JANUARY
Bloomberg Takes Oath as 108th Mayor of New York
Bloomberg Offers Example With Vow To Cut Staff 20%
A Smooth Debut Lifts Euro’s Value In Money Markets
Charges Ruled Out As U.S. Concludes Torricelli Inquiry
Hostile Fire Kills First U.S. Soldier Since War’s Onset
Bush, On Offense, Says He Will Fight To Keep Tax Cuts
Pentagon Seeking A Large Increase In Its Next Budget
Regulators Urge Easing U.S. Rules On Air Pollution
U.S. Is Building Up Its Military Bases In Afghan Region
Justice Dept. to Form Task Force To Investigate Collapse of Enron
Enron Contacted 2 Cabinet Officers Before Collapsing
Enron Sought Aid Of Treasury Dept. To Get Bank Loans
Before Debacle, Enron Insiders Cashed In $1.1 Billion in Shares
India Welcomes Pakistani Steps, But Stays Alert
Enron’s Chairman Received Warning About Accounting
Arthur Andersen Fires An Executive For Enron Orders
Auditor Received Warning On Enron Five Months Ago
U.S. Hunts 5 Men Seen on Tape, Saying They May Plan Attack
Science Academy Supports Cloning To Treat Disease
Web of Safeguards Failed as Enron Fell
Enron Chief Says His Sale Of Stock Was To Pay Loans
Ex-Official Says Enron Employees Shredded Papers
In Shift, Bush Assails Enron Over Handling of Collapse
Wide Effort Seen In Shredding Data On Enron’s Audits
Enron Hearings Open, Focusing on Destroyed Papers
Critic Who Quit Top Enron Post Is Found Dead
Poll Finds Enron’s Taint Clings More to G.O.P. Than Democrats
Cheney Is Set to Battle Congress To Keep His Enron Talks Secret
Saudi Affirms U.S. Ties but Says Bush Ignores Palestinians’ Cause
Bush, Focusing On Terrorism, Says Security of U.S. Is Top Priority
Fed Holds Steady On Interest Rates As Economy Firms
FEBRUARY
Sharon Is Sorry Israel Didn’t Kill Arafat In The 80’s
Bush Sees Big Rise In Military Budget For Next 5 Years
Enron Panel Finds Inflated Profits And Self-Dealing
Former Fed Chief Picked To Oversee Auditor Of Enron
Senate Panel Says It Will Subpoena Ex-Chief Of Enron
Enron Executives Say They Debated Freeze On Pension
Qaeda Still Able To Strike The U.S., Head Of C.I.A. Says
Testimony From Enron Executives Is Contradictory
Botched Siege Under Scrutiny In Philippines
Poultry Industry Quietly Cuts Back On Antibiotic Use
Fearing Limits on Soft Money, Parties Fill Coffers
Attack Possible In U.S. Or Yemen, The F.B.I. Warns
Powell Says U.S. Is Weighing Ways To Topple Hussein
Bloomberg Seeks Cuts In Spending At Most Agencies
House Backs Broad Change In Financing Of Campaigns; Fast Senate Action Sought
Canadian Skaters Awarded Share Of Olympic Gold; French Judge Suspends, Her Scoring Thrown Out
Enron Had More Than One Way To Disguise Rapid Rise in Debt
U.S. Plans To Act More Rigorously In Hostage Cases
In a Shift, U.S. Uses Airstrikes To Help Kabul
Pakistan to Cut Islamists’ Links To Spy Agency
C.I.A. Sees Threat Afghan Factions May Bring Chaos
U.S. Says 16 Killed in Raids Weren’t Taliban or Al Qaeda
Suspect Says Reporter Was Slain In January as Part of Wider Plot
New Clues Suggest Bin Laden Is Alive On Afghan Border
Death of Reporter Puts Focus On Pakistan Intelligence Unit
18 City Tax Assessors Indicted In Decades-Long Bribe Scheme
Afghan Witnesses Say G.I.’s Were Duped in Raid on Allies
How Sept. 11 Changed Goals Of Justice Dept.
