Message-ID: <30864453.1075840804730.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 04:48:48 -0800 (PST) From: nytdirect@nytimes.com To: louise@enron.com Subject: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Saturday, February 2, 2002 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: The New York Times Direct <nytdirect@nytimes.com>@ENRON X-To: louise@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Kitchen, Louise\Deleted Items X-Origin: KITCHEN-L X-FileName: louise kitchen 2-7-02.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 February 2, 2002 QUOTE OF THE DAY "Terrorism really flourishes in area= s of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future." COLIN= L. POWELL, secretary of state. NATIONAL Idaho Legislature Repeals Term L= imit Law The nation's most Republican Legislature overrode Republican Gov.= Dirk Kempthorne's veto of a repeal on the state's term limit legislation. = New Orleans, Amid Revelry, Makes Time to Vote Today Mayoral candidates i= n New Orleans are having a hard time bringing attention to the primary elec= tion on Saturday - a day before the Superbowl. Winter Storm Moves East, C= utting Power to Thousands A storm blamed for at least 20 deaths blew a dou= ble-barreled blast of snow and ice across the Northeast on Friday. MORE= NATIONAL NEWS Advertisement Sign up now for DealBook for Breaking Ne= ws and Market-Moving Intelligence Your source for daily briefings on the l= atest and most comprehensive news about market-moving mergers and acquisiti= ons, IPOs, private equity transactions, venture capital deals and Wall Str= eet maneuverings, all delivered before the market's opening bell. Edited = by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Sign up now! [IMAGE] INTERNATIONAL Reservists B= alk at Occupation, Roiling Israel More than 100 Israeli Army reservists si= gned a statement published on Friday saying they would refuse to continue s= erving in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 2 Top Officials Offer Stern Talk = on U.S. Policy Paul H. O'Neill and Colin L. Powell bluntly defended the Bu= sh administrations policies on terrorism and Argentina at the World Economi= c Forum on Friday. Most Recent E-Mail on Seized Reporter Sends Grim Messa= ge The fate of Daniel Pearl remained unclear on Friday after a ransom dema= nd was followed hours later by an e-mail message saying he had been execute= d. MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUSINESS White House Told to Save Enron R= ecords The Justice Department on Friday night directed the White House to = preserve records of contacts between government officials and Enron executi= ves. Son and Sister of Enron Chief Secured Deals Enron had extensive bus= iness dealings with companies controlled by Lay family members and investme= nts in companies in which family members had substantial holdings. Econom= y Shows Healing Signs as Recession Is Still Wheezing The pace of layoffs c= learly slowed last month, the government said, adding to growing evidence t= hat the recession that began in March could be drawing to a close. MORE= BUSINESS NEWS TECHNOLOGY Europe Is Said to Be on Verge of Ending Case A= gainst Intel The European Commission is about to drop its antitrust invest= igation of the Intel Corporation, a person close to the investigation said.= As WorldCom Stock Falls, a Debt Rises Bernard J. Ebbers, the man who bu= ilt WorldCom into a giant company, now owes at least $92 million more than = his stock in the company is worth. Hackers Hit Global Leaders' Summit An= invisible cyber assault has cut off access for the second day running to t= he Web site of the World Economic Forum, organizers of the gathering confir= med. MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS POLITICS Bush Sees Big Rise in Military Bu= dget for Next 5 Years The Bush administration will call for increasing the= Pentagon's yearly budget by $120 billion over the next five years. Budge= t Would Cut Medicaid Payments President Bush's budget would rein in the gr= owth of Medicaid by reducing payments to public hospitals. New Leader Pic= ked for Religion-Based Initiative Jim Towey was named by President Bush to= lead his effort to provide federal money for religious charities. MORE= POLITICS NEWS SPORTS Rams' Wistrom Has Family Swept Up in Football Fro= m high school through college and the pros, St. Louis defensive end Grant W= istrom has always had a parent in the stands to watch him play. Knicks' S= treak and Strength Run Out After losing Marcus Camby five minutes into the= game, the Knicks rallied from a 13-point halftime deficit only to fall to = the stronger and smarter Pacers. Rookie in Lead at Pebble Beach With his= seven-under-par 65, Pat Perez will take an unexpected four-stroke lead int= o the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. MORE SPORTS= NEWS ARTS Accord in Legal War Over Sondheim Musical Stephen Sondheim a= nd John Weidman, the creators of the musical "Gold!," have settled their la= wsuit against the producer Scott Rudin, clearing the way for future product= ions of the oft-delayed show. Man Who Would Be God: Giving Robots Life S= teve Grand, the author of "Creation: Life and How to Make It," is searching= for the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence, a way to build a robot th= at thinks, feels and learns. An Outsider Teaches Japan About Itself It i= s rare that a foreign-written book becomes critical in explaining another c= ountry's history to its own people. But John W. Dower's "Embracing Defeat" = is such a work. MORE ARTS NEWS NY REGION Marketing Patriotism, Compa= nies Blur Lines of Charity and Profit Companies that align themselves with= Sept. 11 charities can not always guarantee that monies donated will actua= lly benefit the victims. City College, the Faded Jewel of CUNY, Is Recove= ring Its Luster City College is shaking an old underachieving academic sti= gma that stuck to it for decades. Pataki Urges Reassessment of Safety Pla= n Gov. George E. Pataki called on the federal government to reassess its g= uidelines for dealing with an emergency at the Indian Point nuclear power p= lant. MORE NY REGION NEWS OP-ED State of the Enron By FRANK RICH = Enron may be as much a cultural scandal as it is a business and political = scandal. It reveals a world in which insiders get to play by one set of rul= es while the unconnected and uninitiated pick up the bill. Public Educati= on in Private Hands By WILLIAM C. KASHATUS Philadelphia, the cradle of A= merican liberty, now finds itself in a situation that generations of its ed= ucational reformers never would have anticipated. Forgotten Prisoners of = War By JENNIFER LEANING and JOHN HEFFERNAN Some 3,500 Afghan and Pakista= ni Taliban men are being held in dangerously squalid conditions in the Sheb= arghan prison in northern Afghanistan. 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 other newsletters, cancel delivery, = change delivery options or your e-mail address, see http://www.nytimes.com/= email . Check or un-check the headlines you would like to receive or canc= el and remember to go to the bottom of the page and click on "Save Selectio= ns." 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