Indiana Pacers defeat New Jersey Nets, 87-81; photo (M)

Nets' Rally Is Spoiled By Former Teammate

Ben Brantley reviews Manhattan Theater Club production of Richard Greenberg play The Violet Hour, directed by Evan Yionoulis; photo (M)

Jazz Generation Sees The Future: It's Not Cool

Nike is hoping Cleveland Cavaliers rookie guard LeBron James, who was given as much as $100 million to endorse shoes, can carry on former star player Michael Jordan's unparalleled marketing success for company; photos (M)

Trying to Fill Jordan's Shoes

World Business Briefing | Asia: Taiwan: Technology Acquisition

Russell Wimbush is fatally shot by police officer whom he allegedly assaulted and stabbed in shoulder; officer was called to domestic dispute between Wimbush and former girlfriend at South Beach Houses in Staten Island (M)

Injured Officer Kills S.I. Man After Attack In Apartment

Houston Independent School District appears to underreport its school crime problems; in last four school years, Houston district's own police, who patrol schools, entered 3,091 assaults into its database while Houston school district listed just 761 assaults in same period on its annual disciplinmary summaries sent to Austin; school district maintains that its reporting has been entirely proper; those who disagree point to damage to careers of principals who accurately report high incidence of disciplinary problems, and to financing sacrificed by schools that lose student population to expulsion; assaults that Houston did not report to state include rape of disabled student in boys' bathroom, and assault of special-education student by bully; experts say Houston is not only city underreporting its school crime problem, but that city has been held up as pillar of so-called Texas miracle in education; school violence reports are taking on new importance since Pres Bush made national goal of holding schools accountable for test scores and campus crime; Houston was earlier shown to be giving false school statistics on dropouts; photos; graph (L)

School Violence Data Under a Cloud in Houston

 An Optimistic Fed Chief  Alan Greenspan, bigger than life, was optimistic about the economy and hinted at an end to rock-bottom interest rates.   PAGE C1    Judge Blocks Abortion Ban  In a ruling expected to have national implications, a federal judge in Manhattan blocked the new federal ban on a type of abortion.   PAGE A18

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One day after Howard Dean apologized for remarks about the Confederate flag, he was endorsed by the nation's most diverse labor organization, the 1.6-million-member Service Employees International Union.  

Union Backs Dean; Clark Discusses Iraq

New York Yankees coaches, including newly hired hitting coach Don Mattingly, have come to expect constant comings and goings within staff ranks under leadership of owner George Steinbrenner; photos (M)

Yankees Coaches Are Practiced in Upheaval

Article on Only in America, five-day conference and concert series presented by Jewish Theological Seminary and Milken Archive of American Jewish Music; events will celebrate 350th anniversary of establishment of first Jewish community in US and focus on the evolution of Jewish music, both secular and sacred; photo (M)

Tradition, Tradition, Tradition? Not in American Jewish Music

Hunt for Seattle's Green River killer consumed Dave Reichert for 21 years, as detective and then as sheriff of King County, Wash; he even flew to Florida to ask for help from serial killer Ted Bundy, who was on death row; Green River case haunted Reichert and his family until capture of Gary L Ridgway, who has since pleaded guilty to strangling 48 women; Reichert spent three days interviewing Ridgway alone; says serial killers have much in common; says they crave attention and control and have total lack of remorse; photos (L)

21-Year Hunt for Killer Shapes Man and Family

MORE than 100,000 people descended upon the Las Vegas Convention Center this week in search of the coolest steering wheels, tires, rims, dashboards and suspension systems in the universe. At the annual gathering of the Specialty Equipment Market Association, they prowled the aisles, looking for the Next Big Thing. Page 8.  

All Things Automotive Under the Desert Sun

Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column discusses imminent close of Bronx (NYC) Everlast plant, where boxing gloves, punching bags, shoes and trunks have been made for decades; closing comes as lease and union contract expire; photos (M)

Sports of The Times; Final Round for an Everlast Plant

BMW reports net profit rose to 445 million euros ($509 million) for third quarter ended Sept 30, up 2.8 percent from yuear earlier; graph (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Earnings At BMW

Bank of England raises its benchmark interest rate to 3.75 percent from 3.5 percent; European Central Bank leaves rate unchanged at 2 percent (M)ÿ

Going Alone, Britain Lifts Its Key Rate To 3.75%

Pennsylvania State Univ agrees to cover cost of providing its students with legal method to download music from catalog of half million songs; its deal with newly revised Napster online service is expected to serve as model for other universities; it is sharp departure from punitive efforts to curtail music swapping on many college campuses; Penn State president Graham Spanier says school will pay for Napster service out of $160 information technology fee students pay each year; about 18,000 students in Penn State residence halls will be first to get service in Jan; by next fall, service will be made available to all 83,000 students on campuses across state, as well as faculty and staff; university and industry officials hope Napster carrot will succeed where various sticks have failed in undermining campus culture of unauthorized copying (M)

Penn State Will Pay To Allow Students To Download Music

Article on changes in weekend yard sales, which used to be relaxed social occasions but now represent growing crime problem, with trespassing charges, complaints about noise and crowds and accusations of petty thievery and assault; photos; drawing (M)

