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The New York Times on the Web Wednesday, April 3, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ For news updated throughout the day, visit www.nytimes.com /-------------------------------------------------\ Discover the new things to love about The Times. http://www.nytimes.com/ads/marketing/whatsnew/ \-------------------------------------------------/ QUOTE OF THE DAY ========================= "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 ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE NATIONAL NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/index.html?todaysheadlines /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------\ Make this summer last a lifetime. 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Click below to view the entire bulletin online, or have one sent to you. http://www.scps.nyu.edu/nyt049 \---------------------------------------------------------/ INTERNATIONAL ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html?todaysheadlines BUSINESS ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE BUSINESS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.html?todaysheadlines TECHNOLOGY ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html?todaysheadlines POLITICS ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE POLITICS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html?todaysheadlines SPORTS ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE SPORTS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.html?todaysheadlines ARTS ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE ARTS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html?todaysheadlines NY REGION ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE NY REGION NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/index.html?todaysheadlines OP-ED ========================= 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- MORE OP-ED NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html?todaysheadlines ------------------------------------- Receive 50% Off Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. 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