Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from May 2000:
GIULIANI EXAM SHOWS CANCER HASN'T SPREAD.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: BETH J. HARPAZ Associated Press NEW YORK -- A spokesman for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says the mayor's prostate cancer has not spread and that he expects to continue his U.S. Senate campaign. ``The further tests revealed the cancer had not spread, which is ...
REMAINS OF INFANT FOUND.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer Providence Two boys playing in the woods along a country road discovered the body of an infant Saturday evening. The boys found the infant's body on a forest floor just as darkness fell around 8 p.m., and their parents called ...
MARCHERS SEEK UNITY, FAIRNESS.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: GENARO C. ARMAS Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of thousands of gays and supporters marched Sunday on the Capitol, transforming the National Mall into a sea of multicolored flags and joining hands in a show of unity they hope will transform recent victories into ...
GLOBAL REACH OF AIDS SECURITY THREAT TO U.S.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: BARTON GELLMAN Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Convinced that the global spread of AIDS is reaching catastrophic dimensions, the Clinton administration has formally designated the disease for the first time as a threat to U.S. national security that could topple foreign ...
SHAKERS: CELIBATE, STRICT ... PERFUMED?(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: ELLEN BARRY Boston Globe CANTERBURY, N.H. -- David Starbuck did not set out to debunk the Shakers. Eight years after Canterbury's last kerchiefed Believer died, tens of thousands of visitors travel here every year to spend a few hours in the stark, symmetrical village ...
CLINTON TAKES TURN AS A STAND-UP GUY.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... The question of the night: Who was funnier -- President Clinton or Jay Leno? Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, with two of the country's top headliners, was a crush of media and celebrity. Although Clinton ...
FLATLEY GIVES A GIFT ON VISIT TO OLD STOMPING GROUNDS.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Michael Flatley took a break from the European tour of his latest dance extravaganza to drop into his old neighborhood with a check for $100,000. Flatley, creator and star of ``Lord of the Dance,'' donated the money Friday to Elim Christian School in Palos Heights, Ill., which ...
CARTER'S SON TAKES OVER HELM OF FRIENDSHIP FORCE.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... A son of former President Jimmy Carter is taking over the Friendship Force, an international cultural exchange organization founded during Carter's presidency. James E. ``Chip'' Carter III will take over leadership of the nonprofit, Atlanta-based group today. The next day, he ...
LAGERFELD'S TREASURES FETCH HEFTY $21.7 MILLION.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... A sale of 18th-century furniture and art objects belonging to Karl Lagerfeld fetched a fashionable amount -- $21.7 million. The collection, 320 pieces of furniture, silver, china and other art objects, brought Christie's Monaco auction house its second-biggest sale ever, ...
JOURNALISTS ADMIT AVOIDING, SOFT-PEDALING NEWS STORIES.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Four in 10 journalists say they have purposely avoided newsworthy stories or softened the tone of stories to benefit the interests of their own news organizations, according to a new poll on the media. The biggest cause for this ...
CLINTON AIMS TO CURB CORPORATE DATA SHARING.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: ANNE GEARAN Associated Press YPSILANTI, Mich. -- American consumers run too many risks as they unwittingly divulge growing amounts of personal and financial information, President Clinton said Sunday as he proposed reforms in the way banks, insurers and other ...
WOMEN, CHILDREN ARE VIETNAM VETERANS, TOO.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY There are a flurry of flashbacks and memory pieces on the Vietnam War because 25 years have passed since the United States left that country. Although there has always been discussion about the war's effect on the military, on U.S. foreign policy and ...
LAW DAY HONORS CIVIL JUSTICE.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: EMILY GOTTLIEB Kenneth White was clearing logs from a hill in upstate New York when the brake failed on his seven-ton logging machine. His left leg was crushed by a log and had to be amputated below the knee. He could no longer work as a logger to support his wife and ...
MCCAIN COULD MODERATE BUSH'S IMAGE.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: MARiANNE MEANS WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush's sudden desire to ``restore civility and respect to our national politics'' strikes a welcome chord after so many years of partisan hostility in the nation's capital. If only he meant it. But it's a real ...
BATTLING A PARADE OF PEEPERS.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- Politicians of the left and right are finally beginning to pay attention to the groundswell of resentment about invasions of privacy. In the Senate, transportation subcommittee chairman Richard Shelby leads the way: The law he ...
TIME WARNER CABLE BLOCKS ABC IN KEY MARKETS.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: JIM RUTENBERG New York Times NEW YORK -- The ABC television network went dark on Time Warner Cable systems in New York, Philadelphia and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., early this morning as talks between the network's parent company, the Walt Disney Co., and the cable company ...
