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Little League officials were told during last month's World Series that Rolando Paulino, the founder of the Bronx team, had a history of using ineligible players on his teams, a league spokesman said. The accusations against Mr. Paulino, whose team was later disqualified because its star pitcher was too old, were overlooked because of miscommunication, the official said. SportsSunday.
Economists Robert J Shiller and Jeremy J Siegel are intellectual combatants and longtime friends; their books -- Shiller's Irrational Exuberance and Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run -- argue opposite views of current stock market valuations, as do the men themselves; photos (M)
New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-1; photo (M)
Xavier Malisse defeats Tim Henman in third-round match at United States Open tennis tournament; photo (M)
Clyde Haberman article says Israeli army's killing of Mustafa Zibri, whom Israel holds responsible for string of car bombings, prompts question of whether perceived short-term gain from eliminating Zibri, a top man in Palestine Liberation Organization, is worth potentially dire long-term consequences; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 29, 2001, covering September 2, 2001.
Various Artists
Alicia Keys
*NSYNC
The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley
Usher
2001Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (born 1922)[†]
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system. Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading. Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of 1968, returned home from the hospital and lived for a year and a half.
2001Troy Donahue, American actor (born 1936)[†]
Troy Donahue was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Johnny Hunter in the film A Summer Place. He was a popular sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]