Summary: Lawrence Summers was ostensibly in charge of Harvard, but he had little power to fire or hire anyone. Summers could veto new hires and try to push departments in new directions. We'd be as genuinely puzzled as the Harvard professors who wrote to me after I mentioned an issue that arose under Summers: the complaint that the history department didn't offer a traditional survey course on the American Revolution and the writing of the Constitution.

Summary: Lawrence Summers was ostensibly in charge of Harvard, but he had little power to fire or hire anyone. Summers could veto new hires and try to push departments in new directions -- but once the faculty got annoyed, he was out of a job.


Summary: Mr. Vallone told Paul B. Powers, the executive deputy to the commission's chairman, said that as representatives of people who had to walk through minefields of stray voltage and exploding manhole covers, they believed he had completely abdicated his responsibility. Mr. Powers replied that the commission, a regulatory and rate-setting body, did not have the resources to conduct extensive stray-voltage tests.

Summary: Paul B. Powers, the executive deputy to the commission's chairman was accused of abdicated his responsibility by Mr. Vallone. Mr. Powers replied that the commission, a regulatory and rate-setting body, did not have the resources to conduct extensive stray-voltage tests.


Summary: Consolidated Edison, responding to testing requirements imposed after a woman was electrocuted while walking her dog in the East Village in 2004, found 1,214 instances of stray voltage during a yearlong examination of electrical equipment on city streets. Five days later, a dog was electrocuted on a patch of concrete in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Con Ed had continued to supply electricity to a nonexistent streetlight. Mr. Miksad said that in addition to the almost 730,000 tests conducted last year, Con Ed also conducted more than 150,000 tests for stray voltage during its routine utility work.

Summary: Consolidated Edison, responding to testing requirements imposed after a woman was electrocuted while walking her dog in the East Village in 2004, found 1,214 instances of stray voltage during a yearlong examination of electrical equipment on city streets, officials disclosed at a City Council hearing. John F. Miksad, is the senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, said that the company is expected to spend $100 million this year toward reducing the risk of stray voltage. Later, Mr. Vallone, a Queens Democrat, accused Con Ed of being slow to act.


Summary: John F. Miksad, who is the senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, said that the company is expected to spend $100 million this year toward reducing the risk of stray voltage. After 5 days, a dog was electrocuted on a patch of concrete in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Con Ed had continued to supply electricity to a nonexistent streetlight. Later, Mr. Vallone, a Queens Democrat, accused Con Ed for being slow to act.

Summary: Consolidated Edison, responding to testing requirements imposed after a woman was electrocuted, found 1,214 instances of stray voltage during a yearlong examination of electrical equipment on city streets, officials disclosed at City Council.  A few days later a dog was also electrocuted on a patch of concrete in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Con Ed had continued to supply electricity to a nonexistent streetlight. Con Ed and the city are installing 5,000 isolation transformers, devices that prevent current from flowing through a streetlight if the wiring to the light fails.


Summary: Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., who attempted a 2004 law that required the city's Department of Transportation to check at least 250 randomly selected sites for stray voltage every year, said the Public Service Commission should conduct independent tests beyond those of Con Ed and the city agency.

Summary: Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., who championed a 2004 law that required the city's Department of Transportation to check at least 250 randomly selected sites for stray voltage every year, said the Public Service Commission should conduct independent tests beyond those of Con Ed and the city agency.


Summary: Consolidated Edison, responding to testing requirements imposed after a woman was electrocuted while walking her dog in the East Village in 2004, found 1,214 instances of stray voltage during a yearlong examination of electrical equipment on city streets, officials disclosed at a City Council hearing yesterday. John F. Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, said the company which expected to spend $100 million this year toward reducing the risk of stray voltage.


Summary: Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., who promoted the 2004 law that required the city's Department of Transportation to check at least 250 randomly selected sites for stray voltage per year, said the Public Service Commission should conduct independent tests beyond those of Con Ed and the city agency. Mr. Vallone told Paul B. Powers, the executive deputy to the commission's chairman that as the representatives of people who have to walk through minefields of stray voltage and exploding manhole covers, they all believe that he has completely abdicated your responsibility.

Summary: Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., who championed a 2004 law that required the city's Department of Transportation to check at least 250 randomly selected sites for stray voltage every year, said the Public Service Commission should conduct independent tests beyond those of Con Ed and the city agency. Mr. Vallone told Paul B. Powers, the executive deputy to the commission's chairman, that as representatives of people who have to walk through minefields of stray voltage and exploding manhole covers, they believe he has completely abdicated his responsibility. Later, Mr. Vallone, a Queens Democrat, accused Con Ed of being slow to act.


Summary: John F. Miksad, senior vice president at Consolidated Edison, said that the company is expecting to spend $100 million this year toward reducing the risk of stray voltage. He also said at the hearing that while there is always some risk involved in delivering energy, they work diligently to do it as safely as humanly possible. He said that utility workers arrived at the scene within 20 minutes but noted that stray voltage is often intermittent.