VIETNAM MARKS END OF WAR.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Vietnam celebrated its stunning victory over the world's No. 1 superpower 25 years ago with a remarkably unwarlike parade Sunday and hopes it can battle its way out of poverty in the new millennium. ...
BUSH ASKS OVERHAUL OF SOCIAL SECURITY.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Combined wire services WASHINGTON -- Gov. George W. Bush plans to push soon for afundamental overhaul of Social Security, reopening an issue that could be among the most combustible and bitterly debated of the presidential campaign. In the next month, his ...
UNITED STATES BECOMING MORE LIKE A POLICE STATE.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: LIONEL S. DIMIN Albany As a former agent of the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, I am appalled at the tactics used by Attorney General Janet Reno and the Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meisner, in the ...
RENO'S STORM TROOPERS KIDNAP ELIAN GONZALEZ.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: CHARLES WHEELER Sr. Loudonville Many older folks will remember the world-wide revulsion as Hitler's storm troopers -- breaking down doors and snatching innocent Jews from their homes. The troopers were obeying the law, however. Few people in my generation ever thought ...
FELLING OLDER FORESTS NO PROTECTION FROM ACID RAIN.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: JOHN F. SHEEHAN Communications Director The Adirondack Council Albany Charles DeVoe's April 7 letter suggested that we cut down the forests of the Adirondack and Catskill parks in order to save them from acid rain. Sadly, he was not kidding. Mr. DeVoe's claim ...
SPEAK UP, MR. MCAVOY.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Why would Schenectady County send workers to a Florida rehabilitation program when a comparable one, Conifer Park, exists right within within its borders, in the village of Scotia? That question cries out for an answer now that three highway department truck drivers have filed a ...
ROBIN HOOD IN REVERSE.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... It's been a while since a welfare scandal made headlines. Something like a welfare mother driving a Cadillac or someone collecting checks under several different names used to make for such easy political points. All that stopped, ostensibly, when President Clinton and Congress made good ...
HEWITT WINS PRAISE FOR UPLIFTING IMPACT.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: MARK GRIMM Castleton Paul Hewitt's tenure as Siena's basketball coach warrants special praise. Forget coaching for a minute; Paul Hewitt is a true ``class act.'' He's a thoughtful, soft spoken, unassuming man who possesses a rare blend of humility and strong inner ...
GROUP HELPS LEAD ALS RESEARCH.(MAIN)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: CATHY CLARK Program Services Coordinator Muscular Dystrophy Association Albany - I read with interest a column on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) in the April 14 Times Union. The facts were correct about ALS but, unfortunately, the agency which ...
A PLAN BOTH INSPIRED AND INSPIRING.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: FRED LEBRUN Now the Albany public will have its say over Mayor Jerry Jennings' reconstituted Citizens' Police Review Board. No small matter, the public's reaction. Since the new fortified oversight process unveiled by the mayor last week is designed to ...
MAY DAY REVEALS EMERGING SOLIDARITY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer Waterford Thirty years ago, Bill Peltz wouldn't have been caught dead at a labor celebration. ``During the '60s, labor was on the other side. Organized labor was the enemy -- they were anti-civil rights and pro-war,'' said ...
VERDOY TO VOTE ON $2.7M BOND.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: KERI P. MATTOX Business writer Colonie Residents will vote Tuesday on a $2.7 million bond as the Verdoy Volunteer Fire Department seeks funds for the construction of a new station on Old Niskayuna Road. After selling its 33-year-old firehouse on Route 7 to ...
NOT EVERYONE'S SWINGING AT BASEBALL-CAMP PITCH.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: ANDREW BROWNSTEIN Staff writer ONEONTA -- The Web site for Cooperstown Baseball World, scheduled to open this summer, breathlessly touts the camp as a place that ``offers young players the complete baseball experience at the legendary home of baseball.'' That ...
A BLESSING DELIVERED FROM ABOVE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: KERI P. MATTOX Business writer Watervliet Firefighters pulled up to St. Peter's Armenian Apostolic Church in a ladder truck Sunday, put three men in the engine's basket and helped spray the front of the building with water -- holy water, that is. St ....
RALLY PROTESTS BEATING OF ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDENT.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press BINGHAMTON -- About 200 people gathered at State University at Binghamton over the weekend for a rally to protest the attack on four Asian students two months ago. Binghamton student John E. Lee suffered a fractured skull, internal ...
QUIET HOURS SOUGHT FOR LEAF BLOWERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY -- Assemblyman Steven Englebright, a Suffolk County Democrat, has filed legislation to ban the use of lawn and leaf blowers statewide between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. weekdays and 9 p.m. and 10 a.m. on weekends. People would face fines for ...
