Anna Kisselgoff reviews Guangdong Modern Dance Co performance; photos (M)

Bounce and Subtleties From Elegant Hipsters

Jennifer Dunning reviews Paul Taylor Dance Co performance of three works; photo (M)

A Ritual of Diabolical Angels And Slightly Angelic Devils

Article profiles career of figure skater Sarah Hughes, 15; photo (M)

At 15, Sarah Hughes Thinks Her Time Is Now

At Home With column on Brooklyn apartment of Lenny McGurr, draphic designer best known as Futura 2000, legendary graffiti writer of 1980's who took aerosol art from New York subway system to gallery world; photos (M)

For a King of Krylon, the Family Reigns

Allied International Manufacturing Stationery Co Ltd, manufacturer of widely used metal clips for binding documents, becomes first Chinese company to be convicted in United States of using forced prison labor when it pleads guilty to federal charge in New Jersey; records seized by US Customs agents show that company paid prison officials in Nanjing, China, to have more than 60 imprisoned women assemble clips and that they were not paid; company president is identified as Peter Chen; photo (M)

Chinese Firm Pleads Guilty In Labor Case

Patient records are increasingly being stored on computer networks, heightening concern over confidentiality; medical records, such as laboratory test results and prescription histories, are available to various interested commercial parties, and some high-profile security lapses have emerged; medical information could also be used to deny insurance coverage and even employment; another concern is identity theft because Social Security numbers and birth dates are commonly used to identify patients; federal government moves to curb these invasions of individuals' privacy; photos; drawing (M)

Privacy's Guarded Prognosis

Thousands of Chinese investors jam brokerage houses in hopes of buying shares on newly liberalized hard currency stock market; but most people come away disappointed because there are not enough shares to go around; after government announced last week that citizens would be allowed to buy Class B shares--stocks denominated in Hong Kong and US dollars and previously reserved for foreign investors--money poured into country through wire transfers to residents from friends and relatives abroad; photo (M)

China's Latest Opening Of Market Hits a Snag

New York Rangers forward Theo Fleury has reportedly voluntarily entered inpatient treatment under substance abuse and behavioral health program run jointly by National Hockey League and its players' association; photo (M)

Fleury Sidelined Indefinitely For Substance-Abuse Treatment

J D Biersdorfer State of the Art column recounts his experiences while testing Linux, only competitor to Microsoft's Windows and Apple's OS in field of computer operating systems; created ten years ago by Linus Torvalds, Linux' popularity is growing; it is being installed by some yanufacturers in new personal computers, despite challenges it poses to users unfamiliar with its language and processes; author suggests that adventurous individuals install Linux in old computers and explore its possibilities (M)

Putting A New Soul In Your PC

Bank of Japan cuts its benchmark interest rate to 0.15 percent from 0.25 percent in view of steady deterioration of Japanese economy; bank governor, Masaru Hayami, has resisted cutting rate despite mounting pressure by political leaders and investors; housing starts for January fell 11.1 percent, compared with January last year; construction orders plunged 12.5 percent, compared with previous January (M)

Bank of Japan Cuts Key Rate to 0.15%, Citing Slump

El Museo del Barrio reportedly approaches New York City officials about moving into far larger building being vacated by Museum of the City of New York, which plans to move from East Harlem to lower Manhattan; is one of several groups interested in building, which should be vacated sometime in 2003; photos (M)

El Museo, Cramped, Seeks to Move Nearby

Savannah Onstage International Arts Festival is set to open; exhibitions focusing on depiction of women and on American Impressionists are set for Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; three klezmer bands are set to perform together, Brooklyn; National Orchestra of Spain, conducted by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, is set to perform with guitarist Pepe Romero; photos (M)

Footlights

Court records show that New Jersey's acting governor, Donald T DiFrancesco, received $225,000 from one of state's largest home builders five years ago to pay off outstanding legal judgment; DiFrancesco, who was State Senate president at that time, has never repaid money and says he does not think it is his responsibility to do so; says he was acting as lawyer for his relatives when they borrowed money, so payment should come from them, not him; home builder, K Hovnanian Companies, tried to collect from DiFrancesco's relatives, but gave up after relatives sought bankruptcy protection; DiFrancesco says there was nothing improper about accepting such a large amount from builder that has business interests across New Jersey and frequently needs legislative or regulatory approval; says money never influenced his decisions on government matters; photos (M)

