Summary: The director of communications for the district attorney's office, referring to blood-alcohol content, said that there was a trickle-down effect where you could get caught with a 0.15 B.A.C. level six times in a row, and since you were always right below the threshold, you could take a plea bargain and leave.

Summary: Eric Phillips, the director of communications for the district attorney's office, said that here was a trickle-down effect where you could get caught with a 0.15 B.A.C. level six times in a row, and since you were always right below the threshold, you could take a plea bargain and leave.


Summary: Under former District Attorney Denis Dillon, who lost to Ms. Rice in November, drivers with blood-alcohol levels of up to 0.15 percent could strike a plea bargain and plead guilty to driving while impaired.

Summary: Mr. Dillon could not be reached for comment.


Summary: Billy Easton, director of the Alliance for Quality Education, said that they knew he has the ability to play a major role in defining the debate, and the senators from the city have shown they have the ability to deliver, a group that is lobbying for more education spending statewide.

Summary: Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that is lobbying for more education spending statewide, Billy Easton, said that they know he has the ability to play a major role in defining the debate, and the senators from the city have shown they have the ability to deliver.


Summary: The mayor's tactics seem to be working, since the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to pass a budget on the day that would give the city the money it needs to complete this year's portion of its five-year school construction plan. The Senate's budget proposal would provide New York City with about $140 million, which would pay for debt service so that the city could borrow the $1.8 billion officials say the city needs to start building 21 schools on the current year. He asked the mayor for his support this year, but Mr. Bloomberg, a Republican, may be reluctant to side with the Assembly and risk alienating the Senate.

Summary: The mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg's tactics seem to be working, since the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to pass a budget today that would give the city the money it needs to complete this year's portion of its five-year school construction plan. The Senate's budget proposal would provide New York City with about $140 million, which would pay for debt service so that the city could borrow the $1.8 billion the city needs to start building 21 schools this year. Sheldon Silver has asked the mayor for his support this year, but Mr. Bloomberg, a Republican, may be reluctant to side with the Assembly and risk alienating the Senate.


Summary: As New York City has stepped up pressure on Albany for more money for city schools, all focus was on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has flexed his political muscle to get more aid for school construction. The mayor's tactics seem to be working, since the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to pass a budget today that would give the city the money it needs to complete this year's portion of its five-year school construction plan. For all his efforts, the mayor has not look for any procedure to recover all the additional money the state has been ordered to spend on New York City schools, an order that followed a judicial finding that students were being denied a sound basic education.

Summary: All eyes have been on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has flexed his political muscle to get more aid for school construction as New York City has stepped up pressure on Albany for more money for city schools. The mayor's tactics seem to be working, since the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to pass a budget today that would give the city the money it needs to complete this year's portion of its five-year school construction plan. The mayor has not sought to recover all the additional money the state has been ordered to spend on New York City schools, an order that followed a judicial finding that students were being denied a sound basic education. The advocates who filed the lawsuit that led to the court order suggest that Mr. Bloomberg is selling the city short by focusing on money for buildings instead of also seeking money for classroom programs.


Summary: Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the Democratic-controlled Assembly, sharply said the mayor that he can't go home with a slice of bread when he has been sent to get the whole loaf. The speaker said for not doing enough to get the money. Two years ago, Mr. Silver fought for a similar proposal, but Mr. Bloomberg largely stayed out of the debate. Mr. Silver has asked the mayor for his support this year, but Mr. Bloomberg, a Republican, may be reluctant to side with the Assembly and risk alienating the Senate.

Summary: Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the Democratic-controlled Assembly, has sharply criticized the mayor for not doing enough to get the money. Mr. Silver has asked the mayor for his support this year, but Mr. Bloomberg, a Republican, may be reluctant to side with the Assembly and risk alienating the Senate. Mr. Silver said that the mayor needs to stand up and tell those Republicans that thier children need more and that he has told the mayor that he should tell them this is what he want and won't accept anything less.


Summary: In the era of the 1970's to the 1990's, the Suffolk County Republican Party was courted by presidents. Its unbalanced election-night tallies were the envy of politicians across the state and nation. It was home to the State Assembly speaker, who ran for governor.

Summary: In its golden era of the 1970's to the 1990's, the Suffolk County Republican Party was home to the State Assembly speaker, who ran for governor.


Summary: Edwin Schwenk, a former Suffolk County party chairman said that it was been a disastrous period, who is popularly known as Buzz. But Mr. Schwenk said that what was reflected on paper is one thing, what happens in the voting booth is different. The Democratic shift in Suffolk follows trends in other major New York suburban counties like adjacent Nassau and also Westchester. Mr. Schwenk also said that it is long and strong, that the only way from there is up. The public will benefit for the time being, predicted Professor Scarrow.

Summary: The former Suffolk County party chairman, Edwin Schwenk, who is popularly known as Buzz, said that it has been a disastrous period but what's reflected on paper is one thing but what happens in the voting booth is different. He also pointed  out the one advantage of hitting bottom and that is the only way from there is up.


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Summary: They were suffering the pangs of Brookhaven, and now they have Islip. Last fall Democrats took control of Brookhaven, whose giant territory and population make it Suffolk's pre-eminent town. His first target was Brookhaven, whose unsavory history had already earned the town the nickname Crookhaven. The investigations spread beyond Brookhaven, and Mr. McGowan is the highest-ranking official snared so far.

Summary: Sprawling across most of Long Island, Suffolk is diverse, with thickly populated working-class neighborhoods on the South Shore, white-collar Long Island Rail Road commuters, Hispanic concentrations in Brentwood, physics researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, technology experts at CA in Islandia, the Gold Coast estates, the Montauk Lighthouse and the Hollywood East scene in the Hamptons.


Summary: Patrick Halpin, who was one of the few successful Democrats during the Republican reign, won one term in the 1980's as county executive. He said that when he first ran for office, they never even put on their literature that they were Democrats people wouldn't talk to anyone.

Summary: Patrick Halpin, one of the few successful Democrats during the Republican reign, who won one term in the 1980's as county executive said that when he first ran for office, they never even put on their literature that they were Democrats. Mr. Halpin credited Suffolk's Democratic Party chairman, Richard H. Schaffer, with shrewd alliances, like diverse Democratic endorsements last fall that elected a Working Families Party member to the County Legislature and a Conservative as the new sheriff.


Summary: In the golden era of the 1970's to the 1990's, the Suffolk County Republican Party was courted by presidents. Its unbalanced election-night tallies were the envy of politicians across the state and nation. It was home to the State Assembly speaker, who ran for governor.

Summary: In its golden era of the 1970's to the 1990's, the Suffolk County Republican Party was courted by presidents and its lopsided election-night tallies were the envy of politicians across the state and nation. It was home to the State Assembly speaker, who ran for governor.


Summary: Peter J. McGowan, widely considered the party's most powerful figure, resigned as supervisor of Islip, Suffolk's second most populous town. The investigations spread beyond Brookhaven, and Mr. McGowan is the highest-ranking official snared till now.

Summary: Peter J. McGowan, widely considered the party's most powerful figure, resigned as supervisor of Islip, Suffolk's second most populous town and then he pleaded guilty to felony charges of accepting kickbacks and stealing from his campaign fund to pay for lavish meals, vacations and spa visits. The investigations spread beyond Brookhaven, and Mr. McGowan is the highest-ranking official snared so far.


Summary: Edwin Schwenk, the former Suffolk County party chairman, said that It has been a disastrous period, who is popularly known as Buzz. But Mr. Schwenk also said that what is reflected on paper is one thing; what happens in the voting booth is different. The Democratic shift in Suffolk follows trends in other major New York suburban counties like adjacent Nassau and also Westchester.

Summary: The former Suffolk County party chairman, Edwin Schwenk, who is popularly known as Buzz, said that it's been a disastrous period and what's reflected on paper is one thing but what happens in the voting booth is different. The Democratic shift in Suffolk follows trends in other major New York suburban counties like adjacent Nassau and also Westchester.


Summary: Richard H. Schaffer, who was the chairman of Suffolk said that they're not afraid to register Democratic and vote Democratic. Diminished party loyalty also has hurt the Republicans, with more crossover voting and independent swing voters. But Suffolk politicians agree that three special factors also played a crucial role corruption scandals, an aging Republican leadership and Mr. Schaffer's astute maneuvers. Mr. Schaffer recruited Mr. Spota to switch parties and run as a Democrat.

Summary: Suffolk's Democratic Party chairman, Richard H. Schaffer, said that they're not afraid to register Democratic and vote Democratic. Diminished party loyalty also has hurt the Republicans, with more crossover voting and independent swing voters. But Suffolk politicians agree that three special factors also played a crucial role are corruption scandals, an aging Republican leadership and Mr. Schaffer's astute maneuvers. Mr. Schaffer recruited Mr. Spota to switch parties and run as a Democrat. He beat the incumbent and promptly tackled corruption. His first target was Brookhaven, whose unsavory history had already earned the town the nickname Crookhaven.


Summary: There was a  lock on local offices, but that was then, and this is the electoral reality now Democrats hold both Congressional seats in Suffolk, the county executive and district attorney posts, and a majority of the Assembly seats.


Summary: A former Republican county executive, John V. N. Klein, agreed that it would have been unthinkable for them. Last week the once-mighty Suffolk Republican empire struck out again. But Mr. Klein, the former county executive, said that, it was healthy trend to have a two-party system and warned that the pendulum was swinging too far.

Summary: A former Republican county executive, John V. N. Klein lamented that after every lull something big happens. He said Suffolk is a coveted political prize and It's a healthy trend to have a two-party system. But Mr. Klein warned that the pendulum was swinging too far. Mr. Klein urged that Republicans need to recruit new faces, particularly young faces.


