Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from June 2000

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from June 2000

A lesson in smaller class sizes.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
June 1, 2000

The gun was the seed of the crime.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 1, 2000

Appeals court upholds denial of asylum hearing for Elian.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 1, 2000

[0] `Big Momma's House'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 1, 2000

[0] Tito Puente, giant of Latin music, dies at 77.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 1, 2000

Bad look, good advice: The tattoo-laden Glenallen Hill often appears menacing, but the Cubs regard him a seasoned pro, wise to the ways of the game.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ Glenallen Hill doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve. He wears it on his thick, muscular arms, which are adorned with a half-dozen tattoos, all of which convey a special meaning. "I think that's the only reason to get a...

Weights? No way; vitamins help maintain focus.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ Glenallen Hill's life might not be an open book, but his locker is. Ask Hill the secret to building a 235-pound frame with less fat than filet mignon and he'll point to his locker, which is worthy of induction in the General...

Koko Taylor: Say she's an icon, but don't presume she's the retiring type.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ They call her the Queen of the Blues, and the crown fits. Koko Taylor looks like she stepped out of a 1920s photo session, a vision of gleaming elegance: earrings and rings, a sequined blue dress fit for Bessie Smith, and a gold tooth...

GMC's Sierra Sport Special Edition places appearance above performance.(The Orlando Sentinel)
June 2, 2000... GMC has built a truck for poseurs _ not that there's anything wrong with that. Some drivers don't need an industrial strength, gas-guzzling, V-8-powered hauler. So the handsome Sierra Sport Special Edition places appearance above...

United States should welcome a Euroforce.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
June 2, 2000... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, 6-1: X X X President Clinton seems to be enjoying his victory lap through Europe this week, including a round of golf in Portugal Wednesday. Pundits in Portugal...

How to punish our youngsters.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
June 2, 2000... This editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, 6-1: X X X Only months after 11-year-old Nathaniel Abraham became the youngest person in the nation ever tried and convicted of murder as an adult, another boy, scarcely...

Aztek can surprise, delight or disgust.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ With your first glance at the 2001 Pontiac Aztek, you are going to fall into a deep swoon or get sick. You are going to love it or hate it, and whatever the choice, you are going to do it with a passion. Pontiac calls it...

Jim's driveway: Capsules of Jim Mateja's auto reviews.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... Jim's driveway is capsules of Jim Mateja's auto reviews that appear in the Chicago Tribune. The vehicles will be grouped by model year and listed alphabetically. The digested version of the most recent reviews will replace older ones each week....

Savvy car thieves simply join the key club.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but it seems you can't fool the industrious car thief, who now has come up with a clever new plan to pilfer vehicles. Why bother waiting...

What began as `airport art' is now taking off in homes.(Sun-Sentinel, South Florida)
June 2, 2000... When many of us first discovered African art in the 1990s, our tastes were simple. We hung a pair of tribal masks on the wall or tossed a few kente cloth pillows on the sofa. Since then, we have gotten more sophisticated in our tastes and...

Baby boomers lead cultural shift from `religion' to `spirituality'.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ For Steven Hartman, spiritual development is a way of life. He was baptized Catholic and raised in the Methodist and Episcopalian faiths, but hasn't attended any of those churches since he embarked on a spiritual quest at 18: He...

Spiritual seekers take a mix-and-match approach.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ Today's religious landscape is like a shopping mall. Led by a vanguard of the Baby Boom generation, many spiritual seekers are taking a mix-and-match approach to religion, picking and choosing according to their changing needs....

Boomers searching for spirituality tell their stories.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... The driving force behind the trend toward mix-and-match spirituality is the Baby Boom generation. Boomers are "the principal carrier of an emerging spiritual quest culture," says Wade Clark Roof, professor of religion and society at the...

