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1205502 | 2000 | 06 | 07 | Space Mapping Affirms Theory Of the Universe |
By measuring the distances to 100,000 galaxies scattered across billions of light-years of space, a robotic telescope in eastern Australia has produced the first detailed, large-scale map of the region of the universe inhabited by Earth and its own galaxy, the Milky Way.
The map revealed galaxies glittering like bonfires in majestic arcs and filigree patterns hundreds of millions of light-years across, as well as vast dark regions called voids, and it confirmed a fundamental assumption about the birth of the universe: that cosmic structures have a maximum size, a limit called the ''end of greatness.''
| By measuring the distances to 100,000 galaxies scattered across billions of light-years of space, a robotic telescope in eastern Australia has produced the first detailed, large-scale map of the region of the universe inhabited by Earth and its own galaxy, the Milky Way. The map revealed galaxies glittering like bonfires in majestic arcs and filigree patterns hundreds of millions of light-years across, as well as vast dark regions called voids, and it confirmed a fundamental assumption about the birth of the universe: that cosmic structures have a maximum size, a limit called the ''end of greatness.'' These structures, giant agglomerations of galaxies, might be thought of as cosmic ''continents.'' Previous surveys have never been large enough to see more than a few continents, leaving open the possibility that |
1693530 | 2005 | 08 | 09 | Panel Chairman to Press Roberts on Cases |
In the first hint of how he will steer the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., Senator Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said Monday that he would press the nominee for his views on specific cases involving the authority of Congress to pass broad social legislation, a power that Democrats fear will be rolled back by a more conservative court.
In a three-page letter to Judge Roberts, Mr. Specter raises pointed questions about two recent court decisions invalidating legislation Congress passed under its authority to regulate interstate commerce. That power has for decades been used to produce expansive legislation, including environmental protections, civil rights laws and the Americans With Disabilities Act.
| In the first hint of how he will steer the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., Senator Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said Monday that he would press the nominee for his views on specific cases involving the authority of Congress to pass broad social legislation, a power that Democrats fear will be rolled back by a more conservative court. In a three-page letter to Judge Roberts, Mr. Specter raises pointed questions about two recent court decisions invalidating legislation Congress passed under its authority to regulate interstate commerce. That power has for decades been used to produce expansive legislation, including environmental protections, civil rights laws and the Americans With Disabilities Act. The current court has been trimming back the authority, however, and Democrats |
1844449 | 2007 | 05 | 02 | A Crossover Helps Ford, but Not Enough to Hold Its No. 2 Spot |
Is the Edge giving Ford the edge it was hoping for?
At the very least, the new crossover vehicle is keeping sales at the Ford Motor Company from dropping even more than they already are this year, at a time when the company is pulling back on unprofitable sales to rental-car companies.
| Is the Edge giving Ford the edge it was hoping for? At the very least, the new crossover vehicle is keeping sales at the Ford Motor Company from dropping even more than they already are this year, at a time when the company is pulling back on unprofitable sales to rental-car companies. Ford is meeting the expectations it set for the Edge when the vehicle went on sale in December. But the Edge is not generating the revenue of the big sport utility vehicles that once fueled Ford's profits, and it is not drawing the new customers that the company will need to bounce back from its worst loss in history -- $12.7 billion last year. Ford's falling sales have allowed the Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan to |
1184048 | 2000 | 03 | 15 | School Vouchers Are Ruled Unconstitutional in Florida |
A Florida judge ruled yesterday that the state's Constitution barred students from using taxpayer money for private school tuition, blocking Florida's eight-month-old voucher program, the nation's boldest experiment in using market forces to improve failing schools.
The decision, which the state says it will appeal, is the second major legal setback for voucher proponents in recent months, following a federal judge's ruling that Cleveland's program contravenes the First Amendment's separation of church and state.
| A Florida judge ruled yesterday that the state's Constitution barred students from using taxpayer money for private school tuition, blocking Florida's eight-month-old voucher program, the nation's boldest experiment in using market forces to improve failing schools. The decision, which the state says it will appeal, is the second major legal setback for voucher proponents in recent months, following a federal judge's ruling that Cleveland's program contravenes the First Amendment's separation of church and state. Florida's is the first statewide voucher program and the first anywhere to tie voucher eligibility to schools' performance on standardized tests. It serves as a model for a national voucher plan proposed by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the expected Republican presidential nominee, and has been copied by several of the 25 state |
1409979 | 2002 | 07 | 21 | With Stocks in Crisis, Greenspan's Nostrums Fall Short |
WHEN Alan Greenspan spoke on Capitol Hill last week, Washington politicians were as worshipful as ever. Back on Wall Street and Main Street, however, it is becoming painfully clear that Mr. Greenspan's ability to revive the economy has lost its punch. Look no further than the almost 400-point drop in the Dow industrials on Friday.
Mr. Greenspan's aggressive interest rate cuts were supposed to buoy the economy. Unfortunately, the sickly stock market is acting as a counterweight to any buoyancy.
| WHEN Alan Greenspan spoke on Capitol Hill last week, Washington politicians were as worshipful as ever. Back on Wall Street and Main Street, however, it is becoming painfully clear that Mr. Greenspan's ability to revive the economy has lost its punch. Look no further than the almost 400-point drop in the Dow industrials on Friday. Mr. Greenspan's aggressive interest rate cuts were supposed to buoy the economy. Unfortunately, the sickly stock market is acting as a counterweight to any buoyancy. Using history as a guide, the stock market should be higher now than it was a year ago. Since 1948, six months after a recession's trough, stocks have jumped an average of 24 percent from the previous year. But at the end of June, six months from the |
1556235 | 2004 | 02 | 04 | Technology Briefing | Software: Good Technology Revamps Messaging Software |
Good Technology introduced an update to its software yesterday that aims to make cellphones more like laptop computers. Executives at a gathering in San Francisco showed off some of the new features in the company's GoodLink 3.0 messaging software, which include the ability to easily perform more than one task at a time, to view PC files in their native format and to preview incoming e-mail in ways similar to Microsoft's Outlook application. Good also announced that it would add support for Windows Mobile-based devices, including hand-helds based on the Pocket PC operating system. GoodLink already works on RIM devices as well as on palmOne's Treo 600. While the company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has been making inroads in the hand-held software and service market, RIM remains the leader, having signed more than one million customers for its wireless messaging service. The GoodLink event drew several top executives, like Palm's co-founder, Jeff Hawkins, and executives from Electronic Arts, Dell and Microsoft.
| Good Technology introduced an update to its software yesterday that aims to make cellphones more like laptop computers. Executives at a gathering in San Francisco showed off some of the new features in the company's GoodLink 3.0 messaging software, which include the ability to easily perform more than one task at a time, to view PC files in their native format and to preview incoming e-mail in ways similar to Microsoft's Outlook application. Good also announced that it would add support for Windows Mobile-based devices, including hand-helds based on the Pocket PC operating system. GoodLink already works on RIM devices as well as on palmOne's Treo 600. While the company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has been making inroads in the hand-held software and service market, RIM remains the |
1532615 | 2003 | 11 | 04 | As Earth Warms, The Hottest Issue Is Energy |
Suppose that over the next decade or two the forecasts of global warming start to come true. Color has drained from New England's autumns as maple trees die, and the Baltimore oriole can no longer be found south of Buffalo. The Dust Bowl has returned to the Great Plains, and Arctic ice is melting into open water. Upheavals in weather, the environment and life are accelerating around the world.
Then what?
| Suppose that over the next decade or two the forecasts of global warming start to come true. Color has drained from New England's autumns as maple trees die, and the Baltimore oriole can no longer be found south of Buffalo. The Dust Bowl has returned to the Great Plains, and Arctic ice is melting into open water. Upheavals in weather, the environment and life are accelerating around the world. Then what? If global warming occurs as predicted, there will be no easy way to turn the Earth's thermostat back down. The best that most scientists would hope for would be to slow and then halt the warming, and that would require a top-to-bottom revamping of the world's energy systems, shifting from fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural |
1539237 | 2003 | 11 | 30 | Homage to Paganini |
To the Editor:
In a Nov. 2 article, Regina Carter is quoted as saying of Verve Records: ''They didn't know who Paganini was. They couldn't have cared less'' [''Regina Carter Keeps in Touch With a 260-Year-Old Friend'' by Terry Teachout].
We at Verve have definitely heard of Paganini. And if we did not care, we would not have respectfully challenged her idea of recording an album using his violin; we would have simply said no, we are not going to finance the album and we will not put up the money to market it.
| To the Editor: In a Nov. 2 article, Regina Carter is quoted as saying of Verve Records: ''They didn't know who Paganini was. They couldn't have cared less'' [''Regina Carter Keeps in Touch With a 260-Year-Old Friend'' by Terry Teachout]. We at Verve have definitely heard of Paganini. And if we did not care, we would not have respectfully challenged her idea of recording an album using his violin; we would have simply said no, we are not going to finance the album and we will not put up the money to market it. In the end, although Ms. Carter put quite a bit of her own money into the project, Verve agreed to increase her normal recording budget by more than 20 percent to help with the |
1593020 | 2004 | 06 | 29 | India-Pakistan Talks Make No Specific Gains on Kashmir |
Two days of talks between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan concluded here Monday with no progress on their dispute over Kashmir, but with the announcement of more measures meant to build confidence between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
The talks were the first between the heads of the two countries' diplomatic services in six years, and followed an agreement in January by their top leaders for a dialogue on all bilateral issues, including Kashmir.
| Two days of talks between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan concluded here Monday with no progress on their dispute over Kashmir, but with the announcement of more measures meant to build confidence between the nuclear-armed neighbors. The talks were the first between the heads of the two countries' diplomatic services in six years, and followed an agreement in January by their top leaders for a dialogue on all bilateral issues, including Kashmir. While Kashmir did figure in the talks, there were no specific proposals put on the table regarding a solution, according to spokesmen for both nations. They did commit themselves to a ''peaceful, negotiated final settlement'' on Kashmir. The Muslim majority Kashmir ended up with India, under its Hindu maharajah, at the time of partition |
1325743 | 2001 | 09 | 17 | Latin Grammy Awards Try a Taste of Reality |
Hundreds of top music executives and artists gathered in the international ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last Monday for a formal dinner and pre-party for the Latin Grammy Awards, which were to be broadcast live the following night on CBS. The dinner doubled as a celebration honoring Julio Iglesias, who had been named man of the year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the branch of the National Recording Academy that runs the Latin Grammys. In a big night intended as a warm-up to an even bigger night, a dozen stars of Latin music, including Celia Cruz, Arturo Sandoval, Alejandro Sanz and Jon Secada, performed in tribute.
Mr. Iglesias ended the night with a message of brotherly love, telling the audience that he hoped in the future the Chinese, the Scandinavians and all the other regional music traditions of the world would ''have a point of access to this class of awards,'' which currently only includes the annual Grammy ceremony and the Latin Grammys, now in their second year.
| Hundreds of top music executives and artists gathered in the international ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last Monday for a formal dinner and pre-party for the Latin Grammy Awards, which were to be broadcast live the following night on CBS. The dinner doubled as a celebration honoring Julio Iglesias, who had been named man of the year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the branch of the National Recording Academy that runs the Latin Grammys. In a big night intended as a warm-up to an even bigger night, a dozen stars of Latin music, including Celia Cruz, Arturo Sandoval, Alejandro Sanz and Jon Secada, performed in tribute. Mr. Iglesias ended the night with a message of brotherly love, telling the audience that he hoped |
1433071 | 2002 | 10 | 19 | U.S. Seeks Support to Press North Korea |
American officials opened a diplomatic drive across Asia and Europe today to build international pressure on North Korea to abandon its recently revealed nuclear weapons program.
Bush administration officials said they were looking particularly to China, one of North Korea's oldest allies and largest trading partners, to play a role in urging Pyongyang to dismantle its program to enrich uranium for weapons. North Korean officials acknowledged the program in a meeting with American diplomats two weeks ago.
| American officials opened a diplomatic drive across Asia and Europe today to build international pressure on North Korea to abandon its recently revealed nuclear weapons program. Bush administration officials said they were looking particularly to China, one of North Korea's oldest allies and largest trading partners, to play a role in urging Pyongyang to dismantle its program to enrich uranium for weapons. North Korean officials acknowledged the program in a meeting with American diplomats two weeks ago. On the first stop of a multination sweep through Asia and Europe, James A. Kelly, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and John R. Bolton, under secretary for arms control and international security, met with senior Foreign Ministry officials in Beijing, urging China to join Japan |
1362791 | 2002 | 01 | 27 | Private Sector; Parachuting Into Kmart's Aisles |
THE Kmart Corporation's goal of exiting bankruptcy court by the end of 2003 strikes many retailing experts as far too optimistic. But Kmart's new chairman, James B. Adamson, already wants to shorten the timetable.
''Every day that this company is in bankruptcy is, one, a scarlet letter and, two, difficult to operate,'' said Mr. Adamson, a corporate turnaround executive who has revived three big companies since 1988. ''I can't imagine us limping along through two Christmases. We really should have a goal to get out after next Christmas.''
| THE Kmart Corporation's goal of exiting bankruptcy court by the end of 2003 strikes many retailing experts as far too optimistic. But Kmart's new chairman, James B. Adamson, already wants to shorten the timetable. ''Every day that this company is in bankruptcy is, one, a scarlet letter and, two, difficult to operate,'' said Mr. Adamson, a corporate turnaround executive who has revived three big companies since 1988. ''I can't imagine us limping along through two Christmases. We really should have a goal to get out after next Christmas.'' It should be noted that Mr. Adamson, 53, will receive a $4 million bonus on top of his $2.5 million in salary and signing bonus for 2002 if he can pull this off. He is wasting no time. Last Tuesday, |
1303647 | 2001 | 06 | 22 | Wilpon Expected to Buy Doubleday's Share of Mets |
In a transaction perhaps only weeks away from completion, Fred Wilpon will buy Nelson Doubleday's 50 percent share of the Mets, then divide that portion among a group of highly influential New York entrepreneurs, several people familiar with the development said yesterday.
Two of those people said Doubleday was selling his half-ownership of the team to Wilpon, who also owns 50 percent, because of their long-running hostile relationship.
| In a transaction perhaps only weeks away from completion, Fred Wilpon will buy Nelson Doubleday's 50 percent share of the Mets, then divide that portion among a group of highly influential New York entrepreneurs, several people familiar with the development said yesterday. Two of those people said Doubleday was selling his half-ownership of the team to Wilpon, who also owns 50 percent, because of their long-running hostile relationship. ''He's pretty fed up with the whole thing,'' one person said of Doubleday. The other person echoed that assessment of the motivation behind Doubleday's decision to end his 22-year ownership of the Mets. One person said the deal was close to being completed; another said it was ''a matter of weeks, or less.'' One of them also said that before |
1560018 | 2004 | 02 | 19 | Truck Bombs Kill 11 Iraqis At Army Base Run by Poles |
Suicide bombers attacked a Polish military base south of Baghdad on Wednesday morning, killing 11 Iraqis and wounding more than 100 others, including soldiers and civilians.
The attack began when two trucks packed with explosives raced toward the military compound in Hillah, about 60 miles south of the capital. Guards fired on the vehicles, causing one to explode. The other crashed into a concrete barrier and blew up, Lt. Col. Robert Strzelecki, commander of the Polish base, told The Associated Press.
| Suicide bombers attacked a Polish military base south of Baghdad on Wednesday morning, killing 11 Iraqis and wounding more than 100 others, including soldiers and civilians. The attack began when two trucks packed with explosives raced toward the military compound in Hillah, about 60 miles south of the capital. Guards fired on the vehicles, causing one to explode. The other crashed into a concrete barrier and blew up, Lt. Col. Robert Strzelecki, commander of the Polish base, told The Associated Press. Preliminary reports indicated that the 11 people killed were Iraqis. American officials in Baghdad said 102 people were wounded, including 58 soldiers at the base. It was unclear if any of the wounded were Americans. A spokesman for the American military in Baghdad said only 6 of |
1850093 | 2007 | 05 | 27 | A Tour With Head Tilted Up |
TO see 25 of America's 150 favorite architectural structures in a day, you could hire a private plane and try to spot the Sears Tower, the St. Louis Arch, the Milwaukee Art Museum and 22 more from the air as you cross the country.
Or you could take a Saturday stroll through Manhattan.
| TO see 25 of America's 150 favorite architectural structures in a day, you could hire a private plane and try to spot the Sears Tower, the St. Louis Arch, the Milwaukee Art Museum and 22 more from the air as you cross the country. Or you could take a Saturday stroll through Manhattan. To celebrate the American Institute of Architects' 150th anniversary, its members picked 248 of their favorites, then used a survey of Americans (by Harris Interactive) to rank the top 150 as ''America's Favorite Architecture.'' New York scored 33 spots, by far the most of any city. (Washington was second with 17, then Chicago with 16.) Seeing 25 in a day is easily possible on foot, but bring comfortable shoes, because it's about a nine-mile urban |
1308892 | 2001 | 07 | 13 | Overcome by Slavery |
On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring slaves forever free, but the subject remains very much alive. On the big screen we have had ''Glory,'' ''Amistad,'' ''Shadrach'' and ''Beloved.'' On television, the four-part series ''Africans in America'' was followed by Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s controversial sojourn through Africa, during which he confronted African complicity in the slave trade. Such programs have come hard on the heels of new monuments and miles of freedom trails, dozens of exhibitions and the building of museums dedicated to slavery.
