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

Friday, October 31, 2003:
On This Day: October 31 (Jan Vermeer 10/31/1632-12/15/1675, John Keats 10/31/1795-2/23/1821, Juliette Low 10/31/1860-1/18/1927, Michael Landon 10/31/1936-7/1/1991, Norodom Sihanouk 1922, Michael Collins 1930, Dan Rather 1931, Sally Kirkland 1944, Deidre Hall 1948, Jane Pauley 1950)
Indira Gandhi Slain, Is Succeded by Son (By WILLIAM K. STEVENS, October 31, 1984)
Chiang Kai-shek: A Leader Who Was Thrust Aside by Revolution [10/31/1887-4/5/1975] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, April 6, 1975)

* Beryl Graves, Muse to Poet Robert Graves, Dies at 88 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 31, 2003)
Bill Sargent, 76, a Pioneer in Closed-Circuit and Pay TV, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 31, 2003)
Harry Clement Stubbs, Writer of Classic Science Fiction, Dies at 81 (By GERALD JONAS, Oct. 31, 2003)
George Scott Jr., 95, Citibank Loan Official, Dies (NY TIMES, Oct. 31, 2003)
Takashi Sonobe, 62, Mitsubishi Chairman, Dies (By REUTERS, Oct. 31, 2003)
NATIONAL: Break in Weather Aids Fire Fight (By JOHN M. BRODER, Oct. 31, 2003)
In Initial Finding, F.D.A. Calls Cloned Animals Safe as Food (By ANDREW POLLACK, Oct. 31, 2003)
Young Sniper Suspect Becomes Central Figure in Trial (By JAMES DAO, Oct. 31, 2003)
* For Sale in Oakland: 1 Room, Great View, Quiet Neighborhood, $250,000 (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Oct. 31, 2003)
Dean Walks a Tightrope Over Positions on Gun Control
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JODI WILGOREN, Oct. 31, 2003)
* 40 Years After Shots in Dallas, a Survivor's Painful Memories [Nellie Connally]
(By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Oct. 31, 2003)
Rice Faults Past Administrations on Terror (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 31, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Officials See Hussein's Hand in Attacks on Americans in Iraq (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Oct. 31, 2003)
Moscow Freezes Billions in Stock of Oil Producer
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS and ERIN E. ARVEDLUND, Oct. 31, 2003)
North Korea Agrees to Nuclear Talks, China Says (By JOSEPH KAHN, Oct. 31, 2003)
* LONDON JOURNAL: U.S. Eating Habits, and Europeans, Are Spreading Visibly (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Oct. 31, 2003)
Taiwan's Leader Campaigns, With a Stop in U.S. (By KEITH BRADSHER, Oct. 31, 2003)
WAR OF NERVES: Threat, Blasts and Pullouts Raise Anxiety in Baghdad (By SUSAN SACHS, Oct. 31, 2003)
NY REGION: The Worst Place to Drop a Cellphone? Here's One (By MICHELLE O'DONNELL, Oct. 31, 2003)
NYC: Not Poifect, Dem Movies of Brooklyn (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Oct. 31, 2003)
Homemade Costumes as Rare as Goblins (By LISA W. FODERARO, Oct. 31, 2003)
Get 'Em While They're Cool: Footwear for the Few (By ANNA BAHNEY, Oct. 31, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The Doping Scandal in Sports (NY TIMES, Oct. 31, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Big Quarter (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 31, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Sneak Attack by Bloomberg (By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 31, 2003)
OP-ED: Set the Voters Free (By RICHARD J. RIORDAN, Oct. 31, 2003)
* OP-ED: Why I Don't Believe in Ghosts (By PHILIP PULLMAN, Oct. 31, 2003)
LETTERS: Is America Back in Vietnam? (6 Letters) (By JAMES DAY, et. al., Oct. 31, 2003)
LETTERS: A Place of Beauty, and Then the Fires Came (2 Letters) (By MARTIN KRUMING, et. al., Oct. 31, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Close Mixed in Response to Reports on Economy
[Dow +12, Nasdaq -4] (Associated Press, Oct. 31, 2003)
ECONOMIC MEMO: 3 Good Months, or Evidence of Real Economic Recovery? (By FLOYD NORRIS, Oct. 31, 2003)
O'Donnell and Publisher Spar Over Magazine's End (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Oct. 31, 2003)
* Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals? (By JOHN MARKOFF & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Oct. 31, 2003)
* ART: 'TRACES OF INDIA'; 'COMPANY CULTURE': Composing Indian History,
One Carefully Framed View at a Time (By HOLLAND COTTER, Oct. 31, 2003)
ART: 'ELSA SCHIAPARELLI': Making Serious Fashion From Visual Jokes, and Doing It Like an Artist
(By ROBERTA SMITH, Oct. 31, 2003)
ART: 'PHILIP GUSTON': Anxious Liberator of an Era's Demons (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Oct. 31, 2003)
ART: 'A PRIVATE PASSION': Privacy Was His Obsession, Beauty His Fount of Energy
(By JOHN RUSSELL, Oct. 31, 2003)
ART: Selling Off Yesterday's Art to Make Way for Tomorrow's (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Oct. 31, 2003)
DANCE: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: Powerful Twists on Classical Dance, From Balanchine and More
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 31, 2003)
DANCE: RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMPANY: A Choreographic Wizard's Book of Spells (By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 31, 2003)
DANCE ANONYMOUS: Sacks, Tubes and Transsexuals (By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 31, 2003)
FILM: 'THE HUMAN STAIN': Secrets of the Skin, and of the Heart (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 31, 2003)
FILM: REVERBERATIONS: When Triumph in Rock Films Rings True, It Soars (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 31, 2003)
MUSIC CRITIC: Good Gift for a Composer? How About a Sold-Out Concert? (By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 31, 2003)
THEATER: 'WICKED': There's Trouble in Emerald City (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 31, 2003)
THEATER: 'WILDER': A Prostitute Downstairs, a Rich Fantasy Life Upstairs (By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 31, 2003)
THEATER: 'NOBODY DON'T LIKE YOGI': A Metaphysician for Whom Baseball Is Life and Vice Versa
(By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 31, 2003)
TV: 'ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT': All in the (Rich, Dysfunctional) Family (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY<, Oct. 31, 2003)
TV: 'PHENOMENON II': A Man Too Smart for His Own Good (or the Government's) (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Oct. 31, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Scientists Find Lemmings Die as Dinners, Not Suicides (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Oct. 31, 2003)
SCIENCE: As Solar Flares Reach Earth, House Reviews Forecasting Agency (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Oct. 31, 2003)

Thursday, October 30, 2003:
On This Day: October 30 (John Adams 10/30/1735-7/4/1826, Alfred Sisley 10/30/1839-1/29/1899, Ezra Pound 10/30/1885-11/1/1972, Charles Atlas 10/30/1893-12/24/1972, Dickinson W. Richards 10/30/1895-2/23/1973, Ruth Gordon 10/30/1896-8/28/1985, Daniel Nathans 10/30/1928-11/16/1999, Louis Malle 10/30/1932-11/23/1995, Claude Leloouch 1937, Henry Winkler 1945, Kevin Pollak 1958)
Ali Regains Title, Flooring Foreman (By DAVE ANDERSON, October 30, 1974)
Fred W. Friendly, CBS Executive and Pioneer in TV News Coverage, Dies at 82 [10/30/1915-3/3/1998] (By ERIC PACE, March 5, 1998)

* Franco Corelli, Italian Tenor of Power and Charisma, and Pillar of the Met, Dies at 82
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Oct. 30, 2003)
* Jack and Jane Meador, Figures in Stolen Wartime Art Case, Die (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Oct. 30, 2003)
Wendy Marx, Liver Patient Who Inspired Organ Donation Group, Dies at 36 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 30, 2003)
NATIONAL: Schwarzenegger Visits Washington, as Much an Idol as Governor (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Oct. 30, 2003)
* NY REGION: Ceiling's Cleaning Grows Into a Tale of Re-Creation (By GLENN COLLINS, Oct. 30, 2003)
METRO MATTERS: A Mayor Basking in J.Glow (By JOYCE PURNICK, Oct. 30, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares End Slightly Higher on Positive Earnings News
[Dow +26, Nasdaq +4] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 30, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2003)
Ideas Unlimited, Built to Order (By SETH SCHIESEL, Oct. 30, 2003)
STATE OF THE ART: Paying the Piper, Round 2: The Repertory Grows (By DAVID POGUE, Oct. 30, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: What's Right With This Picture? (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Oct. 30, 2003)
GAME THEORY: Scaring People Out of Their Wits, and Their Houses (By CHARLES HEROLD, Oct. 30, 2003)
WHAT'S NEXT: Is There an Echo in Here? Software Lets Architects Predict (By ANNE EISENBERG, Oct. 30, 2003)
BASICS: A Shutterbug's Guide to Meting Out the Megapixels (By IVAN BERGER, Oct. 30, 2003)
Virtual Haunts for Your Inner Goblin (By LISA NAPOLI, Oct. 30, 2003)
Cart 54, Where Are You? The Tracking System Knows (By THOMAS J. FITZGERALD, Oct. 30, 2003)
Play Tunes on the Treadmill Without Getting Tangled (By IAN AUSTEN, Oct. 30, 2003)
For Hair-Trigger Fingers, a New Way With Buttons (By CHARLES HEROLD, Oct. 30, 2003)
* PDF Text Flows Into Word, With Graphics Along for the Ride (By THOMAS J. FITZGERALD, Oct. 30, 2003)
A Set-Top Box With 100 Rentable Films (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Oct. 30, 2003)
Squinting at the Fine Print? A Lens to Ease Your Eyestrain (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 30, 2003)
Circuits Letters to the Editor (By Zachary Knower, et. al., Oct. 30, 2003)
* Q & A: Translating Photo Files From Macintosh to PC (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 30, 2003)
SCIENCE: A Huge Solar Storm, but Little Impact Is Seen (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR & MATTHEW L. WALD, Oct. 30, 2003)

Wednesday, October 29, 2003:
On This Day: October 29 (William Hayley 10/29/1745-11/12/1820, Fred Lazarus Jr. 10/29/1884-5/27/1973, Richard Dreyfuss 1947, Kate Jackson 1948)
BLACK TUESDAY: STOCKS COLLAPSE IN 16,410,030-SHARE DAY (NY Times, October 29, 1929)
Fanny Brice, Comedienne, Dies at the Age of 59 [born 10/29/1891-5/29/1951] (NY Times, May 30, 1951)

Margaret Johns, Pheromone Expert, Dies at 75 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 29, 2003)
Ernie Calverley, 79, College Basketball Player, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Oct. 29, 2003)
John J. Fay Jr., Ombudsman for the Elderly of New Jersey, Dies at 76 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 29, 2003)
Rod Roddy, Announcer on 'Price Is Right,' Dies at 66 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 29, 2003)
NATIONAL: L.A. Takes Offensive Against Fires; San Diego Faces Flare-Up (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Oct. 29, 2003)
Bush Backs His Brother's Decision in Feeding Tube Case (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 29, 2003)
The Warming Is Global but the Legislating, in the U.S., Is All Local (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Oct. 29, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: THE OUTLOOK: Bush's Urgent Task: To Calm Public's Growing Impatience
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Oct. 29, 2003)
WORLD: U.S. Takes Softer Tone on Iran, Once in the 'Axis of Evil' (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Oct. 29, 2003)
Two C.I.A. Operatives Killed in an Ambush in Afghanistan (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Oct. 29, 2003)
NY REGION: After Blackout, a Call for a 911 Overhaul (By MICHAEL COOPER, Oct. 29, 2003)
New in the Showroom: Wright (By MICHAEL LUO, Oct. 29, 2003)
ABOUT NEW YORK: A New Account of Sept. 11 Loss, With 40 Fewer Souls to Mourn
(By DAN BARRY, Oct. 29, 2003)
SPORTS: Acting Quickly, U.S. Bans Newfound Steroid [THG: tetrahydrogestrinone]
(By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Oct. 29, 2003)
BASEBALL: Marlins Vow to Keep Party Alive (By CHARLIE NOBLES, Oct. 29, 2003)
BASKETBALL: For Lakers, It's Winning and Healing (By CHRIS BROUSSARD, Oct. 29, 2003)
FOOTBALL: A 'Touchdown' Teaches a Lesson for Life (By IRA BERKOW, Oct. 29, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Putin's Old-Style K.G.B. Tactics (NY TIMES, Oct. 29, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Facing the Truth of Sept. 11 (NY TIMES, Oct. 29, 2003)
OP-ED: Make Way for Buffalo (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Oct. 29, 2003)
OP-ED: The Pollyanna Conspiracy (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 29, 2003)
OP-ED: Waiting for the Apocalypse (By T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE, Oct. 29, 2003)
OP-ED: Young Men and Fire (By SUSAN STRAIGHT, Oct. 29, 2003)
LETTERS: Days of Growing Carnage in Iraq (5 Letters) (By WAYNE S. SMITH, et. al., Oct. 29, 2003)
LETTERS: Most Smiles? Dachshunds, Paws Down! (2 Letters) (BERN MARCOWITZ, et. al., Oct. 29, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Surge After Fed Decides to Hold Rates Steady
[Dow +140, Nasdaq +49] (Associated Press, Oct. 29, 2003)
Mutual Fund Accused of Fraud in Rapid Trading by Managers (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Oct. 29, 2003)
Fed Keeps Short-Term Interest Rate at 1% (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Oct. 29, 2003)
Microsoft Settles 6 More Suits (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Oct. 29, 2003)
Music Retailers Slow to Adopt Plan to Lower Price of CD's (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 29, 2003)
BOOKS: Bookseller of Kabul v. Journalist of Oslo (By ALAN RIDING, Oct. 29, 2003)
DANCE: 'GOTTA DANCE! A DANCE TRIBUTE TO HOLLYWOOD':
A Gathering of Stars From Many Firmaments Glitter for One Night (By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 29, 2003)
MUSIC: Taking Jazz Into Strange (90 Minute) Territory (By STEPHEN KINZER, Oct. 29, 2003)
MUSIC FOR CARILLON: Letting John Cage Ring Out, Then Space Out (By JEREMY EICHLER, Oct. 29, 2003)
DANCE: 'BLACK BURLESQUE (REVISITED)': International Collaborators Salute a Black Panorama
(By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 29, 2003)
THE POP LIFE: Online Music Business, Neither Quick Nor Sure (By NEIL STRAUSS, Oct. 29, 2003)
THEATER: 'ATTACKS ON THE HEART': When Worlds Collide, Love Is Imperiled
(By MARGO JEFFERSON, Oct. 29, 2003)
THEATER: 'NINE': A New Cad and Fresh Fantasy Signorinas (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 29, 2003)
TV: 'A MINUTE WITH STAN HOOPER': Heartburn in the Heartland: Cheese, Anyone?
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Oct. 29, 2003)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 29, 2003)
* EATING WELL: In the Temples of Supersizing, Eating Light Draws Converts (By MARIAN BURROS, Oct. 29, 2003)
An Autumn Harvest That's Not Just for Kids (By MATT LEE & TED LEE, Oct. 29, 2003)
Following the Pepper Grinder All the Way to Its Source (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Oct. 29, 2003)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: Pasta That Adds Bite to Vodka (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Oct. 29, 2003)
* THE MINIMALIST: Fried Rice Skips to the Dinner Table (By MARK BITTMAN, Oct. 29, 2003)
FOOD STUFF: Sauces That Provide a Helping of the Rarest Ingredient: Time (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Oct. 29, 2003)

Tuesday, October 28, 2003:
On This Day: October 28 (Henry III 10/28/1017-10/5/1056, Eliphalet Remington 10/28/1793-8/12/1861, Gilbert Grosvenor 10/28/1875-2/4/1966, Edith Head 10/28/1897-10/24/1981, Evelyn Waugh 10/28/1903-4/10/1966, Francis Bacon 10/28/1909-4/28/1992, Suzy Parker 1933, Bruce Jenner 1949, Julia Roberts 1967)
Statue of Liberty Dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland (NY Times, October 28, 1886)
Dr. Jonas Salk, Whose Vaccine Turned Tide on Polio, Dies at 80 [10/28/1914-6/23/1995] (By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr., June 24, 1995)

Walter Washington, 88, Former Mayor of Washington, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 28, 2003)
Garrett Hardin, 88, Ecologist Who Warned About Excesses, Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, Oct. 28, 2003)
Charles B. Seib, Journalist, Dies at 84 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 28, 2003)
NATIONAL: Firefighters Make a Stand as Blaze Closes on L.A. (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Oct. 28, 2003)
THE OVERVIEW: Weather Offers Some Relief From California Wildfires, but Far Too Late for Many
(By JOHN M. BRODER, Oct. 28, 2003)
Rate of Serious Crime Held Largely Steady Last Year (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Oct. 28, 2003)
At Sniper Trial, a Replay of 3 Terrifying Hours (By JAMES DAO, Oct. 28, 2003)
THE WHITE HOUSE: Bush Says Bombings Will Not Deter Him
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & DAVID FIRESTONE, Oct. 28, 2003)
Jesse Jackson Jr. Throws His Support to Dean (By JODI WILGOREN, Oct. 28, 2003)
EDUCATION: Turmoil at the Top at Boston University (By SARA RIMER, Oct. 28, 2003)
WORLD: Oil Tycoon's Arrest Scares Russian Financial Markets
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS & ERIN E. ARVEDLUND, Oct. 28, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: OCCUPATION: Iraq Paradox: Cracking Down While Promoting Freedom
(By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 28, 2003)
DAMASCUS JOURNAL: Syrians Gamely Tackle the Latest Western Import: Golf (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Oct. 28, 2003)
* A Surge in Money Sent Home by Mexicans (By GINGER THOMPSON, Oct. 28, 2003)
Beijing Releases Chinese-Born American Prisoner 2 Years Early (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 28, 2003)
NY REGION: 40 Years After Wreckage, Bits of Old Penn Station (By GLENN COLLINS, Oct. 28, 2003)
TUNNEL VISION: Farewell, Horse Man and Other Curios Unmet (By RANDY KENNEDY, Oct. 28, 2003)
NYC: On Canvas or Bare Skin, It's Free Speech (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Oct. 28, 2003)
SPORTS: Disappointed Jeter Sounds a Little Bit Like His Employer (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 28, 2003)
The Red Sox Part Ways With Little (By PETE THAMEL, Oct. 28, 2003)
SPORTS: When Inner Peace Is More Important Than Victory
["Inner peace?" Torre said. "Absolutely."]
(By IRA BERKOW, Oct. 28, 2003)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: Digital Sports Tiers: 1's and 0's, X's and O's
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Oct. 28, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Bad Day in Baghdad (NY TIMES, Oct. 28, 2003)
OP-ED: A Willful Ignorance [Bush doesn't understand why Muslims don't trust us]
(By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 28, 2003)
OP-ED: True Believers, Please Rise [Congressional Republicans] (By DAVID BROOKS, Oct. 28, 2003)
OP-ART: The Demolition [NY Penn Station demolished 40 years ago today]
(By JAMES STEVENSON, Oct. 28, 2003)
OP-ED: Victory in Iraq, One Tribe at a Time (By AMATZIA BARAM, Oct. 28, 2003)
LETTERS: Drug Profits and the Free Market (5 Letters) (By MARY W. COLLINS, et. al., Oct. 28, 2003)
LETTERS: Doubts Over a Pulitzer (2 Letters) [Walter Duranty] (By LUBOMYR LUCIUK, et. al., Oct. 28, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Move Up Amid Acquisitions in Banking and Health
[Dow +26, Nasdaq +17] (Bloomberg News, Oct. 28, 2003)
THE OVERVIEW: Bank of America and FleetBoston Agree to $48 Billion Merger
(By RIVA D. ATLAS, Oct. 28, 2003)
THE STRATEGY: Bank of America's Purchase Falls Short of Wall St. Dreams (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Oct. 28, 2003)
Kozlowski Jurors Shown Birthday Video Clips (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Oct. 28, 2003)
This Tyco Videotape Has Been Edited for Content (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Oct. 28, 2003)
Acquisition Would Create Nation's Largest Health Insurer (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Oct. 28, 2003)
* MARKET PLACE: AOL's Happy Secret (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 28, 2003)
* SPECIAL SECTION: Youthful Attitudes, Sobering Realities (By JULIE CONNELLY, Oct. 28, 2003)
* BOOKS: Sendak and Kushner Let Humor Get Through ["Brundibar"] (By MEL GUSSOW, Oct. 28, 2003)
DANCE: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: Choreographer Unfurls His Devotion to Process
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 28, 2003)
* FILM: One Director to Be Paid Like a Top Movie Star [Peter Jackson] (By ANNE THOMPSON, Oct. 28, 2003)
MUSIC: BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Visitors From Boston Tote Works Familiar and Otherwise
(By BERNARD HOLLAND, Oct. 28, 2003)
MUSIC: MATTHEW POLENZANI: Without Airs, Breezing Through a Night of Song (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Oct. 28, 2003)
THEATER: Despite Cast Losses, 'Violet' Will Go On (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Oct. 28, 2003)
THEATER: A U.S. Rebirth for Mexico's Comic Legend [Cantinflas] (By SIMON ROMERO, Oct. 28, 2003)
TV: '24': Countering Terrorists, and a Dense Daughter (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 28, 2003)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 28, 2003)
SCIENCE: Reports Detail a Hypothetical Shuttle Rescue (By MATTHEW L. WALD & WARREN E. LEARY, Oct. 28, 2003)
* Scientists Uncover the Peacock's Most Colorful Secrets (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Oct. 28, 2003)
* Zillions of Universes? Or Did Ours Get Lucky? (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Oct. 28, 2003)
* Storm on the Sun Could Sow Chaos on Earth (Remember 1859?) (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 28, 2003)
Researchers Build a Case for Earthworm's Slimy Reputation (By ANNE MINARD, Oct. 28, 2003)
Wyoming Checks Mines for West Nile Source (By JIM ROBBINS, Oct. 28, 2003)
OBSERVATORY: Supernavigator's Secret [honeybees] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Oct. 28, 2003)
Scholars Argue Over Legacy of Surgeon Who Was Lionized, Then Vilified
[ J. Marion Sims] (By BARRON H. LERNER, Oct. 28, 2003)
HEALTH: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 28, 2003)
HEALTH: And Still, Echoes of a Death Long Past (By ERICA GOODE, Oct. 28, 2003)
A Deadly Disease of Infants Attracts New Research Money (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 28, 2003)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Families Grab an Asthma Lifeline That Keeps Children Well and Active
(By JANE E. BRODY, Oct. 28, 2003)
For Aging Runners, a Formula Makes Time Stand Still (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Oct. 28, 2003)
Doctors Tread a Thin Line on Marijuana Advice (By DAVID TULLER, Oct. 28, 2003)
CASES: Putting On a New Face for Chemo (By BARBARA GAMAREKIAN, Oct. 28, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Consequences: Impatience, at Your Own Risk (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 28, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Therapies: Hypnosis Can Be a Hit in the Gut (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 28, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Safety: Paint a Pumpkin, Spare a Hand (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 28, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Diagnosis: Wider Net for Diabetic Disorder (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 28, 2003)
Long Aspirin Use Tied to a Cancer [pancreatic cancer] (NY TIMES, Oct. 28, 2003)
Q & A: Coffee and Decaf (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Oct. 28, 2003)

