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With the passage of the Republican plan to overhaul welfare, these have become grim times for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, who has spent more than three decades in scholarly examination of American poverty and dependency. Article, page A10.
Atlanta's politicians and business executives are parlaying 1996 Olympic Games into city's greatest corporate recruiting tool ever; their goal is to grab enough new offices, factories and corporate headquarters to complete Atlanta's transformation from regional outpost to global business nexus; hundreds of visiting executives and their spouses are being treated like royalty, with posh hotel accommodations, prime Olympic tickets and intimate chats with top Georgia politicians; results are promising: 15 companies have decided to bring Georgia another 2,000 jobs so far, and there have been many pledges from investors; Atlanta has gained so many civic improvements in preparation for Olympics that even some members of International Olympic Committee have bristled; best measure of host city's success might be long-term development and new jobs; by this standard, others have faltered; Atlanta officials are confident they will not; brief sketches of how other cities have fared after being Olympic host city; photos; charts (L)
Jane Austen's matchmaking heroine. Resplendent Paltrow.
Osprey seems to be making comeback in i inland areas of New Jersey (New Jersey Daily Briefings) (S)
Clyde Haberman column on Lee Weiner, one of defendants in Chicago Eight conspiracy trial who was involved in chaos that engulfed Chicago and Democratic National Convention in 1968; notes that Weiner currently lives in New York City and has no plans to go to Chicago for 1996 Democratic convention (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 31, 1996, covering August 2, 1996.
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Alanis Morissette
LeAnn Rimes
Metallica
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
1996Keston Hiura, American baseball player[†]
Keston Wee Hing Natsuo Hiura is an American professional baseball first baseman and second baseman for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Angels.
1996Simone Manuel, American swimmer[†]
Simone Ashley Manuel is an American professional swimmer specializing in freestyle events. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won two gold and two silver medals: gold in the 100-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter medley, and silver in the 50-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. In winning the 100-meter freestyle, a tie with Penny Oleksiak of Canada, Manuel became the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming and set an Olympic record and an American record. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she won a bronze medal as the anchor of the American 4×100-meter freestyle relay team.
1996Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th prime minister of France (born 1912)[†]
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 to 1962. In terms of political personality, Debré was intense and immovable and had a tendency to rhetorical extremism.
1996Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1917)[†]
Obdulio Jacinto Muiños Varela was a Uruguayan football player. He was the captain of the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup after beating Brazil in the decisive final round match popularly known as the Maracanazo. He was nicknamed "El Negro Jefe" because of his dark skin and the influence he had on the pitch, especially during the unlikely victory over Brazil. He was of African, Spanish and Greek ancestry. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest classic holding midfielders, Varela was adept in defence and was renowned for his tenacity and leadership. He is regarded as one of the greatest captains in football history, and "he remains one of the biggest sporting heroes in Uruguay".
1996Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th president of Somalia (born 1934)[†]
Mohamed Farrah Hasan Garad, popularly known as General Aidid or Aideed, was a Somali military officer, diplomat, and warlord.
1996Sergey Golovkin, Russian serial killer and rapist, last person executed by Russia (born 1959)[†]
Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Golovkin, also known as Fisher and The Boa, tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement and the forests outside Moscow.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]