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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


Ms. de Zegher
de Zegher
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Catherine
Catherine de Zegher

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

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


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

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


George E. Pataki
Negroponte
George Negroponte
George

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

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


Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein
Larry
Silverstein

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

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


Port Authority of New York
Port Authority

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

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


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

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


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

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


Summary: Mr. Fox and Luis Ramírez Corzo, Pemex's director general, flew about 60 miles offshore to the exploratory well to announce the discovery. Mr. Ramírez Corzo said that they recognized that we needed to establish new mechanisms of collaboration with other oil companies who had experience in deep water. Pemex officials warned that its figures on the discovery were preliminary. Mr. Ramírez Corzo said it would take at least two years before Pemex would have enough information on the field to estimate the investment it would need to produce oil, The Associated Press reported.

Summary: Pemex's director general, Mr. Fox and Luis Ramírez Corzo, flew about 60 miles offshore to the exploratory well to announce the discovery. He said they recognize that they need to establish new mechanisms of collaboration with other oil companies who have experience in deep water. Pemex officials warned that its figures on the discovery were preliminary. In a news conference, Mr. Ramírez Corzo said it would take at least two years before Pemex would have enough information on the field to estimate the investment which is needed to produce oil, reported by The Associated Press.


Summary: Mr. Kellner said that ensuring friendly relations with the Kazakh leadership was just as important as getting the oil. China's leadership has viewed with alarm the creation after Sept. 11, 2001, of American military bases in Central Asia -- which China considers its backyard -- and has tried to woo Kazakhstan's longtime president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, away from closer relations with the United States, he said. When Mr. Nazarbayev delivered a major policy speech on March 1, he listed ''increasing integration with Russia'' as Kazakhstan's first foreign priority and ''improving cooperation'' with China as his second.

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


Summary: The China National Petroleum Corporation bought Petrokazakhstan, a Canadian-run company that was the former Soviet Union's largest independent oil company, for $4.18 billion and spent another $700 million on a pipeline that will take the oil to the Chinese border. Kazakhstan authorities are also believed to be easing the way for Lukoil of Russia to acquire the other half of Turgai Petroleum, which it now jointly owns with Petrokazakhstan. Indeed, China is widely believed to be readying a bid for a smaller Canadian-owned oil company, Nations Energy, which produces a third of Petrokazakhstan's output.

Summary: In 2005, the China National Petroleum Corporation bought Petrokazakhstan, a Canadian-run company for $4.18 billion and spent another $700 million on a pipeline that will take the oil to the Chinese border. Petrokazakhstan was the largest foreign purchase ever by a Chinese company. A local court recently awarded Lukoil a $200 million judgment against Petrokazakhstan in a dispute over how to share the oil in a common deposit.


Summary: Melvin Avanzado said that Ms. Schulman's fees were paid against her salary and overhead. He also said that he had recouped everything several times over.

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


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

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


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

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


Summary: Cathy Schulman, a producer of ''Crash,'' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from ''greed and ego'' in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. Mr. Yari had earlier sued the pair, claiming in January that they had taken funds owed to their joint production company, Bull's Eye Entertainment. Mr. Yari was denied a producer credit in an arbitration by the Producers Guild of America in December, and denied again after appeals to both the guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars.

Summary: As the last Oscar ballots were being cast late Tuesday, Cathy Schulman, a producer of 'Crash,' filed a lawsuit that accused Bob Yari, her fellow producer and former partner, of acting from greed and ego in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer Tom Nunan. Mr. Yari had earlier sued the pair, claiming in January that they had taken funds owed to their joint production company, Bull's Eye Entertainment. Mr. Yari was denied a producer credit in an arbitration by the Producers Guild of America in December, and denied again after appeals to both the guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars.


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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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


Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Huntingdon
Huntingdon Life Sciences

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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

Summary: David Black recalled saying a few weeks ago to Gary Taylor, a professor at Florida State University, who has been working on the play, 'The History of Cardenio,' on and off for more than 15 years, to get to reading just so they know what it sounds like.


Summary: David Black, an Elaine's regular and a producer and writer for television dramas like ''Law & Order,'' and Gary Taylor, an editor of the Oxford edition of the complete works of Shakespeare. Needless to say, Mr. Black was excited. In September, Mr. Black, a fan of Mr. Taylor's books, contacted him and was excited when Mr. Taylor pointed out that the modern television landscape was quite similar to the Elizabethan theater scene.

Summary: Among the odd pairings you sometimes come across at the celebrity hangout Elaine's, perhaps the oddest on Saturday night was David Black, an Elaine's regular and a producer and writer for television dramas like 'Law & Order,' and Gary Taylor, an editor of the Oxford edition of the complete works of Shakespeare. In September, Mr. Black, a fan of Mr. Taylor's books, contacted him, and was excited when Mr. Taylor pointed out that the modern television landscape was quite similar to the Elizabethan theater scene, with intense commercialism, a ferocious demand for material and a low reputation in the eyes of the contemporary culturati. After reading a draft of Mr. Taylor's 'Cardenio,' Mr. Black went to his Rolodex, called his friends and scheduled a reading.