Monday, October 27, 2003:
On This Day: October 27 (Catherine of Valois 10/27/1401-1/3/1437, Desiderius Erasmus 10/27/1466-7/12/1536, James Cook 10/27/1728-2/14/1779, Niccolo Paganini 10/27/1782-5/27/1840, Isaac M. Singer 10/27/1811-7/23/1875, Marcellin Berthelot 10/27/1827-3/18/1907, Theodore Roosevelt 10/27/1858-1/6/1919, Dylan Thomas 10/27/1914-11/9/1953, Roy Liechtenstein 10/27/1923-9/29/1997, Teresa Wright 1918, Ralph Kiner 1922, Warren Christopher 1925)
IRT SUBWAY OPEN, 150,000 TRY IT (NY Times, October 27, 1904)
Sylvia Plath: Her Poetry, Not Her Death, Is Her Triumph [born 10/27/1932-2/11/1963] (By ROSALYN DREXLER, January 13, 1974)

James M. Hanley, 83, Dies; Served 8 Terms in Congress (By ERIC PACE, Oct. 27, 2003)
John Hart Ely, a Constitutional Scholar, Is Dead at 64 (By ADAM LIPTAK, Oct. 27, 2003)
William C. Cramer, 81, a Leader of G.O.P. Resurgence in South, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 27, 2003)
Herbert Beckhard, 77, Architect Who Worked With Bauhaus Master, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 27, 2003)
Frank Richlan, 61, Manhattan Architect, Dies (NY TIMES, Oct. 27, 2003)
NATIONAL: Fires in California Force Thousands From Homes (By JOHN M. BRODER, Oct. 27, 2003)
Democrats in Debate Clash Over Iraq War (By ADAM NAGOURNEY & DIANE CARDWELL, Oct. 27, 2003)
A City Seeks Its Identity Atop a Spire of Debate (By SARAH KERSHAW, Oct. 27, 2003)
WORLD: Series of Blasts Across Baghdad Kill at Least 15 (By DEXTER FILKINS and RAYMOND BONNER, Oct. 27, 2003)
Israelis Blow Up Gaza Buildings Near Isolated Settlement (By JAMES BENNET, Oct. 27, 2003)
North Korean Defector Plans Talks in U.S. (By JAMES BROOKE, Oct. 27, 2003)
Saudi Opposition, Far From Home, Makes Voice Heard (By WARREN HOGE, Oct. 27, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S. Case for Helping Iraq Suffers a Setback (By ALEX BERENSON, Oct. 27, 2003)
In the Strike Zone, Big Shadows of the Past (By JOEL BRINKLEY, Oct. 27, 2003)
Egypt Welcomes Mummy's Return From U.S. [possibly Ramses I] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 27, 2003)
School Crucifix Ruling in Italy Sets Off Protests (By REUTERS, Oct. 27, 2003)
* BINGEN JOURNAL: O Lorelei, Your Rhine Is a Beauty, and Still Treacherous (By MARK LANDLER, Oct. 27, 2003)
NY REGION: In Bronx, a Sudden Discount on Pinstripes (By PATRICK HEALY, Oct. 27, 2003)
Bringing in the Harvest, Without a Farm in Sight (By KIRK JOHNSON, Oct. 27, 2003)
Neighbors on Cell Tower Plan: Not in Your Backyard, Either (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Oct. 27, 2003)
Charitable Giving Falls for First Time in Years (By GREG WINTER, Oct. 27, 2003)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Oct. 27, 2003)
SPORTS: Zimmer Is the First to Leave in What Could Be an Exodus (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 27, 2003)
BASEBALL ANALYSIS: Torre's Inner Circle May Be First Target for Steinbrenner
(By JACK CURRY, Oct. 27, 2003)
SPORTS: For Josh Beckett, a Postseason of Promise (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 27, 2003)
SPORTS: As the Yankees Fall, Hope Rises in Other Towns (By GEORGE VECSEY, Oct. 27, 2003)
SPORTS: Steinbrenner Replaces the Fun With Pressure (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Oct. 27, 2003)
GIANTS 29, VIKINGS 17: Giants Put an End to the Vikings' Streak (By LYNN ZINSER, Oct. 27, 2003)
BASEBALL: Series Is Up, but Also Down (NY TIMES, Oct. 27, 2003)
HORSE RACING: Bettor Wins Cool, and Clean, $2.6 Million (By JOE DRAPE, Oct. 27, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Buyer Beware [businesses to share customers' financial information]
(NY TIMES, Oct. 27, 2003)
* EDITORIALS: THE RURAL LIFE: The Saxony Drake (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Oct. 27, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Doughnut's Hole (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 27, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: There's a Catch: Jobs (By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 27, 2003)
* OP-ED: How Much for That Professor? (By DAVID L. KIRP, Oct. 27, 2003)
OP-ED: A Life After Death [Pete Rose should only be eligible
for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously]
(By JEFF NEUMAN, Oct. 27, 2003)
LETTERS: G.I.'s in Iraq: A Cultural Gap (2 Letters) (By RUSSELL ZANCA, et. al., Oct. 27, 2003)
* LETTERS: The Wonders of Space, With an Artist's Eye (By GERALD M. LEVITIS, Oct. 27, 2003)
* LETTERS: Details Behind a Nobel [on Nobelist Renato Dulbecco] (By DAVID BALTIMORE, Oct. 27, 2003)
LETTERS: Fathers and Infants (By JOSH ASHENMILLER, Oct. 27, 2003)
BUSINESS: Gains in Wages Expected to Give Economy a Lift
(By DAVID LEONHARDT & EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Oct. 27, 2003)
Critics Press Case on TV Privacy Rules (By STEPHEN LABATON, Oct. 27, 2003)
ADVERTISING: Product Placement Goes to College (By NAT IVES, Oct. 27, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Investors Take a Dim View of Cablevision's Strategy (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Oct. 27, 2003)
* The Times Chooses Veteran of Magazines and Publishing as Its First Public Editor
[Daniel Okrent] (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 27, 2003)
Arrest of Oil Chief Could Roil Russian Stock Market [Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky]
(By ERIN E. ARVEDLUND & NEELA BANERJEE, Oct. 27, 2003)
Dr. Phil, Medicine Man (By SHERRI DAY, Oct. 27, 2003)
* DRILLING DOWN: Pirate(d) Films Online (By LISA NAPOLI, Oct. 27, 2003)
Want to Be Interviewed on the Radio? Well, Just Pay Up. (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 27, 2003)
* With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster? (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 27, 2003)
* NEW ECONOMY: Two Companies at Odds Over the Internet's Future (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 27, 2003)
* Brazil Becomes a Cybercrime Lab (By TONY SMITH, Oct. 27, 2003)
* Amazon Offer Worries Authors (By DAVID K. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 27, 2003)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Web Redesigns for the Holidays (By BOB TEDESCHI, Oct. 27, 2003)
Critics Take Wary View of Shopping Web Link [ConsumerReports.org & BizRate.com]
(By BOB TEDESCHI, Oct. 27, 2003)
Disney Still Trying to Make ABC Channel Part of Family (By BILL CARTER & LAURA M. HOLSON, Oct. 27, 2003)
ARTS: More Eyes on the Mix for Whitney Biennial (By CAROL VOGEL, Oct. 27, 2003)
FILM: The Man Who Unites the Moguls, Looking Ahead [Jack Valenti]
(By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Oct. 27, 2003)
MUSIC: EMMYLOU HARRIS: The Sound Between Heavenly and Earthy (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 27, 2003)
* MUSIC: Beethoven on the Block, as Prices Match Artistry (By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 27, 2003)
THEATER: Can Hugh Jackman Save 'Oz'? (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Oct. 27, 2003)
TV: 'BORN RICH'; 'RICH GIRLS': Focusing on Residents of Gilded Cages (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 27, 2003)
* FASHION & STYLE: The quiet death of feminist fashion (By Suzy Menkes, IHT Archive, Oct. 27, 2003)

Sunday, October 26, 2003:
On This Day: October 26 (Domenico Scarlatti 10/26/1685-7/23/1757, Georges Jacques Danton 10/26/1759-4/5/1794, Beryl Markham 10/26/1902-8/3/1986, Jackie Coogan 10/26/1914-3/1/1984, Pat Sajak 1946, Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947, Jaclyn Smith 1947)
Israel Prime Minister Rabin and Jordan Prime Minister Majali Signed Peace Treaty (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Oct. 26, 1994)
Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer, And a Civil Rights Symbol, Dies [born 10/26/1911] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, January 28, 1972)

William Goldberg, 77, a Trader in Rare Diamonds, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
Rosalie Allen, 79, a Yodeling Radio Cowgirl of the 40's, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Author, Dies at 64 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 26, 2003)
NATIONAL: California Wildfires Claim Lives and Homes (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 26, 2003)
9/11 Commission Could Subpoena Oval Office Files (By PHILIP SHENON, Oct. 26, 2003)
In Feeding-Tube Case, Many Neurologists Back Courts (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Oct. 26, 2003)
Protesters in Washington Demand Iraq Withdrawal (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Oct. 26, 2003)
Davis's Last-Minute Appointments in Doubt (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 26, 2003)
WORLD: Iraq Resistance Lasting Longer Than Expected, Powell Concedes (By BRIAN KNOWLTON, Oct. 26, 2003)
U.S. Military Officer Dies in Rocket Barrage at Baghdad Hotel
(By THOM SHANKER & RAYMOND BONNER, Oct. 26, 2003)
Two Earthquakes Kill at Least 9 in China [6.1 & 5.8 in Gansu province] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 26, 2003)
* Americans Stake Claims in a Baja Land Rush (By TIM WEINER, Oct. 26, 2003)
* NY REGION: The Paper Chase [Collyer Brothers, hermit hoarders of Harlem]
(By FRANZ LIDZ, Oct. 26, 2003)
* CITY LORE: Triptychs From the Crypt [1313 private family mausoleums] (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Oct. 26, 2003)
URBAN STUDIES: Angels With Flawless Faces (By ERIN CHAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
NEW YORK PARKS: Cows Can't Eat It, But Ball Fields Are Getting It (By ERIN CHAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
URBAN TACTICS: The Death and Life of Preservation (By TONY HISS, Oct. 26, 2003)
FOLLOWING UP: A Devotee of News Savors His Creation (By JOSEPH P. FRIED, Oct. 26, 2003)
SPORTS: All That Money, and the Fans Look Stunned (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Oct. 26, 2003)
MARLINS WIN SERIES, 4-2: Young Ace Has Winning Hand, and Yankees Are Sent Reeling
(By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 26, 2003)
While Fans Headed Out, Steinbrenner Lingered (By DAVE CALDWELL, Oct. 26, 2003)
BASEBALL ANALYSIS: After Going Down Meekly as Heavy Favorites, Plenty of Blame to Go Around
(By JACK CURRY, Oct. 26, 2003)
A Stage Portrait of Berra, Returning to the Bronx [Ben Gazzara portrays Yogi]
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Oct. 26, 2003)
Palermo Has a Dream of Umpiring Once Again (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Oct. 26, 2003)
TRACK: Drawing Inspiration From Struggle (By JERE LONGMAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
HORSE RACING: A Hall of Famer Leaves His Mark On a Day of Firsts (By JOE DRAPE, Oct. 26, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Market Cheer, Deficit Worries (NY TIMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
EDITORIALS: From One Time to Another (NY TIMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: An Afternoon Amid the Glass Walls of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Oct. 26, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Expanding Club NATO (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
OP-ED: What's The Value of a Fetus? (By WILLIAM SALETAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
OP-ED: Bush's Reagan Moment (By PETER J. WALLISON, Oct. 26, 2003)
OP-ART: Worldview Comparison Chart (By Steven J. Newman, Oct. 26, 2003)
* OP-ED: FRANK RICH: Why Are We Back in Vietnam? (By FRANK RICH, Oct. 26, 2003)
LETTERS: Neoconservatives, Then and Now (By NATHAN GLAZER, Oct. 26, 2003)
LETTERS: Getting an Early Start on College. Very Early. (By SCOTT WHITE, Oct. 26, 2003)
BUSINESS: Condé Nast Redesigns Its Future (By DAVID CARR, Oct. 26, 2003)
* When Jobs Move Overseas (to South Carolina) [China hiring Americans]
["Ship refrigerators, you ship a lot of air, and shipping air is expensive."]
(By YILU ZHAO, Oct. 26, 2003)
No Consensus on Tighter Rules for Hedge Funds (By JOHN KIMELMAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
* As Silicon Valley Reboots, the Geeks Take Charge (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 26, 2003)
* It's a Girl! (Will the Economy Suffer?) (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Oct. 26, 2003)
MARKET WATCH: 401(k)'s Are Grand, for Fund Companies Anyhow (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Oct. 26, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: A Statistic That Tells Only Half the Story [unemployment]
(By DANIEL GROSS, Oct. 26, 2003)
* A Tight Job Market Dampens Ivy League Hopes (By AMY WU, Oct. 26, 2003)
INVESTING WITH ANTHONY L.T. CRAGG: Strong Asia Pacific Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Oct. 26, 2003)
* Turning to Tutors, Instead of Schools (By BRIGID McMENAMIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
* PORTFOLIOS: Hmm. That Fever in the Market Looks Familiar. (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Oct. 26, 2003)
BOOK VALUE: After the 90's Boom, a Bounty of Blame (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
BUSINESS PEOPLE: From Soup to Parole: Some Suggestions for the Prison-Bound
(By Marek Fuchs, Oct. 26, 2003)
MARKET INSIGHT: Machinery Stocks Help Lead Recovery (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
* MIDSTREAM: Buying, Holding and Paying a Price (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Oct. 26, 2003)
* PRIVATE SECTOR: Building a Dream on Aching Feet (By ANNE FIELD, Oct. 26, 2003)
LIFE'S WORK: How to Make Your Telecommute Work (By LISA BELKIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
ARTS: What Celebrity Looks Like: The Annie Leibovitz Aesthetic (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Oct. 26, 2003)
ARTS: A Clue to What's to Come at Ground Zero (By FRED A. BERNSTEIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
ARTS: The Sinister Beauty of Global Conspiracies (By ELEANOR HEARTNEY, Oct. 26, 2003)
* ART: Redrawn by Rembrandt (By DEBORAH WEISGALL, Oct. 26, 2003)
DANCE: Multimedia's Multitasking Pioneer (By MURRAY LOUIS, Oct. 26, 2003)
* DANCE: Antony Tudor's Teaching Method: 'No, You Fool!'
(Kevin McKenzie talks with Jennifer Dunning, Oct. 26, 2003)
* MUSIC: His Masterpiece May Be Himself, Remade as Fiction [Ned Rorem]
(Interviews By Johanna Keller, Oct. 26, 2003)
MUSIC: She Plays, She Vocalizes, She Accompanies Herself [Maya Beiser]
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 26, 2003)
MUSIC: The Perils of Living Too Long (By ADAM SHATZ, Oct. 26, 2003)
MUSIC PLAYLIST: Joe Strummer's Best Album, Post-Clash (By BEN RATLIFF, Oct. 26, 2003)
MUSIC: A Mix That Works in the Club and the iPod (By KELEFA SANNEH, Oct. 26, 2003)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: The Eminent Photographer of Eminent Victorians [Tennyson]
(By CARYN JAMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
THEATER: The Wicked Young Witches (By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 26, 2003)
THEATER: Eileen Atkins, Performing as Herself (By AMY BLOOM, Oct. 26, 2003)
* TV: String Theory: Trying to Visualize Many, Many Dimensions of Weirdness (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Oct. 26, 2003)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
STYLE: Calling In Late (By KATE ZERNIKE, Oct. 26, 2003)
NOTICED: Underdressed and Hot: Dolls Moms Don't Love (By RUTH LA FERLA, Oct. 26, 2003)
Where Everybody Has a Name [The size of the lettering and the space
occupied by donors' names corresponds to the scale of their munificence]
(By CHRISTOPHER MASON, Oct. 26, 2003)
GUY DÉCOR: Bidding on Bill Blass, for Whom Things Made the Man (By DAVID COLMAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
ON THE STREET: Parisian Graphics (By Bill Cunningham, Oct. 26, 2003)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Jazzy B: Riffs From the Punjab (By COREY KILGANNON, Oct. 26, 2003)
POSSESSED: Glamorous Generic, as a Shield From the Glare (By DAVID COLMAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
VOWS: Amy Sohn and Charles Miller (By JENNY ALLEN, Oct. 26, 2003)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
Adventure in the Pantanal [Brazil] (By TONY SMITH, Oct. 26, 2003)
Animal-Watching Deep in the Amazon (By LUCINDA FRANKS, Oct. 26, 2003)
A Cultural Mix in Suriname's Lush Landscape (By DEBRA A. KLEIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
Where Glasgow Glows (By JENNIFER MOSES, Oct. 26, 2003)
WHAT'S DOING: On the Big Island [Kailua-Kona, Hawaii] (By MICHELE KAYAL, Oct. 26, 2003)
* TRAVEL ADVISORY: A Pedigreed Home for Women's Writing; Parking at Airports; E-Tickets
(By LESLIE MANDEL-VINEY, Oct. 26, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
It May Be a Family Matter, but Just Try to Define Family (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
SHOULDER-FIRED: Cheap and Lethal, It Fits in a Golf Bag (By TOM ZELLER, Oct. 26, 2003)
DON'T TREAD ON US: Radical Islam Gains a Seductive New Voice (By DAVID ROHDE, Oct. 26, 2003)
WORD FOR WORD | SOFT TOUCH: From Our Man in Moscow, in Praise of the Stalinist Future
(By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 26, 2003)
CORRESPONDENCE | PASSING FOR NORMAL: Peace in Liberia Brings Its Own Kind of Strangeness
(By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 26, 2003)
NO, YOU GO FIRST: Cutting Greenhouse Gases, or Not (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
Job Creation Math: The Three-Card Monte of Economics (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Oct. 26, 2003)
NEXT TEST: 2004 ELECTION: The War Over Abortion Moves to a Smaller Stage
(By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Oct. 26, 2003)
CO-PAYING THE PIPER: Do Some Pay Too Little for Health Care? (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Oct. 26, 2003)
Hacking Into Airline Security, Box Cutters and All (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 26, 2003)
Videotapes, Unbound [Academy Award voters' DVD's encoded] (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Oct. 26, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
ON LANGUAGE: Frog, March! (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 26, 2003)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Learning to Love to Hate [George W. Bush] (By JAMES TRAUB, Oct. 26, 2003)
QUESTIONS FOR MARCUS SAMUELSSON: Big Fish Story (Interview by HUGO LINDGREN, Oct. 26, 2003)
DOMAINS: A Gymnast's (Bigger) Room of Her Own (Text and interviews by AMY BARRETT, Oct. 26, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: Grading Reality (By RANDY COHEN, Oct. 26, 2003)
The Opt-Out Revolution [leaving workplace for motherhood] (By LISA BELKIN, Oct. 26, 2003)
* The Takedown Artist [Dale Peck's hatchet book reviews] (By JAMES ATLAS, Oct. 26, 2003)
* There's a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex (By CLIVE THOMPSON, Oct. 26, 2003)
The Most Unconventional Weapon [cannibalism] (By DANIEL BERGNER, Oct. 26, 2003)
STYLE: Boo Heaven (Photographs by RODNEY SMITH, Oct. 26, 2003)
* DESIGN: My Father's House [Louis Kahn] (By PILAR VILADAS, Oct. 26, 2003)
FOOD: Panning Out [seafood lasagna casserole] (By JULIA REED, Oct. 26, 2003)
* LIVES: Talking Points [on her high school teacher] (By DEBORAH ARTMAN, Oct. 26, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 26, 2003)
* 'Elizabeth Costello': An Allegorist's Lectures to Humanity [J. M. Coetzee]
(By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Oct. 26, 2003)
'Winning Modern Wars': Wesley K. Clark's Warpath (By MAX FRANKEL, Oct. 26, 2003)
Enron's House of Gas ["24 Days" & "The Smartest Guys in the Room"] (By JONATHAN A. KNEE, Oct. 26, 2003)
'A Venetian Affair': Covert Operations [Andrea di Robilant]
[Andrea & Giustiniana's affair teeters between Enlightenment
and Romanticism, intrigue and authenticity, love and honor]
(By ANGELINE GOREAU, Oct. 26, 2003)
* 'Gellhorn': Scooping Hemingway [Caroline Moorehead]
(By BRENDA MADDOX, Oct. 26, 2003)
'Albion': It's in the Soil [Peter Ackroyd, "Origins of the English Imagination"]
(By MICHAEL SCHMIDT, Oct. 26, 2003)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: The Fortress of Monoglot Nation (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Oct. 26, 2003)
* SCIENCE: A Spot of Trouble on Sun, but Not Earth (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 26, 2003)

