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November 17, 2001

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Sometimes if I go to a household and they're all Americans, I'll cover my name, I don't want them to think of me as Arab, I want them to think of me as police."
DANIEL SAAB,an Arab American who is a police officer in Dearborn, Mich

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NATIONAL
Suspicious Letter to Senator Tests Positive for Anthrax
Investigators searching through unopened mail sent to Capitol Hill discovered another letter that contained anthrax.

F.B.I. Chief Says Failed Sept. 11 Hijackers May Remain at Large
Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. said that there might be others still alive who intended to commandeer airplanes on Sept. 11.

Usefulness of SAT Test Is Debated in California
The president of the University of California is continuing his crusade against the use of SAT scores in college admissions in his university system.

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INTERNATIONAL
Leader Described as Ready to Flee Talibans Bastion
Mullah Muhammad Omar was reported on Friday to be ready to abandon the city of Kandahar, as American commandos were engaging in intense combat.

Bin Laden Aide Reported Killed by U.S. Bombs
Mohammed Atef, a supsected planner of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, is believed to have been killed in an American airstrike.

In 2 Abandoned Kabul Houses, Some Hints of Al Qaeda Presence
Apparent Qaeda presence in a Taliban defense ministry building suggest that Osama bin Laden's organization was closely linked to the radical Islamic government.

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BUSINESS
After 15 Years, Warnaco Chief's Short Goodbye
Linda J. Wachner, once among the highest-paid, best-known businesswomen in the nation, was fired without severance as chief executive of the Warnaco Group.

Interest Rates on Treasuries Return to Pre-Sept. 11 Levels
Interest rates on Treasury securities shot sharply higher this week, in one of their biggest weekly moves in recent history.

Mexico Seen Trying to Halt Oil Price
Mexico, a nation with divided sympathies about how much oil should cost, is setting out on a round of shuttle diplomacy that analysts said seemed intended to head off an oil price war.

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TECHNOLOGY
Disputed Phone Licenses Transferred to Big Carriers
The Federal Communications Commission reached a deal to transfer ownership of $16 billion worth of disputed mobile phone licenses to some of the nation's biggest wireless carriers.

To Forestall a 'Digital Pearl Harbor,' U.S. Looks to System Separate From Internet
The Bush administration is considering the creation of a secure new government communications network separate from the Internet that would be less vulnerable to attack.

Hewlett Son Goes to S.E.C. in Fight Against Compaq Deal
Walter Hewlett has made a regulatory filing that will permit him to lobby shareholders to fight the planned acquisition of the Compaq by Hewlett-Packard.

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POLITICS
Racing to Offer the Details of a Plan on Airline Security
Federal officials began struggling with the immense challenge of hiring and training 28,000 new federal employees to screen passengers and baggage at all airports within 12 months.

Hue and Murmur Over Curbed Rights
Opinions among liberals and civil libertarians are split over whether plans for a military tribunal and questioning of recently arrived immigrants are an affront to established freedoms.

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SPORTS
Nets Top Knicks Without a Fight
The Nets raced to a 23-point halftime lead, turned back the Knicks' 21-point rally and finished with a win that lifted them to a 7-1 record.

Knight Enjoys Spirit of Old West
Controversial coach Bob Knight returned to basketball, steering his new Texas Tech team to a win and looking as if he had not missed a day of breathing and thinking basketball.

Gloves Are Off When Florida Meets Florida State
The Florida-Florida State game on Saturday is not quite as important as it has been in recent seasons, but the matchup still promises to live up to its contentious history.

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ARTS
Harvard's Prize Catch, a Delphic Postcolonialist
Do any of Homi K. Bhabha's devoted disciples know what he's talking about?

Cells That Save Lives Are a Mother's Legacy
Henrietta Lack's cells named HeLa after the first letters in Henrietta and Lacks became the first human cells to live indefinitely outside the body.

Effervescing From Song to Song
When Christine Ebersole sashays onto the stage at Arci's Place, the atmosphere begins to fizz as if the cork from a giant Champagne bottle had been popped.

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NY REGION
A Quiet Plea Moved the City to Restore Staffing at Site
The reason for the restoration of the original number of firefighters at the World Trade Center site was primarily because of the appeal of a retired firefighter to the city's fire chief.

F.A.A. Orders Study of Planes, as Queens Neighborhood Mourns
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the airlines that fly the Airbus A300, the type of plane that crashed on Monday to examine their vertical tail sections and report what they find.

Wall St. Jobs Are Migrating to New Jersey After Attack
Many of the jobs lost in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks have migrated across the river to New Jersey.

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OP-ED
In a State of Denial
By BILL KELLER
California has been suffering some miseries of its own these days, and it gets less notice from the rest of the country than Uzbekistan.

Waiting for America
By ANTHONY LEWIS
The joint call for U.S. intervention by two longtime negotiators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict comes at an important moment.

Al Qaeda Should Be Tried Before the World
By ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
If we must depart from constitutional practices, then the United States should prosecute accused terrorists before an international tribunal.

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