Juliet Macur travel article on $1,000-a-day visit to high-end resorts on Anguilla; lists; photos; map (L)

High: Anguilla on $1,000 a Day

Selena Roberts Sports of The Times column discusses implications of building new stadium and convention center on Manhattan's West Side on bid for 2012 Olympics in New York City (M)

Discard Logic, Cue Trumpets: It's New York, Getouttadaway

Career officers at Central Intelligence Agency fear prosecution and punishment for conduct during interrogations and detentions of terrorism suspects; several cases are currently under review by Justice Dept; concern in ranks has been growing since removal of Baghdad station chief in December 2003 because of concerns about deaths of two Iraqis questioned by CIA employees (M)

Within C.I.A., Worry of Prosecution for Conduct

New York Mets pitcher Kris Benson and wife Anna are seen as fascinating and surprising pair, with Benson known for soft and quiet demeanor, professionalism on mound and straight-laced upbringing, and Anna known for her often colorful comments, scant wardrobe and past as stripper; photos (M)

Opposites Attract Attention

UConn Sends Pitt Downward

Manohla Dargis column offers defense of annual Oscars awards ceremony; holds part of what makes Oscars addictive spectacle is struggle between cinematic art and the movie industry, vision and profit, that plays out openly during show; photos (M)

The Academy Likes Itself! It Really Likes Itself!

 Islamic Jihad Says It Was Behind Tel Aviv Attack  The radical Palestinian faction Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Friday that threatened a fragile truce. Meanwhile, Israeli and Palestinian security forces each made arrests in the West Bank, and officials on both sides called for recent peace efforts to be sustained.   PAGE 13    Terror Case Angers Muslims  The charge that an American Muslim plotted with Al Qaeda to assassinate President Bush has outraged members of Northern Virginia's Muslim population.   PAGE 29    Kurds Vow to Keep Militia  Kurdish leaders want to write into Iraq's constitution a system granting considerable powers to individual regions, one that will legitimize the use of their formidable militia, the pesh merga.   PAGE 18    Oscars Parody Is Not to Be  During the Oscars, Robin Williams had planned to mock the tempest over SpongeBob SquarePants, then he faced critics of his own.   PAGE 27    Martha Stewart's Return  Around the corridors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the talk is of ''homecoming'' -- the return on March 7 of the founder, who has spent the last four months in prison.   SUNDAY BUSINESS    God in American History  The religious right wants to stress the nation's Christian past. Some historians question the emphasis.   WEEK IN REVIEW    Henry Grunwald Is Dead  Henry A. Grunwald, the editor who reshaped Time magazine in the years after the death of its founder, Henry R. Luce, and who was later the United States ambassador to Austria, has died. He was 82.   PAGE 39  

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New York Knicks defeat Indiana Pacers, 90-79; photo (M)

A New Look Looks Good on the Knicks

Bonnie DeSimone travel article visit to Anguilla on budget of $250 a day; photos (M)

On Anguilla, High Rubs Elbows With Low; $250 a Day

Article on workers who do volunteer work; says about 65 million people did volunteer work last year; holds volunteerism has aura of deal-making at times: people want to give, but they also need to get, in form of enhanced professional skills, real-life experience for their resumes and valuable business contacts; photo (M)

Doing Well in Your Career by Doing Good Outside It

Egyptian Pres Hosni Mubarak asks Parliament to amend Constitution to allow direct, multiparty presidential elections for first time; some opposition politicians and analysts hail proposal, while skeptics await details; proponents regard move as first step in reviewing entire Constitution and response to domestic Bush administration pressure; Egypt's Parliament has long history of diluting reforms; recent arrest of Ayman Nour, leader of newly formed opposition party, seems at odds with Mubarak's commitment to democracy; photos (M)

Mubarak Pushes Egypt to Allow Freer Elections

Comedian and actress Kathy Griffin discusses dreaded worst-dressed lists; photos (M)

The Red Carpet's Bête Noire

Wichita (Kan) police arrest Dennis L Rader as suspect in BTK serial murder case, so-called because of his preferred method of binding, torturing and killing; Rader is suspected in 10 killings from 1974 to 1991; BTK killer sent chilling, taunting letters over years to police, newspapers and TV stations, often leaving tantalizing clues; DNA evidence is said to link Rader to crimes; Rader worked for years as municipal compliance officer in Wichita suburb Park City and knew every house in community; photos (M)

Arrest Is Made in Series of Killings in Kansas

Article on next steps that may be taken by Martha Stewart and company she founded, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, as she ends 4 1/2-month prison sentence on March 7; crucial question is whether company and Stewart really learned anything from last three years, when advertisers pulled out, television stations pulled programs from airwaves and merchandisers lost business; photos; graph (L)

No Remorse. No Regrets. No Worries For Martha.

