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February 24, 2002

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The last four years for me have been about that one moment coming into the finish when I heard the Americans roar and saw kids' faces painted red, white and blue. That's when I felt the pride of being an American in an American Olympics."
PICABO STREET,skier.

NATIONAL
Crematory Owners' Family Asks Why
Relatives of the Georgia crematory owners who dumped hundreds of corpses over the years are at a loss for explanations.

Army Says Powder Found at Post Has Tested Negative for Anthrax
An spokesman said a suspicious package found at the U.S. Army Reserve Command headquarters did not contain anthrax.

Arrest in Burglary at Federal Office
The authorities arrested a woman after a burglary at a Federal Highway Administration office that houses sensitive information about Hoover Dam.

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INTERNATIONAL
New Clues Suggest Bin Laden Is Alive on Afghan Border
Administration officials say they have indications that Osama bin Laden is alive and still moving around on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Desperation Drives a Zimbabwean Exodus South
With elections looming, thousands of voters are quietly fleeing a nation that is increasingly beset by hunger and violence.

Ten Years After Bribery Scandal, Italy Still Counts the Cost
Italy is split on whether investigators went too far or not nearly far enough in pursuing public officials accused of corruption.

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BUSINESS
Enriched by Working Class, Wal-Mart Eyes BMW Crowd
Wal-Mart, which became the nation's biggest company by stressing low prices, is setting its sights on affluent shoppers.

Contracts So Complex They Imperil the System
As sophisticated derivatives evolve and proliferate, subtle risks emerge that threaten the financial system risks that are impossible to quantify, sometimes even to identify.

The Genome Is Mapped. Now He Wants Profit.
Tony L.White is now acting president of Celera, and he is on a mission to transform it from a vendor of genetic information to a pharmaceutical company.

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TECHNOLOGY
Web Site Helped Change Farm Policy
An environmental group used the web to turn farm subsidies into an issue of equity.

A Future for High-Speed Rail?
The future of high-speed rail projects in the United States is murky thanks to the the fiscal and political turmoil currently enveloping Amtrak.

HP Eyes Small Investors to Seal Compaq Deal
Individual investors will be a critical in deciding the fate of the proposed merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.

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POLITICS
Bush Proposing to Shift Burden of Toxic Cleanups to Taxpayers
The Bush administration has decided to designate fewer Superfund sites and to shift the bulk of cleanup costs from industry to taxpayers.

Governors Want Congress to Ease Welfare's Work Rule
The nation's governors are now urging Congress to let states relax work requirements for some people on welfare.

Web Site Helped Change Farm Policy
An environmental group used the web to turn farm subsidies into an issue of equity.

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SPORTS
Riveting Sport and an Angry Backlash
These Olympics were fun, safe and telegenic, but what began in unity is ending with a vehement anti-American fervor.

Lilly Waits for Chance in Starting Rotation
Ted Lilly, 26, looks and acts the part of an established major league pitcher, but he is still waiting to be one of the Yankees' starters.

Camby Will Watch Against Lakers
Marcus Camby came off crutches and planned to attend the Knicks' game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

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ARTS
Six Decades Later, Still the Great American Musical
Trevor Nunn's new production makes clear that "Oklahoma!" has endured for reasons far beyond its simple story.

A Hollywood Maverick, but Also a Broadway Baby
With "Fortune's Fool," the filmmaker Arthur Penn resumes his love affair with the stage.

Pulling Out of the Garage for a Visit to Brooklyn
The Wooster Group ventures beyond the Performing Garage, its home theater in lower Manhattan, and finds more room at St. Ann's Warehouse in the Dumbo district of Brooklyn.

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NY REGION
Teenager Held in Killings of Six People
The authorities have charged a 16-year-old from Camden County, N.J., with killing six people and wounding a seventh.

Motorcycle Exposition Explodes Into a Deadly Fight Between Rival Bike Gangs
At least one man was killed and 10 others wounded when a motorcycle exposition erupted into a battle between the Hell's Angels and the rival Pagans, police say.

McGreevey's Port Nominee Faces Two-Party Scrutiny
Gov. James E. McGreevey has moved to appoint allies to agencies, at times seeming oblivious to fellow Democrats.

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OP-ED
Coyote Rummy
By MAUREEN DOWD
I want the secretary of defense to tell the Pentagon to kick its addiction to fiction.

A Traveler to Saudi Arabia
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
After Sept. 11, Saudis got a raw taste of what many outsiders thought of their country.

Credit and Credibility
By LAWRENCE WHITE
The Big Three rating agencies should have been in a position to blow the whistle early about Enron's true condition.

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