Summary: Gerald Geller made his way down to Foley Square, entered one of the buildings where the business is justice, and introduced himself to federal marshals and if they checked their records, they would find that he was wanted for a bank robbery in 1971. Mr. Geller has advanced heart disease, and the need for medical attention beyond an emergency-room visit clearly figured in his decision to surrender.


Summary: Last week, one of the residents, a man who called himself George Cook, made a momentous decision. He was 69 years old, living in a box with a failing and heavy heart. He has advanced heart disease, and the need for medical attention beyond an emergency-room visit clearly figured in his decision to surrender.


Summary: IT is close to half a century since Horst Fascher was the flyweight boxing champion of Germany, a gold medal prospect in the 1960 Rome Olympics and a young man who knew his way around this wealthy, rough-and-ready port city. Then one night he got into a street fight with a sailor. The sailor shoved him, and when Mr. Fascher hit back, the sailor went down, hit his head, and a few hours later was dead. Mr. Fascher spent six months in jail, and was banned from boxing forever.


Summary: As manager of the brand new Star Club, Horst Fascher brought the Beatles to Hamburg in 1962, when the group was on the cusp of global fame. He said that he knew if he could get the Beatles for opening night, he'd have no trouble selling out the club. At first, the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein didn't agree to this deal but Mr. Fascher went out with the Beatles themselves and they had a very good time, because the next day Mr. Fascher walked away with a contract for them to perform at the Star Club.


Summary: Horst Fascher said that Except for Elvis, they had everybody: Ray Charles, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley, Brenda Lee, Chubby Checker, Fats Domino. Mr. Fascher has now published a memoir in German, titled "Let the Good Times Roll" in English, full of anecdotes about his adventures and misadventures with some of the legends of the music business. He also said that he started listening to Elvis in 1956 or '57.


Summary: Explaining the European decision, officials in Brussels said the European Union had stopped all direct aid to the Palestinian government and payment of public employees' salaries with European Union funds through the World Bank. Europe's direct payments, which totaled more than $200 million from 2000 to 2002, led to the establishment of a World Bank-monitored trust fund, which is now used by most international donors to disburse money to the fledgling Palestinian government in return for its willingness to meet certain standards of improved fiscal governance.


Summary: Emma Udwin, the spokeswoman for the European Union's executive branch, said that they were not authorizing any payments that went to the Palestinian Authority or through the Palestinian Authority. It has been warning since Hamas won Palestinian elections earlier this year that the Palestinian Authority would lose that aid unless the Hamas-led government renounced violence, recognized Israel and accept past peace agreements. Europe's direct payments, which totaled more than $200 million from 2000 to 2002, led to the establishment of a World Bank-monitored trust fund, which is now used by most international donors to disburse money to the fledgling Palestinian government in return for its willingness to meet certain standards of improved fiscal governance.


Summary: A senior House Republican engaged on immigration issues, Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, also suggested that Congress might want to slow down. He said that his sense is they would do better waiting until after the election.


Summary: Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, who supports the compromise, said the issue was so complex that it would take awhile for the nation and for lawmakers to come to terms with it. Regarding the immigration issue, Mr. Hagel said that it encompasses societal, economic, security issues that are all woven into one fabric.


Summary: Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and one of those who helped broker the bipartisan plan said that he thinks politics got in front of policy on this issue. Mr. McCain and Mr. Kennedy said they had the votes to defeat those proposals and protect the underlying bill.


Summary: The Senate's effort to pass immigration legislation collapsed on Friday, and lawmakers went home for a two-week recess to face voters who are as deeply and passionately divided on the issue as Congress has proven to be.


Summary: But Republicans accused Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, of erecting procedural obstacles to deny Senate Republicans a victory on the politically charged subject in an election year. Mr. Reid and his allies said they objected to the amendments because they saw them as an effort to derail the compromise with a back-door filibuster. Mr. Reid said the major problem, however, was that Mr. Frist had shaken hands on the bipartisan compromise and then was unable to quiet Republican critics who were trying to gum up the works.


Summary: Frank Sharry, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy group, said that he's a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.


Summary: According to an associate of Mr. Weinstein, a co-founder of Miramax Films, Miramax approached Mr. Johnson to talk about making an American version of ''Jet Set,'' a French movie about socialites, though no deal was ever made.


Summary: Jared Paul Stern has been in New York newspapers for 12 years, most of them working for Richard Johnson, the editor of the Page Six gossip column at The New York Post. It is a well-known element of the glossy magazine business and was even a kind of expectation for a society columnist in the days of 'Sweet Smell of Success'. As the story again dominated the front page of the Post's chief rival, The Daily News, Mr. Stern got a new lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, who replaced Edward Hayes.


Summary: The reversal of fortune for Matt Santos, the Democratic nominee, played by Jimmy Smits, who was the victor, had nothing to do with any shift in opinion among voters. Instead, Lawrence O'Donnell, an executive producer of the show, said he and his fellow writers had declared Santos the winner only after the death, in mid-December, of John Spencer, who portrayed Santos's running mate, Leo McGarry. As it became tougher to learn much of any substance from programs like "Crossfire" on CNN, now defunct, "The West Wing" seemed to delve deeper into real issues like health care and education, as exemplified by the raw, one-hour live debate last fall between Matt Santos and Arnold Vinick.


Summary: Instead, Lawrence O'Donnell, an executive producer of the show, said he and his fellow writers had declared Santos the winner only after the death, in mid-December, of John Spencer, who portrayed Santos's running mate, Leo McGarry. But after Mr. Spencer died, Mr. O'Donnell said in a recent interview, he and his colleagues began to confront a creative dilemma: would viewers be saddened to see Mr. Smits's character lose both his running mate and the election? In deciding to put flesh on a Republican like Mr. Alda's Arnold Vinick and committing, at least initially, to having him win, Mr. O'Donnell said he and the other writers had delighted in playing against type.


Summary: The election was to be won by Alan Alda's Arnold Vinick, a maverick Republican (modeled a bit on Senator John McCain), whom many Democrats (including the Democrats who write the show) could learn to love. In deciding to put flesh on a Republican like Mr. Alda's Arnold Vinick and committing, at least initially, to having him win, Mr. O'Donnell said he and the other writers had delighted in playing against type.


Summary: You can say something complex on 'The West Wing' and you will not suffer a screaming interruption by three other panelists. It may not come as any surprise to viewers, given that President Bartlet was a Democrat, but there were no registered Republicans in the most recent incarnation of the ''West Wing'' writers' room, which included Eli Attie, a former speechwriter for Al Gore.


Summary: Mr. O'Donnell, who is also a political analyst on MSNBC, said that political talk on TV has degenerated so much.


Summary: But the reversal of fortune for Matt Santos -- the Democratic nominee, played by Jimmy Smits, who was the victor -- had nothing to do with any shift in opinion among voters. He said that he was approached by Democratic Party representatives from his native state, Ohio, to see if he would be interested in running for the United States Senate after he left the show.


Summary: Lawrence O'Donnell, an executive producer of the show, said he and his fellow writers had declared Santos the winner only after the death, in mid-December, of John Spencer, who portrayed Santos's running mate, Leo McGarry. But after Mr. Spencer died, Mr. O'Donnell said in a recent interview, he and his colleagues began to confront a creative dilemma: would viewers be saddened to see Mr. Smits's character lose both his running mate and the election? Mr. O'Donnell, a onetime adviser to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, said he was especially proud of the show's response to the increasingly shrill political debate in the real world, particularly on cable news.


Summary: Lawrence O'Donnell, a onetime adviser to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, said he was especially proud of the show's response to the increasingly shrill political debate in the real world, particularly on cable news.


Summary: The Democratic nominee, played by Jimmy Smits, who was the victor -- had nothing to do with any shift in opinion among voters. Instead, Lawrence O'Donnell, an executive producer of the show, said he and his fellow writers had declared Santos the winner only after the death, in mid-December, of John Spencer, who portrayed Santos's running mate, Leo McGarry. Other than a coming episode that will linger at the funeral for Mr. Spencer's character -- and include, as mourners, a parade of former cast members, including Rob Lowe -- the show's final episodes will be devoted to the transition from the Bartlet administration to that of President-elect Santos.


Summary: The Democratic nominee, played by Jimmy Smits, who was the victor -- had nothing to do with any shift in opinion among voters. Instead, Lawrence O'Donnell, an executive producer of the show, said he and his fellow writers had declared Santos the winner only after the death, in mid-December, of John Spencer, who portrayed Santos's running mate, Leo McGarry. But after Mr. Spencer died, Mr. O'Donnell said in a recent interview, he and his colleagues began to confront a creative dilemma: would viewers be saddened to see Mr. Smits's character lose both his running mate and the election?


Summary: Though the show began at the end of the Clinton administration, it soon found its creative niche by evoking a parallel reality, one that imagined how the White House might have been different if George W. Bush had not been elected to two terms. President Bartlet escaped making some of the hard decisions that President Bush faced in real life.


Summary: Four executives at the day-trading firm of A.B. Watley were arraigned in the United States District Court in Brooklyn yesterday on conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from a scheme to reap profits after eavesdropping on confidential conversations between stockbrokers and their clients.


