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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"I think there is going to be some heartburn on the part of
police chiefs to take on this role because this is not how
we usually do business."
-KEN YARBROUGH, police chief of Richardson, Tex., on Attorney General John
Ashcroft's request for help interviewing 5,000 Middle
Eastern men.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/national/22POLI.html?todaysheadlines


NATIONAL
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Police Are Split on Questioning of Mideast Men

Police chiefs are concerned that Attorney General John
Ashcroft's request that they help interview thousands of
Middle Eastern men seems like racial profiling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/national/22POLI.html?todaysheadlines

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Connecticut Woman, 94, Is Fifth to Die From Inhalation
Anthrax

Medical investigators began searching for clues as to how a
widow who rarely left her house had become the country's
fifth recent anthrax fatality.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22ANTH.html?todaysheadlines

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Hints of an Alzheimer's Aid in Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

Middle-age and elderly people who took anti-inflammatory
drugs like ibuprofen or naproxen for at least two years
were apparently protected from Alzheimer's disease.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/health/22ALZH.html?todaysheadlines

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INTERNATIONAL
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Foreign Militants Seek Safe Passage From Afghan City

Foreign militants trapped inside Kunduz have asked to leave
Afghanistan through a protected corridor and travel to
Pakistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/international/asia/22KUND.html?todaysheadlines

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How bin Laden and Taliban Forged Jihad Ties

Osama bin Laden's relationship with the Taliban helped lead
the Afghan religious movement into a more global jihad and,
eventually, doom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/international/asia/22TALI.html?todaysheadlines

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Saudi Sees No bin Laden-Iraq Link

Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief said Wednesday that
his government had seen no evidence that the Iraqi
government had provided support to Al Qaeda.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/international/middleeast/22SAUD.html?todaysheadlines

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BUSINESS
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Employees' Retirement Plan Is a Victim as Enron Tumbles

The rapid decline of the Enron Corporation has devastated
its employees' retirement plan, which was heavy with
company stock.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/business/22RETI.html?todaysheadlines

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Circling the Wagons Around Enron

Officials of Dynegy weighed whether to seek to renegotiate
the terms of the company's agreement to acquire Enron,
while Enron and its bankers sought to shore up the
company's finances.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/business/22ENRO.html?todaysheadlines

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Reports Suggest Recovery Soon, but Not Exactly a Robust One

The economy remains weak but reports suggest it is no longer
worsening, giving weight to the increasingly popular view
that a recovery is only a few months away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/business/22ECON.html?todaysheadlines

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TECHNOLOGY
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What Did You Do Before the War?

New fears and new data tools are yielding a boom in
background checks -- even after your hired.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/technology/circuits/22CHEC.html?todaysheadlines

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Microsoft's Top Lawyer Sets Retirement

On the heels of two major settlements, William H. Neukom,
the legal field general in Microsoft's antitrust conflicts,
said that he would retire next year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/technology/22SOFT.html?todaysheadlines

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A Thermometer That Squawks When the Bird Is Done

By providing remote readouts, digital meat thermometers are
designed to take the worry and the guesswork out of cooking
the holiday turkey.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/technology/circuits/22HOWW.html?todaysheadlines

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POLITICS
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Bush Says War May Go Beyond Afghan Border

President Bush said that the United States would take the
war on terrorism to nations beyond Afghanistan that harbor
terrorists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/politics/22BUSH.html?todaysheadlines

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Ridge to Seek Big Increases for Fight on Terror

Tom Ridge, the director of homeland security,  said that he
will seek new spending for federal law enforcement agencies
and public health facilities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/politics/22RIDG.html?todaysheadlines

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Some Wonder Where Pataki Has Been During Uphill Fight for
Billions

Gov. George E. Pataki remained curiously silent while New
York politicians spoke up as the White House and Congress
tried to clamp down on federal aid for New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22AID.html?todaysheadlines

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SPORTS
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High-Flying Suns Pull Knicks Back to Earth

With Stephon Marbury directing the action, the Suns put on a
high-flying, dunk-laden display as they dominated and
deflated the Knicks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/sports/basketball/22KNIC.html?todaysheadlines

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Gruden Is Brains Behind the Raiders

The Oakland Raiders' Jon Gruden possesses a multilayered
personality that has led many N.F.L. general managers to
call him the best young coaching talent in years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/sports/football/22GRUD.html?todaysheadlines

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Giant Optimism Well Above .500 Level

Despite losses in four of their last six games, the Giants
still stress the positives about their season and expect to
win most of their remaining games.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/sports/football/22GIAN.html?todaysheadlines

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ARTS
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Where Old Pianos Go to Live

Unlike most museums, this important collection of historic
19th-century pianos is meant to be used.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/design/22PIAN.html?todaysheadlines

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Ballet as Balm in a Tribute to a City on the Mend

It was certainly not your usual opening of   a winter season
by the New York City   Ballet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/dance/22GALA.html?todaysheadlines

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Catching the World in the Act of Changing

The man who recorded the events of Sept. 11, Evan Fairbanks,
has made a Zapruder film for our time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/design/22MAGN.html?todaysheadlines

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NY REGION
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Connecticut Woman, 94, Is Fifth to Die From Inhalation
Anthrax

Medical investigators began searching for clues as to how a
widow who rarely left her house had become the country's
fifth recent anthrax fatality.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22ANTH.html?todaysheadlines

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Some Wonder Where Pataki Has Been During Uphill Fight for
Billions

Gov. George E. Pataki remained curiously silent while New
York politicians spoke up as the White House and Congress
tried to clamp down on federal aid for New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22AID.html?todaysheadlines

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Developer Briefs Bloomberg on Plans to Rebuild Towers

Larry A. Silverstein, the developer who holds the lease on
the World Trade Center, met with Mayor-elect Michael R.
Bloomberg and said that he would go ahead with plans to
rebuild at the site.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22MIKE.html?todaysheadlines

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OP-ED
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Hunger in the City
By BOB HERBERT
There is something very wrong, in a society as affluent as
ours, when families have to choose between food and rent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/opinion/22HERB.html?todaysheadlines

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Welcome Back, Politics!
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Here is the trick in political prognostication: Take what
you know to be true and then play   fast and loose with the
possible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/opinion/22SAFI.html?todaysheadlines

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Educating the World
By GENE SPERLING
The United States should commit to getting all the world's
children in school.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/opinion/22SPER.html?todaysheadlines

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