Summary: Among the odd pairings you may sometimes come across at the celebrity hangout Elaine's, perhaps the oddest was David Black, an Elaine's regular and a producer and writer for television dramas like ''Law & Order,'' and Gary Taylor, an editor of the Oxford edition of the complete works of Shakespeare, who is also partial to black nail polish. The subject was a reading of Mr. Taylor's reworking of a play that he believes Shakespeare had a hand in writing, and that features Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This is not, strictly speaking, a Lost Shakespeare Play that ''Everyone has to get humble here.''

Summary: The subject was a reading of Mr. Taylor's reworking of a play that he believes Shakespeare had a hand in writing, and that features Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. In the 1986 Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works, Mr. Taylor made a controversial decision to include a version of ''Pericles'' that he reconstructed. Mr. Taylor said that Shakespeare was a working actor who worked in the same theater company his whole life, and we need to take seriously his own commitment to the theatrical realization of his work.


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
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Summary: Senator Charles E. Schumer and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg clashed yesterday over competing visions for rebuilding ground zero in a rare display of tension between two of the state's most powerful politicians. Mr. Bloomberg said at a City Hall news conference that they were not going to put Liberty Bonds into something that would, two or three years from now, come to a grinding halt. But Mr. Bloomberg has increasingly moved to insert himself in the debates about the rebuilding of downtown, which is largely controlled by Gov. To that end, Mr. Bloomberg also opened up another front yesterday in his critique of the progress of the ground zero rebuilding effort, saying he hoped that the people involved in the fund-raising for the memorial there were up to the ambitious task of raising what may be $1 billion for the project.

Summary: Senator Charles E. Schumer and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg clashed yesterday over competing visions for rebuilding ground zero in a rare display of tension between two of the state's most powerful politicians. Mr. Bloomberg immediately rejected the suggestions, after reacting to Mr. Schumer's remarks, using the more combative tone that has become a hallmark of his nascent second term. Mr. Bloomberg said at a City Hall news conference said that they are not going to put Liberty Bonds into something that would, two or three years from now, come to a grinding halt.


Summary: Gov. George E. Pataki and the Port Authority own the site. Mr. Pataki, who is considering a run for president when his term ends in December, has insisted on an April groundbreaking for the Freedom Tower, which is expected to cost more than $2 billion.


Summary: Anthony R. Coscia, chairman of the Port Authority, has proposed his own solution for speeding up the rebuilding process and dealing with the financial shortfalls at the site. He said Mr. Silverstein should proceed with building the 2.6-million-square-foot Freedom Tower and a second tower but relinquish control of two other building sites on Church Street and a major portion of the site in exchange for a drastic reduction in rent, which is now $140 million a year.

Summary: Anthony R. Coscia, chairman of the Port Authority, with support from Mayor Bloomberg, has proposed his own solution for speeding up the rebuilding process and dealing with the financial shortfalls at the site. He said Mr. Silverstein that he should proceed with building the 2.6-million-square-foot Freedom Tower and a second tower but to give away control of two other building sites on Church Street and a major portion of the site in exchange for a drastic reduction in rent, which is now $140 million a year.


Summary: Mr. Bloomberg said at a City Hall news conference that they were not going to put Liberty Bonds into something that would, two or three years from now, come to a grinding halt.

Summary: Mr. Bloomberg said at a City Hall news conference that they are not going to put Liberty Bonds into something that would, two or three years from now, come to a grinding halt.


Summary: Senator Charles E. Schumer and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg clashed yesterday over competing visions for rebuilding ground zero in a rare display of tension between two of the state's most powerful politicians. Senator Schumer said the mayor's proposal to build apartments and a hotel at ground zero instead of office space does not make sense and reflected a lack of confidence in downtown. He called on the Bloomberg administration to commit $1.75 billion in tax-exempt financing, known as Liberty Bonds, to commercial development at ground zero. Mr. Schumer also demanded that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey move its offices to the Freedom Tower, the most symbolic and expensive of five proposed office towers, and abandon its efforts to move to another tower at ground zero.

Summary: Senator Charles E. Schumer and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg clashed yesterday over competing visions for rebuilding ground zero in a rare display of tension between two of the state's most powerful politicians. Senator Schumer said the mayor's proposal to build apartments and a hotel at ground zero instead of office space does not make sense. He called on the Bloomberg administration to commit $1.75 billion in tax-exempt financing, known as Liberty Bonds, to commercial development at ground zero. Mr. Schumer also demanded that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey move its offices to the Freedom Tower, and abandon its efforts to move to another tower at ground zero.


Summary: Mr. Schumer also demanded that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey move its offices to the Freedom Tower, the most symbolic and expensive of five proposed office towers, and abandon its efforts to move to another tower at ground zero. His comments came just slightly more than two weeks before the March 14 deadline, imposed by Governor Pataki, for Mr. Silverstein and the Port Authority to resolve their differences over who will build what at the site, and when. Mr. Silverstein said he could not be more supportive of recommendations that he gets all the remaining Liberty Bonds to rebuild the towers and that the Port Authority should serve as the anchor tenant for the Freedom Tower.

Summary: Mr. Schumer also demanded that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey move its offices to the Freedom Tower, the most symbolic and expensive of five proposed office towers, and abandon its efforts to move to another tower at ground zero, which he said that it was better suited for corporate tenants. George E. Pataki and the Port Authority, which owns the site. His comments came just slightly more than two weeks before the March 14 deadline, imposed by Governor Pataki, for Mr. Silverstein and the Port Authority to resolve their differences over who will build what at the site, and when.


