Correspondence/The Cult of Popularity; Fear Has Its Own Language in Iraq
Date: 19 January 2003
By Neil MacFarquhar
Neil MacFarquhar
Interviews with Iraqis in Iraq risk capsizing beneath flood of Orwellian language that courses through all public discussions, rendering extremely elusive any true thoughts about Saddam Hussein; photos; reckless angry remarks about government are both furtive and extremely rare, and Iraqis interviewed in presence of minders take care to garnish remarks with praise for Hussein (M)
Full Article
30 Years After Abortion Ruling, New Trends but the Old Debate
Date: 20 January 2003
By Kate Zernike
Kate Zernike
Supreme Court decision establishing women's right to abortion is now 30 years old, and debate over it continues even as new trends become evident; rate of abortions has declined to its lowest level since 1974, largely because of steady decrease among teenagers, who are avoiding pregnancy through birth control or abstinence; women seeking abortions today are predominantly poor and use birth control unevenly at best; access to abortion is neither 'on demand,' as opponents call it, nor closed off, as some supporters of abortion rights insist, but varies from state to state, subject to ever-shifting equation of geography, money, politics and personal sympathies; New York Times/CBS News Poll indicates that sentiment has barely budged since 1989, with 40 percent of Americans believing abortion should be legal, 20 percent thinking it should not be and another 40 percent saying it should be legal with stricter limits; intense round of anti-abortion legislation at state and federal levels is expected; photo; graphs (L)
Full Article
A Vertical Neighborhood Takes Shape
Date: 19 January 2003
By David W. Dunlap
David Dunlap
AOL Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, NYC, luxurious mixed-use development, will begin phased opening in Sept 2003; some residents are not pleased about project's transformation of neighborhood even though surroundings are expected to grow more upscale; $1.7 billion project was financed by public-private partnership that includes Related Companies and Apollo Real Estate Developers; AOL will begin constructing its headquarters and CNN studio space this summer and will begin phased move-in next year; while litigation has ceased, construction is still subject of many complaints from area residents; photos; drawings; (L)
Full Article
Gap's New Financial Officer Is From Disney
Date: 20 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gap Inc chief financial officer Heidi Kunz resigns; Byron Pollitt, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts chief financial officer and executive vice president, replaces her (S)
Full Article
Sega Chooses A New Chief At Its U.S. Unit
Date: 20 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sega Corp names Tetsu Kayama president and chief executive of Sega of America Inc; he succeeds Peter Moore, who resigned as president and chief operating officer (M)
Full Article
No News Is Bad News
Date: 20 January 2003
Editorial says Mayor Michael Bloomberg is right to ask for productivity concessions from New York City police union; says he and Gov George Pataki, both Republicans, should demand that federal government pick up at least part of cost of police antiterrorism work
Full Article
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 January 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 U.S. Could Allow Safe Haven for Hussein Even as they rejected calls for delay before confronting Saddam Hussein militarily, three officials of the Bush administration hinted that they would consider allowing him to find a safe haven if that would avoid a war. A1
Full Article
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 January 2003
Correction of film listing of Jan 19 Arts & Leisure for MoMA, which has become outdated
Full Article
Françoise Giroud, Co-Founder of L'Express, Is Dead at 86
Date: 19 January 2003
By Alan Riding
Alan Riding
Françoise Giroud was a widely admired journalist who co-founded the political weekly L'Express and later served as France's first minister of women's affairs.
Full Article
If It's Cold Outside, Start Looking Within
Date: 19 January 2003
If It's Cold Outside, Start Looking Within To the Editor:.
Full Article