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Caryn James reviews HBO television movie Wit, based on Margaret Edson play and directed by Mike Nichols; Emma Thompson stars; photo (M)
Bar Association Role Ends The White House has ended the American Bar Association's semi-official role of evaluating candidates for the federal bench. PAGE A13
Maryland defeats Georgetown, 76-66, to advance to NCAA basketball tournament final eight; photos (M)
After spending much of the day in bear market territory, the Dow industrials recovered somewhat in the afternoon, swinging from a decline of more than 380 points to close down less than 98 points, or 1 percent. But the Dow is fewer than a dozen points from officially entering a bear market. Technology stocks ended the day sharply higher, with the Nasdaq composite index rising 3.7 percent. Business Day, Page C1.
Australian dollar slumps to all-time low of just under 50 US cents, leaving many analysts baffled; has fallen more than 24 percent against US currency since January 2000 and more than 10 percent since start of current year, making it second worst-performing currency internationally, behind Turkish lira; graph (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 2001, covering March 23, 2001.
Dave Matthews Band
Aerosmith
Shaggy
Eve
DJ Clue
2001Rowland Evans, American journalist (born 1921)[†]
Rowland Evans Jr. was an American journalist. He was known best for his decades-long syndicated column and television partnership with Robert Novak, a partnership that endured, if only by way of a joint subscription newsletter, until Evans's death.
2001Margaret Jones, British archaeologist (born 1916)[†]
Margaret Ursula Jones was an English archaeologist, best known for directing major excavations at Mucking, Essex.
2001Robert Laxalt, American author (born 1923)[†]
Robert Laxalt was an American writer from Nevada.
2001David McTaggart, Canadian badminton player and environmentalist (born 1932)[†]
David Fraser McTaggart was a Canadian environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International.
2001The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.[†]
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after Mir's orbit decayed. The station served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and spacecraft systems with a goal of developing technologies required for permanent occupation of space.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]