Summary: Mr. Bloomberg said that the fundamental problem at ground zero would remain even if the Port Authority became the anchor tenant at the Freedom Tower not enough money to make this project move forward. He also said that he thought the time to address this issue is before construction starts, right then, not when you're halfway done. The city currently issued a report concluding that Larry A. Silverstein, the developer who controls the lease at the World Trade Center site, would run out of money for the project in 2009, then default on his lease and walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars in profit.

Summary: The city recently issued a report concluding that Larry A. Silverstein, the developer who controls the lease at the World Trade Center site, would run out of money for the project in 2009, then default on his lease and walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. Mr. Schumer did not spare Mr. Silverstein from criticism either. He called on Mr. Silverstein to slash his development fee in half.


Summary:
Lynn Krogh, who is a spokeswoman for the governor, embraced Mr. Schumer's proposals, in a statement released yesterday.
She said that they are glad that Senator Schumer agrees that all the remaining Liberty Bonds should be dedicated to ground zero, that it is appropriate to house government offices in the Freedom Tower and that construction should commence on an expedited basis.

Summary: Lynn Krogh, a spokeswoman for the governor, embraced Mr. Schumer's proposals. She said they were glad that Senator Schumer agrees that all the remaining Liberty Bonds should be dedicated to ground zero, that it is appropriate to house government offices in the Freedom Tower and that construction should commence on an expedited basis.


Summary: Senator Schumer called on the Bloomberg administration to commit $1.75 billion in tax-exempt financing, known as Liberty Bonds, to commercial development at ground zero. Mr. Bloomberg said that they were not going to put Liberty Bonds into something that would, two or three years from now, come to a grinding halt. Mr. Silverstein, who contends that he is willing and able to build four towers at ground zero, said he could not be more supportive of recommendations that he gets all the remaining Liberty Bonds to rebuild the towers and that the Port Authority should serve as the anchor tenant for the Freedom Tower.

Summary: Senator Schumer called on the Bloomberg administration to commit $1.75 billion in tax-exempt financing, known as Liberty Bonds, to commercial development at ground zero. Lynn Krogh, a spokeswoman for the governor, said that they were glad that Senator Schumer agreed that all the remaining Liberty Bonds should be dedicated to ground zero, that it was appropriate to house government offices in the Freedom Tower and that construction should commence on an expedited basis. Mr. Bloomberg said at a City Hall news conference, said that they were not going to put Liberty Bonds into something that would, two or three years from now, come to a grinding halt.


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: The Justice Department has threatened that they will take a legal action, and they send warning in a letter to state officials last month that New York had fallen further behind related to 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 has been telling them every day for the last three weeks that they're going to take legal actions against them if they don't agree to the last version of the consent order.


Summary: Douglas A. Kellner, a co-chairman of the Board of Elections said that the Department of Justice has been telling us every day for the last three weeks that they're going to sue us tomorrow if we don't agree to the last version of the consent order. Mr. Kellner said the negotiations centered on the federal law's requirement that state voting systems be accessible to disabled voters. Mr. Kellner said that he does not understand the need for secrecy.

Summary: 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 they didn't agree to the last version of the consent order. Mr. Kellner said that he does not understand the need for secrecy, and that even if the state and the federal government agree on a settlement, he will not vote on it until a week after a draft of the order has been released to the public. He further said that so if they wanted to take the position that all the negotiations had to go on behind closed doors, then they had to realize that it was going to be another week before they were going to get me to vote yes.


Summary: Gilles Frydman, the president of the Association of Cancer Online Resources, a group that sends 1.5 million e-mail messages a month to cancer patients, said he was joining the protest because he did not believe that AOL and Yahoo would continue to deliver his group's messages without requiring payment.

Summary: Gilles Frydman, the president of the Association of Cancer Online Resources, said he was joining the protest because he did not believe that AOL and Yahoo would continue to deliver his group's messages without requiring payment. He asked if  he had ever seen a company that offered two services, one free and the other paid, provide as good a service to the free one.


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, a Silicon Valley company. Yahoo will begin testing the service several months later and will charge fees only to deliver messages related to purchases or financial transactions.

Summary: AOL and Yahoo are working with Goodmail which plans to charge between a quarter-cent and a cent for each message. Yahoo will begin testing the service several months later and will charge fees only to deliver messages related to purchases or financial transactions. An alliance of nonprofit and public-interest groups is aiming a protest at America Online; while the groups also object to e-mail fees planned by Yahoo, they have not organized a protest against it.


Summary: Nicholas Graham, a spokesman for AOL, said the company would continue to deliver mail from political and charitable groups as it has in the past, using technology and people to sort legitimate mail from unwanted junk mail. Mr. Graham said AOL had no incentive to degrade the regular e-mail service that is provided to users and that it is guaranteed that the quality of service for those who do not pay will go down.

