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Enron Ex-Chief Speaks Out Enron's former chief executive, who quit just months before the company collapsed, broke his silence to deny any responsibility or wrongdoing, saying he had been stunned by the failure. BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1
Indiana Pacers defeat New Jersey Nets, 100-94; photo (M)
RED CROSS IN WARTIME The recent resignation -- or ouster -- of tough-talking Dr. Bernadine Healy as president was just the latest wound to the international relief organization. A report by Deborah Sontag in The Times Magazine.
India today recalled its ambassador to Pakistan and ended bus and train service between the two countries to protest what it called Pakistan's failure to shut down two Pakistan-based groups India has accused of carrying out a suicide attack on Parliament last week. India last recalled its ambassador to Pakistan 30 years ago, when India and Pakistan were at war. The two nations started the bus service between New Delhi and Lahore almost three years ago in a more hopeful time, intending it to symbolize a new opening up to each other.
Former New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Mark Green will not attend inauguration of Michael Bloomberg; aides say he has arranged to spend New Year in Florida with family (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 19, 2001, covering December 22, 2001.
Creed
Various Artists
Various Artists
Britney Spears
Mannheim Steamroller
2001Camila Osorio, Colombian tennis player[†]
María Camila Osorio Serrano is a Colombian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 33 in singles and No. 167 in doubles. Osorio has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and three on the ITF Women's Circuit.
2001Ovidiu Iacov, Romanian footballer (born 1981)[†]
Ovidiu Nicolae Iacov was a Romanian footballer. During his career he played only for Steaua București.
2001Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (born 1918)[†]
Walter Newton "Bud" Read was an American lawyer and the second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, from 1982 to 1989.
2001Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Islamic State of Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.[†]
Burhānuddīn Rabbānī was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as the sixth president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again from November to December 2001.
2001Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.[†]
Richard Colvin Reid, also known as the "Shoe Bomber", is a British terrorist who perpetrated the failed shoe bombing attempt against a transatlantic flight in 2001. Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid converted to Islam as a young man in prison after years as a petty criminal. Later he became radicalized and went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained and became a member of al-Qaeda.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]