Summary: Supporters of the proposal are still pressing for the support of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who remained on the fence. Mr. Silver also belongs to a parochial school and sends his children to parochial schools. Even though he had great sympathy for parents struggling with the costs of private schools but also believed that the state's top priority was to finance its public schools. He also suggested that he has not ruled anything out yet. Mr. Silver, an Orthodox Jew, is under dueling pressure from the Jewish community and the teachers' unions. He wants to assist parents and schools that provide such education, but also understands that they should do a better job with the public education system. Ezra Friedlander, a political consultant, said he expected that Mr. Silver would eventually support some kind of tax credit proposal.

Summary: Since Sheldon Silver, the Assembly Speaker, was the product of a parochial school, and that he sent his children to parochial schools, Mr. Silver said that he had great sympathy for parents struggling with the costs of private schools but he also believed that the state's top priority was to finance its public schools adequately.


Summary: Thousands of students from yeshivas and Roman Catholic schools gathered on the steps of the Capitol with their teachers, rabbis, and priests, even Cardinal Edward M. Egan, the archbishop of New York to call for the support of the governor's proposal to provide a tax credit that could be used to pay for private or parochial schools.  Cardinal Egan said, the tax credit plan would particularly help parents in poorer parts of the city, where low-performing schools are common.

Summary: Cardinal Edward M. Egan, the archbishop of New York, said the tax credit plan would particularly help parents in poorer parts of the city, where low-performing schools are common. He also said that they are talking about giving the middle class the opportunities that the wealthy have, adding that the plan would allow parents to send their children to ''schools of their choice and to find there the very best of education that is available -- academically, spiritually, morally.''


Summary: Saudi Arabia gives the Palestinian government $15 million a month, and Prince Saud al-Faisal had meetings with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Ms. Rice was not happy with one party's reluctance towards the peace talks. She also emphasized that the push to isolate Hamas came not just from the United States, but also the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations. Ms. Rice met for nearly two hours with Egypt's intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, who had traveled to Damascus, Syria, earlier this month to meet with the leaders of Hamas. Later, Ms. Rice met for just over an hour with eight democracy advocates in Cairo who expressed their frustration over the slow pace of change in Egypt.

Summary: there was a meeting held between Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice where Prince Saud al-Faisal said it would be height of irony if they are unable to take care of those people who are seeking for peace. Later on Wednesday, Ms. Rice met with Prince Saud and King Abdullah. Ms. Rice emphasized  that not only from the United States, but the push to isolate Hamas also came from the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.


Summary: The senior State Department officials said that they are not sure what the Saudis would say about Saudi Arabia's position on Hamas and what they would say about them. State Department officials declared that they are not going to discuss their meeting with Mr. Rice.

Summary: Saudi Arabia's position on Hamas had been enigmatic until now, and on the way here senior State Department officials said they were wary of what the Saudis would say and that they would not discuss their meeting with him.


Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki's budget proposal to give parents in failing school districts a $500 tax credit has received acceptance from the Senate and several members in the Assembly. Mr. Pataki and other supporters have said that most of the money would go to parents in New York City with children in public schools.

Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki's proposal of the $500 tax credit bill for parents in failing school districts has been approved by the Republican-controlled Senate and several members in the Democratic-controlled Assembly. Mr. Pataki also said that most of the money would go to parents in New York City with children in public schools.


Summary: The audit by Alan G. Hevesi, the state comptroller, found that the classes are still larger than they should be under state policy, despite a decline in enrollment in those grades and an inrush of nearly $500 million in state money earmarked for class size reduction. Whereas, Mr. Hevesi commended the city for a  change, he said it fell short of the state goal of having an average of 20 students per class in those grades; that goal was set forth in a law  under 1997  which the city has received $88 million a year to reduce class sizes. Mr. Hevesi said in a statement that at a time when lower enrollment in the lower grades should have made it easier to cut class size, it's very disappointing to them that the city did not achieve the goal.

Summary: Alan G. Hevesi, the state comptroller, found that the classes are still larger than they should be under state policy, despite an influx of nearly $500 million in state money earmarked for class size reduction. Mr. Hevesi commended the city for the change, he said it fell short of the state goal of having an average of 20 students per class in those grades. Mr. Hevesi also found that while the state money was supposed to supplement, not substitute for, the city's own money for early class size reduction. The audit comes as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is locked in a bitter dispute with Albany over increased state financing for city schools, much of which would go toward new buildings.


Summary: Captain Adams appeared on WCBS-TV and said that the Police Department had reacted too slowly to the threat.


Summary: The site iTulip.com, which was restarted currently after a three-year hiatus, does not hesitate to claim credit for accurately predicting that the bubble would pop. It even got the timing right. For most of the part, iTulip is pretty much as it was when it shut down, though with some added features.

Summary: The site iTulip.com, which was restarted this week after a three-year hiatus, does not hesitate to claim credit for accurately predicting that the bubble would pop.  iTulip is pretty much as it was when it shut down, though with some added features. ITulip.com, and few others, were warning visitors not to put their retirement money in the speculative bubble that the U.S. stock market had become.


Summary: Eric Janszen, a technology executive, who run a new site, is far more serious, even stern. At the site's beginnings, the stock market bubble was in full swing, Mr. Janszen wrote that mixing metaphors as he reintroduced it this week. ITulip.com, and few others, were warning visitors not to put their retirement money in the speculative bubble that the U.S. stock market had become.

Summary: The stock market bubble was in full swing, Mr. Janszen wrote, mixing metaphors as he reintroduced it this week. ITulip.com, and few others, were warning visitors not to put their retirement money in the speculative bubble that the U.S. stock market had become. Mr. Janszen wrote that from returning to CNBC to rant and throw chairs around while touting the latest 'can't lose' stocks.


Summary: Anne Peyton Bryant, the woman, said in an interview that she could feel hands on every part of her body. She again said that she didn't know whether she was going to get out of there alive. As the crowd, which had gathered in the park near Central Park South and Avenue of the Americas, turned its attention to other women. For that she felt ignored.

Summary: Anne Peyton Bryant said in an interview that she could feel hands on every part of my body. Bryant -- who is now in her last year at New York Law School, inspired, she said, by what happened to her -- said she felt vindicated, but still upset about how long it had taken the city to acknowledge her suffering. Bryant was referring in part to the city's plans to use bitter e-mail messages she exchanged with her ex-husband after the attack to make a case that her divorce could have been the source of her distress.


Summary: Jaime Brito, an analyst at PFC Energy in Washington and a former Pemex executive, said that that was part of an overall lobbying effort from the administration.

Summary: Jaime Brito, an analyst at PFC Energy in Washington and a former Pemex executive said it was a part of an overall lobbying effort from the administration.


Summary: Thierry Kellner, a specialist in China's relations with Central Asia at the Free University of Brussels, said that China was being increasingly dependent on Middle East oil and it wanted a supply that would be blockade-proof in case of a conflict over Taiwan.

Summary: Thierry Kellner, a specialist in China's relations with Central Asia said China is being increasingly dependent on Middle East oil and it wants a supply that would be blockade-proof in case of a conflict over Taiwan.


Summary: In a gaffe that officials acknowledged was embarrassing to the state and even more humiliating to the test publisher, CTB/McGraw-Hill, three questions on the seventh-grade sample test and one question on the eighth-grade sample test reappeared on the real exams, which are being administered this week to about 200,000 students in each grade. Officials in Albany and at CTB/McGraw-Hill in Monterey, Calif., issued terse statements last night promising to adjust for the mistake in the scoring of the exams. CTB/McGraw-Hill has a five-year, $22.5 million contact to publish the New York State exams through 2009. In 2002, New York City declined to renew a contract with CTB/McGraw-Hill, which had published the city's standardized reading exam, after a series of highly publicized disputes over possible scoring errors.

Summary: Officials in Albany and at CTB/McGraw-Hill in Monterey, California, issued short statements promising to adjust for the mistake in the scoring of the exams. Kelley Carpenter, a spokeswoman for CTB/McGraw-Hill, allowed that it had prepared both the sample tests and the actual exams. CTB/McGraw-Hill has a five-year, $22.5 million contact to publish the New York State exams through 2009.


Summary: Aaron Bisman, at New York University, started a nonprofit record label, JDub, and his friend at the New School, who called himself Matisyahu, worked on his reggae toasting skills. As Matisyahu's love for hip-hop and his dedication to Orthodox Judaism grew, he hit the clubs in a black suit, hat and full beard, and with JDub behind him made one of the most unlikely rises in pop music history. JDub has an annual budget of nearly $1 million, about half of which comes from grants and the rest from the label's revenues and although JDub's finances were strong enough to continue but that the loss would be painful.

Summary: Mr. Bisman started a nonprofit record label, JDub, and his friend Matisyahu at the New School  worked on his reggae toasting skills. And JDub has not been Matisyahu's record label for two years, Mr. Bisman and Mr. Harris had remained his managers, and Matisyahu's engagements bring in a substantial part of the company's revenue. JDub has an annual budget of nearly $1 million, about half of which comes from grants and the rest from the label's revenues.


Summary: When Aaron Bisman met Matthew Miller about five years ago, they were music-obsessed college students in New York who had an unusual goal to make innovative music that was proudly Jewish.

Summary: When Aaron Bisman met Matthew Miller about five years ago, they were music-obsessed college students in New York who had an unusual goal which was to make innovative music that was proudly Jewish.


Summary: Mr. Bisman, at New York University, started a nonprofit record label, named as JDub, and his friend at the New School, who called himself Matisyahu, worked on his reggae toasting skills. Mr. Bisman said in an interview at the JDub offices that there has to be some sort of legal actions at the Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University. JDub has an annual budget of near about $1 million, about half of which comes from grants and the rest from the label's revenues.

