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<font size="2">"Intelligence will never give you 100 percent predictive
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/international/07INTE.html?todaysheadlines">GEORGE TENET,</a>director of central intelligence.


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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/national/07LIND.html?todaysheadlines">Judge Quickly Turns Down Lindh's Request for Bail</a></b><br>
A federal magistrate said on Wednesday that John Walker Lindh, who was captured with anti-American forces in Afghanistan, must stay in prison while he awaits trial.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/health/07BOTO.html?todaysheadlines">In Quest for Wrinkle-Free Future, Frown Becomes Thing of the Past</a></b><br>
The wrinkle-preventing cosmetic drug Botox is on the verge of approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
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The number of foreign-born and first generation residents in the United States has reached the highest level in history.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/international/07INTE.html?todaysheadlines">Al Qaeda Still Able to Strike U.S., Head of C.I.A. Says</a></b><br>
While a number of its plots have been disrupted, Al Qaeda is now trying to resume its operations, C.I.A. Director George Tenet said on Wednesday.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/international/asia/07MILI.html?todaysheadlines">U.S. Releasing 27 Captured in Raid</a></b><br>
American forces on Wednesday released prisoners captured in Afghanistan last month, saying they were not Taliban or Qaeda fighters as the Pentagon originally said.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/science/07BOMB.html?todaysheadlines">New Twist on Physicist's Role in Nazi Bomb</a></b><br>
According to documents released on Wednesday, the leader of Hitler's atomic bomb program did not destroy the project from within, as he had asserted.
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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/2002/02/07/business/07LAWY.html?todaysheadlines">Lawyer Warned Enron Officials of Dubious Deals a Year Before Collapse</a></b><br>
In a series of memos to Enron executives well before the company's collapse, a senior lawyer warned about the appearance of some questionable transactions.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/business/07ENRO.html?todaysheadlines">Official Defends Proposed Change in Pension Plans</a></b><br>
Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao championed the president's plan to protect workers from catastrophic losses in retirement accounts.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/business/worldbusiness/07IRIS.html?todaysheadlines">Bank Trader's Losses Total $750 Million</a></b><br>
A currency trader working in Baltimore for a major Irish bank ran up $750 million in losses over the last year that were hidden with bogus offsetting trades.
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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/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07HERE.html?todaysheadlines">You Can Surf, but You Can't Hide</a></b><br>
Software can already tell your friends   when you log on or off. Now, "presence awareness" capabilities are being designed into other devices. Is this technology helpful or creepy?
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/07CISC.html?todaysheadlines">Cisco Recovers, Reporting Profit in Quarter</a></b><br>
Showing a return to steady performance, technology bellwether Cisco Systems reported second-quarter earnings that nearly doubled Wall Street's expectations.
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You can now buy a full-featured DVD player for as little as $80. What is sacrificed, at that price, other than a name brand?
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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/2002/02/07/politics/07STIM.html?todaysheadlines">Senate Abandons Effort to Boost the Economy</a></b><br>
The Senate abandoned its effort to pass a plan  to boost the economy, but approved a measure extending unemployment benefits.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/politics/07DONA.html?todaysheadlines">House G.O.P. Rallies Forces Against Bill on Donations</a></b><br>
Senior House Republicans told rank-and-file   lawmakers that Republican control of the chamber was at stake in next week's showdown vote.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/business/07TAX.html?todaysheadlines">More Get Rich and Pay Less in Taxes</a></b><br>
The number of Americans with million-dollar incomes more than doubled from 1995 through 1999, as their salaries and stock profits soared.
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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/2002/02/07/sports/basketball/07NETS.html?todaysheadlines">Nets Enter Break on Sour Note</a></b><br>
For the second time this season, the Nets were unable to beat the high-scoring Mavericks, who shredded New Jersey's defense.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/sports/hockey/07RANG.html?todaysheadlines">Even Lindros Can't Help Rangers Beat Red Wings</a></b><br>
Even with Eric Lindros in their lineup for the first time in a week, the Rangers showed on Wednesday night that they are no match for the Red Wings.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/sports/basketball/07KNIC.html?todaysheadlines">Knick Stars in Reversal of Roles</a></b><br>
Allan Houston now appears to be the Knicks' biggest critic, while Latrell Sprewell has been unusually cool during the teams downfall.
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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/2002/02/07/arts/theater/07NOTE.html?todaysheadlines">London's Preening in a Rearview Mirror</a></b><br>
Squinting backward at the 20th century is all the rage in the British theater these days.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/movies/07ENGL.html?todaysheadlines">A Filmmaker Who Valued Art More Than Fame</a></b><br>
Fifty years after directing "Little Fugitive," Morris Engel will be the subject of a weeklong retrospective at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/arts/dance/07BUGL.html?todaysheadlines">A Painterly Light Cast on Mourning</a></b><br>
"Requiem" is typical of the creative breakthrough achieved in the last three years by the husband-and-wife team of Donlin Foreman and Jacqulyn Buglisi.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/politics/07BUSH.html?todaysheadlines">Bush, in New York, Affirms $20 Billion Aid Pledge</a></b><br>
President Bush declared on Wednesday that he would stand by his pledge to provide the city with at least $20 billion to help rebuild from the Sept. 11 attack.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/nyregion/07HALE.html?todaysheadlines">Officials Overlooked Dire Signs at Charity</a></b><br>
The arrest of officials at Hale House has shed a dark shadow over a once stellar reputation at the charity.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/nyregion/07TAX.html?todaysheadlines">Deficit Fuels Nassau Debate on Income Tax</a></b><br>
Some in Nassau County are proposing a new tax on personal income despite already high taxes on property and sales.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/opinion/07SAFI.html?todaysheadlines">Holmes's Horse's Dog</a></b>
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By WILLIAM SAFIRE
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On occasion, it becomes the business of other people  to point out that what I know is not so.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/opinion/07HERB.html?todaysheadlines">A Judge's Past</a></b>
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Charles W. Pickering's nomination to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is an affront to black people from coast to coast.
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No defense budget will be large enough if we cannot spend our military dollars more efficiently.
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