Saturday, October 25, 2003:
On This Day: October 25 (Evariste Galois 10/25/1811-5/31/1832, Johann Strauss, Jr. 10/25/1825-6/3/1899, Georges Bizet 10/25/1838-6/3/1875, Henry Steele Commager 10/25/1902-3/2/1998, Minnie Pearl 10/25/1912-3/4/1996, Bobby Thomson 1923, Helen Reddy 1941)
United Nations Admits Mainland China and Expels Taiwan (By TAD SZULC, Oct. 25, 1971)
Picasso: Protean and Prodigious, the Greatest Single Force in 70 Years of Art
[born 10/25/1881] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, April 9, 1973)

Earl Peyroux, 78, PBS Cooking-Show Host, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 25, 2003)
NATIONAL: Cleaner at Wal-Mart Tells of Few Breaks and Low Pay (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Oct. 25, 2003)
Graphic Evidence Offered in Sniper Suspect's Trial (By JAMES DAO, Oct. 25, 2003)
Thousands Flee Wildfire in Southern California (By NICK MADIGAN, Oct. 25, 2003)
POLITICAL MEMO: Some Democratic Hopefuls Question Value of Debates (By JIM RUTENBERG, Oct. 25, 2003)
BELIEFS: The Meaning of 'Under God' (NY TIMES, Oct. 25, 2003)
WORLD: A Visitor From China Eclipses Bush's Stop in Australia (By JANE PERLEZ, Oct. 25, 2003)
RECONSTRUCTION: Over $13 Billion in Aid Is Pledged to Rebuild Iraq (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Oct. 25, 2003)
* SATURDAY PROFILE: Leaping Forward Online, With Amazon as Her Guide (By DAVID W. CHEN, Oct. 25, 2003)
Zimbabwe's Woes Are Bringing Grief to Its Wildlife, Too (By MICHAEL WINES, Oct. 25, 2003)
NY REGION: The Germans Came; Now They Are Us (By JOSEPH BERGER, Oct. 25, 2003)
Covering Their Ears One Last Time for Concorde (By COREY KILGANNON, Oct. 25, 2003)
Caviar, Phfft. Now When You Cross the Atlantic, You'd Better Have Cucumber Slices
(By EDWARD WONG, Oct. 25, 2003)
In Brooklyn, Aspiring Rock Star Was Just a Guy Named Smit (By MICHAEL BRICK, Oct. 25, 2003)
Architects Agree to Meet to Work Out Tower Design (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Oct. 25, 2003)
ABOUT NEW YORK: Remembering When Maoists Met the Klan (By DAN BARRY, Oct. 25, 2003)
SPORTS: Marlins Put Best Pitcher Forward Against Yanks (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 25, 2003)
In Bind, Torre Is Expected to Meet Lofty Goals Again (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 25, 2003)
SPORTS: Bracing for Big Windup as Marlins Go for Knockout (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Oct. 25, 2003)
His Hunches Having Paid Off So Far, McKeon Plays One More (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 25, 2003)
BASKETBALL: Needing a Break, Riley Resigns as Miami's Coach (By CHRIS BROUSSARD, Oct. 25, 2003)
EDITORIALS: High-Priced College Textbooks (NY TIMES, Oct. 25, 2003)
OP-ED: Gay at Birth? (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Oct. 25, 2003)
OP-ED: Living in the Age of Edge [Helmut Newton, Vogue photographer] (By DAVID BROOKS, Oct. 25, 2003)
OP-ED: Sugar, Spice and a Glue Gun [Gingerbread house] (By LAURA ZIGMAN, Oct. 25, 2003)
OP-ED: Les Misérables [Paris pay toilets] (By LINDA KOIKE, Oct. 25, 2003)
OP-ART: The Year the Pumpkin Crop Failed (By Michael Crawford, Oct. 25, 2003)
LETTERS: When Students Run the Classroom (6 Letters) (By JOHN ENGELMAN, Oct. 25, 2003)
LETTERS: Bush and the Ancients: What Homer Can Teach Us (3 Letters) (By JOSHUA B. STEIN, et. al., Oct. 25, 2003)
* LETTERS: A Historian's Integrity [Doris Kearns Goodwin] (By ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR., et. al., Oct. 25, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Close Lower on Wariness About the Long Run-Up
[Dow -31, Nasdaq -20] (By REUTERS, Oct. 25, 2003)
Ex-Banker's Case Ends in Mistrial [Frank P. Quattrone] (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Oct. 25, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Inside the Workings of a Money Machine [Quattrone] (By FLOYD NORRIS, Oct. 25, 2003)
S.E.C. Finding Fund Abuses, Official Says (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LANDON THOMAS Jr., Oct. 25, 2003)
New Luxury-Car Specifications: Styling. Performance. Aroma. (By DANNY HAKIM, Oct. 25, 2003)
Companies Everywhere Seek Role in Iraq (By DALE FUCHS, Oct. 25, 2003)
* ARTS: A Cultural Scorecard Says West Is Ahead [Charles Murray] (By EMILY EAKIN, Oct. 25, 2003)
* BOOKS: In the Democracy of Design, Even Bad Taste Is O.K.
[Virginia Postrel's new book, "The Substance of Style"]
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Oct. 25, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'GOSPEL OF MARY OF MAGDALA': Discovering Magdalene the Apostle, Not the Fallen Woman
(By DINITIA SMITH, Oct. 25, 2003)
MUSIC CRITIC: At New Disney Hall, the Time to Listen Has Finally Arrived (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Oct. 25, 2003)
MUSIC CRITIC: Rockers Fast-Forward to Yesteryear's Rebels (By JON PARELES, Oct. 25, 2003)

Friday, October 24, 2003:
On This Day: October 24 (Antoine van Leeuwenhoek 10/24/1632-8/26/1723, Sarah J. Hale 10/24/1788-4/30/1879, Moss Hart 10/24/1904-12/20/1961, Y.A. Tittle 1926, F. Murray Abraham 1939)
UN CHARTER BECOMES 'LAW OF NATIONS,' 29 RATIFYING IT (By BERTRAM D. HULEN, Oct. 24, 1945)
Bob Kane, 83, the Cartoonist Who Created 'Batman,' Is Dead [born 10/24/1915] (By SARAH BOXER, November 7, 1998)

* Madame Chiang, 105, Chinese Leader's Widow, Dies (By SETH FAISON, Oct. 24, 2003)
Judy H. Mello, Who Led First Women's Bank, Dies at 60 (By ERIC PACE, Oct. 24, 2003)
Don Evans, 65, a Playwright Who Focused on Black Lives, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 24, 2003)
Fred Berry, 52, Actor on 1970's Sitcom, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 24, 2003)
Bernard Schwartz, 85, Producer of 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 24, 2003)
NATIONAL: Wal-Mart Raids by U.S. Aimed at Illegal Aliens (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Oct. 24, 2003)
Victory in Florida Feeding Case Emboldens the Religious Right (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Oct. 24, 2003)
Kerry Still Dogged by Questions on Vote to Authorize Iraq War (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Oct. 24, 2003)
Schwarzenegger and Davis in Polite but Strained Talk (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Oct. 24, 2003)
F.B.I. Agents Begin Interviews of Bush Officials on C.I.A. Leak (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Oct. 24, 2003)
Rumsfeld Draws Republicans' Ire (By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID FIRESTONE, Oct. 24, 2003)
WHITE HOUSE MEMO: On High-Speed Trip, Bush Glimpses a Perception Gap (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 24, 2003)
Senate Approves Easing of Curbs on Cuba Travel (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Oct. 24, 2003)
WORLD: Syria, Long Ruthlessly Secular, Sees Fervent Islamic Resurgence (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Oct. 24, 2003)
VIGNEUX-SUR-SEINE JOURNAL: A Crime of the Young Stalks France's Urban Wastelands
(By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Oct. 24, 2003)
THE ALLIES: Turkey Begins to Think Twice About Sending Troops to Iraq (By SUSAN SACHS, Oct. 24, 2003)
New York's Top Dog? It Depends on the ZIP Code (By SUSAN SAULNY, Oct. 24, 2003)
* 'Happy to Be Alive,' Survivor of Falls Plunge Is Released (NY TIMES, Oct. 24, 2003)
* PUBLIC LIVES: In New York, Even a Free Paper Has to Be Sold (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Oct. 24, 2003)
NYC: Uppity, Loud and, at Last, Gone for Good (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Oct. 24, 2003)
SPORTS: Steroid Is Reportedly Found in Top Runner's Urine Test (By JERE LONGMAN, Oct. 24, 2003)
MARLINS LEAD SERIES, 3-2: Broken-Down Yanks Left Teetering on Edge (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 24, 2003)
BASEBALL ANALYSIS: Lineup Changes Fail to Shake Yankees' Malaise (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 24, 2003)
SPORTS: Yankees Have Never Looked So Weak in a World Series (By GEORGE VECSEY, Oct. 24, 2003)
SPORTS: It Wasn't a Great Night to Be the Yankees' Pitching Coach (By HARVEY ARATON, Oct. 24, 2003)
SPORTS: Seeking Funny Cide's Hollywood Ending (By JOE DRAPE, Oct. 24, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Decoding Rumsfeld's Memo (NY TIMES, Oct. 24, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Farewell to Supersonic Flight (NY TIMES, Oct. 24, 2003)
OP-ED: Too Low a Bar (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 24, 2003)
OP-ED: Failing Teachers (By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 24, 2003)
OP-ED: They Won't Miss Much (By GILBERT CRANBERG, Oct. 24, 2003)
OP-ED: Iraqis on the Sidelines (By SUSAN E. RICE, Oct. 24, 2003)
LETTERS: To-Do Lists for the Democrats (5 Letters) (By NANCY SULLIVAN MURRAY, et. al., Oct. 24, 2003)
LETTERS: China Takes a Step Into Space. What's Next? (3 Letters) (By GIL FUCHSBERG, et. al., Oct. 24, 2003)
LETTERS: Life, Death and a Feeding Tube (3 Letters) (By MIRIAM PIVEN COTLER, et. al., Oct. 24, 2003)
LETTERS: A University's Mission [Columbia's 250th anniversary] (BRUCE NEUMAN, Oct. 24, 2003)
BUSINESS: Stocks Recoup Early Losses Despite Dive in Asian Shares
[Dow +15, Nasdaq -13] (Bloomberg News, Oct. 24, 2003)
* Google Said to Consider Online Auction of I.P.O. Shares (By RICHARD WATERS, FT.com, Oct. 24, 2003)
Rival Airports Seek the Elusive Passenger (By EDWARD WONG, Oct. 24, 2003)
FLOYD NORRIS: Perelman's Company Borrowed the Money. Will He Decide to Repay It?
(By FLOYD NORRIS, Oct. 24, 2003)
Study Finds Few Latinos in Financial Services (By SIMON ROMERO, Oct. 24, 2003)
PC Demand Helps Microsoft Beat Earnings Estimates (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 24, 2003)
Sony Says Profit Tumbled 25% From a Year Ago (By KEN BELSON, Oct. 24, 2003)
ART: 'TURNING POINT': Vibrant Simplicity With a Wink: A Design Revolt in Old Japan
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Oct. 24, 2003)
ART CRITIC: Modernist Prophets of Disparate Arts (By JEREMY EICHLER, Oct. 24, 2003)
ART: 'VIENNESE SILVER': Silver's Shiny Journey From Craft to Art (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Oct. 24, 2003)
* ART: Rembrandt the Rubber-Faced Role Player (By GRACE GLUECK, Oct. 24, 2003)
ART: Kandinsky and Schoenberg, Seen and Heard on Canvas (By ROBERTA SMITH, Oct. 24, 2003)
ART: 'FRANCOIS BOUCHER': More Than Rococo Pinups Among Boucher's Drawings
(By KEN JOHNSON, Oct. 24, 2003)
INSIDE ART: The 19th Century Running Rampant (By CAROL VOGEL, Oct. 24, 2003)
ANTIQUES: Grand Style on a Small Scale (By WENDY MOONAN, Oct. 24, 2003)
DANCE: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: Spoofing Ballet's Conventions, and Honoring Them, Too
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 24, 2003)
DANCE: RONALD K. BROWN: A Memorial's Sadness Fades as It Becomes a Healing Elegy
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 24, 2003)
CABARET: PHIL ROY: A Songwriter Being Honest With Himself (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 24, 2003)
FILM: 'BEYOND BORDERS': Treating a Troubled World With a Dose of Star Power
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, Oct. 24, 2003)
FILM: 'SCARY MOVIE 3': Horrors! Mysticism May Never Be the Same (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 24, 2003)
OPERA: 'BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA': A Happy 21-Year Marriage of 'Figaro' and Its Rotating Set
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 24, 2003)
THEATER: 'THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW': Here Lies the Ruin of a Love (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 24, 2003)
THEATER: 'STRICTLY ACADEMIC': Professors With No Flash and Shows With Too Much of It
(By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 24, 2003)
* THEATER: REVERBERATIONS: Living for the Moments: When Contemplation Turns to Ecstasy
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 24, 2003)
TV: 'CAMBRIDGE SPIES': A Ring of Droll Spies, Slightly Fictionalized (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 24, 2003)
HEALTH: Women With Genetic Mutation at High Risk for Breast Cancer, Study Confirms
(By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 24, 2003)

Thursday, October 23, 2003:
On This Day: October 23 (Pierre Larousse 10/23/1817-1/3/1875, Adlai Ewing Stevenson 10/23/1835-6/15/1914, Felix Bloch 10/23/1905-9/10/1983, Pele 1940, Michael Crichton 1942)
Beirut Death Toll at 161 Americans; French Casualties Rise in Bombings (By Thomas E. Friedman, Oct. 23, 1983)
John W. Heisman, Noted Coach, Dies [born 10/23/1869] (NY Times, October 4, 1936)

Elliott Smith, 34, Rock Songwriter and Singer, Dies (By JON PARELES, Oct. 23, 2003)
Jack Elam, Lazy-Eyed Movie Villain, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 23, 2003)
Louise Day Hicks, Who Led Fight on Busing in Boston, Dies at 87 (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Oct. 23, 2003)
* Margaret Murie, 101, Who Helped Save Wilderness, Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, Oct. 23, 2003)
Roy A. Anderson, Former Lockheed Chairman, Dies at 82 (By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Oct. 23, 2003)
Timothy Costello, 87, Educator and Deputy Mayor, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 23, 2003)
NATIONAL: Congress Strikes a Tentative Deal on Drug Benefits (By ROBERT PEAR, Oct. 23, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: In Florida Right-to-Die Case, Legislation Puts the Constitution at Issue
(By ADAM LIPTAK, Oct. 23, 2003)
Times Should Lose Pulitzer From 30's, Consultant to Paper Says (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 23, 2003)
In New Ads, Dean Becomes First in Campaign to Attack Fellow Democrats
(By JODI WILGOREN & JIM RUTENBERG, Oct. 23, 2003)
A Farmer Kills Another and Iowa Town Asks, How Did It Come to This? (By MONICA DAVEY, Oct. 23, 2003)
WORLD: Greeted Coolly, Bush Urges Indonesia to Bolster Democracy (By DAVID E. SANGER and JANE PERLEZ, Oct. 23, 2003)
Bush Sees Slight Opening for North Korea Progress (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 23, 2003)
TRUCK BOMBING: Panel Faults U.N. on Lax Security for Iraq Office (By KIRK SEMPLE, Oct. 23, 2003)
Rumsfeld Sees Need to Realign Military Fight Against Terror (By THOM SHANKER, Oct. 23, 2003)
A Prosperous Russian City Is Also Fatal for Journalists (By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY, Oct. 23, 2003)
* GUIYANG JOURNAL: A Match Made in Heaven, if You Have Enough Yuan (By DAVID W. CHEN, Oct. 23, 2003)
NY REGION: Visions for Tower Clash at Trade Center Site (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Oct. 23, 2003)
* They Got It in Surgery. Now They Flaunt It. (By PATRICK HEALY, Oct. 23, 2003)
Talk About a Powerful Drink [vodka can make you "fearless, not stronger"]
(By MICHAEL BRICK, Oct. 23, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: He Stores City's Past (Unless You'd Care to Buy It) (By JOHN KIFNER, Oct. 23, 2003)
SPORTS: Marlins Take Game 4 With Walk-Off Homer in 12th Inning (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 23, 2003)
On 'Grandest Stage,' Clemens Takes a Final Bow (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 23, 2003)
SPORTS: The End Comes With a Whimper [Roger Clemens] (By HARVEY ARATON, Oct. 23, 2003)
SPORTS: It's October, and All Eyes Are on Jeter (By GEORGE VECSEY, Oct. 23, 2003)
Little Not Sure About Staying With Red Sox (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 23, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Donors Meet to Help Iraq (NY TIMES, Oct. 23, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Scorning the Courts in Florida [Terri Schiavo] (NY TIMES, Oct. 23, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Columbia University at 250 (NY TIMES, Oct. 23, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: What China's First Man in Space Should Learn From Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
(By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Oct. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: Free Advice to G.O.P. (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: One Deadly Morning in Beirut (By CHUCK PFARRER, Oct. 23, 2003)
OP-ED: The Mullahs and the Bomb (By GARY MILHOLLIN, Oct. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: The Price of a Textbook, Here and There (4 Letters) (By STEPHEN S. POWER, et. al., Oct. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: The Times's New Look (2 Letters) (By MARTIN BEISER, et. al., Oct. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: Woody Allen's Memoir (By, Oct. 23, 2003)
LETTERS: In Uniform, Mocking Islam (By ARSALAN TARIQ IFTIKHAR, Oct. 23, 2003)
BUSINESS: Stocks Slump on Disappointing Earnings News
[Dow -149, Nasdq -43] (By Reuters, Oct. 23, 2003)
ECONOMIC SCENE: The Mixed Bag of Productivity (By HAL R. VARIAN, Oct. 23, 2003)
SMALL BUSINESS: Taking a While to Heed Opportunity's Knock (By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Oct. 23, 2003)
Amid Ruins of Iraqi Oil Wells, Investors See Field of Riches (By NEELA BANERJEE, Oct. 23, 2003)
Time Warner Reports Modest Gains for 3rd Quarter (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 23, 2003)
ARCHITECTURE: A Moon Palace for the Hollywood Dream (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Oct. 23, 2003)
* BOOKS: To Stars, Writing Books Looks Like Child's Play [Madonna]
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Oct. 23, 2003)
DANCE: NEXT WAVE: SUSAN MARSHALL & CO.: Enigmatic Fairy Tales With Uncertain Endings
(By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 23, 2003)
DANCE: URBAN BALLET THEATER: Keep Your Eye on the Ballerina in This Modern Dance (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Oct. 23, 2003)
DANCE: TUSCAN DANCE IN MOVEMENT: Merry Pranksters From Tuscany (By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 23, 2003)
MUSIC: NY PHILHARMONIC: Authenticity, as Beethoven Whizzes By (By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 23, 2003)
ROCK: 'TRAVIS': Beyond Love, but Coming From the Heart (By JON PARELES, Oct. 23, 2003)
TV: 'TERROR IN MOSCOW': A Night Out in Moscow That Became a Nightmare (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 23, 2003)
GARDEN: TURF: Design Eye for the Sales Guy (By MOTOKO RICH, Oct. 23, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 23, 2003)
* The Stealth Computer (By FORD FESSENDEN, Oct. 23, 2003)
* A Change of Habits to Elude Spam's Pall (By KATIE HAFNER, Oct. 23, 2003)
STATE OF THE ART: Apple's Latest 0.1 Adds a Lot (By DAVID POGUE, Oct. 23, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Sheet Music to Set Tiny Hands a-Tinkling (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Oct. 23, 2003)
* WHAT'S NEXT: Smart Servers as Watchdogs for Trouble on the Web (By ANNE EISENBERG, Oct. 23, 2003)
BASICS: Drawing PC, TV and Stereo Into an Entertainment Loop (By, Oct. 23, 2003)
GAME THEORY: Doh! Take Two Cartoons, Add Monsters and Mayhem (By CHARLES HEROLD, Oct. 23, 2003)
* ONLINE DIARY: Blog Bog and an E-Mail Pony Express (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Oct. 23, 2003)
Gadget Knows Grandma Inside Out (By DAVID J. WALLACE, Oct. 23, 2003)
The 3-D Laptop's Secret? A Skewed Double Screen (By Mark Glassman, Oct. 23, 2003)
Start a Movie in Your Office, Finish Watching on the Road (By Thomas J. Fitzgerald, Oct. 23, 2003)
The Home Theater Slims Down and Sheds Some Cords (By J. D. Biersdorfer, Oct. 23, 2003)
Casting an Online Net for Priests and Nuns (By JONATHAN ENGLERT, Oct. 23, 2003)
Getting From Here to There, No Luxury Car Required (By Bob Tedeschi, Oct. 23, 2003)
A Home for Family Photos With an Internet Address (J. D. Biersdorfer, Oct. 23, 2003)
Q & A: Shoring Up the Signal of a Faltering Network (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 23, 2003)