In the past year, some 50 scholarly works on slavery have been published. Add dozens of Web sites, children's books and novels and at least one parody, ''The Wind Done Gone.'' And, if that was not enough, there was the DNA confirmation of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings.
| On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring slaves forever free, but the subject remains very much alive. On the big screen we have had ''Glory,'' ''Amistad,'' ''Shadrach'' and ''Beloved.'' On television, the four-part series ''Africans in America'' was followed by Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s controversial sojourn through Africa, during which he confronted African complicity in the slave trade. Such programs have come hard on the heels of new monuments and miles of freedom trails, dozens of exhibitions and the building of museums dedicated to slavery. In the past year, some 50 scholarly works on slavery have been published. Add dozens of Web sites, children's books and novels and at least one parody, ''The Wind Done Gone.'' And, if that was not enough, there was |
1598597 | 2004 | 07 | 23 | 36 Hours | Homer, Alaska |
AS you round the final bend on the Sterling Highway and reach the town of Homer, the view of Kachemak Bay stops you dead. Across the water, jagged mountains cut by fjords lead right to the rocky coastline, and forests lead to alpine tundra, then glaciers that glint in the sunlight. On the Homer side of the bay, fields full of purple lupine, white yarrow and goldenrod lead to beaches; snow-capped volcanoes across a nearby inlet come into view. Homer is called the End of the Road, the Halibut Fishing Capital of the World, or the Cosmic Hamlet by the Sea, depending on whom you happen to ask. Located on the Kenai Peninsula, a 220-mile drive south of Anchorage, Homer is a small town of homesteaders and artists, fishermen and ex-hippies, with a sprinkling of outlaws and seers. These categories frequently overlap, creating a funky, dynamic town that is a bit eccentric even by Alaskan standards.
MARIA FINN DOMINGUEZ
Friday
| AS you round the final bend on the Sterling Highway and reach the town of Homer, the view of Kachemak Bay stops you dead. Across the water, jagged mountains cut by fjords lead right to the rocky coastline, and forests lead to alpine tundra, then glaciers that glint in the sunlight. On the Homer side of the bay, fields full of purple lupine, white yarrow and goldenrod lead to beaches; snow-capped volcanoes across a nearby inlet come into view. Homer is called the End of the Road, the Halibut Fishing Capital of the World, or the Cosmic Hamlet by the Sea, depending on whom you happen to ask. Located on the Kenai Peninsula, a 220-mile drive south of Anchorage, Homer is a small town of homesteaders and artists, |
1712103 | 2005 | 10 | 24 | Ukrainian Sees No Russia Block On NATO Entry |
The defense minister of Ukraine expressed confidence on Sunday that Russia would not block his nation's efforts to join NATO, and he said the greater hurdle might be convincing a population that for decades was bathed in Soviet propaganda criticizing the Atlantic alliance.
At a brief news conference here with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the Ukrainian defense minister, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, said potential NATO membership for Ukraine ''is no threat for the Russian Republic.'' Asked whether he expected Moscow to object to Ukraine's moves toward NATO membership, he said, ''I don't see it as a really serious issue.''
| The defense minister of Ukraine expressed confidence on Sunday that Russia would not block his nation's efforts to join NATO, and he said the greater hurdle might be convincing a population that for decades was bathed in Soviet propaganda criticizing the Atlantic alliance. At a brief news conference here with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the Ukrainian defense minister, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, said potential NATO membership for Ukraine ''is no threat for the Russian Republic.'' Asked whether he expected Moscow to object to Ukraine's moves toward NATO membership, he said, ''I don't see it as a really serious issue.'' The comments came as NATO defense ministers gathered here for their fourth meeting in four years dedicated to assessing, and assisting, Ukraine's desire for membership. No timetable was set for |
1223467 | 2000 | 08 | 18 | TELLABS GETS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE |
Richard C. Notebaert, former chairman of the Ameritech Corporation, has agreed to become chief executive of Tellabs Inc., the medium-sized maker of communications equipment. Mr. Notebaert takes the reins on Sept. 18. Michael J. Birck, one of the company's founders and the current chief executive, will give up that title and become the company's chairman. Previously, Tellabs did not have a chairman, though Mr. Birck filled that role informally. Mr. Notebaert, 53, left Ameritech, one of the Bell local phone giants, when that company was acquired last year by SBC Communications Inc. The move to Tellabs may be fitting because Ameritech was based in Chicago while Tellabs is based in Lisle, Ill., a Chicago suburb. Tellabs has long been more respected for its technology than for its business acumen. The company is best known for its products that connect fiber optic communications rings to one another. From a business standpoint, however, the company's acquisitions generally have not been fantastically successful. Tellabs shares rose $1.0625, to $62.6875, yesterday in Nasdaq trading.
Seth Schiesel (NYT)
| Richard C. Notebaert, former chairman of the Ameritech Corporation, has agreed to become chief executive of Tellabs Inc., the medium-sized maker of communications equipment. Mr. Notebaert takes the reins on Sept. 18. Michael J. Birck, one of the company's founders and the current chief executive, will give up that title and become the company's chairman. Previously, Tellabs did not have a chairman, though Mr. Birck filled that role informally. Mr. Notebaert, 53, left Ameritech, one of the Bell local phone giants, when that company was acquired last year by SBC Communications Inc. The move to Tellabs may be fitting because Ameritech was based in Chicago while Tellabs is based in Lisle, Ill., a Chicago suburb. Tellabs has long been more respected for its technology than for its business |
1355499 | 2001 | 12 | 30 | Not on the Bed |
''A Stitch in Time,'' an exhibition of 30 quilts from the Victorian era, can be seen at the Carriage House Gallery at the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington Street in Cape May, though Jan. 6. With patterns like ''Goose in the Pond,'' ''Monkey Wrench'' and ''Log Cabins,'' these quilts offer a glimpse into the lives of the bourgeoisie at the end of the 19th century.
Elizabeth Bailey curated the exhibition, which is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Cape May's Victorian heritage.
| ''A Stitch in Time,'' an exhibition of 30 quilts from the Victorian era, can be seen at the Carriage House Gallery at the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington Street in Cape May, though Jan. 6. With patterns like ''Goose in the Pond,'' ''Monkey Wrench'' and ''Log Cabins,'' these quilts offer a glimpse into the lives of the bourgeoisie at the end of the 19th century. Elizabeth Bailey curated the exhibition, which is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Cape May's Victorian heritage. ''During the Industrial Revolution, more people entered the middle class,'' Ms. Bailey said. ''They had more time to pursue hobbies because machines were taking care of the daily grind.'' In addition, she said, more |
1425141 | 2002 | 09 | 20 | In Saddam Hussein's Words: It's for Oil |
Following are excerpts from a letter to the United Nations General Assembly from President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, as presented orally yesterday and recorded by The New York Times:
. . . It is a good sign that the United States has resorted, for the first time after the end of the cold war, to the General Assembly to put forward one of its problems, after years of disregard to the weight, effect and opinion of others. . . .
| Following are excerpts from a letter to the United Nations General Assembly from President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, as presented orally yesterday and recorded by The New York Times: . . . It is a good sign that the United States has resorted, for the first time after the end of the cold war, to the General Assembly to put forward one of its problems, after years of disregard to the weight, effect and opinion of others. . . . Nevertheless, the U.S. president revealed his basic purpose when he jumped to the issue of Iraq. . . . He portrayed this issue as if it were the most dangerous situation, not only for the life, security and future of the United States, but for the life, future |
1403032 | 2002 | 06 | 23 | Let the People Vote On Councilmanic Districts |
After years of running campaigns based on a pledge to create councilmanic districts, the Democrats in North Hempstead have now decided that they were absolutely wrong [''In North Hempstead, District Voting Becomes a Partisan Issue,'' June 9]. And so, rather than keep their promise, they have abandoned it since it may stand in the way of their exercise of power.
Moreover, in their frenzy to maintain a vise-grip on power, the Democratic Town Board appointed a sham commission designed to foil good-faith efforts to support their own proposal to create councilmanic districts. This cynical exercise of power feeds the notion that politics is a corrupt profession practiced by cynics interested only in maintaining power, regardless of what was said in campaign after campaign.
| After years of running campaigns based on a pledge to create councilmanic districts, the Democrats in North Hempstead have now decided that they were absolutely wrong [''In North Hempstead, District Voting Becomes a Partisan Issue,'' June 9]. And so, rather than keep their promise, they have abandoned it since it may stand in the way of their exercise of power. Moreover, in their frenzy to maintain a vise-grip on power, the Democratic Town Board appointed a sham commission designed to foil good-faith efforts to support their own proposal to create councilmanic districts. This cynical exercise of power feeds the notion that politics is a corrupt profession practiced by cynics interested only in maintaining power, regardless of what was said in campaign after campaign. Our Constitution is based upon |
1341904 | 2001 | 11 | 11 | Susan Alexander, John Kraus |
Susan Alexander and John Kaufman Kraus are to be married this afternoon by Rabbi Dorothy A. Richman at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco.
Ms. Alexander, 44, will keep her name. She is a vice president and communications specialist on environmental matters at the Public Media Center, an organization in San Francisco that provides nonprofit groups with media consulting and public relations services. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and received a law degree from George Washington University. She is the daughter of Joan Saphir Alexander of New York and the late Arthur Alexander.
| Susan Alexander and John Kaufman Kraus are to be married this afternoon by Rabbi Dorothy A. Richman at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco. Ms. Alexander, 44, will keep her name. She is a vice president and communications specialist on environmental matters at the Public Media Center, an organization in San Francisco that provides nonprofit groups with media consulting and public relations services. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and received a law degree from George Washington University. She is the daughter of Joan Saphir Alexander of New York and the late Arthur Alexander. Mr. Kraus, 51, is a freelance director of photography in San Francisco for film and video projects. He graduated from New York University. He is the son of the late May and Louis |
1853777 | 2007 | 06 | 11 | Pakistan's Dictator |
If Gen. Pervez Musharraf were the democratic leader he indignantly insists he is, he would not be so busy threatening independent news outlets, arresting hundreds of opposition politicians and berating parliamentary leaders and ministers from his own party for insufficient loyalty to his arbitrary and widely unpopular policies.
But nobody takes General Musharraf's democratic claims seriously anymore, except for the Bush administration, which has put itself in the embarrassing position of propping up the Muslim world's most powerful military dictator as an essential ally in its half-baked campaign to promote democracy throughout the Muslim world. Washington needs to disentangle America, quickly, from the general's damaging embrace.
| If Gen. Pervez Musharraf were the democratic leader he indignantly insists he is, he would not be so busy threatening independent news outlets, arresting hundreds of opposition politicians and berating parliamentary leaders and ministers from his own party for insufficient loyalty to his arbitrary and widely unpopular policies. But nobody takes General Musharraf's democratic claims seriously anymore, except for the Bush administration, which has put itself in the embarrassing position of propping up the Muslim world's most powerful military dictator as an essential ally in its half-baked campaign to promote democracy throughout the Muslim world. Washington needs to disentangle America, quickly, from the general's damaging embrace. Ever since his high-handed dismissal of the country's independent-minded chief justice in March, the general has been busily digging himself into an |
1656628 | 2005 | 03 | 13 | ON THE MARKET |
Sprawling Family Apartment $2,300,000
MANHATTAN: 200 West 108th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue), #4A
A 2,500-square-foot apartment with four bedrooms, four baths. Susan Abrams or Robert Elson, Warburg Realty (212)439-4537 or (212)439-4577; www.warburgrealty.com
MAINTENANCE: $2,464
PROS: The layout of these three combined apartments is rambling -- with rooms behind original French doors, while other doors hide deep closets -- and feels like a town house without stairs. There's space for children and entertaining. (There's even room for the children to entertain.)
CONS: The doorman is part-time, but is there from 3 p.m. to 7 a.m. The co-op does not allow the installation of washers and dryers. Dogs are not allowed (cats, however, are).
Fort Greene Brownstone $1,549,000
BROOKLYN: 63 South Elliott Place
A four-story, 3,600-square-foot Italianate brownstone with original marble mantels, pine plank floors, pier mirrors and period moldings. It has a deck, a large yard and a garden-floor rental. Erica Sullivan, Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy (646)442-7119; www.cbhk.com
TAXES: $2,800
PROS: On a prime block in a hot neighborhood, this well-lived-in house has all its 1864 details intact, including a beautifully restored brownstone facade.
CONS: The house needs interior painting, the bathrooms need refurbishing, and the kitchen, an island in the middle of the parlor floor, is dated.
Long Island Contemporary $879,900
SUFFOLK: 5 Overbrook Drive, Centerport
An unusual 48-year-old, four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath brick and stucco contemporary with lots of steps to the entrance and a wall of windows in the living room. It has a long stone-walled circular driveway, a wooden deck with seating and woodland views outside a windowed front entrance foyer, a backyard pond with a waterfall and a bridge, and an in-ground pool. A spiral stairway leads from the second floor to a small windowed tower with views of the surrounding area and woodlands. Ricki Gutlerner, Coach Realtors (631)757-4000; www.coachrealtors.com
TAXES: $19,014.28
PROS: Its location high above the road and its many trees provide seclusion from neighboring homes.
CONS: The second floor, added in the 1980's, is incongruous with the original contemporary ranch design.
Contemporary in the Woods $979,000
WESTCHESTER: 55 Stornowaye Street, Chappaqua
This 33-year-old ranch with contemporary flair has four bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths. Bonnie Golub, Prudential Holmes & Kennedy (914)238-3988, ext. 110; www.pruholmesre.com
TAXES: $20,240
PROS: This one-story home with oak floors throughout has a light-filled, airy interior, thanks to lots of glass and an open plan. There are two furnaces and two-zone central air for maximum heating and cooling efficiency. The setting is private, in a wooded area with houses spaced far apart.
CONS: The master bath does not have a tub, and the new owners may want to update the kitchen and bathrooms.
West 14th Street Condo $724,000
MANHATTAN: 223 West 14th Street (at Seventh Avenue), #4A
A one-bedroom, one-bath condo. Ricardo Cáceres, Prudential Douglas Elliman (212)965-6023; www.elliman.com
MAINTENANCE: $229, and $128 in monthly real estate taxes
PROS: The ceiling is vaulted to 18 feet over the living and dining room, and a large, high window acts as a skylight.
CONS: This walk-up apartment is on the fourth floor, and the laundry room is in the basement.
| Sprawling Family Apartment $2,300,000 MANHATTAN: 200 West 108th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue), #4A A 2,500-square-foot apartment with four bedrooms, four baths. Susan Abrams or Robert Elson, Warburg Realty (212)439-4537 or (212)439-4577; www.warburgrealty.com MAINTENANCE: $2,464 PROS: The layout of these three combined apartments is rambling -- with rooms behind original French doors, while other doors hide deep closets -- and feels like a town house without stairs. There's space for children and entertaining. (There's even room for the children to entertain.) CONS: The doorman is part-time, but is there from 3 p.m. to 7 a.m. The co-op does not allow the installation of washers and dryers. Dogs are not allowed (cats, however, are). Fort Greene Brownstone $1,549,000 BROOKLYN: 63 South Elliott Place A four-story, 3,600-square-foot Italianate brownstone with original |
1381499 | 2002 | 04 | 05 | Security at St. Patrick's Gets Another Look |
Senior police officials yesterday began a review of security procedures at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a day after the authorities said a distraught man walked into the parish house, threatened a priest and then pulled out a revolver and shot himself in the head.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that he and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly met with Cardinal Edward M. Egan to discuss security at the cathedral, and Mr. Kelly said that while the cardinal ''expressed comfort with the security that's in place,'' department officials would nonetheless conduct a detailed review.
| Senior police officials yesterday began a review of security procedures at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a day after the authorities said a distraught man walked into the parish house, threatened a priest and then pulled out a revolver and shot himself in the head. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that he and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly met with Cardinal Edward M. Egan to discuss security at the cathedral, and Mr. Kelly said that while the cardinal ''expressed comfort with the security that's in place,'' department officials would nonetheless conduct a detailed review. ''We're meeting today with the security people from St. Patrick's -- our security consultants,'' Mr. Kelly said. ''We'll do an examination, we've done that before.'' After the shooting Wednesday afternoon, investigators initially were unable to determine |
1612307 | 2004 | 09 | 19 | When School's Out, But Practice Is On |
AMONG high school parents, it amounts to a covenant: If you want your child to play a sport, be prepared to knit family vacation plans into practice and game schedules -- which are rarely limited, in this day and age, to the months when school is in session.
Over the summer and on through whatever holidays speckle the school year, other families may be off to body-surf in St. Barts or to see cousins in Duluth, but the school athlete -- and by extension his or her family -- must live in the grip of the athletic department's timeline. Many high school football teams, for example, started practice in the middle of August and had even played games before the first class bell sounded.
| AMONG high school parents, it amounts to a covenant: If you want your child to play a sport, be prepared to knit family vacation plans into practice and game schedules -- which are rarely limited, in this day and age, to the months when school is in session. Over the summer and on through whatever holidays speckle the school year, other families may be off to body-surf in St. Barts or to see cousins in Duluth, but the school athlete -- and by extension his or her family -- must live in the grip of the athletic department's timeline. Many high school football teams, for example, started practice in the middle of August and had even played games before the first class bell sounded. In the often barbed |
1747880 | 2006 | 03 | 19 | We're All Player Haters |
Recently, I was complaining to a friend about rumors that ''Seventh Heaven,'' the WB family show canceled earlier this season, might actually be renewed for another year by the new CW network. I despise ''Seventh Heaven,'' I explained, and yet I watch it every single week -- I am powerless to stop myself. And I don't love to hate it; I hate to hate it.
