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Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is attracting city dwellers looking for proximity to Manhattan; prized for its location, area is filled with conversions of nonresidential buildings to apartments renting for half of what people are paying in Manhattan; offers great variety in type of construction; map; photo (M)
Article on scene at Cleopatre, private club in Paris where swingers engage in sex with people that, in many cases, they have just met; photo (M)
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp (Farmer Mac), set up by Congress to offer farmers easier credit, has quietly been used by its officers and politically connected directors to enrich themselves with lavish salaries and stock options; insiders now own 13 percent of company without spending any of own money to buy stock and could end up with 35 percent without further authorization; gains come as company operates with barest of financial cushions beyond standards set by regulators; chief executive Henry D Edelman defends high executive compensation, interview; tables of data on government-sponsored corporations; photos (M)
Article on competition between private and public schools in certain sections of New York City, including Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Park Slope in Brooklyn and West 70's and East 80's in Manhattan; such neighborhoods have superior public schools and parents must grapple with issues of money, travel and admissions strategies as well as self-image, ideology, duty to their communities and duty to their children; photos (L)
Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 10-0; Red Sox pitcher Derek Lowe pitches no-hitter; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 24, 2002, covering April 28, 2002.
Ashanti
Celine Dion
Various Artists
Goo Goo Dolls
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2002Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (born 1950)[†]
Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Forces before running for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election. He did not win, but placed third behind incumbent Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, with roughly 14% of the vote nation-wide. Lebed later served as the Secretary of the Security Council in the Yeltsin administration, and eventually became the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, the second largest Russian region. He served four years in the latter position, until his death following an Mi-8 helicopter crash.
2002Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (born 1916)[†]
Aloysius Martin Thesz, known by the ring name Lou Thesz, was an American professional wrestler and wrestling coach. Considered to be one of the last true shooters in professional wrestling and described as the "quintessential athlete" and a "polished warrior who could break a man in two if pushed the wrong way", Thesz is widely regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers and wrestling world champions in history, and possibly the last globally accepted world champion.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]