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2000Year Weeks This Last On Week Week List Fiction 1 1 33 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $17.95.) A British boy finds trouble when he returns to a witchcraft school. 2 2 19 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $19.95.) A British boy's life at a school for witchcraft is threatened. 3 6 2 THE LION'S GAME, by Nelson DeMille. (Warner, $26.95.) A former New York homicide detective helps federal agents as they pursue a Libyan terrorist. 4 3 58 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $16.95.) A British boy finds his fortune attending a school for witchcraft. 5 4 3 FALSE MEMORY, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $26.95.) A woman and her husband scour the past for clues after she is gripped by an inexplicable fear of her own image. 6 9 2 SICK PUPPY, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $25.) Depraved people (corrupt politicians, eco-terrorists, a hooker who caters only to Republicans) are on the loose in Florida. 7 7 6 ATLANTIS FOUND, by Clive Cussler. (Putnam, $26.95.) Dirk Pitt leads a team coping with an ancient maritime wreck that even now could destroy the earth. 8 5 9 TIMELINE, by Michael Crichton. (Knopf, $26.95.) Using the latest computer technology, a group of historians travels back to 14th-century feudal France. 9 1 THE CAT WHO ROBBED A BANK, by Lilian Jackson Braun. (Putnam, $23.95.) Jim Qwilleran and his two cats investigate the murder of an estate jewelry dealer. 10 1 SECRET HONOR, by W. E. B. Griffin. (Putnam, $25.95.) An O.S.S. agent becomes involved with a German general who is planning to assassinate Hitler. 11 8 6 MONSTER, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Random House, $25.95.) Dr. Alex Delaware undertakes to discover how an inmate of a mental hospital can correctly predict brutal murders on the streets of Los Angeles. 12 10 15 A WALK TO REMEMBER, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $19.95.) In 1958, a high school senior in North Carolina finds love with the daughter of a Baptist minister. 13 1 THE ATTORNEY, by Steve Martini. (Putnam, $25.95.) A lawyer represents an elderly man who, after winning a multimillion-dollar state lottery, is accused of sexual abuse by his drug addict daughter. 14 1 THE LEGEND OF LUKE, by Brian Jacques. (Philomel, $22.95.) The 12th volume of the ''Redwall'' fantasy saga. 15 11 10 SAVING FAITH, by David Baldacci. (Warner, $26.95.) A man and a woman get caught in machinations of the F.B.I. involving corrupt forces in Washington. Weeks This Last On Week Week List Nonfiction 1 2 2 THE ROCK SAYS . . ., by the Rock with Joe Layden. (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $26.) A memoir by a professional wrestler. 2 1 119 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday, $19.95.) A sportswriter tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door. 3 6 13 HAVE A NICE DAY! by Mick Foley. (ReganBooks/ HarperCollins, $25.) The autobiography of a professional wrestler known as Mankind. 4 5 17 'TIS, by Frank McCourt. (Scribner, $26.) An Irish immigrant gets used to life in America: the second volume of a memoir. 5 11 2 A VAST CONSPIRACY, by Jeffrey Toobin. (Random House, $25.95.) A journalist's account of the sex scandal that led to the impeachment of President Clinton. 6 3 7 THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS, by Tom Brokaw. (Random House, $19.95.) What the people who fought in World War II confided in letters to the author. 7 4 59 THE GREATEST GENERATION, by Tom Brokaw. (Random House, $24.95.) The lives of men and women who came of age during the Depression and World War II. 8 8 53 THE ART OF HAPPINESS, by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. (Riverhead, $22.95.) What Buddhism and common sense tell us about everyday problems. 9 7 17 WHEN PRIDE STILL MATTERED, by David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) The life of the football coach Vince Lombardi. 10 10 13 GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, by Dava Sobel. (Walker, $27.) The life and trials of Galileo Galilei, as seen through the letters of his cloistered, illegitimate daughter. 11 12 8 THE NEW NEW THING, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $25.95.) The story of Jim Clark, a technical and financial pioneer in the computer world. 12 3 HELL TO PAY, by Barbara Olson. (Regnery, $27.95.) A critical account of the life and career of Hillary Rodham Clinton by a former federal prosecutor. (+) 13 13 11 LIFE: Our Century in Pictures, edited by Richard B. Stolley and Tony Chiu. (Bulfinch/Little, Brown, $60.) An album of photographs from Life magazine, plus essays on the past century. 