Preparation can avoid confusion when pets and owners separate.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... Q. My husband and I are about to move into an apartment, and we can't take my Rottweiler, Mandrake, with us. We will spend weekends with him. Mandrake will stay with a friend who offered to "baby-sit" weekdays. Mandrake will be 9 this summer....

Smiles still in order at AutoNation.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... Time for AutoNation to offer a mea culpa. It tried to compete in the used-car superstore arena. Along with CarMax, AutoNation _ backed by the deep pockets of H. Wayne Huizenga _ was going to teach traditional car dealers a lesson in how to...

Kenya find something for me?(Sun-Sentinel, South Florida)
June 2, 2000... What's the latest in African art and collectibles? Here are some suggestions from Rod Spencer, a historian and importer: _TERRA-COTTA VESSELS: Designed to hold water and grain, these containers are made by and for women to carry on their...

The facts on African fabrics.(Sun-Sentinel, South Florida)
June 2, 2000... African textiles are used for a variety of decorating accessories such as wall hangings, bedspreads and throw pillows. Here are three common fabrics used in home design: _ KENTE CLOTH The word "Kente" is thought to have come from the...

Movie classics of the week: Alfred Hitchcock festival on AMC.(The Orlando Sentinel)
June 2, 2000... (Sunday 6-11 release) Alfred Hitchcock fans can get their fill of the master film director this week and next when American Movie Classics televises 32 of his movies as part of the Eighth Annual Film Preservation Festival. The film...

United States' No. 1 doubles team falls.(Sun-Sentinel, South Florida)
June 2, 2000... PARIS _ It was clay, definitely not the best surface for Jared Palmer and Alex O'Brien, the No. 1 team on the ATP Tour and possibly the U.S. Davis cup doubles tandem vs. Spain on July 14-16. But that excuse won't wash after this 6-2, 6-4...

Unemployment rate jumps to 4.1 percent.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... WASHINGTON _ The Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate took an unexpectedly sharp jump to 4.1 percent in May, suggesting the Federal Reserve's campaign to slow the economy is beginning to hammer the nation's job market....

Michael Chang is latest big name to fall.(Sun-Sentinel, South Florida)
June 2, 2000... PARIS _ Michael Chang couldn't turn back the clock. He couldn't move it forward, either. Oh, what he could have done with just another half-hour with the darkness falling, but never quickly enough, over the Court Centrale on Friday. ...

Alternative Watch: Marketing tricks to make you buy.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... The editors at the always informative Nutrition Action Health Letter have been busy. The official publication of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest devoted its April issue to multivitamins, rating the best...

Veterans of Dunkirk invasion gather one last time for 60th anniversary.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... LONDON _ Winston Churchill called it "a miracle of deliverance," the 1940 rescue of 338,000 British and Allied soldiers from the little French port of Dunkirk in the darkest hours of World War II. It was a turning point in the war. The...

Putin needs Clinton visit to establish himself as a world leader.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... MOSCOW _ Not long ago this city would have been a beehive of activity before a powerful world leader came to town. Brooms would have been worn down, empty paint cans piled high, and carpenters would have been hammering away. But that was...

U.S. national team depends on Claudio Reyna.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... WASHINGTON _ Any analysis regarding future prospects of the U.S. national team usually begins with the play of Claudio Reyna, its playmaking midfielder from Springfield, N.J. Reyna is not only the most creative midfielder the U.S. team has; he...

Clinton calls for making Russia `fully part of Europe'.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... AACHEN, Germany _ In the shadow of a medieval cathedral built around the tomb of Charlemagne, the great unifier of Europe, President Clinton proposed Friday that the NATO alliance and the nations of Europe embrace Russia in trade and security...

Number of violent crimes involving guns down sharply.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... WASHINGTON _ In the bitter political conflict over gun control, defenders of gun rights accuse the Clinton administration of failing to enforce existing firearms laws. One National Rifle Association leader went so far as to declare that...

