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Efraín González Jr. was accused of using the money for personal expenses, including Yankees tickets and membership fees at a vacation club.
Shawn Green not only added a boost to the New York Mets roster, but also to the athletic egos of New York Jews.
There are ways to look for the better deal in the competitive markets for cameras, televisions and hard drives.
A federal judge temporarily blocked a potential strike by flight attendants at Northwest Airlines and urged the company and its workers to resume contract talks.
By the time the second quarter started — with the game’s sixth punt — the teams had each turned the ball over and combined to commit six penalties.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 23, 2006, covering August 26, 2006.
Rick Ross
Breaking Benjamin
Various Artists
Cassie
Slayer
2006Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1924)[†]
Rainer Candidus Barzel was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the eighth president of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1984.
2006Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (born 1926)[†]
Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott KA, GCM, OBE was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948. In the mid-1950s, Walcott was arguably the best batsman in the world. He was the manager of the West Indian squads which won the 1975 Cricket World Cup and the 1979 Cricket World Cup. In later life, he had an active career as a cricket administrator, and was the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council.
2006William Garnett, American landscape photographer (born 1916)[†]
William A. Garnett was an American landscape photographer who specialized in aerial photography.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]