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URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: ART DEALERS (90%); RESTAURANTS (90%); ART & ARTISTS (90%); AUCTIONS (90%); MUSEUMS & GALLERIES (89%); EXHIBITIONS (75%); PHOTOGRAPHY (71%); ENTREPRENEURSHIP (69%); HISTORIC DISTRICTS & STRUCTURES (67%); ARTISTS & PERFORMERS (90%); PAINTING (76%) Art; Auctions; Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates); Collectors and Collections; Art COMPANY: CNINSURE INC (93%) TICKER: CISG (NASDAQ) (93%) PERSON: David Barboza GEOGRAPHIC: SHANGHAI, CHINA (95%); BEIJING, CHINA (90%); LONDON, ENGLAND (90%); NEW YORK, NY, USA (69%); PARIS, FRANCE (50%) EAST CHINA (94%); NORTH CENTRAL CHINA (94%); NEW YORK, USA (79%) CHINA (99%); ENGLAND (90%); UNITED KINGDOM (90%); UNITED STATES (79%); HONG KONG (79%); FRANCE (72%); EUROPE (86%) China; Beijing (China); Shanghai (China) LOAD-DATE: January 4, 2007 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GRAPHIC: Photos: Yue Minjun with some of his smiling figures in his Beijing studio. One of China's new breed of financially successful artists, he lives in a large walled-off compound. (Photo by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)(pg. E1) ''Father and Son,'' a 2005 painting by Zhang Xiaogang. Prices for Mr. Zhang's work have skyrocketed at auction over the last two years. (Photos by Christie's) Works by the new generation, clockwise from above: ''Marlboro,'' by Wang Guangyi, whose Great Criticism series incorporates Western brand names ''Interior, 2003,'' by Zeng Hao, whose solo show in Shanghai recently opened ''30th Mary,'' by Fang Lijun, a ''Cynical Realist'' painter and ''Smoking,'' by Zeng Fanzhi. (Photo by Beijing Art Now Gallery) (Photo by Saatchi Gallery)(pg. E5)
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Late Edition - Final Protecting Internet Democracy SECTION: Section A; Column 1; Editorial Desk; Pg. 20 LENGTH: 465 words One of the big winners in the last election may turn out to be the principle, known as net neutrality, that Internet service providers should not be able to favor some content over others. Democrats who are moving into the majority in Congress -- led by Ron Wyden in the Senate and Edward Markey in the House -- say they plan to fight hard to pass a net neutrality bill, and we hope that they do. It is vital to preserve the Internet's role in promoting entrepreneurship and free expression. Internet users now get access to any Web site on an equal basis. Foreign and domestic sites, big corporate home pages and little-guy blogs all show up on a user's screen in the same way when their addresses are typed into a browser. Anyone who puts up a Web page can broadcast it to the world. Cable and telephone companies are talking, however, about creating a two-tiered Internet with a fast lane and a slow lane. Companies that pay hefty fees would have their Web pages delivered to Internet users in the current speedy fashion. Companies and individuals that do not would be relegated to the slow lane. Creating these sorts of tiers would destroy the democratic quality of the Internet. Big, wealthy voices would start to overpower the smaller, poorer ones. Innovation would be threatened if start-ups and small companies could not afford the new fees. The next eBay or Google might never be born. A net neutrality law would require cable and telephone companies to continue to provide Web sites to Internet users on an equal basis. Mr. Markey, of Massachusetts, will be taking over a key subcommittee that handles Internet issues. He has promised to hold hearings to educate Congress and the public, and to reintroduce his strong net neutrality bill. Mr. Wyden, of Oregon, plans to reintroduce an equally solid bill in the Senate. Passing the legislation will not be easy. The cable and telephone companies have fought net neutrality with a lavishly financed and misleading lobbying campaign, because they stand to gain an enormous windfall. But there is growing support from individuals and groups across the political spectrum, from MoveOn.org to the Gun Owners of America, who worry about what will happen to their free speech if Internet service providers are allowed to pick and choose the traffic they carry. In the last week, there was a limited but important victory for net neutrality. As a condition of approving the AT&T-BellSouth merger, the Federal Communications Commission required AT&T to guarantee net neutrality on its broadband service for the next two years. The commission was right to extract this concession, but it should not be necessary to negotiate separate deals like this one. On the information superhighway, net neutrality should be a basic rule of the road.
