PAGE TWO: THE READING FILE
Date: 16 November 2003
Reading File column quotes: Allen W Dulles's 1945 briefing on great difficulty of rebuilding Germany, as reprinted by Foreign Affairs magazine in light of Iraq occupation; Leander Kahney comment in Wired News suggesting that Apple's iTunes software is creating new form of bigotry on campus; Colin McGinn's article in Think magazine on Matrix movies; photo (S)
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2 Ousted Fund Managers Are Due Payout
Date: 17 November 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Old Mutual PLC, which bought Pilgrim Baxter & Associates three years ago, says it will pay firm founders Gary L Pilgrim and Harold J Baxter about $69.3 million; two were ousted in probe of improper mutual fund trading (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 November 2003
INTERNATIONAL 3-20 2 Copters Collide in Iraq, Killing at Least 17 Soldiers Two American Black Hawk helicopters collided in midair and crashed in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 17 of the American soldiers aboard and wounding 5 others, officials said. One soldier was missing. 1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 17 November 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Arab Station Broadcasts Tape Said to Be of Hussein An Arab television station broadcast a new audiotape that it said had been made by Saddam Hussein in which he mixed invective against Israel, calls for holy war and curses on American and other foreign occupation troops in Iraq. A1 Group Claims Turkey Blasts An obscure terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the truck bombings at two synagogues in Istanbul that killed 23 people and wounded more than 300. A1
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Times Web Site Wins Online News Award
Date: 16 November 2003
By The New York Times
NYTimes.com, the Web site of The New York Times, won an Online News Association award for its coverage of the war in Iraq.
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Families, Already Rattled, Kept on Edge by News of Crash
Date: 17 November 2003
By Monica Davey
Monica Davey
Report of deadly crash of two Black Hawk helicopters in Iraq spreads quickly in communities outside gates of Fort Campbell, Ky, home of Army's 101st Airborne Division; wives, parents and others wait anxiously for word on identity of 17 service members killed; photos (M)
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what it MEANS / jargon, acronyms and other cryptic terms in the news: Name those tunes: AAC, WMA, ATRAC
Date: 17 November 2003
, International Herald Tribune
Maybe one day, digital music will be called digital music. But for now, as different companies come up with customized ways to convey sound, people who want to spin tunes on their personal computers have to learn something about the technology. Most of th
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Bruce Alexander Cook, 71, Crime Writer
Date: 16 November 2003
Bruce Alexander Cook, writer of crime fiction and nonfiction, dies at age 71 (S)
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Bremer Reaffirms U.S. Commitment to Iraqs Security
Date: 16 November 2003
By Brian Knowlton, Br / International Herald Tribune
Brian Knowlton
The U.S. plans to have a continued military presence in Iraq even after power is handed over next year.
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Page Two; Yes, He Dismembered Him. So What?
Date: 16 November 2003
By Charles V Bagli
Charles Bagli
THE 12 jurors who acquitted Robert A. Durst of murder in Galveston, Tex., last week have taken a pounding in the news media for ignoring his admission that he sliced up his 71-year-old neighbor's body and dumped the parts in Galveston Bay. In a headline, The Daily News in New York called them: ''Twelve Who Need to Get a Clue.'' The New York Post screamed, ''Run for Your Lives.''
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