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Collection of extraordinary Post-Impressionist paintings from estate of Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney will be auctioned at Sotheby's; includes works by Cezanne, Seurat and Picasso; photos (M)
New Jersey Gov Christine Todd Whitman administration, one day after state Bar Association declared Attorney General Peter G Verniero unfit to fill vacancy on State Supreme Court, pledges to continue pushing for its increasingly embattled nominee to New Jersey's highest court; Verniero, in first day of testimony at Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, defends his credentials and presents former Gov Thomas Keane and retired State Supreme Court Justice Robert L Clifford to testify on his behalf; Karol Corbin Walker, chairwoman of state Bar Assn's Committee on Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments, testifies concerning her panel's decision to find Verniero not qualified for seat; photo (M)
Battle between Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew moves to new front on May 5, as four-member majority of Board of Education backed by Mayor rejects Chancellor's five-year school construction proposal and agrees on its own version; agreement sets stage for first defeat of Crew by board since it hired him as chief executive in Oct 1995; substitute plan was devised at City Hall at insistence of Queens officials, who felt shortchanged by Chancellor's proposal (M)
Anna Kisselgoff reviews American Ballet Theater staging of Le Corsaire; photo (M)
Manhattan District Attorney Robert M Morgenthau announces indictments of Duke & Co, defunct New York brokerage firm; its chairman Victor Wang, and 17 former Duke employees, charging them with criminal enterprise that conspired with other brokerage firms to manipulate prices of six small stocks; indictments follow guilty pleas from four other former Duke brokers that came last month; indictment alleges Duke would allocate portions of stock offerings to firms like Bishop Allen & Co and First Cambridge Securities, which had agreed to help Duke keep prices of stocks artificially high; both firms are defunct; Duke allegedly manipulated stocks of Renaissance Entertainment Corp, Sel-Leb Marketing Inc, Paravant Computer Systems, Bristol Technology Systems Inc, IFS International Inc and Aviation Group Inc; others arrested include Thomas J Downey, currently broker at Briarwood Investments, Charles Bennett, Jeffrey Honigman and Salvatore Saporito; Greg Thaler, Duke's former president, is not indicted (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 1999, covering May 6, 1999.
TLC
Nas
Shania Twain
Cher
Britney Spears
1999Pato O'Ward, Mexican racing driver[†]
Patricio "Pato" O'Ward Junco is a Mexican professional auto racing driver who competes full-time in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Arrow McLaren. He is the 2018 Indy Lights champion. He is signed to the McLaren Driver Development Programme and is currently McLaren's reserve driver for their Formula One team.
1999The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.[†]
Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level. It is a form of administrative decentralization. Devolved territories have the power to make legislation relevant to the area, thus granting them a higher level of autonomy.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]