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THE 1993 ELECTIONS: WHITMAN SAYS SHE'S READY TO WORK Christine Todd Whitman, only hours after claiming a narrow victory over Gov. Jim Florio, said she would get to work immediately to redeem a major campaign pledge: cutting income taxes for most residents. A1. The Republicans who lead the New Jersey Legislature begin distancing themselves from Whitman's plan to cut taxes by 30 percent. B7.
With scorching cinders in the air and the sky overhead in flames, the J. Paul Getty Museum was saved by "a kind of ambush." Page B18.
For the shoeshine men in front of the entrance to Grand Central Terminal, life has long revolved around the simplest of cycles: the seasons, the weather, the surge and ebb of commuters. On a nice day as many as two dozen shoeshiners would set up a makeshift shop from used furniture, plastic milk crates and all manner of throwaway things. The assembled entrepreneurs would shout out about the shortcomings of passers-by's shines, wink at women they had grown to appreciate and joke endlessly with one another. But last Friday, this tumultuous scene changed fundamentally. Five high-backed, blond-wood chairs, upholstered in forest-green vinyl and costing more than $1,000 each, sprouted against Grand Central's southern wall on 42d Street.
Declaring that "today we can emphasize our common bonds," Rudolph W. Giuliani made a victory tour of City Hall yesterday and stood shoulder to shoulder with Mayor David N. Dinkins as the two men demonstrated their joint commitment to heal the city after a racially polarized vote. Sharing the lectern with Mr. Dinkins in City Hall's Blue Room, Mr. Giuliani called on the city to come together "whether you voted for me, for David Dinkins or you decided not to vote or you voted for any of the other candidates."
The University of Chicago, the home of great conservative economists like Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler, has had an extraordinary run. Just how extraordinary was underscored last month when Robert W. Fogel, an economist who revised history's view of slavery, took the university's fourth Nobel Prize in economics in four years. With seven Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economic Science in all, the bold, brilliant, free-market Chicago school has won as many Nobels as M.I.T., Stanford and Harvard universities combined. Long distinguished by its emphasis on empirical research, strikingly simple ideas and a biting, polemical style, Chicago has been kicking sand in Cambridge's face since its economics department was founded in 1892 by James Laughlin, an archconservative.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 3, 1993, covering November 4, 1993.
Pearl Jam
Rush
Meat Loaf
Nirvana
Eazy-E
1993Ce'Aira Brown, American middle-distance runner[†]
Ce'Aira Brown is an American middle-distance runner. Representing the United States at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, she placed 8th in the final of the women's 800 metres. Brown placed third in the 800 meters at 2019 The Match Europe v USA. In 2023 Brown was inducted into the MEAC Hall of Fame.
1993Elisabeth Seitz, German gymnast[†]
Elisabeth Seitz is a German retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2022 European champion and the 2018 World bronze medalist on the uneven bars. She is one of the only female gymnasts in history to compete the Def release, and her eponymous skill, a full-twisting Maloney. Seitz has also had success in the individual all-around event, where she is the 2011 European silver medalist and an eight-time German national champion. She is a three-time Olympian, representing Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she led her team to a sixth-place finish and placed fourth in the uneven bars final, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 2022, she was part of the first German team to ever win a European team medal.
1993China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport.[†]
China Airlines Flight 605 was a daily non-stop flight departing from Taipei, Taiwan to Hong Kong. On 4 November 1993, the aircraft operating the flight went off the runway when attempting to land during a storm. It was the first hull loss of a Boeing 747-400.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]