Summary: John F. Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, said the company expected to spend $100 million this year toward reducing the risk of stray voltage. He said at the hearing that while there is always some risk involved in delivering energy, they work diligently to do it as safely as humanly possible. Stray voltage was detected in an underground device four feet below the spot where the boy reported the shock, but not on the metal plate itself, Mr. Miksad added. He also said that utility workers arrived at the scene within 20 minutes but noted that stray voltage is often intermittent.


Summary: Six years ago in the Washington Monthly, Malcolm Gladwell faced off against Adam Gopnik, in a debate over Canada's single-payer health care system. Mr. Gopnik favored it; and he opposed it vigorously. He said that it has achieved it at a price, and that is quality of care. Mr. Gladwell noted that the blogosphere has, for some mysterious reason, picked up on the debate, he noticed in one of the writings.

Summary: Six years ago in the Washington Monthly, Malcolm Gladwell faced off against Adam Gopnik, his fellow New Yorker writer, in a debate over Canada's single-payer health care system. Mr. Gopnik favored it; Mr. Gladwell opposed it vigorously. He said that Canada has achieved a wonderful thing, which is universal health care coverage, but it has achieved it at a price, and that is quality of care.


Summary: Joshua Farley, an ecological economist said in an interview that everything the economic system whatever produces ultimately returns to the ecosystem as waste. But according to Mr. Farley, it puts heavy emphasis on sustainability, and it introduces factors into economic analysis that traditionalists generally ignore to the peril of all of us. He says that the dominant economic paradigm strives for ever-increasing economic growth.

Summary: That idea, which puts increases in productivity into new prospective, comes from Joshua Farley, an 'ecological economist' who was interviewed this week on WorldChanging.com. According to Mr. Farley, as the name hints, it puts heavy emphasis on sustainability, and it introduces factors into economic analysis that traditionalists generally ignore. He says that the dominant economic paradigm strives for ever-increasing economic growth and not only is this impossible on a finite planet, but growing evidence suggests that beyond a certain point, more material consumption does nothing to make us better off. He adds that resource scarcity lies at the heart of his discipline.


Summary: Allen B. Ury writes in Fade In that, over the past 20 years, the number of major award nominations given to traditional 'studio' films has dropped by more than 50 percent, while the number of nominations and awards bestowed upon films produced by independents, 'minimajors' and overseas production companies has gone through the roof. To point out the extent of the trend, Mr. Ury breaks the last two decades into two 10-year periods. But in the last decade, studio films had just 153 nominations and 33 wins, losing out to films from the studios which Mr. Ury calls minimajors, New Line and Miramax, for example -- and independent and foreign films

Summary: Over the past 20 years, the number of major award nominations given to traditional 'studio' films has dropped by more than 50 percent, while the number of nominations and awards bestowed upon films produced by independents, and overseas production has increased drastically, writes Allen B. Ury in Fade In. To point out the extent of the trend, Mr. Ury breaks the last two decades into two 10-year periods. But in the last decade, studio films had just 153 nominations (38 percent) and 33 wins (41 percent), losing out to films from the overseas studios.


Summary: There is Martha Ruiz, who is a director in the tax department of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and on the cover of Working Mother because as she knows Oscar. Michelle Roberts writes that this year they will mark Martha's fourth on the Oscar team. Ruiz, who now has an 18-month-old daughter, says that he was standing next to Oprah Winfrey, trying to be calm and cool on the outside

Summary: Martha Ruiz, a director in the tax department of PricewaterhouseCoopers, is on the cover of Working Mother because "she knows Oscar." This year marks Martha's fourth on the Oscar team, as written by Michelle Roberts. Ruiz is invited to attend the Oscar festivities. When asked about her experience on the red carpet last year, Ruiz, who now has an 18-month-old daughter, said that she was standing next to Oprah Winfrey, trying to be calm and cool on the outside, but what kept popping into her head was whether or not her husband would be able to get the baby to sleep without her being there.


Summary: Horacio E. Gutiérrez, Microsoft's associate general counsel in Europe, said there was collusion against the company. ''The commission, the trustee and Microsoft's adversaries were secretly collaborating throughout the fall of 2005 in a manner inconsistent with the commission's role as neutral regulator and the trustee's role as independent monitor, said by Mr. Gutiérrez. He also said that the commission waited for almost two days before Microsoft's deadline to provide copies of certain correspondence between the commission and four American companies who have long been Microsoft's adversaries in various judicial and regulatory proceedings.

Summary: In a more pointed statement Thursday, Horacio E. Gutiérrez, Microsoft's associate general counsel in Europe, said there was collusion against the company. He added that the commission, the trustee and Microsoft's adversaries were secretly collaborating throughout the fall of 2005 in a manner inconsistent with the commission's role as neutral regulator and the trustee's role as independent monitor. He felt compelled to submit a second written response to the commission because some documents concerning the case were not made available to Microsoft until two days before the Feb. 15 deadline for written responses. He also said that the commission waited until two days before Microsoft's deadline to provide copies of certain correspondence between the commission and four American companies who have long been Microsoft's adversaries in various judicial and regulatory proceedings.


