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Over bottled beer and Buffalo wings at a popular Capitol Hill watering hole the other day, Eddie Vaden of teamsters Local 246 fielded questions about how the labor movement of Jimmy Hoffa could help organize a sizable share of nonunion workers. "If we decide to go with your team, what do we get?" asked Officer R. D. Moore of the United States Capitol Police.
FRAN McCULLOUGH, a book editor in Manhattan who has lost 60 pounds in the last year, is relishing the response of people who haven't seen her for a while ("Is that really you, Fran?"). Friends of Janet Pope, a decorative artist in Baltimore, shake their heads in awe at her weight loss -- 56 pounds in 13 months -- accomplished, like Ms. McCullough's, by cutting down on carbohydrates and concentrating on protein. Buoyed by these testimonials from carbohydrate dropouts, driven by curiosity and burdened with 14 surplus pounds, I joined the protein packers for five weeks. It was in direct opposition to my normal, deeply committed, plant-based complex-carbohydrate life.
Liggett & Myers, the nation's sixth-largest tobacco company, and lawyers representing smokers are expected to announce a proposed settlement today in the largest class-action lawsuit against the tobacco industry. The settlement could drop Liggett from the suit and lead to a nationwide industry-financed smoking-cessation program. It could also put particular pressure on RJR Nabisco Holdings.
What a difference a day makes in cyberspace. A day after it announced a licensing agreement to adopt Netscape Communications' popular Navigator software for browsing the Internet's World Wide Web, America Online said yesterday that it would make Microsoft's rival program, Internet Explorer, its primary software for browsing the Web.
A radio station on the campus of bankrupt Upsala College began a fund-raising campaign this week in the hope of avoiding eviction from its present quarters, the station manager said. WFMU (91.1 FM), is now in the only occupied building on the campus. Formerly Upsala's radio station, WFMU became independent in 1994, one year before Upsala declared bankruptcy. WFMU was named the best radio station in the nation by Rolling Stone magazine from 1991 through 1994. It needs to raise $120,000 to buy the building and $300,000 for operating costs, Ken Freedman, the station manager, said yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 1996, covering March 13, 1996.
Alanis Morissette
2Pac
Fugees
Soundtrack
Mariah Carey
1996Brayden Point, Canadian ice hockey player[â ]
Brayden Point is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Lightning selected Point in the third round, 79th overall in the 2014 NHL entry draft. Point won the Stanley Cup back-to-back with the Lightning in 2020 and 2021, leading the playoffs in goal scoring both times, including scoring the Stanley Cup-clinching goal of the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals.
1996Krzysztof KieÅlowski, Polish director and screenwriter (born 1941)[â ]
Krzysztof KieÅlowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993â1994). KieÅlowski received numerous awards during his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1988), FIPRESCI Prize, and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (1991), the Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize (1989), Golden Lion (1993), and OCIC Award (1993), and the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear (1994). In 1995, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In 2002, KieÅlowski was listed at number two on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound list of the top ten film directors of modern times. In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked him at No. 47 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list.
1996The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.[â ]
The Dunblane massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and one teacher and injured 15 others before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[â ]