Article: At a luncheon . . .(politics)(News Briefs)

-- At a luncheon in New York, attended also by Hillary Clinton, the actor Alec Baldwin referred to two "catastrophic events" that hit America: September 11, of course, and the 2000 presidential election. Mr. Baldwin forgot a third: his reneging on his vow to leave the country if Bush won.

-- The six-month mark in the Terror War was observed in New York by a moment of silence during the St. Patrick's Day parade (so many of the dead firemen and cops were Irish), and by the illumination of two pillars of light, spectral Trade Towers, shining from Ground Zero. New York being New York, there is an intense squabble over what should stand on the site permanently: new ...

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