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Monday, September 30, 2002:
On This Day: September 30 (Etienne Bonnot Condillac 9/30/1715-8/2/1780, Antoine-Jerome Balard 9/30/1802-3/30/1876, Jean Perrin 9/30/1870-4/17/1942, Hans Geiger 9/30/1882-9/24/1945, Sir Nevill Mott 9/30/1905-8/8/1996, Deborah Kerr 1921, Angie Dickinson 1931, Johnny Mathis 1935, Deborah Allen 1953, Martina Hingis 1980)
Britain and Germany Make Anti-War Pact; Hitler Gets Less Than His Sudeten Demands (NY Times, Sept. 30, 1938)
Truman Capote is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity [born 9/30/1924] (By ALBIN KREBS, August 26, 1984)

* Charles Henri Ford, 94, Prolific Poet, Artist and Editor, Is Dead (By ROBERTA SMITH, Sep. 30, 2002)
Patsy Mink, Veteran Hawaii Congresswoman, Dies at 74 (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Sep. 30, 2002)
Erna Furman, 76, Expert on Grief in Children, Dies (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Sep. 30, 2002)
Bailey Aldrich, Long-Serving Judge, Dies at 95 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 30, 2002)
NATIONAL: A Death Adds to Travails of Democrats in Hawaii [Patsy T. Mink]
(NY TIMES, Sep. 30, 2002)
* Streisand Helps Raise Money for Democrats and Tells Them to Play Offense (By JOHN M. BRODER, Sep. 30, 2002)
POLITICS: Democratic Congressman Asserts Bush Would Mislead U.S. on Iraq
(By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr., Sep. 30, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: It's Not Time or Newsweek, by Design (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 30, 2002)
Hoping a Soggy Piano Can Lift Bambino's Curse (By PAM BELLUCK, Sep. 30, 2002)
A Place Without Roots That Some Call Home (By BLAINE HARDEN, Sep. 30, 2002)
Born on the Bayou With Little Urge to Roam (By BLAINE HARDEN, Sep. 30, 2002)
Fatal Bank Holdup Said to Yield Nothing (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 30, 2002)
WORLD: U.N. Weapons Inspectors Seek Open Access in Iraq (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 30, 2002)
Israeli Pullback Ends 10-Day Siege of Arafat's Base (By JOEL GREENBERG, Sep. 30, 2002)
* 10-Month bin Laden Mystery: Dead or Alive? (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sep. 30, 2002)
* Dalai Lama's Envoy Hopeful for China Talks (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 30, 2002)
BEIJING JOURNAL: Restoring an Ancient City's Glory Brick by Brick (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 30, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A New Look at U.S. Goal (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 30, 2002)
NY REGION: Vast Detail on Towers' Collapse May Be Sealed (By JAMES GLANZ & ERIC LIPTON, Sep. 30, 2002)
* A 100-Year View of a Landmark [Flatiron Building] (By GLENN COLLINS, Sep. 30, 2002)
Fund for Terror Attack Victims Offers Awards in 14 Test Cases (By DAVID W. CHEN, Sep. 30, 2002)
METRO MATTERS: For Giuliani, Few Shades of Gray (By JOYCE PURNICK, Sep. 30, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By JOE ROGERS, Sep. 30, 2002)
EDITORIAL: A Nation Facing Disaster [AIDS epidemic in Botswana] (NY TIMES, Sep. 30, 2002)
OP-ED: Selling Our Secrets (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 30, 2002)
OP-ED: The Paradox of Corrupt Yet Effective Leadership (By ALAN EHRENHALT, Sep. 30, 2002)
OP-ED: Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda Are Not Allies (By DANIEL BENJAMIN, Sep. 30, 2002)
OP-ED: Reporters Try the Silent Treatment (By MARK HALPERIN, Sep. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: Paying for a Less Stressful SAT (By LOUISE ANLYAN HARRIS, et. al., Sep. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: Threats From Iraq, Questions for Bush (By ERIC CHIVIAN, M.D., Sep. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: Celebrate the Full Man [Rev. Mychal F. Judge] (By MARTIN G. MURRAY, Sep. 30, 2002)
LETTERS: Rewarding a Hero [Israeli-Arab Hero] (By JOHN DAVID, Sep. 30, 2002)
BUSINESS: Sagging Stocks in Japan Put Life Insurers at Risk (By KEN BELSON, Sep. 30, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: HealthSouth Tries to Regain Its Credibility With Investors (By REED ABELSON, Sep. 30, 2002)
* PC Makers Hit Speed Bumps; Being Faster May Not Matter (By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 30, 2002)
Street Marketing Is More Essential for Labels as CD Sales Decline (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Sep. 30, 2002)
Years After Being Bought by I.B.M., Lotus Links Its Products (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Sep. 30, 2002)
* War of the Browsers Resumes With More Players This Autumn (By SAUL HANSELL, Sep. 30, 2002)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: An Online Success for Lands' End (By BOB TEDESCHI Sep. 30, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Something Fun: A Torture Chamber for Spammers (By JENNIFER 8. LEE Sep. 30, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: A Tale of Evil Venture Capital, and a Fair Start-Up (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Sep. 30, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: A Digital Video Format Is Catching in Television (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Sep. 30, 2002)
NEW ECONOMY: For EchoStar, a Win Either Way (By SETH SCHIESEL, Sep. 30, 2002)
Disney Selects a Chief for Its Theme Parks and Resorts (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 30, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: ABC's Early Hopes Don't Last a Week (By BILL CARTER Sep. 30, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: CBS and Don Hewitt Consider His Future (By JIM RUTENBERG, Sep. 30, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Questions Raised on Disney Board (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 30, 2002)
ARTS: Debating Ground Zero Architecture and the Value of the Void (By SARAH BOXER, Sep. 30, 2002)
* ARTS ONLINE: Digital Artworks That Play Against Expectations (By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL, Sep. 30, 2002)
ARTS: Brooklyn Academy of Music in the Land of Sweets (By CAROL VOGEL, Sep. 30, 2002)
ART: 24 Giacometti Sculptures Sold at Auction (NY TIMES, Sep. 30, 2002)
* BOOKS: Monsters and Other Secrets of the Writing Life (By DINITIA SMITH, Sep. 30, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE CONTRARIANS': Young Man in a Bubble, When More Became Less (By RICHARD EDER, Sep. 30, 2002)
DANCE CRITIC: Latin America Takes Talent and Pain to France (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Sep. 30, 2002)
MUSIC: Prize Is Shared in Conductors' Competition (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Sep. 30, 2002)
MUSIC: Exploring Harmonic Worlds (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Sep. 30, 2002)
MUSIC: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC: Evolution on Display in French Compositions
(By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Sep. 30, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Saroyan, Melville and Big Dreams (By BRUCE WEBER, Sep. 30, 2002)
OPERA: 'ST. FRANÇOIS D'ASSISE': The Vision of a Mystic (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Sep. 30, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA?': Surprising Actress as Woman Who Surprises Herself
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Sep. 30, 2002)
TV: Trying for Fresh Takes on Well-Worn Situations (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Sep. 30, 2002)

Sunday, September 29, 2002:
On This Day: September 29 (Francois Boucher 9/29/1703-5/30/1770, Horatio Nelson 9/29/1758-10/21/1805, Greer Garson 9/29/1904-4/6/1996, Trevor Howard 9/29/1916-1/7/1988, Michelangelo Antonioni 9/29/1912)
New York Giants: 1883-1957 Last Game at Polo Grounds (NY Times, September 29, 1957)
Enrico Fermi Dead at 53; Architect of Atomic Bomb [born 9/29/1901] (NY Times, November 29, 1954)

Mollie Wilmot, Socialite Who Played Host to a Freighter, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 29, 2002)
David Granger, Held Seat on Stock Exchange for 76 Years, Dies at 99 (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Sep. 29, 2002)
Roman Pucinski, 83, Politician From Illinois, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 29, 2002)
Patsy Mink, Hawaii Congresswoman, Dies at 74 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 29, 2002)
NATIONAL: Nancy Reagan Fights Bush Over Stem Cells (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Sep. 29, 2002)
* As Security Cameras Sprout, Someone's Always Watching (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Sep. 29, 2002)
More in High School Are Virgins, Study Finds (By TAMAR LEWIN, Sep. 29, 2002)
* Growers and Shoppers Crowd Farmers' Markets (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Sep. 29, 2002)
POLITICAL MEMO: Invective and Accusations Remain Campaign Staples (By ADAM CLYMER, Sep. 29, 2002)
Panel's Findings Take Intelligence Officials by Surprise (By DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN, Sep. 29, 2002)
A Woman's Place Is in the Woods (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Sep. 29, 2002)
WORLD: Bomb Explodes Near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul (By REUTERS, Sep. 29, 2002)
Iraq Rejects Push by U.S. to Toughen Inspection Rules; Lobbying Continues in U.N.
(By JULIA PRESTON & PATRICK E. TYLER, Sep. 29, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Aiming to Disrupt Diplomacy, Iraq Risks War by Rejecting Plan
(By PATRICK E. TYLER, Sep. 29, 2002)
THE VICTIMS: Tent City an Oasis of Hope for Afghanistan Refugees (By JAMES BROOKE, Sep. 29, 2002)
For Irish Abroad, the Candle in the Window May Mean Money (By BRIAN LAVERY, Sep. 29, 2002)
* Family Trees Bloom Again in a Prosperous China (By CHRIS BUCKLEY, Sep. 29, 2002)
Russia Takes Stock of a Nation's Transformation (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Sep. 29, 2002)
THE GENERAL: Afghan Warlord, With a New Job and Suit to Match, Bears Fresh Burdens
(By CARLOTTA GALL, Sep. 29, 2002)
Furor in Britain Over Grading of College Entrance Exams (By ALAN COWELL, Sep. 29, 2002)
* NY REGION: Giuliani Says City Was Prepared for 9/11 (By ERIC LIPTON, Sep. 29, 2002)
* BROOKLYN JOURNAL: Bears in the Marketplace, and Now, One to Mark a Grave (By ANDY NEWMAN, Sep. 29, 2002)
A New Yawk Grocer Ventures Into New Jersey's Suburbs (By TERRY PRISTIN, Sep. 29, 2002)
* High-Wire Walker Fondly Recalls Towers [Philippe Petit] (By ALAN FEUER, Sep. 29, 2002)
Long After the Atlas, a Shrug: Missile Site Draws No Bidders (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
Sex Museum Delays Opening by One Week (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
You Should Have Seen the Air in '53 (By KIRK JOHNSON, Sep. 29, 2002)
OUR TOWNS: New Jersey's Unrepentant Poet of Indignation (By MATTHER PURDY, Sep. 29, 2002)
* THE CITY: Fingers Crossed [Public School 87] (By KATHERINE MARSH, Sep. 29, 2002)
SPORTS: Debunking the Myth of the N.F.L.'s Supposed Geniuses (By DAVE ANDERSON, Sep. 29, 2002)
INSIDE BASEBALL: Angels Leap From Last Season to Postseason (By MURRAY CHASS, Sep. 29, 2002)
Giganotosauruses on the Field (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
OP-ED: Why? Because We Can (By MAUREEN DOWD, Sep. 29, 2002)
OP-ED: You Gotta Have Friends (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sep. 29, 2002)
OP-ED: Contradictions of a Superpower (By ROBERT WRIGHT, Sep. 29, 2002)
OP-ED: Poor in Assets and Income (By RAY BOSHARA, Sep. 29, 2002)
LETTERS: I Have Cancer. There's No Shame. (By ROBERT M. BAXTER, Sep. 29, 2002)
Iraq... and China Too? (By BERNARD F. ERLANGER, Sep. 29, 2002)
9/11 Compensation (By DIANE HORNING, Sep. 29, 2002)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
BUSINESS: Does the Law of Gravity Apply to the Dollar? (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Sep. 29, 2002)
* Intel's Huge Bet Turns Iffy [Itanium 2 super-chi] (By JOHN MARKOFF & STEVE LOHR, Sep. 29, 2002)
* Humbled Bears in 1999. Market Sages Today. (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Sep. 29, 2002)
Frontier, Seeing a Chance in Denver, Elbows in (By ALEX MARKELS, Sep. 29, 2002)
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR DR. RAYMOND L. WOOSLEY: Terror Adds to Safety Issues Awaiting New F.D.A. Chief
(By JULIE FLAHERTY, Sep. 29, 2002)
Mr. Fix-It for the House of Salomon (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Sep. 29, 2002)
Is There Hidden Gold in Industrial Metals? (By JOHN KIMELMAN, Sep. 29, 2002)
INVESTING WITH Leland H. Faust, CSI Equity Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Sep. 29, 2002)
* STRATEGIES: Intrigue, of Sorts, Stirs the Quiet Land of Index Funds (By MARK HULBERT, Sep. 29, 2002)
MARKET INSIGHT: For Sellers of Food, Fewer Chairs at the Table (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Sep. 29, 2002)
May I Speak to the Manager? A Storm at Marriott (By LYNNLEY BROWNING, Sep. 29, 2002)
MARKET WATCH: With a Gift, Fannie Mae Slips On Golf Shoes (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Sep. 29, 2002)
Buying Your Pills Online May Save You Money, But Who's Selling Them? (By SANA SIWOLOP, Sep. 29, 2002)
As Baby Boomers Age, More Are Catching the 'Easy Rider' Bug (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Sep. 29, 2002)
GRASS-ROOTS BUSINESS: Free-Range Burritos; Is This McDonald's? (By JULIE DUNN, Sep. 29, 2002)
The C.E.O. Gene (Written With ALICE FEIRING, Sep. 29, 2002)
Knowing Your Market Value Before You Plead for a Raise (By DAVID KOEPPEL, Sep. 29, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS: A One-Woman Show in Cosmetics (Written With ALICE FEIRING, Sep. 29, 2002)
* INVESTING DIARY: Can Investors Tell Growth From Value? (By JEFF SOMMER, Sep. 29, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Sorry, Your Services Are No Longer Needed (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Sep. 29, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: Polishing the Snifter, Dusting Off the Ears (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Sep. 29, 2002)
* LIFE'S WORK: In the Age of Focus, How the Mind Wanders (By LISA BELKIN, Sep. 29, 2002)
U.S. Says Japan Must Make Bolder Economic Changes (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Sep. 29, 2002)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
* ART: Drawing, Drawing, Till Everything Else Seemed Easy [Alberto Giacomett] (By VICKI GOLDBERG, Sep. 29, 2002)
ARCHITECTURE: Uninspired? A Blue-Chip Architecture Firm Looks Inward (By FRED BERNSTEIN, Sep. 29, 2002)
DANCE: In Partnering a Ballet, the Orchestra Must Also Dance (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Sep. 29, 2002)
DANCE: All for One, One for All: Women Making Dance (By SHAYNA SAMUELS, Sep. 29, 2002)
* FILM: William Wyler: A Director Whose Class Is His Burden (By A. O. SCOTT, Sep. 29, 2002)
FILM: Anthony Hopkins Won't Chew the Scenery (By FRANZ LIDZ, Sep. 29, 2002)
FILM: Telling the Truth From Inside Indian Country (By JOSHUA BROCKMAN, Sep. 29, 2002)
FILM: RUSHES | 'PIPE DREAM': From Bathroom to Bedroom to Romance (By KAREN DURBIN, Sep. 29, 2002)
FILM: In Ulster, Reliving Its Day of Infamy (By BRIAN LAVERY, Sep. 29, 2002)
MUSIC: Where Americans Can Become More So (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 29, 2002)
MUSIC: 'Musicians'? Better, 'Sound Sculptors' (By MAC RANDALL, Sep. 29, 2002)
MUSIC: Reclaiming an Ancient Virtuosity [Anouar Brahem's oud] (By ADAM SHATZ, Sep. 29, 2002)
OPERA: An Operatic Gumshoe Is on a New Case (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Sep. 29, 2002)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs on a Wall, Doors to a Haunted Manor (By DAVID HAY, Sep. 29, 2002)
THEATER: With Music and Malice in Every 'And' and 'The' [McCarthy & Hellman]
(By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Sep. 29, 2002)
THEATER: Discovering Drama, Even Song, in Dry Old Science (By RICHARD PANEK, Sep. 29, 2002)
THEATER: An Ancient Tragedy Lands in the Present, Pain Intact (By KAREN FRICKER, Sep. 29, 2002)
TV: Great Television About Trivial TV (By JULIE SALAMON, Sep. 29, 2002)
TV: The Sidekick as Sad Sack Savant (By STEVE VINEBERG, Sep. 29, 2002)
TV: An Action Heroine Is Given a Worthy Adversary: Mom (By, Sep. 29, 2002)
ARTS LETTERS: Jerry Seinfeld; Peter Sellars; Jazz and Sexuality (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
Good Times and Bum Times, but She's Here (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Sep. 29, 2002)
And the Band Misbehaved On... (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Sep. 29, 2002)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Jordan Frieda (By LINDA LEE, Sep. 29, 2002)
OFF OFF FIFTH: The Shoe Must Go On (By RUTH LA FERLA, Sep. 29, 2002)
GOOD COMPANY: St.-Tropez Comes to Chelsea (By LINDA LEE Sep. 29, 2002)
IT HAPPENED ON MADISON: Donna Karan Hemmed My Dress (By ELIZABETH HAYT, Sep. 29, 2002)
ON THE STREET: The Top's New Era (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
VOWS: Cynthia De Vivo and Seth Berkley (By JENNIFER TUNG, Sep. 29, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
* HELP WANTED: Out of a Job and No Longer Looking (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Sep. 29, 2002)
[German-U.S.] (By JOSEF JOFFE, Sep. 29, 2002)
The Iraq Factor: At Home, Most Politics Is Local (By CARL HULSE, Sep. 29, 2002)
* Assigning Blame if Fraud Is Found (By GINA KOLATA, Sep. 29, 2002)
* Fighting Words: Whose Icon Is It? ["Let's Roll"] (By JAYSON BLAIR, Sep. 29, 2002)
THE BIG PICTURE: Having a Blast [Brazil's Araguari river surfers] (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
* WORD FOR WORD: Pigskin Paeans [college football fight songs] (By JOHN D. THOMAS, Sep. 29, 2002)
Talk About Fan-Unfriendly (By ALLEN BARRA, Sep. 29, 2002)
Boola, Boola for Odd Scholarship Moolah, Moolah! (By TOM KUNTZ, Sep. 29, 2002)
THE ETHICS OF SHOOTING FIRST: Iraq (Will) (Won't) Respect America if It Waits
(By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 29, 2002)
'Barbershop': Turning the Other Cheek (By TREY ELLIS, Sep. 29, 2002)
For Germans, a Recession Is a Pretty Smooth Ride (By MARK LANDLER, Sep. 29, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Quote Me (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 29, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Age of Innocence (By ANN PATCHETT, Sep. 29, 2002)
QUESTIONS FOR CHUCK PALAHNIUK: The Pugilist Novelist (Interview by JOHN GLASSIE, Sep. 29, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Dear Lost Diary (By RANDY COHEN, Sep. 29, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 29, 2002)
FOOD: Que Syrah, Syrah (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Sep. 29, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 29, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 29, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 29, 2002)
HEALTH: Virginia Mosquitoes Found With Malaria (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 29, 2002)

Saturday, September 28, 2002:
On This Day: September 28 (Georges Clemenceau 9/28/1841-11/24/1929, William Paley 9/28/1901-10/26/1990, Al Capp 9/28/1909-11/5/1979, Marcello Mastroianni 9/28/1924-12/19/1996, Brigitte Bardot 9/28/1934)
Fliers At Seattle End World Flight of 27,000 Miles (NY Times, September 28, 1924)
Ed Sullivan Is Dead at 73; Charmed Millions on TV [born 9/28/1901] (NY Times, October 14, 1974)

Warren E. Burnett, Colorful Lawyer, Is Dead at 75 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 28, 2002)
Ray Hayworth, 98, Catcher Who Played With Ty Cobb, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Sep. 28, 2002)
Robert L. Forward, Physicist and Novelist, Dies at 70 (By STUART LAVIETES, Sep. 28, 2002)
Glen Rounds, 96, Folk Author, Dies (By EDEN ROSS LIPSON, Sep. 28, 2002)
Tony Martinez, 82, Television Actor, Dies (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 28, 2002)
NATIONAL: Nebraska Robbers Entered Shooting, Police Say (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 28, 2002)
20-Year Sentence Recommended for Lindh (NY TIMES, Sep. 28, 2002)
Liberals Object to Bush Policy on Iraq (By DAVID FIRESTONE, Sep. 28, 2002)
VOICES: Increased Attention on Iraq Is Raising Anxieties, Too (By JIM YARDLEY, Sep. 28, 2002)
Bush Stumps for G.O.P. and Against Iraq (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 28, 2002)
* BELIEFS: Deaf Ears on Iraq (By PETER STEINFELS, Sep. 28, 2002)
C.I.A. Chief Assails Panel Staff for Note Questioning Officer's Honesty (By NEIL A. LEWIS and JAMES RISEN, Sep. 28, 2002)
'Modest' Changes Seen for Special Education (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Sep. 28, 2002)
WORLD: U.S Plan Requires Inspection Access to All Sites (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Sep. 28, 2002)
Hundreds Are Missing After Senegal Ferry Capsizes (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 28, 2002)
Plot Confirmed, Japan Feels No Less Pain [North Korea kidnappers] (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Sep. 28, 2002)
SATURDAY PROFILE: A Dutiful Son Sees That 'Joy of Sex' Swings On (By SARAH LYALL, Sep. 28, 2002)
Malaysia Suggests Jailed 9/11 Suspect Had Innocent Role (NY TIMES, Sep. 28, 2002)
INTELLIGENCE: Rumsfeld Says U.S. Has 'Bulletproof' Evidence of Iraq's Links to Al Qaeda
(By ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 28, 2002)
* ARAB STUDENTS: In Search for Democracy, U.S. Is Rejected as a Guide (By JANE PERLEZ, Sep. 28, 2002)
NY REGION: Seen as Safety Net, 9/11 Program Is Anything But (By DAVID W. CHEN, Sep. 28, 2002)
* Laureate Refuses to Resign After Reading Poem on Israel and 9/11 [Amiri Baraka]
(By MATTHEW PURDY, Sep. 28, 2002)
THE BUFFALO CASE: Bahrain Presence at Crucial Time Led to Arrest (By JOHN KIFNER, Sep. 28, 2002)
Train to Kennedy Derails in a Test (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN and LYDIA POLGREEN, Sep. 28, 2002)
Yoko Ono Gets Photo Rights and Apology From Ex-Aide (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Sep. 28, 2002)
Mrs. Clinton Isn't Focus of Inquiry, U.S.O.C. Says (By, Sep. 28, 2002)
* SPORTS: With Big Assist From Bird, Magic Enters the Hall of Fame (By MIKE WISE, Sep. 28, 2002)
SPORTS: What Would Steinbrenner Do at Shea? (By GEORGE VECSEY, Sep. 28, 2002)
EDITORIAL: More Than One Option on Iraq (NY TIMES, Sep. 28, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Giving the Designers a Chance [WTC] (NY TIMES, Sep. 28, 2002)
* EDITORIAL: Read This Slowly [Slow Food movement] (NY TIMES, Sep. 28, 2002)
OP-ED: The Jack Welch War Plan (By FRANK RICH, Sep. 28, 2002)
OP-ED: Reality TV Meets Politics (By MICHAEL KAZIN, Sep. 28, 2002)
OP-ED: Forgotten Soldiers of the Integration Fight (By WILLIAM DOYLE, Sep. 28, 2002)
* OP-ED: Think You Have a Book in You? Think Again (By JOSEPH EPSTEIN, Sep. 28, 2002)
LETTERS: Questions About a Possible War (By GEORGE R. CARIGNAN, et. al., Sep. 28, 2002)
LETTERS: Saved From the Nazis [Dutch novelist Jan de Hartog] (By ILSE LOEB, Sep. 28, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Earnings News Once Again Sends Dow Sharply Lower
[Dow -296, Nasdaq -22] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 28, 2002)
Cheney Argues Against Giving Congress Records (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., Sep. 28, 2002)
Outside 401(k) Plans, Stock Ownership Declines (By FLOYD NORRIS, Sep. 28, 2002)
U.S. Revises Growth Rate of Economy Up to 1.3% (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 28, 2002)
MGM Mirage Seeks to Lure the Gamblers of Cyberspace (By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 28, 2002)
Heady Days for Makers of Luxury Vehicles (By MARK LANDLER, Sep. 28, 2002)
Cars for People With $300,000 Watches (By MARK LANDLER, Sep. 28, 2002)
* ARTS: Beating Them to the Prewar (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 28, 2002)
ARTS: In Italy, a Kinder, Gentler Fascism (By ALEXANDER STILLE, Sep. 28, 2002)
ART: Giacometti Sale on for Sure (NY TIMES, Sep. 28, 2002)
* CONNECTIONS: Glenn Gould's Legacy, a Persistent State of Awe (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Sep. 28, 2002)
FILM: 'THE MAGDALENE SISTERS': Slave Labor in Irish Convents as Terrible as Prison
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Sep. 28, 2002)
FILM: 'THE SON': A Father and the Boy Who Killed His Son (By A. O. SCOTT, Sep. 28, 2002)
FILM: 'CHIHWASEON': Living the Artistic Life in 19th-Century Korea (By A. O. SCOTT, Sep. 28, 2002)
FILM: 'UNKNOWN PLEASURES': Chasing a Dream But Getting Nowhere (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 28, 2002)
* FILM: 'TEN': In Tehran, a Driver With a Lot to Say (By A. O. SCOTT, Sep. 28, 2002)
* FILM: 'RUSSIAN ARK': All of Russian History, in One Glittery, Unbroken Take [Hermitage museum]
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Sep. 28, 2002)
* ROCK: ROLLING STONES: The Rolling Stones Revel in the Act of Survival (By KELEFA SANNEH, Sep. 28, 2002)
SCIENCE: As Thousands of Salmon Die, Fight for River Erupts Again (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Sep. 28, 2002)
HEALTH: Wider Use of Sophisticated Pacemakers Is Backed (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 28, 2002)
HEALTH: Traces of West Nile Virus Found in Breast Milk (By DENISE GRADY, Sep. 28, 2002)

