Felicia Lee Coping column decries racist undertones in New York City, where blacks and Hispanics, including successful ones, continue to be discriminated against; drawing (M)

For Racist Slights, the Meter Is Still Running

Article, describing examples by Ilya Kabakov, Ann Hamilton, Robert Wilson and others, explores origins of contemporary installation art and what it means to artists and viewers; also notes difficulty in staging large installations, which, because of their temporary nature and large size, are expensive to mount; photos (L)

No Stage, No Actors, But It's Theater (and Art)

Article on Toyota's new Echo line of sedans, hatchbacks and coupes, designed to appeal specifically to younger new-car buyers; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/2000 Toyota Echo; An Odd Lesson in College Economics

Pratt Institute purchases upper six floors of a seven-story building at 144 West 14th Street as a permanent home for its Manhattan operations (S)

POSTINGS: $11.5 Million for Six Floors; Pratt Buys 14th St. Space

Gretchen Morgenson Market Watch column on push by New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso to persuade members to vote against regulation forbidding member firms from trading stocks listed on exchange before 1979 anywhere but on floor of traditional stock exchange; graph (M)

Big Board Ready to Open the E-Gates

Media 'story lines' on Presidential aspirantsnoted; photos of George W (Featherweight) Bush, Al (Cigar-Store Indian) Gore, John (Raging Tyrant) McCain and Bill (Sourpuss) Bradley (M)

The Nation: Negative Spin; Their Biggest Campaign May Be Against Type-Casting

Some residents of Great Neck, Long Island, mount effort to ban riflery as second interscholastic season is about to begin; photo (M)

Chess, Sure. But Rifles? In Great Neck?

New 98-unit rental building for people 62 and over in West Farms section of bronx is designed to show that subsidized housing can be attractive and compatible with its surroundings; photo (M)

POSTINGS: 98 Subsidized Apartments for Those 62 and Over; Touch of Art Deco in the Bronx

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, comments on major expansion of popular Internet site's distribution capacity, what he calls fastest in peacetime history, for upcoming holiday season; millions of people are expected to make their first online shopping purchases this holiday season, but Amazon now has stiff competition; photos; graphs (L)

Amazon's Risky Christmas

Virginia Tech Coach Frank Beamer, whose team is 11-0 after beating Boston College, 38-14, says he would like to play Florida State in Sugar Bowl; photo (M)

Virginia Tech Figures 11-0 Computes to the Sugar Bowl

Recently established series of cocktail parties known as Harlem Affair are designed as kind of homage to literary and artistic salons of Harlem Renaissance; Lenn Shebar and Larry Ortiz, who organized event, hope to tap neighborhood's cultural heritage and to add artistic component to current economic boom in Harlem, what is being called its Second Renaissance; photos (M)

For Harlem, More to a Boom Than Shopping Centers

Iranian court imposes five-year jail term and five-year banishment from political activity on Abdullah Nouri, Muslim cleric who is ally of Pres Mohammad Khatami and has won wide popular support with demands for end to authoritarian rule by religious hierarchy; orders closing of Nouri's newspaper, Khordad, which has been one of most effective voices of country's increasingly impatient democratic movement, and imposes fine of 15 million rials, equivalent to $5,000; photo (M)

Court Silences Iran Reformist With Jail Term

Kerry Collins on Nov 28 will start his first game at Giants Stadium against Arizona Cardinals; photo (M)

Collins Is Hoping To Rewrite History

Los Angeles residents have come to expect valet parking just about everywhere; there are so many cars in greater Los Angeles, and so many neighborhood parking restrictions, that valet parking is often most efficient way to cram cars into limited space; Valet Parking Service chmn Herb Citrin, who pioneered industry when he opened parking concession at Beverly Hills restaurant in 1946, comments; photo (M)

In Land of the Car, All Take the Wheel, Few Deign to Park

More and more home sellers are opting for exclusive listings with brokers in today's hot market because an experienced and committed broker can help them price their homes right and field multiple bids on them; an estimated 95 percent of apartments that are currently for sale in Manhattan are exclusive listings; brokers say that contrary to a common perception, an exclusive listing generally ensures that listing broker will co-broke the property with others; there are different kinds of exclusives, each with its own commission arrangement; photos (L)

A Word With Many Meanings

 Croatia After Tudjman  The imminent death of Croatia's founder and president, Franjo Tudjman, could turn at least a part of the Balkans more to the West, Croatian and Western officials say.   PAGE 18    M.B.A. Boom Fades  As talented young workers rush to stake a claim in Internet start-ups, business schools have lost some of their luster.   PAGE 40