Summary: Such Democratic dominance would turn to been crazy talk just a few years ago, said by a political science professor emeritus at Stony Brook University, Howard A. Scarrow. Professor Scarrow said that it was wonderful and said that it may very well destroy the two-party system in Suffolk if things keep going the way they are.

Summary: Such Democratic dominance was unheard of just a few years ago, said Howard A. Scarrow, a political science professor emeritus. He beat the incumbent and promptly tackled corruption. His first target was Brookhaven, whose unsavory history had already earned the town the nickname Crookhaven.


Summary: Just days after the news that a sublime trove of historic music manuscripts had plopped into the lap of the Juilliard School, sobering reality began to seep in. But they expressed confidence that Juilliard had the resources and they know-how to care for the works. D. W. Krummel said that Juilliard got in there ahead of time.

Summary: A sublime trove of historic music manuscripts had plopped into the lap of the Juilliard School. Several librarians also raised eyebrows at Juilliard's initial statements that no curator would be hired to care for the manuscripts. Mr. Polisi said that the cost of caring for the collection would run into a six-figure amount each year, with the money coming out of Juilliard's general funds.


Summary: The collection of 139 original manuscripts, first editions with composers' emendations, sketches and printer's proofs that was donated by the billionaire hedge fund manager Bruce Kovner, whose role as chairman of Juilliard's board was a major reason for its destination. He said he wanted the collection to serve performers as well as scholars. He was naturally disappointed but understood the depth of his commitment. Mr. Kovner said he never indicated the collection would go to the Morgan.

Summary: The collection of 139 original manuscripts, first editions with composers' emendations, sketches, and printer's proofs was donated by the billionaire hedge fund manager Bruce Kovner, whose role as chairman of Juilliard's board was a major reason for its destination. He said he wanted the collection to serve performers as well as scholars.  Mr. Kovner said he was naturally disappointed and never indicated the collection would go to Morgan.


Summary: The composers run the gamut of Western masters, from Purcell to Mozart to Schubert to Brahms to Schnittke, and the objects include the printer's manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Mozart's autograph of part of the final scene of ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' and manuscripts of parts of Brahms's Symphony number 2 and Piano Concerto number 2. Mr. Kovner is also a donor to the Morgan, which at one point had hopes of receiving the collection, as Mr. Turner said.

Summary: The composers run the gamut of Western masters, from Purcell to Mozart to Schubert to Brahms to Schnittke, and the objects include the printer's manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.


Summary: Jon Newsom, who retired in June as chief of the music division of the Library of Congress said that Julliard, to his knowledge, has never been in the position of having to share such a treasure trove with the public, which will be beating a path to their door, which has one of the world's major collections. He added that he is sure about the director of the Juilliard School will perform his best.

Summary: Jon Newsom, who retired in June as chief of the music division of the Library of Congress, which has one of the world's major collections said Julliard has never been in the position of having to share such a treasure trove with the public.


Summary: Just days after the news that a sublime trove of historic music manuscripts had lied gently into the lap of the Juilliard School, sobering reality began to seep in. But they react confidently that Juilliard had the resources and know-how to care for the works. The president of hat school said that Juilliard got in there ahead of time.

Summary: Just days after the news that a sublime trove of historic music manuscripts had plopped into the lap of the Juilliard School, sobering reality began to seep in. Juilliard's president, Joseph W. Polisi, said, they were adding extra staff to make sure that the collection is handled in the highest way possible. A publicist called later to clarify, noting that the budget for the collection in fact includes money for a curator once the collection is installed in a specially built room. Mr. Polisi said that the cost of caring for the collection would run into a six-figure amount each year, with the money coming out of Juilliard's general funds.


Summary: Joseph W. Polisi, who was the president of Juilliard said, after further queries that they were adding extra staff to make sure that this collection is handled in the highest way possible. A publicist later clarified that, noting that the budget for the collection in fact includes money for a curator once the collection is installed in a specially built room. Mr. Polisi said that the cost of caring for the collection would run into a six-figure amount each year, with the money coming out of Juilliard's general funds.

Summary: Juilliard's president, Joseph W. Polisi, said, they were adding extra staff to make sure that the collection is handled in the highest way possible. A publicist called later to clarify, noting that the budget for the collection in fact includes money for a curator once the collection is installed in a specially built room. Mr. Polisi said that the cost of caring for the collection would run into a six-figure amount each year, with the money coming out of Juilliard's general funds.


Summary: Jane Gottlieb, who is the highly regarded librarian at Juilliard has been said that good for him. Many librarians said that they had complete confidence in Ms. Gottlieb's ability to oversee the collection.

Summary: Jane Gottlieb is the highly regarded librarian at Juilliard. Ms. Gottlieb, 51, a diminutive Upper West Sider with a serious demeanor. Gottlieb grew up in East Meadow, N.Y., graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a degree in flute, and has a master's degree in library science from Columbia University.


Summary: Dawn Staley's walk toward history was physically easier than metaphorically. Staley hopes that in a decade, when the present has become the past, women will be bringing in the same kind of paychecks. Till that she is focusing on the other windfalls that sports give to young women things like health and self-esteem. She founded the Dawn Staley After School Program, which has provided hundreds of girls what they need to start them off well computer and reading programs, mentoring, tutoring, health education workshops and, of course, sports. this has been a nice initiatives of girls.

Summary: Dawn Staley's walk toward history was physically easier, though not metaphorically. She went on to play in the Women's National Basketball Association, to coach the women's basketball program at Temple University, and to win three gold medals in the sport. Staley hopes that in a decade women will be bringing in the same kind of paychecks. Until then she is focusing on the other windfalls that sports give to young women things like health and self-esteem. She founded the Dawn Staley After School Program, which has provided hundreds of girls what they need to start them off well: computer and reading programs, mentoring, tutoring, health education workshops and, of course, sports.


Summary: Staley says that it is not just on the court. Zainab Salbi's walk toward history started in Iraq, where she lived in the time of the war with Iran. Her family fled to the United States, where Ms. Salbi founded Women for Women International, which provides women in war-ravaged countries with job training, microcredit loans and what she calls ''a global community of sisterhood.''

Summary: Zainab Salbi's walk toward history started in Iraq, where she lived through the war with Iran. Ms. Salbi founded Women for Women International, which provides women in war-ravaged countries with job training, microcredit loans. Ms. Salbi pairs women in places like Afghanistan, Rwanda, and, most recently, Iraq with Western women who become their benefactors.


Summary: Adam Zakaria said that when they see you, they will shoot you, the sheik of a nearby village, Gindeiza, that had been attacked the day before. Mr. Adam had one bullet wound in his foot and another in his thigh. He said that he know the man who shot him.

Summary: Adam Zakaria, the sheik of a nearby village, Gindeiza, that had been attacked the day before said when they see you, they shoot you. Mr. Adam had one bullet wound in his foot and another in his thigh. Ten people are known dead in his village, Mr. Adam said, but many others are missing and no one has been able to look for dead bodies because the janjaweed still occupy the village.


Summary: President Bush is showing signs that he may be ready to stand up to the thugs in Sudan, but Sudan is being protected by China, Europe is motionless, and the African Union can't even muster the courage to call for immediate U.N. peacekeepers. In their heart, they think that they are dead. This entire area gets no visits from diplomats and no help from the U.N. or aid groups, because it is too risky.

Summary: President Bush is showing signs that he may be ready to stand up to the thugs in Sudan, but China is protecting Sudan, Europe is inert, and the African Union can't even muster the courage to call for immediate U.N. peacekeepers. This entire area gets no visits from diplomats and no help from the U.N. or aid groups because it is too risky.


Summary: Gently but insistently, the people in this town explained that they were about to be murdered. Adam Omar, a local sheik, explained politely that the janjaweed militias have already destroyed all the villages east of Koloy.  They were frightened and told that any moment, they will attack on them.

Summary: The janjaweed militias have already destroyed all the villages east of Koloy.  Koloy has no electricity and no phones, so the people could not call for help. It was nerve-racking to be in Koloy, the people of Koloy are still waiting to be massacred.


Summary: President Bush is showing signs that he may be ready to stand up to the thugs in Sudan, but here China is protecting Sudan, Europe is unmoving, and the African Union can't even muster the courage to call for immediate U.N. peacekeepers. You can go to this website www.millionvoicesfordarfur.org and send a postcard to President Bush, encouraging him to do more.

Summary: President Bush is showing signs that he may be ready to stand up to the thugs in Sudan, but China is protecting Sudan, Europe is inert, and the African Union can't even muster the courage to call for immediate U.N. peacekeepers.


Summary: The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it look like that the company should be renamed as DreamTeam. As part of the agreement, Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Geffen have promised to produce four to six films a year for the next three years. If you do the math and assume that the distribution rights are worth $200 million, which is a very high estimate, Paramount is paying the almost of about $27 million a film, if Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Geffen were to make six a year and DreamWorks' library is sold for $900 million.

Summary: The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount, and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. As part of the agreement, Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Geffen have promised to produce four to six films a year. Paramount is paying the equivalent of about $27 million a film if Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Geffen were to make six a year and DreamWorks' library is sold for $900 million.  When the deal was announced, Mr. Geffen was asked if he and Mr. Spielberg would move their offices from Universal Studios in the San Fernando Valley to Paramount's lot in Hollywood.


Summary: The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom and Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. Mr. Grey had better hope for some big blockbusters to make this work.

Summary: The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount, and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. Mr. Grey had better hope for some big blockbusters to make this work.