Friday, September 27, 2002:
On This Day: September 27 (Cosimo de Medici 9/27/1389-8/1/1464, Samuel Adams 9/27/1722-10/2/1803, Sir Harry Blackstone 9/27/1885-11/16/1965, Sir Martin Ryle 9/27/1918-10/14/1984)
Warren Commission Finds Oswald Guilty: Assassin & Ruby Acted Alone (By Anthony Lewis, Sept. 27, 1964)
Admiral Mahan, Naval Critic, Dies at 74 [born 9/26/1897] (NY Times, December 2, 1914)

* Joseph Nathan Kane, Master of Minutiae, Dies at 103 (By RICHARD SEVERO, Sep. 27, 2002)
Dodo Marmarosa, 76, an Early Bebop Pianist, Is Dead (By PETER KEEPNEWS, Sep. 27, 2002)
Eduard Gufeld, Chess Grandmaster and Writer, 66, Is Dead (By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN, Sep. 27, 2002)
Ray Hayworth, Oldest Surviving Major Leaguer, Dies at 98 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 27, 2002)
Mollie Wilmot, Socialite, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 27, 2002)
Herb Kamm, 85, Newspaper Editor, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 27, 2002)
NATIONAL: Five People Shot to Death in Nebraska Bank Holdup (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Sep. 27, 2002)
THE 9/11 DEFENDENT: U.S. Gave Secrets to Terror Suspect (By PHILIP SHENON, Sep. 27, 2002)
Storm Brings Gulf Coast Damage, No Disaster (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Sep. 27, 2002)
THE HEARING: F.B.I. Account Outlines Activities of Hijackers Before 9/11 Attacks
(By JAMES RISEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, Sep. 27, 2002)
40 Years Later, Ole Miss Asks When the Past Will Be Past (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Sep. 27, 2002)
TEST CASE: THE FIRST WEEKS: More Chaotic Start, More Orderly Students
(By SARA RIMER, Sep. 27, 2002)
Some Captives Recall a War and Forget Hostilities (By JODI WILGOREN, Sep. 27, 2002)
Web Site Fuels Debate on Campus Anti-Semitism (By TAMAR LEWIN, Sep. 27, 2002)
WORLD: Sluggish U.S. Economy a Global Concern (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Sep. 27, 2002)
LEGISLATION: Congress Nearing Draft Resolution on Force in Iraq
(By TODD S. PURDUM & ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 27, 2002)
Militants Are Said to Amass Missiles in South Lebanon (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Sep. 27, 2002)
China Complains About U.S. Surveillance Ship (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 27, 2002)
Israel Strikes at Suspected Bomb Maker (By JAMES BENNET, Sep. 27, 2002)
War Game Is Said to Show Shortages of Some Weapons (By ERIC SCHMITT & THOM SHANKER, Sep. 27, 2002)
AIRSTRIKES: U.S. and Iraq Differ Over Results of Attack on Antiaircraft Site (By THOM SHANKER, Sep. 27, 2002)
After Attack on Temple, Indian City Remains Quiet (By AMY WALDMAN, Sep. 27, 2002)
RECONSTRUCTION: Powell Urges Nations to Fulfill Afghan Aid Pledges
(By JAMES DAO, Sep. 27, 2002)
INVESTIGATIONS: Germans in U.S. With Data on a Top Qaeda Suspect (By DESMOND BUTLER, Sep. 27, 2002)
'We Are One Family': A Mideast Story (By JOEL GREENBERG, Sep. 27, 2002)
* NY REGION: Killed on 9/11, Fire Chaplain Becomes Larger Than Life [Mychal F. Judge]
(By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Sep. 27, 2002)
Design Teams Are Selected for New Plans for 9/11 Site (By EDWARD WYATT, Sep. 27, 2002)
* Judaism Takes Different Turns in Places, Blocks of Orthodoxy (By JOSEPH BERGER, Sep. 27, 2002)
Online Trove of Property Data Is Raising Concerns in Nassau (By BRUCE LAMBERT, Sep. 27, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: You Say It's Your Birthday... [Christopher Reeves] (By JAMES BARRON, Sep. 27, 2002)
NYC: Dirty Photos? Call Them Artifacts (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Sep. 27, 2002)
SPORTS: Defining Fair Play Is Tricky (By GEORGE VECSEY, Sep. 27, 2002)
ON PRO BASKETBALL: When Magic Came to My Court (By MIKE WISE, Sep. 27, 2002)
SPORTS: Michael Jordan, Saying Knee Is Better, Will Play Another Season (By LIZ ROBBINS, Sep. 27, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Greater Nuclear Danger (NY TIMES, Sep. 27, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Down the Road Apiece [Rolling Stones] (NY TIMES, Sep. 27, 2002)
OP-ED: In Broad Daylight (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Sep. 27, 2002)
OP-ED: Fighting Street to Street (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Sep. 27, 2002)
OP-ED: Speaking Freely in the Barbershop (By MICHEAL ERIC DYSON, Sep. 27, 2002)
OP-ED: Defend the Country, Not the Party (By RICHARD GEPHARDT, Sep. 27, 2002)
LETTERS: The Partisan Rancor Over Iraq (By ANDREA LOEB, et. al., Sep. 27, 2002)
LETTERS: After My Stroke, 27 Years Ago (By NANCY KOVALEFF BAKER, Sep. 27, 2002)
LETTERS: Bush's Security Strategy (By H. JACK GEIGER, M.D., et. al., Sep. 27, 2002)
BUSINESS: Blue Chips Up on Economic News, but Tech Shares Dip
[Dow +155, Nasdaq -1] (By REUTERS, Sep. 27, 2002)
Minutes Indicate Fed Policy Makers' Concern About Stocks (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 27, 2002)
New Mortgage-Rate Lows [5.99% for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 27, 2002)
* New Software Quietly Diverts Sales Commissions (By JOHN SCHWARTZ & BOB TEDESCHI, Sep. 27, 2002)
Class Action for Patients Rejected (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Sep. 26, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: Making Money on Fiber, the El Paso Way (By FLOYD NORRIS, Sep. 26, 2002)
* Red Tape Frustrates Russia's Entrepreneurs [croutons] (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Sep. 27, 2002)
At Disney, Speculation Over Executive's Successor (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 27, 2002)
The Gap Chooses Next Chief [Disney's Paul Pressler] (By SHERRI DAY, Sep. 27, 2002)
ADVERTISING: An Unlikely Advertising Partner [Murderboro & Cadaver] (By NAT IVES, Sep. 27, 2002)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 27, 2002)
* ART: RICHARD AVEDON: Images That Burn Into the Mind (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Sep. 27, 2002)
* ART: Lifelike, Abstract or Funky, What Exactly Is a Drawing? [* Archive]
(By KEN JOHNSON, Sep. 27, 2002)
ART: BILL VIOLA: Timeless Themes, Suddenly Timely (By GRACE GLUECK, Sep. 27, 2002)
ART REVIEW: Modernism Gets a Revolutionary Makeover in Iran (By HOLLAND COTTER, Sep. 27, 2002)
INSIDE ART: Hand of Fate at Sotheby's (By CAROL VOGEL, Sep. 27, 2002)
ANTIQUES: Wide-Eyed in a Fun House (By WENDY MOONAN, Sep. 27, 2002)
ART: Helen Mirra; Avigdor Arikha; 'Sacred Matter' (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, et. al., Sep. 27, 2002)
* BOOKS: NEW YORK IS BOOK COUNTRY: A Reader's Rhapsody (By KATIE ROIPHE, Sep. 27, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE GATEKEEPERS': Accept or Reject? What It's About at One University
(By PATRICIA M. McDONOUGH, Sep. 27, 2002)
FILM: 'ABOUT SCHMIDT': An Uneasy Rider on the Road to Self-Discovery (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Sep. 27, 2002)
FILM: 'SWEET HOME ALABAMA': A Vexed Heart: Grits or Foie Gras? (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Sep. 27, 2002)
FILM: 'THE TUXEDO': A Biotechnical Tuxedo Gives Its Wearer a Lift [Jackie Chan] (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 27, 2002)
FILM: 'MOONLIGHT MILE': Grappling With Loss in Awkwardly Close Quarters (By A. O. SCOTT, Sep. 27, 2002)
FILM: 'WASABI': From Paris to Tokyo, Mourning for a Long-Lost Love (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 27, 2002)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Joy and Curse of Life in a Bubble (NY TIMES, Sep. 27, 2002)
FILM: TAKING THE CHILDREN: A Courageous Girl Makes a Spiritual Breakthrough
(By PETER M. NICHOLS, Sep. 27, 2002)
HOME VIDEO: Locked Up With Mozart (By PETER M. NICHOLS, Sep. 27, 2002)
MUSIC: CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: A Crowd of Pianos, Resounding Together (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Sep. 27, 2002)
OPERA: 'ELEKTRA': Finding Lyricism in Tragedy (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 27, 2002)
* ROCK: ROLLING STONES: Rolling Stones Revel in the Act of Survival (By KELEFA SANNEH, Sep. 27, 2002)
THEATER: 'LITTLE HAM': A Charming Cad Gambles on Love and Doing Right
(By BRUCE WEBER, Sep. 27, 2002)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: August Wilson's Cycle Continues (By JESSE MCKINELY, Sep. 27, 2002)
* TV: 'PRINCE WILLIAM': A Mantle of Memory (By ANITA GATES, Sep. 27, 2002)
* TV: 'AMERICAN DREAMS': A 60's Family, and Dick Clark, Too (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 27, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Study in Primates Shows Brain Damage From Doses of Ecstasy (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Sep. 27, 2002)
* HEALTH: Scientists Say They've Found Protein That Might Help Fight AIDS
(By ANDREW POLLACK, Sep. 27, 2002)

Thursday, September 26, 2002:
On This Day: September 26 (Moses Mendelssohn 9/26/1729-1/4/1786, Jean-Louis Gericault 9/26/1791-1/26/1824, T.S. Eliot 9/26/1888-1/4/1965, Martin Heidegger 9/26/1889-5/26/1976, Charles Munch 9/26/1891-11/6/1968, George Gershwin 9/26/1898-7/11/1937)
Nixon & Kennedy Clash in TV Debate on Spending, Farms and Social Issues (By Russell Baker, September 26, 1960)
Pope Paul VI Is Dead of a Heart Attack at 80 [born 9/26/1897] (By KENNETH A. BRIGGS, August 7, 1978)

Nils Bohlin, 82, Inventor of a Better Seat Belt, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
* Bob Wallace, Software Pioneer, Dies at 53 [PC-Write & Microsoft] (By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 26, 2002)
Murray Baron, Labor Lawyer and Head of Accuracy in Media, 94, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 26, 2002)
NATIONAL: G.O.P. Death-Penalty Feud Sinks to First-Name Calling (By JODI WILGOREN, Sep. 26, 2002)
THE F.B.I.: Five Minority Agents File Bias Lawsuit Against Bureau (By, Sep. 26, 2002)
THE CONGRESS: Daschle Defends Democrats' Stand on Security (By CARL HULSE & TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 26, 2002)
NEW ORLEANS JOURNAL: As Storm Weakens, Revelry Takes Over (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Sep. 26, 2002)
Stem Cell Research Is Slowed by Restrictions, Scientists Say (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Sep. 26, 2002)
CONGRESSIONAL MEMO: Lawmakers Quibble Over the Words of War (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Sep. 26, 2002)
Text: Bush and Daschle Comments on Security and Politics (NY TIMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
Random Testing for E. Coli Is Set for Meatpacking Sites (NY TIMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
Film Brings in Cash and Controversy (By JOHN LELAND with JOHN FOUNTAIN, Sep. 26, 2002)
* Paying for a Disability Diagnosis to Gain Time on College Boards (By JANE GROSS, Sep. 26, 2002)
WORLD: In Policy Shift, U.S. Will Talk to North Korea (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 26, 2002)
Israeli-Arab Hero Is Praised, but Not Embraced (By JAMES BENNET, Sep. 26, 2002)
U.S. Children Evacuated From Ivory Coast City (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Sep. 26, 2002)
Gunmen Kill 7 Workers for Christian Charity in Pakistan (By DAVID ROHDE, Sep. 26, 2002)
In Massacre of Hindus, a Grim Omen for All India (By AMY WALDMAN, Sep. 26, 2002)
Conditions Are Said to Improve in Iraq (NY TIMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
Charles's Leaked Letters Land Him in Hot Water (By ALAN COWELL, Sep. 26, 2002)
FRANKFURT JOURNAL: Gray-Flannel City Wants to Dance to Its Own Hue (By MARK LANDLER, Sep. 26, 2002)
ATLANTIC PARTNERS: NATO Chief Urges Allies Not to Let Iraq Divide Them (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 26, 2002)
VIEW FROM BEIJING: In Shift, China Seems to Back a Resolution on Iraq (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 26, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Tony Blair's Role: Statesman, or Poodle? (By WARREN HOGE, Sep. 26, 2002)
Israelis Maintain Week-Old Grip on Arafat Headquarters (By JOEL GREENBERG, Sep. 26, 2002)
NY REGION: Yoko Ono's Lawyer Attacks Ex-Assistant's Credibility (By, Sep. 26, 2002)
Paying for a Disability Diagnosis to Gain Time on College Boards/A> (By JANE GROSS<, Sep. 26, 2002)
Science May Soon Join Core Courses at Columbia (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Sep. 26, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Nearly 96, Judge Keeps an Iron Grip on the Gavel (By ROBIN FINN, Sep. 26, 2002)
* SPORTS: Fire-and-Brimstone Call to Canton [Bob Hayes] (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Sep. 26, 2002)
The Perils of Pro Football Follow Some Into Retirement (By MIKE FREEMAN with LINDA VILLAROSA, Sep. 26, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Healthy Politics of Iraq (NY TIMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
OP-ED: Gore Versus Blair (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 26, 2002)
OP-ED: The Right Judge? (By BOB HERBERT, Sep. 26, 2002)
OP-ED: Why Iraq Can't Be Deterred (By KENNETH M. POLLACK, Sep. 26, 2002)
LETTERS: Meeting the Threat of Smallpox (By KENNETH E. RASKE, Sep. 26, 2002)
LETTERS: In the Middle East, the Innocent Suffer (By A. AL-KADI, et. al., Sep. 26, 2002)
BUSINESS: General Electric Outlook Gives Traders a Reason to Buy
[Dow +159, Nasdaq +40] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 26, 2002)
Enron Auctions Off Furniture and Famous 'E' (By DAVID BARBOZA, Sep. 26, 2002)
Coke 'Passes' First Diversity Test (By SHERRI DAY, Sep. 26, 2002)
I.R.S. Closes Loophole That Let Rich Hide Income (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Sep. 26, 2002)
Tyco's Chief Says Earnings Will Be Lower Than Expected (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Sep. 26, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Artists Fight Music File-Sharing (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 26, 2002)
In Russia, Executive Returns and a Company Disappears (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Sep. 26, 2002)
* Japan Markets Resume Their Search for the Bottom (By JAMES BROOKE, Sep. 26, 2002)
Hollywood's Gadget Factories (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Sep. 26, 2002)
ART: It's On, It's Off, It's On: Twists for Giacometti Sale (By ALAN RIDING, Sep. 26, 2002)
BOOKS: Misery Loves Comedy [Peter Sellers] (By JANET MASLIN, Sep. 26, 2002)
* MAKING BOOKS: Magazines Talk Books (By MARTIN ARNOLD, Sep. 26, 2002)
DANCE: MOMIX: Finding Color and Life in the Southwest's Desert (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 26, 2002)
DANCE: THANG DAO DANCE COMPANY: An Exhausted Businessman and Lots of Overachievers
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 26, 2002)
FILM: 'THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER': Taking Kissinger to Task, Perhaps Even a Bit More (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 26, 2002)
* MUSIC: Rock's Bad Boys Grow Up But Not Old [Rolling Stones] (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Sep. 26, 2002)
MUSIC: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Conducting a Tour Through Ives Territory
(By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Sep. 26, 2002)
OPERA: METROPOLITAN OPERA: A Zeffirelli Spectacle, Back for Another Eyeful
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Sep. 26, 2002)
ROCK: BRIGHT EYES: Matters of Heaven and Earth Sprinkled Among the Verses (By KELEFA SANNEH, Sep. 26, 2002)
THEATER: A Theater Gets a New Name: Al Hirschfeld (By JESSE McKINLEY, Sep. 26, 2002)
TV CRITIC: The Ever-Darkening World of Television Police Work (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
Hollywood's Gadget Factories (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Sep. 26, 2002)
Vox Populi, Online and Downtown [World Trade Center site] (By AMY HARMON, Sep. 26, 2002)
STATE OF THE ART: Showtime, Microsoft Style [Download.com] (By ROB FIXMER, Sep. 26, 2002)
* Reborn From Rubble (By GLENN COLLINS, Sep. 26, 2002)
HOW IT WORKS: Clocking the Grand Prix to a Thousandth of a Tick (By BADEN COPELAND, Sep. 26, 2002)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Car Is a Wreck. Husband Is Normal. (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Sep. 26, 2002)
* WHAT'S NEXT: For Users Who Dash Back and Forth, a Watchful Laptop [wrist decoder]
(By ANNE EISENBERG, Sep. 26, 2002)
ONLINE DIARY: Waiting Games and Junior Wordsmiths (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Sep. 26, 2002)
For Game Makers, Inspiration in the Soul of an Old Machine [Commodore 64]
(By DAVID KUSHNER, Sep. 26, 2002)
HOME APPLIANCES: Tired of Chasing Dustballs? Let a Robot Do the Job (NY TIMES, Sep. 26, 2002)
SAFETY: Abduction-Notification System Can Now Send Online Alerts (By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, Sep. 26, 2002)
SOFTWARE: A Helper Who Never Forgets to Update Your Address Book (By IAN AUSTEN, Sep. 26, 2002)
Q & A: Moving a CD Collection Into Your Hip Pocket (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Sep. 26, 2002)
SCIENCE: Panel Says Bell Labs Scientist Faked Discoveries (By KENNETH CHANG, Sep. 26, 2002)

Wednesday, September 25, 2002:
On This Day: September 25 (Mark Rothko 9/25/1903-2/25/1970, Dmitry Shostakovich 9/25/1906-8/9/1975, Glenn Gould 9/25/1932-10/4/1982, Phil Rizzuto 9/25/1918, Barbara Walter, 9/25/1931, Michael Douglas 9/25/44)
President Eisenhower Sends Troops to Little Rock (By ANTHONY LEWIS, September 25, 1957)
Faulkner's Home, Family and Heritage Were Genesis of Yoknapatawpha County
[born 9/25/1897] (NY Times, July 7, 1962)

Stephanie Reinhart, Fostered New Trends in Dance, Dies at 58 (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Sep. 25, 2002)
Mike Webster, 50, Troubled Football Hall of Famer, Is Dead (By FRANK LITSKY, Sep. 25, 2002)
Leon Hart, Massive End and Heisman Trophy Winner, 73, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Sep. 25, 2002)
Frances Howard, a Humphrey Sister, Dies at 88 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 25, 2002)
Robert Jordan, 69, Ex-Chief of New York Advertising Office, Is Dead (By BARRY MEIER, Sep. 25, 2002)
NATIONAL: Number of People Living in Poverty Increases in U.S. (By ROBERT PEAR, Sep. 25, 2002)
THE AIRPORT ATTACK: I.N.S. Ignored Possible Link of Airport Killer to Terrorists
(By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Sep. 25, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: For Remarks on Iraq, Gore Gets Praise and Scorn (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Sep. 25, 2002)
WAR OF WORDS: Bush's Vocabulary Now Omits Gore's Name (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 25, 2002)
THE ALERT: Bush Reduces Threat Level After Arrests of Suspects (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Sep. 25, 2002)
THE 9/11 INQUIRY: F.B.I. Agent Was Tracking Radical Linked to Hijacker
(By JAMES RISEN, Sep. 25, 2002)
THE 9/11 DEFENDANT: Prosecutors Say Business Card Ties Suspect to Flight 93 Pilot (By PHILIP SHENON, Sep. 25, 2002)
FOREIGN STUDENTS: Lawmakers Warned of Delay in System to Track Students (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 25, 2002)
WORLD: Indian Troops Kill Gunmen at Temple (By AMY WALDMAN, Sep. 25, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Britain's Case: Iraqi Program to Amass Arms Is 'Up and Running'
(By PATRICK E. TYLER, Sep. 25, 2002)
North Korea to Let Capitalism Loose in Investment Zone (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Sep. 25, 2002)
Rumsfeld Urges NATO to Set Up Strike Force (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 25, 2002)
Israel Resists New U.N. Measure to End Siege (By JULIA PRESTON, Sep. 25, 2002)
China Says Sect Broadcasting From Taiwan (By JOSEPH KAHN, Sep. 25, 2002)
Kyrgyzstan Seeks Reward for Helping Fight Terror (By JAMES DAO, Sep. 25, 2002)
21 Chinese Children Die in School Accident (NY TIMES, Sep. 25, 2002)
MEXICO CITY JOURNAL: The Rich, Famous and Aghast: A Peep-Show Book
(By GINGER THOMPSON, Sep. 25, 2002)
Blair Says Iraqis Could Launch Chemical Warheads in Minutes (By WARREN HOGE, Sep. 25, 2002)
Britain's Catalog of Iraq's Race for Forbidden Weapons (By, Sep. 25, 2002)
Iraq Promises Access for Arms Inspectors (By REUTERS, Sep. 25, 2002)
The Once-a-Year Search for the Perfect Citron (By JESSICA STEINBERG, Sep. 25, 2002)
NY REGION: Times Square, With Ketchup (By LINDA LEE, Sep. 25, 2002)
If Test Scores of Students Swell, So May Superintendents' Wallets (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Sep. 25, 2002)
Cornucopia of New Statistics Shows City's Best and Worst
(By JENNIFER STEINHAUER & MICHAEL COOPER, Sep. 25, 2002)
OUR TOWNS: The Mosquito, Bypassed by the Buzz (By MATTHEW PURDY, Sep. 25, 2002)
Yoko Ono Says Ex-Aide Stole Tapes (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Sep. 25, 2002)
Elvis Fans Say It Rocks; Unquestionably, It Rolls (By MICHAEL WILSON, Sep. 25, 2002)
Few of Those Eligible Register for Cleanup Help Near 9/11 Site (By KIRK JOHNSON, Sep. 25, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Daunting Smallpox Plans (NY TIMES, Sep. 25, 2002)
OP-ED: No More Bratwurst! (By MAUREEN DOWD, Sep. 25, 2002)
OP-ED: Dead End (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sep. 25, 2002)
OP-ED: Schröder's Little Win (By PETER SCHNEIDER, Sep. 25, 2002)
LETTERS: The Dissent of Schröder and Gore (By ELIZABETH HAAS, et. al., Sep. 25, 2002)
LETTERS: In Japan, Rebels in the Classroom (By LESLIE KLEIN PILDER, Sep. 25, 2002)
LETTERS: Is It Patriotism, or Is It Eavesdropping? (By ERIC M. FREEDMAN, et. al., Sep. 25, 2002)
LETTERS: Programming Helps BSkyB Pull Ahead of Rivals (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Sep. 25, 2002)
LETTERS: Technology's Progress (By ROBERT HAHN, Sep. 25, 2002)
BUSINESS: Dow Plunges to 4-Year Low After Dissent on Fed Panel
[Dow -189, Nasdaq -3] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 25, 2002)
Fed Opts to Leave Rates Unchanged (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Sep. 25, 2002)
* AOL Time Warner and Disney Revive Talks on News Venture (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK & BILL CARTER, Sep. 25, 2002)
Consumer Confidence Declines for the 4th Consecutive Month (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 25, 2002)
* Online Fans Start to Pay the Piper (By NEIL STRAUSS, Sep. 25, 2002)
Disney Board Endorses a Plan to Address Company's Ills (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 25, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Hershey to Try to Whip Up Some Enthusiasm (By STUART ELLIOTT, Sep. 25, 2002)
* Programming Helps BSkyB Pull Ahead of Rivals (By SUZANNE KAPNER, Sep. 25, 2002)
* The Once-a-Year Search for the Perfect Citron (By JESSICA STEINBERG, Sep. 25, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Tyco Took Profit on Bad Deal, Then Paid Bonuses to Executives
(By FLOYD NORRIS, Sep. 25, 2002)
* ART: Art Museum Outside Philadelphia Plans Move [Barnes] (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Sep. 25, 2002)
* ART CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Soothing Visual Poetry at the River's Edge (By ROBERTA SMITH, Sep. 25, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE AUTOGRAPH': An Elusive, Whimsical Autograph (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Sep. 25, 2002)
OPERA: THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: A Doyenne Does a Turn as a Princess (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 25, 2002)

Tuesday, September 24, 2002:
On This Day: September 24 (Albrecht Wallenstein 9/24/1583-2/25/1634, John Marshall 9/24/1755-7/6/1835, Mark Hanna 9/24/1837-2/15/1904, Sir A. P. Herbert 9/24/1890-11/11/1971, Stephen Bechtel 9/24/1900-3/14/1989, Severo Ochoa 9/24/1905-11/1/1993, Svetlana Beriosova 9/24/1932-11/10/1998, Jim Henson 9/24/1936-5/16/1990, Jim McKay 1921, Sheila MacRae 1924, Josph Kennedy II 1952)
Clinton, at U.N., Signs Treaty Banning All Nuclear Testing (By ALISON MITCHELL, September 24, 1996)
* Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Dies at 44 [9/24/1896-12/21/1940] (NY Times, December 23, 1940)

