MediaTalk; A Flirtation in Ethics Leaves Some Matters Utterly Unmentioned
Date: 20 September 2004
By DAVID CARR
David CARR
Vanity Fair magazine discloses one conflict of interest in its New Establishment roundup, noting that son of magazine's editor was intern at agency selected for its power list; other undisclosed conflicts noted; magazine holds other conflicts, including $100,000 payment to editor Graydon Carter by movie studio, have already been widely reported; photo (M)
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Militants Show the Beheading of 3 Kurdish Hostages
Date: 20 September 2004
By EDWARD WONG
Edward WONG
Militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna posts gruesome Internet video showing beheading of three men said to be members of Kurdistan Democratic Party, one of two major Kurdish political parties in Iraq; statement posted with video accuses leaders of both Kurdish parties of serving interests of Jews and Christians; statement identifies men as truck drivers captured in ambush 15 miles from Baghdad, as they were transporting vehicles to American base; American soldiers discovered headless bodies 50 miles from Baghdad in recent days; Army of Ansar al-Sunna, offshoot of Ansar al-Islam, is mostly Kurdish group that adheres to strict fundamentalist form of Islam and fought militia of two Kurdish parties from mountain redoubt in northern Iraq; photos (M)
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Metropolitan Diary
Date: 20 September 2004
By Joe Rogers
Joe Rogers
Metropolitan Diary column of vignettes about life in New York; drawings (M)
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Rightists Make Strong Strides in Eastern German State Elections
Date: 20 September 2004
By MARK LANDLER
Mark LANDLER
Far-right parties make their strongest showing in six years in German state elections, as voters react against Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's governing party after sharp cutbacks in welfare benefits; voters in eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg show strong support for parties that attribute much of country's ills to foreigners and that favor closing off borders (M)
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Portrait of George Bush in '72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time
Date: 20 September 2004
This article was reported by Sara Rimer, Ralph Blumenthal and Raymond Bonner and written by Ms. Rimer.; Sara Rimer reported from Montgomery for this article, Ralph Blumenthal from Texas, and Raymond Bonner from Texas and Washington
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Attacks on Windows PC's Grew in First Half of 2004
Date: 20 September 2004
By JOHN MARKOFF
John MARKOFF
Symantec survey of Internet vulnerabilities finds sharp jump in attacks on Windows-based personal computers in 2004 first half, along with marked rise in commercially motivated threats; warns of significant rise in number of 'bot,' or robot, networks, arrays of interconnected personal computers that have been compromised to inject large volumes of viruses, worms, spyware or spam into Internet; creators of bot networks sell access to them to commercial spammers and others who wish to send data anonymously (M)
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Waiting for the Candidate to Emerge
Date: 20 September 2004
By BOB HERBERT
Bob HERBERT
Bob Herbert Op-Ed column says Sen John Kerry was selected by Democratic voters because they thought he could beat Pres Bush, not because they felt strongly about Kerry's positions on issues, or because they were drawn to his vision of future; says Kerry has run cautious and dull campaign so far, saying only things he thinks he should, shadow boxing instead of really mixing it up; says he is suffering in polls because of his reluctance to put his authentic self on display; says many voters do not think they know him; says he has yet to exhibit warmth or political savvy necessary to fully energize potential supporters; says overly cerebral campaign by candidate too inhibited to blow whistle on 'insanity surrounding nation' is recipe for defeat (M)
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