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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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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/01PART.html?todaysheadlines"<GEORGE SOROS,</a<on a party during the World Economic Forum featuring Elton
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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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