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Photos of highest-priced collectible cars sold at lavish auction in Monte Carlo; 1963 Ferrari SWB 250 GT California Spyder sells for $1,023,799
Over the last year, once separate and distinct worlds of old-line Hollywood and dot-coms of new economy have been intermingling with increasing speed as they move toward coming age of digital entertainment; while major studios remain as conservative as ever, largely keeping their distance from Web, many entertainment executives, filmmakers, celebrities and talent agencies have been moving rapidly into digital field; almost every week actors and directors are signing deals with a dot.com to create exclusive digital films; Joe Roth, longtime movie executive who just started Revolution Studios, independent production company, comments on his involvement in two Internet ventures; several other companies have announced or intend to announce soon that they will spend more time and energy on creating content for others' sites than for themselves' photos; chart on leading figures who are moving into digital ventures (L)
Brig Stephen Saunders, senior military attache at British Embassy in Athens, is gunned down by two gunmen identified as members of left-wing terrorist group November 17; Saunders is first British official assassinated in an attack linked to November 17, but killing is 23rd attributed to group, which emerged in 1975 with slaying of Richard Welch, Central Intelliegence Agency station chief in Athens, and three other United States officials; in last 25 years, no member of November 17 has been arrested; State Department report in April and special US commission report only a few days ago both criticized Greece for being disturbingly passive in response to terrorist activities; photos (M)
International Rescue Committee, leading relief agency, reports that two years of war have caused deaths of more than 1.7 million people in Congo's eastern provinces, where people who manage to flee fighting often die of hunger and malaria; 200,000 of these deaths are attributed to acts of violence, and rest are attributed to war-related collapse of health services and food supplies; Les Roberts, supervisor of survey, comments on findings; map (M)
Critics of Defense Department's proposed antimissile defense system and even some military experts say all flight tests of the $60 billion weapon have been rigged to hide a fundamental flaw: that system cannot distinguish between enemy warheads and decoys; say that after system failed to achieve this crucial discrimination goal in its first two flight tests, Pentagon substituted simpler and fewer decoys that would be easier for antimissile weapon to recognize; Pentagon plan, covering four completed tests and future tests up to system's projected deployment in 2005, was obtained by Theodore A Postol, arms expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who opposes the weapon; Pentagon officials strongly defend testing program; Postol photo; chart and diagrams of tests (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 7, 2000, covering June 9, 2000.
Eminem
Britney Spears
Matchbox Twenty
A Perfect Circle
*NSYNC
2000Diego Lainez, Mexican footballer[†]
Diego Lainez Leyva is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Tigres UANL and the Mexico national team.
2000John Abramovic, American basketball player (born 1919)[†]
John M. Abramovic Jr. was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) for the Pittsburgh Ironmen, St. Louis Bombers and Baltimore Bullets. Abramovic was nicknamed "Brooms" and worked in his family's broom manufacturing business after his playing retirement.
2000Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (born 1917)[†]
Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions, Lawrence found inspiration in everyday life in Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]