Peter Schickele's In Memoriam FDR will be given its world premiere by Pasadena Symphony at Nov 11; exhibition Out of Time: Designs for the 20th-Century Future, by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, to open at Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma; photo; new series Voices! of the American Theater, series of staged readings of rarely revived great American plays of last 100 years, to open at City Center; expanded and renovated Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick reopens on Nov 12; photo (M)

Footlights

Matt Lee and Ted Lee comment on sage, aromatic herb that can be a star in autumn; recipes; photos (L)

A Star in Autumn: Potent, Magic Sage

Interview with food photographer Martin Parr; photos (L)

From Grease to Gloss

Section B is devoted to election news today. The Metro Section begins on Page D1 and SportsWednesday on Page D9.

Today's Sections

British Telecommunications is expected to separate its wholesale operations from its other business units as part of long-awaited revamping plan; photo (M)

British Telecom Expected to Outline Revamping Plan

Article discusses $17 million renovation of Summit Hotel in midtown Manhattan that is scheduled for completion in 2002; Jonathan M Tisch, president and chief executive of Loews Hotels, comments; photo (M)

'Most Hated Hotel' Reclaims Its Floridian Flamboyance; Summit, Renamed Now, Going Back to Its Roots

Board of Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago is bitterly split by venomous legal battle rife with accusations of betrayal, willful mismanagement and family intrigue; two dissident board members charge that other members want museum to fail so they can justify moving it to Washington; Paul H Tucker, chairman, favors move because he says the museum is in trouble, unable to generate attendance, and needs to find a new mission; photos (M)

Bitter Intramural Rumblings At Chicago's Quiet Museum; Board Dissidents See a Plot to Sabotage Its On-Site Survival

Television networks, in major embarrassment, are forced to retract projection made early in evening that gave Vice Pres Al Gore victory over Gov George W Bush in Florida; state, key to victory in tight race, remains too close to call; several networks cite 'problems' in data supplied by Voter News Service, their polling group; Bush strategist Karl Rove scores networks for making projection before polls closed in western part of state; flawed call adds to already dramatic election night coverage; photo (M)

A Flawed Call Adds to High Drama

 Pets.com Plans to Close And Sell Most of Its Assets  Pets.com announced it was shutting down its operations. The company, which sells pet food and other supplies over the Internet, was losing money and found itself unable to raise more cash or to find a buyer.    Pets.com said it was laying off about 255 of its 320 employees and would sell most of its assets, including rights to its popular sock puppet. The company plans to shut down its Web site tomorrow. [Page C4.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, one of largest leveraged buyout firms, is going to unusual lengths to attract investors to a buyout fund of up to $4 billion for which it is raising money; has agreed to guarantee 20 percent annual return on $200 million in Internet investments it made the last year; earlier in year, it also shifted some poorly performing investments in telecommunications companies to existing fund, potentially saddling that fund's investors with some losses (Market Place column) (M)

THE MARKETS: Market Place; The Scramble To Fill a Fund At Hicks, Muse

Clyde Haberman NYC column describes joyful feeling of voting on Election Day and happiness at thought that political rhetoric is over until next year's campaigns (M)

Common Joy In Isolation Of Voting

William Grimes profiles food scene of France's Sologne region, just beyond Paris, a region whose economy is almost entirely dependent on hunting; recipes; photos; map (L)

Just Beyond Paris, a Bountiful Wilderness

Article on The Fat Epidemic series describe how big food companies like Kraft and H J Heinz are slowly moving to create foods that are both healthy and convenient; Amy's Kitchen, which has adopted that formula, has grown to $90 million in annual sales; photo; graph; traditional food makers have long made convenience the pivotal priority, and they are reluctant ot go full throttle into what they see as a recent trend toward health-oriented food because it requires huge changes in the way they do business and because they are wary of what they call the fickleness of consumers (L)

Can Healthier Foods Help the Bottom Line?; Companies Find Gains in Your Loss

Ryanair PLC's pilots vote to authorize strike over working hours immediately after airliner reports sharply higher after-tax profits; profits for six months ended Sept 30 rose 49.4 percent to 63.4 million euros ($54.4 million), on revenue that rose 37 percent, to 265.9 million euros ($228.2 million) (S)

