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TOP NEWS Egyptians Defiant as Military Does Little to Quash Protests By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK As troops and protesters fraternized, Omar Suleiman, Egypt's military intelligence chief, was sworn in as vice president. Calling for Restraint, Pentagon Faces Test of Influence With Ally By ELISABETH BUMILLER The United States military is trying to navigate a peaceful outcome and remain close to an important ally. Egyptians Wonder What's Next By ANTHONY SHADID Anxiety remains over what the protests will lead to, and what the arson and looting portend. City Room: Protests Extend to Streets of New York • NYTimes.com Home Page » QUOTATION OF THE DAY "I think it's really important to acknowledge who you are and everything that makes you that. If someone tries to call me black I say, 'yes - and white.' " LAURA WOOD, vice president of the Multiracial and Biracial Student Association at the University of Maryland. Egypt.

Tough options for a family business Also in Business » From laid off to entrepreneur Defining a "lifestyle business" World Photographs: Protests Continue in Egypt Protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak to relinquish power gathered in Cairo on Saturday, making clear they reject promises of reform and a new government. Opinion Op-Art | A Month of... Sunday Walks The first part of an illustrated series by Leanne Shapton about daily life captures Sunday strolls through the woods.

WORLD Egyptians Defiant as Military Does Little to Quash Protests By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK As troops and protesters fraternized, Omar Suleiman, Egypt's military intelligence chief, was sworn in as vice president. Man in the News Choice Likely to Please the Military, Not the Crowds By MICHAEL SLACKMAN Omar Suleiman, President Hosni Mubarak's choice for vice president of Egypt, is the establishment's candidate. News Analysis Yearning for Respect, Arabs Find a Voice By ANTHONY SHADID Across the Middle East, a somewhat nostalgic notion of a common Arab identity is driving protests that have bound the region in a sense of a shared destiny. Video: New Chants in Cairo • More World News » U.S. Race Remixed Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above By SUSAN SAULNY Many young adults of mixed backgrounds are rejecting color lines that have defined Americans for generations. Slide Show: Rejecting the Color Lines Video: Young and Mixed in America Interactive: Mixed America's Family Trees A Chicken Chain's Corporate Ethos Is Questioned by Gay Rights Advocates By KIM SEVERSON A Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A's decision to sponsor a February marriage seminar by a group that has been outspoken against homosexuality has caused an outcry in the gay community. Giffords's Husband Faces Decision on Shuttle Flight By JOHN SCHWARTZ Gabrielle Giffords's husband must decide whether to move ahead with commanding the space shuttle in April. • More U.S. News » BUSINESS What's Broken in Greece? Ask an Entrepreneur By LANDON THOMAS Jr. As one microbrewer sees it, outdated government rules have helped make many Greek companies uncompetitive. Google Finds It Hard to Reinvent Philanthropy By STEPHANIE STROM and MIGUEL HELFT In 2004, Google promised to transform philanthropy. That goal remains elusive. DealBook Massey to Be Sold to Alpha Natural Resources By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED The coal mining company Massey Energy has struggled with safety problems and legal burdens. But its new owner's chief executive says its standards will improve. • More Business News » SPORTS A Marathon on Ice By ANDY ISAACSON The McMurdo Marathon brings together a small field of runners on a course at the bottom of the world. Slide Show: Antarctic Marathon Replay White Is Adapting To Less Than Perfect By MATT HIGGINS Shaun White is favored to win a fourth consecutive gold medal in the superpipe final at the X Games on Sunday. A $60 Million Palace for Texas High School Football By GREG BISHOP With more than 5,000 students and the nation's largest high school band, Allen High School holds a lottery for 70 of the 14,200 seats in its current facility. • More Sports News » ARTS A Golden Age of Foreign Films, Mostly Unseen by A. O. SCOTT Do the the Academy Awards help to perpetuate the growing irrelevance of world cinema in American movie culture? Interactive Ballot: Cast Your Oscar Votes So 'Lost' Is Over: Now What's to Be Found? By CARLTON CUSE Carlton Cuse, one of the two show runners of "Lost," found that completing that series left him, and everyone else, wondering what he would do next. White Paint, Chocolate, and Postmodern Ghosts By RANDY KENNEDY Sue de Beer, an artist known for dabbling in darkness, has taken on a ghostly video project. Video: 'The Ghosts' • More Arts News » MAGAZINE Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets By BILL KELLER Is Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, a puppet master of the news media? He would like you to think so. But The Times's dealings with him reveal a different story. Video: WikiLeaks - The Back Story WikiLeaks Articles: The War Logs | State's Secrets Martin Peretz Is Not Sorry. About Anything. By STEPHEN RODRICK The ever-combative former leader of The New Republic helped toughen up modern liberalism. So he's not about to let some lily-livered lefties take him down. The Rembrandt of Riyadh By TIM ADAMS How to make a megafortune as a painter? Go where competition is scarce but vanity and new money are not. • More From the Magazine » EDITORIALS Editorial The Two Abortion Wars: A Highly Intrusive Federal Bill House Republicans are preparing to push through restrictions on federal financing of abortions far more extreme than previously proposed. Editorial The Two Abortion Wars: State Battles Over Roe v. Wade Away from Washington, an ominous anti-abortion fight is accelerating in the states. Editorial Netizens Gain Some Privacy Pressure by regulators is having a welcome effect on consumer privacy on the Internet. Editorial We Never Got Down to Blue The government's five-color code alert system is going the way of cold war survival biscuits. • More Opinion » OP-ED Op-Ed Columnist The Tea Party Wags the Dog By FRANK RICH The Republicans, who sold themselves as the uncompromising champions of Tea Party-fueled fiscal austerity, have discovered that most Americans prefer compromise to confrontation. Columnist Page Op-Ed Columnist No Axe to Grind By MAUREEN DOWD A band of brothers parts ways for more campaign glory. Columnist Page Op-Ed Columnist Serious in Singapore By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN If Singapore has one thing to teach America, it is about getting governance right. Columnist Page Op-Ed Columnist Watch Out! The Assault Vehicle Is Loose! By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF What if we treated firearms the way we treat cars, as a public health challenge? Vehicle regulations save lives and are a model for gun regulations. Columnist Page | Blog Op-Chart A Year in Iraq and Afghanistan By IAN LIVINGSTON, ALICIA CHENG and SARAH GEPHART In 2010, the United States and its allies continued to shift the military focus from Iraq to Afghanistan. Op-Ed Contributor Washington's Financial Disaster By FRANK PARTNOY The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report was a confusing and contradictory mess. Congress needs to try again. The Public Editor Speed and Credibility By ARTHUR S. BRISBANE Can The Times get it first and get it right? More Public Editor Columns Web Journal • More Opinion » ON THIS DAY On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. • See This Front Page • Buy This Front Page