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Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, said there was little evidence that the economy was slowing and warned that stock prices might be getting excessive. His comments, analysts said, suggested that the central bank would leave interest rates alone in the near future. Business Day, page C1.
White House lawyers Gregory B Craig and Cheryl D Mills defend Pres Clinton against impeachment charges at Senate trial; Craig, homing in on details in disputing perjury charges, holds House prosecutors resort to 'word games' and 'legal mumbo jumbo'; apologizes to Clinton, Senate and American public if legal team's reliance on overly legal or technical arguments gives offense; photo (M)
Allan Kozinn's Arts in America column on Keystone Center of Music and the Arts being planned for the Poconos; 'Tanglewood of the Poconos,' brainchild of concert violinist Elliot Rosoff and engineer Nat Gliserman, is scheduled to open in May 2000 on 675 acres near Stroundburg, Pa; photo (M)
Jack S Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas in Austin will stage exhibit of large-scale contemporary works of art from Argentina, most of which have never been shown in US; artists include Antonio Berni, Jorge de la Vega, Alberto Heredia and Victor Grippo; photo; Paine Webber Art Gallery in Manhattan will stage exhibit, Shaker Gifts, Shaker Genius: The Collection of the Shaker Museum and Library, to celebrate history and artistic and cultural legacy of American Shakers; photo; author William S Burroughs will be honored with weekend of literary events in Manhattan to celebrate his 85th birthday (M)
Questions are raised about Giuliani administration's efforts to shut down 30th Street Men's Shelter, New York's largest homeless shelter, in view of the fact that Suri Kasirer, wife of Bruce Teitelbaum, head of Giuliani's fund-raising organization, is lobbyist for Castle Senior Living, a for-profit company that wants to establish an upscale assisted-living residence for the elderly in the building; although Kasirer's activities do not appear to violate city ethics regulations, Giuliani has prohibited his aides from having further contact with Kasirer on matters of city business; city officials say they feel they have to move shelter because a facility for children is planned nearby (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 20, 1999, covering January 21, 1999.
DMX
Lauryn Hill
2Pac
The Offspring
Jay-Z
1999Rubina Ali, Indian actress[†]
Rubina Ali, also known as Rubina Qureshi, also known as Rubina Jodiyawala is an Indian actress who played the child version of Latika in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Following the film's success, she was cast in the Bollywood film Kal Kisne Dekha (2009).
1999Fūju Kamio, Japanese actor[†]
Fūju Kamio is a Japanese actor.
1999Alisha Lehmann, Swiss footballer[†]
Alisha Debora Lehmann is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and the Switzerland national team. She is the most followed woman footballer in the world on Instagram.
1999Susan Strasberg, American actress (born 1938)[†]
Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American stage, film, and television actress. Thought to be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for a Tony Award at age 18, playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. She appeared on the covers of LIFE and Newsweek in 1955. A close friend of Marilyn Monroe, she wrote two best-selling tell-all books. Her later career primarily consisted of slasher and horror films, followed by TV roles, by the 1980s.
1999War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.[†]
The war on drugs, sometimes referred to in the 21st century as the war on cartels in contexts of military intervention and counterterrorism, is a global anti-narcotics campaign led by the United States federal government, including drug prohibition and foreign assistance, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the US. The initiative's efforts includes policies intended to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of psychoactive drugs that the participating governments, through United Nations treaties, have made illegal.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]