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1815774 | 2007 | 01 | 01 | The Hope of a Fresh Start |
New Year's Day is the simplest holiday in the calendar, a Champagne cork of a day after all the effervescence of the evening before. There is no civic agenda, no liturgical content, only the sense of something ended, something begun. It is a good day to clean the ashes out of the wood stove, to consider the possibilities of next summer's garden, to wonder how many weeks into the new year you will be before you marvel at how quickly 2007 is going. ''This will be the year ,'' you find yourself thinking, but before you can finish the thought you remember what all the previous years have taught you -- that there's just no telling.
We are supposed to believe in the fresh start of a new year, and who doesn't love the thought of it? But we are just as likely to feel the pull of the old ways on this holiday, to acknowledge the solid comfort -- like it or not -- of the self we happen to have become over the years. We may not say, like Charles Lamb in 1820, that we would no more alter the shape of our lives ''than the incidents of some well-contrived novel.'' But we know what he means.
| New Year's Day is the simplest holiday in the calendar, a Champagne cork of a day after all the effervescence of the evening before. There is no civic agenda, no liturgical content, only the sense of something ended, something begun. It is a good day to clean the ashes out of the wood stove, to consider the possibilities of next summer's garden, to wonder how many weeks into the new year you will be before you marvel at how quickly 2007 is going. ''This will be the year ,'' you find yourself thinking, but before you can finish the thought you remember what all the previous years have taught you -- that there's just no telling. We are supposed to believe in the fresh start of a new |
1611320 | 2004 | 09 | 14 | Another Approach: Fingers on the Genetic Switchboard |
RNA interference is not the only new way to control the activity of genes in the body. When 81-year-old Peter Cummins received 10 injections in each of his legs last month, he became part of the first human testing of another potentially promising method: proteins known as zinc-finger transcription factors.
The proteins, which are vaguely finger-shaped, are found naturally in the body, where they turn genes on and off by wrapping around DNA in the chromosomes. Scientists are learning how to make zinc fingers that can attach to any particular DNA sequence.
| RNA interference is not the only new way to control the activity of genes in the body. When 81-year-old Peter Cummins received 10 injections in each of his legs last month, he became part of the first human testing of another potentially promising method: proteins known as zinc-finger transcription factors. The proteins, which are vaguely finger-shaped, are found naturally in the body, where they turn genes on and off by wrapping around DNA in the chromosomes. Scientists are learning how to make zinc fingers that can attach to any particular DNA sequence. ''It's kind of like the guidance system of a missile,'' said Edward Lanphier, chief executive of Sangamo BioSciences of Richmond, Calif., which developed the drug being tested in the trial. Mr. Cummins, a retired Navy pilot |
1735700 | 2006 | 01 | 29 | Health Care, Vexing to Clinton, Is Now at Top of Bush's Agenda |
More than 12 years after President Bill Clinton unveiled his plan to remake the nation's health care system, President Bush is moving the issue once again to the top of the national agenda and is expected to push a series of health care proposals in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Where Mr. Clinton was driven by a desire to guarantee health insurance for every American, Mr. Bush is focusing primarily on health costs, which he says are swamping employers and threatening economic growth. Where Mr. Clinton favored a larger role for government, Mr. Bush has a fundamentally different philosophy, built on the idea that placing more responsibility in the hands of individuals will create market pressure to hold down costs.
| More than 12 years after President Bill Clinton unveiled his plan to remake the nation's health care system, President Bush is moving the issue once again to the top of the national agenda and is expected to push a series of health care proposals in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Where Mr. Clinton was driven by a desire to guarantee health insurance for every American, Mr. Bush is focusing primarily on health costs, which he says are swamping employers and threatening economic growth. Where Mr. Clinton favored a larger role for government, Mr. Bush has a fundamentally different philosophy, built on the idea that placing more responsibility in the hands of individuals will create market pressure to hold down costs. The long-running debate has taken |
1385832 | 2002 | 04 | 21 | If a Tall Pine Tree Answers, Hang Up |
FOR Morton and Patricia Bleetstein, spring is a time to enjoy the outdoors --the blossoms on the trees, the flowers, the sun.
But these days, they say, just stepping onto their deck in North Hills makes them seethe with anger. They have been robbed of the joys of warm weather, they contend, by a recently built cell-phone tower that looms over their house and that can be seen from virtually everywhere in their gated development called the Links.
| FOR Morton and Patricia Bleetstein, spring is a time to enjoy the outdoors --the blossoms on the trees, the flowers, the sun. But these days, they say, just stepping onto their deck in North Hills makes them seethe with anger. They have been robbed of the joys of warm weather, they contend, by a recently built cell-phone tower that looms over their house and that can be seen from virtually everywhere in their gated development called the Links. ''This thing is just a horror,'' said Mr. Bleetstein, a retired insurance and financial planner. Mrs. Bleetstein refers to it as ''our monstrosity.'' This is no ordinary cell-phone tower. The tower, all 150 feet of it, has been designed to look like a tree. The brown-painted base is topped with |
1294940 | 2001 | 05 | 20 | Many Happy Return Calls |
YOU are just getting to know a friend who recently moved to New York, and you aren't returning his calls quickly. When he remarks about it, you're taken aback. He says that he expects friends to return calls right away, even if just to say they're busy and can't talk at the moment. You explain that things don't work that way around here. When he responds, a little sadly, that real friends return calls, you feel chastened and start toeing the line.
Meanwhile, two other friends, who are more attractive and important than you, take weeks to return your calls, and it's depressing. Everyone knows that the time it takes to have calls returned is as strong a status indicator as seating.
| YOU are just getting to know a friend who recently moved to New York, and you aren't returning his calls quickly. When he remarks about it, you're taken aback. He says that he expects friends to return calls right away, even if just to say they're busy and can't talk at the moment. You explain that things don't work that way around here. When he responds, a little sadly, that real friends return calls, you feel chastened and start toeing the line. Meanwhile, two other friends, who are more attractive and important than you, take weeks to return your calls, and it's depressing. Everyone knows that the time it takes to have calls returned is as strong a status indicator as seating. But then, among the busy and |
1358984 | 2002 | 01 | 13 | 'Will & Will,' 24/7 |
Back in the nation's capital, in Bushworld, singles don't exist. The president and even the Democrats focus on traditional families, parents and children.
Here in television's capital, in NBC world, children don't exist. NBC sitcoms and dramas focus on quirky and unsettled singles, battered by work and dating problems, with friends serving as family.
| Back in the nation's capital, in Bushworld, singles don't exist. The president and even the Democrats focus on traditional families, parents and children. Here in television's capital, in NBC world, children don't exist. NBC sitcoms and dramas focus on quirky and unsettled singles, battered by work and dating problems, with friends serving as family. NBC has so relentlessly pursued the young-hip-urban singletons beloved by advertisers that it has ended up with a barren prime time. At the television press tour here, the NBC Entertainment president, Jeff Zucker, was asked by a critic if it was ''coincidence or design that there are no children on any NBC show?'' ''Obviously, our No. 1 comedy is about to have a baby in 'Friends,' he said. ''But the fact is you raise |
1369070 | 2002 | 02 | 19 | Rethinking Rail Travel |
The nation's highway system does not make a profit. Nor does the commercial aviation system. Nor does passenger rail. However, only one of these three vital links in America's transportation network, the railroad, is being asked to break even. Congress must abandon its fantasy that Amtrak can be self-sufficient. Only then can it engage in an honest debate about the kind of passenger rail system the country needs, and how to pay for it.
In 1997, in exchange for meager subsidies, Congress required that Amtrak be ''operationally self-sufficient'' by December of this year, or else. It is ''or else'' time, and the Amtrak Reform Council, created by the same law, is calling for radical restructuring. The council suggests that Amtrak be broken up into a regulatory agency, a regional body to assume ownership of the Northeast corridor track and an operating company. It would also like to open up certain routes to private competitors.
| The nation's highway system does not make a profit. Nor does the commercial aviation system. Nor does passenger rail. However, only one of these three vital links in America's transportation network, the railroad, is being asked to break even. Congress must abandon its fantasy that Amtrak can be self-sufficient. Only then can it engage in an honest debate about the kind of passenger rail system the country needs, and how to pay for it. In 1997, in exchange for meager subsidies, Congress required that Amtrak be ''operationally self-sufficient'' by December of this year, or else. It is ''or else'' time, and the Amtrak Reform Council, created by the same law, is calling for radical restructuring. The council suggests that Amtrak be broken up into a regulatory agency, a |
1799945 | 2006 | 10 | 26 | Arts, Briefly; Janet Jackson's ProducerQuits Her Label |
Jermaine Dupri, the music producer and hip-hop artist, said yesterday he had quit a top executive position at Virgin Records, which released the recent album from Janet Jackson, Mr. Dupri's girlfriend (at right, with Mr. Dupri), to lackluster sales. Mr. Dupri, who has assembled hits for artists like Usher and Mariah Carey, was hired to jumpstart Virgin's flagging urban music unit early last year, and the label scored a modest success with the hip-hop act Dem Franchize Boyz. The Associated Press said that Mr. Dupri, according to sources close to the label, clashed with Jason Flom, the chairman of the Virgin label, over the recording and marketing of Ms. Jackson's new album, among other things. The album, ''20 Y.O.,'' was released last month and has sold a disappointing 443,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan data. Mr. Dupri is in talks with Virgin's corporate parent, the British music giant EMI, about maintaining a relationship with the label through a new label or production deal. EMI declined to comment on his departure.
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| Jermaine Dupri, the music producer and hip-hop artist, said yesterday he had quit a top executive position at Virgin Records, which released the recent album from Janet Jackson, Mr. Dupri's girlfriend (at right, with Mr. Dupri), to lackluster sales. Mr. Dupri, who has assembled hits for artists like Usher and Mariah Carey, was hired to jumpstart Virgin's flagging urban music unit early last year, and the label scored a modest success with the hip-hop act Dem Franchize Boyz. The Associated Press said that Mr. Dupri, according to sources close to the label, clashed with Jason Flom, the chairman of the Virgin label, over the recording and marketing of Ms. Jackson's new album, among other things. The album, ''20 Y.O.,'' was released last month and has sold a disappointing |
1203186 | 2000 | 05 | 28 | Behind Success Of Tour Buses, Troubled Trail |
It seemed an almost comic gamble, bringing red double-decker buses from Britain and setting them loose on New York.
Not only was the man behind the idea, Harry Grant, a New Jersey developer, in bankruptcy proceedings, but New York in 1991 was saddled with a staggering crime rate and a sour economy. Times Square, where the buses were to pick up passengers, was a haven for vagrants and sleaze.
| It seemed an almost comic gamble, bringing red double-decker buses from Britain and setting them loose on New York. Not only was the man behind the idea, Harry Grant, a New Jersey developer, in bankruptcy proceedings, but New York in 1991 was saddled with a staggering crime rate and a sour economy. Times Square, where the buses were to pick up passengers, was a haven for vagrants and sleaze. Mr. Grant's leap across the Hudson River turned serendipitous. Crime rates fell. The economic downturn reversed itself. Times Square was transformed from grit to gaudy commercialism. As more tourists came to the city, the company, New York Apple Tours, prospered, growing from two used buses to an operation with $10 million in annual income. But as tourists flocked to |
1286710 | 2001 | 04 | 19 | Soul-Searching at Another Polish Massacre Site |
Sixty years ago this July, the Jews of this impoverished town were collected in the central square, supposedly to weed between the cobblestones. The Jews were taunted, beaten, tormented and stabbed, then forced together into a barn, where they were burned alive.
Today, at the site of the barn, 1,000 yards away down Piekna Street, is a memorial plaque that reads: ''In August 1941 fascists murdered 800 people of Jewish nationality, and among those, 500 were burned alive in a barn.'' One memorial candle, in a rusting holder, rests in front of it.
| Sixty years ago this July, the Jews of this impoverished town were collected in the central square, supposedly to weed between the cobblestones. The Jews were taunted, beaten, tormented and stabbed, then forced together into a barn, where they were burned alive. Today, at the site of the barn, 1,000 yards away down Piekna Street, is a memorial plaque that reads: ''In August 1941 fascists murdered 800 people of Jewish nationality, and among those, 500 were burned alive in a barn.'' One memorial candle, in a rusting holder, rests in front of it. The plaque is not only wrong about the date, but about the perpetrators. The Nazis encouraged the murder, but it was carried out by the Poles of Radzilow. After the publication last May of newspaper |
1553146 | 2004 | 01 | 24 | Bush's Marriage Plan |
To the Editor:
In ''Heartless Marriage Plans'' (editorial, Jan. 17), you call President Bush's marriage plan ''one of those rather expensive but basically symbolic gestures.'' Not true.
| To the Editor: In ''Heartless Marriage Plans'' (editorial, Jan. 17), you call President Bush's marriage plan ''one of those rather expensive but basically symbolic gestures.'' Not true. Under the plan, up to $300 million a year would be dedicated to marriage education services to help couples who have chosen marriage for themselves form and sustain a healthy marriage. For low-income couples, this would undeniably improve the lives of children. Moreover, you claim that low-income communities have been stripped of '' 'marriageable' men.'' To the contrary, research by the Heritage Foundation examining a sample of mostly unwed parents at the time a child is born found that two-thirds of the non-married fathers studied had at least a high-school degree, 97 percent were employed during the past year and they |
1261005 | 2001 | 01 | 07 | Europe's Demographic Time Bomb |
European leaders know that their nations' plummeting birth rates and aging populations cry out for a major change in immigration policy. But they are unwilling or unable to sell the need for greater levels of immigration to a public that does not share Americans' more welcoming spirit. Their failure could imperil Europe's economic vitality.
The combined population of the 15 nations of the European Union was larger in 1995 than that of the United States, by 105 million, but by 2050 it could be smaller by 18 million. Spain and Italy will see their populations shrink by more than a quarter in that period. These declining birth rates translate into aging populations.
| European leaders know that their nations' plummeting birth rates and aging populations cry out for a major change in immigration policy. But they are unwilling or unable to sell the need for greater levels of immigration to a public that does not share Americans' more welcoming spirit. Their failure could imperil Europe's economic vitality. The combined population of the 15 nations of the European Union was larger in 1995 than that of the United States, by 105 million, but by 2050 it could be smaller by 18 million. Spain and Italy will see their populations shrink by more than a quarter in that period. These declining birth rates translate into aging populations. European policy makers are grappling with the implications for social welfare programs. There is widespread concern, |
1768958 | 2006 | 06 | 14 | In Major Projects, Agreeing Not to Disagree |
To blunt opposition to its proposed Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, Forest City Ratner promised to make half of the rental units affordable for low- and moderate-income families.
To gain neighbors' support for its new cancer care center, Yale-New Haven Hospital agreed to create an outreach program for children with asthma.
| To blunt opposition to its proposed Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, Forest City Ratner promised to make half of the rental units affordable for low- and moderate-income families. To gain neighbors' support for its new cancer care center, Yale-New Haven Hospital agreed to create an outreach program for children with asthma. And to smooth the way for its Gateway Center retail project, which will replace the Bronx Terminal Market, the Related Companies pledged to bar Wal-Mart as a tenant. In New York and around the country, it has become standard practice for developers of major projects to negotiate with neighborhood and other groups to forge so-called community benefits agreements -- contracts that almost always contain wage and hiring goals and may also include a grab bag of concessions, |
1362705 | 2002 | 01 | 27 | On a Quest, Youth Finds Aid and Friends |
BOARDING a plane in Macedonia for the United States last month, Bertan Selim, who was born with cataracts, knew that in a matter of days an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins would evaluate his vision, and with corrective eye surgery, possibly change his life.