Summary: Microsoft's battle with the European Commission escalated on Thursday, as the company accused the commission for conspiring against its competitors in the software market and of again withholding documents it says are crucial to its defense in an antitrust case. With the threat of daily fines of 2 million euros hanging over it, This company is facing a new suit brought just before Christmas, when the commission accused the company of failing to honor the antitrust ruling made in March 2004. Two weeks ago, Microsoft responded to the accusations, and claims that it was abiding by the 2004 ruling but had been denied the chance to fully defend itself.

Summary: Microsoft's battle with the European Commission escalated Thursday, as the company accused the commission of colluding with its competitors in the software market and of again withholding documents it says are crucial to its defense in an antitrust case. With the threat of daily fines of 2 million euros, Microsoft is facing a new suit brought before Christmas, when the commission accused the company of failing to honor the antitrust ruling made in March 2004. In that ruling, the commission found the company guilty of monopoly abuse and ordered it to change the way it sold its software in Europe. Two weeks ago, Microsoft responded to the accusations, claiming it was abiding by the 2004 ruling but had been denied the chance to fully defend itself. The commission will hold hearings on March 30 and 31 in Brussels to give Microsoft another opportunity to argue its case.


Summary: Microsoft's battle with the European Commission escalated, as the company accused the commission of colluding with its competitors in the software market and of again withholding documents it says are crucial to its defense in an antitrust case. With the threat of daily fines of 2 million euros hanging over it, Microsoft is facing a new suit brought just before Christmas, when the commission accused the company of failing to honor the antitrust ruling made in March 2004. In that ruling, the commission found the company is guilty of monopoly abuse and ordered it to change the way it sold its software in Europe.

Summary: Microsoft's battle with the European Commission escalated, as the company accused the commission of colluding with its competitors in the software market and of again withholding documents it says are crucial to its defense in an antitrust case. With the threat of daily fines of 2 million euros hanging over it, Microsoft is facing a new suit brought just before Christmas, when the commission accused the company of failing to honor the antitrust ruling made in March 2004. In that ruling, the commission found the company guilty of monopoly abuse and ordered it to change the way it sold its software in Europe. The commission acknowledged receipt of Microsoft's second written response, but declined to comment on it or on whether it would be admissible given that it was filed more than two weeks past the deadline.


Summary: Partners in the International Space Station agreed Thursday to launch European and Japanese components earlier than originally planned to ensure they were functioning by 2010, when the orbiting space laboratory is to be fully assembled.

Summary: Partners in the International Space Station agreed to launch European and Japanese components earlier than originally planned to ensure they were functioning by 2010, when the orbiting space laboratory is to be fully assembled.


Summary: The NASA administrator, Michael D. Griffin, said at a news conference after the meeting that the agency planned 16 more flights of the space shuttle to finish the station by the end of the decade. Mr. Griffin said the adjusted sequence for building the station shifted priorities, moving up the completion of the station's platform. Even though some components will be dropped and a new assembly schedule has been introduced, Mr. Griffin said the completed station would do what it was originally intended to do.

Summary: Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, said the agency planned 16 more flights of the space shuttle to finish the station by the end of the decade. He said the adjusted sequence for building the station shifted priorities, moving up the completion of the station's platform. He also said that they don't like that.


Summary: One of NASA's spacecrafts, that is large enough to carry major station components, is Discovery. A space shuttle has flown once since the Columbia accident; the fleet was grounded again after the Discovery's mission in July. In its launching, more foam insulation fell from its external fuel tank than expected.

Summary: NASA's three shuttles are Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour and they are the only spacecraft large enough to carry major station components. A space shuttle has flown once since the Columbia accident; the fleet was grounded again after the Discovery's mission.


Summary: The NASA administrator, Michael D. Griffin, said at a news conference after the meeting, that the agency planned 16 more flights of the space shuttle to finish the station by the end of the decade. NASA's three shuttles, Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour are the only spacecraft large enough to carry major station components. NASA said station construction flights could resume as early as August, if it is determined that the shuttle could be used safely.

Summary: Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, said the agency planned 16 more flights of the space shuttle to finish the station by the end of the decade. NASA's three shuttles are Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour are the only spacecraft large enough to carry major station components. NASA said station construction flights could resume as early as possible, if it is determined that the shuttle could be used safely.


Summary: Arturo Bermea, the vice president for operations at the mine, said that it was a sudden accumulation of gas in the mine and wondered if the mining machine with the faulty switch was in use at the time of the explosion although three mining machines were chewing through coal walls in different tunnels when the accident occurred and all were in good working order.

Summary: Arturo Bermea, the vice president for operations at the mine said it was a sudden accumulation of gas in the mine. Mr. Bermea said it could take weeks or even months to recover the bodies. Mr. Bermea said he did not know if the mining machine with the faulty switch was in use at the time of the explosion.


