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Mike Wise article holds that New York Knicks beat Toronto Raptors in second game of their NBA playoff series because Latrell Sprewell, veteran pushing 30, showed more poise than Vince Carter, 23-year-old participating in his first postseason; photo (M)
Windstar Solutions minivan, concept car from Ford and Maytag, features microwave, two refrigerator unts, trash compactor, mini washer-dryer and hot-and-cold cup holders; photos (S)
Floyd Norris column on what signs investors should look for to determine whether next stock market plunge, whenever it comes, is the real thing or just another buying opportunity; says investors should check the dollar and the econony; contends that one or both of them are likely to get into trouble before stock market suffers prolonged downturn; recalls market's volatility in April; graph (M)
Commerce Dept reports that nation's gross domestic product rose at 5.4 percent annual rate in first quarter of 2000, fueled by consumer spending, and that inflation rate rose to 3.2 percent for the quarter, mainly because of higher fuel prices; Wall Street expresses worry that even as oil prices recede, labor costs will accelerate and keep inflation rate rising; Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employment Cost Index increased 1.4 percent for the quarter; chart; graph (M)
Clyde Haberman column praises Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani for his 'grace under pressure' when he announced that he has prostrate cancer; holds that his performance offers glimpse of how differently his mayorality might have gone had there been more performances like that over last six and half years; says it matters that opinion polls show that most New Yorkers do not like him, including many who consider him great mayor (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 26, 2000, covering April 28, 2000.
*NSYNC
No Doubt
Santana
Sisqo
Da Brat
2000Victoria De Angelis, Italian musician[†]
Victoria De Angelis, also known mononymously as Victoria, is an Italian bass player, songwriter, producer, and DJ. She founded the rock band Måneskin in 2016 in Rome alongside guitarist Thomas Raggi, lead vocalist Damiano David, and drummer Ethan Torchio, with whom she won the Sanremo Music Festival 2021 and subsequently the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 for Italy with the song "Zitti e buoni". In 2024, De Angelis started her solo musical career with the single "Get Up Bitch! Shake Ya Ass", a collaboration with Brazilian singer Anitta.
2000Alek Thomas, American baseball player[†]
Alek Thomas is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022. He has played for the Mexico national baseball team.
2000Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (born 1925)[†]
Jerzy Einhorn was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician (Kristdemokrat). His Hebrew name was Chil Josef, after his paternal grandfather.
2000Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (born 1916)[†]
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]