Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 4-2; photo (M)

2nd Place: If One Martinez Can't Beat You, the Other Will

Mindy Aloff article on graceful restoration of historic theaters in Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia and Washington; photos; reports stages are vibrant with plays, music and dance, and downtown streets around theaters are once again thronged with people (M)

Dramatic Revivals, Against the Odds

 Court Rules in AT&T's Favor Over Sharing of Cable Lines  A federal appeals court ruled that local governments may not force companies that offer Internet access to share their telecommunications lines with rival cable modem providers.  

BUSINESS DIGEST

ABC hires Dennis Miller and Dan Fouts as broadcasters for Monday Night Football; photo (M)

Dennis Miller To Fill Chair Cosell Held

Article describes scene in Glasgow, Scotland, as Mike Tyson arrives for heavyweight fight against Lou Savarese; photo (M)

Glasgow Puts Up Its Dukes, Too

Article discusses history of Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side following disclosure that hotel is for sale; reaction of many of regular guests noted; Norman L Peck, managing partner of Carlyle, comments (M)

Palace of Secrets Receives Suitors, Quite Discreetly; Carlyle Hotel Regulars Hope Sale Will Not Bring Changes

Chief Judge Judith S Kaye orders all courts in New York to start offering nonviolent criminals who are drug addicts the option of treatment instead of jail time; program will be fully in place in 2003, making New York the first in the nation to adopt this approach statewide; is intended to achieve sharp reduction in both the number of repeat offenders clogging the courts and the population in state's prisons and jails; will not apply to nonviolent offenders convicted under state's Rockefeller-era drug laws; criminal justice experts praise initiative; photo (M)

New York to Offer Most Addicts Treatment Instead of Jail Terms

Gov. George E. Pataki and the Legislature agreed to the nation's most far-reaching gun controls, including ''ballistic fingerprinting'' and a ban on assault weapons.  Article, Page B1.  

Albany Closes in Rush

Jennifer Dunning Critic's Choice report in praise of several outstanding young dancers from several companies; singles out Hope L Boykin, Adam Hendrickson, Michael Thomas, Janie Taylor and others; photos (M)

Daring to Own The Stage

Scientists find fossil evidence of a small feathered reptile that probably glided among the trees of Central Asia 220 million years ago, and they say this challenges the widely held theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs; animal, Longisquama insignis, predates archaeopteryx, the oldest recognized bird, by 75 million years; scientists refer to Longisquama's feathers as nonavian and say exact relationship to birds is uncertain, but they assert that it would have lived in the right time and had the right physical structure to have been an ancestor of birds and that it was clearly not a dinosaur; suggest further that feather evolution extended back much earlier, probably before first dinosaurs appeared on scene about 240 million years ago; photo; drawing (M)

Fossil Discovery Threatens Theory of Birds' Evolution

Robert J Conrad Jr, who heads Justice Department's campaign finance unit, reportedly recommends that Atty Gen Janet Reno appoint a special counsel to investigate Vice Pres Al Gore's political fund-raising activities during the 1996 presidential campaign, citing new questions about whether Gore has been truthful to investigators; recommendations pits Conrad against some of Reno's powerful advisers, including Lee J Radek, head of unit of department that investigates public corrruption (M)

JUSTICE AIDE SEEKS A SPECIAL COUNSEL IN INQUIRY OF GORE

Albert J Pirro Jr, influential Republican businessman and husband of Jeanine F Pirro, Westchester County district attorney, is convicted of conspiracy and tax evasion; verdict imperils Pirro's business career and perhaps political future of his wife, once a strong contender for Republican nomination for US Senate; Anthony G Pirro, codefendant, is convicted with his brother; photo (M)

Federal Jury Convicts Pirro On All Tax-Fraud Charges

Herbalife International, direct-sales giant of dietary supplements, faces several challenges, including recovering from death of its founder Mark Hughes on May 21; Hughes's death is serious blow for company--both because he was Herbalife's head cheerleader and because of possibility that his message of better life through herbal products might be diminished by the way he died; Hughes's death was ruled accident from combination of alcohol and prescribed antidepressant Doxepin; company is being run by chief executive Christopher Pair and Conrad Klein, chief business affairs officer; graph; photos (M)

Herbalife's Afterlife Challenge; Charismatic Leader Left an Image Problem and Other Issues

New York Yankees agree to trade in principle for Detroit Tigers player Juan Gonzalez and have until Sunday to negotiate contract extension with him; photo (M)

Yanks Want Gonzalez, but Does He Want Yanks?

