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Editor in chief Alan Light and publisher and chief executive John Rollins plan to launch Tracks, magazine aimed at adult consumers of popular music; they comment on plans; photos (M)
New York City police find 2-year-old Deniro Rhumble unharmed and sitting in car parked in Hempstead, LI; he was unintentionally kidnapped by man who stole car belonging to his mother as she went into takeout restaurant in Laurelton, Queens; district attorney's office does not rule out endangerment charges against mother, Judith Alveranga; photos (M)
Detroit Pistons defeat New Jersey Nets, 98-84; photo (M)
State legislatures, facing budget crises, are rethinking tough sentencing laws passed in last two decades; in past year, 25 states have passed laws eliminating some of lengthy mandatory minimum sentences, restored early release for parole and offered treatment instead of incarceration for some drug offenders; Washington, first state to pass 'three strikes' law, now has several laws reversing some of more punitive statutes; new laws, supported by politicians across political spectrum, are expected to save state $45 million a year; Kansas, faced with need to build $15 million worth of prisons, instead passed law mandating treatment instead of incarceration for first-time, nonviolent drug offenders; State Sen John Vratil expects trend to continue even when economy recovers; says what started out as effort to save money has evolved into appreciation for good public policy; photos (M)
U.S. vs. P.O.W.'s The Bush administration is seeking to block a group of American troops who were tortured in Iraqi prisons in 1991 from collecting frozen Iraqi assets they won in court. PAGE A6 Israel Prisoner Trade Israel's Cabinet approved a prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, but it was unclear whether they would accept. PAGE A3
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 5, 2003, covering November 10, 2003.
Clay Aiken
Rod Stewart
Eagles
OutKast
Ludacris
2003Luca Del Bel Belluz, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Luca Del Bel Belluz is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the second round, 44th overall in the 2022 NHL entry draft.
2003Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (born 1936)[†]
Canaan Sodindo Banana was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state, a ceremonial president, after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country's independence. In 1987, he stepped down as president and was succeeded by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, who became the country's executive president. In 1997, Banana was accused of being a homosexual, and after a highly publicised trial, was convicted of 11 counts of sodomy and "unnatural acts", serving six months in prison.
2003Irv Kupcinet, American journalist and talk show host (born 1912)[†]
Irving Kupcinet was an American newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, television talk-show host, and radio personality based in Chicago, Illinois. He was popularly known by the nickname "Kup".
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]