14 14 10 *A MAN NAMED DAVE, by Dave Pelzer. (Dutton, $19.95.) The concluding volume of a memoir that began with ''A Child Called 'It' ''and ''The Lost Boy.'' (+) 15 1 *THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM, by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. (Pocket, $23.95.) Will global warming result in a colossal storm capable of killing three-fifths of the United States' population? Weeks This Last On Week Week List Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous 1 3 10 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson. (Putnam, $19.95.) How to deal with changes at work and in life in general. (+) 2 1 22 BODY FOR LIFE, by Bill Phillips with Michael D'Orso. (HarperCollins, $25.) Ways to improve one's body and one's life. (+) 3 2 18 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2000. (Guinness, $25.95.) A profusely illustrated collection of records about subjects as various as sports and technology. 4 1 DR. ATKINS' AGE-DEFYING DIET REVOLUTION, by Robert C. Atkins with Sheila Buff. (St. Martin's, $24.95.) A diet and nutritional regimen. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Jan. 15, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available from The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/books. And Bear in Mind (Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest) AFTERBURN, by Colin Harrison. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Elegant prose and exact description keep this thriller flying with an overload of unlikely characters (the heroine is a mathematical genius jailed for hijacking trucks). BETWEEN FATHER AND SON: Family Letters, by V. S. Naipaul. (Knopf, $26.) An entertaining correspondence that shows the young author's vulnerability and mirrors themes of the South Asian diaspora that will appear in his fiction
sagely edited by his agent, Gillon Aitken. FASTING, FEASTING, by Anita Desai. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, paper, $13.) This wry and moving novel employs, of all things, choices about eating as rituals used to form allegiances and exert household power in India and America. GEORGIANA: Duchess of Devonshire, by Amanda Foreman. (Random House, $29.95.) The life is seamlessly merged with the times in this biography of a smart, charming woman who practiced power politics and scandalous domestic arrangements in the later 18th century. THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD: The World's Banker, 1849-1999, by Niall Ferguson. (Viking, $34.95.) This second volume of an absorbing family saga about a clan matchless in the annals of moneymaking has all the grandeur and sweep of a Victorian three-decker novel. IN LOVE WITH NIGHT: The American Romance With Robert Kennedy, by Ronald Steel. (Simon & Schuster, $23.) Beneath the good (liberal, compassionate) Bobby, Steel argues in this book-length revisionist essay, there was a darker Bobby (cynical, opportunistic and, above all, ruthless). ON THE REZ, by Ian Frazier. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Close observation and a keen sense for piquant juxtapositions yield an enlarged view of humanity in this report from a region that has inspired acres of cliche and condescension in the past, the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. PARTISANS: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals, by David Laskin. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A shapely guide to the intersections and overlaps of love and career among the great pre-feminist eggheads. SEEING THROUGH PLACES: Reflections on Geography and Identity, by Mary Gordon. (Scribner, $23.) Eight essays about places she inhabited that illuminate the author's fiction, including a guilt-ridden household and an oppressive but grandly historical church. TRAPPINGS: New Poems, by Richard Howard. (Turtle Point, paper, $14.95.) Howard's 11th book of poems holds up language for examination in the strangeness of its uses while constructing a humane, inclusive, theatrical vision of the world. BEST SELLERS: January 30, 2000