Joan Littlewood, British Theater Pioneer, Dies at 87 (By BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Sep. 24, 2002)
Jan de Hartog, the Author of His Own Adventurous Life, Dies at 88 (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 24, 2002)
Peter Kowald, 58, Jazz Bassist and Traveler, Dies (By BEN RATLIFF, Sep. 24, 2002)
NATIONAL: New Plan for Smallpox Attack (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG with LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Sep. 24, 2002)
THE SIDE EFFECTS: Medical Conditions Create Vulnerability to Vaccine (By DENISE GRADY, Sep. 24, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Guide for Mass Smallpox Vaccinations: Recipe With Missing Ingredients (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Sep. 24, 2002)
THE VISITORS: Photographs and Fingerprinting of Saudis Will Soon Be Required
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 24, 2002)
THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT: Gore Calls Bush's Policy a Failure on Several Fronts
(By DEAN E. MURPHY, Sep. 24, 2002)
Residue Tests on Imam's Bags Are Rejected (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 24, 2002)
Court Overturns Convictions for Taking Photographs Under Skirts (By ADAM LIPTAK, Sep. 24, 2002)
WORLD: Moves by Germany to Mend Relations Rebuffed by Bush (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 24, 2002)
At U.N., U.S. Calls for End to the Siege of Arafat (By JULIA PRESTON with JAMES BENNET, Sep. 24, 2002)
CONGRESS: 3 Retired Generals Warn of Peril in Attacking Iraq Without Backing of U.N. (By ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 24, 2002)
STEALTH AND COUNTERSTEALTH: U.S. Suspects Ukraine of Selling Radar to Iraq (By MICHAEL WINES, Sep. 24, 2002)
Northern Afghan Region Still Roiled by Rivalries and Fighting (By CARLOTTA GALL, Sep. 24, 2002)
* MOSCOW JOURNAL: Waiter, Forget the Boar. I'd Rather Have Oxygen. (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Sep. 24, 2002)
Rising Star Lost in Russia's Latest Disaster (By MICHAEL WINES, Sep. 24, 2002)
Swedes Are Out Sick Longer, and Budget Is Ailing (By WARREN HOGE, Sep. 24, 2002)
NEWS MEDIA: Arab TV Channel Prepares for a War in Its Backyard (By JANE PERLEZ, Sep. 24, 2002)
NY REGION: Mayor With a Worn Passport (By MICHAEL COOPER, Sep. 24, 2002)
Legal Heavyweights to Help Decide Sept. 11 Fund Appeals (By DAVID W. CHEN, Sep. 24, 2002)
NEW YORK REGION: Authorities Say Experience Puts Them Ahead of Curve (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Sep. 24, 2002)
BUFFALO CASE: F.B.I. Had History of Contacts With One Terrorism Suspect
(By SUSAN SACHS, Sep. 24, 2002)
'Eye Candy' and Fakery in Wrestling? Objection! (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Sep. 24, 2002)
BOLDFACE NAMES: Miss America Speaks Up (By JAMES BARRON, Sep. 24, 2002)
Fashion Week Speaks of Recovery (By JAYSON BLAIR, Sep. 24, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: Smoothing the Furrowed Brow, the Botox Way (By ROBIN FINN, Sep. 24, 2002)
NYC: New Meaning for W.C.: With Children (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Sep. 24, 2002)
* SPORTS: Bonds Believes Time Still on His Side (By IRA BERKOW, Sep. 24, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Digital Cable May Be Next for the N.F.L. (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Sep. 24, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Germany Speaks (NY TIMES, Sep. 24, 2002)
EDITORIAL: More Than an Academic Exercise (NY TIMES, Sep. 24, 2002)
* OP-ED: The Day After [post-Hussein Iraq] (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Sep. 24, 2002)
OP-ED: White Man's Burden (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Sep. 24, 2002)
OP-ED: Blood Sport as Politics (By JOHN MORTIMER, Sep. 24, 2002)
OP-ED: Waiting to Hear From Saddam Hussein (By NICK. J. RAHALL II, Sep. 24, 2002)
* OP-ED: The DNA of a New Industry (By HAROLD VARMUS, Sep. 24, 2002)
LETTERS: Israel, Jews and the Campus (By ROBERT E. HARRIST JR, et. al., Sep. 24, 2002)
LETTERS: Pencils and Glue, Thanks to the Teacher (By MARK A. SIROTA, et. al., Sep. 24, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Wall Street Is in Need of Some Silver Inside Clouds
[Dow -114, Nasdaq -36] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 24, 2002)
Judge Concludes Energy Company Drove Up Prices (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. with LOWELL BERGMAN, Sep. 24, 2002)
* All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print (By SAUL HANSELL, Sep. 24, 2002)
As Iraq Rejects New U.N. Rules, Oil Prices Hit a 19-Month High (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 24, 2002)
Dry California Cities Covet Farms' Full Glass (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Sep. 24, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: NASD Sues Star Analyst Over Research (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Sep. 24, 2002)
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Suites Are Increasingly Doing Double Duty (By MELINDA LIGOS, Sep. 24, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: When Having a Meeting Is Like Going to a Movie (By JOE SHARKEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
ON THE GROUND: A Distinct Western Flavor and Plenty of Sunny Days
(By JOE SHARKEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
MEMO PAD: Optimistic Survey on Travel Expectations (By JOE SHARKEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
Sting of Last Year's Recession Not as Mild as Many Thought (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Sep. 24, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Publishers Trying to Salvage Troubled Magazines (By DAVID CARR, Sep. 24, 2002)
* ARTS: For Sale (Maybe): Giacometti's Legacy (By ALAN RIDING, Sep. 24, 2002)
ARTS ABROAD: Taking Taiko, Japan's Big Drum, Into the Hip-Hop Age (By ELIZABETH HEILMAN BROOKE, Sep. 24, 2002)
BOOKS: 'FAMILY MATTERS': The Fabric of Family Life, Disrupted by a Broken Leg
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Sep. 24, 2002)
JAZZ: THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Paying Tribute to a Master With His Own Hard Music
(By BEN RATLIFF, Sep. 24, 2002)
MUSIC AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN: Mediterranean Musical Tour, Tambourines Keeping Time
(By JON PARELES, Sep. 24, 2002)
OPERA: 'MADAMA BUTTERFLY': Striking Tableaus for a Clash of Cultures (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Sep. 24, 2002)
POP: MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Still 'Kissin Time' for the Weathered (By JON PARELES, Sep. 24, 2002)
THEATER: 'PETER AND VANDY': A Regular Romantic Path Examined at Close Range (By BRUCE WEBER, Sep. 24, 2002)
TV: 'PRESIDIO MED'; 'MD'S': Hunky, Wise, Romantic or Kooky. Just Like Your Doctor.
(By RON WERTHEIMER, Sep. 24, 2002)
* TV: Blunt Advice and No Pity Get Ratings for Dr. Phil (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
SCIENCE: Bottled Baby Octopuses Turn Out to Be Pygmies (By CHARLES Q. CHOI, Sep. 24, 2002)
INTO THE WOODS WITH EDWARD O. WILSON: Finding a Wild, Fearsome World Beneath Every Fallen Leaf
(By JAMES GORMAN, Sep. 24, 2002)
* Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Sep. 24, 2002)
* Missing Limb? Salamander May Have Answer (By ANDREW POLLACK, Sep. 24, 2002)
Brain Size Is Linked to a Gene (By NICHOLAS WADE, Sep. 24, 2002)
OBSERVATORY: Cut Down to Size (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Sep. 24, 2002)
SCIENCE LETTERS: Nature Versus Nurture; Prostate; Radar; Mental (NY TIMES, Sep. 24, 2002)
Some Retirees Look Abroad for Prescription Drugs (By RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, Sep. 24, 2002)
BEHAVIOR: A Clue to Why Gays Play Russian Roulette With H.I.V. (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Sep. 24, 2002)
Drugmakers Trying to Retire the Needle (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 24, 2002)
CASES: Gift of Life: 2 Strangers, Yet 2 Twins (By SHELBY ALLEN, Sep. 24, 2002)
F.D.A. Staff Voices Doubts on AstraZeneca Cancer Drug (By ANDREW POLLACK, Sep. 24, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Trauma: Putting a Premium on Helmets (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: Multiple Births and Older Women (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Consequences: Ripple Effect of Health Coverage (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Heel Pain: A Step Backward (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Sep. 24, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Schools Teach 3 C's: Candy, Cookies and Chips (By JANE E. BRODY, Sep. 24, 2002)
* Lessons for Avoiding a Snack Attack (By JANE E. BRODY, Sep. 24, 2002)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: World of the Dying Patient (By JOHN LANGONE, Sep. 24, 2002)
* Q & A: Germs in the Laundry (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Sep. 24, 2002)

Monday, September 23, 2002:
On This Day: September 23 (Caesar Augustus 9/23/63 BC-8/19/14 AD, Helen Almira Shafer 9/23/1839-1/20/1894, Emmuska Orczy 9/23/1865-11/12/1947, Walter Lippmann 9/23/1889-12/14/1974, Tom C. Clark 9/23/1899-6/13/1977, John Coltrane 9/23/1926-7/17/1967, Mickey Rooney 1920, Julio Iglesias 1943, Mary Kay Place 1947, Bruce Spingsteen 1949)
Nixon Leaves Fate To G.O.P. Chiefs; Eisenhower Calls Him To A Talk (By Gladwin Hill, Sept. 23, 1952)
Victoria Martin, Suffragist, Dies: Nominated for U. S. President as Mrs. Woodhull in 1872
[9/23/1838-6/10/1927] (June 11, 1927)

* Jack Potter, 74, Illustrator Who Turned to Teaching, Is Dead (By STEVEN HELLER, Sep. 23, 2002)
William Rosenberg, Founder of Dunkin' Donuts, 86, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 23, 2002)
Marjorie Slaiman, Designer of Costumes for Arena Stage, Dies at 77 (NY TIMES, Sep. 23, 2002)
James Mitchell, Novelist Known for Spy Stories, 76, Is Dead (By ERIC PACE, Sep. 23, 2002)
Rafael Druian, Violinist and Conductor, Dies at 80 (NY TIMES, Sep. 23, 2002)
Angelo Buono Jr., Hillside Strangler, Dies at 67 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 23, 2002)
NATIONAL: C.I.A.'s Inquiry on Qaeda Aide Seen as Flawed (By JAMES RISEN, Sep. 23, 2002)
Report Finds Minority Ranks Rise Sharply on Campuses (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Sep. 23, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: The Office Where Law Meets War (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 23, 2002)
Approval Is Seen for Military Action Against Iraq (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Sep. 23, 2002)
U.S. Taking Steps to Ready Forces for Iraq Fighting (By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 23, 2002)
West Nile Capital of the U.S. Wonders Why (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Sep. 23, 2002)
RICHMOND JOURNAL: Quilt Helps Patch Lives Torn by Abuse (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Sep. 23, 2002)
Lights, Camera, Action ‹ Cut! (NY TIMES, Sep. 23, 2002)
WORLD: Germany's Leader Retains His Power After Tight Vote (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 23, 2002)
4 Killed as Palestinians Demonstrate to Back Arafat (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 23, 2002)
Japan Links Aid to Korean Missiles (By REUTERS, Sep. 23, 2002)
KANDAHAR JOURNAL: Cradle of Taliban Reverts to Cradle of Commerce (By JAMES BROOKE, Sep. 23, 2002)
A Brazilian Campaign That Is All About the Jungle (By LARRY ROHTER, Sep. 23, 2002)
* Educators Try to Tame Japan's Blackboard Jungles (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Sep. 23, 2002)
Donated Kidney Bridges Mideast Divide (By REUTERS, Sep. 23, 2002)
NY REGION: Mayor Bloomberg Makes a Surprise Visit to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
(By MICHAEL COOPER, Sep. 23, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Louima Case Closed, Not Resolved (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Sep. 23, 2002)
THE BUFFALO CASE: After Three Days of Testimony, Some Gaps Are Unfilled (By JOHN KIFNER, Sep. 23, 2002)
Destination Queens, in Search of the Past (By SARAH KERSHAW, Sep. 23, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By JOE ROGERS, Sep. 23, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: THE RURAL LIFE: Ready for Fall (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Sep. 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Sharon's Hard Choice (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 23, 2002)
OP-ED: High-Altitude Rambos (By BOB HERBERT, Sep. 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Nuclear Dangers Beyond Iraq (By MICHAEL LEVI, Sep. 23, 2002)
OP-ED: Adieu, My Magazine! (By TIM CARVELL, Sep. 23, 2002)
LETTERS: Should Pilots Take Guns to Work? (By STEVE ABDU, et. al., Sep. 23, 2002)
LETTERS: Move the U.N. to Ground Zero (By RONALD I. SPIERS, Sep. 23, 2002)
LETTERS: A College That Fits (By JAMIENNE S. STUDLEY, Sep. 23, 2002)
BUSINESS: Sprint to Sell Yellow Pages (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & SIMON ROMERO, Sep. 23, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Here, They Nod Peacefully at Each Other [Piazza & Clemens] (By NAT IVES, Sep. 23, 2002)
Boston Airport to Install Scanners (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Sep. 23, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Findings Against Enron (By KURT EICHENWALD, Sep. 23, 2002)
Copyright Hurdles Confront Selling of Music on the Internet (By AMY HARMON, Sep. 23, 2002)
Music-Swapping Service Gains Stature in New Deal (By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 23, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Genealogy's Lucrative Online Niche (By BOB TEDESCHI, Sep. 23, 2002)
PATENTS: A Bid to Overcome Patent Backlogs (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Sep. 23, 2002)
* NEW ECONOMY: The Packaging of Video on Demand [DVD 8 gigabytes] (By PETER WAYNER, Sep. 23, 2002)
* Reporters Find New Outlet, and Concerns, in Web Logs (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Sep. 23, 2002)
MARKETING: Competitors to Viagra Get Ready to Rumble (By DAVID TULLER, Sep. 23, 2002)
* Free Software, at Least to a Certain Point (By AMY HARMON, Sep. 23, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Rock Group Finds a New Way to Sell Out (By CHRIS NELSON, Sep. 23, 2002)
Readers and Writers Debate Columnist's Exit (By FELICITY BARRINGER & JODI WILGOREN, Sep. 23, 2002)
CBS Aims at 10 P.M. to Help Letterman (By BILL CARTER, Sep. 23, 2002)
ON TELEVISION: Cable Thrives, but Broadcast TV Is Hardly Extinct (By JIM RUTENBERG, Sep. 23, 2002)
* ARTS: Self-Doubts at the Helm of the Czech Republic [Vaclav Havel]
(By JAMES BARRON, Sep. 23, 2002)
BOOKS: 'FROM A BUICK 8': Cruising the Dark Side (By JANET MASLIN, Sep. 23, 2002)
DANCE: Honoring Dancers of the Avant-Garde (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 23, 2002)
HIP-HOP: BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY: The Show Must Go On, Without Bizzy Bone (By KELEFA SANNEH, Sep. 23, 2002)
JAZZ: A Modern Musician Plays the Host While Playing the Piano (By BEN RATLIFF, Sep. 23, 2002)
MUSIC: GANGBE BRASS BAND: A Band Ignores Geography (By JON PARELES, Sep. 23, 2002)
OPERA: It's Not Over for One Diva, Who Is Back at the Met [Mirella Freni] (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Sep. 23, 2002)
THEATER: 'THE PARADISE PROJECT': Becoming a Mime in Dreamland (By BEN BRANTLEY, Sep. 23, 2002)
TV: Top Awards to 'West Wing' and 'Friends' at Emmys (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Sep. 23, 2002)
TV: Subdivided Crime Shows in the 'Law & Order' Franchise (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 23, 2002)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: The Eye of the Reporter, the Heart of the Novelist (By ANNA QUINDLEN, Sep. 23, 2002)

Sunday, September 22, 2002:
On This Day: September 22 (Michael Faraday 9/22/1791-8/25/1867, Erich von Stroheim 9/22/1885-5/12/1957, Babette Deutsch 9/22/1895-11/13/1982, Paul Muni 9/22/1895-8/25/1967, Charles Huggins 9/22/1901-1/12/1997, Martha Scott 1914, Tommy Lasorda 1927, Shari Belafonte 1954, Debby Boone 1956, Catherine Oxenberg 1961)
Highly Important: A Proclamation by the President of the United States (NY Times, Sept. 22, 1862)
John Houseman, Actor and Producer, 86, Dies [9/22/1902-10/31/1988] (By MARILYN BERGER, November 1, 1988)

Elizabeth Coblentz, 66, Homespun Amish Columnist, Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 22, 2002)
Florence Lessing, a Dancer in Theater, Nightclubs and Films, Dies at 86 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 22, 2002)
Jackie Raven, Dancer and Promoter of Tap, Dies at 51 (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 22, 2002)
NATIONAL: 2 Doctors Cited for Work Developing Artificial Kidney (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Sep. 22, 2002)
Exercising Toward Repair of the Spinal Cord (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Sep. 22, 2002)
Government Proposing Cuts in Many Medicare Payments (By ROBERT PEAR, Sep. 22, 2002)
WORLD: Israel Tells U.S. It Will Retaliate if Iraqis Attack (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Sep. 22, 2002)
WAR OF DIPLOMACY: Bush's Push on Iraq at U.N.: Headway, Then New Barriers
(By JULIA PRESTON with TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 22, 2002)
Arafat Remains Defiant Amid Rubble of His Compound (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 22, 2002)
Germans Vote in a Tight Election (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 22, 2002)
THE NETHERLANDS: Sept. 11 Plotter Reportedly Sent Terror Funds Flowing Through Dutch Town
(By DESMOND BUTLER, Sep. 22, 2002)
Glacier Pushes Avalanche of Ice Onto Village; Scores Are Missing (By MICHAEL WINES, Sep. 22, 2002)
Long in Dark, Afghan Women Say to Read Is Finally to See (By CARLOTTA GALL, Sep. 22, 2002)
* Time for the Changing of China's Aging Guard— or Not (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 22, 2002)
Film About Tycoon Reveals Lifestyles of the Rich and Russian (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Sep. 22, 2002)
Slump Turns Jobless Argentines Into Scavengers (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 22, 2002)
NY REGION: N.Y.U., Fearful of Publicity, Cancels Class on Ground Zero (By EDWARD WYATT, Sep. 22, 2002)
* Land of the Free, Home of the Perk [Jack Welch's retirement perks] (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Sep. 22, 2002)
On Eve of Trial, Ex-Officer Agrees to Perjury Term in Louima Case (By WILLIAM GLABERSON, Sep. 22, 2002)
Picking Sides in the Hero Sandwich War (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Sep. 22, 2002)
HIGHLANDS JOURNAL: Two 20-Ton Marble Tributes to 9/11, Searching for a Home (By ANDREW JACOBS, Sep. 22, 2002)
SPORTS: The Means to an End, Once in a While (By DAVE ANDERSON, Sep. 22, 2002)
[Of the 400 richest people in America, 26 are club owners in the four sports]
* BOXING BACKTALK: 75 Years Later, the Dempsey-Tunney Fight Is Still Debated
(By JACK CAVANAUGH, Sep. 22, 2002)
SPORTS: Wrestler's Lawsuit Dabbles in the Real and the Fake (By ANDY NEWMAN, Sep. 22, 2002)
SPORTS: Clemens Motivated After Ball Hits Him (By JOE LAPOINTE, Sep. 22, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Bush Doctrine (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
* EDITORIAL: Don't Beam Us Up Just Yet (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
OP-ED: Culture War With B-2's (By MAUREEN DOWD, Sep. 22, 2002)
Globalization, Alive and Well (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sep. 22, 2002)
* The Costs of Bursting Bubbles (By STEPHEN S. ROACH, Sep. 22, 2002)
* LETTERS: Time to Do Your Homework, Dad (JUDITH B. MACDONALD, et. al., Sep. 22, 2002)
No Sale to Baghdad [high-precision switches to detonate nuclear weapons]
(By NATHALIE LOISEAU, Sep. 22, 2002)
Victims' Families (By DOUG MAGEE, Sep. 22, 2002)
BUSINESS: In a Broker's Notes, Trouble for Salomon (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Sep. 22, 2002)
In Charity, Where Does a C.E.O. End and a Company Start? (By STEPHANIE STROM, Sep. 22, 2002)
Will Reforms With Few Teeth Be Able to Bite? (By STEPHEN LABATON, Sep. 22, 2002)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: The Bubble Has Burst, but Strengths Remain (By TOM REDBURN, Sep. 22, 2002)
BOOK VALUE: Beware White Knights Who Wreck the Castle (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Sep. 22, 2002)
High Oil Prices Pose a Threat to Economies, U.S. Cautions (By KEN BELSON, Sep. 22, 2002)
MARKET INSIGHT: Looking at Stocks With a Stake in War (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Sep. 22, 2002)
* After the Fall, a Reinvented Janus (By MICHAEL ONEAL, Sep. 22, 2002)
* PORTFOLIOS: Traders Have One Question: Are We There Yet? (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 22, 2002)
INVESTING WITH: Jeffrey R. Tyler, American Century Strategic Allocation (By CAROLE GOULD, Sep. 22, 2002)
Is Home Depot a Fixer-Upper? (By ELIZABETH KELLEHER, Sep. 22, 2002)
For Lovers of Risk, There's Iraqi Government Debt (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Sep. 22, 2002)
MIDSTREAM: You Bought a PC for His Dorm Room, but Did You Insure It? (By JAMES SCHEMBARI, Sep. 22, 2002)
ON THE JOB: I Need a Break From My Vacation (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Sep. 22, 2002)
* EXECUTIVE LIFE: Attention Deficit Is in the Office, Too (By ANNE FIELD, Sep. 22, 2002)
THE BOSS: Just Sell the Peanuts (By HARRIS DIAMOND, Sep. 22, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: The Company Song, Sour Notes and All (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Sep. 22, 2002)
INVESTING DIARY: 401(k) Investors Want More Advice (By JEFF SOMMER, Sep. 22, 2002)
* PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Web Surfing at Work? Just the News, Honest!
[Dr. Crist, 102, oldest American worker in 2002, still teaching]
(By HUBERT B. HERRING, Sep. 22, 2002)
Amid the Uncertainty, Business Balks at Spending (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & DAVID LEONHARDT, Sep. 22, 2002)
If the Storm Worsens, Dell May Need That 'Float' (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Sep. 22, 2002)
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR JOSEPH J. GRANO JR.: On Security Panel, Executives Think the Unthinkable
(By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Sep. 22, 2002)
Often, Grand Visions Are Best Avoided (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Sep. 22, 2002)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
* ARTS: From Glass Dreams, a Dazzling Reality [Yoichi Ohira] (By RITA REIF, Sep. 22, 2002)
ARTS: New Yorkers Now, Their Gifts Were Nurtured in Texas (By EDWARD M. GOMEZ, Sep. 22, 2002)
DANCE: Rock Stars Abroad, These Dancers Want Fame at Home (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Sep. 22, 2002)
FILM: Nicholson on Age, Acting and 'Being Jack' (By DANA KENNEDY, Sep. 22, 2002)
FILM: Just a Home Girl Like Me, With Roots in Two Americas (By ANITA GATES, Sep. 22, 2002)
FILM: RUSHES | 'MOONLIGHT MILE': Two Murders, One on Screen (By KAREN DURBIN, Sep. 22, 2002)
FILM: Corralling Eight Egos by Letting Them Run [Ozin's "8 Women"] (By KRISTIN HOHENADEL, Sep. 22, 2002)
FILM: Werner Herzog Goes Hollywood? Yes, but Actually No (By LISA ZEIDNER, Sep. 22, 2002)
MUSIC: India.Arie: A Soul Singer With a Vision of Beauty (By ANTHONY DeCURTIS, Sep. 22, 2002)
MUSIC: Karita Mattila: From Headstrong Heroines to Sly Vixens (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Sep. 22, 2002)
MUSIC SPINS: Beck Is Back and Feeling Very Blue (By JON PARELES, Sep. 22, 2002)
MUSIC: The Monster in the Celebrity Machine [jazz trumpeter Chet Baker]
(By JAMES GAVIN, Sep. 22, 2002)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: This Virtuoso Has Returned, No Question (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 22, 2002)
MUSIC: A Composer's Inspiration, Long Dormant, Surges Anew [George Crumb]
(By ANNE MIDGETTE, Sep. 22, 2002)
OPERA: The Rush to Opera on DVD: Let's Not Get Carried Away (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 22, 2002)
THEATER: For Profit or Not, It's All Showbiz (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Sep. 22, 2002)
THEATER: 'Little Ham': Langston Hughes Meets Damon Runyon, Eventfully
(By MARJORIE ROSEN, Sep. 22, 2002)
THEATER: Can't Keep Him Down: Jolson Pops Up Again (By ROBERT F. MOSS, Sep. 22, 2002)
TV: A Few Brave Husbands Have Sex on Their Minds (By CRAIG TOMASHOFF, Sep. 22, 2002)
Another Series Sees What It Needs in Kim Delaney (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Sep. 22, 2002)
ARTS LETTERS: 'Swept Away'; 'Hairspray'; Judy Chicago (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
STYLE: TV Ads Show Generation Y's Anti-PC Attitude (By MICHAEL WALKER, Sep. 22, 2002)
NOTICED: For Worn-Out Shoppers, a Mall Massage (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Sep. 22, 2002)
Lifestyles of the Rich and Red-Faced (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Sep. 22, 2002)
A NIGHT OUT WITH: Esteban Cortazar (By JULIA CHAPLIN, Sep. 22, 2002)
Brandt Offers Good Company and Party Favors for All (By RUTH LA FERLA, Sep. 22, 2002)
FASHION DIARY: Anna Sui, as Unruffled as Her Dresses (By GUY TREBAY, Sep. 22, 2002)
* VIEW: Separated at Birth: Fashion and Prize Fights (By RON FRIED, Sep. 22, 2002)
* ON THE STREET: No Knees [Coco Chanel quote] (By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Sep. 22, 2002)
VOWS: Bridget Elias and Townsend Davis (By JENNY ALLEN, Sep. 22, 2002)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
TRAVEL: Coming Full Circle at Mount Hood (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Sep. 22, 2002)
* FRUGAL TRAVELER: Shanghai, Modern but Still Exotic (By DAISANN McLANE, Sep. 22, 2002)
TRAVEL ESSAY: Hard-Won Happiness on Two Wheels (By WENDY LICHTMAN, Sep. 22, 2002)
* TRAVEL LETTERS: A Child's View; Visiting Angkor; Elephants (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
* FOOT SOLDIERS: What Does 'Regime Change' Mean Anyway? (By JAMES DAO, Sep. 22, 2002)
IMAGE PROBLEMS: A Place to Find Out for Yourself About the War (By ERIC UMANSKY, Sep. 22, 2002)
It's Good to Go, but When? (By ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 22, 2002)
TIPS, PLEASE: A Nation of Informers (By ADAM LIPTAK, Sep. 22, 2002)
On North Korea, Japan Takes the Lead (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Sep. 22, 2002)
LOSING CONTROL: Venezuela Approaches the Brink (By JUAN FORERO, Sep. 22, 2002)
WORD FOR WORD: Portrait of the Arab as a Young Radical (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Sep. 22, 2002)
Till the Cows Come Home (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
DEBATES: Iraq in a Hard Place (By NYTIMES.COM, Sep. 22, 2002)
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES: Oh, Rats (By NYTIMES.COM, Sep. 22, 2002)
Europe Has One Voice. And Another and Another. (By TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, Sep. 22, 2002)
THE WAR WAGON: Democrats Play the Loyal Opposition (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Sep. 22, 2002)
Reviving Memories of Yet Another Evil [Slobodan Milosevic] (By MARLISE SIMONS, Sep. 22, 2002)
Those Are My Words, Not My Bond (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Sep. 22, 2002)
* Dumb and Dumber: Here's a Fish Story With Legs [genetic engineered salmon]
(By JAMES GORMAN, Sep. 22, 2002)
A Missile That Would Make Lenin Faint (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Sep. 22, 2002)
The Fall of Brazil's Big House By LARRY ROHTER (By, Sep. 22, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Stiffing the World (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 22, 2002)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Sexed Ed (By MARGARET TALBOT, Sep. 22, 2002)
* QUESTIONS FOR GARRY KASPAROV: Check This (By WM. FERGUSON, Sep. 22, 2002)
PORTFOLIO: 40th Reunion [New York Film Festival] (Photos By Brigitte Lacombe, Sep. 22, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Discounting Teens (By RANDY COHEN, Sep. 22, 2002)
What They Were Thinking [Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, IL]
(By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Sep. 22, 2002)
* COVER ARTICLE: The Sunshine Warrior [Paul D. Wolfowitz] (By BILL KELLER, Sep. 22, 2002)
Left Behind [Lynne Stewart, lawyer defending terrorists] (By GEORGE PACKER, Sep. 22, 2002)
* Must-See Metaphysics [Joss Whedon's "Firefly" & "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"]
(By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Sep. 22, 2002)
STYLE: She Wears the Pants (By CATHY HORYN, Sep. 22, 2002)
FOOD DIARY: Stove-Top Seminar [2 recipes] (By AMANDA HESSER, Sep. 22, 2002)
LIVES: A Pox on Our House [smallpox hits the Lakotas] (By GREGG BOURLAND as told to SUSAN BURTON, Sep. 22, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 22, 2002)
'Blue Latitudes': Cook's Tour (By ROBERT R. HARRIS, Sep. 22, 2002)
* 'The Lives of the Muses': Terpsichore, Thalia and Yoko (By STACY SCHIFF, Sep. 22, 2002)
* 'After Nature': Sebald's Early Work in Verse Engages Typical Themes (By EVA HOFFMAN, Sep. 22, 2002)
* 'Sloan-Kettering': A Poet's Struggle Against Nonexistence [Abba Kovner]
(By EDWARD HIRSCH, Sep. 22, 2002)
* 'When the Emperor Was Divine': Imagining Life in a Relocation Center (By MICHAEL UPCHURCH, Sep. 22, 2002)
'The Perfect House': Palladio's Domestic Architecture (By PATRICIA FORTINI BROWN, Sep. 22, 2002)
'The Great Fire of London': When London Started Over [Sept. 2, 1666] (By SIMON WINCHESTER, Sep. 22, 2002)
'Blessings': The Hired Man and the Foundling [Anna Quindlen] (By HILMA WOLITZER, Sep. 22, 2002)
* 'The Ideas That Conquered the World': The World Cries Uncle (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Sep. 22, 2002)
'Fourteen': Life With 13 Siblings (By SARAH PAYNE STUART, Sep. 22, 2002)
Books in Brief: PRINTS OF ROY LICHTENSTEIN & GETTYSBURG (By ELISSA MEYERS & RICHARD E. NICHOLLS, Sep. 22, 2002)