Two years ago, a doctor in Macedonia told Mr. Selim, 21, that his cataracts, which had forced him to contend with the glare of bright lights, could be removed in a 15-minute operation. Skeptical of the doctor's competence, he was reluctant to proceed. ''It was a difficult decision because if you have your eyes mended, you would have everything in life,'' he said.
| BOARDING a plane in Macedonia for the United States last month, Bertan Selim, who was born with cataracts, knew that in a matter of days an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins would evaluate his vision, and with corrective eye surgery, possibly change his life. Two years ago, a doctor in Macedonia told Mr. Selim, 21, that his cataracts, which had forced him to contend with the glare of bright lights, could be removed in a 15-minute operation. Skeptical of the doctor's competence, he was reluctant to proceed. ''It was a difficult decision because if you have your eyes mended, you would have everything in life,'' he said. Learning of Mr. Selim's condition, Patrick Sciarratta, executive director of the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation in White Plains, decided to help. He was |
1295515 | 2001 | 05 | 22 | Taiwan Leader Greeted in U.S. With Protests And Warmth |
The Taiwanese president, Chen Shui-bian, arrived in New York to fanfare and some protests last night, welcomed by local and Congressional politicians and by a Chinese community divided over his visit.
It was the first time a leader of Taiwan had visited the city. And as Mr. Chen made his way from Taipei to Midtown Manhattan, Taiwanese and mainland Chinese immigrants in the city found themselves drawn into the longstanding international dispute over Taiwan.
| The Taiwanese president, Chen Shui-bian, arrived in New York to fanfare and some protests last night, welcomed by local and Congressional politicians and by a Chinese community divided over his visit. It was the first time a leader of Taiwan had visited the city. And as Mr. Chen made his way from Taipei to Midtown Manhattan, Taiwanese and mainland Chinese immigrants in the city found themselves drawn into the longstanding international dispute over Taiwan. Mr. Chen, the leader of an island of 22 million people that Beijing considers a renegade province, met last night with about two dozen members of Congress at the Waldorf-Astoria and was scheduled to meet today with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who planned to give him a key to the city in a closed-door |
1193020 | 2000 | 04 | 19 | Guardians of a Demanding Jazz Style |
Avant-garde jazz firebrands from the 1960's and 70's have become proven figures in the jazz world. No longer a self-consciously rebellious vanguard, they have become the guardians of a demanding style that has remained on jazz's fringe but can still yield audacious performances.
Jazz at Lincoln Center's series of Duets on the Hudson, at the Kaplan Penthouse on Saturday and Sunday, presented three musicians who made groundbreaking music in the 1960's: Andrew Hill and Bobby Hutcherson, performing duets, and Sam Rivers, whose duet partner was Anthony Cole, a younger musician who kept pace with him. Both duos sounded intuitive and spontaneous on Sunday night. While they had provided lists of tunes for program notes, they ended up placing a few melodic landmarks within footloose improvisations.
| Avant-garde jazz firebrands from the 1960's and 70's have become proven figures in the jazz world. No longer a self-consciously rebellious vanguard, they have become the guardians of a demanding style that has remained on jazz's fringe but can still yield audacious performances. Jazz at Lincoln Center's series of Duets on the Hudson, at the Kaplan Penthouse on Saturday and Sunday, presented three musicians who made groundbreaking music in the 1960's: Andrew Hill and Bobby Hutcherson, performing duets, and Sam Rivers, whose duet partner was Anthony Cole, a younger musician who kept pace with him. Both duos sounded intuitive and spontaneous on Sunday night. While they had provided lists of tunes for program notes, they ended up placing a few melodic landmarks within footloose improvisations. Mr. Hill on |
1242618 | 2000 | 10 | 29 | Newt at Rest |
One peculiarity of this political season is that we don't have Newt Gingrich to kick around anymore. Wasn't it only two years ago that he was marshaling his armies like a silver-haired Napoleon? Newt -- he was one of those tabloid figures who needed only a first name -- traveled to 48 states that year and raised tens of millions of dollars in a campaign that was really a crusade against a prevaricating, adulterous, untrustworthy President.
The crusade, of course, failed. Today President Clinton is among the most popular political figures in America, while Newt Gingrich has a Web site and a consulting company and two nice offices in Washington. Though Gingrich was the most powerful speaker of the House since Sam Rayburn, or perhaps since Joseph Cannon almost a century ago, it's safe to predict that, unlike them, he will not have a House office building named after him. Frank Luntz, once the pollster to the Republican revolution and a Newt acolyte, says of Gingrich: ''He was the single smartest political figure of the last 50 years, and now no one seeks his advice. It's a Shakespearean tragedy.''
| One peculiarity of this political season is that we don't have Newt Gingrich to kick around anymore. Wasn't it only two years ago that he was marshaling his armies like a silver-haired Napoleon? Newt -- he was one of those tabloid figures who needed only a first name -- traveled to 48 states that year and raised tens of millions of dollars in a campaign that was really a crusade against a prevaricating, adulterous, untrustworthy President. The crusade, of course, failed. Today President Clinton is among the most popular political figures in America, while Newt Gingrich has a Web site and a consulting company and two nice offices in Washington. Though Gingrich was the most powerful speaker of the House since Sam Rayburn, or perhaps since Joseph Cannon |
1796449 | 2006 | 10 | 11 | School Financing Case Argued Before State's Highest Court |
Lawyers on opposing sides of a lawsuit that challenges the fairness of the state's education financing system argued before the Court of Appeals on Tuesday over how much more money it would cost to give New York City's schoolchildren a decent education -- at least $4.7 billion or only $1.93 billion.
The arguments, before the state's highest court, were the latest round in a 13-year legal battle. The six judges hearing the case fired sharp, rapid questions to the lawyers over their conflicting figures and also wondered if they could ever force the governor or State Legislature to pay up. In February 2005, a lower court ordered New York State to spend an additional $5.6 billion a year on the city's schools and to provide another $9.2 billion over five years for school construction and repairs. Last year, an appellate court revised that decision by ordering the state to increase annual spending by $4.7 billion to $5.6 billion.
| Lawyers on opposing sides of a lawsuit that challenges the fairness of the state's education financing system argued before the Court of Appeals on Tuesday over how much more money it would cost to give New York City's schoolchildren a decent education -- at least $4.7 billion or only $1.93 billion. The arguments, before the state's highest court, were the latest round in a 13-year legal battle. The six judges hearing the case fired sharp, rapid questions to the lawyers over their conflicting figures and also wondered if they could ever force the governor or State Legislature to pay up. In February 2005, a lower court ordered New York State to spend an additional $5.6 billion a year on the city's schools and to provide another $9.2 billion |
1830041 | 2007 | 03 | 03 | Sell and Tell (the I.R.S.) |
EVERYONE knows -- or should know -- that income earned from online auctions is taxable. But should auction sites like eBay be responsible for policing their users? Some people in government think so; eBay does not.
The issue is not as clear-cut as it might seem. EBay and other auction sites would have to be designated ''brokers'' and would have to collect taxpayer identification numbers from clients and report sales to the Internal Revenue Service.
| EVERYONE knows -- or should know -- that income earned from online auctions is taxable. But should auction sites like eBay be responsible for policing their users? Some people in government think so; eBay does not. The issue is not as clear-cut as it might seem. EBay and other auction sites would have to be designated ''brokers'' and would have to collect taxpayer identification numbers from clients and report sales to the Internal Revenue Service. ''This, eBay claims, would put the company at a competitive disadvantage,'' writes J. Angelo Racoma of The Blog Herald, ''since sellers who would rather not report their actual income from auctions and eBay sales might move elsewhere'' (blogherald.com). EBay specifically cites Craigslist, which provides online classifieds. Unlike eBay, Craigslist does not provide a |
1766770 | 2006 | 06 | 04 | Angry Exchanges, To and Fro, at Rally |
Under drizzly skies, about 40 demonstrators holding up signs that included ''Illegal Aliens: I Want You Out of My Country'' and ''Honk If You're Against Amnesty'' gathered yesterday in front of the Mexican Consulate in Midtown Manhattan.
The protest followed large rallies in New York and other cities in recent weeks calling for citizenship for illegal immigrants, and prompted a smaller but just as loud counterdemonstration across the street.
| Under drizzly skies, about 40 demonstrators holding up signs that included ''Illegal Aliens: I Want You Out of My Country'' and ''Honk If You're Against Amnesty'' gathered yesterday in front of the Mexican Consulate in Midtown Manhattan. The protest followed large rallies in New York and other cities in recent weeks calling for citizenship for illegal immigrants, and prompted a smaller but just as loud counterdemonstration across the street. As neighbors in elegant town houses on East 39th Street looked down, the demonstrators, standing in front of a large American flag, sang ''America the Beautiful,'' while a counterdemonstrator played ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' on a polished trumpet. Demonstrators chanted various versions of ''Go home,'' as the counterdemonstrators shouted, ''Who you calling immigrant, pilgrim?'' The confrontations never escalated beyond jaw-jutting |
1212458 | 2000 | 07 | 04 | The Highest Honor |
In late June 1776, British ships from Halifax appeared off Sandy Hook, N.J., just beyond the Narrows from the tip of Manhattan. The ships' masts resembled ''a wood of pine trees trimmed,'' one observer wrote. Soon British soldiers had landed on Staten Island and their flotilla was anchored offshore. On July 9, a Tuesday, Gen. George Washington mustered his troops in New York City for the reading, ''with an audible voice,'' of the Declaration of Independence, which had been signed five days earlier. The purpose was to inform each soldier gathered there that ''he is now in the service of a State, possessed of sufficient power to reward his merit, and advance him to the highest Honors of a free Country.''
There is a martial cast to that last phrase, naturally. The highest honors, given the context, were military honors, the reward of courage and sacrifice in defense of the world's newest state. Yet in a sense the highest honor of a free country is really freedom itself. It is hard to recapture the turmoil in the colonies during the months leading up to the Declaration of Independence, the sense of upheaval and exhaustion. What Washington's soldiers heard that day -- the fresh sound of those now-familiar phrases -- was the news of their collective freedom. Perhaps they also hoped for the return of mundane times in which to savor it.
| In late June 1776, British ships from Halifax appeared off Sandy Hook, N.J., just beyond the Narrows from the tip of Manhattan. The ships' masts resembled ''a wood of pine trees trimmed,'' one observer wrote. Soon British soldiers had landed on Staten Island and their flotilla was anchored offshore. On July 9, a Tuesday, Gen. George Washington mustered his troops in New York City for the reading, ''with an audible voice,'' of the Declaration of Independence, which had been signed five days earlier. The purpose was to inform each soldier gathered there that ''he is now in the service of a State, possessed of sufficient power to reward his merit, and advance him to the highest Honors of a free Country.'' There is a martial cast to that |
1270521 | 2001 | 02 | 13 | Both Sides Courting Sharpton On School Privatization Plan |
Supporters and opponents of a plan to privatize five New York City schools have begun courting the Rev. Al Sharpton, who they believe could sway many of the parents who will be deciding the fate of the project next month.
Mr. Sharpton visited one of the schools, Middle School 246 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, yesterday at the request of the Rev. Floyd Flake, the former Democratic congressman from Queens who now works for Edison Schools.
| Supporters and opponents of a plan to privatize five New York City schools have begun courting the Rev. Al Sharpton, who they believe could sway many of the parents who will be deciding the fate of the project next month. Mr. Sharpton visited one of the schools, Middle School 246 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, yesterday at the request of the Rev. Floyd Flake, the former Democratic congressman from Queens who now works for Edison Schools. The Board of Education has agreed to allow Edison to run the five schools starting this fall, but only if at least 51 percent of parents of children at those schools vote to convert them to charter schools. The vote is now scheduled to take place between March 12 and March 23. Mr. Sharpton, |
1230240 | 2000 | 09 | 13 | A 'Survivor' on Mir |
Perhaps the most daring reality show of all now looks as if it will become a reality.
| Perhaps the most daring reality show of all now looks as if it will become a reality. NBC has bought the rights to a new show from Mark Burnett, the producer of ''Survivor,'' who plans to take a group of American contestants to Moscow to take part in a training program for a rocket trip to the Russian space station Mir. NBC executives said they had paid more than $35 million for the show, which is to run for 15 to 17 hours in the fall of 2001. It will, like ''Survivor'' be a weekly elimination duel, but with Mir officials making the weekly choice of who will be dropped. And of course, the winner will be launched into space. NBC executives expressed confidence in Mr. Burnett, who |
1611857 | 2004 | 09 | 16 | Councilwoman Unveils a Plan For Grading the School System |
With the intention of grading the Bloomberg administration and the Department of Education on how well they are managing the city's public school system, City Councilwoman Eva S. Moskowitz issued her version of a learning plan yesterday, detailing what it would take to pass her tests with high marks.
The guidelines, offered as an ''Individualized Education Plan for the New York City Department of Education,'' cite 14 areas, including school safety, instruction and operations, where Ms. Moskowitz, the chairwoman of the City Council's Education Committee, said improvements were needed.
| With the intention of grading the Bloomberg administration and the Department of Education on how well they are managing the city's public school system, City Councilwoman Eva S. Moskowitz issued her version of a learning plan yesterday, detailing what it would take to pass her tests with high marks. The guidelines, offered as an ''Individualized Education Plan for the New York City Department of Education,'' cite 14 areas, including school safety, instruction and operations, where Ms. Moskowitz, the chairwoman of the City Council's Education Committee, said improvements were needed. ''They're off to a good start, but they have a long way to go,'' Ms. Moskowitz said. She cited concern about what she described as increasing centralization of power in the school system and said, ''If that's the way |
1343790 | 2001 | 11 | 18 | At War With Himself |
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ISAAC BABEL
Edited by Nathalie Babel.
Translated by Peter Constantine.
Introduction by Cynthia Ozick.
1,072 pp. New York:
W. W. Norton & Company. $39.95.
| THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ISAAC BABEL Edited by Nathalie Babel. Translated by Peter Constantine. Introduction by Cynthia Ozick. 1,072 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $39.95. Isaac Babel's short stories are like the lean cows in Pharaoh's dream that eat up the fat cows. They have a consuming force that makes long fiction seem somehow superfluous. In Babel's stories, war and peace are not separate stately realms that touch perilously at crucial points in history. Those worlds have been crushed together to produce something new and terrible. The Russian Revolution helped Babel find his voice as a writer, and it opened up a world that had been shut to Jews under the czars. In 1920, he rode with the Cossacks fighting in the Soviet campaign to |
1555160 | 2004 | 02 | 01 | The Battle of Seattle |
THE FOUNTAIN AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
By Robert Newman.
339 pp. Brooklyn:
Soft Skull Press. Paper, $14.95.
| THE FOUNTAIN AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD By Robert Newman. 339 pp. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press. Paper, $14.95. ALL novels are, to some extent, political novels -- that is, they are concerned with the nature and deployment of power. But some novels are pushier about their agendas than others. Take Robert Newman's ''Fountain at the Center of the World.'' It's a mucky title for a sublimely frisky novel, one that throws more acid-tipped darts at Nafta and the World Trade Organization than a foot-high stack of Mother Jones and Nation back issues. Newman's book follows three characters (one in London, one in Mexico, one in Costa Rica) in the years leading up to the 1999 W.T.O. protests in Seattle, and it reads like what you'd get if |
1396196 | 2002 | 05 | 29 | White's 2-Run Double Makes Lilly a Winner |
Rondell White is making good on his promise. When he struggled earlier this season, White insisted that the hits would start to pile up, that he would get hot and stay hot. He always has one deep slump, he said, then goes on a tear.
It is happening just as he pledged. White is becoming a force in the Yankees' lineup, and his two-out, two-run double in the eighth inning lifted the Yankees to a 4-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox tonight.
| Rondell White is making good on his promise. When he struggled earlier this season, White insisted that the hits would start to pile up, that he would get hot and stay hot. He always has one deep slump, he said, then goes on a tear. It is happening just as he pledged. White is becoming a force in the Yankees' lineup, and his two-out, two-run double in the eighth inning lifted the Yankees to a 4-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox tonight. ''My confidence is there,'' said White, who is 10 for 17 over his last four games. ''I feel like every time I go to the plate, I'm going to get a base hit, instead of striking out or swinging at bad pitches.'' White's double capped |
1287851 | 2001 | 04 | 23 | Playoff Time and, Presto, the Knicks Turn It Up |
It was the midway point of the fourth quarter yesterday when Latrell Sprewell launched an errant jump shot from the left wing. Toronto's Charles Oakley, the burly and aggressive former Knick, was beneath the basket, waiting in perfect position to catch the carom and start the Raptors going the other way.
