Manohla Dargis reviews documentary movie Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die, directed by Kevin Knoblock and narrated by Tony Calabrese; photos (M)

Lowering the Subtlety of Political Discourse

Many Red Sox fans are delirious after Boston's 10-3 victory over New York Yankees puts team in World Series for first time since 1986; fans swarm into souvenir shops in Boston to grab up memorabilia; photos (M)

The Day After, Red Sox Nation Still Swooning in Stunned Joy

 Sergeant Gets 8 Years For Abu Ghraib Abuse  A military court sentenced Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick to eight years in prison for abusing Iraqi prisoners last year at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. It was the harshest sentence yet in the hearings, involving the highest-ranked enlisted soldier of the eight charged in the scandal.   PAGE A8    3 Dismissed from Tribunal  The Pentagon official overseeing the war crimes trials in Guantánamo dismissed three officers on the military tribunal, saying they could not judge the cases impartially.   PAGE A21    Seeking Answers on Vaccine  Health officials across the nation are complaining of a lack of federal information on how to deal with the flu vaccine shortage.   PAGE A12    U.S. Move in Anthrax Case  The Justice Department is giving investigators in the 2001 anthrax case a document that might help them question reporters.   PAGE A12    Inquiry Into Music Industry  New York's attorney general is said to be scrutinizing practices for influencing which songs are heard on radio.   BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1

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World Business Briefing | Europe: Spain: Bank Executive Named

Colombian military forces, backed by US government, are safeguarding Colombia's oil from Marxist rebels, making potenitally oil-rich regions safe for exploration by private companies and government-run oil company; twin emphasis of protecting oil production and challenging Colombia's most formidable rebel group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is most apparent in Putumayo province; map; photo (M)

Safeguarding Colombia's Oil

World Business Briefing: Britain: Talks On Network Acquisition

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Talks On Network Acquisition

Growing numbers of families are raising autistic children at home and trying to acclimate them to normal activities and routines; they are using techniques that have proved successful in classroom at home to maximize learning for autistic child and also to improve quality of life for rest of family; over last decade, number of autistic children receiving special education services nationwide has grown to 140,000 from 20,000; scientists are debating what has caused skyrocketing autism caseload, whether it is real increase in cases, better diagnoses, or decision not to institutionalize autistic children; organized resources for these families are scarce; there is new Web site from Autism Society of America and home visits by therapists from special schools, but mostly there are mothers with file folders of information, passed from hand to hand; autism is mysterious brain disorder that affects ability to communicate, form relationships, tolerate change and otherwise respond appropriately to outside world; strain of living with autistic child described; photos (L)

For Families of Autistic, the Fight for Ordinary

Japanese exports rose 12.5 percent to record in September, led by shipments to Asian markets including China and Taiwan; export growth accelerated from 10.4 percent in August from year earlier (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Exports Rise To Record

Agreement by Cathay Pacific Airways to buy stake in Air China has highlighted struggle across East Asia, especially in Hong Kong and mainland China, over how vigorously airlines should be allowed to compete with each other on international routes; at stake is world's fastest-growing regional aviation market, with China at its core; chart (M)

A Struggle Over Air Routes in East Asia

Bronx County Historical Society has formed partnership with Fordham University to compile comprehensive record of Bronx's black history; project has struck responsive chord in Morrisania, where James Pruitt, retired high school social studies teacher, and his sister Harriet McFeeters are among growing group of eager volunteer researchers helping scholars like Prof Mark Naison of Fordham locate historical documents and interview those whose lives were formed by community; Morrisania, Bronx's premier black community, drew upwardly mobile families from Harlem from 1930's to 1960's; map; photos (M)

Lost and Found: An Era in the Bronx

FLAME-DECORATED mudflaps for the family vehicle? Some parents are refusing to go gently into the good night of suburban driving, adding everything from spoilers to superchargers to their Chevrolet Venturas and Honda Odysseys. And sometimes, even their own children think they are cool. Page 10.  

Tricking Out The Minivan

Floyd Norris comment links America's economic problems to strong dollar in Asia, not just China; says there is likely to be strong American pressure on much of Asia to allow major depreciation of dollar no matter who wins US presidential election; contends such 'weak dollar' policy would raise cost of imported goods, and thus hurt consumers, but alternative is to see more and more American economic stimulus drain overseas as trade deficit grows ever greater, making eventual resolution that much more painful; says main reason American slowdown has gone undiscussed is that neither candidate wants to bring up subject; holds such question to Pres Bush concedes that recovery that seemed so impressive early this year has faded; such question for Sen John Kerry that there was recovery; graph (M)

Is It Time to Stem Asia Deficits With a Weak Dollar?

There was a breakdown in the cosmic order Wednesday night.     At least that's how it felt to Yankees fans: all the old myths, the old beliefs in curses and destiny, had been shattered, left to blow about the chilly field at Yankee Stadium along with empty Cracker Jack boxes and tattered hot dog wrappers.   

