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Asahi Breweries Ltd's net income was 2.35 billion yen ($21.6 million) in three months ended March 31 compared to loss of 5.07 billion yen year earlier; sales rose to 277.2 billion yen from 273 billion yen (S)
Filmmakers seeking to capture gritty side of New York turn to alleyways of Lower Manhattan, which have not been cleaned up and gentrified like so much of city; may have to pay as much as $10,000 a day to use a really creepy alleyway; photo (M)
Clyde Haberman column deplores failure of United Nations and news media to take note three Tibetans who went on hunger strike of 32 days to protest China's 60-year occupation of Tibet; says lesson would seem to be that those who follow policy of nonviolence will not get same attention from world community as those who practice violence against others (M)
MORE than 100 years ago, part of Katonah, N.Y., was transplanted to make way for a reservoir that flooded its original location. Today, Katonah has become a destination for its varied cultural offerings, including its own ''Museum Mile.'' Page 8.
American forces capture governor's office on outskirts of Najaf and quickly install new Iraqi leader there, in most aggressive move yet against radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, leader of monthlong resistance there; seizure comes on day of heavy fighting between Americans and Sadr's militia in southern Iraq; in Kufa, where bulk of Sadr's militia is concentrated, Americans say they killed 41 insurgents; American administrator L Paul Bremer III announces appointment of Adnan al-Zurufi as governor in Najaf; he was opponent of Saddam Hussein who lived in exile in United States; American move into Najaf, a holy city, reflects high-risk strategy designed to subdue Sadr without alienating Iraq's Shiite majority population; so far, in operations in Najaf and Karbala, another holy Shiite city, Americans have avoided moving into city centers, where holiest shrines are; in Karbala, American military sieze large store of weapons being used by Sadr's Mahdi Army; American operation against Sadr began hours after moderate Shiite leaders issued statement calling on Sadr to take his army out of two cities; photos; maps (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 2004, covering May 7, 2004.
Usher
Mario Winans
Prince
Various Artists
Hoobastank
2004Ashlyn Krueger, American tennis player[†]
Ashlyn Krueger is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 34, achieved on March 31, 2025, and a doubles ranking of world No. 62, achieved in August 2024. Krueger has won one singles title and one doubles title on the WTA Tour.
2004Minji, South Korean singer[†]
Kim Min-ji, known mononymously as Minji, is a South Korean singer. Minji made her debut as a member of the South Korean girl group NewJeans, under the record label ADOR on July 22, 2022.
2004Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (born 1956)[†]
Waldemar Milewicz was a Polish journalist and war correspondent.
2004American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamist militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.[†]
Nicholas Evan Berg was an American freelance radio-tower repairman who went to Iraq after the United States' invasion of Iraq. He was abducted and beheaded according to a video released in May 2004 by Islamist militants in response to the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse involving the United States Army and Iraqi prisoners. The CIA claimed Berg was murdered by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The decapitation video was released on the internet, reportedly from London to a Malaysian-hosted homepage by the Islamist organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]