February 2, 2003

Connecticut University women's basketball team defeats Duke University, 77-65, to break Duke's undefeated streak and maintain UConn's; photos (M)

Soccer matches in Europe and particularly England, in addition to being sites of notoriously rowdy and violent fan gatherings, have long harbored and accepted racism as permissible form of expression, allowing fans to taunt black, Jewish, muslim and other minority players with derogatory slurs that would not be accepted in US; football associations abroad are working to promote tolerance by punishing individual clubs for behavior of their fans, but prejudice and violence are still disturbing components of European football games; photos (L)

Profile of Pascal Dangin, digital retoucher for famed Hollywood and fashion photographers and founder and chief executive of Box Studios in New York; fashion magazines have long history of tweaking images and retouching photographs to put models and celebrities in best light; photos (M)

Profile of Barbara Corcoran, chairman of Corcoran Group, one of New York City's largest residential real estate agencies; Corcoran comments on growing up in big family in Edgewater, NJ, her mother, Florence, her career and her new book, Use What You've Got & Other Business Lessons I Learned From My Mom; photos (M)

Houston, home of Lyndon B Johnson Space Center, takes loss of shuttle Columbia and its crew like death in the family; citizens' pride in being astronauts' neighbors shrivels into pain; wall of flowers begins to rise at space center; photo (M)