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Date: 12 February 2005
By JOE LAPOINTE
Joe LAPOINTE
National Hockey League Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow discusses real possibility that hockey season will be canceled because union and league cannot reach new collective bargaining agreement to end lockout; photos (M)
Date: 12 February 2005
By ERIC SCHMITT and EDWARD WONG
Eric SCHMITT
Defense Sec Donald H Rumsfeld makes unannounced visit to Iraq as sectarian violence ripples across country; arrives in Mosul to assess Iraq's military and police forces and US effort to train them to take over job of defeating insurgency; photo (M)
Date: 12 February 2005
By PATRICK D. HEALY
Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, stops payment on $3,500 honorarium to Prof Ward L Churchill after speech he was scheduled to give at college is cancelled because of over 100 death threats and threats by alumni to withhold donations; photo; Churchill claims he only waived his right to privacy about amount of fee and not fee itself; Nancy Rabinowitz resigns from program she headed that invited Churchill; school found out that Churchill had written essay that characterized Sept 11 victims as 'little Eichmanns' in reference to Nazi war criminal (S)
Date: 12 February 2005
OPI Properties unit of Novartis agrees to pay $49.2 million in civil and criminal fines and be excluded from federal health care contracts to resolve inquiry into marketing of nutritional products to Medicare and Medicaid (S)
Date: 12 February 2005
By RANDY KENNEDY
Randy KENNEDY
Mayor Michael R Bloomberg says New York City should see infusion of $80 million in tourism and other spending by people flocking to see The Gates, art project in Central Park by Christo and Jeanne-Claude; journalists from more than 200 media outlets, including networks in Sweden, Mexico City and Tokyo and others as unusual as Bulgarian national television, crowd into Temple of Dendur at Metropolitan Museum of Art to hear Bloomberg and two artists discuss project; photo (M)
Date: 12 February 2005
By JACQUES STEINBERG and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Jacques STEINBERG
CNN senior executive Eason Jordan resigns abruptly, citing tempest he touched off on January 27 during panel discussion at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which he appeared to suggest that US troops deliberately aimed at journalists, killing some (M)
Date: 12 February 2005
By JULIA PRESTON
Julia PRESTON
Lawyer Lynne F Stewart, convicted in Federal Court of aiding Islamic terrorism, moves to withdraw from legal profession after disbarment; is allowed to stay out of prison pending her appeal; says she will give her cases to her son and law partner, Geoffery S Stewart; faces sentence of up to 30 years in prison on July 15; regrets her bravado and brash remarks, but says she has no second thoughts about her decision to give to news media statement by her imprisoned client, Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, even though special prison rules barred her from doing so; photo (M)
Date: 12 February 2005
By IRA BERKOW
Ira BERKOW
Ohio State University women's basketball coach Jim Foster has led team to No.2 ranking and 23-2 record; photo (M)
Date: 12 February 2005
Apple Computer, whose shares have tripled in value in last year, approves 2-for-1 stock split (S)