George Vecsey Sports of The Times column discusses New York Mets attempts to replace injured shortstop Rey Ordonez; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Melvin Mora Better Than Office Temp

New York Gov George E Pataki and Legislature agree to adopt nation's most far-reaching package of gun controls and sweeping overhaul of sex crimes laws that imposes tougher penalties and provides new services for victims; lawmakers also agree on package of meadures to improve school safety (M)

Accord Reached in Albany on Gun Controls and Sex Crimes

Floyd Norris column on high oil prices links situation to demand; says when demand is weak, oil prices can collapse because many oil producers need revenue and will pump all they can; says when demand is strong, as it is now, it is futile to rely on oil producers to start cheating and driving price down, or to hope that diplomacy can have much effect; contends that if Saudis feared that worldwide recession was imminent and knew that would cause demand to plummet, they might act; adds there is no such fear now; graph (M)

Crude Error: How We Grew Vulnerable to High Oil Prices

Oil prices show no sign of retreating a day after OPEC decides to increase production, and lawmakers step up calls for investigations into 'price gouging' in gasoline market; lawmakers are especially concerned about high prices in Midwest; some officials say price of gasoline in Midwest may have finally leveled off; new supplies are coming on market, refiners have increased production of new gas and wholesale prices have fallen; Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating whether soaring prices could be result of industry collusion, expects to report its finding to Congress by third week of July; FTC is expected to begin issuing subpoenas within days, and some lawmakers want industry chief executives to be required to testify on matter; Pres Clinton, facing political firestorm over issue, says he believes there is 'no economic explanation' for high Midwest prices; Vice Pres Al Gore, presumed Democratic presidential candidate, reiterates his belief that industry collusion may be stoking problems; industry officials blame supply problems, low inventories of gasoline and June 1 switch to cleaner fuel, and they point to recent Congressional Research Service report suggesting that cleaner gas mandate and pipeline problems added 50 cents to price of gallon of gas in some parts of Midwest; graph; photo (M)

Lawmakers Step Up Scrutiny Of Price Increases for Gasoline

Domestic political calculations have weighed enormously with both Clinton administration and its Republican rivals in their maneuvering over missile defense system; an example is how administration was forced to abandon plans to locate system in Grand Forks, ND, which would not require renegotiation of Antiballistic Missile Treaty, because a system built there could not protect westernmost islands of the Aleutians, something sure to run afoul of Sen Ted Stevens of Alaska; a major aim of administration's plan has been to protect Pres Clinton--and more important, Vice Pres Al Gore--against Republican charges that Democrats have been soft on defense; a missile defense system was little more than a footnote to history when Clinton took office in 1992, but it has emerged as political litmus test since then as result of raw partisan politics, bitter fights over secret intelligence reports and an evolving missile threat; photos; maps (L)

THE NUCLEAR SHIELD: Looking for Cover; Politics Mixes With Strategy In Plan for Antimissile System

Microsoft Corp says it will retool its product line to shift focus of computing away from hardware devices and toward new generation of Internet-based software allowing people to interact with data and one another whether they are using computers, digital cell phones or interactive television; chairman Bill Gates and his top executives introduce what they portray as vision of new software platform--called .NET--in which users will be surrounded by range of devices providing access to universe of information, including business and personal data; Gates says new products will be rolled out in increments beginning next year, when Microsoft plans to introduce version of its Windows operating system to be called Windows.Net 1.0 (M)

Microsoft Plans to Shift Product Focus To the Internet

 Inquiry on Lazio Stock Deal      The S.E.C. is investigating Rick A. Lazio, the Republican candidate for Senate in New York. PAGE B1

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State of Texas executes Gary Graham with express backing of Gov George W Bush after parole board votes 12 to 5 to reject a request for clemency and after US Supreme Court declines to review case by a 5-to-4 vote; Graham proclaims innocence in 1981 murder of Bobby Lambert and says he is being murdered by state; Bush's demeanor suggests a sensitivity not only to passions that Graham's case has inflamed but also to his own need to project an impression of approaching such responsibilities with utmost thoughtfulness and seriousness; photos (M)

WITH BUSH ASSENT, INMATE IS EXECUTED

Americans are beginning to sell their houses and apartments by means of auctions, whether in person or through Internet sites like Homebid.com; method appeals to time-pressed generation that has grown use to buying and selling things on e-Bay; was once associated with lavish estates or foreclosed homes, but is now being used for properties in between; residential auctions are more common abroad and are the norm in Australia; some traditional brokers dismiss auctions as marketing ploys or annoying competition; home of Thomas and Gloria Fatato in Irvington, NY, fetches top bid of $975,000, to which the buyer must add 10 percent for auction company; photos (M)

House Auctions Gain Favor in an eBay World

Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Rep Rick A Lazio, Republican candidate for Senate in New York, violated insider trading laws when he made nearly 600 percent profit in less than seven weeks by investing in securities of Quick & Reilly, company controlled by some of his biggest campaign contributors (M)

S.E.C. Investigating Lazio Trading In Securities of Donors' Company

Clyde Haberman NYC column discusses arrest of Miguel Martinez in Bronx in connection with death of 8-month-old Nia Gay, daughter of his girlfriend; recent incidents of boyfriends abusing children of their girlfriends noted (M)

When a Home Has a Menace To Children

Starford To'a is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League.

June 23, 2000

Headlines from June 23, 2000

2nd Place: If One Martinez Can't Beat You, the Other Will

Dramatic Revivals, Against the Odds

BUSINESS DIGEST

Dennis Miller To Fill Chair Cosell Held

Glasgow Puts Up Its Dukes, Too

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The Marshall Mathers LP

Oops!...I Did It Again

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No Strings Attached

Mad Season

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