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Penelope Green article on new styles of bras on the market; drawing (M)7

Quest to Soothe the Savage Breast

Article on effort by parents of students at Simsbury High School, where high standards prevail and A averages are not common, to persuade Connecticut Board of Education to re-evaluate standards; statistics reportedly show that Simsbury students are among highest achieving on standardized tests and receive top-notch education but have heavy workload and are not as marketable to US's top colleges; photos (M)

Working (Really) Hard to Make the Grades

Summer scene on Staten Island, NY, described; photos (M),

And the Livin' Is Easy; Staten Island: Calendar Girls And Cars Rev Up the Boys

Pete Sampras, playing in pain from tendinitis, defeats Justin Gimelstob in third round of Wimbledon tennis tournament; photo (M)

Sampras Plays Through Pain And Survives

Critics say H & R Block's proposed settlement of complaints that it markets tax-refund loans at usurious interest rates is a sham; claim company hired lawyers to sue it on its own, very favorable terms; court proceedings have brought to light business practices that supreme courts in two states, and other judges, found sufficiently egregious to warrant trials on whether company betrayed customers trust; photo, graph, chronology (L)

Personal Business; New Questions About Block's Lucrative Tax Loans

Parking garage near United Nations building, with 179 parking spaces, sells for $7.5 million cash, or $40,000 for each space; realtor says price was so high because of location and because of bidding war (S)

$7.5 Million Buys a Garage

New York Mets defeat Atlanta Braves, 9-1; photo (M)

Once Again, Mets Batter Braves in One Shot

Article on doctors who routinely give free medical treatments to beauty and health writers for top magazines with expectations that those journalists will feature them in articles; questions whether experts that magazines quote are tops in their fields or just tops in providing free services in hopes of attracting high-profile clients; doctors discussed include Drs David Bank, Debra Jaliman, Patricia Wexler, George Beraka, Laurie Polis, Helen S Cohen, David J Goldberg and Roy Geronemus; photos (M)

Doctors Who Love Publicity

New 350-seat theater is planned as contemporary complement to Princeton University's McCarter Theater; new house will be called Berlind Theater; diagram (S)

For Princeton's McCarter, A New 350-Seat Theater

Iranian judge convicts 10 of 13 Jewish men accused by Revolutionary Court of spying for Israel and sentences them to prison terms ranging from 4 to 13 years; two Muslim men convicted of aiding spy ring are sentenced to two and four years; two other Muslims and three Jews are acquitted; Pres Clinton says he is deeply disturbed at trial that did not give defendants due process of law; close-knit Jewish community in Shiraz, where many defendants were among religious leaders, is grim, viewing ruling as warning; photo; appeal will cite lack of any evidence other than confessions made after defendants had been jailed for nearly 16 months without counsel; convictions may have tangible effect on Pres Mohammad Khatami's bid for warmer relations with West (M)

10 JEWS CONVICTED BY IRANIAN COURT IN ESPIONAGE CASE

Vermont's new law allowing civil unions among homosexuals noted

Exchanging of Vows By Gays in Vermont

US intelligence agencies reportedly tell Clinton Administration and Congress that China is continuing to help Pakistan build long-range missiles that could carry nuclear weapons; revelations complicate Pres Clinton's effort to get Senate to approve normal trade relations for China; agencies say China stepped up shipment of specialty steels, guidance systems and technical expertise after India and Pakistan set off rival nuclear tests in 1998; Chinese experts have been seen around Pakistan's new missile factory, which is based on Chinese design; high-level US delegation led by John Holum will discuss issue in Beijing; dispute goes to core of Clinton's argument that normalizing trade ties will draw China more into world community and make it more cooperative on issues like weapons spread (M)

REPORTS SAY CHINA IS AIDING PAKISTAN ON MISSILE PROJECT

Article in series How Race is Lived in America relates Marcus Jacoby's rocky experience as white quarterback of Southern University, black school in New Orleans that has been football powerhouse; Jacoby, at 19, was unaware that he would be first white to play quarterback at school and first white to start at quarterback in history of black Southwestern Athletic Conference; photos; head coach Pete Richardson recalls recruiting Jacoby and trying to reassure family, although he was well aware how hostile Southern's fans were likely to be; anger and taunting by black teammates and tensions on campus recounted; family of teammate Jabari Morgan, longtime school bosters comment; Jacoby led team to black national championship but left school and football at start of next season, burned out on being in minority; he now attends Louisiana State University and says he appreciates walking around anonymously on mostly white campus (M)

The Minority Quarterback

Article describes rituals that New Yorkers use to make summer life more bearable, such as block parties; photos (M)

And the Livin' Is Easy; Barbecues? Fine. But New York also has citified rites of summer. Parties on pavement. Midnight ice cream runs. And outdoor movies with beaujolais and brie.

