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Haitians Jam Polling Stations in 1st Vote in Nearly 6 Years
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  11:00 AM ET
The vote was widely viewed as a key step toward steering a bloodied, impoverished nation away from collapse.
 Exiled Aristide Still Affects Haiti Voters

General Motors Cuts Dividend and Trims Executive Pay
By MICHELINE MAYNARD  11:17 AM ET
The latest efforts to reverse billions of dollars in losses did not include two big steps that have been widely anticipated.
 The Announcement: Text | Video
 Toyota's Earnings Move It Closer to G.M.

NEWS ANALYSIS
In Budget, Bush Holds Fast to a Policy of Tax Cutting
By ROBIN TONER
The president's budget shows the limits of his promise that Americans do not have to choose tax cuts or social programs.
 Bush's $2.77 Trillion Budget Stresses Security
 The Proposals | The Deficit | The Military
 Full Text: The 2007 Budget (whitehouse.gov)

Mourners Line Up for Funeral of Coretta Scott King
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  12:00 PM ET
An estimated 10,000 people, including four U.S. presidents, were expected to attend the funeral in Lithonia, Ga.
 Obituary | Slide Show | Video



Bruce Beehler/Conservation International
Trove of Lost Wildlife
A monthlong expedition to western New Guinea offered evidence of dozens of previously unreported plants and animals.  Go to Article
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INTERNATIONAL
Protests Against Cartoon Flare in Afghanistan

NATIONAL
4 More Fires Reported at Churches in Alabama

EDITORIALS/OP-ED
Kristof: Helping Bill O'Reilly
Tierney: Go Ahead, Fill Up
Opinionator: Spying Georges
• Editorial: Budget Fiction




BUSINESS

Record Sales of Sleeping Pills Are Causing Worries

Coca-Cola's Profit Dips, but Beats Expectations

Toys R Us Names New Chairman and Chief Executive

NATIONAL

Catholic Group Says of 'Da Vinci Code' Film: It's Just Fiction

Moussaoui Ejected Four Times for Disrupting Jury Selection

After Scandal, New Rules on Lobbying in Tennessee

WASHINGTON

Bush Budget Plan for $2.77 Trillion Stresses Security

The Legal Arguments: In Limelight at Wiretap Hearing: 2 Laws, but Which Should Rule?

Senator Clinton Resists 'Angry' Label, Calmly

HEALTH

When Death Is on the Docket, the Moral Compass Wavers

Scientists Sort Through 'Junk' to Unravel a Genetic Mystery

A Conversation With Herman Taylor: Mississippi's 'Heart Man' Examines Links Between Race and Disease

SCIENCE

Scientist at Work | Mark Siddall: His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty

When Death Is on the Docket, the Moral Compass Wavers

Corn Power Put to the Test

ARTS

Dutch to Return Art Seized by Nazis

Figure in JT Leroy Case Says Partner Is Culprit

Outspoken and Feared but Largely Forgotten

MOVIES

A Detective to the Stars Is Accused of Wiretaps

Catholic Group Says of 'Da Vinci Code' Film: It's Just Fiction

Critic's Choice: New DVD's

THEATER

Theater Review | 'Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue': 3 Generations of Soldiers' Stories in a Melancholy Key

Theater Review | 'Avalon': Turning the Tables on King Arthur With a Feminine Mystique

Theater Review | 'December Fools': Those Secrets in the Attic (Well, the Desk Drawer)

DINING & WINE

Food: The Way We Eat: Schnitzel on the Brain

A Taste of Ghana

Thumb-Wrestling With Plantains Is Now an Optional Sport

REAL ESTATE

Going Condo in Harlem

Sketch Pad: Giving a Tired House a Tower

Your Home: Providing Insurance for Board Members




INTERNATIONAL

Muslim Protests Against Cartoons Spread

French Face-Transplant Patient Tells of Her Ordeal

Israel to Cooperate With Palestinian Authority for Now

NEW YORK/REGION

Panel Asks New York to Join the Era of No-Fault Divorce

New Tutoring Schedules in Schools Lead to Confusion

A Killing Looms Large Over a Case of Assault

SPORTS

Super Bowl Is Over. Now for Next Season.

Nets and Kidd Let Their Game Do the Talking

Piazza Ready for New Start With Padres

TECHNOLOGY

Itineraries: Hotel Reviews Online: In Bed With Hope, Half-Truths and Hype

Advertising: Can You TiVo to See Just the Ads?

New Google Service to Blend the Gmail and Chat Features

TRAVEL

Emerging From the Shadow of War, Sarajevo Slowly Reclaims Its Lost Innocence

Going to: Turin

Itineraries: Hotel Reviews Online: In Bed With Hope, Half-Truths and Hype

BOOKS

Figure in JT Leroy Case Says Partner Is Culprit

Books of The Times | 'Twilight of the Superheroes': Sideswiped by Things Unexpected

Time Warner Agrees to Sell Book Unit to French Company

FASHION & STYLE

Collections Where the Beauty Is in the Surprise

Fashion Diary: The Next Great Look Is Written in the Stars

Finally, Girl Designers Who Want to Have Fun

EDUCATION

Education: A Leaner Year Is Proposed for Schools

New Tutoring Schedules in Schools Lead to Confusion

Brooklyn Tech Principal Resigns After Wrongdoing Is Found

HOME & GARDEN

Slopeside at the Olympics, Designing With Frozen Fingers

Nests Imperial or Fashionably Feathered

Turf: Living Ever Larger: Estates in the Sky

AUTOMOBILES

2006 BMW M5: Two Ways to Skin 500 Horsepower

G.M. Cuts Dividend and Trims Executive Pay

G.M. Adds Blunt Critic to Board

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Winter Games Preview
The opening ceremony on Friday kicks off 84 events over 17 days. A look at the personalities, events and television schedule.
• Video: Snowboarding Hopeful
• Video: Bode Miller

Going to Turin
From Feb. 10 to 26, Turin will play host the 20th Winter Olympic Games, surpassing Rome, Florence and Venice as the place to be in Italy.
• Audio Slide Show: Great Olympic Moments



Hot deal: 5 nights of ocean views and beach chic on Barbuda... Details



From the Runways
Reviews and photographs from New York Fashion Week.
• Go to Special Section

Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty
An ordinary worm hundreds of millions of years ago gave rise to the sophisticated bloodsucking leeches of today.
• Video: Defending the Leech
• Go to Science Times

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On Feb. 7...
1984 Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk. (See this front page. | Buy any front page since 1851.)


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