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By MARK LANDLER BERLIN, March 24 — The German sports-car maker Porsche said Saturday that it would make a takeover bid for Volkswagen, a symbolically audacious but largely legal step in its growing control over VW, Europe’s largest carmaker and the inventor of the…

By STEVEN ERLANGER JERUSALEM, March 22 — Some of Jerusalem’s nicest people gathered the other night to listen to a talk by an Israeli soldier troubled by how he and some of his colleagues had behaved in the occupied West Bank. The small crowd on a rainy evening was a bit…

By JOHN M. BRODER and CHRISTINE HAUSER CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 22 — John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said today that his wife’s cancer had returned, but that his bid for the presidency “goes on strongly.” “The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on…

By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D. For many Americans, the tobacco industry’s disingenuousness became a matter of public record during a Congressional hearing on April 14, 1994. There, under the withering glare of Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, appeared the chief…

By CARLOTTA GALLKABUL, Afghanistan, March 13 — Sitting and eating quietly on his father’s lap, the 18-month-old was oblivious to the infection in his veins.But his father, a burly farmer, knew only too well. It was the same one that killed his wife four months ago, leaving him alone with…