Message-ID: <32584785.1075862601434.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 05:50:20 -0800 (PST) From: nytdirect@nytimes.com To: don.baughman@enron.com Subject: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Monday, November 26, 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: The New York Times Direct <nytdirect@nytimes.com>@ENRON X-To: Baughman Jr., Don </O=ENRON/OU=NA/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=DBAUGHM> 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 26, 2001 QUOTE OF THE DAY "I don't dream. I don't cry. But I g= et migraines." ELLEN DUBE, an AIDS counselor at Hlabisa Hospital in South = Africa. HolidayShopping Holiday Shopping Take advantage of special offer= s and discounts -- on gifts, travel and luxury items from NYTimes.com's pre= mium advertisers -- with the Holiday Shopping E-Mail. Sign up now . NA= TIONAL 3 Teenagers Held in Plot at Massachusetts School Officials said a m= assacre may have been averted by their use of techniques and studies develo= ped after the 1999 killings at Columbine High School. For Most, Holiday T= ravel Is Light and Smooth By most accounts the return trips home from the = holiday weekend by plane, train, bus and automobile went smoothly. As Att= acks' Impact Recedes, a Return to Religion as Usual Immediately after Sept= . 11 Americans flooded to their local houses of worship, but polls now indi= cate that for most people the spiritual storm has passed. MORE NATIONAL= NEWS [IMAGE] INTERNATIONAL Hundreds of U.S. Troops Land 12 Miles From T= aliban Stronghold Hundreds of marines landed at a makeshift airfield near = Kandahar on Sunday in the first major infusion of American ground troops in= to Afghanistan. Fresh Fighting Erupts in Kunduz Northern Alliance troops= came under fire today on the streets of Kunduz, eventually pinning down a = group of Taliban holdouts who tried to break out of the newly fallen city.= An American Is Said to Be Killed During a Failed Prison Uprising Surren= dered Taliban troops staged a revolt Sunday at a prison where hundreds of t= hem were being held under the control of the Northern Alliance. MORE IN= TERNATIONAL NEWS BUSINESS Cautious Optimism on Shopping Shoppers went b= ack to the malls after Thanksgiving, but it is still unclear whether they w= ill spend enough to pull the economy from its downturn. Barnes & Noble to= Try to Squeeze Better Publisher Deals Leonard Riggio, the chairman of Bar= nes & Noble, told analysts that his company might have to "persuade our sup= pliers to be fair to us." Telecommunications Entrepreneur With a Colorful= R?sum? Gary Breshinsky, originally from suburban Long Island, set up a te= lecommunications network in Afghanistan in the late 1990's. Now he's consid= ering going back. MORE BUSINESS NEWS TECHNOLOGY Europe Plans to Comp= ete With U.S. Satellite Network Countries are building independent satelli= te navigation networks, troubled that the G.P.S. system is run by the Unite= d States military. Intel Unveils Chip Advances Intel semiconductor desig= n innovations will help it to continue doubling the performance of microchi= ps every 18 to 24 months through the end of the decade. Telecommunication= s Entrepreneur With a Colorful R?sum? Gary Breshinsky, originally from sub= urban Long Island, set up a telecommunications network in Afghanistan in th= e late 1990's. Now he's considering going back. MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS = POLITICS Treasury Chief Sees an Economic Brightening Faced with the likel= ihood the U.S. is about to be declared officially in a recession, Paul H. O= 'Neill said the economy was "poised for recovery." Congress Divided on St= imulus Package Bush administration officials are stressing corporate tax c= uts and Democrats are insisting on new help for the unemployed. Ashcroft = to Testify Before Senate Lawmakers critical of the Justice Department's an= ti-terrorism campaign will hear directly from the attorney general in early= December. MORE POLITICS NEWS SPORTS Oakland Hammers Floundering Gia= nts In a game played in a driving rain, the sloppy, reeling Giants were th= oroughly outclassed from start to finish by the Oakland Raiders. Hurrican= es Leave Questions to Others With the season beginning its finishing kick,= it is fair to wonder whether any team is good enough to give Miami a good = game in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 3. Redskins' Recovery Continues Squanderin= g a chance to take command of the N.F.C. East, the Philadelphia Eagles fell= to the streaking Washington Redskins, who have won five straight. MORE= SPORTS NEWS ARTS David Robertson: Rapport at the End of a Baton The co= nductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon in France frequently takes assign= ments with America's top orchestras, and he's become an audience favorite a= nd a reviewer's darling. Are the Wizard's Numbers Just the Tip of the Ice= berg? "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" chases after the still elus= ive box office record set by "Titanic," which earned more than $600 million= . Power Meets Modern Art in Los Angeles The first major exhibition from = the collections of Eli and Edythe Broad is now under way at the Los Angele= s County Museum of Art. MORE ARTS NEWS NY REGION Nassau County Tries= to Reach Budget Accord Leaders in the Nassau County Legislature are consi= dering a package of budget cuts and increases in property taxes in order to= avert a state financial takeover. Parking Garages Suffer From Manhattan = Security Rules Parking garage operators in Manhattan say that in the aft= ermath of the World Trade Center attack they, too, are suffering. Landl= ord Kills Tenant and Tries to Commit Suicide, Police Say A Queens landlord= who had been feuding with a tenant beat her to death and then poisoned him= self by swallowing a bottle of Drano, the police said. MORE NY REGION N= EWS OP-ED Justice, 200 Years Later By BOB HERBERT Last month, New Y= ork State was ordered to pay the Cayuga Indians a sum which is believed to = be the largest resolution of an Indian land claim in U.S. history. Kanga= roo Courts By WILLIAM SAFIRE President Bush's initiative to create milit= ary tribunals turns back the clock on all advances in military justice, t= hrough three wars, in the past half-century. Rebuilding a Ravaged Land = By M. ISHAQ NADIRI Afghanistan has great potential for economic developm= ent. There has been much devastation, but the country can be rebuilt. = MORE OP-ED NEWS About This E-Mail You received these headlines because = you requested The New York Times Direct e-mail service. To sign up for othe= r newsletters, cancel delivery, change delivery options or your e-mail addr= ess, see http://www.nytimes.com/email . 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