BEHIND THE WHEEL/Nissan Sentra; Will More, More, More Be Enough?

Andrew Porter discusses Wagner's 'Ring,' in light of Metropolitan Opera's current presentation of three 'Ring' cycles; finds that 'Ring' is an inexhaustible work, a complex, controversial masterwork that never seems to run out of fresh meanings and insights; photo of scene from San Francisco Opera's production of 'The Ring,' which played last season (L)

Wagner's Inexhaustible 'Ring'

Issues of globalization and persistent dire poverty in third world reviewed; photo (M)

The World: Beyond Protest; Making Room for the Poor In a Global Economy

Issue of well-known Miranda warning to criminal suspects reviewed in light of Supreme Court's revisiting of 1966 landmark decision; text photo (S)

The Nation: Confessional; Crime, Punishment and the Passions of Miranda

Interviews with out-of-state donors to Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani's Senate campaign shows most are Republicans who know little about Giuliani, voice views more conservative than his and loathe his opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton; Giuliani has already raised $19 million, half of it from out of state; Clinton, who has raised $12 million so far, has also done well with out-of-state donors; charges Giuliani fills coffers by embracing far right; photo (M)

Giuliani Donors Loathe First Lady From Afar

WITH his collarless black shirt, close-cropped hair and wire-rim glasses, Gil Shwed looks like a 20-something denizen of the local coffeehouse scene. But he says he doesn't get out of the office much, unless he is traveling to one of his other offices -- in California, Singapore, Germany, Japan, France or Australia.     Besides, there is a cappuccino machine just down the hall, next to the treadmills and stair machines that Mr. Shwed provides for his headquarters staff, now almost 300 strong and expanding daily.   

The New Israel: Land of Milk and Money

 WATERLOO -- In a town called Waterloo, the stock-market retreat of a local company that had been one of Nasdaq's hottest showed how deeply the technology mania reached into the heartland.    SPLIT DECISION -- Stock strategists and money managers say that as the market seeks its sensible center, the best havens are old-fashioned industrials. But the most daring investors say some of the blue-chip new-economy stocks are looking cheap.  

Money & Business

A Color Only a Fan Could Love

Cleveland Browns draft defensive lineman Courtney Brown as first overall pick in National Football League draft; Brown's Penn State teammate, linebacker LaVar Arrington, is drafted second, by Washington Redskins; photos (M)

Penn State Delivers A 1-2 Punch

New York Jets use four first-round picks to draft defensive end Shaun Ellis, outside linebacker John Abraham, quarterback Chad Pennington and tight end Anthony Becht; photos (M)

Jets Bolster Pass Rush, and Snag a Passer

Analysis of criticism of World Bank and International Monetary Fund in light of Washington, DC, protests; notes demonstrators blame globalization for widening economic inequities and question groups' policies; cites World Bank head James D Wolfensohn stand that bank is doing more for poor than any other group; graph of World Bank lending; photo (M)

Global Storm: Loan Agencies Under Siege

Article on celebrities who adopt charitable causes, as in Leonardo DiCaprio's sudden emergence as environmental champion; photos; so many stars have linked up behind do-good issues that nearly every Hollywood party is stop on charity circuit; philanthropy experts see little downside, whether impulse arises from pure altruism or attempt at 'some new kind of warm glow,' in words of Alan Abramson of Aspen Institute (M)

When Celebrity Hearts Bleed

MORE than $2 trillion in investor wealth got vaporized last week. It was the worst week in Nasdaq history, and one of the worst in Wall Street's.    While the stock market's ascent into the stratosphere in recent months had been breathtaking, the speed with which this fortune vanished was nothing short of stupefying. After the government's announcement on Friday that the Consumer Price Index for March showed broad and troubling increases, stocks across the board collapsed. The Dow lost 5.66 percent, while the Nasdaq plummeted 9.67 percent.  

