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America Online Inc to lay off 700 to 1,000 employees of newly combined company in wake of takeover of Netscape Communications Corp; president Robert W Pittman says layoffs will be equally divided between America Online and Netscape headquarters and stress corporate positions, not engineering or product development (M)
Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani, after meeting with Manhattan Borough Pres C Virginia Fields, says that he will meet again with her and other leading black officials at time when aftershocks of Amadou Diallo shooting continue to rumble through city; Giuliani has shunned Fields for over year; Mayor's office also announces that he will finally meet with State Comptroller H Carl McCall, state's highest-ranking black elected official; they last met in Nov 1994; Giuliani has refused several requests from McCall for another meeting; sudden decision to open his door marks stark turnaround for Giuliani, who has previously dismissed Fields and McCall as being more interested in publicity than in substantive discussion (M)
Global One telecommunications consortium of Sprint, France Telecom and Germany's Deutsche Telekom reportedly is close to collapse; dissolution would set stage for Sprint to be acquired by another communications giant and for Deutsche Telekom to seek international acquisitions; consortium has never run smoothly, with partners split on division of responsibilities, how to position venture and on budget details; also at issue is reluctance of French and German companies to acquire 80 percent of Sprint they do not already own; photos (M)
Article on University of Connecticut basketball player Richard Hamilton and his preparing for Final Four game against Michigan State; photo (M)
George Vecsey Sports of The Times columm discusses status of New York Yankees outfielder Darryl Strawberry for upcoming season; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 24, 1999, covering March 25, 1999.
TLC
C-Murder
Britney Spears
Eminem
Lauryn Hill
1999Mikey Madison, American actress[†]
Mikaela "Mikey" Madison Rosberg is an American actress. She began her career acting in short films and received recognition for her role as a sullen teenager in the FX comedy series Better Things (2016–2022). Madison then played Manson family member Susan Atkins in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Amber Freeman in Scream (2022).
1999Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1936)[†]
Calvin Edwin Ripken Sr. was an American baseball player, scout, coach and manager who spent 36 years in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He played in the Orioles' farm system beginning in 1957, and later served as coach and manager of the parent club, on which his sons Cal Jr. and Billy played.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]