But just as Oakley was reaching for the ball, Marcus Camby slid around him on the baseline and snagged the rebound. Quickly, and in what seemed like one motion, Camby lofted the ball over his head and into the basket for a reverse layup.
| It was the midway point of the fourth quarter yesterday when Latrell Sprewell launched an errant jump shot from the left wing. Toronto's Charles Oakley, the burly and aggressive former Knick, was beneath the basket, waiting in perfect position to catch the carom and start the Raptors going the other way. But just as Oakley was reaching for the ball, Marcus Camby slid around him on the baseline and snagged the rebound. Quickly, and in what seemed like one motion, Camby lofted the ball over his head and into the basket for a reverse layup. The three-second sequence epitomized why the Knicks have not lost a first-round playoff series since 1991, why they have a reputation as one of the toughest postseason teams in the National Basketball Association: |
1449230 | 2002 | 12 | 16 | South Korean Candidates Focus on the North |
North Korea's nuclear program dominated the debate in the South Korean election campaign today, four days before voters cast ballots for a successor to President Kim Dae Jung.
Although both Lee Hoi Chang, the presidential candidate of the conservative Grand National Party, and Roh Moo Hyun, the candidate of the governing Millennium Democratic Party, have called for dialogue with North Korea, they differed sharply today on how to respond to the North's nuclear threat.
| North Korea's nuclear program dominated the debate in the South Korean election campaign today, four days before voters cast ballots for a successor to President Kim Dae Jung. Although both Lee Hoi Chang, the presidential candidate of the conservative Grand National Party, and Roh Moo Hyun, the candidate of the governing Millennium Democratic Party, have called for dialogue with North Korea, they differed sharply today on how to respond to the North's nuclear threat. Mr. Roh said Mr. Lee's criticisms of President Kim's policy of reconciliation with North Korea were worsening tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Mr. Lee's ''confrontational stance'' toward the North, Mr. Roh said, ''will foster anxiety about war.'' Mr. Lee said Mr. Roh was naïve about North Korea and ''not qualified to resolve the nuclear |
1182023 | 2000 | 03 | 07 | BP Amoco to Cut Sulfur Levels in Gasoline |
BP Amoco, the world's second-largest oil company, announced today that it planned to reduce sharply by the end of 2002 the level of sulfur contamination in virtually all of the premium gasoline that it sells in the United States.
The Ford Motor Company said the step would cut air pollution by up to half for cars burning the fuel and said models needing premium gasoline would receive a tankful of the new fuel before leaving the assembly plant.
| BP Amoco, the world's second-largest oil company, announced today that it planned to reduce sharply by the end of 2002 the level of sulfur contamination in virtually all of the premium gasoline that it sells in the United States. The Ford Motor Company said the step would cut air pollution by up to half for cars burning the fuel and said models needing premium gasoline would receive a tankful of the new fuel before leaving the assembly plant. President Clinton announced new rules in December to require oil companies to reduce sulfur in all types of gasoline from 2004 to 2006. Most oil companies strongly opposed the rules during the drafting process, contending that they raised gasoline prices by six cents a gallon. But BP Amoco did not |
1419868 | 2002 | 08 | 31 | Flurry of Legislation Puts California Governor in the Hot Seat |
The California Legislature hurtled toward adjournment this weekend in a flurry of lawmaking, forcing Gov. Gray Davis to decide whether to sign dozens of bills backed by liberal lobbies but sharply opposed by business interests.
Several of the bills -- on farm labor, tenant rights, family leave, medical records, the death penalty and sacred Indian sites -- will present Governor Davis, a Democrat, with uncomfortable choices between the state's powerful labor, environmental and consumer groups and the business interests that have supported his campaigns.
| The California Legislature hurtled toward adjournment this weekend in a flurry of lawmaking, forcing Gov. Gray Davis to decide whether to sign dozens of bills backed by liberal lobbies but sharply opposed by business interests. Several of the bills -- on farm labor, tenant rights, family leave, medical records, the death penalty and sacred Indian sites -- will present Governor Davis, a Democrat, with uncomfortable choices between the state's powerful labor, environmental and consumer groups and the business interests that have supported his campaigns. The Legislature is lopsidedly Democratic, and many of its members are far to the left of Mr. Davis, a self-proclaimed centrist. Seeking re-election this year, and perhaps a United States Senate or White House bid in the future, the governor has tried to keep |
1364653 | 2002 | 02 | 03 | His Mouth Runneth Over |
ANDY BEHRMAN, a former publicist, is still the consummate pitchman, a hard-driving perfectionist, who leaves no stone unturned, no detail overlooked if it will yield a little buzz. He arrives for an interview at the Starstruck Diner in Midtown with an arsenal of props -- strident black and yellow posters, T-shirts and stickers to promote ''Electroboy,'' his memoir of psychosis, the latest and most hyperkinetic book in a robust genre.
He has even brought along a cinematographer, Brian Cresto, who stands at the ready to document his every mood. That mood the other day was subdued. Mr. Behrman was heavy lidded, his conversation sluggish, as though he were nursing a hangover, the souvenir of a lifetime of excess.
| ANDY BEHRMAN, a former publicist, is still the consummate pitchman, a hard-driving perfectionist, who leaves no stone unturned, no detail overlooked if it will yield a little buzz. He arrives for an interview at the Starstruck Diner in Midtown with an arsenal of props -- strident black and yellow posters, T-shirts and stickers to promote ''Electroboy,'' his memoir of psychosis, the latest and most hyperkinetic book in a robust genre. He has even brought along a cinematographer, Brian Cresto, who stands at the ready to document his every mood. That mood the other day was subdued. Mr. Behrman was heavy lidded, his conversation sluggish, as though he were nursing a hangover, the souvenir of a lifetime of excess. But he snapped into focus long enough to explain the |
1516583 | 2003 | 09 | 02 | Paid Notice: Deaths SOLENDER, SANFORD |
SOLENDER--Sanford. Born August 23, 1914. Died suddenly August 30. Married 60 years to the late Ethel Klonick Solender. Beloved father of Stephen and Elsa; Peter and Susan; Ellen and Harvey Hirsch; Lawrence and the late Susan Bailis. Adored grandfather of Michael and Holly; Dan and Lynne; Max and Gretchen; Lisa and Jack Flick; Kathryn and David Bailis. Proud great-grandfather of 10. Dear brother of Robert and Ellen and Sylvia and the late Louis Shapiro. Funeral Tuesday, September 2, at noon, at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, 630 Amsterdam Avenue.
SOLENDER -- Sanford. The officers, Board of Trustees and staff of United Jewish Communities mourn the passing of Sanford Solender, a pioneering and visionary leader who dedicated his entire professional career to Jewish communal service as top executive and boardmember of several organizations. His passion for the sustenance of American Jewish life continues to find expression through the efforts of his son, Stephen, UJC's first president and current president emeritus. We offer our heartfelt sympathy to his three children, 16 grand and great grandchildren and the entire family. James S. Tisch, UJC Chair of the Board Robert Goldberg, Chair, Executive Committee Stephen H. Hoffman, President and CEO
SOLENDER -- Sanford. The Board and staff of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture mourn the death of Sanford Solender, a wise mentor and a gracious colleague. As a Life Member of the Board, Sandy brought great wisdom, experience, perspective and compassion to our deliberations. His deep understanding of the needs and resources of the Jewish community were invaluable to the NFJC's growth and development. May his memory be a blessing and comfort for his family and for all who had the privilege to know him. Charlotte Newberger, Pres. James August, Chairman Richard Siegel, Exec. Dir.
SOLENDER -- Sanford. The Board, Faculty and Staff of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership deeply mourn the loss of our esteemed and beloved longtime Board member, Sanford Solender. His wisdom, advice and counsel, his love of the Jewish people, and enormous contributions to the Jewish community will live on at CLAL and in Jewish life. All our thoughts are with Steve and Elsa Solender and the entire Solender family. Thomas O. Katz, Chairman Rabbi Irwin Kula, President Donna M. Rosenthal Executive Vice Chairman Rabbi Brad Hirschfield Vice President
SOLENDER -- Sanford. We mourn with our especially dear friends, Elsa and Steve, the entire family and the greater Jewish community, the passing of a devoted father, a great leader, role model extraordinaire. To the end he was a vital participant in the affairs of the day, advising and contributing to his community. His life was a blessing to all. Ruth and Sam Perelson
| SOLENDER--Sanford. Born August 23, 1914. Died suddenly August 30. Married 60 years to the late Ethel Klonick Solender. Beloved father of Stephen and Elsa; Peter and Susan; Ellen and Harvey Hirsch; Lawrence and the late Susan Bailis. Adored grandfather of Michael and Holly; Dan and Lynne; Max and Gretchen; Lisa and Jack Flick; Kathryn and David Bailis. Proud great-grandfather of 10. Dear brother of Robert and Ellen and Sylvia and the late Louis Shapiro. Funeral Tuesday, September 2, at noon, at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, 630 Amsterdam Avenue. SOLENDER -- Sanford. The officers, Board of Trustees and staff of United Jewish Communities mourn the passing of Sanford Solender, a pioneering and visionary leader who dedicated his entire professional career to Jewish communal service as top executive and |
1825785 | 2007 | 02 | 12 | News Summary |
INTERNATIONAL A3-13
Six-Party Talks Stumble Over North Korea Demands Negotiations over a step-by-step deal that the Bush administration hopes will lead North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program appeared near collapse over North Korea's demands for huge shipments of fuel oil and electricity. A1
U.S. Says Arms Link Iran to Iraq After weeks of internal debate, senior United States military officials put on the table their first public evidence for the contentious assertion that Iran supplies Shiite extremist groups in Iraq with some of the most lethal weapons in the war, and said those weapons had been used to kill more than 170 Americans in the past three years. A1
American troops locked down a large industrialized area of eastern Baghdad while Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki vowed to speed the deployment of Iraqi forces throughout the war-ravaged capital without indicating how he would do it. A12
Gates Counters Putin's Words Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, disputing a lengthy critique of American power by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, said at a European security conference in Munich, ''One cold war was quite enough.'' A6
President Putin arrived in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, for a visit intended to expand trade and military links between the two nations, among the world's largest oil producers. A8
Iran Delays Its 'Good News' President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran vowed in a speech that Iran would not stop its nuclear program despite a United Nations deadline next week. He did not make a promised announcement about ''good news'' in nuclear progress, raising speculation that domestic political pressure and technological glitches may have caused delays. A8
Low Turnout Undercuts Vote Portugal voted decisively in a referendum to liberalize its restrictive abortion law, but the result is not considered valid because of low voter turnout. Still, Prime Minister José Sócrates, a Socialist who supported the liberalization, declared victory and said he would ask Parliament, where his party enjoys a comfortable majority, to change the law. A3
NATIONAL A14-19
Cheney Testimony Could Carry High Risk As the defense phase of the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. begins, Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to make a historic appearance on the witness stand. It is an act of loyalty that carries considerable risk for Mr. Cheney who has in recent months suffered a series of major political and policy setbacks. A16
Australian Denounces Obama Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, a close ally of the White House, denounced Barack Obama's proposal to withdraw American combat troops in Iraq by March 31, 2008. A18
Notepad Versus Recordings More than 500 police departments in all 50 states make electronic recordings of at least some interrogations, often videotaping them. At the F.B.I., by contrast, an agent cannot turn on a tape recorder without first getting a supervisor's permission.
A14
Scientist's Contradicting Views Marcus R. Ross is a paleontologist and also a ''young earth creationist'' who believes that the Bible is a literal account of the creation of the universe. For him, the methods of paleontology are one ''paradigm'' for studying the past, and Scripture is another. His case raises thorny philosophical and practical questions for some. A1
Flaws in Coast Guard Deal The Coast Guard's $24 billion ship and plane building deal with two of the nation's biggest military contractors is fundamentally flawed, an independent assessment commissioned by the Coast Guard has concluded.
A16
From Horse Country to Harvard Decades after coming of age as the only girl in a privileged, tradition-bound family in Virginia horse country, Drew Gilpin Faust officially became the first woman chosen to lead Harvard University, which was founded in 1636. A18
SPORTSMONDAY D1-7
Soccer, Sans Fans The Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence, Italy, hosted one of four Italian Serie A games in which fans were not permitted inside the stadium because of newly enforced security measures after the death last week of a police officer in Sicily during a soccer riot. D3
NEW YORK/REGION B1-6
Buried Region Copes One Shovelful at a Time Life in Oswego County, a rustic string of towns and villages on the eastern rim of Lake Ontario, took on an icy absurdity last week under the weight of 5 to 10 feet of snow that fell over eight days. In one town, Redfield, the National Weather Service reported an unofficial total of 11 feet 8 inches. A1
Trash Hauling Rates Studied The city's Economic Development Corporation wants to hire a consultant to study whether the mob has been so thoroughly routed from the garbage-hauling business in New York City that the corporation can eliminate the decades-old caps on the rates haulers can charge commercial establishments. B1
Church Closings Protested A score of parishioners began a protest vigil inside a 120-year-old Roman Catholic church in East Harlem and vowed to stay until the Archdiocese of New York reverses its decision to close the parish as part of a broad reorganization. B1
Therapy for Gay Desires? People across the country who are conflicted about their sexuality are making attempts to eliminate their gay desires through therapy or religious ministries. Efforts by religious conservatives to remedy homosexuality has received renewed attention with news that the Rev. Ted Haggard had been declared ''completely heterosexual'' after three weeks of intense therapy. B1
ARTS E1-12
Dixie Chicks Top Grammys After death threats, boycotts and a cold shoulder from the country music establishment, the Dixie Chicks had a big night at the 49th annual Grammy Awards, capturing honors in five of the categories. The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Mary J. Blige also received multiple awards E1
OBITUARIES B7
Edmund C. Arnold A journalist who in the 1950s altered the rigid layouts then common in American newspapers, influencing a generation of newspaper designers, he was 93. B7
Michael Shurtleff A leading casting director of Broadway and the author of an influential book about the audition process, he was 86. B7
BUSINESS DAY C1-10
New Brand Incites Price War Syntax-Brillian gained recognition after discounting its Olevia brand L. C. D. television sets by almost half the regular price during the holiday season. The move incited a price war that forced premium brands to lower their prices.
C1
Questions About CNBC The connection of Maria S. Bartiromo, a CNBC anchor, to a departed chief executive of Citigroup, Todd S. Thomson, has raised questions about the network's duty to pursue big financial news stories and its loyalty to Ms. Bartiromo.
C1
Sale of Paper Stirs Industry Once hailed as the white knight of newspapers, Gary B. Pruitt, chief executive of the McClatchy Company, seems to have lost that status after selling the company's largest paper, The Minneapolis Star Tribune -- a sale that is causing struggling papers to shiver again.
C1
Business Digest C2
EDITORIAL A20-21
Editorials: Passing the buck on health care; a battle over prisons; Appalachia redux; Adam Cohen on Yeats and the Iraq war.
Columns: Bob Herbert, Paul Krugman.
Bridge E9 Crossword E4 Mtro Diary B2 TV Listings E11 Weather D8
| INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Six-Party Talks Stumble Over North Korea Demands Negotiations over a step-by-step deal that the Bush administration hopes will lead North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program appeared near collapse over North Korea's demands for huge shipments of fuel oil and electricity. A1 U.S. Says Arms Link Iran to Iraq After weeks of internal debate, senior United States military officials put on the table their first public evidence for the contentious assertion that Iran supplies Shiite extremist groups in Iraq with some of the most lethal weapons in the war, and said those weapons had been used to kill more than 170 Americans in the past three years. A1 American troops locked down a large industrialized area of eastern Baghdad while Prime Minister Nuri Kamal |
1780620 | 2006 | 08 | 04 | Lieberman Trails Challenger In Primary, New Poll Finds |
Responding to a new public poll that shows him trailing in Tuesday's Democratic primary, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman said on Thursday that his challenger, Ned Lamont, had turned the race into a ''referendum on George Bush and the Iraq war.''
