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New Jersey Attorney General Peter C Harvey will open criminal investigation into charges that Bayside State Prison guards beat inmates during 1997 lockdown as part of revenge for inmate murder of prison guard (M)
Federal Judge Stephen Wilson rules in favor of online services Grokster and StreamCast Networks that allow people to share music, movies and other digital files freely over Internet; decision puts brakes on momentum entertainment industry has previously enjoyed in its legal efforts to block file-swapping services, which have made it easy for consumers to acquire copyrighted material free; Wilson says Grokster and Streamcast are essentially no different from companies that create videocassette recorders, which also allow consumers to make their own copies (M)
CUNY law school dean Kristin Booth Glen will now allow graduating class to honor Lynne F Stewart, lawyer who has become left-wing cause celebre since she was charged with helping convicted terrorist Omar Abdel Rahman pass messages to followers; photo (M)
Barbara Principe, daughter of German Jews who immigrated to New Jersey to escape Adolf Hitler's Aryanization, is suing German retail conglomerate KarstadtQuelle; alleges that her parents, who owned Germany's largest retail chain Wertheim Warenhaus, were tricked by family friend into selling company, which was then broken up and ended up under KarstadtQuelle's ownership; multimillion-dollar suit is one of biggest Holocaust-era restitution claims by single family; photo (M)
Army Secretary Thomas E. White, who was questioned about his ties to the Enron Corporation and clashed with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, abruptly resigned. Article, Page A17
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 23, 2003, covering April 26, 2003.
Godsmack
Linkin Park
50 Cent
Various Artists
Lisa Marie Presley
2003Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (born 1930)[†]
Rosemary Brown was a Canadian politician. She was the first black woman elected to the provincial government of British Columbia.
2003Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (born 1984)[†]
Yun Hyon-seok was a South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist. He wrote under the pen names Yuk Wu-dang and Seolheon, and was also known by his nickname Midong or Donghwa.
2003Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (born 1904)[†]
Edward Max Nicholson was a pioneering environmentalist, ornithologist and internationalist, and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]