Subject: Today's Headlines: Bush and Democrats in Accord on Trade Deals

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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 03:35:42 -0500

TODAY'S HEADLINES
The New York Times on the Web
Friday, May 11, 2007
Compiled 2 AM ET

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- TOP STORIES -

Bush and Democrats in Accord on Trade Deals
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The Bush administration reached agreement with Democrats to
attach environmental and worker protections in several
pending trade pacts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11trade.html?th&emc=th

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President Open to Benchmarks in Iraq Measure
By CARL HULSE  and JIM RUTENBERG
President Bush offered his first public concession on war
spending even as he threatened to veto a House plan
approved Thursday on a 221-to-205 vote.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/washington/11cong.html?th&emc=th

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Narcotic Maker Guilty of Deceit Over Marketing
By BARRY MEIER
The company that makes the painkiller OxyContin pleaded
guilty to criminal charges that the firm had misled doctors
and patients.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11drug.html?th&emc=th

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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"People are real casual here. If it's not raining, someone says, 'let's get some string and tie the box spring to the roof rack.' It's carelessness and utter stupidity."
- PHIL LINHARES,  a driver who recently dodged a dinette set, on the debris
littering California highways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/us/11debris.html?th&emc=th

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- TRAVEL -
Audio Slide Show: Voices From the Eastern State Penitentiary
Former inmates and guards talk about their lives in this prison, which is now a museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/travel/20070511_PRISON_FEATURE/blocker.html?th&emc=th

- TIMESSELECT -
A White Tie Kind of Guy
Judith Warner on President Bush and Queen Elizabeth II's visit.
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/?th&emc=th

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- WORLD -

A Tough Fight Still Looms, Cheney Warns G.I.'s in Iraq
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Vice President Dick Cheney made no promise that an end to
the fighting was in sight, a stark contrast to an earlier
assessment than the insurgency was in its "last throes."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/middleeast/11iraq.html?th&emc=th

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Pressed by Police, Even Innocent Confess in Japan
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Recent criminal cases have shown just how far the Japanese
authorities will go in securing confessions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/asia/11japan.html?th&emc=th

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Blair Ends a Decade of Stewardship
By ALAN COWELL
Prime Minister Tony Blair's departure will bookmark a
tenure in which he struggled at home and sacrificed his
popularity to the war in Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/europe/11blair.html?th&emc=th

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- U.S. -

Highway Debris, Long an Eyesore, Grows as Hazard
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
California is beginning to address the issue of deaths
caused by accidents involving objects on highways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/us/11debris.html?th&emc=th

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New Mayor but Familiar Issues on Dallas's Horizon
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Twelve candidates are in a wild scramble to head the
nation's ninth-largest metropolis, long troubled by crime,
scandals, racial polarization and government gridlock.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/us/11dallas.html?th&emc=th

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Wildfire Threatens a Southern California Resort Island
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A 500-acre wildfire erupted on Santa Catalina Island in
California, forcing evacuations as more than 150
firefighters battled the blaze.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/us/11disaster.html?th&emc=th

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- BUSINESS -

Trade Deficit Hits a Six-Month High
By JEREMY W. PETERS
The price of oil and a surge of imports in March widened
the imbalance, though exports continued to rise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11tradedeficit-web.html?th&emc=th

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Puffing Away That PG Rating
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
The Motion Picture Association of America said portrayals
of smoking would be considered alongside sex and violence
in assessing the suitability of movies for young viewers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/media/11smoking.html?th&emc=th

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Panel to Look at Conflicts in Consulting
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Congress is looking into potential conflicts among
executive compensation consulting firms that do lucrative
work for companies whose pay they help devise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11pay.html?th&emc=th

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- SPORTS -

A Father First, a Basketball Player Later
By LEE JENKINS
Utah point guard Derek Fisher put his daughter's health
before the playoffs Wednesday, missing most of the game. He
then returned to seal the win for the Jazz.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/sports/basketball/11utah.html?th&emc=th