Summary: The men who were arraigned on conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from a scheme to reap profits were Robert F. Malin, Linus N. Nwaigwe, Michael A. Picone and Keevin H. Leonard, former supervisor of proprietary trading for Watley. Michael S. Asaro, an assistant United States attorney, told the judge that the government wished to make different arrangements for Mr. Leonard, who is living in a boarding house without a telephone. The prosecutor said he was troubled that Mr. Leonard was said to have left a voice mail message for a potential witness a few months ago in which he uttered that he was going to bury him. Mr. Asaro also contended that during a pretrial proceeding, Mr. Leonard had falsely denied using cocaine. Magistrate Judge Marilyn Dolan Go ruled that Mr. Leonard would be held under house arrest until a financially responsible person could offer security for $100,000 bail.


Summary: The men who were arraigned on conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from a scheme to reap profits were Robert F. Malin, Watley's vice chairman and president; Linus N. Nwaigwe, Michael A. Picone, and Keevin H. Leonard. Robert Malin was released on $300,000 bail.


Summary: Four executives at the day-trading firm of A.B. Watley were arraigned in the United States District Court in Brooklyn yesterday on conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from a scheme to reap profits after eavesdropping on confidential conversations between stockbrokers and their clients. Federal prosecutors say that the men at Watley paid brokers at Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Lehman Brothers thousands of dollars so that they could listen in on conversations between the firms' trading desks and big institutional customers being carried on internal intercoms, or squawk boxes.


Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission also sued the men, the firm and seven others in connection with the same scheme, which has become known as the squawk box case. The S.E.C. complaint names the men arraigned yesterday and the two brokers who pleaded guilty this month, as well as four former Watley traders, Bryan S. Rogers, Keith A. Rogers, Warren R. Fellus and Keith M. Geller, and the chairman of the firm, Steven E. Malin.


Summary: Four executives at the day-trading firm of A. B. Watley were arraigned in the United States District Court in Brooklyn yesterday on conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from a scheme to reap profits after eavesdropping on confidential conversations between stockbrokers and their clients. Federal prosecutors say that the men at Watley paid brokers at Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Lehman Brothers thousands of dollars so that they could listen in on conversations between the firms' trading desks and big institutional customers being carried on internal intercoms, or squawk boxes.


Summary: Before the arrival of Whole Foods, the D'Agostino market that occupies 6,000 square feet in a four-story commercial building at 64 University Place, three blocks from Union Square, was not successful, according to the landlord, Bernard Posner. Mr. Posner, an owner of Bernard-Charles Realty, said the supermarket's rent was $84.70 a square foot plus a percentage of earnings over $15 million. Now that D'Agostino is leaving, Mr. Posner said he had raised the asking rent to $135 a square foot. He said he hoped the next tenant would be another supermarket or an upscale restaurant.


Summary: In Manhattan, the number of food stores that are 5,000 square feet or larger has actually grown in the last decade, to 196 from 154, because markets are turning up in neighborhoods that were previously underserved, according to Lawrence Sarf, the president of F&D Reports, a retail consulting company in Great Neck, N.Y. But, he said, the proportion of markets on the Upper West Side, Upper East Side and Midtown had declined to about 30 percent of the total, from 70 percent. Mr. Sarf said that FreshDirect is putting a dent into everybody. He estimated that Manhattan grocery shoppers spend $2.1 billion a year.


Summary: Gristedes, which has 39 supermarkets in Manhattan, gave up a store it has had for 30 years at 62nd Street and Second Avenue after being outbid by Chase Bank, said John A. Catsimatidis, chief executive of the chain. He also said that if one looks at the previous 10 years then they'll have 50 percent fewer supermarkets than one had then, and going forward 10 years the number will probably halve again. A decade or so ago, a supermarket would pay an amount equivalent to 2 percent of its sales in rent in affluent neighborhoods, Mr. Catsimatidis said, but now it has to pay as much as 8 percent of sales. To hold onto a store on University Place and Eighth Street, he had to agree to twice the previous rent.


Summary: Among the latest casualties is a D'Agostino market on University Place near Union Square, which is closing after two decades in that location. Even before the arrival of Whole Foods, the D'Agostino market that occupies 6,000 square feet in a four-story commercial building at 64 University Place, three blocks from Union Square, was not successful, according to the landlord, Bernard Posner.


Summary: Last year, Connecticut filed suit against the federal Department of Education, contending that federal officials had failed to pay the cost of all the tests required by No Child Left Behind.


Summary: Thomas Toch writes that the scale of N.C.L.B. testing requirements, competitive pressures in the testing industry, a shortage of testing experts, insufficient state resources, tight regulatory deadlines and a lack of meaningful oversight of the sprawling N.C.L.B. testing enterprise are undermining N.C.L.B.'s pursuit of higher academic standards. N.C.L.B. is supposed to be increasing the caliber of education and this is lowering it. It's eroding the power of the test to explain what kids can and cannot do. In their legal papers, Connecticut officials said the deputy secretary of education, Ray Simon, suggested that the state, in addition to saving money by switching to multiple-choice reading and math tests in several grades and dropping its writing assessments, could also use multiple choice for the N.C.L.B. science tests in grades 5, 8 and 10. Betty Sternberg, Connecticut's education commissioner, said having challenging tests pushed schools to teach higher-level skills.


Summary: M. Jodi Rell wrote that testing twice as often would not close the gap and that the money would be better spent on preschool, technology and a longer school day.


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Summary: Thanks to the federal No Child Left Behind Law, this year, for the first time, every student from third to eighth grade and one high school grade must take state tests. Last year, Connecticut filed suit against the federal Department of Education, contending that federal officials had failed to pay the cost of all the tests required by No Child Left Behind.


Summary: Pearson admitted that it had incorrectly scored thousands of the College Board's SAT tests.


Summary: In a recent study that is looking more prescient every minute, Thomas Toch, co-director of a new research group, EducationSector, describes how overextended and underregulated the testing industry is; he warns of many more bad weeks to come, unless something is done. He writes that the scale of N.C.L.B. testing requirements, competitive pressures in the testing industry, a shortage of testing experts, insufficient state resources, tight regulatory deadlines and a lack of meaningful oversight of the sprawling N.C.L.B. testing enterprise are undermining N.C.L.B.'s pursuit of higher academic standards. While testing errors make headlines, Mr. Toch writes that even more worrisome is the pressure on states to dumb down their tests, to switch from challenging tests with essay questions to multiple choice to save money and meet federal reporting deadlines. He points out how much cheaper and faster machine-scored multiple-choice tests are to grade.


Summary: In a letter, the federal education secretary, Margaret Spellings, said that while Connecticut's tests are instructionally sound, they go beyond what was contemplated by N.C.L.B. Federal officials suggested that Connecticut switch to multiple-choice tests and eliminate writing tests to cut costs. Ms. Spellings rejected this request, saying that annual testing was a crucial part of the law. In an opinion article in The Hartford Courant, Ms. Spellings compared Connecticut officials to children who did not like tests and said that, as adults, they should surely know better. She wrote that tests needed to be administered annually to highlight and shrink the achievement gap between white and black students.


Summary: The witness, Steven Corso, is a suntanned C.P.A. who started working with the government in late 2002 after he was caught embezzling $5.4 million from a number of his clients. His testimony overflowed with lunatic accounts of a Vegas mobster in the escort and carpet businesses and of a six-room office suite, built for Mr. Corso by federal agents, equipped with hidden microphones and cameras. At one point, he told the jury how he had had a business lunch with one of the detectives, Louis Eppolito, who was living in Las Vegas and wanted his assistance raising $1.5 million to produce his screenplay "Murder in Youngstown." In its second week, the federal trial has proved itself to be a transcontinental affair, a cross between a pulp-detective novel and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."


Summary: He said that he gathered more than 1,200 hours of recordings on everyone from the habitués of a trattoria called Casa di Amore to the strippers at the Crazy Horse Too.


Summary: Last week, an aging marijuana dealer told how Mr. Eppolito, 57, and his former partner, Stephen Caracappa, 64, had taken part in at least eight gangland murders. Mr. Eppolito, testimony showed, holed up in his garage beside a knife collection writing screenplays, while Mr. Caracappa tried his hand at selling George Foreman punching-bag machines through the home-shopping channel QVC.


Summary: One of the detectives, Louis Eppolito, who was living in Las Vegas and wanted his assistance raising $1.5 million to produce a screenplay he had written, ''Murder in Youngstown.'' The federal trial has proved itself to be a strange, transcontinental affair -- a cross between a pulp-detective novel and ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.'' Last week, an aging marijuana dealer told how Mr. Eppolito, 57, and his former partner, Stephen Caracappa, 64, had taken part in at least eight gangland murders. Mr. Eppolito, testimony showed, holed up in his garage beside a knife collection writing screenplays, while Mr. Caracappa tried his hand at selling George Foreman punching-bag machines through the home-shopping channel QVC. Mr. Corso testified that Mr. Eppolito explained to him that he had the formula to make a movie and how it was foolproof.


Summary: The detectives moved there in the early 1990's, after they retired from the Police Department.


Summary: The witness said, a man he described as a gangster, John Frate, met him for lunch and handed him an envelope with Mr. Eppolito's script. Mr. Corso said that Mr. Frate joined them for good measure. Before the client had arrived, Mr. Corso told the jury that he, Mr. Frate and Mr. Eppolito had been standing at the bar, discussing another movie-making scheme.


Summary: David Cantor, a department spokesman, said that as of yesterday afternoon, 132 employees had applied for amnesty, and an additional 118 had made inquiries about the program. Mr. Cantor said also said that out of 90, 59 were teachers, 7 assistant principals, 6 principals, 6 secretaries or other support staff workers, and 6 were guidance counselors or other student support service workers. He further said that a more comprehensive breakdown would be released next week, and that officials were still trying to determine who among the applicants had submitted false addresses and would therefore be required to pay back tuition.


