Photographs taken by children from low- and moderate-income families who participated in a summer course on architecture, urban planning and photography are on view at Citicorp Center (S)

POSTINGS: Hell's Kitchen and Hamilton Heights; A Children's Photo Show

Facing Hard Choices As the Disabled Age

Long-simmering tensions in New Rochelle, NY, come to boil over plan by newly-elected school board to redraw school zones; proposal would expand Middle School 141 into high school, which would exclude about 200 children from Marble Hill, largely poor minority neighborhood; photos; maps; charts; graphs (L)

A District Divided

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What if Something Old Is the New New Thing?

Technology, economics and culture of the Internet are predominately American, and Internet has become a medium for expanding American values throughout the world; other nations, among them France and German, are increasingly concerned that Internet economy may prove impossible for nations to regulate and may create such vast inequality and rootlessness among their citizens; there is actually a good deal of diversity on Internet, and US edge in Internet technology could be erased; it is culture that will determine whether US retains its status as the pre-eminent Internet nation; drawing (M)

Ideas & Trends: Net Americana; Welcome to the Internet, The First Global Colony

Robert Turnbull article on Australia's delight in holding festivals to celebrate everything from falling leaves to bananas and potatoes, avocados and rhubarb and whale-watching; growth of major international arts festivals in country is significant part of phenomenon, raising funds and attracting media attention and sponsorships; rivalry among all five states and their capitals to hold events described; photos (M)

In Festival-Mad Australia, The Theme Is 'Top This'

Comment on cell phone addicts who, fearing brain tumors, are sporting wires that connect from earplugs to phone in the pocket (M)

Fearing Rads, Cell Addicts Sprout Wires

Rick Marin comment on his longtime pleat-avoidance, and how styles in men's trousers have gone back and forth over the years; reports with satisfaction that flat fronts are gaining; photos (M)

On the Pants Front: The War of the Pleats

Camp David talks that produced peace between Egypt and Israel have become yardstick by which to measure talks between Israelis and Syrians in Shepherdstown, W Va; photo (M)

The World: You Need Good Glasses; Looking for Camp David on the Map of Shepherdstown

Mercedes-Benz sold 189,437 luxury cars and sport utility vehicles in US in 1999, leading all other manufacturers; Lexus was second with 185,890 sales; list shows sales figures for cars and light trucks (M)

The Top American Luxury Brand? (Hint: It's German)

 The Fund Investor's Burden    The big brokerage firms' in-house mutual funds have mostly mediocre records, yet many customers seem to remain their captives, left to carry them as a burden.   MONEY & BUSINESS

INSIDE

Terry Teachout article on choreographer Mark Morris as he and pianist Ethan Iverson rehearse with members of Mark Morris Dance Group; photos (M)

A Choreographer Who First Hears the Dance

Playboy Mansion's onetime spot as party central is now being filled by Hollywood financier Ted Field, who gives big, splashy over-the-top parties in various places twice a year; guest list is drawn up by professional party planners with ties to modeling agencies; photos of New Year's Eve party at Studio 54, featuring Field, banking heir Ivan Wilzig and assorted young women in skimpy clothes (M)

The Host and His Harem; When Ted Field gives a party, the Playboy philosophy lives yet another day.

Felicia R Lee Coping column on work of Geoffrey Canada, head of Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, who, in conjuction with schools, churches, businesses and residents, has created Harlem Children's Zone, which offers variety of social support services to children and their families; drawing (M)

For Harlem's Children, a Catcher in the Rye

Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks, 89-86; photo (M)

Two Games In 2 Nights Too Many For Knicks

Tennessee Titans beat Buffalo Bills, 22-16, in American Football Conference wild-card playoff game; Tennessee wins game with three seconds left on controversial 75-yard kickoff return for touchdown by Kevin Dyson after receiving lateral from across field; play is reviewed by instant replay to see if lateral was forward pass; officials' call on field is upheld; photos (M)

Titans Win One for the Videotape

Demand for office and retail space in Manhattan soars in 1999, reducing vacancy rates and allowing landlords to ask for higher rents; real estate executives expect good times to continue; construction begins to pick up again, after falling to nearly nothing in mid-1990's; prices of buildings recovers after declining in late 1998; downtown continues to be a lower-cost alternative for companies reluctant to pay Midtown rates; search for space drives some clients to former industrial properties on Manhattan's far west side, and others to waterfront in Jersey City, where developers cannot build fast enough to satisfy eager clients; graphs; photos (M)