Saturday, September 21, 2002:
On This Day: September 21 (Charles Nicoole 9/21/1866-2/28/1936, H. G. Wells 9/21/1866-8/13/1946, Gustav Holst 9/21/1874-5/25/1934, Hans Hartung 9/21/1904-12/7/1989, Larry Hagman 1931, Stephen King 9/21/1947, Bill Murray 1950, Nancy Travis 1961, Rob Morrow 1962, Faith Hill 1967, Ricki Lake 1968)
Hurricane Sweeps Coast; 11 Dead, 71 Missing, L.I. Toll; 80 Die In New England Flood (NY Times, Sept. 21, 1938)
Henry L. Stimson Dies at 83 In His Home on Long Island [9/21/1867-10/20/1950] (NY Times, October 21, 1950)

A.L. Turkevich, Scientist Who Ascertained Moon's Makeup, Dies at 86 (By CARMEL McCOUBREY, Sep. 21, 2002)
Curtis Cuffie, 47, Artist of Life on the Streets, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Sep. 21, 2002)
David Wisniewski, Artist and Children's Book Author, 49, Dies (By EDEN ROSS LIPSON, Sep. 21, 2002)
Robert Wilson, Astrophysicist and Satellite's Advocate, Dies at 75 (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Sep. 21, 2002)
Karl L. Brown, 76, Developer of Accelerators That Treat Cancer, Dies (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Sep. 21, 2002)
Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan, Possible Candidate for Pope, Dies at 74 (By REUTERS, Sep. 21, 2002)
NATIONAL: Harvard President Sees Rise in Anti-Semitism on Campus (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Sep. 21, 2002)
White House, in Shift, Backs Inquiry on 9/11 (By DAVID FIRESTONE and JAMES RISEN, Sep. 21, 2002)
Next, They'll Be Claiming That Their Wine Is Better (By JOHN M. BRODER, Sep. 21, 2002)
[France $1.310 trillion regains 5th-largest economy over California $1.309 trillion]
G.O.P. Gains From War Talk but Does Not Talk About It (By ALISON MITCHELL and ADAM NAGOURNEY, Sep. 21, 2002)
The Sandwiches Stay, but One of These Brothers May Have to Go (By GLENN COLLINS, Sep. 21, 2002)

Friday, September 20, 2002:
On This Day: September 20 (Sir James Dewar 9/20/1842-3/27/1923, Herbert Putnam 9/20/1861-8/14/1955, Maxwell Perkins 9/20/1884-6/17/1947, Leo Strauss 9/20/1899-10/18/1973, Stevie Smith 9/20/1902-3/7/1971, Sid Chaplin 9/20/1916-1/11/1986, Red Auerbach 1916, Joyce Brothers 9/20/1928, Sophia Loren 9/20/1934, Guy LaFleur 1951)
Mrs. King Defeats Riggs, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, Amid a Circus Atmosphere (By NEIL AMDUR, Sept. 20, 1973)
* Upton Sinclair, Author, Dead; Crusader for Social Justice, 90' [9/20/1878-11/25/1968] (NY TIMES, November 26, 1968)

* Bob Hayes, Stellar Sprinter and Receiver, Dies at 59 (By FRANK LITSKY, Sep. 20, 2002)
Derek Davies, 71, Editor of Influential Asian Review, Is Dead °Õ (By PAUL LEWIS, Sep. 20, 2002)
Raú Chibas, Castro Ally Who Fled to Miami in Motorboat, Dies at 86 (By ERIC PACE, Sep. 20, 2002)
Donald Campbell, Helped Open Fuel Floodgates, Dies at 98 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 20, 2002)
NATIONAL: Bound for Las Vegas, 2 Men Take a 9/11 Detour to Jail (By EDWARD WONG, Sep. 20, 2002)
THE 9/11 DEFENDANT: Court Filings Are Coded for Al Qaeda, Officials Say (By PHILIP SHENON, Sep. 20, 2002)
REACTOR VULNERABILITY: Experts Say Nuclear Plants Can Survive Jetliner Crash
(By MATTHEW L. WALD, Sep. 20, 2002)
THE INVESTIGATION: Intelligence Officials Discount '98 Report From Caribbean of Plot to Hit Trade Center
(By JAMES RISEN, Sep. 20, 2002)
WORLD: Bush Seeks Power to Use 'All Means' to Oust Hussein
(By TODD S. PURDUM & ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 20, 2002)
BAGHDAD: Hussein Says Bush Wants to Control Mideast Oil (By JULIA PRESTON, Sep. 20, 2002)
GUATEMALA JOURNAL: Fried Chicken Takes Flight, Happily Nesting in U.S. (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Sep. 20, 2002)
Bush to Outline Doctrine of Striking Foes First (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 20, 2002)
* THE ADVISER: Scowcroft Straddles the Worlds of Business and State (By JEFF GERTH and DON VAN NATTA Jr., Sep. 20, 2002)
Bush-Hitler Remark Shows U.S. as Issue in German Election (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 20, 2002)
Suicide Bomber Kills 5 on a Bus in Tel Aviv (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 20, 2002)
NY REGION: Murky Lives, Fateful Trip in Buffalo Terrorism Case (By SUSAN SACHS, Sep. 20, 2002)
U.N. Planning New Tower in Nearby Park (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Sep. 20, 2002)
City to Pay Millions to Homeless Forced to Sleep in an Office (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Sep. 20, 2002)
SPORTS: Fans Attack Royals Coach During Game in Chicago (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 20, 2002)
AN APPRECIATION: Hayes, the Fastest Runner Ever, Also Revolutionized Pro Football
(By NEIL AMDUR, Sep. 20, 2002)
ATHLETICS 5, ANGELS 3: Into Homestretch, It's the A's Ahead by a Nose (By LEONARD KOPPETT, Sep. 20, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Politics of War (NY TIMES, Sep. 20, 2002)
* EDITORIAL: China's Cyberspace Censorship (NY TIMES, Sep. 20, 2002)
* OP-ED: The Vision Thing (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Sep. 20, 2002)
OP-ED: Inspections With Teeth (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Sep. 20, 2002)
OP-ED: Notes From Boston: Big Dig Bluster (By JANE HOLTZ KAY, Sep. 20, 2002)
OP-ED: Helping the Jobless (By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Sep. 20, 2002)
* LETTERS: Should Our Colleges Be Ranked? (By CARTER NELSEN, et. al., Sep. 20, 2002)
LETTERS: Rumblings of War: Why Germans Balk (By KATHLEEN JAMES-CHAKRABORTY, et. al., Sep. 20, 2002)
LETTERS: Unwanted Coins (By JEFF FLEMING, Sep. 20, 2002)
BUSINESS: Stocks Dive, Nearing Lows From July
[Dow -230, Nasdaq -36] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 20, 2002)
A Civil War Within a Trade Dispute [$100 billion in corporate tax breaks]
(By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Sep. 20, 2002)
Silicon Valley Concern Says It Thwarted Software Theft (By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 20, 2002)
Morgan Stanley Reports Decline That Is Worse Than Expected (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Sep. 20, 2002)
FedEx's Profit Increases 45% (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 20, 2002)
FLOYD NORRIS: Time to Change the Way Options Are Taxed (By FLOYD NORRIS, Sep. 20, 2002)
No Moves by AOL Board on Its Chairman [Steve Case] (NY TIMES, Sep. 20, 2002)
Japan Court Says Company, Not Inventor, Controls Patent (By KEN BELSON, Sep. 20, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: N.F.L. Has Ally in Madden Game (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Sep. 20, 2002)
ART: MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART: The Face (and Soul) of Africa (By HOLLAND COTTER, Sep. 20, 2002)
ARTS: MY BROOKLYN: A Tower of Dentists Wears a Golden Crown (By ANDY NEWMAN, Sep. 20, 2002)
ART: 'THE DINNER PARTY': For a Paean to Heroic Women, a Place at History's Table
(By ROBERTA SMITH, Sep. 20, 2002)
* ART: 'POUSSIN, CLAUDE AND THEIR WORLD': Order, Clarity and Balance (By GRACE GLUECK, Sep. 20, 2002)
* ART: 'AGAINST THE MODERN': A Timid Academician, Tempted by Modernism
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (By KEN JOHNSON, Sep. 20, 2002)
INSIDE ART: Selling European, Buying American (By CAROL VOGEL, Sep. 20, 2002)
* ART IN REVIEW: 'The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward'
[Harry Smith, Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli] (By, Sep. 20, 2002)
ANTIQUES: Browsing in Splendor (By WENDY MOONAN, Sep. 20, 2002)
BOOKS: 'BROTHERHOOD OF THE BOMB': New Detail About the Bickering Builders of the Bomb
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Sep. 20, 2002)
FILM: AT THE MOVIES: Boorish Gods and Sad Swine (By DAVE KEHR, Sep. 20, 2002)
FILM: '8 WOMEN': A Stellar Gathering of Femmes Proves a Bit Fatale (By A. O. SCOTT, Sep. 20, 2002)
FILM: 'THE FOUR FEATHERS': Going Undercover in the Service of Her Majesty
(By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 20, 2002)
FILM: 'SECRETARY': An Office Disciplinarian Gets His Way in the End (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Sep. 20, 2002)
'BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER': Spies and Assassins Pack Plenty of Pow (NY TIMES, Sep. 20, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: Maazel Shows His Firm Hand From the Start (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 20, 2002)
MUSIC CRITIC: WORLD MUSIC: From the Mediterranean, a Sea of Ethnic Sounds (By JON PARELES, Sep. 20, 2002)
THEATER: ON STAGE AND OFF: Question Marks and Astral Signs (By JESSE MCKINLEY, Sep. 20, 2002)
THEATER: 'BURN THIS': Revival Works a Transformation (By BEN BRANTLEY, Sep. 20, 2002)
TV: 'FIREFLY'; 'JOHN DOE': Fantasy of Future and the Here and Now (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 20, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Radio Telescope Proves a Big Bang Prediction (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Sep. 20, 2002)
* HEALTH: Warnings Sought for Popular Painkiller [acetaminophen, Tylenol] (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Sep. 20, 2002)
HEALTH: U.S. Officials Warn of a West Nile Risk From Transfusions (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Sep. 20, 2002)

Thursday, September 19, 2002:
On This Day: September 19 (George Cadbury 9/19/1839-10/24/1922, William H. Lever 9/19/1851-5/7/1925, Bergen Evans 9/19/1904-2/4/1978)
The President Dead; Gen. Arthur Takes the Oath As President (NY Times, September 19, 1881)
* William Golding Is Dead at 81; The Author of 'Lord of the Flies' [born 9/19/1911] (By BRUCE LAMBERT, June 19, 1993)

Peter Stroh, 74, Ex-Chairman of Brewery, Is Dead (By SETH SCHIESEL, Sep. 19, 2002)
James Gregory, Actor, 90, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 19, 2002)
Quita Brodhead, Vibrant Abstract Artist, Dies at 101 (NY TIMES, Sep. 19, 2002)
THE BUFFALO CASE: U.S. Seeks to Deny Bail to Accused (By JOHN KIFNER, Sep. 19, 2002)
NY REGION: Hello Mommy, Hola Nanny (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Sep. 19, 2002)
* OP-ED: Am I Dad, or a Tutor? (By WILLIAM SORENSEN, Sep. 19, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Maya Carvings Tell of 2 Superpowers (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Sep. 19, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sept. 19, 2002)

Wednesday, September 18, 2002:
On This Day: September 18 (Samuel Johnson 9/18/1709-12/13/1784, Jean-Bernard Foucault 9/18/1819-2/11/1868, Agnes de Mille 9/18/1905-10/7/1993, Edwin McMillan 9/18/1907-9/7/1991)
Defense Command Filled As 2 More Take Service Oath (By ANTHONY LEVIERO, September 18, 1947)
* Greta Garbo, 84, Screen Icon Who Fled Her Stardom, Dies [born 9/18/1905] (NY Times, April 16, 1990)

Robert H. Kirschner, Medical Sleuth, Dies at 61 (By PAUL LEWIS, Sep. 18, 2002)
LaWanda Page, 81, Actress and Comedienne, Is Dead (By MEL WATKINS, Sep. 18, 2002)
Sidney Epstein, Journalist, 81, Dies (NY TIMES, Sep. 18, 2002)
NATIONAL: California Power Failures Linked to Energy Companies (By JOHN M. BRODER, Sep. 18, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush Left Scrambling to Press Case on Iraq (By TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 18, 2002)
THE INTERNET: Revamped Proposal Suggests Strategies to Tighten Online Security
(By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Sep. 18, 2002)
LESSONS: How U.S. Punishes States With Higher Standards (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Sep. 18, 2002)
AIRPORTS: Big-Price Screening Machines Are Said to Get Little Use (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Sep. 18, 2002)
Conservative Churches Grew Fastest in 1990's, Report Says (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Sep. 18, 2002)
WORLD: North Koreans Sign Agreement With Japanese (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Sep. 18, 2002)
THE HUNT: U.S. Moves Commandos to East Africa to Pursue Qaeda in Yemen (By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 18, 2002)
Europe's Floods Leave Behind An Unsettled Political Scene (By MARK LANDLER, Sep. 18, 2002)
BOMB THREAT: Afghans Intercept Fuel Truck Aimed at U.S.-Run Air Base (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sep. 18, 2002)
Man Admits Poisoning Food in Rival's Shop, Killing 38 in China (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 18, 2002)
INSPECTIONS: Verification Is Difficult at Best, Say Experts, and Maybe Impossible (By JUDITH MILLER, Sep. 18, 2002)
* SHANGHAI JOURNAL: The Brothers Are in the Deconstruction Business (By JOSEPH KAHN, Sep. 18, 2002)
AN ASSASSIN: The Tangled History of the Soldier Who Tried to Kill Karzai (By JAMES BROOKE, Sep. 18, 2002)
THE GULF REGION: Commander's Visit Part of Growing Role for Qatar (By JANE PERLEZ, Sep. 18, 2002)
NY REGION: No Quick Fix for Radios, New York Fire Dept. Says (By JIM DWYER, Sep. 18, 2002)
SUSPECTS: U.S. Names 7th Man in Qaeda Cell Near Buffalo and Calls His Role Pivotal
(By JOHN KIFNER & MARC SANTORA, Sep. 18, 2002)
A Fierce Battle Over Cats . . . in a Township Named Morris (By ROBERT HANLEY, Sep. 18, 2002)
On Edge of a Void, an Oasis Reopens (By GLENN COLLINS, Sep. 18, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Minister's Star-Struck Path to Ground Zero [Rev. Bill Minson]
(By CHRIS HEDGES, Sep. 18, 2002)
SPORTS: Prayers and Praise at Funeral for Unitas (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 18, 2002)
SPORTS: Only Smiles, No Scowls, as Ewing Says Goodbye (By FRANK LITSKY, Sep. 18, 2002)
SPORTS: Ewing Listened to Mother (By GEORGE VECSEY, Sep. 18, 2002)
SPORTS: A's and Angels Raise Their Games in Amazing Race [A's win 4-3] (By LEONARD KOPPETT, Sep. 18, 2002)
EDITORIAL: A Road Map for Iraq (NY TIMES, Sep. 18, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The New Challenge to Microsoft (NY TIMES, Sep. 18, 2002)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: THE CITY LIFE: Stolen Glimpses (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Sep. 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Lemon Fizzes on the Banks of the Euphrates (By MAUREEN DOWD, Sep. 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Iraq, Upside Down (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sep. 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Forging Ideological Compromise (By DOUGLAS LAYCOCK, Sep. 18, 2002)
OP-ED: Notes From Tallahassee: Two Strikes and You're in Congress (By DIANE ROBERTS, Sep. 18, 2002)
LETTERS: Saddam Hussein Makes an Offer (By LAWRENCE S. FINKELSTEIN, et. al., Sep. 18, 2002)
Why Logos Are Out (By PAULA DIAMOND, Sep. 18, 2002)
Let Taiwan Into the U.N. (By KUO-JUNG LEE, Sep. 18, 2002)
BUSINESS: 2 Key Indexes Drop to Lowest Levels Since Early August
[Dow -173, Nasdaq -16] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 18, 2002)
Hershey Trust Halts Auction Despite Offer of $12 Billion (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Sep. 18, 2002)
* A Rebel in Japan Is Hailed as an Innovator in U.S. [Shuji Nakamura]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 18, 2002)
* Sun Ready to Push Linux as Alternative to Microsoft (By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 18, 2002)
Drop in Overseas Sales Hurts Oracle (By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 18, 2002)
Industrial Production Falls for First Time in 8 Months (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 18, 2002)
Schwab Sets New Round of Job Cuts (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Sep. 18, 2002)
A Dismal Retail Season (By TRACIE ROZHON, Sep. 18, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: J.P. Morgan Chase's Earnings Will Be Worse Than Expected
(By RIVA D. ATLAS, Sep. 18, 2002)
Editor From Fortune Gets Entertainment Weekly Post (By DAVID CARR, Sep. 18, 2002)
* China Is Warming to Hollywood's Glow (By RICK LYMAN, Sep. 18, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Pediatric Book on Breast-Feeding (By MELODY PETERSEN, Sep. 18, 2002)
Czechs Learning Just How Bad the Floods Were [$3.6 billion damage] (By PETER S. GREEN, Sep. 18, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: Going to the Opera in Houston, but Watching It on TV (By CYNTHIA GREENWOOD, Sep. 18, 2002)
BOOKS: 'ACROSS THE SABBATH RIVER': A Quest for a People Who May No Longer Exist
(By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Sep. 18, 2002)
CABARET: 'LOVE AND PAYNE': Decades After Their Pop Hits, 2 Singers Show What Else They Have
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Sep. 18, 2002)
FILM: 'DAS EXPERIMENT': A Full, Cruel Mouth Gives It All Away (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 18, 2002)
MUSIC: Not All Sunshine for Teensy Set's Troubadour (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Sep. 18, 2002)
POP LIFE: An Uphill Effort for World Harmony (By NEIL STRAUSS, Sep. 18, 2002)
TV: 'FASTLANE': Gumshoes With a Racy Style (It's Seized Goods, of Course) (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 18, 2002)
* TV: 'CHRISTOPHER REEVE: COURAGEOUS STEPS': Reeve in the Reality 'Superman'
(By ANITA GATES, Sep. 18, 2002)
* TV: 'THE TWILIGHT ZONE': If Death Tries Suicide, What's a Young Doc to Do? (By RON WERTHEIMER, Sep. 18, 2002)
FOOD: AT MY TABLE: From Tuscany, Simple Perfection [4 recipes] (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Sep. 18, 2002)
EATING WELL: Chefs Join Campaign Against Altered Fish (By MARIAN BURROS, Sep. 18, 2002)
Astonish the Crowd. Cook a Cucumber. [3 recipes] (By KAY RENTSCHLER, Sep. 18, 2002)
THE MINIMALIST: The Mango's Saucier Side [striped bass recipe] (NY TIMES, Sep. 18, 2002)
BY THE BOOK: In the Kitchen, Street Food From the Mediterranean (By AMANDA HESSER, Sep. 18, 2002)
TEMPTATION: Just-in-Time Pastry (By MELISSA CLARK, Sep. 18, 2002)
* SCIENCE: New Type of Black Hole May Offer Galactic Insight (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Sep. 18, 2002)

Tuesday, September 17, 2002:
On This Day: September 17 (Frederick von Steuben 9/17/1730-11/28/1794, Mercy Jackson 9/17/1802-12/13/1877, David Dunbar Buick 9/17/1854-3/6/1929, Christian Lange 9/17/1869-12/11/1938, Rube Foster 9/17/1879-12/9/1930, William Carlos Williams 9/17/1883-3/4/1963, Sir Francis Chichester 9/17/1901-8/26/1972, Sir Frederick Ashton 9/17/1904-8/18/1988, Warren Burger 9/17/1907-6/25/1995, David Oistrakh 9/17/1908-19/24/1974, Hank Williams 9/17/1923-1/1/1953, David Huddleston 1930, Dorothy Loudon 1933, Ken Kesey 1935, David H. Souter 1939, John Ritter 1948, Cassandra Peterson 1951)
* Battle of Antietam Creek (NY Times, September 17, 1862)
Maureen Connolly, Tennis Star, Dies [9/17/1934-6/21/1969] (NY Times, June 22, 1969)

