Subject: Today's Headlines: Two-Hour Delay Is Linked to Bad Lead

From: NYTimes.com
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:36:25 -0500

TODAY'S HEADLINES
The New York Times on the Web
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Compiled 2 AM ET

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- TOP STORIES -

Two-Hour Delay Is Linked to Bad Lead
By SHAILA DEWAN and JOHN M. BRODER
Virginia Tech officials were pursuing what appears to have
been a fruitless lead after the first shooting when the
second began.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18virginia.html?th&emc=th

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Gunman Showed Hints of Anger and Isolation
By MANNY FERNANDEZ and MARC SANTORA
Cho Seung-Hui rarely spoke to his own roommate and teachers
were disturbed by his violent writings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18gunman.html?th&emc=th

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Sudan Flying Arms to Darfur, Panel Reports
By WARREN HOGE
A U.N. report says arms and military equipment are being
flown into Darfur in violation of Security Council
resolutions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/world/africa/18sudan.html?th&emc=th

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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"He never said a word the whole time. I've never seen a straighter face."
- TREY PERKINS, a student at Virginia Tech, on the gunman who killed 32
people on campus.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18virginia.html?th&emc=th

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- U.S. -
Interactive Feature: The Victims
Read profiles of the men and women killed in the shootings at Virginia Tech.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/20070418_VICTIMS_GRAPHIC.html?th&emc=th

- TIMESSELECT -
Our Towns: Yet Another Flood, and Residents Ask, Why Stay Here?
Peter Applebome visits flood-prone Bound Brook, N.J. 
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/nyregion/18towns.html?th&emc=th

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- WORLD -

U.S. Says Iranian Arms Seized in Afghanistan
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
It was the first time that a senior U.S. official had
asserted that Iranian weapons were being supplied to the
Taliban.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/world/middleeast/18military.html?th&emc=th

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Candidate Back on Ballot in Chaotic Nigeria Vote
By LYDIA POLGREEN
The last-minute maneuvering came amid a turbulent election
season already marked by violence and fraud charges.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/world/africa/18nigeria.html?th&emc=th

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AIDS Drugs Reach More People, U.N. Report Says, but Not
Enough
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
About two million people in the world are receiving drugs
for AIDS, an increase of 700,000 in the last year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/health/18aids.html?th&emc=th

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- U.S. -

Intersecting on a Fateful Day, Lives That Spanned the
Country and the World
By PAM BELLUCK
With one devastating act, the 32 men and women from places
as far apart as Romania, Peru and Nova Scotia were united
in a horrifying fate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18victims.html?th&emc=th

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Inside Room 207, Students Panicked at Rampage and Then Held
Off Gunman's Return
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
A German class at Virginia Tech appears to be where the
gunman exacted his greatest toll -- as many as a dozen
people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18german.html?th&emc=th

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Shooting Rekindles Issues of Gun Rights and Restrictions
By LESLIE EATON and MICHAEL LUO
The legal purchase of the guns used in the shooting at
Virginia Tech is drawing attention to the state's gun laws.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18pistols.html?th&emc=th

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- BUSINESS -

For U.S.-Nigeria Go-Between, Ties Yield Profits
By BARRY MEIER
GoodWorks International has become a lightning rod in
Nigeria as the country prepares to elect a new president.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/business/worldbusiness/18goodworks.html?th&emc=th

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STOCKS & BONDS
Dow Index Flirts With New High
By JEREMY W. PETERS
The economy remains on an even keel, with inflation showing
signs of easing and growth not slipping too far.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/business/18economy.html?th&emc=th

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China Leans Less on U.S. Trade
By KEITH BRADSHER
Chinese companies are finding their fastest growth in the
world's rapidly growing economies, not the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/business/worldbusiness/18yuan.html?th&emc=th

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- SPORTS -

RANGERS 7, THRASHERS 0
Rangers Transform Thrashers Into Clay Pigeons
By LYNN ZINSER
Michael Nylander's three goals led the Rangers' explosive
offense and gave them a three-games-to-none edge and a
chance to complete a sweep of the series Wednesday night.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/sports/hockey/18rangers.html?th&emc=th

