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Real Madrid signs David Beckham, star of Manchester United and England national team and European fashion icon, to $41 million contract, boosting already-solid roster in hopes of heightening visibility in Asian markets; photos (M)
Article on latest attempt by Screen Actors Guild to merge with American Federation of Television and Radio Artists; SAG national president Melissa Gilbert and Aftra national president John Connolly favor move but opponents, most of them Hollywood-based SAG members, say consolidation will sap their union of power and dilute its historic identity (M)
Canadian cabinet approves new national policy to open marriage to gay couples; Prime Min Jean Chretien sees 'evolution of society' to accept same-sex unions; decision takes effect immediately in Ontario, where high court has ruled current law unconstitutional; new policy opens way for same-sex couples from US and around world to marry in Canada; Canadian marriage licenses have always been accepted in US, but legal challenges to same-sex unions are likely (M)
New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services releases more than 2,000 case files on abuse and neglect in group homes, residential treatment centers and other institutional settings under its supervision, and details that emerge from them are disturbing and sometimes gruesome; files make clear that basic supervision at institutions where full-time monitoring was essential was often inadequate; show that qualifications of those left in charge of children were sometimes barely scrutinized at all; also shed light on sense of defeatism and fatalism prevalent among workers in homes and institutions (M)
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 2003, covering June 18, 2003.
Metallica
Jewel
50 Cent
Evanescence
Soundtrack
2003Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (born 1923)[†]
Lawrence Eugene Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the American League. A native of Camden, South Carolina, and three-sport all-state athlete while in high school in Paterson, New Jersey, Doby accepted a basketball scholarship from Long Island University. At 17 years of age, he began his professional baseball career with the Newark Eagles as the team's second baseman. Doby joined the United States Navy during World War II. His military service complete, Doby returned to baseball in 1946, and along with teammate Monte Irvin, helped the Eagles win the Negro League World Series.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]