Summary: José Angel Guzmán lived with his wife, Norma Vitela, four children and a daughter-in-law in a two-bedroom house he was buying from the mining company. The third child, David, has cerebral palsy, a condition the family lacks the resources to treat.


Summary: Kenneth Ely, a retired Mine Safety and Health Administration official from the United States who is working as a consultant for the operators, said that the detonation sent a shock wave through the mine, causing cave-ins all along a one-and-three-quarter-mile-long shaft. He also added that since there are still likely to be smoldering embers from the blast pumping fresh air into the shaft, which now has high levels of methane, would create the right mixture of oxygen and gas for a second explosion. Facing a crowd of grim relatives of the miners on Wednesday night, Mr. Ely, a tall man from Alabama, said the only option was to seal the shaft off near the entrance, establish a flow of fresh air into that area and then reopen the main shaft one section at a time.

Summary: The detonation sent a shock wave through the mine, causing cave-ins all along a one-and-three-quarter-mile-long shaft, said Kenneth Ely, a retired Mine Safety and Health Administration official from the United States. Because there are still likely to be smoldering embers from the blast, Mr. Ely said, pumping fresh air into the shaft, which now has high levels of methane, would create the right mixture of oxygen and gas for a second explosion. Mr. Ely, said the only option was to seal the shaft off near the entrance, establish a flow of fresh air into that area and then reopen the main shaft one section at a time.


Summary: President Vicente Fox has promised to get to the bottom of what went wrong at the mine, while Humberto Moreira, governor of Coahuila State, where the mine is, has accused the federal government of mishandling the rescue attempt and has ordered his prosecutors to investigate.

Summary: President Vicente Fox has promised to get to the bottom of what went wrong, while Humberto Moreira, governor of Coahuila State, where the mine is, has accused the federal government of mishandling the rescue attempt and has ordered his prosecutors to investigate. The Fox administration has tried to change the law, but Congress has resisted.


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José Alfredo Ordoñez Martínez
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Summary: José Alfredo Ordoñez Martínez, 25, made about $45 a week. He had grown up fatherless in a rundown section of Palaú, never finished the sixth grade and felt lucky to land a job as a contract worker at the mine nine months ago, said his wife, María Luisa Martínez, 24.

Summary: José Alfredo Ordoñez Martínez, 25, made about $45 a week. He had grown up fatherless in Palaú, never finished the sixth grade and felt lucky to land a job as a contract worker at the mine, said his wife, María Luisa Martínez, 24. They lived with their 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter in a one-room house with a latrine behind it on a dirt road.


Summary: Judge Bonnie Lewman Sabraw, who is presiding over the nonjury trial in state court here, is expected to issue a ruling after receiving briefs from both sides over the next two weeks. In a ruling in November, Judge Sabraw said that since ballot measures reflected the will of the voters, they could not be easily invalidated. She said the plaintiffs had so far not shown that Proposition 71 was clearly, positively and unmistakenly unconstitutional. The decision in this case is likely to be appealed, no matter which side wins.

Summary: Judge Bonnie Lewman Sabraw, who is presiding over the nonjury trial in state court here, is expected to issue a ruling. In a ruling, Judge Sabraw said that since ballot measures reflected the will of the voters, they could not be easily invalidated. She said the plaintiffs had so far not shown that Proposition 71 was clearly, positively, and unmistakenly unconstitutional. The decision, in this case, is likely to be appealed.


Summary: Robert N. Klein, the chairman of the institute's board, said here Wednesday that he was close to securing $50 million in bridge financing from philanthropists to tide things over until the litigation is resolved and to start financing research and that it might take 12 to 18 months to resolve the litigation.

Summary: Robert N. Klein, the chairman of the institute's board, said that he was close to securing $50 million in bridge financing from philanthropists to tide things over until the litigation is resolved. But the plaintiffs, who had said before the trial began that they might call more than 70 witnesses, called only Mr. Klein.


Summary: Jean Dreze, an economist and leading advocate of free lunch programs in India, which now serve more than 100 million primary-school students, said that if the children are fed well, they will all be there.

Summary: Jean Dreze, an economist and leading advocate of free lunch programs in India, which now serve more than 100 million primary-school students said children need to be fed well.


Summary: Meera Shekar, the lead author of the report, who described feeding programs as costly and vulnerable to corruption, said that one gets more bang for ones buck without the food. She added that India would've been more powerful if all these kids were not malnourished and could participate fully.

Summary: Meera Shekar, the lead author of the report, described feeding programs as costly and vulnerable to corruption.


Summary: Amina, a Dagestani operating a stand of pickled vegetables inside the market on Thursday, said that they do not like Moscow very much, they don't like the way they are greeted in Moscow, and the attitudes of Muscovites. Amina, who was trained as a schoolteacher added that there are no jobs for them in their professions in Dagestan, so they came to Moscow.

