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Swiss team Alinghi, skippered by former New Zealand sailor Russell Coutts, wins America's Cup, sweeping team New Zealand, 5-0, and prompting many New Zealand fans to see Coutts as 'traitor'; photos (M)
Joyce Purnick Metro Matters column suggests Daniel Libeskind has enough drive to surmount political, financial and engineering roadblocks he is sure to encounter in getting his plan for ground zero realized (M)
Tchaikovsky Untuned Tchaikovsky's boyhood piano is decrepit, but it and his newly accessible birthplace museum offer hints of what his life was like. PAGE A4
Difficult task facing Homeland Security Sec Tom Ridge, who begins in earnest to confront gargantuan management challenge of merging 22 federal agencies and 170,000 employees into single department, discussed; aides say extent of task is only now becoming obvious; several of most important agencies he has taken over are demoralized and others are understaffed; still others seem incapable of carrying out many of most basic responsibilities to protect nation from entry by terrorists and their weapons; recent defection of four Cuban coast guard officers, who entered US waters undetected noted; diagram; photos (M)
Art gallery on seventh floor of former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas will open show of silk-screened portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy made by Andy Warhol in months after Pres John F Kennedy was killed by bullet fired from window on building's sixth floor; Sixth Floor Museum, one of most popular historic destinations in Texas, also rents out seventh floor for certain events like corporate dinners and receptions, with rules intended to keep things under control; some visitors find nothing inappropriate in such use of space, but others say it gives them weird feeling; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 26, 2003, covering March 3, 2003.
50 Cent
Dixie Chicks
Norah Jones
Kid Rock
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2003Horst Buchholz, German actor (born 1933)[†]
Horst Werner Buchholz was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth, he was sometimes called "the German James Dean". He is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his roles as Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960), as a communist in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), and as Dr. Lessing in Life Is Beautiful (1997).
2003Luis Marden, American linguist, photographer, and explorer (born 1913)[†]
Luis Marden was an American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic Magazine. He worked as a photographer and reporter before serving as chief of the National Geographic foreign editorial staff. He was a pioneer in the use of color photography, both on land and underwater, and also made many discoveries in the world of science.
2003Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer and conductor (born 1904)[†]
Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]