May 3, 2000

New York Yankees defeat Cleveland Indians, 4-2; photo (M)

Special report, Admissions Maze, on intense competition among elite colleges for select group of several thousand high school graduates; pursuit, more competitive than at any other time in history, has caused reversal of roles in which students have become decisionmakers screening out potential candidates against yardstick of own idiosyncracies, and admissions officers supplicants promoting schools as they brace for rejections from many of those they want most; photos (M)

John Tierney The Big City column describes scene at Venture Downtown's annual conference, where young venture capitalists seek to invest in start-up E-Commerce Internet companies (M)

New York State Ethics Commission finds Gov George E Pataki and aides did not violate law in allowing nonprofit trade group largely financed by companies lobbying his office to pay for trips he took to Hungary in 1995 and 1996; concludes trips do raise ethical concerns since nonprofit group, Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce USA raised money from companies specifically for trip, but finds neither Pataki nor aides were aware that group was soliciting money from companies, which included Philip Morris, Pepsico, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb (M)

Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan conducts day-long workshops twice each year to encourage Holocaust survivors to reveal their stories; Ivy Barsky, museum's director of education, discusses importance of bringing to attention of public horrors of Holocaust experiences; photo (M)