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February 6, 2000

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A Moral Beacon Amid the Darkness Of a Tragic Era

By Joseph Horowitz

Joseph Horowitz article on Dmitri Shostakovich as key progenitor and prime beneficiary of comeback of music as vehicle for mass catharsis; holds his music conveyed denunciations of state tyranny and persecution of Jews in Russia under Stalin; photos (M)

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U.S. ANTIDRUG PLAN TO AID COLOMBIA FACES SKEPTICISM

By Tim Golden

Clinton administration's $1.3 billion plan to help Colombia fight drug trafficking and leftist insurgents faces skepticism from military and law-enforcement officials concerned that United States could be dragged into long and costly struggle that may ultimately have little impact on drug trade; aid plan is intended to reduce booming production of cocaine and heroin in Colombia, strengthen government and help it take control of large part of its southern territory now dominated by rebels; senior American defense officials say privately that they worry that American military, while engaged in antidrug effort, may be dragged deeper into Colombia's 40-year-long civil war; photo (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 2, 2000, covering February 6, 2000.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Supernatural by Santana

    Supernatural

    Santana

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    32
  2. 2
    Album cover for All The Way...A Decade Of Song by Celine Dion

    All The Way...A Decade Of Song

    Celine Dion

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
  3. 3
    Album cover for Dr. Dre -- 2001 by Dr. Dre

    Dr. Dre -- 2001

    Dr. Dre

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    10
  4. 4
    Album cover for Christina Aguilera by Christina Aguilera

    Christina Aguilera

    Christina Aguilera

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    22
  5. 5
    Album cover for ...And Then There Was X by DMX

    ...And Then There Was X

    DMX

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5

Notable Births

Conor Gallagher

2000Conor Gallagher, English footballer[†]

Conor John Gallagher is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the England national team.

Notable Deaths

2000Phil Walters, American race car driver (born 1916)[†]

Philip F. Walters was an American racing driver, who won both the 12 Hours of Sebring and Watkins Glen Grand Prix twice.

2000Hani al-Rahib, Syrian novelist and literary academic (born 1939)[†]

Hani Muhammad-Ali al-Rahib was a Syrian novelist and literary academic who wrote a number of distinguished novels. The Defeated was his first novel, which was published in 1961 when he was 22 years old. In the same year, he won the Al-Adab magazine literature award. His second novel was titled A Crack in a Long History (1970) then came A Thousand and Two Nights in 1977, followed in the early 1980s by The Epidemic, which some critics chose as one of the 100 most important Arab novels published in the twentieth century, according to Al-Faisal Magazine.

Historical Events

Second Chechen War

2000Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.[†]

The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 to April 2009.

Historical Context for February 6, 2000

In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]