Summary: Amina, a Dagestani operating a stand of pickled vegetables inside the market said they didn't like Moscow. But as there were no jobs in her country they came here, Amina, trained as a schoolteacher, was wary of the authorities.


Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki continues to negotiate with legislative leaders from his hospital bed. Emboldened by a 2004 Court of Appeals ruling, Mr. Pataki has been using appropriations bills attached to his budget to rewrite existing law by himself on topics from school aid to Medicaid to environmental policy. But on the other hand, legislative leaders say Mr. Pataki has tilted the balance of power too far in his direction, creating what has become one of the primary stumbling blocks to budget deals' getting done on time.

Summary: George E. Pataki continues to negotiate with legislative leaders. Emboldened by a 2004 Court of Appeals ruling, Mr. Pataki has been using appropriations bills attached to his budget to rewrite existing law by himself on various policies. Mr. Pataki's most recent budget is one of his broadest proposed rewrites of state law. Mr. Pataki's proposed budget would bypass the Legislature in deciding how to allocate more than $1 billion worth of federal aid to needy families and would keep for himself the authority to disperse $350 million of domestic security funds.


Summary: Testifying before a House subcommittee on government reform, Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of the Minerals Management Service, defended the government's effort to expand oil and gas production and to collect nearly $10 billion in royalties each year. Mr. Cruickshank said the disparities could be explained by declining gas production, changes in the pattern of production and huge corrections, often totaling billions of dollars a year, in the reports that oil and gas companies file with the government. Presenting lawmakers with two dozen pages of charts and graphs, Mr. Cruickshank said that if nothing had changed since 2001, the government would have collected $1.3 billion more in 2005 than it had.

Summary: Walter Cruickshank, the deputy director of the Minerals Management Service, said that What if he has concluded that there was no affirmative policy decision? which leases out tens of millions of acres of federal land and coastal waters to energy companies. Testifying before a House subcommittee on government reform, Mr. Cruickshank defended the government's effort to expand oil and gas production and to collect nearly $10 billion in royalties each year. Mr. Cruickshank said the disparities could be explained by declining gas production, changes in the pattern of production and huge corrections, often totaling billions of dollars a year, in the reports that oil and gas companies file with the government.


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Jeffrey K. Skilling

Summary: Despite intense questioning by a defense lawyer, the former head of Enron's Energy Services retail unit insisted Wednesday that Jeffrey K. Skilling should have known he was committing a crime by lying about a questionable accounting move. David W. Delainey testified on Tuesday about a March 29, 2001, meeting with top managers where he said Mr. Skilling signed off on a plan to move the troubled contracts. His account supported prosecutors' contention that Mr. Skilling was involved in a criminal conspiracy intended to mislead investors about serious problems in the unit.

Summary: The former head of Enron's Energy Services retail unit insisted that Jeffrey K. Skilling should have known he was committing a crime by lying about a questionable accounting move. His account supported prosecutors' contention that Mr. Skilling was involved in a criminal conspiracy intended to mislead investors about serious problems in the unit. Mr. Delainey testified on Tuesday about a meeting with top managers where he said Mr. Skilling signed off on a plan to move the troubled contracts.


Summary: David W. Delainey is the former Enron executive, who calmly answered repeated questioning by Daniel Petrocelli, the lead lawyer for Mr. Skilling, a former Enron chief executive. He gave more details surrounding the shift of at least $200 million in retail trading losses in the spring of 2001. Further on Tuesday, his description of the accounting shift proved to be some of the most devastating testimony to date in the five-week-old trial. Under questioning by Mr. Petrocelli, Mr. Delainey refused to say that the reorganization was proper and done for some ''efficiency'' reasons, as Mr. Skilling later portrayed it.

Summary: The former Enron executive, David W. Delainey, was questioned by Daniel Petrocelli, lead lawyer for Mr. Skilling. Mr. Delainey gave more details surrounding the shift of at least $200 million in retail trading losses in the spring of 2001. Mr. Delainey testified about a meeting with top managers where he said Mr. Skilling signed off on a plan to move the troubled contracts. Mr. Delainey said that he considered the meeting the start of a conspiracy and that the people there, including the chief accounting officer, Richard Causey, should have known they were agreeing to a crime. Mr. Delainey has pleaded guilty to insider trading and is cooperating with prosecutors.


Summary: Prosecutors said Wednesday that Andrew S. Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, would testify as early as Monday. Mr. Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting to orchestrating schemes to hide Enron debt and inflate profit while enriching himself with millions. He agreed to serve a 10-year prison sentence.

Summary: Prosecutors said on Wednesday that the Enron's former chief financial officer, Andrew S. Fastow, would testify as early as Monday. Mr. Fastow has claimed guilty to conspiracy, admitting to orchestrating schemes to hide Enron debt and inflate profit while enriching himself with millions. He agreed his fault and ready to serve a 10-year prison sentence.


