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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc essay on freelance reporting assignment from Village Voice that gave her intimate look at residents of South Bronx and led to her first book, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx; discusses what experience taught her about her own life in New York; photos (L)
Pres Bush, constrained by big budget deficits and political realities, will propose $2.3 trillion budget that backs away from some major spending and tax initiatives he supported in prior years; he will press Congress for permanent extension of most of tax cuts adopted in last three years that were set to expire over next seven years; his budget faces formidable challenges in Congress; Democrats oppose making tax cuts permament, considering them fiscally reckless; conservative Republicans want to cut spending more; lawmakers in both parties shudder at prospect of reducing spending on favored domestic programs in an election year; Bush calls for making spending limits the law, but does not say who would set limits or how they would be enforced; fiscal conservatives note that he has never vetoed a spending bill (M)
Microsoft's and Google's intense interest in each other heralds new round of competition between industry giant and Silicon Valley; Bill Gates acknowledges threat from search engine that now provides main results for almost 80 percent of Web searches in US; photos of key figures in both companies; graph (M)
Michael Kimmelman praises process leading to Port Authority selection of Santiago Calatrava's design for new World Trade Center PATH Terminal; notes there was no jury, no 'pandering to populism,' or 'public performances'; points out that after much rhetoric about openness of competition, jurors had to demand changes in winning designs and require addition of outside architectural experts to teams; photos (M)
Lisa Belkin Life's Work column says book club organized by several black women at Chubb Group of Insurance Cos gives participants opportunity to network and give each other confidence to seek higher positions; drawing (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 2004, covering February 1, 2004.
OutKast
Sheryl Crow
Alicia Keys
Toby Keith
Josh Groban
2004Suha Arın, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)[†]
Mustafa Suha Arın was a Turkish film director, writer, producer and educator. He was born in Balikesir, Turkey. He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. In 1965, he went to USA to receive his license degree on film directing from Howard University and his master's degree on mass communication from the American University. He also worked as a translating speaker and interviewer at the Voice of America Radio, and as the Washington DC reporter of Turkish Radio and Television. He returned to Turkey in 1974.
2004Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured.[†]
There have been numerous incidents during the Hajj. The Muslim pilgrimage to the cities of Mecca and Medina, that have caused loss of life. Every follower of Islam is required to perform the Hajj in Mecca at least once in their lifetime, if able to do so; according to Islam, the pilgrimage is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. During the month of the Hajj, Mecca must cope with as many as three million pilgrims.
2004Double suicide attack in Erbil on the offices of Iraqi Kurdish political parties by members of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad[†]
The 2004 Erbil bombings was a double suicide attack on the offices of Iraqi Kurdish political parties in Erbil, Kurdistan Region on 1 February 2004. The attackers detonated explosives strapped to their bodies as hundreds gathered to celebrate Eid Al-Adha in Erbil.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]