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Date: 05 December 2000
By Nichole M. Christian
Nichole
Internet magazine Salon and MSNBC.com are honored for general excellence in Columbia University's first online journalism awards; they were among 12 winners announced during first national conference of Online News Association at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism (M)
Date: 05 December 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Article assesses efforts of major television networks to digest and make live, split-second analyses of US Supreme Court ruling vacating Florida Supreme Court decision extending statutory deadline for certification of presidential balloting; photos (M)
Date: 06 December 2000
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
Pres Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine is coming under increasing pressure as he faces multiple crises; first is monumental task on Dec 15 of closing last reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station, shutdown that threatens further power cuts for millions of Ukrainians; then, International Monetary Fund is holding back on certifying Ukraine as creditworthy even as Pres Vladimir V Putin of Russia is calling for Ukraine to pay off $1.5 billion debt; and finally, there is furor over opposition party's public release of tape recording supposedly featuring Kuchma and top aides hurling curses and threats at muckraking journalist Georgy Gongadze, who disappeared on Sept 16 (M)
Date: 06 December 2000
By Tim Weiner
Tim Weiner
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, head of Mexico's new national security council, says he will try to unravel illegal web of wiretaps and other government surveillance that has long been used to intimidate opposition leaders, political parties, media and union leaders; Zinser says new government of Pres Vicente Fox still does not know extent of wiretapping network it has inherited (M)
Date: 05 December 2000
Editorial says US Supreme Court provided Americans with invaluable civics lesson by taking unprecedented step of releasing audio recording of arguments in case involving presidential ballot recount in Florida, but that lesson would have been greatly enhanced if event had also been shown on television; urges Chief Justice William H Rehnquist to embrace presence of television in court as important tool of democratic empowerment (S)
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Drug wholesaler Cardinal Health agrees to buy rival Bindley Western Industries for $1.67 billion in stock (S)
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Newsprint maker Abitibi-Consolidated will raise prices for third time this year (S)
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Refining Co will raise its bid for Getty Petroleum Marketing to $84 million cash to thwart acquisition of Getty by Russian company Lukoil Holding (S)
Date: 06 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Imperial Chemical Industries agrees to sell three units to Ineos Group for 325 million pounds ($470 million), bringing its staged exit from bulk chemicals business near completion (S)
Date: 05 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Airlines wins final round in legal dispute with Mesa Air Group, which accused it of reneging on agreement to coordinate services (S)