Summary: Robert Jackson, chairman of the City Council Education Committee, said that these teachers were trying to make it to school on time, trying to do their job and trying to raise their family at the same time. He also suggested that the city offer nonresident school employees a break on tuition.


Summary: A DaimlerChrysler spokesman, Trevor Hale, said the company offered fuel-efficient engines; many Mercedes sedans sold in China have considerably smaller engines than models sold in the United States.


Summary: Yale Zhang, an analyst in the Shanghai office of CSM Worldwide, a big automotive consulting firm based in the Detroit suburbs, said that Chinese automakers had growing influence in policy debates and that the new rules might lead to a proliferation of vehicles with engines a hundredth of a liter below the thresholds for higher taxes.


Summary: The executive vice president and chief research officer for the CBS Corporation, David Poltrack, said that he thinks that they basically just sold time, and because of this new nonlinear world of television with all these new options, that's no longer the way they do business. He also said that CBS is now selling cross-platform advertising, like Internet ad space packaged with television commercials and that through the college basketball tournament so far, CBS has been hosted to more than 14 million downloads of streamed video and more than 4 million unique visitors.


Summary: Josh Bernoff, the vice president for devices, media and marketing at Forrester Research, said that the main culprit is the digital video recorder and although the device is currently in fewer than 10 percent of American households, that number is expected to hit an indelible growth spurt. He estimated that 43 million households were likely to have digital video recorders by 2010. He said that the growth in the DVR household base is about to reach a very rapid pace, and this is driven, of course, by cable companies and satellite companies pushing them out and reducing the prices on those products.


Summary: David Poltrack, the executive vice president and chief research officer for the CBS Corporation, said that he thinks that they basically just sold time and because of this new nonlinear world of television with all these new options, that's no longer the way we do business and that CBS is now selling cross-platform advertising, like Internet ad space packaged with television commercials. While acknowledging that the Internet is competition for broadcasters, he also said that networks can take advantage of the growing popularity of streaming video as through the college basketball tournament so far, CBS has been hosted to more than 14 million downloads of streamed video and more than 4 million unique visitors.


Summary: Converse presented a case study on how to integrate Internet and television with a viral campaign that solicited homemade videos from the public. After asking consumers to send in videos featuring Converse sneakers, Converse received more than 1,500 entries from 20 countries and posted them on conversegallery.com. Erick Soderstrom, the senior director of global brand development for Converse, said that they are trying to blow the barrier between brand and consumer.


Summary: The data system, called ChildStat, which was one of several initiatives outlined yesterday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and John B. Mattingly, the commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services, during a news conference at City Hall, will be modeled after the Police Department's management system, CompStat, which has been credited with helping to lower the crime rate by compiling and analyzing crime statistics to suggest where police resources should be placed. ChildStat would similarly track data about investigations, and it would use scorecards to evaluate the responses of caseworkers and their supervisors.


Summary: William F. Weld struck back in force, telling how their feud dated at least to a 1996 encounter in which Mr. D'Amato gave him $750,000 in donations for his Senate campaign that year against John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Weld's challenge to Mr. Kerry was one of the most hotly contested Senate races that year.


Summary: Robert S. Mueller III, a friend of William F. Weld's, has been the director of the F.B.I. since 2001.


Summary: For the last few months, William F. Weld's bid to become governor of New York has had a sharp thorn in its side: the outspoken opposition of the onetime kingmaker of state Republican politics, former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, who has said that Mr. Weld is without any real experience in New York. Yesterday, Mr. Weld struck back in force, telling how their feud dated at least to a 1996 encounter in which Mr. D'Amato gave him $750,000 in donations for his Senate campaign that year against John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. D'Amato vigorously denied that the encounter had taken place and said he had not even met Mr. Weld until recently, at a Feb. 23 fund-raiser for Representative Vito J. Fossella.


Summary: The clash exposed in the most bare-knuckled form the searing divisions that have afflicted state Republicans as they seek to find credible candidates to run for governor and to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in November. The feud is the latest embarrassment for a state party that has already seen the implosion of Jeanine F. Pirro's bid to topple Senator Clinton and open Republican challenges to the leadership of Governor Pataki, who is not running for a fourth term.


Summary: Mr. D'Amato, who in 1994 helped shepherd a little-known George E. Pataki to the governor's mansion, has been openly praising the presumed Democratic front-runner for governor, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and yesterday he attacked Mr. Weld's stewardship of Decker College, a financially troubled Kentucky school that is the subject of a federal investigation. Mr. D'Amato added that he didn't intend to endorse Eliot Spitzer, but he would say, if asked, he had done a magnificent job as attorney general, better than any he had ever seen.


Summary: For the last few months, William F. Weld's bid to become governor of New York has had a sharp thorn in its side: the outspoken opposition of the onetime kingmaker of state Republican politics, former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, who has said that Mr. Weld is without any real experience in New York. Yesterday, Mr. Weld struck back in force, telling how their feud dated at least to a 1996 encounter in which Mr. D'Amato gave him $750,000 in donations for his Senate campaign that year against John Kerry of Massachusetts.


Summary: Mr. D'Amato suggested that his dislike for Mr. Weld preceded the investigation of his brother and dated from 1988, when Mr. Weld and five other officials resigned to distance themselves from Attorney General Edwin Meese III, who was under investigation.  Mr. D'Amato said that Weld was a duplicitous guy who stabbed Ed Meese in the back. Mr. Weld said that the investigations had been taking their toll on the department. Mr. Meese did not respond to messages left at his office in Washington and his home in McLean, Va.


Summary: Mr. D'Amato, who in 1994 helped shepherd a little-known George E. Pataki to the governor's mansion, has been openly praising the presumed Democratic front-runner for governor, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and yesterday he attacked Mr. Weld's stewardship of Decker College. The feud is the latest embarrassment for a state party that has already seen the implosion of Jeanine F. Pirro's bid to topple Senator Clinton and open Republican challenges to the leadership of Governor Pataki, who is not running for a fourth term.


Summary: The donations came with an expletive-laced warning: that Mr. Weld distance himself from Robert S. Mueller III, who as a Justice Department official oversaw a federal fraud investigation of Mr. D'Amato's brother, Armand, in the early 1990's. Mr. Weld, a former Massachusetts governor, said if I ever see that expletive Mueller at an expletive fund-raiser, he is going to get every expletive dollar of this back out of your hide. Mr. Weld said he did not interpret it to mean that he would in any way distance himself from Mr. Mueller, to whom he has been close since at least 1982, when Mr. Weld, then the United States attorney in Boston, recruited Mr. Mueller to work for him.


Summary: The feud is the latest embarrassment for a state party that has already seen the implosion of Jeanine F. Pirro's bid to topple Senator Clinton and open Republican challenges to the leadership of Governor Pataki, who is not running for a fourth term.


Summary: William F. Weld struck back in force, telling how their feud dated at least to a 1996 encounter in which Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato gave him $750,000 in donations for his Senate campaign that year against John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Weld's challenge to Mr. Kerry was one of the most hotly contested Senate races that year.


Summary: Craig Engle, who was the committee's general counsel from 1995 to 2000, said yesterday that he, too, could recall only a phone call and not a meeting. He said that under varying state rules, the committee was permitted to pay a campaign's bills and that over time the amounts in the Massachusetts race might have added up to $750,000.


Summary: The donations came with an expletive-laced warning: that Mr. Weld distance himself from Robert S. Mueller III, who as a Justice Department official oversaw a federal fraud investigation of Mr. D'Amato's brother, Armand, in the early 1990's. During a breakfast yesterday organized by Crain's New York Business, Mr. Weld said that in Washington in 1996, he visited Mr. D'Amato, who was the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which raises money for Republican Senate candidates.


Summary: The matter brought to the forefront once again an episode that haunted the Senate career of Mr. D'Amato, who served from 1981 to 1999: the investigation that resulted in the May 1993 mail fraud conviction of Armand P.


Summary: For the last few months, William F. Weld's bid to become governor of New York has had a sharp thorn in its side: the outspoken opposition of the onetime kingmaker of state Republican politics, former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, who has said that Mr. Weld is without any real experience in New York. Mr. D'Amato yesterday vigorously denied that the encounter had taken place and said he had not even met Mr. Weld until recently, at a Feb. 23 fund-raiser for Representative Vito J. Fossella. Mr. D'Amato, who in 1994 helped shepherd a little-known George E. Pataki to the governor's mansion, has been openly praising the presumed Democratic front-runner for governor, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and yesterday he attacked Mr. Weld's stewardship of Decker College, a financially troubled Kentucky school that is the subject of a federal investigation.


Summary: The Abbey Theater was already collapsing with debt when the government appointed Fiach Mac Conghail to be its next director early last year. Mr. Mac Conghail revamped the Abbey's antiquated legal structure, persuaded the Irish government to clear its 4-million-euro ($4.9 million) deficit, and won the largest grant ever awarded by the government's Arts Council, for 25.7 million euros ($31.3 million) over three years. The Abbey, founded by William Butler Yeats, provided a space for those movements' political and cultural expressions.


Summary: The Abbey Theater was already collapsing with debt when the government appointed Fiach Mac Conghail to be its next director early last year. He revamped the Abbey's antiquated legal structure, persuaded the Irish government to clear its 4-million-euro ($4.9 million) deficit, and won the largest grant ever awarded by the government's Arts Council, for 25.7 million euros ($31.3 million) over three years. Mr. Mac Conghail feels free to tackle what he sees as his principal task: reorienting the Abbey on its original mission as a politically relevant national theater. He said that the notion that the Abbey had to continually and centrally interrogate a repertoire was gone, and he thought that was a good thing.