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Duke Lacrosse Team Uses Work Ethic to Fix Image
By PETE THAMEL
The Blue Devils earned their first top seed in the N.C.A.A.
tournament, which begins Saturday. Yet the team is still
haunted by last year's rape allegations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/sports/othersports/11lacrosse.html?th&emc=th

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SENATORS 5, SABRES 2
Senators Score Late and Often in Taking an Early Series Lead
By LYNN ZINSER
Oleg Saprykin helped the Ottawa Senators further shed their
label as underachievers and get a jump on the rival Buffalo
Sabres.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/sports/hockey/11sabres.html?th&emc=th

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- ARTS -

MUSIC
Off the Beaten Beat
By MELENA RYZIK
Away from the bright lights of New York's music scene, many
artists are finding new performance spaces in strange,
intimate locales.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/arts/music/11rock.html?th&emc=th

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Harlem's Cultural Anchor in a Sea of Ideas
By FELICIA R. LEE
As the Schomburg Center unveils its $11 million facelift,
Harlem itself is also undergoing one of its periodic
renaissances.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/arts/design/11harl.html?th&emc=th

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MOVIE REVIEW | '28 WEEKS LATER'
The Satire Is Biting, and So Are the Zombies
By A. O. SCOTT
"28 Weeks Later" is brutal and almost exhaustingly
terrifying. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas
and in its techniques.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11late.html?th&emc=th

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- MOVIES -

MOVIE REVIEW | '28 WEEKS LATER'
The Satire Is Biting, and So Are the Zombies
By A. O. SCOTT
"28 Weeks Later" is brutal and almost exhaustingly
terrifying. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas
and in its techniques.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11late.html?th&emc=th

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A Loving Look at a Cinematic Tough Guy: Gangster, Hit Man,
Gunslinger
By MANOHLA DARGIS
A retrospective of Lee Marvin's work at the Film Society of
Lincoln Center showcases an actor of diverse skills, but
it's his bad characters that remain the most memorable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11marv.html?th&emc=th

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'GEORGIA RULE'
Hey, California Girl, Don't Mess With Grandma
By A. O. SCOTT
"Georgia Rule," directed by Garry Marshall from a script by
Mark Andrus, swerves and spins, taking its predictable plot
in some surprising directions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11geor.html?th&emc=th

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- EDITORIALS -

Mr. Bush Alone
President Bush has yet to acknowledge the reality in Iraq
that Congressional Republicans and even administration
officials like Defense Secretary Robert Gates now seem to
tacitly accept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11fri1.html?th&emc=th

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Juvenile Injustice
The United States made a disastrous miscalculation when it
started automatically trying youthful offenders as adults
instead of handling them through the juvenile courts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11fri2.html?th&emc=th

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Heading Toward Reform of the F.D.A.
Some much needed changes at the agency now seem likely to
gain full Congressional approval and become law.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11fri3.html?th&emc=th

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Sowing the Substance of Life
A large, distant supernova offers a glimpse into the making
of the very atomic stuff out of which we ourselves are made.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11fri4.html?th&emc=th

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- OP-ED -

OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Human Community
By DAVID BROOKS
Tony Blair's decision to support the invasion of Iraq grew
out of the essence of who he is.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11brooks.html?th&emc=th
(Available only to TimesSelect subscribers)

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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Give the Arab Peace Initiative a Chance
By FUAD SINIORA
The July war proved that militarism and revenge are not the
answer to instability; compromise and diplomacy are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11siniora.html?th&emc=th

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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
A Nobel for the Sandman
By JAMES KAKALIOS
The feats that Sandman performs in comic books and in
"Spider-Man 3" often correctly display the fascinating
properties of granular materials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11kakalios.html?th&emc=th

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OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
Never Too Late to Vote
By BEN YSURSA and MATTHEW DUNLAP
With Election Day registration, all qualified voters can
participate in the vital American tradition of voting
without finding themselves hampered by arbitrary
registration deadlines.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/opinion/11dunlap.html?th&emc=th

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- ON THIS DAY -

On May 11, 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct. 

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