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   January 27, 2002   QUOTE OF THE DAY "Your house is burning down, you run back in, what do you save? You're just not trained to do that, so you go by your instincts."  BARTHOLOMEW VOORSANGER, an architect, on remnants collected from the World Trade Center.   NATIONAL PCB Pollution Suits Have Day in Court in Alabama  More than 3,500 plaintiffs are involved in a lawsuit that contends that the Monsanto Company knew the dangers of PCB contamination in Alabama.   Immigrant Laborers Feel Stranded in Pacific Northwest as Day Jobs Dry Up  Many immigrants who were able to find work in states like Washington and Oregon are now unable to as the unemployment rate continues to rise.   Princeton Embraces Scholar of Black Studies  Princeton University's trustees approved the acquisition of K. Anthony Appiah, a major league   scholar of African-American studies.     MORE NATIONAL NEWS    Advertisement    Sign up now for DealBook for Breaking News and Market-Moving Intelligence  Your source for daily briefings on the latest and most comprehensive news about market-moving mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity  transactions, venture capital deals and Wall Street maneuverings, all delivered before the market's  opening bell.  Edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin.  Sign up now!   [IMAGE]   INTERNATIONAL Suicide Bomber Strikes in Jerusalem  Dozens of people were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in downtown Jerusalem on Sunday. The bombing occured on a busy street that's been the scene of several previous attacks.   Bin Laden Stirs Struggle on Meaning of Jihad  Whether jihad is armed or a more personal duty of conscience is a question causing consternation in the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.   China Changes Approach in Espionage Incident  China's relationship with the United States has been changing dramatically over the past months, and the most recent espionage accusations have served as a barometer of that shift.     MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS    BUSINESS Economic Forum Moves to Manhattan  This week, the annual World Economic Forum -- a private summit of world leaders -- meets in Manhattan, shifted from Davos, a quiet village in the Swiss Alps.   '99 Deal Failed After Scrutiny of Enron  Three years ago, a German company pieced together a picture of Enron's finances so troubling that it helped convince the company to call off a merger with Enron.   Rallying Cry at First Boston: Smaller, Cleaner, Fairer  John J. Mack, chief executive of Credit Suisse First Boston, has proven a formidable corporate leader. But the true tests of his leadership skills lie ahead.     MORE BUSINESS NEWS    TECHNOLOGY Homestore Fights for Life as Bad News Piles Up  Homestore.com tells a tale of Internet glory that vanished overnight.   Quiet, Please. This Is a Library After All.  A modernized library presents Lincoln Center with acoustical problems of a new sort: noise.   Hard Times Prompt an Entrepreneurial Itch  A Silicon Valley publicist did what an increasing number of senior managers uncertain of   their job prospects are doing: He set   himself up at his own company.     MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS    POLITICS Powell Asks Bush to Reverse Stand on War Captives  The secretary of state has asked the president to declare that captives from the war on terror are entitled to protection under the Geneva Convention.   Poll Finds Enron's Taint Clings More to G.O.P. Than Democrats  Suspicions are growing that the Bush administration is hiding something or lying about its dealings with Enron, the latest New York Times/CBS Poll shows.   South Dakota Takes Center Stage in Political Wars  South Dakota has become the unlikely first battleground in a war of political superpowers.     MORE POLITICS NEWS    SPORTS An Amazing Victory for the Knicks  Overcoming hot 3-point shooting by Milwaukee and their own confounding penchant for critical errors, the Knicks outlasted the Bucks in double overtime.   Johansson Upsets Safin to Win His First Major  Sweden's Thomas Johansson won his first Grand Slam title with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over Russia's Marat Safin in the men's final of the Australian Open.   Texas Tech Trips No. 6 Oklahoma  Andre Emmett had 26 points and 10 rebounds as Texas Tech upset No. 6 Oklahoma.     MORE SPORTS NEWS    ARTS To Be Alicia Keys: Young, Gifted and in Control  Alicia Keys's songs plunge into the unsettled domain of female identity in the hip-hop era,   determined to work their way through conflicting imperatives.   At 81, Dancing With New Partners  Anna Halprin collaborates with the Japanese-born Koma and his wife Eiko in "Be With," an   emotional movement-puzzle that spills its pieces on the floor to be reassembled anew.   When Japan Tried On the Modernist Mantle  An exhibit at the Honolulu  Academy of Arts looks at a heady period in Japan's long history of borrowing from, and refining, Western culture.     MORE ARTS NEWS    NY REGION Budget Pinch Greets New Governor in Trenton  Now that the realities of the recession have come back to haunt New Jersey lawmakers, the state is left with one of the nation's most acute budget problems.   What's in an Economic Forum? Visitors, Police and Protests  New Yorkers might not care about the coming World Economic Forum, but there is good reason to pay attention.   60 Firefighters Who Died on Sept. 11 Were Off Duty  A review of the 343 cases in which firefighters lost their lives on Sept. 11 found that 60 were off duty when they rushed to the twin towers.     MORE NY REGION NEWS    OP-ED  Planet of the Privileged   By MAUREEN DOWD  On Planet Enron, the atmosphere was so rarefied that its inhabitants were blissfully oblivious to how privileged they were.   The 2 Domes of Belgium   By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN  Who were the killer pilots who went beyond passive support on Sept. 11 to become suicidal mass murderers?   The Trouble With Bubbles   By EDWARD CHANCELLOR  Enron's collapse can be seen as representative of the greatest speculative mania in the history of the world.     MORE OP-ED  NEWS    About This E-Mail You received these headlines because you requested The New York Times Direct e-mail service. 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