Summary: Ron DeSantis, a chef at the Culinary Institute of America who has done consulting work for the industry, said that the reality of airline food is that one is eating leftovers.


Summary: While outright fraud is rare in the offerings posted by the three companies that dominate the travel auction scene, SkyAuction, LuxuryLink and eBay, in the rush to claim a good price, a buyer may not notice handling fees, blackout dates and penalties for changes that can be buried in the fine print. According to Ms. Stellin, LuxuryLink charges $20 for every purchase.


Summary: On the day prosecutors planned to rest their case, there came, in a 1 p.m. conference call from a maximum-security federal prison, the voice of Anthony Casso, former underboss of the Luchese crime family. After 12 years in prison, nearly 8 of them in Florence, Mr. Casso was calling the defense to exonerate the two defendants, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa. Mr. Casso concluded his letter by reminding Mr. Feldman of his three and a half years. After Mr. Casso was arrested more than a decade ago, he started working with the government, and so agreeably at first that prosecutors tried to use his help in building a case against Mr. Eppolito and Mr. Caracappa.


Summary: Mr. Casso attributed that last crime to Burton Kaplan in a move that indicates how confounding the federal trial has been, his former partner in crime, who has since become a government witness in the case. For the next 12 years or so, prosecutors chipped away at Mr. Kaplan to get him to cooperate, and last year they won his help. In the first week of the trial, acting as a substitute for Mr. Casso, Mr. Kaplan told the jury that he had served as ''the safety spot,'' or liaison, between his former mob associate and the two retired detectives, who are accused of eight murders.


Summary: Pennsylvania's lawyer, Louis J. Rovelli, executive deputy state attorney general, received his share of skeptical questions but appeared generally unfazed by them. Justice Ginsburg asked Mr. Rovelli to explain why the policy permitted inmates to order paperback books from the prison library while prohibiting newspapers and magazines. Mr. Rovelli replied that paperbacks were more difficult to use as weapons by the worst inmates to whom the policy applies.


Summary: But a recent tour of the three-story house with the Abusches and Suzanne D'Amato, senior project manager of the city's development department, held a sense of promise. Ms. D'Amato said that it will be a complete gut rehab, leading the way up a narrow staircase to the sunny second floor, where the Abusches she is the artistic director, he is the executive director envision a lobby and acting studios.


Summary: On a recent tour of Wildcliff, the glorious Gothic Revival house on a windy bluff overlooking Long Island Sound here, the couple talked about their vision, which may not be such a stretch. Play Group was recommended to the City as Wildcliff's new occupant after the group submitted a plan for the building to the city in 2003. The theater, and the house, had been vacant since Fleetwood Stage moved out last spring after presenting plays at Wildcliff.


Summary: The governor, the Senate and the Assembly all support eliminating the so-called marriage penalty, a feature of the state tax code that can make it expensive for couples living together to marry. They also want to offer parents a tax credit of at least $300 per child. While the Senate's top priority is pushing its aggressive tax-cutting plan, the Assembly is focusing on increasing school aid in light of court orders to spend billions more on New York City schools.


Summary: The governor, the Senate and the Assembly all support eliminating the so-called marriage penalty, a feature of the state tax code that can make it expensive for couples living together to marry. They also want to offer parents a tax credit of at least $300 per child, although Gov. George E. Pataki and the Senate want to tie the credit to education. Mr. Pataki wants a $500 credit per child, but only to pay for education spending by families living in areas with underperforming schools, while the Assembly is countering by proposing a general $300 tax credit per child. Mr. Pataki wants a $500 credit per child, but only to pay for education spending by families living in areas with underperforming schools, while the Assembly is countering by proposing a general $300 tax credit per child.


Summary: The governor, the Senate and the Assembly all support eliminating the so-called marriage penalty, a feature of the state tax code that can make it expensive for couples living together to marry. George E. Pataki and the Senate want to tie the credit to education. While the Senate's top priority is pushing its aggressive tax-cutting plan, the Assembly is focused on increasing school aid in light of court orders to spend billions more on New York City schools. The Senate wants to send homeowners several hundred dollars' worth of rebates, averaging $750 annually in Nassau County within three years, for instance, while the governor wants to limit the program to school districts that contain new spending, a likely disqualification for New York City homeowners.


Summary: On Friday, Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate's Republican majority leader, said after a public budget meeting that he's optimistic that everyone intend to do property tax reform as it's a priority. He added that all three sides have substantial property tax reductions in their proposals. This year, in a bid for openness in the notoriously opaque Albany budget process, Mr. Bruno and the Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, have actually debated and settled a few issues in public.


Summary: The more or less final act came earlier this month, when Bear Stearns agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission under which it would pay $250 million to investors for its alleged fund-related transgressions. To begin with, Bear Stearns did not pay a fine. The company will pay $250 million in disgorgements and penalties. The penalty part was just $90 million. Bear Stearns agreed to pay all this money without admitting or denying the allegations.


Summary: The more or less final act came earlier this month, when Bear Stearns agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission under which it would pay $250 million to investors for its alleged fund-related transgressions. As is typical in S.E.C. settlements, Bear Stearns agreed to pay all this money without admitting or denying the allegations. The S.E.C. needs to make Wall Street firms wince when they do something wrong.


Summary: The many of the final act came earlier this current month, when Bear Stearns agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission under which it would pay $250 million to investors for its alleged fund-related transgressions. As is typical in S.E.C. settlements, Bear Stearns agreed to pay all this money without admitting or denying the allegations. The S.E.C. needs to make Wall Street firms start when they do something wrong.


Summary: A Forrester Research analyst, Charlene Li, concludes that Google has done a very, very nice job pulling together a financial portal. Li writes that he frankly thought that they won't be seeing a mass migration of people from other finance sites to Google anytime soon.


Summary: Reaction has been mixed, but mostly positive, to Google Finance, which went live this week. Despite a few bugs, most Google watchers seem to like the service's features, which include news items keyed to stock charts; recent company-specific blog posts; and pop-up information on corporate officers.


Summary: The Hispanic Society of America, home to one of the largest collections of Hispanic cultural material outside Spain, has decided to move downtown from Washington Heights to draw more visitors and acquire the space it needs to display its art and artifacts. The chairman, George B. Moore, said that its board has been looking at real estate and development proposals in Battery Park, Chelsea and Midtown, but has no fixed area in mind and that they would prefer to build rather than have to remake an existing building, given the specific needs for displaying our diverse collection. Mr. Moore also said that the society might need to raise as much as $300 million, citing the costs of buying land and constructing a building and a need to double the museum's endowment of about $65 million, which covers most of the society's annual $3 million operating budget.


Hispanic Society of America
Hispanic Society

Summary: The Hispanic Society of America, home to one of the largest collections of Hispanic cultural material outside Spain, has decided to move downtown from Washington Heights to draw more visitors and acquire the space it needs to display its art and artifacts. Since its founding in 1904, the society has been on Audubon Terrace, a stately row of Beaux-Arts buildings near Broadway at 155th Street. The chairman, George B. Moore, said that its board has been looking at real estate and development proposals in Battery Park, Chelsea and Midtown, but has no fixed area in mind.


Summary: It included the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Numismatic Society, the American Geographical Society and what was then called the Museum of the American Indian-Heye Foundation. Of those, only the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hispanic Society remain, joined by Boriuca College.


Summary: Mitchell Codding said it drew about 20,000 visitors a year, about half of them in school groups. Mr. Codding said that this place was never meant to house anything like the number or variety of objects that we have. He pointed to an assortment of 16th-century alabaster tomb sculptures from Cuéllar, Spain, that are stored in pieces on the floor and along the walls of an alcove.


Summary: Department of Education officials said that at least 132 people who work for the New York City public schools and live outside the city have acknowledged that they improperly send their children to city schools without paying tuition.


Summary: The program was set up last month after a report by the special commissioner of investigation for the city schools found that Lee D.


Summary: McCaskill, the longtime principal of Brooklyn Technical High School, and his wife, a teacher, had used a false address to send their daughter to a top Brooklyn elementary school, although they live in New Jersey. Dr. McCaskill, who was allowed to retire without the city's seeking disciplinary measures, had sparred with many of his teachers in recent years, and the United Federation of Teachers had sought his removal.


Summary: Randi Weingarten, the teachers' union president, said she was pleased that the chancellor had changed the policy about back tuition payments. She also said it was unfair for school employees to be forced to pay tuition going back more than three years, adding that many of them had no idea they had done anything wrong and others had been told by their principals to submit city addresses. She added that she did not regret her efforts to have Dr. McCaskill removed, but added that the irony of the situation was not lost on her.


Summary: There are two conclusions from ''Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection,'' a report that Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmentalists, expects will influence investment decisions. The report, released yesterday, scored 100 global corporations, 74 of them based in the United States, on their strategies for curbing greenhouse gases. It evaluated companies on their board oversight, management performance, public disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions, accounting and strategic planning.


Summary: Steven Tragash, a spokesman for Guidant, said yesterday that the company did not comment on litigation.


Summary: The toughness of the report may reflect the person Guidant appointed to head the effort, Dr. Robert J. Myerburg, a professor of medicine at the University of Miami.


Summary: The death of that patient last March, a college student, set off a chain of events that would lead to the scrutiny of Guidant, the recalls of thousands of its devices, and some 145 lawsuits and investigations by the Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department.


