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Anemona Hartocollis Coping column on Laura Siegel, Spence and Vassar-educated daughter of Manhattan professionals who is giving up working-class life as Brooklyn woodworker and turning Siegel Arts into design business; drawing (M)
World of hip-hop remains fascinated by threats and insults, and feuds between rival rappers serve as provocative marketing tool for $1.6 billion industry; rivalries may intensify in effort to lift album sales, which are even more depressed than music industry as whole; hopes for rebound are pinned on four heavily promoted CD's by Ja Rule, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z and Eminem; photos (M)
Article on shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder in Beverly Hills, Calif; notes onetime Columbia Pictures studio chief Peter Guber is on jury; photos (M)
Mentor-disciple relationship between John Muhammad and Lee Malvo, men accused of killing 10 people and wounding 3 during three-week shooting spree in Washington, DC, area, had its roots in Antigua two years ago, but was forged in western Washington State, where Malvo told his mother that he had chosen new parent figure; Muhammad instructed Malvo on what to eat, when to speak and allegedly on how to shoot; was such dominant figure in younger man's life that he would not even let Malvo win game of chess; photos; map (L)
Notre Dame, rated No. 1 in college football by the New York Times computer, lost by 14-7 to Boston College, ending its hopes for an undefeated season. Three other teams lost for the first time: Georgia, Virginia Tech and North Carolina State. That pared the list of teams in contention for the national title game, with only Miami, Oklahoma and Ohio State left unbeaten among the elite teams. Article, SportsSunday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 2002, covering November 3, 2002.
Faith Hill
LL Cool J
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
Avril Lavigne
2002Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931)[†]
Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians. Born in Scotland and brought up in England, Donegan began his career in the British trad jazz revival, but transitioned to skiffle in the mid-1950s, rising to prominence with a hit recording of the American folk song "Rock Island Line", which helped spur the broader UK skiffle movement.
2002Jonathan Harris, American actor (born 1914)[†]
Jonathan Daniel Harris was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and film appearances, as well as voiceovers. Two of his best-known roles were as the prudent accountant Bradford Webster in the television version of The Third Man and the fussy villain Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s science-fiction series Lost in Space. Near the end of his career, he provided voices for the animated features A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]