PROFITS UP? TIME TO STRIKE

broadway's revered flop, resurrected with love**New production of Jerry Herman's Mack and Mabel will be presented at Los Angeles Music Center; photos (L)

Broadway's Revered Flop, Resurrected With Love

Many drugstores are pulling over-the-counter cold remedies and appetite suppressants containing phenylpropanolamine following FDA advisory that found that women between ages of 18 and 49 who took drug were 15 times more likely than others to suffer hemorrhagic stroke; photo (M)

Aisles of Confusion as Medicines Are Pulled

Hillary Rodham Clinton's successful Senate campaign in New York defied normal political campaign rules; Clinton campaign, although winning in traditional manner by piling up big margins in New York City, holding up in suburbs and running strong upstate, was as much about redemption, ambition and passion as about polling, issues and politics; key events in campaign, first against Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani and then against Rep Rick Lazio, recalled; photos (M)

First Lady's Race for the Ages: 62 Counties and 6 Pantsuits

Molson Inc pays at least $98 million to buy Bavaria beer brand from Cia de Bebidas das Americas, which is selling to satisfy regulators after big merger last year (S)

BRAZILIAN BEER BRAND SOLD

British retailer Marks & Spencer says its profit in six months ended Sept 30 fell 6 percent; net income was 126.5 million pounds ($181 million) on sales that were flat at 3.2 billion pounds ($4.6 billion); graph (S)

RETAILER'S PROFIT FALLS

New York State education officials say that just over half (56 percent) of all New York City students who entered high school four years ago passed new, tougher Regents exam in math, suggesting that thousands of students could fail to graduate this spring when mat test becomes requirement for diploma; 75 percent of students statewide passed exam (M)

Test Results Hint of Barrier To Graduation

Refunding of value-added tax has created flourishing cottage industry in Europe; in late 1980's, European Union started allowing European and non-European tourists and businesses to reclaim tax levied on some products and services, an amount that could be as much as 25 percent of money spent; dozens of companies are now in business of helping to get tax refunds; Meridian VAT Reclaim is market leader with 400 employees in 42 offices worldwide; photo (M)

The Tax That Gave Birth to a Small Industry

France Telecom posts 21.6 percent increase in revenue for first three quarters, to 23.9 billion euros, or $20.7 billion, from 19.7 billion euros a year earlier; Internet revenue more than doubled; wireless revenue rose by half (S)

FRANCE TELECOM REVENUE UP

Defeat of US Sen Charles Robb by former Gov George E Allen in Virginia leads Democrats to conclude that they will not regain control of Senate as had been hoped; minority leader Sen Tom Daschle says best that can be hoped for is 50-50 split, despite victories in Delaware, Minnesota, Missouri and Florida; bid to capture House also falters; Republicans hold on to two sharply contested seats in Kentucky; incumbents in both parties who seemed to be in danger score victories; Democrats take open Republican seat in Oklahoma, but Republicans win Democratic seats in Virginia and Pennsylvania; parties swap seats on Long Island; photo; map; tally (M)

G.O.P. IN POSITION TO RETAIN SENATE

Allan Kozinn reviews Metropolitan Opera presentation of John Cox's production of Mozart's Zauberflote; Sebastian Weigle conducts; photo (M)

Blending Comic and Serious in a Magic Potion

City Journal, quarterly magazine of Manhattan Institute, sponsors competition in which architects were invited to have free hand in taking wrecking ball to Lincoln Center's 1960's modernist campus and starting anew; City Journal had considered that $1.5 billon that Lincoln Center hopes to raise for massive renovation could instead be used for complete fresh start; drawing (M)

Roll Over, Moses: It's a Centrum Lincolnensis

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November 8, 2000

Headlines from November 8, 2000

Footlights

A Star in Autumn: Potent, Magic Sage

From Grease to Gloss

Today's Sections

British Telecom Expected to Outline Revamping Plan

Billboard 200

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Greatest Hits

Country Grammar

Rule 3:36

Who Let The Dogs Out

Notable Births

Historical Context for November 8, 2000