Summary: Nicholas Graham, who is a spokesman for AOL, said that the magic of the Internet is that it is free and open to everybody so small ideas can become big ideas. He said the company would continue to deliver mail from political and charitable groups as it has in the past, using technology and people to sort legitimate mail from unwanted junk mail. He said to AOL that it is guaranteed that the quality of service for those who do not pay will always go down. And also said that he had no incentive to degrade the regular e-mail service it provided to users. In any cases, the company stands to earn is only about as much of a revenue stream as setting up a lemonade stand on the corner from the Goodmail fees, he said.


Summary: Adam Green, a spokesman for MoveOn.org Civic Action, said that  the fee will be a disadvantage to charities, small businesses, and even families with mailing lists that will have no guarantee their e-mail will be delivered.

Summary: Adam Green, a spokesman for MoveOn.org Civic Action, said that charities, small businesses and even families with mailing lists will have no guarantee their e-mail will be delivered, the group's nonpolitical arm.


Summary: AOL and Yahoo are working with Goodmail. Richard Gingras, chief executive of Goodmail, said the company planned to offer unspecified discounts to nonprofit senders of e-mail. Messages from senders in the paid Goodmail program will be highlighted as AOL Certified.

Summary: 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. Messages from senders in the paid Goodmail program will be highlighted as ''AOL Certified'' and will display images and links to Web sites automatically.


Summary: A group of nonprofit and public interest groups is beginning a campaign which is being organized by MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group that uses its list of three million e-mail addresses to influence public opinion and raise money, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil liberties group.

Summary: The campaign is being organized by MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group that uses its list of three million e-mail addresses to influence public opinion and raise money, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil liberties group. They have enlisted about 50 other supporters including the Gun Owners of America, the Democratic National Committee, and the National Humane Society.


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. Messages from senders in the paid Goodmail program will be highlighted as 'AOL Certified' and will display images and links to Web sites automatically.

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. AOL will start using the Goodmail system within a month.


Summary: The novelist Geraldine Brooks learned a hard lesson about child care on a book tour in New Zealand when her son was just a year old. Before arriving in Wellington, she spoke by phone with a publicist there who offered to watch the boy, Nathaniel, while she appeared at events promoting 'Foreign Correspondence.' Brooks, whose latest novel 'March,' was published this month in paperback by Penguin.

Summary: The novelist Geraldine Brooks learned a hard lesson about child care on a book tour when her son was just a year old. Before arriving in Wellington, she spoke by phone with a publicist there who offered to watch the boy, Nathaniel. Brooks, whose latest novel ''March,'' was published this month in paperback by Penguin.


Summary: Traveling between New York and Los Angeles, she started taking her third child, Michael, to California once or twice a month, for a week at a time, and continued to do so for several years. Ostroff said that the downside is that now Michael expects nothing less than Peninsula level of service all the time. Even well-prepared women discover that the life on the road can be difficult for them and their children, said Elizabeth S. Grumbach of East Greenwich, the founder of KidQuest L.L.C., which publishes various city guides entitled ''We're There!'' When she travels with her children, now 9, 7 and 4, she carries an emergency backpack filled with games, crayons, coloring books, crackers, water and M&M's.

Summary: Traveling between New York and Los Angeles, Dawn Ostroff started taking her third child, Michael, then a newborn, to California once or twice a month, for a week at a time, and continued to do so for several years. Ms. Ostroff said that the downside is that now Michael expects nothing less than Peninsula level of service all the time.


Summary: According to the studies sponsored by Wyndham International, the percentage did not change from 1999 to 2003, and conducted by the Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University.

Summary: According to studies sponsored by Wyndham International and conducted by the Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University, the percentage of female business executives taking their offspring along on trips did not change from 1999 to 2003.


Summary: Marlene M. Coleman, pediatrician and author of ''Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children'' said that they were all a little cranky by the end of the flight, before packing the emergency bag, parents should determine whether their child is ''travelworthy'' or not. Her three criteria for determining travelworthiness are whether the child is willing to follow instructions quickly without argument or whether the child can control impulsive behavior and whether the child has patience with minor inconveniences. He said, it is to the both of them to be prepared and expect the unexpected. But some temptations negate the best intentions of even well-behaved children, which Jill Fung, found out.

Summary: A Newport Beach, Calif., pediatrician and author of "Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children", Marlene M. Coleman, said that before packing the emergency bag, parents should determine whether their child is travel worthy. Her three criteria for determining travel worthiness are whether the child is willing to follow instructions quickly without argument, whether the child can control impulsive behavior and whether the child has patience with minor inconveniences. When asked for any general advice, Dr. Coleman said that it is to both be prepared and expect the unexpected.


Summary: Ruben Barrales, the president's director of intergovernmental affairs, and Kevin Marshall, deputy assistant attorney general said they were recommending that Congress set yet another voting procedure for the islanders to decide their future, at least this is how it sounded when two task force members. During the task force briefing, Mr. Barrales explained that the administration was simply trying to help move the process forward.

Summary: That's how it sounded when two task force members, Ruben Barrales, the president's director of intergovernmental affairs, and Kevin Marshall, deputy assistant attorney general, said they were recommending that Congress set yet another voting procedure for the islanders to decide their future. During the task force briefing back in December, Mr. Barrales explained that the administration was simply trying to help move the process forward.


