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Today Ms. Durrow finds herself in the elite precincts of The New Yorker and National Public Radio — which a few weeks ago began the Summer Blend Book Club, featuring works about multiracial people.

US Airways, which three weeks ago began its own merger talks with United, is now left on the sidelines, raising questions about its ability to survive as a stand-alone carrier.

Warren Lieberfarb, the president of Warner Home Video, is not surprised by the strategy change at Blockbuster, which a few weeks ago began transforming its 4,412 American stores to promote more DVD sales.

Midem, the organization behind the music industry's biggest trade fair, two weeks ago began serializing a study called "The Real Cost of Direct to Fan," which lays out situations in which artists are better off selling items on the road or through traditional retailers.

The unusual daylight raids, the most intense on the Libyan capital since the aerial campaign started more than 11 weeks ago, began in midmorning and continued well past midnight — fulfilling NATO commanders' recent warnings of an impending rise in the intensity of attacks.

FOR several days last week, Iraqi leaders and the controlled Iraqi media were pleading openly with the Arab world not to abandon Iraq "and damage the Arab nation". The call came, diplomats said, as the importance of an Arab warning to Mr. Hussein several weeks ago began to sink in.

The first serious cracks in the ranks of the police appeared more than a week ago, beginning with the special weapons and tactics team of the 92nd precinct in Belgrade, according to a report Tuesday in the independent daily newspaper Glas Javnosti.

A FEW weeks ago I began looking for snowdrops.

A few weeks ago, gravity began exerting its pull.

A few weeks ago, Stephen Colbert began hosting CBS's "Late Show".

A few weeks ago, Baker began teaching her second semester of graduate playwriting.