 'CSI' (By CHARLES McGRATH, Nov. 21, 2004)
TV: Turning Brawny Action Drama Into Sensitive Soap Opera (By LAURA MILLER, Nov. 21, 2004)
TV COMMERCIAL: Scent of a Woman (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 21, 2004)
TV: DIRECTIONS | PUNCH LINES: Take His Wife. Please. (NY TINMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
You Paid How Much for That Haircut? (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Nov. 21, 2004)
The Post-Nanny Diaries (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Nov. 21, 2004)
Greetings From Resisterville (By FRED A. BERNSTEIN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* MODERN LOVE: The Chicken's in the Oven, My Husband's Out the Door (By THEO PAULINE NESTOR, Nov. 21, 2004)
Ryan McGinness: Fun and, Yes, Games (By PAULINE O'CONNOR, Nov. 21, 2004)
Dark Thoughts on the Season's Bright Palette (By JENNIFER TUNG, Nov. 21, 2004)
WHAT I'M WEARING NOW: The Costume Designer (By JENNIFER TUNG, Nov. 21, 2004)
Fine Crafts in India Go the Way of Fairy Soap (By GUY TREBAY, Nov. 21, 2004)
THE AGE OF DISSONANCE: Manners in the Time of Flu (By BOB MORRIS, Nov. 21, 2004)
* BOOKS OF STYLE: Know It All [How To Books] (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
POSSESSED: Flawlessness Isn't Everything (By DAVID COLMAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* VOWS: Ali Mendelson and Jeremy Winaker (By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER, Nov. 21, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
Hawk Sightings Could Be Premature [Condoleezza Rice] (By DAVID E. SANGER, Nov. 21, 2004)
* Give Them Some of That Free-Market Religion (By EDUARDO PORTER, Nov. 21, 2004)
* THEATER REVIEW: A Trial William S. Would Have Loved [Eisner & Ovitz] (By BRUCE WEBER, Nov. 21, 2004)
Yes, It Glitters. After South Africans Suffer to Dig It. (By ROGER COHEN, Nov. 21, 2004)
WORD FOR WORD: Still Unhappy About the Election? Here's a Place You Can Vent.
(By TOM ZELLER Jr., Nov. 21, 2004)
* When Every Child Is Good Enough (By JOHN TIERNEY, Nov. 21, 2004)
FILIBUSTER UNDER FIRE: Henry Clay Hated It. So Does Bill Frist. (By SCOTT SHANE, Nov. 21, 2004)
Shades of the Vioxx Case for Another Drug (By GARDINER HARRIS, Nov. 21, 2004)
A Painful Goodbye to Cheap Money (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* The Reading File [TV Dinners; Heeled Shoes & Schizophrenia] (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (By, Nov. 21, 2004)
ON LANGUAGE: Gaming (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 21, 2004)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: A States' Rights Left? (By JIM HOLT, Nov. 21, 2004)
QUESTIONS ELFRIEDE JELINEK: A Gloom of Her Own (Inteview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Nov. 21, 2004)
IDEA LAB: Life Way After Head Start (By DAVID L. KIRP, Nov. 21, 2004)
CONSUMED: Message in a Bottle [Nalgene Outdoor bottle] (By ROB WALKER, Nov. 21, 2004)
THE ETHICIST: Chatter Bus (By RANDY COHEN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* COVER ARTICLE: The Antidepressant Dilemma (By JONATHAN MAHLER, Nov. 21, 2004)
* Who Lost Ohio? {Election Night 2004 in Columbus] (By MATT BAI, Nov. 21, 2004)
Just Another Quick-Witted, Egg-Roll-Joke-Making, Insult-Hurling Chinese-American Rapper
(By TA-NEHISI COATES, Nov. 21, 2004)
STYLE: Puff Mama [slide show] (Photographs by SATOSHI SAIKUSA, Nov. 21, 2004)
DESIGN: Bed, Bath and Alaïa (By LOUISE NERI, Nov. 21, 2004)
FOOD: THE WAY WE EAT NOW: Chow for Now (By AMANDA HESSER, Nov. 21, 2004)
LIVES: Buried Alive (By JOAN NAPOLITANO as told to ERIK LUNDEGAARD, Nov. 21, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Poetry Issue Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)
* The Poetry Symposium (By John Ashberry, Harold Bloom, James Fenton, Jorie Graham,
Jim Harrison, Mary Karr, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, & Sapphire, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'American Smooth': Dance Fever [Rita Dove] (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'Collected Prose': James Merrill, Unversed (By CHRISTIAN WIMAN, Nov. 21, 2004)
* FIRST CHAPTER: 'Collected Prose' ["This fondness for given arrangements
might explain how instinctively I took to quatrains, to octaves and sestets,
when I began to write poems. "Stanza" is after all the Italian word for 'room'."]
(By JAMES MERRILL, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'Second Space': The Captive Body [Czeslaw Milosz] (By MEGHAN O'ROURKE, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'Danger on Peaks': Ars Longa, Vita Longa [Gary Snyder] (By DAVID KIRBY, Nov. 21, 2004)
* TRANSLATION: Yehuda Amichai: Posthumous Fragments (By LEON WIESELTIER, Nov. 21, 2004)
* APPRECIATION | ANTHONY HECHT: An Expert on Human Failings (By DAVID YEZZI, Nov. 21, 2004)
ESSAY: How to Talk Southern (By ROY BLOUNT JR., Nov. 21, 2004)
* CHRONICLE: Poetry: Happy as Two Blue-Plate Specials (By STEPHEN BURT, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'Inner Voices': Art Is Everything [Richard Howard] (By BRAD LEITHAUSER, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'Breath': Can't Forget the Motor City [Philip Levine] (By TERRENCE RAFFERTY, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'The Best American Poetry 2004': You, Too, Could Write a Poem
[Edited by Lyn Hejinian] (By DAVID ORR, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'Disappearing Ink': This Be the Prose [Dana Gioia] (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 21, 2004)
* 'It Seemed Important at the Time': Man Oh Man
["A Romance Memoir" By Gloria Vanderbilt] (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Nov. 21, 2004)
'Lilla's Feast': Do I Dare to Eat Rations? [Frances Osborne]
[A True Story of Food, Love, and War in the Orient] (By STACY SCHIFF, Nov. 21, 2004)
'Janet & Me': The Courage of Olive Oyl [Stan Mack] (By JOYCE JOHNSON, Nov. 21, 2004)
FICTION: 'Maximum City': Bombay Confidential [Suketu Mehta] (By AKASH KAPUR, Nov. 21, 2004)
SCIENCE: NASA Starts Hunt for Celestial Bursts (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2004)

Saturday, November 20, 2004:
On This Day: November 20 (Otto von Guericke 11/20/1602-5/11/1686, Selma Lagerlöf 11/20/1858-3/16/1940, Kenesaw Mountain Landis 11/20/1866-11/25/1944, James M. Curley 11/20/1874-11/12/1958, Norman Thomas 11/20/1884-12/19/1968, Edwin Powell Hubble 11/20/1889-9/28/1953, Alexandra Danilova 11/20/1903-7/13/1997, Emilio Pucci 11/20/1914-11/29/1982, Alistair Cooke 1908, Robert Byrd 1917, Estell Parsons 197, Judy Woodruff 1946, Bo Derek 1956, Sean Young 1959)
Allies Open Trial Of 20 Top Germans For Crimes Of War (By KATHLEEN MCLAUGHLIN, November 20, 1945)
* Robert Francis Kennedy: Attorney General, Senator and Heir of the New Frontier [11/20/1925-6/6/1968] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, June 6, 1968)
* "Do It Now!": Cartoon on President William Howard Taft (Artist: Edward Windsor Kemble) (Harper's Weekly, November 20, 1909)

* Jasper Kane, 101, Biochemist Who Helped Make Antibiotics, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Nov. 20, 2004)
Cy Coleman, Composer Whose Jazz-Fired Musicals Blazed on Broadway, Dies at 75 (By ROBERT BERKVIST, Nov. 20, 2004)
* NY REGION: For Museum of Modern Art, a Homecoming (By SEWELL CHAN, Nov. 20, 2004)
EDITORIAL: Groundhog Day (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2004)
OP-ED COLMUNIST: No More Sham Elections (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Nov. 20, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Scandal Waiting to Happen (By DAVID BROOKS, Nov. 20, 2004)
OP-ED: Not Every Picture Tells a Story (By ERROL MORRIS, Nov. 20, 2004)
OP-ED: Duty, Honor, Caulking (By ANDY BOROWITZ, Nov. 20, 2004)
OP-ED: It's Easy Being Green (By WILL ROGERS, Nov. 20, 2004)
LETTERS: Performing a Scan of the Heart (5 Letters) (By Neil L. Coplan, M.D., et. al., Nov. 20, 2004)
LETTERS: Who Bats Next in the Mideast? (3 Letters) (By Eli Spielman, et. al., Nov. 20, 2004)
LETTERS: The Fear Factor (By Jack Shultz, Nov. 20, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Fall on Worries Over U.S. Deficits and Oil Prices
[Dow -115.64, Nasdaq -33.65] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 20, 2004)
Greenspan Sees No Rise Soon for the Dollar (By MARK LANDLER, Nov. 20, 2004)
In Kmart's Deal for Sears, a Bet That Real Estate Can Trump Retailing
(By CONSTANCE L. HAYS and TRACIE ROZHON, Nov. 20, 2004)
* BOOKS: Devastation, Now Salvage, Page by Page (By ANDREAS TZORTZIS, Nov. 20, 2004)
FILM CRITIC: Putting the Movies Back Into the Modern (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 20, 2004)
* MUSIC: 40 Years of Free-Form Radio, the Circle Unbroken [WFUV-FM] (By BEN SISARIO, Nov. 20, 2004)
THEATER: 'HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE'
A Professional Failure Faces Certain Doom: Success (By SARAH LYALL, Nov. 20, 2004)

Friday, November 19, 2004:
On This Day: November 19 (Charles I 11/19/1600-1/30/1649, Mikhail Lomonosov 11/19/1711-4/15/1765, Ferdinand Lesseps 11/19/1805-12/7/1894, James Garfield 11/19/1831-9/19/1881, Richard Avenarius 11/19/1843-11/18/1896, Allen Tate 11/19/1899-2/9/1979, Tommy Dorsey 11/19/1905-11/26/1956, Roy Campanella 11/19/1921-6/26/1993, Jeanne Kirkpatrick 1926, Larry King 1933, Dick Cavett 1936, Ted Turner 1938, Garrick Utley 1939, Calvin Klein 1942, Ahmad Rashad 1949, Kathleen Quinlan 1954, Jodie Foster 1962, Gail Devers 1966)
* The Heroes of July: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (NY Times, November 19, 1863)
* Indira Gandhi Assassinated, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India [11/19/1917-10/31/1984] (By LINDA CHARLTON, November 1, 1984)

