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Interview with Herman Badillo, part of series of interviews with New York City mayoral candidates; Badillo says he would emulate Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani to protect 'dramatic improvements' of his tenure; photo (M)
Bush administration opposes New York proposal to use both state and federal Medicaid money to subsidize contraceptive services for some 400,000 low-income residents who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid and do not get health benefits from employers; holds proposal is too narrow, seeking to expand Medicaid coverage for single type of service; stand places Gov George E Pataki, who approved plan, in political quandary; Democratic lawmakers, women's groups and family planning advocates score stand; see effort to please Bush's conservative supporters; notes similar programs were approved in at least nine other states during Clinton administration (M)
Many beachgoers in Connecticut score State Supreme Court ruling striking down residents-only beach policies of Greenwich and other towns along Long Island Sound; Greenwich officials seem reluctant to continue fight, focusing instead on steps to implement ruling, news conference; photos (M)
Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani reports reaching tentative accord with 50,000 members of Uniformed Forces Coalition that would give uniformed city employees raise of over 10 percent over 30 months, starting in Aug 2000; pact is more generous than one recently negotiated with New York City's civilian workers, indicating city and its unions have abandoned pattern bargaining, in which all unions get roughly same deal; calls for 5 percent raises in each of two years, and 1.5 percent discretionary fund to finance specific benefits for different unions; will cost $100 million to $150 million more than current budget allows; Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which bargains separately, denies pact will hurt its bid for state Public Employment Relations Board to declare impasse and mediate its contract talks with city (M)
Ira Berkow Sports of The Times column criticizes grueling practices in hot weather for high school and college football players, following death of Eraste Autin of University of Florida; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 25, 2001, covering July 28, 2001.
Alicia Keys
P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family
D12
Staind
Destiny's Child
2001Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (born 1943)[†]
Ahmed Sofa was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, philosopher and public intellectual. Sofa is considered by many, including National Professor Abdur Razzaq and Salimullah Khan, to be the most important Bengali Muslim writer after Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Kazi Nazrul Islam. A writer by occupation, Sofa wrote 18 non-fiction books, 8 novels, 4 collections of poems, 2 collections of short stories, and several books in other genres.
2001Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.[†]
Ian James Thorpe is an Australian retired swimmer who specialised in freestyle, but also competed in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the second most won by any Australian after fellow swimmer Emma McKeon. With three gold and two silver medals, Thorpe was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics, held in his hometown of Sydney.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]