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Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column criticizes inflated wages paid to baseball players, passed on to fans in form of increased ticket prices; photo (M)
Ulster at a Crossroads President Clinton will visit Northern Ireland at a time when efforts to put the peace accord he helped broker into full effect are stalled and another showdown looms between the main factions. PAGE A16 Europe's Mild Reform What was billed as a gathering to overhaul the European Union's unwieldy decision-making structures to accommodate new members has produced only minimal adjustments. NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A8
Home of revered singer Carlos Gardel in Buenos Aires is to be turned into Argentina's first tango museum; Steven Berkoff's one-man show Shakespeare's Villains will return for three-week run at Public Theater; photo; American Symphony Orchestra concert will focus on music of Stalinist era in Russia; Frick Collection to display masterworks on paper from collection of National Gallery of Scotland; photo (Footlights column) (M)
Federal appeals court, Cleveland, declares city's school voucher program unconstitutional; upholds lower court ruling that use of public money to send thousands of children to parochial schools breached First Amendment's separation of church and state; 2-1 decision, which included vitriolic exchange among judges, sets stage for US Supreme Court showdown on one of most contentious issues in education politics; comes month after voters in Michigan and California roundly rejected voucher programs in ballot initiatives (M)
Max Planck ignited a scientific revolution 100 years ago with proposal that atoms emit energy in discrete amounts, called quanta, rather than in continuous waves; quantum theory gave rise to paradoxical notions of lumpy light, wavelike particles and disconnection of cause and effect, engendering a scientific debate that still continues; this week, some 700 physicists and historians are gathering in Berlin, where Planck started it all, to celebrate a theory whose meaning they still do not understands but that is foundation of modern science; chronological chart illustrates developments in quantum theory over last century; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 2000, covering December 12, 2000.
Backstreet Boys
The Beatles
Various Artists
Tim McGraw
Wu-Tang Clan
2000The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]