August 6, 2000

Seattle Mariners defeat New York Yankees, 6-5; photo (M)

Article examines methods used by Coca-Cola to make coke the only cola drink in supermarkets and convenience stores; Texas jury found company guilty in June of violating state antitrust laws by exhorting store owners to sign increasingly restrictive marketing agreements which benefited it; photos; graph (M)

Felicia Lee Coping column profiles Douglas George, 26-year-old graduate of Duke Uiversity who is black and, bucking what most of his peers did: teach in New York City public school; drawing (M)

Drastically different outcomes in prosecution of perpetrators of sex crimes in similar cases are result of what prosecutors, physicians and victim advocates describe as game of chance inside emergency rooms at New York City hospitals; in some cases, women receive thorough examination that documents evidence of attack, and in other cases, woman does not; years after forensic exams became standard part of treatment for victims of sex crimes, level of competence in administering exams varies widely; some victims get meticulous treatment, while many others do not; experts say this uneven quality of care can mean an uneven quality of evidence with which to prosecute some of society's most malevolent criminals; examples cited; photos (L)

Kerry Sanders, who suffered from schizophrenia, often lived on the streets of Los Angeles. Robert Sanders, a career criminal, escaped from a prison in the Bronx. They looked nothing alike. Their fingerprints, of course, did not match. They simply shared a last name and date of birth. Yet for two years, Kerry Sanders was imprisoned as Robert Sanders at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, N.Y. He constantly asked the staff there why he was in prison. He constantly told them his name was not Robert. He told them a lot of things, especially about his life in Los Angeles. None of it matched the information in their files on Robert Sanders. But no one noticed. A report by Benjamin Weiser in The Times Magazine.

Article on celebrated German theatrical director Peter Stein's staging of complete uncut version of Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 and 2, which lasts total of 21 hours during Expo 2000 in Hanover; production, whose tickets sold out within hours when sales began in January, is being presented in two formats: weekend marathons and on six consecutive nights; photos (L)

Article explores possible demise of Chicano radio stations in and around Los Angeles, different from Latino and Hispanic stations, whose Mexican-American barrios' listeners seek middle ground of traditional rock and roll classics and on-air dedications and assimilation into other music genres; disc jockey Daniel A Castro, known as Sancho, whose public radio program from Pasadena City College was abruptly canceled in February, and 70-year-old Art Laboe comment; photos (L)

Article on New York women who wear exotic beads and talismans in effort to ward off evil or beguile gods; photos (M)

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Chicago Board of Trade, nation's oldest derivatives exchange, is eclipsed in volume by Eurex, German exchange whose efficient and accurate computerized trading threatens to wipe out Chicago's frantic, trader-packed, 19th-century trading pits; American-owned rival electronic exchanges further endanger survival of 'open outcry' traditional bidding and continued existence of CBOT altogether; photos; diagram (M)

Article on increasing number of people who are opting to live in apartment hotels in New York City, which are beginning to experience resurgence; traces history of such hotels, which began in late 1870's and appealed to single men and young families unable to afford servants and proliferated in 1920's, when they appealed to the wealthy; currently, they are favored by wealthy seeking food, housekeeping and other services they would rather not have to do themselves, young women seeking better security than what apartment buildings offer and those recently separated and divorcing; photos (L)

First full-service hotel on resurgent Jersey City waterfront will rise atop the old pier over next 24 months; nine-story, 350-room hotel is being developed by Hyatt Hotels Corp of Chicago and Mack-Cali Realty Corp; drawing (S)