Reed Irvine, 82, the Founder of a Media Criticism Group, Dies (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, Nov. 19, 2004)
M. Irené Ferrer, 89, Cardiologist and Educator, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Nov. 19, 2004)
Adam Young, Co-Founder of TV Station Group, Dies at 91 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 19, 2004)
EDITORIAL: Mr. Sharon, You're Up at Bat (NY TIMES, Nov. 19, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bush's Echo Chamber (By BOB HERBERT, Nov. 19, 2004)
* OP-ED: The Power of One (By DAVID GERGEN, Nov. 19, 2004)
OP-ED: Dangerous Medicine [RU-486 Mifeprex] (By DONNA J. HARRISON, Nov. 19, 2004)
OP-ED: Out of Bounds (By DAN ROONEY, Nov. 19, 2004)
LETTERS: Ex-G.I.'s Who Want Out, and In (5 Letters) (By Michael G. Brautigam, et. al., Nov. 19, 2004)
LETTERS: Sex and the N.F.L. (2 Letters) (Rebecca Forman, et. al., Nov. 19, 2004)
* LETTERS: Variations on a Theme [Carl Czerny; Beethoven's 33 "Diabelli Variations"]
(By David H. Porter, Nov. 19, 2004)
* ART: Racing to Keep Up With the Newest (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Nov. 19, 2004)
FILM: 'THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE':
Absorbency Plus Frivolity, a Blend the World Needs (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 19, 2004)
TV WEEKEND: Lives That Didn't Go According to Plan (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 19, 2004)

Thursday, November 18, 2004:
On This Day: November 18 (Carl Maria von Weber 11/18/1786-6/5/1826, Louis-Jacques Daguerre 11/18/1787-7/10/1851, Sir William Gilbert 11/18/1836-5/29/1911, Ignacy Paderewski 11/18/1860-6/29/1941, Jacques Maritain 11/18/1882-4/28/1973, Gio Ponti 11/18/1891-9/15/1979, Patrick Blackett 11/18/1897-7/13/1974, Eugene Ormandy 11/18/1899-3/12/1985, George Gallup 11/18/1901-7/26/1984, George Wald 11/18/1906-4/13/1997, Johnny Mercer 11/18/1909-6/25/1976, Imogen Coca 1908, Brenda Vaccaro 1939, Linda Evans 1942, Andrea Marcovicci 1948)
Spain's Parliament Approves Election And Its Own Demise (By JAMES M. MARKHAM, November 18, 1976)
* Alan B. Shepard Jr. Is Dead at 74; First American to Travel in Space [11/18/1923-7/21/1998] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, July 23, 1998)

Melba Phillips, 97, Physicist Who Worked With Oppenheimer, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 18, 2004)
John J. Burns, New York Democratic Leader, Dies at 83 (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Nov. 18, 2004)
Joseph Weiss, 80, Originator of Theory on Facing Trauma, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Nov. 18, 2004)
Norman Rose, 87, Stage Actor and Voice of 'Juan Valdez,' Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Nov. 18, 2004)
Dayton Allen, 85, Cartoon Voice Actor, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 18, 2004)
NATIONAL: Thousands Attend Dedication of Clinton's Presidential Library (By MARIA NEWMAN, Nov. 18, 2004)
Possible New Mad Cow Case Is Found in the U.S. (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Nov. 18, 2004)
Official Orders Recount in Washington State Race (By SARAH KERSHAW, Nov. 18, 2004)
* EDUCATION: Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find (By JOHN TIERNEY, Nov. 18, 2004)
WORLD: Several Insurgent Bases Found in Falluja, U.S. General Says
(By TERENCE NEILAN & ERIC SCHMITT, Nov. 18, 2004)
Chirac Offers Cooperation and Criticism to U.S. and Britain (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Nov. 18, 2004)
* CHINA'S REACH: Chinese Move to Eclipse U.S. Appeal in Southeast Asia (By JANE PERLEZ, Nov. 18, 2004)
* Empty Maternity Wards Imperil a Dwindling Germany (By MARK LANDLER, Nov. 18, 2004)
Putin Says New Missile Systems Will Give Russia a Nuclear Edge (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Nov. 18, 2004)
* MADRID JOURNAL: Knight of Doleful Countenance Gets Little Love at Home (By RENWICK McLEAN, Nov. 18, 2004)
NY REGION: $7 Billion for the Grief of Sept. 11 (By DAVID W. CHEN, Nov. 18, 2004)
Behind Scenes, Informer's Path Led U.S. to 20 Terror Cases (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Nov. 18, 2004)
Remembering O.D.B., Rap King and Jester (By DIANE CARDWELL, Nov. 18, 2004)
After One Son Is Maimed in Iraq, Parents Seek Safer Duty for Another (By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Nov. 18, 2004)
SPORTS: New York City Unveils Its Last and Best Bid to Gain 2012 Summer Olympics
(By DUFF WILSON, Nov. 18, 2004)
SPORTS: Red Sox Take Notice After Yanks Meet Martínez (By TYLER KEPNER, Nov. 18, 2004)
BASEBALL: Troy Percival to Sign With the Tigers (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 18, 2004)
N.F.L. ROUNDUP: Dungy Calls 'Monday Night' Sketch Racially Insensitive (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 18, 2004)
EDITORIAL: Politics and the C.I.A. (NY TIMES, Nov. 18, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Iraq at the Tipping Point (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Nov. 18, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Plague of Toadies (By MAUREEN DOWD, Nov. 18, 2004)
OP-ED: Rehab Justice (By DONALD P. LAY, Nov. 18, 2004)
* OP-ED: Under the Cover of Islam [Many Western Europeans feel that
they're losing Enlightenment values amid the flood of "people of faith"]
(By IRSHAD MANJI, Nov. 18, 2004)
LETTERS: Condoleezza Rice's New Role (6 Letters) (By David Greene, et. al., Nov. 18, 2004)
LETTERS: Is It Campus Chic, or Moral Confusion? (5 Letters) (By Eileen S. Smith, Nov. 18, 2004)
LETTERS: Benefits of Vitamin E (By David R. Seckman, Nov. 18, 2004)
BUSINESS: Investors Reward Kmart, Sears and Their Suppliers
[Dow +61.92, Nasdaq +21.06] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Nov. 18, 2004)
* MARKET PLACE: Trying to Get Big Enough to Battle Wal-Mart (By FLOYD NORRIS, Nov. 18, 2004)
* STRATEGY: The Architect Behind Kmart's Surprising Takeover of Sears
(By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & RIVA D. ATLAS, Nov. 18, 2004)
THE OVERVIEW: Kmart Takeover of Sears Is Set; $11 Billion Deal (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Nov. 18, 2004)
Corporate Cultures Will Have to Be Merged [Kmart & Sears]
(By James Politi & Lauren Foster, Nov. 18, 2004)
Earlier Merck Study Indicated Risks of Vioxx (By BARRY MEIER, Nov. 18, 2004)
Radio Chain to Cut Ties to Promoters Paid by Labels (By JEFF LEEDS, Nov. 18, 2004)
Owner of Big Electronic Stock Trading System Is Said to Be for Sale [Instinet]
(By JENNY ANDERSON, Nov. 18, 2004)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Controlling Health Care Costs (By HAL R. VARIAN, Nov. 18, 2004)
SMALL BUSINESS: To Get Ahead, Own the Store (By REGAN MORRIS, Nov. 18, 2004)
* Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars (By JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 18, 2004)
ART: The Modern Gone By: Inspiration for a New Way of Art (NY TIMWES Nov. 18, 2004)
* ART: What Is the Value of Priceless Art? Debate Continues on $20 Admission
(By CAROL VOGEL, Nov. 18, 2004)
BOOKS: South America Epic Wins the National Book Award (By EDWARD WYATT, Nov. 18, 2004)
DANCE: NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL: PINA BAUSCH
A New Installment in a Tale of Human Experience (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Nov. 18, 2004)
DANCE: GARTH FAGAN DANCE: A Troupe Returns to Its Roots, With the Rough Edges Buffed
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Nov. 18, 2004)
THEATER: 'WHOOPI': One Woman, Uh-Huh, but So Many Guises (By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Nov. 18, 2004)
THE TV WATCH: Apologies for Everything Except Network Timidity (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 18, 2004)
* TV REVIEW | 'CONVERSATIONS WITH CARRIE FISHER':
Roasted Eddie Fisher, Basted With Kindness (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 18, 2004)
* TV CRITIC: When Network Television Was Willing to Educate (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Nov. 18, 2004)
TV: 'HEY! SPRING OF TRIVIA': Japanese Test Vulgarity's Believability (By NED MARTEL, Nov. 18, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 18, 2004)
The Circuits Holiday Buying Guide (NY TIMES, Nov. 18, 2004)
Bridging the Gadget Gift Gap (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Nov. 18, 2004)
STATE OF THE ART: Dream TV Screen, Now in Size Large (By DAVID POGUE, Nov. 18, 2004)
ONLINE SHOPPER: You Bought That on the Web? (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Nov. 18, 2004)
* Searching for a Perfect PC? An Answer for Everybody (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Nov. 18, 2004)
GAME THEORY: Reluctantly, Only the Top 10 (By CHARLES HEROLD, Nov. 18, 2004)
Confused by Camera Modes, Some Choose Ignore (By KATIE HAFNER, Nov. 18, 2004)
Delivery Web Sites Keep You Out of Long Lines (By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS, Nov. 18, 2004)
Figuring the Cost of Being Mobile (By SEÁN CAPTAIN, Nov. 18, 2004)
Bargain-Hunting Sites Shop Your Neighborhood (By BOB TEDESCHI, Nov. 18, 2004)
Systems Sharpen Their Game (By STEPHEN TOTILO, Nov. 18, 2004)
WISH LISTS: High-Profile Gadgets for High-Profile People (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Nov. 18, 2004)
Pogue's Posts: Welcome to My Blog [Inaugural Post— 11.18.04, 11:12 AM] (By David Pogue, Nov. 18, 2004)
HEALTH: Officials Found Earlier Contamination at Flu Vaccine Plant (By WARREN E. LEARY, Nov. 18, 2004)

Wednesday, November 17, 2004:
On This Day: November 17 (Joost van den Vondel 11/17/1587-2/5/1679, Louis XVIII 11/17/1755-9/16/1824, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes 11/17/1895-12/10/1966, Isamu Noguchi 11/17/1904-12/30/1988, Rock Hudson 11/17/1925-10/2/1985, Bob Mathias 1930, Martin Scorsese 1942, Danny DeVito 1944, Lauren Hutton 1944)
Nixon Declares He Didn't Profit From Public Life: "I'm Not a Crook" (By R.W. APPLE. JR., November 17, 1973)
* Lee Strasberg of Actors Studio Dead at 80 [11/17/1901-2/17/1982] (By MEL GUSSOW, February 18, 1982)