It features lobotomized acting, issue-oriented plots on subjects ranging from self-mutilation to the difficulties of casting Nativity scenes at Christmastime. Also, there's a dog in the opening credits: Happy as ''Happy.'' And yet I watch.
| Recently, I was complaining to a friend about rumors that ''Seventh Heaven,'' the WB family show canceled earlier this season, might actually be renewed for another year by the new CW network. I despise ''Seventh Heaven,'' I explained, and yet I watch it every single week -- I am powerless to stop myself. And I don't love to hate it; I hate to hate it. It features lobotomized acting, issue-oriented plots on subjects ranging from self-mutilation to the difficulties of casting Nativity scenes at Christmastime. Also, there's a dog in the opening credits: Happy as ''Happy.'' And yet I watch. ''That's the way I felt about 'Full House,' '' my friend said. Unfortunately, I was with her there, too. ''Full House,'' ''Charles in Charge,'' ''You Can't Do That |
1561590 | 2004 | 02 | 25 | Israel and Jordan Cooperate in Desert Project |
Israel and Jordan have agreed to build an environmental studies center on their shared desert border, a rare instance of cooperation on a major project between the Middle East neighbors, officials said Tuesday.
The countries will donate a total of 150 acres of parched land along the frontier, about 30 miles south of the Dead Sea. A private group, Bridging the Rift, will develop the center with two American universities, Cornell and Stanford.
| Israel and Jordan have agreed to build an environmental studies center on their shared desert border, a rare instance of cooperation on a major project between the Middle East neighbors, officials said Tuesday. The countries will donate a total of 150 acres of parched land along the frontier, about 30 miles south of the Dead Sea. A private group, Bridging the Rift, will develop the center with two American universities, Cornell and Stanford. The project comes at a time of great mistrust and turmoil in the region. But supporters describe it as a serious scientific effort to focus on biological sciences in the desert environment, as well as the kind of bridge-building that was envisioned when Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty a decade ago. ''This is |
1537951 | 2003 | 11 | 24 | Recapturing a Childhood In a Prerevolutionary Eden |
For most of his adult life Carlos Eire had tried to run away from Cuba. The island was his only briefly, for 11 years, before the Cuban revolution ushered in a world of heartache in which he was separated from his parents and spent years of hardship in the United States.
''I still think it's an evil place, and there's nothing I can do to fix it,'' said Mr. Eire, the new winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction for ''Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy'' (Free Press/Simon & Schuster). ''The best thing I could do was to think that it was an accident I was born there.''
| For most of his adult life Carlos Eire had tried to run away from Cuba. The island was his only briefly, for 11 years, before the Cuban revolution ushered in a world of heartache in which he was separated from his parents and spent years of hardship in the United States. ''I still think it's an evil place, and there's nothing I can do to fix it,'' said Mr. Eire, the new winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction for ''Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy'' (Free Press/Simon & Schuster). ''The best thing I could do was to think that it was an accident I was born there.'' The custody battle over Elián González in 2000 dissolved Mr. Eire's detachment. He said he |
1720402 | 2005 | 11 | 27 | TBR: Inside the List |
THEY RISE AND CURSE YOU: What is it about men and football coaches? In his 1967 poem ''The Bee,'' James Dickey caught the way ''Dead coaches live in the air . . . live / In the ear / Like fathers, and urge and urge. They want you better / Than you are. When needed, they rise and curse you they scream / When something must be saved.'' These days, if you want the sound of a gruff but kindly coach in your ear, ordering you to get the lead out, you merely have to go to a bookstore, where every coach with a decent winning percentage has had his wisdom scattered between hard covers. Case in point: The new book from David Halberstam (at right), ''The Education of a Coach,'' which is No. 19 on the extended hardcover nonfiction list. ''The Education of a Coach'' lays bare the teachings of Bill Belichick, the head coach of the New England Patriots. It's a good book, even if Halberstam does, at times, make Belichick sound as if he's just stumbled out of a Hemingway novel with a head wound. (''He did the things he wanted to do the way he wanted to do them, because in any given instance it was something he had thought about for a long time, and he had decided his way was right for him.'') Halberstam's book will jostle for bookstore table space this holiday with Allen Barra's ''Last Coach: A Life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant,'' Frank Fitzpatrick's ''Lion in Autumn: A Season With Joe Paterno and Penn State Football'' and Bill Bradley and Andrew Blauner's ''Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference,'' among others. Dickey's poem gets at part of the appeal of these books. His narrator pleads with Shag Norton, his dead coach, to ''scream whatever will get / The slow-motion of middle age off me.''
| THEY RISE AND CURSE YOU: What is it about men and football coaches? In his 1967 poem ''The Bee,'' James Dickey caught the way ''Dead coaches live in the air . . . live / In the ear / Like fathers, and urge and urge. They want you better / Than you are. When needed, they rise and curse you they scream / When something must be saved.'' These days, if you want the sound of a gruff but kindly coach in your ear, ordering you to get the lead out, you merely have to go to a bookstore, where every coach with a decent winning percentage has had his wisdom scattered between hard covers. Case in point: The new book from David Halberstam (at right), ''The Education |
1482644 | 2003 | 04 | 20 | Windows on SARS, and on China |
To the Editor:
Re ''Persuading Big Business to Help Look for a Vaccine'' (news article, April 16):
| To the Editor: Re ''Persuading Big Business to Help Look for a Vaccine'' (news article, April 16): There is scant enthusiasm in the private sector for the development of vaccines because of the low return on investment and high exposure to legal liability. Enlightened public policy can make vaccine development more attractive. The Food and Drug Administration must take a more reasonable approach to vaccine oversight. Reciprocity of vaccine regulatory approvals between the United States and the European Union would cut development costs significantly. Public-sector agencies should stop using their purchasing clout to extort heavily discounted prices for vaccines. After manufacturers meet the rigorous requirements for approval of a vaccine, the government should indemnify them against damages for side effects from the product. Unfortunately, getting the government to |
1315837 | 2001 | 08 | 09 | Aetna Posts Wider Losses, Citing High Costs in Managed Care Unit |
Aetna, the nation's biggest health insurer, said yesterday that its losses deepened in the second quarter as medical costs jumped 17 to 18 percent in its core managed care business. The company said the losses would continue into next year before it could again generate profits by raising premiums and tightening cost controls.
Aetna, based in Hartford, is also shedding money-losing units that it acquired during a buying binge in the 1990's, and it may even give up its unrewarding status as the biggest, albeit hardly the best managed, health insurer.
| Aetna, the nation's biggest health insurer, said yesterday that its losses deepened in the second quarter as medical costs jumped 17 to 18 percent in its core managed care business. The company said the losses would continue into next year before it could again generate profits by raising premiums and tightening cost controls. Aetna, based in Hartford, is also shedding money-losing units that it acquired during a buying binge in the 1990's, and it may even give up its unrewarding status as the biggest, albeit hardly the best managed, health insurer. ''Aetna is shifting from a bias on size to a bias on profitability,'' said Dr. John W. Rowe, the company's chairman and chief executive. The company's operating loss was $95.9 million, or 67 cents a share, contrasted |
1507433 | 2003 | 07 | 27 | A New Ferry Service To Martha's Vineyard |
Many people who love Martha's Vineyard hate the trip there, especially the traffic jams on the way to the ferries from Cape Cod. Now, the first high-speed ferry to the Vineyard can avoid those waits to cross the bridges across the Cape Cod Canal.
The Millennium, a 128-foot catamaran with water-jet engines, has begun daily service from Quonset Point, R.I., about 14 miles south of the Providence airport, saving about two hours' driving to the Cape Cod ferries, and an hour to the one from New Bedford, also a 90-minute crossing. Averaging about 30 knots, the Millennium, a former New York Waterways ferry built in 1998, takes 90 minutes to reach Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. It is air-conditioned and has a bar that serves snacks.
| Many people who love Martha's Vineyard hate the trip there, especially the traffic jams on the way to the ferries from Cape Cod. Now, the first high-speed ferry to the Vineyard can avoid those waits to cross the bridges across the Cape Cod Canal. The Millennium, a 128-foot catamaran with water-jet engines, has begun daily service from Quonset Point, R.I., about 14 miles south of the Providence airport, saving about two hours' driving to the Cape Cod ferries, and an hour to the one from New Bedford, also a 90-minute crossing. Averaging about 30 knots, the Millennium, a former New York Waterways ferry built in 1998, takes 90 minutes to reach Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. It is air-conditioned and has a bar that serves snacks. Through October, |
1237826 | 2000 | 10 | 11 | There's No Fair Price |
To the Editor:
In his Oct. 4 column about price fairness and Amazon.com's charging different customers different amounts for the same products, Paul Krugman raises an interesting issue that is at the heart of all transactions in our new economy. The idea is to charge the maximum price that the individual or the market at large can bear without any regard to the cost of production or ''fairness.''
The dictum is in evidence from health care (different prices for different patients for the same procedures and drugs, depending on who is paying for it) to automobiles to open bidding for public and private contracts. Further, even if cost was a consideration for pricing, the relevant cost is debatable -- should it be based on full cost, marginal cost or life-cycle cost?
| To the Editor: In his Oct. 4 column about price fairness and Amazon.com's charging different customers different amounts for the same products, Paul Krugman raises an interesting issue that is at the heart of all transactions in our new economy. The idea is to charge the maximum price that the individual or the market at large can bear without any regard to the cost of production or ''fairness.'' The dictum is in evidence from health care (different prices for different patients for the same procedures and drugs, depending on who is paying for it) to automobiles to open bidding for public and private contracts. Further, even if cost was a consideration for pricing, the relevant cost is debatable -- should it be based on full cost, marginal cost |
1304576 | 2001 | 06 | 25 | Artist Emerges With Works in a 'Private Language' |
As the white minibus pulled up to the Creative Growth Art Center at 9:33 a.m., Judith Scott barreled off as if her life depended on it.
The bright glass-and-brick studio for developmentally disabled adults had opened three minutes before she arrived. It might as well have been three hours. Holding her usual stack of magazines like a baby in one arm and her blue insulated lunch bag in the other, Ms. Scott whooshed past the line of clients waiting to sign in like a dart to a bull's-eye. In a blue flash -- she was wearing a navy blue sweatsuit and a blue-and-white nylon scarf over her wispy gray hair -- she was planted in her usual corner in the back.
| As the white minibus pulled up to the Creative Growth Art Center at 9:33 a.m., Judith Scott barreled off as if her life depended on it. The bright glass-and-brick studio for developmentally disabled adults had opened three minutes before she arrived. It might as well have been three hours. Holding her usual stack of magazines like a baby in one arm and her blue insulated lunch bag in the other, Ms. Scott whooshed past the line of clients waiting to sign in like a dart to a bull's-eye. In a blue flash -- she was wearing a navy blue sweatsuit and a blue-and-white nylon scarf over her wispy gray hair -- she was planted in her usual corner in the back. She was already hard at work on |
1412169 | 2002 | 07 | 30 | Princeton Says a Few Students Had Access to Yale Web Site |
Princeton University said yesterday that a few people who used campus computers to gain access to a Yale Web site for applicants were not university employees but students, including a Yale applicant.
The university's admission director, Stephen E. LeMenager, remains on administrative leave after acknowledging last week that he tapped into the Web site, which notified Yale applicants whether they had been accepted. A Yale investigation determined that Princeton computers were used 18 times to enter the site.
| Princeton University said yesterday that a few people who used campus computers to gain access to a Yale Web site for applicants were not university employees but students, including a Yale applicant. The university's admission director, Stephen E. LeMenager, remains on administrative leave after acknowledging last week that he tapped into the Web site, which notified Yale applicants whether they had been accepted. A Yale investigation determined that Princeton computers were used 18 times to enter the site. Four of those entries were by students, according to Marilyn Marks, a Princeton spokeswoman. One was a high school student who had applied to both Princeton and Yale and was visiting Princeton the day he checked the Yale Web site, Ms. Marks said. The other entries were by two Princeton |
1599441 | 2004 | 07 | 25 | Paid Notice: Deaths LIGHT, GERALD |
LIGHT--Gerald. 85, of Great Neck, on July 23, 2004. Husband of the late Mary Light, he was the cherished father of Hillary Fuhrman and her husband Richard; Ronald Light and his wife, Susan; Valerie Joseph and her husband, Bob; and Wendy Abrams and her husband Danal. He also was the loving ''Poppy'' of Meredith Fuhrman, Jason and Evan Light, Adam Joseph, and Madeline Abrams. During his long and distiguished career as a marketing, advertising and P.R. executive, he served as a Vice President of Revlon, CBS, and McCann Erikson, and President of the Kane, Light, Gladney Advertising Agency. Throughout his life, he devoted himself tirelessly to a broad range of civic activities. Notably, he was a Trustee and Vice-Chair of Hofstra University, where he also was a popular adjunct professor at its School of Business. He was an Associate Trustee of both Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital. Finally, he served as a Trustee and Deputy Mayor of Kings Point. Gerry was a student of history, a passionate collector of art and antiques, and an avid traveler. He will be missed terribly by his adoring family and friends. Services will be held on Monday, July 26, 11:30 am, at Riverside-Nassau North Chapel in Great Neck. Donations in his memory may be made to the Gerald and Mary Light Endowed Scholarship Fund at Hofstra University; call 516-463-5027 for information.
| LIGHT--Gerald. 85, of Great Neck, on July 23, 2004. Husband of the late Mary Light, he was the cherished father of Hillary Fuhrman and her husband Richard; Ronald Light and his wife, Susan; Valerie Joseph and her husband, Bob; and Wendy Abrams and her husband Danal. He also was the loving ''Poppy'' of Meredith Fuhrman, Jason and Evan Light, Adam Joseph, and Madeline Abrams. During his long and distiguished career as a marketing, advertising and P.R. executive, he served as a Vice President of Revlon, CBS, and McCann Erikson, and President of the Kane, Light, Gladney Advertising Agency. Throughout his life, he devoted himself tirelessly to a broad range of civic activities. Notably, he was a Trustee and Vice-Chair of Hofstra University, where he also was a popular |
1266383 | 2001 | 01 | 28 | Tips for Dealing With Frozen Pipes |
WINTER weather brings freezing temperatures that can penetrate into the unheated cavities of the house, like crawl spaces, or uninsulated outside walls. Often, this cold air is in the form of a slow, steady breeze of frigid air and it can freeze pipes running through these spaces.
If the weather turns suddenly cold, you can prevent a plumbing freeze-up by opening the faucets a little to maintain a steady drip. The dripping action will keep the water moving in the pipes and avert freeze-up. If the frigid weather continues and the threat of frozen plumbing increases, you should open the walls and add insulation between the pipes and the outside sheathing.
| WINTER weather brings freezing temperatures that can penetrate into the unheated cavities of the house, like crawl spaces, or uninsulated outside walls. Often, this cold air is in the form of a slow, steady breeze of frigid air and it can freeze pipes running through these spaces. If the weather turns suddenly cold, you can prevent a plumbing freeze-up by opening the faucets a little to maintain a steady drip. The dripping action will keep the water moving in the pipes and avert freeze-up. If the frigid weather continues and the threat of frozen plumbing increases, you should open the walls and add insulation between the pipes and the outside sheathing. Insulation does not heat the pipes; it only conserves the heat already in them. Sometimes this may |
1818587 | 2007 | 01 | 14 | Il Duce's Architect |
The Eighth Wonder of the World
By Leslie Epstein.
461 pp. Handsel Books/Other Press. $24.95.
| The Eighth Wonder of the World By Leslie Epstein. 461 pp. Handsel Books/Other Press. $24.95. This is a cacophonous barn of a restaurant'' ran the opening line of a recent review in a London magazine. I blessed the critic and read no further: he had fulfilled the function of filter admirably well, at once killing my interest in the subject of the review and in the review itself. I wish to render the reader of this review a similar time-saving favor. ''The Eighth Wonder of the World'' concerns an American architect, Amos Prince, who wins a competition to commemorate Mussolini's victory over Ethiopia by proposing to build a mile-high monument, the highest edifice ever, the eighth wonder of the world. But although he combines the flamboyant megalomania of |
1473583 | 2003 | 03 | 19 | Contradictory Clues in Columbia Debris |
Engineers studying the wreckage of the Columbia are confronting a complex, almost capricious sequence of destruction in which jets of hot gases may have bounced off some interior components and onto others, shifted from place to place, melted some parts while not heating others nearby and carved new paths through the orbiter, investigators said today.
