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Anna Kisselgoff reviews the ballet Cleopatra, choreographed by Ben Stevenson and given its premier by Houston Ballet; photo of Timothy O'Keefe and Lauren Anderson (M)
Online retailer CDNow and direct-mail music giant Columbia House say their planned merger has collapsed for financial reasons, leaving both companies scrambling to find new strategic partners in rapidly evolving market for recorded music; CDNow president-chief executive Jason Olin and Columbia House chief executive Scott Flanders comment; Columbia House now plans to invest $51 million in CD Now, which would represent about 15 percent of equity; Olin says CDNow has committed itself to new operating plan aimed at slashing operating costs enough to make it more alluring to new partner; Columbia House is owned 50-50 by Sony Corp and Time Warner Inc
Pakistani-Americans in New York, seeking to influence Pres Clinton's decision on whether to visit Pakistan during coming visit to South Asia, raised $50,000 for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign at recent $1,000-a-plate dinner on Staten Island; even though evidence does not suggest action was illegal or influenced Clinton's subsequent decision to go, fund-raiser illustrates unique aspect of her candidacy, namely, that while husband still occupies White House, people may seek to influence his policies by making donations to her campaign (M)
Japanese Economic Planning Agency says gross domestic product fell 1.4 percent in third quarter of 1999, equivalent to annual rate of decline of 5.5 percent, indicating retreat back into recession; graph (M)
Philadelphia Museum of Art will present exhibition The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome; photo; photo-archivist Pierre Montiel to present 200 of his color slides of World's Fair of 1939-40 in New York City at newly restored landmark Town Hall, Flushing, Queens; Art Institute of Chicago will be last stop for exhibition Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, before donation is dispersed to 25 museums in United States and 15 abroad; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 2000, covering March 14, 2000.
Santana
Dr. Dre
Christina Aguilera
Kid Rock
Eiffel 65
2000Chrisean Rock, American rapper and reality television personality[†]
Chrisean Eugenia Malone, known professionally as Chrisean Rock, is an American rapper and reality television personality. She is best known for appearing on Zeus Network's reality series Baddies (2022–2023) for three seasons. She then starred in her own short-lived series, Blueface & Chrisean: Crazy In Love (2022–2023), also for the network.
2000Jihoon, South Korean singer[†]
Park Ji-hoon, known mononymously as Jihoon, is a South Korean singer. He debuted in Treasure on August 7, 2020, and its single album entitled The First Step: Chapter One.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]