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In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]
1995Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French philosopher and academic (born 1906)[†]
Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.
1995Dean Martin, American singer and actor (born 1917)[†]
Dean Martin was an American singer, actor, and comedian. Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century. Martin gained his career breakthrough together with comedian Jerry Lewis, billed as Martin and Lewis, in 1946. They performed in nightclubs and later had numerous appearances on radio and television and in films.
1995Chang Kee-ryo, Korean surgeon (born 1914)[†]
Chang Kee-ryo was a surgeon, educator, and philanthropist of South Korea.
1995Vincent Patriarca, Italian-American aviator and mercenary (born 1914)[†]
Vincent Joseph Patriarca, later known as Maresciallo Vincenzo Joseph Patriarca, was an Italian American notable for being one of the few United States citizens to fight for Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War, rather than in the Republican International Brigades such as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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As chaplain here at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, Father John Bonavitacola lives the biblical injunction to visit those in prisons. He is convinced, like the early Christians, that there are better alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders than sitting in a jail cell. "We need to get some sanity back in the system," Father John said. "Slow down mandatory sentencing and put some of these people into well-monitored community-based programs where these inmates work, earn money to take care of their families and provide restitution for their actions."
It was the week before Christmas, and at the Coreglia Studios in North Bergen, N.J., the saints -- in 12-inch, 18-inch, 24-inch and 32-inch varieties -- were marching out. So were the L.O.G.'s (Ladies of Grace), the S.H.J.'s (Sacred Hearts of Jesuses), the I.O.P.'s (Infants of Prague), the S.H.M.'s (Sacred Hearts of Mary) and the boxed J.M.J.'s (Jesus-Mary-Joseph) Nativity sets. "We got grottos, we got angels, we've got just about every saint there is," Walter Baldaccini said, standing in his world of plaster specks that looked like a glorious indoor blizzard.
When Kathleen Kamatani married Robert DeMeulemeester this fall, their friends were somewhat startled when the Kamatani family yelled out the traditional Japanese cheer of "Banzai!" or "May you live 10,000 years!" Some of them had scarcely realized that Ms. Kamatani, who met her husband at the Columbia University Business School, was Japanese-American. This made her mother, Fuji Kamatani, somewhat wistful since she had once sent her daughter to Japanese school in the hopes of imparting something lasting. But she was fully accepting of the marriage. All three of her daughters have married white men; intermarriage, she said, is simply a fact of life in Japanese-American culture, which has the highest intermarriage rate of any ethnic group in the country.
Hardened shoppers, perpetual sales and a snowstorm that blanketed the Northeast during the crucial final week of Christmas shopping combined to give retailers their worst holiday season in years, analysts, economists and other retailing experts said yesterday. "This is the worst Christmas since we have been keeping track of the month of December," said Richard N. Baum of Goldman, Sachs & Company, which has monitored specialty retail sales monthly since 1988.
The military does not like surprises and, aside from the firecracker some local child set off near the runway after the jet taxied in, the arrival here of 17 soldiers from the Second Brigade went off without a hitch. But there was one thing they were not prepared for this Christmas Eve, their first day in Bosnia with the NATO peace-enforcement mission: the weather was beautiful.
Enveloped in the cinnamon-scented heat of the Better Crust Bakery kitchen in Harlem, Jerome Ephraim had whipped up so many holiday sweet-potato pies in two weeks of 12-hour days that as Christmas Eve descended yesterday, he was almost afraid to stop. "That's when the tiredness comes on me," he said. "So I just work and work and work."
Transportation safety experts in Washington have begun analyzing information from the flight-data and cockpit voice recorders recovered in the wreckage of the American Airlines jetliner that crashed in the mountains of Colombia last week with a loss of 160 lives, Federal officials said yesterday. Michael Benson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said information found in the recorders would be turned over to the Colombian Government, which is in charge of the investigation. All information, he said, will be released by Colombian officials.
Obituaries yesterday about the actress Butterfly McQueen and Lillian Teit Zabar, a founder of Zabar's gourmet delicatessen, misstated the day of their deaths in some copies. Both died on Friday, not Saturday.
Because of an editing error, the Neediest Cases article yesterday about a homebound woman helped by the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged referred incorrectly to a child who died of cancer. The child was the woman's daughter, not her son.
The Welfare Party, an Islamic group, won weekend general elections in Turkey by a slim margin, the state-run TRT-1 television station said today. With 96 percent of ballot boxes counted, unofficial returns showed the Welfare Party with 21.13 percent of the votes, just ahead of the main opposition Motherland Party, with 19.66 percent, and Prime Minister Tansu Ciller's True Path Party, with 19.37 percent, the station said.
The Advertising column last Monday, about an interactive computer venture between NBC and the National Football League involving Super Bowl XXX, misindentified the parent company of Interactive Media Sales. It is Interactive Marketing Inc., not Interactive Media Inc.