Dwyane Wade stole Jason Kidd's inbounds pass with 1.4 seconds left, depriving the Nets of one last shot to extend their season, and sealing the Heat's victory to win the series 4-1.

A Pass Too Far

A state board has chosen two finalists for the long-awaited redevelopment of what was Harlem's largest and most elegant theater, the Victoria Theater.

The Lights Are Still Out at the Victoria

Executives expect to get a letter from their sole outside shareholder calling on them to take the influential privately owned German media company public.

Bertelsmann's Moment of Truth

The African Union force in Darfur has been hamstrung by inadequate equipment, too few troops and a limited mandate.

Obstacles Test African Force in Grim Darfur

Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes fear that their children's plight is being lost in the din of Type 2 diabetes.

Beyond 'I'm a Diabetic,' Little Common Ground 

The Getty's Michael Brand is working on returning Greece's artifacts to achieve a "fruitful cooperation" that "could include long-term loans" of artworks.

Getty Director to Seek Return of Antiquities to Greece

Despite lobbying by the president, many Republican lawmakers oppose giving illegal workers a chance to become citizens.

Bush Faces Resistance 
on Immigration

The release of Douglas A. Warney, who served 10 years for a murder he confessed to but did not commit, struck a powerful note at a prison in Nashville.

Lawyers Elsewhere Take Note as a New York Man Is Freed by DNA Tests

The agency that Gen. Michael V. Hayden stands to inherit is far along a path toward rebuilding its overseas network, officials say.

C.I.A. Making Rapid Strides for Regrowth

In a small North Dakota town, a mother recently opened the laptop computer of her daughter, who died on 9/11.

Hope, Saved on a Laptop

The measure, which passed by a vote of 83 to 16, added momentum to the Senate's efforts to pass an immigration bill.

Senate Votes to 
Extend Fence
Along Border

Hewlett-Packard said  that strong sales of laptop computers and printer supplies along with cost-cutting helped push its quarterly profit up.

Hewlett Says Its Earnings Jumped 51%

Defense lawyers portrayed their clients as passionate men guilty of no more than their supreme belief that they could turn Enron into an energy colossus.

Fiery Plea by Defense in Houston

NBC has found a way to capitalize on the public's fear of more insidious, high-tech perils by offering fascinatingly repellant vigilante television.

Gotcha! 'Dateline' Paves a Walk of Shame for Online Predators

Most of the green technologies that make money now are profitable only because of government tax incentives or subsidies. Send in the lobbyists!

What's Kind to Nature Can Be Kind to Profits

If politics makes for strange bedfellows, global warming, endangered forests, dwindling water supplies and scary new technologies have made for even stranger ones.

Companies and Critics Try Collaboration

Was Marion Jones the good girl betrayed by bad boys? Or did she need bad boys so she could be good?

Balco Web Should Be as Sticky for Jones as It Is for Bonds

President Bush pushed ahead on Tuesday with his effort to bring Republicans in the House and the Senate together on a plan to reduce illegal immigration. But he ran into renewed resistance from conservatives who said they were not swayed by the case he made Monday to give many illegal workers a chance to become citizens.     The administration began an effort to build support for the president's approach, including putting Vice President Dick Cheney on Rush Limbaugh's syndicated radio program to try to mollify conservatives. Mr. Bush's plan combines a pledge of enhanced border security, backed by the deployment of up to 6,000 National Guard troops, with the creation of a temporary guest worker program and an opportunity for illegal immigrants who meet certain standards to gain legal status.  

DIVISIONS REMAIN AS BUSH PRESSES ON IMMIGRATION

Tony Award nominations are announced; musical The Drowsy Chaperone receives 13 nominations, including best musical, best direction and best lead actor and actress; The Color Purple receives 11 nominations, including best musical and four acting nominations; Alan Bennett play History Boys leads new play category with seven nominations, followed by Martin McDonagh play The Lieutenant of Inishmore with five nominations; The Pajama Game dominates musical revival category with nine nominations and Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing! leads for play revival with eight nominations; list of all nominations; photos (M)

'Drowsy Chaperone' Leads With 13 Tony Nominations

Sometime next week, executives at Bertelsmann expect to receive a letter from their sole outside shareholder, a Belgian investment firm, calling on them to take the company public.     That formal notification will bring to the point of reckoning a debate that has been percolating inside Bertelsmann for five years: Should the company, a trans-Atlantic media colossus with interests including the book publisher Random House and a half-stake in the Sony-BMG music partnership, give up its position as arguably Germany's most influential privately owned enterprise?  

Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that strong sales of laptop computers and printer supplies along with cost-cutting helped push its quarterly profit up 51 percent. The company also said its market share in personal computers increased 1.4 percentage points.     The quarter reflects a strategy by Mark V. Hurd, Hewlett's chief executive, to balance revenue growth with increased profits. In almost all its divisions, including those with flat or declining revenues, the company improved its profit margins.  

Miami Heat defeats New Jersey Nets, 106-105, to win second-round playoff series, 4-1; photos (M)

Measure of detente is reached by environmental groups and corporations they would have sued not long ago for harming environment; environmental groups still wield threat of public criticism, boycotts and lawsuits, but they are also willing to collaborate and commend corporations for steps in right direction; corporations, under pressure to go green, are baring their souls and books to onetime critics and asking them for help; photos (M)

Alessandra Stanley TV Watch column on series To Catch a Predator featured on program Dateline; program works with group Perverted Justice to set up pedophiles on internet chat rooms by posing as underage boys and girls and luring them to house where there are cameras and police waiting; holds that however sensationalist and unsavory, program is hard to fault because its targets deserve worse than Dateline walk of shame; photo (M)

Industrial giants like General Electric, BP and Ford seek to prove their environmental bona fides in order to impress investors, maintain public images and win competitive advantage, but they also have their eyes on profit potential of green technologies; photos (L)

Cy Feuer was an American theatre producer, director, composer, musician, and half of the celebrated producing duo Feuer and Martin. He won three competitive Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. He was also nominated for Academy Awards as the producer of Storm Over Bengal and Cabaret.

Cy Feuer, American director, producer, and composer (born 1911)

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USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) was one of the few Essex-class aircraft carriers completed after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War.

The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.

May 17, 2006

Headlines from May 17, 2006

A Pass Too Far

The Lights Are Still Out at the Victoria

Bertelsmann's Moment of Truth

Obstacles Test African Force in Grim Darfur

Beyond 'I'm a Diabetic,' Little Common Ground

Billboard 200

10;000 Days

Pearl Jam

Blood Money

High School Musical

Me And My Gang

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for May 17, 2006