Message-ID: <11050138.1075862594747.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 05:57:57 -0800 (PST) From: nytdirect@nytimes.com To: don.baughman@enron.com Subject: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Friday, November 16, 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: The New York Times Direct @ENRON X-To: Baughman Jr., Don X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \DBAUGHM (Non-Privileged)\Baughman Jr., Don\Deleted Items X-Origin: Baughman-D X-FileName: DBAUGHM (Non-Privileged).pst [IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] Search NYTimes.com Today's News Past Week Past 30 Days Past 90= Days Past Year Since 1996 =09 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Customize This E-Mail [IMAGE] Customize This E-= Mail =09 November 16, 2001 QUOTE OF THE DAY "I saw a family on the way, a husb= and, a pregnant wife, carrying two small children and their belongings. = They could carry them no longer. They kissed their children and left t= hem in the mountains." TILAWAT SHAH on refugees' fleeing Afghanistan. = HolidayShopping Holiday Shopping Take advantage of special offers and disc= ounts -- on gifts, travel and luxury items from NYTimes.com's premium adver= tisers -- with the Holiday Shopping E-Mail. Sign up now . NATIONAL A Q= uick Change in Fortune Dulls the Glimmer of Houston Although the national = economic downturn was expected to bypass Houston, current indicators are sh= owing that is not true. Hoffa Claims Victory in Bid to Stay Head of Teams= ters With about half the votes counted, James P. Hoffa claimed victory on = Thursday in his bid for re-election as Teamsters union president. Investi= gators Think Yemeni Man Was Meant to Be 20th Hijacker Federal investigator= s say that they believe a Yemeni citizen may have been meant to be the 20th= hijacker on Sept. 11 but that he failed to get into the United States. = MORE NATIONAL NEWS Advertisement Listen To John Grisham's Latest On Y= our Free MP3 Player! Heard a good book lately? Now you can download John = Grisham's latest bestseller - Skipping Christmas - and you can listen to = it on your FREE MP3 player. Become an Audible Listener and start enjoying= books in a whole new way. Listen to them while you drive or commute, any= where, anytime. [IMAGE] INTERNATIONAL Allies Building Force to Keep Ord= er in a Vacuum About 160 British Royal Marines and American Special Operat= ions troops flew to Bagram airfield north of Kabul on Thursday. U.S. Set = to Retain Smallpox Stocks The Bush administration, reversing a course set = two decades ago, has decided that the world's remaining stocks of smallpox = should be retained. Before and After Bush and Putin's Banter, No Agreemen= t on Missile Defense Presidents Bush and Putin ended their three-day summi= t with warm jokes, but no discernible progress on amending the 1972 Antibal= listic Missile Treaty. MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUSINESS Oil Prices T= umble to 2-Year Low Oil prices went into free fall as Russia rejected a ch= allenge from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to stabilize= prices by sharply cutting production. A High-Powered Deal Maker Is Named= to Lead Lazard Bruce Wasserstein, a Wall Street deal maker who rose to pr= ominence in the 1980's, is taking the top job at Lazard L.L.C., an investme= nt bank adrift after a string of defections. Philip Morris to Change Name= to Altria Philip Morris, the owner of one of the world's best-known corpo= rate names, plans to change that name next year to the Altria Group. MO= RE BUSINESS NEWS TECHNOLOGY Dell Rebounds After a 2nd-Quarter Loss Rebo= unding from a loss in the July quarter, the Dell Computer Corporation repor= ted a third-quarter profit of $429 million. Executive Bonuses Included in= the Hewlett-Compaq Deal Senior executives of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq w= ill receive bonuses totaling more than $55 million if the companies' merger= succeeds and they stay on until September 2003. U.S. Filing Supports Mic= rosoft Settlement The Justice Department sought to convince the judge in t= he antitrust case against Microsoft that its settlement to end the trial wi= ll provide "prompt, certain and effective" help for consumers. MORE TEC= HNOLOGY NEWS POLITICS Congress Agrees to U.S. Takeover for Air Security = House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on a major aviation securit= y bill that requires the federal government to hire 28,000 screeners for ai= rport travelers and baggage within one year. Senators Seek $3.2 Billion t= o Fight Germ Threats, Doubling Bush Plan A bipartisan group of senators in= troduced legislation calling for $3.2 billion to fight bioterrorism. $88 = Billion Farm Bill Wins Approval of Senate Panel The Senate Agriculture Com= mittee approved an $88 billion farm bill that places no limits on subsidie= s to America's wealthiest farmers. MORE POLITICS NEWS SPORTS Clemen= s Wins His 6th Cy Young Roger Clemens won his sixth Cy Young award, domina= ting the balloting for the A.L.'s best pitcher. No other pitcher has won th= e award more than four times. Knicks' Surge Holds Off the Heat Pushed to= the brink of defeat by a depleted Miami team, the Knicks regrouped just in= time, dominating the final minutes to escape with a victory over the Heat.= Bidding Charges Dismissed Against 2 Ex-Officials in Salt Lake City A fe= deral judge dismissed all remaining charges in the bribery scandal involv= ing the two chief organizers of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter= Olympics. MORE SPORTS NEWS ARTS Days of War and Wonder in Afghanist= an CNN's extraordinary "Unholy Wars" is one of three eye-opening documenta= ries about Afghanistan, and it's not easy to be eye-opening in the barrage = of recent news. Cosmopolitan Trove on the Road to China The headquarter= s of the Asia Society reopen after a renovation that doubles its exhibitio= n space. The exciting headline show is of Silk Road treasures. In Her Wor= ld, Normalcy Includes the Grotesque Anna Paquin brings quiet centeredness = to her stage debut as a disaffected girl who goes directly from middle sch= ool to marriage and murder. MORE ARTS NEWS NY REGION Loss of 79,000 = Jobs Adds to City's Economic Woes A staggering 79,000 jobs disappeared fro= m New York City in October, signaling that all the dire forecasts of econom= ic fallout from Sept. 11 may have been understated. Data Shows Jet Shook = After Hitting Wake of 747 American Airlines Flight 587 began to shake viol= ently seconds after bumping over the second of two wakes left by a Boeing 7= 47 that had left Kennedy International Airport just ahead of it. Bloomber= g Asks for Aid in Washington Pilgrimage Mayor-elect Michael R. Bloomberg u= rged the White House to reconsider its opposition to a measure that would i= mmediately provide billions of dollars to help New York City rebuild. M= ORE NY REGION NEWS OP-ED Breaking the Circle By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN A= rab-Muslim countries crush or expell extreme Islamists without ever trying = to reform the Islamic schools or the political conditions that keep produci= ng angry Islamist waves. Bush by 537; Gore by 537,179 By MARTIN PLISSNE= R There's been enough talk about fixing the voting machines. It's time to = abolish the Electoral College. Writing History to Executive Order By RI= CHARD REEVES With a stroke of the pen on Nov. 1, President Bush stabbed = history in the back and blocked Americans' right to know how presidents (= and vice presidents) have made decisions. MORE OP-ED NEWS About Thi= s E-Mail You received these headlines because you requested The New York Ti= mes Direct e-mail service. To sign up for other newsletters, cancel deliver= y, change delivery options or your e-mail address, see http://www.nytimes.c= om/email . Check or un-check the headlines you would like to receive or c= ancel and remember to go to the bottom of the page and click on "Save Selec= tions." 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