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Article on Oskar Eustis, new artistic director at New York's Public Theater, and roles and missions he takes on as he tries to fill shoes of his predecessors, Joseph Papp and George C Wolfe; Eustis's leadership style described and his career and background traced; photos (M)
Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy has led team to 4-5 record and prepares to face former team New York Knicks, which have 2-4 record (M)
New York Public Library, citing increase in budget from New York City, prepares to expand hours and services and restructure itself to coordinate branches more closely with central operations; will restore six-day schedule at its landmark building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in December, lengthen operating hours at nearly half of its 85 branches in Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island and restore sixth day service at 14 additional branches early next year; announces record single-party donation of $25 million from financier and philanthropist Robert W Wilson and $5 million donation from Andrew W Mellon Foundation; photo (M)
Boston Red Sox meet with free agent pitcher Pedro Martinez and his agent to discuss possibility of Martinez signing with former team after Martinez meets with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (M)
Singapore economy shrinks at 3 percent annual pace in third quarter; exports resume growth in October as gross domestic product contracts; graph (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 17, 2004, covering November 18, 2004.
Various Artists
A Perfect Circle
Nelly
Usher
Rod Stewart
2004Luka Romero, Mexican-Argentine footballer[†]
Luka Romero Bezzana is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder and winger for Liga MX club Cruz Azul. Born in Mexico, he represented Argentina at the youth international level.
2004Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (born 1905)[†]
Robert Fox Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Born in Loudonville, Ohio, Bacher obtained his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan, writing his 1930 doctoral thesis under the supervision of Samuel Goudsmit on the Zeeman effect of the hyperfine structure of atomic levels. After graduate work at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he accepted a job at Columbia University. In 1935 he accepted an offer from Hans Bethe to work with him at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It was there that Bacher collaborated with Bethe on his book Nuclear Physics. A: Stationary States of Nuclei (1936), the first of three books that would become known as the "Bethe Bible".
2004Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (born 1929)[†]
Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]