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In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]
2006Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (born 1913)[†]
Oleg Cassini was a fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry. He came to the United States as a young man after starting as a designer in Rome, and quickly got work with Paramount Pictures. Cassini established his reputation by designing for films.
2006Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (born 1913)[†]
Raymond Joseph Meyer was an American men's collegiate basketball coach from Chicago, Illinois. He was well known for coaching at DePaul University from 1942 to 1984, compiling a 724–354 record.
2006İstemihan Taviloğlu, Turkish composer and educator (born 1945)[†]
İstemihan Taviloğlu was a Turkish composer and a music educator. He's most known piece is the Clarinet Concerto which happens to be the first ever Clarinet Concerto composition from a Turkish composer. He is also the co-founder of the Musicology department in Ankara State Conservatory. He is also known as the teacher of all the musicians that came from conservatories in Turkey.
''I'M no gangster, I'm a gagster,'' crows Giacomo (Jackie Dee) DiNorscio, the goombah antihero of Sidney Lumet's gripping courtroom drama ''Find Me Guilty.'' Wearing a reddish-brown wig, his gut protruding over his belt loops, a goofy leer spreading across his mug, Vin Diesel's Jackie could be the cutup baby brother of Tony Soprano. The role of a wisecracking wise guy embellishes Mr. Diesel's menacing force field with stand-up comedy and macho sentimentality. At last he plays a real character instead of a swaggering cartoon of testosterone on the rampage.
Inflation slowed sharply last month, the Labor Department reported yesterday, providing comfort to many investors that the Federal Reserve might be moving closer to ending its campaign of raising interest rates. In another report also suggesting that interest rates might not need to go much higher, the Commerce Department said construction of new homes slowed sharply in February from the frenetic pace set in January. The number of homes under construction continued to rise, though, reaching a 32-year high.
I WANTED to kiss Lori Austin, the waitress behind the counter of August 25, a diner near Wales Center, N.Y. I had been pretending to look at the wall art -- a sunset landscape painted on a circular saw -- but was actually straining to listen in on the conversation three elderly women were having at a nearby table. I was not having any success. The more I listened, the more quietly they talked. ''Thee-at painting?'' Ms. Austin suddenly said. ''A man from around here made it. Can I get you some more coffee? How 'bout this cold snee-ap?''
Mexico defeats US, 2-1, in World Baseball Classic; photos (M)
Boston College defeats Pacific University, 88-76, in double overtime of men's NCAA tournament first round; photo (M)
Among the important things Kirkland Reynolds has figured out in his three years in the seminary is that he does not want to be a church pastor. Like many young people here at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Mr. Reynolds, 24, hopes to put his religious education to some other use, saying he does not want to preach or take a position of authority in the community.
New York State Insurance Superintendent Howard D Mills continues to accept campaign contributions and spend from his Assembly campaign account though he left elected office in 2004; says he keeps campaign account active because he may some day be candidate again, though not before 2008; state ethics rules allow state employees to raise campaign contributions as long as donors do not have business before employees' department; photo (M)
Texas A&M University defeats Syracuse University, 66-58, in first round of men's NCAA tournament; photos (M)
PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER, director of public programs at the New York Public Library, is the kind of person who, when he gets excited, literally bounces in his chair. ''My purpose is not only to make the lions roar,'' he cries. Bounce. ''But to trigger people's imagination.'' Bounce. Bounce. ''It's not only sex that's exciting,'' Mr. Holdengräber says, ''but the life of the mind. When you come into contact with a great idea, it can change your life.''
Clyde Haberman NYC column on several New York City occurrences that beg for another chance, chief among them ever-changing plans for World Trade Center site (M)
DO big bank mergers lead to more crime? And is that a reason to toughen antitrust enforcement? The idea sounds unlikely, and admittedly the effect is a small one. But a persuasive new study published in the April issue of The Journal of Finance finds a relationship.
Kristina A. Fox entered a Portland, Ore., hospital in the fall of 1998 hoping a routine, minimally invasive form of surgery called laparoscopy would relieve a painful gynecological condition. She went home the same day destined to become part of a simmering debate over whether medical device makers and health care providers have been overlooking -- some would say ignoring -- an easily preventable, but potentially devastating, laparoscopy hazard.