MARCH
Verdict Against 2nd Officer In Louima Attack Is Voided; Court Cites Legal Conflict
Burning Diesel Is Cited in Fall Of 3rd Tower
U.S. Forces Join Big Assault On An Afghan Stronghold; One G.I. Killed; Others Hurt
U.S. Planes Pound Enemy As Troops Face Tough Fight
7 Americans Die During Raid On Afghanistan Mountains
Syria Chief Backs Saudi Peace Plan As Mideast Boils
Israel Strikes Hard at Gaza Strip As Powell Assails Sharon Stance
Kabul Rushes 1,000 More Men To Join G.I.’s in Battle’s 6th Day
Israelis Kill at Least 40 After Arab Kills 5 Teenagers
U.S. Nuclear Plan Sees New Targets And New Weapons
Saying Battle Is Reaching End, U.S. Sends Troops Back to Base
Minutes of Silence and Shafts of Light Recall New York’s Dark Day
U.N. Chief Tells Israel It Must End ‘Illegal Occupation’
Bush Orders Inquiry Into Visas Issued to Terrorists After Attack
Andersen Charged With Obstruction In Enron Inquiry
Israel Withdraws From Most Towns In The West Bank
U.S. Envoy Seeking To Arrange Truce In The Middle East
Bush Plans Talks With Saudi Prince On Mideast Plan
Prosecutors Seek A Death Sentence In Terrorism Case
S.E.C. Had Sought $500 Million In Failed Talks With Andersen
Campaign Finance Bill Wins Final Approval In Congress And Bush Says He’ll Sign It
Jerusalem Bomber Kills 3 And Shakes U.S. Peace Effort
U.S. Says It Found Qaeda Lab Being Built to Produce Anthrax
A Secret Iran-Arafat Connection Is Seen Fueling the Mideast Fire
U.S. Prods Israel To Allow Arafat To Go To Summit
U.S., Alarmed by Corrosion, Orders Checking of Reactors
Toll In Thousands Possible As Quake Hits Afghan Town
Bomb Kills At Least 19 In Israel As Arabs Meet Over Peace Plan
Sharon Calls Arafat An Enemy And Send Tanks To Isolate Him At Headquarters In Ramallah
Israelis Besiege a Defiant Arafat in His Office
As Israeli Troops Tighten Grip, Bush Says Arafat Must Do More To Avert New Terror Attacks
APRIL
Sharon Says Israel Is In A War After Suicide Bombing Kills 14; More Tanks Move In West Bank
Israelis Broaden West Bank Raids As Arabs Protest
Arafat Can Leave, But Only To Exile, Sharon Tells Him
U.S. to Push Harder for Political Solution in Mideast
Bush Demands Israeli Pullout; Insists Arafat Oppose Terror; Powell Will Go To The Mideast
U.S. Envoy Meets Arafat as Israel Steps Up Its Sweep
As Fighting Rages, Bush Demands Israeli Withdrawal
Israel Persisting With Wide Sweep Despite U.S. Calls
Israel Starts Leaving 2 Areas, but Will Continue Drive
At Least 8 Killed In Suicide Bombing On A Bus In Israel
In New Rebuff to U.S., Sharon Pushes Military Sweep
Generals Revolt in Venezuela After 10 Protesters Are Killed
Powell Puts Off Arafat Talk as Bomb Kills 6
Arafat Condemns Terror; Powell Meeting On
Ardent Populists Reinstate Leader To Run Venezuela
Vatican Summons All U.S. Cardinals To Talks On Abuse
U.S. Cautioned Leader of Plot Against Chavez
Bloomberg Warns Of Big Cutbacks In City’s Services
Vatican Meeting on Abuse Issue Is Set to Confront Thorny Topics
Violence In Gaza As Israel Reduces West Bank Forces
Israel Winning Broad Support From U.S. Right
Extreme Rightist Eclipses Socialist To Qualify for Runoff in France
Terror Suspect Says He Wants U.S. Destroyed
Pope Offers Apology to Victims of Sex Abuse by Priests
Cardinals Agree On Ousting Priests For Sexual Abuse
Saudi Tells Bush U.S. Must Temper Backing Of Israel
After New Raids, Bush Again Urges Israeli Pullback
Arabs In Disguise Kill Four Settlers In The West Bank
Israelis Approve Plan To End Siege And Free Arafat
Israeli Army Raids The Largest City In The West Bank
MAY
New Strategy Set By U.S. And Saudis For Mideast Crisis
U.S.-Led Raids in Afghanistan Press Search for Qaeda Fighters
U.S., In Surprise, Announces Global Talks For Mideast; Israel Backed By Congress