Summary: Aaron Bisman, at New York University, started a nonprofit record label, JDub, and his friend at the New School, who called himself Matisyahu, worked on his reggae toasting skills. As Matisyahu's love for hip-hop and his dedication to Orthodox Judaism grew, he hit the clubs in a black suit, hat and full beard, and with JDub behind him made one of the most unlikely rises in pop music history. JDub has an annual budget of nearly $1 million, about half of which comes from grants and the rest from the label's revenues and JDub's finances were strong enough to continue but that the loss would be painful.


Summary: The troubled Republicans are now led by Harry Withers, who took over in 2005 as the fourth chairman in about as many years. Though handpicked by Mr. McGowan and Mr. Withers is not tainted in any way, said by Mr. Schwenk, who called him an excellent person. Arthur J. Kremer, a former Democratic assemblyman from Nassau County, said that complicating Mr. Withers's task is that Suffolk's Republicans have been a collection of rival fiefdoms in the 10 towns, many of them now in chaos.

Summary: The beleaguered Republicans are now led by Harry Withers, who took over in 2005 as the fourth chairman in about as many years. Though handpicked by Mr. McGowan, Mr. Withers is not tainted in any way. Sounding upbeat, Mr. Withers voiced confidence that the party can field winning candidates.


Ethics Commission
State Ethics Commission

Summary: While no one has suggested that there is anything untoward about the contract itself, Tom Wilson did ask the State Ethics Commission to convene a special panel to determine whether penalties should be levied against Jon S. Corzine regarding the bail matter.

Summary: Mr. Wilson asked the State Ethics Commission to convene a special panel to determine whether penalties should be levied against Mr. Corzine regarding the bail matter. But in his statement, Mr. Rabner said that the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission did not extend to the governor.


Summary: The exchange of partisan fire came a day after revelations about the loan made to the former aide, Karen Golding, and the roles of Mr. Corzine and Joseph Cryan of Union County. Ms. Golding, 36, who was one of the first people to join Mr. Corzine's 2000 Senate campaign, called the governor's mansion and told the governor that she was in jail. Ms. Golding is a registered lobbyist for Prudential Financial, which signed a contract with the state last year to manage a $1.3 billion deferred compensation fund for state employees. Golding was honored by the Cryan Association, a civic group run by the family, which called her and one other honoree extraordinary examples of the best America has to offer in terms of committed, hard-working and generous individuals, who are dedicated to making their communities a better place for their having been there.

Summary: The exchange of partisan fire came a day after revelations about the loan made to the former aide, Karen Golding, and the roles of Mr. Corzine and the party chairman, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan of Union County. Golding, 36, who was one of the first people to join Mr. Corzine's 2000 Senate campaign, called the governor's mansion and told the governor that she was in jail. Golding was honored by the Cryan Association, a civic group run by the family referring to her as a hard-working and generous individual. It is not known whether their friendship ever spilled over into the romantic arena.


Summary: After Acting Supreme Court Justice John B. Latella Jr. determined that Mr. Littlejohn should stand in the lineup, his lawyer asked that he be led out through a back exit to avoid reporters and photographers.


Summary: G.M. probably had a problem with cash flow. The move comes after G.M. posted an $8.6 billion loss last year as it reels from incursions into its United States market by Asian rivals like Toyota, Honda and Hyundai. Analysts said the sale would give G.M. much-needed cash at a time when it is trying to catch up with Toyota and Honda in high-mileage cars and in fuel-efficiency technologies like hybrid engines.


Summary: Toyota appears assured to surpass General Motors sometime this year to become the world's largest automaker; last week, for the first time, Japanese cars grabbed all the top spots in Consumer Report's widely watched annual auto quality ratings.

Summary: G.M. probably had a problem with cash flow. The move comes after G.M. posted an $8.6 billion loss last year as it reels from incursions into its United States market by Asian rivals like Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai. Toyota appears poised to surpass G.M. sometime this year to become the world's largest automaker.


Summary: Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the senior Democrat on the Budget Committee, said that this president would have piled up more debt than all of the presidents preceding him.

Summary: Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, who is the senior Democrat on the Budget Committee said that the current president will have piled up more debt than all of the presidents preceding him, as he joined other Democrats in accusing Republicans of shortchanging domestic security.


Summary: Adam Gopnik, who was the fellow New Yorker writer had a face off with Malcolm Gladwell, six years ago in the Washington Monthly,  in a debate over Canada's single-payer health care system. Mr. Gopnik favored it, and he opposed it vigorously. He said then Canada has achieved a wonderful thing, which is universal health care coverage.

Summary: Six years ago in the Washington Monthly, Malcolm Gladwell faced off against Adam Gopnik, his fellow New Yorker writer, in a debate over Canada's single-payer health care system. Mr. Gopnik favored it; Mr. Gladwell opposed it vigorously.


Summary: The China National Petroleum Corporation bought Petrokazakhstan, a Canadian-run company that was the former Soviet Union's largest independent oil company, for $4.18 billion and spent another $700 million on a pipeline that will take the oil to the Chinese border.

Summary: In 2005, the China National Petroleum Corporation bought Petrokazakhstan, a Canadian-run company that was the former Soviet Union's largest independent oil company, for $4.18 billion and spent another $700 million on a pipeline that will take the oil to the Chinese border.


Summary: Thierry Kellner, a specialist in China's relations with Central Asia at the Free University of Brussels, said that China was being increasingly dependent on Middle East oil and it wanted a supply that would be blockade-proof in case of a conflict over Taiwan. Mr. Kellner said that Price was less important than reliability and building good will in the Kazakhstani government.

Summary: Thierry Kellner, a specialist in China's relations with Central Asia said that China is being increasingly dependent on Middle East oil. Mr. Kellner said, ensuring friendly relations with the Kazakh leadership is just as important as getting the oil for China. China's leadership has viewed with alarm the creation of American military bases in Central Asia which China considers its backyard and has tried to woo Kazakhstan's longtime president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, away from closer relations with the United States.


Summary: Kazakhstan authorities are also believed to be easing the way for Lukoil of Russia to acquire the other half of Turgai Petroleum, which is now jointly owned with Petrokazakhstan. In addition, a local court recently awarded Lukoil a $200 million judgment against Petrokazakhstan in a dispute over how to share the oil in a common deposit.

Summary: Kazakhstan authorities are also believed to be easing the way for Lukoil of Russia to acquire the other half of Turgai Petroleum, which it now jointly owns with Petrokazakhstan. After that, a local court recently awarded Lukoil a $200 million judgment against Petrokazakhstan in a dispute over how to share the oil in a common deposit.


Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein
Silverstein

Summary: The breakdown in negotiations may prove more damaging for the site's developer, Larry A. Silverstein, whose demands at the bargaining table enrage a governor who had stuck with him through much of the contentious rebuilding process. And by annoying the governor, Mr. Silverstein may have lost his most powerful ally. New York City officials have long grumbled that Mr. Silverstein who leased the World Trade Center six weeks before it was destroyed was given such a prominent role in deciding what gets built on the site of the September 11, 2001, attack.

Summary: Larry A. Silverstein, whose demands at the bargaining table infuriated a governor who had stuck with him through much of the contentious rebuilding process. New York City officials have long grumbled that Mr. Silverstein -- who leased the World Trade Center six weeks before it was destroyed -- was given such a prominent role in deciding what gets built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. Mr. Silverstein recently hired Michael McKeon, Governor Pataki's former spokesman, as a consultant, adding him to a team that already included William Plunkett, the lawyer whose firm once employed both Mr. Pataki and Mr. Pataki's chief of staff, John P. Cahill, who now oversees Lower Manhattan redevelopment.


Summary: Donal McSullivan, chief marketing officer for American Airlines, said a major selling point was the eight-minute ride, as opposed to 90 minutes or more by taxi or car service. At the initial stage, only American Airlines passengers will benefit from the one-stop heliport screening, but Mr. McSullivan said the company planned eventually to use secure vans to transfer passengers to other terminals.

Summary: Donal McSullivan, was the chief marketing officer for the company, said that a major selling point was the eight-minute ride, as opposed to 90 minutes or more by taxi or car service. Initially, only American Airlines passengers will be benefited from the one-stop heliport screening, but he said the company expected to use secure vans to transfer passengers to other terminals.


Summary: Flights will operate daily on the hour from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and land at the new American Airlines Terminal 9, Gate C43. At the initial stage, only American Airlines passengers will benefit from the one-stop heliport screening, but Mr. McSullivan said the company expected eventually to use secure vans to transfer passengers to other terminals. The company plans to expand service in April with flights between Kennedy and the East 34th Street Heliport, and to add service to and from La Guardia and Newark Liberty International Airports later.

Summary: Only American Airlines passengers will benefit from the one-stop heliport screening, but Donal McSullivan said the company expected eventually to use secure vans to transfer passengers to other terminals initially but the company expects to expand service in April with flights between Kennedy and the East 34th Street Heliport, and to add service to and from La Guardia and Newark Liberty International Airports later this year.


Summary: Arie Schmidt stopped on Saturday to place a pebble on the memorial to the 21 dead at the Dolphinarium disco, killed in a suicide bombing by Hamas in 2001. I think Hamas can understand there is no way to destroy the state of Israel  and will take a course to peace. In contrast, Hamas stands quite clearly for the destruction of Israel. Joseph Brenner, 58, a gardener sitting with friends in Rabin Square, said that there was going to be a big explosion between Hamas and Fatah.