CHANGES SOUGHT IN ORGAN SHARING.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- New Yorkers who need organ trnasplants are victimized by a system that makes them wait longer than people in other states, Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday. ``Our system of organ transplants has gone lethally awry,'' said Schumer, ...
THEY'RE IN THE MONEY AT CAPITOL.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... It's a study in politics that might best be called Fund Raising 101. That's how many moneymaking events state senators, assemblymen and their various committees have played host to so far this year. When legislators left Albany April 19 for a Passover-Easter break, the ...
ONE LIVERY DRIVER SHOT WHILE TRYING TO AID ANOTHER.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- A livery driver was shot in the leg Sunday after he tried to help another driver who feared he was being robbed, police said. The incident happened shortly before 4 a.m. on the Lower East Side, said Officer Joseph Cavitolo, a ...
LIBBY PATAKI ON PAYROLL OF START-UP.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY -- Gov. George Pataki's wife, Libby, has earned more than $127,000 doing marketing and promotional work for a medical technology firm that didn't have a product approved for sale until six weeks ago. According to a report in Sunday's ...
ROLLINS IS REVOLUTION, REVELATION.(CAPITAL REGION)(Concert review)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall celebrated its 20th anniversary this season by bringing back favorite performers -- from Mark O'Connor to Sweet Honey in the Rock - for encore presentations. So what better way to close out the anniversary season ...
TAYLOR'S `CASCADE' PRETTY, SUBTLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: TRESCA WEINSTEIN Special to the Times Union Back when men were knights and women were damsels, they greeted each other with trailing curtsies and gallant bows. Extend those bows and curtsies into 20 minutes or so of modern dance, and you get Paul Taylor's new work, ...
CAPITAL CHAMBER AIRS SCHUBERT.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: RON EMERY Special to the Times Union The next-to-last concert of the Capital Chamber Artists' 1999-2000 season focused on Franz Schubert's masterpiece -- his Quintet in C Major with an extra cello to make the fifth instrument. The first half of the concert featured a ...
CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... This almanac of community news provides coverage of local governments, local courts and police calls from selected communities in our region. Government listings focus on communities in Albany County, and police calls are taken from the actual police blotters from larger communities ...
RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... ALBANY COUNTY The following eating establishments failed their county health inspection: Sycamore Country Club, Route 143, Ravena: April 17 Red violations: Water supply has no chlorine residual. Blue violations: Lights in back room not shielded and missing end caps; several tiles in ...
OFFICERS SHOT AT IN ALBANY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Mike Fricano - ALBANY -- Police responding to a report of gunshots in the South End became targets themselves late Sunday when a man opened fire before getting away. No one was hurt in the incident, which police said occurred around 11:24 p.m. near ...
STOLUSKY, BENJAMIN.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 2000 ... Albany City Lodge #540, Knights of Pythias announces with deep regret the passing of their brother, Benjamin Stolusky. Our heartfelt ...
CAREY'S `GEPPETTO' A CHIP OFF DISNEY BLOCK.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: MARK McGUIRE Staff writer Drew Carey is no singer. He just plays one on TV. But Carey -- ABC's most prominent face before Regis Philbin came along -- proves he's still the network's most versatile performer in a ``Wonderful World of Disney'' musical ...
A LIFETIME DUET HUSBAND AND WIFE PIANISTS BRING LIFETIME OF MUSIC TO HUDSON.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: KRIS WORRELL STAFF WRITER The lives of Vladimir Pleshakov and Elena Winther have been playing out like a grand sonata in three movements, with two recurring themes -- their love for music and their love for each other. In the first movement, it begins with a ...
BEST BETS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 2000 ... All-star `Millionaire' Drew Carey, above, joins Queen Latifah, Rosie O' Donnell, David Duchovny and Kathie Lee Gifford in this week's celebrity episodes of ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' (kicking off at 8 tonight on WTEN Ch. 10). All proceeds go to charity. Hey, haven't you always ...
MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF CONTINUING ANTITRUST TACTICS.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: JAMES V. GRIMALDI Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has continued to uncover what antitrust enforcers believe is evidence of the same types of monopolistic behavior that got Microsoft Corp. into legal trouble in the first place, according to documents ...
BAD CREDIT LEAVES BIG FOOTPRINTS.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: JANE BRYANT QUINN Do you know how many credit, insurance and anti-fraud bureaus keep tabs on how you behave? Neither do I, but it's many more than we think. You're familiar with credit bureaus (the three biggies: Equifax, Experian and Trans Union). They ...
COMPUTER CEOS POWER `FORBES' LIST.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Six of the nation's top 10 highest paid chief executives head computer software or hardware firms, according to a ranking released Sunday by Forbes magazine. The magazine ranked executives of the nation's top 800 companies by ...