Wednesday, October 22, 2003:
On This Day: October 22 (Franz Liszt 10/22/1811-7/31/1886, George Beadle 10/22/1903-6/9/1989, Constance Bennett 10//22/1904-7/24/1965, Jimmie Foxx 10/22/1907-7/21/1967, Joan Fontaine 1917, Annette Funicello 1942, Catherine Deneuve 1943, Jeff Goldblum 1952)
President Kennedy Announced Blockade of Cuba (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Oct. 22, 1968)
Timothy Leary, Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 60's, Dies at 75 [born 10/22/1920] (By LAURA MANSNERUS, June 1, 1996)

Luis A. Ferré, Who Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood, Dies at 99 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 22, 2003)
* Janice Rule, 72, Film Actress Who Became a Psychoanalyst, Dies (By BEN SISARIO, Oct. 22, 2003)
Charles E. F. Millard, 71, Executive Who Led Growth at Coca-Cola Bottling, Dies (By SHERRI DAY, Oct. 22, 2003)
* ON EDUCATION: Lessons in the Fine Art of College Admissions (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Oct. 22, 2003)
* NY REGION: An Architect's Grand Vision for a Trade Center Transit Hub (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Oct. 22, 2003)
Liza Minnelli's Almost-Ex-Husband Sues Her, Claiming She Beat Him (By SUSAN SAULNY, Oct. 22, 2003)
YANKEES LEAD SERIES, 2-1: After Pitching Duel and Rain Delay, Yanks Pour It On
(By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 22, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Encouraging Words From Iran (NY TIMES, Oct. 22, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The General Who Roared [William Boykin] (NY TIMES, Oct. 22, 2003)
* OP-ED: Swift-Footed W. [Homer's Iliad] (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Oct. 22, 2003)
OP-ED: Of Kurds and Madrid (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 22, 2003)
OP-ED: Let Someone Else Do the Talking (By ALTON FRYE, Oct. 22, 2003)
OP-ED: Full Disclosure on Leaks (By ROBERT BOOTH, Oct. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: Syria's Options (By IMAD MOUSTAPHA, Oct. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: Hateful Speech Can't Be Justified (5 Letters) (By JOSH BASSON, et. al., Oct. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: Guilt Reduction for Moms (By ANNE TOLSTOI WALLACH, Oct. 22, 2003)
LETTERS: Dining Out? Let Your Friend Be Your Guide (4 Letters) (By STACEY P. MANKOFF, et. al., Oct. 22, 2003)
BUSINESS: Communications Shares Lead 30-Point Slide in the Dow
[Dow -30, Nasdaq +16] (Bloomberg News, Oct. 22, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Price for Seat on Big Board Falls on Frets About Future (By FLOYD NORRIS, Oct. 22, 2003)
Time Warner Posts Strong Profit and Says AOL Is Recovering (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 22, 2003)
Merck Posts Weak Earnings and Plans to Cut Up to 4,400 Jobs (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Oct. 22, 2003)
New Information May Bolster Questions on Halliburton (By NEELA BANERJEE, Oct. 22, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'IMPERIAL AMERICA': A Double-Barreled Attack on American War Policy (By CHARLES A. KUPCHAN, Oct. 22, 2003)
* BOOKS: Abstraction in a Celestial Palette, Courtesy of Robots and Outer Space (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Oct. 22, 2003)
CABARET: STEVE ROSS: Reminders That Manhattan Is Still an Isle of Joy (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 22, 2003)
FILM: 'IN THE CUT': A Mystery of Language, a Mystery of Murder (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 22, 2003)
THEATER: 'IRON': Tight Psychological Quarters, but No Catharsis (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 22, 2003)
* TV: Passions and Ambiguities in the Desert [PBS "Lawrence of Arabia"]
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Oct. 22, 2003)
TV: 'KID NOTORIOUS': The Kid Stays in the Cartoon, Still Having His Fun, Baby (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 22, 2003)

Tuesday, October 21, 2003:
On This Day: October 21 (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10/21/1772-7/25/1834, Alfred Nobel 10/21/1833-12/10/1896, Ted Shawn 10/21/1891-1/9/1972, Louis L'Amour 10/21/1908-6/10/1988, Sir George Solti 10/21/1912-9/5/1997, Whitey Ford 1928, Benjamin Netanyahu 1949)
Thomas Edison Invented Electric Light (NY Times, Oct. 21, 1879)
Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes, Dies at 75 [born 10/21/1917] (By PETER WATROUS, January 7, 1993)

Ralph Salerno, a Police Expert on the Mafia, Dies at 78 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 21, 2003)
Ivan Getting, 91, a Developer of Global Positioning System, Dies (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 21, 2003)
Preston E. Smith, 91, Governor of Texas and Old-Style Campaigner, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 21, 2003)
Vance Jordan, 60, a Dealer in Turn-of-the-Century Art, Dies (By CAROL VOGEL, Oct. 21, 2003)
WORLD: Norway Leads Industrial Nations Back to Breast-Feeding (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, Oct. 21, 2003)
NY REGION: Brain Conditions 'Ideal' for Separating Twins, Doctors Say (By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 21, 2003)
SPORTS: Scientist Suspects Many Athletes Are Using Undetected Steroids (By MIKE FREEMAN, Oct. 21, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Trying Diplomacy on North Korea (NY TIMES, Oct. 21, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The Iowa Bypass (NY TIMES, Oct. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Listening to Mahathir (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Rescuing the Democrats (By DAVID BROOKS, Oct. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Continuing the Search for Kinder Executions (By MARK ESSIG, Oct. 21, 2003)
OP-ED: Shop of Horrors [$1 million for Iraq Museum of Baathist crimes] (By ELIZABETH A. COLE, Oct. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Those Baseball Fans Who Know Only Tears (2 Letters) (By STUART ALTSCHULER, et. al., Oct. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Must Aid to Iraq Be Partisan? (6 Letters) (By HARRY T. COOK, et. al., Oct. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: China's Spacecraft [Shenzhou = magical land] (By PERRY LINK, Oct. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Religion in Europe (By WILLIAM WOOD, Oct. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: Whales and the Navy (By Admiral WALTER F. DORAN, Oct. 21, 2003)
LETTERS: An Architect's Plea: Bring Us to the Table (By WENDY EVANS JOSEPH, Oct. 21, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Resume Their Climb, Though Caution Is Heard
[Dow +56, Nasdaq +13] (By Reuters, Oct. 21, 2003)
* A Face Lift for The Times, Typographically, That Is (NY TIMES, Oct. 21, 2003)
Heading Typeface Change from Latin Extra Condensed to Times Cheltenham Bold Extra Condensed
Subheading Type Change from News Gothic to Times Cheltenham Bold Condensed
The Times's text typeface, for news and editorials, remains Imperial
(NY TIMES, Oct. 21, 2003)
* Low-Cost Virginia Tech Supercomputer Put Together From 1,100 PC's
[$5 million cost, computes at 7.41 trillion operations a second]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Oct. 21, 2003)
ARTS: Can the Disney Hall Help Give Los Angeles a Genuine Downtown? (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Oct. 21, 2003)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 21, 2003)
* Scientists Revisit an Aegean Eruption Far Worse Than Krakatoa (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Oct. 21, 2003)
Ethics 101: A Course About the Pitfalls (By GINA KOLATA, Oct. 21, 2003)
A New Kind of Genomics, With an Eye on Ecosystems (By ANDREW POLLACK, Oct. 21, 2003)
New Clue on Which Came First, Tools or Better Diets (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Oct. 21, 2003)
* CONVERSATION WITH | PRAVEEN CHAUDHARI: New Chief at Physics Lab Tries to Polish Faded Star
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Oct. 21, 2003)
* Through the Lens, the Severe Beauty of Nuclear Test Blasts (NY TIMES, Oct. 21, 2003)
* OBSERVATORY: The Great Pretender [broad-lipped bird orchid] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Oct. 21, 2003)
HEALTH: A Hope for the Prostate Among the Rattlesnakes (By TERESA BURNEY, Oct. 21, 2003)
* Snails, Desired for Beauty and Venom, May Be Threatened (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Oct. 21, 2003)
CASES: Long-Term Questions Linger in Halted Breast Cancer Trial (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 21, 2003)
Rise in Income Improves Children's Behavior (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 21, 2003)
Study Details Effects of Long-Term Sleep Pill (By ANDREW POLLACK, Oct. 21, 2003)
Treatment for Addiction Meets Barriers in the Doctor's Office (By HOWARD MARKEL, Oct. 21, 2003)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: In Thorough Physicals, Athletes Must Perform (By JANE E. BRODY, Oct. 21, 2003)
* VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Experts Try Magnets for the Mind (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 21, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Nutrition: Cooking Broccoli, Out of the Box (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 21, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Testing: Yearly Pap Tests? Not Necessarily (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 21, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Trends: Halloween, for Skinnier Skeletons (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 21, 2003)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: Thinking With the Hands [Susan Goldin-Meadow]
(By JOHN LANGONE, Oct. 21, 2003)
Q & A: Pigeon Feathers (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Oct. 21, 2003)

Monday, October 20, 2003:
On This Day: October 20 (Andrea Della Robbia 10/20/1435-8/4/1525, Sir Christopher Wren 10/20/1632-2/25/1723, Arthur Rimbaud 10/20/1854-11/10/1891, Charles Edward Ives 10/20/1874-5/19/1954, Bela Lugosi 10/20/1884-8/16/1956, Sir James Chadwick 10/20/1891-7/24/1974, Dame Anna Neagle 10/20/1904-6/3/1986, Mickey Mantle 10/20/1931-8/13/1995, Art Buchwald 1925, Arlene Francis 1908)
Nixon Discharges Cox For Defiance; Abolishes Watergate Task Force; Richardson And Ruckelshaus Out
(By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND, Oct. 20, 1973)
Dr. John Dewey Dead at 92; Philosopher a Noted Liberal [born 10/20/1859] (NY Times, June 2, 1952)

Alija Izetbegovic, Muslim Who Led Bosnia, Dies at 78 (By DAVID BINDER, Oct. 20, 2003)
Aubrey Gorbman, Zoologist, Dies at 88 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 20, 2003)
* NY REGION: Zagat Listing Jolted by a Small Brooklyn Spot (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Oct. 20, 2003)
* FOOD CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: On Second Thought: It's Still Quite Good (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Oct. 20, 2003)
A HREF=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/20/opinion/20MON1.html> EDITORIALS: Waiting for Democrats on Iraq (NY TIMES, Oct. 20, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Of Mice and Men (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 20, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Locked Out at a Young Age (By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 20, 2003)
A HREF=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/20/opinion/20NEWM.html> OP-ED: Will the Space Race Move East? (By JACQUELINE NEWMYER, Oct. 20, 2003)
* OP-ED: No Nobel Prize for Whining (By HORACE FREELAND JUDSON, Oct. 20, 2003)
LETTERS: Faith and the Atlantic Divide (4 Letters) (By CARLA WALLACH, Oct. 20, 2003)
Latest Gadget: Bought This, Tossed That (3 Letters) (BEN MYERS, Oct. 20, 2003)
Closed-Mind Barriers (By CHARLES D. PASQUALE, Oct. 20, 2003)
DANCE: BALLET NACIONAL DE CUBA: Discreet Charm of Swans, the Vigor of Nature
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 20, 2003)
DANCE: 'MARIA CALLAS': Tribute to the Grandeur and Turbulence of a Diva
(By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 20, 2003)
COOKING WITH THE TIMES: Quiche Lorraine (Bacon and Cheese Tart) (Adapted from André Soltner, Oct. 20, 2003)

Sunday, October 19, 2003:
On This Day: October 19 (Sir Thomas Brown 10/19/1605-10/19/1682, Leigh Hunt 10/19/1784-8/28/1859, Alfred Dreyfus 10/19/1859-7/12/1935,
Auguste Lumiere 10/19/1862-4/10/1954, John Le Carre 1931, Peter Max 1937, Patricia Ireland 1945)
STOCKS PLUNGE 508 POINTS, A DROP OF 22.6%; 604 MILLION VOLUME NEARLY DOUBLES RECORD
(By LAWRENCE J. De MARIA, October 19, 1987)
Charles Merrill, Broker, Dies; Founder of Merrill Lynch Firm [born 10/19/1885] (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, Oct. 7, 1986)

James R. Lawson, Who Tamed the Mighty Carillon, Dies at 84 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 19, 2003)
* DISPATCHES | THE RESISTANCE: Reality Check in Iraq: U.S. Faces a Long Stay (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Oct. 19, 2003)
MARLINS LEAD SERIES, 1-0: Marlins Are Off and Running as Yanks Fall Flat (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 19, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The Fabric of Lubbock's Life [cotton farmers] (NY TIMES, Oct. 19, 2003)
EDITORIALS: China in Space (NY TIMES, Oct. 19, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Beating Expectations [everything turned into financial news]
(NY TIMES, Oct. 19, 2003)
* OP-ED: Courageous Arab Thinkers (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 19, 2003)
OP-ED: Woody's Starbust Memories (By MAUREEN DOWD, Oct. 19, 2003)
OP-ED: America Must Let Iraq Rebuild Itself (By ILAD ALAWI, Oct. 19, 2003)
OP-ED: Losing a Church, Keeping the Faith (By ANDREW SULLIVAN, Oct. 19, 2003)
* ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: The Rush of the New Rat Pack (By FRANK RICH, Oct. 19, 2003)
LETTERS: Messages in a Game (2 Letters) (By MAXWELL DAVIDSON IV, et. al., Oct. 19, 2003)
LETTERS: Chill Out, Librarian (By CAROLE CLARK, Oct. 19, 2003)
* The Revolution Is Coming, Eventually [George Gilder] (By KATIE HAFNER, Oct. 19, 2003)
* STRATEGIES: The Market Crash of '87 - Rare but Hardly Unique (By MARK HULBERT, Oct. 19, 2003)
INVESTING WITH THOMAS M. PERKINS: Janus Mid Cap Value (By CAROLE GOULD, Oct. 19, 2003)
* MARKET WATCH: Fawning Analysts Betray Investors (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Oct. 19, 2003)
* MONEY & MEDICINE: An Illusion of Health Insurance (By MICHELLE ANDREWS, Oct. 19, 2003)
The Fall of a Wall Street Ward Boss [Richard A. Grasso] (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Oct. 19, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW; Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 19, 2003)
A Bright Economy? Only the Voters Know for Sure (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Oct. 19, 2003)

Saturday, October 18, 2003:
On This Day: October 18 (Pope Pius II 10/18/1405-8/14/1464, Canaletto 10/18/1697-4/20/1768, Robert L. Stevens 10/18/1787-4/20/1856, Henri Bergson 10/18/1859-1/4/1941, Melina Mercouri 10/18/1925-3/6/1994, Chuck Berry 1926, Terry McMillan 1951, Martina Navratilova 1956, Wynton Marsalis 1961)
2 Black Power Advocates Ousted From Olympics (By JOSEPH M. SHEEHAN, Oct. 18, 1968)
Pierre Trudeau Is Dead at 80; Dashing Fighter for Canada [born 10/18/1919] (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, September 29, 2000)

EDITORIALS: Presidential Ecospeak (NY TIMES, Oct. 18, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Islamic Anti-Semitism (NY TIMES, Oct. 18, 2003)
OP-ED: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (By DAVID BROOKS, Oct. 18, 2003)
OP-ED: A Fair Fight in the Philippines (By BRETT M. DECKER, Oct. 18, 2003)
* OP-ED: Walking It Off [Nobody lost here when the Chicago Cubs' lost]
(By BOB GREENE, Oct. 18, 2003)
* OP-ED: Ready for Game 8 (By JOHN KENNEY, Oct. 18, 2003)
OP-ED: The Daily, Death-Defying Commute (By KEVIN BAKER, Oct. 18, 2003)
LETTERS: Miracle at the Bambino's House (7 Letters) (By DON BADGLEY, Oct. 18, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Oct. 18, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Oct. 18, 2003)

Friday, October 17, 2003:
On This Day: October 17 (Frederick Hassam 10/17/1859-8/27/1935, Jean Arthur 10/17/1900-6/19/1991, Nathanael West 10/17/1903-12/22/1940,
Pope John Paul I 10/17/1912-9/28/1978, Montgomery Clift 10/17/1920-7/23/1966, Arthur Miller 1915, Jimmy Breslin 1930)
CAPONE CONVICTED OF DODGING TAXES; MAY GET 17 YEARS (By MEYER BERGER, Oct. 17, 1931)
Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies [born 10/17/1918] (By ALBIN KREBS, May 16, 1987)

Lee Bailey, Expert on Cooking and Entertaining, Dies at 76 (By ERIC PACE, Oct. 17, 2003)
R. T. Perkin, 72, Philanthropist, Dies (NY TIMES, Oct. 17, 2003)
William Redd, Who Led Slot Machine Maker, Dies at 91 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 17, 2003)
NATIONAL: Pact in West Will Send Farms' Water to Cities (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Oct. 17, 2003)
In Races With One Deep Pocket, the Law Tries to Tailor a Second (By GLEN JUSTICE, Oct. 17, 2003)
Schwarzenegger and Bush Meet in Low-Key Reunion (By JOHN M. BRODER, Oct. 17, 2003)
* Writer Takes Jews to Task for 'Kill Bill' (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Oct. 17, 2003)
* CHICAGO JOURNAL: For Long-Suffering Cubs Fans, It's Wait Till Next Year for 95th Straight Time
(By MONICA DAVEY, Oct. 17, 2003)
EDUCATION: Bill Would Penalize Colleges on High Tuition Rises (By GREG WINTER, Oct. 17, 2003)
WORLD: At Iraqi Depot, Missiles Galore and No Guards (By RAYMOND BONNER & IAN FISHER, Oct. 17, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS | THE PROSPECT: A Lift for the President, Plus Pressure to Deliver
(By TODD S. PURDUM, Oct. 17, 2003)
NY REGION: Inquiry Centers on Ferry Pilot in Fatal Crash (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Oct. 17, 2003)
Facing Ground Zero Again (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Oct. 17, 2003)
* Woody Allen Seeks Big Money for as Yet Unwritten Memoir (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 17, 2003)
Doctors Explain Plan to Separate Boys Joined at Skull (By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 17, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: The Voodoo That He Does, So Well, Into the Night (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Oct. 17, 2003)
NYC: A Silent Slide Into the Folly of California (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
* SPORTS: Martínez Gives It All He Has; Sox Need More (By GEORGE VECSEY, Oct. 17, 2003)
* BASEBALL ANALYSIS: Yankees Prolong Red Sox Misery (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 17, 2003)
YANKEES WIN SERIES, 4-3: 2 Rivals, 11 Innings and One Winner: Yankees (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 17, 2003)
* A BOSTON VIEW: Red Sox Come Close Again (By BOB RYAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
SPORTS: For Once, the Boss Was Not in Control (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Oct. 17, 2003)
SPORTS: The Other Yankee-Red Sox Pennant Playoff (By DAVE ANDERSON, Oct. 17, 2003)
Marlins Had Faith in Talent All Along (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 17, 2003)
Drug Agency Tells of Steroid Scheme by U.S. Athletes (By JERE LONGMAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The U.N. Vote on Iraq (NY TIMES, Oct. 17, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Hobbling the Oscars (NY TIMES, Oct. 17, 2003)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Nobel Peace Prize Always Comes With a Message. But Is It Heard?
(By ETHAN BRONNER, Oct. 17, 2003)
OP-ED: The Sweet Spot ["What we have here is a form of looting" says
George Akerlof, Economics Nobelist, of Bush administration's budget policies]
(By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
OP-ED: An Ugly Game [Ghettopoly, a board game based on Monopoly]
(By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 17, 2003)
* OP-ED: The Poisoned Well [OPEC unsheathed the oil weapon 30 years ago]
(By FOUAD AJAMI, Oct. 17, 2003)
LETTERS: The Cubs' Collapse: Don't Blame the Fan (2 Letters) (By JOHN GUESS, et. al., Oct. 17, 2003)
LETTERS: Genes or Habits? [large lipoprotein & longevity] (By STEPHANIE LEDERMAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
BUSINESS: Share Prices End Mixed, Weighed Down by I.B.M.
[Dow -11, Nasdaq +11] (Associated Press, Oct. 17, 2003)
New Roles and New Faces at the New York Exchange (By STEPHEN LABATON, Oct. 17, 2003)
S.E.C. Steps In as Fines Are Planned on 5 Firms (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Oct. 17, 2003)
* With Flare, Apple Extends Its Reach Into Online Music (By JOHN MARKOFF, Oct. 17, 2003)
FLOYD NORRIS: Can Exchanges Regulate Themselves as Rivalry Grows? (By FLOYD NORRIS, Oct. 17, 2003)
* Verisign Sells an Operation That Registers Net Addresses
[Internet domain names registration sold to Pivotal Private Equity]
(By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 17, 2003)
Slumping Sun Microsystems Posts Wider Loss (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Oct. 17, 2003)
Cellular Phone Company Gains by Thinking Small (By WAYNE ARNOLD & CARLOS H. CONDE, Oct. 17, 2003)
* ART: 'JAMES ROSENQUIST': Mixing Glossy Pop Images Into Haiku Writ Large (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
* FILM: 'SYLVIA': A Poet's Death, a Death's Poetry [Sylvia Plath] (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 17, 2003)
ART: 'PETRA': Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock (By GRACE GLUECK, Oct. 17, 2003)
ART: 'HUNT FOR PARADISE': In 16th-Century Iran, a Dynasty Hunts a Signature Style
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Oct. 17, 2003)
* ART: ISAMU NOGUCHI: Noguchi's Trips to Japan, Documented in Clay (By KEN JOHNSON, Oct. 17, 2003)
ART: International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show; Ken Price; 'Sculpture' (By KEN JOHNSON & MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
INSIDE ART: New Hopes in Houston (By CAROL VOGEL, Oct. 17, 2003)
ANTIQUES: A Décor Collection, From Bill Blass (By WENDY MOONAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
BALLET: 'DON QUIXOTE': Latin Passion and Drama Meet Academic Precision
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 17, 2003)
CABARET: FRAN LANDESMAN: Light Verses With a Bittersweet Side (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 17, 2003)
CABARET: MICHAEL FEINSTEIN & JIMMY WEBB: A Pair of Romantics at Heart (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 17, 2003)
MUSIC: REVERBERATIONS: For Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Music Is a Family Affair
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 17, 2003)
OPERA: 'OF MICE AND MEN': The Best Laid Schemes, Set to Music (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Oct. 17, 2003)
PHOTOGRAPHY: 'THE JEWISH JOURNEY': Seeking Out Jewish Faces Wherever They Might Be
(By GRACE GLUECK, Oct. 17, 2003)
* POP: 'SINATRA': A Reincarnation of Sinatra Under Radio City's Big Top (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 17, 2003)
THEATER: 'BOY FROM OZ': Flash of 70's Sequins (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 17, 2003)
TV: A Fictional Focus on a Notorious Crime (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Oct. 17, 2003)
TV: James Garner Joins '8 Simple Rules' (NY TIMES, Oct. 17, 2003)
HEALTH: Anemia Drug May Impair Some Cancer Treatments (By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 17, 2003)

