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The Democrats who will soon oversee tax, trade and economic issues are vowing a cooperative approach with the White House and Republicans.
The rapid rise of Senator Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” is something of a publishing stunner.
George Vecsey Sports of The Times column discusses success of Louisville University and Rutgers University football this season; undefeated teams prepare to face off; photo (M)
Microsoft and Universal Music Group enter agreement under which Universal will license its recordings for Microsoft's new digital music service in exchange for percentage of sales of Microsoft's new portable media play, Zune, and percentage of download revenue; Universal, unit of Vivendi, says it will pay half of what it receives on device to its artists, who include U2 and Jay-Z; deal reprsents big departure from standard set by Apple Computer, which pays record companies for songs sold through its iTunes service but does not give them cut of sales of its iPod; move reflects Universal's recognition that for all the runaway success of gadgets like iPod, consumers are still not buying enough digital music to make up for declining sales of music on compact disks (M)
New York Knicks defeat Denver Nuggets, 109-107; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 8, 2006, covering November 9, 2006.
Soundtrack
My Chemical Romance
John Legend
Justin Timberlake
Evanescence
2006Ed Bradley, American journalist (born 1941)[†]
Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and news anchor who is best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News.
2006Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (born 1941)[†]
Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
2006Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (born 1923)[†]
Markus Johannes Wolf, also known as Mischa, was a German spymaster who served as the head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security. He was the Stasi's number two for 34 years, which spanned most of the Cold War. He is often regarded as one of the best-known spymasters during the Cold War. In the West he was known as "the man without a face" due to his elusiveness.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]