Summary: The former Enron executive, David W. Delainey, calmly weathered repeated questioning by Daniel Petrocelli, lead lawyer for Mr. Skilling, a former Enron chief executive. Under questioning by Mr. Petrocelli, Mr. Delainey refused to say that the reorganization was proper and done for ''efficiency'' reasons, as Mr. Skilling later portrayed it.

Summary: The former Enron executive, David W. Delainey, calmly handled repeated questioning by lead lawyer for Mr. Skilling, named Daniel Petrocelli, a former Enron chief executive. Under questioning by Mr. Petrocelli, he refused to say that the reorganization was proper and done for ''efficiency'' reasons, as Mr. Skilling later depicted it.


Summary: Mr. Delainey, along with Kenneth D. Rice, who led Enron's broadband unit, is the highest-ranking former executive to testify so far in the trial of Mr. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's founder.

Summary: Mr. Delainey, along with Kenneth D. Rice, said that it was as brazen as it got, who led Enron's broadband unit, is the highest-ranking former executive to testify so far in the trial of the both Mr. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay, as they are Enron's founder.


Summary: The former head of Enron's Energy Services retail unit insisted Wednesday that Jeffrey K. Skilling should have known he was committing a crime by lying about a questionable accounting move. Mr. Delainey acknowledged that he also lied about the real reason for the reorganization of the retail unit to his employees, the Enron board and, later, to federal investigators. Enron managers discovered that the company faced more than $200 million in losses, Mr. Causey came up with a plan to shift the problem contracts into Enron's wholesale energy division.

Summary: In spite of questioning by a defense lawyer, the former head of Enron's Energy Services retail unit insisted that Jeffrey K. Skilling should have known he committed a crime by lying about a questionable accounting move. The former Enron's Energy Services executive, David W. Delainey, calmly handled repeated questioning by Daniel Petrocelli, who is the lead lawyer for Mr. Skilling, a former Enron chief executive. But Mr. Delainey acknowledged that he also lied about the real reason for the reorganization of the retail unit to his employees, the Enron board and, later, to federal investigators.


Summary: Mr. Delainey, along with Kenneth D. Rice, who led Enron's broadband unit, is the highest-ranking former executive to testify so far in the trial of Mr. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay. They are charged with conspiring to defraud Enron by lying to investors. Defense lawyers say Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay were not involved in any fraud and that the collapse of Enron in December 2001 was caused by a market panic.

Summary: Mr. Delainey said that it was as brazen as it got, along with Kenneth D. Rice, who led Enron's broadband unit, is the highest-ranking former executive to testify so far in the trial of Enron's founder, Mr. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay. They are charged with scheming to defraud Enron by lying to investors. Defense lawyers said that  both of them were not involved in any fraud and that the collapse of Enron was caused by a market panic.


Summary: Mr. Delainey said on Wednesday that he considered the meeting the start of a conspiracy and that the people there, including the chief accounting officer, Richard Causey, should have known they were agreeing to a crime. When the company faced more than $200 million in losses, Mr. Causey came up with a plan to shift the problem contracts into Enron's wholesale energy division.

Summary: Mr. Delainey said that he considered the meeting that starts with conspiracy and that the people there, including the chief accounting officer, Richard Causey, should have known they were agreeing to a crime. When the company managers discovered that the company faced more than $200 million in losses, Mr. Causey came up with a plan to resolve the problem contracts into Enron's wholesale energy division, as he said.


Summary: Despite intense questioning by a defense lawyer, the former head of Enron's Energy Services retail unit insisted Wednesday that Jeffrey K. Skilling should have known he was committing a crime by lying about a questionable accounting move.


Summary: Schulman and Paul Haggis, a co-writer and the director of ''Crash,'' are the only producers eligible for the prize. Robert Moresco, a co-writer with Mr. Haggis who is nominated for the best-screenplay Oscar, said that 'Crash' had been a great thing in his life, and he expected everyone to act honorably.

Summary: Cathy Schulman and Paul Haggis, a co-writer and the director of 'Crash,' are the only producers eligible for the prize, though the film has six producers in its credits.


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

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


Summary: A bare-knuckled fight has broken out among the producers of one of the leading Oscar-nominated movies, ''Crash,'' over two of the things Hollywood cares about most: money and credit. Cathy Schulman, a producer of ''Crash,'' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from ''greed and ego'' in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. The budget on ''Crash'' was so small, many of the principal people involved -- including the producers, the writers and the director -- took no money during the production of the film, deferring fees until the film saw a profit. Robert Moresco, a co-writer with Mr. Haggis who is nominated for the best-screenplay Oscar, said that 'Crash' has been a great thing in his life, and he expected everyone to act honorably.

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


Summary: Mr. Sacker said that Ms. Schulman and Mr. Nunan had both been paid salaries as partners in Bull's Eye Entertainment, and that their fees for producing ''Crash'' were not meant to be paid until all the overhead costs for Bull's Eye had been recouped. Mr. Sacker further added that most producers were not paid a salary.

