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Coast Guard officials say that water taxi with 28 people aboard that overturned in Hudson River, killing an 86-year-old passenger Milt Salkind, had previously been approved to carry no more than 21 people; boat was recent addition to fleet of several craft operated by Tappan Zee Water Taxi and Tours; photo; map (M)
Council on Food Safety President Clinton plans to establish a council to coordinate and oversee a dozen Federal agencies on the safety of the nation's food. Page A15. Trees for Polluted Plaza Mexicans are seeking new uses for the Zocalo, the ''gran tortilla,'' the capital's vast square, and almost no one is happy about that. Page A4.
Barneys New York, luxury retailer with reputation for snootiness, has undergone enormous business changes as it prepares to emerge from bankruptcy; has subtly altered image and adopted disciplines, back-office controls and service standards of more traditional retailers; Thomas C Shull, new chief executive, seeks to lure more customers, make stores more profitable and spur growth while retaining wealthy, hip customers; graphs; photos (M)
Sunbeam Corp head Jerry W Levin scraps reorganization plan begun by former chairman Albert J Dunlap; says Sunbeam will decentralize operations, keep open some plants scheduled for closing and retain some businesses it had planned to sell; scales back Dunlap's plan to cut work force by 40 percent; puts in place new management team, including Paul Shapiro as executive vice president and chief administrative officer and Bobby Jenkins as executive vice president and chief financial officer; Jenkins replaces Russell A Kersh, Dunlap aide; Sunbeam suspends quarterly dividend (M)
Plans progress to broadcast made-for-television movie, The Inspectors, on Showtime cable channel; movie will star Lou Gossett Jr and Jonathan Silverman as postal inspectors tracking down mail bomber; Gossett photo; Archbishop of Barcelona, Ricard-Maria Cardinal Carles, with support of bishops of Catalonia, has proposed beatification of architect Antonio Gaudi, who spent last 40 years of life working on Sagrada Familia Cathedral; Charles Aznavour, 74-year-old singer, actor, composer, songwriter, will make theater appearances on Broadway and in Los Angeles between October and November; photo; National Building Museum will mount major exhibition, Stay Cool: Air-Conditioning in America (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 1998, covering August 25, 1998.
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Barenaked Ladies
1998China Anne McClain, American actress and singer[†]
China Anne McClain is an American actress and singer. McClain's career began when she was seven years old, portraying Alexis in the film The Gospel (2005), and then China James in Daddy's Little Girls (2007). She then received recognition for starring as Jazmine Payne in the television series Tyler Perry's House of Payne and as Charlotte McKenzie in the film Grown Ups (2010) and its sequel Grown Ups 2 (2013); and became internationally known for starring as Chyna Parks in the Disney Channel television series A.N.T. Farm (2011–2014), and as Uma in the Disney Channel films Descendants 2 (2017), Descendants 3 (2019), and Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024). She also voiced Freddie in Descendants: Wicked World. In 2018, McClain began starring in The CW superhero series Black Lightning (2018–2021) as Jennifer Pierce / Lightning. She also reprised her character Jazmine Payne on OWN's revival of The Paynes (2018).
1998Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (born 1907)[†]
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]