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Late Edition - Final Auburn And Bowl Try to Find Their Place BYLINE: By TOM SPOUSTA SECTION: Section D; Column 6; Sports Desk; COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 727 words DATELINE: DALLAS, Jan. 1 Forget poignant toasts or sappy resolutions for the new year. The Auburn Tigers were still living in the present and believed they needed to define this season once and for all. Ranked as high as No. 2 in October, Auburn became the team with its face mask pressed against the Bowl Championship Series window after losses to Arkansas and Georgia derailed its national title and Southeastern Conference championship hopes. The 10th-ranked Tigers gained a sense of completion Monday with a 17-14 victory against No. 22 Nebraska in a Cotton Bowl game that itself has been searching for an identity and looking to regain a lost luster. Auburn's absence of style points was symbolic of its season. The Tigers were manhandled for much of the first half, but they went into halftime with the score tied at 14-14. Linebacker Karibi Dede's 52-yard interception return and safety Tristan Davis's fumble recovery on a botched fake punt by Nebraska led to quick touchdowns, a 9-yard pass from Brandon Cox to Carl Stewart and Stewart's 1-yard run. After John Vaughn kicked a 42-yard field goal with 6 minutes 20 seconds left in the third quarter to give Auburn a 3-point lead, the Tigers held firm to finish 11-2 and probably secure a top-10 final ranking. Nebraska, playing in its biggest bowl since the 2002 Rose Bowl, fell to 9-5. ''It was a typical Auburn win -- win ugly,'' Coach Tommy Tuberville said. ''We were lucky to be in the game after the first half.'' Once among the bowl elite, the Cotton Bowl has clung to its Jan. 1 date but has dropped in status with the rise of the B.C.S. formulas and big-money matchups. Even two programs with reputations for drawing big fan contingents to road games could not guarantee a full stadium here. The announced attendance was 66,777, about 1,500 shy of a sellout and the lowest since 63,465 attended the 2001 game between Kansas State and Tennessee. The Cotton Bowl seats 72,262, but officials cut short ticket sales by not opening four auxiliary bleacher sections (about 4,000 more seats). Judging by numerous patches of empty seats, several thousand tickets appeared to go unused, although Auburn and Nebraska said they sold their allotments of 12,500 tickets. ''We are what we are,'' said Bruce Gadd, the chairman of the board for the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, adding he was somewhat disappointed the universities did not ask for more tickets. ''We're not a B.C.S. bowl. I can see how some folks would not want to travel down here.'' He added: ''But it's about a lot of things other than just the number of people we have here. We're happy with the numbers.'' Gadd said the Cotton Bowl wanted to crack the B.C.S. lineup, but that will probably have to wait until the current agreements expire after the 2010 season. ''I venture to guess we'll be back in the mix, whatever they're going to call the next revolution of postseason college football,'' Gadd said. ''I predict we'll be there. A couple years ago, I might not have said that because we were struggling. But we're headed in that direction.'' Nebraska fans clearly outnumbered the Auburn crowd. The Cornhuskers fan Dave Bagenhost said more Nebraska fans would have come except for the 40-degree weather and the 10:30 a.m. local kickoff time. Bagenhost said that when Nebraska fans went to a bowl, ''they want the warm weather.'' ''Dallas really doesn't have that to offer,'' he said. George Castelman, a Dallas resident and ticket entrepreneur, has tried to sell tickets at three bowl games recently, and supply has exceeded demand each time. At the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, he said, tickets with a $65 face value were fetching $20 for the game last Saturday between Texas and Iowa. He received only about $10 for tickets priced at $35 for the Independence Bowl, which pitted Alabama against Oklahoma State last Thursday in Shreveport, La. On Monday morning, Castelman stood at the entrance to the State Fair of Texas parking lot adjacent to the Cotton Bowl and tried to sell tickets with a $90 face value for $30 to $50. ''It's the economy right now,'' Castelman said. ''People don't have money. People are tightening. Of course, you're going to get a segment of people that will always pay $200 for a 50-yard-line seat. But that's far in between. But the overall populace that attends these games, they can't afford to go.'' URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: AMERICAN FOOTBALL (92%); SPORTS (92%); RANKINGS (90%); STADIUMS & ARENAS (77%); TICKET SALES (77%); TOURNAMENTS (77%); COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY SPORTS (77%); SPORTS & RECREATION (72%); ATHLETES (77%); SPORTS GOVERNING BODIES (62%); SPORTS & RECREATION EVENTS (90%) Football; Cotton Bowl ORGANIZATION: AUBURN UNIVERSITY (97%); SOUTHEASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (57%); UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (59%) Auburn University; University of Nebraska PERSON: MICHAEL MCMAHON (50%) Tom Spousta GEOGRAPHIC: DALLAS, TX, USA (57%) ARKANSAS, USA (91%); NEBRASKA, USA (91%); SOUTHEAST USA (88%); KANSAS, USA (79%); TEXAS, USA (57%) UNITED STATES (91%) LOAD-DATE: January 2, 2007 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company 1253 of 1258 DOCUMENTS The New York Times