Summary: When the Paramount Pictures unit of Viacom announced some months ago that it would acquire DreamWorks SKG  for $1.6 billion, the deal was heralded as a ''coup'' and a ''fantasy come true'' by the news media and analysts similarly. The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. If they had, they might come to a conclusion that Mr. Geffen, a master negotiator, twisted Viacom into overpaying so much for the deal outbidding General Electric's Universal that the producers of the bloated box-office flop ''Waterworld'' may start to look smart.

Summary: Paramount Pictures unit of Viacom announced that it would acquire DreamWorks SKG  for $1.6 billion. Mr. Geffen, a master negotiator, twisted Viacom into overpaying so much for the deal outbidding General Electric's Universal. The other thing that makes the sale of DreamWorks a risky bet for Viacom is that it does not come with the hit animation studio that produced blockbusters like ''Shrek.''


Summary: When the Paramount Pictures unit of Viacom announced couple of months ago, that it would acquire DreamWorks SKG  for $1.6 billion, the deal was announced as a ''coup'' and a ''fantasy come true'' by the news media and analysts alike. The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. This may all become apparent in the next couple of weeks, as Paramount nears a deal to offload DreamWorks' movie library to a group of private equity investors led by George Soros, according to people involved in the talks.

Summary: Paramount Pictures unit of Viacom announced that it would acquire DreamWorks SKG  for $1.6 billion, the deal was heralded as a dream come true by the news media. That deal, for about $800 million to $900 million, would mean that Paramount would rid itself of DreamWorks' paltry movie library of 59 films. Paramount will have the cachet of being associated with Mr. Spielberg, the benefit of distributing DreamWorks' animated films, and the comfort of picking up a number of films already in production.


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Summary: When the Paramount Pictures unit of Viacom announced two months ago that it would acquire DreamWorks SKG  for $1.6 billion, the deal was heralded as a ''coup'' and a ''fantasy come true'' by the news media and analysts alike. The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. This all apparently can affect in the next couple of weeks, or possibly sooner, as Paramount nears a deal to offload DreamWorks' movie library to a group of private equity investors led by George Soros, according to people involved in the talks.

Summary: Paramount Pictures unit of Viacom announced that it would acquire DreamWorks SKG  for $1.6 billion, the deal was heralded as a dream come true by the news media. Paramount does get the right to distribute films made by DreamWorks Animation, but that is not the same as producing them.


Summary: Many investors and analysts became star-struck, because they appear to have overlooked doing any real analysis of the transaction. If they had, they might have come to this conclusion: Mr. Geffen, a master negotiator, twisted Viacom into overpaying so much for the deal, outbidding General Electric's Universal, that the producers of the bloated box-office flop "Waterworld" may start to look smart. On a conference call with investors and the news media when the deal was announced, Mr. Geffen was asked if he and Mr. Spielberg would move their offices from Universal Studios in the San Fernando Valley to Paramount's lot in Hollywood and his answer was that he doesn't think that Steven will ever leave his offices on the Universal lot.

Summary: If they had, they might this conclusion that Mr. Geffen, who is a master negotiator, twisted Viacom into overpaying so much for the deal outbidding General Electric's Universal that the producers of the bloated box-office flop ''Waterworld'' may start to look smart. Mr. Geffen was asked on a conference call with investors and the news media when the deal was announced that if he and Mr. Spielberg would move their offices from Universal Studios in the San Fernando Valley to Paramount's lot in Hollywood. He don't think Steven will ever leave his offices on the Universal lot.


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Summary: The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Geffen have promised to produce four to six films a year for the next three years. At the end of the three years, Paramount will have to renegotiate the contract with Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Geffen.

Summary: The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks make it clear that if the company should be renamed DreamTeam. If they had, they might have come to this conclusion that Mr. Geffen, twisted Viacom into overpaying so much for the deal outbidding General Electric's Universal that the producers of the bloated box-office flop ''Waterworld'' may start to look smart. As part of the agreement, Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Geffen have promised to produce four to six films a year for the next three years.


Summary: The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount, and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam.

Summary: When the Paramount Pictures unit of Viacom announced two months ago that it would acquire DreamWorks SKG  for $1.6 billion, the deal was heralded as a 'coup' and a 'fantasy come true' by the news media and analysts alike. The combination of Sumner M. Redstone of Viacom, Brad Grey of Paramount and the triumvirate of David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks made it seem as if the company should be renamed DreamTeam.


Summary: Representative Charlie Norwood, Republican of Georgia, who is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, is sponsoring legislation that would outlaw card checks. Labor unions are backing a bill that would give unions the right to use card checks while taking away the right of companies to insist on secret-ballot elections. The bill has 210 co-sponsors in the House and 42 in the Senate.


Summary: Representative Charlie Norwood, Republican of Georgia, who is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, is sponsoring legislation that would outlaw card checks. His bill has 81 co-sponsors.

Summary: Representative of Republican of Georgia, Charlie Norwood, who is the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, is sponsoring legislation that would outlaw card checks. His bill has 81 co-sponsors. Mr. Norwood wrote in an op-ed article in The Washington Times, that Union thugs are allowed to confront individual workers on the job and at their homes, and demand the worker sign a card giving the union exclusive rights to representation.


Summary: With unions pushing ever harder for card checks, Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, said the time was right for the business to mount an offensive against them. Mr. Berman said that unions don't want N.L.R.B. elections.

Summary: With unions pushing ever harder for card checks, Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, the group that ran the advertisement, said the time was right for business to mount an offensive against them and that the fact is unions now say that as a general rule they don't want N.L.R.B. elections.


Summary: Bruce S. Raynor is the union president and the leader of Unite Here, which represents hotel, restaurant, and apparel workers. Mr. Raynor with foreign dictators, the business-backed group that ran the advertisement was trying to discredit the most successful strategy that unions have used to try to reverse a decades-long slide in membership.  Mr. Raynor maintained that it was better to use card checks than to subject workers to an election.

Summary: Above the photographs of Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il of North Korea and an American union president, the full-page advertisement contains a provocative quotation: "There is no reason to subject the workers to an election." Below the photographs, the advertisement asks, "Who said it?" For the answer, readers are directed to a Web site, which explains that those words were uttered by Bruce S. Raynor, the union president and the leader of Unite Here, which represents hotel, restaurant and apparel workers. In seeking to equate Mr. Raynor with foreign dictators, the business-backed group that ran the advertisement was trying to discredit the most successful strategy that unions have used to try to reverse a decades-long slide in membership. In an interview this week, Mr. Raynor again maintained that it was better to use card checks than to subject workers to an election.


Summary: To pressure Cintas, the giant uniform and laundry company, Unite Here has encouraged workers to bring lawsuits alleging pay violations and racial and sexual discrimination. Bruce S. Raynor is the union president and the leader of Unite Here, represents hotel, restaurant, and apparel workers.

Summary: Above the photographs of Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il of North Korea and an American union president, the full-page advertisement contains a provocative quotation. It has been said that there is no reason to subject the workers to an election. Below the photographs, the advertisement questioned that Who said that ? And the answer given by, readers are directed to a Web site, which explains that those words were uttered by Bruce S. Raynor, the union president and the leader of Unite Here, which represents hotel, restaurant and apparel workers.


Summary: Above the photographs of Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il of North Korea, and an American union president, the full-page advertisement contains a provocative quotation: ''There is no reason to subject the workers to an election.''

Summary: Above the photographs of Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il of North Korea and an American union president, the full-page advertisement contains a provocative quotation: "There is no reason to subject the workers to an election." Below the photographs, the advertisement asks, "Who said it?" For the answer, readers are directed to a Web site, which explains that those words were uttered by Bruce S. Raynor, the union president and the leader of Unite Here, which represents hotel, restaurant and apparel workers.


Summary: The Republican-controlled State Senate began printing bills last night that calls for more education spending. The Senate's proposal would set aside $240 million for school construction and other projects around the state. Details of the Senate's plans emerged when both houses of the State Legislature began printing bills and resolutions laying out their counterproposals to Governor Pataki's budget.

Summary: The State Senate which is controlled by Republican, began printing bills last night that call for more education spending than Gov. George E. Pataki proposed in his budget plan, but far less than New York City officials say they are owed by a court order, officials said. The Senate's proposal would set side by $240 million for school construction and other projects around the state, said a Republican official familiar with the plan.


Summary: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a Republican, who has staked a great deal of political capital in this year on trying to persuade the Senate to increase education aid to the city. His aides let it be known that the mayor was thinking of supporting an opponent of one of the city's four Republican senators, Serphin R. Maltese of Queens, if the Senate failed to come up with a major increase in school spending.

Summary: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a Republican, has staked a great deal of political capital this year on trying to persuade the Senate to increase education aid to the city. The mayor is looking for a long-term commitment to aid. Mayor Bloomberg has proposed a $13.1 billion school construction plan, and he wants the state to give the city half the money $6.5 billion during the next five years.


Summary: Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for the mayor said they were negotiating with the Senate, Assembly, and governor, and the city expects the state to provide the full $6.5 billion that is needed to fully fund the $13 billion school capital construction fund.

Summary: Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for the mayor, said that they look forward to negotiating with the Senate, Assembly and governor over the coming weeks, and the city expects the state to provide the full $6.5 billion that is needed to fully fund the $13 billion school capital construction fund.


Summary: Karen Golding, 36, who was one of the first people to join Gov. Jon S. Corzine's 2000 Senate campaign, called the governor's mansion on Feb. 6 and told the governor that she was in jail.

Summary: Golding, 36, who was one of the first people to join Mr. Corzine's 2000 Senate campaign, called the governor's mansion on Feb. 6 and told the governor that she was in jail.


Summary: The exchange of partisan fire came a day after revelations about the loan made to the former aide, Karen Golding, and the roles of Mr. Corzine and the party chairman, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan of Union County. Both Mr. Cryan and Ms. Golding are scions of prominent families in a powerful Irish-American political bloc with roots in Essex County.

