February 27, 2000

General Motors, which bought rights to Hummer name, weighs developing new family of vehicles based on boxy all-terrain vehicles originally designed for military use; G Richard Wagoner Jr, GM president, cites its appeal to younger buyers; photo (M)

Boxer Oscar De La Hoya knocks out Derrell Coley in seventh round; photos (M)

The Eternal Road, known in German as Der Weg der Verheissung, Kurt Weill's vast, emotionally gripping musical pageant of Jewish history, will be presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music, part of 100th birthday celebration of Weill, but in form that may perplex and even infuriate its audience; production originated last year at Theater Chemnitz in Germany; under musical director of John Mauceri, it will be sung and acted in German, with supertitles; original text, written in 1934 by Franz Werfel, has been rewritten in a way that will either assuage or outrage post-Holocaust sensibilities by reflecting horrors that neither Werfel, nor Weill, nor Max Reinhardt, original director, could have foreseen; audience may feel that work meant to celebrate Jewish history in its darkest hour has been ambushed to become well-intentioned but irrelevant reinterpretation of German past; photo (M)

Jonathan Fuerbringer (Portfolios, etc) article profiles Bill Gross, who manages $90 billion government bond fund for Pacific Investment Management Co; notes Gross, realizing impact of Treasury's plan to buy back long-term government debt, sent tremors through bond market when he began buying long-term Treasuries over 21-day period; while Gross earned Pimco's clients money, he says he should have started buying sooner (M)

St John's defeats Duke, 83-82, in college basketball; photos (M)