The poll, by Quinnipiac University, showed Mr. Lamont leading with 54 percent to Mr. Lieberman's 41 percent among likely Democratic primary voters. The poll of 890 registered voters, conducted from July 25 to 31, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
| Responding to a new public poll that shows him trailing in Tuesday's Democratic primary, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman said on Thursday that his challenger, Ned Lamont, had turned the race into a ''referendum on George Bush and the Iraq war.'' The poll, by Quinnipiac University, showed Mr. Lamont leading with 54 percent to Mr. Lieberman's 41 percent among likely Democratic primary voters. The poll of 890 registered voters, conducted from July 25 to 31, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. ''I'm not elated,'' Mr. Lieberman told reporters after stopping at a children's museum here. ''Obviously the poll results are disappointing. Our poll results have me a little bit better, but behind.'' ''Look at its message,'' Mr. Lieberman said. ''I think my |
1807577 | 2006 | 11 | 26 | Ecuador's Path and Alliances at Stake in Runoff Election |
No one can accuse Ecuador, which will elect its eighth president in 10 years on Sunday, of dull politics.
Rafael Correa, a candidate in Sunday's runoff, strums a guitar before audiences between promises to whip Ecuador's political elite with his belt and shut the last American military base in South America. He chastises the Bush administration in the polished English he learned while earning a doctorate in economics at the University of Illinois.
| No one can accuse Ecuador, which will elect its eighth president in 10 years on Sunday, of dull politics. Rafael Correa, a candidate in Sunday's runoff, strums a guitar before audiences between promises to whip Ecuador's political elite with his belt and shut the last American military base in South America. He chastises the Bush administration in the polished English he learned while earning a doctorate in economics at the University of Illinois. Álvaro Noboa, his rival, is a billionaire who hands out free computers and fistfuls of dollars at his rallies. Mr. Noboa, a banana tycoon who is Ecuador's richest man, dropped to his knees this month at a campaign stop to ask for votes as a self-described ''messiah of the poor.'' But the contest is far |
1505106 | 2003 | 07 | 17 | BOLDFACE NAMES |
Rounding Up The Usual Suspects
Put enough pundits, politicos and microphones in a room (or on a balcony in a busy terminal) and at least a few barbs are bound to fly. Yesterday at Grand Central, at one of those occasional panel discussions organized by The Week magazine, it happened again.
| Rounding Up The Usual Suspects Put enough pundits, politicos and microphones in a room (or on a balcony in a busy terminal) and at least a few barbs are bound to fly. Yesterday at Grand Central, at one of those occasional panel discussions organized by The Week magazine, it happened again. The panel, moderated by HARRY EVANS and on the subject of whether GEORGE BUSH is unbeatable, included GARY HART; MONICA CROWLEY, a former Nixon aide and current Fox News contributor; EDWARD ROLLINS, a Republican political strategist; and SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, a former Clinton aide who has recently written a memoir. Lunch, a salad with shrimp, had already been served at MICHAEL JORDAN'S steakhouse. And the panelists had already deemed AL GORE a formidable contender unlikely to run. Then |
1251401 | 2000 | 11 | 30 | A New Judge Is Welcomed For Top Court In Albany |
While Florida legislators met today to decide whether to undo the work of the state's highest court, New York legislators met to praise theirs and to confirm its newest member with an elaborate welcome.
The State Senate approved Victoria A. Graffeo's nomination unanimously, like all but one of the 16 others put before it since 1978, when New York State stopped electing members of the Court of Appeals. Justice Graffeo, now on the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Albany, is Gov. George E. Pataki's third appointment to the seven-member court.
| While Florida legislators met today to decide whether to undo the work of the state's highest court, New York legislators met to praise theirs and to confirm its newest member with an elaborate welcome. The State Senate approved Victoria A. Graffeo's nomination unanimously, like all but one of the 16 others put before it since 1978, when New York State stopped electing members of the Court of Appeals. Justice Graffeo, now on the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Albany, is Gov. George E. Pataki's third appointment to the seven-member court. A Republican who arrives with solid credentials and no apparent enemies, Justice Graffeo joins a court short on excesses and eccentricities. Its members are chosen by a method that seeks what may be all but unattainable: |
1539754 | 2003 | 12 | 01 | International Business; A Hangover in South Korea After a Binge on Credit |
LAST year, Yoon Heung-Soon remembers, representatives of South Korean credit card companies buttonholed well-dressed people ''at subway stations and on street corners,'' pressing new cards on them.
''We were able to spend a lot last Christmas,'' said Ms. Yoon, a 42-year-old office worker and a first-time credit card holder. Then, focusing on the $85,000 debt she racked up buying clothes and presents with 10 cards, she said gloomily: ''I wish there were no Christmas this year.''
| LAST year, Yoon Heung-Soon remembers, representatives of South Korean credit card companies buttonholed well-dressed people ''at subway stations and on street corners,'' pressing new cards on them. ''We were able to spend a lot last Christmas,'' said Ms. Yoon, a 42-year-old office worker and a first-time credit card holder. Then, focusing on the $85,000 debt she racked up buying clothes and presents with 10 cards, she said gloomily: ''I wish there were no Christmas this year.'' In 2000, South Korea broke with modern Asia's tradition of encouraging economic development by sacrificing consumer desires on the altar of ever higher export surpluses. In a deliberate government policy, consumers were coddled with credit, partly to jump-start an economic recovery, partly to make sure that sales taxes, often avoided on cash |
1681613 | 2005 | 06 | 19 | But Where's The Model T? |
TAKE away the fluff and fiddle-faddle, one school of theater directing suggests, and an express path to the very heart and soul of a work is sure to be revealed.
When ''Ragtime,'' the musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel set at the turn of the 20th century, opened on Broadway in 1998, a minimalist approach was far from the minds of its creative team and its flamboyant producer, Garth Drabinsky. With its score by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, all proven Broadway winners, the show seemed bound for success.
| TAKE away the fluff and fiddle-faddle, one school of theater directing suggests, and an express path to the very heart and soul of a work is sure to be revealed. When ''Ragtime,'' the musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel set at the turn of the 20th century, opened on Broadway in 1998, a minimalist approach was far from the minds of its creative team and its flamboyant producer, Garth Drabinsky. With its score by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, all proven Broadway winners, the show seemed bound for success. But reviews were mixed. The sets were spectacular, the costumes lavish and the theatrical effects (including an onstage Model T) eye-popping. Yet none of the visual splendor was able to compensate for a |
1637476 | 2004 | 12 | 26 | BRIEFS |
Dishing Fresh Dirt On Deer, Worms and Water
As if decimated gardens, frequent car accidents and the spread of Lyme disease were not reason enough to fret about too many deer, here's another: They are apparently eating the forest right out from under us.
''You do not see any rejuvenation of the forest because the deer eat any saplings that grow,'' said John Hannon, president of the Bedford Chapter of the National Audubon Society. ''They eat the acorns before they can germinate and they eat right through the understory of forests, the lower branches where birds make their nests.''
| Dishing Fresh Dirt On Deer, Worms and Water As if decimated gardens, frequent car accidents and the spread of Lyme disease were not reason enough to fret about too many deer, here's another: They are apparently eating the forest right out from under us. ''You do not see any rejuvenation of the forest because the deer eat any saplings that grow,'' said John Hannon, president of the Bedford Chapter of the National Audubon Society. ''They eat the acorns before they can germinate and they eat right through the understory of forests, the lower branches where birds make their nests.'' The problem is said to be particularly acute in Westchester and Putnam, where development creates a perfect browsing environment for deer and where residents prefer seeing venison in a |
1453606 | 2003 | 01 | 03 | Ori Gersht -- 'Black Soil' |
CRG Gallery 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Through Feb. 1
Ori Gersht lives in London, but he was born and reared in Israel. The suave photographs and videos in his first New York exhibition obliquely comment on Israeli-Palestinian politics. Large pictures of ground apparently blackened by fire are laminated to aluminum panels; they have seductive matte surfaces, following the now overly familiar trend of photography that wants to be like painting. When you learn that the images were shot in a part of the Golan Heights where the Israeli Army holds artillery practice, you grasp the indictment of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory as a scorched-earth policy.
| CRG Gallery 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Through Feb. 1 Ori Gersht lives in London, but he was born and reared in Israel. The suave photographs and videos in his first New York exhibition obliquely comment on Israeli-Palestinian politics. Large pictures of ground apparently blackened by fire are laminated to aluminum panels; they have seductive matte surfaces, following the now overly familiar trend of photography that wants to be like painting. When you learn that the images were shot in a part of the Golan Heights where the Israeli Army holds artillery practice, you grasp the indictment of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory as a scorched-earth policy. The National Geographic-style image of a town glowing red at night makes sense when you learn that it is a Palestinian |
1772882 | 2006 | 07 | 01 | Against All Odds: St. Crispin's Day Destiny |
Agincourt Henry V and the Battle That Made England By Juliet Barker Illustrated. Little, Brown. 445 pages. $27.95.
On St. Crispin's Day in 1415, two unequal armies lined up against each other on a plain near the castle of Azincourt in northwestern France. On one side stood some 36,000 Frenchmen, eager to defend their home ground and elated at the prospect of certain victory. Across the field, an army of 6,000 Englishmen, exhausted after a two-week march and racked with dysentery, dug in for a desperate stand.
| Agincourt Henry V and the Battle That Made England By Juliet Barker Illustrated. Little, Brown. 445 pages. $27.95. On St. Crispin's Day in 1415, two unequal armies lined up against each other on a plain near the castle of Azincourt in northwestern France. On one side stood some 36,000 Frenchmen, eager to defend their home ground and elated at the prospect of certain victory. Across the field, an army of 6,000 Englishmen, exhausted after a two-week march and racked with dysentery, dug in for a desperate stand. The outcome seemed foreordained, yet a few hours later the flower of French nobility lay dead on the field, surrounded, in the words of an English eyewitness, by ''the masses, the mounds and the heaps of the slain.'' Against all odds, |
1604824 | 2004 | 08 | 18 | Health Threats Become Major Concern in Hurricane's Aftermath |
Disaster relief officials warned on Tuesday that stressful housing conditions, intense summer heat and diseases from contaminated food and water could cause the problems from Hurricane Charley to increase in coming days.
Until electricity is restored, thousands of residents could be subject to heat stroke in the muggy 90-degree weather, poisoning from eating spoiled food and diseases caused by sewage-contaminated water, the officials said. As of Tuesday evening, more than 490,000 people were still without power.
| Disaster relief officials warned on Tuesday that stressful housing conditions, intense summer heat and diseases from contaminated food and water could cause the problems from Hurricane Charley to increase in coming days. Until electricity is restored, thousands of residents could be subject to heat stroke in the muggy 90-degree weather, poisoning from eating spoiled food and diseases caused by sewage-contaminated water, the officials said. As of Tuesday evening, more than 490,000 people were still without power. Touring parts of the storm-ravaged western Florida coast, Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, said there were ''so many health areas'' that posed a risk in the aftermath of the storm. ''The president has demanded that every federal department to whatever they possibly can to aid the recovery |
1783479 | 2006 | 08 | 17 | News Summary |
INTERNATIONAL A3-19
Insurgency Data Suggests Violence Is Rising in Iraq Statistics compiled by American military authorities in Baghdad show that insurgent attacks against American and Iraqi security forces have risen even as Iraq takes steps toward democracy, raising concerns about the worsening security conditions inside the country.
A1
Iraqi security forces and British troops fought Shiite militias in battles that left two policemen and a dozen militiamen dead.
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Two bombs destroyed a Baghdad memorial commemorating an attack last summer in which 25 children were killed after a car bomber sped into a crowd receiving candy from American troops.
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Lebanese Army Enters South The Lebanese Army moved into the south of the country at dawn, a day after the cabinet approved the deployment under a United Nations-mandated cease-fire.
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No Gels, Fluids or Odd Behavior In response to the alleged plane plot in Britain, officials from the United States Transportation Security Administration say they want to increase training for a new group of passenger screeners who look for suspicious behavior instead of bombs, guns or knives.
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AIDS Efforts Miss Children Efforts to expand antiretroviral treatment for AIDS in poor countries are not reaching a vast majority of children who need it, a World Health Organization official said. A15
NATIONAL A21-23
Man Arrested in BangkokIn Ramsey Murder Case An American identified as a schoolteacher was arrested in Bangkok in the death of JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant who was found strangled Dec. 26, 1996, in her Colorado home. A1
Man Held as Drug Leader Federal drug enforcement agents, aided by the Coast Guard, arrested a man they said was a top figure in one of Mexico's most notorious drug gangs on a fishing boat off Baja California. A21
Overseas Flight Diverted A flight from London to Washington was escorted by F-15 fighters to Logan Airport in Boston after an unruly passenger had to be subdued, officials said. A21
Crackdown on Drunken Driving The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has signed up nearly 10,000 law enforcement agencies to begin a campaign to crack down on drunken drivers through Labor Day. A21
SCIENCE/HEALTH
Talk of Cuts at Cancer Institute Dr. John E. Niederhuber, a surgeon appointed by President Bush this week to lead the National Cancer Institute, said he had great hopes for finding new nontoxic cancer drugs but some of the institute's programs may have to be phased out. A22
NEW YORK/REGION B1-6
25 Injured as Subway Fire Delays Commute for 4,000 A track fire sent smoke billowing through a subway tunnel in Brooklyn during the evening rush, halting two subway trains carrying around 4,000 passengers, who had to be evacuated onto the Manhattan Bridge. The authorities said 25 people were injured, including 10 passengers and 3 firefighters. B1
Two Killed in Shootout The police said two men were killed in a broad-daylight shootout in Brooklyn that was interrupted when an undercover police officer happened upon the scene and fired at the gunman, who fled. The police said the shooting suspect remained at large. B1
OBITUARIES B6-7
Gen. Alfredo Stroessner The former president of Paraguay whose harsh and capricious 35-year hold on power made him South America's most enduring dictator during the cold war, he was 93. B7
ARTS E1-10
Film Explores Biblical Exodus Simcha Jacobovici, an investigative reporter and filmmaker, contends that he has assembled a compelling case for the veracity of the biblical story of the Exodus. He unveils his theories in a documentary to be broadcast on the History Channel. E3
BUSINESS DAY C1-14
Consumer Prices Ease The government's latest report on consumer prices suggests that inflation is slowing and appears to support the Federal Reserve's decision to halt its interest rate increases.
C1
Showdown Set Over Heinz Nelson Peltz, a maverick investor, won some seats on the board of the H.J. Heinz Company, setting up a showdown over its future.
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Business Digest C2
EDITORIAL A26-27
Editorials: Already falling behind; the New Jersey follies; a debt unpaid; dissing Pluto and the other Plutons.
Column: Bob Herbert
Bridge
E4 Crossword
E4 TV Listings
E9 Weather
A20
| INTERNATIONAL A3-19 Insurgency Data Suggests Violence Is Rising in Iraq Statistics compiled by American military authorities in Baghdad show that insurgent attacks against American and Iraqi security forces have risen even as Iraq takes steps toward democracy, raising concerns about the worsening security conditions inside the country. A1 Iraqi security forces and British troops fought Shiite militias in battles that left two policemen and a dozen militiamen dead. A18 Two bombs destroyed a Baghdad memorial commemorating an attack last summer in which 25 children were killed after a car bomber sped into a crowd receiving candy from American troops. A18 Lebanese Army Enters South The Lebanese Army moved into the south of the country at dawn, a day after the cabinet approved the deployment under a United Nations-mandated |
1390681 | 2002 | 05 | 09 | Wedding MP3 to WMA: Format-Friendly Players |
Q. I have been using the WMA format to burn my CD's onto the hard drive on a new Windows XP machine. Is there any portable player that supports WMA files? If not, is there a way to change these files to MP3?
A. The Windows Media Audio, or WMA, format is an alternative to the MP3 format for encoding digital music files that you can play on your PC or on a portable music player.
| Q. I have been using the WMA format to burn my CD's onto the hard drive on a new Windows XP machine. Is there any portable player that supports WMA files? If not, is there a way to change these files to MP3? A. The Windows Media Audio, or WMA, format is an alternative to the MP3 format for encoding digital music files that you can play on your PC or on a portable music player. The WMA format is widely used, not only because it is the Microsoft standard for digital music, but also because its compression and encoding can produce music files that sound just as good as MP3 files but take up less space on the hard drive. Plenty of portable music players work with |
1411968 | 2002 | 07 | 29 | Web Site Lets Visitors Peek at Corporate Carping |
The publisher of the Web site whose name is a vulgarism for ''failed company'' plans to spin off part of that site into a new unit. Drawing from a deep well of material sent by fans of corporate comeuppance, Philip J. Kaplan said he would roll out a new site, InternalMemos.com, this morning.
