2001 Year

Families of victims of American Airlines Flight 587 say they have been invited to a New York cemetery today to visit a crypt bearing the unclaimed remains of people who died in the plane crash. Hundreds of body parts from the Nov. 12, 2001, crash that killed 265 people were interred Saturday at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Families said they were invited by the mayor's office of immigrant affairs to gather at the cemetery's Woolworth Chapel.

Satellite TV giant EchoStar Communications Corp. said it might have to restate its 2001 financial reports to reverse $17 million of liability accruals. Such a move may reduce previously reported net losses for the Dish Network operator, executives said. From 1996 to 2002, EchoStar established a reserve for estimated costs of replacing smart cards, which allow only paying customers to receive EchoStar signals.

Meet the class of 2001, America's first college graduating class of the new millennium, Chelsea Clinton's class. How radical or traditional are they? How altruistic and idealistic? Whom do they trust and distrust? Most admire? To find out, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. recently commissioned Lou Harris & Associates to conduct telephone interviews with 2,001 racially and demographically diverse freshmen--53% women and 47% men--from 101 public and private four-year colleges.