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Date: 06 September 2004
By Larry Rohter
Larry Rohter
Criticism mounts to Pres Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva's plan to create national journalists' council to regulate Brazil's boisterous press; news organizations call proposed law serious threat to press freedom; bill would empower council to orient, discipline and monitor journalists and their work (M)
Date: 05 September 2004
By William Falk
William Falk
William Falk article on some stories people may have missed while Republican National Convention dominated news; drawing (M)0
Date: 05 September 2004
By David Carr
David Carr
Delegates to Republican National Convention give New York City good review after spending week touring city, riding subways and speaking to residents; say they were more amused by protesters than threatened, and some took opportunity to exchange ideas with their ideological counterparts; praise police officers on their professionalism and courtesy; Mayor Michael R Bloomberg courts media from small markets to promote city; photos (M)
Date: 05 September 2004
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column contends that Pres Bush tried to rouse delegates at Republican National Convention with liberal-media-elite-bashing line; maintains that Bush cited 1946 article written by late New York Times correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick, but he distorted her dispatch; notes that McCormick was first woman to win Pulitzer Prize in journalism and first woman to be member of Times's editorial board (M)
Date: 06 September 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
British arm of accounting firm Ernst & Young faces investigation into its auditing of Equitable Life Assurance Society, insurer that almost collapsed; Ernst & Young says complaints are unfounded and misguided and plans vigorous defense (S)p
Date: 06 September 2004
Jonathan L Stonbely letter on Bob Herbert's Aug 30 column holds American majority shirks its civic responsiblity by creating mandate of acceptance and allegiance to government policies, while rejecting need for proper accountability
Date: 05 September 2004
INTERNATIONAL 3-18 Putin Addresses School Attack President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that the school siege in the southern city of Beslan was an attack on all Russia and called for the mobilization of society to resist what he called ''a total and full-scale war'' to splinter the country. 1 South Africa Marriage Scheme The Department of Home Affairs in South Africa, in the last three years, has ruefully admitted that thousands of bewildered women were actually married without their knowledge. The fake marriages allow foreigners permanent residence and the ability to secure a work permit. 3
Date: 06 September 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Russian Investigators Find Signs of Intricate Planning Russian investigators found holes in Middle School No.1's library floor, and they suspect that the attackers had secreted a cache of weapons or other equipment weeks and perhaps months before their brutal attack. The discovery underscored the sophistication and coordination that have increasingly characterized the attacks that have convulsed the country. A1 The death count from the siege reached 338, and many of the injured remain in critical condition. A8
Date: 05 September 2004
By Jonathan Fuerbringer
Jonathan Fuerbringer
Stock and bond market performance in week of Aug 30-Sept 3 noted; stock price graphs and tables (M)
Date: 05 September 2004
By Karen Donovan
Karen Donovan
Rand Corp, which does research work for Labor Department, continues to get bulk of its contracts from federal agencies despite its own violations of federal labor laws; department monitors just 8 percent of companies it hires and has never barred major contractor from working for government; Rand faces sex-discrimination class action filed by women on its research staff; graph compares salaries for male and female researchers; photo (M)