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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEEF: New World Order too orderly STUNT: Smashed windows, looted, rioted, wreaked general mayhem...
...Numbers feature [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 22], we incorrectly stated the revised height of Mount Everest. The correct figure is 29,035 ft. And since we got that figure wrong, the following number of how many Bill Bradleys it would take to top the new Everest was incorrect too. The right figure is 4,525. Also, we erred in our statement that 100 shares owned by the average hourly UPS worker would be worth $68,000 after trading on the first day the stock was available on the market. The correct value...
...influences. He was born in South Boston, as David Abaire, to "very regular blue-collar folk" (back then, Dad sold fruit from a truck; Mom worked on a circuit-board assembly line). After Sarah Lawrence College, where he met his wife, actress Chris Lindsay, he honed his craft at New York City's Juilliard School Playwright's Program. What if he scores in Hollywood? "The movie stuff will pay my rent," he says. "But if I want my words to remain as is, I'll stay in the theater...
ARRAIGNED. SHAWN CARTER (a.k.a. JAY-Z), 29, Grammy-winning rapper; on assault charges, for allegedly stabbing a record executive; in New York City...
DIED. MIKE OCKRENT, 53, British director whose perky retro-musicals, Me and My Girl and Crazy for You, were hits in London and on Broadway; of leukemia; in New York City...