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Police respond to explosion and two-alarm fire of unknown cause at Lower East Side (NYC) apartment and find bodies of three people believed to have been murdered in apparent murder-suicide; photo (M)
Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Gilman Paper Co Collection of 8,500 photographs, archive that includes hundreds of early works and that is widely considered most important private photography collection in world, from Howard Gilman Foundation; museum officials decline to say how much collection cost or how much of it was gift; photos (M)
Kelefa Sanneh Critic's Notebook column on reality TV pop music genre, such as American Idol and Nashville Star, and successes and failures its contestants have gained; reviews albums by Ashlee Simpson and Miranda Lambert and singles from American Idol winners Kelly Clarkson and Fantasia; photos (M)
Annual take by auctions at New York City schools is often seen as indication that economy is faring well when elaborately-themed auctions can fetch up to $600,000 per year for items like student-made murals, dinner at Cipriani and backstage tour of Today Show; photos (M)
Congressional committee investigating steroid use in baseball calls league's new drug testing policy misleading and weak after it was subpoenaed and read for first time; claims that baseball did not make good on promises to strengthen certain policies; photo (M)5
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 16, 2005, covering March 17, 2005.
50 Cent
Jennifer Lopez
Jack Johnson
The Mars Volta
The Game
2005Royce Frith, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (born 1923)[†]
Royce Herbert Frith, was a Canadian diplomat, public servant, lawyer, broadcaster, and politician.
2005George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (born 1904)[†]
George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men".
2005Andre Norton, American author (born 1912)[†]
Andre Alice Norton was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, to be SFWA Grand Master, and to be inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]