After Shaky Starts, News Organizations Gain Confidence on Web
Date: 27 December 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Nation's largest news organizations are getting more adept in exploiting potential of World Wide Web as a journalistic tool; news sites now exhibit speedy, professional crafting of original material, multimedia options, clean packaging and self-promotion; MSNBC.com, partnership of NBC and Microsoft, is exemplar of this new self-assurance and has surpassed CNN Interactive's sites as the Web's most-visited news organization; photo; graph (M)
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A Three-Decade Legend Loses Some Luster
Date: 26 December 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sequoia Fund, which has long greatly outperformed Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, is down 19 percent this year, while index is up 16 percent; graph (M)ÿ
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 26 December 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Russian Troops Move Into Grozny for Decisive Battle Russian Interior Ministry troops and Chechen forces loyal to Moscow advanced into Grozny, as what was billed as the decisive battle for the capital of breakaway Chechnya got under way. 1 Demands From Hijackers Hijackers who took an Indian Airlines jet on a harrowing journey across South Asia and the Middle East demanded that India release a Pakistani religious leader and several Kashmiri fighters. 8
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 December 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-13 China Sentences Members Of Banned Spiritual Group Three men and a woman accused of being top leaders of the Falun Gong spiritual movement outlawed by the Chinese government were given prison sentences ranging up to 18 years by a Beijing court. A1
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Paint Hurled Onto Steps Of Brooklyn Art Museum
Date: 26 December 1999
Man hurls red paint onto exterior stairs of Brooklyn Museum of Art; Patrick Dailey is arrested (S)
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Media Talk; Stay Tuned for More in 'This Week' Revamp
Date: 27 December 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC's dismissal of William Kristol as commentator on its This Week program is viewed as only an initial move to reshape what was once dominant network Sunday talk show and is now at best a distant second and lately an embarrassing third; photo (S)
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Toronto TV Station Adopts Web-Page Format
Date: 27 December 1999
By Dylan Loeb McClain
Dylan McClain
Cable Pulse 24, a Chum Limited television station in Toronto, offers round-the-clock news in format that looks more like a World Wide Web page than a traditional video screen; photo (M)
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BUSINESS DIGEST
Date: 27 December 1999
Many Year 2000 Worriers Starting to Close Up Shop After devoting months and sometimes years to raising consciousness about potential Year 2000 disruptions, many prominent worriers are folding up their tents. For example, Peter de Jager, the Canadian programmer who became a Year 2000 Paul Revere in 1993, has put Year2000.com, the popular Internet site he created, up for sale at eBay.com. ''The crusade part of this is just about over,'' said Edward Yardeni, a Wall Street economist who still thinks there is a 70 percent chance that Year 2000 breakdowns will usher in a worldwide recession. ''Now it's just a matter of what happens. There's no point in being alarmist anymore.'' [Page C4.]
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The Nation; Behind One Man's Mind
Date: 26 December 1999
By Michael Winerip
Michael Winerip
Fatal subway attack by violent schizophrenic Andrew Goldstein on Kendra Webdale spurred public uproar has forced New York politicians to act in mental health area; moves include increased spending on treatment that fits facts of case; also include bill to force resistant mentally ill people to comply with treatment, even though Goldstein frequently sought and was denied care; photo (M)
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