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<font size="2">"I asked, 'How do you steer it?' Somebody said, 'Shut up and
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/politics/19MARR.html?todaysheadlines">Welfare Chief Is Hoping to Promote Marriage</a></b><br>
Wade F. Horn, the administration official who oversees the welfare program, wants to spend $100 million to promote marriage among the poor.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/national/19MOM.html?todaysheadlines">Trial in Case of Drowned Children Opens</a></b><br>
The trial of Andrea Pia Yates, the woman accused of murdering her five children in a bathtub, opened on Monday with defense lawyers saying that she suffers from severe mental illness.
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On Tuesday the opening arguments begin in the trial of two lawyers whose dogs attacked and killed a Los Angeles woman.
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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/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?todaysheadlines">Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad</a></b><br>
The Pentagon is planning to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media in order to influence public opinion in both friendly and unfriendly countries.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/asia/19AFGH.html?todaysheadlines">In a Shift, U.S. Uses Airstrikes to Help Kabul</a></b><br>
American forces appear to have opened a new phase in the war in Afghanistan with two bombing raids that were aimed at forces opposed to the new government in Kabul.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/middleeast/19SHAR.html?todaysheadlines">No Security for Sharon</a></b><br>
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won election on a promise to bring peace and security. But after a year of his stewardship, Israel lacks both and so, politically speaking, does he.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>BUSINESS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19WALL.html?todaysheadlines">Congress to Investigate Wall St.'s Ties With Enron</a></b><br>
Congressional investigators are widening their investigation of the Enron debacle to focus on Wall Street and the role it played in the company's rise and collapse.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19MORG.html?todaysheadlines">First Boston Plans a Shakeup in Its Banking Unit</a></b><br>
First Boston's chief executive, John J. Mack, is close to a deal to poach a high ranking banker from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19AIR.html?todaysheadlines">Pact at United Averts Strike by                                                                                                    Machinists</a></b><br>
United Airlines reached a tentative agreement with the leaders of the union representing its aircraft mechanics, averting a possible strike.
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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/2002/02/19/technology/19GRID.html?todaysheadlines">Grid Project to Wed Web Services</a></b><br>
A worldwide computing project known as grid, whose long-term vision is to bring the power of supercomputing to individuals, is taking a step into the commercial mainstream.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/technology/ebusiness/19CIEN.html?todaysheadlines">Ciena to Pay $900 Million in Stock                                                                                                  Deal to Buy ONI</a></b><br>
Ciena, a maker of fiber optic network equipment, said it will acquire ONI Systems, in a stock transaction worth $900 million.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19GLOB.html?todaysheadlines">Global Crossing Was Big Giver to Campaigns in New York</a></b><br>
Global Crossing, the troubled telecommunications company, was a a big campaign contributor in New York -- giving more than $200,000 in 18 months.
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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/2002/02/19/politics/19MARR.html?todaysheadlines">Welfare Chief Is Hoping to Promote Marriage</a></b><br>
Wade F. Horn, the administration official who oversees the welfare program, wants to spend $100 million to promote marriage among the poor.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19CHEN.html?todaysheadlines">Cheney Reinforces Bush's Stand Against Terrorism</a></b><br>
Vice President Dick Cheney opened a four-day swing through California by underscoring America's resolve to stop Iraq, Iran and North Korea from continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/national/19ENVI.html?todaysheadlines">E.P.A. and Energy Department War Over Clean Air Rules</a></b><br>
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department are battling over new revisions to air pollution regulations.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>SPORTS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/olympics/19FIGU.html?todaysheadlines">Drama and Scandal Make the Olympics</a></b><br>
Every time Olympic Games are held, it seems, the idealized vision of a better world through amateur competition is declared dead or dying.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/football/19NFLL.html?todaysheadlines">Jets Lose Three but Gain Millions</a></b><br>
The Jets lost Aaron Glenn, Marcus Coleman and Ryan Young to the Houston Texans, but gained salary-cap flexibility.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/football/19BUCS.html?todaysheadlines">Tampa Bay Pays to Get Gruden</a></b><br>
The Buccaneers surrendered a staggering allotment of draft picks for coach John Gruden, who agreed to a five-year, $17 million contract with Tampa Bay.
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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/2002/02/19/arts/design/19ARTS.html?todaysheadlines">Chinese Retreat Yields Handiwork Fit for an Emperor</a></b><br>
An emperor's retirement lodge in the Forbidden City in Beijing that survived the Cultural Revolution is being preserved.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/arts/theater/19BIRD.html?todaysheadlines">Racine's Pale Queen, Struggling With Racket Sports</a></b><br>
Ph&#232;dre has probably never looked sicker than she does in the Wooster Group's exhilarating dissection of Racine's tragedy.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/arts/music/19LEVI.html?todaysheadlines">Clarity and Atmospherics, Courtesy of Levine</a></b><br>
The Munich Philharmonic made its first appearances in New York since James Levine became its conductor and gave energetic, richly colored and insightful performances.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19CHAR.html?todaysheadlines">Lesson in Hands-On Charity: Giving Away Cash Isn't Easy</a></b><br>
When the National Association of Home Builders decided to distribute money directly to Sept. 11 victims, they had no idea how hard it would be to give away $10 million.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19JOBL.html?todaysheadlines">Educated, Experienced and Out of Unemployment Checks</a></b><br>
Many college-educated professionals who worked in Manhattan are facing the prospect of their unemployment benefits running out after months of fruitless job hunting.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19BOOK.html?todaysheadlines">Want a Fight? Pick One Book for All New Yorkers</a></b><br>
A group of librarians, bookstore owners and educators is struggling to pick one book for all eight million fickle New Yorkers to read.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/opinion/19KRIS.html?todaysheadlines">The Wrong War</a></b>
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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
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The real aim of the American mission in the Philippines is political: to reach a feel-good declaration of victory in the war on terror.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/opinion/19KRUG.html?todaysheadlines">Workers Held Hostage</a></b>
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Last week, House Republicans blocked vital aid to the nation's most vulnerable workers, and   have refused to release it unless they   secure passage of a dying stimulus plan.
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President Bush has been able to  win China's cooperation in the war  on terrorism. Is this a fluke due to  Sept. 11, or are we finally entering a  new relationship with Beijing?
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