Summary: The exchange of partisan fire came a day after revelations about the loan made to the former aide, Karen Golding, and the roles of Mr. Corzine and the party chairman, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan of Union County. Both are scions of prominent families in a powerful Irish-American political bloc with roots in Essex County.


Summary: On Thursday, Tom Wilson, chairman of the state Republican Party, said that it took Mr. Corzine less than three weeks to ignore his own executive order and act beyond the very ethical boundaries he set for himself. In particular, Mr. Wilson said the executive order made it clear that the governor had to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. While no one has suggested that there is anything untoward about the contract itself, Mr. Wilson did ask the State Ethics Commission to convene a special panel to determine whether penalties should be levied against Mr. Corzine regarding the bail matter.

Summary: Tom Wilson, chairman of the state Republican Party, said that it took Mr. Corzine very little time to ignore his own executive order and act beyond the very ethical boundaries he set for himself. In particular, Mr. Wilson said the executive order made it clear that the governor had to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. Mr. Wilson asked the State Ethics Commission to convene a special panel to determine whether penalties should be levied against Mr. Corzine regarding the bail matter.


Summary: The New Jersey Republican Party on Thursday accused Gov. Jon S. Corzine of violating his own ethics guidelines when he lent $5,000 in bail money to a Trenton lobbyist and former campaign aide who had been accused of stalking the chairman of the state Democratic Party, and trying to break into his car. The exchange of partisan fire came a day after revelations about the loan made to the former aide, Karen Golding, and the roles of Mr. Corzine and the party chairman, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan of Union County. Mr. Corzine's explanation did not put an end to the chatter here on Thursday over his first political misstep since taking office on Jan. 17. That it centered on something that could be viewed as a possible conflict of interest called even more attention to it, given Mr. Corzine's vow to make ethics a top priority.

Summary: Jon S. Corzine has been accused of violating his own ethics guidelines when he lent $5,000 in bail money to a Trenton lobbyist and former campaign. The exchange of partisan fire came a day after revelations about the loan made to the former aide, Karen Golding, and the roles of Mr. Corzine and the party chairman, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan of Union County. Indeed, Mr. Corzine's first executive order, signed on his first day in office, strengthened ethics guidelines and included a code of conduct for the governor. He has long been described as generous to a fault, giving thousands of dollars to colleagues and friends in need.


Summary: The New Jersey Republican Party on Thursday accused Gov. Jon S. Corzine of violating his own ethics guidelines when he lent $5,000 in bail money to a Trenton lobbyist and former campaign aide who had been accused of stalking the chairman of the state Democratic Party, and trying to break into his car. The exchange of partisan fire came a day after revelations about the loan made to the former aide, Karen Golding, and the roles of Mr. Corzine and the party chairman, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan of Union County.

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


Summary: The lineup was a setback for detectives looking for links between the killing of the graduate student, Imette St. Guillen, on Feb. 25, and at least three unsolved rapes and kidnappings in Queens and on Long Island, though police continued to vigorously investigate the murder. Although the police have not officially named Mr. Littlejohn as a suspect in the brutal murder of Ms. St. Guillen, 24, whose body was found in eastern Brooklyn about 17 hours after she was last seen at the SoHo bar, the Falls, where Mr. Littlejohn worked, he remains the focus of their investigation into her death.

Summary: Mr. O'Donnell said that the police are under a lot of pressure to solve the case. The lineup was a setback for detectives looking for links between the killing of the graduate student, Imette St. Guillen. St. Guillen, 24, whose body was found in eastern Brooklyn about 17 hours after she was last seen at the SoHo bar, the Falls, where Mr. Littlejohn worked. Investigators were eager to determine if they could link a rape in Forest Hills, Queens, to the St. Guillen murder.


Summary: The bouncer, Darryl Littlejohn's lawyer Kevin P. O'Donnell said that he told him that he has never raped a woman and has no history of violence towards them. As officers whisked Mr. Littlejohn to the 112th Precinct station house, Mr. O'Donnell, who was appointed by the court to represent Mr. Littlejohn for the lineup, stood on the courthouse steps, just off Queens Boulevard, for a news conference and said that his client absolutely maintains his innocence and that he feels like he's a scapegoat. Later, Mr. O'Donnell, who was present for the lineup, described what happened: Mr. Littlejohn stood with other men, each wearing a baseball cap, as the victim said the attacker wore.

Summary: Mr. Kevin P. O'Donnell said that the police are under a lot of pressure to solve this case. The lineup was a setback for detectives looking for links between the killing of the graduate student, Imette St. Guillen. Mr. O'Donnell, who was appointed by the court to represent Mr. Littlejohn said, he thinks that his client is being made a scapegoat. Later, Mr. O'Donnell, who was present for the lineup, described that Mr. Littlejohn stood with other men, each wearing a baseball cap, as the victim said the attacker wore.


Summary: Darryl Littlejohn's lawyer Kevin P. O'Donnell, relating his conversations with his client, said that he told him that he has never raped a woman and has no history of violence towards them. As officers whisked Mr. Littlejohn to the 112th Precinct station house, Mr. O'Donnell, who was appointe dby the court to represent Mr. Littlejohn for the lineup, stood on the courthouse steps, just off Queens Boulevard, for a news conference and said that his client absolutely maintains his innocence, feels he's a scapegoat. Later, Mr. O'Donnell, who was present for the lineup, described what happened: Mr. Littlejohn stood with other men, each wearing a baseball cap, as the victim said the attacker wore.

Summary: Mr. Kevin P. O'Donnell said the police are under a lot of pressure to solve the case. The lineup was a setback for detectives looking for links between the killing of the graduate student, Imette St. Guillen. Mr. O'Donnell, who was appointed by the court to represent Mr. Littlejohn said that his client feels like a scapegoat. Mr. O'Donnell, who was present for the lineup, described Mr. Littlejohn stood with other men, each wearing a baseball cap, as the victim said the attacker wore.


Summary: A spokeswoman for Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney, said that absent substantial identification or other evidence of culpability, the filing of charges at this time are not justified.

Summary: Richard A. Brown, who is a spokeswoman in the Queens district attorney said that absent substantial identification or other evidence of culpability, the filing of charges at that time are not justified.


Summary: The police yesterday failed to link a bar bouncer at the center of an investigation into the murder of a graduate student with the rape of a woman in Queens after the victim did not pick the man out of a lineup. While the bouncer, Darryl Littlejohn, spent the day shuttling from Rikers Island to a Queens courtroom as well as a police precinct's lineup room, his lawyer criticized a process that he said had already condemned Mr. Littlejohn, who he said maintains his innocence. He has been questioned extensively, and yesterday, for the fifth consecutive day, detectives searched for clues in and around Mr. Littlejohn's home in South Jamaica, Queens.

Summary: While the bouncer, Darryl Littlejohn, spent the day shuttling from Rikers Island to a Queens courtroom as well as a police precinct's lineup room, his lawyer criticized a process that he said had already condemned Mr. Littlejohn, who he said ''maintains his innocence.'' He further said that how he is going to get out from under this? The police have not officially named Mr. Littlejohn as a suspect in the brutal murder case of Ms. St. Guillen, aged 24, whose body was found in eastern Brooklyn and was about 17 hours after she was last seen at the SoHo bar, the Falls, where Mr. Littlejohn worked.


Summary: The focus of attention has been the Bank of Japan's governing policy board, whose nine members began a two-day meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday. According to Bank of Japan, Japanese investors bought foreign securities worth about 9.9 trillion yen in the three months that ended in Sept. 30, three times as much as a year earlier. Economists say this could lead to a situation, far-fetched but not entirely implausible, in which the Bank of Japan deflates the American real estate market, as homebuyers face more expensive mortgages. The Bank of Japan feared that maintaining easy money for too long could cause the reviving economy to overheat, possibly creating inflation or a stock market bubble.

Summary: According to Bank of Japan, Japanese investors bought foreign securities which is worth about more or less  9.9 trillion yen in three months that ended in September 30, three times as much as a previous year. Economists say this could lead to a situation far-fetched but not entirely implausible in which the Bank of Japan deflates the American real estate market, as homebuyers face more expensive mortgages. The bank's decision could also have huge consequences for Japan's own $4.6 trillion economy, which is finally growing again.


Summary: R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia University Business School and a central banking expert, said that these are uncharted waters for a central bank.

Summary: Columbia University Business School's dean, who is Glenn Hubbard said it.


Summary: The federal government is already working on a program that would address many of the problems identified by the new report, which was first disclosed this week by ABC News.

Summary: ABC News disclosed that the federal government is already started working on a program that would address many of the problems which is identified by them.


Port Authority of New York
Port Authority

Summary: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is failing to properly screen truck drivers allowed onto port terminals, according to a new federal report that found that nearly half the drivers whose backgrounds were checked had possible criminal histories. The Port Authority requires these drivers to submit photographs, as well as their Social Security and driver's license numbers, but it does not check this information against criminal databases before issuing a Sea Link card, the report said. Anthony R. Coscia, chairman of the Port Authority, said that if the federal government took too long, the Port Authority may ask the New York and New Jersey governments to authorize law enforcement officials to do background checks on port workers, including truck drivers.

Summary: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is failing to screen truck drivers allowed onto port terminals, according to a new federal report that nearly half the drivers whose backgrounds were checked had possible criminal histories. Concerned about the pattern, the department decreed the Port Authority for access to records from its Sea Link program, which is intended to help move truck traffic quickly past security gates by clearing drivers before they arrive. The Port Authority requires these drivers to submit photographs, and their Social Security and driver's license numbers, but it does not check this information against criminal databases before issuing a Sea Link card, as the report said.


