Music: A Bold, Brash 'Cello Symphony

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The Pulitzer has not altered Zwilich's practical approach to her art. Writing with performing opportunities in mind, she says, "is a healthy atmosphere for an artist. When young people come to me for advice, I tell them to compose things for their musician friends to play. Don't sit at home and write for the Chicago Symphony." Until, that is, the Chicago Symphony asks you. --By Michael Walsh

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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