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Many New Yorkers are choosing to throw dinner parties in restaurants rather than at home; cite various factors, including tiny apartments, tinier kitchens, busy schedules and the excitement of the restaurant environment; photos (M)
Comment on minivans, introduced by Chrysler 15 years ago; segment has been pushed aside by sport utility vehicles, but is far from dead, as auto makers work frantically to lure new buyers; photos (S)
Debate over affirmative action in education is shifting down to public school districts, where increasing number of parents, mostly white, are complaining about racial preferences they say are unfair to their children; is creating uncertainty over what kinds of race-conscious policies, if any, districts can continue (M)
56-room Avenue Plaza Hotel being built atop former bank building in Borough Park, Brooklyn, will cater to Orthodox and Hasidic Jews; photo; hotel will have continuously-operating elevators, kosher restaurant and no televisions in rooms (S)
Barbara Crossette article contends that arrest of former Chilean dictator Gen Augusto Pinochet in London and House of Lords ruling upholding it may have opened new era in practice of international human rights law; Pinochet photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 1998, covering November 29, 1998.
Alanis Morissette
R. Kelly
Celine Dion
Jay-Z
U2
1998MJ Melendez, American baseball player[†]
Mervyl Samuel Melendez Jr. is an American professional baseball left fielder and catcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022.
1998Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player[†]
Ye Qiuyu is a Chinese tennis player.
1998Lovie Simone, American actress[†]
Lovie Simone Oppong is an American actress, best known for her role as Zora Greenleaf in the drama series Greenleaf (2016–2020), and Keisha Clark in the critically acclaimed Netflix teen drama series Forever (2025).
1998George Van Eps, American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist (born 1913)[†]
George Abel Van Eps was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist.
1998Robin Ray, English broadcaster, actor, and musician (born 1934)[†]
Robin Ray was an English broadcaster on radio and television, actor of stage and screen, and musician. The eldest son of the comedian Ted Ray, he was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was the school's chief technical instructor from 1961 to 1965.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]