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Coming to TV this summer: real people who live under round-the-clock surveillance. A confessional culture meets up with the Internet, and exhibitionism becomes an extreme sport. A report by Marshall Sella in The Times Magazine.
News analysis of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's withdrawal from New York Senate race, and appearance of newly-vulnerable, affectionate, introspective figure more concerned with being 'better as a person' than with winning political fight; Giuliani opens emotional news conference saying there will not be new Rudy, but then talks about growing from confronting limits as he struggles with prostate cancer; he discusses his own surprise at finding decision on treatment difficult; New Yorkers react (M)
William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column on Patrick Ewing, New York Knicks' center; contends Ewing 'clearly' has been the one to keep Knicks' season from expiring; photo (M)
New Hampshire Republican Sen Judd Gregg has singlehandedly blocked US from paying $368 million owed to UN for four difficult peacekeeping missions; dispute that infuriates Clinton administration is latest skirmish in battle with Congress on using US power and money abroad in operations short of war; Gregg as chairman of Appropriations Subcommittee has stopped State Department from transferring money already approved by Congress for missions in Congo, East Timor, Kosovo and Sierra Leone; administration warns that delay hinders missions that are already frayed; Gregg, interviewed, objects most to Sierra Leone, saying he will not finance unethical 'barbaric' policy there; reference is to amnesty for rebels who have terrorized and mutilated civilians and held peacekeepers hostages; Gregg photo (M)
New York Knicks roll a seven***New York Knicks defeat Miami Heat, 72-70, Madison Square Garden, tie series at 3-3; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 17, 2000, covering May 20, 2000.
*NSYNC
504 Boyz
Sisqo
Joe
Toni Braxton
2000Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (born 1922)[â ]
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. Rampal popularised the flute in the postâWorld War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and spurring contemporary composers, such as Francis Poulenc, to create new works that have become modern standards in the flautist's repertoire.
2000Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (born 1970)[â ]
Malik Sealy was an American professional basketball player, active from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident at the age of 30. Posthumously inducted into the NYC Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004, Sealy played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves.
2000Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1933)[â ]
Yevgeny Vasilyevich Khrunov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5/Soyuz 4 mission.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[â ]