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(NYT19) OSAKA, Japan -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- SINGING-SAMURAI -- Ken Matsudaira, 51, performing in his revuelike show, "Matsuken Samba II," in Osaka, Japan...

(NYT42) MAINZ, Germany -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- BUSH-GERMANY -- The city's flag is flown in the center of Mainz, Germany, on Feb. 15, 2005. This snug, wine...

(NYT44) MAINZ, Germany -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- BUSH-GERMANY-3 -- As part of security measures, a manhole cover is welded shut outside the medieval cathedr...

(NYT71) CAMP SMITH, N.Y. -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- NY-ARMY-BANDS-3 -- Spc. Tami Johnston plays the flute during rehearsal of the 199th Army Band of the New...

(NYT41) UNDATED -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- LARGE-ROOMS -- One way to shrink a great room: seperate spaces, from left, for cards, conversation and dinner. (Ma...

(NYT45) MAINZ, Germany -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- BUSH-GERMANY-4 -- As part of security measures, a manhole cover is welded shut outside the medieval cathedr...

(NYT43) MAINZ, Germany -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- BUSH-GERMANY-2 -- The palace in Mainz, Germany, where President Bush is to meet with Chancellor Gerhard Sch...

(NYT70) CAMP SMITH, N.Y. -- Feb. 18, 2005 -- NY-ARMY-BANDS-2 -- A Member of the 199th Army Band of the New York Army National Guard looks over one of...

(NYT16) SWEDENSFORD, NJ -- February 18, 2005 -- Adv. for Sunday, Feb. 20 -- MCDONALDS-FOOD-INDUSTRY-2 -- Workers sort through sliced apples along the...

(NYT61) LANSING, MI -- February 18, 2005 -- ANTIWAR-NUNS -- Christine Packs, left, and Mary Ellen Gondeck, at Sisters of St. Joseph, Nazareth admini...

(NYT46) SULAIMANIYA, Iraq -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- IRAQ-KURDS -- A supporter of Iraqi Kurdish leader and presidential candidate Jalal Talabani holds up his...

(NYT52) BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- AFRICA-AIDS-INHERITANCE-3 -- Chikumbutso Zuza, 11, in his maternal aunt's hut on the outskirts of the vil...

(NYT34) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CONGRESS-MILITARY-3 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Tina Jonas, comptroller of the Defense Department,...

(NYT9) NEW YORK -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- INTERMISSIONS -- Intermission inside the Metropolitan Opera in February. Intermissions have become so squeezed at...

(NYT49) HALABJA, Iraq -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- IRAQ-KURDS-4 -- Iraqi Kurdish militiamen, knows as pesh merga, drill at a camp outside Halabja, northern Ira...

(NYT10) NEW YORK -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- INTERMISSIONS-2 -- Intermission on the sidewalk outside the Music Box Theater in Midtown Manhattan in February. I...

(NYT60) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CONGRESS-LOBBY -- Lobbyists outside an overcrowded Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting on Cap...

(NYT48) HALABJA, Iraq -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- IRAQ-KURDS-3 -- AN officer watches as Kurdish militiamen, knows as pesh merga, drill at a camp outside Halab...

(NYT62) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CONGRESS-RICE-2 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confers with an aide during testimony before the Senate...

(NYT53) BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- AFRICA-AIDS-INHERITANCE-4 -- Chikumbutso Zuza, 11, walks past his maternal aunt's hut, left, on the outsk...

(NYT51) BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- AFRICA-AIDS-INHERITANCE-2 -- Chikumbutso Zuza, 11, walks past a church in the village of Blantyre, Malawi...

(NYT50) NDANGA, Malawi -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- AFRICA-AIDS-INHERITANCE -- Ellen Wyson prepares to receive visitors in the unfurnished abandoned hut in whi...

(NYT32) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CONGRESS-MILITARY -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, left, speaks to an unidentified aide before testifying...

(NYT20) UNDATED -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CARS-WARNING-SIGNALS -- Greg Amy of Middletown, Ct. has been able to override gadgets in his Audi S4 with a few ke...

(NYT11) NEW YORK -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- INTERMISSIONS-3 -- Kathie Lee Gifford at an intermission in the Zipper Theater Lobby in Manhattan in February. In...