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Greil Marcus article on Wisconsin Death Trip, film by British director James Marsh based on Michael Lesy book that focuses on physical and moral crumbling of American town in 1890's; photos (M)

A Record of Despair Born of a Single Image

Trade ministers from 134 countries will attend World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle this week; tens of thousands of demonstrators plan to use meeting to campaign against what they see as trade organization's role in letting globalization run amok; talks will test support for freer trade in rich and poor countries, especially since delegates will face giant protest campaign meant to mobilize worldwide opposition to new trade efforts; WTO members say there is reasonable chance that meeting will result in only token progress, disappointing industries hoping for new liberalization, but cheering critics who would like to see group hobbled (M)

Global Trade Forum Reflects A Burst Of Conflict and Hope

Article on what mounting losses, for second consecutive year, could mean for America's independent farmers despite promise of bumper crops and use of latest technology; farmers are concerned over public's wariness about bioengineered crops, huge agricultural mergers and sharp decline in commodity prices; photos; graphs (L)

Is the Sun Setting on Farmers?

Tens of thousands of people are pouring into Seattle to demonstrate during World Trade Organization meeting, and express their outrage at growing power of group few people even knew about five years ago; WTO has become bureaucratic metaphor for view that markets have become real governing force of 1990's, with willing participation of governments and politicians; real target is blurring of roles of private and public sector, now that latter has increasingly become champion of private enterprise (M)

The World: Big Blur; Meet Your Government, Inc.

Ulster Unionist Party, opening way for new power-sharing arrangement in Northern Ireland, approves entry of its leaders into government with its sworn rivals from Sinn Fein, political ally of Irish Republican Army; vote sets off series of steps by British and Irish governments to transfer power from London to Belfast within days, and marks successful crowning of months of patient mediation by former US Sen George J Mitchell to salvage April 1998 peace settlement; photos (M)

Ulster Unionists Open Way to Govern With Sinn Fein

Tobar Galvez shares small ranch house in Farmingville, NY, with more than dozen other Mexican day laborers; each morning they gather on street corners in hopes of being hired for jobs that can pay $80 to $100 a day; proposed law would outlaw dozens of houses like Galvez's by limiting number of people who can legally occupy rentals; it would give Town of Brookhaven authority to enter homes to enforce code; law has touched off emotional, racially charged conflict in town, where day laborers have become increasingly conspicuous fact of life--newcomers from impoverished villages in Mexico and Central America in mostly white hamlet of 15,000; map; photo (M)

Laborers Wanted, but Not Living Next Door

Faces of women in their 40's, 50's and even 60's are now turning up in all kinds of fashion and beauty marketing; mature models are invading territory once held exclusively by extreme youth on fashion runways, in catalogs and in ad campaigns as marketers try to woo baby boomers with faces they can identify with; photos (M)

Models, Defiantly Gray, Give Aging a Sexy New Look

Article in series Life After Welfare notes that growing evidence suggests that disproportionately large number of women on welfare were sexually abused as children, finding that offers new insight into many of so-called hard cases that are increasing focus of national effort to overhaul welfare system; holds that women who were raped or molested as children are more likely to become addicted to alcohol or drugs, to suffer disabling battles with anxiety or depression and to become victims of domestic violence; says in Milwaukee, which has cut its welfare rolls more than any other city, hidden history of childhood abuse helps explain struggles of Mary Rhoden and Tanya Moore; their cases discussed; photos (M)

Early Sex Abuse Hinders Many Women on Welfare

New York Knicks beat Orlando Magic, 99-96; photo (M)8

Best Supporting Actor: Childs Sparks the Knicks

Richard Lee "Trey" Jemison III is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G League. In January 2025, he signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. He played college basketball for the Clemson Tigers and UAB Blazers.

November 28, 1999

Headlines from November 28, 1999

For Racist Slights, the Meter Is Still Running

No Stage, No Actors, But It's Theater (and Art)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/2000 Toyota Echo; An Odd Lesson in College Economics

POSTINGS: $11.5 Million for Six Floors; Pratt Buys 14th St. Space

Big Board Ready to Open the E-Gates

Billboard 200

Breathe

Rainbow

Supernatural

The Battle Of Los Angeles

Millennium

Notable Births

Historical Context for November 28, 1999