Late Edition - Final Arrest After Fire at a Rival's Food Shop BYLINE: By JENNIFER 8. LEE SECTION: Section B; Column 5; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 6 LENGTH: 372 words Back when things were simple -- when the Twin Donuts sold doughnuts and the Kennedy Fried Chicken next door sold fried chicken -- all was peaceful, city officials said. The stores shared a common roof and a common wall, at 876 Hunts Point Avenue in the Bronx, but had different doors, different rents and a different customer base. Then, a few weeks ago, the owner of the Twin Donuts sold the store to a new entrepreneur. The new owner introduced new items to his menu, including steak sandwiches, mozzarella sticks and fried chicken, according to Robert Pinto, a New York City fire marshal. ''The chicken guy was mad at the doughnut guy because the doughnut guy started selling fried chicken, and the doughnut guy was undercutting the chicken guy's prices by 50 cents a plate,'' Mr. Pinto said. ''The chicken guy was losing a lot of business and he had gotten some violations from the Health Department. So he was going to plan on shutting his business down and renovating to correct the health code violations. At the same time he was feuding with the doughnut guy, telling the doughnut guy not to sell the chicken.'' So after closing time on Sunday, the fire marshal said, the owner of Kennedy Fried Chicken decided to send a clear message to his chicken competitor. He punched a hole in the wall between the two stores with a hammer, Mr. Pinto said. Then, he sprayed gasoline that he had put in a 32-ounce fruit juice container through the hole and ignited it with a match, Mr. Pinto said. The Kennedy Fried Chicken owner then closed his store and left, he said. Firefighters arrived shortly after 4 a.m. on Monday to a two-alarm fire. The flames had destroyed the doughnut shop and damaged part of the fried chicken store, Mr. Pinto said. But when the owner of the fried chicken shop showed up at the scene, he did not seem distraught, which aroused suspicions, Mr. Pinto said. Another fire marshal discovered the hole in the wall, which matched a hammer they also found in the wreckage, Mr. Pinto said. When questioned, the owner of the Kennedy Fried Chicken, Kabeer Ahmad, told the authorities about the rivalry and confessed that he had set the fire, Mr. Pinto said. Mr. Ahmad, 32, was arrested and charged with arson.
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Late Edition - Final SPITZER IS SWORN AND BEGINS PUSH ON ETHICS RULES BYLINE: By DANNY HAKIM; Sewell Chan contributed reporting. SECTION: Section A; Column 6; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1380 words DATELINE: ALBANY, Jan. 1 Eliot Spitzer ended 12 years of Republican rule here on Monday with a blunt critique of the past and a call to ''end the politics of cynicism and division in our state.'' With his predecessor, George E. Pataki, gamely looking on, Governor Spitzer said in his 20-minute inaugural address that New York, ''like Rip van Winkle,'' had ''slept through much of the past decade.'' He pledged to undertake reforms ''substantial in size and historic in scope'' and hinted at some of the contentious battles to come, including his plans to reshape state Medicaid and ethics policies. The speech was the beginning salvo in what many see as a gargantuan challenge Mr. Spitzer has set out for himself -- to overhaul a state government paralyzed by gridlock and consumed by recurring scandals. [News analysis, Page B1.] Yet Mr. Spitzer's work began hours before the speech: He signed five executive orders before 9 a.m., including directives establishing new ethical guidelines for state workers, among them a ban on accepting almost any gifts, as well as new restrictions on lobbying and the use of state resources. He also barred elected officials or candidates from appearing in advertisements paid for by state entities, a frequent practice of Mr. Pataki. In his speech, Mr. Spitzer, 47, laid out what he said were ''two overarching objectives'': making the government ''ethical and wise,'' and rebuilding the economy. He has said that addressing the struggling upstate economy would be a particular priority, but acknowledged the difficulty in reviving regions like the Buffalo area that have seen an exodus of manufacturing jobs. The speech capped a whirlwind day in which the new governor took the official oath of office at midnight and, after sleeping about three hours, arose for a two-mile run through a chilly Albany rain. The rain stopped before the inauguration, though temperatures stayed in the 40s. After his 1 p.m. address, he revived an Albany tradition by opening the Executive Mansion to the public, and he and his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, received 1,200 well-wishers. The inaugural speech was itself a break with tradition in that it was held outdoors, with Mr. Spitzer clad in a suit but no overcoat for the hourlong ceremony. The change of leadership seemed to electrify a capital that has had Mr. Pataki as its governor for the last 12 years. Democrats were elated at the prospect of being at the seat of power for the first time since Mario M. Cuomo was voted out of office in 1994, while Republicans feared that Mr. Spitzer's ascension could weaken their already tenuous hold on the State Senate, their only redoubt of power. Lobbyists, gathering for the legislative session that begins this week, worried about how the new power structure would affect their work. Hovering over the inauguration was the fallout from