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Dan Barry column on whether demolition of decrepit Thunderbolt roller coaster at Coney Island during Giuliani administration was undertaken legally; federal jury has ruled that city had no justification for tearing down Thunderbolt and, in doing so, trespassed on property belonging to Horace Bullard (M)
Article on 16-year-old Jenise Harrell, who lives in Hunts Point section of Bronx, among the poorest in New York, and is determined to go to college and leave neighborhood; she shares five-room apartment with her mother, grandmother and two cousins; is very active in community affairs; her ecucational and career aspirations discussed; some of area's social problems outlined; photo (M)
Four men working at New York City's Rikers Island prison jail are accused of stealing its Salvador Dali drawing, and their effort to hide theft by replacing drawing with crudely sketched copy is described as hopelessly amateurish; two deputy wardens, Mitchell Hochhauser and Benny Nuzzo, have been charged, along with two correction officers, Greg Sokol and Timothy Pina; original Dali drawing has not been recovered; photos (L)
Justice Luther V Dye of Queens is publicly censured by New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct for improper remarks in court; in one case, he told lawyer he was agressive and then asked if he was Jewish; also said that any complaint that lawyer might file would be 'as worthless as a bucket of spit'; in another case, Dye rejected woman's request that money being held by court be used for her teenage daughter's Catholic school tuition; asked if mother had not read what newspapers were saying about scandal in church; Dye, 70, agrees to step down at end of this year (M)
California plans to sue Environmental Protection Agency over Bush administration's recent decision that agency lacked authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes and other sources; nine other states, including New York, Massachusetts and Oregon, as well as environmental groups like Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, are expected to join suit; legal strategy, effort to prod federal action on global warming, sets up battle between Bush administration and states over policy on climate change; California suit is also seen as effort to stave off challenges to state's plan to regulate automotive emissions of greenhouse gases; Gov Gray Davis says issue is vital to future of state; EPA spokesman Mark Merchant comments (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 1, 2003, covering October 4, 2003.
DMX
A Perfect Circle
Erykah Badu
John Mayer
Hilary Duff
2003Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (born 1912)[†]
Sidney Sanders McMath was a U.S. marine, attorney and the 34th governor of Arkansas from 1949 to 1953. In defiance of his state's political establishment, he championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, open and honest elections, and broad expansion of opportunity for black citizens in the decade following World War II.
2003The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.[†]
The Maxim restaurant bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred on October 4, 2003, in the beachfront restaurant Maxim in Haifa, Israel. Twenty-one civilians were killed and 60 were injured. Among the victims were two families and four children, including a two-month-old baby.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]