Builder Aided DiFrancesco In Land Deal

 Bush Keeps Diesel Rules  The Bush administration has decided to let stand regulations imposed by President Bill Clinton that are aimed at substantially reducing pollution caused by diesel fuel and engines.   PAGE A19

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Article describes scene at coffee shop of Hotel Edison, venerable Broadway hangout; long-time regulars discuss disclosure that playwright Neil Simon has based his latest play, 45 Seconds From Broadway, on coffee shop and its patrons; photo (M)

Art Meets Life Over Lunch; Neil Simon's Next Play Has a Coffee Shop's Regulars Abuzz

Stocks slump again after Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, dashes investors' hope for immediate cut in short-term interest rates; Nasdaq composite index drops 55.99 points, or 2.5 percent, to 2,151.83; Standard & Poor's 500-stock index falls 18 points, or 1.4 percent, to 1,239.94, and Dow Jones industrial average declines 141.60 points, or 1.3 percent, to 10,495.28; graph; chart; photo (M)

Stocks Fall After Greenspan's Comments Dash Hopes for Rate Cut

Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, says economic slowdown has yet to run its full course, testimony before House Financial Services Committee; leaves little doubt that further interest rate reductions are coming, to follow up on two half-point cuts made by Fed in January; suggested two weeks ago that economic downturn was likely to be relatively brief; photo (M)

Fed Chief Sees Bumpier Road For Economy

France Telecom agrees to buy back 9.87 percent of its shares used to finance purchase of Orange PLC from Vodafone Group; France Telecom will pay Vodafone 11.63 billion euros ($10.7 billion) (S)

FRANCE TÉLÉCOM BUYBACK

De Beers posts sales of $5.67 billion for 2000 but says it expects economic slowdown in US to reduce sales 15 percent this year, nearly $900 million; says sales reached record last year, as wholesalers bought rough diamonds to replenish stocks that had been run down in 1999 as premillennium buying spree; net income in 2000 rose 84 percent, to $1.29 billion; sales of uncut stones slumped to $2.15 billion in second half of 2000 from $3.52 billion in first half (M)

De Beers Posts Solid Results But Predicts a Tougher Future

William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column discusses emergence of Marcus Camby as force for New York Knickerbockers; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Camby Is Key To Success Of Knicks

Large riverfront site where Pepsi-Cola was bottled and canned until two years ago would be transformed into residential enclave with more than 3,000 apartments in seven buildings, small parks and an esplanade under proposal chosen as part of Queens West development project; terms of proposed deal, in which Rockrose Development Corp will acquire 21 acre site from PepsiCo, outlined; photo; map (M)

Developer Is Picked for Queens Residential Project Across From U.N.

Mattel gathers world's largest toy retailers in Tucson, Ariz, for private toy fair to show off its product line, particularly secret stable of toys based on J K Rowling's best seller Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and coming movie version of book; film, distributed by Warner Brothers, is scheduled to open on Nov 16, and with nearly 49 million copies of four Harry Potter books in print, potential audience for tie-in toys is huge; toy makers are being cautious about creating too many tie-in toys and games, worried that most readers are already past their prime toy-buying age; charts; photos (M)

Dragons and Flying Brooms

Supreme Court rules, 5-to-4, that Congress violated First Amendment when it barred lawyers in federally financed legal services program from going to court on behalf of indigent clients to challenge validity of welfare laws and regulations; decision sets significant limit on government's ability to attach strings to public money for expressive activities; Justice Anthony M Kennedy's opinion states that legal services lawyers do not speak for government when they sue government on behalf of their clients; says legal services program was designed to facilitate private speech, not to promote governmental message; decision, Legal Services Corp v Velazquez, ends latest chapter, although not last, in long political struggle over federally financed program of civil legal services for poor (M)

JUSTICES REJECT CONGRESS'S CURBS ON WELFARE SUITS

Canada's gross domestic product advances at 2.6 percent annual pace in fourth quarter, compared with 4.5 percent in third quarter; graph (S)

CANADA'S ECONOMY SLOWS

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March 1, 2001

Headlines from March 1, 2001

Bounce and Subtleties From Elegant Hipsters

A Ritual of Diabolical Angels And Slightly Angelic Devils

At 15, Sarah Hughes Thinks Her Time Is Now

For a King of Krylon, the Family Reigns

Chinese Firm Pleads Guilty In Labor Case

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