Bill Bennett, 73, Who Championed Hang Gliding, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Nov. 17, 2004)
Sidney Goldring, Advocate for Brain Procedure, Dies at 81 (By JEREMY PEARCE, Nov. 17, 2004)
Judy Corman, Who Helped Popularize Harry Potter, Dies at 66 (By MARGALIT FOX, Nov. 17, 2004)
E.L. Andersen, 95, Ex-Minnesota Governor, Dies (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 17, 2004)
Thomas M. Foglietta, Lawmaker and Ambassador, Dies at 75 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 17, 2004)
NATIONAL: Cabinet Choices Seen as Move for More Harmony and Control (By DAVID E. SANGER & STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Nov. 17, 2004)
MAN IN THE NEWS: Sturdy Loyalty Is Rewarded - Stephen John Hadley (By SCOTT SHANE, Nov. 17, 2004)
* Kerry Returns to Capitol, for the Most Part Silent
[He rubbed the belly of the wooden Buddha that John Glenn once gave him for good luck.]
(By TODD S. PURDUM, Nov. 17, 2004)
Most Ballots Pass Scrutiny, Ohio Officials Say (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 17, 2004)
WORLD: New Nuclear Weapon to Surpass Others, Putin Says (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Nov. 17, 2004)
THE DISAPPOINTED: For Israelis, the Question: Can Trust Be Restored? (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 17, 2004)
WEST BANK: For Palestinians, a Sense That Arafat's Era Left Them Empty-Handed (By JAMES BENNET, Nov. 17, 2004)
ON THE GROUND: Sides in Falluja Fight for Hearts and Minds (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Nov. 17, 2004)
At Least 10 Iraqis Die as Bomber Hits U.S. Convoy (By EDWARD WONG & TERENCE NEILAN, Nov. 17, 2004)
Group Says Iran Has Secret Nuclear Arms Program (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Nov. 17, 2004)
Where Kim's Portrait Hung in Pyongyang, a Baffling Blankness (By JAMES BROOKE, Nov. 17, 2004)
NY REGION: New York Unveils Sweeping Olympic Bid (By DUFF WILSON, Nov. 17, 2004)
Man Who Burned Himself at White House Is Called Central to Terror Case (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Nov. 17, 2004)
SPORTS: Guerrero Wins American League M.V.P. Award [Uniform #27] (By TYLER KEPNER, Nov. 17, 2004)
BASEBALL: Steinbrenner and Martínez Meet: Let the Intrigue Begin (By JACK CURRY, Nov. 17, 2004)
BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Sheffield Says Wife Was Blackmail Target (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 17, 2004)
BASEBALL: Right-hander Cory Lidle Agrees to $6.3 Million Deal With Phillies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 17, 2004)
EDITORIAL: The Friends of George (NY TIMES, Nov. 17, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Bush Revolution (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Nov. 17, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bush Administration's Biblical Exodus (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 17, 2004)
A Victory, But Little Is Gained (By DARYL G. PRESS & BENJAMIN VALENTINO, Nov. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: Powell at the Exit: A Debate Over His Legacy (10 Letters) (By Mary Ellen Byrne, et. al., Nov. 17, 2004)
The Gun Issue: Is It Time to Regroup? (5 Letters) (By Michael Barnes, et. al., Nov. 17, 2004)
BUSINESS: Markets Fall on Fears About Inflation and Rate Increases
[Dow -62.59, Nasdaq -15.47] (By Reuters, Nov. 17, 2004)
Kmart to Buy Sears in Bid to Counter Wal-Mart (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Nov. 17, 2004)
* MARKETPLACE: Sears Turns to Kmart in Hopes of Regaining Past Glory (By FLOYD NORRIS, Nov. 17, 2004)
SBC in Deal With Microsoft to Provide TV on High-Speed Lines (By KEN BELSON & MATT RICHTEL, Nov. 17, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: In Texas, 28,000 Students Test an Electronic Eye (By MATT RICHTEL, Nov. 17, 2004)
* Silicon Valley Aims to Refresh Its Image (By GARY RIVLIN, Nov. 17, 2004)
* ART: Handle With Care: Moving the Modern (By CAROL VOGEL, Nov. 17, 2004)
DANCE: 'NEW DANCES AT JUILLIARD': Veteran Choreographers, Young Dancers and a Program of Premieres
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Nov. 17, 2004)
DANCE: THE ROYAL BALLET: Bringing Back Ashton's Nymph for a Lesson in Love (By JACK ANDERSON, Nov. 17, 2004)
FILM: 'The Honeymooners' Gets a Black Cast for a New Film (By DAVID CARR, Nov. 17, 2004)
MUSIC: ORCHESTRA 2001: A New Burst of Creativity in Time for a 75th Birthday
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Nov. 17, 2004)
MUSIC CRITIC: For O.D.B., Fun Was Too Much or Not at All (By KELEFA SANNEH, Nov. 17, 2004)
MUSIC: GIL SHAHAM: Trying to Cross a Composing Chasm (By JEREMY EICHLER, Nov. 17, 2004)
THEATER: 'THE GOD OF HELL': That's No Girl Scout Selling Those Cookies (By BEN BRANTLEY, Nov. 17, 2004)
THEATER: Murder Most Foul (Would the Court Consider Insanity?) (By ADAM LIPTAK, Nov. 17, 2004)
TV: ABC Puts N.F.L. in 'Desperate' Situation (By JUDY BATTISTA, Nov. 17, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES Nov. 17, 2004)
FOOD: The Turkey Has Left the Building (By STEVEN RAICHLEN, Nov. 17, 2004)
There's Only One Stuffing: Ask Any Cook (By JULIA MOSKIN, Nov. 17, 2004)
THE CHEF: You Can Thank Asia for This Pie (By MELISSA CLARK, Nov. 17, 2004)
THE MINIMALIST: Onions Weep Into the Rice (By MARK BITTMAN, Nov. 17, 2004)
FOOD STUFF: As French as Apple Pie (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Nov. 17, 2004)
SCIENCE: Heart Scanner Stirs New Hope and a Debate (By GINA KOLATA, Nov. 17, 2004)
* NASA Jet Sets Record for Speed [X-43A flew at 6,600 mph] (By WARREN E. LEARY, Nov. 17, 2004)
* HEALTH: Even Couch Potatoes May Have Been Born to Run (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Nov. 17, 2004)

Tuesday, November 16, 2004:
On This Day: November 16 (Rodolph Kreutzer 11/16/1766-1/6/1831, Charles Eliot Norton 11/16/1827-10/21/1908, Arthur B. Krock 11/16/1886-4/12/1974, William Jansen 11/16/1887-2/22/1968, George Kaufman 11/16/1889-6/2/1961, Burgess Meredith 11/16/1907-9/9/1997, Oksana Baiul 1977)
United States Recognizes Soviet, Bullitt Named First Ambassador (By WALTER DURANTY, November 16, 1933)
* W. C. Handy, Composer, Is Dead at 84; Author of 'St. Louis Blues' [11/16/1873-3/28/1958]
(By EDITH EVANS ASBURY, March 29, 1958)

Harry Lampert Dies at 88; Helped Create the Flash (By MARGALIT FOX, Nov. 16, 2004)
Ed Kemmer, 84, of 'Space Patrol,' Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 16, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Former Soldiers Fighting Army on Callbacks (By MONICA DAVEY, Nov. 16, 2004)
OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM: Panel Pegs Illicit Iraq Earnings at $21.3 Billion
(By JUDITH MILLER, Nov. 16, 2004)
THE RESIGNATIONS: Powell Resigns From Cabinet; Rice Is Said to Be His Successor
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Nov. 16, 2004)
STATE: Powell's Term of Triumphs and Troubles (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Nov. 16, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: From Behind the Scenes, Rice on Stage (By TODD S. PURDUM, Nov. 16, 2004)
Europeans Say Iran Agrees to Freeze Uranium Enrichment (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Nov. 16, 2004)
Election Over, McCain Criticizes Bush on Climate Change (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Nov. 16, 2004)
E.P.A. Says Enforcement Shows Results (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Nov. 16, 2004)
WORLD: INSURGENTS: Rebels Attack in Central Iraq and the North
(By EDWARD WONG & JAMES GLANZ, Nov. 16, 2004)
NY REGION: Schumer Says He Won't Run for Governor (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ & MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Nov. 16, 2004)
CITYWIDE: Remembering and Defending Subway Graffiti (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Nov. 16, 2004)
A Shoplifter Does His Job, but Not Well, L.I. Police Say (By BRUCE LAMBERT, Nov. 16, 2004)
* NYC: A Little Late, but a Stand Against Hate (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Nov. 16, 2004)
* SPORTS: Numb to the Numbers, Bonds Wins Another M.V.P. Award (By LEE JENKINS, Nov. 16, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: Name Train Is Leaving, and Fill-in-the-Blank Angels Are on It (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 16, 2004)
EAGLES 49, COWBOYS 21: With Owens Starring, Eagles Carve Up Cowboys (By DAMON HACK, Nov. 16, 2004)
EDITORIAL: THE CABINET SHUFFLE: Good Soldier Powell (NY TIMES, Nov. 16, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: 'Moral Suicide,' à la Wolfe (By DAVID BROOKS, Nov. 16, 2004)
OP-ED: Colin Powell's Redeeming Failures (By WALTER ISAACSON, Nov. 16, 2004)
* OP-ED: Bound but Gagged [2003 Nobel Peace Laureate] (By SHIRIN EBADI, Nov. 16, 2004)
OP-ED: Late for Their Appointments (By PAUL C. LIGHT, Nov. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: Duty and Rebellion at the C.I.A. (6 Letters) (By Roger Wilkins, et. al., Nov. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: Still Skeptical After the Election (4 Letters) (By Kathryn Levy, et. al., Nov. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: Arms and the Mouse: A Pentagon Vision (2 Letters) (By Lamar W. Hankins, et. al., Nov. 16, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Up Modestly in Lackluster Trading
[Dow +11.23, Nasdaq +8.75] (Associated Press, Nov. 16, 2004)
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: The Dollar Is Down, but Should Anyone Care? (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Nov. 16, 2004)
* Microsoft Expands Operations in India (By SARITHA RAI, Nov. 16, 2004)
Eisner, on Stand, Describes the Courting of Ovitz (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Nov. 16, 2004)
The 2 New 'Must Haves' of Auto Safety (By DANNY HAKIM, Nov. 16, 2004)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Fired Flight Attendant Finds Blogs Can Backfire (By CHRISTINE NEGRONI, Nov. 16, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Unused PC Power to Run Grid for Unraveling Disease (By STEVE LOHR, Nov. 16, 2004)
* Auction of Internet Commerce Patents Draws Concern (By JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 16, 2004)
ARTS: At Modern, Architect Is Content (Mostly) (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Nov. 16, 2004)
BOOKS: Revisiting a Potboiler You Can't Improve? (By CHARLES McGRATH, Nov. 16, 2004)
BOOKS: 'EARTH': Some of the Many Tales Earth Has That Explain How Its Face
Got That Way [Richard Fortey] (By NICHOLAS WADE, Nov. 16, 2004)
FILM: Tom Cruise and Some Martians Take a Liking to Bayonne (By LEWIS BEALE, Nov. 16, 2004)
* MUSIC CRITIC: Rediscovering the Americanized Fab Four [Beatles on CD] (By ALLAN KOZINN, Nov. 16, 2004)
* MUSIC: NANCARROW FESTIVAL: Searching for the Humanity In a Vision of Mechanization
(By BERNARD HOLLAND, Nov. 16, 2004)
MUSIC: ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Old Europe With Latin-American Flavors (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Nov. 16, 2004)
ROCK: JOHN FOGERTY: That Distinctive Voice, Linking Then With Now (By JON PARELES, Nov. 16, 2004)
THEATER: 'THE GOOD BODY': Our Bellies, Ourselves: Eve Ensler Talks Fat (By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Nov. 16, 2004)
TV: 'HOUSE': With Terminal Witticism, Even Cancer Can Be Fun (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 16, 2004)
TV: An Audience Finally Catches Up to 'The Amazing Race' (By JOE RHODES, Nov. 16, 2004)
TV: Chronicling the History of Their Afghan Sisters (By NANCY RAMSEY, Nov. 16, 2004)
FASHION: A Shelf Life So Short It Takes the Breath Away (By CATHY HORYN, Nov. 16, 2004)
FRONT ROW: A Whiplash-Inducing Week (By CATHY HORYN, Nov. 16, 2004)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 16, 2004)
Crunch! Oof! Well, That's Physics [football] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 16, 2004)
* A Submersible Robot Dives for Steamship Gold
[7-ton submersible robot with flexible arm & tiny suction cups
can pick up rare coins worth half a million dollars each]
(By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Nov. 16, 2004)
* Just Average, and Therein Lay His Greatness
[racehorse Eclipse born 1764, unbeaten in his lifetime]
(By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Nov. 16, 2004)
SIDE EFFECTS: Mother Earth Comes Around to Latex Tops (By JAMES GORMAN, Nov. 16, 2004)
* A CONVERSATION WITH MARTHA MCCLINTOCK:
The Chemistry (Literally) of Social Interaction
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Nov. 16, 2004)
* Pluto, the Maybe Planet, Gets Another Look (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Nov. 16, 2004)
* OBSERVATORY: Love Is Cloudy [sand gobies mating] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 16, 2004)
When the Grizzlies Headed South (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 16, 2004)
Q & A: The Earwig's Weapons (C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Nov. 16, 2004)
HEALTH: F.D.A. Strengthens Warning on the Abortion Pill (By GARDINER HARRIS, Nov. 16, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: A Superfluous Organ Can Still Cause Trouble (By JANE E. BRODY, Nov. 16, 2004)
* Oh, Fine, You're Right. I'm Passive-Aggressive. (By BENEDICT CAREY, Nov. 16, 2004)
Work Out Now, Ache Later: How Your Muscles Pay You Back (By VICKY LOWRY, Nov. 16, 2004)
* ESSAY: Smart or Misguided? The Proactive Doctor (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Nov. 16, 2004)
CASES: A Panicked Child, a Worried Parent, a Controversial Pill (By HARRIET BROWN, Nov. 16, 2004)
Debating the Evidence on Gulf War Illnesses (By SCOTT SHANE, Nov. 16, 2004)
Another Way to Fight Breast Cancer Relapse (By DENISE GRADY, Nov. 16, 2004)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Sex Can Set Off a Heart Attack (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 16, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Cause and Effect: It's Not the Cold, It's the Chill (By JOHN O'NEIL, Nov. 16, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Reactions: Your Posture, a Telltale Fright Sign (By JOHN O'NEIL, Nov. 16, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Not So Fast: List of Acid Reflux Culprits Grows (By JOHN O'NEIL, Nov. 16, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Epilepsy: Fear Not, or at Least, Fear Less (By JOHN O'NEIL, Nov. 16, 2004)

