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The New York Times on the Web Saturday, December 1, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------ For news updated throughout the day, visit www.nytimes.com /-------------------Also From NYTimes.com------------------\ Holiday Shopping Take advantage of special offers and discounts -- on gifts, travel and luxury items from NYTimes.com's premium advertisers -- with the Holiday Shopping E-Mail. http://www.nytimes.com/services/email/email.html#holiday \---------------------------------------------------------/ QUOTE OF THE DAY ========================= "I guess we all see a little of ourselves in him. He was in the background, and maybe we all do little great things in the background in our own lives." -ROGER REECE, on George Harrison. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/obituaries/01GEOR.html?todaysheadlines NATIONAL ========================= Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan to relax restrictions on the F.B.I.'s spying on religious and political organizations. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/national/01BURE.html?todaysheadlines ----- Connecticut Detects Anthrax on a Letter Near Victim's Home Connecticut officials said that a trace amount of anthrax had been discovered on a letter delivered near the home of a 94-year-old woman who died of the disease last week. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/nyregion/01ANTH.html?todaysheadlines ----- Man With Artificial Heart Dies 5 Months After Implant Robert Tools, the first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, died Friday at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/health/01HEAR.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE NATIONAL NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/index.html?todaysheadline /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------\ Listen To An Exclusive Audio Program From Robin Williams - Free! 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Inspect for Banned Arms A State Department official said on Friday that President Bush intended to force Iraq to open its borders to United Nations weapons inspectors. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/international/middleeast/01DIPL.html?todaysheadlines ----- Bush Administration Says It's Too Early to Deploy International Peacekeepers Calling conditions on the ground too dangerous, the Bush administration said on Friday that it was too soon to send peacekeepers to Afghanistan. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/international/01MILI.html?todaysheadlines ----- Marines Dig In, but They Find Little to Battle Hundreds of marines have turned a compound in the Afghan desert into a heavily fortified base intended to intensify military pressure on the Taliban. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/international/asia/01MARI.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html?todaysheadline BUSINESS ========================= Enron Scrambles for Funds to Ease Way Into Bankruptcy The fallout from Enron's collapse continued on Friday as the company struggled to line up financing. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/business/01ENRO.html?todaysheadlines ----- Report Offers Conflicting Signals on Recovery of the Economy The economy shrank significantly more this summer than the government initially estimated, the Commerce Department said on Friday. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/business/01ECON.html?todaysheadlines ----- Creditors' Move Puts Excite@Home's Service at Risk A judge ruled on Friday that Excite@Home could sever its contracts with cable companies, meaning that about 3.7 million subscribers could lose Internet access. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/technology/01NET.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE BUSINESS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.html?todaysheadline TECHNOLOGY ========================= Creditors' Move Puts Excite@Home's Service at Risk A judge ruled on Friday that Excite@Home could sever its contracts with cable companies, meaning that about 3.7 million subscribers could lose Internet access. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/technology/01NET.html?todaysheadlines ----- Cable and Wireless Bidding For Assets of Web Operator Cable and Wireless made a bid on Friday to become the biggest manager of Web sites in the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/technology/01CABL.html?todaysheadlines ----- Apple Offers More Than an Update to Its System Sometimes engineers fix software mistakes; other times the task falls to lawyers. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/technology/01APPL.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html?todaysheadline POLITICS ========================= G.O.P.'s National Chairman to Resign After Brief Term Republican party officials accused the White House of forcing Gov. James S. Gilmore III of Virginia from his post as Republican national chairman. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/politics/01REPU.html?todaysheadlines ----- 2 Sides Turn More Heated in Exchanges Over Economy Democrats intensified their efforts to portray Republicans as more concerned about corporate interests than laid-off workers and to pin blame for the recession on President Bush. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/politics/01DEMS.html?todaysheadlines ----- Special Education Increases Cut From Bill Lawmakers rejected an attempt to guarantee multibillion dollar increases for special education as part of a sweeping education bill. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/education/01EDUC.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE POLITICS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html?todaysheadline SPORTS ========================= Daylight Is Narrowing for Bowl Hopefuls Of the 25 postseason bowl games, only five have filled both brackets, and another nine have selected a single team. Much more will be known on Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/sports/ncaafootball/01COLL.html?todaysheadlines ----- Wilpon Might Increase Mets' Payroll Fred Wilpon hinted that he might authorize Mets General Manager Steve Phillips to exceed the team's budget to sign a top player. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/sports/baseball/01METS.html?todaysheadlines ----- Security, and Event, Will Be Extraordinary Concerned that the country's most watched sporting event would be an inviting target for terrorists, the federal government and the N.F.L. are planning extraordinary measures to protect the Super Bowl. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/sports/football/01SUPE.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE SPORTS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.html?todaysheadline ARTS ========================= George Harrison, 'Quiet Beatle' and Lead Guitarist, Dies at 58 George Harrison, the youngster of the Beatles who composed some of their most venerated songs, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/obituaries/01GEOR.html?todaysheadlines ----- Break Up Afghanistan? Why Not? Some experts believe ethnic groups that have been warring for generations would be better off in separate nations. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/arts/01PROF.html?todaysheadlines ----- A Black Author Hurls That Word as a Challenge Randall Kennedy, an African-American scholar at Harvard, argues that new uses of "nigger" are helping to exorcise the word's power as America's paradigmatic ethnic slur. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/books/01BOOK.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE ARTS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html?todaysheadline NY REGION ========================= Connecticut Detects Anthrax on a Letter Near Victim's Home Connecticut officials said that a trace amount of anthrax had been discovered on a letter delivered near the home of a 94-year-old woman who died of the disease last week. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/nyregion/01ANTH.html?todaysheadlines ----- Shoplifting Charge Ends U.S. Manhunt for Real Estate Heir The nationwide manhunt for Robert A. Durst, the scion of a wealthy Manhattan real estate family, ended when he was arrested for shoplifting. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/nyregion/01DURS.html?todaysheadlines ----- Bush Picks Virginia Prosecutor for U.S. Attorney President Bush announced that he would nominate James B. Comey as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York to succeed Mary Jo White. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/nyregion/01ATTO.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE NY REGION NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/index.html?todaysheadline OP-ED ========================= Join the Club By BILL KELLER The terror attacks have actually made the enlargement of the NATO family more right than ever. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/opinion/01KELL.html?todaysheadlines ----- It Can Happen Here By ANTHONY LEWIS It seems shocking that the United States Department of Justice should state as a fact something that a judge has found to be untrue. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/opinion/L01LEWI.html?todaysheadlines ----- Getting at the Roots of Arab Poverty By ALAN SCHWARTZ Many Muslims are not poor because we are rich; they are poor because of the policies their countries pursue. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/opinion/01SCHW.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE OP-ED NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html?todaysheadline HOW TO CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------ You received these headlines because you requested The New York Times Direct e-mail service. 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