Hollywood (Calif) is oddly reluctant to publish gossip, despite being host to many movie and television stars and other celebrities, leaving New York and international publishers to print gossip columns; photos (M)

Gossip, It Seems, Is Now Unprintable

Texas Republican Party vice chmn David Barton is a point man in a growing movement to call attention to the open Christianity of America's great leaders and founding documents; goal is to reverse what many evangelical Christians claim is a secularist revision of history; their campaign and the liberal resistance have turned even the slightest clues about the souls of the Republic's great leaders into hotly contested turf in the battle over the place of religion in public life; drawing; photos (M)

Putting God Back Into American History

$200,000 has replaced $100,000 as new benchmark salary for young and upwardly mobile in New York and other large cities, as costs of living rise; drawings (M)

Six Figures? Not Enough!

Article on unusually rich crop of classic plays set to open on Broadway this spring that are being directed by Britons; David Leveaux is directing revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, starring Jessica Lange; Anthony Page is directing Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin; and Edward Hall is making his Broadway debut with Roundabout Theater revival of Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Natasha Richardson and John C Reilly; photos (L)

The New British Invasion

Five Vietnam era helicopter pilots from New York National Guard deployed in Iraq as Black Hawk pilots are unhappy that their command and control responsibilities keep them largely earthbound while younger pilots fly; only two of five have flown since bulk of their brigade arrived in Iraq in January; photos (M)

Flyboys of Vietnam, Gray and Grounded in Iraq

Anemona Hartocollis Coping column on mystery of missing wheelchair belonging to Athena Bubaris, which was stolen from outside Popover Cafe on Manhattan's West Side; drawing (M)

Well, at Least They Didn't Steal Mom

Conservative economists and public policy experts who briefed then-Texas Gov George W Bush on Social Security in 1998 found he already had interest in private investment accounts within Social Security dating back at least to his unsuccessful race for House seat in 1978, illustrating how fringe proposal that once got Sen Barry Goldwater ostracized within his own party gradually became entrenched in conservative agenda; photos (M)

For Bush, a Long Embrace of Social Security Plan

THE annual armada of spring openings on Broadway almost always features a great old galleon of the American theater, one of those much-studied classics that are continually being revived and refreshed for new audiences and new eras.    But this spring there's an unusually rich crop of entries from American Theater 101. Opening in a span of less than two months are three of the American theater's best-known and best-loved classics: Tennessee Williams's ''Glass Menagerie'' and ''A Streetcar Named Desire,'' and Edward Albee's ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''   

New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner criticizes agent Arn Tellem, who represents Jason Giambi, Mike Mussina, Hideki Matsui and Mariano Rivera; acknowledges that Giambi's alleged steroid use is source of his discontent; photo (M)

Yankees' Boss Is Back

Article on some of New York City's off-the-radar places--forgotten old lunch counters, taverns, hardware stores, cigar shops and other places from the 1950's--that remain vital part of city's thriving heart; photos (L)

Here Is New York, Right Where We Left It

Article on Bush administration's next target: medical malpractice lawyers; Bush, in January speech in Illinois, again called for strict limits on medical malpractice suits, including 'hard cap of $250,000' on what patients could recover for non-economic damages like physical and emotional pain and suffering; health care analysts, while agreeing that medical liability system is deeply flawed, also agree that solution offered by administration and Republican Congress addresses only one aspect of problem; photos; graph (L)

February 27, 2005

Headlines from February 27, 2005

High: Anguilla on $1,000 a Day

Discard Logic, Cue Trumpets: It's New York, Getouttadaway

Within C.I.A., Worry of Prosecution for Conduct

Opposites Attract Attention

UConn Sends Pitt Downward

Billboard 200

Seventeen Days

The Documentary

American Idiot

Gemini

Totally Country Vol. 4

Historical Context for February 27, 2005