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Dave Anderson's Sports of The Times column on New York Giants' 41-0 victory over Minnesota Vikings in National Football Conference title game; Giants to meet Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl; chart; photo (M)
Ronald T LeMay, president and chief operating officer of Sprint Corp, believes that successful telecommunications companies must offer broadband, narrowband, local, long-distance, wire-line and wireless capabilities to customers; he tries to re-establish Sprint's leadership among telecommunications providers; photos; chart; graph (M)
Novelist Gail Godwin article in series Writers on Writing discusses her experiences of writing her first nonfiction book, Heart, which deals with different ways we've imagined heart through time and what those images tell us about human condition; photo (M)
Final centennial celebration of Kurt Weill's birth will be concert at Kaye Playhouse featuring soprano Jennifer Aylmer, tenor Michael Philip Davis and pianist Kenneth Merrill, hosted by Regina Resnik; Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery is offering exhibition of Weill-related art and film by Resnik and her late husband, Arbit Blatas; Space 2001: To the Moon and Beyond begins run at Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, Conn; Robert S Isaacson, executive director of CUNY-TV, Jonas Mekas, program director and president of Anthology Film Archives, Robert Pena, program director of Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, co-chairmen of Miramax Films, to receive Order of Arts and Letters at Cultural Services of French Embassy; New York Jewish Film Festival, collaboration of Jewish Museum and Film Society of Lincoln Center, to run through Jan 25 at Walter Reade Theater; among highlights is The Sky Is Falling, directed by Andrea Frizzi and Antonio Frizzi; photo (M)
Harlem housing fraud scheme does not deter some buyers from pursuing properties they wanted to buy; some have found out at closing that there were existing liens on houses they were about to purchase; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 2001, covering January 15, 2001.
The Beatles
Various Artists
Shaggy
Limp Bizkit
Snoop Dogg
2001Leo Marks, English cryptographer, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1920)[†]
Leopold Samuel Marks, was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer. During the Second World War he headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secret Special Operations Executive organisation. After the war, Marks became a playwright and screenwriter, writing scripts that frequently utilised his war-time cryptographic experiences. He wrote the script for Peeping Tom, the controversial film directed by Michael Powell that had a disastrous effect on Powell's career, but was later described by Martin Scorsese as a masterpiece. In 1998, towards the end of his life, Marks published a personal history of his experiences during the war, Between Silk and Cyanide, which was critical of the leadership of SOE.
2001Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, is launched (Wikipedia Day).[†]
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization funded mainly by donations from readers. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]