Summary: The administration's tendency to sidestep accountability for lawless actions by resorting to secrecy and claims of national security is on sharp display in the case of a Syrian-born Canadian, Maher Arar, who spent months under torture because of United States action. Mr. Arar, a 35-year-old software engineer whose case has been detailed in a pair of columns by Bob Herbert, was detained  while on his way home from a family vacation. He was held in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn detention center and interrogated without proper access to legal counsel. Finally, he was send to a Syrian prison.

Summary: The administration's tendency to dodge accountability for lawless actions by resorting to secrecy is on sharp display in the case of a Syrian-born Canadian, Maher Arar, who spent months under torture because of United States action. Mr. Arar, a 35-year-old software engineer, was detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002. Finally, he was shipped off to a Syrian prison. The maltreatment of Mr. Arar would be reprehensible and illegal under the United States Constitution. The judge in the case, David Trager of Federal District Court, did not dispute that United States officials had reason to know that Mr. Arar faced a likelihood of torture in Syria.


Summary: Joe Osha, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, wrote in a report that Sony, because of manufacturing challenges and the complexity of its high-definition Blu-ray technology, might not have the PlayStation 3 ready until 2007. He said that if the console is delayed it would jeopardize the $2.9 billion in PlayStation 3 software sales he had projected for next year.

Summary: Joe Osha, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, wrote in a report that Sony, because of manufacturing challenges and the complexity of its high-definition Blu-ray technology, might not have the PlayStation 3 ready until 2007. If the console is delayed, Mr. Osha said, it would jeopardize the $2.9 billion in PlayStation 3 software sales he had projected for next year.


Summary: Evan Wilson, a video game industry analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, said that in 2005, sales of video game software fell 4.7 percent from the previous year. He projected that sales could rise slightly in 2006, but only because the industry was coming off such a disappointing year. Over time, he expects the industry to prosper because the increasingly sophisticated consoles are capable of playing richer games and doubling as home-entertainment centers. But he says he worries that investors are not taking seriously the threat that delays could cut into the growth of 15 to 20 percent that they project will materialize in 2007.

Summary: Evan Wilson, a video game industry analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, said that sales of video game software fell 4.7 percent from the previous year in 2005. He projected that sales could rise slightly in 2006, but only because the industry was coming off such a disappointing year. He expects the industry to prosper because the increasingly sophisticated consoles are capable of playing richer games and doubling as home-entertainment centers.


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. Joe Osha, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, wrote in a report that Sony, because of manufacturing challenges and the complexity of its high-definition Blu-ray technology, might not have the PlayStation 3 ready until 2007.

Summary: Supply shortages have harassed Microsoft since it released its latest Xbox in the last November, and after that Sony announced in the last week that it could not allow delay to release of its own next-generation console, the PlayStation 3. According to Joe Osha, who is an analyst at Merrill Lynch, Sony because of their manufacturing challenges and the complexity of its high-definition Blu-ray technology, might not have the PlayStation 3 ready until 2007.


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. They are not selling as many next-generation games as planned, but are getting little relief from sales of games for the legacy systems like the original Xbox and PlayStation 2 because consumers are saving their money for the new stuff.

Summary: There is bad news on the outlook for the video game industry: Ibe Ozobia Jr. is considering selling his Xbox 360 console. Supply shortages have worried Microsoft since it released its latest product Xbox, and Sony announced recently that it could not rule out a delay of its own next-generation console, the PlayStation 3. They are not selling as many next-generation games as planned, but are getting little relief from sales of games for the legacy systems like the original Xbox and PlayStation 2 as the consumers are liking the products and are saving their money for the new stuff.


Summary: Ibe Ozobia Jr. is considering selling his Xbox 360 console. Mr. Ozobia, 32, of Las Vegas, an avid gamer who spends 25 hours a week roaming and shooting in virtual worlds, was ecstatic last November when he picked up his new 360. But something has gone wrong as too few good games have been produced for the console and he is bored.

Summary: Ibe Ozobia Jr. is considering selling his Xbox 360 console. Mr. Ozobia, 32, of Las Vegas, an avid gamer who spends 25 hours a week roaming and shooting in virtual worlds, was ecstatic last November when he picked up his new 360. But something has gone wrong: too few good games have been produced for the console, he said, and he is bored.


Summary: Late last month, two elderly women from Brooklyn phoned Safeway Car Service of Sheepshead Bay because they needed a lift to the North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, in Nassau County. But after their car crossed the border from Queens to Nassau, it was seized by that county's taxi inspectors because it hadn't been registered with the county, and the women and the driver were left stranded on the sidewalk. President of the car service and vice president of the Livery Owners Coalition of New York, Barbara Pero, said that she sent one of her mechanics in her own car to pick those poor little ladies up.

Summary: In the last month, two elderly women from Brooklyn called Safeway Car Service of Sheepshead Bay because they needed a lift to the North Shore University Hospital. But after their car crossed the border from Queens to Nassau, it was seized by that county's taxi inspectors because there is no registration of the county, and the women and the driver were left stranded on the sidewalk. Barbara Pero, president of the car service and vice president of the Livery Owners Coalition of New York said that he sent one of his mechanics in his own car to pick these poor little ladies up. Pero's Safeway Car Service bought seven Nassau County licenses in the last week.


