Message-ID: <5693175.1075851554708.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 01:18:50 -0700 (PDT) From: nytdirect@nytimes.com To: bmckay@enron.com Subject: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Saturday, October 27, 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: The New York Times Direct @ENRON X-To: bmckay@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \BMCKAY (Non-Privileged)\Deleted Items X-Origin: MCKAY-B X-FileName: BMCKAY (Non-Privileged).pst TODAY'S HEADLINES The New York Times on the Web Saturday, October 27, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------ For news updated throughout the day, visit www.nytimes.com /----------------------------------------------------------\ Own a Classic Piece of New York Baseball History for Just $9.95. 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Chief Hints A top public health official said on Friday that it was likely that more than one letter containing anthrax went through the government's mailrooms. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27ANTH.html?todaysheadlines ----- Lockheed Wins $200 Billion Deal for Fighter Jet The Pentagon announced that it had awarded what is expected to become the largest military contract in American history to Lockheed Martin. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/27PLAN.html?todaysheadlines ----- Agents Start Digging Up Old Files on Hoaxes Previous files on anthrax threats have drawn the attention of federal investigators who are reviewing the cases for clues that might lead them to the source of the recent anthrax letters. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27INQU.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE NATIONAL NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/index.html?todaysheadline /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------\ Listen To A Great Book On Monday's Commute! 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Truth is, no one has a corner on hard knocks and disaster. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/sports/baseball/27RHOD.html?todaysheadlines ----- Each of the Races Is an Event in the Olympics of Horse Racing The World Thoroughbred Championships is an eight-race showcase worth more than $14 million in purses and contested by more than 90 of the finest horses in America and Europe. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/sports/27RACI.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE SPORTS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.html?todaysheadline ARTS ========================= Met's Levine Will Also Lead Boston Symphony Orchestra James Levine, the longtime artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera, has accepted the post of music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/arts/27LEVI.html?todaysheadlines ----- Getting It Right: Angst Among the Armchair Generals As the broad outlines of the war plan begin to take shape, debating the uses and limits of air and ground power. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/arts/27CHAI.html?todaysheadlines ----- A Memorial Is Itself a Shaper of Memory The fate of the World Trade Center ruins is intimately related to the question of memory. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/arts/27MEMO.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE ARTS NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html?todaysheadline NY REGION ========================= Union Wants Postal Center Fully Cleaned The executive board of the city's largest postal workers union voted to file a lawsuit to have New York City's largest mail-distribution center facility closed for a thorough cleaning. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/nyregion/27YORK.html?todaysheadlines ----- Bloomberg Sets a $41 Million Spending Record Michael R. Bloomberg's campaign documents show that he has spent a record $41 million on his mayoral campaign, allowing him to launch a lavish advertising blitz. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/nyregion/27FINA.html?todaysheadlines ----- Promoting Pataki for Speeches, Agency Cites His Ground Zero Role The agency that arranges for Gov. George E. Pataki to make paid speeches is pitching him as someone who can offer lessons from ground zero of the trade center disaster. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/nyregion/27PATA.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE NY REGION NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/index.html?todaysheadline OP-ED ========================= How to Lose a War By FRANK RICH The "America Strikes Back" optimism that surged after Sept. 11 has now been stricken by the multitude of ways we're losing the war at home. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27RICH.html?todaysheadlines ----- A Downward Spiral By ANTHONY LEWIS The fundamental reason for the terrible state of affairs in Israel is that both sides undermined the premises of the Oslo agreement of 1993. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27LEWI.html?todaysheadlines ----- America Doesn't Know What the World Is Saying By DENNIS BARON Ignorant of Arabic, we will be disadvantaged in the war. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27BARO.html?todaysheadlines ----- MORE OP-ED NEWS: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html?todaysheadline HOW TO CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------ You received these headlines because you requested The New York Times Direct e-mail service. 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