Message-ID: <13569705.1075855606677.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: nytdirect@nytimes.com To: mike.grigsby@enron.com Subject: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: The New York Times Direct X-To: mike.grigsby@ENRON.COM X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Michael_Grigsby_Jun2001\Notes Folders\Notes inbox X-Origin: Grigsby-M X-FileName: mgrigsb.nsf TODAY'S HEADLINES The New York Times on the Web Monday, May 14, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------ For news updated throughout the day, visit www.nytimes.com QUOTE OF THE DAY ========================= "Any person engaged in small business in America would be amazed looking at this. Their jaws would drop at the money farmers receive." - KEITH COLLINS, Agriculture Department economist, on government subsidies. Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/national/14FARM.html NATIONAL ========================= Blackout Plans Are of Little Use in California Crisis http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/national/14POWE.html Far From Dead, Subsidies Fuel Big Farms http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/national/14FARM.html Senators Criticize F.B.I. on McVeigh Papers http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/politics/14EXEC.html A Broad Alliance Tries to Head Off Cuts in Medicare http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/politics/14MEDI.html /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------\ What's ahead for business in 2001? Get the Times's perspective on business and the economy in 2001, both foreign and domestic. Explore our Web exclusive interactive timeline of business in 2000 that ranges from the AOL Time Warner merger to the plunging Nasdaq with an essay by Floyd Norris, the Times's senior financial correspondent. http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/2001outlook1-index.html?ibd \---------------------------------------------------------/ POLITICS ========================= A Broad Alliance Tries to Head Off Cuts in Medicare http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/politics/14MEDI.html Senators Criticize F.B.I. on McVeigh Papers http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/politics/14EXEC.html Bush Hopes to Win Backing of Unions for Energy Plan http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/politics/14LABO.html Public Lives: An Education 'Warrior' With a Soft Spot for His Boss http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/politics/14LIVE.html INTERNATIONAL ========================= Right Wing Edges Toward a Victory in Italy http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/world/14ITAL.html Moderate Basque Nationalists Win Election in Spain http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/world/14SPAI.html Elections Test New Leader's Legitimacy in Philippines http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-philipp.html Israelis Strike in Gaza; 5 Palestinians Found Dead in West Bank http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/world/14MIDE.html BUSINESS ========================= Wary Spending by Executives Cools Economy http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/business/14BUST.html Why Newspapers and Newsprint Makers Are at War http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/business/14PAPE.html NBC Ponders Its Options: Grow or Else http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/business/14NBC.html 3 Journalists Resign in Clash of Old and New in Hollywood http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/business/14HOLL.html TECHNOLOGY ========================= Digital Signatures Spark Debate http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/technology/14SIGS.html New Economy: Behind Bars, a Market for Goods http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/technology/14NECO.html Arts Online: A Marriage of Music and Creativity http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/arts/14ARTS.html E-Commerce Report: Traffic Does Not Always Equal Profit http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/technology/14ECOMMERCE.html NEW YORK REGION ========================= A Broad Alliance Tries to Head Off Cuts in Medicare http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/politics/14MEDI.html New York Envisions an Olympic Legacy http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/nyregion/14OLYM.html Political Plot Thickens in Bronx, With Sharpton Shining the Spotlight http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/nyregion/14BRON.html Officer Shoots Son and Wife, Kills Her Friend and Takes Own Life http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/nyregion/14COP.html SPORTS ========================= Mets Are Victims in Coast-to-Coast Scary Movie http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/sports/14METS.html Yankees Dispirited by More Than Mere Defeat http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/sports/14YANK.html Kings Contain O'Neal, but Bryant Lifts Lakers http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/sports/14KING.html Sixth Man Is Leading Man in Sixers' Win http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/sports/14RAPT.html ARTS ========================= R. K. Narayan, India's Prolific Storyteller, Dies at 94 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/obituaries/14NARA.html Lincoln Center Considers a Dome and More to Enliven Its Central Plaza http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/arts/14LINC.html Dizzy Collisions at the Intersection That Is Cannes http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/arts/14NOTE.html A Writer Hammers at the Misery of the Third World http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/arts/14KAPU.html OP-ED COLUMNISTS ========================= By WILLIAM SAFIRE: Frankly, My Dear . . . Is "The Wind Done Gone" a parody entitled to First Amendment protection, or is this as-yet-unpublished novel a rip-off? http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/opinion/14SAFI.html By BOB HERBERT: Trouble for Ferrer Al Sharpton has lobbed a race-based grenade at New York City mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer. 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