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Date: 07 March 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Warren E Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc reports fourth quarter net income of $2.39 billion, doubled from $1.18 billion a year earlier; results include $845 million in realized investment gains (M)
Date: 08 March 2004
INTERNATIONAL A2-11 Iraqi Interim Constitution To Be Signed by Shiites Shiite leaders said they would sign the country's interim constitution, signaling an end to the deadlock that had threatened to undermine the transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi people scheduled for later this year. A1
Date: 07 March 2004
INTERNATIONAL 3-18 Evolving Case Against Hussein The Bush administration is sending a high-level team of prosecutors and investigators to Iraq to take charge of assembling and organizing the evidence to be used in a war crimes trial of Saddam Hussein. 1 Iraqi political leaders in Najaf shuttled between meetings with senior clerics to find a way to break the deadlock over Iraq's interim constitution. 10
Date: 07 March 2004
By Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey Gettleman
American forces now have over 10,000 Iraqi men and boys in custody and are still conducting daily raids although insurgency has cooled; military officials say some of detainees have been accused of serious offense, but admit most are probably not dangerous; numbers are so large because troops are not detectives, leaving much of investigation to after arrest; authorities are unsure how June 30 return of sovereignty to Iraqis will affect detainees' status; many families still have no idea where their men are, despite American efforts to help people locate detained relatives; photos (M)
Date: 08 March 2004
By Juan Forero
Juan Forero
Mushrooming chain of small government-supported radio and television stations are central to Venezuelan Pres Hugo Chavez's efforts to counter four big private television networks, which paint him as unstable dictator; community stations, staffed by volunteers, have been important to Chavez during current turmoil over disqualification of hundreds of thousands of signatures for recall referendum; say their main goal is to show another side to neighborhoods presented in popular press as crime-ridden ghettos; photos (M)
Date: 07 March 2004
By John Tierney
John Tierney
John Tierney Political Points column makes humorous awards for best and worst photo ops, sound bites, questions and answers during primary season; drawings (M)
Date: 07 March 2004
By Elizabeth Rubin
Elizabeth Rubin
Elizabeth Rubin article on challenge posed by group of onetime religous jihadists in Saudi Arabia to historical relationship between Saud dynasty, which rules over nation's political, security and economic structure, and Wahhabi clerics, who hold sway over things social and cultural while preaching loyalty to rulers as one of highest duties of good Muslims; most daring and idiosyncratic of upstarts is Mansour al-Nogaidan, who is finding traction in world shaken by modernization, unemployment and terrorism; Mansour is journalist but has not been published in Saudi newspapers since Nov 2003 New York Times Op-Ed article in which he appealed to world to 'help us stand up against our extremist religious culture,' and was arrested after article appeared; Saudis are split in their views of Mansour, with those who adore him and those who consider him traitor; profile (L)
Date: 08 March 2004
By Madeleine K. Albright
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine K Albright Op-Ed articlep
Date: 07 March 2004
Feb 29 Public Editor column about recent Times Magazine article on sex slavery misidentified police officers who broke up suspected slavery ring operating from motel near Disneyland; they were from Anaheim
Date: 07 March 2004
New York announces a plan that could eliminate scores of middle schools, and the fight over same-sex marriage erupts on many new battlefields.