the ethical scandals that have enveloped Albany. Only three of the four statewide officials elected in November took their oaths, because the comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, resigned late last month and pleaded guilty to a felony after admitting to using state workers to chauffeur and act as companions for his ailing wife. One of Mr. Spitzer's executive orders, prohibiting the use of state property, including vehicles, computers and telephones, for nonofficial business, seemed aimed at curbing such behavior. The order said that individuals authorized by their agency to use a vehicle for personal purposes ''shall keep records of such use, and the value of such personal use shall be calculated and reported as personal income.'' In his address, Mr. Spitzer said, ''Over the last decade, we have seen what can happen when our government stands still in the face of great challenge.'' ''Today is the day when all of that changes,'' he added. His pointed attacks on Albany's problems ruffled some Republican feathers. Asked about the Rip Van Winkle line specifically, the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, now the state's top Republican, said, ''I don't agree with that.'' ''I think history will judge the last 12 years, with this governor that's exiting, to have been one of the most productive 12 years for the people of New York State,'' he said. ''And history will judge that -- not rhetoric.'' Mr. Bruno and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, have essentially been running the state with Mr. Pataki for the last decade. Mr. Silver, for his part, said he took no offense, adding, ''I think it was very clear that his references were to the prior administration.'' The new governor began the new year at the Executive Mansion, where he was sworn in at midnight by Judge Robert W. Sweet of Federal District Court in Manhattan. Mr. Spitzer was once a clerk for Judge Sweet, who also swore him in later at the public inauguration. Most of the major political figures in the state were present at the afternoon ceremony, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and much of the state's Congressional delegation. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Washington attending memorial services for former President Gerald R. Ford. After Mr. Spitzer's speech, Judy Collins sang ''This Little Light of Mine,'' a song that had been used in one of Mr. Spitzer's political ads during the campaign. Further symbolizing the return of Democratic rule was the swearing-in of Andrew M. Cuomo as attorney general to replace Mr. Spitzer. His father, the former governor, was by his side. David A. Paterson was sworn in as lieutenant governor, the first African-American to hold the post. The new attorney general signaled that he, too, would begin moving to confront the ethical challenges in the capital, as Mr. Cuomo planned meetings Tuesday with the Albany Country district attorney, P. David Soares, who prosecuted Mr. Hevesi, and David Grandeau, the head of the state's Lobbying Commission. All in all, it was a day characterized by a rush of activity in a capital where Mr. Pataki had been increasingly invisible. In signing his executive orders, Mr. Spitzer said he was fulfilling a promise ''that one of the first acts I would take as governor, officially, was to put in place a series of ethics guidelines and strictures that would begin the process of restoring government to what it should be, which is responsive, open, transparent, available to the public. ''I am hoping that others in other branches will join me in this,'' he added. Mr. Spitzer prohibited nepotism in hiring and contracting, and barred former state workers from lobbying the agency or authority where they worked for two years after their departure. State employment officials were also barred from asking job candidates about their party affiliation. Mr. Spitzer also prohibited state workers from making contributions to the campaigns of the governor or lieutenant governor, or affiliated political action committees. ''I do not believe it looks proper for individuals who work for the governor, the lieutenant governor, to be making contributions,'' Mr. Spitzer said, adding, ''the appearance might be that they have been expected to do so, or it is a condition of employment. None of that should exist.'' He signed the orders on a desk once used by Theodore Roosevelt, in a room of the mansion known as the History Room, which also displays a wheelchair used by Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Mr. Spitzer finished and had answered some questions, he strode out of the room, but he and his wife quickly came back after his dogs Jesse, a bichon frise, and James, a wheaten terrier, bolted in and began barking at reporters, one of several appearances the dogs made throughout the day. In his inaugural address, attempting to outline his political philosophy, Mr. Spitzer called for New York to ''embrace a progressive vision of government once more, one that upholds the values of individuality and community; of entrepreneurship and opportunity; of responsibility and fairness.'' ''No one any longer believes in government as a heavy hand that can cure all our ills,'' he said, ''but rather we see it as a lean and responsive force that can make possible the pursuit of prosperity and opportunity for all, by softening life's blows, leveling its playing field and making possible the pursuit of happiness that is our God-given right.''
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