Summary: The witness, Burton Kaplan, an aging marijuana dealer, testified that after his arrest in 1996 on drug and tax evasion charges, against Mr. Eppolito, 57, and Mr. Caracappa, 64. Mr. Kaplan described how, on the day of his arrest, a parade of 20 to 25 investigators from different agencies courted his cooperation. He never said a word at the Manhattan office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, adding that the scene was just the start of an eight-year attempt to win his cooperation against the two men. It was not until Mr. Kaplan was convicted of narcotics smuggling in 1997, tried to appeal the verdict by blaming his lawyers, and then served nine years in federal prison that he agreed to cooperate, a decision for which he has repeatedly flailed himself throughout the trial.

Summary: Burton Kaplan, who was the witness, an aging marijuana dealer, testified that after his arrest on drug and tax evasion charges the government was willing to go to any length to make him crack and come on board to provide information against Mr. Eppolito, who was 57, and Mr. Caracappa, who was 64. The two men are accused of working under Mr. Kaplan's direction while they were detectives to commit at least eight murders, seven of them for Anthony Casso, the second man in the Luchese crime family. Mr. Kaplan said in the unschooled accent that he did not fight as good as he could, he said in the unschooled accent he has used throughout the trial.


Summary: The offer came as the latest step in a long-running duel between Telenor and the Alfa Group, controlled by the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman. At issue is the joint ownership by Telenor and Alfa in the largest cellphone company in Ukraine, Kyivstar, and the second largest in Russia, VimpelCom. Alfa, through its holding company Altimo, owns 33 percent of VimpelCom and 43 percent of Kyivstar.

Summary: The offer came as the latest step in a long-running duel between the two most renowned telecommunications companies  Telenor and the Alfa Group, which is controlled by the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman. Alfa, with the help of it's holding company Altimo, owns 33 percent of VimpelCom and 43 percent of Kyivstar. Telenor countered with a statement encouraging Alfa to more carefully consider the proposal for a separation clause.


Summary: Telenor holds 26 percent of VimpelCom and 57 percent of Kyivstar. Telenor offered to sell Kyivstar to VimpelCom. Shares of VimpelCom, which became the first Russian company to list on the New York Stock Exchange, rose $2.49, or 6 percent, to $45.39.

Summary: At issue is joint ownership by Telenor and Alfa in the largest cellphone company in Ukraine, Kyivstar, and the second largest in Russia, VimpelCom. Telenor holds 26 percent shares of VimpelCom and 57 percent shares of Kyivstar. Telenor offered to sell Kyivstar to VimpelCom.


Summary: Kjell M. Johnsen, the head of Telenor in Russia, told reporters at the Arrarat Hyatt Hotel in Moscow that they cannot have these situations popping up again.

Summary: Kjell M. Johnsen, the head of Telenor in Russia, said that,  they cannot have these situations popping up again for the companies told reporters at the Arrarat Hyatt Hotel in Moscow.


Summary: At issue is the joint ownership by Telenor and Alfa in the largest cellphone company in Ukraine, Kyivstar, and the second largest in Russia, VimpelCom. Alfa, through its holding company Altimo, owns 33 percent of VimpelCom and 43 percent of Kyivstar. Telenor holds 26 percent of VimpelCom and 57 percent of Kyivstar.

Summary: At issue is joint ownership by Telenor and Alfa in the largest cellphone company in Ukraine, Kyivstar, and the second largest in Russia, VimpelCom. Altimo is the holding company of Alfa, owns 33 percent of VimpelCom and 43 percent of Kyivstar. Telenor holds 26 percent of VimpelCom and 57 percent of Kyivstar.


Summary: Telenor, the Norwegian mobile phone operator, offered on to sell its Ukrainian telecommunications business to a Russian company for $5 billion in cash. Telenor holds 26 percent of VimpelCom and 57 percent of Kyivstar. The move would consolidate all significant telecommunications assets of the rivals in the same company, where neither side would hold a majority stake.

Summary: The renowned Norwegian mobile phone operator, Telenor, offered to sell its Ukrainian telecommunications business to a Russian company for $5 billion in cash. The offer came as the latest step in a long-running duel between teo of the most renowned companies, Telenor and the Alfa Group, controlled by the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman. The two sides began as partners and are now fighting for control of the companies they jointly invested in.


Summary: The offer came as the latest step in a long-running duel between Telenor and the Alfa Group, controlled by the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman.

Summary: The offer came as the latest step in a long-running duel between Telenor and the Alfa Group, which is controlled by Mikhail Fridman, who is the Russian billionaire.


Summary: Thomas Liotti has been branded a big mouth for his self-promotion and propensity to tongue-lash prosecutors. Mr. Liotti has defended clients on death row, others who murdered their previous lawyers, and major drug traffickers. In a press release he bragged about the toughness of his clients, one, he said, was involved in a courthouse shootout, another waved a gun at him and boasted he was a contract killer. Like others on the list, Mr. Liotti said he had represented some clients who became informers rather than face a long prison term and others who refused to testify for the prosecution.

Summary: Thomas Liotti has been branded a big mouth for his self-promotion and propensity to tongue-lash prosecutors, police officers and even judges. He flourish off the criticism, calling it a byproduct of being a lawyer who defends some of the most dangerous criminals to pass through any of New York's downstate courtrooms. Mr. Liotti has defended clients on death row, others who murdered their previous lawyers and major drug dealer with connections to Colombian drug lords.


Summary: Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., who is also the Manhattan Democratic leader, said that in Albany if someone's bill goes down, they're allowed to bring it back and get a second vote.

Summary: Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., who is also the Manhattan Democratic leader, said in Albany that they deserve another shot at it. The Councilman said that if your bill goes down, you're allowed to bring it back and get a second vote. This is an unnecessary position that the M.T.A. is taking.


Summary: Roger Toussaint, the president of the transit workers' union, demanded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agrees to a second vote on the proposed contract that his divided membershipwas narrowly rejected. Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union announced the rejection, by 7 votes out of 22,461 cast, of a contract accord reached with the authority after the union's strike.

Summary: Roger Toussaint, the president of the transit workers' union, demanded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agree to a second vote on the proposed contract that his divided membership narrowly rejected. On January 21, Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union announced the rejection, by 7 votes out of 22,461 cast, of a contract accord reached with the authority after the union's strike of December 20 to 22. The authority has sought binding arbitration, an option the union has adamantly rejected.


Summary: Councilman Leroy G. Comrie Jr. of Queens said that the M.T.A. is taking an unnecessary position.

Summary: The  Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., who is also the Manhattan Democratic leader, said in Albany that they deserve another shot at it. Councilman Leroy G. Comrie Jr. of Queens said that if your bill goes down, you're allowed to bring it back and get a second vote. This is an unnecessary position that the M.T.A. is taking, also said by the councilman.


Summary: Roger Toussaint, the president of the transit workers' union, demanded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agrees to a second vote on the proposed contract that his divided membership was narrowly rejected. At a City Hall, Mr. Toussaint was joined by 16 elected officials, all Democrats, who said that a new vote was the best way to resolve the protracted labor dispute. He said it also found that half the members did not understand a major provision that would require all workers to pay 1.5 percent of their earnings toward the cost of their health care premiums, and that 16 percent misinterpreted that provision to mean that they would have to pay an additional 1.5 percent of their wages each year, or 4.5 percent by the end of the 37-month contract. The authority has dismissed the idea of a revote.

Summary: Humbled but unbowed, the president of the transit workers' union, Roger Toussaint, demanded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed to second vote on the proposed contract that his divided membership narrowly rejected in January. At a City Hall news conference, Mr. Toussaint was joined by 16 elected officials, all Democrats, who said that a new vote was the best way to resolve the protracted labor dispute. Yesterday, Mr. Toussaint accused the authority, Gov. George E. Pataki, union dissidents and The New York Post of purposely disrupting the first vote.


Summary: Kaing Lao's 10-year-old nephew, Andy, and 14-year-old niece, April, made a bright, energetic pair, taking piano lessons, joining swim teams, reading everything from novels to Japanese comic books. Andy was in critical condition in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit. The four children Kevin, Douglas, Andy, and April were members of the Flushing Flyers Aquatic Club, a record-breaking swim squad at the Flushing Y.M.C.A.

Summary: Kaing Lao's 10-year-old nephew, named Andy, and 14-year-old niece, made a bright, energetic pair, taking piano lessons, joining swim teams, reading everything from novels to Japanese comic books. Andy was in critical condition in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit. The four children and they are Kevin, Douglas, Andy and April were members of the Flushing Flyers Aquatic Club, a record-breaking swim squad at the Flushing Y.M.C.A., in Queens, made up of girls and boys ages 6 to 18


Summary: The driver of the minivan, Shuk H. Tse, had stopped in the middle of a traffic lane to check a flat tire about 7 a.m.


Summary: Karen Lao and her two children were traveling in a minivan with another family and were on their way to the state Y.M.C.A. swim championships in Buffalo when they were struck by a tractor-trailer in Orange County. The four children Kevin, Douglas, Andy, and April were members of the Flushing Flyers Aquatic Club, a record-breaking swim squad at the Flushing Y.M.C.A. The children and their parents decided yesterday to proceed with the competition, in memory of those who had died, Y.M.C.A. officials said.

Summary: Karen Lao and her two children were traveling in a minivan with another family on Friday morning, on their way to the state Y.M.C.A. swim championships in Buffalo, when they were struck by a tractor-trailer in Orange County. The four children Kevin, Douglas, Andy and April were members of the Flushing Flyers Aquatic Club, a record-breaking swim squad at the Flushing Y.M.C.A., in Queens, made up of girls and boys ages 6 to 18. The children and their parents decided yesterday to proceed with the competition, in memory of those who had died, Y.M.C.A. officials said.


