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<font size="2">"I wasn't invited. Then again, the traffic is so bad I don't
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/national/01RENO.html?todaysheadlines">Candidate Reno Is Home, Shrugging Off Fainting</a></b><br>
A day after collapsing while giving a speech, former Attorney General Janet Reno returned to her home near Miami.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/national/01BORD.html?todaysheadlines">Canada Wants Some Trucks Exempt From Border Inspection</a></b><br>
Canada is aggressively pushing a plan that would eventually allow more than 7,000 trucks each day to pass the border uninspected.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/national/01INQU.html?todaysheadlines">No New Warnings Received, Officials Say</a></b><br>
Officials have received no new credible warnings of a terrorist attack, although the potential remained high.
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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/2002/02/01/international/middleeast/01MIDE.html?todaysheadlines">Sharon Is Sorry Israel Didn't Kill Arafat in the 80's</a></b><br>
Israel's prime minister said in an interview published Thursday that Israel should have killed Yasir Arafat when it had the chance in Lebanon 20 years ago.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/asia/01FIGH.html?todaysheadlines">Warlord Fends Off Warlord, Echoing Afghans' Bitter Past</a></b><br>
Afghanistan's first major battle of the post-Taliban era ended on Thursday as rival warlords fought for control of the eastern province of Paktia.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/middleeast/01DIPL.html?todaysheadlines">Iraqis Seek to Oust Hussein With U.S. Military Training</a></b><br>
Iraqi opposition leaders have asked the Bush administration to provide military training to insurgents trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
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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/2002/02/01/business/01CONS.html?todaysheadlines">Audit Firms Are Set to Alter Some Practices</a></b><br>
Four of the five biggest accounting firms said that they would reject the industry practices that have prompted criticism of Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01ENRO.html?todaysheadlines">Senator Says Enron Refuses to Cooperate</a></b><br>
Enron has refused to turn over to a Senate panel records of partnerships that are crucial to understanding the company's downfall, the panel's chairman said.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01VIAC.html?todaysheadlines">Details Emerge on Viacom Rift as Executives Deny It Exists</a></b><br>
Sumner M. Redstone, chairman and chief executive of Viacom, said that he would not renew the contract of its president, Mel Karmazin.
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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/2002/02/01/technology/01HEWL.html?todaysheadlines">Main Opponent to Hewlett-Compaq Merger Goes Public</a></b><br>
Walter B. Hewlett, the lone dissenter to the merger on the Hewlett-Packard board, explained both his qualifications and his motivation in an interview.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/technology/01CHIP.html?todaysheadlines">Advanced Micro Makes Pact With Taiwan Chip Producer</a></b><br>
Advanced Micro Devices said that it had entered a broad manufacturing alliance with the United Microelectronics Corporation.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01ALCA.html?todaysheadlines">Alcatel Ends Tough Year in Big Loss</a></b><br>
Alcatel reported a net loss of 4.96 billion euros, or $4.2 billion, for all of last year, the largest loss ever reported by a French corporation.
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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/2002/02/01/business/01PENS.html?todaysheadlines">Bush to Propose More Flexibility on 401(k) Plans</a></b><br>
President Bush plans to propose giving workers more flexibility to sell their company's stock in their 401(k) retirement plans.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/politics/01GORE.html?todaysheadlines">Back in the Fray, Gore Announces PAC, Gearing Up for Possible '04 Presidential Run</a></b><br>
Former Vice President Al Gore announced that he had formed a political action committee to help   Democratic Congressional candidates in 2002
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01ENRO.html?todaysheadlines">Senator Says Enron Refuses to Cooperate</a></b><br>
Enron has refused to turn over to a Senate panel records of partnerships that are crucial to understanding the company's downfall, the panel's chairman said.
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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/2002/02/01/sports/football/01RAMS.html?todaysheadlines">Fast Feet, but Faulk Is an Even Quicker Thinker</a></b><br>
Beyond his speed, Marshall Faulk is distinguished by his uncanny comprehension of what is occurring around him on the football field.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/sports/football/01PATS.html?todaysheadlines">Bledsoe Accepts Role With Class</a></b><br>
Drew Bledsoe said all the right things to reporters about Bill Belichick's decision not to start him in the Super Bowl.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/sports/basketball/01NETS.html?todaysheadlines">Nets Bury Debate and Bucks</a></b><br>
With unselfish, exciting play, the Nets rattled the rim for a season-high points total in a rout of the Milwaukee Bucks.
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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/2002/02/01/arts/television/01NOTE.html?todaysheadlines">An Evolving Vision in Black and White</a></b><br>
A TV Land series provides valuable insights into the evolving ways race has been treated on television, but it also seems to  scurry over the past  60 years.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/arts/design/01COTT.html?todaysheadlines">Amid the Ashes, Creativity</a></b><br>
Art happens every day,  and responses to Sept. 11 are already growing more resolved and complicated. Here's a survey of  public art and gallery shows inspired by the tragedy.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/movies/01WATC.html?todaysheadlines">In the Arms of Memory</a></b><br>
Sissy Spacek's favorite film, "To Kill a Mockingbird," evokes memories of her childhood in a small East Texas town.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>NY REGION</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/01STREE.html?todaysheadlines">Officers, Primed for Demonstrations, Find Few to Police</a></b><br>
Police, 4,000 in number, outnumbered protesters on the first day of the World Economic Forum.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/01LABO.html?todaysheadlines">Another Chief of Union Hits Pataki Critics</a></b><br>
Teamster president James P. Hoffa accused two Democratic gubernatorial candidates of trying "to thwart the interests of working people."
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/education/01FIEL.html?todaysheadlines">High School Drops Its A.P. Courses, and Colleges Don't Seem to Mind</a></b><br>
A growing number of selective private schools in New York and across the country are uncomfortable offering advanced placement courses.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/opinion/01KRUG.html?todaysheadlines">Two, Three, Many?</a></b>
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By PAUL KRUGMAN
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Conventional wisdom is that Enron was uniquely crooked. But how likely is it that other   companies will turn out to be little more than pyramid schemes?
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/opinion/01KRIS.html?todaysheadlines">A Merciful War</a></b>
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Military intervention, even if it means lost innocent lives on both sides, can serve the   most humanitarian of goals.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/opinion/01ANDE.html?todaysheadlines">Pearl's Kidnappers Won't Win</a></b>
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During the 80's, terrorist groups realized that kidnapping a journalist was not a useful way to forward political goals. It is terrible to think that this lesson may have to be  relearned.
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