Summary: Even though Arie Schmidt thinks that Hamas can understand there is no way to destroy the state of Israel and will take a course to peace, Hamas stands quite clearly for the destruction of Israel, in contrast. Since Hamas's victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections on Wednesday, many on the Israeli right have said that talks with terrorists are impossible, and that Hamas's election gives Israel far more right to use force.


Summary: Shamai Kidron, 50, an engineer out for jog near the beach with his wife, Shoshi, said that There was a little bit of hope that things might change.

Summary: The 50 year old engineer, Shamai Kidron, who was out for jog near the beach with his wife, Shoshi, said that there is a little bit of hope that things might change.


Summary: His Fatah faction now lies beaten, its monopoly on official power ended. Joseph Brenner, 58, a gardener sitting with friends in Rabin Square, said that there was going to be a big explosion between Hamas and Fatah.

Summary: Joseph Brenner, who was 58 years old, was a gardener sitting with friends in Rabin Square said that there is going to be a big explosion between Hamas and Fatah. Whereas, Mr. Brenner said that they want Haifa, in the most tentative way possible, another theory was that Hamas is, in the end, more pragmatic than it seems, and that its strength, now bolstered by the clear support of the Palestinian people, will allow it some day to negotiate with Israel with a confidence that Fatah never could.


Summary: Arie Schmidt stopped on Saturday to place a pebble on the memorial to the 21 dead at the Dolphinarium disco, killed in a suicide bombing by Hamas in 2001. Mr. Schmidt sighed, then chained one careful word to the next on what it means that Hamas is now the official Palestinian power. Mr. Schmidt, 56, a computer engineer from Haifa, said that now we see the real face of the Palestinians.

Summary: Arie Schmidt, stopped on Saturday to place a pebble on the memorial to the 21 dead at the Dolphinarium disco, killed in a suicide bombing by Hamas in 2001. He believes that this is actually the best thing that can happen to Israel since now they see the real face of the Palestinians. Mr. Schmidt, 56, a computer engineer from Haifa who considers himself neither on the left nor the right, said that he thinks that Hamas can understand there is no way to destroy the state of Israel and will take a course to peace.


Summary: Linda I. Gibbs, a deputy mayor, and the Children's Services commissioner, John B. Mattingly, gave the clearest indication to date of where they now believe the system broke down in the case of Nixzmary Brown.

Summary: In making the announcement yesterday with Mr. Bloomberg, the deputy mayor, Linda I. Gibbs and John B. Mattingly, gave the clearest indication to date of where they now believe the system broke down in the case of Nixzmary Brown.


Summary: At The New York Times Media Group including the flagship newspaper such as The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, NYTimes.com and the radio station WQXR, advertising gained 7.9 percent in the quarter.

Summary: At The New York Times Media Group, which includes the flagship newspaper, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, NYTimes.com and the radio station WQXR, advertising gained 7.9 percent in the quarter.


Summary: The New York Times Media Group, includes the flagship newspaper, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, NYTimes.com and the radio station WQXR, advertising gained 7.9 percent in the quarter altogether.


Summary: One of the spacecrafts that is large enough to carry major station components is Endeavour.

Summary: NASA is having three shuttles. they are Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour, they are the only spacecraft large enough to carry major station components.


Summary: In a new book, 'Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?' (Upjohn Institute, 2006), Morris M. Kleiner, an economist at the University of Minnesota, questions whether occupational licensing has gone too far. He provides much evidence that the balance of occupational licensing has shifted away from protecting consumers and toward limiting the supply of workers in various professions. Although the exact number of workers in jobs that require a license is not available, Professor Kleiner conservatively estimates that 20 percent of workers in 2000 were in an occupation that was covered by a state licensing requirement, up from 5 percent in the 1950's. He said that licensing has increased because the service sector, where licensing is more prevalent, has grown rapidly and because more occupations have started requiring licenses.

Summary: In a new book, ''Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?'', an economist at the University of Minnesota, Morris M. Kleiner, questions whether occupational licensing has gone too far or not. He provides much evidence that the balance of occupational licensing has shifted away from protecting consumers to limiting the supply of workers in various professions. Although the exact number of workers in jobs that require a license is not available, Professor Kleiner conservatively estimates that 20 percent of workers in 2000 were in an occupation that was covered by a state licensing requirement, up from 5 percent in the 1950's.


Summary: The Interior Department denied Wednesday that it collected hundreds of millions of dollars less than it should have last year from companies that pump oil and gas on federal land. But officials also told House members that the government would let companies avoid billions of dollars in royalty payments over the next five years on oil and gas produced in publicly owned coastal waters. But one Congressional analyst noted that even if the Interior Department's new calculations were correct, royalties would have climbed only 24 percent at a time when prices rose more than 50 percent.

Summary: The Interior Department denied that they collected hundreds of millions of dollars less than it should have last year from companies that pump oil and gas on federal land. But officials also told the House members that the government would let companies avoid billions of dollars in royalty payments over the next five years on oil and gas produced in publicly owned coastal waters. More surprisingly, an Interior official told lawmakers that the break in royalty payments was apparently a result of inadvertent mistakes on leases awarded in the late 1990's for sites in the Gulf of Mexico.


Summary: Mr. Yari was denied a producer credit in an arbitration by the Producers Guild of America in December, and denied again after appeals to both the guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars.

Summary: Bob Yari was denied a producer credit in an arbitration by the Producers Guild of America in December, and denied again after appeals to both the guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars.


Summary: Gary Taylor, an editor of the Oxford edition of the complete works of Shakespeare. The subject was a reading of Mr. Taylor's reworking of a play that he believes Shakespeare had a hand in writing, and that features Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. In the 1986 Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works, Mr. Taylor made a controversial decision to include a version of ''Pericles'' that he reconstructed. Mr. Taylor and some of his defenders argue that as long as he is transparent about his changes, there is no harm in a project like this.

Summary: Among the odd pairings that can be come across at the celebrity hangout Elaine's, perhaps the oddest on Saturday night was David Black, an Elaine's regular and a producer and writer for television dramas like 'Law & Order,' and Gary Taylor, an editor of the Oxford edition of the complete works of Shakespeare and a professor at Florida State University, who has been working on the play, ''The History of Cardenio,'' on and off for more than 15 years. The subject was a reading of Mr. Taylor's reworking of a play that he believes Shakespeare had a hand in writing, and that features Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.


Summary: Americans are strongly opposed to the Bush administration's agreement to allow a Dubai company to operate terminals at six American ports and are increasingly negative about the situation in Iraq, according to the latest CBS News poll. Mr. Bush's latest job performance rating is the lowest measured for him in a poll conducted by The Times or CBS News, though virtually indistinguishable from the 35 percent job approval in a CBS poll last October. Times/CBS News polls showed George Bush with 34 percent in June 1992 and Bill Clinton with 36 percent in September 1994.

Summary: Mr. George Bush's latest job performance rating is the lowest measured for him in a poll conducted by The Times or CBS News. Times/CBS News polls showed George Bush with 34 percent in June 1992 and Bill Clinton with 36 percent in September 1994.


Summary: The Justice Department has threatened to sue, warning in a letter to state officials last month that New York had fallen further behind every other state in complying with the Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the 2000 presidential election. Douglas A. Kellner, a co-chairman of the Board of Elections, said that the Department of Justice had been telling them every day for the last three weeks that they were going to sue them the next day if we didn't agree to the last version of the consent order.

Summary: The Justice Department has threatened to sue, warning in a letter to state officials last month that New York had fallen further behind every other state in complying with the Help America Vote Act. The board closed part of its meeting to the public, saying that members planned to discuss the proposed settlement with the federal government and that the Justice Department had requested secrecy.


Summary: A group of nonprofit and public interest groups is beginning a campaign today to protest plans by America Online and Yahoo, which each offer e-mail services. AOL and Yahoo are working with Goodmail. AOL will start using the Goodmail system within a month.

Summary: A group of nonprofit and public interest groups is beginning a campaign today to protest plans by America Online and Yahoo, which each offer e-mail services, to charge high-volume senders of e-mail fees to guarantee preferred delivery of their messages. AOL and Yahoo are working with Goodmail, a Silicon Valley company, which plans to charge between a quarter-cent and a cent for each message. AOL will start using the Goodmail system within a month.


Summary: Supply shortages have bedeviled Microsoft since it released its latest Xbox last November, and Sony announced last week that it could not rule out a delay of its own next-generation console, the PlayStation 3. For its part, Microsoft says that by June, it plans to have shipped 4.5 million to 5.5 million consoles with 80 available games (up from 19 now).

Summary: Supply shortages have harassed Microsoft since it released its latest product Xbox, and Sony announced that it could not rule out a delay of its own next-generation console, the PlayStation 3. In that context, Microsoft says that by June, it plans to have shipped 4.5 million to 5.5 million consoles with 80 available games (up from 19 now). A spokesman of the company said that the shortages were ''short-term in nature'' and that the company should be caught up with demand.


Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Summary: Last October, a federal district judge in Washington found that a reporter's privilege protected the publisher McGraw-Hill against providing information being sought by a subpoena issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Summary: Last October, for instance, a federal district judge in Washington found that a reporter's privilege protected the publisher McGraw-Hill against providing information being sought by a subpoena issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.


Summary: Morgan Stanley, in a bid to bolster its growing high-yield business, said yesterday that it had hired two senior bond executives from competitors Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Ashok Nayyar will join Morgan Stanley as a managing director and co-head of leveraged and acquisition finance. Charged with the daunting task of revamping Morgan Stanley's struggling brokerage division, Mr. Gorman, after an initial meeting with Mr. Mack last Friday, has spent the week meeting with the firm's top-producing brokers.