Summary: The driver of the tanker-style tractor-trailer, David Tichko, was treated and released from Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. A New York State Police investigator said there were no indications that Mr. Tichko had been speeding, adding that it was unlikely any charges would be filed against him.

Summary: David Tichko, who was the driver of the tanker-style tractor-trailer, was treated and released Friday from Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. A New York State Police investigator said there were no indications that the Mr. Tichko had been speeding, adding that it was unlikely any charges would be filed against him.


Summary: Kaing Lao always thought his brother Kam had the perfect family. One day after a deadly collision on the New York State Thruway, Mr. Lao and his relatives were a jumble of emotions, consumed by both gratitude and grief, gratitude because his nephew and his sister-in-law survived, grief because his niece did not.

Summary: Kaing Lao always thought his brother Kam had the perfect family. His sister-in-law, Karen, was the devoted homemaker. His 10-year-old nephew, and his name is Andy, and 14-year-old niece, made a bright, energetic pair, taking piano lessons, joining swim teams, reading everything from novels to Japanese comic books. Mr. Lao, aged 27, said that he worked so hard for his family, and one accident it almost wiped out his whole reason for being, as he sat by Andy's hospital bed, holding the boy's left hand.


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Catherine de Zegher

Summary: After the Drawing Center's bid for a new home at ground zero, the center announced that its executive director, Catherine de Zegher, would resign. Several people who work with the Drawing Center said that strains had developed between Ms. de Zegher and the Drawing Center's president, George Negroponte, in the negotiations involved in moving to ground zero. But in an interview, Ms. de Zegher went further in discussing the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which oversees the downtown rebuilding effort. Under her direction, the Drawing Center has presented both historical and contemporary shows. A touring exhibition of Eva Hesse's drawings that Ms. de Zegher jointly curated with Elisabeth Sussman is coming to the Drawing Center's current site on Wooster Street in May.

Summary: After a long power struggle set off by the Drawing Center's bid for a new home at ground zero, the center announced yesterday that its executive director, Catherine de Zegher, would resign at the end of the month. While commending Ms. de Zegher, who led the art institution for seven years, board members said they wanted someone new to lead the center through its planned move from SoHo. The chairwoman of the Drawing Center, Andrea Woodner, steering committee on the building project, suggested that Ms. de Zegher a curator and writer would have been frustrated by an increase in tasks required of her, from fund-raising to public relations to strategic planning.


Summary: After a long power struggle set off by the Drawing Center's bid for a new home at ground zero, the center announced that its executive director, Catherine de Zegher, would resign at the end of the month. Having been forced from its proposed site at the former World Trade Center last fall after controversy over its exhibitions, the Drawing Center is now pursuing a move to a former Fulton Fish Market site near the South Street Seaport. Several people who work with the Drawing Center said that strains had developed between Ms. de Zegher and the Drawing Center's president, George Negroponte, in the negotiations involved in moving to ground zero. The Drawing Center is in the midst of trying to strike a deal with the city for the Fulton Fish Market building.

Summary: After a long power struggle by the Drawing Center's bid for a new home at ground zero, the center announced that its executive director, Catherine de Zegher, would resign at the end of the month. While commending Ms. de Zegher, who led the art institution for seven years, board members said they wanted someone new to lead the center through its planned move from SoHo. Having been forced from its proposed site at the former World Trade Center last fall after controversy over its exhibitions, the Drawing Center is now chasing a move to a former Fulton Fish Market site near the South Street Seaport.


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George Negroponte
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Summary: Several people who work with the Drawing Center, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that strains had developed between Ms. de Zegher and the Drawing Center's president, George Negroponte, in the negotiations involved in moving to ground zero. Mr. Negroponte easily accepted having to share a building with a proposed International Freedom Center, whose mandate was unclear. Mr. Negroponte sometimes objected to how much money Ms. de Zegher spent on shows at the Drawing Center and felt the money should be reserved for developing the new building. Mr. Negroponte was upset that Ms. de Zegher's outspokenness came at a time when he felt the Drawing Center should be keeping a low profile.

Summary: Employees who work with the Drawing Center, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that strains had developed between Ms. de Zegher and George Negroponte, the Drawing Center's president, in the negotiations involved in moving to ground zero. He easily accepted having to share a building with a proposed International Freedom Center, whose mandate was unclear. Whereas, Mr. Woodner said that The position of George was, one thing to come out with a strong statement, it's another thing to not try to shoot ourselves in the foot.


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Summary: The developer Larry A. Silverstein offer the Port Authority which was rejected by them for bringing back the negotiations and said it would unveil its own proposal for the site next week. Conversations between Mr. Silverstein, who controls the lease at ground zero, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land, abruptly broke off. Eager to restart the talks, Mr. Silverstein sent the Port Authority a new proposal that he had hoped that would lead both sides back to the bargaining table.

Summary: The Port Authority rejected a new offer yesterday from the developer Larry A. Silverstein to revive the negotiations. Talks between Mr. Silverstein, who controls the lease at ground zero, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land, abruptly broke off. Eager to restart the talks, Mr. Silverstein sent the Port Authority a new proposal that he had hoped would lead both sides back to the bargaining table. The dispute between Mr. Silverstein and the Port Authority surfaced as state and city officials became concerned about the developer's ability to rebuild the entire site, at an estimated cost of more than $7 billion, when there is only $2.9 billion in insurance money available. Mr. Silverstein, in turn, would have retained what everyone regards as the most lucrative sites for three towers on Church Street, next to the $2 billion PATH terminal now under construction.


Port Authority of New York
Port Authority

Summary: The Port Authority rejected a new offer from the developer Larry A. Silverstein to revive the negotiations. Talks between Mr. Silverstein, who controls the lease at ground zero, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land, abruptly broke off. Port Authority officials said that the overture did not amount to a starting point for a new agreement. Port Authority staff will develop a counterproposal that we believe will work for both parties to get this deal done. The dispute between Mr. Silverstein and the Port Authority surfaced as state and city officials became concerned about the developer's ability to rebuild the entire sitee. Anthony R. Coscia, chairman of the Port Authority, has expressed that he will not agree to a deal that enriches Mr. Silverstein, while leaving the authority with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in bills.

Summary: The Port Authority rejected a new offer from the developer Larry A. Silverstein to bring back the negotiations and said it would unveil its own proposal for the site the coming week. Talks between Mr. Silverstein, who controls the lease at ground zero, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land, abruptly broke off. The developer had submitted what state officials and Port Authority executives said was a one-sided counterproposal that shifted all the development risks onto the authority, while guaranteeing Mr. Silverstein a profit.


Summary: Bud Perrone, a spokesman for Mr. Silverstein, said that they hope it means that they are also prepared to return to the table without further needless delay. The collapse of the negotiations, is an embarrassment to both Mr. Silverstein and Gov. George E. Pataki, is only the latest problem to cast doubt over the future of the ground zero site.

Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki is only the latest problem to cast doubt over the future of the ground zero site. The mayor, who has been a frequent critic of Mr. Silverstein, said that ultimately Governor Pataki, Governor John S. Corzine, and the Port Authority will lay out a plan.


Summary: David Shields, an oil analyst and consultant in Mexico City, said that it was entirely speculative and hypothetical.

Summary: David Shields, an oil analyst, and consultant in Mexico City said for him it's entirely speculative and hypothetical.


Summary: 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 had experience in deep water. Pemex officials warned that its figures on the discovery were preliminary. Mr. Ramírez Corzo said it would take at least two years before Pemex would have enough information on the field to estimate the investment it would need to produce oil, The Associated Press reported.

Summary: Pemex's director general, Mr. Fox and Luis Ramírez Corzo, flew about 60 miles offshore to the exploratory well to announce the discovery. He said they recognize that they need 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. In a news conference, Mr. Ramírez Corzo said it would take at least two years before Pemex would have enough information on the field to estimate the investment which is needed to produce oil, reported by The Associated Press.


Summary: Mr. Kellner said that ensuring friendly relations with the Kazakh leadership was just as important as getting the oil. China's leadership has viewed with alarm the creation after Sept. 11, 2001, 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, he said. When Mr. Nazarbayev delivered a major policy speech on March 1, he listed ''increasing integration with Russia'' as Kazakhstan's first foreign priority and ''improving cooperation'' with China as his second.

Summary: Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev Kazakhstan's longtime president delivered a major policy speech in which he listed the increasing integration with Russia as Kazakhstan's first foreign priority and improving cooperation with China as his second. Mr. Nazarbayev approved the Chinese pipeline because it offered an extra oil export route to reduce his landlocked country's dependence on Russia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.


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. 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. Indeed, China is widely believed to be readying a bid for a smaller Canadian-owned oil company, Nations Energy, which produces a third of Petrokazakhstan's output.

Summary: In 2005, the China National Petroleum Corporation bought Petrokazakhstan, a Canadian-run company for $4.18 billion and spent another $700 million on a pipeline that will take the oil to the Chinese border. Petrokazakhstan was the largest foreign purchase ever by a Chinese company. 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: Melvin Avanzado said that Ms. Schulman's fees were paid against her salary and overhead. He also said that he had recouped everything several times over.

Summary: Melvin Avanzado, the lawyer for Ms. Schulman, disputed that. He said that he's recouped everything several times over and that there's been four movies on which there has been financing in which he has recouped.