Stimulant qat continues to thrive in drought-haunted Ethiopian fields.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHELENKO, Ethiopia _ The hills around Aliyi Saido's fields are scorched the color of sunburned skin. For three years the crucial spring rains, soft showers called the belg, have failed. The village's corn crop is burning up under a...

Slain teacher's widow, family break silence one week after shooting.(Sun-Sentinel, South Florida)
June 2, 2000... WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. _ A week ago, Pam Grunow watched her husband, Barry, head off to class on the last day of school at Lake Worth Middle. A week ago, she expected him to come home, just like he had every other workday, and play for hours...

Achieving equality takes a long time, Desmond Tutu says.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... ATLANTA _ Sitting in his small office in the chapel at Emory University, dressed in a T-shirt and listening to Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No. 1," South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu could be mistaken for a typical college professor. It...

SEC charges stockbroker was in on Cayman scam targeting the elderly.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... A Chicago area stockbroker has been named by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as taking part in a giant Ponzi scheme based in the Cayman Islands that raised $314 million from more than 1,000 mostly elderly and retired investors. ...

Alternative medicine finding its way into the mainstream.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... The location alone tells you something. More than 200 people gathered to hear Dr. David Eisenberg speak about alternative medicine recently at the Drury Lane Theater in Oak Brook, Ill. It's hard to get more suburban or more mainstream than...

It's not politics as usual in Utah.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... SALT LAKE CITY _ The crowd was raucous. When Sen. Orrin Hatch, one of the most powerful figures in Washington, stood up to speak, they booed. When Gov. Mike Leavitt, chairman of the National Governors Association, came to the podium, they...

British Library launches effort to preserve irreplaceable literary volumes.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... LONDON _ Rick Brown once spent six months on a single book. Not reading it, but restoring it. Brown, a senior conservator at the British Library, is one of 70 experts there who daily fight what seems a losing battle to preserve...

Cubs defeat Tigers.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ The memories are sepia-toned, freeze frames preserved in musings and microfilm. The Tigers' last visit to Wrigley Field _ a 9-3 Game 7 decision Oct. 10, 1945 that gave Detroit the World Series _ is ancient history. No need to...

Pressure's off, so Aguilera's racking up saves; Recent success shouldn't take Aguilera off hook.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ Not much more than a year ago the trumpets sounded as he arrived at Wrigley Field. Shout it from the Waveland rooftops: Cubs General Manager Ed Lynch finally had done something right. Something dramatic, expensive, completely...

Manuel back in the managerial swing of things.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... HOUSTON_With a day off on Wednesday to attend his son's high school graduation, White Sox manager Jerry Manuel didn't have to make any of his daily trips to the pitching mound. But Manuel made up for it on Friday, making three pitching...

Pippen drives _ Blazers along for ride.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... PORTLAND, Ore. _ Scottie Pippen doesn't talk about it, but teammate Damon Stoudamire believes Pippen's inspired play for Portland in the Western Conference finals is partly the result of having been overlooked in Chicago. "Out of those...

Son of Sarge' finally joins the parent's club.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ Nervous isn't the right word. Ecstatic is more like it. For outfielder Gary Matthews Jr., recalled Friday from Class AAA Iowa, walking into the Cubs' clubhouse for the first time was a happy homecoming. "It's incredible. I...

White Sox defeat Astros.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... HOUSTON_Waiting to take some cuts during batting practice before Friday's game, Frank Thomas stared at the old locomotive engine that runs on a track about 60-feet above the left-center-field field wall of Enron Field. "You want to see me...

Manuel explains quick Parque hook.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... HOUSTON_With a day off on Wednesday to attend his son's graduation, White Sox manager Jerry Manuel didn't have to make any of his daily trips to the pitching mound. But Manuel made up for it on Friday, making three pitching changes in the...

Montoya in a whirlwind following the path of Indy winners.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... WEST ALLIS, Wis. _ Winning the Indianapolis 500 changes your life. Each May that phrase is repeated constantly by everyone from Old-Guard guys such as A.J. Foyt to 1998 winner Eddie Cheever, who is a staple on the Indy Racing League (IRL)...

