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In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[â ]
2005Patrick Caulfield, English painter and academic (born 1936)[â ]
Patrick Joseph Caulfield,, was an English painter and printmaker known for his bold canvases, which often incorporated elements of photorealism within a pared-down scene. Examples of his work are Pottery and Still Life Ingredients.
2005Austin Leslie, American chef and author (born 1934)[â ]
Austin Leslie was an internationally famous New Orleans, Louisiana, chef whose work defined 'Creole Soul'. He died in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 71 after having been evacuated from New Orleans; he had been trapped in his attic for two days in the 98 °F heat, in the aftermath of the August 29 Hurricane Katrina. He was honored with the first jazz funeral after Katrina on October 9, 2005, in the still largely-deserted city. The procession, led by the Hot 8 Brass Band, marched through the flood-ravaged remains of Leslie's old Seventh Ward neighborhood, starting out at Pampy's Creole Kitchen and stopping along the way at the location of the original Chez Helene.
2005John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.[â ]
John Glover Roberts Jr. is an American jurist serving since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States. He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy, though he is primarily an institutionalist. Regarded as a swing vote in some cases, Roberts has presided over an ideological shift toward conservative jurisprudence on the high court, in which he has authored key opinions.
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David Pogue column on new Z-series ThinkPad laptops from Lenovo, priced from $800 to $2,300; says Lenovo appears to be of two minds about ThinkPad's IBM pedigree; photo (M)
Indictment of Rep Tom DeLay, House majority leader, on charges of violating Texas election finance law is latest in series of scandals and setbacks that have buffeted Republican leaders and Bush administration since November 2004 elections and have transformed what might have been victory lap into hard political scramble; other events undermining party's hold on power include investigation of Sen Bill Frist, majority leader, indictment of Jack Abramoff, Republican lobbyist, criminal investigation into leaking of CIA operative's name and Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina (M)
EVEN when Chad Pennington has medical clearance to throw a pass again, the Jets must search for a new quarterback before next season, a quarterback with a future, a quarterback without a ''?'' tattooed on his rotator cuff. If salary-cap restrictions were to prevent the Jets from signing an expensive and established free agent (who could be Drew Brees, now of the San Diego Chargers), they must do what the Giants did to get Eli Manning: put together a trade to acquire the best quarterback in the draft -- Matt Leinart of Southern California, Vince Young of Texas, or whatever other touted name emerges from the college season.
Criminal investigators at FDA have apparently become involved in agency's inquiry into how Guidant Corporation handled problems with its heart devices; FDA has been looking into several issues involving Guidant, including whether it properly reported failures of some of its heart devices and manufacturing changes to correct problems; disclosure comes as pending $25.4 billion takeover by Johnson & Johnson of Guidant nears completion (M)
Samuel Israel III, founder and chief executive of Bayou Group, Connecticut hedge fund that seemingly disappeared overnight in what federal prosecutors have described as $300 million fraud, is expected to surrender to federal authorities; Daniel E Marino, fund's chief financial officer, is also expected to surrender (M)
The Department of Homeland Security is spending $2.7 million to provide 30 bomb-sniffing dogs, along with training for their police handlers, to 10 transit agencies, including the subway systems in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington. But New York's subway system, by far the largest and busiest in the country, is not one of them. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority turned down an invitation to apply for the money, officials said yesterday, because the grant would have come with restrictions that they called cumbersome and because the dogs could have been withdrawn and used elsewhere during a national emergency.
The Jets' locker room was a Rorschach test for amateur psychologists. How would you interpret safety Erik Coleman going about his business Wednesday while softly singing, ''Ain't no mountain high enough''? Receiver Laveranues Coles retreating into his shell? Quarterback Brooks Bollinger deftly sidestepping questions about his newly acquired backup, Vinny Testaverde, while Testaverde stood a few feet away holding court as if he were a king?
The friends and lovers of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre have battled for decades over their legacy. Now, the feud has flared up once again, forcing HarperCollins to take the unusual step of publishing two editions of a new account of their relationship because of objections from Sartre's adopted daughter. The book, ''TĂȘte-Ă -TĂȘte,'' by Hazel Rowley, was written with the cooperation of Beauvoir's adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, who gave Ms. Rowley access to Sartre's unpublished letters. But Arlette ElkaĂŻm-Sartre, who has control over Sartre's estate, demanded some of the material be removed. As a result, HarperCollins is publishing a European edition without the disputed material and a North American edition that -- because of more liberal copyright laws -- contains some of it and paraphrases other parts.
Review of available evidence shows that some, though not all, of most alarming reports of violence that circulated in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck appear to be little more than figments of frightened imaginations, product of chaotic circumstances and even residue of longstanding raw relations between some police officers and members of public; Edwin P Compass III, who has resigned as police superintendent, says his comments on Sept 4 about beating and raping of tourists at convention center were based on secondhand reports; fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations, drove police officers to quit and grounded helicopters; much of sense of menace was ignited by genuine disorder and violence; looting began at moment storm passed over city and ranged from base thievery to foraging for necessities of life; photos (M)
BRENDA CULLERTON, an advertising copywriter and an author, is a connoisseur of stories, a reader so voracious that she hides her habit from her husband, Richard DeLigter, a commercial film director, by stuffing bags of new books into the corners of their Manhattan loft. Indeed, Mr. DeLigter once had a T-shirt made for her that read, ''Why Read When You Can Skim?'' And so it was that in March, when Ms. Cullerton and Mr. DeLigter bought a 1930's Cape Cod house here in southwestern Connecticut as a weekend retreat for themselves and their children -- Jack, 18, and Nora, 13 -- they filled the place with stories. Other people's stories, that is, courtesy of craigslist.org, the online bazaar.
LAUNDRY is a dirty word. So I've discovered in the two weeks since I whipped through the new housekeeping manual and meditation by Cheryl Mendelson, ''Laundry,'' to be published next month by Scribner.
Tonight, on a Studio City soundstage here, James Burrows will direct the first episode of the eighth and final season of NBC's ''Will & Grace,'' and to him the whole setup will look a bit like home. ''What I do is really theater,'' said Mr. Burrows, 64, who grew up shadowing his father in Broadway theaters, where Abe Burrows, a revered playwright and director, paced behind the backdrops.