Summary: Morgan Stanley, in a bid to bolster its growing high-yield business, said yesterday that it had hired two senior bond executives from competitors Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Charged with the daunting task of revamping Morgan Stanley's struggling brokerage division, Mr. James Gorman, after an initial meeting with Mr. John Mack, has spent the week meeting with the firm's top-producing brokers.


Air Transport Association
International Air Transport Association

Summary: The world airline industry has lost $42 billion since 2001 and continues to lose money, even as passenger traffic and cargo is expected to grow in Asia, Giovanni Bisignani, the director of the International Air Transport Association, said at a news conference at an aviation industry meeting in Singapore yesterday. The president of the Air Transport Association, an airline industry trade group, James C. May, said at a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing, that The Registered Traveler program has turned into a shifting and dispiriting exercise.

Summary: The world airline industry has lost $42 billion since 2001 and continues to lose money, even as passenger traffic and cargo is expected to grow in Asia, Giovanni Bisignani, the director of the International Air Transport Association, said at an aviation industry meeting. James C. May, the president of the Air Transport Association, said the Registered Traveler program has turned into a shifting and dispiriting exercise.


Summary: Giovanni Bisignani, the director of the International Air Transport Association, said at a news conference at an aviation industry meeting in Singapore that the world airline industry has lost $42 billion since 2001 and continues to lose money, even as passenger traffic and cargo is expected to grow in Asia.

Summary: Giovanni Bisignani, the director of the International Air Transport Association, at a news conference at an aviation industry meeting in Singapore yesterday said that the world airline industry had lost $42 billion since 2001 and continues to lose money, even as passenger traffic and cargo was expected to grow in Asia.


Summary: One of the main criticisms of the Registered Traveler security screening program, expected to be running at scores of airports this summer, is that the benefits of participating have been unclear. As the Registered Traveler program gains momentum, critics are coming forward to question its validity.

Summary: One of the main criticisms of the Registered Traveler security screening program, is that the benefits of participating have been unclear. As the Registered Traveler program gains momentum, critics are coming forward to question its validity.


Summary: The president of the Air Transport Association, an airline industry trade group, James C. May, said at a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the Registered Traveler program has turned into a shifting and dispiriting exercise.

Summary: James C. May, the president of the Air Transport Association, said at a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the Registered Traveler program had turned into a shifting and dispiriting exercise.


Summary: The Transportation Security Administration has not yet specified what benefits, other than a special lane, Registered Travelers will get for their annual fees, which are currently $79.95 in Orlando.


Summary: The U.A.W. said that there were many significant issues to be resolved in the negotiations involving Delphi, G.M. and the union. U.A.W. members earn as much as $67 an hour in wages and benefits, the same as their counterparts at G.M. The U.A.W. reacted angrily to Mr. Miller's initial proposal, which Delphi subsequently withdrew, and workers threatened to strike the company if it asked a judge for the ability to void its labor agreements.

Summary: U.A.W. said that there were many significant issues to be resolved in the negotiations involving Delphi, G.M., and the union. Mr. Miller said members of the U.A.W. should earn as little as $9.50 an hour, compared with the $27 an hour paid at U.A.W. represented plants. Overall, U.A.W. members earn as much as $67 an hour in wages and benefits, the same as their counterparts at G.M. The U.A.W. reacted angrily to Mr. Miller's initial proposal, which Delphi subsequently withdrew, and workers threatened to strike the company if it asked a judge for the ability to void its labor agreements.


Summary: The $23 billion unsolicited offer for Arcelor of Luxembourg by Mittal Steel, a company with headquarters in Rotterdam but run by the Indian-born Lakshmi N. Mittal, incensed European politicians. Mr. Cafritz stated if Mittal succeeded, that would unleash a wave of hostile deals. He also added that Mittal's success would prove that total outsiders can make aggressive bids that everyone dislikes except shareholders, and get them done.

Summary: The $23 billion unsolicited offer for Arcelor of Luxembourg by Mittal Steel, a company with headquarters in Rotterdam but run by the Indian-born Lakshmi N. Mittal, incensed European politicians. Mr. Cafritz expressed his displeasure saying Mittal's success would prove that total outsiders can make aggressive bids that everyone dislikes except shareholders, and get them done.


Summary: Mr. Pombo made it clear that a primary purpose of his investigation was to attribute much of the problem to decisions by the Clinton administration to sweeten the incentives in 1998 and 1999. But the Clinton administration waived the price limitations for leases awarded in 1998 and 1999, and those leases are believed to account for most of the $65 billion in royalty-free oil and gas that Interior officials expect over the next five years.

Summary: Representative Richard W. Pombo made it clear that a primary purpose of his investigation was to attribute much of the problem to decisions by the Clinton administration to sweeten the incentives in 1998 and 1999. But the Clinton administration waived the price limitations for leases awarded in 1998 and 1999, and those leases are believed to account for most of the $65 billion in royalty-free oil and gas that Interior officials expect over the next five years.


Summary: But Jennifer Zuccarelli, a spokeswoman for Mr. Pombo, said the letter to Ms.

Summary: Jennifer Zuccarelli, a spokeswoman for Mr. Pombo.


Summary: Other lawmakers are more properly alarmed and are proposing to graft some ethical spine onto Congress. There ought to be plenty of room for both ideas, and the two senators' developing rivalry for reform -- already dubbed the ''McBama'' dynamic -- is exactly the energy level Congress needs.

Summary: There should be plenty of room for both ideas, and the two senators' developing rivalry for reform, already dubbed the "McBama" dynamic, is exactly the energy level Congress needs. It would be staffed by nonpartisan professionals empowered to investigate and pursue complaints of impropriety from outside Congress and within it.


Summary: The author is Bruce Kushnick, a longtime irritant to the telecommunications industry. His targets are the Baby Bells, which he contends owe every American household about $2,000 because they reneged on their collective promise to deploy ultra-high-speed broadband Internet access via optical fiber to millions of homes. Mr. Kushnick writes that they received benefits in return -- including tax breaks and changes in state laws lifting limits on their profits -- amounting to more than $200 billion.

Summary: Bruce Kushnick, is a author, a longtime irritant to the telecommunications industry. According, 86 million homes should be wired at 45 Mbps -- at least 15 times as fast as the best commonly available D.S.L. service. Mr. Kushnick writes in his introduction that for him it's like ordering a Ferrari and getting a bicycle.


Summary: In recent years, she took courses at Touro College in Manhattan.

Summary: In recent years, Aleshia Smith took courses at Touro College in Manhattan.


Summary: President Bush had it exactly backwards in his speech Tuesday night when he exhorted lawmakers to keep cutting taxes. He noted that when the going gets tough, leaders are tempted to take stands that are crowd pleasing yet counterproductive. He was basically warning the assembled lawmakers, actually the Republicans, that they would never make the cheerleading squad if they didn't extend his temporary tax cuts. The administration expects to hit the nation's legal debt limit -- $8,184,000,000,000 -- and has told Congress it needs to vote to raise the debt ceiling to nearly $9 trillion, a 51 percent increase since 2001, when Mr. Bush took office.

Summary: President Bush had it exactly backwards in his speech Tuesday night when he encouraged lawmakers to keep cutting taxes. He noted that when the going gets tough, leaders are tempted to take stands that are crowd pleasing yet counterproductive, like championing protectionism in the face of global competition. But then he warned that in today's uncertain times, lawmakers might even be tempted to do something as cowardly as "increasing taxes."


Summary: HELICOPTER TO KENNEDY -- Starting March 13, airline passengers will be able to board a helicopter to Kennedy International Airport from the downtown heliport near Wall Street. The company plans to expand service in April with flights between Kennedy and the East 34th Street Heliport.

Summary: The airline passengers will be able to take a helicopter to Kennedy International Airport from the downtown heliport near Wall Street and clear airport security at the heliport, according to the U.S. Helicopter Corporation. The company is expecting to expand their services in April with flights between Kennedy and the East 34th Street Heliport, and to add service to and from La Guardia and Newark Liberty International Airports later this year.


Summary: Daniel Bradley, the geneticist at Trinity College in Dublin, writes that about one in 50 New Yorkers of European origin -- including men with names like O'Connor, Flynn, Egan, Hynes, O'Reilly and Quinn -- carry the genetic signature linked with Niall and northwestern Ireland. He arrived at that estimate after surveying the Y chromosomes in a genetic database that included New Yorkers. Dr. Bradley was surprised at finding evidence that Niall existed as he would have been to learn that King Arthur had been real. He estimated that two million to three million men worldwide carry the distinctive Y chromosome signature, which he named the I.M.H., for Irish modal haplotype.

Summary: About one in 50 New Yorkers of European origin including men with names like O'Connor, Flynn, Egan, Hynes, O'Reilly, and Quinn carry the genetic signature linked with Niall and northwestern Ireland, writes Daniel Bradley, the geneticist who conducted the survey with colleagues at Trinity College in Dublin. Dr. Bradley said he was as surprised at finding evidence that Niall existed as he would have been to learn that King Arthur had been real. He estimated that two million to three million men worldwide carry the distinctive Y chromosome signature, which he named the I.M.H., for the Irish modal haplotype. Asked if he himself carried the Niall signature, Dr. Bradley said he did even though tradition holds that Niall captured and enslaved St. Patrick.


Summary: The Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, has said that the state should spend the surplus money of $2 billion on schools, rather than on tax cuts proposed by the governor. There also is speculation that Mr. Silver will gamble on the hope that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will take office next year and help create a plan to bolster financing of New York City schools.