Summary: Mr. Yari said that the lawsuit reinforced a pattern by Ms. Schulman of his deceitful and litigious behavior. Neil Sacker, who is a lawyer for Mr. Yari, is also a defendant in Ms. But Mr. Sacker said that Ms. Schulman and Mr. Nunan had both been paid salaries as they are the partners in Bull's Eye Entertainment, and that their fees for producing ''Crash'' were not meant to be paid until all the overhead costs for Bull's Eye had been recouped.


Summary: Katherine Kennedy, a senior lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that the president was then talking about ending their addiction to oil, but he was not following through with the national policies they would've needed to create a Marshall Plan for renewable energy.

Summary: Katherine Kennedy, who was the senior lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council told that the President not following through with the national policies and they need to create a Marshall Plan for renewable energy.


Summary: Israel Ramirez, the unarmed security guard who worked for Busta Rhymes will join along with Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur and Jam Master Jay will join a string of unsolved slayings in the hip-hop world. The investigators believe that The killing of Mr. Ramirez was the unintended result of a petty squabble

Summary: The investigators believe that the killing of Israel Ramirez, an unarmed security guard who worked for Busta Rhymes was the unintended result of a petty squabble, and by remaining silent, Busta Rhymes is angering the family of Mr. Ramirez and a good number of his fans.


Summary: William and Patricia Burke have lived in their white Colonial-style farmhouse on the edge of the Tug Hill plateau for 36 years. The Burkes' old farmhouse is now surrounded by a forest of 120 huge windmills. Changing the Burkes' life the turbines have transformed the landscape and the economy of the county, an area where it seems most barns are as swaybacked as an old mare.

Summary: William and Patricia Burke have lived in their white Colonial-style farmhouse on the edge of the Tug Hill plateau for 36 years. The farmhouse is now surrounded by a forest of 120 huge windmills.


Summary: The former chief accountant of Enron's wholesale energy-trading unit, Wesley H. Colwell, testified that in 2000, the company dipped into reserve accounts set up for problem contracts to illegally pad earnings. Mr. Colwell testified that he manipulated earnings on two occasions after receiving directions from Enron corporate officers that they wanted to beat analysts' estimates for each quarter. In both cases, he dipped into a $70 million reserve that had been set aside for a contract settlement with a utility. He and previous witnesses have testified that it is illegal to dip into reserves to achieve earnings targets. He has admitted manipulating earnings and has been fined $500,000 by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has an agreement with the Justice Department that requires him to testify to avoid criminal prosecution.

Summary: Wesley H. Colwell, the former chief accountant of Enron's wholesale energy-trading unit, testified that the company dipped into reserve accounts set up for problem contracts to illegally pad earnings. Colwell also testified that he manipulated earnings on two occasions after receiving directions from Enron corporate officers that they wanted to beat analysts' estimates for each quarter. Testifying in the trial's fifth week, Mr. Colwell said he manipulated earnings on two occasions after receiving directions from Enron corporate officers that they wanted to beat analysts' estimates for each quarter. In both cases, he said, he dipped into a $70 million reserve that had been set aside for a contract settlement with a utility. He said, he dipped into a $70 million reserve that had been set aside for a contract settlement with a utility and also admitted that he manipulated earnings and has been fined $500,000 by the SEC.


Summary: Mr. Skilling is on trial in Federal District Court, along with the founder of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay. Under cross-examination, however, Colwell admitted that no one, including Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay, specifically directed him to use reserve accounts to increase profits.

Summary: Kenneth L. Lay, the founder of Enron, is on trial in Federal District Court along with Mr. Skilling.


Summary: Wanda Curry, a former internal accountant, said she had led a project that uncovered problems with Enron Energy Services, and she said, by the transfer of more than $500 million in losses to the wholesale energy unit. Curry described a special investigation she led into retail energy contracts that Mr. Causey became concerned about in 2000. She was shocked to discover that hundreds of checks found under the desk of a trader in the retail unit. She had been ousted from her position because she was not capable of making aggressive accounting decisions. The retail unit was owed $511 million by two California utilities on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. She didn't see any legitimate reason for the transfer of retail trading operations from the retail unit to the wholesale unit in early 2001 other than to disguise trading losses of more than $500 million in the retail unit.

Summary: Wanda Curry, a former internal accountant, said she had led a project that uncovered problems with Enron Energy Services. She said that the retail energy unit's problems were covered up partly by the transfer of more than $500 million in losses to the wholesale energy unit. Curry described a special investigation she led into retail energy contracts, discover that hundreds of checks from Enron retail customers, probably worth millions of dollars, had been found under the desk of a trader in the retail unit that concerned Mr. Causey in 2000. Curry and her team also discovered that the retail unit was owed $511 million by two California utilities on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. She testified that there was no legitimate reason for the transfer of retail trading operations from the retail unit to the wholesale unit other than to disguise trading losses of more than $500 million.