Summary: John A. Gotti's defense, that he had withdrawn from the crime family, drew a harsh rebuttal from the prosecutor, Michael McGovern, who compared him to a heavy drinker. Mr. McGovern said that for the withdrawal defense to stand, the jury would have to be convinced that Mr. Gotti did not receive any financial or other benefit, not a single red penny, from the Gambino family after July 21, 1999, five years before he was indicted in the current case. Mr. McGovern listed examples of Mr. Gotti's continuing participation in the racketeering conspiracy, including his use of a Mafia lawyer, or 'house counsel,' as he put it, to send messages while he was in jail and his continuing collection of rent from commercial property in Queens, which the prosecution contends he bought with Gambino money.

Summary: Mr. Gotti's defense, which he had withdrawn from the crime family, drew a harsh disapproval from the prosecutor, Michael McGovern, who compared him to a heavy drinker. Mr. McGovern asked the jury that have they ever encountered somebody with a hangover, facing the evidence of his crimes? saying, He is  never going to have another drink. He noted that the defense had not called any ''made'' members of the Mafia to corroborate Mr. Gotti's testimony, even though several of them were in jail and would have had little to lose.


Summary: John A. Gotti's lawyer declared in open court yesterday that Mr. Gotti was the heir apparent to the Gambino organized crime family in 1992, after his father, then the boss of the family, was sentenced to life in prison. Mr. McGovern said that for the withdrawal defense to stand, the jury would have to be convinced that Mr. Gotti did not receive any financial or other benefit from the Gambino family after July 21, 1999, five years before he was indicted in the current case. Mr. McGovern listed examples of Mr. Gotti's continuing participation in the racketeering conspiracy, including his use of a Mafia lawyer, or 'house counsel,' as he put it, to send messages while he was in jail and his continuing collection of rent from commercial property in Queens, which the prosecution contends he bought with Gambino money.

Summary: John A. Gotti's lawyer declared in open court that Mr. Gotti was the ''heir apparent'' to the Gambino organized crime family, after his father, then the boss of the family, was sentenced to life in prison. John Gotti was involved in the Gambino organized crime family which is said by Mr. Carnesi in his closing argument. Not only was he involved, he was in 1992 the heir apparent.


Summary: Violating, on his client's behalf, what has been described at the trial as a sacred code of silence about even admitting the existence of the Mafia, Mr. Gotti's lawyer, Charles Carnesi, said he was not trying to be sarcastic or facetious. He said that he only wanted to be clear about a past that his client had renounced. Mr. Carnesi said in his closing argument that John Gotti was involved in the Gambino organized crime family. Mr. Carnesi also said that to expect corroboration from other Mafiosi was ridiculous and he has no burden of proving that the entire Gambino organization left with him. He said Mr. Gotti had settled his debt to the government, by serving seven years in prison, including time after his indictment in the current case, and by selling his house and forfeiting $1.5 million.

Summary: Violating, on the behalf of his client, what has been described at the trial as a sacred code of silence about even admitting the existence of the Mafia, Mr. Gotti's lawyer, Charles Carnesi, said he was not trying to be ''sarcastic or facetious.'' He only wanted to clear about the past that his client had renounced, he said. Mr. Carnesi said in his closing argument that John Gotti was involved in the Gambino organized crime family.


Peter Gotti
John A. Gotti
John Gotti
John J. Gotti
Gotti

Summary: Standing Mafia tradition on its head, John A. Gotti's lawyer declared in open court yesterday that Mr. Gotti was the heir apparent to the Gambino organized crime family in 1992, after his father, then the boss of the family, was sentenced to life in prison. Violating, on his client's behalf, what has been described at the trial as a sacred code of silence about even admitting the existence of the Mafia, Mr. Gotti's lawyer, Charles Carnesi, said he was not trying to be sarcastic or facetious. He only wanted to be clear about a past that his client had renounced, he said. He was the person who his father wanted to take over that family. That blunt assertion came yesterday before the racketeering conspiracy case against Mr. Gotti went to the jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan at 4:45 p.m.

Summary: John A. Gotti's lawyer declared in open court that he was the ''heir apparent'' to the Gambino organized crime family, after his father, then after the boss of the family, was sentenced to life in prison. Violating, on his client's behalf, what has been described at the trial as a holy code of silence about even admitting the existence of the Mafia, Charles Carnesi, who is the lawyer of Mr. Gotti, said that he was not trying to be ''sarcastic or facetious.'' He only wanted to be clear about a past that his client had renounced, he said. Mr. Carnesi said in his closing argument that John Gotti was involved in the Gambino organized crime family.


Sony BMG
Sony
Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Summary: Two of the four major record companies, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Warner Music Group, agreed to multimillion-dollar settlements and adopted tighter promotion policies. The largest settlement so far in the case is $10 million from Sony BMG. In one example cited in legal papers, the director of an Entercom pop music station in Buffalo, WKSE, wrote in a July 2003 e-mail message to an executive at the Columbia Records unit of Sony asking whether they needed help on Jessica [Simpson] that week?

Summary: Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Warner Music Group, the two of the four major record companies, agreed to multimillion-dollar settlements and adopted tighter promotion policies. The largest settlement till date in the case is $10 million from Sony BMG.


Summary: In July 2004, the lawsuit said, an employee at one station e-mailed one of the chain's top programmers, Pat Paxton, and its chief executive, David J. Field, saying that a local programmer had been taking record company money and makes him help him. The lawsuit said Mr. Paxton referred the issue to a supervisor but never followed up. Mr. Spitzer also focused on a program created in part by Mr. Paxton and Mr. Field, called CD Preview, in which labels can buy 'spins' on stations. Mr. Paxton said in a 2003 e-mail message to Mr. Field that programmers would seriously consider but would not be required to add songs.

Summary: Pat Paxton, and its chief executive, David J. Field, received a e-mail from an employee at one station in July 2004, and they said that the local programmer had been taking the record company money and makes him help them. The lawsuit said Mr. Paxton referred the issue to a supervisor but never followed up. Mr. Spitzer also focused on a program created in part by Mr. Paxton and Mr. Field, called CD Preview, in which labels can buy ''spins'' on stations. Mr. Paxton said in an e-mail message to Mr. Field that programmers would seriously be considered but would not be required to add songs.


Summary: Pat Paxton is one of the chain's top programmers, who received an e-mail by the employee at one station in july 2004. David J. Field, saying that a local programmer had been taking the money of record company and makes him to help them. The lawsuit said Mr. Paxton referred the issue to a supervisor but never followed the same. Mr. Spitzer also focused on a program created in part by Mr. Paxton and Mr. Field, which is called CD Preview, in which labels can buy ''spins'' on stations. Mr. Paxton said in e-mail message to Mr. Field that programmers would further seriously consider but would not be required to add songs.


Entercom
Entercom Communications
Entercom.

Summary: The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, accused the radio giant Entercom Communications yesterday of soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The suit accuses senior executives at Entercom, the nation's fifth-biggest radio chain, of directing efforts to extract improper payments from record companies and independent promoters, who are middlemen hired to pitch songs. In papers filed at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Spitzer's office said Entercom also created programs to sell advertising time to record companies in a scheme that was used to inflate the performance of songs on charts monitored by other programmers.

Summary: Eliot Spitzer is the New York attorney general, accused the radio giant company Entercom Communications for soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The suit accuses senior executives of Entercom, the nation's fifth-biggest radio chain, of directing efforts to extract improper payments from record companies and independent promoters, who are middlemen hired to pitch songs. In papers there is filed at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Spitzer's office said Entercom also created programs to sell advertising time to record companies in a scheme that was further used to inflate the performance of songs on charts monitored by other programmers.


Summary: Entercom's programmers occasionally complained that CD Preview meant that stations were playing songs excessively, one played ''Don't Tell Me'' by Avril Lavigne 109 times in a week, with more than a third of the plays paid for by her label, Arista Records.

Summary: Even Entercom's programmers occasionally complained that CD Preview meant that stations were playing songs excessively one played ''Don't Tell Me'' by Avril Lavigne 109 times in a week, with more than a third of the plays paid for by her label, Arista Records.


Summary: In one example cited in legal papers, the director of an Entercom pop music station in Buffalo, WKSE, wrote in a July 2003 e-mail message to an executive at the Columbia Records unit of Sony asking if they need help on Jessica [Simpson] this week? If they don't need help, he certainly don't need to play it. WKSE fired the programmer last year, but Mr. Spitzer said his illegal transactions were clearly disclosed to his supervisors. In another case, the lawsuit contends a programmer at a country music station in Rochester, WBEE, asked executives at Universal South, a unit of the Universal Music Group, to buy a $2,500 laptop computer for the station, and in exchange added songs by two artists to the playlist.

Summary: The director of an Entercom pop music station in Buffalo, WKSE, wrote in an e-mail message to an executive at the Columbia Records unit of Sony, on whether they needed help on Jessica Simpson. WKSE fired the programmer last year, but Mr. Spitzer said his illegal transactions were clearly disclosed to his supervisors.


Summary: The lawsuit said an employee e-mailed one of the chain's top programmers, Pat Paxton, and its chief executive, David J. Field, saying that a local programmer had been taking record company money. The lawsuit said Mr. Paxton referred the issue to a supervisor but never followed up. Mr. Paxton said in a 2003 e-mail message to Mr. Field that programmers would seriously consider but would not be required to add songs.


Summary: The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, accused the radio giant Entercom Communications yesterday of soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The lawsuit is the first time that Mr. Spitzer has focused his continuing payola investigation on a broadcaster. In papers filed at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Spitzer's office said Entercom also created programs to sell advertising time to record companies in a scheme that was used to inflate the performance of songs on charts monitored by other programmers. Mr. Spitzer had been seeking a settlement of about $20 million from Entercom.

