Ken Druse and Louis Bauer adapt their garden in Newton, NJ, to survive watering restrictions imposed in times of drought; their sun-loving, drought-tolerant plants thrive in gravel garden that needs no water; plants that do need water are supplied with buried soaker hoses; photos (M)

A Garden Learns to Sip, Not Gulp

 Rally on Wall Street  The Nasdaq jumped 7.8 percent, its biggest gain in more than a year, while the Dow and the S.& P. 500 rose more than 3 percent.   PAGE C1    Behind an Abrupt Exit  The Congressional panel looking into Sept. 11 forced its director out after he did not tell it of a staff member's security problem.   PAGE A34

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EasyJet says it has option to acquire British Airways' German subsidiary, DBA, for about 40 million euros, or $37 million; EasyJet says it is in talks to buy Go Fly from 3i venture capital firm (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: EasyJet Acquires DBA Option

Allied Irish Banks, in its annual report, says executives will not receive bonuses for 2001, citing loss of $691.2 million in five years through fraudulent foreign exchange trading at Allfirst Financial; remuneration committee awards no bonuses to directors including chief executive Michael Buckley or to Frank P Bramble, head of Allied Irish's American operations; photo (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Ireland: No Bonuses At Allied Irish

New Jersey Nets backup guard Lucious Harris is having best season of NBA career; performance in playoffs discussed; photos (M)

Harris Enjoys Long-Awaited Starring Role

People who know Lucas J Helder, who has admitted planting 18 pipe bombs in five states, noticed only unalarming changes in his behavior before he began journey that culminated in terrorism; state troopers stopped Helder three times, for speeding, driving without license and failing to wear seat belt, without arresting him; photo (M)

Bomb Suspect Gave Few Hints Of Violent Plan

Budget-trimming college administrators are eliminating some men's sports teams under pressure to keep participation levels of male and female athletes nearly equal, as required by federal law; keep women's teams in low-profile sports, while sacrificing men's teams to achieve equal female and male sports participation; equality advocates blame football, which requires big team and budget, for distorting ledger on men's side; graphs; photos (M)

More Men's Teams Benched As Colleges Level the Field

Elvis Mitchell Critic's Notebook column assesses the first TriBeCa Film Festival; photos (M)

Critic's Notebook; Music Infuses the TriBeCa Film Festival

Arts in America article on renewed interest in Zora Neale Hurston, important African-American literary figure associated with Harlem Renaissance; focuses on her Florida roots, particularly in Eatonville, where she grew up, and Fort Pierce, where she spent last years of her life and was buried in pauper's grave; photos (M)

Florida Footsteps Of a Harlem Great

David Pogue State of the Art column assesses new Blackberry 5810 wireless e-mail palmtop and cellphone from Research in Motion; drawing; photo (M)

Cultivating BlackBerry As a Hybrid

Rebirth and memory intertwine in Battery Park City, 20-year-old experiment in urban planning, community building and enlightened landscape management that was laid to waste when World Trade Center fell; there are few neighborhoods in city in which reminders of Sept 11 remain as hauntingly present; even as more people return to Battery Park City, reminders of September 11 are never far away; photos (M)

In May's Sunshine, A September Chill; Battery Park City Re-emerges Amid Reminders of Attack

IG Metall, Germany's largest industrial union, says it will expand its strikes to eastern Germany as employers continue to reject demands for 6.5 percent raise; union members in western Baden-Wurttemberg and eastern Berlin-Brandenburg voted for strike last week, but so far one-day rolling strikes have been only in West; Gesamtmetall employers federation, which has offered 3.3 percent raise plus bonuses, says wider strike will affect economy (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Unions Expand Strikes

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria posts 6 percent rise in first-quarter earnings despite losses in Argentina; net profit was 587 million euros ($537 million) compared with 553 million euros in same period in 2001 (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Spain: Bank's Profit Rises 6%

Julie Salamon reviews PBS Frontline segment Muslims; photo (M)

Instant Islam: Trying to Find A Global Faith In the Details

Amateur mixtures of two or more pop hits, spread mostly by Internet, are becoming explosively popular; songs, called mash-ups or bootlegs, typically match rhythm, melody and underlying spirit of instrumentals of one song with a cappella vocals of another in intentionally odd pairings; music industry response is mixed, with legal action to block illegal mash-ups and industry release of some legal ones; music is particularly popular in Europe; photo (M)

Spreading by the Web, Pop's Bootleg Remix

Citigroup acquires Japan's Marufuku Co, consumer finance company, for 60 billion yen ($469 million), adding 200,000 customers to business that charges interest rates of almost 30 percent and has few defaults (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Citigroup Buys Lender

