Anchors Mattered Again, and 'Survivor' Didn't
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)
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Warily Adapting A Scary Book
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)
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Political Memo; Opening Jan. 1: Mayor Bloomberg, Unedited
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)
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Memories And More
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)
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Bowman Plans to Close 4 Hedge Funds
Date: 31 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bowman Plans to Close 4 Hedge Funds**
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VerticalNet Buys A Software Maker
Date: 31 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
VerticalNet, manager of Web sites where companies buy and sell9
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Canadian Imperial Bank Buys Merrill Unit
Date: 31 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce completes its acquisition of Merrill Lynch's Canadian retail brokerage and fund-management unit; bank expects final price to be $314 million to $377 million (S)
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Government Delays Korean Cellular Merger
Date: 31 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
South Korean government delays SK Telecom's acquisition
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Qatar Oil Minister Is Predicting A Price of $20 to $22 a Barrel
Date: 31 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Qatar Oil Min Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah says crude oil prices will probably average $20 to $22 per barrel in 2002, level that will help economies of energy-consuming nations; benchmark price of OPEC for oil has averaged $23.18 in 2001 as group sought to keep prices between $22 and $28 per barrel; OPEC agrees to cut production for fourth time since February to reduce oil production to arrest decline in prices; photo (M)
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