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March 4, 2002

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Billions of dollars are being controlled by two companies, and nobody knows who they are."
LARRY R. HOLDEN,president of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, on groups that purchase hospital supplies.

NATIONAL
Bush Weighs Raising Steel Tariffs but Exempting Most Poor Nations
Proposals being considered by President Bush to rescue the American steel industry would exempt most poor nations from punishing tariffs.

Congressional Inquiry Cites Flaws in Antimissile Sensor
A Congressional inquiry into reports of corporate fraud has found widespread technical failures in a prototype antimissile sensor meant to track enemy warheads.

Peanut Proposals Put a New Wrinkle on Farm Subsidies
Buried in the proposed farm bill is a plan to pay peanut farmers $1.3 billion to adopt a new $3 billion subsidy system.

MORE NATIONAL NEWS

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INTERNATIONAL
U.S. Planes Pound Enemy as Troops Face Tough Fight
Allied ground forces met fierce resistance Sunday as they tried to seal off escape routes from one of the last Taliban and Al Qaeda refuges.

Latest Attacks Stun Israelis and Dampen Hopes for Peace
More killings Sunday put a damper on hopes that were raised in some quarters by a Saudi peace proposal for the Middle East.

Colombian Rebels Step Up Pace and Intensity of Attacks
Peace talks collapsed just 11 days ago, and it took no time at all for Colombia to plunge into a new, ominous phase of the long-running conflict.

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BUSINESS
2 Powerful Groups Hold Sway Over Buying at Many Hospitals
Many in the medical world question whether efforts by two national purchasing groups are being compromised by their financial ties to certain medical supply companies.

After Letterman's Rebuff, CBS Tries Honey
ABC executives have made a strong run at wresting David Letterman from CBS and may still succeed. But don't count CBS out just yet.

Northrop's Bid for TRW Turns Hostile
The Northrop Grumman Corporation made a $5.9 billion hostile takeover bid for its rival, TRW, after TRW's board rejected its original unsolicited offer.

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TECHNOLOGY
Former Chief of Hewlett Urges Rejection of Merger
Lewis E. Platt visited an influential shareholder advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services, last week to explain why he is against the deal Carleton S. Fiorina has championed.

A Rival Offer Is Expected for Global
A Los Angeles investment firm that specializes in corporate turnarounds is likely to make an offer this week for Global Crossing, the beleaguered communications company.

If You Can't Join 'Em, You Can Always Tweak 'Em
An artist recently registered the Web address WhitneyBiennial.com and on it he's posted his own opinions of the perpetually controversial exhibit.

MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS

POLITICS
Pocketing Soft Money Before Pockets Are Sewn Up
Republicans and Democrats are mounting an aggressive, last-ditch drive to collect unrestricted donations before they are banned.

Daschle Wants Congress Told More About Bush's War Plans
Senator Tom Daschle, the majority leader, renewed his questions on Sunday about the administration's expansion of the war on terrorism.

Peanut Proposals Put a New Wrinkle on Farm Subsidies
Buried in the proposed farm bill is a plan to pay peanut farmers $1.3 billion to adopt a new $3 billion subsidy system.

MORE POLITICS NEWS

SPORTS
Els Endures Tiger's Charge
Ernie Els started the day with an eight-shot lead but finished only two ahead of Tiger Woods to win the Genuity Championship.

Terps Set Regular-Season Record
Second-ranked Maryland's last game at Cole Field House was a win over Virginia that capped the best regular season in school history.

Martin's Fury Tempers Nets' Win
The Nets beat the Chicago Bulls on Sunday but lost Kenyon Martin to a one-game suspension.

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ARTS
With a New Album, Barry Manilow Finds Himself Back on the Charts
With the release of a new pop hybrid album called "Here at the Mayflower," Barry Manilow is aiming for a comeback.

A Voice Out of the Silence: Imagining the Other Cassatt
Harriet Scott Chessman's novel imagines the inner thoughts of Lydia Cassatt, known only for her image in the paintings of her sister, Mary Cassatt.

Nijinsky Returns, With a Scarf and a Triple Kiss
At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago resurrected Nijinsky's terse schematic ballet, "Jeux."

MORE ARTS NEWS

NY REGION
New Spotlight on Supervision of Assessors
For decades tax assessors have toiled in anonymity, but that changed last Monday when prosecutors charged 18 of them with accepting bribes.

Side by Side in Life, and Now, in Death
The coffins of three Albanian-American brothers who went together to Kosovo to fight lay side by side on Sunday in a funeral home in the Bronx.

Mayoral Visits Seek to Heal Old Wounds of Louima Case
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg went to Brooklyn on Sunday to try to calm some of the emotions stirred up by the latest twists in the Abner Louima case.

MORE NY REGION NEWS

OP-ED
The Inspection Ploy
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Saddam Hussein has restarted the business of postponing an attack on his regime by the United States until he can finish making weapons of mass destruction.

A Different City
By BOB HERBERT
New York is a much different place than it was in the summer of 1997 when Abner Louima was hideously attacked by police officers in the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn.

Bargains Everywhere but on Wall Street
By JAMES GRANT
The stock market peaked two years ago. Yet the investment merchandise remains prohibitively expensive.

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