Summary: There is the obvious side of government, with the Legislature debating more in the open these days and Gov. George Pataki dragging legislative leaders into public discussions of the budget. Governor Pataki set up a Commission on Public Authority Reform, with Ira Millstein as its chairman.

Summary: George Pataki pulls legislative leaders into public discussions of the budget. And then, Governor Pataki set up a Commission on Public Authority Reform, with Ira Millstein as its chairman. Mr. Pataki, conducted appointment with Mr. Millstein and his commission which has offered some hope of progress, should now make certain that the commission's recommendations are carried out faithfully, both in state agencies and in cooperation with the Legislature.


Summary: Comptroller Alan Hevesi began systematically auditing the 700 or so authorities, corporations or other entities that borrow billions of dollars each year with little oversight or public notice. Mr. Hevesi has noted that nobody knows exactly how many contracts public authorities enter into annually or the exact dollar value and terms of those contracts. Mr. Hevesi also reported that while most authorities have procurement guidelines, they tended to ignore them when it was inconvenient or when a competitive process might have produced other than predetermined, desired results. Mr. Hevesi proposed that his office be allowed to oversee authority contracts, and gave examples of what happens when contracts are unsupervised.

Summary: Alan Hevesi who is the comptroller, began systematically auditing the 700 or so authorities, corporations or other entities that borrow billions of dollars each year with little oversight or public notice. He audit unearthed many problems. One big problem is that which Mr Havesi has long complained about, involved the way authorities amass debt with little oversight.


Summary: Brenna Gethers of Mount Vernon and Becky O'Donohue of Dobbs Ferry were among the 12 women who competed for 10 slots in the most recent round of "American Idol." On Tuesday night, Ms. O'Donohue, a 25-year-old who was once captain of the girls' varsity basketball team at Dobbs Ferry High School and has since gone on to a career in entertaining and modeling, belted out Patti Smith's song "Because the Night." Ms. O'Donohue, who attended Niagara University on a full athletic scholarship, said she chose the song because it reminded her of the old days when she sang and danced around her family's Maple Street house with her twin sister, Jessie, and their younger sister, Allie.

Summary: Brenna Gethers of Mount Vernon and Becky O'Donohue of Dobbs Ferry was among the 12 women who competed for 10 slots in the most recent round of ''American Idol.'' Ms. O'Donohue, who attended Niagara University on a full athletic scholarship, said she chose the song because it reminded her of the old days.


Summary: Brenna Gethers of Mount Vernon and Becky O'Donohue of Dobbs Ferry were among the 12 women who competed for 10 slots in the most recent round of "American Idol." On Tuesday night, Ms. Gethers, a feisty 25-year-old whom one judge, Randy Jackson, called a "New Yorker with attitude," sang an uncharacteristically subdued version of the romantic Stevie Wonder hit "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." She dedicated it to her mother, Robin Summers. Simon Cowell, the toughest of the three judges, said he had liked Brenna better when she sang more passionate songs.

Summary: Brenna Gethers of Mount Vernon competed for 10 slots in the most recent round of ''American Idol.'' Ms. Gethers, a feisty 25-year-old sang an uncharacteristically subdued version of the romantic Stevie Wonder hit ''You Are the Sunshine of My Life.'' She dedicated it to her mother, Robin Summers. Ms. Gethers, a graduate of Brandeis University, promised to be back next time with the claws out.


Summary: Lawyers in the San Francisco office of the Camelback Research Alliance, who issued the subpoena, are examining accusations that a research firm, Gradient Analytics, and its predecessor company, Camelback Research Alliance, have worked with short sellers and hedge funds to manipulate the share prices of several companies.

Summary: Lawyers in the San Francisco office of the S.E.C., who issued the subpoena, are examining accusations that a research firm, Gradient Analytics, and its predecessor company, Camelback Research Alliance, have worked with short-sellers and hedge funds to manipulate the share prices of several companies. The former employee, Robert Ballash, worked at Camelback Research Alliance from 2001 to 2004.


Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission took the rare step of issuing a subpoena to two journalists, Carol S. Remond and Herb Greenberg, two weeks ago when it ordered columnists at two Dow Jones publications to provide information about conversations that they had with stock traders and analysts. Mr. Greenberg's columns have moved the share prices of some of the companies at issue, particularly Overstock.com, and as a result, he has rankled some executives.

Summary: The subpoena had been issued to Carol S. Remond and Herb Greenberg, who disclosed its existence. The S.E.C. subpoena sought information from Mr. Greenberg about columns that he wrote for MarketWatch.com and from a columnist, Ms. Remond, for Dow Jones Newswires, about articles that have contributed to stock declines at several companies. His columns have moved the share prices of some of the companies at issue, particularly Overstock.com, and as a result, he has rankled some executives.


Summary: The S.E.C. subpoena sought information from Mr. Greenberg about columns that he wrote for MarketWatch.com and from Ms. Dow Jones, the owner of MarketWatch as well as The Wall Street Journal.

Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoena sought information from Mr. Greenberg about columns that he wrote for MarketWatch.com. Dow Jones, the owner of MarketWatch as well as The Wall Street Journal, had raised objections to the subpoena but had not received a reply until S.E.C. officials began to receive questions from reporters.


