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Date: 30 December 2001
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Caryn James Year in Review column on American television focuses on renewed importance of news anchors as result of September 11 terrorist attacks at time when reality-based shows lost their appeal; photos (M)
Date: 29 December 2001
Preview of Times Magazine for Dec 30, eighth annual tribute issue
Date: 30 December 2001
By Erica Abeel
Erica Abeel
Erica Abeel article on screewriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, who comments on challenges he faced in adapting E Annie Proulx's novel The Shipping News to film; film stars Julianne Moore and Kevin Spacey and is directed by Lasse Hallstrom; photo (M)
Date: 30 December 2001
By Adam Nagourney
Adam Nagourney
New Yorkers, who elected Michael R Bloomberg mayor largely on strength of television advertising that presented him on his own terms, are about to see how he comes off in news conferences, speeches and array of other uncontrolled public appearances that make up routine chaos of New York mayor; advisers say he is unlikely to hold as many news conferences or make as many of high-profile visits to major fire or crime scenes that became hallmark of Rudolph W Giuliani; people inside and outside his circle try to measure his leadership, political and government skills, which were often challenged during campaign; photo (M)
Date: 30 December 2001
Article profiles Long Islanders who died in past year and who changed Island for better in variety of ways: Teresa Kennedy, who helped found home for homeless and unwed pregnant teens, longtime civil rights activist James Davis, Brookhaven tax receiver, mortician and funeral home owner F Daniel Moloney, former Long Beach Police Comr Thomas Browne, cardiologist Robert Rubino, Suffolk County legislator Millie Steinberg who helped victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, Long Island Historical Journal founder Roger Wunderlich, former Museums at Stony Brook director Susan Stitt, former Lloyd Harbor mayor and environmentalist Richardson Pratt Jr, arborist and entomologist Charles Edgar Whitmore, State University of New York College of Engineering and Applied Sciences founder Thomas F Irvine, Environmental Defense Fund co-founder Dennis Puleston, Hispanic leader Paul Irizarry, Spanish-born painter Esteban Vicente, Montauk Point Lighthouse savior Giorgina Reid, newspaper publisher Robert Richner and Nassau County attorney Joseph Jaspan; photos (L)
Date: 29 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AstraZeneca asks FDA to approve Iressa, cancer treatment that company predicts will have sales of more than $1 billion (S)
Date: 29 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Paradyne Networks Inc agrees to buy Elastic Networks Inc for about $28.8 million in stock (S)
Date: 29 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Oracle Corp, database-software maker, plans to cut costs by reducing duplicate positions in consulting and sales (S)
Date: 29 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Casual Male Corp, biggest specialty retailer of large-sized men's clothing, asks bankruptcy judge for permission to close 48 unprofitable stores and holds sales at locations (S)
Date: 29 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lennox International say it will lay off 340 employees to reduce expenses and will report fourth-quarter loss (S)