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Justice Department Issues A Rebuttal to Microsoft The Justice Department and 19 states suing Microsoft jointly issued a stinging and disdainful rebuttal to the company's legal arguments last week that it had not violated the nation's antitrust laws.
Congressional Budget office predicts that federal budget surplus, driven by strong economy and flood of tax revenues, will surge over next decade to levels that would have been inconceivable few years ago; projects surplus of more than $1.9 trillion outside of Social Security; surplus in Social Security system, which is prjected to turn into deep deficit within twenty years, is estimated at $2.3 trillion over ten years; graph; Clinton administration will issue own surplus predictions in two weeks, in conjunction with Pres Clinton's ambitious tax and spending initiatives; Clinton says he will push to pay off by 2013 entire $3.6 trillion owed by federal government to public in form of Treasury bonds; total national debt of $5.7 trillion includes both public debt and more than $2 trillion owed to Social Security system (M)
The four undercover police officers who ran a bogus scrap-metal business in a grimy industrial section of Queens had all the tools of the trade: a payloader to crush the cars, equipment to strip off radiators, and flatbed trucks to transport the remains. Their mission was to smash auto theft and fraud rings. But in May, an unexpected quarry walked into their scrap yard. He was Carmine Agnello, the son-in-law and confidant of John J. Gotti, the former chief of the Gambino crime family. And law enforcement authorities said he gave the officers a simple message: sell him the crushed cars at artificially low prices or suffer the consequences.
Late Show With David Letterman, which has trailed Jay Leno in ratings for more than five years, builds up its audience this year, adding almost half a million viewers to nightly average; Rob Burnett, executive producer, says Letterman cannot realistically hope to beat Leno regularly because NBC has stronger network shows than CBS between 10 to 11 pm and because NBC has stronger local newscasts than CBS in most cities; photo (M)
On Pro Football column discusses career of Kansas City Chiefs football player Derrick Thomas following reports that he is paralyzed after fatal auto crash (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 26, 2000, covering January 26, 2000.
Santana
Celine Dion
DMX
Various Artists
Christina Aguilera
2000Ester Expósito, Spanish actress[†]
Ester Expósito Gayoso is a Spanish actress. She is best known for her starring role as Carla Rosón Caleruega in the Netflix teen drama series Élite.
2000Darius Garland, American basketball player[†]
Darius Kinnard Garland is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores. Born in Gary, Indiana, Garland is the son of former professional basketball player Winston Garland. Garland attended Brentwood Academy in high school, joining the varsity basketball team in eighth grade and leaving as a four-time state champion and three-time Tennessee Mr. Basketball winner. He was a five-star recruit, ranked among the best point guards in the 2018 class, and a McDonald's All-American. He is a two-time NBA All-Star.
2000Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (born 1915)[†]
John Donald Budge was an American tennis player. He is most famous as the first tennis player — male or female — to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year and complete the Grand Slam. Budge was the second man to complete the career Grand Slam, after Fred Perry. He won ten majors, of which six were Grand Slam events and four Pro Slams, the latter achieved on three different surfaces. Budge is considered to have one of the best backhands in the history of tennis, with most observers rating it better than that of later player Ken Rosewall.
2000Kathleen Hale, English author and illustrator (born 1898)[†]
Kathleen Hale OBE was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat.
2000A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (born 1912)[†]
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentieth century, the genre's so-called Golden Age, and one of the most complex. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him their 14th Grand Master in 1995.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]