Miller leads Indiana to first Finals berth.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... NEW YORK _ First Reggie Miller managed to work the Indiana Pacers into an unbeatable Hoosier hysteria. Then he and his teammates exterminated the New York Knicks 93-80 at Madison Square Garden Friday night to claim the Eastern Conference...

Wolves remain wary of Griffins, go for knockout.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ The Wolves' magic number is 1. They need one victory over the Grand Rapids Griffins to win the International Hockey League's Turner Cup, and they have three games in which to get it. Wolves coach John Anderson wants the...

All business for Coil-Force team.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... CHICAGO _ John Force is arguably the most well-known driver on the NHRA circuit. The nine-time Funny Car champion, who is on the verge of breaking the career record for victories at 86, is featured on national television commercials,...

Blazers win, force Game 7 in Los Angeles.(Chicago Tribune)
June 2, 2000... PORTLAND, Ore. _ So who wants to spend a week in Indianapolis? That will be determined for Portland and the Lakers in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals Sunday in Los Angeles. A seventh game became necessary when the Trail Blazers...

Countdown is on as Kansas prepares to cut prison population.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Students get early teaching experience in Kansas City classrooms.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Couple hopes Transplant Games will alert others to need for organ donations.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000... MIAMI _ Vivian and Jose Alvarez hop on the treadmill three to five nights a week for an intense workout to burn up more than calories. The Coral Springs, Fla., couple want to show the world that organ recipients like them can live normal,...

Nickelodeon's animated `Maggie' gets her own series.(The Dallas Morning News)
June 2, 2000

Indian Motorcycle Co.'s managers draw on experience of success.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Oldsmobile redesigns stylish Aurora's style.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

PT Cruiser: It's old, it's new; it's big, it's small; mostly it's just hot.(The Orange County Register)
June 2, 2000

The Ford Escape will change the game at the small end of the sport-utility spectrum.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

New Nissan Sentra CA is the cleanest gasoline-fueled car built.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

It's ALIVE: The Tonys race, as seen from a distance.(The Virginian-Pilot)
June 2, 2000

Clinton's ban dismays environmentalists by excluding Alaska's Tongass Forest.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
June 2, 2000

Clinton's road ban bows to green extremists and likely will fan catastrophic wildfires.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
June 2, 2000

Central Asia exchanges forge democratic ideals among next generation.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
June 2, 2000

Putin's curbs on democracy efforts are troubling.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

It's a small, clean world at Disney.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

A recipe for a healthy Juneteenth.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

A list of Sportsplus budget lines from the past week.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
June 2, 2000

Mercedes Cabriolet powerful, gorgeous, expensive _ are you worth it?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Cancer victim flies through air with greatest of ease on therapeutic trapeze.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Study links two hormones to breast cancer risk.(The Seattle Times)
June 2, 2000

Robinson's Message: let talent be the payback, not violence.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Howell bolsters Oklahoma State's NCAA chances.(The Dallas Morning News)
June 2, 2000

Around the National League.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Around the American League.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Can the Internet save baseball.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Notes from a Philadelphia columnist, from Pacers to Knight to Lewis.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Tony Awards are just a long commercial, so enjoy the dancing.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

List of Tony Award nominations and forecast of winners.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

Tony Awards intensify debate about spectacle vs. story in musicals.(The Dallas Morning News)
June 2, 2000

Amateur piano competition takes heart _ and brains.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000

`King Gimp,' premiering Monday on HBO.(The Dallas Morning News)
June 2, 2000

KRT offers print and online tributes to Bob Hope.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
June 2, 2000

Advertising's Clio Awards moving from N.Y. to Miami Beach.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
June 2, 2000... The prestigious Clio Awards show, which honors the world's best television commercials, is moving from New York to South Florida next year. The four-day event, which attracts hundreds of art directors, copy writers, film producers,...