Summary: Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker,  has said the state should spend the money on schools, rather than on tax cuts proposed by the governor. There also is speculation that Mr. Silver will gamble on the hope that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will take office next year and help create a plan to bolster financing of New York City schools. If the state does not fulfill its obligations to the Department of Education capital construction plan, the opening of critically needed new schools and vital renovations will be delayed. Mr. Silver and other Democrats have accused Mr. Pataki of simply trying to delay any decision as the case winds through the courts.


Summary: Dr. Paul Stumpf, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center said that "some women will have a decrease in sex drive while they're on the birth control pill, and some will have an increase''. Dr. Stumpf compared sexual side effects to weight gain.

Summary: According to Dr. Paul Stumpf, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, some women will have a decrease in sex drive while they're on the birth control pill, and some will have an increase. He compared sexual side effects to weight gain.


Summary: Marty Bouquet, who is merely 45 years old, has a special skill  which is to cut and shave tiny slices from that hardest of all stones until it becomes a shimmering, desirable diamond. He said ''My grandfather would say that you need two lives to understand diamonds''. Mr. Bouquet said that he has never lost a stone, but there is always a risk. He folded his diamond into tissue paper, put it in an envelope, slipped it into his pocket and headed out to the streets of Antwerp.

Summary: Marty Bouquet's special skill is to cut and shave tiny slices from that hardest of all stones until it becomes a shimmering, desirable diamond. Bent over his workbench in the center of Antwerp, he wields his tools with patience and precision, qualities passed on to him by his father and grandfather. He says that his grandfather would say that one needs two lives to understand diamonds, adding that he is merely 45.


Summary: Eric Adams, a Police Department captain who faced discipline for comments during a television interview in October, has been found not guilty of two of the three internal charges against him. Captain Adams was found guilty of appearing on television as a representative of the department without permission and will forfeit 15 days' vacation as punishment. Captain Adams's trial, was held on the fourth floor of Police Headquarters. Days after that announcement, Captain Adams, the founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, which endorsed Fernando Ferrer, said the announcement had been timed to divert attention from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's decision to skip a mayoral election debate.

Summary: Eric Adams, a Police Department captain who faced discipline for comments during an interview, has been found not guilty of his actions which is against him, which includes that he misled the public during the terror alert last fall, said by his lawyer. But Captain Adams was found guilty of appearing on television as a representative of the department without permission, and will forfeit 15 days vacation as punishment, and this is according to the text of the judgment provided by his lawyer, Norman Siegel. In the interview, Captain Adams, who retired from the department yesterday to run for a State Senate seat from Brooklyn, said that he felt ratified and said he would appeal the finding of guilt.


Summary: Its lawyers argued before the department's assistant deputy commissioner, Michael D. Sarner for trials, that Captain Adams's comments had been motivated in part by his political aspirations, and that he had broken departmental rules by referring to his rank on the television show. Commissioner Sarner wrote that Captain Adams made his assertions ''in good faith'' and that the threat was no longer active by the time of his interview. But on another note, the commissioner agreed with the department that a line had been crossed.

Summary: Michael D. Sarner, the department's assistant deputy commissioner for trials, that Captain Adams's comments had been motivated in part by his political aspirations, and that he had broken departmental rules by referring to his rank on the television show. Commissioner Sarner wrote that Captain Adams made his assertions in good belief and that the threat was no longer active by the time of the television interview.


Summary: Greg Jensen of Bridgewater Associates put it, said that the U.S. consumes 7 percent more than it produces. He also said that the pressure from that made it much more likely that the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates.

Summary: Greg Jensen of Bridgewater Associates said that the U.S. consumes 7 percent more than it produces and the pressure from that made it much more likely that the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates.


Summary: Greg Jensen of Bridgewater Associates put it, and as it says that the U.S. consumes 7 percent more than it produces. He also said that the pressure from that made it much more likely that the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates.

Summary: Mr. Jensen said that the U.S. consumes 7 percent more than it produces and the pressure from that made it much more likely that the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates.


Summary: Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, says that early indications suggest that the field could be as large as 10 billion barrels. Mr. Fox and Luis Ramírez Corzo, Pemex's director-general, flew about 60 miles offshore to the exploratory well to announce the discovery. In its official report of reserves, the company said it was possible to infer that the new reserves could reach 10 billion barrels. The company estimates that production there will fall by 6 percent this year, and the decline is projected to accelerate.

Summary: Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, says that early indications suggest that the field could be as large as 10 billion barrels. Jaime Brito, an analyst at PFC Energy in Washington that this was part of an overall lobbying effort from the administration. Mr. Ramírez Corzo said that they recognized that we needed to establish new mechanisms of collaboration with other oil companies who had experience in deep water. Pemex officials warned that its figures on the discovery were preliminary.


Summary: Jaime Brito, an analyst at PFC Energy in Washington and a former Pemex executive, said that this was part of an overall lobbying effort from the administration. Mr. Fox and Luis Ramírez Corzo, Pemex's director general, flew about 60 miles offshore to the exploratory well to announce the discovery. Mr. Ramírez Corzo said that they recognized that we needed to establish new mechanisms of collaboration with other oil companies who have experience in deep water. Pemex officials warned that its figures on the discovery were preliminary.


Summary: In her first policy initiative since taking office in January, the Nassau County district attorney, Kathleen Rice, pledged on Monday to crack down on a ''drunk driving epidemic'' by seeking tougher penalties against many first-time offenders. Those arrested with blood-alcohol levels of 0.13 percent or higher will no longer be allowed to negotiate plea bargains and will face a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated. If her policy had been in place in 2005, about 900 more drivers would have faced charges of driving while intoxicated. She said the new policy was aimed at reducing the rate of recidivism by escalating the penalties for repeat offenders. She also pledged on Monday to recommend jail time for any driver who is arrested for drunken driving twice in five years. She would also push for passage of a bill that would require that repeat offenders serve at least five days in jail.

Summary: The Nassau County district attorney, Kathleen Rice, pledged on Monday to crack down on a ''drunk driving epidemic'' by seeking tougher penalties against many first-time offenders. Rice said the new policy was aimed at reducing the rate of recidivism by escalating the penalties for repeat offenders. She also said she would push for passage of a bill introduced by State Senator Charles J. Fuschillo Jr., a Republican who represents Nassau County, that would require that repeat offenders serve at least five days in jail.


Summary: Aaron Bisman, at New York University, started a nonprofit record label, JDub, and his friend at the New School, who called himself Matisyahu, worked on his reggae toasting skills. In Mr. Bisman's words, Matisyahu was still wearing track suits and just growing out his beard. As Matisyahu's love for hip-hop and his dedication to Orthodox Judaism grew, he hit the clubs in a black suit, hat and full beard, and with JDub behind him made one of the most unlikely rises in pop music history. He is surely the only Hasidic reggae singer to sell out 2,000-to-3,000-seat concert halls regularly around the country, and last week he released "Youth" (JDub/Or/Epic), his major label debut, which is widely expected to make it high in the Top 10 when the charts are compiled later this week.

Summary: Mr. Bisman, at New York University, started a nonprofit record label, JDub, and his friend Matisyahu at the New School worked on his reggae toasting skills. As Matisyahu's love for hip-hop and his dedication to Orthodox Judaism grew, he hit the clubs in a black suit, hat and full beard, and with JDub behind him made one of the most unlikely rises in pop music history. It has a handful of other acts and promotes concerts around the country, but Matisyahu was central to the company's finances.


Summary: A few days before "Youth" was released, Aaron Bisman and his partner, Jacob Harris, received an unexpected phone call from their prize talent, telling them their management services were no longer required. For Mr. Bisman, 25, and Mr. Harris, 26, it was a shock from an old friend and a potential blow to their business. The two men said they still have nearly three years left on a four-year management contract, and are consulting with their lawyers on how to proceed. Mr. Harris said that they really thought of this as an endowment to do this for a long time.

Summary: A few days before ''Youth'' was released, Mr. Bisman and his partner, Jacob Harris, received an unexpected phone call from their prize talent, telling them their management services were no longer required. JDub has not been Matisyahu's record label for two years, Mr. Bisman and Mr. Harris had remained his managers, and Matisyahu's engagements bring in a substantial part of the company's revenue. Mr. Harris said that they really thought of this as an endowment to do this for a long time.


Summary: When Aaron Bisman met Matthew Miller about five years ago, they were music-obsessed college students in New York who had an unusual goal which was to make innovative music that was proudly Jewish. Mr. Bisman, at New York University, started a nonprofit record label, JDub, and his friend at the New School, who called himself Matisyahu, worked on his reggae toasting skills. But a few days before "Youth" was released, Mr. Bisman and his partner, Jacob Harris, received an unexpected phone call from their prize talent, telling them their management services were no longer required.

Summary: When Aaron Bisman met Matthew Miller about five years ago, they were music-obsessed college students in New York who had an unusual goal to make innovative music that was proudly Jewish. Mr. Bisman, at New York University, started a nonprofit record label, JDub, and his friend Matisyahu at the New School worked on his reggae toasting skills. He is surely the only Hasidic reggae singer to sell out 2,000-to-3,000-seat concert halls regularly around the country, and last week he released ''Youth'' (JDub/Or/Epic), his major label debut, which is widely expected to make it high in the Top 10 when the charts are compiled later this week.


Summary: Stuart Rabner, the chief counsel, declared that no ethical violation was committed because the ethics rules apply to what politicians receive as gifts or donations, not to what they give. Mr. Rabner said that the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission did not extend to the governor. Mr. Rabner said the code does not cover whether a governor can make a personal loan to a former staffer and family friend.