In a Fan's Eyes, the World Turns Upside Down

Committee of European Securities Regulators plans to review accounting standards of US, Canada and Japan to determine if companies that use them must provide additional information before their securities can trade in European markets; will decide if accounting standards are equivalent to international accounting standards that go into force in European Union next year; at isssue is whether, beginning in 2007, companies from those countries will be able to maintain European listings without providing more financial information; photo (M)

Europe Plans to Compare Others' Rules on Audits

Article describes quiet and disquieting scene in historic district of Charleston, SC, where wealthy outsiders, known to locals as 'drive-by neighbors,' restore Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival mansions but rarely spend time in them; long-time residents are backing plan by Mayor Joseph Riley Jr for primary residence easements, deed restrictions that require future owners to live in houses; photos (M)

Charleston: The Case of the Missing Neighbors

East 63rd Street neighbors, particularly cosmetics billionaire Ronald O Perelman, are fighting request by Le Bilboquet, restaurant frequented by celebrities, to add four cafe tables to sidewalk; Le Bilboquet owner Philippe Delgrange says he is mystified at ferocity of Perelman's campaign against his plans; City Council's zoning and franchising committee approved Delgrange's request, but land use committee put off its vote on matter for another week after Councilwoman Eva S Moskowitz took up Perelman's cause; photo (M)

Steak Frites and Stardom vs. Power and Politics

THEO EPSTEIN had his hand around a can of Budweiser.     He looked like your basic 30-something in a sports bar in Boston, but there was one difference.  

Epstein to Red Sox Fans: This One's for You

New York State Atty Gen Eliot Spitzer's office serves subpoenas on major record corporations Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Group and Warner Music Group, seeking copies of contracts billing records and other information detailing their ties to independent middlemen who pitch new songs to radio programmers in New York State; inquiry encompasses all major radio formats and is not aiming at any individual record promoter; major record labels have paid middlemen for decades, though practice has long been derided as way to skirt federal statute--known as payola law--outlawing bribes to radio broadcasters (M)

Record Labels Said to Be Next on Spitzer List for Scrutiny

 Recall Hurts Merck Profits; Lilly's Earnings Rise 5.7%  Merck, hurt by the recall of its Vioxx painkiller, said its third-quarter earnings dropped 29 percent. Its profit of 60 cents a share was lower than the 71-cent average of analysts' estimates. Another drug maker, Schering-Plough, posted its first profit in more than a year, with net income of $26 million in the quarter, helped by sales of its cholesterol drugs.  

BUSINESS DIGEST

United Nations elections adviser Carlos Valenzuela and Iraqi election officials tell of significant steps they have taken toward holding elections by Jan 31; say they have assembled list of 14 million Iraqi voters, set up 550 voter registration sites around country and hired 6,000 people to staff them; Valenzuela says elections could be held by Jan 31 even though UN team of 14 advisors is small; cites large numbers of Iraqis involved in process; his remarks are partly in answer to statements made earlier by Iraqi Foreign Min Hoshyar Zebari, who criticized UN for not sending enough election workers into Iraq; Iraqi officials say they plan to operate most of 550 voter registration sites inside office that already exists for country's food distribution program; list of voters has been drawn from country's food distribution program as well; UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says he hopes to send more technical advisers to Iraq soon, but adds that much will depend on security situation, which is chaotic and dangerous in much of country (M)

U.N. Aide Says Iraqi Elections Are on Target

Senior American officials find Iraqi insurgency has significantly more fighters and far greater financial resources than had been estimated; finds hardcore resistance numbers between 8,000 and 12,000 counting foreign fighters and network of militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and that tally swells to more than 20,000 if active sympathizers or covert accomplices are included; earlier intelligence reports put number of insurgents at maximum of 7,000; officials say revised estimate has not prompted wholesale review of strategy; American officials in Iraq and Washington say Iraqi insurgency draws on 'unlimited money' from underground financial network run by former Baath Party leaders and Saddam Hussein's relatives; say wealthy Saudi donors and Islamic charities funnel large sums of cash through Syria; note that only half the estimated $1 billion that Hussein government put in Syrian banks before war has been recovered; International Institute for Strategic Studies, private organization, estimates that it would take five years for American military to prepare Iraqi forces to take over fully from forces of United States and its allies; photo (M)

Estimates by U.S. See More Rebels With More Funds

Many New York Yankee fans are angry, stunned and in state of denial after team's postseason collapse against Boston Red Sox, but some fans have accepted defeat; photo (M)

After Curse and Cursing, a Pinstripe Shade of Blue

IT could be argued that a season that began with Derek Jeter literally helping Alex Rodriguez into his pinstriped jersey like some dutiful clubhouse attendant symbolically ended with Jeter deferring to an undeserving A-Rod in a fateful swing moment destined in Yankees' lore to live on infamously.    In the aftermath of the worst postseason collapse in team sports memory, you could pinpoint any number of plays or decisions made or not made as the defining momentum changer in the American League Championship Series, and who would have the power to prove you wrong?   

It's Not Time for Jeter to Step Aside for Anybody

William Grimes assesses Dodger Stages, former Loews Cineplex Worldwide Plaza movie house on West 50th Street that has been transformed, at cost of $23 million, into cluster of five Off-Broadway Theaters; photos (M)

A Cineplex Beaten Into a Theaterplex

Rituals column on LARP, Live Action Role Playing events in which dozens of men and women, mostly in their 30's, gather five times each year to live out elaborate tales, steeped in myth or science fiction, created by game master Dirk Parham; Gordon Olstead-Dean, chief staff officer of Live Action Role-Players Assn, estimates that 15,000 Americans particpate in at least one LARP event each year; photos (M)

Don't Forget to Pack the Scimitar

Stefan Bajcetic Maquieira is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool.

October 22, 2004

Headlines from October 22, 2004

Lowering the Subtlety of Political Discourse

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World Business Briefing | Europe: Spain: Bank Executive Named

Safeguarding Colombia's Oil

Billboard 200

50 Number Ones

Confessions

The Chronicles Of Life And Death

Greatest Hits Vol. I

Suit

Notable Births

Historical Context for October 22, 2004