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Profile of Providence Equity Partners, rapidly growing media and telecommunications empire; firm and its president, Jonathan M Nelson, have been little noticed despite company's role in number of big media deals; Nelson cites value of low profile, interview; table of recent investments; photos (M)
Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells at age 62 looks to restore Cowboys franchise; prepares to face former team New York Giants; photos (M)
Article, noting widespread use among students of Internet file-sharing, on wider trend by Americans toward copying everything, from apparel to literature, and its legal and ethical implications; photos (M)
Shane Mosely wins unanimous 12-round decision over Oscar De La Hoya to take World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association superwelterweight titles; photo (M)
New York Stock Exchange president Richard A Grasso says he makes no apologies for compensation package of almost $200 million, now cut by $48 million, and predicts he will survive controversy and serve out new contract that runs until 2007; interview; photos; says he does not determine award and only regrets he did not take it sooner; not taking pay annually allowed Grasso to accumulate money at interest rates as high as eight percent; annual pay reached peak of $31 million in 2001; predecessor William Donaldson earned at most about $1.85 million; timeline of recent scandals tarnishing exchange reputation (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 2003, covering September 14, 2003.
Mary J. Blige
Hilary Duff
Various Artists
Alan Jackson
YoungBloodZ
2003Jerry Fleck, American actor and director (born 1947)[†]
Gerald R. Fleck was an American assistant director best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise across eleven years.
2003Garrett Hardin, American ecologist and author (born 1915)[†]
Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist and microbiologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable."
2003John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer (born 1915)[†]
John Serry Sr. was an American concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator. He performed on the CBS Radio and Television networks and contributed to Voice of America's cultural diplomacy initiatives during the Golden Age of Radio. He also concertized on the accordion as a member of several orchestras and jazz ensembles for nearly forty years between the 1930s and 1960s.
2003In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.[†]
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,300 other islands and islets on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Its capital Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas. The Estonian language is the official language and the first language of the majority of its population of nearly 1.4 million. Estonia is one of the least populous members of the European Union and NATO.
2003Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra.[†]
Kumba Ialá Embaló, also spelled Yalá, was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was president from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a bloodless military coup on 14 September 2003. He belonged to the Balanta ethnic group and was President of the Social Renewal Party (PRS). In 2008 he converted to Islam and took the name Mohamed Ialá Embaló. He was the founder of the Party for Social Renewal. In 2014, Ialá died from a cardiopulmonary arrest.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]