David Grene, Colorful Expert on the Classics, Is Dead at 89 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 17, 2002)
Lolita Torres, 72, Argentine Actress and Singer, Dies (By SIMON ROMERO, Sep. 17, 2002)
Aaron Danzig, 89, Who Argued Landmark Case on Court Power, Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, Sep. 17, 2002)
Howard Odum, a Pioneering Voice on Ecology, Dies at 78 (NY TIMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
Tanjore Viswanathan, 75, Indian Musician, Dies (NY TIMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
NATIONAL: Ex-F.B.I. Agent Sentenced for Helping Mob Leaders (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Sep. 17, 2002)
Up, Down, In and Out in Beverly Hills: Rats (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Sep. 17, 2002)
News Groups Seek 9/11 Suspect's Filings (By PHILIP SHENON, Sep. 17, 2002)
Amid Talk of War Spending, Bush Urges Fiscal Restraint (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 17, 2002)
California Republican Party Finds Itself Deep in Pit (By JOHN M. BRODER, Sep. 17, 2002)
WORLD: U.N. Inspectors Can Return Unconditionally, Iraq Says
(By JULIA PRESTON and TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 17, 2002)
CAPTIVES: Terrorism Suspect Taken to U.S. Base for Interrogation (By DAVID JOHNSTON with DAVID ROHDE, Sep. 17, 2002)
MOSCOW JOURNAL: Father of K.G.B. Might Return to Headquarters (By, Sep. 17, 2002)
THE REFUGEES: Food and Hope Are Scarce for Returning Afghans (By CARLOTTA GALL, Sep. 17, 2002)
U.S. Will Get Power, and Pollution, From Mexico (By TIM WEINER, Sep. 17, 2002)
NY REGION: Worst-Hit Firm Faults Fairness of Sept. 11 Aid (By DAVID W. CHEN, Sep. 17, 2002)
SUSPECTS: Sixth Man Arraigned as Member of Qaeda Cell Near Buffalo
(By JOHN KIFNER & MARC SANTORA, Sep. 17, 2002)
THE LAW: Six Suspects Charged Under Broadly Worded Act (By PHILIP SHENON, Sep. 17, 2002)
Well, the Ices Are Still Italian [Bensonhurst, Brooklyn] (By JOSEPH BERGER, Sep. 17, 2002)
* 3 Bedrooms, 3 Baths (the Missile's Extra) (NY TIMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
* NYC: Brother, Can We Spare the Penny? (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Sep. 17, 2002)
SPORTS: Redesigned Yankees to Face an October of Uncertainties (By TYLER KEPNER, Sep. 17, 2002)
SPORTS: Ewing Will Retire Without a Title (By MIKE WISE, Sep. 17, 2002)
EDITORIAL: The Iraqi Chessboard (NY TIMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Some Things Considered [NPR bumped off the air] (NY TIMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
OP-ED: Recipes for Death (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Sep. 17, 2002)
OP-ED: Cronies in Arms (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Sep. 17, 2002)
* OP-ED: Learning Beyond Measure (By RICHARD R. BEEMAN, Sep. 17, 2002)
OP-ED: No Guns in Flight (By DAVE BARGER, Sep. 17, 2002)
LETTERS: Civic Virtues and the Classroom (By ANNE-LISE HALVORSEN, et. al., Sep. 17, 2002)
LETTERS: Web and State Face Off in China (By VINCENT WEI-CHENG WANG, Sep. 17, 2002)
* LETTERS: The Story of Noah (Rabbi BALFOUR BRICKNER, Sep. 17, 2002)
BUSINESS: The Dow Ends a Bit Higher, but Technology Shares Slide
[Dow +67, Nasdaq -16 ] (By REUTERS, Sep. 17, 2002)
* Some Directors Said to Seek Ouster at AOL (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Sep. 17, 2002)
G.E.'s Ex-Chief to Pay for Perks, but How Much? (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON with REED ABELSON, Sep. 17, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Goldman Sachs, a Bowling Bust, Takes Up Golf (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Sep. 17, 2002)
* A Microsoft Pioneer Leaves to Strike Out on His Own [Charles Simonyi] (By STEVE LOHR, Sep. 17, 2002)
Kmart Reports Loss as Sales Stay Slow (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 17, 2002)
Goldman Insiders May Sell Some Shares (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 17, 2002)
Sallie Mae Is Sued Over Student Loans (By REUTERS, Sep. 17, 2002)
MEMO PAD: Taking the Sting Out of Nonrefundables (By JOE SHARKEY, Sep. 17, 2002)
* ON THE GROUND: A Good Time for Bay Area Bargains [Vertigo spots] (By DREW LIMSKY, Sep. 17, 2002)
* ON THE ROAD: What's in a Name? A Good Bit, Really (By JOE SHARKEY, Sep. 17, 2002)
* BUSINESS TRAVEL: Learning to Avoid a Deal-Killing Faux Pas in Japan (By JAMES BROOKE, Sep. 17, 2002)
Why Japan Steps Gingerly in the Middle East (By KEN BELSON, Sep. 17, 2002)
ADVERTISING: TV Shows Are Starting Early to Try to Draw Viewers (By BILL CARTER, Sep. 17, 2002)
Military's Ban on Sale of Sex Magazines and Videos Is Upheld (By ADAM LIPTAK, Sep. 17, 2002)
New Challenge for China's Shaky Banks (By KEITH BRADSHER, Sep. 17, 2002)
* ARTS ABROAD: Out of Sheba Came a Queen (Maybe Not) (By ALAN RIDING, Sep. 17, 2002)
Survey Finds Artists Since 9/11 Have Less Work and More Debt (By JESSE McKINLEY, Sep. 17, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'THE PIANO TUNER': A Debut Novel Born of Homer, Conrad and Malaria
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Sep. 17, 2002)
* BOOKS: Caro Has One to Go on Johnson but No Rush (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Sep. 17, 2002)
DANCE THEATER OF HARLEM: A Need to Back Off From Emotion (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 17, 2002)
DANCE: American Dance Festival Directors to Receive French Arts Medals (NY TIMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
FILM CRITIC: Brian De Palma Toasts the New and Reflects on 'Scarface' (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 17, 2002)
MUSIC: John Adams Delivers a Commissioned Work on 9/11 (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Sep. 17, 2002)
MUSIC: CZECH WORLD ORCHESTRA: Czechs, in New York Debut, Play an American's Piece
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Sep. 17, 2002)
TV: '8 SIMPLE RULES FOR DATING MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER': Life With Father, Not to Mention Mom and the Kids
(By RON WERTHEIMER, Sep. 17, 2002)
TV: 'PUSH, NEVADA': Sex in Unison Is Just One Quirk Among Many (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
TV: 'LIFE WITH BONNIE': Wisecracks at Home, Goofiness at Work (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Sep. 17, 2002)
* SCIENCE: Physical Effects of Sept. 11 Scrutinized From on High (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Sep. 17, 2002)
* New Eyes in Space, Even Sharper Than Hubble's (By WARREN E. LEARY, Sep. 17, 2002)
* SCIENTIST AT WORK: In Nature vs. Nurture, a Voice for Nature (By NICHOLAS WADE, Sep. 17, 2002)
* How Africa Landed Motherlode of Gold (By KENNETH CHANG, Sep. 17, 2002)
The Physics of the Wave, in Stadiums, Not Oceans (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Sep. 17, 2002)
* Research Brings a New Dimension to 'a Candidate's Voice' (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Sep. 17, 2002)
* Born With It? Author Suggests Yes (NY TIMES, Sep. 17, 2002)
NASA Starts Planning Hubble's Going-Away Party (By WARREN E. LEARY, Sep. 17, 2002)
OBSERVATORY: Iceman's Last Meal (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Sep. 17, 2002)
SCIENCE LETTERS: Separate Friendship and Marriage (By DR. KATHLEEN HULL, Sep. 17, 2002)
HEALTH: Caution: That Dose May Be Too High (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, Sep. 17, 2002)
HEALTH: War Horrors Take a Toll on Reporters at the Front (By ERICA GOODE, Sep. 17, 2002)
* Students Find Another Staple of Campus Life: Stress (By MARY DUENWALD, Sep. 17, 2002)
PERSPECTIVES: Dilemma on Prostate Cancer Treatment Splits Experts (By GINA KOLATA, Sep. 17, 2002)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Sleep Apnea, a Noisy but Often Invisible Threat (By JANE E. BRODY, Sep. 17, 2002)
* ESSAY: When 'Health' Supplements May Do Harm (By BENJAMIN J. ANSELL, M.D., Sep. 17, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Child Care: Helping Babies Sleep More Safely (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 17, 2002)
* VITAL SIGNS: Standards: Staying Vigilant for Weak Bones (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 17, 2002)
* VITAL SIGNS: Reactions: An Allergy That's on the Money [nickel] (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 17, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: A Clue to Lou Gehrig's Disease (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 17, 2002)
* Q & A: Kaleidoscope Eyes (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Sep. 17, 2002)

Monday, September 16, 2002:
On This Day: September 16 (Squire Whipple 9/16/1804-3/15/1888, Albrecht Kossel 9/16/1853-7/5/1927, J. C. Penney 9/16/1875-2/12/1971, Clive Bell 9/16/1881-9/17/1964, Karen Horney 9/16/1885-12/4/1952, Jean Arp 9/16/1887-6/7/1966, Earl Carroll 9/16/1893-6/17/1948, Sir Alexander Korda 9/16/1893-1/23/1956, Laurence Peter 9/16/1919-1/12/1990, Janis Paige 1922, Lauren Bacall 1924, Rev. Robert Sculler 1926, Peter Falk 1927, George Chakiris 1933, Susan Ruttan 1948, Ed Begley Jr. 1949, Mickey Rourke 1956, David Copperfield 1956, Molly Shannon 1964)
Ford Offers Amnesty Program Requiring 2 Years Public Work; Defends His Nixon Pardon (By MARJORIE HUNTER, Sept. 16, 1974)
Railroad Man & "Empire Builder" J. J. Hill Dead At The Age of 77
[9/16/1838-5/29/1916] (NY Times, May 30, 1916)

Dr. Orvan W. Hess, Who Developed Fetal Heart Monitor, Dies at 96 (By CARLA BARANAUCKAS, Sep. 16, 2002)
* Pearlee Toliver, Who Filled Radio Show With Quirky Ads, Is Dead (By NEIL STRAUSS, Sep. 16, 2002)
John C. Harper, 78, Minister Who Preached to 8 Presidents, Dies (By JOHN FILES, Sep. 16, 2002)
Dr. Robert Apfel, Who Studied Physics of Liquids, Is Dead at 59 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Sep. 16, 2002)
Bernice Chesler, 69, Guidebook Author, Dies (NY TIMES, Sep. 16, 2002)
NATIONAL: F.B.I. Makes Sixth Arrest in Buffalo Inquiry (By JOHN KIFNER & MARC SANTORA, Sep. 16, 2002)
THE UNEXAMINED: Science Slow to Ponder Ills That Linger in Anthrax Victims
(By WILLIAM J. BROAD & DENISE GRADY, Sep. 16, 2002)
PTA Tries to Get More Hispanic Parents Involved in Schools (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Sep. 16, 2002)
Three Detained Muslim Students Have No Hard Feelings, One Insists (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 16, 2002)
* WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Did President 43 Say to 41, 'You Be Dad, I'll Be Son'? (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 16, 2002)
A 60's-Style Retreat Faces Modern-Day Challenges (By NICK MADIGAN, Sep. 16, 2002)
WORLD: Saudis Indicating U.S. Can Use Bases if U.N. Backs War (By TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 16, 2002)
U.S. Trying to Market Itself to Young, Suspicious Arabs (By JANE PERLEZ, Sep. 16, 2002)
Guantánamo Bay Faces Sentence of Life as Permanent U.S. Prison (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Sep. 16, 2002)
THE CAPTIVE: Questioning of Qaeda Suspect Arrested in Pakistan Continues (By DAVID ROHDE, Sep. 16, 2002)
PARIS JOURNAL: For French Girls, Playing Soccer Is a Tough Goal (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Sep. 16, 2002)
* Ethics of Interviewing Terrorists (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Sep. 16, 2002)
Step Aside, L.A. and Bombay, for Nollywood (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Sep. 16, 2002)
NY REGION: On the East Side-Iraqi Border (By MARC SANTORA, Sep. 16, 2002)
As Companies Scatter, Doubts on Return of Financial District (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Sep. 16, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By JOE ROGERS, Sep. 16, 2002)
SPORTS: De La Hoya Uses Guile and Gloves to Silence Vargas (By CLIFTON BROWN, Sep. 16, 2002)
SPORTS: GIANTS 26, RAMS 21: This Time, the Giants Finish Off the Rams (By BUSTER OLNEY, Sep. 16, 2002)
ON PRO FOOTBALL: Collins Makes Accorsi Look Like a Genius (By MIKE FREEMAN, Sep. 16, 2002)
EDITORIAL: China's Looming Catastrophe (NY TIMES, Sep. 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Relying on Saddam (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Paying People to Work, but Not Enough to Live (By BOB HERBERT, Sep. 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Why Iraq Will Defeat Arms Inspectors (By GARY MILHOLLIN & KELLY MOTZ, Sep. 16, 2002)
OP-ED: Immigration Reform and National Security (By TAMAR JACOBY, Sep. 16, 2002)
LETTERS: You've Got Mail: Enough Already! (By THOMAS F. PARKER, Sep. 16, 2002)
LETTERS: Invading Iraq, and Other Options (By JUDITH NATKINS, Sep. 16, 2002)
* BUSINESS: New Approach for AOL Broadband (By SAUL HANSELL, Sep. 16, 2002)
CBS Once Again Plans Changes as Morning Host Leaves Show (By BILL CARTER, Sep. 16, 2002)
* Jack Welch in Unlikely Company (By LESLIE WAYNE & ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Sep. 16, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Going Online to Buy a Car (By BOB TEDESCHI, Sep. 16, 2002)
* Student Skill Is Expected to Bolster Technology (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Sep. 16, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: In That Place Where TV and the Net Almost Meet (By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 16, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Getting Information From State Web Sites at a Price (By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, Sep. 16, 2002)
On a Single Chip, Intel Joins Realms of Analog and Digital (By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 16, 2002)
I.B.M. Agrees to Expand Its Use of the Linux Operating System (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Sep. 16, 2002)
NEW ECONOMY: A Battle Over Software Licensing (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Sep. 16, 2002)
MEDIA: U.S. Satellite Channel Offers Unfiltered Views From the Middle East (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Sep. 16, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Lou Dobbs to Weigh In as Regular in U.S. News (By DAVID CARR, Sep. 16, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Buying Furniture for the Fun of It (By STUART ELLIOTT, Sep. 16, 2002)
Gentler Shock Radio, for Now (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Sep. 16, 2002)
* MEDIA TALK: Epic Records Takes Steps to Seal Its Newest Music [Note Photo: vanishing point resembles Platonic Lambda] (By CHRIS NELSON, Sep. 16, 2002)
* Magazine Imitates a Catalog and Has a Charmed Life, So Far [Lucky] (By DAVID CARR, Sep. 16, 2002)
Columnist Bob Greene Resigns After Sexual Misconduct Inquiry (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Sep. 16, 2002)

Sunday, September 15, 2002:
On This Day: September 15 (James Fenimore Cooper 9/15/1789-9/14/1851, Bruno Walter 9/15/1876-2/17/1962, Dame Agatha Christie 9/15/1890-1/12/1976, Jean Renoir 9/15/1894-2/12/1979, Norm Crosby 9/15/1927, Prince Harry 9/15/1984)
Birmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls In Church; Riots Flare; 2 Boys Slain
(By Claude Sitton, Sept. 15, 1963)
William Howard Taft Gained Peaks In Unusual Career, Dies at 72
[9/15/1857-3/8/1930] (NY Times, March 9, 1930)

Jerry Boyd, 72, a Writer Who Lived the Boxing Life, Dies (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Sep. 15, 2002)
* Salvator Altchek, 'the $5 Doctor' of Brooklyn, Dies at 92 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* William Phillips, Co-Founder and Soul of Partisan Review, Dies at 94 (By JOSEPH BERGER, Sep. 15, 2002)
NATIONAL: U.S. Says Suspects Awaited an Order for Terror Strike (By PHILIP SHENON, Sep. 15, 2002)
* On the Left Side of the FM Dial, a War for Turf (By BLAINE HARDEN, Sep. 15, 2002)
Burning of Chemical Arms Puts Fear in Wind (By RICK BRAGG with GLYNN WILSON, Sep. 15, 2002)
Void Mormon Leader Left Could Take Years to Fill (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Sep. 15, 2002)
In Maryland, a Blowout Becomes a Nail-Biter [Kathleen Kennedy Townsend] (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Sep. 15, 2002)
WORLD: Arrests Raising Hopes in Hunt for Al Qaeda (By DAVID JOHNSTON with DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Sep. 15, 2002)
Raid Provides Hint of Qaeda's Rise in Pakistan (By DAVID ROHDE, Sep. 15, 2002)
China Wages Rear-Guard Battle in Effort to Rein in Press (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Sep. 15, 2002)
ENVOYS: Split on Iraq Emerges in the U.N. (By JULIA PRESTON, Sep. 15, 2002)
Hopes and Uncertainties High for North Korea-Japan Talks (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Sep. 15, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: For Now, Trading Allies for Votes (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 15, 2002)
Hong Kong Plan for Sedition Law Alarms Democracy Advocates (By KEITH BRADSHER, Sep. 15, 2002)
Relishing Beautiful New Freedoms in Kabul (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sep. 15, 2002)
ARAB ALLIES: Jordan Could Suffer From U.S. Assault on Iraq (By JANE PERLEZ, Sep. 15, 2002)
Iraq Sets Terms for U.N. Return (By REUTERS, Sep. 15, 2002)
NY REGION: State Is Failing Mentally Ill, Study Says (By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Sep. 15, 2002)
SUSPECTS: Families and Neighbors Defend 5 Linked to Terror (By MARC SANTORA, Sep. 15, 2002)
A Mystery in Harlem [95-year old Georgianna Werner murdered] (By KELLY CROW, Sep. 15, 2002)
OUR TOWNS: Looking for the Elusive Two-Thirds Who Want War With Iraq (By MATTHEW PURDY, Sep. 15, 2002)
* SPORTS: Montgomery of U.S. Runs 9.78 to Break 100-Meter Record (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Sep. 15, 2002)
SPORTS: Life of Figure Skater Ends in Mystery [Will Sears] (By JERE LONGMAN with AMY ROSEWATER, Sep. 15, 2002)
* BASEBALL: In Scorebook, the Double Play Turns 100 [Sept. 15, 1902] (By DAVE ANDERSON, Sep. 15, 2002)
* INSIDE BASEBALL: Smoltz Nears Record in Role as Braves' Closer (By MURRAY CHASS, Sep. 15, 2002)
BOXING: De La Hoya Wears Down Vargas (By CLIFTON BROWN, Sep. 15, 2002)
FOOTBALL: A Changed Dr. Doom Returns [Bill Belichick of Patriots] (By THOMAS GEORGE, Sep. 15, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Courtside Tickets for Life (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: History Lessons for Wartime Presidents and Their Generals (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Going Our Way (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: W.'s Conflicts of Interest (By MAUREEN DOWD, Sep. 15, 2002)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: The Stalling of Election Reform (By WARREN CHRISTOPHER, Sep. 15, 2002)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Good Students and Good Citizens (By JAMES BERNARD MURPHY, Sep. 15, 2002)
LETTERS: Are Liberties a Casualty of War? (By PIERRE PASSAVANT, et. al., Sep. 15, 2002)
* LETTERS: Evil and Compassion (By MARC STERN, Sep. 15, 2002)
LETTERS: Iran's Shadow Forces (By ELAHE S. HICKS, Sep. 15, 2002)
BUSINESS: From Investor Fury, a Legal Bandwagon (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Sep. 15, 2002)
Reining In the Imperial C.E.O. (By DAVID LEONHARDT with ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
Dropping Logos That Shout, Luxury Sellers Try Whispers (By TRACIE ROZHON, Sep. 15, 2002)
* THE RIGHT THING: Why the Rush to Find Fault in Women? (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* Worried About Corporate Numbers? How About the Charts? (By DONNA ROSATO, Sep. 15, 2002)
Perks From Tuition to Bodyguards (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Sep. 15, 2002)
PRELUDES: Stock Options? Try Union Dues (By ABBY ELLIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
MONEY & MEDICINE: An Insurance Door Opens, but Only by a Crack (By MICHELLE ANDREWS, Sep. 15, 2002)
INVESTING WITH G. PAUL MATTHEWS: Matthews Asian Growth and Income Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Sep. 15, 2002)
Fending Off Babel in a Global Village [Silicon Graphics CEO] (By JONATHAN B. LEVINE, Sep. 15, 2002)
* The Gloves Are Definitely Gone at the Katharine Gibbs Schools (By ABBY ELLIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* M.B.A. Programs Now Screen for Integrity, Too (By LYNNLEY BROWNING, Sep. 15, 2002)
* Who's That Upstart in the Ice Cream Case? [Chipwich Inc] (By BERNARD SIMON, Sep. 15, 2002)
Mortgage Rates May Be Low, but Beware the Fees (By LEAH BETH WARD, Sep. 15, 2002)
THE BOSS: A Cowboy, at Last [Chief, Rosenbluth International]
(By HAL F. ROSENBLUTH, Written with AMY ZIPKIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* STRATEGIES: When Those One-Time Expenses Have a Refrain (By MARK HULBERT, Sep. 15, 2002)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Ensuring Competition for Military Contracts (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Sep. 15, 2002)
MARKET INSIGHT: Oil Prices and the Drums of War (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* MARKET WATCH: Analyze This: What Those Analysts Said in Private (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Sep. 15, 2002)
* In This 'Superman' Story, the Executives Do the Fighting (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 15, 2002)
Commuting Home in Time for... Labor Day (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
Putting a Financial Crisis Aside for a Shared Moment of Grief (By RICK GLADSTONE, Sep. 15, 2002)
INVESTING DIARY: N.Y.S.E. Wants End to Cozy Enforcement (By Jeff Sommer, Sep. 15, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: More Women Enjoy Shopping for Cars (Compiled by Vivian Marino, Sep. 15, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: In France, the Boss Is Fashionably Late (Compiled by Vivian Marino, Sep. 15, 2002)
The Export-Import Bank: Who Is Helping Whom? (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
Like the Song, Love the Car (By PHIL PATTON, Sep. 15, 2002)
* ART: An Architect Who Reaches Up to Paint the Stars (By BROOK S. MASON, Sep. 15, 2002)
* ART: A Résumé of Surfing and Philosophy as Well as Art (By MICHAEL RUSH, Sep. 15, 2002)
* DANCE: Putting a Label on Him Doesn't Get Any Easier [John Kelly as Baptiste]
(By SUSAN REITER, Sep. 15, 2002)
DANCE: Swing Your Partner and Try to Remember All Those Steps (By SHAYNA SAMUELS, Sep. 15, 2002)
* FILM: Going Hunting in Seinfeld Country, Just for Laughs (By RICK LYMAN, Sep. 15, 2002)
FILM: A Family's Legacy: Pain and Humor (and a Movie) (By KAREN DURBIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
FILM: Sometimes the Spanking Brought Tears (By DANA KENNEDY, Sep. 15, 2002)
FILM: RUSHES: An Experiment Goes Very Awry (By KAREN DURBIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
FILM: 1962: When the Silver Screen Never Looked So Golden (By STEPHEN FARBER, Sep. 15, 2002)
MUSIC: From Sweden, Rock of Ages Past (By HUGO LINDGREN, Sep. 15, 2002)
MUSIC: For a Restless Maazel, the Ultimate Trophy? (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Sep. 15, 2002)
MUSIC: Around The World in 92 Discs [CD's] (By JON PARELES, Sep. 15, 2002)
MUSIC SPINS: A Sincere Approach to Western Swing (By NEIL STRAUSS, Sep. 15, 2002)
* MUSIC: Walton, at 100, Is Winning the Race (By MICHAEL WHITE, Sep. 15, 2002)
* MUSIC: Anybody Listening? A Hapless History at the New York Philharmonic (By JOSEPH HOROWITZ, Sep. 15, 2002)
MUSIC: HIGH NOTES: A Cool Display of Vocal Fireworks (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Sep. 15, 2002)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: For Faces Almost Lost to History, a Chance to Speak (By VICKI GOLDBERG, Sep. 15, 2002)
THEATER: A Playwright at Home With Life's Outsiders [Lanford Wilson] (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 15, 2002)
* THEATER: What Euripides Knew About Refugees: Everything (By RON JENKINS, Sep. 15, 2002)
THEATER: A New Hester Prynne Who Takes On the Patriarchy (By CELIA WREN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* THEATER: Filming Beckett, for Education or Excitement (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
* TV: On the Other Side of the Sex Farce [John Ritter on acting] (By HUGH HART, Sep. 15, 2002)
TV: A Wunderkind Tries to Bring Some Wonder to WB (By ALAN JAMES FRUTKIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
ARTS LETTERS: In the Mail: Rolling Stones (By STEVE BURNETT, et. al., Sep. 15, 2002)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
* Sweetie, Who's Slimming You This Season? (By KATE BETTS, Sep. 15, 2002)
VOWS: Georgia Hobaica and Ronald Frasch (By, Sep. 15, 2002)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
EUROPE: FALL/WINTER: The Chambers of England's Heart (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Sep. 15, 2002)
EUROPE: FALL/WINTER: European Roundup: Glorious Recycling (By FRANK BRUNI, et. al., Sep. 15, 2002)
TRAVEL: EUROPE: FALL/WINTER: A Season for Celebrities (By BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Sep. 15, 2002)
CHOICE TABLES: In Amsterdam, a Mediterranean Style Holds Sway (By MARK BITTMAN, Sep. 15, 2002)
WHAT'S DOING: In Vienna (By ERIC PFANNER, Sep. 15, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: Flying as a Statement of Defiance to Terror (By JOE SHARKEY, Sep. 15, 2002)
* TRAVEL ESSAY: Holding the Bag in Italy (By MADELINE DREXLER, Sep. 15, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
* MOURNING IN AMERICA: A Whiff of Dread for the Land of Hope [Bierstadt] (By SIMON SCHAMA, Sep. 15, 2002)
CHANGING PLACES: War Talk Hits Its First Target: The Pivotal Ally (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Sep. 15, 2002)
* In Airport Security, Think Low Tech (By EDWARD WONG, Sep. 15, 2002)
Is Tony Soprano Today's Ward Cleaver? (By TERRY TEACHOUT, Sep. 15, 2002)
WORD FOR WORD: Letters from Afghanistan (By ANDREW CARROLL, Sep. 15, 2002)
INTERACTIVE FEATURE: Psssst... Can I Get a Bomb Trigger? (By TOM ZELLER, Sep. 15, 2002)
* WIT'S END :): Come Back, We've Changed. Really. (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Sep. 15, 2002)
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES: The Radioactive Fruit Squad (By NYTIMES.COM, Sep. 15, 2002)
Pre-emptive Strike: American soldiers teaching Afghan children how to play baseball (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
INDULGENCES: Madison Avenue Never Rests (By STUART ELLIOTT, Sep. 15, 2002)
* THEOLOGY AND HISTORY: Catholics, Jews and the Work of Reconciliation (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Sep. 15, 2002)
THE VOTE: Count and Recount: Primary Winners and Losers (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Sep. 15, 2002)
Could Striking First Mean Striking Out? (By TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 15, 2002)
Words of Warning: Don't Shoot (By JAYSON BLAIR, Sep. 15, 2002)
* The Curse of the Dubya [Stock market under the Bushes] (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 15, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Perp Walk (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 15, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: A Whole New Ballgame (By CHARLES MCGRATH, Sep. 15, 2002)
* QUESTIONS FOR STEVEN PINKER: Brain Work (By DAVID RAKOFF, Sep. 15, 2002)
TESTIMONY: Segregation Revisited (By PAMELA GRUNDY, Sep. 15, 2002)
* PAGE TURNER: The Grown-Up Ingénue [Naomi Watts] (By FRANK RICH, Sep. 15, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Espousing Confidence (By RANDY COHEN, Sep. 15, 2002)
* What They Were Thinking [Ferlinghetti, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, 1955]
(Interview by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Sep. 15, 2002)
A Woman's Work (By PETER LANDESMAN, Sep. 15, 2002)
When Politics Is Personal [Senator Pete V. Domenici, advocate for the mentally ill]
(By DEBORAH SONTAG, Sep. 15, 2002)
The Stranger [Billy Joel] (By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN, Sep. 15, 2002)
Huntin' for Nascar-Lovin', Moon-Pie-Eatin', Bluegrass-Listenin', Shotgun-Totin' Democrats (By MATT BAI, Sep. 15, 2002)
* STYLE: Beauty and the Feast [Horst Rechelbacher, New Age cosmetics guru]
(By MARY TANNEN, Sep. 15, 2002)
LIVES: Dude, Where's My Car? (By MIRIAM TOEWS, Sep. 15, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 15, 2002)
* 'Rocky Marciano': The Last Great White Hope (By DAVE ANDERSON, Sep. 15, 2002)
'Why Terrorism Works': Thinking the Unthinkable (By BARRY GEWEN, Sep. 15, 2002)
'Sharon': First in War (By DAVID C. UNGER, Sep. 15, 2002)