Monday, November 15, 2004:
On This Day: November 15 (William Pitt the elder 11/15/1708-5/11/1778, William Herschel 11/15/1738-8/25/1822, Felix Frankfurter 11/15/1882-2/22/1965, Marianne Moore 11/15/1887-2/5/1972, Averell Harriman 11/15/1891-7/26/1986, Erwin Rommel 11/15/1891-10/14/1944, Curtis LeMay 11/15/1906-10/1/1990, Joseph Wapner 1919, Howard H. Baker 1925, Ed Asner 1929, Petula Clark 1932)
50,000 War Protesters Stage Peaceful Rally In Washington; Militants Stir Clashes Later (By JOAN HERBERS, November 15, 1969)
* Georgia O' Keeffe Dead at 98; Shaper of Modern Art in U.S. [11/15/1887-3/6/1986] (By EDITH EVANS ASBURY, March 7, 1986)

Arthur H. Robinson, 89, Dies; Reinterpreted World Map (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Nov. 15, 2004)
Robert Perine, 81, Dies; Revived Art Institute (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 15, 2004)
Robert Koch Woolf, 81, Decorator for the Stars, Is Dead (By DAVID COLMAN, Nov. 15, 2004)
Carol Mezzacappa, 47, Choreographer, Is Dead (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Nov. 15, 2004)
Peggy Ryan, 80, Half of a Film Dance Duo, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 15, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Fitting or Not, a Lincoln Tribute Moves Forward (By STEPHEN KINZER, Nov. 15, 2004)
* Ivory Tower Executive Suite Gets C.E.O.-Level Salaries (By SAM DILLON, Nov. 15, 2004)
Southern Democrats' Decline Is Eroding the Political Center (By ROBIN TONER, Nov. 15, 2004)
Pilotless Jet Will Attempt Speed Record [X-43A at 7,000 mph] (By WARREN E. LEARY, Nov. 15, 2004)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: After Election, France Rings Late, but No Hard Feelings (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Nov. 15, 2004)
WORLD: MILITARY ANALYSIS: A Goal Is Met. What's Next? [Falluja] (By ERIC SCHMITT, Nov. 15, 2004)
THE INSURGENCY: Rebels Routed in Falluja; Fighting Spreads Elsewhere
(By DEXTER FILKINS & JAMES GLANZ, Nov. 15, 2004)
NY REGION: Exodus Lacks Explanation on Trail of Bronx Mystery (By ALAN FEUER, Nov. 15, 2004)
* Muhammad at the Movies: Venerated, and Animated (By ANDREA ELLIOTT, Nov. 15, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Nov. 15, 2004)
SPORTS: Bonds Gets 7th MVP Nod (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 15, 2004)
BASEBALL: Leiter and Mets Arrive at Fork in Road (By LEE JENKINS, Nov. 15, 2004)
EDITORIAL: The Larger Battle in Iraq (NY TIMES, Nov. 15, 2004)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Why the Democrats Need to Stop Thinking About Elephants (By ADAM COHEN, Nov. 15, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: U.N. Obstructs Justice (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 15, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Feed the Billionaire, Starve the Students (By BOB HERBERT, Nov. 15, 2004)
OP-ED: Turning the Tax Tables to Help the Poor (By DALTON CONLEY, Nov. 15, 2004)
OP-ED: To the Point of No Returns (By MICHAEL J. GRAETZ, Nov. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: Faith, Principles and Public Policy (4 Letters) (By Suki Robins, et. al., Nov. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: Lost on Campus: A Cultural Exchange (By R. Fenton-May, Nov. 15, 2004)
* LETTERS: Digital or Not, Thanks for the Memories (2 Letters) (By John A. Wells, et. al., Nov. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: Beliefs and Evidence (By Sandra J. Sucher, Nov. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: The Priority in Iraq (Mark Edmond Clark, Nov. 15, 2004)
BUSINESS: Dow Jones Is Said to Agree to a Deal to Buy MarketWatch (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Nov. 15, 2004)
* Safire to End Column (NY TIMES, Nov. 15, 2004)
A High-Wire Act at Warner Bros. ["Polar Express", "Alexander"] (By SHARON WAXMAN, Nov. 15, 2004)
ARCHITECTURE: Art Fuses With Urbanity in a Redesign of the Modern (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Nov. 15, 2004)
DANCE: 'LEGENDS OF HIP-HOP': A Tribute to the Pioneers of Locking and Popping
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Nov. 15, 2004)
MUSIC: First Avenue Is Dead (Long Live First Avenue!) (By DAVID CARR, Nov. 15, 2004)
THEATER: P.S. 122 Names a New Director With an International Bent (By JESSE McKINLEY, Nov. 15, 2004)
HEALTH: Tiny Antennas to Keep Tabs on U.S. Drugs (By GARDINER HARRIS, Nov. 15, 2004)

Sunday, November 14, 2004:
On This Day: November 14 (Robert Fulton 11/14/1765-2/24/1815, Claude Monet 11/14/1840-12/5/1926, Jawaharlal Nehru 11/14/1889-5/27/1964, Aaron Copeland 11/14/1900-12/2/1990, Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922, Prince Charles 1948, P. J. O'Rourke 1947)
* Dow Jones Finishes Above 1,000 (NY Times, November 14, 1972)

