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Upper East Side kitchen of art patron Agnes Gund and her husband, Daniel Shapiro, is redesigned by Markus Dochantschi to reflect couple's work and leisure habits; photos (M)
Sept 11 Victim Compensation Fund administrator Kenneth R Feinberg discusses efficacy and success of federal program and its inherent flaws; says he will give more elaborate analysis when all victims' claims are processed, which could carry heavy weight in determining how similar programs will compensate victims in future; photo (M)
Article compares downloading music illegally from Kazaa with pay services offered by iTunes Music Store from Apple Computer and Rhapsody from RealNetworks; drawing; photos (M)
Article on problems and complaints about some new so-called music-downloading services; Easy Music Download, mp3perfect.com, my-free-music.com and other Web sites, rather than being real music-download services, merely offer, for a fee, information on how to download file-sharing services (M)
Stocks broke their three-year slide with robust gains in 2003, but market still has far to go to return to heights reached during 1990's; 2003 rally saw Dow Jones average regain 10,000 and had speculative flavor of bubble's peak, as technology stocks led rebound; year was great relief to investors; Nasdaq composite surged 50 percent to 2003.37, third-best year ever; S&P 500-stock index climbed 26.4 percent to 1,111.92 and Dow climbed 25.3 percent to 10,453.92; Russell 200 index of smaller company stocks had best year, up 45.4 percent to 556.91; big gains in three major market gauges surprised forecasters, who are not predicting 2004 to be as good for stocks; graphs; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 31, 2003, covering January 1, 2004.
Alicia Keys
Toby Keith
Various Artists
OutKast
Josh Groban
Lamine Camara, Senegalese footballer[†]
Mamadou Lamine Camara is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ligue 1 club Monaco and the Senegal national team.
2004In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.[†]
A motion or vote of no confidence is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly as to whether an officer is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office. The no-confidence vote is a defining constitutional element of a parliamentary system, in which the government's/executive's mandate rests upon the continued support of the majority in the legislature. Systems differ in whether such a motion may be directed against the prime minister, against the government, against individual cabinet ministers, against the cabinet as a whole, or some combination of the above.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]