Summary: Even as the last Oscar ballots were being cast late Tuesday, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from ''greed and ego'' in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. Schulman and Mr. Nunan had both been paid salaries as partners in Bull's Eye Entertainment, and that their fees for producing ''Crash'' were not meant to be paid until all the overhead costs for Bull's Eye had been recouped.

Summary: As the last Oscar ballots were being cast late Tuesday, Cathy Schulman, a producer of 'Crash,' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from greed and ego in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. Schulman and Mr. Nunan used strongly personal language with regard to Mr. Yari. Schulman and Mr. Nunan had both been paid salaries as partners in Bull's Eye Entertainment, and that their fees for producing 'Crash' were not meant to be paid until all the overhead costs for Bull's Eye had been recouped.


Summary: Cathy Schulman, a producer of ''Crash,'' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from ''greed and ego'' in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. It denounced what it called the ''squalor of Yari's ugly behavior'' and claimed that the producer, a former successful real estate developer who created a Hollywood company in recent years, acted like ''an impetuous child'' toward Ms. Schulman after being denied producer credit.

Summary: According to the last ballot count, Cathy Schulman, a producer of ''Crash,'' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from ''greed and ego'' in failing to pay minimum $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. Schulman and Paul Haggis, a co-writer and the director of ''Crash,'' are the only producers eligible for the prize, though the film has six producers in its credits. Schulman and Mr. Nunan used strongly personal language with regard to Mr. Yari.


Summary: Cathy Schulman, a producer of ''Crash,'' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from ''greed and ego'' in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. Mr. Yari had earlier sued the pair, claiming in January that they had taken funds owed to their joint production company, Bull's Eye Entertainment. 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: As the last Oscar ballots were being cast late Tuesday, Cathy Schulman, a producer of 'Crash,' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from greed and ego in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. Mr. Yari had earlier sued the pair, claiming in January that they had taken funds owed to their joint production company, Bull's Eye Entertainment. 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: A bare-knuckled fight has broken out among the producers of one of the leading Oscar-nominated movies, ''Crash,'' over two of the things Hollywood cares about most: money and credit. Even as the last Oscar ballots were being cast late Tuesday, Cathy Schulman, a producer of ''Crash,'' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from ''greed and ego'' in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan.

Summary: On the eve of this weekend's Academy Awards, a bare-knuckled fight has broken out among the producers of one of the leading Oscar-nominated movies, 'Crash,' over two of the things Hollywood cares about most: money and credit. Even as the last Oscar ballots were being cast late Tuesday, Cathy Schulman, a producer of 'Crash,' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from greed and ego in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan.


Summary: Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the police, said that 47-year-old Frederick Klein was killed after a bullet pierced the van's passenger window, went through his right arm and lodged in his chest. After Mr. Klein was shot, his van hit five cars before it slammed into a sixth and burst into flames just before 1:30 a.m. at Carroll Street. The shooting of Mr. Klein, a Hasidic Orthodox Jew, immediately raised alarms in the neighborhood, which was convulsed by deadly racial unrest in 1991 after a Hasidic driver struck and killed a black boy. The police said there was no evidence that Mr. Klein was involved in any kind of criminal activity that may have led to the shooting nor any sign that he had been robbed.

Summary: The chief spokesman for the police, Paul J. Browne, said that the man, Frederick Klein, 47, was killed after a bullet pierced the van's passenger window, went through his right arm and lodged in his chest. After Mr. Klein was shot, his van hit five cars before it slammed into a sixth and burst into flames just before 1:30 a.m. on Carroll Street between Schenectady and Utica Avenues, Mr. Browne said. Mr. Klein was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital Center at 1:45 a.m. The shooting of Mr. Klein, a Hasidic Orthodox Jew, immediately raised alarms in the neighborhood, which was convulsed by deadly racial unrest in 1991 after a Hasidic driver struck and killed a black boy.


Summary: Chanina Sperlin, an executive of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, said he hoped the shooting of Mr. Klein would not prove a setback to relations in the neighborhood and that people are very angry since it's been very quiet.

Summary: Chanina Sperlin, an executive of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, said he hoped the shooting of Mr. Klein would not prove a setback to relations in the neighborhood. Mr. Sperlin said that people were very, very angry because it had been very, very quiet.


Summary: A Bank of New York employee on Long Island found his home vandalized and his 21-foot fishing boat sunk.


Summary: But the Food and Drug Administration requires that drugs be tested on animals before it will grant approval, and testing laboratories like Huntingdon are hired to carry out those experiments, often injecting test animals with a substance, then killing and dissecting them.


Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
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Summary: All of the victims worked for companies that did business with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British company that operates animal testing said their personal information were all posted on the Web site of the animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Mr. Kevin Kjonaas the group's former President worked briefly in Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty's main office in Worcestershire, then, in 2001, took over the group's operations in the United States. The group's Web site notes that Huntingdon was fined $50,000 in 1998 by the Department of Agriculture for animal abuses and says the company's secrecy shields such cruel treatment as force-feeding animals, beating puppies, and performing amputations on conscious dogs.

Summary: All of the victims worked for companies that did business with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British company that operates an animal testing lab in Somerset County, N.J. And their home addresses and other personal information were all posted on the Web site of the animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. The group kept an updated tally of violent attacks on Huntingdon employees and their business associates, which it called 'a list that can be outdone and surpassed.'Prosecutors cited a series of actions, however, that they said were instigated by the defendants, including death threats, broken windows, homes spray-painted with the phrase ''puppy killer'' and a pipe bomb attack on a California company that did business with Huntingdon.


Summary: Mr. Kevin Kjonaas, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty's former president, did not project the image one might expect from someone the government has labeled a major terrorist. Mr. Kjonaas worked briefly in Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty's main office in Worcestershire, England, near Huntingdon's corporate headquarters and then moved to the United States. Before Mr. Kjonaas was indicted in 2004, his group's Web site included a wide range of personal information about the people it deemed targets.

Summary: The 28-year-old Kevin Kjonaas worked briefly in Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty's main office in Worcestershire, England, near Huntingdon's corporate headquarters, then, in 2001, took over the group's operations in the United States. With his slight build, delicate mannerisms and courtroom attire of button-down shirts and pullover sweaters, Mr. Kjonaas, the group's former president, did not project the image one might expect from someone the government has labeled a major terrorist. Before Mr. Kjonaas was indicted in 2004, his group's Web site included a wide range of personal information about the people it deemed targets.


Summary: When up and running, the $90 million operations, on 48 acres, would create 210 permanent jobs and generate more than $1 million a year in tax revenue for the town, county, and local schools, according to Kazunori Kameyama, president and chief executive of Yukiguni Maitake Manufacturing. Mr. Kameyama, a former banker, said that they were trying to come from Japan to the United States to spend money to make a healthful product, and they were not going to destroy the existing nature. Mr. Kameyama said the design reflects the fact that mushrooms need a perfectly controlled environment.

Summary: According to Kazunori Kameyama, president and chief executive of Yukiguni Maitake Manufacturing, the $90 million operation, on 48 acres, when up and running, would create 210 permanent jobs and generate more than $1 million a year in tax revenue for the town, county and local schools. Mr. Kameyama, a former banker, said in an interview in his Middletown, N.Y., office, that thy are trying to come from Japan to the United States to spend money to make a healthful product, and they are not going to destroy the existing nature. He was distressed when a local newspaper put the story on its front page with the headline 'Mushroom Clouds', which he said he read as a not-so-subtle reference to the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


Summary: The Mustang, which straddles the line between a microjet and a small business jet, will sell for $2.4 million; the A-700 for $2.25 million; and the Eclipse 500 for $1.3 million.

Summary: The Mustang, which straddles the line between a microjet and a small business jet, will sell for $2.4 million.


Summary: Thousands of tiny passenger jets will soon begin flying, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday, which will open up travel opportunities at small airports. Nan Shellabarger, director of the Office of Aviation Policy and Plans at the F.A.A., told several hundred aviation executives that were on the cusp of a new business model.

Summary: The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday said that thousands of tiny passenger jets will soon begin flying which will open up travel opportunities at small airports, and perhaps eventually gum up the air traffic control system. In its annual forecast, the F.A.A. projected sharply higher levels of flights because of a new class of small planes, called very light jets, or microjets, with only 6 to 8 seats. The F.A.A. expects about 100 or so of the jets to begin flying this year.


Summary: Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Blair Brown, and James Naughton, sat around a table at the Greenwich Village house of Tom Fontana, the creator of the HBO prison drama ''Oz'', and read through the play.

Summary: On Sunday afternoon, 15 actors, including Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Blair Brown and James Naughton, sat around a table at the Greenwich Village house of Tom Fontana, the creator of the HBO prison drama 'Oz', and read through the play.


Summary: Mr. Gary Taylor, a professor at Florida State University, has been working on the play, ''The History of Cardenio,'' on and off for more than 15 years.

Summary: David Black recalled saying a few weeks ago to Gary Taylor, 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, to get to reading just so they know what it sounds like.


Summary: 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. Needless to say, Mr. Black was excited. In September, Mr. Black, a fan of Mr. Taylor's books, contacted him and was excited when Mr. Taylor pointed out that the modern television landscape was quite similar to the Elizabethan theater scene.

Summary: Among the odd pairings you sometimes 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. In September, Mr. Black, a fan of Mr. Taylor's books, contacted him, and was excited when Mr. Taylor pointed out that the modern television landscape was quite similar to the Elizabethan theater scene, with intense commercialism, a ferocious demand for material and a low reputation in the eyes of the contemporary culturati. After reading a draft of Mr. Taylor's 'Cardenio,' Mr. Black went to his Rolodex, called his friends and scheduled a reading.