On it, readers can sample some of the more than 800 examples of internal business correspondence sent to Mr. Kaplan over the last three years by aggrieved employees of various companies.
| The publisher of the Web site whose name is a vulgarism for ''failed company'' plans to spin off part of that site into a new unit. Drawing from a deep well of material sent by fans of corporate comeuppance, Philip J. Kaplan said he would roll out a new site, InternalMemos.com, this morning. On it, readers can sample some of the more than 800 examples of internal business correspondence sent to Mr. Kaplan over the last three years by aggrieved employees of various companies. Among some of the more recent material is a letter from an Electronic Data Systems employee to the company's chief executive, Richard R. Brown, and copied to all E.D.S. employees: ''Your memos are a laughing matter for 90% of the employees (the 10% are |
1712164 | 2005 | 10 | 24 | On Medicaid's Obstacle Course |
To the Editor:
Medicaid's puzzling rules and demands for documentation contribute to lengthy delays in care or, even worse, discourage poor people from applying for the program. One can't help wondering if that is the point.
| To the Editor: Medicaid's puzzling rules and demands for documentation contribute to lengthy delays in care or, even worse, discourage poor people from applying for the program. One can't help wondering if that is the point. The sad reality is that you need an experienced health care advocate to navigate this arcane bureaucracy. We have worked with thousands of people who have been denied prescription medications at their local pharmacies or lost Medicaid coverage because of an inept bureaucracy. Then there are folks who have received exorbitant and incorrect doctor bills and are too afraid to get follow-up care for fear of getting another bill. The solution is not more advocates or programs like ours, but a health care system that makes the patient a higher priority than |
1454050 | 2003 | 01 | 05 | Flying With Panache, And at a Profit, Too |
WHEN Paul Austin, a British executive of a big construction company here on the Persian Gulf, travels by air, he no longer drives to the airport. His favorite airline, Emirates Airlines, sends a car to pick him up, as it does for all its business and first-class passengers in London, Paris, Hong Kong and 12 other cities.
In business class, he has a choice of 48 movie cassettes he can load when he wants, and a couple of dozen music and talk programs. Even in economy, passengers may choose from 17 movies and 18 video games available on personal screens.
| WHEN Paul Austin, a British executive of a big construction company here on the Persian Gulf, travels by air, he no longer drives to the airport. His favorite airline, Emirates Airlines, sends a car to pick him up, as it does for all its business and first-class passengers in London, Paris, Hong Kong and 12 other cities. In business class, he has a choice of 48 movie cassettes he can load when he wants, and a couple of dozen music and talk programs. Even in economy, passengers may choose from 17 movies and 18 video games available on personal screens. Mr. Austin dines on meals set on pink linen and sips fine wines. In economy, settings are less plush, but the meals range from stir-fries and curries to |
1715083 | 2005 | 11 | 05 | Running as if They Were Neck and Neck |
Entering the final days before the election, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that he would not scale back his campaigning, even though the latest polls show him continuing to maintain a big lead over his Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer.
''I think that anybody that takes anything for granted in something like this is making a terrible mistake,'' Mr. Bloomberg said during a news conference to announce a new city park in Maspeth, Queens. ''I certainly do not. I plan to continue to work right through Tuesday.''
| Entering the final days before the election, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that he would not scale back his campaigning, even though the latest polls show him continuing to maintain a big lead over his Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer. ''I think that anybody that takes anything for granted in something like this is making a terrible mistake,'' Mr. Bloomberg said during a news conference to announce a new city park in Maspeth, Queens. ''I certainly do not. I plan to continue to work right through Tuesday.'' Mr. Bloomberg started early yesterday on the campaign trail with back-to-back appearances outside the Grand Army Plaza and Utica Avenue subway stations in Brooklyn. He chatted with commuters, shook hands with supporters and signed autographs for children. Afterward, Mr. Bloomberg visited |
1575330 | 2004 | 04 | 19 | Hands Off Hedge Funds |
To the Editor:
William Safire (''Watch the Hedgehogs,'' column, April 12) argues that increasing the Securities and Exchange Commission's authority over hedge funds is a good idea. But potential benefits are illusory.
Regarding protection of retirees' and pension beneficiaries' investments, the Labor Department and state and local government agencies rigorously enforce laws and regulations to protect their interests.
| To the Editor: William Safire (''Watch the Hedgehogs,'' column, April 12) argues that increasing the Securities and Exchange Commission's authority over hedge funds is a good idea. But potential benefits are illusory. Regarding protection of retirees' and pension beneficiaries' investments, the Labor Department and state and local government agencies rigorously enforce laws and regulations to protect their interests. Mr. Safire says hedge funds are unregulated. All fund managers, registered or not, are subject to the broad anti-fraud and anti-manipulation provisions of securities laws and prohibitions on insider trading. He speculates that S.E.C. registration of hedge funds might enable the agency to detect or prevent fraudulent conduct. Yet even with several hundred examiners to monitor the mutual fund industry, recent fraudulent conduct was neither deterred nor detected. Expanding the |
1731888 | 2006 | 01 | 14 | How the Democrats Lost Their Base |
To the Editor:
Re ''Losing the Alitos'' (column, Jan. 12):
| To the Editor: Re ''Losing the Alitos'' (column, Jan. 12): As a lifelong Democrat (whose first vote was for Harry S. Truman), I sadly applaud David Brooks's perceptive analysis of how my party lost the Alitos and the white ethnics. I would add only this: The traditional strength of the Democratic Party, right up to 1964, relied on the unholy alliance between the political machines of the big-city ethnics and the segregationist Solid South. President Lyndon B. Johnson, by ensuring the passage of the civil rights acts, knowingly sacrificed that alliance -- and the future of his party -- for the greater good of the country. Then, as the South fell away, Democratic leaders panicked and began echoing the Republican mantra, ''get the government off our backs.'' If, |
1205545 | 2000 | 06 | 07 | Low-Key End on Both Sides As Corzine Gets Nomination |
For those expecting caviar and lobster tails, the celebratory bash marking Jon S. Corzine's Senate primary victory tonight was something of a disappointment. Mr. Corzine, a Wall Street financier who poured a record amount of money into his campaign, did not hand out $100 bills at the door. There were no loot bags for departing revelers and the buffet tables were filled with fried shrimp, nachos and the usual assortment of catered finger foods.
But compared with Jim Florio, whose primary night event featured a cash bar and no food, Mr. Corzine's party was a sumptuous affair. An imperfect metaphor, perhaps, but in the end, Mr. Florio, the former governor, could not overcome Mr. Corzine's millions and his own legacy as the man who gave New Jersey a $2.8 billion tax increase.
| For those expecting caviar and lobster tails, the celebratory bash marking Jon S. Corzine's Senate primary victory tonight was something of a disappointment. Mr. Corzine, a Wall Street financier who poured a record amount of money into his campaign, did not hand out $100 bills at the door. There were no loot bags for departing revelers and the buffet tables were filled with fried shrimp, nachos and the usual assortment of catered finger foods. But compared with Jim Florio, whose primary night event featured a cash bar and no food, Mr. Corzine's party was a sumptuous affair. An imperfect metaphor, perhaps, but in the end, Mr. Florio, the former governor, could not overcome Mr. Corzine's millions and his own legacy as the man who gave New Jersey a |
1321841 | 2001 | 09 | 02 | POSTINGS: Princeton University Receives $18 Million; A Noteworthy House Sale |
When John L. and Margaret Thornton first saw Dunwalke, a red brick Georgian mansion on 118 acres in New Jersey's hunt country, the property wasn't even on the market.
The 20,000-square-foot house, built in 1928 with seven bedrooms and an indoor tennis court, had been bequeathed to Princeton University for a conference center. But the family of the original owner, Clarence Dillon, a founder of the investment bank Dillon, Read & Company, recommended the college sell -- partly because the Thorntons plan to keep the Bedminster property intact, said Thomas B. Anderson of Sotheby's International Realty, who with Jack Turpin, president of Turpin Real Estate in Far Hills, negotiated the deal.
| When John L. and Margaret Thornton first saw Dunwalke, a red brick Georgian mansion on 118 acres in New Jersey's hunt country, the property wasn't even on the market. The 20,000-square-foot house, built in 1928 with seven bedrooms and an indoor tennis court, had been bequeathed to Princeton University for a conference center. But the family of the original owner, Clarence Dillon, a founder of the investment bank Dillon, Read & Company, recommended the college sell -- partly because the Thorntons plan to keep the Bedminster property intact, said Thomas B. Anderson of Sotheby's International Realty, who with Jack Turpin, president of Turpin Real Estate in Far Hills, negotiated the deal. The price also appealed to Princeton: $18 million, a figure that far surpassed the $12 million sale |
1301577 | 2001 | 06 | 14 | Several Roster Changes For Yanks |
The Yankees thought the 13-game homestand nearly at its end might propel them into first place. Instead, it has propelled them into immense changes, with more alterations to come.
The Yankees swapped for the utility infielder Enrique Wilson yesterday, cut the veteran catcher Joe Oliver and prepared to promote pitcher Randy Keisler to pitch against the Montreal Expos tonight.
| The Yankees thought the 13-game homestand nearly at its end might propel them into first place. Instead, it has propelled them into immense changes, with more alterations to come. The Yankees swapped for the utility infielder Enrique Wilson yesterday, cut the veteran catcher Joe Oliver and prepared to promote pitcher Randy Keisler to pitch against the Montreal Expos tonight. The Yankees also announced that Orlando Hernández will have surgery tomorrow on the second toe of his left foot, a measure that club officials considered imminent once the pitcher told them on June 1 that he could not pitch with the pain he is feeling. Hernández will miss the next six to eight weeks, meaning that the Yankees will not have a read on his late-season status until after |
1259214 | 2000 | 12 | 31 | Some Ideas Are Bad |
To the Editor:
Herbert Muschamp bemoans the destructive postmodern ''detachment of architecture from the realm of ideas.'' But what if some of those ideas are bad ideas, born of a naive infatuation with science and technology, such as Le Corbusier's dehumanizing idea of a house as a machine for living, or the city-destroying vision of towers in a park, replacing city blocks?
| To the Editor: Herbert Muschamp bemoans the destructive postmodern ''detachment of architecture from the realm of ideas.'' But what if some of those ideas are bad ideas, born of a naive infatuation with science and technology, such as Le Corbusier's dehumanizing idea of a house as a machine for living, or the city-destroying vision of towers in a park, replacing city blocks? Moreover, Mr. Muschamp also says that the ''heroic phase'' of Modernism -- exemplified by Brasilia and the United Nations headquarters -- ''helped precipitate the collapse of the Modern Movement by detaching architecture from the history of places and isolating its practitioners within the world of ideas.'' Isn't that what made the ending of that isolation by the postmodern movement a necessary, even salutary, development? Perhaps what |
1237468 | 2000 | 10 | 09 | Nazi Code Machine Poses a New Enigma for the British |
A captured German machine that helped the British to crack the Nazi Enigma code in one of the turning points of World War II has been missing from its case in a Buckinghamshire museum for six months, and getting it back has turned into something of a riddle itself.
It was stolen in the spring from a glass display cabinet in the museum, in the Bletchley Park estate that was the clandestine wartime office of the remarkable team of crossword puzzle experts, linguists, chess masters, mathematicians and refugee intellectuals the British assembled to read encrypted enemy communications.
| A captured German machine that helped the British to crack the Nazi Enigma code in one of the turning points of World War II has been missing from its case in a Buckinghamshire museum for six months, and getting it back has turned into something of a riddle itself. It was stolen in the spring from a glass display cabinet in the museum, in the Bletchley Park estate that was the clandestine wartime office of the remarkable team of crossword puzzle experts, linguists, chess masters, mathematicians and refugee intellectuals the British assembled to read encrypted enemy communications. The Enigma machine, which looks like an oversized typewriter, was used by German military intelligence for top secret communications between members of the the Nazi high command. Enigma used a series |
1664705 | 2005 | 04 | 14 | Garden Q. & A. |
Out of the Dragon's Mouth
Q. I would like to grow the dragon's mouth, Arethusa bulbosa. Can you tell me where to find plants?
A. The best place to find these beautiful little flowers is at the sunny margins of floating sphagnum bogs. And that is where they should remain. Although dragon's mouth orchids, aka swamp pinks, are not yet on the federal endangered species list, habitat loss and overcollection have them teetering on that brink.
But even if they were plentiful, arethusas would be off limits to gardeners because they are almost impossible to domesticate and very slow to bloom. William Cullina, the nursery director of the New England Wildflower Society, points out that these native orchids are highly dependent on specific bog conditions, and have symbiotic associations, for example, with types of fungus that are also unique to bogs.
| Out of the Dragon's Mouth Q. I would like to grow the dragon's mouth, Arethusa bulbosa. Can you tell me where to find plants? A. The best place to find these beautiful little flowers is at the sunny margins of floating sphagnum bogs. And that is where they should remain. Although dragon's mouth orchids, aka swamp pinks, are not yet on the federal endangered species list, habitat loss and overcollection have them teetering on that brink. But even if they were plentiful, arethusas would be off limits to gardeners because they are almost impossible to domesticate and very slow to bloom. William Cullina, the nursery director of the New England Wildflower Society, points out that these native orchids are highly dependent on specific bog conditions, and have symbiotic |
1437715 | 2002 | 11 | 04 | BUSINESS DIGEST |
Confusing Signals on Fate Of the S.E.C. Chairman Administration officials said that President Bush would dismiss Harvey L. Pitt as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission if the investigations into his selection of a new accounting oversight board show he failed to act properly.
But advisers to Mr. Bush continued to send out conflicting signals about Mr. Pitt's future, publicly supporting him while privately complaining about his political missteps. The situation was especially delicate with Congressional elections on Tuesday. [Section A.]
| Confusing Signals on Fate Of the S.E.C. Chairman Administration officials said that President Bush would dismiss Harvey L. Pitt as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission if the investigations into his selection of a new accounting oversight board show he failed to act properly. But advisers to Mr. Bush continued to send out conflicting signals about Mr. Pitt's future, publicly supporting him while privately complaining about his political missteps. The situation was especially delicate with Congressional elections on Tuesday. [Section A.] Chubb Names a Chief Executive Chubb, the commercial insurer, has named a longtime General Motors executive with little previous insurance experience, John D. Finnegan, as chief executive. [C9.] Letterman Will Also Play on Radio Beginning next week, David Letterman's hour-long ''Late Show'' will be simulcast |
1853585 | 2007 | 06 | 10 | Tangible Family Values |
Just about everyone pays homage to the value of the family. But when it comes to helping families manage financially when a child or aging parent is sick, not much is offered. That is especially so for families with low incomes.
New Jersey's legislators could drastically improve that situation by passing a bill to provide partial pay to any worker who takes up to 10 weeks off to care for a sick family member, a newborn or a newly adopted child. The measure, which a committee cleared last month for consideration by the full State Senate, would be paid for with an increase of up to 92 cents a week in payroll taxes. The increase would be paid solely by workers.
| Just about everyone pays homage to the value of the family. But when it comes to helping families manage financially when a child or aging parent is sick, not much is offered. That is especially so for families with low incomes. New Jersey's legislators could drastically improve that situation by passing a bill to provide partial pay to any worker who takes up to 10 weeks off to care for a sick family member, a newborn or a newly adopted child. The measure, which a committee cleared last month for consideration by the full State Senate, would be paid for with an increase of up to 92 cents a week in payroll taxes. The increase would be paid solely by workers. While on leave, employees would collect two-thirds |
1807567 | 2006 | 11 | 26 | The Neediest Cases; With Adoptions, Family Duties Multiply |
''It's a family,'' Orlando Velez said. ''Brothers and sisters have got to be together.'' He was surrounded by wedding and birthday photographs, pictures of saints, and Mexican hats, which line the living room walls of his Bronx apartment.