Summary: John Nester, said that it was a regular complaint of companies that they were the subjects of a short-selling campaign and people had been feeding all sorts of nonsense about them. But he couldn't think of an instance of a subpoena being issued to the press in such a case. Under longstanding practice, the S.E.C. generally subpoenas journalists only when it is absolutely necessary and after careful thought and consideration.  A subpoena is a demand for information and does not imply that the recipient is anything more than a possible witness.

Summary: A former general counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission, David Becker, said that he's surprised at the instance of a subpoena being issued to the press in such a case since it's a regular complaint of companies that they are the subjects of a short-selling campaign and people have been feeding all sorts of nonsense about them.


Summary: Magazines like Maxim may be juvenile but at least they add a dash of self-irony that makes their puerility a bit easier to swallow. Office Pirates, the Webzine introduced by Time Warner and run by a former editor of Maxim, is an online version of that guy in your office who makes a lot of bad jokes and doesn't let the fact that nobody is laughing slow him down.

Summary: MAGAZINES like Maxim may be sophomoric but at least they add a dash of self-irony that makes their puerility a bit easier to swallow. The  Webzine introduced this week by Time Warner and run by a former editor of Maxim, is an online version of that guy in your office who makes a lot of bad jokes and doesn't let the fact that nobody is laughing slow him down.


Summary: Denis J. McElligott, is an assistant state attorney general who said that the agency would decide whether Crossings owner Frank Buonanotte, would have any access to the clinics or their records.

Summary: An assistant state attorney general, Denis J. McElligott, said the agency would decide whether Frank Buonanotte, the Crossings owner, would have any access to the clinics or their records.


Summary: The State of New York took the control over nine substance-abuse treatment centers scattered all around Long Island. The action ended a three-day State Supreme Court hearing in which state officials, who revoked the centers' operating certificates, were seeking control. The agency had cited Crossings for 174 violations of state regulations, including inadequate medical care and supervision, and inappropriate treatment.

Summary: The State of New York took control of nine substance-abuse treatment centers scattered around Long Island on Thursday. The action ended a three-day State Supreme Court hearing in which state officials, who had revoked the centers' operating certificates, were seeking control. The agency had cited Crossings for 174 violations of state regulations, including inadequate medical care and supervision, and inappropriate treatment.


Summary: Crossings Recovery Systems, is the company that owns the centers, who was facing a $6.9 million fine by the state's Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services for what the agency said that they was a failure to properly manage and staff the centers. The agency had cited Crossings for 174 violations of state regulations, including inadequate medical care and supervision, and inappropriate treatment. The clinics served a total of 1,200 to 1,500 patients.

Summary: Crossings Recovery Systems was facing a $6.9 million fine by the state's Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services for what the agency said was a failure to properly manage and staff the centers. The agency cited Crossings for 174 violations of state regulations, including inadequate medical care and supervision, and inappropriate treatment. The company disputed the state's allegations, but agreed on Thursday to a voluntary receivership under which the state's substance abuse agency will operate the clinics and supervise the Crossings employees who agree to stay.


Summary: Mark W. Read said that the police drove against traffic on a one-way street, most likely Vanderbilt Avenue, and that as bicycles moved west along 45th Street, one S.U.V. followed them. Mr. Read also added that the S.U.V. had gone up onto the sidewalk and driven on the sidewalk for 15 or 20 feet, then dropped back onto the street. Mr. Read was later arrested on 43rd Street and Broadway and charged with parading without a permit.

Summary: Mark W. Read, one of the riders whom the police officers in two black sport utility vehicles chased 12 to 20 riders near Grand Central Terminal, said that the police drove against traffic on a one-way street, most likely Vanderbilt Avenue, and that as bicycles moved west along 45th Street, one S.U.V. followed them. Mr. Read, 38, a filmmaker and adjunct instructor at New York University, whose account was first reported in The Village Voice, said that the S.U.V. went up onto the sidewalk and drove on the sidewalk for 15 or 20 feet, then dropped back onto the street. It was unbelievable, a high-speed chase, something you think would be reserved for serious criminals, for people fleeing a murder scene or bank robbery. Mr. Read was later arrested on 43rd Street and Broadway and charged with parading without a permit.


Summary: Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said that the officers were not seriously hurt and that the accident was provoked by bicycle riders who were breaking the law. He also said that it would not have occurred if Critical Mass participants observed the law. Mr. Browne declined to comment on any specific chase, saying in general that the descriptions are the exaggerated, self-serving statements of individuals engaged in breaking the law or opposed to police enforcement of it and when asked about videotapes that show the chases, he said that he stood by his comments.

Summary: Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman of Police Department, said that the officers were not seriously hurt and that the accident was provoked by bicycle riders who were breaking the law. According to Mr. Browne, it would not have occurred if Critical Mass participants observed the law. He declined to comment on a note saying in general that the descriptions are the exaggerated, self-serving statements of individuals engaged in breaking the law or opposed to police enforcement of it. He asked about videotapes that show the chases, he said that he stood by his comments.


Summary: Shortly after the motorcycle collision, on Jan. 27, Rebecca Heinegg, 23, arrived and recognized one of the injured officers. Ms. Heinegg, a law student, said that he was her arresting officer last February, and was as nice as someone arresting someone can be.