2000Year Weeks This Last On Week Week List Fiction 1 1 34 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $17.95.) A British boy finds trouble when he returns to a witchcraft school. 2 2 20 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $19.95.) A British boy's life at a school for witchcraft is threatened. 3 3 3 THE LION'S GAME, by Nelson DeMille. (Warner, $26.95.) A former New York homicide detective helps federal agents as they pursue a Libyan terrorist. 4 1 GAP CREEK, by Robert Morgan. (Algonquin, $22.95.) The fortunes of a struggling young couple in Appalachia during the final years of the 19th century. 5 4 59 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $16.95.) A British boy finds his fortune attending a school for witchcraft. 6 5 4 FALSE MEMORY, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $26.95.) A woman and her husband scour the past for clues after she is gripped by an inexplicable fear of her own image. 7 7 7 ATLANTIS FOUND, by Clive Cussler. (Putnam, $26.95.) Dirk Pitt leads a team coping with an ancient maritime wreck that even now could destroy the earth. 8 6 3 *SICK PUPPY, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $25.) Depraved people (corrupt politicians, eco-terrorists, a hooker who caters only to Republicans) are on the loose in Florida. 9 10 2 SECRET HONOR, by W. E. B. Griffin. (Putnam, $25.95.) An O.S.S. agent becomes involved with a German general who is planning to assassinate Hitler. 10 13 2 THE ATTORNEY, by Steve Martini. (Putnam, $25.95.) A lawyer represents an elderly man who, after winning a multimillion-dollar state lottery, is accused of sexual abuse by his drug addict daughter. 11 8 10 TIMELINE, by Michael Crichton. (Knopf, $26.95.) Using the latest computer technology, a group of historians travels back to 14th-century feudal France. 12 9 2 THE CAT WHO ROBBED A BANK, by Lilian Jackson Braun. (Putnam, $23.95.) Jim Qwilleran and his two cats investigate the murder of an estate jewelry dealer. 13 12 16 A WALK TO REMEMBER, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $19.95.) In 1958, a high school senior in North Carolina finds love with the daughter of a Baptist minister. 14 11 7 MONSTER, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Random House, $25.95.) Dr. Alex Delaware undertakes to discover how an inmate of a mental hospital can correctly predict brutal murders on the streets of Los Angeles. 15 14 2 *THE LEGEND OF LUKE, by Brian Jacques. (Philomel, $22.95.) The 12th volume of the ''Redwall'' fantasy saga. Weeks This Last On Week Week List Nonfiction 1 1 3 THE ROCK SAYS . . ., by the Rock with Joe Layden. (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $26.) A memoir by a professional wrestler. 2 2 120 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday, $19.95.) A sportswriter tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door. 3 4 18 'TIS, by Frank McCourt. (Scribner, $26.) An Irish immigrant gets used to life in America: the second volume of a memoir. 4 3 14 HAVE A NICE DAY! by Mick Foley. (ReganBooks/ HarperCollins, $25.) The autobiography of a professional wrestler known as Mankind. 5 5 3 A VAST CONSPIRACY, by Jeffrey Toobin. (Random House, $25.95.) A journalist's account of the sex scandal that led to the impeachment of President Clinton. 6 7 60 THE GREATEST GENERATION, by Tom Brokaw. (Random House, $24.95.) The lives of men and women who came of age during the Depression and World War II. 7 6 8 THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS, by Tom Brokaw. (Random House, $19.95.) What the people who fought in World War II confided in letters to the author. 8 8 54 THE ART OF HAPPINESS, by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. (Riverhead, $22.95.) What Buddhist doctrines and common sense tell us about dealing with everyday problems. 9 12 4 HELL TO PAY, by Barbara Olson. (Regnery, $27.95.) A critical account of the life and career of Hillary Rodham Clinton by a former federal prosecutor. (+) 10 9 18 WHEN PRIDE STILL MATTERED, by David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) The life of the football coach Vince Lombardi. 11 10 14 *GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, by Dava Sobel. (Walker, $27.) The life and trials of Galileo Galilei, as seen through the letters of his cloistered, illegitimate daughter. 12 11 9 THE NEW NEW THING, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $25.95.) The story of Jim Clark, a technical and financial pioneer in the computer world. 13 14 11 A MAN NAMED DAVE, by Dave Pelzer. (Dutton, $19.95.) The concluding volume of a memoir that began with ''A Child Called 'It' ''and ''The Lost Boy.'' (+) 14 1 STICKIN', by James Carville. (Simon & Schuster, $16.95.) The political strategist and friend of the Clintons discusses the virtues of loyalty. (+) 15 1 HURRICANE, by James S. Hirsch. (Houghton Mifflin, $25.) The life of Rubin Carter, the New Jersey boxer who was convicted of murder and spent almost 20 years in prison before being exonerated. Weeks This Last On Week Week List Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous 1 1 11 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson. (Putnam, $19.95.) How to deal with changes at work and in life in general. (+) 2 2 23 BODY FOR LIFE, by Bill Phillips with Michael D'Orso. (HarperCollins, $25.) Ways to improve one's body and one's life. (+) 3 3 19 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2000. (Guinness, $25.95.) A profusely illustrated collection of records about subjects as various as sports and technology. 