French Polls See Chirac Landslide In Vote Tomorrow
U.S. Pushing Israel To Accept Arafat For Negotiations
Chirac Re-Elected As France Rejects His Rightist Rival
Enron Forced Up California Prices, Documents Show
15 Killed By Suicide Bomber; Sharon Cuts Short U.S. Visit After A Meeting With Bush
Exile Agreement Appears To Settle Bethlehem Siege
Bomb Blast at a Crowded Parade Kills at Least 34 in Russian Town
Israel’s Military Rethinking Action In The Gaza Strip
U.S. Agencies Seen As Slow To Move On Terrorism Risk
Credit Card Theft Is Thriving Online As Global Market
Bush And Putin To Sign Pact To Cut Nuclear Warheads; Weapons Can Be Stockpiled
NATO Strikes Deal To Accept Russia In A Partnership
Bush Was Warned Bin Laden Wanted To Hijack Planes
No Hint Of Sept. 11 In Report In August, White House Says, But Congress Seeks Inquiry
F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training
U.S. Intercepting Messages Hinting At A New Attack
Foreigners Obtain Social Security ID With Fake Papers
Suicide Attacks Certain in U.S., Mueller Warns
Leaving for Europe, Bush Draws On Hard Lessons on Diplomacy
38 Years Later, Last of Suspects Is Convicted in Church Bombing
Sailors Sprayed With Nerve Gas In Cold War Test, Pentagon Says
Bush and Putin Sign Pact for Steep Nuclear Arms Cuts
Bush Joins Putin In Urging Pakistan To Curb Militants
F.B.I. Inaction Blurred Picture Before Sept. 11
Taliban And Qaeda Believed Plotting Within Pakistan
Mueller Plans To Turn Focus Toward Terror
F.B.I. Chief Admits 9/11 Might Have Been Detectable
Where Twin Towers Stood, a Silent Goodbye
JUNE
Citing Tension, U.S. Advises Americans In India To Leave
Hysteria Hysteria
Study Shows Building Prisons Did Not Prevent Repeat Crimes
Rifts Plentiful As 9/11 Inquiry Begins Today
Sept. 11 Suspect May Be Relative Of ’93 Plot Leader
Israel Attacks Arafat Compound in Swift Repsonse After Palestinian Suicide Bombing Kills 17 in Bus
Bush, As Terror Inquiry Swirls, Seeks Cabinet Post On Security
U.S. Lets Drug Tied to Deaths Back on Market
In Years of Plots and Clues, Scope of Qaeda Eluded U.S.
Israel Surrounds Arafat Compound In A Predawn Raid
U.S. Says It Halted Qaeda Plot To Use Radioactive Bomb
Once a Victim, A Priest Wants Zero Tolerance
U.S. Said To Weigh Provisional State For Palestinians
Abuse Victims Lay Blame at Feet of Catholic Bishops
Bishops Set Policy To Remove Priests In Sex Abuse Cases
Andersen Guilty In Effort To Block Inquiry On Enron
Lure of Millions Fuels 9/11 Families’ Feuding
Pakistan Declares It Captured 2 Americans at Afghan Border
Israel Acts To Seize Arab Land After Blast: Bush Delays Talk
Bush to Present Strict Demands To Palestinians
Citing ‘National Consensus,’ Justices Bar Death Penalty For Retarded Defendants
Priest Charged In Rape in 2000 In the Rectory
Former Officials Say Enron Hid Gains During Crisis in California
U.S. Enlists Morocco’s Help To Counter Terrorist Plots
Bush Demands Arafat’s Ouster Before U.S. Backs A New State; Israelis Welcome Tough Line
WorldCom Says It Hid Expenses, Inflating Cash Flow $3.8 Billion
Judge Bans Pledge of Allegiance From Schools, Citing ‘Under God’
Supreme Court, 5-4, Upholds Voucher System That Pays Religious Schools’ Tuition
Pentagon Shifts Anthrax Vaccine To Civilian Uses
New F.B.I. Alert Warns Of Threat Tied To July 4th
JULY
Part-Time Firefighters Is Held In Setting of Blaze in Arizona
71 Die When Two Jets Collide High Above Southern Germany
Gingerly, Arabs Question Suicide Bombings
With Patriotism Renewed, July 4 Hits a Deeper Chord
U.S. Plan For Iraq Is Said To Include Attack On 3 Sides
Officials Puzzled About Motive Of Airport Gunman Who Killed 2
U.S. To Vaccinate 500,000 Workers Against Smallpox
AIDS Study Finds Many Unaware They Have Virus
Bush Defends Sale Of Stock And Vows To Enhance S.E.C.