Thursday, October 16, 2003:
On This Day: October 16 (Noah Webster 10/16/1758-5/28/1843, Oscar Wilde 10/16/1854-11/30/1900,
David Ben-Gurion 10/16/1886-12/1/1973, William Douglas 10/16/1898-1/19/1980, Angela Lansbury 1925)
China Tests Atomic Bomb, Asks Summit Talk On Ban; Johnson Minimizes Peril (By SEYMOUR TOPPING, Oct. 16, 1964)
Eugene O'Neill Dies of Pneumonia; Playwright, 65, Won Nobel Prize [born 10/16/1888] (NY Times, November 28, 1953)

* Bertram N. Brockhouse, 85, Nobel Physicist, Dies (By NORA KRUG, Oct. 16, 2003)
Edward Breathitt Jr., 78, Ex-Governor of Kentucky, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 16, 2003)
Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, Who Led Mauritania to Independence in 1961, Dies (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Oct. 16, 2003)
NATIONAL: Bush Re-asserts Pre-emptive Strategy in Speech (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 16, 2003)
THE PUBLIC MOOD: Taxpayers Are Restless on Billions in Aid for Iraq (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Oct. 16, 2003)
* Feeding Tube Is Removed in Florida Right-to-Die Case (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Oct. 16, 2003)
WORLD: Security Council Adopts U.S. Plan for Iraq in 15-0 Vote
(By FELICITY BARRINGER & KIRK SEMPLE, Oct. 16, 2003)
Missiles for the Taking: Abandoned Weapons Litter Iraq (By RAYMOND BONNER & IAN FISHER, Oct. 16, 2003)
For Pope, a Milestone on Road of Epic Events (By FRANK BRUNI, Oct. 16, 2003)
Bittersweet Celebrations for a Pope and His 25-Year Reign (By FRANK BRUNI, Oct. 16, 2003)
MOSCOW JOURNAL: Landmark Buildings Tumble, Creating a Dust-Up (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Oct. 16, 2003)
* THE RETURN: After 21 Hours, Chinese Spacecraft Lands Safely [Yang Liwei]
(By JIM YARDLEY, Oct. 16, 2003)
* NEWS ANALYSIS | THE OUTLOOK: Milestone for China: Dragon Has Landed (By JOSEPH KAHN, Oct. 16, 2003)
NY REGION: Investigation Begins Into Ferry Crash That Killed 10 (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Oct. 16, 2003)
Ferry Pilot's Uneventful Routine Ends in Terrible Mystery (By RANDY KENNEDY & KEVIN FLYNN, Oct. 16, 2003)
HISTORY: New York City's Worst Transit Disasters (By TINA KELLEY, Oct. 16, 2003)
THE VICTIMS: A Solemn Wait for News of Loved Ones (By DANIEL J. WAKIN and ERIC LIPTON, Oct. 16, 2003)
New York's Own Idaho Potato? (By LISA W. FODERARO, Oct. 16, 2003)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Oh, Paris! (By JOYCE WADLER, Oct. 16, 2003)
[Paris Review 50th Anniversary Gala honoring George Plimpton]
SPORTS: And Now It's Up to Clemens and Martínez (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 16, 2003)
SPORTS: Yankees Hop Onto the Hot Seat (By HARVEY ARATON, Oct. 16, 2003)
BASEBALL: Yet Again, There's No Joy in Wrigleyville [Marlins 9-6 over Cubs]
(By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 16, 2003)
BASEBALL: Curses, Old and New, Haunt the Cubs' Fans (By MONICA DAVEY, Oct. 16, 2003)
OP-ED: On Listening (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 16, 2003)
OP-ED: Bewitched, Bothered, Billy-Goated (By MAUREEN DOWD, Oct. 16, 2003)
OP-ED: Saudi Arabia's Big Leap (By KENNETH M. POLLACK, Oct. 16, 2003)
LETTERS: The Pledge: Recite, or Rewrite? (5 Letters) (By IRA LEVIN, et. al., Oct. 16, 2003)
LETTERS: The High Cost of Staying in Iraq (4 Letters) (By HERB BARDAVID, et. al., Oct. 16, 2003)
LETTERS: Helping Doctors Listen (2 Letters) (By LARRY S. SANDBERG, M.D., et. al., Oct. 16, 2003)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Close Lower in Thick of Earnings season
[Dow -40, Nasdaq +3] (By Reuters, Oct. 16, 2003)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Cloudy Thinking on Tax Cuts (By ALAN B. KRUEGER, Oct. 16, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: I.B.M. Earnings Don't Impress Wall Street (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 16, 2003)
ADVERTISING: A New Ecstasy Campaign (By NAT IVES, Oct. 16, 2003)
* BOOKS: Drugs and Deceit Lead to Writing as Redemption [DBC Pierre] (By SARAH LYALL, Oct. 16, 2003)
* BOOKS: Sweet Reward: From Unemployed to Award Finalist (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Oct. 16, 2003)
DANCE: 'SPLIT SIDES': Barefoot Dancers and Toe Shoes as Instruments
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 16, 2003)
FILM: 'STALINGRAD': Of Stalingrad, Nightmares and Bones Remain (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Oct. 16, 2003)
MUSIC: 'SPLIT SIDES': Twitchy Music Drawn From the Everyday (By JON PARELES, Oct. 16, 2003)
THEATER: GOLDA'S BALCONY: To Bomb or Not to Bomb? A Question (By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 16, 2003)
THEATER: 'BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA': A Collage of Sly Tricks in Honor of a Collagist
(By NEIL GENZLINGER, Oct. 16, 2003)
TV: 'FRONTLINE': The First Home-Front Battle in the War on Terror (By IVO DAALDER, Oct. 16, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2003)
* Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom
[SPSS software can zip through 250,000 pages an hour]
(By LISA GUERNSEY, Oct. 16, 2003)
A Coach's Digital Tools Take Center Court (By MATT RICHTEL, Oct. 16, 2003)
STATE OF THE ART: The Home Theater Headache (By DAVID POGUE, Oct. 16, 2003)
* WHAT'S NEXT: Octopus or Eagle Eyes? Oufitting a Robot for Its Mission (By IAN AUSTEN, Oct. 16, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Where Sleeping Dogs Beg to Lie (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Oct. 16, 2003)
BASICS: An Invitation to Groove on the Move (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 16, 2003)
GAME THEORY: Jack-of-All-Trades Muscles In on the Boy (By CHARLES HEROLD, Oct. 16, 2003)
* Can't Even Boil Water? Your Mouse Can Help [Web cooking classes]
(By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS, Oct. 16, 2003)
* Tiny (Sticky) Works of Art, Created Digitally (By STACY LU, Oct. 16, 2003)
Nipping at the Heels of a Celebrated Scooter (By PETER WAYNER, Oct. 16, 2003)
Digital Jukebox Ties the Knot With a Reformed Napster (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 16, 2003)
Keeping Tabs on Baby and Her Toasty Blanket (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 16, 2003)
* Here, Take My Card (Ha Ha, That's Not My Address) [anti-spam)] (By ADAM BAER, Oct. 16, 2003)
Hurtling From Cliff, Hard Drive Finds Parachute (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Oct. 16, 2003)
Pocket-Size Booth for Aspiring D.J.'s (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Oct. 16, 2003)
Q & A: Shepherding Your Files Into Their New Home (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 16, 2003)
HEALTH: F.D.A. Panel Backs Breast Implants Made of Silicone (By GINA KOLATA, Oct. 16, 2003)

Wednesday, October 15, 2003:
On This Day: October 15 (Virgil 10/15/70 BC-9/21/19 BC, Evangelista Torricelli 10/15/1608-10/25/1647, Allan Ramsay 10/15/1686-1/7/1758, Sir P.G. Wodehouse 10/15/1881-2/14/1975, Mervyn LeRoy 10/15/1900-9/13/1987, John Kenneth Galbraith 1908, Lee Iacocca 1924)
Khrushchev Ousted From Top Posts; Brezhnev Gets Chief Party Position (By HENRY TANNER, October 15, 1964)
German Philosopher Professor Nietzsche Dead [born 10/15/1844] (NY Times, August 26, 1900)

* Ram Gopal, Dancer Who Opened Western Eyes to India, Dies (By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 15, 2003)
Joel Edwin Segall, Economist and President of Baruch College, Dies at 80 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 15, 2003)
Carl Fontana, 75, Trombonist Who Improved Jazz Technique, Dies (By BEN RATLIFF, Oct. 15, 2003)
* NATIONAL: A Right-to-Die Battle Enters Its Final Days (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Oct. 15, 2003)
Supreme Court to Consider Case on 'Under God' in Pledge to Flag (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Oct. 15, 2003)
Name Sources, Judge Orders Five Reporters [Wen Ho Lee case] (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Oct. 15, 2003)
On Furlough, Soldier Savors Every Moment (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Oct. 15, 2003)
Clark Wants Civilian Reserve to Provide National Service (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Oct. 15, 2003)
* WORLD: China Sends Man Into Orbit, Entering U.S.-Russian Club (By JIM YARDLEY, Oct. 15, 2003)
Beijing Vows to Aid Poor and Deepen Market Policy (By JOSEPH KAHN, Oct. 15, 2003)
RECONSTRUCTION: U.S. Seems Assured of U.N.'s Approval on Plans for Iraq
(By FELICITY BARRINGER, Oct. 15, 2003)
As Pope's Health Declines, His Inner Circle Tightens (By FRANK BRUNI, Oct. 15, 2003)
LETTER FROM ASIA: Free of Marx, but Now in the Grip of a Dynasty (By SETH MYDANS, Oct. 15, 2003)
WHITE HOUSE MEMO: Fast Lane for President: 6 Nations, 6 Days, Safely
(By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 15, 2003)
Honor the Uprooted Germans? Poles Are Uneasy (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Oct. 15, 2003)
CASUALTIES: Bomb at Turkish Embassy in Baghdad Kills Bystander (By ALEX BERENSON & IAN FISHER, Oct. 15, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Oct. 15, 2003)
NY REGION: What Can a Million Buy in Manhattan? Something Average (By DENNIS HEVESI, Oct. 15, 2003)
Fewer Students Are Enrolling for Tutoring (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Oct. 15, 2003)
Spate of Suicides Illustrates the Railroads' Morbid Lure (By RONALD SMOTHERS, Oct. 15, 2003)
* For Techies, School Bells Mean 'Let the Games Begin' (By IAN URBINA, Oct. 15, 2003)
* ABOUT NEW YORK: Tales Sweet as Ice Cream, Salty as Tears (By DAN BARRY, Oct. 15, 2003)
* PUBLIC LIVES: Always New Joy to Be Found in Ancient Ruins
[Curator Craig Morris] (By JOHN KIFNER, Oct. 15, 2003)
SPORTS: Another Fringe Yankee Joins the List of Heroes (By GEORGE VECSEY, Oct. 15, 2003)
YANKEES LEAD SERIES, 3-2: Wells Channels Babe Ruth to Keep Curse Alive (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 15, 2003)
SERIES IS TIED, 3-3: Cubs Handed One More Cruel Twist (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 15, 2003)
BASEBALL ANALYSIS: All Garciaparra Delivers So Far Are Moral Victories (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 15, 2003)
A BOSTON VIEW: A Batting Funk to Make Bill James Bawl (By DAN SHAUGHNESSY, Oct. 15, 2003)
SPORTS: Without Exorcism, Exercise in Futility (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Oct. 15, 2003)
SPORTS CRITIC: Baseball as Theater, Starring the Yanks (By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 15, 2003)
SPORTS: Certain Cub Victory Turns Into Harsh Reality (By IRA BERKOW, Oct. 15, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Fighting the War at Home (NY TIMES, Oct. 15, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Whale Deaths Linked to Sonar (NY TIMES, Oct. 15, 2003)
OP-ED: On Bashing Bashar (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 15, 2003)
* OP-ED: Holding Our Noses (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Oct. 15, 2003)
[Bush was wrong to go into Iraq, but he's right about staying there]
OP-ED: The Secondhand Smoking Gun [smoking ordinance in Helena, MT] (By ROSEMARY ELLIS, Oct. 15, 2003)
OP-ED: Coca Culture [coca ban brought Bolivia nothing but poverty & death]
(By LEONIDA ZURITA-VARGAS, Oct. 15, 2003)
* LETTERS: What a Building Says About Us (6 Letters) (By JASON WOLFFE, et. al., Oct. 15, 2003)
LETTERS: Reading Dean on the War (3 Letters) (By BARRY HERZOG, et. al., Oct. 15, 2003)
LETTERS: Baseball Fans, Behave! (By JEREMY GRAVES, Oct. 15, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Increase on Reports of Solid Corporate Earnings
[Dow +49, Nasdaq +10] (By Reuters, Oct. 15, 2003)
Media Chain Keeps It in the Family [Hoiles's Freedom Communications]
(By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 15, 2003)
Study Says Making Cars Lighter Would Cost Lives (By DANNY HAKIM, Oct. 15, 2003)
Improved Market and Cost-Cutting Lift Merrill Lynch Profit (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Oct. 15, 2003)
In Japan, Bush Faces Tough Sell on Dollar (By KEN BELSON, Oct. 15, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Profits Increase at Bank of America (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Oct. 15, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: Intel Says Net Doubles, With Sales Up Overseas (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Oct. 15, 2003)
* Seductive Electronic Gadgets Are Soon Forgotten (By KATIE HAFNER, Oct. 15, 2003)
Transmeta Sees a Way to Cut Chips' Leakage (By JOHN MARKOFF, Oct. 15, 2003)
* ARTS: Dark Nights, Sharp Pens (By MEL GUSSOW, Oct. 15, 2003)
ARTS: Where the Big Attraction Is a Big-House Museum (By STEPHEN KINZER, Oct. 15, 2003)
* BOOKS: 'CITY ROOM': Recalling in Innocence to Make the Past Fresh
[Arthur Gelb at NY Times] (By PETE HAMILL, Oct. 15, 2003)
DANCE: A Quiet Entrance by Italian Companies (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Oct. 15, 2003)
FILM: 'DISTANT': Not Exactly Felix and Oscar, but an Odd Couple All the Same
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, Oct. 15, 2003)
THE POP LIFE: Hard-Rock Clown Finds His Inner Softie (By NEIL STRAUSS, Oct. 15, 2003)
THEATER: Playwriting Program's Fortuitous Plot Twist (By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 15, 2003)
THEATER: '8 BY TENN': Qualities Named Frailty, Cattiness and Desire (By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 15, 2003)
* TV: 'CHURCHILL': A Dignified March Through the Life of a Statesman (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Oct. 15, 2003)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 15, 2003)
FOOD: Hey, Po' Boy, Meet Some Real Heroes (By ED LEVINE, Oct. 15, 2003)
For a Genius of the Off-Cut, Lunch Time Is the Right Time [Fergus Henderson]
(By AMANDA HESSER, Oct. 15, 2003)
THE MINIMALIST: One-Pot Pasta Robed in Blue [Spinach & Blue Cheese]
(By MARK BITTMAN, Oct. 15, 2003)
AT MY TABLE | NIGELLA LAWSON: Sweet Harmony Between the Mild and the Fiery
(By NIGELLA LAWSON, Oct. 15, 2003)
AT LUNCH WITH DEBORAH C. BRITTAIN: Tacos, Stir-Fries and Cake: The Junior League at 102
(By ALEX WITCHEL, Oct. 15, 2003)
* EATING WELL: Questions on Irradiated Food (By MARIAN BURROS, Oct. 15, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Living Longer & Larger: It's in the Size of Cholesterol-Carrying Molecules
(By MARY DUENWALD, Oct. 15, 2003)
HEALTH: Leukemia Survival, Race and Treatment (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Oct. 15, 2003)

Tuesday, October 14, 2003:
On This Day: October 14 (William Penn 10/14/1644-7/30/1718, Francis Lightfoot Lee 10/14/1784-9/29/1833,
Lillian Gish 10/14/1893-2/27/1993, e.e. cummings 10/14/1894-9/3/1962, Roger Moore 1927, Ralph Lauren 1939)
Martin Luther King Wins The Nobel Prize for Peace (NY Times, October 14, 1964)
Dwight David Eisenhower: A Leader in War and Peace [born 10/14/1890] (NY Times, March 29, 1969)

Psychologist Shirley Glass, 67, Expert on Infidelity, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 14, 2003)
Joan B. Kroc, 75, Owner of Padres and Philanthropist, Dies (NY TIMES, Oct. 14, 2003)
William Bennett, 49, Guitarist Who Was a Mentor to Many, Dies (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Oct. 14, 2003)
Otto Günsche, 86, Who Helped to Burn Hitler's Body, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 14, 2003)
NATIONAL: California Supermarket Strike Deters Shoppers (By JOHN M. BRODER, Oct. 14, 2003)
Congress Weighs Co-Payment for Home Care (By ROBERT PEAR, Oct. 14, 2003)
WORLD: Iraqi Arms Caches Cited in Attacks (By RAYMOND BONNER, Oct. 14, 2003)
Intelligence Puzzle: North Korean Bombs (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 14, 2003)
THE CHANGING CHURCH: Where Faith Grows, Fired by Pentecostalism (By SOMINI SENGUPTA & LARRY ROHTER, Oct. 14, 2003)
* SHANGHAI JOURNAL: Splendid Skyline. Do You Feel Something Sinking? (By JIM YARDLEY, Oct. 14, 2003)
NY REGION: Lunch at 9:21, and Students Are the Sardines (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Oct. 14, 2003)
* Using a Holiday to Take Mom to See Mummies (By IAN URBINA, Oct. 14, 2003)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Hot, Sweaty Job in a Plant, Eating People (By ROBIN FINN, Oct. 14, 2003)
SPORTS: Decisive Game 7 Could Be Gruesome [Martinez vs. Clemens]
(By DAVE ANDERSON, Oct. 14, 2003)
SERIES IS TIED, 2-2: Yanks Lose Pitched Battle on Peaceful Night (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 14, 2003)
2 Yanks Are Step Closer to Criminal Charges (By KATIE ZEZIMA and JACK CURRY, Oct. 14, 2003)
A BOSTON VIEW: Looking for Answers After the Dust Settles (By MICHAEL HOLLEY, Oct. 14, 2003)
SPORTS: With Lucchino and Yankees, There's No Hate Lost (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 14, 2003)
EDITORIALS: China's More Nuanced Diplomacy (NY TIMES, Oct. 14, 2003)
OP-ED: Don't Look Down [U.S. currency crisis?] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 14, 2003)
* OP-ED: Our Way: Root and Hoot [Yankees-Red Sox game] (By DAVID BROOKS, Oct. 14, 2003)
OP-ED: An Ethnic War That Still Rages (By ANDREW ROSENBAUM, Oct. 14, 2003)
OP-ED: Fly Me to the Moon [China's first manned spaceflight] (By WILLIAM E. HOWARD III, Oct. 14, 2003)
LETTERS: John Paul, His Life and Message (6 Letters) (By Rev. FRANCIS P. GORMAN, et. al., Oct. 14, 2003)
LETTERS: Unsafe on the Field, and in the Stands (By SALVATORE J. BOMMARITO, Oct. 14, 2003)
LETTERS: Come to My Party (Parents, Keep Out!) (By JEN SINGER, Oct. 14, 2003)
American Narcissus ["The Most Selfish Generation"] (By BOB ROSENBLUTH, Oct. 14, 2003)
BUSINESS: Motorola Earnings Lift Market on a Light Trading Day
[Dow +90, Nasdaq +18] (Associated Press, Oct. 14, 2003)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: You, Too, Could End Up in the Presidential Suite (By JANE L. LEVERE, Oct. 14, 2003)
* ART: The Colors of Paradise as Imagined by Gauguin (By ALAN RIDING, Oct. 14, 2003)
ART CRITIC: Ship of Glass for Chelsea Waterfront (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Oct. 14, 2003)
THEATER: 'DREAM ON MONKEY MOUNTAIN': An Old Man Fights for His Kingly Tribal Dream
(By BRUCE WEBER, Oct. 14, 2003)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 14, 2003)
* China Ready for Human Spaceflight (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Oct. 14, 2003)
SCIENTIST AT WORK: Evolving by Accident, Not Fitness (By DAVID BERREBY, Oct. 14, 2003)
Praise for Progress of Separated Twins (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 14, 2003)
OBSERVATORY: High-Mileage Maize (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Oct. 14, 2003)
Can Rain Be Bought? Experts Seed Clouds and Seek Answers (By MINDY SINK, Oct. 14, 2003)
* Imagining Thought-Controlled Movement for Humans (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Oct. 14, 2003)
Suit Over Injury to Whales Ends in Deal to Limit Navy Sonar Use (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 14, 2003)
HEALTH: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 14, 2003)
Promoting Flu Shots for All (By DAVID TULLER, Oct. 14, 2003)
New Pill Fuels Debate Over Benefits of Fewer Periods (By TINA KELLEY, Oct. 14, 2003)
Once Upon a Time, a Plague Was Vanquished (By BARRON H. LERNER, Oct. 14, 2003)
PERSONAL HEALTH: A Pregame Ritual: Doctors Averting Disasters (By JANE E. BRODY, Oct. 14, 2003)
Pregnancy Created With Egg Nucleus of Infertile Woman (By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 14, 2003)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: A Blood Vessel Workout [nitric oxide] (By JOHN LANGONE, Oct. 14, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Therapies: First, Tranquilize the Parents (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 14, 2003)
* Q & A: Falling Asleep [myclonic jerk, a sudden muscle contraction]
(By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Oct. 14, 2003)

