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John Tierney The Big City column discusses Susan Faludi's book Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, in which she examines the unhappiness felt by many American men; photo (M)
The Yankees beat Boston on a 10th-inning homer by Bernie Williams, above, in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. Game 2 is at Yankee Stadium tonight. The Mets trail Atlanta, 2-0, in the National League series after the Braves rallied with two two-run homers in the sixth inning. Game 3 is at Shea Stadium tomorrow night. Articles, page D1.
Article discusses New York City School Chancellor Dr Rudy Crew's four years in office; says that he has accumulated more power than any other school leader and has aggressively used that power against laggard schools and educators that he felt were inept; he has dismissed at least five superintendents, forced out dozens of principals, taken direct control of 40 failing schools and suspended community school boards; criticism of his performance noted; photo; graph (M)
Federal Reserve's Oct 5 decision to leave interest rate target unchanged at 5.25 percent but to hint at future increase in rates has left investors uncertain, has tripped up stocks and has pushed long-term interest rates near two-year high; big selloff in stocks could damage economy rather than slow it (Market Place column) (M)
Article on Nissan Motor Co focuses on expected reorganization plan to be announced by chief operating officer Carlos Ghosn; says Ghosn not only must restore profitablility to lumbering, heavily indebted company that has not made money on its core operations in years, but he must do so under circumstances radically different from those he has faced in past corporate overhauls; layoffs are still anathema in Japan; closing plants is considered symbol of failure; outsourcing is rare, and concept of pay for performance, not seniority, has only begun to catch on; chart; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 13, 1999, covering October 14, 1999.
Creed
Garth Brooks
Method Man & Redman
Santana
Backstreet Boys
1999Quinn Hughes, American ice hockey player[†]
Quintin Hughes is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and captain of the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hughes was drafted seventh overall by the Canucks in the 2018 NHL entry draft. Before the draft, he was considered a top prospect. Showing impressive offensive prowess as a defenseman since the beginning of his time with the Canucks, he was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's best rookie in 2020. He holds several franchise and NHL records for defensemen, and won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2024 as the NHL's best defenseman.
1999Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)[†]
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as president from 1964 to 1985. He was a founding member and chair of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party and of its successor, Chama Cha Mapinduzi, from 1954 to 1990. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he promoted a political philosophy known as Ujamaa.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]