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<font size="2"<"I asked, 'How do you steer it?' Somebody said, 'Shut up and
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/olympics/18SKEL.html?todaysheadlines"<JIM SHEA JR.,</a<an American Olympian in the skeleton, on the first time he
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/politics/19MARR.html?todaysheadlines"<Welfare Chief Is Hoping to Promote Marriage</a<</b<<br<
Wade F. Horn, the administration official who oversees the welfare program, wants to spend $100 million to promote marriage among the poor.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/national/19MOM.html?todaysheadlines"<Trial in Case of Drowned Children Opens</a<</b<<br<
The trial of Andrea Pia Yates, the woman accused of murdering her five children in a bathtub, opened on Monday with defense lawyers saying that she suffers from severe mental illness.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/national/19DOG.html?todaysheadlines"<Dog Victim's Companion Awaits Start of Trial</a<</b<<br<
On Tuesday the opening arguments begin in the trial of two lawyers whose dogs attacked and killed a Los Angeles woman.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?todaysheadlines"<Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad</a<</b<<br<
The Pentagon is planning to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media in order to influence public opinion in both friendly and unfriendly countries.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/asia/19AFGH.html?todaysheadlines"<In a Shift, U.S. Uses Airstrikes to Help Kabul</a<</b<<br<
American forces appear to have opened a new phase in the war in Afghanistan with two bombing raids that were aimed at forces opposed to the new government in Kabul.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/middleeast/19SHAR.html?todaysheadlines"<No Security for Sharon</a<</b<<br<
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won election on a promise to bring peace and security. But after a year of his stewardship, Israel lacks both and so, politically speaking, does he.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19WALL.html?todaysheadlines"<Congress to Investigate Wall St.'s Ties With Enron</a<</b<<br<
Congressional investigators are widening their investigation of the Enron debacle to focus on Wall Street and the role it played in the company's rise and collapse.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19MORG.html?todaysheadlines"<First Boston Plans a Shakeup in Its Banking Unit</a<</b<<br<
First Boston's chief executive, John J. Mack, is close to a deal to poach a high ranking banker from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/19AIR.html?todaysheadlines"<Pact at United Averts Strike by Machinists</a<</b<<br<
United Airlines reached a tentative agreement with the leaders of the union representing its aircraft mechanics, averting a possible strike.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/technology/19GRID.html?todaysheadlines"<Grid Project to Wed Web Services</a<</b<<br<
A worldwide computing project known as grid, whose long-term vision is to bring the power of supercomputing to individuals, is taking a step into the commercial mainstream.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/technology/ebusiness/19CIEN.html?todaysheadlines"<Ciena to Pay $900 Million in Stock Deal to Buy ONI</a<</b<<br<
Ciena, a maker of fiber optic network equipment, said it will acquire ONI Systems, in a stock transaction worth $900 million.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19GLOB.html?todaysheadlines"<Global Crossing Was Big Giver to Campaigns in New York</a<</b<<br<
Global Crossing, the troubled telecommunications company, was a a big campaign contributor in New York -- giving more than $200,000 in 18 months.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/politics/19MARR.html?todaysheadlines"<Welfare Chief Is Hoping to Promote Marriage</a<</b<<br<
Wade F. Horn, the administration official who oversees the welfare program, wants to spend $100 million to promote marriage among the poor.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19CHEN.html?todaysheadlines"<Cheney Reinforces Bush's Stand Against Terrorism</a<</b<<br<
Vice President Dick Cheney opened a four-day swing through California by underscoring America's resolve to stop Iraq, Iran and North Korea from continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/national/19ENVI.html?todaysheadlines"<E.P.A. and Energy Department War Over Clean Air Rules</a<</b<<br<
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department are battling over new revisions to air pollution regulations.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/olympics/19FIGU.html?todaysheadlines"<Drama and Scandal Make the Olympics</a<</b<<br<
Every time Olympic Games are held, it seems, the idealized vision of a better world through amateur competition is declared dead or dying.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/football/19NFLL.html?todaysheadlines"<Jets Lose Three but Gain Millions</a<</b<<br<
The Jets lost Aaron Glenn, Marcus Coleman and Ryan Young to the Houston Texans, but gained salary-cap flexibility.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/football/19BUCS.html?todaysheadlines"<Tampa Bay Pays to Get Gruden</a<</b<<br<
The Buccaneers surrendered a staggering allotment of draft picks for coach John Gruden, who agreed to a five-year, $17 million contract with Tampa Bay.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/arts/design/19ARTS.html?todaysheadlines"<Chinese Retreat Yields Handiwork Fit for an Emperor</a<</b<<br<
An emperor's retirement lodge in the Forbidden City in Beijing that survived the Cultural Revolution is being preserved.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/arts/theater/19BIRD.html?todaysheadlines"<Racine's Pale Queen, Struggling With Racket Sports</a<</b<<br<
Ph&#232;dre has probably never looked sicker than she does in the Wooster Group's exhilarating dissection of Racine's tragedy.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/arts/music/19LEVI.html?todaysheadlines"<Clarity and Atmospherics, Courtesy of Levine</a<</b<<br<
The Munich Philharmonic made its first appearances in New York since James Levine became its conductor and gave energetic, richly colored and insightful performances.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19CHAR.html?todaysheadlines"<Lesson in Hands-On Charity: Giving Away Cash Isn't Easy</a<</b<<br<
When the National Association of Home Builders decided to distribute money directly to Sept. 11 victims, they had no idea how hard it would be to give away $10 million.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19JOBL.html?todaysheadlines"<Educated, Experienced and Out of Unemployment Checks</a<</b<<br<
Many college-educated professionals who worked in Manhattan are facing the prospect of their unemployment benefits running out after months of fruitless job hunting.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/19BOOK.html?todaysheadlines"<Want a Fight? Pick One Book for All New Yorkers</a<</b<<br<
A group of librarians, bookstore owners and educators is struggling to pick one book for all eight million fickle New Yorkers to read.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/opinion/19KRIS.html?todaysheadlines"<The Wrong War</a<</b<
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The real aim of the American mission in the Philippines is political: to reach a feel-good declaration of victory in the war on terror.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/opinion/19KRUG.html?todaysheadlines"<Workers Held Hostage</a<</b<
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Last week, House Republicans blocked vital aid to the nation's most vulnerable workers, and have refused to release it unless they secure passage of a dying stimulus plan.
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<font face="times new roman"<<b<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/opinion/19TERR.html?todaysheadlines"<China, the Uncertain Ally</a<</b<
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President Bush has been able to win China's cooperation in the war on terrorism. Is this a fluke due to Sept. 11, or are we finally entering a new relationship with Beijing?
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