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Investors and analysts are wondering what Dolan family is really up to with its surprise $7.9 billion offer to buy out public shareholders of Cablevision Systems and spin off company's entertainment assets; photo (Market Place column) (M)
The most meaningful matchup remaining in the Mets' season may be the one that unfolds every few days in the office of Manager Willie Randolph. Shortstop José Reyes takes his position on the sofa and is confronted with the kind of questions that can sound innocuous in the face of a prolonged losing streak, but could subtly influence the course of the team and one of its potential stars.
Rev Billy Graham, who will preach in Flushing Meadows, Queens, this weekend, is expected to find New York drastically changed from city where he first preached in 1957; city now has growing population of evangelical Christians; they are of all ages, races and nationalities; Graham, who is now 86, says pastors in New York have been calling on him to come to city, assuring him an eager and growing audience; he is expected to attract as many as 70,000 people each day at what will probably be his final crusade; photos (M)
The most radical transition in tennis was in full swing Monday, when Wimbledon began little more than two weeks after the French Open ended. It is an abrupt and absorbing shift as Goliaths are transformed into Davids and the signature sound of clay -- the gritty, extended scrape of the slide -- is replaced by the pitter patter of rubber-soled feet on the lawns of the All England Club.
Talk about a good day. At the age of 18, Helen Oyeyemi signed the contract for her first novel, ''The Icarus Girl,'' the same August day two years ago that she was accepted at Cambridge University. The book, about an 8-year-old girl with an eerie imaginary friend, attracted gleaming reviews and buzz in Britain after its initial publication in January. Ms. Oyeyemi was called ''astonishing'' in a review in The London Sunday Telegraph and ''extraordinary'' by The Financial Times, which said she could claim a place among Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe and Ben Okri, all English-language Nigerian-born writers. Now, the soft-spoken 20-year-old Ms. Oyeyemi is looking forward to the American release of ''The Icarus Girl,'' which is being released today in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 15, 2005, covering June 21, 2005.
Mariah Carey
System of a Down
Audioslave
Toby Keith
Gwen Stefani
2005Jaime Sin, Filipino cardinal (born 1928)[†]
Jaime Cardinal Lachica Sin,, commonly and also formally known as Cardinal Sin, was the 30th Catholic Archbishop of Manila and the third cardinal from the Philippines. He was instrumental in the historic and peaceful 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled the dictatorship and ended martial law under Ferdinand Marcos and installed Corazon Aquino as his successor in the Fifth Republic of the Philippines. He was also a key figure in the 2001 EDSA Revolution that replaced President Joseph Estrada with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
2005Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).[†]
Edgar Ray Killen was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. He died in prison on January 11, 2018, at age 93.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]