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Sunday, January 27, 2002
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Your house is burning down, you run back in, what do you
save? You're just not trained to do that, so you go by your
instincts."
-BARTHOLOMEW VOORSANGER, an architect, on remnants collected from the World Trade
Center.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/nyregion/27STEE.html?todaysheadlines


NATIONAL
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PCB Pollution Suits Have Day in Court in Alabama

More than 3,500 plaintiffs are involved in a lawsuit that
contends that the Monsanto Company knew the dangers of PCB
contamination in Alabama.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/national/27TOXI.html?todaysheadlines

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Immigrant Laborers Feel Stranded in Pacific Northwest as Day
Jobs Dry Up

Many immigrants who were able to find work in states like
Washington and Oregon are now unable to as the unemployment
rate continues to rise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/national/27LABO.html?todaysheadlines

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Princeton Embraces Scholar of Black Studies

Princeton University's trustees approved the acquisition of
K. Anthony Appiah, a major league   scholar of
African-American studies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/education/27PRIN.html?todaysheadlines

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INTERNATIONAL
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Bin Laden Stirs Struggle on Meaning of Jihad

Whether jihad is armed or a more personal duty of conscience
is a question causing consternation in the world's 1.2
billion Muslims.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/international/asia/27JIHA.html?todaysheadlines

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China Changes Approach in Espionage Incident

China's relationship with the United States has been
changing dramatically over the past months, and the most
recent espionage accusations have served as a barometer of
that shift.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/international/asia/27CHIN.html?todaysheadlines

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Argentina's Crisis Fuels a Bitter Political Feud

The recent disagreements within the Peronist party have
weakened the already battered faith of Argentines in their
leaders and institutions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/international/americas/27ARGE.html?todaysheadlines

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BUSINESS
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Economic Forum Moves to Manhattan

This week, the annual World Economic Forum -- a private
summit of world leaders -- meets in Manhattan, shifted from
Davos, a quiet village in the Swiss Alps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/27FORU.html?todaysheadlines

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'99 Deal Failed After Scrutiny of Enron

Three years ago, a German company pieced together a picture
of Enron's finances so troubling that it helped convince
the company to call off a merger with Enron.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/27DEAL.html?todaysheadlines

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Rallying Cry at First Boston: Smaller, Cleaner, Fairer

John J. Mack, chief executive of Credit Suisse First Boston,
has proven a formidable corporate leader. But the true
tests of his leadership skills lie ahead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/27MACK.html?todaysheadlines

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TECHNOLOGY
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Homestore Fights for Life as Bad News Piles Up

Homestore.com tells a tale of Internet glory that vanished
overnight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/27HOME.html?todaysheadlines

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Quiet, Please. This Is a Library After All.

A modernized library presents Lincoln Center with acoustical
problems of a new sort: noise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/arts/music/27HORO.html?todaysheadlines

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Hard Times Prompt an Entrepreneurial Itch

A Silicon Valley publicist did what an increasing number of
senior managers uncertain of   their job prospects are
doing: He set   himself up at his own company.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/27ALLI.html?todaysheadlines

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POLITICS
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Powell Asks Bush to Reverse Stand on War Captives

The secretary of state has asked the president to declare
that captives from the war on terror are entitled to
protection under the Geneva Convention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/politics/27DETA.html?todaysheadlines

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Poll Finds Enron's Taint Clings More to G.O.P. Than
Democrats

Suspicions are growing that the Bush administration is
hiding something or lying about its dealings with Enron,
the latest New York Times/CBS Poll shows.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/27POLL.html?todaysheadlines

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South Dakota Takes Center Stage in Political Wars

South Dakota has become the unlikely first battleground in a
war of political superpowers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/politics/27DAKO.html?todaysheadlines

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SPORTS
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An Amazing Victory for the Knicks

Overcoming hot 3-point shooting by Milwaukee and their own
confounding penchant for critical errors, the Knicks
outlasted the Bucks in double overtime.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/sports/basketball/27KNIC.html?todaysheadlines

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Johansson Upsets Safin to Win His First Major

Sweden's Thomas Johansson won his first Grand Slam title
with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over Russia's Marat
Safin in the men's final of the Australian Open.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/sports/tennis/27TENN.html?todaysheadlines

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Texas Tech Trips No. 6 Oklahoma

Andre Emmett had 26 points and 10 rebounds as Texas Tech
upset No. 6 Oklahoma.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-BKC-Oklahoma-Texas-Tech.html?todaysheadlines

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ARTS
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To Be Alicia Keys: Young, Gifted and in Control

Alicia Keys's songs plunge into the unsettled domain of
female identity in the hip-hop era,   determined to work
their way through conflicting imperatives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/arts/music/27PARE.html?todaysheadlines

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At 81, Dancing With New Partners

Anna Halprin collaborates with the Japanese-born Koma and
his wife Eiko in "Be With," an   emotional movement-puzzle
that spills its pieces on the floor to be reassembled anew.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/arts/dance/27ROSS.html?todaysheadlines

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When Japan Tried On the Modernist Mantle

An exhibit at the Honolulu  Academy of Arts looks at a heady
period in Japan's long history of borrowing from, and
refining, Western culture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/arts/design/27GOME.html?todaysheadlines

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NY REGION
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Budget Pinch Greets New Governor in Trenton

Now that the realities of the recession have come back to
haunt New Jersey lawmakers, the state is left with one of
the nation's most acute budget problems.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/nyregion/27JERS.html?todaysheadlines

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What's in an Economic Forum? Visitors, Police and Protests

New Yorkers might not care about the coming World Economic
Forum, but there is good reason to pay attention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/nyregion/27PROT.html?todaysheadlines

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60 Firefighters Who Died on Sept. 11 Were Off Duty

A review of the 343 cases in which firefighters lost their
lives on Sept. 11 found that 60 were off duty when they
rushed to the twin towers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/nyregion/27FIRE.html?todaysheadlines

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OP-ED
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Planet of the Privileged
By MAUREEN DOWD
On Planet Enron, the atmosphere was so rarefied that its
inhabitants were blissfully oblivious to how privileged
they were.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/opinion/27DOWD.html?todaysheadlines

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The 2 Domes of Belgium
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Who were the killer pilots who went beyond passive support
on Sept. 11 to become suicidal mass murderers?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/opinion/27FRIE.html?todaysheadlines

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The Trouble With Bubbles
By EDWARD CHANCELLOR
Enron's collapse can be seen as representative of the
greatest speculative mania in the history of the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/opinion/27CHAN.html?todaysheadlines

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