Castro's revolution has divided many Cuban families, but none as publicly as Elian Gonzalez's feuding clan. MAGAZINE  

90 Miles Away

Recent sell-off in blue-chip technology stocks leaves investors wondering how to appraise them; article examines prospects for six technology leaders in six key markets; experts say that in market filled with uncertainty investors will have to pay up for quality they seek; graphs; photos (M)

The Maniac Markets; Seeking Solid Ground Amid Falling Bodies

Atty Gen Janet Reno negotiated unsuccessfully with Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez, appealing with them to end impasse, up until final moments before early morning raid by armed federal agents to seize child; warned them time was running out; Pres Clinton voices support; says she made right decision and that law has been upheld; planning for raid and its swift execution described; photo (M)

For Reno, a Difficult Call in the Last Minutes

Toronto Raptors coach Butch Carter is suing New York Knickerbockers player Marcus Camby for defamation on eve of Knicks' first-round playoff series against Raptors; Knicks' shrug off timing and merit of suit, which involves Camby's stand that Carter told him days before he was traded to Knicks from Toronto in June 1998 that he would build Raptors around him; photos (M)

Raptor Coach Files Defamation Suit Against Camby

POSTINGS: Conference at Baruch College; The Future Of Brooklyn

Article on sport utility vehicles for model year 2001 that are on display at New York International Auto Show at Jacob K Javits Convention Center; photos (M)

Trucks Are Tres Chic At New York Car Show

New York Metsdefeat Chicago Cubs in double header, 8-3 and 7-6; photos (M)s

What a Difference a Week Makes: The Mets Are on a Roll

Armed US immigration agents smash way into Miami home of relatives of Elian Gonzalez in early morning raid, seize sobbing six-year-old from bedroom closet and fly him to reunion with father at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington; end bitter standoff between federal government and boy's defiant great-uncle and touches off fury in streets outside home, where Cuban exiles have kept vigil since November; hundreds clash with police and more than 260 are reportedly arrested; scene outside two-bedroom house in Little Havana neighborhood described; distraught Miami relatives fly to Washington seeking meeting with father Juan Miguel Gonzalez but are turned away outside Andrews Air Force Base; Atty Gen Janet Reno defends use of force; describes unsuccessful efforts to find peaceful solution until final moments before raid; says Miami relatives left government no alternative; says reports indicated people in neighborhood may have had weapons; raid and efforts of demonstrators to block it described; officials say child is calm and 'totally at ease' with father; release photograph of reunion; photos; diagram (M)

CUBAN BOY SEIZED BY U.S. AGENTS AND REUNITED WITH HIS FATHER

Market Watch column on strong earnings reports by bellwether companies that have provided much-needed comfort for investors reassessing their appetite for newly apparent risks in stocks; chart (M)

Applying a Discount To Good Earnings News

Article on fashions and accessories that will be featured in upcoming film Charlie's Angels, starring Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore; photos (M)

Angel Hair, Angel Lips: Charlie's Girls Return

Shares of Intel Corp may be bargain, falling 8.1 percent during technology selloff; experts say company deserves to be major holding for any investor; graphs; photos (S)

The Maniac Markets; No Longer a Cyclical?

Playwright August Wilson article on revival of his 1977 play Jitney, first in nearly completed cycle of plays for each decade of 20th century; photos (M)

American Histories: Chasing Dreams And Nightmares; Sailing The Stream Of Black Culture

Photo of Cyclone roller roaster at Coney Island

Let the Screams Begin

Elizabeth Hayt article on ABS, moderately priced clothing line designed by Allen B Schwartz; focuses on knockoffs of dress worn by actress Hilary Swank at this year's Academy Awards ceremony and of dress created by designer Vera Wang; photos (M)

Great Dress, Dear. Did You Make It Yourself?

New York State has used at least $1 billion given it by federal government for new antipoverty programs to indirectly finance huge tax cuts and other programs that appeal to middle-class voters in four years since overhaul of nation's welfare laws; with nation's second-largest welfare population it appears to be among most aggressive states in using its welfare dollars to help pay for other programs it would otherwise find difficult to afford; has taken in roughly $6.1 billion in federal welfare funds and earmarked about $5 billion to finance traditional programs for poor, while spending very little of remaining money to create programs aimed at helping welfare recipients make transition to permanent employment as new welfare law intended; budgetary switch has prompted Congress to open investigation to determine scope of practice nationwide (M)

Federal Welfare Overhaul Allows Albany to Shift Money Elsewhere

In the fief of poetry, where status is a coin of the realm, Knopf is the high castle, the publisher of Modernist leviathans like T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens and contemporary stars like Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds and Mark Strand.    Yet a literary age has passed at Knopf. A king has died, a successor named. And what is perhaps the most visible job in poetry editing belongs not only to a woman, but to a young woman who had the nerve to write an accessible book of poetry that sold well. T. S. Eliot probably wouldn't understand.  

