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Frontier Corp is continuing to evaluate unsolicited offer made two weeks ago by Qwest Communications International; Frontier does not say when it will make decision about the offer (M)
Financier Martin R Frankel was aided by Thomas J Corbally, businesssman consultant at Kroll Associates, in orchestrating spectacular insurance fraud that siphoned more than $300 million from insurance companies; Corbally says he was duped into helping Frankel put veneer of credibility on his business dealings and had no inkling of suspected criminal plans; pledges to cooperate with FBI and Federal authorities seeking answers about role in connecting Frankel to influential politicians, lawyers, businessmen and Catholic leaders year before insurance empire collapsed; his ties to powerful people made him valuable contributor to Kroll, well-known private investigative agency usually enlisted by corporate America to scrutinize potential business partners and adversaries, and claims that he was duped has placed company in awkward position; company, retained in 1998 to scrutinize Frankel, quickly found potential problems with his operation; inquiry apparently failed to uncover role of Corbally, who worked directly with president Jules B Kroll for almost 20 years, earned commissions on business he brought in, and had office at company's Manhattan headquarters; photo (M)
Three children from Amish and Mennonite communities in Strasburg, Pa, will become first human beings to test new method of gene therapy to treat Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, rare but deadly inherited disease in which waste product called bilirubin builds up in body and cannot be excreted; Amish and Mennonites have very high rates of variety of genetic disorders, because of their practice of intermarrying; new gene therapy, chimeraplasty, is intended to stimulate patient's own cells to repair defect in gene, using molecule called chimeraplast, manufactured blend of DNA and related molecule RNA; Dr Holmes Morton, who treats children for Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, runs nonprofit Clinic for Special Children from building that Amish and Mennonite community built for him; photos (L)
Ben Ratliff reviews concert by Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso on last night of JVC Jazz Festival; photo (M)
Jelena Dokic defeats Mary Pierce to advance to women's quarterfinals at Wimbledon; Jana Novotna and Lindsay Davenport also advance; Andre Agassi defeats Wayne Arthurs; other results noted; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 23, 1999, covering June 29, 1999.
Backstreet Boys
Ricky Martin
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Britney Spears
Ja Rule
1999Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (born 1950)[†]
Karekin I served as the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1994 and 1999. Previously, he served as the Catholicos of Cilicia from 1983 to 1994 as Karekin II.
1999Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (born 1937)[†]
Allan Carr was an American producer and manager of stage and screen. He was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]