Monday, October 13, 2003:
On This Day: October 13 (Molly Pitcher 10/13/1753-1/22/1832, Rudolf Virchow 10/13/1821-9/5/1902,
Yves Montand 10/13/1921-11/9/1991, Margaret Thatcher 1925)
Biggest Pacific Air Fleet Bombs Rabaul; Wrecks 177 Planes, 123 Ships (By MILTON BRACKER, October 13, 1943)
Lenny Bruce, Uninhibited Comic, Found Dead in Hollywood Home [born 10/13/1925] (NY Times, August 4, 1966)

* Bill Shoemaker, Hall of Fame Jockey, Dies at 72 (By JOSEPH DURSO, Oct. 13, 2003)
Emil Fackenheim, 87, Scholar of Judaism and the Holocaust, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 13, 2003)
Darrell Henline, Cabaret Magazine Editor, Dies at 75 (NY TIMES, Oct. 13, 2003)
NATIONAL: Congress Looks to Grant Legal Status to Immigrants (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Oct. 13, 2003)
Welfare Spending Shows Huge Shift (By ROBERT PEAR, Oct. 13, 2003)
Lieberman, the Centrist in the Middle of the Pack (By EDWARD WYATT, Oct. 13, 2003)
WORLD: Car Bombing Kills 6 at Baghdad Hotel (By ALEX BERENSON, Oct. 13, 2003)
Arafat¹s Premier Says He Is Close to Resigning Post (By GREG MYRE, Oct. 13, 2003)
China Plans Giant Step This Week (By JIM YARDLEY, Oct. 13, 2003)
* Faith Fades Where It Once Burned Strong (By FRANK BRUNI, Oct. 13, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: New Rules for Israel and Syria (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Oct. 13, 2003)
ELSINORE JOURNAL: Something Cheap in the State of Denmark: Liquor (By SARAH LYALL, Oct. 13, 2003)
NY REGION: Neither Snow Nor Rain, but G.O.P. (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Oct. 13, 2003)
A Yankee-Loving Mayor, From Head to (Almost) His Toes (By MICHAEL COOPER, Oct. 13, 2003)
NYC TV: Civics With Celebrities and a Techno Beat (By, Oct. 13, 2003)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Oct. 13, 2003)
SPORTS: Schumacher's Rough Road Leads to Record-Setting Title (By BRAD SPURGEON, Oct. 13, 2003)
A BOSTON VIEW: It Is Time for Martínez to Grow Up (By DAN SHAUGHNESSY, Oct. 13, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Genetically Modified Food and the Poor (NY TIMES, Oct. 13, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Dean's 'Urban Legend' (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 13, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The N.R.A. Is Naming Names (By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 13, 2003)
* OP-ED: The Building That Isn't There, Cont'd [2 Columbus Circle]
(By TOM WOLFE, Oct. 13, 2003)
LETTERS: A Mother, a Son and a Suicide (5 Letters) (By STUART GREEN, et. al., Oct. 13, 2003)
LETTERS: Bye, Bye, Beethoven. Take the Baguettes. (2 Letters) (By EMANUEL AX, et. al., Oct. 13, 2003)
LETTERS: The Librarian's Image (By TANIA DANIELSON, Oct. 13, 2003)
BUSINESS: Warner Deal Could Put an Executive in Limbo (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 13, 2003)
For Fox, Baseball Goes From Last to First (By BILL CARTER, Oct. 13, 2003)
MEDIA TALK: Two HBO Shows Lose Viewers After Starting Strong (By BILL CARTER, Oct. 13, 2003)
* ADVERTISING: New Papers Hope Free and Brief Will Attract Younger Readers (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 13, 2003)
At a Television Bazaar, a Glut of Shows (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Oct. 13, 2003)
* Digital Projection of Films Is Coming. Now, Who Pays? (By ERIC TAUB, Oct. 13, 2003)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Patriot Act Curbing Data Retention (By BOB TEDESCHI, Oct. 13, 2003)
Trial Offers Glimpse of Ties of Tech Boom (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Oct. 13, 2003)
NEW ECONOMY: Judge Gives Leg Up to Internet Calls (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Oct. 13, 2003)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Shift Key Opens Door to CD and Criticism (By LISA NAPOLI, Oct. 13, 2003)
ART: CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: An Artist Makes Music Touchable (By HOLLAND COTTER, Oct. 13, 2003)
ARTS Briefing [James Rosenquist: "Stowaway Peers Out at the Speed of Light"]
(By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Oct. 13, 2003)
DANCE: SUZANNE FARRELL BALLET: Pas de Deux for Drama & Dance, Farrell & Balanchine
(By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 13, 2003)
DANCE: IAN SPENCER BELL: A Contemporary, Tippling Narcissus (By JACK ANDERSON, Oct. 13, 2003)
FILM: The Perks and Pitfalls of a Ruthless-Killer Role (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Oct. 13, 2003)
FILM: Movie Studios Alter Tactics for Pursuing Oscars (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Oct. 13, 2003)
MUSIC: NEW CD'S: A Season of Serenity and Confidence, in Spite of a Chill in the Air
(By BEN RATLIFF, Oct. 13, 2003)
MUSIC: 'METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ARTISTS IN CONCERT'
A New Chamber Ensemble Celebrates the Met Museum's Patronage
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 13, 2003)
THEATER: 'TO MY CHAGRIN': An Easy Segue From Tender to Tough (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Oct. 13, 2003)
* SCIENCE: In Pioneering Study, Monkey Think, Robot Do
[Monkeys that can move a robot arm with thoughts alone have
brought the merger of mind and machine one step closer]
(By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Oct. 13, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Twin Boys Joined at Head Are Separated (By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 13, 2003)

Sunday, October 12, 2003:
On This Day: October 12 (Johann Peter Melchior 10/12/1742-6/13/1825, Ralph Vaughan Williams 10/12/1872-8/26/1958,
Saint Edith Stein 10/12/1891-8/9/1942, Lucian Pavarotti 1935)
Robert E. Lee Dies [Oct. 12, 1870] (NY Times, October 14, 1870)
Elmer Sperry Dies; Famous Inventor [born 10/12/1860] (NY Times, June 17, 1930)

* Bill Shoemaker, Jockey With Winning Touch, Dies at 72 (By JOSEPH DURSO, Oct. 12, 2003)
John D. Noble, 80, Expert On Toys and Dolls, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 12, 2003)
Florence Stanley, 79, an Actress, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 12, 2003)
* PHOTO: An Early Decision: 3-year old looking for the perfect pumpkin for Halloween. (By Librado Romero, Oct. 12, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Oct. 12, 2003)
YANKEES LEAD SERIES, 2-1: On Frenzied Day at Fenway, Yanks Survive (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 12, 2003)
* SPORTS: Zimmer Was Provoked by Past and Present (By DAVE ANDERSON, Oct. 12, 2003)
SPORTS: Urban Cowboys, Urban Legends: Oh, So Urbane [Yankees vs Red Sox] (By HARVEY ARATON, Oct. 12, 2003)
SPORTS OF THE TIMES: Cowboys, Big Boys, Bad Boys (By HARVEY ARATON, Oct. 12, 2003)
A BOSTON VIEW: By Losing Composure, Red Sox Miss the Point (By MICHAEL HOLLEY, Oct. 12, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The Iraqi Weapons Puzzle (NY TIMES, Oct. 12, 2003)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: A New Kind of Minority Is Challenging Louisiana's Racial Conventions
(By ADAM COHEN, Oct. 12, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Tale of Two Fathers (By MAUREEN DOWD, Oct. 12, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Least Bad Option (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 12, 2003)
* OP-ED: The Building That Isn't There (By TOM WOLFE, Oct. 12, 2003)
OP-ED: ARTS: FRANK RICH: The Audio-Animatronic Candidate (FRANK RICH, Oct. 12, 2003)
LETTERS: Grand Visions at Ground Zero (3 Letters) (By JOHN PARIS, et. al., Oct. 12, 2003)
LETTERS: Why Are American Jobs Running Away? (2 Letters) (By ABHIJEET RANADIVE, et. al., Oct. 12, 2003)
* LETTERS: Spiritual Values
[Pilgrims of all ages suffer the challenges of desert, mountains,
minefields and an illegal border crossing for a purpose that is
spiritual... there can be more to human life than the acquisition
of possessions and consumption of the world's resources.]
(By GINGER BAHARDAR, Oct. 12, 2003)
LETTERS: A Cape, a Saw, a Smile (By LAURA MAUS, Oct. 12, 2003)
Economy Worries Californians, but It's Not That Bad
(By ANDREW POLLACK & DAVID LEONHARDT, Oct. 12, 2003)
* For Mighty Gillette, These Are the Faces of War (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Oct. 12, 2003)
Computer Viruses Are Frustrating Insurers, Too (By ALISON LANGLEY, Oct. 12, 2003)
PORTFOLIOS: Who Wins and Who Loses if the Dollar Keeps Falling? (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Oct. 12, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Rhetoric Vies With Reality on a Hot Topic: Jobs (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Oct. 12, 2003)
* Rodale Has Health, but Wants More (By ALINA TUGEND, Oct. 12, 2003)
* DANCE: Cunningham's Surprise Party for Himself (By ERIKA KINETZ, Oct. 12, 2003)
* MUSIC: What Price Music? (By AMY HARMON, Oct. 12, 2003)
MUSIC: Stravinsky, Featuring Hockney: A Met Mix (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Oct. 12, 2003)
MUSIC: A Band for Laura Bush to Love (By JODY ROSEN, Oct. 12, 2003)
THEATER: Rauschenberg's American Beauties (By PETER PLAGENS, Oct. 12, 2003)
THEATER: Talking Comedy With the 'Office' Manager (Ricky Gervais spoke with Robert Mackey by phone, Oct. 12, 2003)
THEATER: In Bali, All the Post-9/11 World's a Stage (By RON JENKINS, Oct. 12, 2003)

Saturday, October 11, 2003:
On This Day: October 11 (Harlan Fisk Stone 10/11/1872-4/22/1946, Francois Mauriac 10/11/1885-9/1/1970,
Charles Revson 10/11/1906-8/24/1975, Joseph W. Alsop Jr. 10/11/1910-8/28/1989, Jerome Robbins 10/11/1918-7/29/1998)
Astronauts Carry Out Early Maneuvers on 163-Orbit Journey (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Oct. 11, 1968)
Mrs. Roosevelt, First Lady 12 Years, Often Called 'World's Most Admired Woman' [born 10/11/1884] (NY Times, November 8, 1962)

Carolyn Heilbrun, Pioneering Feminist Scholar, Dies at 77 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Oct. 11, 2003)
Eugene Istomin, 77, Pianist Known for German Repertory, Dies (By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 11, 2003)
Thalia Mara, 92, Ballet Educator, Dies (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Oct. 11, 2003)
Vincent P. Brennan, Executive, Dies at 84 (NY TIMES, Oct. 11, 2003)
Douglas Fang, Executive, Dies at 38 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 11, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Conan the Green (NY TIMES, Oct. 11, 2003)
EDITORIALS: A Champion of Iranian Freedom [Shirin Ebadi] (NY TIMES, Oct. 11, 2003)
OP-ED: Secrets of the Scandal (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Oct. 11, 2003)
OP-ED: Bigger Than the Nobel [Pope John Paul II] (By DAVID BROOKS, Oct. 11, 2003)
* OP-ED: What My Husband Saw [William Steig] (By JEANNE STEIG, Oct. 11, 2003)
OP-ED: The Real Face of Indonesian Islam (By R. WILLIAM LIDDLE & SAIFUL MUJANI, Oct. 11, 2003)
LETTERS: Seeking Common Ground on Iraq (4 Letters) (By H. J. DE BLIJ, et. al., Oct. 11, 2003)
LETTERS: Lack of Teachers, Lack of Time (2 Letters) (By ALFRED S. POSAMENTIER. et. al., Oct. 11, 2003)
LETTERS: The Strains of War, Here and There (2 Letters) (By KURT WEINSCHENKER, et. al., Oct. 11, 2003)
* LETTERS: The Perfect Game [Cubs-Red Sox] (By MICHAEL C. AHRENS, Oct. 11, 2003)
BUSINESS: In Tokyo, More Steps Toward Fixing the Economy (By KEN BELSON, Oct. 11, 2003)

Friday, October 10, 2003:
On This Day: October 10 (Jean-Antoine Watteau 10/10/1684-7/18/1721, Henry Cavendish 10/10/1731-2/24/1810,
Benjamin West 10/10/1738-11/3/1820, Giuseppe Verdi 10/10/1813-1/27/1901, Maurice Prendergast 10/10/1859-2/1/1924,
Helen Hayes 10/10/1900-3/17/1993, Alberto Giacometti 10/10/1901-1/11/1966)
Agnew Quits Vice Presidency And Admits Tax Evasion In '67 (By JAMES M. NAUGHTON, Oct. 10, 1973)
Thelonious Monk, Created Wry Jazz Melodies and New Harmonies [born 10/10/1917] (By JOHN S. WILSON, February 18, 1982)

Henry Giordano, 89, Head of Narcotics Bureau in 60's, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 10, 2003)
Arthur Berger, Composer and Music Critic, Dies at 91 (By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 10, 2003)
* Charles Courtney Seabrook, 94, Pioneer in Frozen Vegetables, Dies (By ERIC PACE, Oct. 10, 2003)
Elisabeta Rizea, 91, a Defiant Romanian, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 10, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The U.N.'s Better Idea on Iraq (NY TIMES, Oct. 10, 2003)
OP-ED: Hard Sell on Iraq (By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 10, 2003)
OP-ED: Lessons in Civility (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 10, 2003)
* OP-ED: Orchestra for Hire: No Strings Attached (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Oct. 10, 2003)
OP-ED: Why America Needs Turkey in Iraq (By ASLA AYDINTASBAS, Oct. 10, 2003)
LETTERS: The California Vote: Anger, With Reason (4 Letters) (By WAYNE COREY, et. al., Oct. 10, 2003)
LETTERS: Manly? Or Misguided? (By JUDY LEVINE, Oct. 10, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Push Higher on Jobs Data and Earnings
[Dow +49, Nasdaq +18] (Associated Press, Oct. 10, 2003)
A Young Hacker Buys Options, Borrowing an Investor's Identity (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 10, 2003)
I.B.M. and Cisco Plan Venture to Develop Software Standards (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 10, 2003)
* Snoop Software Gains Power and Raises Privacy Concerns (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 10, 2003)
* DRIVING: Leaf Peeping Goes High Tech (By JANE MARGOLIES, Oct. 10, 2003)
[yankeefoliage.com; foliagenetwork.com; mainefoliage.com; vermontvacation.com]
FILM: 'KILL BILL: VOL. 1': Blood Bath & Beyond (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 10, 2003)
* RITUALS: A Birthday Party Burnout (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Oct. 10, 2003)

Thursday, October 9, 2003:
On This Day: October 9 (King Charles X 10/9/1757-11/6/1836, Camille Saint-Saens 10/9/1835-12/16/1921,
Charles Walgreen 10/9/1873-12/11/1939, Aimee Semple McPherson 10/9/1890-9/27/1944, Walter O'Malley 10/9/1903-8/9/1979)
Bolivia Confirms Guevara's Death; Body Displayed (By REUTERS, Oct. 9, 1967)
Bruce Catton, Civil War Historian, Is Dead at 78 [born 10/9/1899] (NY Times, August 29, 1978)

* Neil Postman, 72, Mass Media Critic, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 9, 2003)
Lyle Bettger, Film Villain in Westerns and Noir Dramas, Dies at 88 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 9, 2003)
Stephen Jay Rose, Who Started Ad Agency, Dies at 77 (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2003)
EDITORIALS: California's Day After: Governor Schwarzenegger (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2003)
EDITORIALS: No More Secretary Nice Guy (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2003)
* OP-ED: Is Condi Gaslighting Rummy? (By MAUREEN DOWD, Oct. 9, 2003)
OP-ED: Long Spoon Diplomacy (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 9, 2003)
OP-ED: A Boy From Graz [Arnold Schwarzenegger] (By ANNELIESE ROHRER, Oct. 9, 2003)
OP-ED: It's Even Worse Than You Think (By HOWELL E. JACKSON, Oct. 9, 2003)
LETTERS: Shock Waves From a Political Earthquake (7 Letters) (By J. SCOTT BRIGGS, et. al., Oct. 9, 2003)
* LETTERS: Root, Root, Root for the Home Team! (4 Letters) (By LOU TYRRELL, et. al., Oct. 9, 2003)
* LETTERS: More Likely to Cheat (By HOWARD GARDNER, Oct. 9, 2003)
LETTERS: Children in China (By MATTHEW SULLIVAN, Oct. 9, 2003)
BUSINESS: Markets End Five-Day Winning Streak
[Dow -24, Nasdaq -14] (By Reuters, Oct. 9, 2003)
New Pay Version of Napster Service Debuts (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 9, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2003)
For Venus and Mars, a Midpoint in Design (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Oct. 9, 2003)
STATE OF THE ART: With Palms, Fewer Is More (By DAVID POGUE, Oct. 9, 2003)
Road Trip for Robots [Creating a robotic vehicle for the Pentagon
that can drive itself for hundreds of miles across rugged terrain]
(By ASHLEE VANCE, Oct. 9, 2003)
* WHAT'S NEXT: Decoding the Subtle Dance of Ordinary Movements
[Computers to spot tiny expressive qualities in gait and gesture.]
(By ANNE EISENBERG, Oct. 9, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Outfitting the Teenager's Dominion (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Oct. 9, 2003)
* HOW IT WORKS: Splicing the 50's Sinatra With Digital Razzmatazz (By MARCIA BIEDERMAN, Oct. 9, 2003)
* With Friends Like These, Who Needs Book Agents? (By CLEA SIMON, Oct. 9, 2003)
In a Nod to Lush Film Scores, Game Music Gains Texture (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Oct. 9, 2003)
Who's Calling, Please? Check the TV (By WILL WADE, Oct. 9, 2003)
* Tear Out a Check, Then Watch It Vanish (By JEFFREY SELINGO, Oct. 9, 2003)
ONLINE DIARY: Cyberstalkers and Wordsmiths (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Oct. 9, 2003)
As the Music Swells, Soak It Up in the Hot Tub (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Oct. 9, 2003)
Closed Captions, Refreshed Without a Racing Typist (By IAN AUSTEN, Oct. 9, 2003)
A CD Burner to Go, Size XS (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 9, 2003)
From Blurry Type to Tagalog, the Scanner Is Unfazed (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 9, 2003)
The Free-Range Mouse Points the Way (By ADAM BAER, Oct. 9, 2003)
Q & A: Where Your Browser Is a Welcome Guest (J. D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 9, 2003)

Wednesday, October 8, 2003:
On This Day: October 8 (John M. Hay 10/8/1838-7/1/1905, Juan Peron 10/8/1895-7/1/1974,
Frank Herbert 10/8/1920-2/11/1986, Jesse Jackson 1941, Chevy Chase 1943, Stephanie Zimbalist 1956)
Warsaw Outlaws Solidarity (By JOHN KIFNER, Oct. 8, 1982)
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker Is Dead at 82 [born 10/8/1890] (NY Times, July 24, 1973)

