December 29, 1997

New England Patriots defeat Miami Dolphins, 17-3, in American Football Conference playoff game; photo (M)

Egypt Bans Genital Cutting In a ruling that women's rights groups say will resonate throughout the Islamic world, Egypt's highest court upheld a ban on the genital cutting of girls and women, a ritual widely practiced in Africa. Page A3.

Prominent role of women is now taken for granted in Britain's lively contemporary art scene, where only few years ago women artists were noteworthy for their absence; large number of British women are making names for themselves as artists, including Gillian Wearing, winner of Turner Prize for visual arts, and three other Turner Prize finalists: Cornelia Parker, Christine Borland and Angela Bulloch; photos (L)

Pres Clinton will soon order major effort to locate and sign up the estimated three millions children who are eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled in program; these children make up nearly a third of nation's uninsured children; Clinton is dismayed that states have made scant progress in enrolling children from low-income families in the last year; continued failure to enroll children in Medicaid could prove politically embarrassing for Clinton, suggesting that while he campaigned for a new Children's Health Insurance Program, his Administration has not taken full advantage of existing program; graph (M)

Edward J Logue, major force in urban redevelopment of 1950's and 1960's, discusses his career and his decidely uneven legacy; Logue, as much as anyone, embodied urban renewal era of massive Federal housing subsidies that begat massive construction projects; even as many of these projects have come under criticism, Logue remains wistful for time when he says construction of affordable housing was considered a national imperative; President Clinton recently praised Charlotte Gardens project in Bronx, one of his smaller projects; photo (M)