Analysis of view that Clinton administration, now scrambling for new Israeli-Palestinian summit to arrange simple truce, may have erred in rushing Camp David peace talks in quest for grand peace accord; even administration officials now see little chance of restoring peace effort during Clinton's presidency; photo (M)

Falling Short of Peace

St Louis Cardinals defeat New York Mets, 8-2, to win third game of National League Championship Series; Mets lead series, 2-1; photo (M)

With Bats Ablaze, the Cardinals Roar to Life

 A Town Searches Its Soul  The stabbing death of a white man by a Vietnamese native, which some say was self-defense, prompts soul-searching in a Washington resort town about racial hatred.   PAGE 24    Doubts About Gore in South  Vice President Al Gore is hoping to avoid a Southern shutout, but he seems to be struggling even in states where he hoped to do well.   PAGE 28

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Congregants of Christ Church Riverdale, following decade-long restoration aided by anonymous $200,000 gift, are about to rededicate 134-year-old church; photo (M)

POSTINGS: Aided by Anonymous Gift of $200,000; Riverdale Church Restored

Handyman expert Ron Hazelton will disassemble

Kids, Don't Try This With the Taurus at Home

United Nations Sec Gen Kofi Annan reports Israeli Prime Min Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat have agreed to meet with Pres Clinton in Egypt to seek truce and perhaps even way to reopen peace talks; suggests two sides should cool tensions in West Bank cities of Ramallah and Hebron; Arafat, under intense international pressure, drops demand for international probe into recent violence as precondition for meeting; Clinton notes talks pose major challenge; experts warn it could take long time to rebuild negotiating ties after recent extreme collapse in trust; Israelis hold Egyptian Pres Hosni Mubarak played major role in persuading Arafat; map; photos (M)

MIDEAST PARTIES AGREE TO MEETING TO DISCUSS TRUCE

Article on Maria, recovering crack addict living with her infant daughter in therapeutic community town house on Manhattan's Upper West Side; Maria has just started $8-an-hour clerical job, opened savings account and entered last phases of her therapy; she hopes to eventually have her own apartment and regain custody of her other three children; photos (L)

Baby Steps

George Vecsey Sports of The Times column discusses performance of New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens in 5-0 victory over Seattle Mariners in fourth game of American League Championship Series; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Laying Down the Law, High and Very Tight

Herbert Muschamp assesses changes in design field, fueled by new economy, that have sparked public imagination like no other since late 1960's and early 1970's; photos (M)

A Happy, Scary New Day for Design

Peter Edidin Coping column on New Schul, not-yet-two-year-old Jewish congregation in Manhattan without permanent place of worship, headed by Rabbi Niles Goldstein, whose members struggle over whether or not they believe in God; drawing (M)

Unbelievers Struggle in a House of Faith

Profile of Countess de Castiglione, famed 19th-century fashion diva who commissioned highly theatrical photographic portraits, now on view at Metropolitan Museum of Art; photos (M)

A Primer on Fame From an Early Fashionista

Investors continue to show faith in technology and other stocks despite market turbulence and ebbing of get-rich-quick hysteria; confidence is striking considering that prices have not regained ground lost since technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 25 percent in mid-Apr; graphs showing continuing net inflow of money into stock mutual funds and continued heavy Nasdaq trading volume (M)

Market Turbulence Does Little to Curb Investors' Optimism

Article on study conducted by Jerold Kayden of Harvard University, City Planning Department and Municipal Art Society, soon to be published as book Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience and later as database supplement, which enumerates all 3,584,034 square feet of privately owned public space in city; census casts light on many public areas that, by design or maintenance, are virtually unknown to public; photos; maps (M)

A Public Realm on Private Property; New study identifies and rates hundreds of spaces that earned zoning bonuses.

New York Building Congress reports 38 percent hike in spending on construction in city over last year, which is expected to total $16.4 billion in 2000 (S)

POSTINGS: Public and Private Construction Activity; Spending Soars 38% in the City

At least two men, apparently armed with explosives, hijacked a Saudi Arabian passenger jet enroute to London today and forced it to land in Baghdad, where after three hours Iraqi officials announced that they had succeeded in negotiating the freedom of all those on board.     The 90 passengers and 15 crew members, including one American traveler and 40 British citizens, were in good health, Iraqi officials said. The hijackers, whose demands were not made public, were reportedly taken into custody.   

Iraq Says It Resolves Saudi Jet's Hijacking

Article on women who are becoming football television commentators, including Melissa Stark of Monday Night Football, Leslie Visser, Bonnie Bernstein and Pam Oliver; photos (M)

Women Mix It Up on TV With the X-and-O Gang; It doesn't really take a guy to explain the nickel defense.

Melinda Henneberger article questions whether Democratic Presidential candidate Vice Pres Al Gore has compulsion to exaggerate in his storytelling; says in tight presidential race Gore's storytelling is no minor issue, with Republicans clearly exaggerating Gore's exaggerations and Democrats worrying that perception they are peddling could wind up losing him the race; photos (M)

The Nation: Tall Tales; Is What We've Got Here a Compulsion to Exaggerate?

Ljubisav Djokic, a construction worker, was asked to bring his bulldozer along to a mass demonstration in central Belgrade. When he found himself eye to eye with the police, he said, he decided to finish the job he came to do and advanced on the Parliament building. After 13 years under Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia had risen. It looked chaotic. But more planning lay behind the march on Belgrade than the final tumult suggests.  Article, Page 16.  

How Yugoslavia Won Fight for Change

Article on 2001 Acura MDX; chart; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Acura MDX; Through the Woods in Comfort

New York Yankees defeat Seattle Mariners, 5-0, in fourth game of American League Championship Series; lead series, 3-1; photo (M)

Clemens Takes Defiant Streak To a New Level

If North and South Korea reconcile, peace on their peninsula may come at the price of open hostility between China and Japan. The American troops who have patrolled the border for 50 years have also frozen in place old rivalries. By Howard W. French.  Page 18.

Korea Could Get Too Peaceful

Chris Rea, Scotman who runs the Internet chat room Trading-places.net, has beguiled hundreds of paying chat-room members with his electronically broadcast claims of stock-picking prowess; but documents supplied by customers and other knowledgeable people reveal that he misrepresented his credentials, self-composed letters of testimony to his prowess and committed variety of other questionable practices through his Web site; Rea, who has been under SEC investigation for more than a year, denies accusations; photos; graph (M)

A Chat-Room Merlin Drops His Wand

Police Department in Hartford, Conn, faces problems in recruiting minority officers from within city because many would-be recruits are unable to read at or above sixth grade level; photos (M)

Trouble Filling the Ranks

Penelope Green column on impulse purchase of pair of flat black Prada slides, which remain in box four months later; photo (M)

So Right In the Store, So Tacky At Home

Charles River Ventures funds its own multi-million dollar program to provide the high-tech start-ups it finances with an ambitious set of business development services to ease rocky passage from idea to profitable concern; photos (M)

Venture Capitalists, Venturing Beyond Capital

Melki Sedek Huang is an Indonesian activist who was the chairman of the student executive council at University of Indonesia (UI) from 21 January 2023 until his dismissal on 18 December 2023 due to sexual violence.

Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender

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Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

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Vincent Canby was an American film and theatre critic who was the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there.

October 15, 2000

Headlines from October 15, 2000

Falling Short of Peace

With Bats Ablaze, the Cardinals Roar to Life

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POSTINGS: Aided by Anonymous Gift of $200,000; Riverdale Church Restored

Kids, Don't Try This With the Taurus at Home

Billboard 200

Let's Get Ready

Revelation

Music

Country Grammar

Shyne

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 15, 2000