Sanford C Bernstein & Co focuses on management of money and offering research to institutional investors; because it is not a true investment bank, it does not face potential conflicts of interest confronted by analysts and researchers at rival firms in its industry; photos; chart (M)

Wall Street's Fundamentalists Face a New World

New York Knickerbockers, concerned that opponents have attracted strong players, are reportedly pursuing deals to trade Patrick Ewing; Ewing reportdly has given team permission to shop him to list of eight teams (M)

Knicks See Opponents Improve, And Again Discuss Ewing Trade

Some two dozen New York City apartment referral services bring together people seeking to share apartments; charge wide range of fees, have complicated refund policies and are targets of rising consumer complaints; roommates matched up by services comment; photos (M)

Making Roommates of Perfect Strangers

Coaches and Little League officials in Goffstown, NH, say victory by small town's team in Eastern Regional championship caps five-year drive to make team national contender; map; photos (M)

A Small Town Comes Up Big In Baseball

Brazilian singer and songwriter Caetano Veloso article, translated from Portuguese by Ana Maria Bahiana, compares enormous popular success of new film, Orfeu, inspired by Vinicius de Moraes's 1956 play Orfeu da Conciecao, with Brazilians' rejection of 1959 film Black Orpheus, also based on play; photos (L)

Orpheus, Rising From Caricature

Comment on end of nominating conventions explains that party attachment is still considered one of best predictors of how people will vote; photos (M)

The Nation: The Wave; The Conventions Are Over. The Party's Just Starting.

Vice Adm Mikhail Motsak of Russian Navy says all 118 members of crew of wrecked submarine Kursk are now probably dead; says that in frantic initial hours, survivors trapped in sunken vessel had signaled their comrades on surface to send down air because their sealed compartments were filling with water; say some men may have tried what would have been suicidal exit through rear hatch, causing one of last dry compartments to flood; says most of sailors died in first minutes after still-unexplained explosion sent Kursk crashing to seabed; Norwegian divers with video equipment begin descent to assess damage to Kursk; Motsak, in statement broadcast on state television, says navy is investigating three possible causes of blast: collision with another vessel or World War II mine, or some unknown internal accident that set off explosion; photos; map (M)

All 118 on Sub Probably Dead, Russians Assert

Ellen Willis article on enduring fascination with 1960's in light of Robert Greenwald's new movie, Steal This Movie, about radical Abbie Hoffman; photos (M)

Steal This Myth: Why We Still Try To Re-Create the Rush of the 60's

Michelle Krebs compares Acura 3.2 CL sports sedan to BMW's 3-Series; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Lexus IS 300 and Acura 3.2 CL -- Who's That Knock, Knock, Knocking on BMW's Door?; A Fast Coupe That Gives Rivals a Run For the Money

Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani names Correction Comr Bernard B Kerik as New York City's next police commissioner, replacing Howard Safir; Kerik, 44, is former narcotics detective and familiar member of Giuliani administration; he will be sworn in within next 10 days as department's 40th commissioner in 100 years; he will take command of 41,000-member force at time when crime has fallen sharply but department has suffered intense criticism from within and without; morale among rank and file is low because of what officers believe is miserly pay; Giuliani also announces appointment of Chief of Dept Joseph P Dunne as new first deputy commissioner, overseeing discipline and labor relations; he succeeds Patrick E Kelleher, who retired last week; photo (M)

GIULIANI APPOINTS JAIL SYSTEM CHIEF TO LEAD THE POLICE

Golfer Tiger Woods retains lead after three rounds at PGA Championship; table; photos (M)

Woods Stumbles but Manages to Remain in the Lead, Barely

Gretchen Morgenson Market Watch column says stocks that are rising in price are at last catching up in number to those whose share prices are falling; welcomes broadening of stock markets' rise; graph (M)

A New Balance in the Battle of the Haves and Have-Nots

Bob Morris column explores on how young actress Chloe Sevigny's style has caught notice of fashion world; photos (M)

In Fashion, They All Scream for Chloe Segivny

Small businesses, not individuals attempting to clean out their attics, are fueling eBay's success as Internet auction site; they include liquidators, wholesalers, small retail shops and stay-at-home entrepreneurs; photos (M)

The Powers Behind the Auctions

 Tighter Rules on Privacy  The administration has decided to tighten rules on the privacy of medical records, but not as much as some groups had recommended.   PAGE 20