Sept. 11 Hijackers Said To Fake Data On Bank Accounts
Arthritis Surgery In Ailing Knees Is Cited as Sham
Scientists Create A Live Polio Virus
China’s President May Be Reluctant To Cede His Power
F.B.I. And Military Unite In Pakistan To Hunt Al Qaeda
Pfizer Said To Buy Large Drug Rival In $60 Billion Deal
Admitting He Fought in Taliban, American Agrees to 20-Year Term
Fed Chief Blames Corporate Greed; House Revises Bill
Poll Finds Concerns That Bush Is Overly Influenced by Business
Shift at AOL Puts Time Warner at Helm
19 Million Pounds Of Meat Recalled After 19 Fall Ill
Flaws in U.S. Air War Left Hundreds of Civilians Dead
Worldcom Files For Bankruptcy; Largest U.S. Case
Citigroup Is Linked to a Deal That Let Enron Skirt Rules
Markets Continue Downward Trend; Banks Lead Way
White House Moves to Limit Corporate Scandals’ Fallout
Wall Bursts and Water Pours In, Trapping 9 Miners 240 Feet Down
Brazil Employs Tools of Spying To Guard Itself
Miners Are Rescued After 3 Days; ‘We’ve Been Waiting,’ They Say
Pope Tells Crowd Of ‘Shame’ Caused By Abusive Priests
Merill Replaced Research Analyst Who Upset Enron
I.B.M. Will Pay Pricewaterhouse $3.5 Billion for Consulting Unit
AUGUST
Cheney’s Role In Acquisition Under Scrutiny
2 Ex-Officials at WorldCom Are Charged in Huge Fraud
Rumsfeld Moves to Strengthen His Grip on Military Intelligence
Foreign Investors Turning Cautions On Spending In U.S.
Wave of Pupils Lacking English Strains Schools
Immigration Cut Into Income In New York, Census Finds
New York to Observe Sept. 11 With Dawn-to-Dusk Tributes
Ex-Executives Say Sham Deal Helped Enron
Worldcom Finds $3.3 Billion More In Irregularities
U.S. Ties Military Aid to Peacekeepers’ Immunity
Iraqi Opposition Gets U.S. Pledge to Oust Hussein for a Democracy
Scientist Denies Being Involved In Anthrax Plot
Child-Smuggling Ring Broken Up By the U.S. Immigration Agency
Iranian President Says U.S. Leaders ‘Misused’ Sept. 11
Jail Closed as Shelter to Children After Report of Lead-Based Paint
Amtrak Sidelines More Locomotives Because of Defect
Amtrak Halts 20% of Its Runs In the Northwest
Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq In War Despite Use Of Gas
Qaeda Videos Seem to Show Chemical Tests
Giant Helicopter Crashes In Russia
Russia Says Toll In Copter’s Crash Has Reached 114
Ex-Enron Official Admits Payments To Finance Chief
Secret Court Says F.B.I. Aides Misled Judges In 75 Cases
Germans Lay Out Early Qaeda Ties To 9/11 Hijackers
Saudi Sought by the F.B.I. Is Said to be In Custody*
As Multinationals Run the Taps, Anger Rises Over Water for Profit
Cheney Says Peril Of A Nuclear Attack Justifies Attack
U.S. Troops Focus On Border’s Caves To Seek Bin Laden
Worried Saudis Pay Millions To Improve Image in the U.S.