Summary: In a statement last night, Stuart Rabner, the chief counsel, declared that no ethical violation had occurred there because the ethics rules apply to what politicians receive as gifts or donations, not to what they give. He also said that the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission did not extend to the governor. But the code of conduct that applies does not cover whether a governor can make a personal loan to a former staffer and family friend.


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Summary: The New Jersey Republican Party on Thursday accused Gov. Jon S. Corzine of violating his own ethics guidelines when he lent $5,000 in bail money to a Trenton lobbyist and former campaign aide who had been accused of stalking the chairman of the state Democratic Party, and trying to break into his car.

Summary: The New Jersey Republican Party accused Gov. Corzine of violating his own rules. Tom Wilson, chairman of the state Republican Party, said that it took Mr. Corzine very little time to ignore his own executive order and act beyond the very ethical boundaries he set for himself.


Summary: As General Motors sells most of its 21 percent stake in the Japanese carmaker Suzuki Motor, providing a cash infusion after huge losses, analysts are wondering if the move will be enough to appease G.M.'s disgruntled shareholders. G.M. will sell about 92 million shares, or a 17.4 percent stake, back to Suzuki for 230 billion yen ($1.98 billion). G.M. also said it would continue its 25-year business relationship with Suzuki, which currently includes a joint venture in Canada to make sport utility vehicles. G.M. has cut executives' salaries and sharply cut stock dividends to help overcome the losses, its biggest in more than a decade.

Summary: As General Motors sells most of its 21 percent stake in the Japanese carmaker Suzuki Motor, providing a cash infusion after huge losses, analysts are wondering if the move will be enough to appease G.M.'s disgruntled shareholders. The sale has also raised speculation about what G.M. plans to do with its 7.9 percent stake in Isuzu Motors. G.M. will sell about 92 million shares, or a 17.4 percent stake, back to Suzuki for 230 billion yen ($1.98 billion).


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Isuzu Motors

Summary: As General Motors sells most of its 21 percent stake in the Japanese carmaker Suzuki Motor, providing a cash infusion after huge losses, analysts are wondering if the move will be enough to appease G.M.'s disgruntled shareholders. Isuzu has also said it will buy G.M.'s entire stake of Isuzu-General Motors Australia, a truck-building joint venture the companies operate in Australia.


Summary: In October, General Motors sold its entire one-fifth stake in another Japanese automaker company, Fuji Heavy Industries, who is the maker of Subaru autos.

Summary: In October, G.M. sold its entire one-fifth stake in another Japanese automaker, Fuji Heavy Industries, maker of Subaru autos.


Summary: Moshe Y. Vardi, co-chair of the study group and a computer scientist at Rice University, said that the global competition had gotten tougher and we had to run faster. Mr. Vardi of Rice University also added that it might be good for the economy, but it might not be good for you, if you lost your job.

Summary: Moshe Y. Vardi, co-chair of the study group and a computer scientist at Rice University says it is a huge challenge to education to try to determine what is the right mix of skills as we try to move up the economic ladder.


Summary: New York's highest court refused yesterday to waive the statute of limitations and allow dozens of old sexual abuse claims against the Roman Catholic Church to go to trial. The State Court of Appeals ruled that 42 plaintiffs, who say they were abused by priests in the Brooklyn Diocese in the 1960's, 70's and 80's, had not shown specific actions by church officials that prevented them from filing suit sooner. New York's statute of limitations requires that negligence suits against institutions be filed within three years of the offense or before a plaintiff turns 21, whichever occurs later.


Summary: The court also said that it was up to the State Legislature to revise and loosen New York's statute of limitations, one of the country's strictest. Referring to the injuries caused by these deplorable acts by priests, the court said that regrettably, many of these claims are time-barred, and absent relief from the Legislature will remain unredressed. The court cited measures in Connecticut and California that have allowed old lawsuits to move forward.

Summary: The court also said that it was up to the State Legislature to revise and loosen New York's statute of limitations, one of the country's strictest. The court said that regrettably, many of these claims were time-barred, and absent relief from the Legislature would remain unredressed. Mark Furnish, who is the New York director of SNAP, said that he thought it put an incredible amount of pressure on the State Legislature to actually do something.


Summary: Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, who wrote the decision, said that a wrongdoer is not legally obliged to make a public confession, or to alert people who may have claims against it, to get the benefit of a statute of limitations.

Summary: Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick said that a wrongdoer was not legally obliged to make a public confession, or to alert people who might have claims against it, to get the benefit of a statute of limitations.


Summary: The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in New York had been vying for the right to run museums at the cultural center, which was to be several times the size of Lincoln Center.


Summary: The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in New York had been vying for the right to run museums at the cultural center, which was to be several times the size of Lincoln Center. The Pompidou Center had persuaded President Jacques Chirac of France to visit here in October 2004 to make its case, while Thomas Krens, the director of the Guggenheim Foundation, had publicly described the initiative as the most exciting opportunity in the world because of the scale and the location. But the plan has been mired in controversy for more than a year, with local artists saying that Western cultural institutions were playing too large a role, while populists denounced early versions of the plan as too generous to developers.

Summary: The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in New York had been vying for the right to run museums at the cultural center, which was to be several times the size of Lincoln Center. The Pompidou Center had persuaded President Jacques Chirac of France to visit here in October 2004 to make its case, while Thomas Krens, the director of the Guggenheim Foundation, had publicly described the initiative as 'the most exciting opportunity in the world because of the scale and the location'.


Summary: Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado have races important to the White House this year, but of particular concern is Colorado, where a recent poll shows a Republican candidate for governor, Representative Bob Beauprez, trailing Bill Ritter, a Democrat and former Denver district attorney.


Summary: A statement released Monday by the Energy Department said that Samuel W. Bodman, the energy secretary, ordered the transfer of $5 million over the weekend to immediately restore the jobs, which had been eliminated because of past budget cuts, thereby avoiding a political embarrassment for the president. In the words of Mr. Bodman, the programs at the energy laboratory are critically important to realizing the president's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix. He said that the president should not be taken literally and that the Middle East goal was merely an example of what might be done.

Summary: A statement released Monday by the Energy Department said that Samuel W. Bodman, the energy secretary, ordered the transfer of $5 million over the weekend to immediately restore the jobs, which had been eliminated because of past budget cuts, thereby avoiding a political embarrassment for the president. The programs at the energy laboratory, Mr. Bodman said in a statement that it was critically important to realize the president's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix.


Summary: President Bush ended the day in Colorado, where some three dozen workers at the federal National Renewable Energy Laboratory were rehired after being laid off soon after Mr. Bush's State of the Union address promoting renewable energy. Mr. Bush is to visit the laboratory, in Golden, Colo., on Tuesday morning. In the words of Samuel W. Bodman, the programs at the energy laboratory are critically important to realizing the president's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix.

Summary: Mr. Bush ended the day in Colorado, where some three dozen workers at the federal National Renewable Energy Laboratory were rehired after being laid off soon after Mr. Bush's State of the Union address promoting renewable energy. The programs at the energy laboratory, Mr. Bodman said in a statement that it was critically important to realize the president's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix. Both Republicans and Democrats commend Mr. Bush for endorsing alternative sources of energy, but Republicans question the practicality of relying on them and Democrats say that a more significant way of reducing reliance on foreign oil is imposing higher fuel-efficiency standards on cars, which Mr. Bush opposes.


Summary: President Bush on Monday promoted his plan to reduce American dependence on foreign oil by using alternative energy sources, but he did not repeat a promise to cut back on Middle East oil imports that drew complaints from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and was disavowed by his energy secretary. Instead, on a day when oil prices rose to more than $60 a barrel because of militant attacks on oil suppliers in the Niger Delta, Mr. Bush toned down his implicit criticism of countries in the Persian Gulf and spoke of American reliance on foreign oil in more general terms. Mr. Bush proposed in his State of the Union address that the United States replace 75 percent of oil imports from the Middle East with alternative sources of energy by 2025.

Summary: President Bush on Monday promoted his plan to reduce American dependence on foreign oil by using alternative energy sources, but he did not repeat a promise to cut back on Middle East oil imports that drew complaints from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.  Mr. Bush said in a speech in Milwaukee that some of the nations they relied on for oil had unstable governments, or fundamental differences with the United States. Mr. Bush proposed in his State of the Union address that the United States replace 75 percent of oil imports from the Middle East with alternative sources of energy by 2025.


Summary: In Milwaukee, President Bush toured a technology center of Johnson Controls, the world's largest supplier of standard car batteries and a leader in research into new lithium ion batteries for hybrid cars. Afterward, in a speech to Johnson Controls employees, Mr. Bush urged Congress to support an additional $31 million for research into the new batteries, as called for in his 2007 budget.

Summary: In Milwaukee, Mr. Bush toured a technology center of Johnson Controls, the world's largest supplier of standard car batteries and a leader in research into new lithium ion batteries for hybrid cars. In a speech to Johnson Controls employees, Mr. Bush urged Congress to support an additional $31 million for research into the new batteries, as called for in his 2007 budget.


Summary: The founder of Verified Identity Pass, which has run a pilot program in Orlando, Fla., since last June, Steven Brill, has said that those who pay an annual fee to undergo a background check and get an electronic identity card probably will not have to remove their shoes and jackets, will not have to take laptops out of their cases and will get an expedited passage through security. Things became slightly more clear last week when General Electric said it would invest up to $16 million for a minority stake in Verified Identity Pass.

Summary: Steven Brill, the founder of Verified Identity Pass, which has run a pilot program in Orlando, has said that those who pay an annual fee to undergo a background check and get an electronic identity card probably will not have to remove their shoes and jackets, will not have to take laptops out of their cases and will get an expedited passage through security. General Electric said it would invest up to $16 million for a minority stake in Verified Identity Pass.


