April 30, 2000

Article discusses outlook for game 3 of playoff series between New York Knickerbockers and Toronto Raptors; Knickerbockers lead series, 2-0 (M)

China's brutal suppression of Falun Gong expalined; photos; spiritual movement started by former grain company clerk, Li Hongzhi, is most serious challenge to government since pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989, but many in West do not understand that aspects of cult suggest followers are misled and its leader deluded, even a fraud; Li promises salvation through his regimen, invokes old superstitions like weasel spirits, and preashes other peculiar doctrines, among them that aliens are infiltrating Earth; government fears uneducated, restive population is vulnerable to homegrown theologizing (M)

Article on unexpected challenges that racially blended families face in otherwise sophisticated New York City; most mixed families say that while difficulties crop up, their lives are enriched by diversity; photos (L)

Gretchen Morgenson column says rebound of Microsoft stock now that government has formally proposed its breakup will be slowed by fact that Microsoft itself is barred from buying its own shares until June 8 under terms of its $1.5 billion purchase of Visio in January, which used Microsoft stock in a pooling-of-interests transaction; says some Microsoft investors are beginning to worry about dilution of earnings presented by the 1.1 billion shares Microsoft has issued since 1990 under stock option and purchase plans; graph (M)

Suiting Up With interview with Marcus Camby of New York Knicks and his personal tailor, Troy McSwain II; photo of Camby inside colossal closet at his mansion in Larchmont, New York (M)