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<font size="2">"Billions of dollars are being controlled by two companies,
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/national/04STEE.html?todaysheadlines">Bush Weighs Raising Steel Tariffs but Exempting Most Poor Nations</a></b><br>
Proposals being considered by President Bush to rescue the American steel industry would exempt most poor nations from punishing tariffs.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/national/04MISS.html?todaysheadlines">Congressional Inquiry Cites Flaws in Antimissile Sensor</a></b><br>
A Congressional inquiry into reports of corporate fraud has found widespread technical failures in a prototype antimissile sensor meant to track enemy warheads.
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Buried in the proposed farm bill is a plan to pay peanut farmers $1.3 billion to adopt a new $3 billion subsidy system.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>INTERNATIONAL</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/international/asia/04AFGH.html?todaysheadlines">U.S. Planes Pound Enemy as Troops Face Tough Fight</a></b><br>
Allied ground forces met fierce resistance Sunday as they tried to seal off escape routes from one of the last Taliban and Al Qaeda refuges.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/international/middleeast/04MIDE.html?todaysheadlines">Latest Attacks Stun Israelis and Dampen Hopes for Peace</a></b><br>
More killings Sunday put a damper on hopes   that were raised in some quarters by a Saudi peace proposal for the Middle East.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/international/americas/04COLO.html?todaysheadlines">Colombian Rebels Step Up Pace and Intensity of Attacks</a></b><br>
Peace talks collapsed just 11 days ago, and it took no time at all for Colombia to plunge into a new, ominous phase of the long-running conflict.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/business/04BUY.html?todaysheadlines">2 Powerful Groups Hold Sway Over Buying at Many Hospitals</a></b><br>
Many in the medical world question whether efforts by two national purchasing groups are being compromised by their financial ties to certain medical supply companies.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/business/media/04RIVA.html?todaysheadlines">After Letterman's Rebuff, CBS Tries Honey</a></b><br>
ABC executives have made a strong run at wresting David Letterman from CBS and may still succeed. But don't count CBS out just yet.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/business/04DEFE.html?todaysheadlines">Northrop's Bid for TRW Turns Hostile</a></b><br>
The Northrop Grumman Corporation made a $5.9 billion hostile takeover bid for its rival, TRW, after TRW's board rejected its original unsolicited offer.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>TECHNOLOGY</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/technology/04HEWL.html?todaysheadlines">Former Chief of Hewlett Urges Rejection of Merger</a></b><br>
Lewis E. Platt visited an influential shareholder advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services, last week to explain why he is against the deal Carleton S. Fiorina has championed.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/technology/04GLOB.html?todaysheadlines">A Rival Offer Is Expected for Global</a></b><br>
A Los Angeles investment firm that specializes in corporate turnarounds is likely to make an offer this week for Global Crossing, the beleaguered communications company.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/arts/design/04ARTS.html?todaysheadlines">If You Can't Join 'Em, You Can Always Tweak 'Em</a></b><br>
An artist recently registered the Web address WhitneyBiennial.com and on it he's posted his own opinions of the perpetually controversial exhibit.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>POLITICS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/politics/04DONA.html?todaysheadlines">Pocketing Soft Money Before Pockets Are Sewn Up</a></b><br>
Republicans and Democrats are mounting an aggressive, last-ditch drive to collect unrestricted donations before they are banned.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/politics/04DASC.html?todaysheadlines">Daschle Wants Congress Told More About Bush's War Plans</a></b><br>
Senator Tom Daschle, the majority leader, renewed his questions on Sunday about the administration's expansion of the war on terrorism.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/politics/04NUTS.html?todaysheadlines">Peanut Proposals Put a New Wrinkle on Farm Subsidies</a></b><br>
Buried in the proposed farm bill is a plan to pay peanut farmers $1.3 billion to adopt a new $3 billion subsidy system.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/sports/golf/04GOLF.html?todaysheadlines">Els Endures Tiger's Charge</a></b><br>
Ernie Els started the day with an eight-shot lead but finished only two ahead of Tiger Woods to win the Genuity Championship.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-BKC-Virginia-Maryland.html?todaysheadlines">Terps Set Regular-Season Record</a></b><br>
Second-ranked Maryland's last game at Cole Field House was a win over Virginia that capped the best regular season in school history.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/sports/basketball/04NETS.html?todaysheadlines">Martin's Fury Tempers Nets' Win</a></b><br>
The Nets beat the Chicago Bulls on Sunday but lost Kenyon Martin to a one-game suspension.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>ARTS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/arts/04MANI.html?todaysheadlines">With a New Album, Barry Manilow Finds Himself Back on the Charts</a></b><br>
With the release of a new pop hybrid album called "Here at the Mayflower," Barry Manilow is aiming for a comeback.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/books/04CASS.html?todaysheadlines">A Voice Out of the Silence: Imagining the Other Cassatt</a></b><br>
Harriet Scott Chessman's novel  imagines the inner thoughts of Lydia Cassatt, known only for her image in the paintings of her sister, Mary Cassatt.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/arts/dance/04JEUX.html?todaysheadlines">Nijinsky Returns, With a Scarf and a Triple Kiss</a></b><br>
At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago resurrected Nijinsky's terse schematic ballet, "Jeux."
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/nyregion/04TAX.html?todaysheadlines">New Spotlight on Supervision of Assessors</a></b><br>
For decades tax assessors have toiled in anonymity, but that changed last Monday when prosecutors charged 18 of them with accepting bribes.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/nyregion/04BROT.html?todaysheadlines">Side by Side in Life, and Now, in Death</a></b><br>
The coffins of three Albanian-American brothers who went together to Kosovo to fight lay side by side on Sunday in a funeral home in the Bronx.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/nyregion/04MAYO.html?todaysheadlines">Mayoral Visits Seek to Heal Old Wounds of Louima Case</a></b><br>
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg went to Brooklyn on Sunday to try to calm some of the emotions stirred up by the latest twists in the Abner Louima case.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/opinion/04SAFI.html?todaysheadlines">The Inspection Ploy</a></b>
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Saddam Hussein has restarted the business of postponing an attack on his regime by the United States until he can  finish making weapons of mass destruction.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/opinion/04HERB.html?todaysheadlines">A Different City</a></b>
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New York is a much different place than it was in  the summer of 1997 when Abner Louima was hideously attacked by police officers in the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/opinion/04GRAN.html?todaysheadlines">Bargains Everywhere but on Wall Street</a></b>
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The stock market peaked two years  ago. Yet the investment merchandise  remains prohibitively expensive.
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