Summary: Patrick FitzGerald found himself distracted as he studied for the bar exam at Fordham University five years ago. He began poking around Web sites and news articles about the economics of recycling, and concluded that one of the industry's biggest problems was motivating its suppliers, the people who generate garbage. Mr. FitzGerald quit his job at a Wall Street law firm, moved back into his mother's attic in suburban Philadelphia and began working the phones and Internet search engines, making contacts in the solid-waste industry and finding retailers who were willing to participate in a customer rewards program.

Summary: PATRICK FITZGERALD found himself distracted as he studied for the bar exam at Fordham University five years ago. He began poking around Web sites and news articles about the economics of recycling, and concluded that one of the industry's biggest problems was motivating its suppliers -- the people who generate garbage. Quitting his job at a Wall Street law firm, Mr. FitzGerald  moved back into his mother's attic in suburban Philadelphia and began working the phones and Internet search engines, making contacts in the solid-waste industry and finding retailers who were willing to participate in a customer rewards program. The project's success has helped Mr. FitzGerald and Mr. Gonen to sell the RecycleBank program to several municipalities in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions.


Summary: In late 2002, Patrick FitzGerald talked about his idea with Ron Gonen, a high school classmate and fellow Philadelphia-area native. Mr. Gonen, then in his first year in the M.B.A. program at Columbia University, put in late nights writing a business plan and software, becoming more and more involved and obsessed. Their teamwork led to the birth of RecycleBank in early 2004. The project's success has helped Mr. FitzGerald and Mr. Gonen to sell the RecycleBank program to several municipalities in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions.

Summary: Mr. Ron Gonen, then in his first year in the M.B.A. program at Columbia University together with Mr. Patrick Fitzgerald started RecycleBank (recyclebank.com) in early 2004. They signed on with the Philadelphia-based Blue Mountain Recycling, which uses sorting technology employing fans, gravity, magnets, and manual picking. The project's success has helped Mr. FitzGerald and Mr. Gonen to sell the RecycleBank program to several municipalities in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions.


Summary: Patrick FitzGerald found himself distracted as he studied for the bar exam at Fordham University five years ago. He began poking around Web sites and news articles about the economics of recycling, and concluded that one of the industry's biggest problems was motivating its suppliers -- the people who generate garbage. Mr. FitzGerald quit his job at a Wall Street law firm, moved back into his mother's attic in suburban Philadelphia and began working the phones and Internet search engines, making contacts in the solid-waste industry and finding retailers who were willing to participate in a customer rewards program.

Summary: PATRICK FITZGERALD found himself distracted as he studied for the bar exam at Fordham University five years ago. He began poking around Web sites and news articles about the economics of recycling, and concluded that one of the industry's biggest problems was motivating its suppliers -- the people who generate garbage.  Quitting his job at a Wall Street law firm, Mr. FitzGerald moved back into his mother's attic in suburban Philadelphia and began working the phones and Internet search engines, making contacts in the solid-waste industry and finding retailers who were willing to participate in a customer rewards program. The project's success helped Mr. FitzGerald and Mr. Gonen to sell the RecycleBank program to several municipalities in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions.


Summary: Mr. Gonen, then in his first year in the M.B.A. program at Columbia University, put in late nights writing a business plan and software, becoming more and more involved and obsessed. Their teamwork led to the birth of RecycleBank in early 2004. RecycleBank charges municipalities $24 a household, and guarantees clients that they will save at least that much in disposal fees as waste is diverted from landfills and incinerators. During its start last year in Philadelphia, RecycleBank also established relationships with local businesses like the Chestnut Hill Cheese Shop and the Reading Terminal Market, where about 25 specialty vendors accept the coupons. RecycleBank persuaded Philadelphia officials to allow it to conduct a pilot project involving 2,500 households in two Philadelphia neighborhoods, upscale Chestnut Hill and modest West Oak Lane.

Summary: Mr. Gonen, in his first year in the M.B.A., together with Mr. FitzGerald started RecycleBank (recyclebank.com) in early 2004. RecycleBank charges municipalities $24 a household and guarantees clients that they will save at least that much in disposal fees as waste is diverted from landfills and incinerators. During its start, RecycleBank also established relationships with local businesses like the Chestnut Hill Cheese Shop and the Reading Terminal Market. RecycleBank persuaded Philadelphia officials to allow it to conduct a pilot project involving 2,500 households in two Philadelphia neighborhoods, upscale Chestnut Hill and modest West Oak Lane.


Summary: John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner, a market research company, said that forcing all users to synchronize their data to a single server over the air has another benefit over letting them use their office PC's for backing up data, it creates a log of all information moving to and from the devices. He commented that monitoring software can be set up to search through the data exchanges to make sure no confidential data passes to unauthorized devices. Mr. Pescatore expects this year to be a turning point for mobile security, in the same way that personal firewalls and antivirus software on PC's gained importance early in the decade because of viruses like I Love You and Melissa.

Summary: John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner, said that forcing all users to synchronize their data to a single server over the air has another benefit over letting them use their office PCs for backing up data: it creates a log of all information moving to and from the devices. Mr. Pescatore expects this year to be a turning point for mobile security. By the end of the year, smartphones with so much storage and processing power will represent about half of all cellphones in the United States, compared with about 30 percent today, Mr. Pescatore said.


Summary: Ed Whipple, Seitlin's vice president for sales and technology, said that the company could then dictate what data was stored on the devices, and it could install software to monitor them from afar and even lock them over the air if they fell into the wrong hands.  If an agent on the road is offline and needs information about a client, he calls the office for it. If an employee reports that his cellphone is stolen, Mr. Whipple can send a text message to the device, which locks it and asks for a security code, using software called Butler.

Summary: Ed Whipple, the company's vice president for sales and technology, said that the company could then dictate what data was stored on the devices, and it could install software to monitor them from afar and even lock them over the air if they fell into the wrong hands. Mr. Whipple also said If an agent on the road was offline and needed information about a client, he called the office for it. If an employee reports that his cellphone is stolen, Mr. Whipple can send a text message to the device, which locks it and asks for a security code, using software called Butler.


Summary: Seitlin, a small insurance brokerage based in Miami decided to buy Palm Treo cellphone-organizers for about 30 of its 250 employees. The company could then dictate what data was stored on the devices, and it could install software to monitor them from afar and even lock them over the air if they fell into the wrong hands, said Ed Whipple, the company's vice president for sales and technology.

Summary: Seitlin, a small insurance brokerage based in Miami, illustrates the point. The firm decided to buy Palm Treo cellphone organizers. The company could then dictate what data was stored on the devices, and it could install software to monitor them from afar and even lock them over the air if they fell into the wrong hands.


Summary: A joint press release from Gov. George E. Pataki and Joseph L. Bruno last month explained that because the windfall profits from the conversion of Empire, which is now part of WellPoint, were higher than expected, the foundation's 5 percent share exceeded what had been envisioned.

Summary: A joint press release from Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bruno last month explained that because the windfall profits from the conversion of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, which is now part of WellPoint, were higher than expected, the foundation's 5 percent share exceeded what had been envisioned.


Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki and Joseph L. Bruno's plan appears unlikely to succeed, because one of the foundation's three voting board members, Carl T. Hayden, an appointee of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, says he will not support it. He said in an interview that if the proposal were to be offered, he would veto it as the purpose of this foundation, which is set forth in statute, is to extend coverage and access to poor people.

Summary: Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bruno's plan appears unlikely to succeed, because one of the foundation's three voting board members, Carl T. Hayden, an appointee of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, says he will not support it. Mr. Hayden said in an interview said that if this proposal were to be offered, I would veto it. He also added that the purpose of this foundation, which was set forth in statute, was to extend coverage and access to poor people. Robert M. Kaufman, the foundation's counsel, said Mr. Hayden's approval would be required.


Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki is proposing that more than half of the foundation's $260 million endowment be redirected into biomedical research and his plan to use that amount, $160 million, held by the fledgling New York Charitable Asset Foundation, has the support of the state's other top Republican, Joseph L. Bruno, the majority leader in the State Senate.

Summary: George E. Pataki is proposing that more than half of the foundation's $260 million endowments be redirected into biomedical research. Mr. Pataki's budget appropriates $40 million in state money and uses $160 million from the charitable foundation's endowment, with the remaining $600 million coming from matching funds from the federal government, grants, and the private sector. A joint press release from Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bruno last month explained that because the windfall profits from the conversion of Empire, were higher than expected, the foundation's 5 percent share exceeded what had been envisioned.


Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki's plan to use $160 million, held by the fledgling New York Charitable Asset Foundation, has the support of the state's other top Republican, Joseph L. Bruno, the majority leader in the State Senate. A joint press release from Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bruno last month explained that because the windfall profits from the conversion of Empire, which is now part of WellPoint, were higher than expected, the foundation's 5 percent share exceeded what had been envisioned.

Summary: Gov. Pataki's plan to use the amount, $160 million, held by the fledgling New York Charitable Asset Foundation, has the support of the state's other top Republican, Joseph L. Bruno, the majority leader in the State Senate. A joint press release from Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bruno last month explained that because the windfall profits from the conversion of Empire, were higher than expected, the foundation's 5 percent share exceeded what had been envisioned. But Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bruno's plan appears unlikely to succeed, because one of the foundation's three voting board members, Carl T. Hayden says he will not support it.