During Superme Court term that ended June 28, court decided oly 73 cases, fewest number of any term since early 1950's; docket, although small, ranged over almost entire constitutional landscape; notable cases recalled; photos (L)

The Nation: Split Decisions; The Court Rules, America Changes

Mexicans prepare to vote in presidential that will usher in period of uncertainty whether or not PRI maintains long grip on power; opposition candidate Vicente Fox Quesada has pledged to rule with caution, but victory would shatter elite; new win by PRI would outrage many in educated and middle classes; profiles of candidates (M)

Whoever Wins, Vote in Mexico Will Be Fateful

Bill Lenderking, 66 and retired, had sentimental memories of boyhood rowing off Shelter Island; organizes rowing trip for himself and four others, David Stookey, 57, John Mullen, 58, Tom Luckey, 60, and Louis Mackall, 59, starting at South Street Seaport, covering 100 miles and four days, ending at Shelter Island; article discusses preparations for and progression of trip, which proved test of strength and endurance; photo, map (M)

Perspective; Finding Their Place in the Stream

Felicia Lee Coping column on decisions New Yorkers face in deciding whether or not to invite guests to their out-of-town summer weekend places and which ones to invite; drawing (M)

Guests That Mar The Getaway

Latest global survey of AIDS epidemic, released by Unaids, United Nations agency dealing with AIDS, estimates that more than one-third of all 15-year-olds in worst-affected countries are still destined to die even if infection rates somehow drop; unlike in United States, where AIDS is viewed as medical problem, AIDS in third world is welfare and education issue rather than medical one; most of world cannot afford drugs that Americans can; much of world at risk of AIDS cannot read, so warning signs are useless; most of world at risk has never used a condom; most of world with AIDS thinks it does not have the disease and does not know anyone who does, because 95 percent of those infected in third world have never been tested; photo (M)

The Nation: No Limit; Writing the Bill For Global AIDS

Article on rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter Dwayne Wiggins, whose topical song, What's Really Going On (Strange Fruit), about police practice of racial profiling, uses background chorus from song introduced by Billie Holiday in 1939; that song was written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meerpol; photo (M)

A Song That Reverberates in the American Soul

Article, Crossing Borders: The Trade in Humans, discusses Western Europe's problems with hordes of migrants who are using new land routes from Asia, opened up by collapse of Soviet Union; photos; map; bodies of 58 Chinese aliens who died in locked container now lie, unclaimed, in Dover, once-quiet English port where illegal immigrants like Iraqi Tara Muhammad roam streets; well-organized criminal groups trading in human freight have emerged to coordinate smuggled passages into European countries that are largely closed to legal immigration; more than 365,000 people applied for asylum within European Union last year, compared with only 30,000 in US, which is considered more difficult to get into; British government, responding to criticism of 'phony' asylum-seekers, has cut back on benefits but applicants like Muhammad are still given enough for basic needs (M)

CROSSING BORDERS: The Trade in Humans; Europe Tries to Turn a Tide Of Migrants Chasing Dreams

Gretchen Morgenson (Market Watch)column finds midcap stocks of companies with market values of $1 billion to $10 billion have outperformed both large-cap and small-cap stocks this year; reports Standard & Poor's 400 Mid-Cap Index is up 8 percent so far this year, while S&P 500 index is down 1 percent, Dow Jones industrial average is down 9 percent and Russell 2000 is up just 2 percent; graph (M)

The Happy Medium in Stocks

New college graduates coming to New York looking for an apartment are shocked at what is available, and for how much; find they must scale down their visions, trading in elevators for walkups, banding together with more roommates than they planned on, putting up temporary walls to carve bedrooms out of living rooms or relinquishing idea of Manhattan altogether and finding haven in Brooklyn, Queens, the suburbs; some searches detailed; photos (L)

For the Class of 2000, Renting 101

William Joseph Dunlop was a Northern Irish roadracing motorcyclist from Ballymoney, County Antrim. In 2015, he was voted Northern Ireland's greatest-ever sports star.

Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1952)

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Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 election. He became the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Fox won the election with 43 percent of the vote. Considered a social-welfare promoter, along with Julio Frenk Mora formulated, signed and implemented the Seguro Popular who helped circa 55 million independent workers.

Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

July 2, 2000

Headlines from July 2, 2000

Lights, Action . . . Costumes

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Quest to Soothe the Savage Breast

Working (Really) Hard to Make the Grades

And the Livin' Is Easy; Staten Island: Calendar Girls And Cars Rev Up the Boys

Billboard 200

The Marshall Mathers LP

Oops!...I Did It Again

Riding With The King

The History Of Rock

No Strings Attached

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for July 2, 2000