February 12, 1998

Bernard Holland reviews concert by Thomanerchor Leipzig, choral group, at St Thomas Church (M)

Anna Kisselgoff reviews performance by Ohio Ballet at Joyce Theater; photo (M)

Elizabeth Kolbert article on her failed effort to become one of first people in New York City to be fined $50 for jaywalking; notes police officers around city are overtly ignoring even most flagrant jaywalking and complaining that Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani's drive wastes police time; photos (M)

Heated exchange between William E Stanton, lawyer for Steven A Pagones, and Rev Al Sharpton disrupts Sharpton's testimony at Tawana Brawley defamation trial, prompting Judge S Barrett Hickman to reprimand Sharpton in front of jury and Sharpton's lawyer, Michael A Hardy, to accuse Hickman of bias; disagreement concerns way Stanton characterized statement Sharpton made in videotape; photo (M)

Computer Associates International Inc, leading maker of business software, makes uninvited $8.4 billion bid for Computer Sciences Corp, major provider of technology services, that would accelerate consolidation of industry in which size is now equated with survival; Compaq Computer Corp's purchase of Digital Equipment Corp and Computer Associates bid are driven by some common themes: challenge of resurgent IBM and primacy of computer services, a business that increasingly determines where corporations and Government agencies spend their technology budgets; computer services companies like Computer Sciences have graduated to become corporate consultants and gained access to top executives; chart lists Computer Associates' acquisitions since September 1991 (L)