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September 21, 2002
Key senator: Bush will get U.N. support
Sen. Richard Lugar thinks Russia and France will come around to supporting a tough disarmament resolution against Iraq.

Israel hems Arafat in compound again
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Using dynamite and bulldozers, Israeli forces on Friday flattened much of what remained of Yasser Arafat's headquarters compound and left the Palestinian leader trapped on a single floor of his office building, which was raked with machine-gun fire and struck by at least one tank shell.

Reality TV is coming to Washington
Ever since television started the reality show craze, people have jumped off cliffs, been submerged in a container of rats and bungee jumped off tall buildings.

Al-Najjar deported again -- maybe
Middle East papers report Mazen Al-Najjar has been deported from Lebanon. A friend in Beirut says it isn't so.

Kentucky governor admits relationship
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Gov. Paul Patton on Friday tearfully admitted to having an "inappropriate personal relationship" with a woman who is suing him for sexual harassment. He denied he used his influence to assist or damage her business, a nursing home, as she has alleged.

Nation in brief
Mom sought in videotaped beating of child

Obituaries
PETER W. STROH, 74, a former chairman of the Stroh Brewing Co., died Tuesday at his home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. The cause was brain cancer, said Mr. Stroh's cousin, John Stroh III. Mr. Stroh was a philanthropist and conservationist whose family fortune was built on decades of selling modestly priced beer to working-class customers in the Midwest. From the company's headquarters in Detroit, Mr. Stroh engineered a series of acquisitions in the 1980s as he tried to remake the company into a national power.

Health and medicine in brief
'Food pyramid' might be ready for update

Fighting terror: notebook
Bush changes mind, wants commission to look into 9/11

Rights group says graves are of Stalin's victims
TOKSOVO, Russia -- Working to uncover the secrets of the collapsed Soviet Union, diggers say they have found 20 sets of bones in what they believe is a vast burial ground for thousands of victims of dictator Josef Stalin's firing squads.

World in brief
Colombian official: 200 rebels killed



From AP: special links on the terrorist attacks and aftermath
Sharon and Arafat: Old foes on parallel paths
FBI's Most Wanted terrorists
Afghanistan in Depth
Panoramic view of tragedy
Satellite view of Ground Zero
Flashpoint: Afghanistan
Multimedia Coverage of the Terror Attacks
Latest News on the Terror Attacks
Updated List of Victims
Terror Attack Multimedia Gallery
Terror's Path: An Interactive Map
Missing: A Multimedia Essay
Terror Attack: Minute by Minute
Terror Attack: Tower Collapse
Terrorists Attack: Video Gallery
Aftermath Photo Gallery
Day of Terror Photo Gallery
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