Enron
Enron Energy Services
Enron Broadband Services

Summary: Two minor figures in the Enron story added on Monday to testimony that the company had padded earnings to disguise problems concerning investors. The former chief accountant of Enron, Wesley H. Colwell, testified that in 2000, the company dipped into reserve accounts set up to illegally pad earnings. And Wanda Curry, a former internal accountant, said she had led a project that uncovered problems with Enron Energy Services and she also said, by the transfer of more than $500 million in losses to the wholesale energy unit. Their testimony could prove that Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron chief executive, knowingly directed manipulations of Enron earnings and then lied about Enron's performance. Mr. Colwell said he manipulated earnings on two occasions that they wanted to beat analysts' estimates for each quarter. He said he first manipulated earnings because the company wanted to beat Wall Street estimates by 2 cents a share.

Summary: Two figures in the Enron story testified that the company had padded earnings and shifted hundreds of millions in losses from one division to another. The former chief accountant of Enron's wholesale energy-trading unit, Wesley H. Colwell, testified that in 2000, the company dipped into reserve accounts set up to illegally pad earnings. Wanda Curry, a former internal accountant, said she had led a project that uncovered problems with Enron Energy Services, by the transfer of more than $500 million in losses. Jeffrey K. Skilling, a former Enron chief executive, knowingly directed manipulations of Enron earnings and financial results and then lied about Enron's performance. Ms. Curry, who has not pleaded guilty to any crime, said she was shocked to discover that hundreds of checks from Enron retail customers, probably worth millions of dollars, had been found under the desk of a trader in the retail unit. Ms.


Summary: Michael Krautz who was the former accountant of Enron Broadband Services, 37, and Kevin Howard, 43 , who was the former finance vice president were tried on conspiracy and fraud charges in July.

Summary: The former accountant of Enron Broadband Services, Michael Krautz, 37, and the former finance vice president, Kevin Howard, 43, were tried in July on conspiracy and fraud charges.


Summary: In an e-mail message to David W. Delainey, the wholesale unit's chief executive, Mr. Colwell wrote that Richard A. Causey, the company's chief accounting officer, had spoken to Mr. Skilling ''and that was his preference.'' Mr. Colwell said he was twice asked in July 2000 to come up with $7 million for the second-quarter earnings target. The retail evaluation was being prepared for Mr. Delainey and another executive, who ultimately presented Ms. Curry.

Summary: In an e-mail message to David W. Delainey, the wholesale unit's chief executive, Mr. Colwell wrote that Richard A. Causey, the company's chief accounting officer, had spoken to Mr. Skilling and that was his preference. The retail evaluation was being prepared for Mr. Delainey.


Summary: Mr. Skilling is on trial in Federal District Court, along with the founder of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay. The retrial of two former executives of Enron's Internet unit can begin while the case against Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling continues in an adjacent courtroom.

Summary: Mr. Skilling is on trial in Federal District Court, along with the founder of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay. The retrial of two former executives of Enron's Internet unit can begin while the case against Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling continues in an adjacent courtroom, a federal judge ruled Monday.


Summary: The former Enron chief executive, Jeffrey K. Skilling, along with the founder of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay, is on trial in Federal District Court as they are accused of manipulating Enron earnings and financial results and then lying about Enron's performance. Both men could face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives behind bars if convicted.

Summary: Mr. Jeffrey K. Skilling a former Enron chief executive, along with the founder of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay is on trial in Federal District Court. Mr. Skilling knowingly directed manipulations of Enron earnings and financial results and then lied about Enron's performance. Both men are accused of conspiring to defraud Enron investors and face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives behind bars if convicted.


Summary: There was lack of cooperation between the rap artist Busta Rhymes and a half-dozen hip-hop celebrities who were present at the filming of a video at the studio which keep the authorities astonished. Busta Rhymes, 33, whose given name is Trevor Smith said "Even if you have a conversation with police, you'll be called a snitch." He faces a dilemma which has a particular resonance to the hip-hop world. He was showing his anger towards the family of Mr. Ramirez and a good number of his fans by keeping himself silent. Mr. Allah said that Busta is not his real name, it's a character he created.

Summary: The killing of Israel Ramirez, an unarmed security guard who worked for Busta Rhymes, will join a string of unsolved slayings in the hip-hop world and Busta gunned down in his recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, in 2002. 33-year-old Trevor Smith, better known as Busta Rhymes, faces a dilemma that he has a particular resonance to the hip-hop world. His silence is angering the family of Mr. Ramirez and his fans. But if he speaks to the authorities, he risks harming his so-called street credibility. A growing number of fans have called his silence cowardly and amoral, and in New York, a group of ministers and anti-violence advocates have called for a boycott of his music. He's advertised himself as a hard-core guy, so the assumption out there is that if you're a gangster and a street dude, you shouldn't call the cops when there's trouble.


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


Ethics Commission
State Ethics Commission

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

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


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

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


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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein
Silverstein

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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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Securities and Exchange Commission
Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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

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


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

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


Air Transport Association
International Air Transport Association

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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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