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Summary: When New York State allowed Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield to convert into a profit-making company in 2002, it set aside 5 percent of the proceeds for a foundation to continue the insurer's core mission, providing health care to those who could not afford coverage. Some consumer groups are livid about the plan, particularly after they have already lost a legal battle to direct the state to put all the proceeds from the Empire conversion into the foundation, just as many states have done when they have allowed their Blue Cross plans to become profit-making businesses.

Summary: When New York State allowed Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield to convert into a profit-making company in 2002, it set aside 5 percent of the proceeds for a foundation to continue the insurer's core mission -- providing health care to those who could not afford coverage. George E. Pataki is proposing that more than half of the foundation's $260 million endowment be redirected into biomedical research. And his plan to use that amount, $160 million, held by the fledgling New York Charitable Asset Foundation, has the support of the state's other top Republican, Joseph L. Bruno, the majority leader in the State Senate. That's an oversimplistic statement of it, but that's the essence of it, which was the original purpose of Blue Cross Blue Shield.


Summary: A spokesman for Mr. Bruno, John McArdle said several senators had been looking at biomedical research proposals when the Pataki administration came to them with the idea of using money from the foundation. As for deciding to shift the money from health care for the poor to biomedical research, Mr. McArdle said that it's a policy determination that they make all the time, in terms of determining the best use of those funds.

Summary: John McArdle, a spokesman for Mr. Bruno, said several senators had been looking at biomedical research proposals when the Pataki administration came to them with the idea of using money from the foundation. As for deciding to shift the money from health care for the poor to biomedical research, Mr. McArdle said the policy determination that we make all the time, in terms of determining the best use of those funds.


Summary: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has his own biomedical plan which is focused on stem cell research, a topic the Republican plan avoids.

Summary: Carl T. Hayden, an appointee of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, says Mr. Silver has his own biomedical plan which is focused on stem cell research, a topic the Republican plan avoids.


Summary: Elpidia Golez, a 52-year-old homemaker from a nearby village who saw a portion of the mountain collapsing, said, pointing to the gash on the 2,300-foot-tall mountain that looked like a giant had stepped on it, that there are stretches of land along the mountain range that didn't have villages.

Summary: Elpidia Golez, a 52-year-old homemaker from a nearby village who saw a portion of the mountain collapsing said, there are stretches of land along the mountain range that didn't have villages. She was perplexed seeing a gash on the 2,300-foot-tall mountain.


Summary: On Sunday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said from Manila that all the efforts of their government continue and will not stop while there is hope to find survivors.

Summary: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said, all the efforts of their government continue and will not stop while there is hope to find survivors.


Summary: Col. Alex Vohr, a spokesman for the Marines, said that they were there to dig. They dug into the late afternoon, and in the evening switched to building roads. Colonel Vohr said the Americans would also help provide drinking water and medical care to the hundreds of people from villages around the mountain taking shelter in several evacuation centers in the nearby port of Saint Bernard.

Summary: Col. Alex Vohr, a spokesman for the Marines, said they were there to dig. They dug into the late afternoon, and in the evening switched to building roads. Colonel Vohr said the Americans would also help provide drinking water and medical care to the hundreds of people from villages around the mountain taking shelter in several evacuation centers in the nearby port of Saint Bernard.


Summary: According to the governor of Southern Leyte Province, Rosette Lerias, many residents evacuated. She said that the the devastation was "God-sent" cause only God can send down such a massive rainfall.

Summary: Many residents evacuated, according to the governor of Southern Leyte Province, Rosette Lerias. She said, Only God, can send down such a massive rainfall.


Summary: Lt. Ted Esguerra of the Philippine Coast Guard, who was leading a team of Malaysian rescuers, said that as a doctor and a rescuer for 13 years, he can tell with all honesty that the chances of anybody surviving an environment like that are very, very slim.

Summary: Lt. Ted Esguerra of the Philippine Coast Guard said as a doctor and a rescuer for 13 years, he can tell with all honesty that the chances of anybody surviving an environment like that are very, very slim. Lt. Ted Esguerra was leading a team of Malaysian rescuers.


Summary: Thomas R. Suozzi declined to comment about the matter, but Kimberly Devlin, his top political adviser, said she found the changes suspect. Ms. Devlin said that for all these years he's spoken he's held a reception at the hotel. Nobody here accused Mr. Suozzi of a lack of effort.

Summary: Kimberly Devlin, Mr. Suozzi's top political adviser, said she found the changes suspect. For all these years he's spoken, legitimately so, and he's held a reception at the hotel, adding to that Ms. Devlin said, it was never frustrating to hear when he's not included in the insiders' club.


Summary: But Mr. Rice, testifying for a third day in the trial of Mr. Skilling and Enron's founder, Kenneth L. Lay, acknowledged under cross-examination that he had no documents or witnesses to support his claim that Mr. Skilling told him to change his presentation, and was only relying on his memory. Mr. Rice's shaky memory over the claimed meeting underscores a central challenge facing the government in proving its case that Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay conspired to defraud Enron and then lied about it to the investing public before the company's 2001 collapse. Mr. Lay faces seven counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the months after he replaced Mr. Skilling as chief executive.

Summary: Kenneth D. Rice, testifying for a third day in the trial of Jeffrey K. Skilling and Enron's founder, Kenneth L. Lay, acknowledged under cross-examination that he had no documents or witnesses to support his claim that Mr. Skilling told him to change his presentation, and was only relying on his memory. Mr. Rice's shaky memory over the claimed meeting underscores a central challenge facing the government in proving its case that Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay conspired to defraud Enron and then lied about it to the investing public before the company's 2001 collapse. Mr. Skilling faces 31 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading, while Mr. Lay faces seven counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the months after he replaced Mr. Skilling as chief executive.


Summary: Kenneth D. Rice, who headed Enron's broadband unit, testified that former chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling directed him to paint a positive outlook for the company's board. Mr. Rice's shaky memory over the claimed meeting underscores a central challenge facing the government in proving its case that Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay conspired to defraud Enron and then lied about it to the investing public before the company's 2001 collapse. The alleged meeting took on a mysterious tone Thursday afternoon when prosecutor Sean M. Berkowitz, the director of the government's Enron Task Force, produced the document for the defense team.

Summary: Mr. Skilling, former chief executive of Enron, knew that the broadband division was struggling to survive, yet he directed Mr. Rice to paint a positive outlook for the company's board. Mr. Rice's shaky memory over the claimed meeting underscores a central challenge facing the government in proving its case that Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay conspired to defraud Enron and then lied about it to the investing public. The alleged meeting took on a mysterious tone Thursday afternoon when prosecutor Sean M. Berkowitz, the director of the government's Enron Task Force, produced the document for the defense team, but later, when asked by Judge Simeon T. Lake III if the document was in the government's computer system, said that he didn't know, Mr. Holscher then asked Mr. Rice why the draft presentation was dated May 9, eight days after the board meeting.


Summary: In a letter to Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton, Representative Richard W. Pombo, the chairman of the House Resources Committee, demanded memos, correspondence and data on the program and on the negotiations over the law that created it in 1996. Norton is only the beginning of what the chairman believes will be a broad investigation. At issue is a program that Congress began in 1996, when both Democrats and Republicans wanted to encourage more exploration and production in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.


Summary: Even Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican and Judiciary Committee member who has been a staunch supporter of the eavesdropping, said that although he did not think the law needed revising, Congress had to have more oversight. Mr. Hatch added that the administration had gone a long way in the last couple of days to assure people that this highly classified program was critical to the protection of the nation.

Summary: Even Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican and Judiciary Committee member who has been a staunch supporter of the eavesdropping, said that although he did not think the law needed revising, Congress had to have more oversight. Mr. Hatch spoke about how the administration has gone a long way in the last couple of days to assure people that this highly classified program is critical to the protection of the nation.


Summary: When Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush on Tuesday to declare her serious concerns about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying. Ms. Wilson and at least six other Republican lawmakers are openly skeptical about Mr. Bush's assertion that he has the inherent authority to order the wiretaps and that Congress gave him the power to do so when it authorized him to use military force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Wilson said she decided to speak out this week because she had become increasingly frustrated that the administration was not giving them the information they needed to do their job. With Mr. Gonzales unable or unwilling to answer questions at the Senate hearing, she said, there was no way to determine whether the surveillance law needed to be updated.

Summary: Representative Heather A. Wilson when broke ranks with President Bush to declare her ''serious concerns'' about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not able to say. Wilson and at least six other Republican lawmakers are openly skeptical about Mr. Bush's assertion that he has the inherent authority to order the wiretaps and Congress gave him the power to do so when it authorized him to use military force after the September 11 attacks. Wilson, chairwoman of the subcommittee that oversees the N.S.A., had called for a full-scale Congressional investigation.


Summary: Susan Collins was the senator of Republican of Maine said that he don't think that's sufficient. The call for a full-scale Congressional investigation is not sufficient, not enough.

Summary: Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said that she didn't think that was sufficient.


Summary: When Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush on Tuesday to declare her 'serious concerns' about domestic eavesdropping. Wilson and at least six other Republican lawmakers are openly skeptical about Mr. Bush's assertion that he has the inherent authority to order the wiretaps and that Congress gave him the power to do so when it authorized him to use military force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But Mr. Bush also made clear on Friday that he was tuned in to the growing Republican angst.

Summary: Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush to declare her concerns about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking. Wilson and at least six other Republican lawmakers are openly skeptical about Mr. Bush's assertion that he has the inherent authority to order the wiretaps and that Congress gave him the power to do so when it authorized him to use military force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The backlash is a symptom of Congressional muscle-flexing a sort of mutiny on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have been frustrated by the way Mr. Bush boldly exercises his executive authority.