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Article profiles Jesus Concepcion, teacher at new Bronx Preparatory Charter School in Morrisania section of Bronx; Concepcion, hired as music teacher, discusses his various roles at school, including breakfast supervision, math and reading tutoring and conducting school's orchestra; photo (M)
Canon Inc, leading maker of office automation equipment, says net income will rise 34 percent to 180 bilion yen ($1.55 billion) this year; Canon aims for sales of 3.12 trillion yen in year ending December 2001 (S)
Acting Gov Donald T DiFrancesco, in first televised speech to New Jersey Legislature, tells New Jersey residents that he will fight to lower property taxes, end racial profiling and improve children's health, all in his first few months in office; assures state lawmakers that he will work closely with them; DiFrancesco is also candidate for full term as governor in this year's elections; photo (M)
Footlights column reports on Latin American arts and culture festival at Kennedy Center in Wshington, 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Edvard Munch exhibition in Boston and Jacob Lawrence exhibtion in St Louis (S)
Players are acquiring more say in how American orchestras are run, partly because of financial strains and declining audiences; management experts say power-sharing can lead to greater commitment from musicians and might lead them into areas like fund-raising, marketing, audience development and customer satisfaction; trend is capped by Lorin Maazel's appointment as next music director of New York Philharmonic, whose musicians expressed to management their preference for him (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 31, 2001, covering February 6, 2001.
The Beatles
Shaggy
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Creed
2001Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (born 1953)[†]
Filemon Castelar Lagman, popularly known as Ka Popoy, was a revolutionary socialist and workers' leader in the Philippines who supported Marxism-Leninism. He split with the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1991 due to ideological disagreements to form the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP). He was assassinated in 2001.
2001Trần Văn Lắm, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician (born 1913)[†]
Trần Văn Lắm, also known as Charles Trần Văn Lắm, was a South Vietnamese diplomat and politician, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vietnam under Prime Minister Trần Thiện Khiêm during the height of the Vietnam War. He was most notable for his role in the Paris Peace Accords that occurred in 1973. In the late 1950s to early 1960s he served as the South Vietnamese Ambassador to both Australia and New Zealand. Lắm served as the President of the Senate of the Republic of Vietnam from 1973 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]