Inflation's Toll on Inflated Markets

Developers are creating 43 loft condominiums in Atalanta Builiding, 18-story former dairy warehouse at 25 North St in TriBeCa; units will be sold as raw space, allowing owners to create interiors; prices range from $1,250,000 up to $7.5 million for larger of two penthouses; developer is Houlihan/Parnes Realtors; photo (M)

POSTINGS: 43 Condos at 18-Story Former Warehouse in TriBeCa; From Butter and Eggs to Lofts

Alex Witchel report on return of jeans; Megan Mitchell of Barney's describes designs that have left Woodstock decidely behind; photos (M)

The New Old Thing: Doctored Denim

 Envoys Return to Belgrade  The Western diplomatic quarantine on Yugoslavia, whose president has been indicted on war crimes charges, is breaking down as European envoys drift back.   PAGE 10

INSIDE

Rick Marin report on glamorization of sneezing allergies, as featured in blissful drug ads and at Gazoontite.com, both store and Web site; photo (M)

Pass the Inhaler: I Feel a Chic Attack Coming On

Maurice Villency will move its flagship Manhattan furniture store to blockfront location on Third Ave between 56th and 57th Sts, from its current location at 200 Madison Ave, at 35th St (S)

POSTINGS: Villency Takes Blockfront at 56th and 3rd; Furniture Store Moves North

Baltimore Orioles player Cal Ripken Jr gets 3,000th major league hit; photo (M)

Ripken Gets One More Big Number: 3,000 Hits

New York Knickerbockers forward Marcus Camby discusses his lifestyle since joining New York Knickerbockers; photo (M)

It's a Beautiful Day In the World of Camby

Investors are wary in wake of big plunge in stock prices; few sound eager to buy on dip, past practice that has driven prices up to unprecedented levels; selling on Friday was steady and relentless, but did not reflect panic; big institutions, not individuals, accounted for most of selling; photos (M)

Amid the Stock Market's Losses, A Sense the Game Has Changed

Special report Secrets of History: The CIA in Iran; focuses on newly surfaced copy of Central Intelligence Agency's still classified history of 1953 coup, which reveals inner workings of CIA plot that replaced elected government with shah and set stage for 1979 Islamic revolution and generation of anti-Americanism; report discloses key role British intelligence officials played in initiating and planning coup against Prime Min Mohammed Mossadegh and shows Britain and US shared interest in maintaining West's control over Iranian oil; report, written by Dr Donald N Wilber, CIA's chief coup planner, shows operation's success was mostly matter of chance; shows agency's contempt for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, whom it derided as coward, and describes for first time agency's tortured efforts to win his participation; operation was blueprint for later CIA plots to foment coups and destabilize governments during cold war; chronology of events; photo (L)

SECRETS OF HISTORY: The C.I.A. in Iran -- A special report.; How a Plot Convulsed Iran in '53 (and in '79)

Syracuse University researchers finds Internal Revenue Service audited 1.36 percent of tax returns filed by people making less than $25,000 last year, compared with 1.15 percent of returns filed by people making $100,000 or more; finds shift since 1988, when audit rates were 1.03 percent for working poor and 11.4 percent for wealthiest Americans; IRS says need to audit highest income taxpayers has dropped somewhat because more are wage earners and because some of deductions most likely to be abused have been eliminated; audits of corporations and self-employed fell to record low levels last year because Congress did not authorize funds to keep up with increased number of such taxpayers, even though General Accounting Office study found in 1997 that they are more likely than working poor to underpay taxes; IRS focus on bottom of income ladder extended to businesses as well; graphs of audit rates; table showing sharp drop in corporate audits (M)

I.R.S. MORE LIKELY TO AUDIT THE POOR AND NOT THE RICH

Hours after a livery-cab driver was shot to death in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn -- the seventh such killing in New York City this year -- Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir announced that several hundred officers, including the entire Street Crime Unit, would be deployed to protect independent taxi drivers. The officials also called for new safety rules for drivers.     Article, Page 35.  

Street Crime Officers To Watch Over Cabs

New York City seems to be disappearing under blanket of advertising signs that have usurped almost every surface; Municipal Art Society president, Kent L Barwick, warns that visual character of city is being transformed, with no one in control; protests are stirring as trend spreads beyond Times Square to various neighborhoods, spurred by computer technology that permits quick reproduction of photographic images at gigantic scale with astonishing clarity; photos (M)

April 16, 2000

Headlines from April 16, 2000

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Nissan Sentra; Will More, More, More Be Enough?

Wagner's Inexhaustible 'Ring'

The World: Beyond Protest; Making Room for the Poor In a Global Economy

The Nation: Confessional; Crime, Punishment and the Passions of Miranda

Giuliani Donors Loathe First Lady From Afar

Billboard 200

No Strings Attached

Supernatural

Romeo Must Die -- The Album

Unleash The Dragon

Opposite Of H2O

Historical Context for April 16, 2000