Michel Halbouty, Oilman of Legend, Dies at 95 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Nov. 14, 2004)
Milton Cohen, 93, a Lawyer Who Inspired Market Reform, Dies (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Nov. 14, 2004)
NATIONAL: Cleaner Los Angeles Air? Don't Hold Your Breath (By JOHN M. BRODER, Nov. 14, 2004)
Cheney Is Said to Be Fine After Shortness of Breath (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Nov. 14, 2004)
A Seashore Fight to Harness the Wind (By CORNELIA DEAN, Nov. 14, 2004)
New Chief Sets Off Turmoil Within the CIA (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Nov. 14, 2004)
Sobered Gay Rights Groups Vow to Change Public's Mind (By KATE ZERNIKE, Nov. 14, 2004)
New Democratic Leader in Senate Is Atypical Choice (By ADAM NAGOURNEY & CARL HULSE, Nov. 14, 2004)
WORLD: U.S. Armored Forces Blast Their Way Into Rebel Nest in Falluja (By DEXTER FILKINS & ROBERT F. WORTH, Nov. 14, 2004)
Palestinians Turn Toward Future as They Continue to Mourn (By JAMES BENNET, Nov. 14, 2004)
American Icon: Big, Bad S.U.V.'s Are Spreading to Europe (By SARAH LYALL, Nov. 14, 2004)
Trade Issues Sour U.S.-Canadian Friendships (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Nov. 14, 2004)
These Days, the College Bowl Is Filled With Milk and Cereal (By LISA W. FODERARO, Nov. 14, 2004)
SPORTS: For Former Nets Star, It's Best to Move On [Jayson Williams #55] (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Nov. 14, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: In Hunt for Managers, Interviews Often Become a Formality (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 14, 2004)
EDITORIAL: MAKING VOTES COUNT: About Those Election Results (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
* EDITORIAL: The Hazards of Vitamin E [400+ IU/daily dangerous] (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Slapping the Other Cheek (By MAUREEN DOWD, Nov. 14, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Arafat Voids (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Nov. 14, 2004)
* OP-ED: Barren Ground for Democracy (By ROBERT D. KAPLAN, Nov. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: From the Front, to America's Heart (4 Letters) (By Susan Bauer, et. al., Nov. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: The Threats to Press Freedom (4 Letters) (By Laurie Lustiber, Nov. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: No Play Space for Kids? Keep Them Moving (2 Letters) (By Elisa Zied, et. al., Nov. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: Whose Moral Values? The Debate Goes On (2 Letters) (By Dean Fox, et. al., Nov. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: Escape to Exurbia (By Randy Kesten, Nov. 14, 2004)
* BUSINESS: What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Nov. 14, 2004)
* Gates vs. Jobs: The Rematch (By SAUL HANSELL, Nov. 14, 2004)
Do New Drugs Always Have to Cost So Much? (By EDUARDO PORTER, Nov. 14, 2004)
PORTFOLIOS: A Bond Strategy Once Thought Foolish Now Looks Smart (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Nov. 14, 2004)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Help Wanted (for a Better Way to Count Jobs) (By HARRY HURT III, Nov. 14, 2004)
* DANGEROUS DATA: Despite Warnings, Drug Giant Took Long Path to Vioxx Recall
(By Alex Berenson, Gardiner Harris, Barry Meier & Andrew Pollack., Nov. 14, 2004)
* GRETCHEN MORGENSON: Sometimes It Takes a Sherlock [stocks fraud] (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Nov. 14, 2004)
MARKET WEEK: Gauging the Cost of a Loophole (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Nov. 14, 2004)
* ON THE CONTRARY: Open Season on Others' Ideas [free downloading] (By DANIEL AKST, Nov. 14, 2004)
THE GOODS: Statuesque on the Holiday Runway (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Nov. 14, 2004)
* THE BOSS: Tested in Translation [CEO Albertsons] (By LARRY JOHNSTON, Nov. 14, 2004)
THE COUNT: 'Old Age' Security? 'Golden Years'? How About 'Social'? (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Nov. 14, 2004)
* REFRESH BUTTON: Dot-Com Star, Indie Filmmaker [Stephan Paternot] (By ROBERT JOHNSON, Nov. 14, 2004)
SUITS: There He Is! (Start a Rumor) [stock speculation] (By JENNY ANDERSON, Nov. 14, 2004)
DEALBOOK: You'll Laugh. You'll Cry. But This Merger May Not Be a Hit. (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Nov. 14, 2004)
CAREER COUCH: I Hate My Boss. (Just Kidding, Sir.) (By CHERYL DAHLE, Nov. 14, 2004)
ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide (By FRANK RICH, Nov. 14, 2004)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
ARTS: CLOSE READING: Pass Go, Collect a Ticket to Paradise (By BLAKE ESKIN, Nov. 14, 2004)
* ART: The Artists' Architect, Building For Art's Sake (By DAVID HAY, Nov. 14, 2004)
DANCE: THE BODY: Rennie Harris: Popping, Locking and Healing Afterward (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Nov. 14, 2004)
FILM: History Was Just the Half of It [Oliver Stone's "Alexander"] (By BOB BAKER, Nov. 14, 2004)
MUSIC: The Martyred 'Mexican Madonna' [Gloria Trevi] (By CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL, Nov. 14, 2004)
MUSIC: Should the Fat Lady Diet Before She Sings? (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Nov. 14, 2004)
MUSIC: U2: The Catharsis in the Cathedral (By JON PARELES, Nov. 14, 2004)
MUSIC: Reciting a Rosary, but in Sonata Form (By JEREMY EICHLER, Nov. 14, 2004)
MUSIC PLAYLIST: Two Kinds of Dazzle: Cat Power and Catwalk Annie (By KELEFA SANNEH, Nov. 14, 2004)
MUSIC CAREER: Beyoncé's Second Date With Destiny's Child (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Nov. 14, 2004)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: DIRECTIONS | FEAT: A Photograph as Lovely as a Tree (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Nov. 14, 2004)
* TV: Anchor Away [NBC's Tom Brokaw retiring] (By BILL CARTER, Nov. 14, 2004)
TV: Big in Japan, but Made in the U.S.A. (By J. D. CONSIDINE, Nov. 14, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
A Literary Life Born of Brutality [J T LeRoy] (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Nov. 14, 2004)
* Can't Sleep? Change Towns, Not Sheets (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Nov. 14, 2004)
Store Mannequins Can Now Breathe Out (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Nov. 14, 2004)
* MODERN LOVE: Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway (By HEATHER L. HUNTER, Nov. 14, 2004)
(Blog Comments on "Modern Love")
(Blogs in article: Fish; Photographer; Musician)
* BOOKS OF STYLE: Love and Ruin (By PENELOPE GREEN, Nov. 14, 2004)
* VOWS: Desiree Sanchez and Peter Meineck (By LILY KOPPEL, Nov. 14, 2004)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
WINTER IN THE SNOW: Rumbling Up to the Power Runs (By CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON, Nov. 14, 2004)
* A Dutch Town Under a Vermeer Sky (By JUDITH YARNALL, Nov. 14, 2004)
Racing Against Time and Tide (By DARYLN BREWER HOFFSTOT, Nov. 14, 2004)
PRACTICAL TRAVELER: Packed Powder Via Your PC (By BOB TEDESCHI, Nov. 14, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
Can Bush Deliver a Conservative Court? (By JEFFREY ROSEN, Nov. 14, 2004)
Hoping Democracy Can Replace a Palestinian Icon (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 14, 2004)
Breaking a City in Order to Fix It [Falluja, Iraq] (By EDWARD WONG, Nov. 14, 2004)
* To Avoid Divorce, Move to Massachusetts
[highest divorce rates in 2003: Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas]

(By PAM BELLUCK, Nov. 14, 2004)
* WORD FOR WORD: Godzilla as You Never Knew Him (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Nov. 14, 2004)
THE PUBLIC EDITOR: It's Good to Be Objective. It's Even Better to Be Right. (By DANIEL OKRENT, Nov. 14, 2004)
Putin Uses Soft Power to Restore the Russian Empire (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Nov. 14, 2004)
Race-Based Medicine Continued... (By NICHOLAS WADE, Nov. 14, 2004)
PERSPECTIVE | SECURITY VS. FREEDOM: Tolerant Dutch Wrestle With Tolerating Intolerance
(By BRUCE BAWER, Nov. 14, 2004)
If a Tax Overhaul Has Winners, It Will Also Have Losers (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Nov. 14, 2004)
Hollywood Would Kill for Those Numbers (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Nov. 14, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: Lexicographer (By ERIN McKEAN, Nov. 14, 2004)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The 21st-Century Cinephile (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 14, 2004)
QUESTIONS FOR PIERCE BROSNAN: Goodbye, Mr. Bond (Interview by LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Nov. 14, 2004)
PHENOMENON: The Terrorist as Auteur (By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, Nov. 14, 2004)
FIRST PERSON: Bollywood Confidential (By SUKETU MEHTA, Nov. 14, 2004)
PAGE TURNER: The 'It' Kid [Freddie Highmore, actor] (By JONATHAN DEE, Nov. 14, 2004)
CONSUMED: The Gifted Ones (By ROB WALKER, Nov. 14, 2004)
THE ETHICIST: New Owner, Old Obligation? (By RANDY COHEN, Nov. 14, 2004)
* COVER ARTICLE: Transporting Beauty [Julia Roberts]
(Commentary by JULIAN BARNES, GEORGE CLOONEY, DIANE JOHNSON, et. al., Nov. 14, 2004)
Slide Show: Julia Roberts (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
Filmography: Julia Roberts (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
What Is a Foreign Movie Now? (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 14, 2004)
What Is an American Movie Now? (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Nov. 14, 2004)
Why Isn't Maggie Cheung a Hollywood Star? (By SUSAN DOMINUS, Nov. 14, 2004)
Box Office in a Box (By JON GERTNER, Nov. 14, 2004)
STYLE: The Foreign Legion (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Nov. 14, 2004)
FOOD: Eat, Memory (By MIRA NAIR, Nov. 14, 2004)
LIVES: Revolting (By LUKAS MOODYSSON as told to KRISTIN HOHENADEL, Nov. 14, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2004)
'Runaway': Alice's Wonderland [Alice Munro] (By JONATHAN FRANZEN, Nov. 14, 2004)
'Zappa': Freak Out! [Barry Miles] (By CAMILLE PAGLIA, Nov. 14, 2004)
* 'What We Owe Iraq': We Broke It, We Bought It [Noah Feldman] (By ROBERT KAGAN, Nov. 14, 2004)
'The Truth About the Drug Companies' and 'Powerful Medicines': The Drug Lords
[Marcia Angell; Jerry Avorn] (By STEPHEN S. HALL, Nov. 14, 2004)
'Wedgewood: The First Tycoon': Out of the Blue [Brian Dolan] (By WALTER OLSON, Nov. 14, 2004)
* SCIENCE FICTION: Black Holes and DNA (By GERALD JONAS, Nov. 14, 2004)
ESSAY: And the Winner Is... (By LAURA MILLER, Nov. 14, 2004)
Children's Books: Contents (NY Times, Nov. 14, 2004)
* 'Science Verse' and 'The Story of Science': Science for Dummies and Their Kids
(By NATALIE ANGIER, Nov. 14, 2004)
Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf' and 'Carnival of the Animals': The Sight of Music
(By REBECCA BOGGS ROBERTS, Nov. 14, 2004)
'Peter and the Starcatchers': Next Stop, Neverland (By MICHAEL GORRA, Nov. 14, 2004)
* "KITTEN'S FIRST FULL MOON" By Kevin Henkes (SLIDE SHOW: Best Illustrated Books, Nov. 14, 2004)

Saturday, November 13, 2004:
On This Day: November 13 (Saint Augustine 11/13/354-8/28/430, Johann Albert Eck 11/13/1486-2/10/1543, Edwin Booth 11/13/1833-6/7/1893, Louis Brandeis 11/13/1856-10/5/1941, Jean Seberg 11/13/1938-9/8/1979, Whoopi Goldberg 1955)
High Court Rules Bus Segregation Unconstitutional (By LUTHER A. HUSTON, November 13, 1956)
* Death of R. L. Stevenson [11/13/1925-8/5/1984] (NY Times, December 18, 1894)

Thomas B. Allen, Illustrator of Album Covers, Dies at 76 (By STEVEN HELLER, Nov. 13, 2004)
George Gross, 70, Reorganizer of New York Social Services, Dies (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2004)
BUSINESS: Rally on Retail Sales Data Gives Shares 3rd Weekly Gain
[Dow +69.17, Nasdaq +24.07] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 13, 2004)
In Europe, Rising Euro Gathers Much Angst (By MARK LANDLER, Nov. 13, 2004)
Ovitz Fired for Management Style, Ex-Disney Director Testifies (By RITA K. FARRELL, Nov. 13, 2004)
ARTS: European Museums Open Door to Corporate Donors (By ALAN RIDING, Nov. 13, 2004)
ART: Momentum in Art Auctions Continues to the End, as Recent Works Dominate (By CAROL VOGEL, Nov. 13, 2004)
* BOOKS: Building a One-Man Magazine, One Impossible Feat at a Time [Tod Lippy's Esopus]
(By DAVID CARR, Nov. 13, 2004)

