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Friday, February 1, 2002
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"I wasn't invited. Then again, the traffic is so bad I don't
want to go anywhere."
-GEORGE SOROS, on a party during the World Economic Forum featuring Elton
John.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/01PART.html?todaysheadlines


NATIONAL
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Candidate Reno Is Home, Shrugging Off Fainting

A day after collapsing while giving a speech, former
Attorney General Janet Reno returned to her home near
Miami.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/national/01RENO.html?todaysheadlines

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Canada Wants Some Trucks Exempt From Border Inspection

Canada is aggressively pushing a plan that would eventually
allow more than 7,000 trucks each day to pass the border
uninspected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/national/01BORD.html?todaysheadlines

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No New Warnings Received, Officials Say

Officials have received no new credible warnings of a
terrorist attack, although the potential remained high.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/national/01INQU.html?todaysheadlines

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INTERNATIONAL
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Sharon Is Sorry Israel Didn't Kill Arafat in the 80's

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/middleeast/01MIDE.html?todaysheadlines

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Warlord Fends Off Warlord, Echoing Afghans' Bitter Past

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/asia/01FIGH.html?todaysheadlines

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Iraqis Seek to Oust Hussein With U.S. Military Training

Iraqi opposition leaders have asked the Bush administration
to provide military training to insurgents trying to
overthrow Saddam Hussein.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/middleeast/01DIPL.html?todaysheadlines

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BUSINESS
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Audit Firms Are Set to Alter Some Practices

Four of the five biggest accounting firms said they would
reject the industry practices that have prompted criticism
of Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01CONS.html?todaysheadlines

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Senator Says Enron Refuses to Cooperate

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01ENRO.html?todaysheadlines

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Details Emerge on Viacom Rift as Executives Deny It Exists

Sumner M. Redstone, chairman and chief executive of Viacom,
said that he would not renew the contract of its president,
Mel Karmazin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01VIAC.html?todaysheadlines

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TECHNOLOGY
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Main Opponent to Hewlett-Compaq Merger Goes Public

Walter B. Hewlett, the lone dissenter to the merger on the
Hewlett-Packard board, explained both his qualifications
and his motivation in an interview.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/technology/01HEWL.html?todaysheadlines

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Advanced Micro Makes Pact With Taiwan Chip Producer

Advanced Micro Devices said that it had entered a broad
manufacturing alliance with the United Microelectronics
Corporation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/technology/01CHIP.html?todaysheadlines

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Alcatel Ends Tough Year in Big Loss

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01ALCA.html?todaysheadlines

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POLITICS
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Bush to Propose More Flexibility on 401(k) Plans

President Bush plans to propose giving workers more
flexibility to sell their company's stock in their 401(k)
retirement plans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01PENS.html?todaysheadlines

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Back in the Fray, Gore Announces PAC, Gearing Up for
Possible '04 Presidential Run

Former Vice President Al Gore announced that he had formed a
political action committee to help   Democratic
Congressional candidates in 2002.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/politics/01GORE.html?todaysheadlines

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Senator Says Enron Refuses to Cooperate

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01ENRO.html?todaysheadlines

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SPORTS
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Fast Feet, but Faulk Is an Even Quicker Thinker

Beyond his speed, Marshall Faulk is distinguished by his
uncanny comprehension of what is occurring around him on
the football field.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/sports/football/01RAMS.html?todaysheadlines

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Bledsoe Accepts Role With Class

Drew Bledsoe said all the right things to reporters about
Bill Belichick's decision not to start him in the Super
Bowl.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/sports/football/01PATS.html?todaysheadlines

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Nets Bury Debate and Bucks

With unselfish, exciting play, the Nets rattled the rim for
a season-high points total in a rout of the Milwaukee
Bucks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/sports/basketball/01NETS.html?todaysheadlines

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ARTS
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An Evolving Vision in Black and White

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/arts/television/01NOTE.html?todaysheadlines

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Amid the Ashes, Creativity

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/arts/design/01COTT.html?todaysheadlines

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In the Arms of Memory

Sissy Spacek's favorite film, "To Kill a Mockingbird,"
evokes memories of her childhood in a small East Texas
town.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/movies/01WATC.html?todaysheadlines

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NY REGION
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Officers, Primed for Demonstrations, Find Few to Police

Police, 4,000 in number, outnumbered protesters on the first
day of the World Economic Forum.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/01STREE.html?todaysheadlines

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Another Chief of Union Hits Pataki Critics

Teamster president James P. Hoffa accused two Democratic
gubernatorial candidates of trying "to thwart the interests
of working people."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/01LABO.html?todaysheadlines

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High School Drops Its A.P. Courses, and Colleges Don't Seem
to Mind

A growing number of selective private schools in New York
and across the country are uncomfortable offering advanced
placement courses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/education/01FIEL.html?todaysheadlines

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OP-ED
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Two, Three, Many?
By PAUL KRUGMAN
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?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/opinion/01KRUG.html?todaysheadlines

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A Merciful War
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Military intervention, even if it means lost innocent lives
on both sides, can serve the   most humanitarian of goals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/opinion/01KRIS.html?todaysheadlines

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Pearl's Kidnappers Won't Win
By TERRY ANDERSON
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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/opinion/01ANDE.html?todaysheadlines

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