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Guy Trebay article, using video of 1969 Woodstock festival and MTV's sprng break special, describes stunning change in young men's body image from scrawny/sexy-semiwasted rock star image to plastic action-figure muscled look; photos (M)

Scrawn to Brawn: Men Get Muscles, Or Pray for Them

Excerpts from article by former Cervantes Institute cultural director Jose Maria Conget, adapted from his book Fifty-third and Eighth, translated by daughter Rebecca Conget and Toby Talbot, describes his impressions of New York City; photos (L)

A Window, a World

Dan Neil compares Lexus IS 300 sports sedan to BMW's 328i; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Lexus IS 300 and Acura 3.2 CL -- Who's That Knock, Knock, Knocking on BMW's Door?; A Facsimile Of Germany's Solid-Gold Sport Sedan

Presidential contenders plan to open biggest television advertising blitzes of their campaigns, hoping to capitalize on afterglow from their conventions; Gov George W Bush will emphasize education and Vice Pres Al Gore will trumpet himself as champion of 'working families'; both sides begin making critical decisions about where to campaign and where to funnel resources, including infusion of $68 million in federal subsidies each; Bush plans to advertise and campaign in historically Democratic states, including West Virginia, and swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri; Gore officials say they will focus largely on battleground states of Midwest and make particular appeals to women; say they will continue to cite Bush's record in Texas as failure; photo (M)

AD BLITZ TO START AS BUSH AND GORE DEFINE KEY STATES

UBS Warburg, American division of UBS AG, has begun building $100 million, 338,000 addition to its downtown Stamford, Conn, building; plans future additions; photo (M)

POSTINGS: $100 Million, 338,000-Square-Foot Expansion at UBS Warburg; Growing Bigger in Stamford

John Leland article describes his one-week road test around streets of New York aboard Razor scooter, which has become new formof transit for the masses; drawing (M)

Riding a Fad, Hitting a Bump

Non-English-speaking students in California public schools have improved their reading test scores strikingly in two years since bilingual education was all but eliminated in state; many educators had predicted catastrophe if bilingual classes were dismantled; California is home to one of every 10 of nation's public school children, and many of them are native Spanish speakers; it is too early to know precisely how much erasure of bilingual education contributed to rising scores, but results are remarkable given predictions that scores of Spanish-speaking students would plummet; promising test results expected to reach beyond California's borders, most immediately in Arizona, where voters will decide whether to outlaw bilingual education; antibilingual forces are marshaling in Massachusetts and New York; photo; graphs (M)

Increase in Test Scores Counters Dire Forecasts for Bilingual Ban

Housing and Urban Development Department is offering houses it has acquired in economically distressed neighborhoods through mortgage defaults to teachers who work in local school district through bidding process at 50 percent of appraised value; New York City, under program, is considered single school district (M)

POSTINGS: Available Through a Federal Program; Discount Houses For Teachers

Women, who were barred from participating when modern Olympics began in 1896, will compete in more sports, and in more events, than ever before this year; about 4,400 women, or 42 percent of 10,500 competing athletes, will participate at Sydney Games, up from 3,626 at 1996 Atlanta Games; for first time, women will compete in same number of team sports as men; gains go beyond numbers; women are penetrating boundaries of previously male-only events that require great strength and endurance, including weight lifting, triathlon, taekwondo and modern pentathlon; Sydney will offer grand stage for generation of women who reaped benefits of Title IX, carving out even larger presence for women in Olympic movement; in fact, overriding athletic story at Sydney Games will be woman's story--attempt by Marion Jones of US to become first female track-and-field athlete to win five gold medals in one Olympics; Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of International Olympic Committee, is credited with increasing participation of women as athletes and officials in Olympic movement; photos; graphs (M)

Women Move Closer to Olympic Equality

New York Yankees defeat Anaheim Angels, 9-1; photo (M)9

August 20, 2000

Headlines from August 20, 2000

Wall Street's Fundamentalists Face a New World

Knicks See Opponents Improve, And Again Discuss Ewing Trade

Making Roommates of Perfect Strangers

A Small Town Comes Up Big In Baseball

Orpheus, Rising From Caricature

Billboard 200

Now 4

Oops!...I Did It Again

Country Grammar

The Marshall Mathers LP

No Strings Attached

Historical Context for August 20, 2000