April 22, 2005

Seeking Continuity, Pope Reappoints Officials Only two days after his election, and before his formal installation on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI acted to ensure stability and continuity with the reign of John Paul II. He reappointed Cardinal Angelo Sodano as the Vatican's secretary of state, the second most powerful position, and kept leaders of the Roman Catholic Church's bureaucracy in place -- for the time being. PAGE A13 Conviction in Grenade Attack A military jury convicted an Army sergeant of premeditated murder and attempted murder for killing two of his comrades and wounding 14 others in Kuwait in 2003. PAGE A14 Intelligence Chief Confirmed The Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm John D. Negroponte as the country's first director of national intelligence, and senators urged him to assert his power quickly over the nation's 15 spy agencies, improve the sharing of information and upgrade intelligence collection. PAGE A19 House Approves Energy Bill The House approved broad energy legislation that seeks to improve the reliability of the electrical grid, increase domestic energy production and save power by extending daylight saving time. PAGE A14 STARTING TODAY The (Bigger) Listings Theater, movies, art, music and dance: now, in Weekend Arts, there's more of everything, with wheres and whens -- and critics' help on which to choose. PAGE E23 Wendy's Confronts a Crisis Ever since a Wendy's patron said she found a human finger in a cup of beef chili, the company has been working to manage a public relations crisis. BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Religious Leaders Attack Frist Several Protestant leaders criticized the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist, over his plan to appear in a telecast depicting Democrats as ''against people of faith.'' PAGE A18

Floyd Norris comment on what new stock market system is likely to look like in US as consolidation takes place; says with stocks trading on multiple markets, distinctions between Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange issues will be reduced, if not eliminated; holds markets will have to compete on cost and on quality of execution, but in regulatory framework that keeps individual investors from being treated like second-class market participants; says for NYSE to merge with Archipelago, antitrust regulators will have to be persuaded that relevant field of competition is much larger; adds that is one reason NYSE's chief executive John A Thain talks of global market, although there is little foreign competition for listing or trading American stocks; holds for Nasdaq to merge with Instinet woujld appear to be distinctly anticompetitive if relevant market is in trading of Nasdaq-listed stocks; photo (M)

Pres Bush issues strong new defense of his nominee as ambassador to United Nations, John R Bolton, but former Secretary of State Colin L Powell has reportedly expressed his reservations about Bolton to at least two wavering Republican senators; Powell has praised Bolton's performance on some matters, but stopped well short of endorsements offered by Bush and Sec Condoleezza Rice; privately, associates say Powell has made clear his concerns on several fronts, including Bolton's harsh treatment of subordinates; Powell was not among five former Republican secretaries of state who sent letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsing nomination; Bush is portraying Democratic opposition to Bolton as politically driven; it appears administration is determined to defend Bolton's nomination, despite crumbling support among Senate Republicans; photo (M)

Rivalry between New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq is about to end with NYSE's acquisition of electronic trading network Archipelago and Nasdaq's expected takeover of Instinet, remaining big electronic system; NYSE by becoming public entity as well as creating business to compete for Nasdaq's listings business, exchange answered calls of its critics and positioned itself to take on Nasdaq and global competitors; regulators applaud deal as evidence that their recent efforts to change rules that govern trading of stocks has worked; chart; photos (M)

Stephen Holden Critic's Notebook column on fourth annual TriBeCa Film Festival, which was begun by Robert DeNiro as effort to revive Lower Manhattan's economy after 9/11; this year's festival will screen 250 films, including 158 features from 45 countries; photos; map; schedule of some of the films being shown (L)