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YANKEES 10, INDIANS 3
Rookie Shows Some Potential; Yankees Show Some Power
By JOE LAPOINTE
Chase Wright's teammates scored eight runs in the first two
innings, as the Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians Tuesday,
10-3.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/sports/baseball/18yankees.html?th&emc=th

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METS 8, PHILLIES 1
Two Home Runs by Alou Help Glavine Win 293rd
By BEN SHPIGEL
Tom Glavine allowed just six hits in six innings, as the
Mets took advantage of Phillies mistakes all night to roll
to an 8-1 victory.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/sports/baseball/18mets.html?th&emc=th

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- ARTS -

Less Reading, More Schmoozing at London Book Fair
By ALAN RIDING
In the hangarlike spaces of Earls Court One in west London,
thousands of book editors, agents and scouts are able to
indulge in their favorite pastime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/books/18fair.html?th&emc=th

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Remaking Old Hits to Earn New Money
By JEFF LEEDS
By re-recording decades-old hits, artists are keeping a
much bigger share of licensing proceeds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/arts/music/18old.html?th&emc=th

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Three Books From Knopf Take Prizes in Pulitzers
By MOTOKO RICH
Monday's announcement marked the fourth time that Alfred A.
Knopf has achieved a Pulitzer trifecta.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/books/18puli.html?th&emc=th

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- DINING & WINE -

Veal to Love, Without the Guilt
By MARIAN BURROS
Farmers are raising veal more humanely these days, leading
more chefs to include it on their menus -- and giving the
meat new character and flavor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/dining/18veal.html?th&emc=th

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Delhi Snacks Move Up From the Street
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
With the government cracking down on sidewalk cookery, and
high-end restaurants serving snacks usually found only by
the roadside, Indian street food is under threat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/dining/18indi.html?th&emc=th

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Looking for Solace in a Slice of Pie
By JULIA MOSKIN
The new film, "Waitress," is an ode to pie -- a love letter
to the loft of a filling, the flake of a crust and the
waves of a fluted rim.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/dining/18wait.html?th&emc=th

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- EDITORIALS -

Moktada al-Sadr's Gambit
Just when it looked as if the Iraqi government had sunk as
low as it could go, it sank still further, following a
brazen power play by Moktada al-Sadr.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/opinion/18weds1.html?th&emc=th

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Needless Student Loan Subsidies
Congress should make it a federal crime for lenders to
offer college officials anything of value in exchange for
the right to do business at a given school.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/opinion/18weds2.html?th&emc=th

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Democracy Inches Along at Home
The House is right to confront the gross injustice that
keeps the citizenry of the District of Columbia locked into
that definitive grievance of the American revolution:
taxation without representation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/opinion/18weds3.html?th&emc=th

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EDITORIAL OBSERVER
Letter From California: On the Court and on the Bounce
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
I have been taking lessons for the past couple of months
because tennis is so Californian, because the world will
soon be nothing but asphalt, and because I have not spent
enough of my life using the hand-eye reflexes that are such
a pleasure to use.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/opinion/18weds4.html?th&emc=th

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- OP-ED -

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Help Wanted
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The strongest case one could make for an Obama presidency
right now is his potential to repair the broken
relationship between America and the world.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/opinion/18friedman.html?th&emc=th
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OP-ED COLUMNIST
Cupid and Cupidity
By MAUREEN DOWD
Never has a star-crossed romance so perfectly illuminated a
star-crossed conflict as the unfolding saga of Wolfie and
Shaha.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/opinion/18dowd.html?th&emc=th
(Available only to TimesSelect subscribers)

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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Hounded by Insurgents, Abandoned by Us
By KIRK W. JOHNSON
How will the United States help those Iraqis whose belief
in us cost them their country?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/opinion/18johnson.html?th&emc=th

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- ON THIS DAY -

On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off
raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.

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