Saturday, September 14, 2002:
On This Day: September 14 (Luigi Cherubini 9/14/1760-3/15/1842, Alexander von Humboldt 9/14/1769-5/6/1859, Ivan Pavlov 9/14/1849-2/27/1936, Jan Masaryk 9/14/1886-3/10/1948, Karl Compton 9/14/1887-6/22/1954, Alan Bloom 9/14/1930-10/7/1992)
* Soviet Rocket Hits Moon After 35 Hours (By MAX FRANKEL, Sept. 14, 1959)
Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control [born 9/14/1879] (NY Times, September 7, 1966)

P. Wamba, Who Wrote of Life as African and American, Dies at 31 (By RANDY KENNEDY, Sep. 14, 2002)
SATURDAY PROFILE: Crashing, and Saving, the Old Lads' Front Office (By WARREN HOGE, Sep. 14, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 14, 2002)
EDITORIAL: A Measured Pace on Iraq (NY TIMES, Sep. 14, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Betraying the Foreign Victims (NY TIMES, Sep. 14, 2002)
OP-ED: Never Forget What? (By FRANK RICH, Sep. 14, 2002)
OP-ED: Terror's Trojan Horse (By CHARLES E. SCHUMER, Sep. 14, 2002)
OP-ED: The Governor Doesn't Need a Lieutenant (By BETSY MCCAUGHEY, Sep. 14, 2002)
OP-ED: Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail (By OREN ETZIONI, Sep. 14, 2002)
LETTERS: Bush and Baghdad: The Temperature Rises (By STEVEN LEE, Sep. 14, 2002)
LETTERS: Israel, Look Inward (By LINDA LIVNI, Sep. 14, 2002)
LETTERS: Christopher Reeve's Class Act (By FRED SHECTMAN, Sep. 14, 2002)
BUSINESS: Shares Mixed on Varied Economic News and Iraq Talk
[Dow -67, Nasdaq +12] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 14, 2002)
Lucent Plans to Eliminate More Positions (By SIMON ROMERO, Sep. 14, 2002)
Lawyer Says Ex-Merrill Analyst Traded Gifts With Tyco Chief (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Sep. 14, 2002)
ImClone Ordered Paper Shredders (By ANDREW POLLACK, Sep. 14, 2002)
No Inflation at Wholesale; Retail Sales Up Strongly (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 14, 2002)
* CONNECTIONS: A Philosopher With New Disciples (in Music, Not Philosophy)
[Beethoven's Opus 111 piano sonata & philosopher Theodor W. Adorno]
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Sep. 14, 2002)

Friday, September 13, 2002:
On This Day: September 13 (Clara Schumann 9/13/1813-5/20/1896, Arnold Schoenberg 9/13/1874-7/13/1951, Sherwood Anderson 9/13/1876-3/8/1941)
Rabin and Arafat Seal Their Accord as Clinton Applauds 'Brave Gamble' (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sept. 13, 1993)
Leadership, Personal Courage, Devotion to Troops Won for Pershing Affection of Nation [9/13/1860] (July 16, 1948)

Wesley Naylor, Composer, Dies at 44 (By JESSE McKINLEY, Sep. 13, 2002)
Cliff Gorman, 65, Portrayer of Lenny Bruce on Broadway, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Sep. 13, 2002)
Rolf Fjelde, a Translator and Champion of Ibsen Plays, 76, Dies (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 13, 2002)
Peter Barton, a Founder of a Cable TV Giant, Dies at 51 (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Sep. 13, 2002)
Kenneth Yablonski, 68, Labor Lawyer, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 13, 2002)
Erma Franklin, Soloist and Backup Singer, 64, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 13, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 13, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 13, 2002)

Thursday, September 12, 2002:
On This Day: September 12 (Lorenzo de Medici 9/12/1492-5/4/1519, H.L. Mencken 9/12/1880-1/29/1956, Maurice Chevalier 9/12/1888-1/1/1972, Alfred Knopf 9/12/1892-8/11/1984, Ben Shahn 9/12/1898-3/14/1969)
Steven Biko, Young Black Leader Dies in Detention in South Africa (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sept. 12, 1977)
Jesse Owens Dies of Cancer at 66; Hero of the 1936 Berlin Olympics [9/12/1913] (By FRANK LITSKY, April 1, 1980)

* Johnny Unitas, N.F.L.'s Genius of the Huddle, Dies at 69 (By FRANK LITSKY, Sep. 12, 2002)
* Kim Hunter, 79, Actress Lauded in 'Streetcar,' Is Dead (By RICK LYMAN, Sep. 12, 2002)
NATIONAL: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: Lamenting Death, and Vulnerability (By MICHAEL ORESKES, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE ALERT: A Day of High Security Proves Mostly Uneventful (By DAVID JOHNSTON with JOHN BRODER, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE PRESIDENT: Bush's Pilgrimage Ends With Vow to Prevail Over 'Terrorist or Tyrant'
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE OBSERVANCES: A Single Grief Knits Together a Vast Country (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Sep. 12, 2002)
Military Stays Popular, for Travel and School (By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE PENTAGON CEREMONY: Honoring Those Lost and Celebrating a New Symbol of Resilience
(By JOHN TIERNEY, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE SHANKSVILLE CEREMONY: President and Wife Draw Warm Response in Meeting With Families
(By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE WORKPLACE: As People Try to Work, Memories and a Hush (By PAM BELLUCK, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE SCHOOLS: For Some Students, Attacks Lose Their Grip (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE TRAVELERS: A Year Later, Air Passengers Are Few, but Determined (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE SMALL TOWN: In America's Heartland, Children With Stars and Stripes in their Eyes
(By JODI WILGOREN, Sep. 12, 2002)
SARASOTA, FLA.: Children Realize '01 Bush Visit Was Unique (By SARA KENNEDY, Sep. 12, 2002)
LAUREL, MD.: Remorse at a Stop of Hijacker (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Sep. 12, 2002)
GUANTÁNAMO BAY: Taps in Air and Inmates in Cells (NY TIMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
DEARBORN, MICH.: With Ashes, a Gathering of All Faiths (NY TIMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
SAN DIEGO: A Flight Instructor Tries to Clear His Name (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Sep. 12, 2002)
* ON TELEVISION: For a Change, Commentators Let Coverage Unfold Without Too Much Talk
(By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
F.B.I. Searches Home of Researcher Again (NY TIMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
WORLD: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
GULF EXERCISES SET: Bush to Warn U.N.: Act on Iraq or U.S. Will (By DAVID E. SANGER and JULIA PRESTON, Sep. 12, 2002)
Europe Pauses and Grieves, but Takes Issue With U.S. (By FRANK BRUNI, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE MILITARY: Move to Gulf by Key Unit Could Set Staff for Iraq War (By MICHAEL R. GORDON & ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 12, 2002)
RUSSIA: Putin Warns Georgia to Root Out Chechen Rebels (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Sep. 12, 2002)
NEW YORK REGION: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
A Day of Tributes, Tears, and the Litany of the Lost (By DAN BARRY, Sep. 12, 2002)
New Yorkers Carry On, But a Void Hangs in Air (By JIM DWYER, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE MAYOR: Bloomberg Is, by Turns, Pensive and Peripatetic (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Sep. 12, 2002)
PUBLIC LIVES: A Man of Words, and an Event That Defies Them (By CHRIS HEDGES, Sep. 12, 2002)
* This Time, 9-1-1 Is Lucky [New York Lottery's winning numbers] (NY TIMES, Sep. 12, 2002)
* NOTEBOOK: For the Families, a Long Year's Journey Into Grief, and Back Again
(By JAN HOFFMAN, Sep. 12, 2002)
* THE MUSIC: Consoling, Hopeful, Spiritual (By JANNY SCOTT, Sep. 12, 2002)
* Offering Messages of Love to the Parents They Lost (By KIRK JOHNSON, Sep. 12, 2002)
BLOCKS: Part of Post-9/11 Planning That Is Most Promising (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE MOSQUE: A Plea for Healing (By LISA W. FODERARO, Sep. 12, 2002)
THE COUNT: Every Name Read, Even if Some May Be Alive (By ERIC LIPTON, Sep. 12, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sept. 12, 2002)

Wednesday, September 11, 2002:
On This Day: September 11 (O. Henry 9/11/1862-6/5/1910, D.H. Lawrence 9/11/1885-3/2/1930, Vinoba Bhave 9//1/1895-11/15/1982)
Allende Out, Reported Suicide; Marxist Regime In Chile Falls In Army's Violent Coup (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sept. 11, 1973)
Ferdinand Marcos, Ousted Leader Of Philippines, Dies at 72 in Exile [9/11/1917] (By JANE GROSS, Sept. 29, 1989)

Henri Rol-Tanguy, French Resistance Figure, Dies at 94 (By ALAN RIDING, Sep. 11, 2002)
Katrin Cartlidge, 41, Actress Known for Offbeat Roles, Is Dead (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 11, 2002)
Ed Warner, College Star Convicted of Shaving Points, 73, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Sep. 11, 2002)
* A Nation Challenged: One Year Later [Special Section] (NY TIMES, Sep. 11, 2002)
NATIONAL: U.S. Steps Up Alert as Solemn Day Arrives (By DAVID E. SANGER & DAVID JOHNSTON, Sep. 11, 2002)
Attack Anniversary to Include Requiems, Flyovers and Moments of Silence (By JANNY SCOTT, Sep. 11, 2002)
THE JITTERS: The Nation Carries On, Jumpy but Still Resolute (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Sep. 11, 2002)
THE RESPONSE: Heightened U.S. Alert to Bring Little Change Across Country
(By JOHN M. BRODER & JIM YARDLEY, Sep. 11, 2002)
One Miss North Carolina Pleads Her Case (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Sep. 11, 2002)
* LESSONS: Rx for Good Health and Good Grades (By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Sep. 11, 2002)
ON TELEVISION: Sudden Warning Statement Adds Drama to Anxious Day (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Sep. 11, 2002)
* Threat of Terrorism Is Shaping the Focus of Bush Presidency (By ELISABETH BUMILLER & DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 11, 2002)
THE LAWMAKERS: Stars of Terror Drama in Congress Have Yet to Emerge, but Cast of Characters Grows
(By ALISON MITCHELL, Sep. 11, 2002)
President Meets Muslim Leaders in Post-9/11 First (NY TIMES, Sep. 11, 2002)
THE INNER CIRCLE: On the Job and at Home, Influential Hawks' 30-Year Friendship Evolves
(By ELISABETH BUMILLERand ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 11, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Intelligence and Politics Ratchet Up Color Wheel (By PATRICK E. TYLER, Sep. 11, 2002)
WORLD: Plan to Attack Embassies in South Asia Cited for Terror Alert (By RAYMOND BONNER, Sep. 11, 2002)
BAGHDAD ARSENAL: U.S. Lacks Up-to-Date Review of Iraqi Arms (By ERIC SCHMITT & ALISON MITCHELL, Sep. 11, 2002)
THE ARAB WORLD: Anger at U.S. Said to Be at New High (By JANE PERLEZ, Sep. 11, 2002)
AFGHANISTAN: Qaeda Remnants Hunted Along Pakistan Border (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sep. 11, 2002)
RAMALLAH JOURNAL: 'Moonlight' and Mendelssohn in the West Bank (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 11, 2002)
Hunger in Zimbabwe Takes Toll on Education (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Sep. 11, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 11, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 11, 2002)
* NY REGION: One Hotel's Fight to the Finish (By JIM DWYER & FORD FESSENDEN, Sep. 11, 2002)
* OUR TOWNS: For Better and Worse, Life Goes On (By MATTHEW PURDY, Sep. 11, 2002)
Which Way Is Home? (By KATHERINE MARSH, Sep. 11, 2002)
SCIENCE: Next-Generation Space Telescope Chosen to Peer Into Past (By WARREN E. LEARY, Sep. 11, 2002)
* HEALTH: Mental Health: The Profession Tests Its Limits (By ERICA GOODE & EMILY EAKIN, Sep. 11, 2002)
* HEALTH: Study Finds Surgery Works Best for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 11, 2002)
HEALTH: Botox Commercials Mislead Consumers, Government Says (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Sep. 11, 2002)

Tuesday, September 10, 2002:
On This Day: September 10 (Sir John Soane 9/10/1753-1/20/1837, William T. Harris 9/10/1835-11/5/1909, Franz Werfel 9/10/1890-8/26/1945, Arthur Compton 9/10/1892-3/15/1962)
Troops Use Machine Gun on Boston Mob; 5,000 Guarding City as Riots Continue (NY Times, Sept. 10, 1919)
* Roger Maris is Dead at 51, Set Record Home Runs [9/10/1934-12/14/1985] (By JOSEPH DURSO, December 15, 1985)

J.P. Frank, 84, a Lawyer in Landmark Cases, Is Dead (By ADAM LIPTAK, Sep. 10, 2002)
Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves, Once a Papal Contender, 76, Dies (By SIMON ROMERO, Sep. 10, 2002)
Uzi Gal, Israeli Arms Expert, Dies at 79 (By ERIC PACE, Sep. 10, 2002)
* PORTRAITS OF GRIEF: Collection of biographical sketches of 9/11 victims (NY TIMES, Sep. 10, 2002)
WORLD: Joyous Serbs Revel in Basketball Title (By DANIEL SIMPSON, Sep. 10, 2002)
* TIBERIAS JOURNAL: Israel Waits for Sea of Galilee's Low Tide to Turn (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 10, 2002)
New Russian Cathedral Stymied by Interfaith Rift (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Sep. 10, 2002)

Monday, September 9, 2002:
On This Day: September 9 (Luigi Galvani 9/9/1737-12/4/1798, James Hilton 9/9/1900-12/20/1954, Otis Redding 9/9/1941-12/10/1967)
* Mao Tse-Tung Dies In Peking At 82; Leader Of Red China Revolution (By REUTERS, September 9, 1976)
Alf Landon, G.O.P. Stand-Bearer, Dies at 100
[9/9/1887-10/12/1987] (NY Times, October 13, 1987)

Frankie Albert, a Pioneering Quarterback, Is Dead at 82 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Sep. 9, 2002)
Helen Giuliani, 92, Mother of Former New York Mayor, Dies (By MICHAEL COOPER, Sep. 9, 2002)
Georges-Andre Chevallaz, Former Swiss President, Dies at 87 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 9, 2002)
* NATIONAL: Locked Up and Patted Down: A Year of Making U.S. Safer (By TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 9, 2002)
* Pilgrims Flock to Crash Site (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Sep. 9, 2002)
* THE FAMILIES: Distance Compounds Lonely Vigils of Grief (By DAN BARRY, Sep. 9, 2002)
BIOTERRORISM: Many Worry That Nation Is Still Highly Vulnerable to Germ Attack
(By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JUDITH MILLER, Sep. 9, 2002)
Last Call May Be Near for Emergency Phones (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Sep. 9, 2002)
Beauty Rivals of One State Add Spice to Pageant (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Sep. 9, 2002)
SANTA MONICA JOURNAL: On the Beach, a Subculture of Lords of the Rings (By NEIL STRAUSS, Sep. 9, 2002)
WORLD: Bush Officials Say the Time Has Come for Action on Iraq (By TODD S. PURDUM, Sep. 9, 2002)
ASSASSINATION: Afghans, Too, Mark a Day of Disaster: A Hero Was Lost (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sep. 9, 2002)
Stance on Bush Policy Could Swing Election in Germany (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 9, 2002)
HEIDELBERG: One Terror Plot May Have Been Foiled, but a U.S. Base in Germany Is Still Vulnerable
(By MARK LANDLER & DESMOND BUTLER, Sep. 9, 2002)
PAKISTAN: Musharraf, at Harvard, Says He Supports U.S., to a Point (By PAM BELLUCK, Sep. 9, 2002)
French Leader Offers Formula to Tackle Iraq (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Sep. 9, 2002)
EXCERPTS: Interview With Jacques Chirac (NY TIMES, Sep. 9, 2002)
TEHRAN: Iranian Disputes U.S. Claims That Nation Harbored Al Qaeda (By NAZILA FATHI, Sep. 9, 2002)
VENICE JOURNAL: Chilling News for Speeders: Traffic Cops Astern (By FRANK BRUNI, Sep. 9, 2002)
* The Perfect Thai Vacation: Sun, Sea and Surgery (By SETH MYDANS, Sep. 9, 2002)
The 2 Koreas Set a Site for Family Reunions (NY TIMES, Sep. 9, 2002)
DIPLOMACY: Many at U.N. Seek Evidence for U.S. Case Against Iraq (By JULIA PRESTON, Sep. 9, 2002)
MILITARY ANALYSIS: In Bush's 'Axis of Evil,' Why Iraq Stands Out (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Sep. 9, 2002)
With Few Variations, Top Bush Advisers Present Their Case Against Iraq (NY TIMES, Sep. 9, 2002)
* NY REGION: 9/11 Prompts New Caution in Skyscraper Design (By ERIC LIPTON & JAMES GLANZ, Sep. 9, 2002)
THE RESPONSE: In Crisis, New York's Emergency Office Was Thwarted by Its Past (By AL BAKER, Sep. 9, 2002)
SECURITY: Government Ready to Fingerprint and Track Some Foreign Visitors (By SUSAN SACHS, Sep. 9, 2002)
* METRO MATTERS: Human Spirit Is Triumphant Downtown (By JOYCE PURNICK, Sep. 9, 2002)
* Emerging From Cocoon of Grief (By ANDREW JACOBS, Sep. 9, 2002)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Sep. 9, 2002)
* SPORTS: Sampras Wins for Old Times' Sake (By SELENA ROBERTS, Sep. 9, 2002)
SPORTS: A Duel Fit for New York [Sampras vs. Agassi] (By GEORGE VECSEY, Sep. 9, 2002)
TENNIS: Serena Williams Shows Confidence (By SELENA ROBERTS, Sep. 9, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Things Regained, Things Lost (NY TIMES, Sep. 9, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Filling In the Void (NY TIMES, Sep. 9, 2002)
* OP-ED: A Spirit Reborn (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 9, 2002)
* OP-ED: A Year Too Real (By BOB HERBERT, Sep. 9, 2002)
OP-ED: The City and the Country (By PAUL AUSTER, Sep. 9, 2002)
LETTERS: Why So Many Disabled Workers? (By PAUL BURSTEIN, et. al., Sep. 9, 2002)
LETTERS: Proud Foreigners (By MICHAEL WEINSTEIN, Sep. 9, 2002)
LETTERS: Death and Wall Street (By WILSON H. BEEBE JR., Sep. 9, 2002)
LETTERS: Blights on Landscape [windmills] (By PETER KUSHKOWSKI, Sep. 9, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Year After 9/11, Cyberspace Door Is Still Ajar (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Sep. 9, 2002)
Long-Term Joblessness Rose by 50 Percent Over the Last Year (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Sep. 9, 2002)
Short of Cash, Media Giants Are Selling Assets (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK with LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 9, 2002)
For Buchanan, a New Pulpit and Target (BY DAVID CARR, Sep. 9, 2002)
* Researcher Cuts Sales Forecast for Computers Through 2003 (By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 9, 2002)
* Balancing Linux and Microsoft (By STEVE LOHR, Sep. 9, 2002)
I.B.M. to Run a Venture to Rent Films Over the Web (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Sep. 9, 2002)
E-COMMERCE REPORT: Baseball Tests Online Broadcasts (By BOB TEDESCHI, Sep. 9, 2002)
A Reggae Force in Jamaica (Queens, That Is) (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Sep. 9, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Miss America Gets Her Own Slot Machine in Atlantic City
(By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 9, 2002)
PATENTS: Patent for a Mirror With Glasses (By SABRA CHARTRAND, Sep. 9, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Ads From the Past With Modern Touches (By, Sep. 9, 2002)
NEW ECONOMY: Consolidation Stalls in the Wireless Industry (By, Sep. 9, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'AMERICAN SKIN': Pop Culture Conjures a Transracial American Dream (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Sep. 9, 2002)
* BOOKS: REVISIONS: Writers Who Elude Cultural Clichés and Face Reality (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Sep. 9, 2002)
FILM: An American Tragedy Viewed Through 11 Foreign Prisms (By ALAN RIDING, Sep. 9, 2002)
FILM: Story of Fallen Firefighters Moves From Stage to Screen (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Sep. 9, 2002)
POP: 'THRILL JOCKEY TURNS 10': Anniversary Party Mixes Innovation and Nostalgia
(By JON PARELES, Sep. 9, 2002)
ROCK: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: One-Liners, With Dark Themes (By, Sep. 9, 2002)
THEATER: Tony Kushner Continues to Tinker With 'Homebody/Kabul' (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 9, 2002)
THEATER: 'JOE': From Cradle to Grave, Singing Clumsily (By BEN BRANTLEY, Sep. 9, 2002)
THEATER: 'THREE-CORNERED MOON': Lovable and Eccentric and Living in Brooklyn (By BRUCE WEBER, Sep. 9, 2002)
* TV: 'ANATOMY OF SEPTEMBER 11TH': How the Twin Towers Fell & 102 Minutes Unfolded
(By SREENATH SREENIVASAN, Sep. 9, 2002)

Sunday, September 8, 2002:
On This Day: September 8 (Ludovico Ariosto 9/8/1474-7/6/1533, Marin Mersenne 9/8/1588-9/1/1648, Frederic Mistral 9/8/1830-3/25/1914, Antonin Dvorak 9/8/1841-5/1/1904, Jessie Willcox Smith 9/8/1863-5/3/1935, Robert A. Taft 9/8/1889-7/31/1953, Jimmie Rodgers 9/8/1897-5/26/1933, Buck Leonard 9/8/1907-11/27/1997, Patsy Cline 9/8/1932-3/5/1963, Sid Caesar 1922, Wendell Ford 1924, Ann Beattie 1947, Heather Thomas 1957)
* Ford Gives Pardon To Nixon, Who Regrets 'My Mistakes' (By Hon Herbers, Sept. 8, 1974)
Claude Pepper, Fiery Fighter For Elderly Rights, Dies at 88
[9/8/1900-5/30/1989] (By REGINALD THOMAS, May 31, 1989)