Friday, November 12, 2004:
On This Day: November 12 (Aleksandr Borodin 11/12/1833-2/27/1887, Auguste Rodin 11/12/1840-11/17/1917, Harry Blackmun 11/12/1908-3/4/1999, Buck Clayton 11/12/1911-12/8/1991, Roland Barthes 11/12/1915-3/25/1980, Grace Kelly 11/12/1929-9/14/1982, Kim Hunter 1922, Nadia Comaneci 1961)
Our Men In Drives On Guadalcanal (By CHARLES HURD, November 12, 1942)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies at Her Home, Nearly 87 [11/12/1815-10/26/1902] (NY Times, October 27, 1902)

Zachary Solov, 81, Dancer With Met Opera, Dies (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Nov. 12, 2004)
Harry Schwartz, 85, Times Editorial Writer, Dies (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Nov. 12, 2004)
Iris Chang, Who Chronicled Rape of Nanking, Dies at 36 (By MARGALIT FOX, Nov. 12, 2004)
DANCE: RISA JAROSLOW & DANCERS: Feeling Whole in a Response to Sept. 11 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Nov. 12, 2004)
* MUSIC CRITIC: Granddaddy of Piano Teachers Steps Out [Carl Czerny] (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Nov. 12, 2004)
BUSINESS: Broad Gains by Shares Lift S.& P. Index to 3-Year High
[Dow +84.36, Nasdaq +26.71] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Nov. 12, 2004)

Thursday, November 11, 2004:
On This Day: November 11 (Paracelsus 11/11/1493-9/24/1541, Johann Albert Fabricius 11/11/1668-4/30/1736, Paul Signac 11/11/1869-12/28/1947, Victor Emmanuel III 11/11/1869-12/28/1947, Maude Adams 11/11/1872-7/17/1953, Rene Clair 11/11/1898-3/15/1981, Sam Spiegel 11/11/1903-12/31/1985, Kurt Vonnegut 1922, Demi Moore 1962)
* Armistice Signed, End Of The War! Berlin Seized By Revolutionists; New Chancellor Begs For Order (Associated Press, November 11, 1918)
* Patton's Career A Brilliant One [11/11/1885-12/21/1945] (NY Times, December 22, 1945)

* Yasir Arafat, Father and Leader of Palestinian Nationalism, Dies at 75 (By JUDITH MILLER, Nov. 11, 2004)
THE COSTS: Halliburton May Have Been Pressured by U.S. Diplomats to Disregard High Fuel Prices
(By ERIK ECKHOLM, Nov. 11, 2004)
WORLD: Arafat Mystery: The Hidden Cash (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 11, 2004)
Burial Site in Ramallah Is Approved by the Israelis (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 11, 2004)
REACTION: Arab Response to Attacks Reveals Mixed Allegiances (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Nov. 11, 2004)
THE OVERVIEW: Assault Slows, but G.I.'s Take Half of Falluja (By ROBERT F. WORTH & EDWARD WONG, Nov. 11, 2004)
BUSINESS: Tech Shares Lose Ground in Otherwise Flat Trading Day
[Dow -0.89, Nasdaq -8.77] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 11, 2004)
TV: 'LAST LETTERS HOME': Fallen Soldiers, Remembered in Their Own Words (By MICHELLE COTTLE, Nov. 11, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 11, 2004)
Pick a Number, It's Sequel Season (By CHARLES HEROLD, Nov. 11, 2004)

Wednesday, November 10, 2004:
On This Day: November 10 (Martin Luther 11/10/1483-2/18/1546, François Couperin 11/10/1668-9/12/1733, William Hogarth 11/10/1697-10/26/1764, Oliver Goldsmith 11/10/1730-4/4/1774, Vachel Lindsay 11/10/1879-12/5/1931, El Lissitzky 11/10/1890-12/30/1941, John P. Marquand 11/10/1893-7/16/1960, John K. Northrop 11/10/1893-2/18/1981)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened to Visitors in Washington D.C. (NY Times, Nov. 10, 1982)
* Richard Burton, 58, is Dead; Rakish Stage and Screen Star [11/10/1925-8/5/1984] (By MAUREEN DOWD, August 6, 1984)

* Arafat Forced His People's Plight Into the World Spotlight (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 10, 2004)
Jimmy McLarnin, Top Boxer Called Baby Face, Dies at 96 (By JACK CAVANAUGH, Nov. 10, 2004)
NATIONAL: 'Moral Values' Carried Bush, Rove Says (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Nov. 10, 2004)
Largest Union Issues Call for Major Changes (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Nov. 10, 2004)
WORLD: Aides Seeking Arafat Burial in West Bank (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Nov. 10, 2004)
Odd Question on West Bank: Who Is Arafat, Really? (By JAMES BENNET, Nov. 10, 2004)
THE INSURGENTS: Rebel Fighters Who Fled Attack May Now Be Active Elsewhere (By EDWARD WONG & ERIC SCHMITT, Nov. 10, 2004)
LETTER FROM AFRICA: The French Are Snared, but This Struggle Is Ivoirian (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Nov. 10, 2004)
* SPORTS: Clemens May Take His 7 Cy Youngs and Go Home (By JACK CURRY, Nov. 10, 2004)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: 15 Years After the Wall Came Down, the Ghosts Abound in Berlin
(By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Nov. 10, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Our Not-So-Free Press (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Nov. 10, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: After Arafat, Hope (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 10, 2004)
* OP-ED: Rebels, Guns and Money (By JAMES A. MARKS, Nov. 10, 2004)
LETTERS: Arafat and What Might Have Been (5 Letters) (By Jeffrey Yacker, et. al., Nov. 10, 2004)
LETTERS: Time for Democrats to Compromise? (3 Letters) (By Steve Nesich, et. al., Nov. 10, 2004)
LETTERS: No Electoral College? Some Returns Are In (3 Letters) (By Anthony A. Cupaiuolo, et. al., Nov. 10, 2004)
LETTERS: A New Military Mantra (By William H. Sullivan, Nov. 10, 2004)
BUSINESS: Stock Markets Wait for the Fed
[Dow -4.94, Nasdaq +4.08] (By Reuters, Nov. 10, 2004)
New Study Links Pfizer's Bextra, Similar to Vioxx, to Heart Attacks (BY GARDINER HARRIS, Nov. 10, 2004)
Cisco Profits Are Higher, but Investors Want More (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Nov. 10, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Even Digital Memories Can Fade (By KATIE HAFNER, Nov. 10, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: At Last, a Microsoft Search Tool (By JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 10, 2004)
* ART: The Met Makes Its Biggest Purchase Ever
[Duccio's "Madonna and Child" (1300) bought for $45 million]
(By CAROL VOGEL, Nov. 10, 2004)
FILM: Do You Hear Sleigh Bells? Nah, Just Tom Hanks and Some Train (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 10, 2004)
FILM: 'NEW GUY': Starting as Comedy but Ending as a Paranoid Thriller (By DANA STEVENS, Nov. 10, 2004)
FILM: 'OVERNIGHT': A Fable of False Hope, Hubris and Tinseltown (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 10, 2004)
* FILM: For Aspiring Writers, Something Better Than a Root Canal (By NICK MADIGAN, Nov. 10, 2004)
* MUSIC: The Found Treasures of a Great Pianist (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Nov. 10, 2004)
TV: How 'Lost' Careered Into Being a Hit Show (By JOE RHODES, Nov. 10, 2004)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 10, 2004)
* FOOD: Here Comes Ramen, the Slurp Heard Round the World (By JULIA MOSKIN, Nov. 10, 2004)
THE MINIMALIST: If Mom Made Baked Ziti (By MARK BITTMAN, Nov. 10, 2004)
* HEALTH: 'Normal' Blood Pressure May Still Be Too High (By GINA KOLATA, Nov. 10, 2004)

Tuesday, November 9, 2004:
On This Day: November 9 (Benjamin Banneker 11/9/1731-10/25/1806, Stanford White 11/9/1853-6/25/1906, James Schuyler 11/9/1923-4/12/1991, Anne Sexton 11/9/1928-10/4/1974, Whitey Herzog 1931, Bob Graham 1936)
Northeast Blackout Lasts Over 13 Hours (NY Times, Nov. 9, 1965)
* Carl Sagan, an Astronomer Who Excelled at Popularizing Science, Is Dead at 62 [11/9/1934-12/20/1996]
(By WILLIAM DICKE, December 21, 1996)

