Felicia Lee Coping column recounts take of Manhattan teacher who discovered that her mother is really her mother's half-sister, man she thought was her father is not and that, despite growing up an only child, she has five siblings; drawing (M)

We Are Family? A Tale of Identity Politics

Chicago White Sox defeat New York Yankees, 10-9; photo (M)

Williams's Huge Day Can't Stem A Meltdown

Changing of the Guard, article in series about 49th Armored Division of Texas National Guard, deployed in Bosnia as part of NATO peacekeeping force; nation's citizen-soldiers are bringing to the job something their active-duty counterparts cannot: experience and skills honed in civilian world; many would argue that Guard and Reserve are in fact better prepared for subtle tasks of rebuilding nation devastated by war; say they are better at dealing with civilians; men and women of 49th were computer programmers, teachers, lawyers and laborers until they were mobilized in February; their skills have already paid dividends in Bosnia; photos; graph (L)

National Guard Unit Adds Dimension to a Peacekeeper Role

Chartwell House, 34-story condominium, is set to rise on Second Avenue between 91st and 92nd Streets; drawing (S)

POSTINGS: Soon to Go Up Between 91st and 92nd Streets; A New Condo on Second Avenue

Article on new, fourth edition of Norval White's and Elliot Willensky's AIA Guide to New York City, first published in 1967; 1,056-page book, first in 12 years, covers each borough almost block by block, building by building; photos (L)

New York, Brick by Brick

Differences widen between Pres Clinton and Republicans in Congress over adding prescription drug benefits to Medicare; Republicans want more choices and options for beneficiaries, larger role for private insurance companies, and smaller role and lower costs for government; Democrats want more uniformity in premiums and benefits; they say Republicans' free-market approach will confuse beneficiaries and encourage insurers to seek out healthy customers with relatively low drug costs, practice known as cherry-picking; graphs (M)

PARTY DIFFERENCES ON DRUG BENEFITS CONTINUE TO GROW

Internet chat rooms have added new dimension to quest as old as stock market themselves: to make a killing on the next big thing; among chat rooms' most popular subjects are tiny stocks that most people never heard of; David L McCoy and his brother Douglas R McCoy rode such a stock, Wave Systems Corp, to paper fortunes of $2.34 million and $507,000, respectively, over three years, only to wiped out amid tech stock sell-off and margin calls that left them scrambling to keep their shirts; after the dust settled, both brothers bought back in and rejoined like-minded souls in 'Wavoid' chat rooms; photo, graphs, charts (L)

Chat-Room Millions, Real-Life Misery

Tiger Woods dominates play at United States Open golf tournament at Pebble Beach, California, with 10-stroke lead after three rounds; photo (M)

Woods Stands Alone, With a 10-Stroke Lead

Musicals Tonite is one of many organizations that present theater in New York, unknown to even most stalwart of theatergoers; Musicals Tonite presents plain pipe-rack concert versions of neglected musicals; its unpaid cast receives only carfare, in accordance with Actors Equity Assn rules defined by series of economic yardsticks; Mel Miller, who created Musicals Tonite, says city is full of talented people, forgotten material, willing audiences and not enough work; on any given night in New York City, there are 20 to 30 shows similar to Musicals Tonight productions, in out-of-the-way stages around town; photo (M)

Far Off Broadway, Even the Stars Are Paid in Subway Fare

Recent leaks from Los Alamos National Laboratory suggest obvious solution: do not give secrets to scientists; but that solution suffers from obvious flaw: governments need scientists and their culture of openness to produce secrets worth keeping in the first place; clash of science and secrecy has been a problem since the Renaissance; photo (M)

The Nation: State Insecurity; The Trials of Secret Science

 Concerns About Crime  An increase in homicides in some big cities has prompted concern that the decline in violent crime has finally come to an end.   PAGE 12

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Council of Fashion Designers of America holds annual awards night at Lincoln Center; Oscar de la Renta receives top women's wear award; photos (L)

What's Really Short And Oh So Fashionable?

In North Korea six years ago and in Syria last week power has passed from a dictator to his son, and in both cases the son shows signs of adopting a more modern, outward-looking approach to solving his country's deep problems and may help cool off two of world's hot spots; photos of North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Syria's Bashar al-Assad (M)

The World: High Jump; If Dad Was a Dictator, Just Try Being Mr. Nice Guy

New York State purchases 513-acre strip of private land adjacent to Clarence Fahnestock State Park in Putnam County, providing increased public access to rocky outcroppings that offer broad views along the Hudson River (S)

POSTINGS: 513 Acres Are Bought in Putnam County; State Adds To Parkland

Harvard Business School has undergone transformation that is worthy of the case studies that are hallmark of its MBA curriculum; school whose general management curriculum was famous for turning out future chief executives has shifted focus to study of entrepreneurial ventures, be they dot-com start-ups or divisions of large companies trying to act like small companies; change in curriculum has led Harvard to launch series of initiatives in Silicon Valley, where Stanford, its most important rival, is pre-eminent; shift is not without risks; current entrepreneurial frenzy may prove fleeting, and large corporations have proven they will continue to dominate economy; photos, graph (L)

