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Article on GX, monthly magazine about Army National Guard published by Mitch Powers and Ed Brown that is mailed free to most National Guard members; members of National Guard and their families comment; photos (M)
MetLife will buy Citigroup's life insurance business in deal valued at $11.5 billion; will pay $8.5 billion to $10.5 billion in cash for Citigroup's life and annuity division and nearly all of its international insurance operations; rest of purchase will be in MetLife stock (M)
Selena Roberts Sports of The Times column discusses former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Jerome Brown, who died in car accident in 1992 at age 27; Brown left legacy on his small, poor hometown of Brooksville (Fla), which will largely root for Philadelphia in this year's Super Bowl; photo (M)
Hard bargaining to form new Iraqi government begins, even as ballots are still being counted; leaders of major political parties say they are reaching out to potential allies in what is almost certain to be coalition government; say most likely contest will pit largest coalition Shiite parties against group led by interim prime minister Ayad Allawi; say they expect fundamental questions to be raised about role of Islam in governing country and relative influence of United States and Iran; Shiite alliance leaders, with backing of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, say they are confident of being leading voter getter; they have declared their commitment to secular Iraqi state; Allawi, secular Shiite and close ally of United States, appears on television to offer himself as leader, in speech seen as direct challenge to Shiite alliance; photo; map (M)
Article on Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr (now Jibreel Khazan) and David Richmond, four black freshman at North Carolina A&T State University whose 1960 sit-in at Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, NC, sparked other student sit-ins in segregated places in 54 cities across nine states; four are subject of PBS documentary titled February One; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 26, 2005, covering February 1, 2005.
Green Day
Eminem
Shania Twain
John Legend
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
2005John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (born 1932)[†]
John Keith Vernon was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in Animal House, the Mayor in Dirty Harry, and Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
2005King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.[†]
Gyanendra Shah is the final monarch of Nepal, ruled from 2001 until 2008, when the monarchy was overthrown. He briefly held the throne as a child between 1950 and 1951, when his grandfather Tribhuvan and his family fled to India for political reasons. His second reign, which began following the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre, was characterised by constitutional upheaval.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]