Election returns indicate that Iran's reformers should have a significant, probably dominant, place in new Parliament, and they signal their confidence by paying homage to Abdullah Nouri, the most outspoken clerical advocate of change and democracy; Nouri is serving sentence for apostasy but is allowed home for a few days; his visitors include chief of staff of Pres Mohammad Khatami, several ministers, head of Iran's Central Bank, and a few provincial governors; photo (M)

Iran Reformers' Gains Reflected In Homages to Outspoken Cleric

Talent agencies in Hollywood reach tentative agreement with Screen Actors Guild, in first significant step in decades to expand industry's power as well as financial strength; pact will allow agencies to participate in financing and distribution of films and television shows as well as have noncontrolling interest in production companies; enables them to open door for first time to investors, giving agents not only capital to grow but vehicle to make them wealthier; photo (M)

Tentative Pact Set to Expand Agents' Power In Hollywood

NBC News is reaching more viewers more often than ever before as it straddles both broadcast and cable news worlds; round-the-clock capability has given its some advantages in covering presidential primary campaigns; political correspondent David Bloom, whose coverage of primaries is spread over various network broadcasts, two cable channels and Web site, comments; photos (M)

In the War of 'All Politics, All the Time,' NBC Is Heavily Armed

Joyce Purnick column holds aggressive tactics of New York City police's elite Street Crime Unit should be on trial with four white police officers accused of murdering Amadou Diallo, unarmed African immigrant, in his Bronx apartment building; notes trial has revealed little about unit (M)

Metro Matters; Central Issue Is Left Unsaid In Diallo Case

Oscar De La Hoya, former World Boxing Council welterweight champion, will fight Derrell Coley in 12-round bout at Madison Square Garden; it will be his first fight in New York since he leveled Jesse James Leija five years ago; photo (M)

De La Hoya at the Crossroads

New Jersey Nets defeat Minnisota Timberwolves, 91-89; photo (M)

Marbury Puts Ghosts to Rest In His Return to Minnesota

Sen John McCain and Gov George W Bush are both wooing an unlikely mix of moderate suburban Republicans, urban Democrats and blue-collar independents in southeastern Michigan; that part of state accounts for 40 percent of state's primary voters; photo of McCain with Gary L Bauer, former rival, who has endorsed him; photos (M)

Republicans Again Courting Democrats and Independents

When Senator John McCain describes the people who shaped his life, he invariably mentions his father and grandfather, both distinguished Navy admirals. Less widely known are two other powerful men who helped launch his political career: his wealthy father-in-law, James W. Hensley, and Darrow Tully, an Arizona newspaper publisher who was part of a group of self-appointed kingmakers.    Article, Page A14.

Power Brokers In McCain's Past

Dale Jarrett, defending Winston Cup Series champion, has won his third Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway; just 24 hours before race, his Ford Taurus sustained damage to fenders, hood and rear bumper as result of collision during practice session; car's body was virtually rebuilt by three fabricators flown in by Robert Yates Racing, team owner; photo (M)

For Jarrett, Third Victory At Daytona Is No Breeze

 Marriage Show Canceled  Reacting to new questions about the man who married a woman on television last week, Fox canceled a planned rebroadcast.   PAGE A16    Crowd Attacks U.S. Soldiers  Serbs in the Kosovo city of Mitrovica stoned and punched American troops searching for weapons, forcing them to retreat.   PAGE A3

INSIDE

Christie's and Sotheby's face mounting number of class-action lawsuits from clients alleging that they have conspired to fix commissions they charge buyers and sellers at auctions; suits, based on criminal antitrust investigation by Justice Department, could wind up costing aution houses tens of millions of dollars; there is also concern that publicity from antitrust case will shake public's confidence at a time when the art market has been booming (M)

Sotheby's and Christie's Face Mounting Suits in Antitrust Case

New York City Buildings Departments has been turning over much of responsibility for inspections and safety monitoring to engineers and architects hired by developers; Fire Department repeatedly warned Buildings Department about dangerous practices of builder Eugene Ostreicher before worker died when floor collapsed in Nov at his Brooklyn project; case highlights dangers of self-policing policy at time when construction is booming across city; photos; diagrams (L)

CUTTING CORNERS: A special report.; Builders' Self-Policing Failed Before Brooklyn Floor Did

Royal Court Theater in London, where John Osborne's Look Back in Anger revolutionized postwar British drama, emerges from $43 million, three-year renovation; photos (M)

A Treasured Theater's Comeback; At the Restored Royal Court, the Past Is Given Its Due Respect

Private deliberations between Microsoft and Justice Department over antitrust suit are at settle-or-fold stage and odds are against settlement; both sides remain far apart despite efforts of mediator Judge Richard A Posner, leading antitrust scholar, to find common ground; main stumbling block is Microsoft's continuing rejection of charges that tying its Internet Explorer Web browser to industry-standard Windows operating system unfairly squelched competition, and its insistence that it should be free to innovate unfettered by government oversight; ruling by federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in November 1999 found company is monopolist, whose business practice stifles competition and harms consumers; possible remedies in case and high stakes for both sides discussed; photos (M)

