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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Sending him to exile will just give him another place from
which to conduct the same kinds of activities and give the
same messages as he is giving now."
-COLIN L. POWELL, the secretary of state, on Ariel Sharon's proposal to give
Yasir Arafat a one-way ticket out of Ramallah. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/international/middleeast/03MIDE.html?todaysheadlines


NATIONAL
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Governor's Election Arm Indicted in Illinois Scandal

Gov. George Ryan's campaign committee and two former top
aides were charged on Tuesday with racketeering. Mr. Ryan
has not been personally implicated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/national/03ILLI.html?todaysheadlines

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Group Calls Projects a Threat to Rivers 

A conservation group warns that federal dollars appropriated
for dams, irrigation projects and river dredging threaten
the nation's waterways.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/national/03RIVE.html?todaysheadlines 

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Embalming Class Used Body Without Permission, Suit Says

A North Lauderdale, Fla., man has sued Lynn University,
accusing it of allowing mortuary science students to
practice embalming on his wife's body.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/national/03FUNE.html?todaysheadlines 

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INTERNATIONAL
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Israelis Move Into 2 West Bank Towns; Arafat Rejects Exile
Offer

Israeli tanks rolled into two West Bank towns on Wednesday
as Yasir Arafat rejected an Israeli offer to free him from
confinement provided he goes into exile.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Palestinians.html?todaysheadlines

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White House Feels Its Way as Crisis Deepens 

Confronting the toughest diplomatic challenge of its 15
months in office, the Bush administration is struggling to
forge an effective Middle East policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/international/middleeast/03PREX.html?todaysheadlines 

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In Kabul, Musharraf Spurns U.S. Aid in Hunting Qaeda

Pakistan's leader rejected any future U.S. military
operations against Qaeda or Taliban forces who have fled to
areas adjoining Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/international/asia/03AFGH.html?todaysheadlines 

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BUSINESS
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Negotiations by Andersen With KPMG Fall Apart

Negotiations to sell much of Arthur Andersen's foreign
division to KPMG collapsed, potentially cutting off one of
the few financial lifelines available to the firm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/business/03AUDI.html?todaysheadlines

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Andersen's Retired Partners Fear Benefits May Slip Away 

With Arthur Andersen's future shaky, its workers now fret
that their pensions are at risk, and its retired partners
have filed suit against the company to try to protect their
benefits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/business/03RETI.html?todaysheadlines 

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F.C.C. Rules on Ownership Under Review

The consolidation of television station ownership that has
swept through big cities in recent years may soon extend to
many smaller cities and towns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/business/media/03VOIC.html?todaysheadlines 

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TECHNOLOGY
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Executive Fearful of Microsoft in Interactive TV Software

The chief executive of Liberate Technologies said that
Microsoft probably would stifle new software that posed a
threat to its Windows monopoly unless stiffer restrictions
were imposed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/technology/03SOFT.html?todaysheadlines

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F.C.C. Rules on Ownership Under Review 

The consolidation of television station ownership that has
swept through big cities in recent years may soon extend to
many smaller cities and towns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/business/media/03VOIC.html?todaysheadlines 

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In Free Music Software, a Hidden Fee-Based Service

Users of Kazaa, a popular Internet network that lets people
freely exchange music files online, have unknowingly
received software that could make them participants in a
second pay network.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/technology/03MUSI.html?todaysheadlines 

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POLITICS
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National and State Politics Help Safeguard a Swamp

President Bushs support for environmental issues in Florida
suggests that he is trying to win votes for Gov. Jeb Bush,
his brother, and himself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/politics/03FLOR.html?todaysheadlines

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Bush Offers Plan to Improve Head Start's Teacher Training 

President Bush asked Congress to spend $45 million over the
next five years for research into child literacy programs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/education/03BUSH.html?todaysheadlines 

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Ohio Congressman on Trial Turns Courtroom Into Theater

Representative James A. Traficant Jr., accused of
racketeering, is displaying his flamboyancy in his trial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/politics/03TRIA.html?todaysheadlines 

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SPORTS
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Dolan Caught in Public Battle

It has become increasingly difficult for James L. Dolan, the
chairman of Madison Square Garden, to cloak himself in
anonymity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/sports/basketball/03DOLA.html?todaysheadlines

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Maryland's Seniors Pass Test 

Maryland will hang its first national championship banner in
a brand-new basketball arena because of some old players.
They call them seniors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/sports/ncaabasketball/03COLL.html?todaysheadlines 

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Bonds Homers Twice in Giants' Win

Barry Bonds homered twice and drove in five runs to lead the
San Francisco Giants to a season-opening win over the Los
Angeles Dodgers.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-BBN-Giants-Dodgers.html?todaysheadlines 

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ARTS
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In FX's Hit 'The Shield,' Means Justify Ends

How does a fledgling cable network separate itself from the
pack? For FX, one way is to push the limits of language,
violence and sex on basic cable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/arts/television/03SHIE.html?todaysheadlines

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Listening to a Life Drain Out of a Bottle 

Alan Bates plays a fellow whom liquor turns into a
logorrheic, napkin-slinging nightmare in an Ivan Turgenev
play some 150 years old that is only now receiving its
Broadway premiere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/arts/theater/03FORT.html?todaysheadlines 

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A Sad Tale, a Footnote, Rarely Seen

This little-known 1927 opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari holds
few secrets. Hear it once and you've got it. But it was
good to hear it once.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/arts/music/03WOLF.html?todaysheadlines 

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NY REGION
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New York's Pension Funds Reel After Taking a Dual Blow

Pension fund investments have lost more than $9 billion at a
time when New York City must pay out greater benefits to
former employees, contributing to the city's fiscal crisis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/nyregion/03PENS.html?todaysheadlines

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CUNY Plan: Visions High, Details Few 

Plans for turning the former Coast Guard station at
Governor's Island into a City University of New York
facility are still vague.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/education/03ISLA.html?todaysheadlines 

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Terror Suspect Plans Guilty Plea in Attack on Federal Jail
Guard

A man suspected of being a senior aide to Osama bin Laden
plans to plead guilty to charges that he tried to murder a
federal guard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/nyregion/03INMA.html?todaysheadlines 

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OP-ED 
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The Hard Truth
By  THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
What Osama bin Laden failed to achieve on Sept. 11 is now
being unleashed by the Israeli-Palestinian war in the West
Bank: a clash of civilizations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/opinion/03FRIE.html?todaysheadlines

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Addiction to Addition 
By  MAUREEN DOWD
At least the Clintonites were upfront about their addiction
to polling. The Bush method is all  denial and secrecy,
just like its energy plan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/opinion/03DOWD.html?todaysheadlines 

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Secrets, Celibacy and the Church
By JASON BERRY
Conservatives and liberals alike should acknowledge that
sexual secrecy is destroying the church, and one way to
save it would be to make celibacy optional.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/opinion/03BERR.html?todaysheadlines 

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