Sept. 11 Attack Planned in ’99, Germans Learn
In Fight Over Women, Masters Gives Up Ads
SEPTEMBER
Season Is Salvaged, but Baseball Still Has Rich Facing the Poor
Linking West Nile And Transplants May Take Weeks
Congress Returning to Take Up Domestic Security Plan and Iraq
U.S. to Step Up Spraying to Kill Colombia Coca
President To Seek Congress’s Assent Over Iraq Action
Senators Vote To Permit Pilots To Carry Guns
China Now Set To Make Copies Of AIDS Drugs
Feeling Secure, U.S. Failed to Grasp bin Laden Threat
Locked Up and Patted Down: A Year of Making U.S. Safer
On Plotters’ Path to U.S., A Stop at bin Laden Camp
U.S. Steps Up Alert as Solemn Day Arrives
Bush to Warn U.N.: Act on Iraq or U.S. Will; He Leads Nation in Mourning at Terror Sites
Bush Presses U.N. to Act Quickly on Disarming Iraq
U.S. Says Suspect Tied to 9/11 And Qaeda Is Captured in Raid
U.S. Says Suspects Awaited An Order For Terror Strike
Science Slow to Ponder the Ills That Linger in Anthrax Victims
U.N. Inspectors Can Return Unconditionally, Iraq Says
North Koreans Sign Agreement With Japanese
U.S. Failed To Act On Warnings In ’98 Of A Plane Attack
Officials Warn That Transfusions Carry the Risk of West Nile Virus
Tanks And Trench Bottle Up Arafat In His Compound
Israel Tells U.S. It Will Retaliate If Iraqis Attacks
C.I.A.’s Inquiry On Qaeda Aide Seen as Flawed
State Panel Seeks Changes In Homes For Mentally Ill
Blair Says Iraqis Could Launch Chemical Warheads in Minutes
Paying for a Disability Diagnosis To Gain Time on College Boards
F.B.I. Account Outlines Activities Of Hijackers Before 9/11 Attacks
U.S. Plan Requires Inspection Access To All Iraq Sites
Iraq Rejects Push By U.S. To Toughen Inspection Rules
10-Month Afghan Mystery: Is bin Laden Dead or Alive?
OCTOBER
Torricelli Quits Campaign, Citing Risk To His Party
Democrats Select Lautenberg To Run In Torricelli Spot
Man Accused of Shoe-Bomb Plot Says He Intends to Plead Guilty
New Role for U.S. in Colombia: Protecting a Vital Oil Pipeline
Widening Fears, Few Clues As 6th Death Is Tied to Sniper
Israel Set To Use New Missile Shield To Counter Scuds
Music Industry In Global Fight On Web Copies
Bush Sees ‘Urgent Duty’ to Pre-empt Attack by Iraq
U.S. Marine Is Killed in Kuwait As Gunmen Strike Training Site
Macabre Clue In Sniper Case: A Tarot Card
Congress Authorizes Bush To Use Force Against Iraq, Creating A Broad Mandate
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Carter, With Jab at Bush
Bombing at Resort in Indonesia Kills 150 and Hurts Scores More
Survivors of Indonesia Blast Are Left Stunned and Searching
Woman In Virginia Is Shot To Death; Sniper Suspected
Sniper Left Clues This Time, and Police Report Progress in Inquiry. Officials Say Witnesses Glimpsed Killer and His License Plate.
