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Thu Dec 7 01:25:11 PST 2000

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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"We think this generation is wonderful in every way, but we
worry that unless something changes, we're going to lose a
lot of them."

- WILLIAM R. FITZSIMMONS, Harvard dean, on the stress of the college admissions
process.

Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/national/07ADMI.html

BUSINESS
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Documents on Design of Explorer Reveal a Series of
Compromises
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/business/07FORD.html

Profit Warning by Bank of America Sets Off Big Retreat
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/business/07STOX.html

U.S. Looking at SmithKline Effort to Block Generic Drug
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/business/07DRUG.html

Accounting Board Eases Stance on Mergers
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/business/07ACCO.html

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INTERNATIONAL
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In Ruined Liberia, Its Despoiler Sits Pretty
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/world/07LIBE.html

U.S. Businessman Found Guilty of Espionage by Russian Court
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/world/07RUSS.html

Suspect in New Year's Terror Plot Is Arrested in Algeria
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/world/07TERR.html

2 Pro-Democracy Party Leaders Given Prison Sentences in
China
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/world/07BEIJ.html

NATIONAL
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Ease Up, Top Universities Tell Stressed Applicants
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/national/07ADMI.html

Waiting for a President, Capital Exults Over Pandas
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/national/07PAND.html

Army Corps Falsified Data for a Project, Study Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/national/07CORP.html

Suspended Rabbi Quits Seminary Presidency
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/national/07RABB.html

SPORTS
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Knicks No Match as Nelson Ties Auerbach
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/sports/07KNIC.html

Nets Stay in Free Fall as Marbury Sits Again
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/sports/07NETS.html

A Fullback, but Much, Much More
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/sports/07RHOD.html

Memories Are Bitter as Jets Prepare for Raiders
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/sports/07JETS.html

TECHNOLOGY
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Motorola Deal With Canadian Supplier
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/business/07MOTO.html

Big Merger in Net Access for Europe
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/technology/07NET.html

Profit Warning by Bank of America Sets Off Big Retreat
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/business/07STOX.html

Building the Latin American Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/technology/07DATA.html

ARTS
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Looking for the Real John Lennon
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/arts/07NOTE.html

U2: Divinely and Romantically, Embracing a Higher Love
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/arts/07IRVI.html

Restoring Swirling Cloaks and Passion to 'Il Trovatore'
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/arts/07TROV.html

Ballet Hispanico: Delving Deftly Into the Life of a Revered
Spanish Composer
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/arts/07EYES.html

NEW YORK REGION
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Hot Economy Cooling Down? Not New York's
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/nyregion/07YORK.html

E.P.A. Gives Its Plan on Hudson River PCB's, but a Fight
Lies Ahead
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/nyregion/07HUDS.html

Giuliani Leads New Effort to Take Control of the Schools
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/nyregion/07MAYO.html

Report Finds Police Abuse Unpunished
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/nyregion/07CCRB.html

OP-ED COLUMNISTS
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By BOB HERBERT: Keep Them Out!

The tactics have changed, but the goal remains depressingly
the same: Keep the African- Americans out of the voting
booths.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/opinion/07HERB.html

By WILLIAM SAFIRE: Al Gore Agonistes

There are several ways the presidential election can be
resolved, and the victor in all of them is Gov. George W.
Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/opinion/07SAFI.html

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