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Selena Roberts Sports of The Times column discusses proposal to NHL owners to buy all 30 teams for $3 billion and turn league into revenue-sharing single business operated like franchises; photo (M)
Clyde Haberman NYC column discusses Marc La Cloche, who served 11 years in prison for robbery and learned how to cut hair while inside; La Cloche is now having difficult time getting New York State license to become a barber (M)
Goldman Sachs has won government approval to set up its own joint-venture investment bank in Beijing in exchange for making $67 million 'donation' to cover investor losses at failed Chinese brokerage firm Hainan Securities; Goldman also agrees to lend $100 million to Chinese banker named Fang Feng Lei; deal offers rare glimpse into maneuvers taht many foreign companies undertake to get leg up in rough-and-tumble race to establish business in China; joint venture was years in making, involving frequent talks with high Communist Party officials; photo (M)
Defense makes its closing arguments in fraud trial of former WorldCom Inc chief executive Bernard J Ebbers; jury will begin deliberations; Ebbers, if convicted, could go to prison for rest of his life; trial has essentially come down to Ebbers's word against that of prosecution's star witness, Scott D Sullivan, WorldCom's former chief financial officer; case reviewed; chart; photos (M)
Article on Stanley Blum, Emma Clurman and other weekend homeowners who have made second careers of selling real estate where they have second homes; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 2005, covering March 4, 2005.
Ray Charles
Green Day
The Game
Various Artists
Usher
2005Nicola Calipari, Italian general (born 1953)[†]
Nicola Calipari was an Italian major general and SISMI military intelligence officer. Calipari was accidentally killed in Iraq by American soldiers while escorting a recently released Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, to Baghdad International Airport.
2005Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian police officer and politician (born 1951)[†]
Yuriy Fedorovych Kravchenko was a Ukrainian General of Internal Service and politician, serving as the country's Minister of Internal Affairs (1995—2001). In 2000, while he was serving as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Kravchenko became directly involved in the murder case of Georgiy Gongadze and the subsequent "Cassette Scandal." Kravechenko later was the governor of the Kherson Oblast (2001—2002) and Head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine (2002—2003).
2005Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-Belarusian author and activist (born 1934)[†]
Carlos Sherman was a Uruguay-born Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, human rights activist and honorary vice-president of the Belarusian PEN Center. He translated from Spanish into Belarusian and Russian.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]