April 8, 2003

New York City automats recalled in light of exhibition at Museum of City of New York and companion book, The Automat: The History, Recipes and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece, by Lorraine B Diehl and Marianne Hardart, great-granddaughter of co-founder; photos (M)

Supreme Court rules, 6-3, that states may ban cross burning that is meant to intimidate as long as law clearly gives prosecutors burden of proving that act was intended as threat and not as form of symbolic expression; opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor interprets First Amendment as permitting government to single out cross burning as 'particularly virulent form of intimidation'; her photo; overlapping but separate seven-justice majority finds unconstitutional Virginia law at issue in case; statute has since been revised; justices' differing interpretations quoted (M)

Vincent Gigante, 75, head of Genovese crime family, admits in federal court in New York that for years, in order to avoid prosecution, he deceived psychiatrists evaluating his mental competency; Judge I Leo Glasser sentences Gigante to three more years in prison for obstructing justice; he is already in prison for racketeering and murder conspiracy; photo (M)e

Thousands of US marines pour into Baghdad after capturing bridge over Diyala River in daylong firefight, battling tenacious opposition to move about one mile into southeastern corner of Iraqi capital; photos; map; entry of Marine units is heavy psychological and military blow to government, making increasinly absurd its insistence that no American troops are in city, whereas in fact, they have entered from two sides (M)

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