Summary: The New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, accused the radio giant Entercom Communications of soliciting money and gifts from record companies in exchange for playing songs on the air. The lawsuit is the first one that Mr. Spitzer has filed in the inquiry, which began in 2004. Mr. Spitzer had been seeking a settlement of about $20 million from Entercom. Mr. Spitzer also focused on a program created in part by Mr. Paxton and Mr. Field, called CD Preview.


Summary: On Wednesday, the oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange were sent down $1.56, to $60.02 a barrel.

Summary: Taken together, these sent oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange down $1.56, to $60.02 a barrel on Wednesday.


Summary: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said on Wednesday that it would keep pumping oil near its maximum levels in an effort that could cool down prices. The decision by the OPEC, which produces about 40 percent of the world's crude oil, coincided with a report showing a surge in crude oil stocks in the United States. But with geopolitical tensions revolving around several oil producers, including the OPEC members Nigeria, Iran and Iraq, ministers at the gathering here acknowledge that their action may have little impact on today's volatile markets.

Summary: OPEC said that it would keep pumping oil near its maximum levels in an effort to cool down prices. The decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which produces about 40 percent of the world's crude oil regarding the surge in crude oil stocks in the United States. OPEC's chief concern recently has been about falling oil prices. OPEC's top representatives have been eager to trim production, fearing that a seasonal slowdown in demand in the second quarter and a build-up in inventories might lead to a sharp slide in prices.


Summary: Mr. Edmund Daukoru, OPEC's current president and also Nigeria's oil minister, said he believed $60 constituted a fair price for oil. He simply said that there are probably as many views as there are member countries as to what a fair price is.

Summary: OPEC's current president, Edmund Daukoru, said in a news conference at the end of the group's one-day meeting, that prices have their ebbs and flows but they are concerned that prices don't get out of hand. Last week, Mr. Daukoru, who is also Nigeria's oil minister, said he believed $60 constituted a fair price for oil. He declined to repeat that statement Wednesday by simply saying that there are probably as many views as there are member countries as to what a fair price is.


Summary: OPEC said that it would keep pumping oil near its maximum levels in an effort that could cool down prices. The decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which produces about 40 percent of the world's crude oil, showing a surge in crude oil stocks in the United States. Since OPEC abandoned its target range of $22 to $28 a barrel in January 2005, the oil-producing group has left one major question unanswered. OPEC's chief concern recently has been about falling oil prices. OPEC's top representatives have been eager to trim production, fearing that a seasonal slowdown in demand in the second quarter and a build-up in inventories might lead to a sharp slide in prices.

Summary: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said on Wednesday that it would keep pumping oil near its maximum levels in an effort that could cool down prices. The decision by the OPEC, which produces about 40 percent of the world's crude oil, coincided with a report showing a surge in crude oil stocks in the United States. But with geopolitical tensions revolving around several oil producers, including the OPEC members Nigeria, Iran and Iraq, ministers at the gathering here acknowledge that their action may have little impact on today's volatile markets.


Nissan
Nissan North America
Nissan Motor Company

Summary: The Nissan Motor Company said that its top North American sales executive was retiring. Two of the closest associates of Nissan's chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, were promoted to top positions in its North American operations. It was a sign that Mr. Ghosn, who took responsibility for Nissan's North American operations in 2005, wants his lieutenants in charge. James C. Morton, North American administration and finance chief, was moved to the newly created post of vice chairman at Nissan North America.

Summary: The Nissan Motor Company said on Wednesday that its top North American sales executive was retiring, the highest-level employee to leave as the company prepares to move its American headquarters from Southern California to Tennessee. The announcements come as Nissan, which has become one of the biggest threats to American automakers, has recently had trouble maintaining momentum from its record sales of the last two years. When Nissan announced late last year that it would move to Franklin, Tenn., just outside Nashville, to save money, the news prompted concerns of a brain drain at the company. The company has said it plans to be completely moved out of its California headquarters by Aug. 1, and will have a new headquarters built in Franklin within two years.


Summary: Two of the closest associates of Nissan's chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, were promoted to top positions in its North American operations. It was a sign that Mr. Ghosn, who took responsibility for Nissan's North American operations in 2005, wants his lieutenants in charge. Mr. Thormann accompanied Mr. Ghosn to Tokyo when he took charge of Nissan in 1999 and is considered the architect of Nissan's financial recovery.

Summary: The Nissan Motor Company said on Wednesday that its top North American sales executive was retiring, the highest-level employee to leave as the company prepares to move its American headquarters from Southern California to Tennessee. At the same time, two of the closest associates of Nissan's chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, were promoted to top positions in its North American operations. It was a sign that Mr. Ghosn, who took responsibility for Nissan's North American operations in 2005, wants his lieutenants in charge. When Mr. Ghosn announced the move in November, he said that the company thought about half its employees might not relocate.


Summary: Jed Connelly, 60, Nissan's senior vice president for sales and marketing refused to move to Tennesse. After Nissan initially announced its plans to move to Tennessee, Mr. Connelly said he had planned to stay. But later on, Mr. Connelly said he decided to hand over his responsibilities to his successor, Brad Bradshaw.

Summary: After Nissan initially announced its plans to move to Tennessee, Mr. Connelly, 60, Nissan's senior vice president for sales and marketing, said he had planned to stay. But on Wednesday, Mr. Connelly said he decided to hand over his responsibilities to his successor, Brad Bradshaw. Calling his decision to retire a 'mutual transition,' Mr. Connelly said that he just felt like it was the right thing to do at the right time.


Summary: Ms. True and Mr. Hecht were indicted in 2003 on the trafficking charges along with Giacomo Medici, an Italian antiquities dealer. Mr. Medici was convicted in 2004.


Summary: Gen. Roberto Conforti, the retired head of the art theft squad, testified that he wrote a letter in 2000 to hundreds of museums around the world, seeking their aid in tracking down works of art that could have been looted in Italy and illegally exported. A copy of General Conforti's letter was found among the papers confiscated from Mr. Hecht's home in Paris, speculating on how it might have made its way there. General Conforti, who retired in 2002, said that cooperation from museums had been slow in coming.

Summary: Gen. Roberto Conforti, the retired head of the art theft squad, testified that he wrote a letter in 2000 to hundreds of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and museums in Boston and Cleveland and at Princeton University, seeking their aid in tracking down works of art that could have been looted in Italy and illegally exported. A copy of General Conforti's letter was found among the papers confiscated from Mr. Hecht's home in Paris, other investigators said Wednesday, speculating on how it might have made its way there. General Conforti, who retired in 2002, said that cooperation from museums had been slow in coming.


Summary: Ms. Marion True and her co-defendant, the American dealer Robert Hecht, enters its fifth month, prosecutors also called on Italy's art theft police to explain the web that they say links the defendants to tomb robbers and unscrupulous dealers. Mr. Hecht, 86, has sold dozens of antiquities to museums in the United States and abroad. Ms. True and Mr. Hecht were indicted in 2003 on the trafficking charges.

Summary: As the trial of Ms. True and her co-defendant, the American dealer Robert Hecht, enters its fifth month, prosecutors also called on Italy's art theft police to explain the web that they say links the defendants to tomb robbers and unscrupulous dealers. A copy of General Conforti's letter was found among the papers confiscated from Mr. Hecht's home in Paris, other investigators said on Wednesday, speculating on how it might have made its way there. Over the decades, Mr. Hecht, 86, has sold dozens of antiquities to museums in the United States and abroad.


Summary: Italian prosecutors at the trial of Marion True, a former curator at the J. Ms. True and her co-defendant, the American dealer Robert Hecht, enters its fifth month, prosecutors also called on Italy's art theft police to explain the web that they say links the defendants to tomb robbers and unscrupulous dealers. Ms. True and Mr. Hecht were indicted in 2003 on the trafficking charges.

Summary: Italian prosecutors at the trial of Marion True, a former curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, who was charged with trafficking in looted antiquities, said the first photograph was taken moments after the fragments were unearthed. As the trial of Ms. True and her co-defendant, the American dealer Robert Hecht, enters its fifth month, prosecutors also called on Italy's art theft police to explain the web that they say links the defendants to tomb robbers and unscrupulous dealers. However, Ms. True and Mr. Hecht were indicted in 2003 on the trafficking charges.


Summary: Imants G. Priede of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland has studied the deep oceans for more than two decades, deploying cameras and other equipment 20,000 feet down near Hawaii, among other places. At a conference several years ago, Dr. Priede talked about the absence of sharks, to the general disbelief of those in attendance. Since then, Dr. Priede and his collaborators have tried to find sharks through trawling, long-line fishing and photography.


Summary: As General Motors sells most of its 21 percent stake in the Japanese carmaker Suzuki Motor, providing a cash infusion after huge losses. Suzuki has done well, particularly in emerging markets like China and India. But the sale comes as Suzuki is in the middle of a multi-year $8.6 billion plan to expand production and develop new cars. Suzuki also owns an 11 percent stake in G.M.

Summary: As General Motors sells most of its 21 percent stake in the Japanese carmaker Suzuki Motor, providing a cash infusion after huge losses, analysts are wondering if the move will be enough to appease G.M.'s disgruntled shareholders. G.M. will sell about 92 million shares, or a 17.4 percent stake, back to Suzuki for 230 billion yen ($1.98 billion) on Tuesday, the companies said. Suzuki also owns an 11 percent stake in G.M.