Summary: Among the odd pairings you may sometimes come across at the celebrity hangout Elaine's, perhaps the oddest 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, who is also partial to black nail polish. 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. This is not, strictly speaking, a Lost Shakespeare Play that ''Everyone has to get humble here.''

Summary: 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 said that Shakespeare was a working actor who worked in the same theater company his whole life, and we need to take seriously his own commitment to the theatrical realization of his work.


Summary: Lewis Theobald, an accomplished editor of Shakespeare's works, announced that he had several manuscripts of ''Cardenio,'' which he adapted into a play titled ''Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers.'' Heavily reworked adaptations of older plays, like the remakes of movie classics continually coming out of Hollywood today, were not at all rare at the time. The original manuscripts that Theobald claimed to have apparently went missing, and so the debate over ''Double Falsehood'' has raged ever since. Mr. Taylor, like many scholars, accepts Theobald's claim.

Summary: As far back as 1727, Lewis Theobald, an accomplished editor of Shakespeare's works, announced that he had several manuscripts of ''Cardenio,'' which he adapted into a play titled ''Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers.'' The original manuscripts that Theobald claimed to have apparently went missing, and so the debate over ''Double Falsehood'' has raged ever since.


Summary: Afrika Bambaataa gave a trove of jackets, caps and jewelry in his trademark Afrocentric style. He is the person who helped integrate hip-hop with electronic music in the early 1980's on recordings that remain influential, praised the museum in his familiar declamatory tone for its attention to ''factology'' in representing the music's history.

Summary: Afrika Bambaataa gave a trove of jackets, caps, and jewelry in his trademark Afrocentric style. Ice-T, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, Russell Simmons, DJ Kool Herc, and the dancer Crazy Legs have opened their archives and were clearly proud of the recognition. Afrika Bambaataa, who helped integrate hip-hop with electronic music in the early 1980s on recordings that remain influential, praised the museum.


Summary: Ice-T offered vintage tour T-shirts and rare CD's. Brent D. Glass, the director of the museum, said the project was begun in recent months with seed money from Universal Records and was still in its earliest stages of planning, and also said that now whenever anybody asks him about his music he would direct him with a torrent of blunt epithets to the museum.

Summary: Ice-T offered vintage tour T-shirts and rare CDs.  Ice-T says now whenever anybody asks him about his music, he would direct them to the museum with a torrent of blunt epithets. Ice-T, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, Russell Simmons, DJ Kool Herc, and the dancer Crazy Legs have opened their archives and were clearly proud of the recognition.


Summary: Grandmaster Flash gave his prized Technics turntable. Hip-hop has been a part of American music for more than 30 years. With help from the music industry, the museum has been soliciting donations, and most of the initial contributors were were done by Ice-T, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, Russell Simmons, DJ Kool Herc and the dancer Crazy Legs, and were clearly proud of the recognition.

Summary: Grandmaster Flash gave his prized Technics turntable. Ice-T, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, Russell Simmons, DJ Kool Herc, and the dancer Crazy Legs have opened their archives and were clearly proud of the recognition.


Summary: Ice-T offered vintage tour T-shirts and rare CD's. Ice-T said that he would direct him with a torrent of blunt epithets to the museum, whenever he will be asked abiut his music. Ice-T said that now whenever anybody asks him about his music. He said the project was begun in recent months with seed money from Universal Records and was still in its earliest stages of planning.

Summary: Ice-T offered vintage tour T-shirts and rare CDs. Ice-T says now whenever anybody asks him about his music he directs them to the museum a torrent of blunt epithets.


Summary: Brent D. Glass, the director of the museum, said the project was begun in recent months with seed money from Universal Records and was still in its earliest stages of planning, also said that, now whenever anybody asks him about his music, Ice-T said, he would direct him with a torrent of blunt epithets to the museum. But he said that he and his conservators believed the time had come to recognize hip-hop, with its straight-from-the-gut raps and minimalist funk, as a significant cultural force that had spread all over the United States and, increasingly, the world. Mr. Glass said that American music is the soundtrack to American history.

Summary: Brent D. Glass, the director of the museum, said the project was begun in recent months with seed money from Universal Records and was still in its earliest stages of planning. But he said that he and his curators believed the time had come to recognize hip-hop, with its straight-from-the-gut raps and minimalist funk.


Summary: All will go to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, where they will reside alongside the flag that inspired ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' and the Woolworth's lunch counter, where four black students sat for civil rights in 1960. At an emotional and at times rowdy news conference yesterday at the Hilton New York, a group of hip-hop pioneers gathered beside the dark-suited, white-gloved Smithsonian staff to announce a plan for a major new collection devoted to the music.

Summary: All will go to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, where they will reside alongside the flag that inspired ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' and the Woolworth's lunch counter from Greensboro, N.C., where four black students sat for civil rights in 1960. It is beautiful that the Smithsonian Institution is recognizing hip-hop culture for what it is.


Summary: Mr. Simmons, the manager who was a founder of the Def Jam label, said that at first he had feared that hip-hop's inclusion in a major museum which would mean it had lost its power and novelty. His initial thought when contacted by the Smithsonian, he said that was it must be over. But in an opinion echoed by nearly every speaker, Mr. Simmons suggested that as hip-hop aged it was in danger of losing its connection to its roots and that younger fans and performers would profit from direct experience of the music's history.

Summary: Mr. Russell Simmons, the founder of the Def Jam label, said that at first, he had feared that hip-hop's inclusion in a major museum would mean it had lost its power and novelty. His initial thought when contacted by the Smithsonian, was that it must be over for hip-hop. But in an opinion, Mr. Simmons suggested that as hip-hop aged it was in danger of losing its connection to its roots and that younger fans and performers would profit from direct experience of the music's history.


Summary: Heidi S. Fisher, a doctoral candidate at Boston University said that they are trying to look at cues that might tell them what made these animals want to hybridize. Fisher's work, published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, strongly suggests the culprit is humic acid, a complex compound that results from degrading organic matter and is normally considered benign. Fisher tested whether female sheepsheads could choose between male sheepsheads and highlands in clean water, in water from the river and in clean water spiked with humic acid.

Summary: Heidi S. Fisher, a doctoral candidate at Boston University who has studied the fish is trying to look at cues that might tell what made these animals want to hybridize. Fisher's work, published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, strongly suggests the culprit is humic acid. Fisher tested whether female sheepsheads could choose between male sheepsheads and highlands in clean water, in water from the river, and in clean water spiked with humic acid.


Summary: Curtis Sliwa told a jury that how he had been ambushed in a cab rigged so the doors and windows would not open, then shot at least twice by hit men he believes were connected with John A. Gotti, the heir to the Gambino crime family. But during cross-examination, defense lawyers focused on the past accounts of Mr. Sliwa, who admitted that he had counterfeit at least five events including another kidnapping to get attention for the anticrime group he founded that later became known as the Guardian Angels.

Summary: Curtis Sliwa told a jury how he had been ambushed in a cab rigged so the doors and windows would not open, then shot at least twice by hitmen he believes were connected with John A. Gotti, the heir to the Gambino crime family. Defense lawyers focused on the past accounts of Mr. Sliwa, who admitted that he had fabricated at least five events to get attention for the anticrime group known as Guardian Angels. The fabrications generally involved Mr. Sliwa's followers, called the Magnificent 13. His troops claimed falsely, Mr. Sliwa to have rescued a woman's purse from a purse snatcher, fended off a rapist, and foiled an assault on a subway platform. Under cross-examination, he described the staged events as the dumbest thing he has ever done in his life. Mr. Sliwa said he had reported being kidnapped twice before and had lied in one case.


Summary: Charles Carnesi, the lawyer for Mr. Gotti, asked that whether that is something they did quite often, while interacting with the media? Mr. Sliwa replied the positive answer which is yes. Gotti clutched Mr. Carnesi by the shoulders and whispered that thirty years of his son's life depends on the truth. She was, apparently, referring to her son's potential prison sentence.

Summary: Referring to what he called hoaxes, Charles Carnesi, the lawyer for Mr. John A. Gotti, asked Mr. Silwa whether he fabricated issues while interacting with the media and Mr. Curtis Sliwa replied that he did.


Summary: As Curtis Sliwa has done countless times on his radio program, he told a jury that how he had been ambushed in a cab rigged so the doors and windows would not open, then shot at least twice by hit men he believes were connected with John A. Gotti, who is the heir to the Gambino crime family. Referring to what he called hoaxes, Charles Carnesi, the lawyer for dealing the case Mr. Gotti, asked that that's something that you did quite often, interacting with the media?And then Mr. Sliwa replied yes to him. He said that to try to generate at the beginning for the group positive publicity, because we weren't getting any. Mr. Sliwa was testifying in Federal District Court in Manhattan at Mr. Gotti's retrial on broad racketeering charges that include the 1992 kidnapping of Mr. Sliwa.

Summary: Curtis Sliwa told a jury how he had been ambushed in a cab and then shot at least twice by hitmen he believes were connected with John A. Gotti, the heir to the Gambino crime family. Mr. Sliwa was testifying in Federal District Court in Manhattan at Mr. Gotti's retrial on broad racketeering charges that include the 1992 kidnapping of Mr. Sliwa. Prosecutors have accused Mr. Gotti of ordering the kidnapping in 1992 to take revenge on Mr. Sliwa, who had criticized the Gotti family on his radio show.