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Date: 16 March 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Mike Barnicle, columnist who resigned from The Boston Globe last summer amid charges of plagiarism and slipshod reporting, will begin writing column for opinion pages of The Daily News's Sunday paper at end of March (M)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Terry Pristin
Terry Pristin
Management and labor sources say that arbitration ruling last week awarded sizeable wage increase to truck drivers at The Daily News and could also apply to other union workers, causing concern about tabloid's finances; arbitrator J J Pierson determined that members of Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union should receive 16.9 percent wage increase over three-year period (S)
Date: 15 March 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Boston news media assail 60 Minutes over March 7 report questioning aspects of case against of Louise Woodward, young British convicted of kiling an infant in her charge; CBS stands by report; photo (M)
Date: 15 March 1999
By Matthew J. Rosenberg
Matthew Rosenberg
Ruth Shalit, who lost her job as associate editor at The New Republic after accusations of plagiarism, is now working at Mad Dogs and Englishmen, advertising agency in New York; photo (S)
Date: 15 March 1999
By Jim Yardley With Garry Pierre-Pierre
Jim With
Murder of young white woman was treated far differently than murder in same Brooklyn police precinct of young black immigrant man; Amy Watkins's death got wide attention, while Marvin Watson's did not; Robert McCire of John Jay College says Watkins murder grabbed attention because it evoked image of woman brutally attacked on dark street, and made many people feel more vulnerable; says death of Watson, poor black immigrant living in projects, did not appeal to public sympathy; there was wide media coverage of Watkins murder, while Watson's murder did not make newspapers; Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani reassured public after Watkins murder, and more than two dozen investigators are assigned to case, which remains unsolved; there were witnesses to Watson's murder, and police handled case as ordinary homicide and made arrest month later; photos (M)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Treasury bond prices rise for second day, pushing yields to lowest in almost three weeks; price of 30-year Treasury bond falls 2/32, to 96 1/32; graphs (M)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ciena Corp, maker of equipment that increases capacity of phone networks, agrees to buy Lightera Networks Inc, maker of equipment that directs traffic on networks, and Omnia Communications Inc, whose products make it easier to carry both voice and data calls; Ciena will issue 20.6 million shares, valued at $552 million, for Lightera and 16 million shares, worth $429 million, for Omnia (S)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Haskel International Inc agrees to be bought by Tinicum Capital Partners LP for $12.90 a share in cash, total of $72.8 million (S)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boeing Co says it will accelerate job cuts in its commercial airplane division because it is making more progress in cutting factory costs; 111,400-worker division is expected to have 93,700 employees by end of year (S)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Yahoo Inc signs agreement with Bank One Corp and First Data Corp to offer credit card processing services to on-line stores featured on Yahoo's Web site; terms not disclosed (S)