Mobs! Murder! Mayhem! (And a Few Good Deals)

 Pentagon Approves Pact On Planes for Refueling  The Pentagon approved a compromise plan that paves the way for the Air Force to acquire 100 Boeing 767's for use as aerial refueling tankers, ending a controversy over a program that became a test case for the Pentagon's ability to lease major military equipment.    The Pentagon will lease 20 Boeing 767's and buy 80 more in a deal that has cut billions of dollars from earlier estimates. [Page C4.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Vincent P Sarubbi, Camden County NJ prosecutor, tells Congressional subcommittee that Bruce Jackson and his three brothers have gained weight since being found malnourished in Collingswood, NJ; bolsters charges that adoptive parents Raymond and Vanessa Jackson intentionally starved them; subcommittee is investigating how federal officials distribute more than $7 billion to states for foster care and adoptive costs; New Jersey witnesses called to testify because of series of high-profile cases involving state's Division of Youth and Family Services; defenders of parents say boys have eating disorders since before adoption; photo (M)

Prosecutor Says Medical Data Point to 4 Boys' Starvation

World Business Briefing: Britain: Pub Group Acquired*ü

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Pub Group Acquired

Pres Bush challenges Iran, Syria and American allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia to begin embracing democratic traditions, and to view fall of Saddam Hussein as 'watershed event' in global democratic revolution, speech before National Endowment for Democracy; argues that 60 years of Western nations excusing and accommodating lack of freedom in Middle East has not made world safe, because stability cannot be purchased at expense of liberty; speech seems intended to change perception of Iraq occupation, describing it in far broader strategic terms than ouster of dictator; his pressure for reform runs risk of backfiring in Arab world, where some Arabs like to compare his remarks about human rights to America's treatment of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, or his reluctance to demand that Israel stop constructing its barrrier along West Bank; even Arab intellectuals urging greater civil liberties say Bush's remarks undermine them, because it paints them as stooges of US; Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch praises Bush for doing something Clinton administration had been loath to do: identifying Middle East nations that have refused to liberalize (M)

BUSH ASKS LANDS IN MIDEAST TO TRY DEMOCRATIC WAYS

Number of people in Miharu, Japan, of 20,000 making most of their money from farming has dropped 56 percent, to 1,655 since 1980; in 15- to 59-year age group, drop has been 83 percent, to 455; only segment that has grown is of farmers over 70, currently 633; Japanese voters on Nov 9 are expected to return to power Liberal Democrats, politicians who over last half-century have irrigated Japan's farm sector with subsidies and kept city food prices high through tariffs; judging from advancing age of farmers in Miharu, and by advance of scrub forest into abandoned farmland, Liberal Democrats are playing waiting game, waiting for grim reaper gradually to thin ranks of Japan's politically influential farmers; some older farmers comment; photo (M)

Japan Farms: An Old Man's Game

Southern California tourist industry has been hit hard by the aftermath of the recent forest fires and pictures of devastation, even though most of the area was untouched; photo (M)

After the Fires, Back in Business

Floyd Norris column urges Securities and Exchange Commission chairman to offer his proposals to reform New York Stock Exchange; says SEC issued mealy-mouthed statement on NYSE interim chairman John S Reed's proposals that combined praise with indication that more was need but was silent on what else was needed; photo (M)

It's Time to Hear What Bill Donaldson Wants the Big Board to Do

Capt Michael J Gansas refuses to answer questions from National Transportation Safety Board about crash of Staten Island ferry on Oct 15; claims he is still suffering from stress (M)

Ferry Captain Remains Silent In Questioning

Francis Joseph Pearson was a British drag queen and nightclub owner known professionally as Foo Foo Lammar. The Times called him "One of the North of England's most popular female impersonators", whilst the BBC described his drag act as "legendary". Lammar, who was based in his native Manchester, worked in entertainment for over 30 years, and amassed a fortune of over £5m. He became an established name in Manchester from the 1970s onwards, and was well known in the city until his death in 2003.

November 7, 2003

Headlines from November 7, 2003

Nets' Rally Is Spoiled By Former Teammate

Jazz Generation Sees The Future: It's Not Cool

Trying to Fill Jordan's Shoes

World Business Briefing | Asia: Taiwan: Technology Acquisition

Injured Officer Kills S.I. Man After Attack In Apartment

Billboard 200

Measure Of A Man

As Time Goes By ... The Great American Songbook Vol. II

The Very Best Of The Eagles

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

ChickenNBeer

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 7, 2003

Headlines from November 7, 2003

Nets' Rally Is Spoiled By Former Teammate

Jazz Generation Sees The Future: It's Not Cool

Trying to Fill Jordan's Shoes

World Business Briefing | Asia: Taiwan: Technology Acquisition

Injured Officer Kills S.I. Man After Attack In Apartment

Measure Of A Man

As Time Goes By ... The Great American Songbook Vol. II

The Very Best Of The Eagles

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Chicken*N*Beer

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 7, 2003

ChickenNBeer