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Reading Kenneth L. Lay's testimony is like returning to the 1990's, when those who complained about manipulation of earnings numbers were viewed as cranks.
In what has been the trend in the Hamptons over recent years, more people are renting and fewer are buying this summer.
A federal jury ruled that Eli Lilly had infringed a patent covering drugs that work through one of the body's basic biological pathways.
The judge in the case against a Jordanian college student declared a mistrial after all but one juror asked the judge to dismiss the lone holdout for acquittal.
You have about six more centuries to hear developments in a composition by John Cage called "As Slow as Possible."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 2006, covering May 5, 2006.
Rascal Flatts
Various Artists
Soundtrack
Toby Keith
T.I.
2006Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (born 1919)[†]
Naushad Ali was an Indian composer for Hindi films. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and foremost music directors of the Hindi film industry. He is particularly known for popularising the use of classical music in films.
2006Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)[†]
Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote screenplays for 53 movies and produced 28 movies from 1951 right up till his death in 2006. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish film industry.
2006The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.[†]
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 50 million people as of 2024 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres, making it Africa's third-largest country by area and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the secession of South Sudan in 2011; since then both titles have been held by Algeria. Sudan's capital and most populous city is Khartoum.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]