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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/international/asia/19MILI.html?todaysheadlines"<CONDOLEEZZA RICE,</a<on whether United States troops expect to kill Osama bin
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/national/19CALI.html?todaysheadlines"<Laid Low by Last Recession, California Is Ready for Next</a<</b<<br<
Experts are expressing guarded optimism over California's economic future, saying the state may come through the tough times in better shape than other regions.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/education/19EXAM.html?todaysheadlines"<Challenge Revives SAT Test Debate</a<</b<<br<
The challenge being mounted against the SAT exam by the University of California has brought attention to a previously arcane debate.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/business/19FORD.html?todaysheadlines"<Ford Motor Workers Get on the Job Training in Religious Tolerance</a<</b<<br<
Several hundred Ford workers of many faiths and jobs turned out on Thursday for "An Islamic perspective on the events of Sept. 11".
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/international/asia/19MILI.html?todaysheadlines"<More U.S. Troops in bin Laden Hunt; Hide-Outs Bombed</a<</b<<br<
With the rapid collapse of the Taliban, the United States has intensified its pursuit of Osama bin Laden and his network.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/international/asia/19DIPL.html?todaysheadlines"<Afghan Victors Agree to Talks on Interim Rule</a<</b<<br<
Bowing to American pressure, Northern Alliance officials agreed Sunday to attend a meeting of Afghan opposition groups somewhere outside the country.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/international/asia/19NORT.html?todaysheadlines"<Foes Claim Taliban Are Killing Soldiers Who Seek to Defect</a<</b<<br<
Foreign soldiers fighting for the Taliban have begun killing their Afghan Taliban comrades in a desperate effort to hang on to the encircled city of Kunduz.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/business/19ENER.html?todaysheadlines"<Phillips and Conoco to Form U.S. Gasoline Giant</a<</b<<br<
The Phillips Petroleum Company and Conoco agreed to merge, creating an oil company with a market value of $35 billion.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/technology/19SAUD.html?todaysheadlines"<Companies Compete to Provide Saudi Internet Veil</a<</b<<br<
Nearly a dozen software companies are competing for a contract to help Saudi Arabia block access to Web sites the Saudi government deems inappropriate.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/business/media/19FOX.html?todaysheadlines"<Wild Welcome Greets Rivera at Fox News</a<</b<<br<
Geraldo Rivera's hiring as a war correspondent for Fox News has ruffled feathers inside and outside the network.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/technology/19SAUD.html?todaysheadlines"<Companies Compete to Provide Saudi Internet Veil</a<</b<<br<
Nearly a dozen software companies are competing for a contract to help Saudi Arabia block access to Web sites the Saudi government deems inappropriate.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/technology/ebusiness/19ROSE.html?todaysheadlines"<Executive Moves From Ticketmaster to Trade Shows</a<</b<<br<
Fredric D. Rosen turned Ticketmaster into a multibillion-dollar behemoth, but doing the same with trade show operator Key3Media is turning out to be a tough second act.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/business/19BELL.html?todaysheadlines"<William Daley Will Assume Post at SBC</a<</b<<br<
William M. Daley, the campaign chairman of Al Gore's unsuccessful presidential bid, will be the next president of SBC Communications.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/politics/19MEMO.html?todaysheadlines"<Sept. 11 Attacks Refocused the Spotlight</a<</b<<br<
The terrorist attacks have considerably altered the profiles and power of many of the nation's leading political figures.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/politics/19TORC.html?todaysheadlines"<Torricelli Backed Donor's Bid for a Korean Project, a Letter Shows</a<</b<<br<
Senator Robert G. Torricelli recommended a political donor for a contract on a sensitive nuclear-reactor project in North Korea.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/international/americas/19MEXI.html?todaysheadlines"<Top Democrats Politic Through Rural Mexico</a<</b<<br<
Thousands of miles away from their own constituents, the two top U.S. Democrats took a ride Sunday through a rural stretch of central Mexico.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/sports/football/19JETS.html?todaysheadlines"<Jets Continue Mastery of the Dolphins</a<</b<<br<
The Jets trounced the Dolphins for the eighth straight time to vault into first place in the A.F.C. East.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/sports/ncaafootball/19COLL.html?todaysheadlines"<Hoping for an Appealing Match</a<</b<<br<
This week's rankings suggest the potential for an appealing championship game in the Rose Bowl: Miami against Nebraska.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/sports/football/19GIAN.html?todaysheadlines"<Strahan Runs Down Success</a<</b<<br<
Giants defensive end Michael Strahan is sacking quarterbacks at a pace more furious than any defensive player in N.F.L. history.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/movies/19BOX.html?todaysheadlines"<'Potter' Movie Sets Box Office Record</a<</b<<br<
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" sets the record for the biggest movie opening of all time, earning an estimated $93.5 million in its first three days.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/arts/theater/19QED.html?todaysheadlines"<Iconoclastic Physicist for All Occasions</a<</b<<br<
Peter Parnell's "QED" is such a textbook example of biographical theater that it's hard to watch it without seeing the diagram beneath.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/books/19HOTC.html?todaysheadlines"<Hemingway's Blessing, Copland's Collaboration</a<</b<<br<
A pastiche of the adventures of young Hemingway, with a dramatic script written by A.E. Hotchner in 1957 and music composed by Aaron Copland, will finally have its premiere.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/nyregion/19PRAY.html?todaysheadlines"<United in Grief and Prayer, Sharing the Common Language of Tears</a<</b<<br<
Thousands attended a service in Rockaways, Queens, to honor victims of the Flight 587 crash.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/politics/19TORC.html?todaysheadlines"<Torricelli Backed Donor's Bid for a Korean Project, a Letter Shows</a<</b<<br<
Senator Robert G. Torricelli recommended a political donor for a contract on a sensitive nuclear-reactor project in North Korea.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/nyregion/19FIRE.html?todaysheadlines"<With Water and Sweat, Fighting the Most Stubborn Fire</a<</b<<br<
Experts are calling the World Trade Center site the longest commercial building fire in United States history.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/opinion/19HERB.html?todaysheadlines"<The Vanishing Act</a<</b<
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The end of welfare faces the cold reality of a recession that threatens to leave millions of American families jobless, and all but helpless as well.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/opinion/19SAFI.html?todaysheadlines"<Big Mo</a<</b<
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The elder Bush once called political momentum "the big Mo." Nothing gathers support like a sense of inevitability. The younger Bush has it now.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/opinion/19GATE.html?todaysheadlines"<The Job Nobody Trained For</a<</b<
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For all practical purposes, the federal government started homeland defense from scratch on Sept. 11.
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