A swirl of excited chatter introduced the eight children in the Velez household: Grisel, 17; Elise, 16; Orlando 11; Pablo 10; Mariano, 10; Isabel, 8; Eva, 7; and Leonardo, 6.
| ''It's a family,'' Orlando Velez said. ''Brothers and sisters have got to be together.'' He was surrounded by wedding and birthday photographs, pictures of saints, and Mexican hats, which line the living room walls of his Bronx apartment. A swirl of excited chatter introduced the eight children in the Velez household: Grisel, 17; Elise, 16; Orlando 11; Pablo 10; Mariano, 10; Isabel, 8; Eva, 7; and Leonardo, 6. ''It was hard when it was four,'' said Mr. Velez, 50. When their nieces and nephews landed in foster care, Mr. Velez and his wife, Tomasa, 42, did not hesitate to come to their aid. Despite their own hardships, they opened their home to Mariano, Isabel, Eva and Leonardo. In February 2000, Mrs. Velez accompanied her sister-in-law who was taking |
1199601 | 2000 | 05 | 14 | Knicks Fall; Now Do They Get Back Up? |
Jeff Van Gundy took his usual seat after practice yesterday, leaning back on a collapsible pressed-wood table in front of a trophy case at SUNY-Purchase. His hair mussed, his Knicks T-shirt slightly damp with sweat, he fielded the usual inquiries about his team, including the one about a possible Game 3 hangover today.
''Certainly it's a blow to us,'' Van Gundy said of the 77-76 overtime loss to the Heat on Friday night. ''But we have the opportunity to bounce back and play well. Indiana went through that last year with the 4-point play. They came back.
| Jeff Van Gundy took his usual seat after practice yesterday, leaning back on a collapsible pressed-wood table in front of a trophy case at SUNY-Purchase. His hair mussed, his Knicks T-shirt slightly damp with sweat, he fielded the usual inquiries about his team, including the one about a possible Game 3 hangover today. ''Certainly it's a blow to us,'' Van Gundy said of the 77-76 overtime loss to the Heat on Friday night. ''But we have the opportunity to bounce back and play well. Indiana went through that last year with the 4-point play. They came back. ''And you know what? If we don't come back, and if we stay down, then you know what? We don't have what it takes anyway.'' Basketball analysis is a hobby in |
1360827 | 2002 | 01 | 20 | Sara Wolk, Scott Weiner |
Sara Lynn Wolk, the daughter of Dr. Abby Wolk and Dr. Michael Wolk of Manhattan, was married last evening to Scott Mathew Weiner, a son of Shari Weiner of Morristown, N.J., and the late Joseph Weiner. Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein officiated at the St. Regis in Manhattan.
The bride, 30, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a researcher specializing in eating disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. A graduate of Colgate University, she received a master's degree in education and another in counseling psychology from Columbia. She is completing a doctorate in clinical health psychology at Yeshiva University.
| Sara Lynn Wolk, the daughter of Dr. Abby Wolk and Dr. Michael Wolk of Manhattan, was married last evening to Scott Mathew Weiner, a son of Shari Weiner of Morristown, N.J., and the late Joseph Weiner. Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein officiated at the St. Regis in Manhattan. The bride, 30, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a researcher specializing in eating disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. A graduate of Colgate University, she received a master's degree in education and another in counseling psychology from Columbia. She is completing a doctorate in clinical health psychology at Yeshiva University. Her father is a cardiologist in Manhattan. Her mother is a school psychologist for the lower division of the |
1357827 | 2002 | 01 | 09 | Europe Plan Would Give Bumped Fliers More Money |
To the expected relief of bedraggled fliers, the European Commission has proposed a law to make airlines pay at least the equivalent of about $670 to every passenger bumped from a European flight.
Few expect the measure to become law anytime soon. But the airlines moved quickly to protest the proposal as excessively harsh and menacing to a system of controlled overbooking that they say makes the reservation system flexible and helps bring down their fares.
| To the expected relief of bedraggled fliers, the European Commission has proposed a law to make airlines pay at least the equivalent of about $670 to every passenger bumped from a European flight. Few expect the measure to become law anytime soon. But the airlines moved quickly to protest the proposal as excessively harsh and menacing to a system of controlled overbooking that they say makes the reservation system flexible and helps bring down their fares. The proposal was prompted in part by incidents like one last year in Madrid on the first day of Spanish schoolchildren's Easter holidays, when more than 300 passengers, including families with youngsters, were bumped off overbooked flights. Sensitive to such treatment of passengers, European airlines agreed last May to a kind of |
1469459 | 2003 | 03 | 03 | More 'Reality' on TV |
Whether ''Joe Millionaire'' or ''The Bachelorette,'' reality shows have been exceedingly popular with television viewers this winter. More than 40 million people watched the finale of ''Joe Millionaire,'' a number that rivals the annual audience of the Academy Awards.
| Whether ''Joe Millionaire'' or ''The Bachelorette,'' reality shows have been exceedingly popular with television viewers this winter. More than 40 million people watched the finale of ''Joe Millionaire,'' a number that rivals the annual audience of the Academy Awards. Such ratings are numbers advertisers pay attention to, and they have embraced reality shows more than ever. The Intermedia Advertising Group, which ranks television commercials based on viewers' recall of ads and the products they promote, has compiled list of the 10 most-recalled ads during reality shows. Fittingly, it is the stars of another reality show, ''The Osbournes,'' who top the list, for their performance with Donnie and Marie Osmond in a commercial for Pepsi Twist. MOST WANTED: DRILLING DOWN/ADVERTISING Correction: March 4, 2003, Tuesday The weekly ''Most Wanted'' |
1418894 | 2002 | 08 | 26 | Thai Wins Tournament, A First for the ATP Tour |
Paradorn Srichaphan bowed his forehead to touch center court today, and an expectant nation stopped its hand-wringing.
Srichaphan, Thailand's best tennis player, had been the subject of speculation back home about when he would win a tournament for the first time. He gave an inkling of his potential by upsetting Andre Agassi at Wimbledon and making the final last week at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington.
| Paradorn Srichaphan bowed his forehead to touch center court today, and an expectant nation stopped its hand-wringing. Srichaphan, Thailand's best tennis player, had been the subject of speculation back home about when he would win a tournament for the first time. He gave an inkling of his potential by upsetting Andre Agassi at Wimbledon and making the final last week at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington. In the third set of the TD Waterhouse Cup this afternoon against Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina, Srichaphan donned a shirt that was red, the Thai color for victory. It had not worked in Srichaphan's three-set defeat against James Blake the week before. This time, however, the shirt fit the outcome. Srichaphan relied on his powerful forehand to defeat Chela, |
1768641 | 2006 | 06 | 12 | Defeat Somewhat Spoils Goalie's Homecoming |
Cam Ward, the Carolina Hurricanes' rookie goaltender, grew up 15 minutes from Rexall Place, the home of the Edmonton Oilers. He used to watch Doug Weight, now a teammate, play there with the Oilers.
But until this weekend, the 22-year-old Ward had never set foot, or skate, on the Rexall Place ice.
| Cam Ward, the Carolina Hurricanes' rookie goaltender, grew up 15 minutes from Rexall Place, the home of the Edmonton Oilers. He used to watch Doug Weight, now a teammate, play there with the Oilers. But until this weekend, the 22-year-old Ward had never set foot, or skate, on the Rexall Place ice. That all changed Saturday night, when Ward was in goal for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, with 23 members of his and his fiancée's families in the stands. Even though he was not named one of the game's three stars, Ward, who made 28 saves, was perhaps the best player on the ice. For Ward, his homecoming could have been better only if Carolina had won. The Hurricanes lost, 2-1, on a disputed goal |
1790280 | 2006 | 09 | 16 | Mystery Deepens in Case of Missing Colorado Marine |
The story was compelling. A marine home on leave from his first tour of duty in Iraq was injured in a fall while hiking down a mountain with a friend and vanished after the friend went to call for help.
As one of the largest search and rescue operations in state history was under way, speculation ran high that the marine, Lance Cpl. Lance Hering, 21, might have lost his memory or become disoriented as a result of his head injury or that a mountain lion or bear had attacked him.
| The story was compelling. A marine home on leave from his first tour of duty in Iraq was injured in a fall while hiking down a mountain with a friend and vanished after the friend went to call for help. As one of the largest search and rescue operations in state history was under way, speculation ran high that the marine, Lance Cpl. Lance Hering, 21, might have lost his memory or become disoriented as a result of his head injury or that a mountain lion or bear had attacked him. On the second day of the search, investigators began to have their suspicions and have since said that it was all probably a hoax and that the marine might be on the run. ''The mystery has gotten |
1261110 | 2001 | 01 | 07 | The Nation; Encountering a Bork in the Road to Confirmation |
IT'S special -- better even than winning a People's Choice Award -- when your name becomes part of the language. It was a consummation Thomas Crapper devoutly wished, though Charles Boycott may not have been as pleased. Yet, all things being equal, Robert H. Bork would probably rather be on the bench than in the lexicon.
But ''borking'' is part of the language, indicating a vetting process for a presidential nominee that's sufficiently tension-inducing to justify a Xanax drip. The proximate goal would be to prevent someone's confirmation by the Senate, as in the case of Judge Bork in 1987. The secondary goal would be to taint the appointee. Vice President Al Gore's prolonged fight in Florida may have been aimed not so much at replacing George W. Bush at the Inaugural balls, but at applying a thorough borking to his claim to legitimacy. Incidentally, borking is practiced primarily by Democrats. Republicans prefer to prevent nominations from coming to a vote at all. It's more white-glove.
| IT'S special -- better even than winning a People's Choice Award -- when your name becomes part of the language. It was a consummation Thomas Crapper devoutly wished, though Charles Boycott may not have been as pleased. Yet, all things being equal, Robert H. Bork would probably rather be on the bench than in the lexicon. But ''borking'' is part of the language, indicating a vetting process for a presidential nominee that's sufficiently tension-inducing to justify a Xanax drip. The proximate goal would be to prevent someone's confirmation by the Senate, as in the case of Judge Bork in 1987. The secondary goal would be to taint the appointee. Vice President Al Gore's prolonged fight in Florida may have been aimed not so much at replacing George W. |
1466657 | 2003 | 02 | 21 | Discarding One Image For Another |
RON ARTEST hangs in and hangs around the National Basketball Association by the fragile thread of his emotions. In a game that relies so much on energy, mood and swings, Artest is the N.B.A.'s raw and unpredictable nerve. He is the soul of the new N.B.A.
This isn't exactly what N.B.A. officials want to hear. In their world, Yao Ming, Dirk Nowitzki and Tracy McGrady are the new faces of the league.
| RON ARTEST hangs in and hangs around the National Basketball Association by the fragile thread of his emotions. In a game that relies so much on energy, mood and swings, Artest is the N.B.A.'s raw and unpredictable nerve. He is the soul of the new N.B.A. This isn't exactly what N.B.A. officials want to hear. In their world, Yao Ming, Dirk Nowitzki and Tracy McGrady are the new faces of the league. That may be, but the soul of the game, the passion, the hand-to-hand combat of basketball, is embodied by players like Artest, the Indiana Pacers' volatile 23-year-old forward. When the faucet of his emotions is on, the Pacers are difficult to beat; when the faucet is off, or clogged, as it was last night against the |
1781189 | 2006 | 08 | 06 | It's Either Good Or Bad, but He's Got 'Joementum' |
Politicians often say things that they'd like to take back. Perhaps, none more so than Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who in 2004 made a bad pun during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination:
''Writing off speculation that he may make a poor showing in New Hampshire and drop out of the race, Lieberman told CNN's ''Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer'' that his campaign is picking up, as he put it, 'Joementum.' ''
Jan. 26, 2004, CNN.com
Senator Lieberman finished fifth in that primary, and critics were quick to make fun:
| Politicians often say things that they'd like to take back. Perhaps, none more so than Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who in 2004 made a bad pun during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination: ''Writing off speculation that he may make a poor showing in New Hampshire and drop out of the race, Lieberman told CNN's ''Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer'' that his campaign is picking up, as he put it, 'Joementum.' '' Jan. 26, 2004, CNN.com Senator Lieberman finished fifth in that primary, and critics were quick to make fun: The crowds welcomed him with Joevations. He surged in the Joevernights. ''Joementum!'' crowed his campaign. He was Joevial. Alas, Joeverconfidence felled him. He finished fifth in New Hampshire and was written off. He was Joast. Joadkill. D-Joe-A. |
1738840 | 2006 | 02 | 11 | In a Sloppy Game, the Spurs End Another Nets Streak |
The Nets were bursting with confidence the last time they faced the Spurs, exactly one month ago in San Antonio. But the Spurs proved to be ungracious hosts, beating the Nets to end their 10-game winning streak.
Even more was at stake for the Nets when they played the Spurs again on Friday night. The Nets had won 12 consecutive games at home, one shy of tying their franchise record.
| The Nets were bursting with confidence the last time they faced the Spurs, exactly one month ago in San Antonio. But the Spurs proved to be ungracious hosts, beating the Nets to end their 10-game winning streak. Even more was at stake for the Nets when they played the Spurs again on Friday night. The Nets had won 12 consecutive games at home, one shy of tying their franchise record. The Spurs, though, wrote an outcome that was eerily similar to the last time the teams met. Manu Ginóbili scored a game-high 22 points and had 5 rebounds as the Spurs beat the Nets, 83-73, at Continental Arena. The loss was the first the Nets sustained at home since they played the Charlotte Bobcats on Dec. 14. It |
1378099 | 2002 | 03 | 23 | M.L.S. at Seven: Contraction and Distraction (World Cup) |
(Teams listed in alphabetical order) EASTERN CONFERENCE
CHICAGO FIRE 2001 Record: 16-6-5 Coach: Bob Bradley (fifth season) Major Additions: Kelly Gray, Craig Capano
Outlook: Chicago had one of the league's most potent offenses (50 goals, third in M.L.S.) and stingiest defenses (30 goals against, second fewest) in 2001. The club has a solid lineup back to front: goalkeeper Zach Thornton, defender Carlos Bocanegra, midfielders Hristo Stoitchkov, DaMarcus Beasley, Chris Armas and Peter Nowak, and strikers Ante Razov and Josh Wolff. Wolff was limited to three games last season because of a broken foot. Armas is certain to miss time, playing for the United States in the World Cup, and it is possible that Beasley, Bocanegra and Razov could join him on the national team.
| (Teams listed in alphabetical order) EASTERN CONFERENCE CHICAGO FIRE 2001 Record: 16-6-5 Coach: Bob Bradley (fifth season) Major Additions: Kelly Gray, Craig Capano Outlook: Chicago had one of the league's most potent offenses (50 goals, third in M.L.S.) and stingiest defenses (30 goals against, second fewest) in 2001. The club has a solid lineup back to front: goalkeeper Zach Thornton, defender Carlos Bocanegra, midfielders Hristo Stoitchkov, DaMarcus Beasley, Chris Armas and Peter Nowak, and strikers Ante Razov and Josh Wolff. Wolff was limited to three games last season because of a broken foot. Armas is certain to miss time, playing for the United States in the World Cup, and it is possible that Beasley, Bocanegra and Razov could join him on the national team. COLUMBUS CREW 2001 Record: |
1731556 | 2006 | 01 | 13 | A Guitar Festival Begins With a Trip to 'Nebraska' |
Murders, broken families, lost jobs, last chances and long, late-night drives down dark, lonely Interstates -- Bruce Springsteen's album ''Nebraska'' has something for everyone to feel bad about.
While Mr. Springsteen and his fans have spent the last few months celebrating the 30th-anniversary rerelease of his anthemic 1975 breakthrough, ''Born to Run,'' the New York Guitar Festival has chosen to open its three-week calendar with a tribute to his 1982 cycle of spare, existential folk songs.
| Murders, broken families, lost jobs, last chances and long, late-night drives down dark, lonely Interstates -- Bruce Springsteen's album ''Nebraska'' has something for everyone to feel bad about. While Mr. Springsteen and his fans have spent the last few months celebrating the 30th-anniversary rerelease of his anthemic 1975 breakthrough, ''Born to Run,'' the New York Guitar Festival has chosen to open its three-week calendar with a tribute to his 1982 cycle of spare, existential folk songs. In a free concert tomorrow night at the World Financial Center Winter Garden, musicians including Michelle Shocked, the National, Meshell Ndegeocello and Mark Eitzel will perform the entire album, in sequence. ''The first Springsteen record I ever bought was 'Nebraska,' '' said David Spelman, the director of the festival, which he founded |
1295900 | 2001 | 05 | 24 | Rich Little Poor Girl, Intent on Changing Social Injustice |
It's too bad, really: a bright young woman saves an ''incredibly dense'' oaf from himself in ''Diana of Dobson's.'' But then she had to do it if Cicely Hamilton's point was to be made in this 1908 comedy of manners that was written to raise public wrath over the plight of slave-wage women in the London garment industry.
