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This is a time of transition in the N.F. L., one of those years when the league is replenishing itself with explosive running backs.
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai and members of his royal family join ranks of most fabled names in horse racing in United States; Maktoums are expected to send out eight horses, all contenders, in four races at Breeders' Cup in Louisville, Ky; this includes their 3-year-old sensation Bernardini, who won six races in row, including Preakness Stakes and Travers Stakes; Maktoums could capture as many as five Eclipse Awards, Oscars of horse racing, and Sheik Mohammed is in running for his first Eclipse as country's top horse owner; he has been leading buyer at Sept yearlings sales over past eight years, spending $245.6 million; he has also built commercial breeding and racing business in Lexington that is poised to rule sport; photos; charts (M)
Tichina Arnold and Terry Crews, who play Chris Rock's parents on "Everybody Hates Chris," recently visited the Brooklyn neighborhood where the show is set.
The opening of the 2006-7 season of the Bavarian State Opera was also the beginning of a new era, if one not yet clearly defined.
Hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces were not properly monitored, a new federal report said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 25, 2006, covering October 30, 2006.
Rod Stewart
Evanescence
Lloyd Banks
Jimmy Buffett
Tony Bennett
2006Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and author (born 1926)[†]
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades ... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
2006Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright and scholar (born 1914)[†]
Junji Kinoshita was a Japanese playwright. He was the foremost playwright of modern drama in postwar Japan. He was also a translator and scholar of Shakespeare's plays. Kinoshita’s achievements were not limited to Japan. He helped to promote theatrical exchanges between Japan and the People’s Republic of China, and he traveled broadly in Europe and Asia. In addition to his international work, Kinoshita joined various societies that focused on the study of folktales and the Japanese language.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]