* Dr. David T. Wilkinson, 67, a Physicist Who Searched for Big Bang's Echoes, Is Dead (By KENNETH CHANG, Sep. 8, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 8, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 8, 2002)
Poll Finds Unease on Terror Fight and Concerns About War on Iraq (By ADAM CLYMER & JANET ELDER, Sep. 8, 2002)
Trading Cars for Bigger Home Loans (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 8, 2002)
* WASHINGTON MEMO: Feeling Secure, U.S. Failed to Grasp bin Laden Threat (By By PATRICK E. TYLER, Sep. 8, 2002)
* Book Contends Chief of A-Bomb Team Was Once a Communist [Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer]
(By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Sep. 8, 2002)
ARTICLE (By, Sep. 8, 2002)
WORLD: U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts (By MICHAEL R. GORDON & JUDITH MILLER, Sep. 8, 2002)
CAMP DAVID: Blair, Meeting With Bush, Fully Endorses U.S. Plans for Ending Iraqi Threat
(By, Sep. 8, 2002)
* TENNIS: Men's Final Is All-American Dream [Sampras & Agassi] (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Sep. 8, 2002)
* Sampras Wins U.S. Open (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 8, 2002)
EDITORIAL: An Uncertain Trumpet (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: 9/11/00: Air Congestion, a Hot Enron and Unhung Chads (By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, Sep. 8, 2002)
OP-ED: Reflections on an America Transformed (By Tom Daschle, et. al., Sep. 8, 2002)
LETTERS: Citizens in a Changed World (By HARRY C. BOYTE, et. al., Sep. 8, 2002)
LETTERS: A Better Choice in a Bear Market (By ROD BERENS & JIM DANNIS, Sep. 8, 2002)
LETTERS: The Power of Greenspan (By VICTOR A. ALTSHUL, Sep. 8, 2002)
* BUSINESS: After the 'Darkest Year,' a Changed Wall St. (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, Sep. 8, 2002)
How to Tie Pay to Goals, Instead of the Stock Price (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Sep. 8, 2002)
Bloomberg, Without Bloomberg, Faces an Industry in Retreat (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Sep. 8, 2002)
* OFF THE SHELF: A Regulator as Educator (and Entertainer) [Arthur Levitt] (By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Sep. 8, 2002)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Who's Next at the Fed? A Look at the Field (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Sep. 8, 2002)
Follow Dividend Yields With Care (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Sep. 8, 2002)
* MARKET INSIGHT: Despite Sales Gains, Rocky Road for Durables (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Sep. 8, 2002)
PORTFOLIOS: Numbers Look Better, but Markets See the Worst (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 8, 2002)
Opposite Paths, No Middle Ground (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., Sep. 8, 2002)
INVESTING WITH Brian Matthews, Payden Core Bond Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Sep. 8, 2002)
As Portfolios Shrink, Retirees Warily Seek Work (By MELINDA LIGOS, Sep. 8, 2002)
* BACKSLASH: It's Time to Turn Off Those Bells and Whistles (By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 8, 2002)
MY JOB: The Homes Tell the Tales (By JACKY TEPLITZKY-DOBENS, Written with Ellen Rapp, Sep. 8, 2002)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Can a Test Gauge the Value of an M.B.A.? (By, Sep. 8, 2002)
THE BOSS: From Ice to Insurance (By SY STERNBERG, Written with Joseph B. Treaster, Sep. 8, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: Passing Up the Steak to Save on Air Fare (By, Sep. 8, 2002)
* INVESTING DIARY: Against the Grain at the Vice Fund (By JEFF SOMMER, Sep. 8, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: Tax Break for Homes Affected by Sept. 11 (By JAN M. ROSEN, Sep. 8, 2002)
MARKET WATCH: Rebound From Ruin, if Not From Distrust (By, Sep. 8, 2002)
PRIVATE SECTOR: Revving Up the Labs at Pfizer (By MELODY PETERSEN, Sep. 8, 2002)
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR DAVID J. OLSON: If Longshoremen Strike, Which Businesses Will Suffer?
(By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Sep. 8, 2002)
STYLE: Overnight Idol, Instant Diva [Kelly Clarkson] (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Sep. 8, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
WAR OF SECRETS: Little Change in a System That Failed (By JAMES RISEN & DAVID JOHNSTON, Sep. 8, 2002)
SHARING INFORMATION: Learning to Spy With Allies (By DOUGLAS FRANTZ, Sep. 8, 2002)
Bin Laden's Guys Have Cloaks and Daggers, Too (By DEXTER FILKINS, Sep. 8, 2002)
JUDICIAL RESTRAINT: The Imperial Presidency vs. the Imperial Judiciary (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Sep. 8, 2002)
* Eyes in the Sky, Ears to the Wall, and Still Wanting (By JAMES BAMFORD, Sep. 8, 2002)
* Spy History 101: America's Intelligence Quotient (By SAM ROBERTS, Sep. 8, 2002)
* WIT'S END :): The Real Me: The Online Version (By HARRY SHEARER, Sep. 8, 2002)
* LAST WORDS: An engraved fire-blackened stone is the only original piece of
the section of the Pentagon destroyed by American Airlines Flight 77 on 9/11.
(NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
* ACCORDING TO THE TIMES... A Museum of Tapeworms (By NYTIMES.COM, Sep. 8, 2002)
Trust No One: In New York, Everyone Is Suspect (By JIM DWYER, Sep. 8, 2002)
* When Playing the Field, the Game Gets Rough (By MILTON A. BEARDEN, Sep. 8, 2002)
WORD FOR WORD: Getting the Intelligence Services a Vulnerable Nation Needs (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Sep. 8, 2002)
* Pearl Harbor as Prologue (By TIM WEINER, Sep. 8, 2002)
* Face It: Your Looks Are Revealing (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, Sep. 8, 2002)
* SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
* ON LANGUAGE: Bubbling Up (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 8, 2002)
* The Height of Ambition: Part One (By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON, Sep. 8, 2002)
* Don't Rebuild. Reimagine. (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Sep. 8, 2002)
* The World Trade Center: A Timeline (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
Slide Show: Alternative Designs for the Original Towers (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
FORUM: Redeveloping the World Trade Center Site [1357 messages] (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Last Color Line (By JAMES TRAUB, Sep. 8, 2002)
QUESTIONS FOR JONATHAN SANTLOFER: Artful Murders (By MARCELLE CLEMENTS, Sep. 8, 2002)
PHENOMENON: A Secret Society of the Starving (By MIM UDOVITCH, Sep. 8, 2002)
DIAGNOSIS: Seizures That Won't Stop, a 102° Fever, an Infection in the Blood (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Sep. 8, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Volume Control (By RANDY COHEN, Sep. 8, 2002)
* What They Were Thinking [sulha peace gathering: Israeli & Arabs] (Interviews by CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS, Sep. 8, 2002)
FOOD: Applause, Applause [deviled eggs recipe] (By JULIA REED, Sep. 8, 2002)
LIVES: Duty Free (By SPIKE GILLESPIE, Sep. 8, 2002)
* BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
* SEPT. 11 BOOKS: Notes on the Darkest Day (By WALTER KIRN, Sep. 8, 2002)
* SEPT. 11, ONE YEAR LATER: A Sept. 11 Reading List (NY TIMES, Sep. 8, 2002)
* THE CLOSE READER: What Would Orwell Do? (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Sep. 8, 2002)
* 'Longitudes and Attitudes': The Other Side of Globalism (By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, Sep. 8, 2002)
'The Cell': Cops and Plotters (By JEFF STEIN, Sep. 8, 2002)
'Heart of a Soldier': On Sept. 11, a Warrior's Death (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER, Sep. 8, 2002)
'Among the Heroes': The Fourth Target (By M. G. LORD, Sep. 8, 2002)
'The Fall of Berlin 1945': The Final Days of the Third Reich (By CARLO D'ESTE, Sep. 8, 2002)
* 'The Heart of Islam': Articles of Faith [Seyyed Hossein Nasr] (By JAMES CARROLL, Sep. 8, 2002)
* 'Swan Electric': Poems From a Village Person [April Bernard] (By STEPHEN BURT, Sep. 8, 2002)

Saturday, September 7, 2002:
On This Day: September 7 (Elizabeth I 9/7/1533-3/24/1603, Elinor Wylie 9/7/1885-12/16/1928, Dame Edith Sitwell 9/7/1887-12/9/1964, David Packard 9/7/1912-3/26/1996, Sir Anthony Quayle 9/7/1913-10/20/1989)
* German Planes Raid London All Day; British Bomb Berlin, Starting Fires (By JAMES B. RESTON, Sept. 7, 1940)
* Grandma Moses Is Dead at 101; Primitive Artist 'Just Wore Out'
[9/7/1860-12/13/1961] (NY Times, December 14, 1961)

Andrew Forge, 78, Painter and a Former Dean at Yale, Dies (By ROBERTA SMITH, Sep. 7, 2002)
Franklyn D. Holzman, Economist Critical of Moscow, Dies at 83 (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Sep. 7, 2002)
Vlado Perlemuter, French Classical Pianist, Dies at 98 (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 7, 2002)
Ted Ross, Actor Who Starred in 'The Wiz,' Is Dead at 68 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 7, 2002)
David Bierk, 58, Canadian Artist Who Reinterpreted Masterworks, Dies (NY TIMES, Sep. 7, 2002)
Edmund Taylor Pratt Jr., a Former Chairman of Pfizer, Dies at 75 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Sep. 7, 2002)
Albert J. Costello, Ex-Chief of W. R. Grace & Company, Dies at 66 (By ERIC PACE, Sep. 7, 2002)
Roy F. Katz, 48, Fire Dept. Official, Dies (NY TIMES, Sep. 7, 2002)
Manuel Martínez, 75, Bullfighting Promoter, Dies (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 7, 2002)

Friday, September 6, 2002:
On This Day: September 6 (Lafayette 9/6/1757-5/20/1834, Joseph P. Kennedy 9/6/1888-11/18/1969, Claire Chennault 9/6/1890-7/27/1958, Luis Leloir 9/6/1906-12/2/1987)
* President McKinley Shot at Buffalo Fair (NY Times, Sept. 6, 1901)
Jane Addams A Foe of War and Need [9/6/1860-5/21/1935] (NY Times, May 22, 1935)

J. Lee Thompson, 88, Director, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Sep. 6, 2002)
Abe Lemons, College Basketball Coach, 79, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Sep. 6, 2002)
Glenn Watts, Leader of Communications Workers, Dies at 82 (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Sep. 6, 2002)
Clemens Heller, 85, Founder of Postwar Salzburg Seminar, Dies (By PAUL LEWIS, Sep. 6, 2002)
Thomas Gordon, Conflict-Solution Innovator, 84, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 6, 2002)
Eric Friedheim, Publisher and Arts Patron, Dies at 92 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Sep. 6, 2002)
Roy Katz, 48, Fire Dept. Official, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Sep. 6, 2002)
Franklyn Holzman, Economist and Critic of Moscow, 83, Dies (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Sep. 6, 2002)

Thursday, September 5, 2002:
On This Day: September 5 (Tommaso Campanella 9/5/1568-5/21/1639, Giacomo Meyerbeer 9/5/1791-5/2/1864, A.C. Nielsen 9/5/1897-6/1/1980, Darryl Zanuck 9/5/1902-12/22/1979, Arthur Koestler 9/5/1905-3/3/1983)
9 Israelis on Olympic Team Killed with 4 Arab Captors as Police Fight Band That Disrupted Munich Games
(By DAVID BINDER, Sept. 5, 1972)
* John Cage, 79, a Minimalist Enchanted With Sound, Dies
[9/5/1912-8/12/1992] (By ALLAN KOZINN, August 13, 1992)

* Clement Stone, Who Built Empire on Optimism, Dies at 100 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 5, 2002)
Martin Kamen, 89, a Discoverer of Radioactive Carbon-14, Is Dead (By KENNETH CHANG, Sep. 5, 2002)
NATIONAL: Bush Proclaims That Sept. 11 Will Be Called Patriot Day (NY TIMES, Sep. 5, 2002)
Scientist Fired After Warning on U.S. Funds [Steven J. Hatfill] (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Sep. 5, 2002)
Mothers of Sex-Active Youths Often Think They're Virgins (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Sep. 5, 2002)
Man Called a Qaeda Founder Denies a Terror Link to Assault (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Sep. 5, 2002)
Rumsfeld Picks General to Lead Marines (By ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 5, 2002)
Hoping to Inspire Talk, Artist Ignites Debate [Hlynur Hallsson] (By JIM YARDLEY, Sep. 5, 2002)
WORLD: Small World After All (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Sep. 5, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: Making Case to Hit First (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 5, 2002)
In Bush's Words: Doing Nothing Is Not an Option (NY TIMES, Sep. 5, 2002)
German Leader's Warning: War Plan Is a Huge Mistake (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 5, 2002)
Interview With Gerhard Schröder (NY TIMES, Sep. 5, 2002)
* China's Leader Won't Hold On, Anonymous Author Says (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 5, 2002)
Protesters Interrupt Powell Speech as U.N. Talks End (By JAMES DAO, Sep. 5, 2002)
A Palestinian Senses an Opening for Peace (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 5, 2002)
RADICAL CELLS: Fears of Isolated Copycat Attacks, Hard to Detect or Stop
(By DOUGLAS FRANTZ & DESMOND BUTLER, Sep. 5, 2002)
* ADVERTISING: Hollywood Group Offers First TV Spot on Tolerance Aimed at Arab World
(By BILL CARTER, Sep. 5, 2002)
LEGAL ACTION: Suit by Victims' Kin Says Iraq Knew of 9/11 Plans (By TINA KELLEY, Sep. 5, 2002)
VANCOUVER JOURNAL: Fashion Born of New Blood and the Old World (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Sep. 5, 2002)
Sharon Says Tough Measures Could Lead to Peace Talks (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 5, 2002)
* NY REGION: Economic Anguish of 9/11 Is Detailed by Comptroller [$83-$95 billion loss]
(By MICHAEL COOPER, Sep. 5, 2002)
Icon and G.O.P. Fund-Raiser, Giuliani Keeps Options Open (By JOYCE PURNICK, Sep. 5, 2002)
More Visitors, Less Spending in New York (By JAYSON BLAIR, Sep. 5, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: They'll Take It [police union] (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Sep. 5, 2002)
A View of Loss, and of Recovery (By GLENN COLLINS, Sep. 5, 2002)
* METRO MATTERS: Garry Wills on Hallowing 9/11 Ground (By JOYCE PURNICK, Sep. 5, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Countdown to a Collision (NY TIMES, Sep. 5, 2002)
* OP-ED: Beware the Hedgehogs [hedge funds] (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 5, 2002)
OP-ED: Cuomo's Post-Mortem (By BOB HERBERT, Sep. 5, 2002)
* OP-ED: Liberalism's Patriotic Vision (By TODD GITLIN, Sep. 5, 2002)
LETTERS: The First Front: Afghanistan (By SUSAN STERN, et. al., Sep. 5, 2002)
A Mideast Peace? Some Still Hope (By NOAM HOFFSTATER, Sep. 5, 2002)
Here's to Working Less, and Living More (By LINDA KUPFER, Sep. 5, 2002)
BUSINESS: Dow and S.&P. Post First Advances in Six Trading Days
[Dow +117, Nasdaq +28] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 5, 2002)
Former Sunbeam Chief Agrees to Ban and a Fine of $500,000 (By FLOYD NORRIS, Sep. 5, 2002)
No-Interest Financing and Rebates Sent Car Sales Up 13.5% in August (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Sep. 5, 2002)
Is There Life for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Without Martha? (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS & TRACIE ROZHON, Sep. 5, 2002)
Construction Spending Was Flat During July (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 5, 2002)
Wider WorldCom Case Is Called Likely (By SIMON ROMERO with JONATHAN D. GLATER, Sep. 5, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Court Ties Up Hershey Deal, for Time Being (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Sep. 5, 2002)
ECONOMIC SCENE: Devotion to Free-Market Makes for Ineffectual Policy (By JEFF MADRICK, Sep. 5, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Clinton Pretty Much Dismisses Idea of a TV Talk Show (By DAVID CARR with DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Sep. 5, 2002)
Inheriting a Magazine, Looking for a New Edge (By JOHN LELAND, Sep. 5, 2002)
ADDENDA: Forbes.com Guarantees Effectiveness of Ads (NY TIMES, Sep. 5, 2002)
* ARTS: Tangible Reminders of Sept. 11 Get Pride of Place in Exhibitions (By GLENN COLLINS, Sep. 5, 2002)
* ARTS ABROAD: Ozawa Goes Home to a Festival Before New Adventure (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Sep. 5, 2002)
BOOKS: 'THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS': A Novel's Actor More Real Than Many Made of Flesh
(By JANET MASLIN, Sep. 5, 2002)
FILM: Tarantino Behind the Camera in Beijing (By RICK LYMAN, Sep. 5, 2002)
MUSIC: Golden but Not an Oldie, a Salsa Band Turns 40 (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Sep. 5, 2002)
* ROCK: THE ROLLING STONES: The Strut Is Carved in Stones (By JON PARELES, Sep. 5, 2002)
THEATER: Columbia Is Helping to Bring Royal Shakespeare to Apollo (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Sep. 5, 2002)
TV: 'CAUSE FOR MURDER': Political Bravery's Price in Mexico (By SREENATH SREENIVASAN, Sep. 5, 2002)
HOME & GARDEN: AT HOME WITH VERN YIP: Not Quite as Seen on TV (By BRADFORD McKEE, Sep. 5, 2002)
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: The Future, in a City of Foreshadowing (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Sep. 5, 2002)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 5, 2002)
* PC Rooms: Rated M for Mockery [war games at video arcade] (By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 5, 2002)
Dirty Laundry, Online for All to See (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Sep. 5, 2002)
STATE OF THE ART: Scaled-Down Software in Photoshop's Image (By DAVID POGUE, Sep. 5, 2002)
ONLINE SHOPPER: A Lakeside Cottage Smells Like a Deal (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Sep. 5, 2002)
WHAT'S NEXT: Staking Out Space in a Hand-Held for Higher-Fidelity Sound (By IAN AUSTEN, Sep. 5, 2002)
* With a Single Click, a Vast E-Mail Harvest (By JOYCE COHEN, Sep. 5, 2002)
GAME THEORY: A Streak of Glamour but a Lack of Lifeblood (By CHARLES HEROLD, Sep. 5, 2002)
* A Site to Pour Out Emotions, and Just About Anything Else (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Sep. 5, 2002)
TOYS: Build a Lego Playmate, Then Fill It With Fun (By IAN AUSTEN, Sep. 5, 2002)
MONITORS: For the Obsolete-TV Owner, a Smart PC Screen May Serve (By STEPHEN C. MILLER, Sep. 5, 2002)
* BASICS: Burning Your Own DVD's (By WILSON ROTHMAN, Sep. 5, 2002)
* AUCTIONS: How to Outbid the Fanatics: Software That Never Sleeps (By ADAM BAER, Sep. 5, 2002)
A Smart Weapon for the Links: The G.P.S.-Enabled Golf Cart (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Sep. 5, 2002)
Q & A: Miss the Sound of Vinyl? Try Super Audio CD's (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Sep. 5, 2002)
SCIENCE: Disease Hits Firs and Redwoods, Posing Risk of Economic Damage (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Sep. 5, 2002)
HEALTH: H.I.V. Reinfection Surprises Scientists (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 5, 2002)

Wednesday, September 4, 2002:
On This Day: September 4 (Francois Chateaubriand 9/4/1768-7/4/1848, Anton Bruckner 9/4/1824-10/11/1896, Daniel Burnham 9/4/1846-6/1/1912, John Dillon 9/4/1851-8/4/1927, Simon Lake 9/4/1866-6/23/1945, La Argentina 9/4/1890-7/18/1936, Mary Renault 9/4/1905-12/13/1983, Edward Dmytryk 9/4/1908-7/1/1999, Henry Ford II 9/4/1917-9/29/1987, Paul Harvey 1918, Howard Morris 1919, Mitzi Gaynor 1931, Merald "Bubba" Knight 1942, Jennifer Salt 1944, Tom Watson 1949, Khandi Alexander 1957, Wes Bentley 1978)
Arkansas Troops Bar Negro Pupils; Governor Defiant (By BENJAMIN FINE, Sept. 4, 1957)
Richard Wright, Writer, 52, Dies [9/4/1908-11/28/1960] (NY Times, November 30, 1960)

Sir George Porter, Nobel Laureate, Dies at 81 (By KENNETH CHANG, Sep. 4, 2002)
Sheldon Harris, 74, World War II Historian, Is Dead (By PAUL LEWIS, Sep. 4, 2002)
Jenny Bechtel Whyte, Fashion Designer, 75, Dies (NY TIMES, Sep. 4, 2002)
NATIONAL: Anthrax Figure Loses Job as Researcher (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 4, 2002)
Bush to Put Case for Action in Iraq to Key Lawmakers (By ALISON MITCHELL & DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 4, 2002)
Boston Church Sees Settlement in Abuse Case (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Sep. 4, 2002)
THE INVESTIGATION: Early Sept. 11 Suspect Is Ordered Jailed and Deported
(By MARC SANTORA, Sep. 4, 2002)
* THE ANNIVERSARY: The Best Way to Cope? Even Experts Aren't Sure (By ERICA GOODE, Sep. 4, 2002)
Transplants Seem Source of West Nile (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Sep. 4, 2002)
* Doctor to John Wilkes Booth Gains Another Day in Court (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Sep. 4, 2002)
* WORLD: Beijing Blocks Access to Google (NY TIMES, Sep. 4, 2002)
* MONT-ST.-MICHEL JOURNAL: Battle for the Future Swirls Below Proud Towers
(By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Sep. 4, 2002)
On the Radio, Afghans Call Their Nation to a New Day (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sep. 4, 2002)
Rumsfeld's Search for a Way to Fight a New Type of Foe (By THOM SHANKER, Sep. 4, 2002)
More Koreans Give China the Slip, Invading Embassy School (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Sep. 4, 2002)
Blair Defends U.S. on Iraq, Reaffirming His Support (By SARAH LYALL, Sep. 4, 2002)
Poll Shows Europeans Conditionally Back U.S. on Iraq (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Sep. 4, 2002)
Powell Says Next U.S. Step Involving Iraq to Come Soon (By JAMES DAO, Sep. 4, 2002)
* NY REGION: With 9/11 Flag, a Mystery Unfurls (By DAVID W. CHEN, Sep. 4, 2002)
Labor Leaders Hail Workers for 9/11 Sacrifices (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Sep. 4, 2002)
Cuomo Leaves New York Race for Governor (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Sep. 4, 2002)
Judge Says Sept. 11 Families Can Change Minds on Suing (By BENJAMIN WEISER, Sep. 4, 2002)
Most New York Restaurants Will Be Open on 9/11 (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Sep. 4, 2002)
Commerce Rushes in Where Art Once Ruled (By MICHAEL WILSON, Sep. 4, 2002)
Signs Go Up, but Rules Fall by Wayside (By ANDY NEWMAN, Sep. 4, 2002)
SPORTS: Sampras Defies His Detractors (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Sep. 4, 2002)
YANKEES 4, RED SOX 2: Clemens Stops Yanks' Skid (By JACK CURRY, Sep. 4, 2002)
SPORTS: One Word Describes A's: Winners [19 straight wins] (By JOE LAPOINTE, Sep. 4, 2002)
SPORTS: Monica Seles Still Loves the Game (By GEORGE VECSEY, Sep. 4, 2002)
TENNIS: Rubin Shows No Fear in Losing to Venus Williams (By SELENA ROBERTS, Sep. 4, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Ranking Risks of Gene-Altered Animals (NY TIMES, Sep. 4, 2002)
* OP-ED: 9/11 Lesson Plan (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sep. 4, 2002)
* OP-ED: Who's Your Daddy? [The Wimp Factor] (By MAUREEN DOWD, Sep. 4, 2002)
* OP-ED: Taking Apart Iraq's Nuclear Threat (By EHUD BARAK, Sep. 4, 2002)
LETTERS: The Horror of Sept. 11, Replayed (By DENNIS SMITH, et. al., Sep. 4, 2002)
LETTERS: Let Us Catch the Power of the Wind (By DAVID R. WOOLEY & THOMAS THWAITES, Sep. 4, 2002)
LETTERS: Helping Poor Readers (By JANET WEINSTEIN, Sep. 4, 2002)
* BUSINESS: The Dow Takes Another Beating, Falling 355 Points
[Dow -355, Nasdaq -51] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Sep. 4, 2002)
Company Said to Seek Chief to Succeed Martha Stewart (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Sep. 4, 2002)
Napster Says It Is Likely to Be Liquidated (By MATT RICHTEL, Sep. 4, 2002)
Manufacturers Reduce Output as Orders Fall (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 4, 2002)
Pennsylvania Tries to Block Sale of Hershey (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 4, 2002)
Threat Is Reported in Blackmail Inquiry Prompted by Actor [Steven Seagal]
(By DAVID CARR, Sep. 4, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Citigroup Is Pelted on Potential Losses and Liabilities (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Sep. 4, 2002)
ADVERTISING: Are American Men Ready for Body Sprays? (By COURTNEY KANE, Sep. 4, 2002)
* India Injects $3 Billion to Rescue Mutual Fund (By SARITHA RAI, Sep. 4, 2002)
Japanese Shares Fall 3.2% to a 19-Year Low (By KEN BELSON, Sep. 4, 2002)
ARTS IN AMERICA: What Failed in TV Pilots Brings Laughs in a Club (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Sep. 4, 2002)
* BOOKS: 'THE GENIUS WITHIN': All Living Things Think, No Matter How Teensy (By ANN FINKBEINER, Sep. 4, 2002)
BOOKS: In a Seafaring Body Lurks a Writer's Soul (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 4, 2002)
BOOKS: Ah, Sweet Mysteries of Trenton, She's Got 'Em (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Sep. 4, 2002)
* DANCE: EVENING STARS MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL: Monks' Chanting & John Cage's Silence
(By ANNA KISSELGOF, Sep. 4, 2002)
FILM: CRITIC: A Reporter Who Answers When Opportunity Knocks (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 4, 2002)
MUSIC: Russia Scraps Space Plans of Pop Star (By MICHAEL WINES, Sep. 4, 2002)
* ROCK REVIEW: Stones Back to Classic Beat in New Tour (By JON PARELES, Sep. 4, 2002)
THEATER CRITIC: London Stage, a Social Mirror (By BEN BRANTLEY, Sep. 4, 2002)
HEALTH: McDonald's New Recipe Lowers Goo for Arteries (By DAVID BARBOZA, Sep. 4, 2002)

Tuesday, September 3, 2002:
On This Day: September 3 (Diane De Poitiers 9/3/1499-4/22/1566, Louis Sullivan 9/3/1856-4/14/1924, Sir Macfarlane Burnet 9/3/1899-8/31/1985, Loren Eiseley 9/3/1907-7/9/1977)
Viking 2 Lander Settles On Mars And Sends Signal (By WALTER SULLIVAN, Sept. 3, 1976)
Sarah Orne Jewett, Noted Writer, Dead [9/3/1849-6/24/1909] (NY Times, June 25, 1909)