Poet, Editor, Working Girl

Anthony Walton article on PBS American Experience documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire; deplores tendency of time and film to turn dangerous racist into kind of folk hero; photos (M)

American Histories: Chasing Dreams And Nightmares; In Making Myths, Betraying Our Past

Mark Lasswell comment on debate over selection of Pacific teal, color of National Hockey League team San Jose Sharks, as color of jerseys worn by members of his hockey team; drawing (M)

Gladiators in Pacific Teal, Oh My

Article on Aldo Rossi's architectural design and construction of new building on prime site of SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, one of most scrutinized landmark precincts in New York, that will be home to Scholastic Inc; 10-story building between Spring and Prince Streets is to be finished in December; drawings; photos (M)

A Building Fits In by Standing Out

Serge Schmemann article recalls his service in Vietnam War and reflects on changing images of Vietnam and veterans that have developed over years since war ended for United States in shame, panic and betrayal; photo (M)

The World: In Country; To Vietnam and Back. And Back. And Back.

Focus on major shifts occurring in Japanese economy; changes in employer-employee relationship, liberalization of financial markets and explosion of new business models in freewheeling arenas of Internet and information technology have spawned new breed of entrepreneurs who care little for conventions that have dominated country for decades; many big companies are slowly realizing benefits of competitive procurement practices and cost of providing life support to many small partners; are struggling to pare work forces, largely by drastically cutting hiring of new employees; many that still dominate economy are adopting compensation programs based on performance and abolishing remuneration determined by seniority, fast diluting attractions of lifetime employment; evolution of financial markets is helping entrepreneurs, as new stock markets emerge designed to foster young businesses and flood of venture capital provides money that was once parceled out almost exclusively by big banks largely interested in corporate customers and real estate developers; at same time, barriers to taking young companies public have eased, making private capital less crucial in nursing them; previously, economic structure that evolved after World War II with its heavy emphasis on government-directed bank lending, its punitive tax structure, its ban on stock options and its lack of pension portability, had stifled entrepreneural spirit; photo; graph; chart (M)

In Japan, Start-Up and Risk Are New Business Watchwords

Pharmaceutical industry has reaped windfall profits from medicines developed with tax-backed research, while American taxpayers have received no financial return on their investment, special report, Medicine Merchants; biomedical revolution has yielded flood of new therapies that are currently fastest-growing component of nation's trillion-dollar-a-year medical bill but inexplicably high cost has become focus of political debate as as Congress contemplates expanding Medicare to include prescription drug coverage, and some states weigh moves to bring drug prices more in line with those in foreign countries; industry is struggling to fend off regulation that might limit its ability to set prices; its contention that price of medication is justified by extreme risk of failure and high cost of drug discovery, which it estimates at $500 million per drug, is at heart of debate; article examines pricing of Xalatan, best-selling medication for glaucoma which was developed by Columbia University professor Laszlo Z Bito with $4 million in taxpayers funds; licensed to Pharmacia Corp, Xalatan had sales of $507 million and earned Columbia $20 million in royalties in 1999; American patients pay $45 to $50 for six-week dose, about $1 per day or more than twice price charged in Europe, even though key ingredient costs Pharmacia only pennies to make; Pharmacia, which spent no more than $150,000 to acquire rights, acknowledges that taxpayers' support is key to Xalatan's success; industry's reliance on taxpayer-supported research has become so commonplace that industry expert has raised questions about companies' arguments; photos; charts; graphs (L)

MEDICINE MERCHANTS: Birth of a Blockbuster; Drug Makers Reap Profits On Tax-Backed Research

Recent rout of highflying technology stocks on Nasdaq sheds shed light on role of financiers, entrepreneurs and investors in inflating Internet bubble until it almost burst; article discusses selloff in stocks of seven Internet companies, which went public in March 1999 and whose shares are trading well below offering prices; their executives are beginning to apportion blame; photos; graphs (M)

The Maniac Markets; The Making Of a Market Bubble

Felicia Lee Coping column on urgent need to communicate societal values and provide social and emotional guidance to inner-city children; contrasts positive rite of passage that bar mitzvah represents with recent sexual attacks by young children in Harlem; quotes Dennis Walcott of Urban League, who sees need to define what is acceptable behavior and what is not (S)

Rites of Passage To Nurture Values

GDM Projects is building 26-unit, $35 million condominium at 124 Hudson Street in Manhattan; building is expected to be completed early next year; estimated prices start at $925,000 and go to $5 million for penthouse; drawing (M)

POSTINGS: $35 Million, Nine-Story Building; 26 Condos On Hudson St. In TriBeCa

Chloe Kim is an American professional snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old.

Chloe Kim, American snowboarder

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Lee Je-no, known professionally as Jeno, is a South Korean rapper and singer. Jeno began his career as a child commercial model. He was discovered by SM Entertainment at the age of thirteen. Jeno officially debuted in August 2016 as a member of South Korean boy band NCT through the sub-unit NCT Dream.

April 23, 2000

Headlines from April 23, 2000

90 Miles Away

The Maniac Markets; Seeking Solid Ground Amid Falling Bodies

For Reno, a Difficult Call in the Last Minutes

Raptor Coach Files Defamation Suit Against Camby

POSTINGS: Conference at Baruch College; The Future Of Brooklyn

Billboard 200

No Strings Attached

Supernatural

Yeeeah Baby

Unleash The Dragon

Romeo Must Die -- The Album

Notable Births

Historical Context for April 23, 2000