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<font size="2">"The last four years for me have been about that one moment
coming into the finish when I heard the Americans roar and
saw kids' faces painted red, white and blue. That's when I
felt the pride of being an American in an American
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/national/24MARS.html?todaysheadlines">Crematory Owners' Family Asks Why</a></b><br>
Relatives of the Georgia crematory owners who dumped hundreds of corpses over the years are at a loss for explanations.
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An spokesman said a suspicious package found at the U.S. Army Reserve Command headquarters did not contain anthrax.
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The authorities arrested a woman after a burglary at a Federal Highway Administration office that houses sensitive information about Hoover Dam.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/international/asia/24OSAM.html?todaysheadlines">New Clues Suggest Bin Laden Is Alive on Afghan Border</a></b><br>
Administration officials say they have indications that Osama bin Laden is alive and still moving around on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/international/africa/24ZIMB.html?todaysheadlines">Desperation Drives a Zimbabwean Exodus South</a></b><br>
With elections looming, thousands of voters are quietly fleeing a nation that is increasingly   beset by hunger and violence.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/international/europe/24ITAL.html?todaysheadlines">Ten Years After Bribery Scandal, Italy Still Counts the Cost</a></b><br>
Italy is split on whether investigators went too far  or not nearly far enough  in pursuing public officials accused of corruption.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/business/24WALM.html?todaysheadlines">Enriched by Working Class, Wal-Mart Eyes BMW Crowd</a></b><br>
Wal-Mart, which became the nation's biggest company by stressing low prices, is setting its sights on affluent shoppers.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/business/yourmoney/24DERI.html?todaysheadlines">Contracts So Complex They Imperil the System</a></b><br>
As sophisticated derivatives evolve and proliferate, subtle risks emerge that threaten the financial system  risks that are impossible to quantify, sometimes even to identify.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/business/yourmoney/24WHIT.html?todaysheadlines">The Genome Is Mapped. Now He Wants Profit.</a></b><br>
Tony L.White is now acting president of Celera, and he is on a mission to transform it from a vendor of genetic information to a pharmaceutical company.
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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/2002/02/24/politics/24WORK.html?todaysheadlines">Web Site Helped Change Farm Policy</a></b><br>
An environmental group used the web to turn farm subsidies into an issue of equity.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-column-travel.html?todaysheadlines">A Future for High-Speed Rail?</a></b><br>
The future of high-speed rail projects in the United States is murky thanks to the the fiscal and political turmoil currently enveloping Amtrak.
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Individual investors will be a critical in deciding the fate of the proposed merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.
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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/2002/02/24/politics/24SUPE.html?todaysheadlines">Bush Proposing to Shift Burden of Toxic Cleanups to Taxpayers</a></b><br>
The Bush administration has decided to designate fewer Superfund sites and to shift the bulk of cleanup costs from industry to taxpayers.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/politics/24GOVS.html?todaysheadlines">Governors Want Congress to Ease Welfare's Work Rule</a></b><br>
The nation's governors are now urging Congress to let states relax work requirements for some people on welfare.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/politics/24WORK.html?todaysheadlines">Web Site Helped Change Farm Policy</a></b><br>
An environmental group used the web to turn farm subsidies into an issue of equity.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/olympics/24OLYM.html?todaysheadlines">Riveting Sport and an Angry Backlash</a></b><br>
These Olympics were fun, safe and telegenic, but what began in unity is ending with a vehement anti-American fervor.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/sports/baseball/24YANK.html?todaysheadlines">Lilly Waits for Chance in Starting Rotation</a></b><br>
Ted Lilly, 26, looks and acts the part of an established major league pitcher, but he is still waiting to be one of the Yankees' starters.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/sports/basketball/24KNIC.html?todaysheadlines">Camby Will Watch Against Lakers</a></b><br>
Marcus Camby came off crutches and planned to attend the Knicks' game against the Los Angeles Lakers.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/arts/theater/24MORD.html?todaysheadlines">Six Decades Later, Still the Great American Musical</a></b><br>
Trevor Nunn's new production makes clear that "Oklahoma!" has endured for reasons far beyond its simple story.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/arts/theater/24PETE.html?todaysheadlines">A Hollywood Maverick, but Also a Broadway Baby</a></b><br>
With "Fortune's Fool," the filmmaker Arthur Penn resumes his love affair with the stage.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/arts/theater/24MCKI.html?todaysheadlines">Pulling Out of the Garage for a Visit to Brooklyn</a></b><br>
The Wooster Group ventures beyond the Performing Garage, its home theater in lower Manhattan, and finds more room at St. Ann's Warehouse in the  Dumbo district of  Brooklyn.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/nyregion/24ARRE.html?todaysheadlines">Teenager Held in Killings of Six People</a></b><br>
The authorities have charged a 16-year-old from Camden County, N.J., with killing six people and wounding a seventh.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/nyregion/24BIKE.html?todaysheadlines">Motorcycle Exposition Explodes Into a Deadly Fight Between Rival Bike Gangs</a></b><br>
At least one man was killed and 10 others wounded when a motorcycle exposition erupted into a battle between the Hell's Angels and the rival Pagans, police say.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/nyregion/24PORT.html?todaysheadlines">McGreevey's Port Nominee Faces Two-Party Scrutiny</a></b><br>
Gov. James E. McGreevey has moved to appoint allies to agencies, at times seeming oblivious to fellow Democrats.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/opinion/24DOWD.html?todaysheadlines">Coyote Rummy</a></b>
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By MAUREEN DOWD
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I want the secretary of defense to tell the Pentagon to kick its addiction to fiction.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/opinion/24FRIE.html?todaysheadlines">A Traveler to Saudi Arabia</a></b>
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After Sept. 11, Saudis got a raw taste of what many outsiders thought of their country.
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The Big Three rating agencies should have been in a position to blow the whistle early about Enron's true condition.
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