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<font size="2">"I wouldn't say voters are stupid. But the same voter who
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There's a disconnect." <br>
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/education/02BOY.html?todaysheadlines">A Boy Genius? Maybe Not, Mother Admits</a></b><br>
Elizabeth Chapman, the mother of a celebrated boy genius, admitted that records attesting to her son's superior intelligence were a sham.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/national/02PRIE.html?todaysheadlines">Archdiocese to Yield List of Sex Accusers</a></b><br>
The Archdiocese of Boston agreed to turn over the names of children that almost 90 Roman Catholic priests there are accused of molesting.
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Political observers are giving a judge who is charged with child molestation a 50-50 chance of beating write-in candidates for the Orange County Superior Court seat.
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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/2002/03/02/international/asia/02INDI.html?todaysheadlines">More Than 200 Die in 3 Days of Riots in Western India</a></b><br>
Three days of the worst Hindu-Muslim violence in nearly a decade has left more than 200 people dead in western India, 28 of them on Friday.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/international/middleeast/02MILI.html?todaysheadlines">U.S. Broadens Terror Fight, Readying Troops for Yemen</a></b><br>
President Bush has approved plans to send as many as 100 troops to Yemen to help train that nation's military to fight terrorists.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/international/middleeast/02MIDE.html?todaysheadlines">New Raids Bring Palestinian Peace Supporter Full Circle</a></b><br>
The personal odyssey of Hussam Khader closely tracks the highs and lows of Israeli-Palestinian relations, and suggests the depth of their present situation.
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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/2002/03/02/business/media/02TUBE.html?todaysheadlines">Letterman Offer Was News to Chief of ABC News</a></b><br>
The president of ABC News told his top executives that his bosses had blindsided him and failed to tell him that ABC wanted to remove "Nightline," to make room for David Letterman.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/business/02AUDI.html?todaysheadlines">Auditor to Pay $217 Million to Settle Suits</a></b><br>
Arthur Andersen announced that it had agreed to pay $217 million to settle investor lawsuits arising from its role as auditor of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/business/02WALL.html?todaysheadlines">Another Round of Layoffs Are Planned at First Boston</a></b><br>
Credit Suisse First Boston is planning another round of layoffs at its investment banking group, executives at the firm said Friday.
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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/2002/03/02/technology/02QWES.html?todaysheadlines">If Not One Problem, It's Another, for the Struggling Giant Qwest</a></b><br>
Qwest Communications International continues to market itself as the model phone company of the future, but all that investors seem interested in is how Qwest plans to survive the present.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/technology/02COMC.html?todaysheadlines">Comcast Says Its Transition to Internet Network Is Done</a></b><br>
The Comcast Corporation said that it had completed its transition of thousand of clients to its own high-speed Internet network and e-mail system.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/technology/02INTE.html?todaysheadlines">Worker Accused of Selling Colleagues' ID's Online</a></b><br>
A former Prudential employee was charged with stealing the identities of co-workers and selling some of them over the Internet as part of a credit card scam.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/politics/02VOTE.html?todaysheadlines">Senate Democrats Drop Voter Sign-in at Polls</a></b><br>
Removing a major obstacle to election reform, Senate Democrats are dropping their demand that certain new voters be allowed to identify themselves at the polls by signing a form.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/politics/02SOCI.html?todaysheadlines">Bush Uses Own Brand of Math on Social Security</a></b><br>
In promoting the benefits of his proposal to   overhaul Social Security, President Bush said that investing Social Security taxes would yield a higher return.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/international/02TRIB.html?todaysheadlines">Experts Dispute Bush Aide's Criticism of War Crimes Panels</a></b><br>
International law experts rose to a strong defense of United Nations war crimes tribunals on Friday in response to an attack on them by an administration official.
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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/2002/03/02/sports/basketball/02NETS.html?todaysheadlines">Iverson Crushes the Nets</a></b><br>
Philadelphia rolled to an easy victory over the Nets behind Allen Iverson's 43 points. It was the second consecutive loss for New Jersey.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/sports/basketball/02KNIC.html?todaysheadlines">Switch to Eisley Gives Knicks Big Payoff</a></b><br>
Howard Eisley played with confidence and creativity to help the Knicks snap their six-  game losing streak by defeating Seattle.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/sports/baseball/02METS.html?todaysheadlines">Vaughn Takes Advantage of Timely Gust of Wind</a></b><br>
A gust of wind blew a pop fly back into Mo Vaughn's glove, allowing him to double off a runner in the Mets' 7-1 loss to the Cardinals.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/02ISLA.html?todaysheadlines">Radical New Views of Islam and the Origins of the Koran</a></b><br>
A handful of experts quietly investigating the origins of the Koran are now arguing that it has been misread and mistranslated for centuries.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/02POP.html?todaysheadlines">Damning (Yet Desiring) Mickey and the Big Mac</a></b><br>
It isn't imperialism but freedom that makes pop culture so appealing, even among American's enemies.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/dance/02VALE.html?todaysheadlines">Wind-Up Dolls Creakily Evoke a Puritan Soul</a></b><br>
Given its New York premiere on Wednesday at   City Center by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, "Antique Valentine" came across as a work in miniature but not a minor work.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/nyregion/02TOWE.html?todaysheadlines">Burning Diesel Is Cited in Fall of 3rd Tower</a></b><br>
Structural beams that held up 7 World Trade Center were compromised in a blaze fed by diesel fuel, causing the building to collapse.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/nyregion/02LOUI.html?todaysheadlines">Louima Ruling Forces Police to Revisit a Brutal Episode</a></b><br>
The torture of Abner Louima has come back to afflict a Police Department that had come to view it as a closed case.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/education/02EDUC.html?todaysheadlines">Bloomberg Pushes Plan for Control Over Schools</a></b><br>
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pressed forward with his campaign to win authority to run the   school system directly.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/opinion/02RICH.html?todaysheadlines">Freedom From the Press</a></b>
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By FRANK RICH
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There is still scant evidence to suggest that George W. Bush condones the idea of a free press.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/opinion/02MIKU.html?todaysheadlines">Steel's 40 Percent Solution</a></b>
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A 40 percent tariff on a broad range of steel imports would give American producers a fighting   chance.
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Not everyone in the District of Columbia thinks boxing is the way to boost the city's fortunes.
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