MALL PROJECT LOOMS LARGE.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press SYRACUSE -- Robert Congel always thinks big, but his latest idea sort of boggles the mind. Congel, a founding partner of the Syracuse-based The Pyramid Cos., wants to triple the size of the already imposing Carousel Center, transforming it ...
NO SWAN SONG YET FOR MP3.COM.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: JON PARELES New York Times The online music service MP3.com expressed guarded confidence about reaching a settlement with the Recording Industry Association of America, following a federal court ruling on Friday that MP3.com had violated copyright law by creating an ...
USE OLD PICTURES FOR HOMEMADE VIDEO.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: HELOISE DEAR HELOISE: When I read your column, I particularly noticed the hint about reproducing old photos on a copying machine. It stirred my memory. At merely the cost of a videotape, I have taped all my still pictures and added some music. I got the idea ...
PICKING UP THE BEST VACUUM.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 2000 ... Today's vacuum cleaners provide everything from pollution-control filters to lights that signal when your carpet is clean. A couple of vacs virtually drive themselves. Yet in our tests of full-size upright and canister vacs, we found that some of the new features add more to ...
CLONED COWS MAY HOLD CELLS TO YOUTHFULNESS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: TIM FRIEND USA TODAY A group of cloned cows appear to possess cells that hold secrets of the fountain of youth, researchers reported in Friday's Science. Since the cloning of Dolly the sheep a few years ago, scientists have been concerned that cloned animals ...
`PARTY OF FIVE' ENDS WITH A 2-HOUR WRAP.(TV & RADIO)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: CHELSEA J. CARTER Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- From the beginning, the fictional, orphaned Salinger siblings overcame obstacles, struggling to stay together after their parents' death -- and also to stay on the air after the network nearly pulled the plug on their ...
FILM DIRECTOR'S ROOTS REMAIN IN LA MANCHA.(ARTS & ENTERTA)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: DANIEL WOOLLS Associated Press CALZADA DE CALATRAVA, Spain -- Pedro Almodovar doesn't live here anymore. The film director's birthplace is a drab little grid of potholes and dust, the kind of poor farming town teenagers can't wait to leave. In ...
COUNTRY MUSIC AWARD NOMINATION DRIES TEARS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: MIKE HUGHES Gannett News Service When Brad Paisley and Kelley Lovelace sat down to write, ``He Didn't Have to Be,'' nominated for best song, best single and best video in the 35th annual ``Academy of Country Music Awards,'' airing 8 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, on CBS (WRGB Ch ....
COACH'S JOB: BRING SAINTS TO LIFE.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: TIM REYNOLDS Staff writer LOUDONVILLE -- On Jan. 29, 1996, Siena College left its football program for dead. And although the program was resurrected three weeks later, it has not shown much life since. Sure, there were the five straight wins and 6-3 overall ...
LEWIS' HEART MEASURED IN FISTS.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: TIM DAHLBERG Associated Press NEW YORK -- Lennox Lewis has one less belt, and one larger reputation. Exposing Michael Grant's amateurish ways cost Lewis the WBA heavyweight title, but it may also do wonders to the image of a heavyweight champion tarnished by ...
PEDRO STILL PERFECT.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press Red Sox 2 Indians 1 CLEVELAND -- Pedro's still perfect against the Indians. And perfectly despised by them. Pedro Martinez, who has owned Cleveland's soul the past two years, remained unbeaten against the Indians on Sunday by ...
YANKEES ROCKET PAST JAYS.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Combined wire services Yankees 7 Blue Jays 1NEW YORK -- A couple of more games like Sunday's 7-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays, and the first-place New York Yankees might just have something to boast about. That's what Paul O'Neill hopes for, anyway ....
KNICKS TO FACE THE HEAT.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: FRANK ISOLA New York Daily News Knicks 87 Raptors 80TORONTO -- The shot seemed destined to shatter the backboard, but instead Larry Johnson did the same to the Raptors. He did, in fact, call ``Glass!'' Sunday, and you almost get the feeling that, ...
SPORTS TRIVIA.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Today's question: Besides Kentucky and UCLA, what college men's basketball team won at least 90 consecutive games at home? ...
BABE RUTH UNIFORM STARTING AT $10G.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Anyone interested in buying the uniform Babe Ruth wore in ``Pride of the Yankees'' will need a hefty bank account. Start at $10,000. That's the minimum bid for Babe's movie uniform at the Mastro Fine Sports Auction set for ...
TOP NAMES INVITED TO 16TH ALBANY RUN.(SPORTS)
May 01, 2000 ... Byline: BUZZ GRAY Staff writer Many of the premier runners in the Capital Region, as well as some international entrants, will be chasing more than $21,000 in prizes Tuesday night in the 16th annual Albany Run for New York at the Empire State Plaza. The two-mile ...