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Veronica Campbell (Jamaica) wins women's 200-meter race at 2004 Olympics; Allyson Felix (US) wins silver and Debbie Ferguson (Bahamas) wins bronze; Fani Halkia (Greece) wins 400-meter hurdles; Ionela Tirlea-Manolache (Romania) wins silver and Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova (Ukraine) wins bronze; photos (M)
National counsel for Pres Bush's re-election campaign resigns less than day after acknowledging that he provided legal advice to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, group that has leveled unsubstantiated attacks on Sen John Kerry's Vietnam War record; Bush campaign releases letter of resignation from Benjamin L Ginsberg, who says he did nothing wrong but does not want to hamper Bush's re-election effort; hours later, Sen John McCain says he is so annoyed over veterans' television advertisements attacking Kerry's war record that he intends to personally 'express my displeasure' to Bush when they campaign together next week; says he takes Bush at his word that he is not responsible for ads, which have been largely financed by Texas Republicans, but says Bush has not gone far enough in condemning them; Ginsburg's quick resignation suggests Bush campaign is eager to put issue behind it as it heads into Republican National Convention; Republicans who only days ago saw Swift boat controversy as problem for Kerry's campaign are now saying issue is not helpful for Bush; former Sen Max Cleland, triple amputee from wounds in Vietnam War, turns up outside Bush's Texas ranch to try to deliver letter asking him to condemn television commercials against Kerry by Swift boat group; photos (M)
Newly disclosed internal e-mail messages show KPMG, accounting firm under scrutiny for promoting tax shelters found to be abusive, discussed selling new shelter highly similar to banned version more than two years after Internal Revenue Service outlawed original one and any variations; new documents offer glimpse into KPMG's tax shelter activities, but do not show whether KPMG ever sold new version of older shelter, which was called OPIS, or Offshore Portfolio Investment Strategy (M)
Gal Fridman wins Israel's first Olympic gold medal ever in men's mistral windsurfing event; Nikolaos Kaklamanakis (Greece) wins silver and Nick Dempsey (Eng) wins bronze; photos (M)
Brazil's current account surplus widened in July for 14th consecutive month, bolstered by surging exports; posts surplus of $1.81 billion, up from surplus of $740 million year earlier (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 25, 2004, covering August 26, 2004.
Ashlee Simpson
Various Artists
Shyne
Mobb Deep
Alter Bridge
2004Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1952)[†]
Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 single "Gloria", stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. Branigan's "Gloria" was a cover of a song written by Italian singer-songwriters Giancarlo Bigazzi and Umberto Tozzi. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany and No. 4 in the U.S. with "Self Control" a cover of Italian singer and songwriter Raf from the same year. Both "Gloria" and "Self Control" were successful in the United Kingdom, making the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]