* Eleanor Lambert, Empress of Fashion, Dies at 100 (By ENID NEMY, Oct. 8, 2003)
Israel H. Asper, Creator of Media Giant in Canada, Dies at 71 (By BERNARD SIMON, Oct. 8, 2003)
Lady Donaldson, Lord Mayor (Not Lady, Please!) of London, Dies at 82 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 8, 2003)
NATIONAL: Voters Voice Deep Dissatisfaction With Governor's Record (By JOHN M. BRODER, Oct. 8, 2003)
THE CHALLENGER'S WIFE: A Few Wrinkles in Shriver's Marriage to NBC News (By JIM RUTENBERG, Oct. 8, 2003)
A Study Finds Cabbies' Bias About Blacks in Washington (By JAMES DAO, Oct. 8, 2003)
How to Be the McCain of '04, by John McCain (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Oct. 8, 2003)
* EDUCATION: A New College Ranking System, Wanted or Not [Atlantic Monthly] (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 8, 2003)
ON EDUCATION: How a Good School Can Fail on Paper (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Oct. 8, 2003)
DIPLOMACY: U.S. May Drop Quest for Vote on Iraq in U.N.
(By STEVEN R. WEISMAN & FELICITY BARRINGER, Oct. 8, 2003)
MISSING WEAPONS: U.S. Can't Locate Missiles Once Held in Arsenal of Iraq (By RAYMOND BONNER, Oct. 8, 2003)
2 Envoys Urge West to Stay Course in Balkans (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Oct. 8, 2003)
Arafat Swears in New Palestinian Cabinet (By GREG MYRE, Oct. 8, 2003)
NATO Agrees to Widen Role in Afghanistan Beyond Kabul (By THOM SHANKER, Oct. 8, 2003)
* LETTER FROM EUROPE: Russia and Germany: A Reunion of Bookworms (By MARK LANDLER, Oct. 8, 2003)
North Korea Wants Japan Out of Future Talks (By SAMUEL LEN, Oct. 8, 2003)
South Korea May Send Troops to Iraq, but at a Price to U.S. (By JAMES BROOKE, Oct. 8, 2003)
Uranium Enrichment to Continue, Iran Says (NY TIMES, Oct. 8, 2003)
Pope Appears Strong at Pompeii Shrine (NY TIMES, Oct. 8, 2003)
NY REGION: A Tiger's Keeper Says He Misses His 'Friend' (By SUSAN SAULNY, Oct. 8, 2003)
To Young, a Russian Enclave Is Too Much the Old Country (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Oct. 8, 2003)
Bloomberg Trades His Sox for the Local Pinstripes (By MIKE McINTIRE, Oct. 8, 2003)
SPORTS: Unfinished Business for Yankees and Red Sox (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 8, 2003)
Lowell Wins It and Negates Sosa's Heroics [Marlins beats Cubs 9-8] (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 8, 2003)
SPORTS: If Satan Skates, Cubs Have Baker to Thank (By IRA BERKOW, Oct. 8, 2003)
SPORTS: It's Win or Else for the General in a Turtleneck (By HARVEY ARATON, Oct. 8, 2003)
BASEBALL ANALYSIS: Torre Sees No Problem for Clemens at Fenway (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 8, 2003)
* EDITORIALS: Dream Teams [Cubs & Red Sox] (NY TIMES, Oct. 8, 2003)
OP-ED: When Prudery Kills (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Oct. 8, 2003)
OP-ED: Turkey Is Joining Up (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 8, 2003)
OP-ED: How Blair Lost by Winning (By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, Oct. 8, 2003)
LETTERS: When Israel Acts Against Terror (6 Letters) (By BRUCE KRULWICH, et. al., Oct. 8, 2003)
LETTERS: The Life of the Mind, or the Good Life? (3 Letters) (By HUNTER WALK, et. al., Oct. 8, 2003)
* LETTERS: Mountains of Magic [Jackie Flosso's obituary] (By DAVID V. COHN , Oct. 8, 2003)
BUSINESS: Wall Street's October Winning Streak Goes to Fifth Day
[Dow +60, Nasdaq +14] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 8, 2003)
G.E. and Vivendi Announce Signing of Merger (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 8, 2003)
Grass Is Green for Amazon Farmers (By TONY SMITH, Oct. 8, 2003)
* As It Tries to Cut Costs, Wall Street Looks to India (By SARITHA RAI, Oct. 8, 2003)
China Promises More Investment in Southeast Asia (By JANE PERLEZ, Oct. 8, 2003)
Gauging Rollovers on a Track and Not Just on Paper (By DANNY HAKIM, Oct. 8, 2003)
A Mergers Wizard Can't Join Two Music Organizations [Sanford I. Weill]
(By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Oct. 8, 2003)
Smart Money Is on Two for Nobel in Economics
[Edmund S. Phelps of Columbia & Edward C. Prescott of University of Minnesota]
(By DAVID LEONHARDT, Oct. 8, 2003)
FILM: 'YOUNG ADAM': Dour Postwar Glasgow Breeds a Sexy Antihero (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 8, 2003)
MUSIC: Carnegie Abandons Merger Talks With Philharmonic (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Oct. 8, 2003)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: A Photographer's Odyssey Captures a Myriad of Identities
(By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Oct. 8, 2003)
* THEATER: Even in Magic Acts, Tigers and Bullets Can Be Lethal (By NEIL STRAUSS, Oct. 8, 2003)
* THEATER: 'THE NIGHT HERON': Poetry, Concrete and Cosmic, in a World of Losers (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 8, 2003)
THEATER: Making Yanks Laugh? It's a Bit Dodgy, Mate (By JESSE McKINLEY, Oct. 8, 2003)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 8, 2003)
* Sushi Rice, California's New Gold Rush (By KAY RENTSCHLER, Oct. 8, 2003)
Food Takes Center Stage, With Chefs in the Wings (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Oct. 8, 2003)
Schools Seem in No Hurry to Buy Irradiated Beef (By MARIAN BURROS, Oct. 8, 2003)
THE CHEF: A Sea Scallop's Picnic in the Woods (By MATT LEE & TED LEE, Oct. 8, 2003)
THE MINIMALIST: For These, Spend Like a Sailor (By MARK BITTMAN, Oct. 8, 2003)
TEST KITCHEN: New Lives for Old Knives (By DENISE LANDIS, Oct. 8, 2003)
* SCIENCE: Russian and 2 Americans Win Nobel Prize Physics Honors
[Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Alexei A. Abrikosov, Anthony J. Leggett]
(By KENNETH CHANG, Oct. 8, 2003)

Tuesday, October 7, 2003:
On This Day: October 7 (James Witcomb Riley 10/7/1849-7/22/1916, Niels Bohr 10/7/1885-11/18/1962,
Henry Wallace 10/7/1888-11/18/1965, Desmond Tutu 1931)
Achille Lauro Ship Carrying 400 Hijacked (By JOHN TAGLIABUEL, Oct. 7, 1985)
Elijah Muhammad Dead; Black Muslim Leader, 77 [born 10/7/1897] (NY Times, February 26, 1975)

Fred Tuttle, 84, Farmer and Celebrity, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 7, 2003)
Denis Quilley, 75, Actor of British Stage and Screen, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 7, 2003)
Bill Cayton, Boxing Manager, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 7, 2003)
NATIONAL: You Go, Dean! Babies of Boomers Find a Candidate (By JODI WILGOREN, Oct. 7, 2003)
Critics Say Execution Drug May Hide Suffering (By ADAM LIPTAK, Oct. 7, 2003)
Agreement in Maine Will Remove Dams for Salmon's Sake (By PAM BELLUCK, Oct. 7, 2003)
* WORLD: Resolute Iranian Pilgrims Meet Awed G.I.'s (By IAN FISHER, Oct. 7, 2003)
THE WHITE HOUSE: Bush Tells Israel It Has the Right to Defend Itself
(By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & CARL HULSE, Oct. 7, 2003)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Arabs' Fear: A New Crisis to Add to a Troubled List (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Oct. 7, 2003)
* LONDON JOURNAL: Car Owners' Hero Dresses for the Job (By SARAH LYALL, Oct. 7, 2003)
Sunni Politician and Four Others Slain in Pakistan (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 7, 2003)
NY REGION: 1,200 Layoffs Strike at an Industrial City's Heart
(By MICHAEL LUO & LYDIA POLGREEN, Oct. 7, 2003)
Tiger Owner Faced Eviction From Apartment (By JAMES BARRON, Oct. 7, 2003)
SPORTS: Players Keep Eyes Front as Cubs Fans Celebrate (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 7, 2003)
BASEBALL: After Collision, Course for Red Sox Is Bronx (By MICHAEL ARKUSH, Oct. 7, 2003)
* BASEBALL: Martínez Again Earns Day of Rest (By GEORGE VECSEY, Oct. 7, 2003)
BASEBALL: If Pitching Is the Key, Yankees Like Chances (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 7, 2003)
BASEBALL: To Understand Success of Jeter, Just Calm Down (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 7, 2003)
EDITORIALS: Tiger, Tiger (NY TIMES, Oct. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Lumps of Labor (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Oct. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Iraq's Founding Moments (By DAVID BROOKS, Oct. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Breaking the Stalemate in Iran (By ROSE GOTTEMOELLER, Oct. 7, 2003)
OP-ED: Toughing It Out (By DAVID HOROVITZ, Oct. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: As California Votes on a Recall... (6 Letters) (By JUTTA BIRMELE, et. al., Oct. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: A Table for Two (Away From the Kids) (2 Letters) (By ANITA KAUFMAN, et. al., Oct. 7, 2003)
LETTERS: The New Cheaters (By BARBARA JEPSON, Oct. 7, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Rise on Hopes for a Week of Strong Earnings Reports
[Dow +23, Nasdaq +13] (Bloomberg News, Oct. 7, 2003)
* BUSINESS: Where Rejects Find Buyers Who Love Them (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Oct. 7, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Motorola Will Spin Off Its Money-Losing Semiconductor Business (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Oct. 7, 2003)
Tough Questions Are Raised on Fen-Phen Compensation (By REED ABELSON & JONATHAN D. GLATER, Oct. 7, 2003)
ARTS Briefing [Study for Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa" (1819)] (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Oct. 7, 2003)
* BOOKS: Finding a Middle Earth in Montana [15-year old Christopher Paolini] (By DINITIA SMITH, Oct. 7, 2003)
DANCE: 'PETIT PAS': Even the Cheeriest Choreographer Has a Dark Side (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Oct. 7, 2003)
FILM: A War-Torn Berlin Reborn in Russia (By JOHN VAROLI, Oct. 7, 2003)
OPERA CRITIC: New Orleans Celebrates Itself Quite Sensibly (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Oct. 7, 2003)
THEATER: London Theater Spreads Its Cheer (By MEL GUSSOW, Oct. 7, 2003)
THEATER | 'RIVALS'; 'THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM': The Days of Bons Mots and Arranged Marriages
(By WILBORN HAMPTON, Oct. 7, 2003)
TV: After a Star's Death, Hard Choices for ABC (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Oct. 7, 2003)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 7, 2003)
* From Hydra Venom to Anthrax Myth [Hercules & 9-Headed Hydra] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Oct. 7, 2003)
* A Pregnant Mother's Diet May Turn the Genes Around (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Oct. 7, 2003)
A Combustible Combination: Exotic Cats in Private Hands (By ERICA GOODE & MARK DERR, Oct. 7, 2003)
* Delving Into the Liquid Intrigue of Saturn's Biggest Moon (By KENNETH CHANG, Oct. 7, 2003)
* OBSERVATORY: Ancient Righties (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Oct. 7, 2003)
When Pigs Stress Out (By ARMELLE CASAU, Oct. 7, 2003)
* In Yellowstone, a Subterranean Volcano Exerts Its Influence (By JIM ROBBINS, Oct. 7, 2003)
After the Storm, a Better Look at Ravaged Coasts (By CORNELIA DEAN, Oct. 7, 2003)
An Over-the-Top Prize That's Better to Give Than to Receive (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Oct. 7, 2003)
* Q & A: Forgetting Names (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Oct. 7, 2003)
HEALTH: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 7, 2003)
* HEALTH: American and Briton Win Nobel for Using Chemists' Test for M.R.I.'s
[Paul C. Lauterbur & Sir Peter Mansfield] (By NICHOLAS WADE, Oct. 7, 2003)
New Doctor, New Diet, but Still No Cookies (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Oct. 7, 2003)
Finding of Fact: Myth About Lung Cancer Can Be Deadly (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 7, 2003)
Weighing Pain, Gain and Risk in Replacing a Hip (By LAURIE TARKAN, Oct. 7, 2003)
* The Doctor Who Made His Students Wash Up (By HOWARD MARKEL, Oct. 7, 2003)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: House, Home and Health (By JOHN LANGONE, Oct. 7, 2003)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Those With Hepatitis C Still Face Long Odds (By JANE E. BRODY, Oct. 7, 2003)
* CASES: Heeding Thyroid's Warnings (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Oct. 7, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: For Youth, Downside to Dieting (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 7, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Aging: Keeping Balance, With a Jiggle (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 7, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: For Babies, Perils in Big Beds (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 7, 2003)
VITAL SIGNS: Testing: Danish Vaccines Found to Be Safe (By JOHN O'NEIL, Oct. 7, 2003)

Monday, October 6, 2003:
On This Day: October 6 (Wenceslas III 10/6/1289-8/4/1306, Jenny Lind 10/6/1820-11/2/1887, George Westinghouse 10/6/1846-3/12/1914,
Le Corbusier 10/6/1887-8/27/1965, Janet Gaynor 10/6/1906-9/14/1984, Carole Lombard 10/6/1908-1/16/1942)
Sadat Assassinated at Army Parade (By WILLIAM E. FARRELL, Oct. 6, 1981)
Helen Wills Moody, Dominant Champion Who Won 8 Wimbledon Titles, Dies at 92 [born 10/6/1905] (By ROBIN FINN, January 3, 1998)

Joseph M. McCrane, Who Helped New Jersey Get Giants, Dies at 79 (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Oct. 6, 2003)
Sidney S. McMath, Former Arkansas Governor, Dies at 91 (By ROY REED, Oct. 6, 2003)
William Steig, 95, Cartoonist and Master of Damsels, Drunks and Satyrs, Dies (By SARAH BOXER, Oct. 6, 2003)
NATIONAL: Medicare Plan Lifts Premiums for the Affluent (By ROBERT PEAR, Oct. 6, 2003)
Onstage Attack Casts Pall Over Las Vegas Strip (By MIREYA NAVARRO and LAURA M. HOLSON, Oct. 6, 2003)
Recall Voters Face an Intricate Ballot, and, Indeed, Chads (By SARAH KERSHAW, Oct. 6, 2003)
WORLD: Putin Says U.S. Faces Big Risks in Iraqi Mission (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Oct. 6, 2003)
Israel Attacks What It Calls a Terrorist Camp in Syria (By GREG MYRE, Oct. 6, 2003)
White House to Overhaul Iraq and Afghan Missions (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 6, 2003)
Blair Doubted Iraq Had Arms, Ex-Aide Says (By WARREN HOGE, Oct. 6, 2003)
Baghdad Merchants Find a Boulevard of Dreams (By ALEX BERENSON, Oct. 6, 2003)
PARIS JOURNAL: France's Pro-Pet Hotels Are Dog's Best Friend (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Oct. 6, 2003)
* NY REGION: From a Cub to a Menace, and Now a Mystery (By LYDIA POLGREEN & JASON GEORGE, Oct. 6, 2003)
Picking Up a Stitch (or Two, or Three) (By TINA KELLEY, Oct. 6, 2003)
88 Keys, Many Languages, One Proud Name [Steinway K0862 piano] (By JAMES BARRON, Oct. 6, 2003)
Flights of Fancy, but Flops in Reality (By JONATHAN MILLER, Oct. 6, 2003)
METRO MATTERS: Nobody's Business but Yours [WNYE] (By JOYCE PURNICK, Oct. 6, 2003)
* METRO DIARY: Yoga, Gregorian Chanting and Tango (By JOE ROGERS, Oct. 6, 2003)
SERIES IS TIED, 2-2: Red Sox Live Another Day (By PETE THAMEL, Oct. 6, 2003)
CUBS WIN SERIES, 3-2: In Advancing, Cubs Scratch a 95-Year Itch (By RAY GLIER, Oct. 6, 2003)
McKeon Steers Marlins' Thrill Ride Into Next Round (By RAFAEL HERMOSO, Oct. 6, 2003)
YANKEES WIN SERIES, 3-1: Yankees Hope the Party Is Just Beginning (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 6, 2003)
SOCCER: Germany Storms Past U.S. and Into Cup Final [3-0] (By JERE LONGMAN, Oct. 6, 2003)
EDITORIALS: The Looming Shrimp War (NY TIMES, Oct. 6, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Who's Shallow Throat? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 6, 2003)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Arnold's Biggest Fan (By BOB HERBERT, Oct. 6, 2003)
* OP-ED: The Last Nuclear Moment [Israel: October 6, 1973] (By AVNER COHEN, Oct. 6, 2003)
OP-GRAPHIC: Vote for One (or Not) [California recall ballot] (By Grant Gallicho, Oct. 6, 2003)
LETTERS: Jobs, the Quality Kind (By RICHARD DICKINSON, Oct. 6, 2003)
MARKET PLACE: Enron Seeks Millions for Power Never Delivered to Sierra Pacific
(By KURT EICHENWALD, Oct. 6, 2003)
Sports Fan Is the Prize, or the Victim, in Cable Fight
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK & GERALDINE FABRIKAN, Oct. 6, 2003)
* Rapid Growth of China's Huawei Has Its High-Tech Rivals on Guard (By CHRIS BUCKLEY, Oct. 6, 2003)
The Media Critic Who Would Be a Mogul (By DAVID CARR, Oct. 6, 2003)
Schwarzenegger Prompts Role Reversal Among Media (By JIM RUTENBERG, Oct. 6, 2003)
Trying to Sell CD's by Adding Extras (By CHRIS NELSON, Oct. 6, 2003)
* TECHNOLOGY: Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail (By SAUL HANSELL, Oct. 6, 2003)
* Frequent Search Engine Users, Google Is Watching and Counting (By LISA NAPOLI, Oct. 6, 2003)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Online Retailers Go Public (By BOB TEDESCHI, Oct. 6, 2003)
Product Liability Lawsuits Are New Threat to Microsoft (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 6, 2003)
BOOKS: Resisting Pressure to Sentimentalize Over Daniel Pearl (By JULIE SALAMON, Oct. 6, 2003)
DANCE | 'LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS': Chosen, But Not Celebrating (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 6, 2003)
MUSIC: NEW CD'S: Not No. 1? That's All Right, Elvis (By NEIL STRAUSS, Oct. 6, 2003)
OPERA: Getting a Load of Stravinsky in Diverse Ways (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Oct. 6, 2003)
POP | STING: A Sense of Self and of the World (By KELEFA SANNEH, Oct. 6, 2003)
ROCK: R.E.M., on Tour, Revisits Its Roots (By JON PARELES, Oct. 6, 2003)
TV WATCH: Yom Kippur Piety on the Light Side (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 6, 2003)

Sunday, October 5, 2003:
On This Day: October 5 (Jonathan Edwards 10/5/1703-3/22/1758, Denis Diderot 10/5/1713-7/31/1784, Chester Allen Arthur 10/5/1829-11/18/1886,
Louis Jean Lumiere 10/5/1864-6/6/1948, Robert H. Goddard 10/5/1882-8/10/1945, Joshua Logan 10/5/1908-7/12/1988, Vaclav Havel 1936)
Truman Calls On Nation To Forego Meat Tuesdays, Poultry, Eggs Thursdays (NY Times, Oct. 5, 1947)
Ray A. Kroc dies at 81; Built McDonald's Chain [born 10/5/1902] (By ERIC PACE, January 15, 1984)

