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Peter Gelb, who takes over in August as the Met's first new general manager in 16 years, has laid out broad-ranging plans to remake the venerable house.
Former Gov John G Rowland is released from prison after serving 10 months for corruption; will spend three years on supervised release with first four months under home confinement; says he has been humbled and renewed (S)
Justice Richard B Lowe III finds former McLeodUSA chief executive Clark E Mcleod liable for improper trading during boom of technology stocks; New York Atty Gen Eliot Spitzer sued McLeod and four other high-profile executives for steering investment banking business to Salomon Smith Barney in exchange for inflated ratings on their companies stocks and shares of hot companies; Lowe calls practice known as spinning 'sophisticated form of bribery' (M)
Peter Gelb, who takes over in Aug as Metropolitan Opera's first new general manager in 16 years, has laid out broad-ranging plans to remake venerable house, sharply increasing number of new productions, commissioning more and different kinds of new works, bringing in wave of high-profile theater and film directors and striding into world of digital transmission; attempt to reconceive Met as institution more open to popular influences and more attractive to wider public may alarm opera traditionalists; it is also response to long reign of current general manager, Joseph Volpe, who has worked at Met for 42 years (M)
Connecticut University men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun finds himself at center of school controversy over whether to allow point guard Marcus Williams to play second half of season, despite his role in theft of four university computers in 2005; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 8, 2006, covering February 11, 2006.
Il Divo
Josh Turner
Jamie Foxx
Mary J. Blige
Yellowcard
2006Peter Benchley, American author and screenwriter (born 1940)[†]
Peter Bradford Benchley was an American author. He is best known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its movie adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark.
2006Ken Fletcher, Australian tennis player (born 1940)[†]
Kenneth Norman Fletcher was an Australian tennis player who won numerous doubles and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.
2006Jackie Pallo, English wrestler and actor (born 1926)[†]
Jackie "Mr TV" Pallo was an English professional wrestler, a star of British televised wrestling in its 1960s and 1970s heyday, when the sport had a regular 40-minute slot before the Saturday afternoon football results on ITV.
2006Matilda, American chicken and stage magician, oldest known chicken (h. 1990)[†]
Matilda was a fourteen-ounce (400 g) hen, and the first chicken to receive the title of World's Oldest Living Chicken from Guinness World Records. She is thought to have been descended from the Red Pyle color variation of the Old English Game breed. She was a pet of Keith and Donna Barton of Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]