Dow Jones Sees Some Good News Amid the Shadows
Date: 21 April 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Dow Jones shareholders will hear good news about company for first time in years at company's annual meeting on April 21; advertising linage has grown for three consecutive quarters after declines in previous 11, thanks to nascent recovery in financial advertising and increasing consumer advertising at flagship Wall Street Journal; representatives of restive union plan to be on hand to complain about their protracted and heated labor dispute with company; photo (M)
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Makeup Exam Is Canceled After a TV Close-Up
Date: 22 April 2004
By David M. Herszenhorn
David
New York City Education Department cancels makeup exams scheduled for third graders who missed citywide tests because at least one news channel showed closeup of test questions on television (M)
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North Korean Leader Tells China He's Committed to Nuclear Talks
Date: 22 April 2004
By Jim Yardley
Jim Yardley
Chinese government acknowledges secretive visit of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and says he will continue with six-nation talks organized by China to defuse nuclear standoff with United States; accounts of his visit by official Chinese media offer few hints of any major breakthroughs; reports in South Korean news media say Chinese officials urged Kim to be more flexible in negotiating with US: say Kim is willing to resolve nuclear dispute during next round of talks, scheduled for no later than June (M)
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Vanunu, Disdaining Israel, Is Freed to Chants vs. Cheers
Date: 22 April 2004
By Greg Myre
Greg Myre
Mordechai Vanunu, former Israeli nuclear technician who disclosed information about country's clandestine nuclear program to news media, is released from prison after serving 18-year sentence; dozens of supporters, mostly American and British, cheer him as hero of anti-nuclear cause, while several hundred Israelis denounce him as spy and traitor; he says he is proud of what he did; faces list of restrictions that bar him from leaving country for year or speaking with foreigners; photo (M)
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Disclosure by the Kerrys
Date: 22 April 2004
Editorial holds that Sen John Kerry has been slow to realize importance of full disclosure by candidate seeking trust of public for nation's highest office; says he can expect Bush campaign to take advantage of news vacuum he creates by withholding information on his service in Vietnam, his medical records and now his wife's tax returns; says she is not the candidate, but numerous past candidates have acknowledged that extra burdens are fairly placed on close family members; says public is entitled to more detail, even though nothing nefarious has been alleged
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Kennedys Without Tears
Date: 21 April 2004
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column on John F Kennedy's womanizing as reported in Sally Bedell Smith's new book, Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House; comments on journalists' willingness to protect Kennedy aura
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Panel Says Internal Flaws at USA Today Aided in Deceptions
Date: 22 April 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
A panel of outside journalists retained by USA Today to investigate the repeated fabrications of its former star foreign correspondent released its findings today.
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Bush Isn't Surprised Americans Expect Attack
Date: 22 April 2004
By Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller
President Bush, speaking before annual gathering of American newspaper editors and publishers, expresses no surprise that most Americans think another terrorist attack in United States is likely; defends Iraq war and other policies (M)
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WYETH PAYS SOLVAY FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT DEAL
Date: 22 April 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Solvay, Belgium's largest drug maker, receive $145.5 million payment from Wyeth to jointly develop and sell four experimental psychiatric drugs (S)
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THERMO ELECTRON ACQUIRES U.S. COUNSELING SERVICES
Date: 22 April 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thermo Electron Corp acquires US Counseling Services for $77.9 million (S)
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