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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"He just doesn't feel to me like the surrendering type."
-DONALD H. RUMSFELD, secretary of defense, on Mullah   Muhammad Omar.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/international/asia/27MILI.html?todaysheadlines


NATIONAL
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U.S. Pressures Foreign Airlines Over Manifests

Foreign airline passengers will be put through lengthy
searches if the airlines did not provide information to
identify potential terrorists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/politics/27SECU.html?todaysheadlines

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Michigan 'Invites' Men From Mideast to Be Interviewed

Officials are sending letters today to hundreds of young men
inviting them to make appointments for interviews.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/national/27MUSL.html?todaysheadlines

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A Harvard Professor's Baffling Vanishing

The disappearance in Memphis earlier this month of Don C.
Wiley, a leading expert on dangerous viruses like Ebola,
has provoked wide attention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/national/27HARV.html?todaysheadlines

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INTERNATIONAL
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U.S. Will Place 1,000 Troops on Ground

American marines on Monday helped direct air attacks on an
armored column, inaugurating a new phase in the war in
Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/international/asia/27MILI.html?todaysheadlines

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Fight With Prisoners Rages at Northern Afghan Fort

Five Americans were wounded while helping the Northern
Alliance try to quell a revolt of surrendered Taliban
soldiers inside a prison near Mazar-i-Sharif.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/international/asia/27MAZA.html?todaysheadlines

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Next Target in Terror War: Bush Says It Could Be Iraq

President Bush warned Saddam Hussein that if he did not
admit inspectors to determine if Iraq is developing weapons
of mass destruction, he would face consequences.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/international/27PREX.html?todaysheadlines

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BUSINESS
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Economists Make It Official: U.S. Is in Recession

A group of economists said that the longest economic
expansion on record gave way earlier this year to the first
recession in a decade.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/business/27ECON.html?todaysheadlines

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Enron Talking With Dynegy as They Work to Rescue Deal

The Enron Corporation and its would-be rescuer, Dynegy Inc.,
are talking about renegotiating the terms of their deal,
originally valued at $9 billion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/business/27ENRO.html?todaysheadlines

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Top Companies Issuing Debt at a Fast Pace

Blue-chip corporations are taking advantage of the chance to
raise cash at bargain basement prices, thanks to low
interest rates, and to retire more expensive debt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/business/27DEBT.html?todaysheadlines

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TECHNOLOGY
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Bankruptcy Auction Begins for Speech Technology Company

The bankruptcy auction for the assets of Lernout &
Hauspie is expected to produce only a fraction of the
hundreds of millions of dollars that the company owes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/technology/27SPEE.html?todaysheadlines

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A Practical Way to Make Power From Wasted Heat

Scientists at M.I.T. and a small company in Salt Lake City
will announce that they have developed technology that can
efficiently and inexpensively transform heat pollution into
electricity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/technology/27HEAT.html?todaysheadlines

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A Breakthrough on Cloning? Perhaps, or Perhaps Not Yet

Shadowing the raging dispute on whether cloning should be
outlawed is a major question: Is the human-cloning attempt
a milestone or a forgettable blunder?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/health/27EMBR.html?todaysheadlines

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POLITICS
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Next Target in Terror War: Bush Says It Could Be Iraq

President Bush warned Saddam Hussein that if he did not
admit inspectors to determine if Iraq is developing weapons
of mass destruction, he would face consequences.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/international/27PREX.html?todaysheadlines

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Bush Denounces Cloning and Calls for Ban

President Bush condemned the work of a Massachusetts
biotechnology company that says it has created human
embryos through cloning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/health/27CLON.html?todaysheadlines

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A Democrat to Run Fund for Sept. 11

The attorney general appointed Kenneth R. Feinberg to run
the $11 billion fund set up to compensate families of the
victims.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/politics/27FUND.html?todaysheadlines

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SPORTS
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Yankees' Brosius to Retire

Scott Brosius, who played in the World Series in   each of
his four seasons with the Yankees and earned three
championship rings, has decided to retire.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/sports/baseball/27PINS.html?todaysheadlines

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Camby Jump-Starts the Knicks

Marcus Camby, the Knicks' much-missed center, turned in an
outstanding performance, and the Knicks beat the Atlanta
Hawks on Monday night.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/sports/basketball/27KNIC.html?todaysheadlines

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Miami and Florida Top List, but Nothing's Settled

In the new B.C.S. ranking, Miami is No. 1 and Florida is No.
2, but they are not the only teams that could end up in the
Rose Bowl.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/sports/ncaafootball/27COLL.html?todaysheadlines

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ARTS
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New Interest in Florida Paintings by a Group of Black
Artists

For decades following World War II, Florida landscapes
shaped the state's popular image, but few knew that they
were largely the creations of self-taught, African-American
artists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/arts/design/27ARTS.html?todaysheadlines

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Audience Stands Up to Cheer a Stand-In

Though not technically flawless, Veronica Villarroel's
affecting performance in the title role of "Madama
Butterfly" is vocally distinguished and unerringly honest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/arts/music/27BUTT.html?todaysheadlines

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The Panic of 1837: Those Were the Days!

"The Streets of New York" is almost 150 years old and
strikes just the right note for late 2001, midway between
laughable sentimentality and sincere philanthropic
sympathy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/arts/theater/27STRE.html?todaysheadlines

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NY REGION
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White House Offers a Choice for Prosecutor

James B. Comey, a native New Yorker who won acclaim for
prosecuting gun violence, is in line to be the next U.S.
attorney in Manhattan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/nyregion/27ATTO.html?todaysheadlines

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Nassau Democrats Form Plan to Cut Spending and Raise Taxes

The County Legislature is facing a Wednesday deadline to
balance the budget or risk a state fiscal takeover.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/nyregion/27NASS.html?todaysheadlines

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Bloomberg, in Dominican Republic, Meets With Crash Victims'
Relatives

The mayor-elect of New York met with about 25 Dominicans
whose loved ones were killed in the crash of Flight 587.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/nyregion/27BLOO.html?todaysheadlines

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OP-ED
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The Real War
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
If 9/11 was indeed the onset of World War III, we have to
understand what this war is about. We're   fighting to
defeat an ideology: religious totalitarianism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/opinion/27FRIE.html?todaysheadlines

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Muslim Women as Symbols  and Pawns
By RINA AMIRI
Envisioning a real peace, with women as key   stakeholders
in Afghanistan, requires looking beyond symbols.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/opinion/27AMIR.html?todaysheadlines

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Catching the Urban Wave
By D. J. WALDIE
After 50 years of discarded opportunities, there are now new
and hopeful signs that city life in Los Angeles has a
chance of being revived.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/opinion/27WALD.html?todaysheadlines

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