November 25, 2000

Boxing has always been sport of immigrants, who see it as exit from ghetto life, according to Hank Kaplan, boxing historian; current wave of Mexican immigrants provide names for boxing cards at small clubs and converted ballrooms around New York, with Antonio Oliveros topping list; for Oliveros, club boxing provides money to make ends meet and help pay for his children's education; photo (M)

Barnes & Noble is in talks with Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc on business deals ranging from partnership to spur Gemstar's technology for reading electronic books to possible acquisition of Barnes & Noble (M)

College students, sponsored and organized by Greenpeace USA, travel to The Hague, Netherlands, where treaty talks on Kyoto Protocol are being held by lobbyists and delegates from 170 countries; goal of students is to serve as goad and conscience, to demonstrate about issues of global warming and alternative power sources addressed by Protocol; students wear costumes, carry signs and participate in day-long fast to demonstrate importance of nations' coming to environmental agreement; photo (M)

Vice Pres Al Gore plans to contest the election results in Palm Beach County, Fla, on grounds that dimpled ballots are not being counted as votes and that voter confusion over 'butterfly' ballot cost him thousands of voted there; county's canvassing board resumes its manual recount, beginning arduous task of scrutinizing at least 6,000 contested ballots and trying to determine whether the slightest indentation amounts to a vote; drawing shows how dimpled or hanging chad may be created (M)

US Supreme Court undexpectedly places itself in middle of Florida's presidential vote-counting imbroglio; orders arguments on Dec 1 in Gov George W Bush's appeal of Florida Supreme Court's ruling that permitted manual recounts to continue beyond state's deadline for certifying election returns; by agreeing to hear Bush's appeal, justices put themselves, at least theoretically, in position to decide outcome of presidential election; if court rules that manual recounting should not have gone forward, there is little prospect that Vice Pres Al Gore could be declared winner of Florida's decisive 25 electoral votes; if it upholds Florida Supreme Court ruling, however, situation could remain up in air (M)