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Five Palestinian boys, cousins ranging in age from 6 to 14, were killed when a powerful explosive detonated beneath them near an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians said the boys had been killed by an unexploded tank shell, a remnant of recent fighting, but the Israeli authorities said that a Palestinian explosive might be to blame. Article, Page A3.
Third article of series, Squad 1, on lives of those left behind by Dave Fontana, one of 12 firefighters from elite fire and rescue unit killed at World Trade Center, describes how those on Thanksgiving shift celebrate first holiday since that event; they have spent last 10 weeks searching wreckage at World Trade Center and going to funerals; they express their gratitude for what they have, and they dine on turkey and trimmings at firehouse; later, they travel to ground zero to continue combing smoldering pile of twin towers for bodies; photos (L)
New York City agencies scramble to make 15 percent cuts needed to close this year's $1 billion budget shortfall; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani freezes $1 billion in city spending, side-stepping normal budget process; freeze is unlikely to help Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg, who will face $4 billion shortfall in 2002 because of city's slowing economy (M)
Heavy fighting breaks out between Taliban and Northern Alliance troops along front lines outside Kunduz as senior alliance leader says Taliban officials have agreed to surrender encircled city; thousands of Taliban troops and foreign soldiers are trapped in city; fierce fighting suggests that Taliban leaders who struck surrender deal might not speak for all rank-and-file soldiers, or even for other commanders; as fighting rages, several Taliban soldiers cross front lines and switch sides, lending air of chaos to scene; peace deal supposedly worked out by Gen Abdul Rashid Dostum, longtime Uzbek warlord, seems fraught with questions; photos (M)
A O Scott article on new Iranian films that allow Americans a glimpse or complexities of Islam and Middle East today; discusses Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Kandahar, Majid Majidi's Baran, Abbas Kiarostami's ABC Africa and Jafar Panahi's The Circle; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 21, 2001, covering November 23, 2001.
Britney Spears
Pink Floyd
Michael Jackson
Enrique Iglesias
Enya
2001Tino Anjorin, English footballer[†]
Faustino Adebola Rasheed "Tino" Anjorin is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for Serie B club Empoli.
2001Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (born 1936)[†]
Robert "Bo" Belinsky was an American professional baseball pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball from 1962 to 1970.
2001Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (born 1910)[†]
Constance Mary Whitehouse was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. She was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the BBC. A hard-line social conservative, she was termed a reactionary by her socially liberal opponents. Her motivation derived from her Christian beliefs, her aversion to the rapid social and political changes in British society of the 1960s, and her work as a teacher of sex education.
2001The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.[†]
The Convention on Cybercrime, also known as the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime or the Budapest Convention, is the first international treaty seeking to address Internet and computer crime (cybercrime) harmonizing national laws, improving investigative techniques, and increasing cooperation among nations. It was drawn up by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, with the active participation of the Council of Europe's observer states Canada, Japan, the Philippines, South Africa and the United States.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]