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In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]
2000Isabel May, American actress[†]
Isabel May is an American actress. She first gained attention as high school student Katie Cooper, one of the co-lead roles on the Netflix series Alexa & Katie (2018–2020), and gained further attention as co-lead character Elsa Dutton on the Paramount+ series 1883 (2021–2022), reprising the role as the narrator of its sequel series, 1923 (2022–2025).
2000Matt O'Riley, English-Danish footballer[†]
Matthew Sean O'Riley is a professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. Born in England, he plays for the Denmark national team.
2000Ernest Lluch, Spanish economist and politician (born 1937)[†]
Ernest Lluch Martín was a Spanish economist and politician, member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC). He was Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982 to 1986 in the first Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government of Felipe González. He was assassinated in 2000 by the Basque separatist organisation, ETA.
2000Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (born 1922)[†]
Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life. He was nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive".
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AT&T plan to break itself into four pieces has many experts worried that nationwide competition in local telephone service, envisioned in Telecommunications Act of 1996, is at risk; AT&T officials insist that company's offspring will continue to offer aggressive competition for local phone companies; many analysts say that is unlikely; since AT&T's initial breakup in early 1980's, Baby Bells have shown greater penchant for consolidation than for competition, and most upstart local phone carriers have focused on serving business customers rather than consumers; 4 years after passage of bill that was supposed to sweep away barriers to competition, only about 3 percent of household and small-business telephone lines are served by competitor to longstanding local phone company; graph (M)
Austria reduces number of shares on sale in Telekom Austria by 20 percent and prices them at 9 euros each, at low end of expected range; issue raises 1.16 billion euros ($980 million), about half of what analysts had forecast (S)
Florida Supreme Court justices sharply challenge lawyers for Vice Pres Al Gore and Gov George W Bush on parallel tracks, at hearing on suits over state's presidential ballots; ask Republicans to justify state deadline that ignores hand recounts in big, largely Democratic counties while pressing Democrats to explain how court can set new deadline without jeopardizing Florida's voice in Electoral College; pepper lawyers on both sides with searching, skeptical questions; home in particularly on Republicans' contention that state law allows no leeway in deadline for counties to submit returns by one week after Election Day; express clear unease at Democrats' suggestion that court, not Legislature or state's top elected official, should set deadline or outline its own standards for how ballots should be recounted; express concern that prolonging post-electoral wrangling without official winner can short-circuit eventual loser's right to contest election, as provided by state law; court recessed without issuing decision; photo (M)
Footlights column notes African Diaspora Film Festival, Barnum's Kaleidoscope tent circus in Bryant Park, Museum of the City of New York commemoration of show Guys and Dolls, Marionette Theater of Tblisi show on Battle of Stalingrad, to have premier at Kennedy Center; photos (S)
John Tierney comment on findings of report The Federal Budget and the States, report started by outgoing Sen Daniel P Moynihan and now computed by researchers at Kennedy School of Government; report finds that of states with largest per capita tax deficits, 10 of 12 voted against Gov George W Bush, candidate promising to let them keep more of their money (M)
Dave Anderson, in Sports of The Times, sees turnovers as barometer of New York Giants' performance this season; photo of coach Jim Fassel (M)
Scandinavian Airlines System will combine its three shares into one in first half of 2001 (S)
Companie Financiere Richemont says group profit before extraordinary items rose 51 percent in first half of its fiscal year, to $265 million (S)
Gao Xingjian, Chinese playwright, novelist and artist, discusses sudden fame as winner of Nobel Prize in literature, interview in Paris, where he has lived anonymously until now in rundown housing project; photos; Gao has written plays, literary criticism and fiction, but his work has been banned on Chinese mainland since 1985; his best-known novel, Soul Mountain, lyrical account of long journey through China, has so far been published in only few countries; Gao says he will accept honor as writer, not political figure; his battles in China were always about literature: 'crime' that drove him out in 1987 was that his work reflected Western literary freedom, not socialist realism; he recalls interest in Western culture dating to his childhood in Nanjing (M)
Profile of Pages family of trapeze artists, mother, father and two children who perform with Big Apple Circus, which is performing in New York City through January; photos (L)
Banco Santander Central Hispano wins auction for Banco do Estado de Sao Paulo, state-run enterpise, with bid of $3.57 billion, largest amount ever paid for government bank in South America; bid reflects Santander's history of aggressive expansion in Latin America, where it owns 17 banks in 12 countries; photos (M)
New York Giants begin makeover of special teams, in effort to improve poor performance; photos (M)