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A top member of the Shiite bloc urged Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to drop his bid to keep his post, becoming the first Shiite leader to publicly break ranks. Page 10.
Matthew Silverman, Andrew Friedman and Stuart Sternberg, who assumed control of Tampa Bay Devil Rays in fall of 2005, have Wall Street rather than baseball backgrounds and are applying quantitative, statistics-based methods of talent assessment in their effort to turn team around; reckon that value of payroll, $35 million, is actually closer to $50 million; are betting that Edwin Jackson and Chuck Tiffany, two untested starting pitchers who are their first acquisitions for team, will flower into top-rated starting pitchers; Don Zimmer, veteran coach, holds out for old-school methods of assessing talent; photo (L)
Article on scene at Tokyo International Anime Fair, where director Dai Sato received award for best screenplay; describes speech made by brash reactionary governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, behavior of Japanese anime fans and their reaction to awards speeches; photos (L)
Anne E Kornblut article discusses whether Andrew H Card's resignation as White House chief of staff was linked to influence of 'chattering classes'; also discusses evolution of term; drawing (M)
Experts and homeless advocates see trend in growing number of people living in their cars; practice is illegal in most places and remaining inconspicuous is challenge; number of so-called mobile homeless starts to climb whenever cost of housing outpaces wages; mobile homeless are likely to view their situation as temporary, and are inclined to keep it secret from pride or worries about law or harassment; photo (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 29, 2006, covering April 2, 2006.
Soundtrack
James Blunt
E-40
Ne-Yo
Juvenile
2006Lloyd Searwar, Guyanese anthologist and diplomat (born 1925)[†]
Lloyd Searwar was a career Guyanese diplomat, and later the Director of the Foreign Service Institute in Guyana. He has a distinguished record of public service and has been a stalwart supporter of literature and culture in Guyana.
2006Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.[†]
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which, from an observer looking down toward the surface of the Earth, winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, and they are often visible in the form of a condensation funnel originating from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, with a cloud of rotating debris and dust beneath it. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 180 kilometers per hour, are about 80 meters across, and travel several kilometers before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 480 kilometers per hour (300 mph), can be more than 3 kilometers (2 mi) in diameter, and can stay on the ground for more than 100 km (62 mi).
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]