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Democrats Temper Praise for Bush Visit With Criticism
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
With his trip to Baghdad, the president moved to regain control of
an issue that Democrats have increasingly viewed as a political
liability.
Meeting of Iraqi Leaders Gives Lift to U.S. Plan on Power Shift
By JOEL BRINKLEY
The Iraqi Governing Council's president and a senior cleric seemed
to be moving toward a compromise on a new government.
Financing Moves by 2 Democrats Recast Early Campaign Fights
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
By withdrawing from the campaign finance system, Howard Dean and
Senator John Kerry are sharply altering the nominating battles in
Iowa and New Hampshire.
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QUOTATION
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"I was
just looking for a warm meal somewhere."
PRESIDENT BUSH
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HOME
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Four Walls That Change the World
Around the South, a photographer found powerful portraits of
pride and place: first-time homeowners and their families, to
whom a house was truly home.
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INTERNATIONAL
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On Secret Iraq Trip, Bush Pays Holiday Visit to G.I.'s
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Planning for one of the most secretive presidential trips in
American history began about six weeks ago.
Taiwan Steps Back From Confronting China
By KEITH BRADSHER
The legislature passed a bill that would allow referendums on
constitutional and sovereignty issues only under very narrow
circumstances.
Hard-Liners Gain in Northern Ireland Voting
By BRIAN LAVERY
The results may make it difficult to resuscitate the local
government that shares power between Protestants and Roman
Catholics.
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NATIONAL
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Scholars of Twang Track All the 'Y'Alls' in Texas
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
A National Geographic Society survey of Texas speech is helping to
throw a scientific light on the mythologized (and sometimes
ridiculed) Texas twang.
Study Finds Improvement in Finances for States
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
State government finances are improving, with fewer budget
shortfalls, more control over spending and an increase in revenue
growth for the first time in years.
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
At Malvo's Trial, a Judge Much in Charge
By ADAM LIPTAK
At times, it seems as if Judge Jane Marum Roush, who is presiding
over the trial of the younger defendant in the sniper shootings, is
conducting a master class in trial advocacy.
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BUSINESS
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Medicare Plan for Competition Faces Hurdles
By MILT FREUDENHEIM
The most politically fragile feature of the new Medicare legislation
is also the least likely to come to fruition.
The U.S. and China Test Bounds of Trade
By KEITH BRADSHER
Washington and Beijing are talking these days as if they are in the
midst of a trade war. But the words are harsher than the actions on
each side.
DaimlerChrysler Heads to Court Over '98 Merger
By DANNY HAKIM
Five years after Daimler-Benz acquired Chrysler to create
DaimlerChrysler, the deal will go on trial, beginning Monday.
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SPORTS
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DOLPHINS 40, COWBOYS 21
Dolphins Shoot Holes in Cowboys' Defense
By VIV BERNSTEIN
Jay Fiedler completed 16 of 20 passes for 239 yards and 3 touchdowns
as Miami dominated the supposedly vaunted but suddenly soft Dallas
defense.
Losing Himself to Find Himself
By DAVE ANDERSON
Once he was L. T., the Giants' lethal linebacker and sometime
cocaine addict. Now he's Lawrence Taylor, actor, author and
occasional drug counselor.
A Player's Perseverance Is Rewarded
By ALEJANDRO DANOIS
If an accident had not happened during his childhood, it's unlikely
that Gary Ham Jr. would have played football for Kent State this
season.
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ARTS
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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Old Songs Revisited by Voices of Today
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
A flurry of recent standards albums by artists identified with rock
and soul blurs the distinctions between music made before and after
1960.
ART REVIEW | ARSHILE GORKY
Poet of Line and Color
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The drawings in the Arshile Gorky show at the Whitney Museum are
heartbreakingly beautiful. It's only a pity that the show is too
big.
THEATER REVIEW | 'BUTLEY'
So Sad It's Funny, and Getting Sadder
By BRUCE WEBER
Nathan Lane, with his perpetually sad-seeming face and his
audience-cultivating impulse of a comic, gives us Butley as a mad
clown, in a new production in Boston.
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MOVIES
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MOVIE REVIEW | 'BAD SANTA'
This Santa Sobers Up, but Only for Greed
By ELVIS MITCHELL
Terry Zwigoff's film starring Billy Bob Thornton takes all the
Christmas season's bad vibes and converts them into an achingly
funny and corrupt dark comedy.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE MISSING'
On a Trail to Fixing a Broken Family
By ELVIS MITCHELL
Ron Howard's thoughtful attempt to depict home life on the frontier
makes for a less sophisticated version of John Ford's "Searchers."
MOVIE REVIEW | 'IN AMERICA'
Charming Illegal Aliens Facing Family Upheaval
By A. O. SCOTT
Jim Sheridan's modest, touching film about a family of Irish
immigrants is likely to pierce the defenses of all but the most
dogmatically cynical viewers.
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EDITORIALS
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TODAY'S EDITORIALS
Holding Down Drug Prices
Now that Congress has passed a costly
prescription drug benefit for older Americans, it is imperative to
find strong tools for restraining drug costs.
At Least, Strengthen the Grid
One useful provision in an otherwise
awful energy bill required the federal government and the utility
industry to write mandatory rules for the operation of the power
grid.
The Barefoot Doctor Fights AIDS
Providing trained workers to help the
world's 40 million people with the AIDS virus will be costly and
challenging.
Faster Justice for the Balkans
The International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia is speeding up proceedings by allowing
plea bargains that make swifter justice possible.
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OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Good News
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Over the past 25 years, we've seen an enormous, unexpected
improvement in the standard of living for the world's poor.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Telling the Truth, Facing the Whip
By MANSOUR AL-NOGAIDAN
Saudi Arabia, as a nation, needs to embrace the pain of a rebirth to
get rid of deep-rooted Islamic extremism.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Why We Need Gays in the Military
By NATHANIEL FRANK
The "don't ask, don't tell" policy is weakening what it was intended
to protect: military readiness.
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THIS DAY |
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28, 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime
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