March 3, 2000

Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker apologizes to his teammates for inflammatory remarks he made to Sports Illustrated about foreigners, gays and New Yorkers; photos (M)

In ''What Planet Are You From?'' Garry Shandling (left) plays an alien with a mission: to find an Earth woman to bear a son he can take home. But the flakiness of Earthlings soon affects him in this Mike Nichols comedy. A film review by Elvis Mitchell is on Page 23.

No Leader Yet for I.M.F. The search for a new managing director of the International Monetary Fund is continuing after members could not agree on any of the three candidates. PAGE C1 A Victory for Privacy The online advertising company DoubleClick will not link personal information to data it collects about consumers on the Web. PAGE C1

Directors of International Monetary Fund fail to rally around any of people who want to lead world financial institution, and expectations rise that Europe will search for new candidate to keep its lock on job; European, American and Japanese contenders for post all fall short of majority of votes in straw poll; no further poll is scheduled; Caio Koch-Weser, German deputy finance minister, gets 43 percent of votes, Stanley Fischer, American candidate, finishes distant second, with 12 percent, and Japanese favorite, Eisuke Sakakibara, former finance ministry official, gets 9 percent; European Union says Koch-Weser's candidacy is effectively dead and that Europe should find someone US can support (M)

Gov Christine Todd Whitman, in crackdown on fire safety violations at New Jersey's 31 public universities and colleges, threatens to withhold state aid from any college that fails to make 'substantial progress' in correcting violations by mid-March; Whitman, day after state inspectors revealed that they had found 828 fire code infractions at Seton Hall University last month following fatal fire, reveals that some of colleges had also been cited for fire code violations in recent months and had been slow to remedy them (M)