Testifying before the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, the independent panel overseeing NASA's work, experts in the dynamics of heat described a deductive process of matching retrieved debris and sensor data radioed to the ground with a description of an initial hole in the shuttle, perhaps growing larger as time went by. But the data is contradictory.
| Engineers studying the wreckage of the Columbia are confronting a complex, almost capricious sequence of destruction in which jets of hot gases may have bounced off some interior components and onto others, shifted from place to place, melted some parts while not heating others nearby and carved new paths through the orbiter, investigators said today. Testifying before the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, the independent panel overseeing NASA's work, experts in the dynamics of heat described a deductive process of matching retrieved debris and sensor data radioed to the ground with a description of an initial hole in the shuttle, perhaps growing larger as time went by. But the data is contradictory. For example, investigators have recently found debris indicating that hot gases came into the shuttle's left wheel |
1758723 | 2006 | 05 | 02 | Arts, Briefly; ABC's Night to Remember |
ABC won every-half hour of the night among adults 18 to 49 on the first Sunday of the May sweeps period. Its two episodes of ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' (7.93 million, then 14.17 million), ''Desperate Housewives'' (21.36 million) and ''Grey's Anatomy'' (20.71 million) also gave the network a victory in Nielsen's estimates for total viewers. The good news for ABC is that ''Grey's Anatomy'' -- in which Meredith (Ellen Pompeo, above) went on a date with her new veterinarian love interest, Finn (Chris O'Donnell) -- increased its audience compared with the same time last year. The bad news is that ''Housewives'' lost more than 4 million viewers year-over-year. CBS placed second among total viewers. Its latest Tom Selleck made-for-television movie, ''Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise,'' delivered a solid 14.76 million viewers. Earlier in CBS's night, ''60 Minutes'' (12.07 million) and ''Cold Case'' (14.17 million) also helped the network's average.
KATE AURTHUR
| ABC won every-half hour of the night among adults 18 to 49 on the first Sunday of the May sweeps period. Its two episodes of ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' (7.93 million, then 14.17 million), ''Desperate Housewives'' (21.36 million) and ''Grey's Anatomy'' (20.71 million) also gave the network a victory in Nielsen's estimates for total viewers. The good news for ABC is that ''Grey's Anatomy'' -- in which Meredith (Ellen Pompeo, above) went on a date with her new veterinarian love interest, Finn (Chris O'Donnell) -- increased its audience compared with the same time last year. The bad news is that ''Housewives'' lost more than 4 million viewers year-over-year. CBS placed second among total viewers. Its latest Tom Selleck made-for-television movie, ''Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise,'' delivered a solid |
1649081 | 2005 | 02 | 11 | Marketing of Vioxx: How Merck Played Game of Catch-Up |
At times, it is necessary to ''neutralize'' the opposition, or at least Merck & Company executives seemed to think so.
In 1999, the company's new pain drug, Vioxx, was beaten to pharmacy shelves by a competing drug, Celebrex. Merck apparently hoped that nationally known rheumatologists like Dr. Roy Altman could help it catch up.
| At times, it is necessary to ''neutralize'' the opposition, or at least Merck & Company executives seemed to think so. In 1999, the company's new pain drug, Vioxx, was beaten to pharmacy shelves by a competing drug, Celebrex. Merck apparently hoped that nationally known rheumatologists like Dr. Roy Altman could help it catch up. At a dinner that year in Miami, a Merck executive asked Dr. Altman what it would take to win his support, the doctor recalled. Dr. Altman said he told the executive that he wanted to run a clinical trial involving Vioxx, and, later, Merck put up $25,000 for it. ''Show me the money,'' appeared on an internal Merck document near Dr. Altman's name. He said those were neither his words nor his intent. He |
1345162 | 2001 | 11 | 22 | The Anschutz Group Takes Over the MetroStars |
The commissioner of Major League Soccer yesterday defended the fact that 5 of the league's 12 teams are now run by the same company after the sale on Tuesday of the rights to operate the MetroStars to the Anschutz Entertainment Group.
''There certainly is not a limit'' on the number of teams that a company can operate, Commissioner Don Garber said in a conference call.
| The commissioner of Major League Soccer yesterday defended the fact that 5 of the league's 12 teams are now run by the same company after the sale on Tuesday of the rights to operate the MetroStars to the Anschutz Entertainment Group. ''There certainly is not a limit'' on the number of teams that a company can operate, Commissioner Don Garber said in a conference call. Meanwhile, an executive at Anschutz said the company still intended to talk with New York City officials about building a stadium in Queens, although it does not have an option to operate a second New York-area team, as did the previous owner/operators of the MetroStars. ''We're certainly intrigued by the stadium opportunity in Queens,'' Kevin J. Payne, the executive who runs A.E.G. Soccer, |
1820897 | 2007 | 01 | 23 | Never Too Early for Pollsters |
Let the hypotheticals begin. Conventional wisdom may say Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is the Democrats' prohibitive front-runner. But a Newsweek poll released over the weekend, which otherwise shows the candidates tightly bunched, indicates that former Senator John Edwards, below, is the only one to beat the top two potential Republican candidates in head-to-head matchups. The poll shows that Mr. Edwards, of North Carolina, Mrs. Clinton and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois all would beat Senator John McCain of Arizona by a few percentage points. But Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, would narrowly defeat Senators Clinton and Obama while losing to Mr. Edwards, 45 percent to 48 percent. But the numbers are all close and fall within the poll's margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.
The matchups, in percentages:
Edwards 48, McCain 43 Clinton 48, McCain 47 Obama 46, McCain 44 Edwards 48, Giuliani 45 Giuliani 48, Clinton 47 Giuliani 47, Obama 45
JOHN M. BRODER
| Let the hypotheticals begin. Conventional wisdom may say Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is the Democrats' prohibitive front-runner. But a Newsweek poll released over the weekend, which otherwise shows the candidates tightly bunched, indicates that former Senator John Edwards, below, is the only one to beat the top two potential Republican candidates in head-to-head matchups. The poll shows that Mr. Edwards, of North Carolina, Mrs. Clinton and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois all would beat Senator John McCain of Arizona by a few percentage points. But Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, would narrowly defeat Senators Clinton and Obama while losing to Mr. Edwards, 45 percent to 48 percent. But the numbers are all close and fall within the poll's margin of sampling error |
1587730 | 2004 | 06 | 07 | Paid Notice: Deaths CUSHMAN, FLORENCE BLAUVELT |
CUSHMAN -- Florence Blauvelt, 89, of San Marcos, California, died peacefully on Thursday, May 27, 2004 in Pasadena, California, surrounded by her three loving sons. She was preceded in death by her parents, Louis Frank Blauvelt and Laura Lay Blauvelt; her husband of 59 years, John Clydesdale Cushman, Jr; and her sister, Alice Blauvelt Melville. Survivors include her brother, Henry Storms Blauvelt of Basking Ridge, New Jersey; three sons, twins John Clydesdale Cushman, III of Pasadena, California and Louis Blauvelt Cushman of Houston, Texas, and David Goodrich Cushman of Glendale, California; and nine grandchildren and five great - grandchildren. Born in New York, New York on April 7, 1915, Florence grew up Montclair, New Jersey, where she and her husband raised their family. In 1981, they moved to North San Diego County to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Her three sons followed in the footsteps of their father at Cushman & Wakefield, Inc, the global real estate services company headquartered in New York City and founded by their grandfather and great uncle; a grandson now works in the firm's London office. Florence was a lady of immense warmth, love, compassion and giving. Gardening, flower arranging, bridge, entertaining and travel were her passions, but none more so than her family and friends, which were many and from all walks. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Florence B. Cushman to the Boy Scouts of America, Philmont Campership Fund, 1325 West Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, TX 75015-2079, or The Glaucoma Foundation, 116 John Street, Suite 1605, New York, New York 10038.
| CUSHMAN -- Florence Blauvelt, 89, of San Marcos, California, died peacefully on Thursday, May 27, 2004 in Pasadena, California, surrounded by her three loving sons. She was preceded in death by her parents, Louis Frank Blauvelt and Laura Lay Blauvelt; her husband of 59 years, John Clydesdale Cushman, Jr; and her sister, Alice Blauvelt Melville. Survivors include her brother, Henry Storms Blauvelt of Basking Ridge, New Jersey; three sons, twins John Clydesdale Cushman, III of Pasadena, California and Louis Blauvelt Cushman of Houston, Texas, and David Goodrich Cushman of Glendale, California; and nine grandchildren and five great - grandchildren. Born in New York, New York on April 7, 1915, Florence grew up Montclair, New Jersey, where she and her husband raised their family. In 1981, they moved to |
1502972 | 2003 | 07 | 08 | Hong Kong Chief Executive Faces Calls to Step Down |
The chief executive, after the defection of a key legislative ally, today faced calls for his resignation and for greater democracy as he was forced to defer a vote on the internal security legislation that has been his top priority.
Tung Chee-hwa made clear at a news conference this afternoon that he had not given up, saying he still believed that the Basic Law, the closest thing Hong Kong has to a constitution, required the government to pass a security bill. But Mr. Tung said that his top priority would now be the economy, and that he would try to address all the concerns raised by an estimated 500,000 demonstrators at a pro-democracy march on July 1, and not just the complaints about the security legislation.
| The chief executive, after the defection of a key legislative ally, today faced calls for his resignation and for greater democracy as he was forced to defer a vote on the internal security legislation that has been his top priority. Tung Chee-hwa made clear at a news conference this afternoon that he had not given up, saying he still believed that the Basic Law, the closest thing Hong Kong has to a constitution, required the government to pass a security bill. But Mr. Tung said that his top priority would now be the economy, and that he would try to address all the concerns raised by an estimated 500,000 demonstrators at a pro-democracy march on July 1, and not just the complaints about the security legislation. Some marchers |
1751773 | 2006 | 04 | 03 | BUSINESS DIGEST |
Alcatel and Lucent Announce Deal to Merge for $13.4 Billion Alcatel and Lucent said that they had reached agreement on a $13.4 billion merger, creating a French-American maker of telecommunications equipment with revenue of $25 billion, 88,000 employees and phone company customers across the world. [Page C1.]
Condé Nast Joins Readers in Migration to the Web Condé Nast, which like many magazine publishers is trying to build up its Web presence, is upgrading its bridal side, Brides.com, in part by combining content from three different magazines. In addition, the company is preparing another new site, still unnamed, for teenage girls. And its new business magazine, which is to begin publishing next year, will have a large Internet component with original content. [C1.]
Lawsuits Shed Light on Ex-Chief of Gemstar An investigation into the conduct of Henry C. Yuen by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a tangle of other litigation, shows that he built Gemstar-TV Guide International by developing and aggressively defending patents for interactive television programming guides, actions that still cast a long shadow over the News Corporation and Rupert Murdoch. [C1.]
Mitsubishi to Announce TV That Uses Lasers Mitsubishi is scheduled to announce that it has developed a commercial television that uses colored lasers to display bright, deep images on large, thin, lightweight screens -- surpassing images seen on film. The television sets, which Mitsubishi is calling the first of their kind, are expected to reach stores sometime late next year. [C6.]
Service Aims to Make Money by Tracking Clicks Claria, a company once vilified for raining pop-up advertisements across the Internet through its Gator software, is releasing a service that will let people download a piece of tracking software and receive a home page filled with news stories and other information tailored to their interests. The chief executive of Claria, Scott VanDeVelde, left, argues that because PersonalWeb requires little work and delivers more relevant information than, say, MyYahoo, it should enjoy an advantage over competing services. Bob Tedeschi: E-Commerce Report. [C6.]
Hollywood Takes More Trips Overseas With movie theater ticket sales in the United States down again in 2005 and the debate growing over how and when new movies will be released, more Hollywood studios are looking to the burgeoning market for local-language films as a relative bright spot in a ho-hum business. [C1.]
Online Movies With No Viewing Deadline Six major studios plan to begin selling movies over the Internet that buyers can download and keep for viewing at any time. Until now, the only downloads the studios have offered have been online rentals, which can be viewed only for a 24-hour period -- an idea that has not caught on with consumers. [C6.]
Conference to Address Challenges of Ad Industry The advertising industry is confronting some of its most daunting challenges since the mid-20th century, when television replaced radio as the mainstream medium of choice. But the challenges also offer significant -- and lucrative -- opportunities, say several executives who are scheduled to speak at an annual industry conference. But agencies must be willing to rethink traditional approaches and jettison those that are hopelessly outdated, the executives say. Stuart Elliott: Advertising. [C4.]
Requiem for an Independent Magazine If a magazine as smart as Budget Living could not break through the newsstand, is the independent magazine no longer viable? David Carr. [C1.]
| Alcatel and Lucent Announce Deal to Merge for $13.4 Billion Alcatel and Lucent said that they had reached agreement on a $13.4 billion merger, creating a French-American maker of telecommunications equipment with revenue of $25 billion, 88,000 employees and phone company customers across the world. [Page C1.] Condé Nast Joins Readers in Migration to the Web Condé Nast, which like many magazine publishers is trying to build up its Web presence, is upgrading its bridal side, Brides.com, in part by combining content from three different magazines. In addition, the company is preparing another new site, still unnamed, for teenage girls. And its new business magazine, which is to begin publishing next year, will have a large Internet component with original content. [C1.] Lawsuits Shed Light on Ex-Chief of |
1488800 | 2003 | 05 | 14 | Like Potato Fields, His Memorial Lies Fallow |
BRIAN TOLLE, the artist behind the Irish Hunger Memorial in Lower Manhattan, is standing in front of it on a recent gray afternoon. But he is not setting foot onto the memorial, which was quietly closed in April for emergency repairs, less than a year after it opened to much acclaim.
He is concerned about liability if something should happen to a visitor. So, there will be no fun clomping about the quarter-acre replication of an Irish hillside with lush indigenous grasses and wildflowers, fallow potato fields; no poking around the real abandoned fieldstone cottage that first stood in Ireland in the 1820's.
| BRIAN TOLLE, the artist behind the Irish Hunger Memorial in Lower Manhattan, is standing in front of it on a recent gray afternoon. But he is not setting foot onto the memorial, which was quietly closed in April for emergency repairs, less than a year after it opened to much acclaim. He is concerned about liability if something should happen to a visitor. So, there will be no fun clomping about the quarter-acre replication of an Irish hillside with lush indigenous grasses and wildflowers, fallow potato fields; no poking around the real abandoned fieldstone cottage that first stood in Ireland in the 1820's. Mr. Tolle, 39, stands back from the bright orange construction fencing that surrounds his creation. A slightly built man with a trim beard, he would |
1667418 | 2005 | 04 | 24 | Baseball's Leading Man of Math Has Some Second Thoughts About the Numbers |
With the score tied, the bases loaded and a division title at stake, Steve Finley walked to the Dodger Stadium batter's box in the ninth inning last October with a grin. ''I knew the game was over,'' he said afterward. On the second pitch, he sent the ball flying through the late-afternoon California sunshine toward the bleachers, and the Dodgers had beaten the Giants.
The grand slam seemed a proper season's capstone for Finley, a veteran outfielder whom the Dodgers had acquired from Arizona before the trade deadline.
| With the score tied, the bases loaded and a division title at stake, Steve Finley walked to the Dodger Stadium batter's box in the ninth inning last October with a grin. ''I knew the game was over,'' he said afterward. On the second pitch, he sent the ball flying through the late-afternoon California sunshine toward the bleachers, and the Dodgers had beaten the Giants. The grand slam seemed a proper season's capstone for Finley, a veteran outfielder whom the Dodgers had acquired from Arizona before the trade deadline. When games were on the line in 2004, he did his best hitting. What you think this says about Finley, and about what he is likely to do for the Angels this season, offers a good litmus test of your |
1492161 | 2003 | 05 | 27 | Bush Honors Newest Graves In Arlington |
President Bush observed the nation's first Memorial Day since the battle for Baghdad with a remembrance this morning at Arlington National Cemetery, where soldiers who died in Iraq lay in freshly dug graves.
Under gray skies, with a full military color guard in attendance, Mr. Bush laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns on a hill overlooking the capital and then delivered a 12-minute address at the Memorial Amphitheater to veterans in wheelchairs, families of the dead and a smattering of politicians.
| President Bush observed the nation's first Memorial Day since the battle for Baghdad with a remembrance this morning at Arlington National Cemetery, where soldiers who died in Iraq lay in freshly dug graves. Under gray skies, with a full military color guard in attendance, Mr. Bush laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns on a hill overlooking the capital and then delivered a 12-minute address at the Memorial Amphitheater to veterans in wheelchairs, families of the dead and a smattering of politicians. ''Beyond the Tomb of the Unknowns, in Section 60 of Arlington Cemetery,'' Mr. Bush said, ''we have laid to rest Americans who fell in the battle of Iraq.'' One funeral was for Second Lt. Frederick Pokorney Jr. of the Marines, from Jacksonville, N.C. His |
1496057 | 2003 | 06 | 11 | Tulane Board Votes to Keep Football in Division I-A |
The easy thing would have been for Tulane to pack up its Division I-A football program, along with its other athletic teams, and step down to Division I-AA or even Division II in an attempt to erase all the red ink.
But the university's president, Scott Cowen, a member of the board of trustees, said yesterday that ''Division I-A needs schools like Tulane.''
| The easy thing would have been for Tulane to pack up its Division I-A football program, along with its other athletic teams, and step down to Division I-AA or even Division II in an attempt to erase all the red ink. But the university's president, Scott Cowen, a member of the board of trustees, said yesterday that ''Division I-A needs schools like Tulane.'' Cowen and the university's board of trustees voted, 27 to 0 with one abstention and one absentee, to continue with its Division I-A football program, as well as its other I-A sports, despite athletic department losses of $6.7 million in the last year. ''It would be a shame if Division I-A athletics lost a Tulane University,'' Cowen said. ''We want to be a beacon, if |
1831629 | 2007 | 03 | 09 | Wearing the Green, and the Pink |
Everyone loves a parade. Sadly, the reverse is not always true. Consider the St. Patrick's Day Parade that makes its way along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan every year, a salute to all things and all people Irish -- except those who wish to wear any symbol declaring they are gay or lesbian.
