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September 3, 2001

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BellSouth's Down-Home Strategy; Local Telephone Service Has Become a Haven For Cautious Company

By Simon Romero

Profile of BellSouth; among seven regional Bell companies that emerged from 1984 breakup of AT&T, only BellSouth is still, primarily, regional phone company; by forgoing national expansion to focus on local service in same nine states where it has operated last 17 years, BellSouth has found local telephone business a haven in storm that has ravaged so much of rest of telecommunications industry; photo of chief exec F Duane Ackerman; map (L)

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Public Education's Inspired but Rocky Road

By Julie Salamon

Julie Salamon comments on public education in America, in light of several television documentaries, Kindergarten, HBO Family's 13-part series, and School: The Story of American Public Education, PBS's comprehensive four-hour survey; photo (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 29, 2001, covering September 3, 2001.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Now 7 by Various Artists

    Now 7

    Various Artists

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  2. 2
    Album cover for Songs In A Minor by Alicia Keys

    Songs In A Minor

    Alicia Keys

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8
  3. 3
    Album cover for Celebrity by *NSYNC

    Celebrity

    *NSYNC

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for Eternal by The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley

    Eternal

    The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for 8701 by Usher

    8701

    Usher

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    2

Notable Births

Kaia Gerber

2001Kaia Gerber, American model and actress[†]

Kaia Jordan Gerber is an American model and actress. After starring in a series of ad campaigns for fashion brands since debuting at Fashion Week in 2017, Gerber won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2018. As an actress, she has appeared in supporting roles in the films Bottoms (2023) and Saturday Night (2024). She is the second child and only daughter of the supermodel Cindy Crawford and the businessman Rande Gerber.

Notable Deaths

Pauline Kael

2001Pauline Kael, American film critic and author (born 1919)[†]

Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, Kael often defied the consensus of her contemporaries.

Historical Events

Belfast

2001In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls.[†]

Belfast is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel. It is the second-largest city in Ireland, with an estimated population of 348,005 in 2022, and a metropolitan area population of 671,559.

Historical Context for September 3, 2001

In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]