April 10, 2003

Norman Lear has teamed up with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of animated series South Park, to write several episodes of program this season; Stone, Parker and Lear comment; photos (M)

Much of Baghdad falls, and Saddam Hussein's image is pulled down from pedestals and portraiture around city; American and British commanders warn that war in Iraq, including battle for Baghdad, is not over; Defense Sec Donald H Rumsfeld says war will continue until Saddam Hussein's regime is removed 'from every corner of that country'; frames unfinished military task so broadly that it seems certain to take weeks, if not months; notes bastions of Iraqi resistance hold out in north and central Iraq, that Hussein, his sons and top aides, if alive, are still at large, and that chemical and biological weapons and laboratories for making them have yet to be located; there is sense of caution among American and British commanders about dramatic collapse of authority in Baghdad; many members of extremely repressive government, its army, police force and intelligence services have simply disappeared; in Basra, where British forces are more firmly in control, there are signs of civil unrest and lawlessness making task of delivering aid all the more urgent, and difficult; photos (L)

Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall is set to open in September; what hall's impact will be on New York performing institutions, especially those at Lincoln Center, discussed; Carnegie is now three-hall complex, with main Isaac Stern Auditorium and Weill Recital Hall joined by this new, flexible, 644-seat space directly below Stern Auditorium; Carnegie can offer music for most every audience taste and size starting in September; Lincoln Center's independent constituents will probably be only slightly affected; Jane S Moss, vice president for programming at Lincoln Center, comments; photo (M)

Many who are close to Augusta National Golf Club chairman William 'Hootie' Johnson insist he is progressive visionary who has supported women and blacks in business for decades, which awkwardly stands in opposition to his acceptance of exclusion at Augusta and other private clubs; photos (M)

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