Hospitality Mixes With Hostility When the Taliban Meet the Press
Date: 24 November 2001
By Norimitsu Onishi
Norimitsu Onishi
Report on three-day encounter between rank-and-file Taliban soldiers and foreign journalists kept inside abandoned UN compound in Spinbaldak for three days by Taliban hosts; photos; young Taliban gawk at satellite television images and local youths stare down from walls, as older Taliban leaders to to control encounters; those preferring defiant posture of hermit kingdom win out as people famous for hospitality finally order journalists out; genial patience of spokesman Najibullah Sheerzio contrasts with hostile questions of security chief Mullah Sayed Haqqani (M)
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Religion Journal; American Islamic Media: Assorted and Aspiring
Date: 24 November 2001
By Gustav Niebuhr
Gustav Niebuhr
Gustav Niebhur's Religion Journal column focuses on widely scattered universe of Muslim publishing in America (M)
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Reckonings; An Alternate Reality
Date: 25 November 2001
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says television news always shows Americans behaving well in wake of terrorist attacks, but some Web sites and business sections of quality newspapers reveal a different picture: Congress voting billions in 'lump-sum transfers' to airlines but not a penny for laid-off airline workers, House 'stimulus' package that contains almost nothing for the unemployed but $25 billion in retroactive corporate tax cuts and Bush administration pressing for opening of public lands to oil companies and logging interests (M)
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Speaking of Trouble, Meet Assemblyman Tucker
Date: 25 November 2001
By Barbara Fitzgerald
Barbara Fitzgerald
New Jersey Assemblyman Donald Tucker, appointed by Gov-elect James McGreevey as speaker pro-tem, is criticized in New Jersey Jewish News editorial for being political patron of Leonard Jeffries, who it considers one of America's most notorious anti-Semites (S)
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Editors' Note; COMING ON SUNDAY
Date: 24 November 2001
Preview of Sunday Magazine section, which features article about Sec Colin Powell; photo
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In Litchfield, Will Fridays Ever Be The Same?
Date: 25 November 2001
By Elizabeth Maker
Elizabeth Maker
Readers react strongly to news that Litchfield County Times, local Connecticut newspaper, has been sold by Arthur L Carter to Journal Register Co of Trenton, NJ; paper is noted for its award-winning celebrity inteviews, local news and editorials under Carter's direction; photos (M)
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Much Maneuvering Around German TV
Date: 24 November 2001
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
John C Malone, chmn of Liberty Media Inc in Denver, is buying six major cable television networks from Deutsche Telekom AG for $5 billion; but even as he seeks approval of deal from German antitrust regulators, he appears to be trying to buy stake in Premiere World, company that holds crucial pay television rights in Germany to Hollywood movies and major sports events; Premiere World is owned by Kirch Group; stake is held by New Corp; German regulators are skeptical, and rival broadcasters are alarmed (M)
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Riveted by War and Grief, Italy Mourns Slain Writer
Date: 24 November 2001
By Melinda Henneberger
Melinda Henneberger
Maria Grazia Cutuli, one of four journalists killed in Afghanistan, is deeply mourned in Italy by thousands of people who never knew her; photos; map (M)
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S.E.C. IS INVESTIGATING NAVIGANT CONSULTING
Date: 24 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SEC is investigating whether Navigant Consulting violated securities laws in 1998 and 1999; Navigant shares reached record $54.25 in Sept 1999 before newspaper Barron's questioned Chicago-based management consulting company's reported growth rate; stock fell 45 percent on Nov 22, 1999 when chief exec, Robert Maher, was ousted and company said it was reviewing $17 million in loans to him and other execs (S)
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