For Landlords, It Was a Very Good Year

Former inmates at Attica who survived uprising and siege of 1971 in which 43 people were killed and more than 80 wounded ponder effect of Attica and how their lives have unfolded, or unraveled, in years since; most of them support federal judge's proposed settlement that would give up to 1,281 inmates total of $8 million as compensation for abuse they suffered at hands of state police in bloodiest incident in history of America's prisons; many would have preferred that state formally admit wrongdoing for troopers' actions in aggressively ending seige; some have reassembled their lives with astonishing success, but others have never successfully returned to society; photos (M)

Attica Siege Still Shadows Its Survivors

Prominent Democrats worry that they will lose White House because of Republicans' huge war chest; fear that Republican National Committee, with surplus of unregulated 'soft money,' would sponsor relentless blizzard of television commercials condemning Democratic programs and Democrats' presidential nominee; money worries are stirring resentment toward Pres Clinton; some feel Clinton is neglecting his party, distracted by his efforts to collect money for his library, his wife's Senate campaign and his legal defense fund; some Democrats also worry about their House and Senate candidates; Sen Robert G Torricelli, chairman of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, claims Republicans could have three- or four-to-one advantage, possibly amassing as much as $200 million in soft money; Republican officials call that figure overblown (M)

DEMOCRATS WORRY OVER WAR CHEST AMASSED BY G.O.P.

Sen John McCain releases hundreds of letters he sent to federal agencies under jurisdiction of powerful Senate committee he chairs, including dozen involving businesses of contributors to his campaign for Republican presidential nomination; McCain hopes to defuse criticism of his interventions before Federal Communications Commission on behalf of companies regulated by that agency; McCain's actions have drawn attention because he has made campaign finance reform centerpiece of his presidential bid; in sheer volume, release of more than two years of committee correspondence is both remarkable display of openness and effort to show there was nothing unusual in McCain's writing to agencies that regulate companies whose employees have supported his campaign; photo (M)

Responding to Criticism, McCain Releases Letters

Spate of off-field violence, nearly all of it directed at women, has profoundly embarrassed many National Football League players, coaches and owners; they are demanding that league act much more forcefully against those who do not restrain their aggression when they leave playing field; Carolina Panthers wide reciever Rae Carruth is accused of orchestrating drive-by shooting of his pregnant girlfriend Cherica Adams; is first active NFL player to be charged with murder; league officials say number of players charged with violent crimes has actually declined over last three years; attribute reduction to programs that use counseling, fines and threat of suspension or banishment to deter players from violent crime (M)

Stains From the Police Blotter Leave N.F.L. Embarrassed

Big foreign investors, including American pension funds, are being portrayed in France and across Europe as demanding unreasonably high profits at expense of jobs, promoting outlandish rewards for executives and as general threat to established ways of European business; same pension funds are accepted in United States, seen as protectors of savings of millions of workers and as more conservative and reliable than many other investment funds; funds' role in French economy spawns latest in series of fierce conflicts that pit French cultural values against international financial demands; graphs of impact of foreign investments in French stocks; cartoon; photos (L)

Resisting Those Ugly Americans; Contempt in France for U.S. Funds and Investors

Article on new vehicles that will be introduced at North American International Auto Show in Detroit; photos (M)

Now Playing in Detroit, Hoping for an Encore

Washington Redskins beat Detroit Lions, 27-13, in National Football Conference wild-card playoff game; photo (M)

Davis Puts on Show Before the Sideshow

New York's co-ops are cracking down on pet ownership after decades of more or less benign acceptance; increasing number of buildings are changing their rules to no pets at all, particularly to no dogs; many that do allow dogs require applicants to bring their dogs to co-op board meeting so members can assess animal's behavior; boards are even requiring applications for pets that document lineage and schooling; boards say they are justified, citing noise and mess and growing number of animals in apartments; real estate agents say boards can be as tough as they want to be during this hot market, where there are often three or four bidders on any apartment; photos (M)

Fido Is Meeting the Co-op Board, and Learning to Beg

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January 9, 2000

Headlines from January 9, 2000

POSTINGS: Hell's Kitchen and Hamilton Heights; A Children's Photo Show

Facing Hard Choices As the Disabled Age

A District Divided

What if Something Old Is the New New Thing?

Ideas & Trends: Net Americana; Welcome to the Internet, The First Global Colony

Billboard 200

...And Then There Was X

All The Way...A Decade Of Song

Millennium

Supernatural

Christina Aguilera

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