November 12, 2006

Jim Windolf reviews Stephen King book Lisey's Story; drawings (L)

Athletes, sports leagues and universities are aggressively protecting what they say is their intellectual property.

Selena Roberts Sports of The Times column discusses Texas Tech University basketball coach Bob Knight, and Kansas State University coach Bob Huggins, who have reputation for bullying and people who have stood up to them (M)

Talks Collapse in Lebanon As Shiites Vacate the Cabinet Lebanon was thrown into a political crisis when talks broke down over giving Hezbollah and its political allies greater control of the government. Cabinet ministers from the group and the other main Shiite party resigned within hours. PAGE 12 The Movie Issue Will Ferrell, Christopher Guest, Santiago Segura and the art, and economics, of playing it funny in Hollywood. A special issue. MAGAZINE Immigrant Policies Disputed Conservative legal groups have begun to challenge cities like San Francisco with sanctuary policies, which forbid the police and city officials to ask people they encounter in the course of an investigation about their immigration status. PAGE 22 The $38,500 Closet Space is precious to New Yorkers, who seem happy paying more and more for a place to stow all the gear they find essential. REAL ESTATE A Columnist's Endgame The chess columnist, Robert Byrne, is retiring after 34 years. In his last column, he recalls one of his most exciting matches. PAGE 40 Back Roads to Machu Picchu There is a long waiting list for the famous Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, but impulse travelers can get to the ruins by other hiking routes. TRAVEL

The Entourage is virtually identical to the Sedona. The vans are also similar in shape, dimensions, powertrains, performance and features to models from Honda, Toyota and Chrysler.

Travel restrictions on the overcrowded Inca Trail, which was threatening to become the Long Island Expressway of central Peru, have led some visitors to seek alternative routes to these ancient ruins.

Recent Specialty Equipment Market Association show, for $30-billion automotive high-performance, customizing and accessory industry, reveals that basic black is back as styling statement; photos (M)

Florida University defeats South Carolina University, 17-16; photos (M)

Newly elected Democrats say they were given a rare opportunity by voters, many of them independents and Republicans, and now they have to produce.

Transportation Dept reports 33 percent increase in misplaced airline luggage in August from a year earlier, and 92 percent increase in September from 2005; globally about 30 million bags are mishandled every year and airlines spend about $2.5 billion to find and deliver those bags; all but 200,000 bags, or less than 1 percent, are eventually reunited with their owners; efforts are under way to fix two of worst baggage operations in United States, at US Airways in Philadelphia and Atlantic Southeast Airlines, which operates as Delta Connection in Atlanta; graph; photos (L)

Jarvis Moss blocked a field goal on the final play as No. 6 Florida avoided another devastating loss to Steve Spurrier, its former coach, and beat South Carolina.

New Yorkers strapped for storage space are only too happy to pay for more, and co-op and condo boards relish the extra income they can generate by installing storage units or renting unused utility closets.