(NYT33) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CONGRESS-MILITARY-2 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, left, and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint C...

(NYT38) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CONGRESS-CLASS-ACTION -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) signs legislation to limit class-action after th...

(NYT61) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- CONGRESS-RICE -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Wash...

(NYT47) SULAIMANIYA, Iraq -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- IRAQ-KURDS-2 -- A man holds up the Kurdish flag during street celebrations in the Kurdish capital of Sul...

(NYT39) STRATTON, Vt. -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- PRIVATE-SKI-CLUBS -- The lodge at Stratton Mountain Club, Feb. 5, 2005, in Stratton, Vt. Stratton is among t...

(NYT15) SAN FRANCISCO -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- RETREAT-YOGA -- Yoga instructor Rodney Yee helps Janette Lin of Boston during his intensive class at the Yog...

(NYT19) PETERSHAM, Mass. -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- RETREAT-MONKS -- The entrance to the Most Holy Trinity Monestary entrance, pictured Feb. 12, 2005. Cloist...

(NYT17) SAN FRANCISCO -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- RETREAT-YOGA-3 -- Daniel Rauck of Santa Rosa, Calif. holds an advanced position during an intensive by Yoga...

(NYT18) SAN FRANCISCO -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- RETREAT-YOGA-4 -- Yoga instructor Baron Baptiste leads his intensive at the Yoga Journal Conference at the H...

(NYT27) ARANSAS BAY, Texas -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- TEXAS-CRANES-2 -- Tourists use binoculars to watch Whooping Cranes, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2005 along the A...

(NYT41) STRATTON, Vt. -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- PRIVATE-SKI-CLUBS-3 -- Kim Thomson of West Hartford, Ct., orange jacket, enjoys a day on the slopes at Strat...

(NYT40) STRATTON, Vt. -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- PRIVATE-SKI-CLUBS-2 -- The interior of the lodge at Stratton Mountain Club in Stratton, Vt., Feb. 5, 2005....

(NYT42) STRATTON, Vt. -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- PRIVATE-SKI-CLUBS-4 -- Guests being helped at the concierge desk of the Stratton Mountain Club in Stratton,...

(NYT16) SAN FRANCISCO -- Feb. 17, 2005 -- RETREAT-YOGA-2 -- Students hold a position during Yoga instructor Baron Baptiste's intensive at the Yoga Jou...

(NYT15) PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- CIR-TECH-AUCTION-2 -- A 1928 journal about television and a copy of Karel Capek's play that introduced...

(NYT57) GUERNSEY, Fla. -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- CIR-AMERICAS-ARMY -- Members of the America's Army video-game team, including Josh Reynolds, left, and Kend...

(NYT58) GUERNSEY, Fla. -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- CIR-AMERICAS-ARMY-2 -- Clayton Montgomery, a 3-D level designer of the America's Army video-game team, ridi...

(NYT82) ASHLAND, Ore. -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- MAZOR-MANSION-3 -- An upstairs sitting room in Stanley Mazor's expandable House, Chateau Herbe, modeled afte...

(NYT81) ASHLAND, Ore. -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- MAZOR-MANSION-2 -- The front entrance of Stanley Mazor's expandable House, Chateau Herbe, modeled after a ne...

(NYT80) ASHLAND, Ore. -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- MAZOR-MANSION -- Stanley Mazor, right, with his wife Maurine, in the study of "Chateau Herbe" in Ashland, Or...

(NYT91) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- DEPORT-CHILDREN-2 -- Adnan Thakur, 10, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Jan. 14, 2005. Born and raised in New Yor...

(NYT72) ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- PARAGUAY -- Lily Tucks, author of "The News from Paraguay," is flanked by Evanhy de Gallegos, the secre...

(NYT35) NEW YORK -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- BRADLEY-HARVARD -- Richard Bradley in Manhattan in February. Bradley's last book, a decidedly unauthorized biogra...

(NYT65) NEW YORK -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- Adv. for Sun., Feb. 20 -- BEIJING-DANCE -- The Beijing Modern Dance Company performing "Rear Light," a 70-minute...

(NYT90) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Feb. 16, 2005 -- DEPORT-CHILDREN -- Shilpi Thakur in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with her children, Adnan, 10, and Rifha, 2, on Ja...