Robert Van Scoyk, Wrote and Produced TV Shows, Dies at 74 (NY TIMES, Sep. 3, 2002)
NATIONAL: Congress Returns to Look at Domestic Security and Iraq (By CARL HULSE, Sep. 3, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE MEMO: A Silence That Coolidge Would Envy (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 3, 2002)
New L.A. Cathedral Opens Its Doors (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 3, 2002)
Whistle-Blowers Are Being Punished, According to Survey (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 3, 2002)
8,000 Forced to Flee Fire in California (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 3, 2002)
WORLD: German Election Race Tightens (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Sep. 3, 2002)
Commanders Want Elite Units Freed From Qaeda Hunt (By JAMES RISEN & ERIC SCHMITT, Sep. 3, 2002)
A Bit Ambiguously, Russia Backs Iraq Over U.S. Threat (By MICHAEL WINES, Sep. 3, 2002)
Chinese Police Thwart an Escape Attempt by North Koreans (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Sep. 3, 2002)
* TIVOLI JOURNAL: A Search for Girls, Girls, Girls Around Italy's Dial (By FRANK BRUNI, Sep. 3, 2002)
Main U.S. Goal Is Oil Supply, Iraq Says (By REUTERS, Sep. 3, 2002)
NY REGION: Faces of Firefighting, Taken One at a Time (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Sep. 3, 2002)
* Digital Photos Give the Police a New Edge in Abuse Cases (By SARAH KERSHAW, Sep. 3, 2002)
Queens Man Is City's First West Nile Fatality of 2002 (By ANDY NEWMAN, Sep. 3, 2002)
NYC: A New Low for the City and the Car (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Sep. 3, 2002)
Moe Ginsburg, Inexpensive Fashion Specialist, Is Closing (By MICHAEL WILSON, Sep. 3, 2002)
SPORTS: A's Match Longest Win Streak in American League History (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 3, 2002)
RED SOX 8, YANKEES 4: Rain Fazes the Yanks [Nomar Garciaparra got 1,000 hits in fewer games (746)
than any other Red Sox player in Red Sox history. Wade Boggs got his 1,000th hit in his 747th game.]
(By TYLER KEPNER, Sep. 3, 2002)
Cubs' Wood Strikes Out 4 in an Inning (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 3, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Reviving Reform in Iran (NY TIMES, Sep. 3, 2002)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Before WorldCom, the Funeral Industry Set the Standard for Venality
(By ADAM COHEN, Sep. 3, 2002)
OP-ED: Passing the Buck [Fed's Greenspan] (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Sep. 3, 2002)
OP-ED: America's Failed Frontier (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Sep. 3, 2002)
* OP-ED: Keeping Faith With Islam in a New World (By MONA ELTAHAWY, Sep. 3, 2002)
OP-ED: Who'd Want to Govern New York State? (By GERALD BENJAMIN, Sep. 3, 2002)
LETTERS: Does the Koran Belong in Class? (By ELLEN SCHNEIDER, et. al., Sep. 3, 2002)
LETTERS: Make It Illegal to Be Uninsured (By KENNETH S. ABRAMOWITZ, Sep. 3, 2002)
LETTERS: A New York Olympics (By FLOYD LAPP, Sep. 3, 2002)
LETTERS: Questions That Need Answers Before a War (EDWARD D. COHEN, Sep. 3, 2002)
BUSINESS: Back to School, but This One Is for Top Corporate Officials (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Sep. 3, 2002)
* NEWS ANALYSIS: Policy Makers Hone Debate: When to Hold, When to Fold (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Sep. 3, 2002)
China Struggles to Cut Reliance on Mideast Oil (By KEITH BRADSHER, Sep. 3, 2002)
Bertelsmann Talks to Amazon.com About Sale of BOL.com (By MARK LANDLER, Sep. 3, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: What's in Store for Stocks in September? (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Sep. 3, 2002)
European and Asian Markets Show Widespread Declines (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Sep. 3, 2002)
ON THE ROAD: The Bad Old Days in a Man's World (By JOE SHARKEY, Sep. 3, 2002)
ADVERTISING: 20 Questions (By STUART ELLIOTT, Sep. 3, 2002)
* ARTS: Looking for Solace on the Towers' Painful Anniversary (By CELESTINE BOHLEN, Sep. 3, 2002)
* ARTS: Poet Will Take Over Presidency of Guggenheim Foundation [Edward Hirsch]
(By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 3, 2002)
BOOKS: 'MIDDLESEX': The American Dream Seen in a Child's Nightmare (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Sep. 3, 2002)
DANCE: EVA DEAN: On a Roll, Polka Dots or Not (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 3, 2002)
FILM CRITIC: Surprises (Plus Snow) in Anything-Can-Happen Telluride (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 3, 2002)
FILM: Anime Fans Gather, Loudly and Proudly Obsessed (By JESSE McKINLEY, Sep. 3, 2002)
TV: 'IN SEARCH OF AMERICA': Founding Fathers, How Are You Faring? (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Sep. 3, 2002)
* TV: CRITIC: TV Searches for Distinction as Sept. 11 Programs Begin (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 3, 2002)
SCIENCE: As Alaska Warms, Glaciers Stage a Ferocious Dance (By MICHAEL PARRISH, Sep. 3, 2002)
* With Towers Gone, Area May Be Vulnerable to Lightning (By GALE SCOTT, Sep. 3, 2002)
* ESSAY: From Here to Infinity: Obsessing With the Magic of Primes (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Sep. 3, 2002)
Brain Disease Rises in Deer, Scaring Hunters (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Sep. 3, 2002)
Rapid New Understanding of Superconducting Compound (By KENNETH CHANG, Sep. 3, 2002)
* OBSERVATORY: Almost Music to the Ears [chirping crickets] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Sep. 3, 2002)
Q & A: Petroleum Deposits (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Sep. 3, 2002)
* HEALTH: Sorting Through the Confusion Over Estrogen (By JANE E. BRODY, Sep. 3, 2002)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Search for Alternatives to Hormone Replacement Therapy (By JANE E. BRODY, Sep. 3, 2002)
* Hot Flashes: Exploring the Mystery of Women's Thermal Chaos (By DENISE GRADY, Sep. 3, 2002)
New Mammogram Studies Divided on Benefits (By GINA KOLATA, Sep. 3, 2002)
Trans Fat Data to Be Added to Food Labels (By AYANA E. MORALES, Sep. 3, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Remedies: A Clear Winner in Curing Warts (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 3, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Techniques: A Way to Keep Fainting at Bay (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 3, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Grieving: Coping With a Stillbirth (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 3, 2002)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: Parent Smoking and Teenage Sex (By JOHN O'NEIL, Sep. 3, 2002)

Monday, September 2, 2002:
On This Day: Septmeber 2 (Ernst Curtius 9/2/1814-7/11/1896, Lucretia Hale 9/2/1820-6/12/1900, Giovanni Verga 9/2/1840-1/27/1922, A.G. Spalding 9/2/1850-9/9/1915, Wilhelm Ostwald 9/2/1853-4/4/1932, Frederick Soddy 9/2/1877-9/22/1956, Werner Blomberg 9/2/1878-3/22/1946, Cleveland Amory 9/2/1917-10/14/1998, Martha Mitchell 9/2/1918-5/31/1976, Horace Silver 1928, Alan K. Simpson 1931, Peter Ueberroth 1937, Sam Gooden 1939, Jimmy Clanton 1940, Terry Bradshaw 1948, Mark Harmon 1951, Jimmy Connors 1952, Linda Purl 1955, Keanu Reeves 1964)
Japan Surrenders To Allies On Warship; Truman Declares V-J Day (NY Times, Sept. 2, 1945)
Shuttle Explosion, Seven Who Perished in The Explosion of The Challenger
[Christa McAuliffe, 9/2/1948-1/28/1986] (NY Times, January 29, 1986)

* Dean Riesner, 83, Who Knew How Tough Guys Talk, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Sep. 2, 2002)
Bern Laxer, 78, Creator of Popular Steakhouse, Dies (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Sep. 2, 2002)
Sanford L. Palay, Innovator in Neuroscience, Dies at 83 (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Sep. 2, 2002)
NATIONAL: Workers Are Angry and Fearful This Labor Day (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Sep. 2, 2002)
Some Notable Old Soldiers Fight to Avoid Fading Away (By, Sep. 2, 2002)
California Budget Passes With Cuts and, Critics Contend, Smoke and Mirrors (By JOHN M. BRODER, Sep. 2, 2002)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Battling for Budget Frugality, but First the Lawn (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Sep. 2, 2002)
South Carolina Judges Seek to Ban Secret Settlements (By ADAM LIPTAK, Sep. 2, 2002)
WORLD: Powell Charts Low-Key Path in Iraq Debate (By JAMES DAO, Sep. 2, 2002)
Pakistan Eliminates Bhutto From Parliament Election (By DAVID ROHDE, Sep. 2, 2002)
Suspicious Blasts Bring Fear of a Revived Afghan Conflict (By JOHN F. BURNS, Sep. 2, 2002)
Swedish Police Rush to Trace the Trail of Hijacking Suspect (By DESMOND BUTLER with ALAN COWELL, Sep. 2, 2002)
Mystery Surrounds Deadly Ambush of Americans in Indonesia (By RAYMOND BONNER, Sep. 2, 2002)
A Rape Victim in Pakistan Sees Justice for Attackers (By REUTERS, Sep. 2, 2002)
For Arab Informers, Death; For the Executioners, Justice (By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Sep. 2, 2002)
Dozens Killed as a Typhoon Lashes Korea (By DON KIRK, Sep. 2, 2002)
* NY REGION: Many Minds, Each Envisioning a Different 9/11 Memorial (By EDWARD WYATT, Sep. 2, 2002)
This Week in the City: Parades, Parties and Possible Gridlock (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Sep. 2, 2002)
* More New Yorkers Bidding Farewell to Commuting (By JANNY SCOTT, Sep. 2, 2002)
CHRONOLOGY: A Road to Remembrance in Oklahoma City (NY TIMES, Sep. 2, 2002)
METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary: (By JOE ROGERS, Sep. 2, 2002)
* SPORTS: Winning Streak Reaches 18 for Oakland A's (By JOE LAPOINTE, Sep. 2, 2002)
SPORTS MEDIA AND BUSINESS: Recalling the Terror in Munich (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Sep. 2, 2002)
TENNIS: Sunny Outlook Keeps Serena Williams Winning (By SELENA ROBERTS, Sep. 2, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Looking Past Labor Day [to 9/11] (NY TIMES, Sep. 2, 2002)
EDITORIAL: A Wider Role in Afghanistan (NY TIMES, Sep. 2, 2002)
EDITORIAL: Crony Capitalism (NY TIMES, Sep. 2, 2002)
OP-ED: Secrecy Is Our Enemy (By BOB HERBERT, Sep. 2, 2002)
* OP-ED: Like Father, Unlike Son (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Sep. 2, 2002)
* OP-ED: Why Americans Should Rest (By JULIET SCHOR, Sep. 2, 2002)
LETTERS: Urge China to Let Information Flow (By KEVIN MCDERMOTT & NORMAN A. SCHORR, Sep. 2, 2002)
LETTERS: Books, Not the Beach (By ESTHER COHEN, Sep. 2, 2002)
LETTERS: Shopping at Wal-Mart (By MILA ROSENTHAL, Sep. 2, 2002)
BUSINESS: Workers Are Angry and Fearful This Labor Day (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Sep. 2, 2002)
* AOL Reaches to Create Its Own Big Music Scene on the Internet (By SAUL HANSELL, Sep. 2, 2002)
* Laid-Off Workers Swelling the Cost of Disability Pay (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Sep. 2, 2002)
MARKET PLACE: Theater Chain Still Slumps After Revealing Its Loan Deals (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Sep. 2, 2002)
Big Hollywood Hits Don't Ensure Big Profits (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Sep. 2, 2002)
Businessman vs. Newsman, All in One Person (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Sep. 2, 2002)
Hip-Hop Sales Pop: Pass the Courvoisier and Count the Cash (By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, Sep. 2, 2002)
NEW ECONOMY: Airlines Communicate Via E-Mail (By SUSAN STELLIN, Sep. 2, 2002)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Scientifically Priced Retail Goods (By BOB TEDECHI, Sep. 2, 2002)
* PATENTS: I.B.M. Software Refreshes Scores (By TERESA RIORDAN, Sep. 2, 2002)
COMPRESSED DATA: Automated System to Do Student Laundry (By IAN AUSTEN, Sep. 2, 2002)
* COMPRESSED DATA: Striking a Sour Note on Technology Outlays (By BARNABY FEDER, Sep. 2, 2002)
U.S. Cellphone Users Don't Seem to Get Message About Messaging (By JOHN MARKOFF, Sep. 2, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: Fashion in the Park, Courtesy of Vogue (By DAVID CARR, Sep. 2, 2002)
Low-Tech 'Godzilla' Remains a Force (By KEN BELSON, Sep. 2, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: An 'Enemies List,' but No Enemies Exist (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Sep. 2, 2002)
MEDIA TALK: MTV Awards Win in Many Categories (By BILL CARTER, Sep. 2, 2002)
ART CRITIC: Gauguin and Eakins, Driven but Worlds Apart (By ROBERTA SMITH, Sep. 2, 2002)
BOOKS: In the World of Chekhov, Where 'Complexity Is a Synonym for Truth' (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 2, 2002)
* DANCE: Graham Company Leaps Back to Life (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Sep. 2, 2002)
OPERA CRITIC: Little Girl's Suffering Becomes a Big Opera (By PAUL GRIFFITHS, Sep. 2, 2002)
POP: BLACK DICE: Searching for Bliss Beyond the Sonic Battleground (By BEN RATLIFF, Sep. 2, 2002)
THEATER: 'RENT': A Pop Star in an Ordinarily No-Name Cast (By BRUCE WEBER, Sep. 2, 2002)
TV: Revisiting a Fabled, Doomed Partnership (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Sep. 2, 2002)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: A Career Despite Dad's Advice (By MICHAEL HOLROYD, Sep. 2, 2002)
HEALTH: Linking West Nile and Transplants May Take Weeks (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Sep. 2, 2002)

Sunday, September 1, 2002:
On This Day: Septmeber 1 (Giacomo Torelli 9/1/1608-6/17/1678, Engelbert Humperdinck 9/1/1854-9/27/1921, James Corbett 9/1/1866-2/18/1933, Edgar Burroughs 9/1/1875-3/19/1950, Francis Aston 9/1/1877-11/20/1945, Marilyn Miller 9/1/1898-4/7/1936, Carlo Gambino 9/1/1902-10/15/1976, Dame Peggy van Praagh 9/1/1910-1/15/1990, Rocky Marciano 9/1/1923-8/31/1969, Melvin R. Laird 1922, Yvonne DeCarlo 1922, Ann Richards 1933, Seiji Ozawa 1935, Ron O'Neal 1937, Don Stroud 1943, Archie Bell 1944, Barry Gibb 1946, Gloria Estefan 1957, Dee Dee Myers 1961)
German Army Attacks Poland; Danzig Is Accepted Into Reich (NY Times, Sept. 1, 1939)
Reuther Dies in Jet Crash With Wife and 4 Others [9/1/1907-5/9/1970] (NY Times, May 11, 1970)

* Lionel Hampton, Who Put Swing in the Vibraphone, Is Dead at 94 (By PETER WATROUS, Sep. 1, 2002)
Joe McCluskey, Track Medalist, Dies at 91 (By FRANK LITSKY, Sep. 1, 2002)
Paul Tripp, 91, Early Children's TV Host, Dies (By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
Stanley R. Greenberg, Television Screenwriter, Dies at 74 (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
NATIONAL: Health Officials Studying West Nile-Transplant (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
In Mosquito War, Weapons Include Spray, Garlic and Bananas (By PETER T. KILBORN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* Arab and Muslim Comics Turn Fear Into Funny (By JODI WILGOREN, Sep. 1, 2002)
Court Rules Beach at Malibu Is Public (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 1, 2002)
Kentucky Suspends Satanism in Prison (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 1, 2002)
WORLD: Detainee Had Studied to Be a Pilot in U.S. (By ALAN COWELL, Sep. 1, 2002)
Suspect Failed Training, Flight School Official Says (By SARAH KERSHAW, Sep. 1, 2002)
Russia's Overtures to 'Axis of Evil' Nations Strain Its Ties With U.S.
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS with MICHAEL WINES, Sep. 1, 2002)
As U.S. Pursues Verbal War on Iraq, the World Voices Concern (By, Sep. 1, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S. Rebuked: Slapping the Hand That Fed Free Trade (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Sep. 1, 2002)
6 Pakistanis Sentenced to Hang for Gang-Rape (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep. 1, 2002)
* In Land of Plenty, Some Swiss Struggle to Get By [Switzerland] (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
A Tug of War for Russian Island's Ethnic Koreans (By JAMES BROOKE, Sep. 1, 2002)
Nigeria's Strongman Is Still Standing (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Sep. 1, 2002)
NY REGION: School's in, Squabbling's Out (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Sep. 1, 2002)
* Struggle to Tally All 9/11 Dead by Anniversary (By ERIC LIPTON, Sep. 1, 2002)
Plans for Transit Concourse at Trade Center Site Altered After Victims' Families' Pleas
(By EDWARD WYATT, Sep. 1, 2002)
Some Mourn the Passing of Summer, Others Love a City Without Crowds (By MARC SANTORA, Sep. 1, 2002)
RIIS PARK JOURNAL: Recounting Days Spent in Tall Chairs by the Sea (By ALAN FEUER, Sep. 1, 2002)
SPORTS: Skilled Ballplayers and Fans Who Are Brats (By IRA BERKOW, Sep. 1, 2002)
GAME ON THE LINE: Season Is Salvaged, but Baseball Still Has Rich Facing the Poor
(By DAVID LEONHARDT, Sep. 1, 2002)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A Negotiating Mood Set Early Helped Lead to Settlement (By MURRAY CHASS, Sep. 1, 2002)
* BACKTALK: Years Later, Koufax Has a Hold on a New Generation of Baseball Fans.
(By JANE LEAVY, Sep. 1, 2002)
BACKTALK: Baseball Could Learn From Australia (By JUSTIN WOLFERSand ANDREW LEIGH, Sep. 1, 2002)
2002 N.F.L. PREVIEW: With Innovation, Winning Is the Only Thing for Spurrier
(By JERE LONGMAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* EDITORIAL: Dancing With Dictators (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Resisting the Siren Song of the All-American Muscle Cars (By BRENT STAPLES, Sep. 1, 2002)
* OP-ED: Scent of a Madman (By MAUREEN DOWD, Sep. 1, 2002)
* OP-ED: Iraq Without Saddam (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* OP-ED: Confronting Anti-American Grievances (By ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Sep. 1, 2002)
OP-ED: The Truth About Confessions (By PETER BROOKS, Sep. 1, 2002)
LETTERS: Saudi Makeover Won't Be Enough (By ROBERT HALL, et. al., Sep. 1, 2002)
LETTERS: Leaders of the World, Keep Jogging! [Putin, Blair, Bush] (By MARSHALL YAEGER, Sep. 1, 2002)
LETTERS: Moving Down the Highway, Privacy Intact (ByNEIL D. SCHUSTER, Sep. 1, 2002)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
* BUSINESS: Ouster at AOL, but Where Does Trail End? (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Sep. 1, 2002)
A Guardian of Jobs or a 'Reverse Robin Hood'? (By LESLIE WAYNE, Sep. 1, 2002)
Time to Jump Back Into Junk Bonds? (By ELIZABETH REED SMITH, Sep. 1, 2002)
Doors May Open to 401(k) Advice (By DONNA ROSATO, Sep. 1, 2002)
Boomers, on the Road Again, Spur Sales of RV's (By FRED BROCK, Sep. 1, 2002)
The Race to Predict Terror's Costs (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, Sep. 1, 2002)
* MARKET WATCH: Another Slap at Democracy on Wall St. (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
MARKET INSIGHT: In Mining, Some Glints, but Little That Glistens (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* LOVE & MONEY: A Crisis of Family Values and a Family's Value (By ELLYN SPRAGINS, Sep. 1, 2002)
SENIORITY: In an Election Year, These Protesters Have Power (By FRED BROCK, Sep. 1, 2002)
PRIVATE SECTOR: No, She Doesn't Breathe Fire (By JO NAPOLITANO, Sep. 1, 2002)
Telecom Wreck Provides an Opening for AT&T (By NORM ALSTER, Sep. 1, 2002)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: Forecast Too Sunny? Try the Anxious Index (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Sep. 1, 2002)
ON THE CONTRARY: Low-Paid Workers Bear a Hidden Burden (By DANIEL AKST, Sep. 1, 2002)
GRASS-ROOTS BUSINESS: A Marketing Cry: Don't Fence Them In (By ALEX MARKELS, Sep. 1, 2002)
* STRATEGIES: Insider Trades Point to a Rising Market (Eventually) (By MARK HULBERT, Sep. 1, 2002)
* INVESTING WITH: O. Thomas Barry III of Bjurman, Barry Micro-Cap Growth Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, Sep. 1, 2002)
* EXECUTIVE LIFE: Squeezing Yourself Out (for the Company) (By WILLIAM SANTIAGO, Sep. 1, 2002)
* THE BOSS: 100 Steps. One Picture. [on photography] (By DON IWATANI, Written with Sharon R. King, Sep. 1, 2002)
BUSINESS DIARY: Generous Severance Pay Even for Failed C.E.O.'s (By VIVIAN MARINO, Sep. 1, 2002)
INVESTING DIARY: A Record Outflow From Stock Funds (By JEFF SOMMER, Sep. 1, 2002)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: If You Refinance, Is the Equity Line Lost? (By HUBERT B. HERING, Sep. 1, 2002)
On the Far Side of Day, Some Find Greater Opportunities to Shine (By DAVID KOEPPEL, Sep. 1, 2002)
* LIFE'S WORK: In a Season of Memorials, Living Life (By LISA BELKIN, Sep. 1, 2002)
ARTS: Content (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
ARTS: A Humble River Town Acquires the Ambience of Art (By KAY LARSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
* ARTS: In a New Times Square, a Wink at Futures Past [Roy Lichtenstein]
(By AVIS BERMAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
ART: Far From Midtown, She's Fallen in Love With the Sea (By AMEI WALLACH, Sep. 1, 2002)
DANCE: A Collection of New Work: Brief, Brisk and Bravura (By CHRIS DOHSE, Sep. 1, 2002)
DANCE: Music That's Uplifting for Some Is a Downer for Others (By JOSEPH CARMAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
FILM: The Desexing of Austin Powers (By JAMIE MALANOWSKI, Sep. 1, 2002)
* FILM: Godard in Autumn, Analyzing America (By STUART KLAWANS, Sep. 1, 2002)
* FILM: Straining to Be the Nouveau Hitchcock (By TERRENCE RAFFERTY, Sep. 1, 2002)
* FILM: Darryl F. Zanuck, Action Hero of the Studio Era (By MEL GUSSOW, Sep. 1, 2002)
JAZZ: In the Macho World of Jazz, Don't Ask, Don't Tell (By FRANCIS DAVIS, Sep. 1, 2002)
MUSIC: An Elusive Conductor Finally Says, 'You've Got Me' [Simon Rattle]
(By NICHOLAS KENYON, Sep. 1, 2002)
* MUSIC RECORDINGS: Two Faces of a Pianist Who Had Many (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Sep. 1, 2002)
MUSIC: Rockin' to the Stones? Yeah, in Chairs (By NEAL POLLACK, Sep. 1, 2002)
MUSIC SPINS: Clicks, Hums and Digressions (By KELEFA SANNEH, Sep. 1, 2002)
OPERA: An Operatic Mission: Freshen the Familiar (By TERRENCE McNALLY, Sep. 1, 2002)
OPERA: HIGH NOTES: Covering Opera, if Not Its World (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Sep. 1, 2002)
* THEATER: Japanese View of an American View of Japan (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Sep. 1, 2002)
THEATER: 'Hairspray': Fun but Sticky, and Even a Bit Stiff (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
THEATER: Blowing Off the Dust, Breathing New Life Into Old Plays (By ROBERT SIMONSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
THEATER: Gay in a Supposedly Straight Game (By BRUCE WEBER, Sep. 1, 2002)
TV: 'American Idol': The Only Losers Are the Audience's Ears (By CARYN JAMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
TV: Looking at Arab-American Lives With Care, and One Eye Closed (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
STYLE: It's Been a Long Wait, but Is This Nirvana? [Reading, UK, Rock Festival]
(By HUGO LINDGREN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* After the Veil, a Makeover Rush [Afghanistan beauticians] (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Sep. 1, 2002)
A Summer Must-Read With Eerie Echoes [Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"]
(By CATHY HORYN, Sep. 1, 2002)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Dave Meyers (By JULIA CHAPLIN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* POSSESSED: A Wall Wears a Kimono [Op-Art style] (By ELAINE LOUIE, Sep. 1, 2002)
* Girlhood, Chickdom and Womanliness [Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success] (By PENELOPE GREEN, Sep. 1, 2002)
NOTICED: Tennis Babes in, Peacocks Out (By RUTH LA FERLA, Sep. 1, 2002)
VOWS: Nicholas Frayn and Danya Reda (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Sep. 1, 2002)
* TRAVEL: Tofu and Zazen by the Sea (By TED ROSE, Sep. 1, 2002)
* TRAVEL: A Shrine to Arts and Crafts (By BARBARA LAZEAR ASCHER, Sep. 1, 2002)
TRAVEL: Fun Across the Board in Santa Cruz (By MEGAN HARLAN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* TRAVEL ESSAY: Italy Through 5-Year-Old Eyes (By JONATHAN BLACK, Sep. 1, 2002)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
WIN-WIN: Why the President Can't Lose in November (By RICHARD L. BERKE, Sep. 1, 2002)
FIRST AMONG EVILS?: The Debate Over Attacking Iraq Heats Up (By DAVID E. SANGER, Sep. 1, 2002)
* Update on Capitalism: What Do You Mean 'Us,' Boss? (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Sep. 1, 2002)
* What Is It About British Men? Cheap, Drunk and Stiff Lipped (By SARAH LYALL, Sep. 1, 2002)
In Tense Times, a Court Insists on Open Doors (By ADAM LIPTAK, Sep. 1, 2002)
* For Youth in Japan, Love Is a Many Segmented Thing (By KEN BELSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
* Taming a Seasonal Swell [Dongting Lake, China] (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Sep. 1, 2002)
THE BIG PICTURE: Hold My Calls
[1,300 feet below sea level, Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth] (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
* ACCORDING TO THE TIMES... The Subway Cat (By NYTIMES.COM, Sep. 1, 2002)
Singing the Praises of Mr. Personality [Vladimir V. Putin] (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Sep. 1, 2002)
Terrorism's Toll on the F.B.I. (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Sep. 1, 2002)
* When 'Director's Cut' Is a Contradiction in Terms (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Sep. 1, 2002)
Thinking Big in New York, Seeking a Grand Vision of Public Works (By JAMES SANDERS, Sep. 1, 2002)
* WORD FOR WORD: Wanna Bet? (By AMY HARMON, Sep. 1, 2002)
Mr. Smith Goes to New York City... Again (By ELLIOTT REBHUN, Sep. 1, 2002)
Forget About the Strike. Play Ball! (By MURRAY CHASS, Sep. 1, 2002)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
ON LANGUAGE: 9/11 (By JACK ROSENTHAL, Sep. 1, 2002)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Into Their Labor (By GEORGE PACKER, Sep. 1, 2002)
QUESTIONS FOR DICK ARMEY: Retiring, Not Shy (By JAKE TAPPER, Sep. 1, 2002)
THE ETHICIST: Save Face (By RANDY COHEN, Sep. 1, 2002)
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING: On Barely Getting By in Argentina (Interviews by SUSAN GOTTHELF, Sep. 1, 2002)
* IN THE MAGAZINE: Baseball Without Metaphor [Barry Bonds] (By DAVID GRANN, Sep. 1, 2002)
The Sullen Majority [disaffected young Iranians] (By TIM JUDAH, Sep. 1, 2002)
Totally Uncooked (By PEGGY ORENSTEIN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* Spellbound [Spelling Bee Goldstein family] (By BRUCE GRIERSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
STYLE: French Twist [slide show with Catherine Deneuve] (By S. S. FAIR & BLAIR SABOL, Sep. 1, 2002)
FOOD DIARY: Canned Heat [3 recipes] (By AMANDA HESSER, Sep. 1, 2002)
LIVES: Stealing Home [shoplifting teenager] (By LISA GABRIELE, Sep. 1, 2002)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Sep. 1, 2002)
* 'The Writer and the World': The Blunt Opinions of a Professional Provocateur
(By DAPHNE MERKIN, Sep. 1, 2002)
* 'The Preference for the Primitive': Exploring the Authenticity of the Old [Ernst H. Gombrich]
(By BRUCE BOUCHER, Sep. 1, 2002)
'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?' The Carter Family's Mountain Music (By DAVID GATES, Sep. 1, 2002)
'Mind Catcher': A Boy and His Exo-Brain (By KEN TUCKER, Sep. 1, 2002)
'Nobody's Perfect': A Critic's Wit, in Bulk (By LAURA MILLER, Sep. 1, 2002)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: No Frigate Like a Book (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Sep. 1, 2002)
* HEALTH: Race to Fill Void in Menopause-Drug Market (By GINA KOLATA, Sep. 1, 2002)

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