For the second year in a row, the parade will be missing the city's most powerful Irish-American politician: Christine Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, who is a lesbian. Ms. Quinn boycotted last year's parade after failing to persuade organizers to allow gay groups to march. Several compromises were rejected, including allowing gay marchers to wear pink triangles or rainbow sashes, symbols that would be more subtle than carrying a banner.
| Everyone loves a parade. Sadly, the reverse is not always true. Consider the St. Patrick's Day Parade that makes its way along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan every year, a salute to all things and all people Irish -- except those who wish to wear any symbol declaring they are gay or lesbian. For the second year in a row, the parade will be missing the city's most powerful Irish-American politician: Christine Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, who is a lesbian. Ms. Quinn boycotted last year's parade after failing to persuade organizers to allow gay groups to march. Several compromises were rejected, including allowing gay marchers to wear pink triangles or rainbow sashes, symbols that would be more subtle than carrying a banner. John Dunleavy, a leader |
1700553 | 2005 | 09 | 09 | China Says North Korea Nuclear Talks Will Resume Tuesday |
Six-nation talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons program will resume Tuesday, China said Thursday, but even as the announcement came from Beijing, a new player who seems likely to complicate the talks took the stage.
Jay Lefkowitz, an assertive, voluble former White House aide, was appointed last month to be a special envoy on human rights in North Korea, and made his first public appearance on Thursday. He said he planned to publicize whatever he learned about human rights abuses in North Korea, like allegations that the government holds political prisoners in concentration camps where they are ''starved to death,'' as he put it.
| Six-nation talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons program will resume Tuesday, China said Thursday, but even as the announcement came from Beijing, a new player who seems likely to complicate the talks took the stage. Jay Lefkowitz, an assertive, voluble former White House aide, was appointed last month to be a special envoy on human rights in North Korea, and made his first public appearance on Thursday. He said he planned to publicize whatever he learned about human rights abuses in North Korea, like allegations that the government holds political prisoners in concentration camps where they are ''starved to death,'' as he put it. North Korea typically reacts quickly and angrily to critical statements from Washington. In fact, just the announcement that Mr. Lefkowitz was being appointed to |
1207496 | 2000 | 06 | 15 | Christopher Reeve is sanguine about his Madison Avenue connections, but some are skeptical. |
CHRISTOPHER REEVE was known as much for athleticism as for dramatic talent, until a 1995 riding accident changed everything. Paralyzed from the neck down, he is now known mostly for other things, like courage, optimism and personal integrity.
His squeaky-clean image has served Mr. Reeve well in his role as an advocate for the handicapped. And it has also made him a natural for Madison Avenue, and for advertisers hungry to benefit from his reputation. In the few endorsements and commercial appearances he has made thus far, Mr. Reeve has affixed his credibility to the products he promotes.
| CHRISTOPHER REEVE was known as much for athleticism as for dramatic talent, until a 1995 riding accident changed everything. Paralyzed from the neck down, he is now known mostly for other things, like courage, optimism and personal integrity. His squeaky-clean image has served Mr. Reeve well in his role as an advocate for the handicapped. And it has also made him a natural for Madison Avenue, and for advertisers hungry to benefit from his reputation. In the few endorsements and commercial appearances he has made thus far, Mr. Reeve has affixed his credibility to the products he promotes. But these are dangerous waters, indeed, and occasionally quite the juggling act, too. (Just ask Kathie Lee Gifford about knowing your product before giving it your name.) For Mr. Reeve, |
1831127 | 2007 | 03 | 07 | WHAT'S ON TONIGHT |
9 P.M. (Fox) THE WEDDING BELLS Happily ever after? In this latest series from David E. Kelley, the Bell sisters -- Annie (KaDee Strickland, above, far left), Sammy (Sarah Jones) and Jane (Teri Polo) -- inherit a wedding-planning business after their parents' divorce and find themselves navigating details from nuts to bolts of tulle, while trying to manage the logistics of their own love lives.
8 P.M. (Fox) AMERICAN IDOL My, what a few wet-T-shirt photos will do: Antonella Barba is still hanging in, despite some pretty lackluster performances. But this year's ''Idol'' has quickly turned into a race between Melinda Doolittle and Lakisha Jones, who make their colleagues sound like ''High School Musical'' wannabes in comparison. Tonight, the remaining eight women sing.
8 P.M. (History) BARBARIANS II The final two installments in this series devoted to the pagan tribes of the Dark Ages look at ''The Franks,'' led by Merovius, the warrior said to be half-man and half-monster, who descended upon Gaul and conquered both the Roman and Visgoth armies, and, at 9, ''The Lombards,'' who liked to sever their foes' heads and steal their women.
8 P.M. (ABC) GEORGE LOPEZ When his wife, Angie, starts worrying about losing her looks, the ever-sensitive George asks his gorgeous young niece to tone down her sex appeal.
9 P.M. (My Network TV) ANNA NICOLE SMITH: A CENTERFOLD EXPOSED This hourlong documentary touches on the high points of Ms. Smith's life, career and death -- including the posthumous battle for the custody, not to mention fortune, of her five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. Tony Potts of ''Access Hollywood'' is the host.
10 P.M. (ABC) LOST Locke, Sayid and Kate get a closer look at an unusual structure and its mysterious inhabitant. Sawyer plays Ping-Pong to get back his belongings.
10 P.M. (TV Land) SIT DOWN COMEDY WITH DAVID STEINBERG Roseanne -- svelte and high-haired -- talks about her ex-husbands, the accident that started her comedy career, and the time she bombed while performing on a gay cruise and then got stuck in an elevator with some peeved audience members.
10 P.M. (Comedy Central) SOUTH PARK They have prevented a mad gamer from destroying the World of Warcraft, uncovered the real culprit behind 9/11 and traveled 500 years into the future in the name of a Nintendo Wii. Tonight, those foul-mouthed fourth-graders Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny begin their 11th season of adventures.
KATHRYN SHATTUCK
| 9 P.M. (Fox) THE WEDDING BELLS Happily ever after? In this latest series from David E. Kelley, the Bell sisters -- Annie (KaDee Strickland, above, far left), Sammy (Sarah Jones) and Jane (Teri Polo) -- inherit a wedding-planning business after their parents' divorce and find themselves navigating details from nuts to bolts of tulle, while trying to manage the logistics of their own love lives. 8 P.M. (Fox) AMERICAN IDOL My, what a few wet-T-shirt photos will do: Antonella Barba is still hanging in, despite some pretty lackluster performances. But this year's ''Idol'' has quickly turned into a race between Melinda Doolittle and Lakisha Jones, who make their colleagues sound like ''High School Musical'' wannabes in comparison. Tonight, the remaining eight women sing. 8 P.M. (History) BARBARIANS II |
1601784 | 2004 | 08 | 05 | Credit Suisse Looks for Turnaround of First Boston Unit |
Credit Suisse reported on Wednesday that second-quarter earnings were slightly better than expected, but its Credit Suisse First Boston investment banking unit showed it was in need of a turnaround.
Shares of the company fell more than 6 percent to their lowest level in a year.
| Credit Suisse reported on Wednesday that second-quarter earnings were slightly better than expected, but its Credit Suisse First Boston investment banking unit showed it was in need of a turnaround. Shares of the company fell more than 6 percent to their lowest level in a year. The results were the first since John J. Mack left as co-chief executive of Credit Suisse in late June after disagreements over strategy. Credit Suisse swung to a profit of 1.46 billion Swiss francs ($1.14 billion), for the quarter, in contrast to a loss of 556 million Swiss francs in the quarter a year ago. But the First Boston unit, while reporting improved results from a year ago, showed a 43 percent drop in earnings from the first three months of the |
1242058 | 2000 | 10 | 26 | A Question of Friends |
This is a new 30-second commercial, ''Friends,'' that the Clinton campaign plans to begin broadcasting today.
PRODUCER -- Callahan Creative
ON THE SCREEN -- The commercial opens with a snippet from a Lazio campaign commercial released Monday in which Representative Rick A. Lazio, seated at a diner, refers to a saying of his father, ''Show me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.'' The image is moved to the upper left side of the screen as highlights of the announcer's script appear on the screen. A reproduction of a Daily News story used as a source in the advertisement flashes on the screen. The commercial ends with white text on a black screen reading: ''Rick Lazio does take care of his friends. But what about you?'' Below the words is a small picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
| This is a new 30-second commercial, ''Friends,'' that the Clinton campaign plans to begin broadcasting today. PRODUCER -- Callahan Creative ON THE SCREEN -- The commercial opens with a snippet from a Lazio campaign commercial released Monday in which Representative Rick A. Lazio, seated at a diner, refers to a saying of his father, ''Show me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.'' The image is moved to the upper left side of the screen as highlights of the announcer's script appear on the screen. A reproduction of a Daily News story used as a source in the advertisement flashes on the screen. The commercial ends with white text on a black screen reading: ''Rick Lazio does take care of his friends. But what about you?'' |
1523695 | 2003 | 09 | 30 | Rivera on the Mound, Money in the Bank |
Mariano Rivera is realistic. Someday, he knows, he will cease to be a human sawmill. Someday, his skills will decline, his cutter will lose its zip and all those bats will stop breaking. He will be mortal. Someday.
''I believe that,'' Rivera, the Yankees' indomitable closer, said. ''If I don't believe that, then all those guys that were the best ever wouldn't be out of the game. Michael Jordan would still be playing. Muhammad Ali would still be fighting. I believe you get to a certain age, and you aren't going to be the same as before. That's normal.''
| Mariano Rivera is realistic. Someday, he knows, he will cease to be a human sawmill. Someday, his skills will decline, his cutter will lose its zip and all those bats will stop breaking. He will be mortal. Someday. ''I believe that,'' Rivera, the Yankees' indomitable closer, said. ''If I don't believe that, then all those guys that were the best ever wouldn't be out of the game. Michael Jordan would still be playing. Muhammad Ali would still be fighting. I believe you get to a certain age, and you aren't going to be the same as before. That's normal.'' Rivera will turn 34 in two months. How will he know when he starts to lose it? ''I will let you know,'' he said, smiling. ''We're many years from |
1202543 | 2000 | 05 | 26 | Brownlie of Rutgers To Face Army |
Bob Brownlie grew up just a few miles from the campus of Rutgers University, dreaming about pitching for the Scarlet Knights. That dream came true when he passed up a chance to play in the professional ranks or for some of the nation's highly regarded college teams farther from home.
Now, as the Big East rookie of the year -- he had a 9-0 record in the conference and was 9-1 over all -- Brownlie, a freshman, will find himself pitching in an unlikely position as Rutgers plays host to a National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament regional for the first time.
| Bob Brownlie grew up just a few miles from the campus of Rutgers University, dreaming about pitching for the Scarlet Knights. That dream came true when he passed up a chance to play in the professional ranks or for some of the nation's highly regarded college teams farther from home. Now, as the Big East rookie of the year -- he had a 9-0 record in the conference and was 9-1 over all -- Brownlie, a freshman, will find himself pitching in an unlikely position as Rutgers plays host to a National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament regional for the first time. Fifty years after the school's only appearance in the College World Series, Rutgers (39-16) will be host of a four-team regional at Yogi Berra Stadium in Little |
1560858 | 2004 | 02 | 22 | A Time-Tested Sign of an Overvalued Market |
A RECENT academic study seriously undermines a popular reason for not worrying about the high price-to-earnings ratio of the stock market today: the idea that the ratios should be high when interest rates are low.
The theoretical basis for this claim is the so-called Fed Model, which compares the interest rate on the government's 10-year Treasury note with the inverse of the stock market's P/E ratio -- known as the market's earnings yield. The stock market is considered undervalued when its earnings yield is greater than the Treasury note rate.
| A RECENT academic study seriously undermines a popular reason for not worrying about the high price-to-earnings ratio of the stock market today: the idea that the ratios should be high when interest rates are low. The theoretical basis for this claim is the so-called Fed Model, which compares the interest rate on the government's 10-year Treasury note with the inverse of the stock market's P/E ratio -- known as the market's earnings yield. The stock market is considered undervalued when its earnings yield is greater than the Treasury note rate. According to this model, the stock market is significantly undervalued right now. The P/E ratio of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is now 18.2, based on companies' estimated operating earnings for 2004. That translates into an earnings |
1548817 | 2004 | 01 | 07 | Neoconservatism And Its Discontents |
To the Editor:
It's a shame that David Brooks equates those who may take issue with his so-called cabal of neocons with anti-Semites (column, Jan. 6). Writing that ''neo'' means Jewish is offensive.
Many of those who would stand up for Israel and its policies are Jewish, and just as many are not. But those of us who have no anti-Semitic feelings should still feel free to criticize Israel and the kind of thinking here in the United States that supports Ariel Sharon, settlements, heavy military aid to Israel and the denial of basic rights to Palestinians, among other things.
| To the Editor: It's a shame that David Brooks equates those who may take issue with his so-called cabal of neocons with anti-Semites (column, Jan. 6). Writing that ''neo'' means Jewish is offensive. Many of those who would stand up for Israel and its policies are Jewish, and just as many are not. But those of us who have no anti-Semitic feelings should still feel free to criticize Israel and the kind of thinking here in the United States that supports Ariel Sharon, settlements, heavy military aid to Israel and the denial of basic rights to Palestinians, among other things. Just because I am concerned about John Ashcroft's campaign to erode my civil liberties does not mean I am anti-Christian. I resent being implicitly labeled an anti-Semite because |
1803349 | 2006 | 11 | 09 | Torchbearers From Milan |
IN the last decade, New York has produced more bright young fashion stars per season than Milan has. This has been a point of frustration for the Italian fashion industry, which last year created a talent competition called ''Who Is on Next?'' to answer that question.
Having won that competition, Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi, the designers of a label called 6267, are now cast in the role of Milan's next great hope. On Tuesday, they were previewing their spring collection on the third floor of Bergdorf Goodman. Melissa Bent and Mirabelle Marden, the stylish owners of the Rivington Arms gallery and hosts of the trunk show, introduced the designers to a dozen similarly hip customers, who canvassed the racks of masterfully tailored dresses printed with geometric patterns inspired by the paintings of Sonia Delaunay. Some were finished with a band of satin pleating at the hem, or shown with satin leggings, lending a 1930s feeling to the clothes.
| IN the last decade, New York has produced more bright young fashion stars per season than Milan has. This has been a point of frustration for the Italian fashion industry, which last year created a talent competition called ''Who Is on Next?'' to answer that question. Having won that competition, Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi, the designers of a label called 6267, are now cast in the role of Milan's next great hope. On Tuesday, they were previewing their spring collection on the third floor of Bergdorf Goodman. Melissa Bent and Mirabelle Marden, the stylish owners of the Rivington Arms gallery and hosts of the trunk show, introduced the designers to a dozen similarly hip customers, who canvassed the racks of masterfully tailored dresses printed with geometric patterns |
1588308 | 2004 | 06 | 10 | Bloomberg's Approval Rating Is Up, Poll Shows |
Half of New York City voters approve of the way Michael R. Bloomberg is handling his job, the mayor's highest rating in two years, according to a new poll.
The Quinnipiac University poll of 1,226 registered voters found that 50 percent approved of Mr. Bloomberg's performance and 38 percent disapproved. That is an improvement in his approval rating of 3 percentage points since March and 19 points since last July, when the same poll found that 60 percent of voters disapproved of his performance.
| Half of New York City voters approve of the way Michael R. Bloomberg is handling his job, the mayor's highest rating in two years, according to a new poll. The Quinnipiac University poll of 1,226 registered voters found that 50 percent approved of Mr. Bloomberg's performance and 38 percent disapproved. That is an improvement in his approval rating of 3 percentage points since March and 19 points since last July, when the same poll found that 60 percent of voters disapproved of his performance. ''Mayor Bloomberg has been on a steady climb back to the approval numbers he enjoyed when he was the new guy in City Hall,'' said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. The poll, conducted last week, has a margin of sampling |
1269221 | 2001 | 02 | 08 | Bush Outlines His Principles For Protecting Patient Rights |
President Bush laid out his criteria for patients' rights legislation today, saying patients should, as a last resort, be able to sue insurance companies that improperly denied medical care.
In a letter to Congressional leaders, Mr. Bush set forth ''principles for a bipartisan patients' bill of rights'' that he said any legislation must follow to win his support.
| President Bush laid out his criteria for patients' rights legislation today, saying patients should, as a last resort, be able to sue insurance companies that improperly denied medical care. In a letter to Congressional leaders, Mr. Bush set forth ''principles for a bipartisan patients' bill of rights'' that he said any legislation must follow to win his support. ''I do not believe that any bill currently before Congress meets all of these principles,'' Mr. Bush said in the letter, which was sent to Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate Republican leader. On Tuesday, Mr. Bush raised objections to the main bipartisan bill on patients' rights, which was offered by Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of |
1534293 | 2003 | 11 | 10 | Predict the Future of Technology and Win a Plasma TV |
Online markets that trade predictions about the future are popping up everywhere these days, including a new one sponsored by M.I.T.'s Technology Review magazine that lets players bet on the outcome of technology-related events.
