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Profile of and interview with Gregory Lasak, 50, veteran prosecutor in Queens, NYC, who has been elected a New York State Supreme Court justice; brief descriptions of some famous murder cases he worked on; photos (L)
Profile of and interview with brothers Bobby and Pete Farrelly, whose collaboration as writers and directors of film comedies featuring sophomoric humor has resulted in tremendous recent success after ten years of frustrated efforts to get their scripts produced; article discusses long tradition of Hollywood film-making brothers; describes pair's work process; photos (L)
Article on scene in Miami and environs as 175 international galleries set up shop at second Art Basel/Miami Beach at Miami Beach Convention Center; photos (M)
Gretchen Morgenson column notes regulators are focusing on two new areas of mutual fund abuses: funds that fail to price their portfolios properly every day and those charging excessive fees; some bond funds seem oddly impervious to interest rate changes that should change value of their portfolios, creating opportunities for market timers; Securities and Exchange Commission official Stephen M Cutler says his staff looks closely at stock index funds that levy fees far higher than low-cost funds offered by Vanguard; questions how fund boards justify paying high fees to advisers who are essentially on autopilot; graph (M)
Medicare beneficiaries will not be allowed to buy Medigap insurance to cover their share of prescription drug costs under new Medicare bill waiting Pres Bush's signature; lawmakers barred insurance because they did not want duplication of new Medicare benefit and wanted to be sure beneficiaries would bear some of cost; people with existing Medigap policies that cover drugs will be able to renew them, but only if they opt out of new Medicare drug benefit (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 3, 2003, covering December 7, 2003.
Britney Spears
G Unit
blink-182
Jay-Z
The Beatles
2003Carl F. H. Henry American journalist and theologian (born 1913)[†]
Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry was an American evangelical Christian theologian who provided intellectual and institutional leadership to the neo-evangelical movement in the mid-to-late 20th century. He was ordained in 1942 after graduating from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and went on to teach and lecture at various schools and publish and edit many works surrounding the neo-evangelical movement. His early book, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (1947), was influential in calling evangelicals to differentiate themselves from separatist fundamentalism and claim a role in influencing the wider American culture. He was involved in the creation of numerous major evangelical organizations that contributed to his influence in Neo-evangelicalism and lasting legacy, including the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Theological Seminary, Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today magazine, and the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies. The Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity International University seek to carry on his legacy. His ideas about Neo-evangelism are still debated to this day and his legacy continues to inspire change in American social and political culture.
2003Azie Taylor Morton, American educator and politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (born 1933)[†]
Azie Taylor Morton was the Treasurer of the United States during the Carter administration from September 12, 1977, to January 20, 1981. She remains the only African American to hold that office. Her signature was printed on US currency during her tenure.
2003The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.[†]
The Conservative Party of Canada, sometimes referred to as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main right-leaning parties, the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance, the latter being the successor of the Western Canadian–based Reform Party. The party sits at the centre-right to the right of the Canadian political spectrum, with their federal rival, the centre to centre-left Liberal Party of Canada, positioned to their left. The Conservatives are defined as a "big tent" party, practicing "brokerage politics" and welcoming a broad variety of members, including "Red Tories" and "Blue Tories".
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]