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Profile of freestyle swimmer Alison Terry, who will try to become first black swimmer to make American Olympic team; she comments on her struggle with racial identity as child of white mother and black father and her comeback effort, interview; photos (M)
Price of crude oil for August delivery on New York Mercantile Exchange drops $1.83, or 5.6 percent, to $30.67 a barrel, after Saudi Arabia's statement that it is ready to pump 500,000 more barrels a day; some analysts contend that Saudi Arabia wants to push price of crude oil below $30 a barrel and will do what is necessary to accomplish that goal, no matter the OPEC politics; OPEC's president, Ali Rodriguez of Venezuela, says there will be no production increase until there is agreement among all group's members; says he has been assured that Saudi Arabia will not act alone; graph; photos (Market Place column) (M)
Five young architects known collectively as Shop create an urban beach called Dunescape at PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City; work is first winner of Young Architects program, a five-year series sponsored by PS 1 and Museum of Modern Art; photos (M)
Ben Ratliff reviews Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra concert at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, which starts off series of concerts celebrating Louis Armstrong centennial; photo (M)
Twyla Tharp starts her own dance company again after 12 years of freelancing with ballet companies; company, Twyla Tharp Dance, will make its debut at American Dance Festival in Durham, NC, presenting two premieres that will endeavor to unify ballet and modern dance idioms rather than contrast them, as she as done in the past; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 2000, covering July 6, 2000.
Eminem
Britney Spears
Deftones
Busta Rhymes
*NSYNC
2000Zion Williamson, American basketball player[â ]
Zion Lateef Williamson is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the power forward position. Following a freshman-year stint with the Duke Blue Devils, Williamson was selected by the Pelicans with the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2020. In 2021, he became the fourth youngest NBA player to be selected to an All-Star game.
2000WÅadysÅaw Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (born 1911)[â ]
WÅadysÅaw Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw. In the film, Szpilman is portrayed by American actor Adrien Brody.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[â ]