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After a 50-year, self-imposed ban on television ads for hard liquor, NBC has decided to begin airing limited commercials. A congressional opponent of the move and a representative of the nation's distillers debate the decision.

Robert MacNeil reports on a New York Times series remembering those killed at the World Trade Center. The series was part of the Times' "A Nation Challenged" reports, which won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize.

U.S. officials have decided to limit the number of American troops searching the Tora Bora cave complex for clues to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. Despite the move, Pentagon officials continued to press Afghan commanders to probe region.

Following an interview with the interim Afghan Prime Minister on the Associated Press Television Network, Indira Lakshmanan, a foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe, provides a first-hand account of Afghanistan after the war and the Taliban's defeat.