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Industrial conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd announces 28.5 percent rise in quarterly profit, backed by healthy growth in sales; announces profit of 11.8 billion rupees ($255 million) in quarter ended in June; graph (S)
SK Telecom, premier company of SK Group, reports net income of 548 billion won ($464 million) in second quarter, up 19 percent from second quarter of last year (S)
European Central Bank endorses candidacy of Jean-Claude Trichet as its president; photo (S)
Vatican urges Roman Catholic lawmakers and others to fight spread of laws recognizing same-sex couples, calling support for such legislation 'gravely immoral'; strongly worded, 12-page document is devoted entirely to homosexuality, gay marriage and adoption by gays and lesbians, issues that have stirred fervent debate recently in North America and Europe; this is second time this year that Vatican has instructed Catholic politicians to oppose gay marriages, underscoring Vatican's objections and apprehensions; some European governments, including those in France, Belgium and Germany, have formally recognized same-sex unions while several others are moving in that direction, example of widening chasm between Catholic teaching and European law that Pope John Paul II has frequently decried; Vatican document says allowing children to be adopted by gays and lesbians would be 'doing violence to these children' by putting them in unhealthy home environments; photo (M)
Article on pioneering spirit that has returned to Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival since Louis Langree has taken post as music director; orchestra members and Lincoln Center programming vice president Jane Moss comment; schedule; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 2003, covering August 1, 2003.
Soundtrack
Chingy
Beyonce
Brooks & Dunn
Ashanti
2003Joseph Sua'ali'i, Australian-Samoan rugby league player[†]
Joseph-Aukuso Sua'ali'i is an Australian rugby union footballer who plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super Rugby and the Australia national rugby team. He previously played rugby league as a winger or centre for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL), for New South Wales and for Samoa at international level.
2003Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922)[†]
Guy Jean-Leonard Thys was a Belgian football manager, mostly known for being the most successful manager in the history of the Belgium national football team as he managed to lead the national side to their only UEFA European Championship final in 1980 and a fourth–place finish at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. With 114 games between 1976 and 1991, he is the longest-serving national coach in the history of the Red Devils to date.
2003Marie Trintignant, French actress and screenwriter (born 1962)[†]
Marie Trintignant was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an actor and her mother was a director, producer, and screenwriter.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]