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Article describes scene at shut-down Wendy's restaurant on Main Street in Flushing, Queens, where five employees were shot to death execution style during robbery last May; future of building is uncertain; photo (M)
Haven, CBS mini-series, deals with experience in 1944 of Ruth Gruber, young Jewish official in Interior Department, who flew to Europe to escort nearly 1,000 terrified Jews to Army camp in Oswego, NY; Gruber enountered not only horrors of Holocaust but also hostility and, at worst, she said, anti-Semitism of top officials at State Department and other agencies who delayed visas of tens of thousands of people who ultimately perished in death camps; photos (M)
Ariel Sharon, burly 72-year-old hawk who heads Israel's newly reinvigorated right wing, rides wave of national anxiety to overwhelming electoral victory; defeats Ehud Barak 62.5 percent to 37.4 percent, margin unprecedented in Israeli history; highly conciliatory victory speech discusses healing rifts and proposes national unity government; Sharon also reports conversation with Pres Bush, who recalled their trip through West Bank in 1998 when neither would have believed they would be leading their nations now; Barak says he will step down as Labor Party leader and resign his Parliament seat, which casts doubt on chances for unity government; photos; Sharon will otherwise have to build viable coalition in unruly Parliament that was elected with Barak in 1999; new premier calls on 'our Palestinian neighbors to cast off path of violence' and return to dialogue; pledges at same time to keep Jerusalem united under Israeli sovereignty; Yasir Arafat issues statement respecting decision of Israeli people; Labor lawmaker Yael Dayan observes that Barak lost because of 'impossible' situation in which 'we could virtually touch peace,' even as Jews are murdered on roads every day (M)
Collection of 84,000 photographs taken by Charles H (Teenie) Harris of Pittsburgh Courier chronicling daily life of black people in Pittsburgh from 1930's to his death in 1998 is being reviewed by scholars now that it has been tranferred to Carnegie Museum of Art thanks to federal court decision breaking agreement that kept them in hands of Pittsburgh photo dealer, Dennis Morgan; is being hailed as largest documentation of African-Americn urban life in existence; photos (M)
Amanda Hesser article on the many uses of ginger in food preparation; recipe; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 7, 2001, covering February 7, 2001.
Jennifer Lopez
Shaggy
Soundtrack
The Beatles
O-Town
2001R. J. Hampton, American basketball player[†]
Roderick Deon Hampton Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League. He was a five-star recruit at Little Elm High School in Little Elm, Texas. He was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks as the 24th overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft.
2001Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (born 1906)[†]
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights.
2001Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny laboratory module to the International Space Station.[†]
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]