It worked as propaganda; reform followed. More remarkably, it works well onstage in the Mint Theater Company's revival under Eleanor Reissa's direction.
| It's too bad, really: a bright young woman saves an ''incredibly dense'' oaf from himself in ''Diana of Dobson's.'' But then she had to do it if Cicely Hamilton's point was to be made in this 1908 comedy of manners that was written to raise public wrath over the plight of slave-wage women in the London garment industry. It worked as propaganda; reform followed. More remarkably, it works well onstage in the Mint Theater Company's revival under Eleanor Reissa's direction. Diana and other female clerks live above the linen shop where they work. In their dormitory they are tyrannized by a company harridan, and the play's opening scene lets the women rehearse the litany of social and sexual injustice of the age in dialogue that is often witty. |
1470257 | 2003 | 03 | 07 | THEATER GUIDE |
A selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy Broadway and Off Broadway shows this weekend. Approximate running times are in parentheses. * denotes a highly recommended show. + means discounted tickets were available at the Theater Development Fund's TKTS booth for performances last Friday and Saturday nights. ++ means discounted tickets were available at the TKTS booth for performances last Saturday night only.
Broadway
| A selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy Broadway and Off Broadway shows this weekend. Approximate running times are in parentheses. * denotes a highly recommended show. + means discounted tickets were available at the Theater Development Fund's TKTS booth for performances last Friday and Saturday nights. ++ means discounted tickets were available at the TKTS booth for performances last Saturday night only. Broadway + ''MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM.'' It's the music, of all things, that's so conspicuously missing from this hollow revival of August Wilson's landmark play from 1984 about a blues recording session in jazz-age Chicago. Oh sure, an assortment of peppery period songs still figure in the show, which stars Charles S. Dutton, in the part he originated 19 years ago, |
1743073 | 2006 | 02 | 28 | Paid Notice: Deaths SCHERZER, IRWIN S. |
SCHERZER--Irwin S. Passed away at the age of 73 on February 24, 2006. Beloved son of the late Hyman and Bertha Scherzer. Irwin grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts and was an honors graduate of Harvard College Class of 1954 and Harvard Business School Class of 1956. He served for two years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. He began his business career with west coast based RamoWooldridge Corp., but soon moved to New York and shifted his focus to the management of musical organizations. He got his start managing classical music bookings for Columbia Artists. Thereafter, he held several positions including Vice President of Grey Advertising with responsibility for the RCA classical musical label. In 1969, he became the founding administrative director of the newly formed Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His management skills contributed mightily to the success of the fledgling effort, now one of the city's musical institutions. He worked closely with the directors of the Society including philanthropist Alice Tully. He subsequently became business manager and trusted adviser to Miss Tully who relied upon his many talents as she pursued her diverse activities in the arts and music. Irwin can only be described with superlatives. He was truly an example of the sui generis personality. Luminous intelligence, brilliant wit and raconteur, striking linguistic ability, generosity of spirit, a keen social conscience and indomitable courage in the face of adversity, these were the qualities that endeared him to his legion of friends. His knowledge of opera, classical music and the culinary arts was encyclopedic. His wit gushed forth in a seemingly unending flow of quips and jaunty apercus. He spoke six languages fluently and had a working knowledge of a half dozen more. He was never satisfied unless his friends shared fully in the realms that gave him pleasure, and thus did he enrich all who knew him. His social consciousness was manifested in his support of the battle against an outmoded social value. His zest for life never flagged despite daunting health issues. He lived a life filled with love and caring. Irwin is survived by his beloved partner, Chien Cho (JJ) Liu, and his devoted cousins Alicia, Babs, Harry, Gloria and Bobby. He will be sorely missed by his many friends who will forever cherish his memory and will find comfort in the warm remembrances of the good times spent with him. His memory can be honored by donations to Tannery Pond Concerts, P.O. Box 446, New Lebanon, NY 12125. A date for a memorial concert will be announced.
| SCHERZER--Irwin S. Passed away at the age of 73 on February 24, 2006. Beloved son of the late Hyman and Bertha Scherzer. Irwin grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts and was an honors graduate of Harvard College Class of 1954 and Harvard Business School Class of 1956. He served for two years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. He began his business career with west coast based RamoWooldridge Corp., but soon moved to New York and shifted his focus to the management of musical organizations. He got his start managing classical music bookings for Columbia Artists. Thereafter, he held several positions including Vice President of Grey Advertising with responsibility for the RCA classical musical label. In 1969, he became the founding administrative director of the newly formed |
1481116 | 2003 | 04 | 15 | CNN's Silence About Torture Is Criticized |
A recent acknowledgment by Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, that he withheld some accounts of Saddam Hussein's brutality for years to protect the lives of Iraqi sources came in for some withering criticism yesterday.
Several journalism professors and commentators said Mr. Jordan had compromised CNN's journalistic mission so the cable network could continue to report from Iraq. In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Friday, Mr. Jordan revealed his knowledge of the Iraqi regime's use of torture and murder, information that he said he could not divulge until the fall of Saddam Hussein. Today, Mr. Jordan said the issue was not about access, but about life and death.
| A recent acknowledgment by Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, that he withheld some accounts of Saddam Hussein's brutality for years to protect the lives of Iraqi sources came in for some withering criticism yesterday. Several journalism professors and commentators said Mr. Jordan had compromised CNN's journalistic mission so the cable network could continue to report from Iraq. In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Friday, Mr. Jordan revealed his knowledge of the Iraqi regime's use of torture and murder, information that he said he could not divulge until the fall of Saddam Hussein. Today, Mr. Jordan said the issue was not about access, but about life and death. ''It's very simple,'' he said. ''Do you report things that get people killed? The answer is |
1678081 | 2005 | 06 | 05 | To See the Fossils, Enter Here. Or Not. |
On a recent Saturday on the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West, a small crowd gathered around what appeared to be, at first glance, a pile of rocks. Gesturing excitedly toward the pile was Larbi Anjari, a bearded 36-year-old with a jumble of sun-bleached curls spilling from his knit cap.
''This one is a trilobite,'' he said, indicating a rock with a raised formation more or less in the shape of a cockroach. ''They were some of the first creatures on earth. They got extinct before the dinosaurs.''
| On a recent Saturday on the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West, a small crowd gathered around what appeared to be, at first glance, a pile of rocks. Gesturing excitedly toward the pile was Larbi Anjari, a bearded 36-year-old with a jumble of sun-bleached curls spilling from his knit cap. ''This one is a trilobite,'' he said, indicating a rock with a raised formation more or less in the shape of a cockroach. ''They were some of the first creatures on earth. They got extinct before the dinosaurs.'' According to Mr. Anjari, the several dozen rocks assembled near his feet were no ordinary rocks, but fossils, dating as far back as the Ordovician period, 488 million years ago. Among them were carrotlike orthoceres and spiral-shaped ammonites, |
1697642 | 2005 | 08 | 28 | Uncivil Rights |
WHEN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS WHITE
An Untold History of Racial Inequality
in Twentieth-Century America.
By Ira Katznelson.
238 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $25.95.
| WHEN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS WHITE An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. By Ira Katznelson. 238 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $25.95. After years of battling racial discrimination and braving state-sanctioned violence -- with hundreds of Southern black churches set fire to and scores of citizens beaten or murdered for daring to challenge American apartheid -- the civil rights movement achieved a climactic victory when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965. It was the outcome of ''a shining moment in the conscience of man,'' declared the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In less than two years, the nation did more to advance equal rights for minorities than at any time since Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The |
1500628 | 2003 | 06 | 29 | Habitats/Wallkill, Ulster County; From Greenwich Village To 118 Very Rural Acres |
THERE used to be six outbuildings: one rather spiffy brick chicken coop, formerly a smokehouse, and five barns in assorted sizes and shapes and varying degrees of list. Last week, however, they knocked one of the barns down. It took just two or three swings of the sledgehammer. After three years in Ulster County, Michael Gaston and Liza Henderson are offhandedly proficient at rural living.
It was a school that drew them. And certain aspects of New York City that pushed them away. Mr. Gaston, 40, is an actor; Ms. Henderson, 45, a Shakespearean scholar.
| THERE used to be six outbuildings: one rather spiffy brick chicken coop, formerly a smokehouse, and five barns in assorted sizes and shapes and varying degrees of list. Last week, however, they knocked one of the barns down. It took just two or three swings of the sledgehammer. After three years in Ulster County, Michael Gaston and Liza Henderson are offhandedly proficient at rural living. It was a school that drew them. And certain aspects of New York City that pushed them away. Mr. Gaston, 40, is an actor; Ms. Henderson, 45, a Shakespearean scholar. Together, they are hyperverbal, playfully articulate, with a Tracy-Hepburn ''Desk Set'' back and forth that can make your neck ache. They met 12 years go at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., moved |
1249380 | 2000 | 11 | 22 | Times Columnist Is Given New Role |
Gail Collins, who has been on special assignment for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times covering the elections in her column ''Public Interests,'' was named yesterday to write a column twice a week for the Op-Ed page on governmental and legislative issues at the state, regional and national levels. The announcement was jointly made by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The Times, and Howell Raines, editor of the editorial page.
Ms. Collins joined the editorial board of The Times in September 1995 and has been host of The Times's cable news program, ''This Week Close-Up,'' on New York 1 since 1997. Before joining The Times, she was a columnist at New York Newsday from 1991 to 1995 and before that, at The New York Daily News from 1985 to 1991. She has also worked for United Press International, among several other organizations, and was the founder and operator of the Connecticut State News Bureau from 1972 until it was sold in 1977.
| Gail Collins, who has been on special assignment for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times covering the elections in her column ''Public Interests,'' was named yesterday to write a column twice a week for the Op-Ed page on governmental and legislative issues at the state, regional and national levels. The announcement was jointly made by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The Times, and Howell Raines, editor of the editorial page. Ms. Collins joined the editorial board of The Times in September 1995 and has been host of The Times's cable news program, ''This Week Close-Up,'' on New York 1 since 1997. Before joining The Times, she was a columnist at New York Newsday from 1991 to 1995 and before that, at The New York Daily News |
1260673 | 2001 | 01 | 07 | Company Man |
The Constant Gardener
By John le Carre.
492 pp. New York:
Scribner. $28.
| The Constant Gardener By John le Carre. 492 pp. New York: Scribner. $28. Americans have spent the first post-cold-war decade peering through the mists of our new isolationism and wondering whom to worry about out there. Few have been more ready with suggestions than John le Carre. Charting the breakup of the Soviet Union (''Our Game''), reporting on arms merchants (''The Night Manager'') and money-laundering drug kingpins (''Single & Single''), the master of the spy thriller has matched pace with the headlines, keeping us apprised of our next new enemy. And so ''The Constant Gardener,'' le Carre's 18th novel, looks like a departure. It takes us to an Africa that has fallen off the West's map, and to a rueful coterie of Brits idling away in ''dangerous, decaying, |
1734394 | 2006 | 01 | 24 | Seeking Lighter, Airier Look For Javits Convention Center |
Nearly 13 months after the State Legislature approved the expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, state and city officials unveiled conceptual plans yesterday to turn the forbidding, black-glass structure on 11th Avenue into a larger, sun-lighted structure with more exhibition space, a tree-lined concourse and cafes.
The $1.7 billion proposal would double the overall size of the center and increase the amount of exhibition and meeting space to 1.3 million square feet from 790,000 square feet, officials said, enabling the complex to attract more trade shows and conventions. The project would include what would be the city's largest ballroom, which would double as exhibition space.
| Nearly 13 months after the State Legislature approved the expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, state and city officials unveiled conceptual plans yesterday to turn the forbidding, black-glass structure on 11th Avenue into a larger, sun-lighted structure with more exhibition space, a tree-lined concourse and cafes. The $1.7 billion proposal would double the overall size of the center and increase the amount of exhibition and meeting space to 1.3 million square feet from 790,000 square feet, officials said, enabling the complex to attract more trade shows and conventions. The project would include what would be the city's largest ballroom, which would double as exhibition space. The building itself, which stretches along 11th Avenue from 34th Street to 38th Street, would expand not only vertically, but horizontally |
1314443 | 2001 | 08 | 04 | Supplements Deserve Scrutiny |
THIRTY summers ago, I suffered heat exhaustion while practicing high school football in Louisiana and came home ashen-skinned, needing help to walk, unable to eat or even to drink a full glass of water.
Fourteen hours later, I was back at two-a-days. I was a senior, the starting center and middle linebacker, and had already missed most of spring practice with a dislocated shoulder. Football's macho code said, ''Suck it up.''
| THIRTY summers ago, I suffered heat exhaustion while practicing high school football in Louisiana and came home ashen-skinned, needing help to walk, unable to eat or even to drink a full glass of water. Fourteen hours later, I was back at two-a-days. I was a senior, the starting center and middle linebacker, and had already missed most of spring practice with a dislocated shoulder. Football's macho code said, ''Suck it up.'' Anyone who has played football understands why Korey Stringer returned to practice with the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday after vomiting on Monday. The strength of team is built on the insecurity of the individual. A day off might mean a job lost. Bill Maas, the former defensive lineman, said it best: There are no Wally Pipps in |
1415233 | 2002 | 08 | 11 | Labor Talks Hit a Snag Over Drug Policy |
Talks aimed at getting a new labor agreement for baseball before the players union's executive board can set a strike date tomorrow suffered a setback over drug policy yesterday. One negotiator said the setback was not irreversible, but a confrontation over the drug proposals of the players and the club owners delayed discussion about a luxury tax on payrolls.
A person close to the talks said yesterday's bargaining session, the first on a weekend since this round of negotiations began earlier this year, was a waste of time.
| Talks aimed at getting a new labor agreement for baseball before the players union's executive board can set a strike date tomorrow suffered a setback over drug policy yesterday. One negotiator said the setback was not irreversible, but a confrontation over the drug proposals of the players and the club owners delayed discussion about a luxury tax on payrolls. A person close to the talks said yesterday's bargaining session, the first on a weekend since this round of negotiations began earlier this year, was a waste of time. By meeting this weekend, the two sides hoped to reach agreement on the critical issues of the luxury tax and revenue sharing. If they had been successful, they would have been prepared to table the third major issue, a worldwide |
1231070 | 2000 | 09 | 17 | The Big Fish That Didn't Get Away |
YOU and I will not be having this discussion after Labor Day,'' Paul B. Guenther, the chairman of the New York Philharmonic, bravely declared last April. ''Either that or you'll be talking to my successor here.'' In effect, Mr. Guenther was promising that the orchestra would have named its next music director by now. But who's keeping track? (Probably no one on the Philharmonic's board; who would want to take over Mr. Guenther's position and its problems just now?)
Mr. Guenther could hardly be blamed for feeling euphoric at the time; he had cast two lures, and a big fish was nibbling at each. In the end, the bigger one, Riccardo Muti, got away as music director. But Mr. Guenther landed the other one: Zarin Mehta took over as the orchestra's executive director just after Labor Day, replacing Deborah Borda, who decamped last December for a similar position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. And with the kinds of difficulties American orchestras face today, Mr. Mehta may well prove the more important catch.
| YOU and I will not be having this discussion after Labor Day,'' Paul B. Guenther, the chairman of the New York Philharmonic, bravely declared last April. ''Either that or you'll be talking to my successor here.'' In effect, Mr. Guenther was promising that the orchestra would have named its next music director by now. But who's keeping track? (Probably no one on the Philharmonic's board; who would want to take over Mr. Guenther's position and its problems just now?) Mr. Guenther could hardly be blamed for feeling euphoric at the time; he had cast two lures, and a big fish was nibbling at each. In the end, the bigger one, Riccardo Muti, got away as music director. But Mr. Guenther landed the other one: Zarin Mehta took over |
1514344 | 2003 | 08 | 24 | Want to Win With Black? First, Mix Things Up a Bit |
Bent Larsen has always believed that in topflight competition, if you are hot to win in even positions with black, you must be willing to enter into dubious complications that challenge your opponent. He has always had the soul of a Barbary pirate and never worried about negative consequences -- and has always had good results with his intimidating play.