NATIONAL: Attorney General and Commerce Secretary Resign From Cabinet (By DAVID STOUT, Nov. 9, 2004)
* THE ELECTORATE: Hispanic Voters Declared Their Independence (By KIRK JOHNSON, Nov. 9, 2004)
THE PRESIDENT: Andrew Card Will Stay On as Chief of Staff (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Nov. 9, 2004)
WORLD: COMBAT: 6,500 American G.I.'s and 2,000 Iraqis on Attack (By DEXTER FILKINS and JAMES GLANZ, Nov. 9, 2004)
Falluja Assault Roils Iraqi Politics (By EDWARD WONG, Nov. 9, 2004)
* NY REGION: Finding Healing Music in the Heart [Milford Graves] (By COREY KILGANNON, Nov. 9, 2004)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Dancing to That Robotic Engineering Beat
[Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard: research beyond robotics,
extending control theory to all mechanical systems.]
(By CHRIS HEDGES, Nov. 9, 2004)
EDITORIAL: Recircling the Democrats' Wagons (NY TIMES, Nov. 9, 2004)
EDITORIAL: Saving Shangri-La (NY TIMES, Nov. 9, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Take a Ride to Exurbia (By DAVID BROOKS, Nov. 9, 2004)
OP-ED: Can Bush Break the Second-Term Jinx? (By LOU CANNON, Nov. 9, 2004)
OP-ED: What the Mullahs Learned From the Neighbors (By KENNETH M. POLLACK, Nov. 9, 2004)
LETTERS: As the Battle for Falluja Begins (4 Letters) (By Lawrence Houghteling, et. al., Nov. 9, 2004)
LETTERS: After the Vote: Reading Tea Leaves (4 Letters) (By FRANK MAGIERA, et. al., Nov. 9, 2004)
LETTERS: 26.2 Miles Later, Love Letters to New York (3 Letters) (By, Nov. 9, 2004)
LETTERS: To Write Well, Read (By Scott Cole, Nov. 9, 2004)
LETTERS: Post-Election Stereotypes (By Nathan Landau, Nov. 9, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Mixed as Drop in Oil Prices Offsets Profit Taking
[Dow +3.77, Nasdaq +0.31] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 9, 2004)
MEMO PAD: Are We There Yet? [airlines] (JOE SHARKEY, Nov. 9, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft to Pay $536 Million to Novell in Antitrust Case (By STEVE LOHR & PAUL MELLER, Nov. 9, 2004)
AOL's Chief Revamps It, With an Eye on Yahoo (By SAUL HANSELL, Nov. 9, 2004)
ARCHITECTURE: Whitney's New Plan: A Respectful Approach (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Nov. 9, 2004)
BOOKS: 'THE PERSIAN PUZZLE': Back to the Axis of Evil, This Time Without the Army
[Kenneth M. Pollack] (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Nov. 9, 2004)
* BOOKS: Messy Life and Genius: The Portrait of an Artist
De Kooning: An American Master, By Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan]
(By JANET MASLIN, Nov. 9, 2004)
DANCE REVIEW | VIRSKY UKRAINIAN NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY
It May Be a Folk Troupe, but That's Just Its Roots (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Nov. 9, 2004)
FILM: NEW DVD'S: The Marx Brothers, Fritz Lang and 'Before Sunset' (By DAVE KEHR, Nov. 9, 2004)
TV WATCH: Imitators and Parodies, Testing the Job Market (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 9, 2004)
* TV: 'THE PERSUADERS': How They Make You Buy Buy Buy (By NED MARTEL, Nov. 9, 2004)
FASHION: Old Is Everywhere, So a Charity Tries On the New (By GUY TREBAY, Nov. 9, 2004)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 9, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Life-or-Death Question: How Supernovas Happen (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Nov. 9, 2004)
SCIENCE: Last Gasp of a Dying Star? Spacecraft to Find Out (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Nov. 9, 2004)
* Miniature People Add Extra Pieces to Evolutionary Puzzle (By NICHOLAS WADE, Nov. 9, 2004)
* SLIDE SHOW: As the Arctic Warms (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Nov. 9, 2004)
* A Melting Glacier in Tibet Serves as an Example and a Warning (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Nov. 9, 2004)
* The Science of Spin [web spinning by spiders] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 9, 2004)
* OBSERVATORY: Ancient Beauty Secrets [Roman use of rouge] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 9, 2004)
Q & A: Storms and Sea Life (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Nov. 9, 2004)
HEALTH: Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex (By BENEDICT CAREY, Nov. 9, 2004)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Travel Companion on the Breast Cancer Journey (By JANE E. BRODY, Nov. 9, 2004)
* I BEG TO DIFFER: A Diabetes Researcher Forges Her Own Path to a Cure (By GINA KOLATA, Nov. 9, 2004)
* ESSAY: Germs, Germs Everywhere. Are You Worried? Get Over It. (By MARY ROACH, Nov. 9, 2004)
Lead Poisoning Can Strike Years After Bullets Lodge (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 9, 2004)
Scream at Your Own Risk (and Your Children's) (By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS, Nov. 9, 2004)
Advisory Issued on Rare Disease Spread by Sex (By DAVID TULLER, Nov. 9, 2004)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Sleep Inspires Creative Thinking (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 9, 2004)
THE CONSUMER: Invest in a Child's Future: Shop Smart for the Right Doctor
(By MARY DUENWALD, Nov. 9, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Risk: How a Baby May Save Your Joints (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 9, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: For M.S., a Possible Memory Jolt (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 9, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Heart Disease: Dirty Twist to Clean Bill of Health (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 9, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Regimens: Weekend Work for Lazy Eye (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 9, 2004)

Monday, November 8, 2004:
On This Day: November 8 (Edmond Halley 11/8/1656-1/14/1742, Bram Stoker 11/8/1847-4/20/1912, Gottlob Frege 11/8/1848-7/26/1925, Hermann Rorschach 11/8/1884-4/2/1922, June Havoc 1916, Dr. Christiaan Barnard 1922, Morley Safer 1931, Bonnie Raitt 1949, Mary Hart 1951, Christie Hefner 1952)
* John F. Kenneday Defeats Richard M. Nixon for Presidency (NY Times, Nov. 8, 1960)
* Margaret Mitchell, Author of "Gone With the Wind", Dead of Injuries at 49 [11/8/1900-8/16/1949] (NY Times, August 17, 1949)

NATIONAL: President Feels Emboldened, Not Accidental, After Victory (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Nov. 8, 2004)
G.O.P. Plans to Give Environment Rules a Free-Market Tilt
(By FELICITY BARRINGER & MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Nov. 8, 2004)
* WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Cashmere and Kevlar? Bulge Affair Has Tailor Miffed
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Nov. 8, 2004)
WORLD: P.L.O. Aides Put Off Trip to Arafat Doctors (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 8, 2004)
INSURGENCY: G.I.'s Open Attack to Take Falluja From Iraq Rebels
(By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & ROBERT F. WORTH, Nov. 8, 2004)
Dutch Look for Qaeda Link After Killing of Filmmaker (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Nov. 8, 2004)
Roads Lead to a New Way of Life for Rural Ethiopia (By CELIA W. DUGGER, Nov. 8, 2004)
NY REGION: Change, as It Does, Returns to Times Square (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Nov. 8, 2004)
* A Hidden Story Behind Sept. 11? One Man's Ad Campaign Says So (By IAN URBINA, Nov. 8, 2004)
* EAST WILLIAMSBURG JOURNAL: A Longtime Brooklyn Company That's Known for Its Sesame Sweet (By CHARLES DELAFUENTE, Nov. 8, 2004)
Ground Zero Is Setting of a Suicide, and a Mystery (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Nov. 8, 2004)
METRO MATTERS: Speculation and the Art of Silence [Senator Charles E. Schumer]
(By JOYCE PURNICK, Nov. 8, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Nov. 8, 2004)
SPORTS: Bettis Is Back, and at His Age, It Hurts So Good (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Nov. 8, 2004)
PITTSBURGH 27, PHILADELPHIA 3: Pittsburgh: Where the Unbeaten Go to Die (By DAMON HACK, Nov. 8, 2004)
NYC MARATHON: Scenes From the End of a Race Worth Running (By IRA BERKOW, Nov. 8, 2004)
EDITORIAL: More Troops for Iraq (NY TIMES, Nov. 8, 2004)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: How Hispanics Voted Republican (By CAROLYN CURIEL, Nov. 8, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Great Mentioner (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 8, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Voting Without the Facts (By BOB HERBERT, Nov. 8, 2004)
OP-ED: When the Personal Shouldn't Be Political (By GARY HART, Nov. 8, 2004)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS: How the World Watched the Returns

OP-ED Pakistan: Prosperity vs. Peace (By KAMILA SHAMSIE, Nov. 8, 2004)
OP-ED Russia: Ordinary Men (By LUDMILA ULITSKAYA, Nov. 8, 2004)
OP-ED Europe: Starting From Here (By A. N. WILSON, Nov. 8, 2004)
OP-ED Venezuela: Oil and Politics (By ANA TERESA TORRES, Nov. 8, 2004)
* LETTERS: Did Belief Win Out Over Reason? (6 Letters)
[As long as there are enlightened individuals, the Enlightenment lives.]
(By Paul Alan Laughlin, Howard Berman, et. al., Nov. 8, 2004)
LETTERS: American Values and the Democrats (4 Letters) (By Charles R. Cowley, et. al., Nov. 8, 2004)
LETTERS: In Search of a Statesman (2 Letters) (By Andrew Kelly, et. al., Nov. 8, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 8, 2004)
DANCE: Ailey's Creative New Digs With Room for Comfort (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Nov. 8, 2004)

Sunday, November 7, 2004:
On This Day: November 7 (Andrew White 11/7/1832-11/4/1918, Lise Meitner 11/7/1878-10/27/1968, Leon Trotsky 11/7/1879-8/20/1940, Chandrasekhara Raman 11/7/1888-11/21/1970, Herman Mankiewicz 11/7/1897-3/5/1953, Konrad Lorenz 11/7/1903-2/27/1989, Albert Camus 11/7/1913-1/4/1960, Billy Graham 1918, Dame Joan Sutherland 1926)
* Russia's Bolshevik Revolution led by Lenin overthrew Alexander Kerensky's provisional governmennt (NY Times, Nov. 7, 1917)
* Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science [11/7/1867-7/4/1934] (NY Times, July 5, 1934)

NATIONAL: Baffled in Loss, Democrats Seek Road Forward (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Nov. 7, 2004)
Bush Secured Victory in Florida by Veering From Beaten Path (By ABBY GOODNOUGH & DON VAN NATTA, Nov. 7, 2004)
* EDUCATION: Modifying the Subject (By KATE ZERNIKE, Nov. 7, 2004)
EDUCATION: Saturday Classes Begin for 5th Graders at Risk (By WINNIE HU, Nov. 7, 2004)
* ON BASEBALL: Before Helping the Red Sox to a Championship, Schilling Helped Himself
(By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 7, 2004)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 7, 2004)
* MARKET WEEK: Upside to a Dollar That's Falling (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Nov. 7, 2004)
INVESTING: No Premium Here: Are Insurance Stocks Worth a Gamble? (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., Nov. 7, 2004)
GRETCHEN MORGENSON: Pennies That Aren't From Heaven (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Nov. 7, 2004)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 7, 2004)
ART: The Masterpiece in the Hallway (By STEVE MARTIN, Nov. 7, 2004)
ARTS: Up Close and Very Personal, for Hours and Hours (By LINDA YABLONSKY, Nov. 7, 2004)
FILM: DVD's to Put Under Trees (By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK & CHARLES TAYLOR, Nov. 7, 2004)
FILM RELEASE CALENDAR: The Class of 2004-05 (By DAVE KEHR, Nov. 7, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 7, 2004)
* A Dream Life Freud Would Have Envied [Dr. Clotaire Rapaille] (By JANE GROSS, Nov. 7, 2004)
* The Election's Over. Are You Still Losing It? (By DAMIEN CAVE, Nov. 7, 2004)
VOWS: Linda Roth and David Gurfein (By CATE DOTY, Nov. 7, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 7, 2004)
BOLTS FROM THE POLITICAL BLUE: Can History Save the Democrats? (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Nov. 7, 2004)
HEAD COUNT: On Capitol Hill, the Majority Doesn't Always Rule (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Nov. 7, 2004)
Maybe Same-Sex Marriage Didn't Make the Difference (By PAM BELLUCK, Nov. 7, 2004)
The Antiwar Right Is Ready to Rumble (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Nov. 7, 2004)
How Americans Voted: A Political Portrait (By MARJORIE CONNELLY, Nov. 7, 2004)
GEOGRAPHY IS DESTINY: The Real Divide: Waterside Voters Versus Inlanders (By JOHN TIERNEY, Nov. 7, 2004)
Baghdad Airport: 5 Miles. Proceed With Caution. (By EDWARD WONG, Nov. 7, 2004)
Israel, the U.S. and the Age of Terror (By ROGER COHEN, Nov. 7, 2004)
RETURN OF THE SHOW TRIAL: Stalin and the Czars Haunt Khodorkovsky in the Dock
(By C. J. CHIVERS, Nov. 7, 2004)
When Etiquette Isn't Enough, a Cellphone Cone of Silence (By KEN BELSON, Nov. 7, 2004)
A Right to Hunt, Fish and Trick Bears (By SARAH KERSHAW, Nov. 7, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 7, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: Albeit (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 7, 2004)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Other National Conversation (By JIM HOLT, Nov. 7, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 7, 2004)
* 'Borges': Writer on the Couch [Edwin Williamson] (By DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, Nov. 7, 2004)
* 'Frank Lloyd Wright': Big Houses on the Prairie [Ada Louise Huxtable]
(By JAMES F. O'GORMAN, Nov. 7, 2004)