The Technology Review marketplace, called Innovation Futures, began operating a month ago but was not announced publicly until last week. It is free to users and lets players bet on propositions like when Google will go public and which month, if ever, Boeing will commit to building the 7E7, its next-generation commercial jet. The most successful traders have a shot at winning a plasma-screen television or other prizes.
| Online markets that trade predictions about the future are popping up everywhere these days, including a new one sponsored by M.I.T.'s Technology Review magazine that lets players bet on the outcome of technology-related events. The Technology Review marketplace, called Innovation Futures, began operating a month ago but was not announced publicly until last week. It is free to users and lets players bet on propositions like when Google will go public and which month, if ever, Boeing will commit to building the 7E7, its next-generation commercial jet. The most successful traders have a shot at winning a plasma-screen television or other prizes. The game is similar in approach to those by online pioneers like the Iowa Electronic Markets, which often outperforms pollsters in its election projections, and the |
1547082 | 2003 | 12 | 31 | Brandy for the Safari-Challenged |
I was impressed with Imoya, a South African brandy, when I first tasted it at a safari camp in Botswana. You can find it now in New York, in a dark green frosted bottle with a stopper that suggests an African headdress. Imoya is made in Cognac-style copper pot stills by KWV International, one of the largest wine producers in the wine country near Cape Town. The brandy is plush, full-bodied and assertive, with a nut-sweet aroma and a spicy richness. Imoya is about $30 for a 750 milliliter bottle and is also available in a gift package with two brandy snifters for about $32 at Chelsea Wines, 200 West 21st Street; Spring Street Wine Shop, 187 Spring Street (Thompson Street); and PJ Wine, 4898 Broadway (204th Street).
| I was impressed with Imoya, a South African brandy, when I first tasted it at a safari camp in Botswana. You can find it now in New York, in a dark green frosted bottle with a stopper that suggests an African headdress. Imoya is made in Cognac-style copper pot stills by KWV International, one of the largest wine producers in the wine country near Cape Town. The brandy is plush, full-bodied and assertive, with a nut-sweet aroma and a spicy richness. Imoya is about $30 for a 750 milliliter bottle and is also available in a gift package with two brandy snifters for about $32 at Chelsea Wines, 200 West 21st Street; Spring Street Wine Shop, 187 Spring Street (Thompson Street); and PJ Wine, 4898 Broadway (204th Street). |
1760990 | 2006 | 05 | 12 | BREAKING GROUND |
Le Paradis
WHAT -- Oceanfront resort and residential development. WHERE -- St. Lucia. AMENITIES -- Golf course, spa, tennis club and marina. PRICES -- $835,000 to more than $1.3 million for two- to three-bedroom hotel condominiums; three- and four-bedroom villas, about $1.9 million to $2.8 million, will be added. STATUS -- Construction began nearly a year ago, and the condominium hotel and golf course are expected to be completed in November 2007. Construction of the villas and marina is planned for about a year later. DEVELOPER DCG -- Properties Limited. CONTACT -- 758-451-6991, www.leparadisstlucia.com. DETAILS -- On the Caribbean island's Atlantic coast at Praslin Bay, the 554-acre project will be centered on a Westin hotel with 258 two- and three-bedroom condominiums.
A Greg Norman 18-hole golf course, managed by Troon Golf, will be on the coast, and initiation fees and three years of dues will be waived for residents.
Other amenities are to include a full-service spa, a tennis club and six swimming pools, including one with salt water (each villa will have its own infinity pool).
The 238-square-mile island, marked by twin mountains rising over its southwestern coast, has an international airport, 20 minutes from the resort.
Gansevoort South
WHAT -- Urban condominium hotel with other residential options. WHERE -- South Beach in Miami Beach. AMENITIES -- A three-level beach club, a rooftop deck with a swimming pool, a full-service spa and gym. PRICES -- Hotel condominiums, from studios to two-bedroom suites, $600,000 to $1.6 million. Other condominiums in an adjoining building are $600,000 to $6 million for studios to four-bedroom units. STATUS -- Now under construction; the project is expected to be completed around the beginning of next year. DEVELOPER -- Gansevoort Hotel Group and the Chetrit Group. CONTACT -- 305-379-4424, www.gansevoortsouth.com. DETAILS -- The first Gansevoort-branded project outside of New York, where a luxury hotel opened in the meatpacking district of Manhattan in early 2004, this development will be focused in a renovated 1960's building on Collins Avenue between 23rd and 24th Streets. It will house 232 hotel rooms and 102 condominium hotel units; adjoining the development, Paradiso, with 259 condominiums, will offer owners access to the Gansevoort's amenities, including the rooftop swimming pool and deck (this one will be 24,000 square feet with a 110-foot-long pool, and lined with palm trees). Other amenities include a 110,000-square-foot, three-level beach club and a 40,000-square-foot David Barton Gym and Spa. The building's first floor will be filled with boutiques, restaurants and shops.
NICK KAYE
Breaking Ground is a weekly look at projects, planned or under construction, that include weekend or vacation homes.
| Le Paradis WHAT -- Oceanfront resort and residential development. WHERE -- St. Lucia. AMENITIES -- Golf course, spa, tennis club and marina. PRICES -- $835,000 to more than $1.3 million for two- to three-bedroom hotel condominiums; three- and four-bedroom villas, about $1.9 million to $2.8 million, will be added. STATUS -- Construction began nearly a year ago, and the condominium hotel and golf course are expected to be completed in November 2007. Construction of the villas and marina is planned for about a year later. DEVELOPER DCG -- Properties Limited. CONTACT -- 758-451-6991, www.leparadisstlucia.com. DETAILS -- On the Caribbean island's Atlantic coast at Praslin Bay, the 554-acre project will be centered on a Westin hotel with 258 two- and three-bedroom condominiums. A Greg Norman 18-hole golf course, managed |
1385876 | 2002 | 04 | 21 | Putting Paste Tomatoes Through a Taste Test |
EACH summer in my garden, I grow and later can enough tomatoes to keep my family in soup, stew and sauce for at least a year. So a couple of summers ago, I decided to do a test of paste tomatoes, the ones that are rarely eaten fresh, and mostly just cooked. I sorted through some of the varieties available, planting, growing and evaluating flavors of the reputed best. These were varieties highly touted by seed purveyors, some gardeners and gardening magazines.
I admit to entering this foray with prejudices. One was in favor of San Marzano, a variety that I have grown for years. Uncooked, San Marzano is dry, mealy and bland, but cook it and the flavor turns piquant, oozing tomatoness. I also had a prejudice against the variety Roma, so well-known and available that paste tomatoes sometimes are just called Roma tomatoes. I had, unfortunately, grown them in the past and they were bland, bland, bland.
| EACH summer in my garden, I grow and later can enough tomatoes to keep my family in soup, stew and sauce for at least a year. So a couple of summers ago, I decided to do a test of paste tomatoes, the ones that are rarely eaten fresh, and mostly just cooked. I sorted through some of the varieties available, planting, growing and evaluating flavors of the reputed best. These were varieties highly touted by seed purveyors, some gardeners and gardening magazines. I admit to entering this foray with prejudices. One was in favor of San Marzano, a variety that I have grown for years. Uncooked, San Marzano is dry, mealy and bland, but cook it and the flavor turns piquant, oozing tomatoness. I also had a prejudice |
1380657 | 2002 | 04 | 02 | Digging Deep Into Handel In a Festival Over 4 Weeks |
Individual concerts in which soloists take star turns will probably always be the bread-and-butter of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series, but the focused examinations of composers that the center's programming department has offered in recent seasons have become popular draws. Perhaps some of the attraction is that concertgoers -- or their inner record collectors -- like presentations that are both expansive and orderly. But the power of illusion is at work as well. As interesting or moving as stand-alone concerts can be, roping several together and throwing in a symposium creates the feeling that a series is more than the sum of its component performances.
The latest beneficiary of this approach is George Frideric Handel, whose music is being explored in Great Performers' ''Beyond the Messiah'' minifestival over the next four weeks. The series offers only a fraction of this prolific composer's music, but as has been its practice in past offerings, Lincoln Center has assembled an overview in which rarely heard works are favored and the warhorses are few.
| Individual concerts in which soloists take star turns will probably always be the bread-and-butter of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series, but the focused examinations of composers that the center's programming department has offered in recent seasons have become popular draws. Perhaps some of the attraction is that concertgoers -- or their inner record collectors -- like presentations that are both expansive and orderly. But the power of illusion is at work as well. As interesting or moving as stand-alone concerts can be, roping several together and throwing in a symposium creates the feeling that a series is more than the sum of its component performances. The latest beneficiary of this approach is George Frideric Handel, whose music is being explored in Great Performers' ''Beyond the Messiah'' minifestival over |
1219456 | 2000 | 08 | 02 | Editorial Observer; The Republican Party's Exercise in Minstrelsy |
The African-Americans and Latinos being paraded across the stage at the Republican Convention are intended to give a hip, multicultural feel -- and dispel the pervasive notion that the G.O.P. is largely a party of, by and for white Americans. But subtract the minority props -- the break dancers and the gospel choir and the beaming schoolchildren -- and what you have is the same ultra-white party that shocked many Americans' sensibilities at the 1992 and 1996 conventions. The deluge of black and Latin faces on display in Philadelphia is deceptive, given that the party's delegates and senior managers are as white as they have ever been.
Even so, the realization among the party fathers that Americans have grown uncomfortable with unremitting whiteness is a breakthrough in itself. The problem for the G.O.P. is how to move from patronizing spectacles like this one, in which blacks and Latinos serve as props, to a state of affairs where minority Americans are both welcomed and actively recruited into the party as full-fledged participants. Given the party's recent history of code words and writing off the minority vote, it will take more than break dancers on the convention stage to change this picture.
| The African-Americans and Latinos being paraded across the stage at the Republican Convention are intended to give a hip, multicultural feel -- and dispel the pervasive notion that the G.O.P. is largely a party of, by and for white Americans. But subtract the minority props -- the break dancers and the gospel choir and the beaming schoolchildren -- and what you have is the same ultra-white party that shocked many Americans' sensibilities at the 1992 and 1996 conventions. The deluge of black and Latin faces on display in Philadelphia is deceptive, given that the party's delegates and senior managers are as white as they have ever been. Even so, the realization among the party fathers that Americans have grown uncomfortable with unremitting whiteness is a breakthrough in itself. |
1570595 | 2004 | 03 | 31 | This Year, More Boards Feel Pressure To Show Up |
For directors of publicly traded corporations, showing up at the annual shareholders meeting is not so optional anymore.
Until last year, some big companies allowed their directors to skip annual meetings, or even discouraged them from attending. But now several, including Morgan Stanley and the Dana Corporation, have adopted policies that encourage their directors to show up, and some companies have abandoned the practice of holding their meetings in out-of-the-way locations.
| For directors of publicly traded corporations, showing up at the annual shareholders meeting is not so optional anymore. Until last year, some big companies allowed their directors to skip annual meetings, or even discouraged them from attending. But now several, including Morgan Stanley and the Dana Corporation, have adopted policies that encourage their directors to show up, and some companies have abandoned the practice of holding their meetings in out-of-the-way locations. One cause for the shifts is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires companies to publish their policies on directors' attendance at annual meetings. Rather than convey a lack of interest in shareholders' concerns, some companies have adopted a more inclusive view. Philip Purcell, the chairman and chief executive of Morgan Stanley, told shareholders at the firm's gathering in |
1846099 | 2007 | 05 | 09 | TODAY IN BUSINESS |
PAYING DOCTORS TO GIVE DRUGS -- Amgen and Johnson & Johnson, two of the world's largest drug companies, are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses. [Page A1.]
SARKOZY'S APPROACH TO AIRBUS -- Airbus, Europe's proud but ailing plane maker, will provide a test for France's president-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, and clarify whether he is, at heart, a free-market reformer or an economic nationalist determined to prop up France's industrial patrimony. [C1.]
CHINA REAPS THE BENEFITS -- A United Nations program is supposed to help the developing world combat global warming by transferring billions of dollar from rich countries to poor countries. But the biggest beneficiary is no longer so poor: China received most of the money last year. [C1.]
DOW JONES LEAK INQUIRY -- Federal securities regulators are expected to examine the role of a Dow Jones director in the possible leak of inside information to a Hong Kong couple accused of making millions of dollars by buying the company's shares shortly before news of Rupert Murdoch's takeover offer. [C1.]
CLAIMS AGAINST GRASSO REJECTED -- A New York appeals court dismissed four of six legal claims brought against Richard A. Grasso for his pay package of $190 million over eight years as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. [C1.]
SECOND CONTAMINANT IN PET FOOD -- A second industrial chemical that American regulators have identified as a pet food contaminant may have been intentionally added to animal feed by Chinese producers seeking larger profits, according to Chinese chemical industry officials. [C3.]
A CONSPIRACY TO DIVERT MILLIONS -- Conrad M. Black's longtime former business partner testified at Mr. Black's criminal fraud trial that the two men conspired to divert millions of dollars of payments for assets of the newspaper company Hollinger International. [C3.] NOW THE LAWSUITS -- Two officials of Dow Chemical, who were fired after the company accused them of conspiring in a buyout, have sued Dow Chemical for defamation, and Dow has sued them right back. [C1.]
YES, IT'S A DIET PILL -- A marketing blitz with a budget estimated at more than $150 million in the first year is seeking to persuade skeptical dieters that a new over-the-counter pill can help them lose weight. Advertising: Stuart Elliott. [C2.]
STRONG QUARTER FOR CISCO -- Cisco Systems reported a 34 percent growth in quarterly profits that it attributed to strong demand for high-speed Internet service. Cisco, the largest maker of networking equipment, said that its revenue increased 21 percent. ''Momentum remains very strong,'' said John T. Chambers, above, Cisco's chairman and chief executive. [C9.]
ENVISIONING THOMSON-REUTERS -- Thomson, the Canadian electronic information company, sketched out the details of its offer for the Reuters Group, the financial and general news service. The company would challenge Bloomberg for leadership in the financial data field. [C6.]
SIGNS OF A COMEBACK -- Springfield, Mass., has endured closed mills, increased crime, population declines and the threat of bankruptcy proceedings. Now there are glimmers that the city has finally turned the corner. [C7.]
A FLAT DAY AWAITING THE FED -- Wall Street battled back from sharp losses to close mostly flat as investors sought opportunities and adjusted their holdings ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting today. [C10.]
WOLFOWITZ SEEKS MORE TIME -- Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. endorsed the request by Paul D. Wolfowitz, the World Bank president, for more time to defend himself against charges of misconduct, a delay that could give the Bush administration time to negotiate his voluntary resignation. [A6.]
LIVING WAGE IS LAW IN MARYLAND -- Maryland has approved the nation's first statewide living wage bill, giving fresh momentum to a movement that seeks to raise wages through legislation. [A21.]
ONLINE
Business Briefing Articles on these developments are at nytimes.com/business.
AMAZON.COM, THE ONLINE retailer, and I.B.M. said they had settled all their patent-infringement lawsuits and signed a long-term patent cross-license agreement. (AP)
THE WARNER MUSIC GROUP posted a wider quarterly loss and said it would cut about 400 jobs as it shifts resources to increase digital distribution of music and video. (REUTERS)
DEUTSCHE BANK, the biggest lender in Germany, said that its first-quarter profit rose 30 percent, lifted by its debt and equity trading businesses. (AP)
ELECTRONIC ARTS, the video game maker, said yesterday that it lost $25 million in its fourth fiscal quarter as it dealt with the introduction of new game consoles, but it did better than Wall Street expected. (AP)
MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, which licenses comic book characters like Spider-Man, posted a higher quarterly profit on growth in its licensing operations as well as increased contributions from toys and comic book publishing. (REUTERS)
REVLON, THE COSMETICS maker, reported a narrower quarterly loss as a result of cost-cutting and a slight increase in sales. (REUTERS)
TYCO INTERNATIONAL, which plans to split into three companies in coming weeks, reported lower quarterly earnings as revamping costs reduced earnings, but a low tax rate helped results beat Wall Street expectations. (REUTERS)
| PAYING DOCTORS TO GIVE DRUGS -- Amgen and Johnson & Johnson, two of the world's largest drug companies, are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses. [Page A1.] SARKOZY'S APPROACH TO AIRBUS -- Airbus, Europe's proud but ailing plane maker, will provide a test for France's president-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, and clarify whether he is, at heart, a free-market reformer or an economic nationalist determined to prop up France's industrial patrimony. [C1.] CHINA REAPS THE BENEFITS -- A United Nations program is supposed to help the developing world combat global warming by transferring billions of dollar from rich countries to poor countries. But the biggest beneficiary is |
1686360 | 2005 | 07 | 10 | As Earnings Slow, Dividends Pick Up the Slack |
FOR the past two years, the stock market's run has been fueled by a surprisingly strong surge in corporate profits.
