December 3, 2005

Football Revival at West Point After bottoming out in football, Army is trying to revive its athletic programs. Cadets waited to watch the team practice at West Point for today's game against Navy in Philadelphia. PAGE D1 Wide Torture Found in China A high-level United Nations investigator condemned the ''widespread'' use of torture in Chinese law enforcement and said Beijing must overhaul its criminal laws, grant more power to judges and abolish labor camps before it can end such abuses, according to a summary of the study's findings. PAGE A3 Texas Redistricting Dispute The Justice Department acknowledged that top officials had overruled a 2003 determination by its civil rights staff that a Congressional redistricting plan for Texas would violate the voting rights law. PAGE A14 November Job Figure Rises The government said the nation's employers added 215,000 jobs last month as the economy rebounded from the effect of Hurricane Katrina. BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Hip-Hop Executives Cleared The brothers Irv and Christopher Gotti were found not guilty of laundering drug money through the hip-hop label Murder Inc. PAGE B1 Partnership for Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall and City Center, Midtown neighbors, have announced plans for financial and artistic collaboration. THE ARTS, PAGE B7 THIS WEEKEND T: Holiday The New York Times Style Magazine offers a torrent of gift suggestions, both tiny and tall: trinkets, truffles, topiaries, even tractors. A Dip in the Champagne? A California spa offers wine in the bath and all manner of grape treatments. The commonplace, wine by the glass, is also an option. TRAVEL A Coach Who Goes Deep By pushing the limits of space and time on the gridiron, Mike Leach of Texas Tech is taking the game to some far-out places. MAGAZINE

Army prepares to face Navy for chance to win long and storied series that is tied, 49-49-7; photos (M)

Citing a ''real and substantial'' threat of a terrorist bombing in New York's subways, a federal judge ruled yesterday that random police searches of passengers' bags and backpacks were constitutional because they were effective in helping to prevent an attack. Rejecting a challenge to the searches by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Judge Richard M. Berman of Federal District Court in Manhattan found that the incursion on subway passengers' privacy was minimal enough to be justified by the deterrent effect on potential terrorists.

In this tradition-bound Roman Catholic town one day in April, two young women did what many here consider unthinkable: pregnant and scared, they took a cheap ulcer medication known to induce abortions. When the drug left them bleeding, they were treated at a local emergency room -- then promptly arrested. Insisting that abortion was rare, Pamplona's conservative leaders thought the case was over. Instead, the episode reverberated throughout Colombia and helped to galvanize a national movement to roll back laws that make abortion illegal, even to save a mother's life.

Baseball teams prepare for winter meetings, where paucity of available, big-name free agents means many teams will look to make trades; photos (M)