Edna St Vincent Millay House on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, 9 1/2 feet wide and three stories high, is sold to Steven Balsamo for $1.6 million; photo (S)

POSTINGS: Former Edna St. Vincent Millay House, Narrowest in Greenwich Village, Is Sold; 9 1/2 Feet Wide, $1.6 Million

Concept of hybrid car originated in early 1900's when Ferdinand Porsche built one that used internal-combustion engine to spin generator that sent power to electric motors in wheel hubs; other hybrids were produced in early 20th century in the United States; photo (M)

Yesterday's Technology, Ready for the Future

Toyota Prius, hybrid car that uses both gasoline and electric power gets 48 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving, second only to Honda Insight, another hybrid vehicle; emissions are among lowest of any car; hybrid vehicles do not have to stop to recharge batteries because that is done automatically while in motion, with power drawn from gasoline engine and from recapturing energy of braking which would otherwise be wasted as friction; chart compares Honda Insight and Toyota Prius; photo (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Toyota Prius; It's Easier to Be Green

New York City Rent Guidelines Board to release annual housing report (S)

POSTINGS: Rent Guidelines Board Book; Housing Trends In the City

Florida State defeats Florida, 30-7; photo (M)

Weinke, Fighting Flu, Helps Seminoles Lay Claim to Title Game

Anemona Hartocollis column on Sweet Chef Southern Styles Bakery in Hamilton Heights section of Harlem, and its owner, Amadou Diakite, who was born and raised in Ivory Coast, arrived in New Yok in 1987, at 22, is is an New York success story like the neighborhood he is helping to transform; drawing (M)

Making Harlem Sweeter, One Pie at a Time

Conductor Kent Nagano, a California native, has had impressive career in Europe but has not achieved widespread recognition in United States; Nagano has not been approached by New York Philharmonic or any other American orchestra currently searching for future music directors, perhaps because orchestra boards are leery of his close association with new music and 20th century works; photo (M)

Orchestras Continue To Ignore The Obvious

Martina Hingis defeats Anna Kournikova in semifinals of Chase Championships tennis tournament at Madison Square Garden; Hingis will play Monica Seles in final; photo (M)

Kournikova No Match for Composure and Savvy of Hingis

Profile of photographer Sally Mann, who courted controversy in 1990's with candid images of her children, sometimes naked or partially clothed, and is now exploring intimacies of her marriage with similar frankness; photos (M)

Marriage Under Glass: Intimate Exposures

Tiny but increasingly flamboyant fringe of American business is refusing to pay federal taxes and even boasting about it on Web sites and radio talk shows; they are also refusing to withhold taxes from employees' paychecks; they contend that only foreign-owned companies within US must pay taxes; so far, Internal Revenue Service has done nothing about this, to astonishment of many tax experts; Congress has reduced resources available to IRS in recent years, even as number of taxpayers and complexity of tax laws have grown; Congress also enacted law in 1998 making it much more difficult for agency to pursue tax cheats; chart (M)

Defying the I.R.S., Anti-Tax Businesses Refuse to Withhold

Bond market observers believe many American companies will not be able to manage the debt lent to them at the height of New Economy euphoria and that investors will begin to shy away from corporate bonds as a result, depriving the economy of the money it needs to sustain growth; fear that as more and more companies go under, a soft economic landing could turn into a much bumpier one; corporations have raised $935 billion in bond market thus far in 2000, compared with only $146 billion raised in new stock issues, but issuance of debt has slowed considerably of late as the roster of troubled companies has started to swell; graphs; photos (L)

Bond Believers See Prelude to a Fall

 Uncertainty in Serbia  Ten years of isolation have left Serbs unsure of their new leaders and how much longer they can endure the hardship bequeathed them by Slodoban Milosevic. PAGE 22

INSIDE

Article on some Manhattan hotel lobbies that have become 'scenes,' with nightclub ambiance that spills out from hotel bars and lounges; photos (M)

It's Hopping in the Lobby As Hotels Party All Night; Innkeepers are turning lounges, bars and everything between, not excluding the elevators, into a club scene.

Pres Clinton drives into Vietnamese countryside to visit site of search for American flier's remains; Lt Col Lawrence G Evert was shot down on bombing run in 1967, during Vietnam War; Clinton is accompanied by downed pilot's two sons, who last saw their father when they were young children; Clinton's trip across pocked dirt roads of poverty-stricken section of Vietnam is intended as vivid demonstration of how new era has arrived, in which Americans and Vietnamese work together; photos; map (M)

Clinton Journeys to Where Pilot Died in 1967

Bruce Weber article evaluates unresolved presidential election as drama; says lack of Election Day climax is defiant of theatrical convention, and days of delay have left central antagonists remaining largely in the wings; says Vice Pres Al Gore and Gov George W Bush are neither heroic nor moving as leading men, and story involves ever increasing cast of secondary characters divided not by opposing moral impreratives but by mere ideology; photos (M)

Victory Lapse: Theater Review; But Where's the Leading Man?