Unfortunately, the gas tank is starting to empty. After reaching rates of more than 20 percent starting in late 2003, profit growth is slowing. In fact, second-quarter earnings for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index are expected to grow by a much more modest 7 percent, according to Thomson Financial.
| FOR the past two years, the stock market's run has been fueled by a surprisingly strong surge in corporate profits. Unfortunately, the gas tank is starting to empty. After reaching rates of more than 20 percent starting in late 2003, profit growth is slowing. In fact, second-quarter earnings for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index are expected to grow by a much more modest 7 percent, according to Thomson Financial. Yet that doesn't mean that the case for owning stocks is weakening. At the moment, there is another very positive sign for the stock market: a surge in dividends. Just as corporate profit growth is slowing, dividends paid by S.&P. 500 companies are accelerating. Ever since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, dividend-paying stocks have commanded |
1370003 | 2002 | 02 | 23 | Jonas Savimbi, 67, Rebel Of Charisma and Tenacity |
Jonas Savimbi, who was killed yesterday by Angolan government soldiers, spent more than 35 years in the African bush battling first for Angolan independence and then for personal power.
Mr. Savimbi, 67, was among the more charismatic rebels on the continent. The burly leader was easily recognized by his lumbering gait, menacing scowl, combat fatigues, pistol and black beret, all of which served to obscure his Swiss doctorate in political science.
| Jonas Savimbi, who was killed yesterday by Angolan government soldiers, spent more than 35 years in the African bush battling first for Angolan independence and then for personal power. Mr. Savimbi, 67, was among the more charismatic rebels on the continent. The burly leader was easily recognized by his lumbering gait, menacing scowl, combat fatigues, pistol and black beret, all of which served to obscure his Swiss doctorate in political science. He first led armed fighters against Angola's Portuguese rulers in the 1960's, using the tactics of a ''people's war'' that he had learned in Communist China. A decade later, when the war-weary Portuguese withdrew in 1975, he became one of the contenders in a three-way tribally based struggle for power. This civil war, with its contrary claims |
1395972 | 2002 | 05 | 28 | NEWS SUMMARY |
INTERNATIONAL
A3-11
U.S. Believes Al Qaeda Is Operating in Pakistan Virtually the entire senior leadership of Al Qaeda and the Taliban have been driven out of eastern Afghanistan and are now operating in the anarchic tribal areas of western Pakistan, the commander of American-led forces in Afghanistan said. Maj. Gen. Franklin L. Hagenbeck also said that intelligence reports indicated that they were plotting terrorist attacks to disrupt the selection of a new national government in Kabul next month.
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Musharraf Addresses Nation President Pervez Musharraf said in an address to his nation that Pakistan did not want a conflict with India, but that if it came to war between the nuclear-armed rivals he would ''respond with full might.'' He urged India to take steps to ease tensions, and he laid full blame with India for the standoff between the two countries.
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| INTERNATIONAL A3-11 U.S. Believes Al Qaeda Is Operating in Pakistan Virtually the entire senior leadership of Al Qaeda and the Taliban have been driven out of eastern Afghanistan and are now operating in the anarchic tribal areas of western Pakistan, the commander of American-led forces in Afghanistan said. Maj. Gen. Franklin L. Hagenbeck also said that intelligence reports indicated that they were plotting terrorist attacks to disrupt the selection of a new national government in Kabul next month. A1 Musharraf Addresses Nation President Pervez Musharraf said in an address to his nation that Pakistan did not want a conflict with India, but that if it came to war between the nuclear-armed rivals he would ''respond with full might.'' He urged India to take steps to ease tensions, and |
1665287 | 2005 | 04 | 16 | Arts, Briefly |
Quilt Museum Architects Are Chosen
Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York has beaten Studio Daniel Libeskind of New York and Kisho Kurokawa Architects & Associates of Tokyo to design the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, described as the first museum and international center dedicated to the study, preservation and display of quilts. The university hopes to break ground next spring on the $10.5 million three-story, 30,000-square-foot building, faced with limestone and featuring a bowed facade of glass panels that will appear to be stitched together to create a large-scale pattern.
Jubilee Music in Albany
Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2005-6, the Albany Symphony Orchestra is commissioning 25 new works, including eight full orchestral compositions intended to connect American composers with their heritage and ancestry. Under the title ''American Memories, American Dreams,'' the commissions to be performed by the orchestra, led by its music director, David Alan Miller, include Dorothy Chang's ''Flight,'' inspired by her grandparents' escape from Communist China and arrival in America, and Stephen Dankner's ''Evenings With My Grandfather,'' a homage to the Yiddish songs his grandfather sang to him when he was a boy. Among the soloists scheduled to appear with the orchestra are the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the bassist Edgar Meyer, the violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the pianist Yefim Bronfman.
Footnotes
Fresh from glowing reviews for her portrayal of Ruth Sherwood in the Broadway revival of ''Wonderful Town,'' Brooke Shields is off to London to take on the role of the murderous flapper Roxie Hart in the West End production of ''Chicago'' on April 26, Agence France-Presse reported. Warner Music Group has announced a deal to buy a 50 percent stake in Sean Combs's Bad Boy Records label, Reuters reported. The deal is valued at $30 million. Mr. Combs, also known as P. Diddy, will continue as chief executive of the concern. Plans are afoot to erect a life-size bronze statue of Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981) in his native Bloomington, Ind., not far from the Indiana University off-campus hangout where he wrote ''Stardust'' in 1927, The Associated Press reported. The statue, designed by Michael McAuley, a Bloomington sculptor, and depicting Carmichael seated at a piano, is to be completed in May 2006.
| Quilt Museum Architects Are Chosen Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York has beaten Studio Daniel Libeskind of New York and Kisho Kurokawa Architects & Associates of Tokyo to design the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, described as the first museum and international center dedicated to the study, preservation and display of quilts. The university hopes to break ground next spring on the $10.5 million three-story, 30,000-square-foot building, faced with limestone and featuring a bowed facade of glass panels that will appear to be stitched together to create a large-scale pattern. Jubilee Music in Albany Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2005-6, the Albany Symphony Orchestra is commissioning 25 new works, including eight full orchestral compositions intended to connect American composers with their heritage |
1324598 | 2001 | 09 | 13 | Reopenings and Postponements |
Broadway theaters are to open again today. The League of American Theaters and Producers, the trade organization for Broadway, encouraged ticketholders to exchange tickets for canceled performances for another date by bringing them to the box office. Refunds will also be available on presentation of tickets. Most nationally touring productions will also resume performances; theatergoers with questions about those productions were advised to call the show's box office.
Off Broadway theaters above 14th Street are to resume performances today. Because so many Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theaters are situated below 14th Street, the best course for ticket holders seeking information about performances is to call the theater or Telecharge or Ticketmaster, depending on the source of the tickets.
| Broadway theaters are to open again today. The League of American Theaters and Producers, the trade organization for Broadway, encouraged ticketholders to exchange tickets for canceled performances for another date by bringing them to the box office. Refunds will also be available on presentation of tickets. Most nationally touring productions will also resume performances; theatergoers with questions about those productions were advised to call the show's box office. Off Broadway theaters above 14th Street are to resume performances today. Because so many Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theaters are situated below 14th Street, the best course for ticket holders seeking information about performances is to call the theater or Telecharge or Ticketmaster, depending on the source of the tickets. At Lincoln Center, the opening concerts in the |
1722458 | 2005 | 12 | 04 | Bush's Speech On Iraq Echoes Analyst's Voice |
There could be no doubt about the theme of President Bush's Iraq war strategy speech on Wednesday at the Naval Academy. He used the word victory 15 times in the address; ''Plan for Victory'' signs crowded the podium he spoke on; and the word heavily peppered the accompanying 35-page National Security Council document titled, ''Our National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.''
Although White House officials said many federal departments had contributed to the document, its relentless focus on the theme of victory strongly reflected a new voice in the administration: Peter D. Feaver, a Duke University political scientist who joined the N.S.C. staff as a special adviser in June and has closely studied public opinion on the war.
| There could be no doubt about the theme of President Bush's Iraq war strategy speech on Wednesday at the Naval Academy. He used the word victory 15 times in the address; ''Plan for Victory'' signs crowded the podium he spoke on; and the word heavily peppered the accompanying 35-page National Security Council document titled, ''Our National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'' Although White House officials said many federal departments had contributed to the document, its relentless focus on the theme of victory strongly reflected a new voice in the administration: Peter D. Feaver, a Duke University political scientist who joined the N.S.C. staff as a special adviser in June and has closely studied public opinion on the war. Despite the president's oft-stated aversion to polls, Dr. Feaver was |
1709380 | 2005 | 10 | 13 | Parcells Has Moved, But His Shadow Lingers Over Giants |
The Giants are ahead of the Dallas Cowboys in the standings, but they still are chasing Bill Parcells.
On Sunday, the franchise with which Parcells built his reputation is playing the one that Parcells is trying to rebuild. Even if the Giants beat the Cowboys in Dallas, they still will be left trying to achieve the level of respect Parcells earned in New York.
| The Giants are ahead of the Dallas Cowboys in the standings, but they still are chasing Bill Parcells. On Sunday, the franchise with which Parcells built his reputation is playing the one that Parcells is trying to rebuild. Even if the Giants beat the Cowboys in Dallas, they still will be left trying to achieve the level of respect Parcells earned in New York. ''That's why, as a guy who has been around long enough to understand that, I feel so strongly about wanting to win a championship here,'' Giants running back Tiki Barber said. ''Because if you do, your name lasts forever.'' It has been 15 years since the Giants, with Parcells as coach, won their second Super Bowl championship. For the coach, born and raised in |
1375445 | 2002 | 03 | 13 | 'Back Against the Wall' |
Directed by James Fotopoulos Not rated, 94 minutes
The term ''noir'' only begins to describe the malignant atmosphere that seeps like a poison gas through James Fotopoulos's grimy, clanging film ''Back Against the Wall.'' The movie, which opens today at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, at Second Street, East Village), is the centerpiece of a retrospective of the work of this prolific underground filmmaker, who in the last nine years has written, directed, edited and produced 4 feature films and 27 shorts.
| Directed by James Fotopoulos Not rated, 94 minutes The term ''noir'' only begins to describe the malignant atmosphere that seeps like a poison gas through James Fotopoulos's grimy, clanging film ''Back Against the Wall.'' The movie, which opens today at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, at Second Street, East Village), is the centerpiece of a retrospective of the work of this prolific underground filmmaker, who in the last nine years has written, directed, edited and produced 4 feature films and 27 shorts. Mr. Fotopoulos's fascination with the grotesque and surreal has earned his films comparisons to the early work of David Lynch. And ''Back Against the Wall,'' although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted, conjures a Lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of Middle America. One |
1649643 | 2005 | 02 | 13 | Four Moves You Can Make Now to Reduce Future Pain |
IF your definition of tax planning goes no further than blocking out the weekend before April 15 to slog through your tax returns -- or to make a last-minute plea to an accountant -- you are probably missing out on some money-saving moves.
Even the most creative tax specialist is limited in what he or she can do for your 2004 taxes, but you can do plenty now to make your 2005 tax bill -- and next year's tax season -- much less painful.
| IF your definition of tax planning goes no further than blocking out the weekend before April 15 to slog through your tax returns -- or to make a last-minute plea to an accountant -- you are probably missing out on some money-saving moves. Even the most creative tax specialist is limited in what he or she can do for your 2004 taxes, but you can do plenty now to make your 2005 tax bill -- and next year's tax season -- much less painful. ''When you are preparing your 2004 return is an opportune time to plan for the balance of 2005,'' said Mark Steber, vice president for tax resources at Jackson Hewitt, a tax preparation company. MAX OUT -- The maximum annual contribution to employer-sponsored defined contribution |
1280271 | 2001 | 03 | 24 | Trachsel Eases Way Into a Rotation Spot |
A typical starting rotation including Steve Trachsel has looked like this: One or two pitchers assured of spots; another coming off surgery; another trying to ignore trade rumors; and a few rookies and retreads competing for the fifth spot.
So for Trachsel, the Mets' new fifth starter, this spring has been pleasantly boring. When he looks around the clubhouse, he sees four other starters secure in their positions, none coming off surgery or in danger of being traded. Being surrounded by such certainty has its advantages.
| A typical starting rotation including Steve Trachsel has looked like this: One or two pitchers assured of spots; another coming off surgery; another trying to ignore trade rumors; and a few rookies and retreads competing for the fifth spot. So for Trachsel, the Mets' new fifth starter, this spring has been pleasantly boring. When he looks around the clubhouse, he sees four other starters secure in their positions, none coming off surgery or in danger of being traded. Being surrounded by such certainty has its advantages. ''It makes it a lot easier to get ready,'' Trachsel said. There is one more detail, which may or may not mean anything -- all five starters are pitching very well. After Trachsel allowed one run in six innings tonight against the |
1760712 | 2006 | 05 | 10 | Metro Briefing | New York: Bronx: Criticism Of Middle East Discussion |
A group of Riverdale rabbis protested at the Fieldston School yesterday, charging that the final panel in a daylong assembly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was unbalanced. The program was planned after a February session featuring two Palestinian speakers was canceled when parents complained that it did not include an Israeli. That angered students and parents who said the cancellation betrayed the school's values of free speech and open debate. Avi Weiss, senior rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, withdrew from one of yesterday's sessions and organized the protest after seeing that the panel would include only two speakers: Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian scholar, and Tony Judt, above, a Jewish scholar who has written that Israel, as a Jewish state, is an ''anachronism.'' A Fieldston spokeswoman, Ginger Curwen, said in a statement that yesterday's assembly featured more than 25 speakers and covered a range of topics, including human rights and the role of religion.
ELISSA GOOTMAN (NYT)
| A group of Riverdale rabbis protested at the Fieldston School yesterday, charging that the final panel in a daylong assembly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was unbalanced. The program was planned after a February session featuring two Palestinian speakers was canceled when parents complained that it did not include an Israeli. That angered students and parents who said the cancellation betrayed the school's values of free speech and open debate. Avi Weiss, senior rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, withdrew from one of yesterday's sessions and organized the protest after seeing that the panel would include only two speakers: Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian scholar, and Tony Judt, above, a Jewish scholar who has written that Israel, as a Jewish state, is an ''anachronism.'' A Fieldston spokeswoman, Ginger Curwen, |
1290277 | 2001 | 05 | 03 | Rumsfeld's Office Reverses China Ban |
The office of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered the suspension of military exchanges and contacts with the Chinese armed forces and then abruptly reversed the order today after the White House objected, Pentagon officials said.
The reversal, which the Pentagon announced in an unusual retraction this evening, reflected a degree of confusion in an administration that had tried to project a disciplined management style.
| The office of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered the suspension of military exchanges and contacts with the Chinese armed forces and then abruptly reversed the order today after the White House objected, Pentagon officials said. The reversal, which the Pentagon announced in an unusual retraction this evening, reflected a degree of confusion in an administration that had tried to project a disciplined management style. It also underscored divisions among President Bush's advisers over how tough to be with China after the confrontation over an American surveillance aircraft that remains at a Chinese military base on Hainan Island. A memorandum dated April 30 and signed by Chris Williams, a senior adviser to Mr. Rumsfeld for policy matters, directed the United States armed forces to suspend contacts between their |
1503833 | 2003 | 07 | 12 | In Judah-Corley Fight, Clothes Will Clash, Too |
Don't kid yourself, Zab Judah says. His fight Saturday night with DeMarcus Corley is not just about bad blood, trash talk and money.
''This fight is really about who Zab Judah is, you know, the definition,'' said Judah, a former International Boxing Federation junior welterweight champion from Brooklyn.
| Don't kid yourself, Zab Judah says. His fight Saturday night with DeMarcus Corley is not just about bad blood, trash talk and money. ''This fight is really about who Zab Judah is, you know, the definition,'' said Judah, a former International Boxing Federation junior welterweight champion from Brooklyn. Judah will fight Corley, the World Boxing Organization titleholder, at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in a scheduled 12-round bout. Ricardo Mayorga will defend his World Boxing Council welterweight championship against Vernon Forrest in the headline match on a card that also includes Vivian Harris's first defense of his World Boxing Association superwelterweight title against Souleyman M'Baye. Judah (28-1, with 21 knockouts) is favored, though it has been 364 days since his last fight. On that occasion, he won a |
1773851 | 2006 | 07 | 05 | Lessons In New Ways To See |
In a room full of teenage girls, Lastarr Freeman hardly speaks, and when she does, her voice rarely rises above a whisper. Yet when it was time to pose for a portrait last month, she decided to dress up as a boxer, with trunks draped around her legs and surgical gauze crisscrossing her slender hands. All that was needed to complete the picture, and the transformation, were the gloves.
