January 12, 2004

Michael Arad, winning designer for World Trade Center memorial site, and Peter Walker, memorial's landscaper, work together to mesh their designs into Daniel Libeskind's master plan; Lower Manhattan Development Corp chose Arad but insisted that he be joined by experienced landscaper and that he cede control over infrastructure elements; so many revisions have been made that final design is yet to be rendered, raising concerns among private planning groups, neighborhood leaders and relatives of Sept 11 victims who have interest in final design: drawings (M)

Free agent outfielder Vladimir Guerrero will reportedly sign five-year contract with Anaheim Angels after turning down offer from New York Mets; photo (M)

Anne Midgette reviews concert by New Jersey Symphony Orchestra during annual wintertime festival, which is focusing on Dvorak; photo (M)

Last article in series examining lives and careers of candidates seeking Democratic presidential nomination focuses on Sen John Edwards of NC; his campaign hinges on notion that he has not forgotten where he comes from: born in small town, reared by working-class parents and first in his family to go to college; asked why one-term senator should seek highest office, he says his roots give him understanding of working folks' problems that career politicians lack; believes working-class voters have been abandoned by Pres Bush; holds that such voters will trust candidate like him, just as North Carolina juries trusted him during his earlier, hugely successful earlier career as personal-injury lawyer; is multimillionaire who harbors laborer's anger; his speeches often sound as if they they could come from union leader; he is drawing bigger crowds, and even officials in other campaigns say his sunny rhetoric about America's future and his refusal to sling mud have given him boost; he recently won coveted endorsement of Des Moines Register as he campaigns in Iowa for caucuses to be held there; timeline of important events in his life; photos (L)

Philadelphia Eagles defeat Green Bay Packers, 20-17, in overtime, to advance to National Football Conference championship; photos (M)

Tribune Co, in naming Timothy A Franklin editor of Baltimore Sun, is looking to him to change Sun's journalistic culture; wants its 13 daily newspapers to fill more of their pages with articles provided by their sister newspapers, sharing Franklin has championed and former editor William K Marimow often rejected; Franklin's career noted; chart of turnover at newspapers acquired by Tribune Co; photo (M)

Ben Brantley reviews musical The Producers with returning stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane; photos (M)

Strauss Zelnick, after years of running large media enterprises for others, is working with partners to build own media empire; partners expect to use their expertise and variety of financial backing to transform mundane portfolio of direct marketing companies and other assets into multiplatform media enterprise; Zelnick comments on plans; photo (M)

Israel begins drawing hard line around Jerusalem, walling it off from Abu Dis, Arab village joined to city for generations; Israel begins work on other sections of Jerusalem barrier, which it says is necessary bulwark against suicide bombers; it has never before built in such a busy area or so close to Jerusalem's center and holy sites; mostly Arab construction crew begins its task under heavy military guard; Palestinian leadership appears caught flat-footed as construction begins; Prime Min Ahmed Qurei, who lives in Abu Dis, is visiting West Bank village of Qalqiliya, which is enclosed by barrier; he attacks 'racist separation wall'; Israel says new barricade is not permanent, political border but reversible security measure; Prime Min Ariel Sharon says says if not for terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens, there might not be any barriers; photos; map (M)

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said he saw no risk that Palestinians could undermine Israel's Jewish identity by gaining a demographic majority. Page A8.

Emerging population of gay men are not only raising children but also committed to idea that one parent should leave workplace to do it; census returns of same-sex couples with children, randomly picked, show 26 percent of male couples include stay-at-home parent; figure is one percentage point more than for married couples with children and four percentage points higher than for female couples; percentage of men who stay at home is significantly smaller among married heterosexual couples; some gay men are pursuing parenthood with fervor, having faced obstacles of finding surrogate mothers and of discriminatory adoption laws that favor heterosexual couples; photos (M)

Connecticut University defeats Oklahoma University, 86-59; photos (M)