November 18, 2002

This Week column; Henry Street Chamber Opera presents Hla Lesa and Les Lames du Couteau, two short operas by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu; Butoh dance troupe Sankai Juku performs at Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival; Gov George E Pataki to present 2002 Governor's Arts Awards; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, exhibits Impressionist works on loan from Musee d'Orsay; photos (S)

New York Giants defeat Washington Redskins, 19-17; photos (M)

A Border War Over Gambling New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are scrambling to protect one of their great moneymakers: wagering. Other Northeast states want a piece of the action. PAGE B1 U.S.-German Chill Persists Chilly relations between President Bush and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany appear unlikely to thaw at this week's NATO meeting in Prague. PAGE A16

Blacks rarely appear on covers of mass-circulation magazines, whether men's or women's, entertainment publications or teenagers' magazines; this may reflect fact that only 6.1 percent of magazine industry's professional staff is nonwhite, but another factor may be ingrained conservatism of industry in which everyone is afraid of making a misstep; some black and Hispanic women are making inroads, but black males are still mainly restricted to sports and music magazines; photos; graphs (M)

Center for Jewish History presents Finding Pictures, film documentary by Christian Geissler about Polish Jewish writer and painter Bruno Schulz, on 60th anniversary of his murder by Gestapo officer in 1942; disappearance of many of Schulz's works and dispersal of wall paintings he did in apartment in Drohobycz, Ukraine, discussed; photos (M)