December 9, 2005

House passes last and biggest part of $95 billion in tax cuts, reflecting willingness to place tax cuts above risk of higher deficits; voting 234 to 197, almost purely along party lines, House approves $56 billion in tax cuts over five years, one day after it passed other tax cuts totaling $39 billion over five years; biggest provision extends Pres Bush's 2001 tax cut for stock dividends and capital gains for two years at cost of $20 billion; Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan had urged lawmakers not to approve more tax cuts unless they cut spending by at least the same amount; more cautious Senate package, passed weeks ago, cuts taxes by $60 billion over five years and does not extend tax cut on dividends; conflict is unlikely to be resolved before Christmas recess; conflict between tax bills means taxpayers face uncertainty about popular cuts that are set to expire at end of 2005, including alternative minimum tax; Democrats accuse Republicans of expanding cuts to very richest families while cutting programs that benefit poor; Bush administration expresses preference for House bill, and Bush threatens to veto final bill if it includes windfall profits tax on oil companies; House and Senate negotiators reach compromise to extend USA Patriot Act, although some Democrats are threatening filibuster; chart details tax and spending cuts (M)

Red wine, meet red tape. New Yorkers with a taste for California syrahs or the latest Willamette pinot from Oregon were heartened by the State Legislature's decision last summer allowing them to buy these and other out-of-state wines directly, either through the Internet or over the phone.

State and local officials in Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Georgia, and UAW locals, are trying to come up with incentives for Ford Motor Co to spare their communities when it announces plant closings on Jan 23 as part of second restructuring plan in last four year; company is reportedly considering closing 10 assembly and parts plants and eliminate up to 30,000 jobs; similar high-stakes negotiations are under way with officials at General Motors and parts manufacturers like Visteon and Delphi; competition among states has become critical to keeping big investments; photos (M)

SEASIDE, Fla., which will be 25 years old in 2006, is America's most imitated town. With its pastel-colored houses and front porches overlooking narrow, brick-paved streets, it has influenced hundreds of communities, which combine a nostalgia for small-town life with a serious effort to reduce suburban sprawl -- and dependence on the auto -- by putting buildings close together. So popular are the ''New Urbanist'' ideas spawned at Seaside a quarter century ago that the town's designers, the Miami-based team of Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, have been called in by Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi to apply their principles to communities destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. An organization founded by the couple, the Congress for the New Urbanism, is taking the lead in making plans for rebuilding the coast.

Leaving the Waiting List Fred D'Amico, above left, and Izya Dukorsky became friends during their three-hour sessions at a dialysis center in Brooklyn. Now they have something even rarer in common: the kidneys that were donated to them came from the same person, a man who died in Colorado. PAGE B1 Wine Orders Hit a Snag Because of red tape, New Yorkers have not been able to receive out-of-state wine ordered directly over the phone or the Internet. PAGE B1 Grammy Nominations Are In, and 3 Are in the Lead Nominations for the music industry's Grammy Awards include eight each for, from left, Kanye West, Mariah Carey and John Legend. Mr. West's ''Late Registration'' and Ms. Carey's ''Emancipation of Mimi'' received nominations for album of the year, as did Paul McCartney's ''Chaos and Creation in the Backyard,'' U2's ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'' and Gwen Stefani's ''Love. Angel. Music. Baby.'' The awards are to be presented on Feb. 8. WEEKEND, PAGE E2 Suicide Bus Bombing in Baghdad Kills at Least 30 A suicide bomber forced his way onto a crowded bus at Baghdad's main terminal and detonated explosives that killed at least 30 people and wounded 25. Separately, a militant Islamic group reportedly claimed on a Web site that it had killed a kidnapped American security consultant. PAGE A14 Tulane to Make Deep Cuts Tulane University announced that it would reopen in New Orleans next month as a sharply scaled-back institution, coping with the effects of Hurricane Katrina by laying off more than 200 faculty members and eliminating academic programs and some sports teams. PAGE A18 Jet Hits Cars, Killing Boy A jetliner trying to land in heavy snow slid off a runway in Chicago, crashed through a fence and slid into a street, hitting one vehicle and pinning another beneath it. A 6-year-old boy in one of the vehicles was killed, the authorities said. PAGE A33 Holiday Movie Season Begins As the year draws to a close, some of the most anticipated movies of 2005 are opening. Reviews of ''Brokeback Mountain,'' ''Memoirs of a Geisha,'' ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' and others. WEEKEND, PAGE E1