Summary: G.M.'s strength has long been in S.U.V.'s and pickup trucks, fuel guzzlers that are falling out of favor with consumers as prices soar at the gas station. Suzuki and G.M. operate a 50-50 joint venture in Ontario that produces S.U.V.'s sold under the Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Suzuki brands.

Summary: General Motors's strength has long been in S.U.V.'s and pickup trucks, fuel guzzlers that are falling out of favor with consumers as prices soar at the gas station. Suzuki and General Motors operate a 50-50 joint venture in Ontario that produces S.U.V.s sold under the Chevrolet, Pontiac and Suzuki brands.


Summary: Troy A. Clarke, president of G.M.'s Asia-Pacific operations, said the sale would bring G.M. a pretax profit of $550 million to $750 million.

Summary: The president of General Motors's Asia-Pacific operations, Troy A. Clarke, said the sale would bring G.M. a pretax profit of $550 million to $750 million.


Summary: Chizuko Satsukawa, a Tokyo-based analyst for Standard & Poor's, wrote in a report that Suzuki's capital needs are strong.

Summary: The Tokyo-based analyst for Standard & Poor's, Chizuko Satsukawa, wrote in a report on Monday that Suzuki's capital needs are strong.


Summary: Troy A. Clarke, president of G.M.'s Asia-Pacific operations, said the sale would bring G.M. a pretax profit of $550 million to $750 million. Mr. Clarke said G.M. was holding onto its 7.9 percent stake in Isuzu for now but seemed to leave open the possibility of a future sale. Mr. Clarke said G.M. decided on the Suzuki sale at a board meeting on Feb. 6. He said the sale would shrink G.M.'s stake in Suzuki back to its level before 1998 when G.M. began increasing its ownership.

Summary: President of General Motors's Asia-Pacific operations, Troy A. Clarke, said the sale would bring General Motors a pretax profit of $550 million to $750 million. On Monday, Mr. Clarke said G.M. was holding onto its 7.9 percent stake in Isuzu for now, but seemed to leave open the possibility of a future sale. Although, he said, that they have not made any decisions on Isuzu but if they do, they will take the same responsible approach by working with them as they have with Suzuki. Mr. Clarke told that G.M. decided on the Suzuki sale at a board meeting on Feb. 6 and the sale would shrink G.M.'s stake in Suzuki back to its level before 1998, when G.M. began increasing its ownership.


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Summary: The legislation, part of a push by some Republicans to re-establish themselves as champions of fiscal restraint, was taking shape as President Bush struck a similar theme on Monday by asking Congress to grant him line-item veto power to eliminate federal spending that he might judge wasteful. Mr. Bush said at a ceremony installing a new chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that they couldn't be all things to all people when it came to spending the taxpayers' money.

Summary: The legislation, was taking shape as President Bush struck a similar theme on Monday by asking Congress to grant him line-item veto power to eliminate federal spending that he might judge wasteful. Mr. Bush said at a ceremony, that they can't be all things to all people when it comes to spending the taxpayers' money, installing a new chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. But House conservative leaders would go far beyond the president's own budget proposal, illustrating the difficulty the White House and the Republican leadership have had in persuading the caucus to speak with one voice on the matter.


Summary: With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years, balance the budget and drastically shrink three cabinet agencies. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow warned Congress that the federal government risked default without an increase in the debt limit and that the Republican-controlled Congress would soon be forced to address that issue. Some moderate Republicans are anxious about additional spending reductions, particularly after Congress enacted nearly $40 billion in cuts last year after a difficult fight. Congress gave President Bill Clinton line-item veto authority in 1996, but the Supreme Court overturned the law, saying it violated the Constitution by giving the president the power to amend legislation.

Summary: With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years. The legislation, part of a push by some Republicans to re-establish themselves as champions of fiscal restraint, was taking shape as President Bush asked Congress to grant him line-item veto power to eliminate federal spending that he might judge wasteful. Congress gave President Bill Clinton line-item veto authority in 1996, but the Supreme Court overturned the law, saying it violated the Constitution by giving the president the power to amend legislation.


Summary: It was particularly important for conservatives to lay down a marker because the Senate is facing an imminent vote on whether to increase the statutory debt limit, which will remind the public of the increasing deficits under the Bush administration.

Summary: The officials said it was particularly important for conservatives to lay down a marker because the Senate is facing an imminent vote on whether to increase the statutory debt limit, which will remind the public of the increasing deficits under the Bush administration.


Summary: House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years, balance the budget and drastically shrink three cabinet agencies. But House conservative leaders would go far beyond the president's own budget proposal, illustrating the difficulty the White House and the Republican leadership have had in persuading the caucus to speak with one voice on the matter. The budget debate could be the first big challenge for Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, who won his position last month with help from House conservatives who will now be looking to him to help hold down spending.

Summary: With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives for planning this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years, balance the budget and drastically contract three cabinet agencies. But House conservative leaders would go far beyond the president's own budget proposal, illustrating the difficulty the White House and the Republican leadership have had in persuading the caucus to speak with one voice on the matter.


Summary: Treasury Secretary John W. Snow warned Congress on Monday that the federal government risked default without an increase in the debt limit and that the Republican-controlled Congress would soon be forced to address that issue.

Summary: Treasury Secretary John W. Snow warned Congress that the federal government risked default without an increase in the debt limit and that the Republican-controlled Congress would soon be forced to address that issue.


Summary: The filmmakers, Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, spent three years and about $100,000 following what began as a nasty state legislative battle over Mr. DeLay's push to redraw Congressional districts in Texas in 2002. Mr. Birnbaum, 57, of Dallas, a veteran documentary maker who started out in public television, and Mr. Schermbeck, 47, of Lubbock, Tex., a longtime community organizer, said in a telephone interview that they had tried mightily but failed to get Mr. DeLay to return their calls, while the district attorney, Mr. Earle, made himself readily available.

Summary: The filmmakers, Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, both spent three years and about $100,000 following what began as a nasty state legislative battle over Mr. DeLay's push to redraw Congressional districts in Texas, and mushroomed into a nationally watched partisan standoff, complete with Democratic lawmakers fleeing across state lines. Mr. Birnbaum, whose age is 57, of Dallas, a veteran documentary maker who started out in public television, and Mr. Schermbeck, 47, of Lubbock, Tex., a longtime community organizer, said that they had tried mightily but failed to get Mr. DeLay to return their calls, while the district attorney, Mr. Earle, made himself readily available.


Summary: Mr. Birnbaum, Mr. Schermbeck, both of them said, they had strived for an evenhanded approach, one they had used in their only previous collaboration, a 2003 film for the PBS series ''P.O.V.'' about high school drug testing in Lockney, Texas.

Summary: Nonetheless, they had strived for an evenhanded approach, one they had used in their only previous collaboration, a 2003 film for the PBS series ''P.O.V.'' about high school drug testing in Lockney, Tex.


Summary: It ultimately wound up as a criminal case, with Mr. DeLay and his allies coming into the cross hairs of Ronnie Earle, the Democratic district attorney of Travis County, Tex. It was Mr. Earle's argument that Mr. DeLay had engineered the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature in 2002 by breaking a state law banning companies from donating to individual candidates, essentially laundering tens of thousands of dollars in contributions through the Republican National Committee. Mr. Birnbaum and Mr. Schermbeck insist that Mr. Earle had shared no secrets with them, and that they acted and were treated no differently from any journalists covering the case.

Summary: It ultimately wound up as a criminal case, with Mr. DeLay and his allies coming into the crosshairs of Ronnie Earle, the Democratic district attorney of Travis County, Tex. It was Mr. Earle's argument, in the indictment, that Mr. DeLay had engineered the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature in 2002 by breaking a state law. Mr. Birnbaum and Mr. Schermbeck insist that Mr. Earle had shared no secrets with them and that they acted and were treated no differently from any journalists covering the case.


Summary: The film, ''The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress,'' will be distributed this spring by the Hollywood producer and liberal provocateur Robert Greenwald, whose last release was a scathing attack on Wal-Mart sponsored by a variety of labor unions and other groups critical of the retailing giant. Mr. Greenwald said in an interview, said that it will not follow a traditional theatrical rollout but will instead open in a few cities before being made widely available on DVD, as was the Wal-Mart movie. Mr. Greenwald had just distributed his Wal-Mart movie through a grass-roots campaign of house parties and internet sales of DVD's -- and scored a huge publicity coup when Wal-Mart attacked him -- so he proposed a similar strategy for the DeLay film.

Summary: The Hollywood producer and liberal provocateur Robert Greenwald, will be distributing the film, ''The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress'', whose last release was a scathing attack on Wal-Mart sponsored by a variety of labor unions and other groups critical of the retailing giant. It will not follow a traditional theatrical rollout but will instead open in a few cities before being made widely available on DVD, as was the Wal-Mart movie, Mr. Greenwald said that.


Summary: Robert Greenwald is the hollywood producer and liberal provocateur, will be distributed the film, ''The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress,'' whose last release was a scathing attack on Wal-Mart sponsored by a variety of labor unions and other groups critical of the retailing giant. Mr. Greenwald said in an interview that it will not follow a traditional theatrical rollout but will instead open in a few cities before being made widely available on DVD, as was the Wal-Mart movie. An important aspect of the release plan is to organize hundreds, of house parties in May and June at which the movie will be shown, Mr. Greenwald said.

Summary: The film, ''The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress,'' will be distributed this spring by the Hollywood producer and liberal provocateur Robert Greenwald. In California last fall, Mr. Greenwald watched the coverage of the DeLay indictment unfold and wondered if there wasn't a good documentary in it. But Mr. Greenwald had just distributed his Wal-Mart movie through a grass-roots campaign of house parties and internet sales of DVDs.