One of deepest mysteries in collapse of Enron Corp has been role that power crisis in California played in company's rise and fall; this spring, as authorities focused on their attention on off-the-balance-sheet partnerships that Enron used to inflate its profits, it seemed that question might be forever buried under more pressing inquiries; newly released documents by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about Enron's practices during crisis in 2000 and 2001 are causing regulators and prosecutors to re-examine connection; some outside experts say they may find that California played crucial role in company's demise; fallout from documents--memorandums that appear to offer first proof that Enron deliberately manipulated California's energy market--widens; Federal regulators demand that other power trading companies acknowledge whether they used strategies similar to those mentioned in documents, while Army Sec Thomas E White, who has already been criticized for his role as former Enron executive, faces new call to resign from Public Citizen, liberal public interest group (M)

California May Have Had Big Role in Enron's Fall

Joyce Purnick comments on generous security arrangements provided for former Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani, saying it 'befits a monarch' (M)

Metro Matters; Cutting Costs On Security For Giuliani

Footlights column: New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, directed by Albert Bergeret, are reviving Patience at Symphony Space; productions of Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream and Peter Oswald's new comedy The Golden Ass will be performed this summer at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London; American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass, will perform retiring artistic director Robert Brustein's version of Aristophanes comedy Lysistrata, with music by Galt MacDermot, lyrics by Matty Selman, directed by Andrei Serban and starring Cherry Jones; American Academy of Arts and Letters awards architecture gold medal to Frank O Gehry; Mystery Writers of America names Robert Parker grand master for lifetime achievement; other awards noted; photos (M)

Footlights

Kirch Group's pay television company files for bankruptcy after negotiations with creditors collapse; KirchPayTV has lost billions on German pay television network called Premiere; Premiere lost nearly $900 million last year, and company may not have enough cash to cover losses beyond summer; KirchPayTV chief Georg Kofler has been trying to persuade banks and other investors to contribute abut 1 billion euros to new rescue; Kofler says Premiere will continue to operate, and that bankruptcy of KirchPayTV will allow Premiere to disentangle itself from its Kirch obligations and will make it easier for Premiere to cut deals with new investors; possible collapse of Premiere has already created financial crisis for German professional soccer; Kirch paid $1.5 billion for rights to broadcast German soccer games over Premiere, and those payments are bigggest single source of revenue for many of teams; Kirch also bought rights to broadcast World Cup soccer tournament that will be taking place in June in Japan and South Korea; Kirch has already paid for World Cup rights, but it still owes another 80 million euros, or about $72 million, to German soccer league; photos (M)

Kirch Pay TV Unit Files for Bankruptcy

Allan Kozinn reviews concert by Yo-Yo Ma, part of his Silk Road Project at Carnegie Hall; photo (M)

At a Cultural Crossroads, Yo-Yo Ma Becomes a Spice Trader

 Andersen Reaches Deals To Sell Parts of Its Business  Arthur Andersen announced separate deals with KPMG Consulting, Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young to sell various parts of its business.    Andersen is expected to try to rush to conclude a series of transactions before the criminal case against it goes to a jury at the end of the month in Houston. [Page C8.]    Lawyers for a former Arthur Andersen partner who pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice asked a federal judge to halt the firm's efforts to subpoena their notes of their client's interviews with government officials. [C8.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

New megachurches springing up in suburbs across country are not simply houses of worship, but rather sprawling villages where members can eat, shop, go to school, bank and work out as well as pray, 24 hours a day, seven days a week; reflect broad cultural desire for rootedness and convenience for overextended families; photos (M)

Megachurches As Minitowns

Boston Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, in deposition in suit by 86 people who say they were victims of Rev John J Geoghan, says he was aware of charges that Geoghan molested children as early as Sept 1984 but turned matter over to his top aides and never followed up to learn specifically what they did; says he followed judgment of his deputy and doctors when he allowed priest to be assigned to new parish in 1984, less than two months after he had been removed from another parish because of complaints he was associating with boys; denies memory of letters warning him about priest's history of sexual abuse; deposition is expected to take three days; photos (M)

CARDINAL LAW SAYS PEDOPHILE MATTER WAS LEFT TO AIDES

Charlotte Hornets will face New Jersey Nets in Game 3 of Eastern Conference semifinals at home in Charlotte Coliseum, where fan attendance is far below league average as Hornets prepare to move to New Orleans; photos (M)

Hornets Face Home-Court Disadvantage

From 2 April to 10 May 2002, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank was besieged by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), targeting suspected Palestinian militants who had taken shelter in the church.

The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.

May 9, 2002

Headlines from May 9, 2002

A Garden Learns to Sip, Not Gulp

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World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: EasyJet Acquires DBA Option

World Business Briefing | Europe: Ireland: No Bonuses At Allied Irish

Harris Enjoys Long-Awaited Starring Role

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