''I've always been a fighter,'' she explained.
| In a room full of teenage girls, Lastarr Freeman hardly speaks, and when she does, her voice rarely rises above a whisper. Yet when it was time to pose for a portrait last month, she decided to dress up as a boxer, with trunks draped around her legs and surgical gauze crisscrossing her slender hands. All that was needed to complete the picture, and the transformation, were the gloves. ''I've always been a fighter,'' she explained. Anyone who has passed much time in the Louis H. Pink project in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, where Ms. Freeman has spent most of her life, knows that she probably has her reasons for fighting. But by last year it had led her, at 16, to the back of |
1246497 | 2000 | 11 | 12 | Public Realm On Private Property |
To the Editor:
Your article concerning the arcade at the Carlton Regency [''A Public Realm on Private Property,'' Oct. 15] is both correct (it is not an attractive place) and misleading (we have made great efforts to improve the ambience). It has been a losing battle to improve this ''amenity'' for which the original builders received permission to build from New York City and for which we cannot gain permission from them to deviate from the original vague plan, despite the vastly changed times.
| To the Editor: Your article concerning the arcade at the Carlton Regency [''A Public Realm on Private Property,'' Oct. 15] is both correct (it is not an attractive place) and misleading (we have made great efforts to improve the ambience). It has been a losing battle to improve this ''amenity'' for which the original builders received permission to build from New York City and for which we cannot gain permission from them to deviate from the original vague plan, despite the vastly changed times. Unfortunately, we do serve a public, albeit one that is not our preference -- that of the homeless who defile the area with their bed linens and other possessions, using it as a public toilet and a place to have sex; the smokers who |
1239036 | 2000 | 10 | 15 | Ideas & Trends; A Shot Seen 'Round the World |
LOU GERARD didn't smell a rat. Instead, he was staring one straight in the eye. Little did either one know how that rodent would change sports television forever.
It was 25 years ago next Saturday, Game Six of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. As Boston's Carlton Fisk led off the bottom of the 12th inning with the score tied 6-6, Gerard, the NBC cameraman stationed inside Fenway Park's famous Green Monster left-field wall, was directed by his producer, Harry Coyle, to follow the ball wherever Fisk might hit it. Gerard responded, ''Harry, there's a rat right here next to me the size of a cat, and it's moving closer.''
| LOU GERARD didn't smell a rat. Instead, he was staring one straight in the eye. Little did either one know how that rodent would change sports television forever. It was 25 years ago next Saturday, Game Six of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. As Boston's Carlton Fisk led off the bottom of the 12th inning with the score tied 6-6, Gerard, the NBC cameraman stationed inside Fenway Park's famous Green Monster left-field wall, was directed by his producer, Harry Coyle, to follow the ball wherever Fisk might hit it. Gerard responded, ''Harry, there's a rat right here next to me the size of a cat, and it's moving closer.'' ''What are you gonna do?'' Coyle replied. ''Maybe . . . |
1262110 | 2001 | 01 | 12 | Nortel Plans to Cut 4,000 Jobs as Part of Revamping Program |
The Nortel Networks Corporation, the communications equipment maker based in Canada, said today that it planned to cut 4,000 jobs as part of an effort to streamline and realign its operations.
About 950 employees have already been let go from its operations in Ottawa and in Brampton, Ontario.
| The Nortel Networks Corporation, the communications equipment maker based in Canada, said today that it planned to cut 4,000 jobs as part of an effort to streamline and realign its operations. About 950 employees have already been let go from its operations in Ottawa and in Brampton, Ontario. A spokeswoman for Nortel, Vicki Contavespi, said that the layoffs reflected a ''need to rejigger our work force; it's not a crisis.'' She said that the jobs being eliminated were mainly in voice communications products, a slow-growth business. ''We are recruiting aggressively for our wireless and optical Internet and e-business operations,'' she said, ''because those are the things that are important to our customers.'' Despite the layoffs, the global work force of Nortel work force will remain at about 94,500 |
1353089 | 2001 | 12 | 21 | The Other Side of Atget, With Paris's Messy Bits |
Another Atget show? Yes, but this one is different. ''Eugène Atget: Documenting the Zone,'' a small exhibition of 38 photographs at Ubu Gallery, does have its share of pretty quays, trees, doors and door knockers, but it focuses mostly on Paris's dumps and borderlands.
From 1910 to 1913, Atget, who made many of what he called ''documents'' to sell to architects, stonemasons, antiquarians and sign makers, tried something different, something verging on the political. He hauled his wooden camera to the city's outskirts. The photographs he took there make up his two outsider albums: the ''Zoniers'' album, pictures of ragpickers and their homes and yards in the ''zone militaire,'' and the ''Fortifications de Paris'' album, pictures of the ramparts lining the city.
| Another Atget show? Yes, but this one is different. ''Eugène Atget: Documenting the Zone,'' a small exhibition of 38 photographs at Ubu Gallery, does have its share of pretty quays, trees, doors and door knockers, but it focuses mostly on Paris's dumps and borderlands. From 1910 to 1913, Atget, who made many of what he called ''documents'' to sell to architects, stonemasons, antiquarians and sign makers, tried something different, something verging on the political. He hauled his wooden camera to the city's outskirts. The photographs he took there make up his two outsider albums: the ''Zoniers'' album, pictures of ragpickers and their homes and yards in the ''zone militaire,'' and the ''Fortifications de Paris'' album, pictures of the ramparts lining the city. Together these photographs make one think |
1623874 | 2004 | 11 | 01 | The Neediest Cases; Maintaining Independence During Times of Ill Health |
Virginia Eden sat at her living room table, cane hooked over the arm of her chair, fingering the yellowing photographs of herself as a young woman. Each picture is from a time when her body moved as she wished, when it jitterbugged and danced the Latin Hustle, and swam in the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island with her best friend, Annette Cappello.
But nowadays, Ms. Eden's body refuses to cooperate. She is battling uterine and ovarian cancer and has arthritis, osteoporosis and emphysema. This is in addition to growing up almost legally blind and then surviving breast cancer 27 years ago.
| Virginia Eden sat at her living room table, cane hooked over the arm of her chair, fingering the yellowing photographs of herself as a young woman. Each picture is from a time when her body moved as she wished, when it jitterbugged and danced the Latin Hustle, and swam in the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island with her best friend, Annette Cappello. But nowadays, Ms. Eden's body refuses to cooperate. She is battling uterine and ovarian cancer and has arthritis, osteoporosis and emphysema. This is in addition to growing up almost legally blind and then surviving breast cancer 27 years ago. ''I'm surprised I'm here,'' Ms. Eden, 70, said with a soft laugh as she sat in her home in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Over the years, she has |
1425695 | 2002 | 09 | 22 | Residential Sales |
In the following reports, the ''listed at'' price is the asking price when negotiations began that ended in the sale. Time on market is from most recent listing to sales agreement.
MANHATTAN
GREENWICH VILLAGE
$460,000 11 Fifth Avenue (Eighth St.) (Brevoort) 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 765-sq.-ft. co-op in a postwar building; 24-hr. doormen, concierge, original kitchen and bath, parquet floors; maintenance $780, 45% tax-deductible; listed at $475,000, 6 weeks on market (Broker: Marilyn Weigner Associates)
| In the following reports, the ''listed at'' price is the asking price when negotiations began that ended in the sale. Time on market is from most recent listing to sales agreement. MANHATTAN GREENWICH VILLAGE $460,000 11 Fifth Avenue (Eighth St.) (Brevoort) 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 765-sq.-ft. co-op in a postwar building; 24-hr. doormen, concierge, original kitchen and bath, parquet floors; maintenance $780, 45% tax-deductible; listed at $475,000, 6 weeks on market (Broker: Marilyn Weigner Associates) HUDSON HEIGHTS $170,000 100 Overlook Terrace (190th St.) 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 765-sq.-ft. co-op in a postwar building; 24-hr. lobby attendant, elevator, renovated eat-in kitchen, h/w floors, balcony; maintenance $445, 40% tax-deductible; listed at $179,000, 10 weeks on market (Broker: Simone Song Properties) UPPER EAST SIDE $975,000 1025 Fifth Avenue (85th St.) 2-bedroom, 3-bath, 1,450-sq.-ft. co-op in |
1398250 | 2002 | 06 | 06 | Just how much did the networks get from advertisers? For once, they seem to want to tell. |
WITH one eye on Wall Street and the other on newspaper headlines, the broadcast networks are taking a decidedly different approach this year in spreading the news about how much advertising they have sold against their fall prime-time lineups.
Usually, all the dollar figures bandied about during the preseason market known as the upfront come from unattributed industry executives. But yesterday, CBS took what its executives said was a first-of-its-kind step when it issued a press release declaring that it had advertising commitments for the coming season of $1.9 billion to $2 billion.
| WITH one eye on Wall Street and the other on newspaper headlines, the broadcast networks are taking a decidedly different approach this year in spreading the news about how much advertising they have sold against their fall prime-time lineups. Usually, all the dollar figures bandied about during the preseason market known as the upfront come from unattributed industry executives. But yesterday, CBS took what its executives said was a first-of-its-kind step when it issued a press release declaring that it had advertising commitments for the coming season of $1.9 billion to $2 billion. At the same time, ABC executives emphasized in on-the-record interviews that previously published figures about how that network had fared in the upfront were too low. The head of sales for ABC, Mike Shaw, said |
1570767 | 2004 | 04 | 01 | Talk Network Makes Debut, With Rage A No-Show |
The tone of Air America was supposed to be as bold and belligerent as Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, an unapologetically liberal riposte to the conservative radio talk shows that dominate the airwaves.
The comedian Al Franken even named his three-hour program the ''The O'Franken Report,'' to tweak his conservative nemesis, Bill O'Reilly, yet his maiden show proved to be oddly subdued and, at times, defensive.
| The tone of Air America was supposed to be as bold and belligerent as Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, an unapologetically liberal riposte to the conservative radio talk shows that dominate the airwaves. The comedian Al Franken even named his three-hour program the ''The O'Franken Report,'' to tweak his conservative nemesis, Bill O'Reilly, yet his maiden show proved to be oddly subdued and, at times, defensive. Mr. Franken interviewed the salt-of-the-earth parents of his best friend in Minnesota to prove that liberals do not hate America, as the conservative commentator Ann Coulter has charged. ''That's unbelievable,'' Carol Griffin, 77, said of the accusation while on vacation in Florida. ''Liberals are the ones that love America. Honestly.'' There is little chance that Air America will overtake its conservative competitors |
1259745 | 2001 | 01 | 02 | PUBLIC LIVES |
Dame Edna Makes Met Debut
The diplomatic and romantic intrigues in Franz Lehar's operetta ''The Merry Widow'' were just beginning to straighten themselves out at the Metropolitan Opera on New Year's Eve when the performance took a turn that Lehar could not have imagined: Dame Edna Everage (the actor BARRY HUMPHRIES) sashayed across the stage in a purple wig and a long purple gown.
FREDERICA VON STADE, HAKAN HAGEGARD and the rest of the cast took time out from Act III while Dame Edna presided over a New Year's Eve tradition at the Met, a surprise interlude featuring Met stars and other celebrities.
| Dame Edna Makes Met Debut The diplomatic and romantic intrigues in Franz Lehar's operetta ''The Merry Widow'' were just beginning to straighten themselves out at the Metropolitan Opera on New Year's Eve when the performance took a turn that Lehar could not have imagined: Dame Edna Everage (the actor BARRY HUMPHRIES) sashayed across the stage in a purple wig and a long purple gown. FREDERICA VON STADE, HAKAN HAGEGARD and the rest of the cast took time out from Act III while Dame Edna presided over a New Year's Eve tradition at the Met, a surprise interlude featuring Met stars and other celebrities. On New Year's Eve 1994, for example, MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI appeared in ''Die Fledermaus,'' with DOM DELUISE, PAUL SORVINO and NEIL ROSENSHEIN doing a |
1452834 | 2002 | 12 | 30 | MEDIA: Gazing Into 2003: The Balance of Media Power Is Poised to Change -- TV Technology; Networks Fear Spread Of Recording Devices |
Broadcast and cable television networks and their sponsors will be watching closely in 2003 to see whether personal recording devices like TiVo and ReplayTV begin to take hold in enough homes to pose a real threat to their businesses.
Many industry executives greatly fear the devices because they allow users to skip commercials in the shows they record by using a button that jumps ahead 30 seconds at a time.
| Broadcast and cable television networks and their sponsors will be watching closely in 2003 to see whether personal recording devices like TiVo and ReplayTV begin to take hold in enough homes to pose a real threat to their businesses. Many industry executives greatly fear the devices because they allow users to skip commercials in the shows they record by using a button that jumps ahead 30 seconds at a time. So far, this threat has been akin to that of a tropical storm brewing hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida -- it could turn into something very destructive, or dissolve altogether. Though there seems to be no end to glowing testimonials from their users, the devices have not sold very well. They are estimated to be |
1277264 | 2001 | 03 | 11 | TRANSACTIONS |
BASEBALL
American League BOSTON RED SOX--Optioned OF Dernell Stenson to Pawtucket of the International League. Assigned LHP Casey Fossum, 1B Juan Diaz, P Carlos Castillo, C Angelo Encarnacion and OF Yamil Benitez to their minor league camp. CLEVELAND INDIANS--Agreed to terms with C Einar Diaz on a one-year contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS--Agreed to terms with RHP Dan Reichert, RHP Blake Stein and RHP Jose Santiago on one-year contracts. TEXAS RANGERS--Assigned RHP Joaquin Benoit, RHP Jovanny Cedeno, RHP R.A. Dickey, RHP David Elder, RHP Kevin Foster and RHP Brian Schmack to their minor league camp. TORONTO BLUE JAYS--Assigned LHP Mark Hendrickson to their minor league camp. Optioned RHP Orlando Woodards to Tennessee of the Southern League.
National League CHICAGO CUBS--Assigned LHP Oswaldo Mairena to their minor league camp. CINCINNATI REDS--Optioned RHP Keith Glauber, RHP Jim Brower and LHP Ed Yarnell to Louisville of the International League; RHP Leo Estrell, RHP Brian Keith, OF Adam Dunn and OF Austin Kearns to Chattanooga of the Southern League. Assigned RHP Dustin Moseley, RHP Matt Skrmetta, RHP Curtis Nichting, RHP Mike Grace, C Tommy Davis and OF Raul Gonzelez to their minor league camp. COLORADO ROCKIES--Assigned RHP John Rosengren to their minor league camp. MONTREAL EXPOS--Optioned 1B Talmadge Nunnari to Ottawa of the International League. Assigned RHP Pat Flury, RHP Justin Wayne and INF Josh McKinley to their minor league camp. Released RHP Len Picota.
| BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX--Optioned OF Dernell Stenson to Pawtucket of the International League. Assigned LHP Casey Fossum, 1B Juan Diaz, P Carlos Castillo, C Angelo Encarnacion and OF Yamil Benitez to their minor league camp. CLEVELAND INDIANS--Agreed to terms with C Einar Diaz on a one-year contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS--Agreed to terms with RHP Dan Reichert, RHP Blake Stein and RHP Jose Santiago on one-year contracts. TEXAS RANGERS--Assigned RHP Joaquin Benoit, RHP Jovanny Cedeno, RHP R.A. Dickey, RHP David Elder, RHP Kevin Foster and RHP Brian Schmack to their minor league camp. TORONTO BLUE JAYS--Assigned LHP Mark Hendrickson to their minor league camp. Optioned RHP Orlando Woodards to Tennessee of the Southern League. National League CHICAGO CUBS--Assigned LHP Oswaldo Mairena to their minor league camp. CINCINNATI |
1802305 | 2006 | 11 | 05 | What Lies Beneath: Old Masters Under the Microscope |
''THE Picture of Dorian Gray'' tells the story of a man whose dissipated life takes a hideous toll on his hidden portrait while his own handsome features remain miraculously unblemished. What makes this story by Oscar Wilde so uncanny is that it reverses our expectations about life and art: the human body remains perfect and unchanging while the artwork absorbs the scars.
The reality, however, is that works of art are more mutable than is usually acknowledged. Like flesh and blood, they are subject to decay, and when the restorer is called in to reverse the process, the results can sometimes be as jarring as anything wrought by the most overzealous plastic surgeon. Scholars have recently shown us that bumps and bruises are not necessarily a bad thing, given how they testify to the intimate place these precious objects occupied in the lives of their owners, a history crucial to their meaning. Artworks, like people, are often more interesting after they've absorbed the knocks of experience.
| ''THE Picture of Dorian Gray'' tells the story of a man whose dissipated life takes a hideous toll on his hidden portrait while his own handsome features remain miraculously unblemished. What makes this story by Oscar Wilde so uncanny is that it reverses our expectations about life and art: the human body remains perfect and unchanging while the artwork absorbs the scars. The reality, however, is that works of art are more mutable than is usually acknowledged. Like flesh and blood, they are subject to decay, and when the restorer is called in to reverse the process, the results can sometimes be as jarring as anything wrought by the most overzealous plastic surgeon. Scholars have recently shown us that bumps and bruises are not necessarily a bad thing, |
1545356 | 2003 | 12 | 23 | Obesity Can Add to Danger In Men With Prostate Cancer |
In men who have prostate cancer, obesity is linked to an increased risk that the cancer will be aggressive and likely to recur after surgery, two studies have found.
A connection to obesity may help explain a racial difference in prostate cancer that has long puzzled researchers: the disease tends to occur at a younger age in black men in the United States than in whites, and is more aggressive and twice as likely to be fatal. In the two studies, blacks had higher rates of obesity than whites, a finding that the researchers said might account for much of the racial disparity in the severity of the disease.
| In men who have prostate cancer, obesity is linked to an increased risk that the cancer will be aggressive and likely to recur after surgery, two studies have found. A connection to obesity may help explain a racial difference in prostate cancer that has long puzzled researchers: the disease tends to occur at a younger age in black men in the United States than in whites, and is more aggressive and twice as likely to be fatal. In the two studies, blacks had higher rates of obesity than whites, a finding that the researchers said might account for much of the racial disparity in the severity of the disease. The findings are particularly ominous, given that obesity has been increasing for decades and is widely regarded as an |