Summary: Dick DeGuerin who is the lawyer of Mr. DeLay called the movie, an early version of which he had seen, as a ''hatchet job,'' and said he had refused to sit down with the filmmakers for an interview. (Mr. DeGuerin appears on camera in public questioning sessions with the news media.)

Summary: Mr. DeLay's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, called the movie, an early version of which he had seen, a ''hatchet job,'' and said he had refused to sit down with the filmmakers for an interview. Mr. DeGuerin maintained that the movie puts the lie to Ronnie Earle's protestations for a year, before the indictment came down on DeLay, that DeLay was not a target. He added in truth, all the time he was cooperating with the moviemakers. But Mr. DeGuerin said that he had not followed through on a threat to subpoena the filmmakers' outtakes and that he doubted the movie would become a factor at trial.


Summary: Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, they are the film makers, spent three years and about $100,000 following what began as a nasty state legislative battle over Mr. DeLay's push to redraw Congressional districts in Texas, and spread into a nationally watched partisan standoff, complete with Democratic lawmakers fleeing across state lines. Mr. Birnbaum, aged 57, of Dallas, a veteran documentary maker who started out in public television, and Mr. Schermbeck, who is 47, of Lubbock, Texas, a longtime community organizer, said in an interview that they had tried mightily but failed to get Mr. DeLay to return their calls, while, Mr. Earle, the district attorney, made himself readily available. Mr. Schermbeck said that with Tom DeLay you're either in his camp or you're not.

Summary: The filmmakers, Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck spent three years and about $100,000 following Mr. DeLay's push to redraw Congressional districts in Texas in 2002. Mr. Birnbaum, 57, of Dallas, a veteran documentary maker who started out in public television, and Mr. Schermbeck, 47, of Lubbock, Tex., a longtime community organizer, said they had tried mightily but failed to get Mr. DeLay to return their calls, while the district attorney, Mr. Earle, made himself readily available. Mr. Birnbaum and Mr. Schermbeck insist that Mr. Earle had shared no secrets with them and that they acted and were treated no differently from any journalists covering the case.


Summary: A host of liberal organizations in Texas and nationwide, including People for the American Way, Democracy for America, and the Pacifica radio station in Houston, are expected to sponsor the film's release.

Summary: A host of liberal organizations in Texas and nationwide, including People for the American Way, Democracy for America and the Pacifica radio station in Houston, they are expected to sponsor the film's release.


Summary: A documentary about the Texas criminal investigation that led to the indictment of Representative Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, on campaign fund-raising charges is being put to use by Mr. DeLay's political opponents. It was Mr. Earle's argument, in the indictment, that Mr. DeLay had engineered the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature in 2002 by breaking a state law banning companies from donating to individual candidates. It is the film's argument that Mr. DeLay had a grander purpose in mind using the newly Republican-run legislature to redraw the state's Congressional map, erasing five seats held by Democrats despite Republican majorities, causing a 10-vote shift in the House, and thereby giving Republicans a solid majority with which to enact corporate-friendly federal legislation.

Summary: A documentary about the Texas criminal investigation which led to the indictment of Representative Tom DeLay, who is the former House majority leader, on campaign fund-raising charges is being put to use by Mr. DeLay's political opponents in an attempt to bring down him. The distribution strategy is to be detailed on the primary day in Texas as a token of welcome gift to Mr. DeLay, he said. Mr. DeLay's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, called the movie, an early version of which he had seen, a hatchet job, and said he had refused to sit down with the filmmakers for an interview.


Summary: Kevin O'Toole and Bill Murphy have spent their free time searching for a friend who walked out of a dockside bar in East Rockaway on Long Island and went missing. Officer O'Toole, who works for the Nassau County Police Department, and Mr. Murphy, a mason, were looking for Thomas Fasciglione, 50, a car cleaner for Metro-North Railroad. Officer O'Toole and Mr. Murphy had very little hope that they would find Mr. Fasciglione alive.

Summary: Kevin O'Toole and Bill Murphy have spent their free time searching for a friend who walked out of a dockside bar in East Rockaway on Long Island on Jan. 28 and vanished into the night. At 10:30 a.m., as they drove past the junction of Rockaway and Brookville Boulevards, along the marshes beside the northeastern edge of Kennedy International Airport, Officer O'Toole and Mr. Murphy spotted a black trash bag in the weeds. Officer O'Toole was still explaining to New York City detectives how he came to find the body in the bag in Queens when his phone rang.


Thomas Fasciglione
Joan Fasciglione
Fasciglione

Summary: Officer O'Toole, who works for the Nassau County Police Department, and Mr. Murphy, a mason, were looking for Thomas Fasciglione, 50, a car cleaner for Metro-North Railroad.  Tommy was the guy floating in the bay. It is too early to tell what happened to Mr. Fasciglione, even to tell whether he committed suicide, died of natural causes or was killed, the police said. Mr. Fasciglione, who was single and did not have children, stumbled onto Althouse Avenue around 1:30 a.m., carrying a bag of groceries in his hands, Mr. Muxie said.

Summary: Officer O'Toole, who works for the Nassau County Police Department, and Mr. Murphy, a mason, were looking for Thomas Fasciglione, 50, a car cleaner for Metro-North Railroad who went for a walk on Long Island and then disappeared. Officer O'Toole and Mr. Murphy had very little hope that they would find Mr. Fasciglione alive. At Pier 101 Tavern, the bar in East Rockaway where Mr. Fasciglione was last seen, someone spotted a body in the bay. It could be that he fell in the water and drowned, Mr. Fasciglione looked tipsy when he left Pier 101 Tavern, said the bartender, Kenneth Muxie. According to his family and friends, he never made it home.


Summary: Tommy was the guy floating in the bay. It is too early to tell what happened to Mr. Fasciglione, even to tell whether he committed suicide, died of natural causes or was killed, the police said. He said that they finished with the police in Queens, they got back and found out it was Tommy.

Summary: Officer O'Toole, who works for the Nassau County Police Department, and Mr. Murphy, a mason, were looking for Thomas Fasciglione, 50, a car cleaner for Metro-North Railroad. Officer O'Toole and Mr. Murphy had very little hope that they would find Mr. Fasciglione alive, they said. After finishing with the police in Queens, they got back and found out it was Tommy. It is too early to tell what happened to Mr. Fasciglione, even to tell whether he committed suicide, died of natural causes, or was killed, the police said.


Summary: Kevin O'Toole and Bill Murphy have spent their free time searching for a friend who walked out of a dockside bar in East Rockaway.  Officer O'Toole, works in Nassau County Police Department, and Mr. Murphy, a mason, were looking for Thomas Fasciglione, age is 50, a car cleaner for Metro-North Railroad. They said that deep down they had a very little hope that they will find their friend alive.


Summary: Vermont's governor, Jim Douglas, is treating the situation like a crisis. He proposes making Vermont the ''Silicon Valley'' of environmental technology companies lure businesses and workers; giving college scholarships requiring students to stay in Vermont. The worker shortage recently forced Mr. Douglas to say he would not drive out illegal immigrants working on Vermont's dairy farms. Some of Governor Douglas's proposals are controversial, like scholarships to be financed with the tobacco settlement money, which some legislators want for health care.

Summary: Mr. Douglas proposes making Vermont the ''Silicon Valley'' of environmental technology companies to lure businesses and workers; giving college scholarships requiring students to stay in Vermont for three years after graduating; relaxing once-sacrosanct environmentally driven building restrictions in some areas to encourage more housing. For someone who's young and trying to make a name for himself, it's just not really the best environment. Governor Douglas said one executive had told him that his business was growing, his orders were increasing, my markets were branching out. Mr. Douglas said that he respected the laws of the United States, of course.


Summary: Anne DeBonis, co-president of Poultney's Chamber of Commerce, said two of her three sons had left Vermont.

Summary: Anne DeBonis, co-president of Poultney's Chamber of Commerce, said that those people had several kids -- they were in Texas now visiting those children.


Summary: Ray Pentkowski, the principal of Poultney Elementary School, published an unusual request in the school newsletter in which he urged parents to have more babies. His school, down to 208 children, has lost a third of its student population since 1999 and must cut staff levels. Poultney, a town of 3,600 bordering New York, is just one example.

Summary: Ray Pentkowski, the principal of Poultney Elementary School, published an unusual request in the school newsletter. His school, down to 208 children, has lost a third of its student population since 1999 and must cut staff levels for the first time in my memory. Poultney, a town of 3,600 bordering New York, is just one example of a situation that increasingly alarms many in Vermont.


Summary: Arthur Woolf, an economist at the University of Vermont, said that by 2030, there would be only two working-age Vermonters for every retiree. Professor Woolf said that the back-to-the-land influx of the 1960's, 70's and 80's, which once had Vermont growing faster than the country as a whole, has dissipated. Professor Woolf said that If he lived in New York or Boston and he wanted to get away from it all, these days it's just as cheap to fly out to Boise, Idaho, or Montana.

Summary: Arthur Woolf, an economist at the University of Vermont, said that by 2030, there would be only two working-age Vermonters for every retiree. The back-to-the-land influx of the 1960's, 70's and 80's, which once had Vermont growing faster than the country as a whole, has dissipated. Vermont may have lost some cachet for the people often referred to as ''flatlanders.'' Professor Woolf said that if anyone live in New York or Boston and if the person want to get away from it all, these days it's just as cheap to fly out to Boise, Idaho, or Montana.


Summary: Roger Meiners, the co-author of ''Faulty Towers,'' a critique of academia, doesn't think that eliminating tenure would make much difference in how university administrators behaved. Mr. Meiners also added that any dean who would fire anyone would have a reputation as a nasty person and could never advance in academic administration.