North Korea Says It Has A Program On Nuclear Arms
Increase In Autism Baffles Scientists
Vatican Demands U.S. Bishops Revise Sex-Abuse Policy
Possibility of Using Trucks For Terror Remains Concern
Message Was Left At Latest Scene Of Sniper Attack
Police Ask Caller In The Sniper Case To Make Contact
Bus Driver Killed; Children Not Safe, Sniper’s Note Says
Police Name Man Being Sought For Question in Sniper Case
With 2 Hed, Police Tie Rifle in Car to Sniper Killings
Russia Recaptures Theater After Chechen Rebel Group Begins To Execute Hostages
Miscues in Sniper Pursuit, Then Calls and a Big Break
Slaying Of Woman In Sniper Attacks Laid To Teenager
U.S. Suspects Opiate in Gas In Russia Raid
U.S. Sniper Case Seen As A Barrier To A Confession
Russia Names Drug in Raid, Defending Use
NOVEMBER
Louisiana Accuses 2 Sniper Suspects In Sept. 23 Killing
Parties Set Up Groups to Elude Soft Money Ban
The Mentor and the Disciple: How Sniper Suspects Bonded
Assault on Wall St. Mideeds Raises Spitzer’s U.S. Profile
C.I.A. Is Reported To Kill A Leader Of Qaeda In Yemen
G.O.P. Retakes Control Of The Senate In A Show Of Presidential Influence; Pataki, Jeb Bush And Lautenberg Win
Victorious Republicans Preparing A Drive For Bush Agenda And Judgeship Nominees
Ashcroft Decides Virginia Will Try Sniper Cases First
Pelosi Says She’s Secured Votes To Be House Democrats’ Leader
Scandal Is Stirring Lay Catholics To Push Church for More Power
Arkansas Rice Farmers Run Dry, And U.S. Remedy Sets Off Debate
At Least 36 Dead In The Aftermath Of 66 Tornadoes
New Recording May Be Threat From bin Laden
Iraq Tells The U.N. Arms Inspections Will Be Permitted
China Carries Out An Orderly Shift Of Its Leadership
Mexican Drug Dealers Turning U.S. Towns Into Major Depots
New York Exports Mentally Ill, Shifting Burden to Other States
Nameless Juries Are on the Rise In Crime Cases
Court Overturns Limits On Wiretaps To Combat Terror
Senate Votes 90-9, To Set Up A Homeland Security Dept. Geared To Fight Terrorism
F.B.I. Officials Say Some Agents Lack A Focus On Terror
Madison Ave. Has Growing Role In the Business of Drug Research
9/11 Report Says Saudi Arabia Links Went Unexamined
Why U.S. Oil Companies and Russian Resources Don’t Mix*
CBS Staying Silent in Debate On Women Joining Agusta
U.N. Monitor Says Iraqis Are Denying Having Arms Cache
Jury Sentences Wendy’s Killer To Be Executed
President Names Kissinger To Lead 9/11 Commission
12 Die as Israelis Are Attacked in Kenya
Israelis Return in Trauma From Supposed Haven
DECEMBER
In Stormy Time, S.E.C. Is Facing Deeper Trouble
F.B.I., Under Outside Pressure, Gets Internal Push
U.S. Says Evidence Possibly Ties Al Qaeda to the Attack in Kenya
Boston Church Papers Released; A Pattern of Negligence Is Cited
Pentagon Is Set to Activate Thousands More Reservists
13 Years Later, Official Reversal In Jogger Attack
Bush, In Shake-Up Of Cabinet, Ousts Treasury Leader
Iraq Says Report To The U.N. Shows No Banned Arms
A Top Iraqi Aide Defies U.S. To Find Proof Of Weapons
Judge Says Cheney Needn’t Give Energy Policy Records to Agency
Dissent on Assigning Blame As 9/11 Panel Adopts Report
An Intense Attack By Justice Thomas On Cross-Burning
Iraq Arms Report Has Big Omissions, U.S. Officials Say
Kissinger Pulls Out as Chief Of Inquiry Into 9./11 Attacks
Bush Has Widened Authority Of C.I.A. To Kill Terrorists
Pentagon May Push Propaganda in Allied Nations
Transit Strike Averted After Tentative Deal Is Reached
Bush Is Expected To Say Iraq Failed To Meet U.N. Terms
Breast Cancer: Genes Are Tied To Death Rates
Convictions and Charges Voided In ’89 Central Park Jogger Attack
Lott Fails To Quell Furor And Quits Top Senate Post; Frist Emerges As Successor
Teenager’s Role Tangles Case Against Older Sniper Suspect
Cities Wary of Antiterror Tactics Pass Civil Liberties Resolutions
Hezbollah Becomes Potent Anti-U.S. Force
U.S. Gets Warning From North Korea
Enron Inquiry Is Now Examining Whether Company Inflated Assets
Growth In Sales For Holiday Period Is Lowest In Years
Suicide Bombers Kill at Least 46 At Chechen Government Offices
Saudis Are Said To Assure U.S. On Use of Bases
After 9/11, Parcels of Money, and Dismay
Separating Fakes From 9/11 Victims