Peter Waters, Who Preserved Hundreds of Thousands of Books Internationally, Dies at 73
(By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 5, 2003)
Ephraim Oshry, 89, a Scholar in Secret During the Holocaust, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 5, 2003)
NATIONAL: Governor Davis Struggles to Hold His Base (By JOHN M. BRODER & MIREYA NAVARRO, Oct. 5, 2003)
Accused Graduates Remain in Military (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 5, 2003)
Home for the Homeless, but Can It Continue? (By SARAH KERSHAW, Oct. 5, 2003)
* DENVER JOURNAL: Hoping Third Try Is Right, Mile High City Marks the Spot
(By MINDY SINK, Oct. 5, 2003)
24 Win MacArthur 'Genius Awards' of $500,000 (By FELICIA R. LEE, Oct. 5, 2003)
POLITICAL POINTS: An Adviser for Everyone [Gene Sperling, economics] (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Oct. 5, 2003)
EDUCATION: Jacuzzi U.? A Battle of Perks to Lure Students (By GREG WINTER, Oct. 5, 2003)
EDUCATION: Barnard Plans to Replace Student Center (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Oct. 5, 2003)
WORLD: Oil Rush in Siberia Puts Other Treasures at Risk (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Oct. 5, 2003)
Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil (By JEFF GERTH, Oct. 5, 2003)
4 U.S. Companies Will Try to Restore Electricity in Iraq (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
Suicide Attacker Kills at Least 19 in North of Israel (By JOHN F. BURNS & GREG MYRE, Oct. 5, 2003)
Taiwan Revises Data on SARS; Total Toll Drops (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 5, 2003)
* As Big Brother Fades, Chinese Rush to Say 'I Do' (By JIM YARDLEY, Oct. 5, 2003)
* Peru's Dance Eclectic: A Folk Tradition (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 5, 2003)
NY REGION: Immigrants Rally in City, Seeking Rights (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Oct. 5, 2003)
Police Subdue a Tiger in Harlem Apartment (By ALAN FEUER & JASON GEORGE, Oct. 5, 2003)
DEALING WEAPONS: In the Face of Death, an Undercover Life of Guns (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
SPORTS: It's Most Unlikely That Red Sox Fans Will Enjoy the Moment (By GEORGE VECSEY, Oct. 5, 2003)
* SPORTS BACKTALK: A Century Ago, the World Series Was Born (By LOUIS P. MASUR, Oct. 5, 2003)
Boston Heading Back to Oakland for Game 5 [Ortiz doubles for 5-4 win] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 5, 2003)
YANKEES WIN SERIES, 3-1: Yankees Advance to A.L. Championship Series (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 5, 2003)
CUBS WIN SERIES, 3-2: Cubs Advance to N.L. Championship Series (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 5, 2003)
SOCCER: German Star Makes One More Comeback [Maren Meinert] (By JERE LONGMAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
EDITORIALS: An Overstretched Army in Iraq (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: The Real Patriot Act (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Win One for the Groper (By MAUREEN DOWD, Oct. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: From Pitchforks to Proposition 13 (By DAVID M. KENNEDY, Oct. 5, 2003)
OP-ED: Mr. Schwarzenegger Gets a Pass (By KATHA POLLITT, Oct. 5, 2003)
OP-ED ARTS: FRANK RICH: Where's Larry Kramer When We Need Him? (By FRANK RICH, Oct. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: America and Islam, in the Mirror (5 Letters) (By TODD C. HANDY, et. al., Oct. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: Love Triangle: Teachers, Students, Rules (2 Letters) (By JOEL COHEN, et. al., Oct. 5, 2003)
BUSINESS: A Missing Statistic: U.S. Jobs That Went Overseas (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Oct. 5, 2003)
PORTFOLIOS: Long-Term Success Is Built on Defense (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Oct. 5, 2003)
* A Land of Market Timing (and Broken Watches) (By CARLA FRIED, Oct. 5, 2003)
* STRATEGIES: In Funds' Hands, Value Stocks Often Lose Their Luster (By MARK HULBERT, Oct. 5, 2003)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Sunny Skies for Europe? Grab That Umbrella (By MARK LANDLER, Oct. 5, 2003)
As Drug Benefits Fall, Workers Need a Strategy (By SANA SIWOLOP, Oct. 5, 2003)
PRIVATE SECTOR: After a Fast Start, Growing Pains (By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Oct. 5, 2003)
* BUSINESS PEOPLE: So, How Many Big Personalities Can Fit on a Stage? (By MELINDA LIGOS, Oct. 5, 2003)
* ON THE CONTRARY: Where Nobody Knows You're a Music Thief (By DANIEL AKST, Oct. 5, 2003)
Electronic Arts Makes Itself a Hollywood Home (By ERYN BROWN, Oct. 5, 2003)
MUTUAL FUNDS: A Good Quarter (in Spite of It All) (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Oct. 5, 2003)
Deep-Value Investing, Now Back in Style (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Oct. 5, 2003)
Can Confidence Be Restored? (By FLOYD NORRIS, Oct. 5, 2003)
What If You Crossed Momentum With Value Investing? (By VIRGINIA MUNGER KAHN, Oct. 5, 2003)
Windex and Ziploc, and Value Investing (By ELIZABETH HARRIS, Oct. 5, 2003)
For 3 Funds, Fireworks in Small Stocks (By CAROLE GOULD, Oct. 5, 2003)
Terms for Investors, Combined With Tips (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., Oct. 5, 2003)
Higher Interest Rates Could Crimp These Muni Funds (By ILANA POLYAK, Oct. 5, 2003)
Now, Greed Has Become Unseemly (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 5, 2003)
As Tech Takes Off, So Does Anxiety (By PAUL J. LIM, Oct. 5, 2003)
Don't Overconsume Natural Resources (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Oct. 5, 2003)
With Gold Gaining Ground, Many Wonder Whether to Invest (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Oct. 5, 2003)
* Where's the Grain to Go Against? [contrarian investing] (By NORM ALSTER, Oct. 5, 2003)
* ARTS: It Wasn't the Final Curtain After All (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 5, 2003)
* ARTS: Jean Cocteau, Before His Own Fabulousness Consumed Him (By ALAN RIDING, Oct. 5, 2003)
ARTS: Lee Bontecou Returns From Her Faraway Planet (By LYLE REXER, Oct. 5, 2003)
DANCE: Dancing, Not Messing, With Mother Nature (By GIA KOURLAS, Oct. 5, 2003)
* FILM: In the Country With Claude Chabrol (By MARCELLE CLEMENTS, Oct. 5, 2003)
FILM: 'Party Monster' to Pekar: The New Cinematic Realism (By CARYN JAMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
FILM: Quentin Tarantino's Girlfights (By MIM UDOVITCH, Oct. 5, 2003)
FILM: Denzel's Heavy Cop Habit (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Oct. 5, 2003)
MUSIC: When Weird Works: Outkast and Erykah Badu (By KELEFA SANNEH, Oct. 5, 2003)
* MUSIC: A Centennial Debate Over Piano Titans [Horowitz & Serkin] (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Oct. 5, 2003)
MUSIC: 'The Eternal Road,' in Endless Quest of a Stage (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 5, 2003)
MUSIC PLAYLIST: The Cat Stevens Countdown (By NEIL STRAUSS, Oct. 5, 2003)
MUSIC: What Could Khachaturian Do Besides an Encore? (By MAYA PRITSKER, Oct. 5, 2003)
MUSIC HIGH NOTES: The Philharmonic Looks Back to the Future (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Oct. 5, 2003)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: Diane Arbus's Family Values (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Oct. 5, 2003)
THEATER: The Metaphysical Poets, Recited on the Fens (By MATT WOLF, Oct. 5, 2003)
THEATER: Are the Toughest Crowds on Broadway Online? (By ZACHARY PINCUS-ROTH, Oct. 5, 2003)
THEATER: The First Couple of Albee, and Now of Beckett (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Oct. 5, 2003)
THEATER: The Boy From Oz You Won't Meet on Broadway (By MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS, Oct. 5, 2003)
TV: Saving Private Lynch From Misinformation (By John Fasano, Oct. 5, 2003)
TV RERUNS: The Changing Tune of the TV Theme Song (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Oct. 5, 2003)
LETTERS: Clint Eastwood; 'A Different World'; 'The Passion' (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
FASHION & STYLE: Content (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
* The Five-Decade Book Party and Its Tireless Host [George Plimpton] (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Oct. 5, 2003)
Good Morning, Senator! You Rocked on `K Street' (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Oct. 5, 2003)
A Diaspora of Young Israelis, Decompressing (By JENNIFER BLEYER, Oct. 5, 2003)
FOOTWEAR POLITICS: Just Who, Really, Is a Birkenstock Voter? (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Oct. 5, 2003)
GOOD COMPANY: When 'Reality' Ends [reality television] (By ANDREW GOLDMAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
VOWS: Key German and Dana Hill (By JILL P. CAPUZZO, Oct. 5, 2003)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
TRAVEL: A Nomad Among Nomads in Mongolia (By MICHAEL BENANAV, Oct. 5, 2003)
On Sakhalin, the Cold War Is Ending (By JAMES BROOKE, Oct. 5, 2003)
* A Villa That Defines Tuscany [La Foce] (By MARY TANNEN, Oct. 5, 2003)
* WHAT'S DOING: In Paris [Année de la Chine] (By CORINNE LaBALME, Oct. 5, 2003)
RITUALS: Who Needs Baseball? Birders Have Their Own Fall Classic (By JOE ROMAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
ESSAY: Who's Counting? (By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI, Oct. 5, 2003)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
PARTY TIME: California's New Trend: Big-Tent Republicans
(By JOHN MICKLETHWAIT & ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE, Oct. 5, 2003)
THREE WARS OVER IRAQ: Staying the Course May Be the Hardest Battle (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Oct. 5, 2003)
PARK AVENUE PROLETARIANS: Every Four Years, Blue Bloods Put on a Blue Collar
(By RICK LYMAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
SNOOPING ON THE C.I.A.: This Wasn't the First War Fought by Spies and Hawks
(By JAMES RISEN, Oct. 5, 2003)
WORD FOR WORD | HUSSEIN-ERA TEXTBOOKS: See Jane Run From the Zionist Intruders
(By JOHN TIERNEY, Oct. 5, 2003)
Leaks and the Courts: There's Law, but Little Order (By ADAM LIPTAK, Oct. 5, 2003)
Among Best-Selling Authors the Daggers Are Out (By EMILY EAKIN, Oct. 5, 2003)
PAKISTAN'S PERENNIAL GADFLY: In One Man's Life, a Glimpse of Democracy's Agony
(By DAVID ROHDE, Oct. 5, 2003)
Limbaugh, Hot TV and the Envelope of Sanity (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Oct. 5, 2003)
The Reading File: PROFILE OF GOD, FROM THE GOSPEL OF TV (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
ON LANGUAGE: Zhlub (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 5, 2003)
Back to the Future (By JAMES TRAUB, Oct. 5, 2003)
QUESTIONS FOR MERCE CUNNINGHAM: Lord of the Dance (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Oct. 5, 2003)
ESSAY: Lincoln Center's Culture Gap (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Oct. 5, 2003)
GALLERY: Unambiguously Cindy [Cindy Sherman] (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
PHENOMENON: (Not) For His Eyes Only (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
PROPOSAL: Stand-Up Women (By GAIL COLLINS, Oct. 5, 2003)
THE ETHICIST: Metropolitan Life (By RANDY COHEN, Oct. 5, 2003)
COVER ARTICLE: The City of Stories Again (By GARY SHTEYNGART, Oct. 5, 2003)
The Untouchables [closing Engine Company 212] (By JOHN COLAPINTO, Oct. 5, 2003)
On the Edge of the Neo-70's (By A.O. SCOTT, Oct. 5, 2003)
The Darkest Night [NYC Blackout 1977] (By JONATHAN MAHLER, Oct. 5, 2003)
Forward and Back (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
The Party [Mudd Club] (By LUC SANTE, Oct. 5, 2003)
The Meltingest Pot (By SUKETU MEHTA, Oct. 5, 2003)
Palimpsest Street (By KEVIN BAKER, Oct. 5, 2003)
STYLE: Slide Show: The New Guard (Photographs by MARCUM MÂM, Oct. 5, 2003)
FOOD: Dark Victory (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Oct. 5, 2003)
LIVES: Home Away From Home (By JOANNA MILTER, Oct. 5, 2003)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2003)
* 'Quicksilver': The Original Information Age [Neal Stephenson] (By POLLY SHULMAN, Oct. 5, 2003)
'The Great Unraveling': An Accidental Radical [By Paul Krugman] (By PETER BEINART, Oct. 5, 2003)
'Hawthorne': The Surveyor of Customs [Brenda Wineapple] (By BROOKE ALLEN, Oct. 5, 2003)
'The Discovery of Global Warming': Living in the Greenhouse [Spencer R. Weart]
(By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Oct. 5, 2003)
'War Against the Weak': Here Comes the Master Race [Edwin Black] (By DANIEL J. KEVLES, Oct. 5, 2003)
'Living a Year of Kaddish': Mourning at a Distance (By ESTHER SCHOR, Oct. 5, 2003)
THE LAST WORD: The Hunting of the Snark (By LAURA MILLER, Oct. 5, 2003)

Saturday, October 4, 2003:
On This Day: October 4 (Louis X 10/4/1289-6/5/1316, Lord Richard Cromwell 10/4/1626-7/12/1712, Jean Francois Millet 10/4/1814-1/20/1875,
Rutherford B. Hayes 10/4/1822-1/17/1893, Frederic Remington 10/4/1861-12/26/1909, Damon Runyon 10/4/1884-12/10/1946,
Charlton Heston 1924, Anne Rice 1941)
Soviet Fires Satellite into Space: It is Circling the Globe at 18,000 MPH (By WILLIAM J. JORDEN, Oct. 4, 1957)
Buster Keaton, 70, Dies on Coast; Poker-Faced Comedian of Films [born 10/4/1895] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, September 27, 1960)

John Dunlop, 89, Labor Expert Who Served 11 Presidents, Dies (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Oct. 4, 2003)
Chubby Jackson, 84, a Big-Band Star on Bass, Dies (By PETER KEEPNEWS, Oct. 4, 2003)
Ronnie Dawson, 64, Texas Singer of Rock, R&B, Folk and Country, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 4, 2003)
Paul Young, 77, Trendsetter of Mod Fashion, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 4, 2003)
EDUCATION: Columbia Skirted Its Lottery to Fill a New Primary School (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Oct. 4, 2003)
BUSINESS: Shares Climb on Enthusiasm Over Employment Figures
[Dow +85, Nasdaq +44] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Oct. 4, 2003)
* ARTS: Are More People Cheating? (By FELICIA R. LEE, Oct. 4, 2003)
ARTS: Foreigners' Rights in the Post-9/11 Era: A Matter of Justice (By DAPHNE EVIATAR, Oct. 4, 2003)
ARCHITECTURE: Celebrated Mies House Up for Auction (By CAROL VOGEL, Oct. 4, 2003)
DANCE | PARSONS DANCE COMPANY: Exuberant Parsons Dancers at a New Theater
(By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 4, 2003)
FILM: 'DOGVILLE': Virtue Is Its Own Punishment (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Oct. 4, 2003)
MUSIC: A 40-Year Meander to Fame [Delbert McClinton] (By PETER APPLEBOME, Oct. 4, 2003)
THEATER | 'CHICAGO': Movie Doll Hits Broadway Without Breaking a Sweat
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 4, 2003)

Friday, October 3, 2003:
On This Day: October 3 (George Bancroft 10/3/1800-1/17/1891, Eleonora Duse 10/3/1858-4/21/1924,
Pierre Bonnard 10/3/1867-1/23/1947, Thomas C. Wolfe 10/3/1900-9/15/1938, Gore Vidal 1925)
Two Germanys Unite After 45 Years With Jubilation and a Vow of Peace (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Oct. 3, 1967)
* Emily Post Is Dead Here at 86; Writer was Arbiter of Etiquette [born 10/3/1873] (NY Times, September 27, 1960)

Robert Kardashian, a Lawyer for O. J. Simpson, Dies at 59 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 3, 2003)
DISPATCHES: Wes Clark's War (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Oct. 3, 2003)
NYC: In a New Year, Keeping Alive a Synagogue (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Oct. 3, 2003)
BUSINESS: After Wednesday Rally, Shares Make Only Modest Gains
[Dow + 19, Nasdaq +4] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 3, 2003)
Reed Backs Report's Ideas for Changes at Big Board (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Oct. 3, 2003)
Sure, It Lost Big Money, but, Hey, It's Calvin Klein (By TRACIE ROZHON, Oct. 3, 2003)
FLOYD NORRIS: They Spent the Tax Rebate. Now What Will Consumers Do? (By FLOYD NORRIS, Oct. 3, 2003)
ART: Treasures of the Russian Evolution (By RICHARD LOURIE, Oct. 3, 2003)
ART: Those Exotic Europeans and Their Curious Ways (By HOLLAND COTTER, Oct. 3, 2003)
* ART: 'THE CUBIST PORTRAITS OF FERNANDE OLIVIER':
The Dark Geometry of Picasso's Mistress From Every Angle
(By ROBERTA SMITH, Oct. 3, 2003)
MUSIC REVIEW | VALERY GERGIEV: Listening for Tricks Up Both His Sleeves (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Oct. 3, 2003)
OPERA REVERBERATIONS: Opening Night: Glamour, Grumbling and Even Opera (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 3, 2003)
ROCK: 'SONICVISION': A Spacey Half-Hour at the Planetarium (By JON PARELES, Oct. 3, 2003)
THEATER: 'LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS': A Hungry Actor? Audrey II Is Back
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 3, 2003)

Thursday, October 2, 2003:
On This Day: October 2 (Richard III 10/2/1452-8/22/1485, Paul Von Hindenburg 10/2/1847-8/2/1934, Sir William Ramsay 10/2/1852-7/23/1916,
Cordell Hull 10/2/1871-7/23/1955, Wallace Stevens 10/2/1879-8/2/1955, Groucho Marx 10/2/1890-8/19/1977,
Graham Greene 10/2/1904-4/3/1991, Maury Wills 1927, Annie Leibovitz 1949)
President Johnson Sees Thurgood Marshall Take Supreme Court Seat (By FRED P. GRAHAM, Oct. 2, 1967)
* Mohandas K. Gandhi: The Indian Leader at Home and Abroad [born 10/2/1869] (NY Times, January 31, 1948)

Irving Sloan, Grocery Executive and Philanthropist, Dies at 88 (NY TIMES, Oct. 2, 2003)
B. H. Kamenske, 75, a Ranking Official at Voice of America, Dies (By DON R. HECKER, Oct. 2, 2003)
Rex Robbins, Actor on Broadway, Dies at 68 (NY TIMES, Oct. 2, 2003)
Dale Fiers, 96, Christian Church President, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 2, 2003)
* WORLD'S SWEATSHOP: LABOR'S LASHES: Chinese Girls' Toil Brings Pain, Not Riches
(By JOSEPH KAHN, Oct. 2, 2003)
NY REGION: Tasting the Foie Gras, Listening to the Jam (By GLENN COLLINS, Oct. 2, 2003)
BUSINESS: Stocks Finish Up After Data Not as Bad as Feared
[Dow +194, Nasdaq + 45] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 2, 2003)
ECONOMIC SCENE: An Extreme Plan for Iraq (By JEFF MADRICK, Oct. 2, 2003)
* Human Genome on Chip Offered by Rivals
[Affymetrix to sell chip with 30,000 human genes for $300]
(By ANDREW POLLACK, Oct. 2, 2003)
ARTS: Überkitsch Artifacts Evoke Old East Germany (By NORA FITZGERALD, Oct. 2, 2003)
ARCHITECTURE: MCCORMICK TRIBUNE CAMPUS CENTER: A Building With a Song in Its Heart
(By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Oct. 2, 2003)
DANCE: BALLETT FRANKFURT: Loud Tables, but Not a Restaurant (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 2, 2003)
MUSIC: Soul Music's New Face: 16, Blond and British [Joss Stone] (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Oct. 2, 2003)
OPERA: 'TRISTAN UND ISOLDE': Passions of 'Tristan' From a Power Couple
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Oct. 2, 2003)
OPERA: 'LA FINTA GIARDINIERA': Mozart's Tale of Delusions About Love (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Oct. 2, 2003)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 2, 2003)
Now Hear This, Quickly (By DOUGLAS HEINGARTNER, Oct. 2, 2003)
Your Own Affair, More (VCR) or Less (MP3) (By SETH SCHIESEL, Oct. 2, 2003)
STATE OF THE ART: Software for Media Moguls [Microsoft] (By DAVID POGUE, Oct. 2, 2003)
ONLINE SHOPPER: A Mother in Touch With Her Inner Elf (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Oct. 2, 2003)
WHAT'S NEXT: With a Motorized Hub, the Wheel on the Bus Goes 'Round (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Oct. 2, 2003)
BASICS: Rival Masters of the Household Universe (By PETER MEYERS, Oct. 2, 2003)
* Predict the Future? You Can Bet on It (By PETER WAYNER, Oct. 2, 2003)
GAME THEORY: Extreme Athletes in Search of a Fresh Soundtrack (By CHARLES HEROLD, Oct. 2, 2003)
Blackouts? Edison Might Say, 'I Told You So' (By JILL JONNES, Oct. 2, 2003)
* Campuses Move to Block Music Sharing (By SAM LUBELL, Oct. 2, 2003)
Parking-Lot Etiquette for the Wireless Keyboard (By IAN AUSTEN, Oct. 2, 2003)
Cookies Crumble, Worms Wilt Under the Sentinel's Gaze (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 2, 2003)
For the Stylish MP3 Player, a Sleek Protective Sleeve (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 2, 2003)
Game Controller With a Screen Resolves the TV Turf Battles (By CHARLES HEROLD, Oct. 2, 2003)
An Automated Secretary Keeps Computers in Sync (By IAN AUSTEN, Oct. 2, 2003)
Q & A: From Maven to Outlaw: Evolution of 'Hacker' (J. D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 2, 2003)

Wednesday, October 1, 2003:
On This Day: October 1 (Henry III 10/1/1207-11/16/1272, Annie Besant 10/1/1847-9/20/1933, Paul Abraham Dukas 10/1/1865-5/17/1935,
William Boeing 10/1/1881-9/28/1956, Otto R. Frisch 10/1/1904-9/22/1979, Jimmy Carter 1924, Daniel J. Boorstin 1914, James Whitmore 1921,
Julie Andrews 1935, Rod Carew 1945)
* Maris Hits 61st Homer in Final Game (By JON DREB, Oct. 1, 1961)
* Vladimir Horowitz, Titan of the Piano, Dies [born 10/1/1903] (By BERNARD HOLLAND, November 6, 1989)

* Jackie Flosso, 77, Magic Shop Maven, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 1, 2003)
Donald J. Mitchell, Representative From New York, Dies at 80 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 1, 2003)
Harry Goz, From Understudy to Lead, Dies at 71 (NY TIMES, Oct. 1, 2003)
BUSINESS: Two in a Row: Market Posts Another Gain for a Quarter (By JENNIFER BAYOT, Oct. 1, 2003)
ARTICLE (By, Oct. 1, 2003)
* DANCE: Photographer's Brilliant Solos, Inspired by the Dance (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Oct. 1, 2003)
TV: 'IT'S ALL RELATIVE': Class-Blind Lovebirds and Hidebound Parents (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Oct. 1, 2003)
FOOD & DINING (NY TIMES, Oct. 1, 2003)
* Welcome, Old Friend: Rediscovering Manhattan's Chinatown (By ERIC ASIMOV, Oct. 1, 2003)
* TEST KITCHEN: Homemade or Semi? A Bake-Off (By AMANDA HESSER, Oct. 1, 2003)
THE MINIMALIST: Butterflied if Not Free (By MARK BITTMAN, Oct. 1, 2003)
Fruits of the Desert Sun [saguaro cactus] (By MINDY SINK, Oct. 1, 2003)