Message-ID: <9178160.1075862599787.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:50:34 -0800 (PST) From: nytdirect@nytimes.com To: don.baughman@enron.com Subject: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Wednesday, November 21, 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\Inbox 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 21, 2001 QUOTE OF THE DAY "You don't decide need based on an a= rbitrary line. A line makes it easy for administration, but not for the peo= ple who have to suffer through the pain every day." DON LEE, on the part o= f Chinatown that was designated for financial aid. HolidayShopping Holid= ay Shopping Take advantage of special offers and discounts -- on gifts, tra= vel and luxury items from NYTimes.com's premium advertisers -- with the Hol= iday Shopping E-Mail. Sign up now . NATIONAL In Utah, a Government Hat= er Sells a Germ-Warfare Book A Nebraska entrepreneur has been selling copi= es of his self-published book which includes directions for making "mail-de= livered" anthrax. A Police Force Rebuffs F.B.I. on Querying Mideast Men = The Portland, Ore., police will not cooperate with the Federal Bureau of In= vestigation in its efforts to interview 5,000 young Middle Eastern men be= cause such questioning violates state law. Boat Found, but 30 Cubans Are = Missing Coast Guard officials found a capsized speedboat that they believe= was carrying 30 Cubans who were being smuggled to the United States. M= ORE NATIONAL NEWS Advertisement Learn a Language in Your Car...or Anyw= here - Special Offer! Bravo! Formidable! Fantastico! Introducing a multi-= level language instruction series at Audible called Learn in Your Car. Thi= s language series is designed to help you learn another language...in a ca= r or anywhere. Choose from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, or = Japanese. Listen for free now. [IMAGE] INTERNATIONAL U.S. Ready to Send= Additional Troops to Hunt bin Laden The United States is prepared to send= additional ground forces to capture or kill Osama bin Laden if intelligenc= e pinpoints his location, Pentagon officials said. Direction of Global Wa= r on Terror Raises Unsettling Questions The military campaign in Afghanist= an has given the world a stark view of a new American doctrine to make war = on the sources of terrorism. An Investigation in Egypt Illustrates Al Qae= da's Web Records from a 1999 Cairo trial show how the merger of Al Qaeda a= nd Islamic Jihad vastly enhanced Osama bin Laden's reach and organizational= ability. MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUSINESS Enron's Growing Financial= Crisis Raises Doubts About Merger Deal Shares of Enron plunged 23 percent= as expectations grew in the markets that Dynegy would either back out of i= ts deal to rescue the company or seek to renegotiate terms of their merger.= Conoco Plays Security Card in Promoting Its Merger The chairman of Cono= co, Archie W. Dunham, has added a new rationale for his company's planned m= erger with Phillips Petroleum: energy security. Microsoft Aims to Settle = Suits by Equipping 12,500 Schools Microsoft proposed giving some of the na= tion's poorest schools computers, software and training to settle more than= 100 private class-action antitrust suits. MORE BUSINESS NEWS TECHN= OLOGY Microsoft Aims to Settle Suits by Equipping 12,500 Schools Microsoft= proposed giving some of the nation's poorest schools computers, software a= nd training to settle more than 100 private class-action antitrust suits. = Vacations as Early Education Instead of M.I.T., Charles Herington, presi= dent of AOL Latin America, enrolled in Monterrey Tech in northern Mexico. A= nd he's not sorry that things turned out the way they did. Protesters Fin= d the Web to Be a Powerful Tool With opinion polls showing overwhelming su= pport for President Bush, antiwar activists are relying heavily on the Inte= rnet to weave their fragmented constituents into a movement. MORE TECHN= OLOGY NEWS POLITICS Putting Name to Bush Justice Dept.: Kennedy Preside= nt Bush reached out to the nation's most prominent Democratic political fam= ily in a ceremony to name the Justice Department headquarters in honor of R= obert F. Kennedy. Treffinger Enters 2002 Race for Torricelli's Senate Sea= t The Essex County, N.J., executive, James W. Treffinger, announced in unu= sually low-key fashion that he was seeking the Republican nomination. Fed= eral Control Will Be Sought for Protection of Nuclear Plants The federal g= overnment should assume responsibility for protecting the country's nuclea= r power plants, a group of Democratic members of Congress from New York sai= d. MORE POLITICS NEWS SPORTS In Any Language, Suzuki Is A.L.'s Best = Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki has a knack for making strong first impressions, a= nd on Tuesday he became only the second rookie to win the Most Valuable Pla= yer award. Yankees Begin Courting Giambi The Yankees opened talks with J= ason Giambi on Tuesday, the first day that the free-agent slugger could dis= cuss specific offers from teams other than Oakland. Rangers Give Roy the = Chills Patrick Roy, who was trying to tie the modern-era N.H.L. record for= consecutive shutouts, four, was shelled for five goals in the Rangers' win= over Colorado. MORE SPORTS NEWS ARTS Foundation Starts $50 Million = Fund for Arts Groups Hurt by Terrorism The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is = creating a fund for cultural institutions affected by repercussions of the= Sept. 11 attacks, as well as for parks where people congregated after the = disaster. A Friendship Tested as the Cold War Thaws Tony Scott's new mo= vie, which tracks the 24 hours before a maverick C.I.A. agent retires, h= as the pointless, thrilling kineticism of a sports car commercial. 'Mons= ters, Inc.' and 'Shrek' Are Likely Foes for New Oscar The hottest race for= an Academy Award is in a newly created category: best animated feature. = MORE ARTS NEWS NY REGION Inhalation Anthrax Is Diagnosed in Connectic= ut Woman, 94 A 94-year-old Connecticut woman appears to have contracted th= e inhaled form of anthrax, officials said. She was hospitalized in critical= condition. Toll From Attack at Trade Center Is Down Sharply The officia= l count of the dead and missing has fallen below 3,900 nearly 3,000 fewer = than the number officials originally feared had perished. Terror Attacks= Have Left Chinatown's Economy Battered Chinatown is still reeling financi= ally and is perhaps the hardest hit neighborhood outside the red zone. = MORE NY REGION NEWS OP-ED Blessings and Bombings By MAUREEN DOWD Pr= esident Bush definitely has a talent for holding opposed ideas in his min= d. The 55-Cent Solution By PAUL KRUGMAN George W. Bush has backed off = his personal pledge to provide aid to a battered New York City. Help = Iraqis Take Their Country Back By KANAN MAKIYA If the challenge represen= ted by the attacks of Sept. 11 is going to be met, then overthrowing Saddam= Hussein by reaching out to the people of Iraq is where it has to begin. = MORE OP-ED NEWS About This E-Mail You received these headlines becaus= e you requested The New York Times Direct e-mail service. To sign up for ot= her newsletters, cancel delivery, change delivery options or your e-mail ad= dress, see http://www.nytimes.com/email . Check or un-check the headlines= you would like to receive or cancel and remember to go to the bottom of th= e page and click on "Save Selections." Suggestions and feedback are welcom= e at feedback@nytimes.com . 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