I suspect that some of today's prominent players are following Larsen's example. It looks as if that was the script of the Indian grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran in his eighth-round game against Peter Heine Nielsen, Denmark's leading representive, in the 25th Politiken Cup in Copenhagen.
| Bent Larsen has always believed that in topflight competition, if you are hot to win in even positions with black, you must be willing to enter into dubious complications that challenge your opponent. He has always had the soul of a Barbary pirate and never worried about negative consequences -- and has always had good results with his intimidating play. I suspect that some of today's prominent players are following Larsen's example. It looks as if that was the script of the Indian grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran in his eighth-round game against Peter Heine Nielsen, Denmark's leading representive, in the 25th Politiken Cup in Copenhagen. Against the Queen's Indian Defense with Nimzovich's 4 . . . Ba6, 5 Qb3 has never been favored, but lately it has surged ahead |
1806648 | 2006 | 11 | 22 | Holiday Tomorrow |
Thanksgiving
NEW YORK
GOVERNMENT OFFICES -- Closed.
POST OFFICES -- Express Mail only; main post office on Eighth Avenue at 32nd Street is open.
BANKS -- Option to close.
PARKING -- Alternate-side and parking meter regulations are suspended.
SANITATION -- No pickups, street cleaning or recycling.
SCHOOLS -- Closed tomorrow and Friday.
FINANCIAL MARKETS -- Stock and bond markets closed.
TRANSPORTATION -- New York City subways and buses will operate on a Sunday schedule. Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains will operate on holiday schedules.
NEW JERSEY
GOVERNMENT OFFICES -- Closed.
POST OFFICES -- Express Mail only.
BANKS -- Option to close.
SCHOOLS -- Option to close.
TRANSPORTATION -- New Jersey Transit trains and buses will operate on weekend, holiday or Sunday schedules on many lines. Riders should check schedules at njtransit.com. PATH trains will operate on a Sunday schedule.
CONNECTICUT
GOVERNMENT OFFICES -- Closed.
POST OFFICES -- Express Mail only.
BANKS -- Option to close.
SCHOOLS -- Option to close.
TRANSPORTATION -- Metro-North trains will operate on a holiday schedule.
| Thanksgiving NEW YORK GOVERNMENT OFFICES -- Closed. POST OFFICES -- Express Mail only; main post office on Eighth Avenue at 32nd Street is open. BANKS -- Option to close. PARKING -- Alternate-side and parking meter regulations are suspended. SANITATION -- No pickups, street cleaning or recycling. SCHOOLS -- Closed tomorrow and Friday. FINANCIAL MARKETS -- Stock and bond markets closed. TRANSPORTATION -- New York City subways and buses will operate on a Sunday schedule. Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains will operate on holiday schedules. NEW JERSEY GOVERNMENT OFFICES -- Closed. POST OFFICES -- Express Mail only. BANKS -- Option to close. SCHOOLS -- Option to close. TRANSPORTATION -- New Jersey Transit trains and buses will operate on weekend, holiday or Sunday schedules on many lines. Riders |
1166225 | 2000 | 01 | 05 | For Latino Laborers, Dual Lives; Welcomed at Work, but Shunned at Home in Suburbs |
Gladys and Pedro Rueda are treated respectfully in the palatial houses they clean throughout northern Westchester and Fairfield Counties, with generous tips during the holiday season, offers of stylish hand-me-downs and compliments for their reliability and hard work.
But here in the Westchester County town where they've lived for 11 years, started a business, learned halting English and taken leadership responsibilities at church, a simple trip to the store can be an occasion for humiliation, as it was recently when Mrs. Rueda went shopping for a cellular telephone. ''The man looked me up and down,'' she said of the store owner. ''He said: 'You need a lot of money. Do you have money?' Why was he asking those questions?''
| Gladys and Pedro Rueda are treated respectfully in the palatial houses they clean throughout northern Westchester and Fairfield Counties, with generous tips during the holiday season, offers of stylish hand-me-downs and compliments for their reliability and hard work. But here in the Westchester County town where they've lived for 11 years, started a business, learned halting English and taken leadership responsibilities at church, a simple trip to the store can be an occasion for humiliation, as it was recently when Mrs. Rueda went shopping for a cellular telephone. ''The man looked me up and down,'' she said of the store owner. ''He said: 'You need a lot of money. Do you have money?' Why was he asking those questions?'' Mrs. Rueda, a Peruvian, knew the answer. She is |
1820666 | 2007 | 01 | 22 | U.S. Toll in Iraq Is 27 for Deadly Weekend |
The United States military said that two marines died Sunday in western Iraq and that an additional seven service members died Saturday. The deaths brought the weekend toll to 27 and made Saturday the third-deadliest day for United States forces since the war here began.
Seven of the deaths announced Sunday, including those of three marines, were caused by ''enemy action'' in Anbar Province, a restive stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, while another soldier was killed Saturday in Baghdad by a roadside bomb, the military statements said.
| The United States military said that two marines died Sunday in western Iraq and that an additional seven service members died Saturday. The deaths brought the weekend toll to 27 and made Saturday the third-deadliest day for United States forces since the war here began. Seven of the deaths announced Sunday, including those of three marines, were caused by ''enemy action'' in Anbar Province, a restive stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, while another soldier was killed Saturday in Baghdad by a roadside bomb, the military statements said. New details also emerged about clashes on Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, which left five Americans dead. Lt. Col. Scott R. Bleichwehl, an American military spokesman, said the gunmen who stormed the provincial governor's office during a meeting |
1583223 | 2004 | 05 | 21 | Attention Deficit Disorder in a Most Peculiar Empire |
COLOSSUS The Price of America's Empire By Niall Ferguson 384 pages. Penguin Press. $25.95.
The British historian Niall Ferguson seems to have one unshakable conviction: that empire, to borrow a phrase from Martha Stewart, can be a good thing.
| COLOSSUS The Price of America's Empire By Niall Ferguson 384 pages. Penguin Press. $25.95. The British historian Niall Ferguson seems to have one unshakable conviction: that empire, to borrow a phrase from Martha Stewart, can be a good thing. In his last book, ''Empire,'' published just a year ago as the statue of Saddam Hussein came tumbling down in Baghdad, the author celebrated the achievements of the late British Empire and exhorted the United States to accept its role as the British Empire's successor. Many of the positive achievements Mr. Ferguson cited as a legacy of the British Empire -- like the exportation of democracy and liberal capitalism -- uncannily echoed aims articulated by Bush administration proponents of the war against Iraq. In the perplexing and sometimes self-contradictory |
1262829 | 2001 | 01 | 14 | Art Carney's Hometown Can't Be All Bad |
To the Editor:
Re ''Area Seeks a New Name, but Don't Order Stationery Yet'' (Dec. 24): I was saddened to read that my hometown, Mount Vernon (actually a four-square-mile city of some 70,000 souls) ''has a terrible reputation.''
| To the Editor: Re ''Area Seeks a New Name, but Don't Order Stationery Yet'' (Dec. 24): I was saddened to read that my hometown, Mount Vernon (actually a four-square-mile city of some 70,000 souls) ''has a terrible reputation.'' When we lived there in the 40's and 50's, it was proud to be known as ''The City of Homes.'' Our most famous former citizen was John Peter Zenger, whose trial in Colonial days is a landmark in establishing freedom of the press in America. The Colonial Dames of America have chosen a neighborhood name well. My memory from those school days is that we had the highest per capita income in the country. Living just north of the Bronx, my parents and their friends also benefited from the most |
1740380 | 2006 | 02 | 17 | Shelving of Panel on Mideast Roils School |
When the principal of the elite Fieldston school notified parents by e-mail of an assembly that was to feature two Palestinian speakers, he said that it would further the school's ''progressive reputation'' and that the Palestinian viewpoint was one that ''few of us, students or faculty, are familiar with or can claim to understand.''
Then came a flurry of e-mail messages and telephone calls from parents who objected to one of the speakers, who has advocated a boycott of Israel, as well as the fact that no Israelis were on the panel. On Tuesday, the high school's principal, John Love, sent another e-mail message canceling the event and explaining that the forum was ''not appropriate given the sensitivity and complexity of the issue.''
| When the principal of the elite Fieldston school notified parents by e-mail of an assembly that was to feature two Palestinian speakers, he said that it would further the school's ''progressive reputation'' and that the Palestinian viewpoint was one that ''few of us, students or faculty, are familiar with or can claim to understand.'' Then came a flurry of e-mail messages and telephone calls from parents who objected to one of the speakers, who has advocated a boycott of Israel, as well as the fact that no Israelis were on the panel. On Tuesday, the high school's principal, John Love, sent another e-mail message canceling the event and explaining that the forum was ''not appropriate given the sensitivity and complexity of the issue.'' Now the controversy is roiling |
1230331 | 2000 | 09 | 14 | A Pong Redux With Sweat and Swagger |
WHAT right does that Tommy Haas have to be so smug? Look at him, with his cocky walk and his stupid baseball hat on backward, thinking he's so great because he slammed that ball past me and won the match.
I could have made that shot, but just as I was making a desperate run for the ball, my wife walked in front of the TV and blocked my view. Tommy Haas never had to deal with something like that. You lucked out this time, Haas, but I'm hitting the Try Again button, and this time I am out for blood.
| WHAT right does that Tommy Haas have to be so smug? Look at him, with his cocky walk and his stupid baseball hat on backward, thinking he's so great because he slammed that ball past me and won the match. I could have made that shot, but just as I was making a desperate run for the ball, my wife walked in front of the TV and blocked my view. Tommy Haas never had to deal with something like that. You lucked out this time, Haas, but I'm hitting the Try Again button, and this time I am out for blood. Mr. Haas, a real-life German tennis star, is one of an international all-male cast of players you can compete against in Sega's Virtua Tennis, an addictive game |
1438172 | 2002 | 11 | 06 | Miami Drop an Indictment of the Polls |
Figure skating judges are forever being maligned for the subjective nature of their scoring. Yet, unlike members of the news media and coaches who vote in the college football news-agency polls, skating judges actually watch the competitions they arbitrate.
The problem with college football rankings is not the remote, impersonal element of computers but rather the faulty human component. This was never more evident than this week, when writers and broadcasters in the Associated Press poll dropped Miami from No. 1 to No. 2 despite its 42-17 victory over Rutgers. The fallout left the Hurricanes at No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series rating, creating an absurd possibility that the reigning national champion could finish this season undefeated and not get a chance to defend its title.
| Figure skating judges are forever being maligned for the subjective nature of their scoring. Yet, unlike members of the news media and coaches who vote in the college football news-agency polls, skating judges actually watch the competitions they arbitrate. The problem with college football rankings is not the remote, impersonal element of computers but rather the faulty human component. This was never more evident than this week, when writers and broadcasters in the Associated Press poll dropped Miami from No. 1 to No. 2 despite its 42-17 victory over Rutgers. The fallout left the Hurricanes at No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series rating, creating an absurd possibility that the reigning national champion could finish this season undefeated and not get a chance to defend its title. Presumably, |
1629224 | 2004 | 11 | 22 | Games People Want to Play |
Mean Joe Greene bless his heart -- may have started it.
''I think I think you're the best ever,'' the little kid in the 1979 Coca-Cola commercial said to the Pittsburgh Steelers' tackle at game's end. ''Want my Coke?''
| Mean Joe Greene bless his heart -- may have started it. ''I think I think you're the best ever,'' the little kid in the 1979 Coca-Cola commercial said to the Pittsburgh Steelers' tackle at game's end. ''Want my Coke?'' You know what happened next. Limping up the players' tunnel of the football stadium, the famously ferocious lineman accepted the ice-cold drink from the boy, whereupon a gentle and grateful smile crossed the weary athlete's face. ''Hey, kid,'' Mean Joe called, and he tossed the boy his jersey, thereby bringing sentimental tears to eyes across the United States. Flash forward 25 years or so, to this past weekend in Auburn Hills, Mich. A professional athlete was in the tunnel leading to the locker room, all right. He was Ron |
1665208 | 2005 | 04 | 16 | For 3 Girls and Their Nation, Sober Parallels |
ANNA RAUWALD, Marleen Merk and Sarah Liepert, 15-year-old girls from this small town in the former East Germany, are almost exactly the same age as the newly reunited Germany.
Born just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and a few months before Communist East Germany formally ceased to exist, they are the first generation to grow up in the former East without any experience of either the Nazi or the Communist past.
| ANNA RAUWALD, Marleen Merk and Sarah Liepert, 15-year-old girls from this small town in the former East Germany, are almost exactly the same age as the newly reunited Germany. Born just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and a few months before Communist East Germany formally ceased to exist, they are the first generation to grow up in the former East without any experience of either the Nazi or the Communist past. Theirs is a world of fewer borders and greater freedom than the world of their parents and grandparents, though they seem to have only a vague notion of it, not thinking much, at their ages, about their own moment in history. In many ways, their lives are quite similar to those of middle-class |
1744391 | 2006 | 03 | 05 | Frolics at the Inn, and Fears of a Revival |
FOR two months, there were no rooms to be had at the Executive Motor Inn. The doors of the motel, on North Conduit Avenue in Springfield Gardens, Queens, had been chained and padlocked; a yellow restraining order affixed to the glass with duct tape was barely hanging on. Inside the front windows, there stood a cheerful, lonesome Christmas tree, its ornaments and tinsel twinkling in the afternoon sunlight.
The motel, which faces the Belt Parkway near the off-ramp to Kennedy Airport, had been closed since late December, when police made two arrests there after a sting operation in which officers frequented the inn posing as prostitutes and their customers. But as of noon on Wednesday, after the owners reached a settlement with the city, the motel was allowed to reopen.
| FOR two months, there were no rooms to be had at the Executive Motor Inn. The doors of the motel, on North Conduit Avenue in Springfield Gardens, Queens, had been chained and padlocked; a yellow restraining order affixed to the glass with duct tape was barely hanging on. Inside the front windows, there stood a cheerful, lonesome Christmas tree, its ornaments and tinsel twinkling in the afternoon sunlight. The motel, which faces the Belt Parkway near the off-ramp to Kennedy Airport, had been closed since late December, when police made two arrests there after a sting operation in which officers frequented the inn posing as prostitutes and their customers. But as of noon on Wednesday, after the owners reached a settlement with the city, the motel was allowed |
1836560 | 2007 | 03 | 29 | INSIDE |
Admissions of Guilt, but Perhaps Aberrations, Too The two most famous prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have admitted their guilt. But because of the unusual circumstances, it is not clear that either admission is truly representative of the system the Bush administration has established to try terror suspects, experts said.
NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A21
Fed Chief on Mortgage Woes Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said he did not expect subprime lending problems to damage the overall economy, but stocks fell on his emphasis that the Fed remained concerned about inflation.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1
Zimbabwe Dissidents Seized Hundreds of Zimbabweans active in political and civic groups have been abducted and beaten by unidentified assailants, government critics said, in attacks that appear to be part of a government effort to quell rising unrest.
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Yanks' Succession Question George Steinbrenner's presumed successor as the Yankees' leader, Steve Swindal, may be leaving the team. Swindal is being served with divorce papers by Steinbrenner's daughter Jennifer.
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When Mammals Flourished Challenging conventional wisdom, a new study says that the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago apparently did not immediately clear the way for the rise of today's mammals.
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British Architect Is Honored Richard Rogers, the British architect who designed the Lloyds building in London, above, has won the Pritzker Prize, his profession's highest honor.
THE ARTS, PAGE E1
| Admissions of Guilt, but Perhaps Aberrations, Too The two most famous prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have admitted their guilt. But because of the unusual circumstances, it is not clear that either admission is truly representative of the system the Bush administration has established to try terror suspects, experts said. NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A21 Fed Chief on Mortgage Woes Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said he did not expect subprime lending problems to damage the overall economy, but stocks fell on his emphasis that the Fed remained concerned about inflation. BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Zimbabwe Dissidents Seized Hundreds of Zimbabweans active in political and civic groups have been abducted and beaten by unidentified assailants, government critics said, in attacks that appear to be part of a government |