California Dreamin'; Harvard Business School Adds Silicon Valley to Its Syllabus

Federal Aviation Administration took 16 months to publish warning to commercial airlines about possibly dangerous steel cables manufactured by Strandflex that control systems of passenger jetliners and military aircraft; Defense Dept acted quickly, immediately testing samples of cable on military aircraft and replacing those found to be flawed; Strandflex acknowledges it is target of criminal investigation; says it will fight civil lawsuit brought by Patricia A Keehle, former quality assurance manager at company who had issued warning to federal prosecutors in Jan 1999; she stands to receive percentage of any damages government might recover from company; government officials contend there is no evidence of any major accidents caused by cable failures, but several airlines have begun their own inspections and one is removing suspect cable from its fleet; diagram (M)

LONG F.A.A. DELAY BEFORE A WARNING ABOUT JET CABLES

Interview with five players from New York Giants--Howard Cross, Sam Garnes, Greg Comella, Amani Toomer, Tiki Barber; players discuss criminal charges against Ray Lewis, Rae Carruth and Mark Chmura and attendant media coverage; assert that professional athletes are held to higher standard of behavior than ordinary people; photo (M)

Perspective; The Good, the Bad and the Distracting: Life Off the Football Field

Waves of illegal immigrants from Mexico are crossing border at Douglas, Ariz, angering ranchers whose fences are being torn down and whose property is littered with their refuse; ranchers contend that United States Border Patrol is doing little to stop tide; some ranchers are taking matters into their own hands, by detaining migrants at gunpoint until Border Patrol agents arrive; historical patterns show that successful cutoff of illegal immigration in one region pushes border crossers into areas of less resistance; Douglas area has seen growth in number of illegal immigrants as Border Patrol increased its vigilance in San Diego area; photos; map; chart (M)

Immigrants Flood Border in Arizona, Angering Ranchers

Gretchen Morgenson, Market Watch column, reports Paine Webber chief investment strategist Edward Kerschner believes welter of data available about public companies encourages investors to act without thinking, a behavior that may account for recent jump in stock market volatility; notes Kerschner has found that volatility on major stock indexes, particularly among Nasdaq stocks, has soared in tandem with growth in daily household viewership of CNBC; graph (M)

Flying Blind in a Fog of Data

Mel Charen writes his autobiography, Keep On Dancin', in which he details the making of modern dance music at Paradise Garage, the gay dance club that flourished in SoHo between 1977 and 1987; photo (M)

Paradise Garage, a Gay Club That Forever Changed Night Life

Fashion industry is so taken with snakeskin that it is raising concerns about whether the most heavily traded species, reticulated and blood pythons, can sustain their numbers under the sorts of hunting required to keep up with demand; snakes are harvested from long list of nations, but Indonesia is the unequivocal export leader; fashion houses and their customers express little interest in where the skins come from; photos (L)

Eve's Revenge, The Python's Sorrow

Highlights of new motorcycle models; photos (M)

What's New and Fast on 2 Wheels for the Summer of 2000

Religious institutions in New York City must seek out new or expanded space in one of tightest real estate markets in some time; photos (L)

For Houses of God, A Devilish Market

Profile of Olympia, Washington-based three-woman punk rock group Sleater-Kinney, comprised of Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss; members, just days after performing at Soupstock 2000 in San Francisco's Mission District, comment on their music and recently released fifth album; photos (M)0

Raising the Stakes In Punk Rock

Fewer teenagers and young adults are seeking summer jobs, opting for summer school, travel or adventure; lengthy economic expansion has given growing numbers of families means to support their children in these pursuits, but shift away from summer jobs also suggests that tens of thousands of teenagers are missing out on hallowed American coming-of-age experience, and social leveler that gives college-bound a fleeting taste of working-class life; many teenagers who do take summer jobs seek work that will put them on career tracks more quickly, not traditional low-paid and mind-numbing slots that have long been their lot; photo; graphs (M)

Summer Work Is Out of Favor With the Young

Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theater in 1951. She was most famous for portraying Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant – for which she won 4 Emmy Awards – and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos, for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

June 18, 2000

Headlines from June 18, 2000

We Are Family? A Tale of Identity Politics

Williams's Huge Day Can't Stem A Meltdown

National Guard Unit Adds Dimension to a Peacekeeper Role

POSTINGS: Soon to Go Up Between 91st and 92nd Streets; A New Condo on Second Avenue

New York, Brick by Brick

Billboard 200

The Marshall Mathers LP

The History Of Rock

Oops!...I Did It Again

Mad Season

No Strings Attached

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 18, 2000