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Reports that a pen-and-ink drawing of a palace in Venice, Italy, is one of the many treasures that the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York City, will show beginning March 11, 2004, when it opens "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth". Drawings by the Mannerist architect Andrea Palladio; Proposal for a new Doge's Palace in Venice which was never used.

Anyone who was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, remembers how the ash, paper and dust of the collapsing towers blew across Lower Manhattan. For days afterward, there was that peculiar smell -- of burned paper and chemicals and death. That was the air that filled the lungs of tens of thousands of firefighters, police officers, nurses, paramedics, soldiers and civilian volunteers who toiled for months to uncover the dead. More than nine years later, many of those first responders are dead. Many are sick. Some are dying. Thousands need care for illnesses contracted through their heroism at ground zero. America owes them help, and Congress is poised to give it to them, if die-hard Republican objectors get out of the way of the majority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on "The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," a array of paintings, sculptures and works on paper once owned by the Manhattan-based art dealer Pierre Matisse and his wife Maria-Gaetana, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Personal background of Matisse; Collection of his father's works, Henri Matisse; Popularity of Matisse's art; Main attraction of the show.

Reports on the presence of Barbara Todres in the court trial of Martha Stewart, charged of conspirary, obstruction of justice, making false statements an securities fraud in Manhattan, New York. Pronouncement of the performance of Stewarts lawyer Robert Morvilla; Consideration of the opening statement of the prosecutor during the trial; Accounts on the four-page letter written by Todres on leopard-print paper.

Suggests gift ideas for the holiday season chosen by "House & Home" editors to appeal to the New Yorker in all. Gifts for under $25.00 which include small indulgences like glass candlesticks, a coffee press, a clown lamp, a desk exerciser and more; Street-smart gifts for the city dweller which include handpainted wallpapers, space saver table tennis; a wall mounted desk and more; Rustic gifts which include fatwood kindling, pine cone candlesticks, a bark vase, a windowsill herb garden and more; Gifts that send a little New York anywhere which include a carpet runner with the map of Manhattan on it, a skateboard with a city image imprinted, an inflatable Yankee Stadium cooler and more.