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Job Creation Surges, Confounding Expectations Employers added more than 300,000 jobs to the economy in February for the fourth consecutive month and the unemployment rate edged down to 4.6 percent, matching the 24-year low reached last November, the Labor Department reported.
William C Rhoden Sports of the Times column on victory by Syracuse University over Villanova in quarter-final game of Big East basketball conference tournament at Madison Square Garden; photo (M)
John J Royster is convicted of murdering Evelyn Alvarez outside her Park Avenue, New York City, dry-cleaning shop, violent assault on Shelby Evans Schrader and attempted rape in Central Park that left young piano teacher in coma, unidentified for days; series of attacks in summer of 1996 horrified New Yorkers; photo (M)
Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to adopt sweeping changes next week in way that mutual fund companies sell their shares to investors; new procedure would allow sales based on two-page profile of a fund; using this streamlined disclosure requireement, fund companies may be able to include enough detail in newspaper advertising to make a sale; and they would probably reap great cost savings (L)
Serbian policemen cracked down on a separatist movement in the province of Kosovo yesterday, firing mortar rounds at villages, setting fire to homes and appearing to shoot at men indiscriminately, according to those who fled the zone. The attacks apparently left many dead in the province, where ethnic Albanians constitute 90 percent of the population. Many of the Albanians view the Serbian police and military as an army of occupation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 4, 1998, covering March 7, 1998.
Soundtrack
Celine Dion
Silkk the Shocker
Savage Garden
Pearl Jam
1998Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist[†]
Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet, activist, and model. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. She rose to fame in 2021 for writing and delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden. Gorman's inauguration poem generated international acclaim and shortly thereafter, two of her books achieved best-seller status, and she obtained a professional management contract.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]