Saturday, November 6, 2004:
On This Day: November 6 (Hans Sachs 11/6/1494-1/19/1576, Washington Allston 11/6/1779-7/9/1843, Antoine-Joseph Sax 11/6/1814-2/7/1894, Joseph Smith 11/6/1832-12/10/1914, Charles Henry Dow 11/6/1851-12/4/1902, Walter Johnson 11/6/1887-12/10/1946, Harold Ross 11/6/1892-12/6/1951, James Jones 11/6/1921-5/9/1977, Mike Nichols 1931, Sally Field 1946, Maria Shriver 1955)
* Abraham Lincoln Defeated Three Other Candidates for President (NY Times, November 6, 1860)
* John Philip Sousa, Band Leader, Dies at 77 [11/6/1854-3/6/1932] (NY Times, March 6, 1932)

NATIONAL: Advisers Urge Kerry to Flex Power in Senate and Party (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Nov. 6, 2004)
* THE POLLING: Poll Question Stirs Debate on Meaning of 'Values' (By JIM RUTENBERG, Nov. 6, 2004)
THE INDEPENDENT: Nader Is Left With Fewer Votes, and Friends, After '04 Race
(By SCOTT SHANE, Nov. 6, 2004)
* VOTING MACHINES: Glitch Found in Ohio Counting [3,893 votes to Bush] (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Nov. 6, 2004)
HOLLYWOOD: The Gurus of What's In Wonder if They're Out of Touch (By SHARON WAXMAN and RANDY KENNEDY, Nov. 6, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Values-Vote Myth (By DAVID BROOKS, Nov. 6, 2004)
SPORTS: My, Those Tourists Are Thin. No, They're Marathoners. (By RON DICKER, Nov. 6, 2004)
* BOOKS: Publishers See Bounty in Voters' Divisions (By EDWARD WYATT, Nov. 6, 2004)
TV: 'ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT': Return of Fox's Family With a Heart of Gilt (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 6, 2004)

Friday, November 5, 2004:
On This Day: November 5 (Anna Leonowens 11/5/1834-1/19/1914, Paul Sabatier 11/5/1854-8/14/1941, Eugen V. Debs 11/5/1855-10/20/1926, Will Durant 11/5/1885-11/7/1981, Vivien Leigh 11/5/1913-7/8/1967, Art Garfunkel 1941, Tatum O'Neal 1963)
Nixon Wins By A Thin Margin, Pleads For Reunited Nation (By MAX FRANKEL, November 5, 1968)
Ida M. Tarbell, 86, Dies in Bridgeport [11/5/1857-1/6/1944] (NY Times, January 7, 1944)

NATIONAL: Confident Bush Outlines Ambitious Plan for 2nd Term (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Nov. 5, 2004)
* Campaign Strategist Is in Position to Consolidate Republican Majority
[Karl Rove] (By TODD S. PURDUM & DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Nov. 5, 2004)
THE POLLING: Report Says Problems Led to Skewed Surveying Data (By JIM RUTENBERG, Nov. 5, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: No Surrender (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Nov. 5, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: O.K., Folks: Back to Work (By BOB HERBERT, Nov. 5, 2004)
* OP-ED: Why We Lost (By ANDREI CHERNY, Nov. 5, 2004)
* OP-ED: Why They Won (By THOMAS FRANK, Nov. 5, 2004)
* LETTERS: Learning From the Election, and Looking Ahead (12 Letters) (By David Moore, et. al., Nov. 5, 2004)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 5, 2004)
* ART: GERARD TER BORCH: True to Life and Clothed With Light (By ROBERTA SMITH, Nov. 5, 2004)
* ART: 'DRAWN BY THE BRUSH': The Heart of Rubens: It's His Oil Sketches (By GRACE GLUECK, Nov. 5, 2004)

Thursday, November 4, 2004:
On This Day: November 4 (Guido Reni 11/4/1575-8/18/1642, George Edward Moore 11/4/1873-10/24/1958, Walter Cronkite 1926, Art Carney 1928, Yanni 1954)
Teheran Students Seize U.S Embassy And Hold Hostages (By REUTERS, November 4, 1979)
* Will Rogers: Adventure Marked Life of Humorist [11/4/1879-8/15/1935] (NY Times, August 17, 1935)

NATIONAL: Terrorism, Iraq and Economy Are at Top of His Agenda (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Nov. 4, 2004)
* War? Jobs? No, Character Counted Most to Voters (By KATE ZERNIKE and JOHN M. BRODER, Nov. 4, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Electoral Affirmation of Shared Values Provides Bush a Majority (By TODD S. PURDUM, Nov. 4, 2004)
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE: At Finish Line, a Bit Late, Kerry Bows to Cold Numbers (By JODI WILGOREN, Nov. 4, 2004)
METRO MATTERS: 9/11 Was Issue, but Not Where It Took Its Toll (By JOYCE PURNICK, Nov. 4, 2004)
EDITORIAL: The Next President Bush (NY TIMES, Nov. 4, 2004)
EDITORIAL: Lessons of the Ballot Box (NY TIMES, Nov. 4, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Two Nations Under God (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Nov. 4, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Dangers of Lopsidedness (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 4, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Red Zone (By MAUREEN DOWD, Nov. 4, 2004)
* OP-ED: The Day the Enlightenment Went Out
[Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth
than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?]
(By GARRY WILLS, Nov. 4, 2004)
OP-ED: A Good Dirty Fight [Campaign 2004] (By PAUL BEGALA, Nov. 4, 2004)
LETTERS: Bush's Triumph: Americans Hope and Worry (16 Letters) (By Martin Solomon, et. al., Nov. 4, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 4, 2004)
Vigilante on the TV Frontier (By SETH SCHIESEL, Nov. 4, 2004)
Giving Voice to Video Games (By TIM GNATEK, Nov. 4, 2004)
* Sci-Fi Fans Are Called Into an Alternate Reality (By NOAH SHACHTMAN, Nov. 4, 2004)

Wednesday, November 3, 2004:
On This Day: November 3 (Stephen Austin 11/3/1793-12/27/1836, William Cullen Bryant 11/3/1794-6/12/1878, Vincenzo Bellini 11/3/1801-9/23/1835, Leopold III 11/3/1901-9/25/1983, Andre Malraux 11/3/1901-11/23/1976, James Reston 11/3/1909-12/6/1995, Bob Feller 1918, Charles Bronson 1921, Michael Dukakis 1933)
Roosevelt Sweeps The Nation; His Electoral Vote Exceeds 500 (By ARTHUR KROCK, November 3, 1936)
* Walker Evans Dies; Artist With Camera [11/3/1903-4/10/1975] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, April 11, 1975)

* NATIONAL: Bush Voices Pride, Humility and Optimism (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Nov. 3, 2004)
THE SENATE: Convention Star Obama Wins Illinois Senate Seat (By ROBIN TONER & KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Nov. 3, 2004)
FILM: 'STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE': Technology Comes to a Village, but Complexity Is Old
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Nov. 3, 2004)

Tuesday, November 2, 2004:
On This Day: November 2 (Jean-Baptiste Chardin 11/2/1699-12/6/1779, Marie-Antoinette 11/2/1755-10/16/1793, James Knox Polk 11/2/1795-6/15/1849, Maurice Blondel 11/2/1861-6/4/1949, Luchino Visconti 11/2/1861-6/4/1949, Burt Lancaster 11/2/1913-10/20/1994, Patrick J. Buchanan 1938, Stefanie Powers 1942, Shere Hite 1942)
Carter Victor In Tight Race; Ford Loses New York State (By R. W. APPLE JR., November 2, 1976)
President Warren G. Harding, a Farm Boy Who Rose by Work, Dies at 57
[11/2/1865-8/2/1923] (NY Times, August 3, 1923)

NATIONAL: Millions Who Stayed Away in 2000 Flood the Polls (By DAVID STOUT, Nov. 2, 2004)
LAST-MINUTE EFFORTS: Record Turnout Forecast; Vote Drives Intensify (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Nov. 2, 2004)
THE NEWS MEDIA: Networks Vow Not to Make Hasty Calls Tonight (By JIM RUTENBERG, Nov. 2, 2004)
THE PRESIDENT: From Bush, a Late Call for Support Across Party Lines (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Nov. 2, 2004)
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE: In Kerry's Last Campaign Hours, a Softer Tone, a Call to Arms
(By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Nov. 2, 2004)
SPORTS: Field of 36,000 Has Its Local Critics [NYC Marathon] (By JERE LONGMAN, Nov. 2, 2004)
FILM: NEW DVD'S: 'Shrek 2,' More Looney Tunes and 'Animal Farm' (By DAVE KEHR, Nov. 2, 2004)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 2, 2004)
* As the Veil on Titan Is Lifted, 'What We See Is Very Alien' (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Nov. 2, 2004)
* HEALTH: Alzheimer's Steals More Than Memory (By DENISE GRADY, Nov. 2, 2004)

Monday, November 1, 2004:
On This Day: November 1 (Crawford W. Long 11/1/1815-6/16/1878, Sholem Asch 11/1/1880-7/10/1957, Sakutaro Hagiwara 11/1/1886-5/11/1942)
EXPERIMENTS FOR HYDROGEN BOMB HELD SUCCESSFULLY AT ENIWETOK (By JAY WALZ, Nov. 1, 1952)
* Stephen Crane Dead: Author of "The Red Badge of Courage" [11/1/1871-6/5/1900] (NY Times, June 6, 1900)

NATIONAL: LATE SURVEYS: Other Polls Are Also Tight (By MARJORIE CONNELLY, Nov. 1, 2004)
THE CAMPAIGN: Frantic Presidential Race Ends With a Flood of Ads
(By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & JIM RUTENBERG, Nov. 1, 2004)
THE POLLS: In Final Days, Divided Electorate Expresses Anxiety
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY & JANET ELDER, Nov. 1, 2004)
THE PRESIDENT: Putting Tension Aside, Bush Resolutely Enjoys Himself (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Nov. 1, 2004)
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE: A Looser, More Jovial Kerry Prepares for Voters' Choice
(By JODI WILGOREN, Nov. 1, 2004)
OHIO: To Get Ohio Voters to the Polls, Volunteers Knock, Talk and Cajole (By JAMES DAO, Nov. 1, 2004)
TEXAS: Bush Victory Seems Certain; Margin Doesn't (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Nov. 1, 2004)
IOWA: On the Ground, a Slight Swing Toward Kerry (By MICHAEL MOSS, Nov. 1, 2004)
ARKANSAS: Clinton, at Little Rock Rally, Tries to Persuade Home State (By DIANE CARDWELL, Nov. 1, 2004)
* THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT: Evangelicals See Bush as One of Them, but Will They Vote? (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Nov. 1, 2004)
* ADVERTISING: With Curse Reversed, Marketers Love Red Sox (By STUART ELLIOTT, Nov. 1, 2004)