4 7 4 SUGAR BUSTERS! by H. Leighton Steward et al. (Ballantine, $22.) A diet designed for losing weight and increasing energy. (+) Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Jan. 22, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available from The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/books. And Bear in Mind (Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest) AFTERBURN, by Colin Harrison. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Elegant prose and exact description keep this thriller flying with an overload of unlikely characters (the heroine is a mathematical genius jailed for hijacking trucks). BETWEEN FATHER AND SON: Family Letters, by V. S. Naipaul. (Knopf, $26.) An entertaining correspondence that shows the young author's vulnerability and mirrors themes of the South Asian diaspora that will appear in his fiction
sagely edited by his agent, Gillon Aitken. FASTING, FEASTING, by Anita Desai. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, paper, $13.) This wry and moving novel employs, of all things, choices about eating as rituals used to form allegiances and exert household power in India and America. GEORGIANA: Duchess of Devonshire, by Amanda Foreman. (Random House, $29.95.) The life is seamlessly merged with the times in this biography of a smart, charming woman who practiced power politics and scandalous domestic arrangements in the later 18th century. THE MISSING WORLD, by Margot Livesey. (Knopf, $23.) This vigorous, intelligent novel (the author's third) pits a woman with amnesia against a lover eager to exploit the handicap; she doesn't remember rejecting him or the reasons she did it, but she figures him out again. NONZERO: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright. (Pantheon, $27.50.) A journalist's argument, based on game theory and evolutionary convergence, that humankind has a destiny and that the globalization of trade and communication, here already, is the next step onward and upward. ON THE REZ, by Ian Frazier. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Close observation and a keen sense for piquant juxtapositions yield an enlarged view of humanity in this report from a region that has inspired acres of cliche and condescension in the past, the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. PARTISANS: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals, by David Laskin. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A shapely guide to the intersections and overlaps of love and career among the great pre-feminist eggheads. READING RILKE: Reflections on the Problems of Translation, by William H. Gass. (Knopf, $25.) Rilke's poetry intricately examined every thinkable way by a critic and philosopher of great resources en route to his own translation of many of the poems, including the ''Duino Elegies.'' TEA, by Stacey D'Erasmo. (Algonquin, $21.95.) An unpretentious, muddle-free first novel about a girl who grows up by falling in and out of love with theatrical people by way of self-defense against a fatally theatrical mother. BEST SELLERS: February 6, 2000
1930Year Sager and Shalleck sentenced to 2 yrs in prison, Reynolds to 18 mos 3 BRIBING LAWYERS GET ATLANTA TERMS
Sager and Shalleck Receive Two-Year Sentences and Reynolds Gets 18 Months. STAY GRANTED FOR APPEAL Federal Judge Knox Asserts Jailing Men for Jury Fixing Was Difficult Ordeal.
1928Year Buys site on Bliss St at Queens Blvd and Greenpoint Av, L I C DEALS BY OPERATORS IN LONG ISLAND CITY
Sager Buys Site on Bliss Street-- Randall Resells Northern Boulevard Block.
1930Year 3 lawyers found guilty 3 LAWYERS GUILTY IN BRIBING OF JUROR
Sager Convicted of the Overt Act, Shalleck and Reynolds of Conspiring With Him. TWO ARE EX-PROSECUTORS Sentences Deferred Till Friday-- Juror in Utah Lead Case Had Confessed Taking Cash.
1930Year Sager and Shalleck deny charges TWO LAWYERS DENY BRIBERY CHARGES
Sager, Former Daugherty Aide, Admits Quitting After "Sharp Criticism" by Sargent. LAYS RIFT TO A SPEECH Shalleck Traces His Career and Says He Is Trustee for $1,000,000 Funds. Asks About Resignation. Denial by Shalleck.