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HE woke up, or came to, in that cardboard cubbyhole he and other homeless men shared beneath the platform of Track 15 at Penn Station. And for some reason, he just knew it: He was done. Looking back over a hard life of nearly 60 years, some blocks of time seemed as blurry as a bar counter seen through the bottom of a bottle. Other periods, though, were as sharp as broken glass.
Nixzaliz Santiago left the small coastal town in Puerto Rico where her family lived when she was a teenager and came to New York in the mid-1990's. Already with a young son, Javier, she found a new love and became pregnant again. The father wanted her to end the pregnancy, Ms. Santiago's relatives said, but she would not, and on July 18, 1998, a girl was born. Her mother named her Nixzmary.
New York Jets will interview former Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Tice for head coaching job; photo (M)
THIS Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to unveil its first overhaul of executive compensation disclosure rules in 14 years. The new rules, which were leaked to the news media this week, are intended to give investors a fuller picture of the staggering amounts of money going to America's chief executives and other top corporate officers. Under the proposal, companies will have to disclose much more than just information about outsize salaries and bonuses. An estimated dollar value will be placed on obscene grants of stock options. The details of bloated retirement packages will be made public. And companies will have to list all the absurd perquisites that have accrued to chief executives in recent years -- including the latest twist, the practice of having companies pay the boss's taxes. Nor will companies be able to bury this stuff in the proxy statement, as they've long done; it will all have to be put in one place, where it can be easily seen and understood.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 2006, covering January 14, 2006.
Jamie Foxx
Mary J. Blige
Eminem
The Notorious B.I.G.
Carrie Underwood
2006Henri Colpi, French director and screenwriter (born 1921)[†]
Henri Colpi was a French film editor and film director.
2006Jim Gary, American sculptor (born 1939)[†]
Jim Gary was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. These sculptures were typically finished with automobile paint although some were left to develop a natural patina during display outdoors.
2006Shelley Winters, American actress (born 1920)[†]
Shelley Winters was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture. She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). She also acted on television, including a tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and wrote three autobiographies.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]