The Microsoft-U.S. Negotiations: Tough Talk in Chicago

Closing of Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island and exporting New York City's trash will cost an estimated $622 million over five years, $100 million more than predicted just a year and a half ago; Giuliani administration's plan, which is dependent on trucks, is also taking an unexpected toll on city's roads, tunnels, bridges and air quality; people living along truck routes complain of noise, the smell of rotting garbage and truck exhaust; long-term alternatives involving rail and barges appear further off owing to opposition to transfer stations in city and in New Jersey; graph (M)

Efforts to Close Fresh Kills Are Taking Unforeseen Tolls

Disinfo.com draws hundreds of people to Hammerstein Ballroom for a 'Cyberpalooza,' 11 hours of speeches and presentations by artists, authors, rockers, filmmakers and less categorizable characters; photo (M)

Weird and Fun, Anything Goes When It's Cyberpalooza

Museums across the country are put on the spot by Gilbert S Edelson's charge that some of them ask for sales fees when art they are exhibiting is sold; they mostly plead innocence, profess ignorance or say they have stopped doing it; only one of two dozen museums surveyed--Walker Art Center in Minneapolis--admits to practice; such a commission could create a conflict of interest, perhaps tempting curators to show work because it would sell rather than because of its artistic merits alone (M)

A Possible Conflict By Museums In Art Sales

Trenton, NJ, like many other old cities that have lost political and financial power to suburbs, faces erosion of its identity and deletion of its name from public and private institutions; decision makers, partly to attract suburbanites and partly out of suburban pride, tend to mask urban identity of places or institutions located in city; drawings; photo (M)

Nameless in New Jersey; In This Increasingly Suburban World, There's No Place Like Trenton

E-commerce is reshaping highest reaches of nation's $1.2 trillion construction industry, yet many construction executives complain it is still too slow in embracing medium, which it offers ready solution to major problem coordinating teams across life of project as original plan evolves; has barely penetrated industry's second and third tier of companies having less than $100 million in annual revenues, where most communication still occurs old-fashioned way with loss of billions of dollars in potential savings; some executives cite stubborn industry resistance to any new approaches to business; others suggest Web's continued reliance on computers makes medium impractical on many job sites; some holdouts say benefits of e-commerce sites have not been made sufficiently clear to them; photos; charts (M)

E-Commerce Report: Construction Heads Into the Internet Age; Builders Cut Delays And Lift Efficiency By Online Contacts

Vice Pres Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign together, New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Albany; reinforce each other with their shared political heritage and shared desire to run on Pres Clinton's successful economic record but away from his impeachment-stained legacy; photos (M)

Together On the Stump: Mrs. Clinton And Gore

After regularly training at the College of Charleston twice a year for eight seasons, Knicks players are considering whether they want the organization to continue its affiliation with South Carolina, where the Confederate battle flag flies above its Capitol even though the banner is considered a symbol of slavery and segregation to many.    The issue became a source of heated political debate during the prelude to the Republican primary there on Saturday. On Thursday, after it was reported that USA Track and Field had issued a statement in support of the removal of the flag from the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, the site of the United States women's marathon trials later this month, the issue was raised with the Knicks, whose roster is predominantly black.  

Knicks May Shift Camp Over Confederate Flag

Lawrence Van Gelder reports on The Laramie Project, a Moises Kaufman play on the murder of Matthew Shepard, restoration of the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, Tallis Scholars concert at St Paul's Chapel at Columbia University and exhibition of Giovanni Battista Moroni portraits at Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; photos (M)

THIS WEEK

Bruce Weber reviews Letters From Cuba, play written and directed by Irene Maria Fornes at Signature Theater Co; photo (M)

Dancing In New York, Dreaming Still of Home

 4 From Original Apple Team Will Focus Efforts on Linux  Four members of the original Apple Macintosh team are regrouping in order to take the best of the quirky Apple computer and move it to the world of Linux software.  

BUSINESS DIGEST

Surge in oil prices in US ignites debate about whether they could spark inflation and threaten economic expansion; conventional view until recently has been that economy is being driven by technology, not manufacturing, and is not as dependent on energy as it once was; economists and OPEC watchers are split on whether oil problem will persist, since it might take oil-producing countries a couple years to drill for new oil even if they relax production cutbacks; Clinton administration is debating whether and how to intervene in market and push prices down; photo (M)

February 21, 2000

Headlines from February 21, 2000

Iran Reformers' Gains Reflected In Homages to Outspoken Cleric

Tentative Pact Set to Expand Agents' Power In Hollywood

In the War of 'All Politics, All the Time,' NBC Is Heavily Armed

Metro Matters; Central Issue Is Left Unsaid In Diallo Case

De La Hoya at the Crossroads

Billboard 200

Voodoo

Supernatural

Dr. Dre -- 2001

All The Way...A Decade Of Song

Christina Aguilera

Historical Context for February 21, 2000