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Coach Pat Riley, preparing for playoff series between his Miami Heat and New York Knickerbockers, recalls mistake he made as Knicks coach that helped cost Knicks last game of 1994 finals; photo (M)
The owner of the Olympia Theater, one of Upper Broadway's fabled picture palaces, is exploring options for the site. The move has unnerved some local residents. With other reports from Times Square, Morningside Heights, Chelsea, Clinton, Mount Eden, Kingsbridge, Maspeth, Park Slope and Williamsburg. PAGES 22-24
Despite widespread fears that Internet will strip consumers of any privacy they have left, most data-gathering systems have been ineffective; advertisers just want to reach as large an audience as possible, and they show little interest in aiming ads at very specific groups; as result, database compilers are refining their tools; photos; chart (L)
Article on Ford Explorer Sport Trac; photo (M)
HERE'S a rule of fashion: the lower on the totem pole a model is, the less underwear she gets to wear. Your Kate Mosses, your Naomi Campbells, your Christy Turlingtons -- supermodels all -- get to sport granny bloomers if they so choose. But those towering, unnaturally cheekboned 16-year-olds fresh off the boat from Latvia or the train from Paducah must wear skimpy thongs. More trivia: there's no period after the K in the clothing label Daryl K; Dolce is linked to Gabbana with an ampersand; and the preferred tanning method of the model Maggie Rizer is to go out and get burned, then peel for the perfect bronze.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 2000, covering May 7, 2000.
*NSYNC
Joe
Sisqo
Santana
Destiny's Child
2000Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (born 1909)[†]
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941). He was the son of Douglas Fairbanks and the stepson of Mary Pickford, and his first marriage was to actress Joan Crawford.
2000Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.[†]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He is the longest-serving Russian president since the independence of Russia from the Soviet Union.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]