A Night Out interview with Andre De Shields, actor-dancer-singer who brings down the house nightly in musical version of The Full Monty on Broadway; photos (M)

A NIGHT OUT WITH/Andre De Shields; So Hot, He Needs 2 Stages to Do His Misbehavin'

Leah Modigliani of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter says investing $500 billion of Social Security trust fund in stocks would have repercussions in bond market that would prevent stocks from benefiting fully from the new money; says in fact, on the margin, the transaction could actually be negative for stocks; photo (M)

The Wall Street Bonanza That Won't Be

As presidential election continues unresolved and House and Senate endure closest margins in nearly half century, politicians and strategists are already looking to midterm elections of 2002 and presidential campaign of 2004, plotting how to position themselves and their parties for best advantage; drawing (M)

Victory Lapse; One Way to Break a Tie: Start the Next Race

Behind tedious struggle for legal advantage in presidential vote count in Florida is extraordinarily intense contest for public opinion; strategy of each camp is to portray other as trying to steal the election; news media are major battleground; aides to Vice Pres Al Gore are making major effort to convince network news anchors and editors of newsweeklies that outcome is still very much in doubt; Gore campaign's public-relations efforts underscore major objective of Democrats: to persuade public to be patient while several Florida counties conduct hand recounts; Bush campaign, by contast, seeks to make case that recounting ballots by hand is imprecise process, and that Democrats are engaged in political shenanigans to try to pick up votes in Democratic counties; photo (M)

Spin the Battle: Fierce Contest To Woo Public

Gore and Bush sides trade accusations of misconduct and manipulation in overnight counting of absentee ballots cast by Floridians abroad; tally is marred by confusion over rules and vastly differing standards from one county to next; Bush campaign accuses Democrats of conspiring to knock out as many ballots as possible from members of military, who are expected to have voted mostly for Bush; Democrats counter that Republicans set out to keep military ballots in count even when they should have been thrown out; accusations from both sides seem bit exaggerated, but they illustrate both uncertainty over which ballots are legal and heightened tension involved in count in which each vote could influence result in Florida, and determine who wins its 25 decisive electoral votes; photo (M)

G.O.P. and Democrats Trading Accusations on Military Votes

American college and university endowments have grown sharply in recent years on their investments, and a good part of those gains has been realized on investments that entail risk, including venture capital; now, however, even some of the biggest fans of venture investments are warning that the rich recent returns are not likely to last; even so, some of the many colleges and universities that previously failed to move much money into riskier assets are now trying to do so, facing the danger of buying overpriced investments just as their value is beginning to fall; photos; graphs (L)

College Endowments Learn to Live With Risk

Article discusses Seton Hall's young basketball team, one that appears in top 10 of most preseason rankings; also focuses on top freshman players in country; photo (M)

Seton Hall, Young and Deep Poised To Leap Into Spotlight

Demographic changes and strategic choices transformed Florida into very crucible of 2000 campaign, state both presidential candidates decided they had to win; although Gov George W Bush had institutional advantages in state, turnout was immense among black voters, 93 percent of whom support Vice Pres Al Gore; Gore also piled up 60 percent majority in three southeast Florida counties, Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, with help from his running mate, Sen Joseph I Lieberman, who enthralled Jewish Democratic stalwarts there; photos (M)

How Florida Got Close Enough to Fight Over

Artcle on some of day spas, massage, grooming and other facilities for dogs in Manhattan; photos (M)

At an Indoor Pet Spa, Why Let the Dogs Out?

Gov George W Bush's lead in Florida more than triples, to 930, as all absentee ballots from overseas are opened and tallied; his campaign is unable to claim victory it expected, as both sides await hearing Nov 20 in Florida Supreme Court; Bush, as expected, receives overwhelming share of overseas ballots, which come from military personnel and Floridians living abroad; this leaves Vice Pres Al Gore with far more difficult obstacle to hurdle; two campaigns trade accusations of misconduct and manipulation over several hundred overseas ballots that were discarded because of postmark disputes; Gov Marc Racicot of Montana, speaking for Bush campaign, issues some of harshest charges yet against conduct of hand vote count; calls process 'completely untrustworthy'; Democrats in Florida say Republicans, having lost legal battle to prevent hand counts, is now trying to smear process with accusations of chaos and fraud; photos; charts (L)

November 19, 2000

Headlines from November 19, 2000

POSTINGS: Former Edna St. Vincent Millay House, Narrowest in Greenwich Village, Is Sold; 9 1/2 Feet Wide, $1.6 Million

Yesterday's Technology, Ready for the Future

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Toyota Prius; It's Easier to Be Green

POSTINGS: Rent Guidelines Board Book; Housing Trends In the City

Weinke, Fighting Flu, Helps Seminoles Lay Claim to Title Game

Billboard 200

The Dynasty Roc La Familia (2000 -- )

Stankonia

All That You Can't Leave Behind

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Awake

Historical Context for November 19, 2000