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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/national/28INQU.html?todaysheadlines">Ashcroft Offers Accounting of 641 Charged or Held</a></b><br>
Attorney General John Ashcroft provided for the first time the names of 93 people charged with crimes arising from the government's investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/national/28SCOT.html?todaysheadlines">Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge in Its Main Affirmative Action Case</a></b><br>
Supreme Court justices dismissed a constitutional challenge to a federal highway contracting program and conceded that the case had  been "improvidently granted."
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A 17-year-old girl who police say warned a   teacher about a student plot to stage a Columbine-style rampage killing at her high school was   charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/international/asia/28MILI.html?todaysheadlines">Taliban and Qaeda Leaders Said to Use Compound Hit by U.S.</a></b><br>
American warplanes bombed a compound southeast of Kandahar on Tuesday that the Pentagon said was used by leaders of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/international/asia/28BALL.html?todaysheadlines">2 Pakistanis Linked to Papers on Anthrax Weapons</a></b><br>
Pakistan said that it had detained two retired nuclear scientists after the recent discovery of documents in their offices describing ways to use anthrax as a weapon.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/international/middleeast/28MIDE.html?todaysheadlines">2 Palestinian Gunmen Kill 2 as U.S. Begins Peace Effort</a></b><br>
Two Palestinian gunmen on Tuesday killed two people in a northern Israeli city during the visit of American envoys seeking a cease-fire.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/business/28PLAC.html?todaysheadlines">Trying to Restore Confidence in Enron to Salvage a Merger</a></b><br>
Enron and Dynegy worked to find ways to bolster   confidence in Enron's energy-trading business as the companies' negotiators continued talks on revising the terms of their merger.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/technology/28SOFT.html?todaysheadlines">Microsoft Move May Hasten Settlement of European Case</a></b><br>
Offering a strong signal that it wants to settle its antitrust case in Europe, Microsoft has told the European Commission that it will forgo its right to a hearing next month.
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Auto sales have remained surprisingly strong this month, easing the recession - and possibly shortening it - economists say.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/technology/28SOFT.html?todaysheadlines">Microsoft Move May Hasten Settlement of European Case</a></b><br>
Offering a strong signal that it wants to settle its antitrust case in Europe, Microsoft has told the European Commission that it will forgo its right to a hearing next month.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/technology/28LERN.html?todaysheadlines">Belgian Hope in Software Sells Assets at Auction</a></b><br>
The speech technology empire that Lernout &amp; Hauspie had cobbled together was dismantled in a somber bankruptcy auction at a law office in Lower Manhattan.
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Nokia reduced estimates for the number of handsets it expects consumers to buy in 2001, and said the market would continue to shrink through the early part of next year.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/politics/28TAX.html?todaysheadlines">$38 Billion Tax Hiatus Proposed</a></b><br>
Republicans in the Senate said they would support a new idea to free employers and employees from paying Social Security payroll taxes for one month.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/politics/28CLON.html?todaysheadlines">Senate Wants to Hear More About Cloning</a></b><br>
An effort to ban all human cloning failed to advance in the Senate as opponents of a ban said more time was needed to ensure the continuation of research.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/politics/28SECU.html?todaysheadlines">Official Says He'll Miss Screening Goal</a></b><br>
The transportation secretary said that his department could not meet the deadline established in the new aviation security   law for screening airline baggage for explosives.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/sports/baseball/28BASE.html?todaysheadlines">Selig Offers His Forecast</a></b><br>
Commissioner Bud Selig underwent what seemed more   like a coronation than a re-election, then produced as bleak a picture of baseball's economics as he ever has.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/sports/baseball/28YANK.html?todaysheadlines">Torre Promises Giambi the Job at                                                                                                              First</a></b><br>
Joe Torre told Jason Giambi that he would be the starting first baseman, not a designated hitter for any extended period, if Giambi signed with the Yankees.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-BKC-Illinois-Maryland.html?todaysheadlines">No. 5 Terps Knock Off No. 2 Illini</a></b><br>
Juan Dixon scored 25 points for Maryland in a win over Illinois on Tuesday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/arts/design/28AUCT.html?todaysheadlines">Legal Changes Allow Sotheby's and Christie's to Hold First Sales on French Turf</a></b><br>
Sotheby's will make history this week when it becomes the first foreign auction house to hold a public sale in France. Christie's,  its main   competitor, will follow suit next week.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/arts/design/28RUSS.html?todaysheadlines">Assembling Scattered Works by the Cognoscenti's Painter</a></b><br>
The American painter Louis M. Eilshemius was so varied in style, feeling and ambition that he catches viewers out whenever they think they have him pinned to the ground.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/arts/music/28ARAB.html?todaysheadlines">A Conductor's Met Debut and a Soprano's Role Debut</a></b><br>
Christoph Eschenbach made an impressive Metropolitan Opera debut and Ren&#233;e Fleming gave her first Met performance of the title role in Strauss's "Arabella" on Monday.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/nyregion/28ANTH.html?todaysheadlines">Man's Death Not Related to Anthrax, Governor Says</a></b><br>
Gov. John G. Rowland defused rumors that the death of an 84-year-old Connecticut man was caused by anthrax.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/nyregion/28BODY.html?todaysheadlines">Error Puts Body of One Firefighter in Grave of a Firehouse Colleague</a></b><br>
A New York firefighter who was killed in the World Trade Center collapse was buried in the wrong grave, much to the dismay of the Fire Department.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/nyregion/28NOMI.html?todaysheadlines">The White House Steps in to Quell a Struggle Over a New Prosecutor</a></b><br>
The White House stepped in with its own candidate for United States attorney, possibly averting a showdown between Gov. George E. Pataki and Senator Charles E. Schumer.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/opinion/28DOWD.html?todaysheadlines">Hunks and Brutes</a></b>
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If the United States can bomb a path to   victory for the Northern Alliance, we   can lay down some terms for what   women can attain in the new Afghanistan.
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The United States should export its methods for guarding nuclear materials.
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An onerous $40 billion debt load limits what New York can do to address the budget deficit.
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