Summary: Shortly after the motorcycle collision, Rebecca Heinegg, 23 years old, who arrived and recognized one of the injured officers. Ms. Heinegg, who was a law student said that Mr. Hamilton was his arresting officer last February, and was as nice as someone arresting anyone can be.


Summary: An eight-member team from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including two epidemiologists, along with F.B.I. agents, took samples yesterday from the Manhattan apartment of the man who had contracted anthrax, the Brooklyn warehouse where he used animal skins to make drums for his African dance troupe and a Dodge van that he is believed to have used to transport the skins, which are a suspected source of the bacteria.

Summary: An eight-member team from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with F.B.I. agents, took samples yesterday from the Manhattan apartment of the man who had contracted anthrax, the Brooklyn warehouse where he used animal skins to make drums for his African dance troupe and a Dodge van that he is believed to have used to transport the skins, which are a suspected source of the bacteria. A C.D.C. spokesman, Thomas W. Skinner, said officials expected to collect more samples today. Dr. Denis Nash, an associate professor of epidemiology in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, said that it was actually, he thought, quite remarkable how quickly communication had happened and information was transmitted from the diagnosing entity the local hospital, to the state health department, the C.D.C. and then the F.B.I.


Michael R. Bloomberg
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Mayor Bloomberg

Summary: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg again sought to reassure the public yesterday that there was no wider health risk to the city and no indication of terrorism. None of the seven people are believed to be at risk of contracting anthrax, Mr. Bloomberg said, adding that antibiotics were an appropriate cautionary measure. Mr. Bloomberg said there was no general health risk from handling treated animal hides and pelts.

Summary: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg again sought to reassure the public that there was no wider health risk to the city and no indication of terrorism. The mayor said that he wanted to stress again and again and again: there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that this is anything other than a tragic accident. None of the seven people are believed to be at risk of contracting anthrax, Mr. Bloomberg said, adding that antibiotics were an appropriate cautionary measure. Mr. Bloomberg said that there was no general health risk from handling treated animal hides and pelts. He added that once these skins are treated, then they will be perfectly safe.


Summary: Vado Diomande, who is 44, the anthrax patient, has been hospitalized since he collapsed after an African dance performance at Mansfield University. He was in stable condition previously at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania. Officials believe he inhaled the anthrax while working with untreated animal hides brought over from Africa. Dr. Veronica V. Urdaneta, who is the state epidemiologist, coordinating the state investigation into the case said that the family is grateful to everyone for all the loving, kind words we have seen and thoughts that they, the hospital members can feel. He interviewed Mr. Diomande at the hospital.

Summary: Vado Diomande, 44, the anthrax patient, has been hospitalized in Pennsylvania since he collapsed after an African dance performance at Mansfield University on Feb. 16. He was in stable condition yesterday at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa. Officials believe he inhaled the anthrax while working with untreated animal hides brought over from Africa.


Summary: Acknowledging the multitude of Hurricane Katrina failures, the Bush administration on Thursday advocated giving federal agencies from the Pentagon to the Department of Justice a greater role in the nation's disaster response playbook. The Justice Department, which now shares responsibility for disaster law enforcement efforts with the Homeland Security Department, would be primarily charged with that even in less severe disasters. The Justice Department, which is in charge of the F.B.I. and has longstanding relations with the local and state police, may be able to more rapidly deploy huge numbers of law enforcement officers to help maintain public order.

Summary: Knowing the multitude of Hurricane Katrina failures, the Bush administration advocated giving federal agencies from the Pentagon to the Department of Justice a greater role in the nation's disaster response playbook. The Justice Department, which shares responsibility for disaster law enforcement efforts with the Homeland Security Department, would be primarily charged with that even in less severe disasters. The Justice Department, which is in charge of the F.B.I. and has longstanding relations with the local and state police, may be able to more rapidly deploy huge numbers of law enforcement officers to help maintain public order.


Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services, would take back the disaster medical teams from FEMA as it is used to supervise before the Department of Homeland Security was established. And the Department of Housing and Urban Development would be expected to find temporary housing for victims, a duty which is also now handled by FEMA, which Ms. Housing and Urban Development, for example, already works with 2,500 public housing authorities across all over the United States and indirectly with thousands of landlords, so it may able to find more quickly the housing alternatives for disaster victims than FEMA.

Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services would take back from FEMA the disaster medical teams it used to supervise before the Department of Homeland Security was established. And the Department of Housing and Urban Development would be expected to find temporary housing for victims, a duty also now handled by FEMA. Housing and Urban Development, for example, already works with 2,500 public housing authorities across the United States and indirectly with thousands of landlords, so it may be able to more quickly find housing alternatives for disaster victims than FEMA.


Summary: The Department of Housing and Urban Development would be expected to find temporary housing for victims, a duty which is also handled by FEMA, which Ms. Housing and Urban Development, for example, already works with 2,500 public housing authorities across all over the United States and indirectly with thousands of landlords, so that it may able to find out more quickly the housing alternatives for disaster victims than FEMA.

Summary: The Department of Housing and Urban Development would be expected to find temporary housing for victims, a duty also now handled by FEMA. Housing and Urban Development, for example, already works with 2,500 public housing authorities across the United States and indirectly with thousands of landlords, so it may be able to more quickly find housing alternatives for disaster victims than FEMA.